Author: Dennis

I came across this 2020 trend report put out by Fjord, which is the design consultancy from Accenture. The main goal of a report like this is to get a foot in the door of big companies, so I take these predictions with a grain of salt. But reading through the report, I found the…

Dutch photographer Henk Wildschut had spent a lot of time in refugee camps. While there, he started noticing and documenting the small gardens he found there. These ranged from small containers of dirt to a row of trees that would provide shade for their tents in a few years’ time. These plants came from all…

This week, I’m riffing on some news. Both Microsoft and IKEA announced plans to be carbon neutral by 2030. And once that’s done, they plan to kick it up a notch: Microsoft wants to remove all historical carbon by 2050. IKEA wants to be climate positive from that point on. These big statements by big…

We’re still close to the beginning of the year, so the ideal time to get some predictions in. Here are some of my ideas on what food and agriculture will look like in the 2020s. I’m not the world’s expert on these, far from, but I’ve found in previous endeavors that making predictions forces me…