Archive for the Agriculture Category

A Green Makeover for the Nation’s Oldest School

Alex Hanson August 17, 2010
A Green Makeover for the Nation's Oldest School

Last week, my mother sent me a card with a newspaper clipping about what high school students at my alma mater have been up to these past few years. A lot, it turns out. I would expect no less from students at the Boston Latin School (BLS), a rigorous public exam school in the heart [...]

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From Parmigiana to Punjab: CUNY Fulbright Fellow Heidi Exline

Alex Hanson August 3, 2010
From Parmigiana to Punjab: CUNY Fulbright Fellow Heidi Exline

Earlier today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with my friend and fellow urban planning student Heidi Exline one last time before she heads off to India for nine months. In less than two weeks, she will be leaving for Ludhiana (a city of around a million people several hours north of Delhi) to [...]

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The Food Revolution 2.0

Alex Hanson July 27, 2010
The Food Revolution 2.0

Today I had one of those days where the stars aligned. It just so happened that those stars were food and technology. I checked my Facebook page today and found that a friend had invited me to “like” the group Brooklyn Homesteader, an information sharing online resource about urban agriculture recently started by hobbyist farmer [...]

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Feed Your Mind: Education and Science on the Hudson

Alex Hanson June 29, 2010

This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend and help out with CISC’s Hydroponics and the City: New Food for a New Age event in Yonkers. The event took place on the Science Barge, run by the lovely people at Groundwork Hudson Valley, and was cosponsored by Gotham Greens and DoTank: Brooklyn. Participants were [...]

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Powerful Plots: Attention Grabbing Gardens in the City

Alex Hanson June 23, 2010

Hi all. I’m new to the blog. My name is Alex and I am the Internship Coordinator for the Institute.  I am also a graduate student in Urban Planning at Hunter College studying food systems and food security.  I look forward to blogging about all things urban-ag related for your reading pleasure in the coming [...]

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