Smoke Or Not Smoke?

 

 

 

Here's something to think about the next time you put a cigarette to your lips: The skin around those lips is going to look older, faster.You're also more likely to get bags under your eyes sooner. And jowls. And more wrinkles around those lips.

Researchers in Ohio studied the physical differences between the faces of nonsmokers and their twins who smoked and found confirmation of a long-held belief: Smoking does indeed age you.

NYC Council gets tough on tobacco, approves raising purchase age to 21.

The photos were divided into two categories.One smoked and the other didn't. The other group was made up of smokers, but in each set, one twin had smoked at least five years longer than the other.

Two doctors and a medical student studied photographs of the twins and assigned scores to their facial features.

In the case of the first group, the judges said the smoking twin appeared older 57% of the time.

"Smoking reduces the collagen formation, results in collagen degradation and reduces the skin circulation," Guyuron said. "Additionally, nicotine reduces the skin thickness. All of these reduce skin elasticity and (cause) premature aging."

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History of Hydroponics and Soil-less Gardening

 

While it's easy to imagine this kind of process being labeled as a bunch of new age science fiction, hydroponics has actually been in use for thousands of years. The famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, are largely believed to have functioned according to hydroponic principles. Built around 600 B.C. in Babylonia, or Mesopotamia, the gardens were situated along the Euphrates River. The area suffered from a dry, arid climate that rarely saw rain, and it's believed that the lush gardens were watered using a chain pull system, which carried water up from the river and allowed it to trickle down to each step or landing of the garden structure.

                                                
During the 10th and 11th centuries, the Aztecs developed a system of floating gardens based on hydroponics. Driven out of their land, they settled at Lake Tenochtitlan. Unable to grow crops on the lake's marshy shore, they built rafts out of reeds and roots. These rafts were topped with a bit of soil from the bottom of the lake, and then floated out to the center of the water. Crops would grow on top of the rafts, their roots reaching through the rafts and down into the water. Marco Polo's writings indicate he witnessed similar floating gardens while visiting China in the late 13th century. Formal research and publications on hydroponics didn't begin until the 17th century. Sir Francis Bacon, a British scientist, philosopher and politician did research on soil-less gardening in the 1620s. His work on the subject was published posthumously in 1627 and sparked an incredible wave of research into hydroponics.

In 1699, another English scientist, John Woodward, performed tests involving spearmint growth in various water solutions. He attempted to grow spearmint plants in rain water, river water and water that had been mixed with soil and then drained. He found that the mint grew faster and produced healthier plants in the water solution that had been mixed with soil. His conclusion was that plants would grow better in less pure water than they would in distilled water. We know today that his results were due to minerals that remained in the water after it had been mixed with the soil.
A Berkeley scientist, William Gericke, promoted the use of hydroponics in commercial agriculture. Using a process he called "aquaculture," he touted the benefits of soil-less gardening by growing massive tomatoes in his home via water and nutrient solutions. After finding that the term "aquaculture" was already being used to describe the study of aquatic organisms, he coined the term "hydroponics," which we still use today.

Two other Berkeley scientists, Dennis Hoagland and Daniel Arnon, later expanded upon Gericke's research. In 1938, they published "The Water Culture Method for Growing Plants without Soil," which is widely considered to be one of the most important texts ever published about hydroponics. Several of the nutrient solutions they developed are still used today. According to a 1938 Time magazine article, one of the first commercial uses of hydroponics occurred during this period based on the research taking place at Berkeley. Tanks of mineralized water were used to grow beans, tomatoes, and vegetables on tiny Wake Island, a small piece of land in the Pacific Ocean. This island was used as a refueling stop for Pan-Am Airways, and the food grown there was used successfully to feed the airline's staff and crew. Similar situations occurred during World War II, as hydroponics was used to grow crops for troops on barren Pacific Islands.
                                  

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10,000 Raingardens



                                        
The purpose of a rain garden is to improve water quality in nearby bodies of water. Rain gardens can cut down on the amount of pollution reaching creeks and streams by up to 30%. Native plants are recommended for rain gardens because they generally do not require fertilizer and are more tolerant of one’s local climate, soil, and water conditions, and attract local wildlife such as native birds. The plants -a selection of wetland edge vegetation, such as wildflowers, sedges, rushes, ferns, shrubs and small trees -take up excess water flowing into the rain garden.
                               

