{"id":3304,"date":"2014-12-20T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:28:10","slug":"thought-for-food-ensia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3304","title":{"rendered":"Thought for food | Ensia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ensia.com\/notable\/thought-for-food\/\">Thought for food | Ensia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">How on Earth are we going to figure out how to feed the 9.5 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050? Perhaps by looking to the ultimate problem-solver \u2014 nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">On Jan. 19, the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; color: #1f589a;\" href=\"http:\/\/challenge.biomimicry.org\/?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=28729e8fc0-December_2014_Institute_newsletter12_10_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9ede8f812d-28729e8fc0-237848285\" target=\"_blank\">Biomimicry Institute<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; color: #1f589a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raycandersonfoundation.org\/?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=28729e8fc0-December_2014_Institute_newsletter12_10_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9ede8f812d-28729e8fc0-237848285\" target=\"_blank\">Ray C. Anderson Foundation<\/a>\u00a0will launch a worldwide design challenge.\u00a0Their goal? \u201cTo show how modeling nature can provide viable solutions to reduce hunger, while creating conditions conducive to\u00a0<i>all<\/i>\u00a0life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">Scientists, architects, planners, college students, high school students and others are invited to submit their ideas for a marketable solution that uses inspiration from nature to improve the global food system. Challenge participants will have access to biomimicry design resources and expert advice, and will have a chance to compete for cash prices of up to $160,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">If you have a nature-inspired idea to reduce food spoilage, improve food packaging, boost production or soil conservation, or otherwise enhance food security, gather your forces and get ready to apply to the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; color: #1f589a;\" href=\"http:\/\/challenge.biomimicry.org\/?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=28729e8fc0-December_2014_Institute_newsletter12_10_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9ede8f812d-28729e8fc0-237848285\" target=\"_blank\">Biomimicry Global Design Challenge: Food Systems<\/a>\u00a0starting Jan. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought for food | Ensia. How on Earth are we going to figure out how to feed the 9.5 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050? Perhaps by looking to the ultimate problem-solver \u2014 nature. On Jan. 19, the\u00a0Biomimicry Institute\u00a0and the\u00a0Ray C. Anderson Foundation\u00a0will launch a worldwide design challenge.\u00a0Their goal? \u201cTo show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20,319,323,1371],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-food","tag-food-security","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}