“It’s not a focus on opening up restaurants… it’s re-purposing land, arable land.” Not something you hear everyday from a restaurant proprietor. If you’re intruiged like I am, read Rickey Smith’s portrait and companion interview by Los Angeles sustainability journalist Lauren Whaley: Urban Green(ing).
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I hope more restauranteurs join in. Speaking of arable land, did you see that biologists have now begun to revise maps to include human influence in the biomes? Big difference between now and a couple centuries ago.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/08/anthromesV2-1700-2000.jpg
Maybe initiatives like Smith’s will change the look of those maps in the future