Blowing up the Kitchen: Homaro Cantu, Star of Future Food on Planet
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Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind
Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But
Cantu's opera involves exploding s'more bombs, a food replicator,
and miracle berries. Part contemporary restaurant, part culinary
R&D lab, Moto is the focus of Planet Green's new Future Food
series. In our interview, Cantu walks us through some of the
wonders of his la...
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Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind
Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But
Cantu's opera involves exploding s'more bombs, a food replicator,
and miracle berries. Part contemporary restaurant, part culinary
R&D lab, Moto is the focus of Planet Green's new Future Food
series. In our interview, Cantu walks us through some of the
wonders of his lab and explains how he hopes to uproot world
hunger. Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just
click here to listen, right-click to download.
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Thu March 04 2010
Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind
Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But
Cantu's opera involv...
read more
Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind
Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But
Cantu's opera involves exploding s'more bombs, a food replicator,
and miracle berries. Part contemporary restaurant, part culinary
R&D lab, Moto is the focus of Planet Green's new Future Food
series. In our interview, Cantu walks us through some of the
wonders of his la...
read more
Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind
Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But
Cantu's opera involves exploding s'more bombs, a food replicator,
and miracle berries. Part contemporary restaurant, part culinary
R&D lab, Moto is the focus of Planet Green's new Future Food
series. In our interview, Cantu walks us through some of the
wonders of his lab and explains how he hopes to uproot world
hunger. Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just
click here to listen, right-click to download.
read less
Thu February 18 2010
Image: PBS Brad Pitt's vision for a green rebuild of the Lower
Ninth Ward is being realized by Make It Right, an innovative
organization whose cutting...
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Image: PBS Brad Pitt's vision for a green rebuild of the Lower
Ninth Ward is being realized by Make It Right, an innovative
organization whose cutting-edge designs, sculpted by world-class
architects, are both stunning and controversial. Tom Darden is the
executive director of Make It Right. He explains how the vision
came to be, how he works with the residents who lost their homes,
and reflects o...
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Image: PBS Brad Pitt's vision for a green rebuild of the Lower
Ninth Ward is being realized by Make It Right, an innovative
organization whose cutting-edge designs, sculpted by world-class
architects, are both stunning and controversial. Tom Darden is the
executive director of Make It Right. He explains how the vision
came to be, how he works with the residents who lost their homes,
and reflects on the similarities between the destruction in NOLA
and the earthquake in Haiti. Music from Molly Fitzpatrick Listen to
the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to
listen, right-click to download. Full text after the jump.
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Thu February 04 2010
For thirteen seasons, King of the Hill cast its lens on a
conservative, red meat-loving, pickup-truck driving Texas family.
John Altschuler, along wit...
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For thirteen seasons, King of the Hill cast its lens on a
conservative, red meat-loving, pickup-truck driving Texas family.
John Altschuler, along with Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge (the team
also responsible for Beavis and Butthead and the film Office Space)
now has us TreeHuggers directly in his sights. The Goode Family is
the next chapter in this adult animation legacy, telling the story
of an Am...
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For thirteen seasons, King of the Hill cast its lens on a
conservative, red meat-loving, pickup-truck driving Texas family.
John Altschuler, along with Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge (the team
also responsible for Beavis and Butthead and the film Office Space)
now has us TreeHuggers directly in his sights. The Goode Family is
the next chapter in this adult animation legacy, telling the story
of an American family struggling to live green and hold hands with
the schizophrenic world around them. Listen to the podcast of this
interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to
download. Full text after the jump.
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Thu January 21 2010
Gather up agricultural leftovers, blast them with pyrolysis (high
heat, low oxygen), and what you get is a crumbly, black matter that
could save the w...
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Gather up agricultural leftovers, blast them with pyrolysis (high
heat, low oxygen), and what you get is a crumbly, black matter that
could save the world. Making biochar generates clean energy, and at
the same time sequesters carbon dioxide in a charcoal-like
substance that just happens to work fertile wonders on crops and
gardens. Jason Aramburu is the young whit behind Re:Char, a
fledgling star...
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Gather up agricultural leftovers, blast them with pyrolysis (high
heat, low oxygen), and what you get is a crumbly, black matter that
could save the world. Making biochar generates clean energy, and at
the same time sequesters carbon dioxide in a charcoal-like
substance that just happens to work fertile wonders on crops and
gardens. Jason Aramburu is the young whit behind Re:Char, a
fledgling startup developing micro-scale reactors, which he hopes
to see pumping out biochar on every continent. (He also provided
TreeHugger with a special report on mountaintop removal last June.)
Jason was a Social Innovation Fellow at this year's Pop!Tech
conference, which is where we caught up with him and got the scoop
on biochar and his new venture. Special thanks to Pop!Tech for
making this interview possible. Listen to the podcast of this
interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to
download. Full text after the jump...
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Fri January 08 2010
Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary
role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian
rainforest for three d...
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Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary
role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian
rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has
taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems ravaged by
ruthless forestry, save the orangutans (OrangutanOutreach.org) and
invent a hi-tech system for harvesting sustainable ethanol from
sugar p...
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Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary
role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian
rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has
taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems ravaged by
ruthless forestry, save the orangutans (OrangutanOutreach.org) and
invent a hi-tech system for harvesting sustainable ethanol from
sugar palms (without even cutting down the plant, or "harvesting
its organs," as he puts it). Indonesia is now the world's
third-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and the largest producer
of palm oil, a dubious substance that ends up as ethanol and cheap
food additives. Smits' alternative not only produces sustainable
ethanol, but dries food, pumps out clean energy and water, and
offers satellite telecommunications to local farmers. Special
thanks to Pop!Tech for making this interview possible. Listen to
the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to
listen, right-click to download.
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