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Is Degrowth a useful approach to combat global warming and for designing “The Good Future”?
One could argue (and many have) that the solution to global warming would be to radically stop anything that creates more CO2, such as flying...
Why ‘Big Green’ is inevitable (New Futurist Gerd Video)
In this excerpt from my GerdTalks http://www.gerdtalks.com show on why and how GREEN IS THE NEW DIGITAL, I comment on the recent developments in regards...
10
May 2022
The Future of Food and Agriculture: How technology and AI will help create a sustainable future
Future of Farming. Technology vs Humanity. Gerd Leonhard 2017. ‘In the next 10 years, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors—information,...
16
Feb 2021
Some recent stats on food, agriculture and climate change
Via Your World in Data ... Read more
18
Nov 2020
The Future is Vegetarian (I know… that sounds tough)
Good points here — like The End of Oil, we don't really have many other options Read more via The Economist ... Read more
15
Nov 2020
Selling hamburgers with AI? McDonalds loves it
McDonald's acquisition of machine learning startup Dynamic Yield has been widely reported. Below are some extracts from Engadget, BBC News, and WIRED. The purchase for...
28
Mar 2019
Here is my slide-deck from RethinkFood 2017, keynote at the Culinary Institute in Napa: technology, humanity and the future of food
…that was a great event! You can watch the webcast archives here, soon. rethinkfood culinary institute gerd leonhard futurist technology vs humanity PUBLIC low res...
02
Nov 2017
Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops (via the NYT)
“an extensive examination by The New York Times indicates that the debate has missed a more basic problem — genetic modification in the United States...
27
Oct 2017
This Cardiologist Is Betting That His Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis (made me think)
“Meat without animals. It's not a new notion. In a 1932 essay predicting sundry future trends, Winston Churchill wrote, "We shall escape the absurdity of...
