Technologies of the Future This course has been by far one of the most interesting and exciting courses I have ever taken. Throughout the semester we learned through lectures, workshops, and lab work about leadership, design thinking, cultivating a growth mindset, and otherwise applying your skills for new technology creation. For my concentration, I learned […]
Updated Concentration Questions
Old Questions: Descriptive: How do past trends in agriculture inform future innovations? What does successful implementation of AgTech look like? How are specific, successful AgTech innovations currently being implemented and what key characteristics do they share? What are the best ways to market AgTech innovations? What are the social and political drawbacks to many current […]
Refining My Concentration
As with the whole concentration process so far, editing my concentration has been more difficult than planned. I mean just editing a rough draft couldn’t be that hard, right? Well according to all the time I put into it this past week, not quite. I had felt pretty good about my concentration draft when that […]
Concentration Proposal – Entrepreneurial Methods in High-Tech Agricultural Innovations
Descriptive: What current AgTech innovations are being successfully implemented? How are successful AgTech innovations currently being implemented? Explanatory: What are the key characteristics of successful AgTech innovations? What are the best ways to market AgTech innovations? Evaluative: How can breakthrough technologies make farming more efficient? Can private sector innovations be effective in causing large-scale impacts? […]
Finding Scale
Gearing up for the concentration draft deadline, I have been thinking a lot about scale. A concentration is supposed to be larger than a situated project, but smaller than a broad environmental theme. Finding the perfect balance and focus has been difficult. I have narrowed down to the broad theme of agtech, but just agtech […]
AgTech Is The New Queen Of Green | TechCrunch
by Rob Leclerc and Melissa Tilney Before Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation in late 2013 for nearly $1 billion, few investors gave much thought to technological innovation in our agriculture system. What a difference a year can make. In what can be described as the Netscape moment for agriculture technology, the sector had a breakout year […]
Concentration Brainstorm
Figuring out what I want to focus on for my next three years of study in ENVS has been a longer, more difficult process than I had imagined. There are just so many interesting topics under the general field of Environmental Studies that it has been an adventure just to know where to start. Sorting through […]