Water filters through soil layers before entering the groundwater system. Root systems enhance infiltration, maintain or even augment soil permeability, provide moisture redistribution, and sustain diverse microbial populations involved in biofiltration. Also, through the process of transpiration, rain garden plants return water vapor to the atmosphere. A more wide-ranging definition covers all the possible elements that can be used to capture, channel, divert, and make the most of the natural rain and snow that falls on a property. The whole garden can become a rain garden, and each component of the whole can become a small-scale rain garden in itself.

Melbourne homes, schools and local government have been congratulated on helping to reach a target of 10,000 Raingardens across the region - and others are being encouraged to follow suit to help protect waterways. The Melbourne Water 10,000 Raingarden Program was launched in 2008 and has since worked with landowners across the Port Phillip and Westernport region to achieve 10,000 raingardens across this area.

                                                              

Raingardens look like a normal garden, only traditionally they are made up of sandy layers to help filter stormwater from hard surfaces such as roofs and roads before it flows into rivers, creeks and ultimately the bay. Raingardens help in two ways:
• removing harmful pollutants from stormwater through layers of sandy soil and plants, preventing them from entering local waterways
• slow down the flow of stormwater to prevent riverbank erosion and destruction of habitat for native animals such as platypus and fish.

General Manager of Waterways, David Ryan, said about 500 billion litres of stormwater a year is washed off residential roofs, driveways and roads into waterways and the bay."Stormwater pollution is one of the biggest threats to Melbourne's 8400km of rivers and creeks, with the problem increasing the more Melbourne grows," Mr Ryan said. "Healthy waterways and abundant wildlife are an important part of maintaining Melbourne's status as one of the world's most liveable cities. 10,000 raingardens will go a long way to protecting local rivers and creeks for everyone to enjoy," he said.
Keysha Milenkovic, Project Leader 10,000 Raingardens, said raingardens were self-watering, easy to maintain and look great in both wet and dry periods. "Raingardens can take many forms and we certainly saw some very creative designs throughout this program which blended well into their surrounds, including raised planter box raingardens and swales," Ms Milenkovic said. "Every raingarden makes a difference and now we have over 10,000 across Melbourne. We congratulate everyone who built a raingarden and was part of this program, and encourage more people to do the same," she said.

                                             
A number of public raingardens can be seen across Melbourne including Federation Square car park, Lambert St Richmond and Edinburgh Gardens North Fitzroy.



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Singapore Sky Greens

Less than 20 miles from Singapore's skyscrapers is a completely different set of high-rise towers. Much smaller in scale but with a big ambition, over 100 x 9-meter tall towers at Sky Greens vertical farm offer a new vision of urban sustainability. Green vegetables like bak choi and Chinese cabbage are grown, stacked in greenhouses, and sold at local supermarkets. The idea of vertical farming goes back to the 1950s, but Jack Ng, farm owner and inventor of the system in place at Sky Greens, has patented elements of his design.

Slowly rotating on water-powered, aluminum A-frames, the vegetables pass through a tank of water every 8 hours. The water powering the frames is recycled and filtered before returning to the plants. All organic waste on the farm is composted and reused."The plants don't get overstressed under the sun... at the same time they can get nutrients in the water equally," says Ng.

According to Ng the energy needed to power one A-frame is the equivalent of illuminating just one 60-watt light bulb.

The farm's first prototype was built in 2009 and since October this year the fully operating farm has been supplying one of city's supermarkets with weekly deliveries of its greens. The Sky Greens produce costs around 40% more than an imported Chinese equivalent. Singapore only produces around 7% of the vegetables it consumes. While Ng believes that an expansion of its system of vertical farming could increase that to 50%, food security is less of an immediate benefit than the reduction of "food miles." The small amount of energy and water needed to grow the vegetables, and the close proximity to the consumer, means that C02 emitted in production and transportation is kept to a minimum.

Sky Greens venture is supported by the Singaporean government and has another advantage over other urban farms around the world: abundant natural heating and light. Singapore has year-round temperatures of around 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) and the farm is set in an open area designated by the government as an agro-technology park, miles away from the shadow of city skyscrapers.

American ecologist Dickson Despommier has been a chief advocate for vertical farms for over decade who has imagined bigger and bolder ideas than Sky Greens' farm. One concept is a 21-story transparent skyscraper dedicated to growing food and could be built in the heart of a city like New York City.

