Max and Jason: Still Up | September 16, 2009 | 8 comments

Seed money: Investing in sustainable agriculture

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Sustainable agriculture investing gets serious with Wall Street money movers.

The business of feeding the world’s populations has fast become less about the quality of the produce shipped halfway around the world to your salad bowl and all about the quantity and speed at which the agricultural industry can deliver higher yields through soil damaging pest control and genetic mutations through biotechnology.

A new investment firm seeks to pair sustainable solutions with the resources necessary to fix our broken agricultural system.

Janine Yorio, Founder of NewSeed Advisors.

A lot of what we call sustainable also becomes economically necessary in the face of rising oil prices. So the day that we wake up and gas is at $5 again is that day that farmers and people [who] are actually involved in food production need to find alternatives to the petrochemicals that they use every single day to produce food.

According to Janine, the interest and the resources of the new wave of sustainable investors are big enough to counteract the old standards of short-term gains and turn-and-burn investing.

For more on NewSeed’s upcoming event and the full interview with Janine Yorio, click here.

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8 comments // Seed money: Investing in sustainable agriculture

  • WisconsinNorm
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    • Last night I talked with several people about the concept of a self-sustained "floating prison." This was certainly a direction this post never intended to go, but there you have it--conversation and where it can lead.
      Anyway, the concept may have a worthy ideal. The relationship between ""Captain (The Man) and Crew (The prison guards) and the Inmates (stowaways) could actually become a healthy relationship. Nothing like the sea to make one shape up. It can be dangerous out there and human dependency creates beneficial bonds. Not to mention farming and fishing are skilled trades any inmate would rather be doing than cell block watching.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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    • WisconsinNorm:

      I bet prisoners in our present system cost 75K minimum per year...That's a lot of sailing.
      Put American prisoners on a "foreign ship" functioning under the laws of international waters with a strict, but decent foreign "captain," I bet your "reality comic book" would feature no more than 3 prisoners thrown overboard for bad behavior every 4 month tour. Hell, have a ACLU lawyer on board. If things got hairy, he/she would be the first one to finally understand what law and punishment means.
      Foreign captains wouldn't have to mess around. Inmates could not be locked up on tour either. That would be unconscionable if the ship went down. This would be a whole new level of trust, individual responsibility, and discipline.
      Have two ACLU lawyers on board-maybe only one would return.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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    • What would be cool is if someone had a floating farm....and they grew food and sold it to different countries during different seasons...

      float in the ocean.

      The linguistics of it all is crazy...but I was just thinking.

    • 2 years ago
  • WisconsinNorm
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    • J_Jammer:

      Actually J J, that's not a bad concept. I'm sure natural fertilizers could be taken out of the water, wind powered electrical generators could produce fresh water via desalinization, not to mention you could position the craft in areas where rain naturally falls. Moving the vessel here and there could also be accomplished via sails. Speed of movement wouldn't be critical, climate change is gradual...
      You work on this, plenty of old ships out there--get a grant and grab a university to create prototype . Floating farms with renewable soil with produce brought into the harbor where most wholesale marketplaces already exist.
      Great gig for our prison system. They actually might enjoy it and become productive citizens again or become great long distance swimmers.

    • 2 years ago
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