'Buy-a-Brick', Feed A Community

Last spring we released our Future Sign: Collaborative Consumption. Within it we explored an emergent economic...

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The Power of Duck: Ducks Could Save Rice Farming in Asia

Within the agriculture world, synthetic pesticide use is an unfortunate, all too regular practice. But it’s getting a run for its money from the most unlikely of contenders: Ducks. Japanese farmers are revisiting an ancient...

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Collective Disloyalty Can Help Small Business

Loyalty cards” are as much a part of the morning ritual as the coffee their designed to encourage drinkers to keep coming back for. So wouldn’t it surprise you if a band of small coffee shops are flipping that marketing...

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Heineken BeerFriender Solves Holiday Gift Envy

It may be the season for giving, but, to be frank, receiving has certain 'benefits' as well. Heineken has created a

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The Future of Food Co-op?

Access, for all intents in purposes, is at an all time premium. Those who have it flourish, while those who don’t, usually sink. In terms of access to basic human rights (food and labor to be exact), in some areas and communities, 'access'...

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The Tasty A-Side of The Analogue Update

Let’s take a real “dip” into the influence of the Analogue Update with a big ol’ vat of chocolaty goodness - all puns intended. Chocolate has many uses other than munching on during times of great elation (or depression)....

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Visual Aid for Locavores Looks Good

With locavore rhetoric leading the international conversation on the future of farming, food and sustainability, one must ask the simple, almost embarrassingly simple question without fear of mockery: What’s in season? A seemingly simple query,...

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Less Gritty More Pretty: NYC's Gradual Facelift

After several false starts, a few experiments and some fierce opposition, some NYC streets are going to feel the romance of Paris. Several community boards around the city’s 5 boroughs (well, in 2 of them at least. Brooklyn and Manhattan, natch)...

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All Aboard: The Dining Car Returns

We’re headlong in the throws of a dining revolution. Not to be mistaken with a “Food Revolution” (we’ll leave that to Jamie Oliver), but a revolution in the way in which we dine. What we’ve defined as “fine dining”(over the past...

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Pop On Top: Electrolux’s 'The Cube'

Pop-up restaurants are nothing new. Set up in gallery spaces, private flats, alleyway’s and the like, they’ve become preferred dinning for the more adventurous eater among us. But never before has that pop-up been a structured unit,...

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