A problem that has prevented many vertical farm ideas from taking off in true urban areas is getting enough light and water. LED lighting has been identified as one low-energy solution to part of that problem. If we combine LED grow lights with vertical farm in terms of applying the minimum LED light (say daytime using natural sun light, only night time as a supplement), water and power, it could be successful in the center of any city, too.

Yet Ng believes his system could be adopted around the world, especially in Southeast Asia. There are plans for the current site to expand to produce up to two tons of greens a week next year and build over 2,000 towers in the next few years. "We must reduce, reuse and recycle," says Ng. "Singapore is a land scarce country, so if we want to produce our own food we must go for high productivity."


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Fears of Australia Bushfires

Australian residents lived in fear of a "megafire" Monday 2013.10.21, as dozens of bush blazes  threaten to converge after already consuming thousands of hectares of land. It’s not a single accident, but a historical event since 1851.

-There was Black Thursday in Victoria in 1851, which destroyed five million hectares and claimed 12 lives -- the first large-scale bushfire in the history of white settlement in Australia.

-Since then there's been Red Tuesday in 1898 in Victoria, which consumed 2,000 buildings, Black Friday in Victoria in 1938 that killed 71 and destroyed 3,700 buildings, and Ash Wednesday in the early 1980s that left 71 dead in the state of South Australia.

-Most recently in 2009, Black Saturday claimed 173 lives in the state of Victoria in southern Australia -- many of the victims unable to even get the distance of their own driveways before they succumbed to the intense radiant heat generated by a bushfire.

                              
A nation built on fire- Australia
Fire has been part of the Australian landscape since the dawn of time and its people have used fire as a farming tool for more than 40,000 years. One of the earliest colonial watercolors shows an Aboriginal man gently setting fire to land that now makes up Sydney's most expensive waterside suburb of Vaucluse.
                                      
Known as fire-stick farming, this mosaic of fire management systems not only flushed out game such as kangaroos and possums, it created new growth which in turn attracted more game.With indigenous people no longer part of the forest management equation, some scientists argue the fuel load that builds up from Australia's notoriously combustible vegetation is now one aspect that needs to be addressed.

Deforestation fires alone -- the fires that have been used to destroy forests since the industrial revolution -- account for about one-fifth of all carbon dioxide committed to the atmosphere. One thing that is being noticed by scientists is that black carbon from forest fires is landing on ice sheets and accelerating ice melt.

Changing Climate or simply Mother Nature Fight Back?
Australia has had a troubled relationship with climate change -- its confused policies on a controversial carbon tax are credited with felling the Labor Party at the last election, while the new government controversially disbanded the country's Climate Commission -- but scientists say the latest bushfire season may turn up the heat on the climate-change skeptics.

While the jury is still out on whether climate change is making conditions perfect for large-scale bushfires, scientists agree that bushfire seasons -- a regular occurrence on the Australian seasonal calendar -- are getting longer and the fires more intense. According to David Bowman, professor of forest ecology at the University of Tasmania, who has studied bushfires for more than 30 years, bushfire behavior is showing signs of change.

"The problem with Australia is that the records are pretty shallow, which makes it really difficult to talk conclusively about any of the fire activity. But when you piece everything together there's some very convincing evidence.

Aggressive fires
"Even the firefighters are reporting really unusual behavior," said Bowman, adding that firefighters are fighting bigger and more aggressive fires.

"Normally at night -- and this is borne out by firefighters in the United States -- the fire will quell as the temperature cools. But firefighters are saying that because of the heat, bushfires are burning just as fiercely at night. It's all getting pretty worrying."

"It's no big deal to have a fire in October but to have one that has burned like this for more than a week at this level of intensity is unprecedented.

"We are now looking at really catastrophic fire weather -- for October it just doesn't compute."

Australia's catastrophic bushfires are simply a fact that human beings use fires to destroy forest, and forest use fires to burn out humans, all due of our Mother Nature’s wrath revenge. Fair game, isn’t it? Austalians, stop to destroy your forest, animals by fire. If you really hope to jump out of the fierce fushfires destiny.

          Love Yout forest.  They are on the earth longer than we are.
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Fukushima plant area had collapse due of Typhoon/ No press release

Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon / No press release

Two Fukushima workers commented on Twitter that the previous Typhoon “WIPHA” caused a slope in Fukushima plant area to collapse. The slope faces the main street, and the earth and sand blockaded the street. Also, there was a part to have had a subsidence.

