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FOOD OF TOMORROW. "Author Josh Schonwald has found US bio-tech researchers are already far ahead with the nutrition of the future. As he reveals in his book, The Food of Tomorrow, the labs at the University of California-Davis are gene-splicing to create "grapes spiked with jellyfish, tomatoes spiked with carp…" and lettuce that will last on the shelf for weeks." http://lnkd.in/dgJVnpH View in LinkedIn

SUSTAINABLE FISH FARMING has to be achievable using good science, common sense, and smaller scale. These last 30-40 years of the early growth of this industry have many lessons plain to learn. View in LinkedIn

CANADIAN FISH FACTORY FARMING -- a case study --continues to evolve, but has seen unscrupulous industrial players and lax oversight. Much of the same lack of transparency in the factory farmed meat industry seems alive and well in the farmed fish industry. What seems like a logical solution -- farming fish -- has been tainted by simple greed. Watch this informative documentary. " " http://lnkd.in/dT7MZkU View in LinkedIn

AFFECT 10 M PEOPLE COMPETITION. "The Global Innovation Competition, Barcelona Activa on Tuesday, January 14th: How would I solve Spain´s greatest challenges (unemployment, education, financial crisis, energy dependency, increasingly elderly population, ...) and impact the lives of 10 million people in Spain through the use of technology? We mean high technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, 3-D Printing, Big Data, etc. We are not necessarily referring to apps, although we do not discard this as part of a bigger solution."" "Luca.Venza@iese.n View in LinkedIn

JP MORGAN IGNORED FLAGS ABOUT MADOFF. "Over the past year, JP Morgan has paid close to $20bn in settlements with regulators for various violations relating to the US financial crisis, the so-called "London whale" trading loss, and manipulating the London inter-bank offered rate, or Libor. "It's very dangerous to criminally indict a commercial bank. It could throw the institution into a tailspin - and the government can't afford a banking crisis with JP Morgan."" " http://lnkd.in/dtVXHiu View in LinkedIn

NORWEGIAN FARMED SALMON CRITICIZED. "And the Norwegian National TV2’s website recently reported that the country’s four major grocery chains are threatening to ban farmed salmon from their stores unless the farmed salmon industry agrees to “change their production to closed pens and guarantees that the fish are safe to eat.” (TV2). In 2006, Russia banned Norwegian farmed salmon, claiming it contained excessive amounts of lead and cadmium (originating from the feed)."" " http://lnkd.in/dQxJsnF 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

NASTY PESTICIDES IN SOME FARM FISH. "The organophosphate azamethiphos, described by Sepa as needing "great care" by fish farms "because even a slight overdose can harm or kill the fish", now accounts for more than half of all chemical use by weight. Its usage had more than doubled since 2008, from 100kg to 211kg last year." Read the data sheets showing annual usage by chemical. " " http://lnkd.in/d_MH7rr 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

SCOTTISH SALMON FARM PROBLEMS, after the types of pesticides and antibiotics were finally disclosed to authorities. " ""The data ... shows that overall use of pesticides by the salmon farming industry has increased each year, from 188kg in 2008 to 395kg last year – an increase of some 110%." This was primarily due to increasing parasite resistance. A case study. " " http://lnkd.in/d_MH7rrhttp://lnkd.in/dA6pNAN View in LinkedIn