Indoor farming gains ground amid pandemic, climate challenges
Investors say urban farming can boost food security despite rising inflation, trade tensions and global food shortages.
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Investors say urban farming can boost food security despite rising inflation, trade tensions and global food shortages.
Indiana African American landmarks receive grants in honor of retired Lilly chemist Two funds honoring Eli Lilly's first Black chemist are providing grants to preserve African American historic sites across Indiana. Credit: Indiana Landmarks Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 1:53 PM EST February 3, 2021 INDIANAPOLIS — Nineteen organizations are receiving funds to preserve African American landmarks across Indiana thanks to two funds honoring a former Eli Lilly chemist. Standiford "Stan" Cox became Eli Lilly's first Black chemist when he joined the company in 19...
>> in today's town square, the uncomfortable truth about air conditioning. the exception of the frosty box has drastically altered the american landscape keeping us cool in places we once thought was unliveable. at what cost? one science writer said it's led to our tendency to stay indoors more and exercise less and created a massive spike in electricity consumption that's speeding up global warming and he says turning the country more republican. joining us via skype from highlands north carolina, stan cox, author of "losing our cool, uncomfortable truth about our air-conditioned world and fi...
One to say that you need to turn off the air conditioning in the kind of situation that people are facing in the eastern u.s. right now. but, our lavish continuing growing use of air conditioning throughout the rest of our lives when we're now under a heat crisis is helping to guarantee that heat waves are going to be more intense and more frequent in coming years, according to epa, cdc and others. >> yeah, stan, i hear you. here's what you're not going to convince americans to do is turn off their air conditioning in the summer. i'm interested in your theory that it's caused more republicans ...
and we are committed to bringing down the unsustainable debt that has ballooned over the past ten years. >> concentrating on the deficits, i didn't realize we voted for a republican president. obama seems to have bought into the republican talking point on deficits when americans are definitely more concerned with jobs right now. polls show that the public wants more government spending, not less. according to the recent "usa today"/gallup poll, 60% of americans favor additional government spending to create jobs and stimulate the economy. the only people who oppose more stimulus spe...