Those workers are surprised because there was no press release from Tepco about this.
The worker added there are more slopes in the area and they may collapse due to the next Typhoon that may hit eastern Japan this weekend.

https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/391573832160403456
https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/391577467770511360


Another contaminated water tank found dripping / Tepco “It’s rainwater”

On 10/20/2013, a Tepco employee found a pipe connected to a contaminated water tank dripping from between the heat insulating material. The dripped water spread over in 30cm×30cm×1mm area, it was dripping every 70 seconds. All β density (including Strontium-90) was 1,100,000 Bq/m3, which was only 1/90 of what is contained in the tank.

Tepco claims it was the rainwater.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231542_5117.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231554_5117.html

Japan is unique in the history of the country suffered from a nuclear attack , but still chose to nuclear power after the war?! Why in a hurry to kill themselves? Don't know. After suffering 66 years after the bomb attacked, Fukushima nuclear power plant continues to emit radiation contamination which is equivalent to 168.5 Hiroshima atomic power, not only the closest township to a dead city, but also those areas not in the evacuation zone, and the people near the ocean suffered from exposed to radiation or contamination. What can they do? No one knows. "The Japanese have historically experienced a second large-scale nuclear disaster , but this is not who dropped the bomb , it is ourselves to build up our own nuclear power plants, with own hands committed negligence to damage our own land and undermine our own lives . " , " We are both victims and assailants at the same time. Victims of the nucleus overwhelming force, but assailants made of our silence not to deter the nucleus enemy to attack us. " by Haruki Murakami .

                                                     

Haruki Murakami thinks Japan after the war that never should have developed nuclear energy. This is a syndicated responsible attitude to the victims of nuclear explosion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Every period of time, I'll read Haruki Murakami to repeat this sentences, " we as victims but also perpetrators of nucleus ". "I can not stand it. Thought that up 54 Japan nuclear plants , no one can stay aloof from the nuclear power plants. If we keep doing nothing, same tragedy will occur in the future soon. "


How about Taiwan’s 4 stupid nuclear power plants? Anybody?


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Leptin: The Secret Key to Getting Fit

Leptin is a hormone produced by the fat cells in your body. The amount of leptin released from those fat cells is dependent upon how much fat there actually is. Basically, more fat results in the release of more leptin. Leptin essentially controls your metabolism, hunger, and energy expenditure.

What Controls Leptin?

Simply put the hypothalamus in the brain controls leptin. The hypothalamus is comprised of an elaborate system of leptin receptors. When leptin levels decrease, the brain thinks you are no longer fueled. Consequently, your brain sends a message that you are hungry, and your metabolic rate decreases.

So, What Does All This Actually Mean?

What it means is you need leptin levels to be in order if you want to be or stay lean. The longer your body is in a calorie deficit, then the lower your leptin levels and metabolic rate become. What this means is your metabolism slows, and it will be extremely hard to lose that last bit of fat.

   

On the flipside, leptin can also be your enemy. If you constantly eat excessively above maintenance levels, then the body can become leptin resistant. The more leptin resistant the body becomes, then the more the body tends to sway towards staying fat compared to lean. 

Also, toxins or other stressors in our body can result in leptin resistance. These can range from anything from our diet to lack of sleep.

What can I take/do to keep leptin levels in check?

• And the answer is that there are indeed some foods that apparently help the body become more efficient at processing leptin. How this works is not yet known - it is still being studied. But we do know that foods that seem to help include: Fish, primarily, then pulses (kidney beans, pinto beans, navy beans, lima beans, lentils), then other vegetables.

                                                  

    
            Studies have shown that people with high levels of fish in their diet have low leptin levels (their  

            bodies respond to leptin more efficiently, so the body doesn't produce as much leptin). In

            populations that don't eat lots of fish, leptin levels are usually higher, even when caloric intake,

            body fat levels, and weight are similar to those who eat lots of fish. After fish, high intake of

            pulses appears to be effective at decreasing leptin levels (again, increasing leptin sensitivity). After

            pulses, generally a diet rich in vegetables appears to aid in increasing leptin sensitivity.

           So there's your answer: fish, pulses, and vegetables. Nothing new, really...

