Jerry Nicolas. I am from Boston U.S. but currently live in Vienna, Austria. I have major problems with the organic industry so Diplomatic Goods became the product of my findings. I have huge problems with other things but we'll save those for later. I am a bright greenest, a Gen Y and an avid language learner but I just don't like Spanish. My two favorite websites are TED and We Feel. You can catch me here on my blog.
Farming is Cultural as well as Agricultural
I think urban farming is one of the most hopeful developments to come down the street in a long time. First of all, it encourages the practical economic advantages and benefits of ...
Bright Green Retail
To live in the modern person is to be a purchaser of things. We all shop. Many of us are paying more attention to the quality and impact of the things we buy. ...
Introducing Diplomatic Standards
Diplomatic Standards is an attempt at organizing the chaos of the current organic industry on a global scale and openly. We are an active community that believes that you should understand ...
The Fresh Barcode
When purchasing fruits and vegetables, I believe, for most, freshness is of priority. However, buyers may not have a keen eye for discerning a particular fruit's freshness nor even its edibility - ...
Aisle be Damned
If a 'natural and organic' supermarket such as Whole Foods sells the same junk as everyone else, then what's the point? Not long ago I made one of my periodic forays to Whole ...
Farmland Reinvented
In an unusual yet stimulating proposition, The L.A Times recently covered an interesting tale of Hantz Farms buying abandoned properties in the city of Detroit with the plans of turning ...
Organic Cigarettes
Oxymoronic as it may sound, I can imagine plans are seriously being drawn by a major cigarette company to introduce a new line of 'organic' cigarettes brand in order to partake in ...
Can Ecological Farms Feed the World?
This question must definitely be rephrased. It is not a matter of whether or not sustainable farms can feed the world, it is rather more of a question of how soon and ...
Open Source Sourcing
The idea is simple. Create a platform where one can track where all the materials and parts in a good come from. A product of a research project at MIT labs, ...
The Revolution will not be Hand-Made
We're nearing an inflection point in our discussions about sustainability and building a bright green future. Mainly, this is because we're realizing that our task is larger and more pressing than we thought ...