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Is this what they mean when they talk about green job creation? Marijuana growers, many believed to be affiliated with Mexican drug cartels, are aggressively expanding their illegal farming operations in the U.S., clearing land to plant pot in dozens of national forests from coast to coast. Via Pot ‘Plantations’ on the Rise – WSJ.com. [...] Dickson D Despommier (someone’s parents didn’t like them) has been drinking some pretty strong Kool-Aide based on his recent NYTimes article. He advocates building vertical farms directly in cities, as a way to reclaim farm land for nature, feed billions more people, use less water, green cities, and allow for more people to eat local. [...] I was reading about a paper that attempted to create a “food network” to explain covariance in commodity prices, when something in the abstract caught me: A better understanding of the fluctuations in commodity prices would have significant ramifications across broad disciplines. The Network Science Center at the United States Military Academy is interested in [...] |
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