• Too much or too little can be detrimental.
• Don’t starve yourself! Include a refeed/cheat every once in a while.
• Don’t go on long, excessive bulks.
• Avoid large insulin spikes and sugary foods.
• Perform high-intensity exercise.
• Get sleep.

 Leptin is quite possibly the most important hormone you have never heard about. If your leptin levels are not in check, then you will never acquire the leanness of which you are capable. Not only may you never get as lean as you want, but your energy levels, mental acuity, and performance may suffer as well.

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Help Poor By Growing Food----Robin Emmons, USA.

                                                

More than 72,000 people in Charlotte, North Carolina, lack access to fresh produce. When Robin Emmons discovered this problem, she took action. "I decided to rip up my whole backyard and make it all a garden for people in need," she said. Since 2008, Emmons has grown more than 26,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables for area residents.

Emmons’s Sow Much Good (SMG) was founded to eliminate socio-economic, racial, and ethnic health disparities that result from a lack of access to nutritionally dense food products in marginalized populations. She works to achieve food justice through programming and community based initiatives designed to provide equal access to organic food sources; to inspire individuals to take charge of their health and to promote healthy lifestyles through cheap food and nutrition.

The Facts
• An urban food desert is an area in a city where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain. Mecklenburg County has 60 neighborhoods with over 73,000 residents living in urban food deserts. Hard to believe it is America, same thing happens to poverty country like India people short of access to food- money.

• Since its inception in 2008, Emmons has helped spare hundreds of people from nutritional starvation through education, the Grow Your Own program and local farm stands, smart move.

• Diabetes, hypertension and obesity are no one’s birth right – these chronic health problems can be greatly reduced through a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Emmons marginalized communities access to the nutritious produce and education they need to combat these devastating diseases.

Emmons is committed to growing healthy communities in underserved neighborhoods by:

1. Providing direct access to fresh, affordable food cheaper than local supermarket.
2. Educating and engaging residents to adopt healthy eating habits.
3. Advocating for the right of every person to have real food security.

Vision:
Neighborhoods that suffer from food insecurity will be transformed into well-served communities.

Reality:
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The Horror Truth of The 800 million Hunger In The World Today

According to the UN radio reports , FAO , IFAD and the World Food Program (WFP) jointly issued October 1 the latest one " SOFI " the report pointed out that global efforts to fight hunger progress , the number of hungry has decreased, but there are still 800 million 42 million people suffering in hungry, not getting healthy food to support their lives.


Promote GM (Genetically modified) food of multinational companies claiming GM can solve the problem of hunger in the world. However, after careful analysis, people will find GM will only make the problem of world hunger even worse.There are 800 million hungry population in the world. Of those who died of hunger, only 10% died from famine caused by natural disasters or war , the rest 90% were mostly because of extreme poverty , unable to obtain adequate food and nutrition caused a chronic hunger death .

Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO, 1999 ) pointed out that world 1.3 billion tons food production is sufficient to feed everyone in the world. United Nations Development Program ( 1998 ) also pointed out that the world's richest 20% people consume nearly 50% of meat and fish , the poorest 20% people consumed only 3%. Many hungry people live in countries of rich in food. India is one of the best global hunger kingdom, more than two hundred million people out of 900 million population were chronically famine state. Meanwhile, India's agricultural exports accounted for 30% of its GDP, in 1999 , India's wheat and rice reserves amounted to 40 million and 400 tons , exceeded 20 million tons than its standard. However, after hoarding plenty of food, poor people are still hungry.

The real cause of hunger is not lack of food, but poverty and unequal distribution of resources. Hunger is often poor, lack the resources to make a living , prevention fatigue, and lack of social security , even if the food more, they have no money to buy food , the only option: an empty belly.
GM technology is definitely not the answer to solve the problem of hunger and it will only make the situation lot worse. GM technology will worsen multinational consortia of seed market monopoly , so that farmers can not do the old school way from thousands of years , to get a storage, exchange and planting different seeds. They are more likely to pay huge royalties to buy genetically modified seeds in the future without other options.

Food production and biodiversity are the basis of improved varieties . No biodiversity, farmers and scientists will be difficult to take advantage of the different species and short of genetic resources to cope with complex natural environment against unpredictable natural disasters. GMOs will cause the loss of biodiversity , and therefore food security is going to be big challenges. In addition, GM crops pollen and seeds accidentally spread to neighboring fields, make similar crops changed in traditional varieties , such as weed herbicide-resistant genes in the draw. They may become " super weeds " , so that not only disturbed ecological balance , but also pose a hazard to food production ; planting crops can resist herbicides , farmers also lead to increased use of herbicides to soil and cause more damage to our environment . So what will happen to our next generation?

