Yoda: Farm from a Box

A complete, off-grid toolkit for community farming. Farm from a Box provides communities with the tools required to feed themselves and build a strong livelihood. Built from a modified shipping container, each unit contains a complete ecosystem of technologies required to enhance agricultural productivity; from renewable power and irrigation, to Information and Communications Technology.  

Yoda: Indigenous Rights Victories in 2015

Bats last, nature does. Fifteen Indigenous Rights Victories In 2015 Good news. Sometimes, it comes in the form of a cancelled hydro dam that spares 20,000 people from the burden of displacement. Other times, it takes the shape of a simple court admission that Indigenous Peoples do actually make the best conservationists.

Yoda: First Website 25 Years Ago

The first website went online 25 years ago today Tim Berners-Lee’s first World Wide Web page flickered to life at CERN on December 20th, 1990. Phi Beta Iota: OSS.Net was created in 1993, originally as a gopher site.

Yoda: The Billion Dollar Internet of Things Connection Company

The Most Important Billion-Dollar Company You’ve Never Heard Of Meet Jasper, Jahangir Mohammed’s fast-growing yet near-invisible company helping to power the internet of things. “The internet of things is not about things,” says Mohammed, a burly Indian with meaty hands and a beaming gap-toothed smile. “It’s about becoming connected.” Once connected, each “thing” is “part …

Yoda: 100% Recyclable Plastic

Chemist Creates the First 100% Recyclable Plastic Colorado State University chemist Eugene Chen has produced a plastic that is fully biodegradable and completely recyclable. It is also far cheaper than every other biodegradable plastic out today.