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Cities Turn Sewage Into ‘Black Gold’ For Local Farms

Apr 10, 2013

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mwkruse

in Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Food & Water)

NHPR: Cities Turn Sewage Into 'Black Gold' For Local Farms On a normal day, Kansas City, Mo., processes more than 70 million gallons of raw sewage. This sewage used to be a nuisance, but Kansas City, and a lot of municipalities around the country, are now turning it into a resource for city farmers hard…
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts

Dec 6, 2007

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mwkruse

in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Economics, Poverty, Public Policy

New York Times: Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts LILONGWE, Malawi — Malawi hovered for years at the brink of famine. After a disastrous corn harvest in 2005, almost five million of its 13 million people needed emergency food aid. But this year, a nation that has perennially extended a begging bowl to the…