Now the world 's genetically modified crops planted most are herbicide-resistant GM crops. Sadly it does not increase food production , neither no increase in food nutrition.

Big misunderstanding ( A ) : food shortage lead to hunger ?

Truth (A): There are 800 million people worldwide suffering from chronic hunger , of which 2/ 3 live in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific region , such as India, Bangladesh , China , 1/4 live in sub-Saharan region ( FAO, 1999 ) . However, a lot of information data has pointed out , the real reason causes of hunger is not lack of food , but poverty and unequal distribution of resources . In 2002, global food production per person per day is sufficient to provide the required 2,800 calories (Hunger Report, 2003), but the hunger problem persisting as well , showing that the problem is not production ,but in the food assignment. Whether engaged in famine research scholars , such as the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics , Indian scholar Xin Er (Amartya Sen), or Oxfam , Action Aid (Action Aid) and other long-term focus and organize emergency famine relief efforts of civil society, they pointed out that modern causes of famine , poverty and inequality are the main reasons,  nothing to do with the lack of food at all.

Big misunderstanding (B) : poor food production less , people naturally  starve.

Truth (B): Many chronically hungry people live in countries rich in food. India is one of the best global hunger kingdom, more than two hundred million people out of 900 million population were chronically famine state. Meanwhile, India's agricultural exports accounted for 30% of its GDP, in 1999 , India's wheat and rice reserves amounted to 40 million and 400 tons , exceeded 20 million tons than its standard. However, after hoarding plenty of food, poor people are still hungry.

Big misunderstanding ( C) : too many people to live on earth.

Truth: In a report , the FAO ( 2000 ) pointed out that global food production is able to meet the needs of the population . In the past three decades, although the population growth of 70% more , but growth in food production per capita on food increased by nearly 20%. So, in the starvation death of those , only 10 % died of famine caused by natural disasters or war , and the remaining 90% are due to extreme poverty , unable to obtain adequate food and nutrition , chronic hunger death .Sadly, the 20% of the rich people do not take care of 80% of the poor people. Their heartless attitude - is the TRUE and ONLY cause of the earth chronic hunger!


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Growing Gardens in the Walls, Ceilings of Buildings In Tokyo

The vast number of high-rise buildings constructed of concrete and glass make Tokyo one of the least likely places that you’d expect to find fresh produce. That was, until a recent movement integrating farm space and urban hydroponics with other aspects of this expansive concrete jungle was put into motion.

                              
Turning small plots between buildings into a usable farm space is only the beginning. From rooftop community gardens, to floors specifically designed to incorporate farming into an otherwise typical office space, to other spaces within high-rises filled with racks of perfectly lined leaf vegetables, companies in Tokyo are participating in this farming revolution.

                                  

These urban farms not only bring fresh produce to the big city, but they also reflect ideals in farming. Most, if not all, urban farms in Tokyo are organic and are located in a very controlled environment.
This is a relief, particularly to the mothers of infants who are concerned about the safety of foods grown in Japan after the nuclear disaster of March 2011. In addition to being organic, urban farms allow citizens to eat local vegetables. These local vegetables grown in small plots around office buildings allow customers to enjoy seasonal dishes created from traditional ingredients in Marunouchi, one of Tokyo’s largest financial districts.

PASONA, a recruitment agency, has incorporated vegetation both indoors and outdoors at their Marunouchi location to carry out the concept, “coexist with nature.” Here, every floor has space dedicated to vegetation, including crop vegetables, which serve a variety of purposes. Creative designs are employed to maximize the space available for plants, including the support beams in the café, which are used to support vine vegetables. The most surprising may be the white radish, broccoli and mustard sprouts that are cultivated under benches in break areas.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries also has a plant factory and an indoor urban farm powered by solar power in Tokyo, which the company has incorporated into its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program. Leaf vegetables are cultivated at this facility including baby leaf varieties of lettuce. They have teamed up with chain restaurant company New Tokyo to create recipes for healthy dishes using these vegetables and to raise awareness about local and organic ingredients.
With major companies such as PASONA and Mitsubushi creatively leading the way, urban farming technology is sure to advance and become more widespread in the near future.

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