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05/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Shanghai goes green: District with towering vertical farms may become a reality in the near future

From towering symbols of urbanization, the skyscrapers of Shanghai may soon become agrarian wellsprings. Such is the plan for Sunqiao Urban Agricultural District, a 250-acre district where people will live, work, and shop while surrounded by massive vertical farming systems. Sasaki, the US-based architectural firm behind this bold undertaking, has called Sunqiao “a new approach […]

05/04/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Devastating blow to soy processors as Chinese shoppers dump GMOs

Is the GMO soy industry finally feeling the burn? It seems that it is, at least in China. Chinese consumers are pushing back against GMOs, and as a result, the GMO soy oil industry is taking a massive hit. Soy oil is the most popular cooking oil in China — or at least it was the […]

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