Monthly Archives: February 2015
Engage: Green Accounting and the Futurist Manifesto
The concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green accounting are relatively new ideas in a practice that dates back. CSR is concerned with firms disclosing information about the company’s environmental and social influence on top of your traditional financial … Continue reading
Response to Jessamyn on Food/Futuring
I will first address Jessamyn’s question about the ability of people to change their eating habits. The biggest obstacle I see with changing our diets is the influence that fast food and companies have on our everyday lives. Could any … Continue reading
Engage: Food
In the future of food it stated that the Agrimonde 1 set of hypotheses assumes that people with alter their regular diet dependent on the agricultural and sustainability needs of the future. I found this topic similar to our discussion … Continue reading
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Response: Government’s Role in Food/Futuring
Thank you very much for all these great questions! FoodWorks offered many great proposals in regards to the different phases of the food system as well as before and after. However, the most important thing in my perspective that will affect … Continue reading
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Response to Bhavana & Jules (Economic Feasibility of NYS Farms)
Bhavana, it’s great that you bring something often forgot about amongst the agricultural realm: the amount of energy needed to cultivate produce. Industrial activity is substantial even though this by-product might be ignored as we are often encompassed by the … Continue reading
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Response to Karen Lau (Questions for NYC’s Food System)
Karen I think your questions get to the heart of why the NYC agricultural ‘gears’ slip and continually need replacement. Mechanical gears are what drives production and leads to a finished item and in this case, healthy and nutritious ingredients. … Continue reading
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Engage: Feeding NYC
When I talk about food in NYC its extremely difficult for me to not get upset. Food is a human right, and we just happen to live in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, but somehow so many … Continue reading
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Engage: New York City Food System
Living in New York City, we do not give much thought to the production and distribution of our food since it is always available to us at our convenience. We often do not consider where are food is coming from, … Continue reading
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Engage: Questions for NYC’s food system
Although we may not think much about it, food and the food system in NYC can influence us in many ways, whether it is socially, culturally, economically, or even environmentally. With this topic comes many problems that needs to be … Continue reading
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Where is the path for sustainable Green Energy?
Energy has and will remain a dominant area of study for our generation for the simple fact that it plays such a crucial role in our future. With everyone being connected through the web knowledge has become an entity that … Continue reading