The Economist reports on two projects started at MIT aimed at improving sustainable agriculture in cities. The CityFARM initiative aims to convert tall buildings into indoor farms; MIT alumni Jamie Byron and Gabe Blanchet are working on technology to produce food in home kitchens.
Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, MIT Sloan graduate student Ricky Ashenfelter describes Spoiler Alert, an online marketplace that he created with his classmate, Emily Malina, to help solve the food waste problem in the U.S.
“Chocolate sustainability is not the career path of your typical MBA graduate, but I use what I learned at business school every day,” writes Shayna Harris, the cocoa sustainability manager for Mars Global Chocolate of her experience as an MBA student at Sloan.