Tag: food miles

Infarm raises $170 million to add “farm” to cities

Infarm, a company that grows fresh produce inside supermarkets, has recently announced a $170 million USD funding round to help the company expand across Europe. Their environment-controlled and automated growing chambers grow food such as leafy greens inside the supermarket, so it's fresh, without your food accumulating food miles.  

3D-printing with living organisms – snack of tomorrow?

Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld has developed a concept for 3D-printed snacks that sprout plants and mushrooms from edible soil...

OAXIS: solar-powered hydroponic food belt proposed for the Arabian Peninsula

Most Gulf countries import up to 90 percent of their food, which neither bodes well for food security no climate...

Beef much worse than chicken or pork – for the environment

Confirming what we've known all along, the consumption of beef is much worse than a vegetarian diet, and also...

Middle East Shipping Lands Prince Charles in Hot Water

Britain’s Prince Charles lectures long on climate change and the local food movement, but a recent discovery about one...