Today we’re back with Nate Storey, PhD. Nate’s company Bright Agrotech is revolutionizing food production by creating innovative new ways to grow food “vertically”. Nate and his team are the real deal, so read on and learn a bit more about how you can add a bit of food security and resiliency right in your [...]
December 4, 2012 By 6 Comments
A Revolution in Agriculture – Part I
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week you know that the three of us like agriculture. The world has structural issues with the food supply which won’t disappear soon. The age of farmers is ticking ever-higher, with average ages in the United States, Great Britain and Canada approaching 60, 60 and [...]
November 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
Freedom is a Choice
Chris and I apologize that we haven’t stuck to our “normal” publishing schedule over the last 2 weeks. It seems that after a month on the ground in Fiji we’ve adapted to “island time”. To say that we slowed down would be an understatement; maybe it was the heat, maybe it was all the Fiji [...]
November 6, 2012 By 4 Comments
Hope
This morning I found myself teaching the rationale of fighting an impossible battle to my 7-year old son. He was attempting to get his strong-headed sister to do something which she had clearly stated she WAS NOT DOING! Knowing my children as I do, I knew that my sons exercise in persuasion was futile. Getting [...]
September 25, 2012 By 8 Comments
Resilient Living in Business Friendly Fiji
The first thing most visitors to Fiji notice is how unbelievably cheap property is. As I mentioned in the post, Our Favourite Place in This World, military dictatorships and coups in general are not good for business, and certainly not good for property prices. Chris and I however recognize that it’s an opportunity. I remember [...]
September 20, 2012 By 5 Comments
Fiji – Our Favourite Place in This World
After my post, How to Scare Away the Herd, I could just hear the comments, “Why on earth would Mark and Chris recommend a place under military rule, even if it is “military rule light”, in the middle of nowhere, rife with ethnic tension, consisting of a bunch of former cannibals fishing all day and [...]
