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BrightFarms CEO Paul Lightfoot Wants To Grow Lettuce On Your Roof [VIDEO]
If you're a grocery store, BrightFarms thinks your roof would make a fantastic location for a hydroponic greenhouse. The company designs, finances, builds, and manages rooftop greenhouses for food...
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High School Students Build A Farmer's Market In A Food Desert
Bertie Country, North Carolina, is an agricultural community, but most of its residents still don't have access to fresh food. With this new market, they will--plus some beautiful architecture. Bertie...
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How Open Data Could Make San Francisco Public Transportation Better [UPDATED]
Instead of relying on almost-never-correct schedules, Kicker Studio has come up with an innovative system to use the city's data streams to give up-to-date transit information. When can we start using...
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Netflix Dumps Qwikster, Keeps DVDs, U.S. Government Seeks Out WikiLeaks...
Demand Media Announces Massive Cutbacks. Content mill dynamo Demand Media is drastically cutting back on the level of content posted on eHow.com. In an email sent to Demand Media's freelancers, the...
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LaunchRock: A Startup That Helps Other Startups Hype Themselves
LaunchRock helps startups lure thousands of users--before they even debut.How do you sell something that doesn't exist? Easy: Build a website. In what's possibly the most meta company conceit ever,...
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Silicon Valley's New Hiring Strategy
In Silicon Valley, some dare to ask: Why hire a PhD, when a self-taught kid is just as good?Adam Passey, 28 Medford, Oregon Former VP of information and technology at a marketing agency HIRED BY IGN "I...
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Jura's Award-Winning Espresso Maker Cranks Out Barista-Worthy Cappuccinos
Jura's latest offers up the perfect cup of joe.Half-caf, whole-milk, extra-foam cappuccino? No problem. Just push a button and your order is ready with the Jura Impressa J9 One Touch TFT, an espresso...
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Sysco's Produce Division Makes Room For Local Farmers
America's largest food distributor was too big for local farmers. Not anymore.When Michigan State University wanted to serve more locally grown produce, Mike Passorelli's basil would have been ideal....
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The iPad Mini Myth, Busted
We're expecting Apple to arrive with a shiny new iPad 3 sometime early in 2012, and we think we know a few things about it. For starters it will have a faster A6 dual-core CPU, better cameras, and a...
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All Apologies: Netflix Vs. RIM In A Mea Culpa Matchup
Not long ago Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had to apologize for something unusual and unpleasant; he dropped the ball in terms of matching the needs and desires of a huge number of his company's customers....
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Virgin Atlantic Squeezing Jet Fuel Out Of Industrial Waste
Even though airlines are just starting to adopt traditional biofuels, Virgin is already ditching them for a new fuel made from the leftovers of steel manufacturing. A number of commercial airlines have...
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CrashStat Steers Pedestrians, Bikers Away From Dangerous Intersections
Bikers and walkers know what intersections feel the most like death traps, but a new online map shows exactly what places to avoid. You probably have some idea of the most dangerous intersections in...
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An Illustrated Guide To Our Session At Chicago Ideas Week
Click to enlarge For those of you who missed Fast Company's sold-out session on creativity at Chicago Ideas Week, don't worry. We've got you covered. The talented folks at Ink Factory Studio (motto:...
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Baseball By The Billions (Of Dollars)
How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer--and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what's driving Baseball Inc....
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Austin's Power: The Texas Capital Is A Model For Clean Power Adoption
How do you get people to pay more for clean power? Look no further than Austin, where citizens are embracing renewable energy at an astounding rate.How do you get people to use renewable energy when...
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Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane: Complaints Are Good for Business
Mikkel Svane of Zendesk explains how he grew his cloud-based help desk software startup in the wake of customer complaints. "The best thing a company can do," he tells us, "is embrace its mistakes."...
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Steve Jobs's Legacy - And The Next Tech War
In a few days Fast Company’s next magazine issue will begin arriving in newsstands and mailboxes. The issue has four different covers, and one of them features a picture of Steve Jobs. But this is not...
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Carpooling.com, Booming In Europe, Eyes A U.S. Launch
Carpooling--going strong overseas--may be finally rev up here thanks to the domestic launch of Europe's incredibly successful ridesharing program.Carpooling--which has has never really taken off in the...
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This Week In Bots: Thinking, Charming, Walking, And Life-Saving Droids
Meka's Trustworthy FaceMeka is intended to design a robot that builds emotional links between humans and the machines themselves, and at the recent Intelligent Robots and Systems event, Professor...
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Once Fish Come Back, It's Tempting To Just Start Catching Them Again
The 800-pound Goliath grouper was near extinction before conservation measures brought it back from the brink. What happens when it starts being harvested again?The fisheries in the Atlantic...
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