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Business. All business. I think? ✍️ https://neaptide.substack.com πŸ’Ό @intravision.ca πŸ“43Β°19'23"N 79Β°47'40"W

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Flannel at the Checkout: The Rise of the Pajama Economy When people start showing up to the grocery store in their pajamas, it’s not just a fashion statement β€” it’s an economic signal.

COVID didn’t invent online shopping, but it definitely finished the job.

We rejected malls, brands, and retail conformity…

only to move the entire economy onto a handful of digital platforms.

So are we freer β€” or did the costume just change?

#Retail #Ecommerce #DigitalEconomy #ConsumerCulture

13.03.2026 11:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@deadder.bsky.social

12.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside every leaf is a network of pathways.

Water.
Nutrients.
Energy moving through living architecture.

These tiny biological highways are where plant health beginsβ€”and ultimately where our own health starts too.

#photography #planthealth #plantbiology #agtech #plantpathways #futureoffood

12.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Op-ed: Feeding the World Is an Economic Opportunity - Canadian Chamber of Commerce Declining market share means that we are leaving agri-food potential untapped, translating to billions of dollars in lost economic opportunity.

Feeding the world isn’t just a moral challenge, it’s becoming economic infrastructure.

But the constraint isn’t only land anymore.
It’s water, climate volatility, and supply chain risk.

The real opportunity may be technologies that decouple food production from those limits.

#FoodSecurity #AgTech

11.03.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It looks like a spaceship interior.

But this is agriculture.

A lot of the technology shaping controlled environments started in space research before quietly migrating back to Earth.

#photography #AgTech

10.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Every forest begins the same way.

A fragile shoot reaching toward light.

The difference here: the sunrise is programmable.

#photography #plantlife

10.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunlight built by engineers.

When photons become infrastructure, agriculture stops depending on weather.

That changes everything about where food can be grown.

#photography #agtech

10.03.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Agriculture inside controlled environments starts to feel… almost extraterrestrial.

#photography #controlledenvironment

10.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Light isn’t just illumination in a controlled environment.

It’s instruction.

Plants respond to photons the way machines respond to code.

Agriculture is slowly becoming programmable.

#photography #CEA

10.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Agriculture spent centuries adapting to nature.

Now we can design the environment plants grow in.

That changes the possibilities for food, medicine, and biology.

#AgTech #FutureFood #Intravision

10.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Weather volatility is becoming the largest risk in agriculture.

Controlled environments remove weather from the equation.

Predictability becomes the real innovation.

#ClimateRisk #CEA

10.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The world is heading toward 10 billion people.

The real question isn’t whether we can grow enough food.

It’s whether we can do it with less water, land, and emissions.

#FoodFuture #AgTech

10.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The global water crisis is really an agriculture story.

About 70% of freshwater withdrawals go to farming.

Any technology that changes that equation matters.

#Water #FoodSystems

10.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Agriculture is quietly becoming a technology industry.

Sensors.
Light engineering.
Biology.

The farm is turning into a production system.

#AgTech #FoodInnovation

10.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Most produce travels thousands of miles.

Which means freshness depends on logistics.

Local controlled production flips that equation.

Grow closer β†’ waste less.

#SupplyChains #FoodSecurity

10.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Food production is slowly becoming infrastructure.

Like energy.
Like water systems.

Reliable, controlled, scalable.

That shift changes everything.

#FoodSystems #Infrastructure

10.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Traditional agriculture asks:
β€œHow do we grow more per acre?”

Controlled environment systems ask:
β€œHow do we grow more per photon, liter of water, and square meter?”

Different math entirely.

#AgTech #FoodProduction

10.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Agriculture was built around stable weather.

The climate isn’t stable anymore.

Production systems that control environment instead of reacting to it will define the next era.

#ClimateAdaptation #FoodSecurity #CEA

10.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The future constraint in agriculture isn’t land.
It’s usable water.

That’s why production systems that recycle nearly every drop are becoming infrastructure.

#WaterSecurity #FoodSystems #AgTech

10.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

"The Parnas Perspective"

10.03.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine. He left 1278 hits behind him when he left Japan.

10.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Layered Exposures and Low Light Create "Meditative Ghost #Trees by Ellen Jantzen" #photography

Link for more information on her technique and many more #photographs: mossandfog.com/ghost-trees/

08.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 3564 πŸ” 383 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 16
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The Ordinary Plant and the Fragile Chain Mint is one of the most familiar plants in the world.

Mint is one of the most ordinary plants in the world. Its supply chain is not.

New research from @CESRF at the University of Guelph explores whether controlled environment agriculture can make plant production as predictable as engineered infrastructure.

#Agriculture #SupplyChain #CEA #Agtech

07.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's important to smile in order to get to the other side in check.

06.03.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Hidden Insurance Rules Keeping MLB Stars Out Of The 2026 World Baseball Classic The 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC) is now underway, yet many of baseball’s biggest stars won’t be playing in this year’s tournament for a very specific reason.

Something most fans don’t want to think about: insurance companies deciding who plays in international tournaments.

When contracts reach πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’°+, risk management swoops in and ruins the fun.

Makes you wonderβ€”can global tournaments keep growing if the financial stakes keep rising?

#WBC26 #MLB

06.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

Big systemic issues rarely fit media cycles.
Climate, water, food security β€” decades-long problems in a daily news world.

How do we keep the human connection to the commons from getting lost?

@chasecain.bsky.social good luck going independent.

#Systems #Media #Climate

06.03.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The power of trust.

πŸ’ͺ 🀝 ✨

05.03.2026 05:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Government of Canada provides support to strengthen community food security across Canada /CNW/ - Communities across Canada continue to face increasing challenges to food security. By investing in local food production, communities are empowered to...

Community food infrastructure often starts small, but with the underlying goal of delivering reliable access to nutritious food.

Programs like this matter because resilient food systems are built from both local initiatives and scalable production infrastructure.

#FoodSecurity #CEA #AgTech

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