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Troy Dayton is on the forefront of the legal medical cannabis market. Troy Dayton is an entrepreneur on the cutting edge of the legal medical cannabis industry.

Troy Dayton is on the forefront of the legal medical cannabis market

As co-founder and CEO of The Arcview Group, a venture capital firm focused on medical marijuana's ancillary markets (the cultivators, dispensers, and other businesses services the growing legal medical cannabis market), Troy is betting his time and money that there will be a lot of money to be made, legally, from helping to provide sick people with the medicine that is only just now being made available in growing numbers of states across the country. California is the hotbed of the movement and the home of both Troy and The Arcview Group. Before starting up The Arcview Group, Troy worked in drug policy as a campaign organizer and top fundraiser and was one of the early employees of Renewable Choice Energy, a wind power company I co-founded back in 2001 (see my profile of CEO Quayle Hodek). I first met Troy in college when I too worked as a student drug reform activist. Does the world need saving?

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Aquaponics taking root in Chicago

While his classmates are searching for jobs at employment fairs and scrambling for internships, the recent University of Illinois at Chicago graduate quit his job as a bartender to join three friends in launching an ambitious new startup. Together they are setting up an aquaponic farm on the South Side. Among environmentalists and urban gardeners, aquaponics has become a popular new endeavor. By raising fish and vegetables in indoor water tanks, Fernitz and his colleagues aim to cultivate fresh food in the heart of Chicago. They call their venture 312 Aquaponics, and they will have competition. Yet another startup called Greens and Gills is looking to buy suburban property where it will cultivate 100,000 pounds of fish and 1.5 million heads of greens per year. Nevertheless, the farmers said they are optimistic. Feeding America One Family At A Time with our Food Forever™ Growing Systems. Do It Yourself Aquaponics. The knowledge to feed the multitudes. Aquaponic systems, equipment and workshops from Nelson.

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Are Urban Farms Actually Bad for the Environment?

Well, it’s not completely true – the Harvard Professor does see educational value in them for school kids, but that’s it. Last month Glaeser wrote an interesting piece on the Boston Globe about urban farms (“The locavore’s dilemma“), where he made a very persuasive argument that urban farms actually represent an inferior alternative from an environmental point of view. His main point was that devoting scarce urban land to farms and not to people will reduce cities’ density level, which will then cause the rise of carbon emissions. When you read the piece it makes sense, especially when it comes from a bright well-known economist such as Glaeser, who knows a thing or two about the urban sphere. So do we have here the urban version of the food vs. fuel debate? Let’s look first above the ground, or more specifically to the rooftops of buildings.

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