Year: 2022

FLAVR SAVR TOMATO. "Notoriously – it was the subject of a Greenpeace campaign – there is a tomato made to last longer by using Arctic flounder genes, while in Israel a lemon basil plant crossed with a tomato has tested well with consumers."" " http://lnkd.in/dgJVnpHhttp://lnkd.in/dzs9UUp View in LinkedIn

MONSANTO'S FATAL GM EXPERIMENT may have (temporarily) fouled the nest for consumers and food advocates. We must change the chip and rethink our options for the future of food. My bet is that within a decade our plates will be very different. " " http://lnkd.in/dgJVnpH View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION IN FOOD requires doing something different. "It's the default thing to do, to try and replicate what you know. It's not how you innovate. We started with horseless carriages, but in the end what we got was cars. 'Natural' is the biggest marketing scam, and the most successful, of all."" " http://lnkd.in/dgJVnpH View in LinkedIn

FOOD FUTUROLOGISTS generally agree that current factory methods are unsustainable, environmentally, and ethically, and that the planet needs greater food making capacity. And that food manufacturers have been squeamism about innovation. It appears inevitable that small technology companies will be the ones that open the door to the future of food. View in LinkedIn

THE 'NEXT NATURE' SERIES of blogs highlights some of the extraordinary work of Koert Van Mensvoort, who proposes that nature and culture (aka technology) are actually co-evolving and are interchangeable, rather than in opposition. This series of concepts is very useful to reconcile modernity as we experience it today, and nature. Settle in an enjoy the ride. It's not all WuWu. " " http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/human-nature-forecast-koert-van-mensvoort/ View in LinkedIn

OUR WESTERN NATURE-CULTURE DIVIDE is rooted in old ideas from aeons bygone, and is in need of a grand update. Just as our concepts on other related topics organically evolves, so our ideas about nature need to catch up with the fusion of technology and nature that is unfolding before our eyes. " " http://lnkd.in/dWm8A93 View in LinkedIn

FOUNDER'S PROFILE. "Koert Van Mensvoort PhD (TEDx speaker) is the head of the 'Next Nature Lab' at the Industrial Design Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, a position he has held since 2003. Van Mensvoort is the founder and director of the Next Nature Foundation, a design-and-think tank based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands."" " http://lnkd.in/dEHaRp8 View in LinkedIn

POSTSCRIPT ABOUT CIRCULAR NONSENSE. We eat salmon because of good omega oils? The salmon cannot make it and get it from its food. When farmed, this is ground bait fish containing the good oil. Anecdotally, 1 pound of salmon needs 1.5 of oily bait fish to produce it. " " http://lnkd.in/dT5q2ub View in LinkedIn

THE BOOK "Next Nature: Nature Changes Along With Us with Hendrik-Jan Grievink. Scientific American magazine wrote in a review that “next nature can give us a new vocabulary and a new philosophy to see and design the world."" " http://lnkd.in/dEHaRp8 View in LinkedIn

HUMANS AS CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE. "We must no longer see ourselves as the anti-natural species that merely threatens and eliminates nature, but rather as catalysts of evolution. With our urge to design our environment we create a ‘next nature’ which is unpredictable as ever: wild software, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us!" A must-see website. " " http://www.nextnature.net/http://lnkd.in/d8-UcdN View in LinkedIn