News – Page 2

By Liz Carver  

Boston’s WCVB-TV/Channel 5 ran a news story last night on Growing Green, the new report from CLF and CLF Ventures that details the economic development potential for urban agriculture in Greater Boston. Produced by WCVB reporter Susan Wornick, the story featured an interview with CLF Ventures CEO Jo Ann Shatkin on the economic, environmental, and health potential of up to several thousand acres of undeveloped public and private land in Boston that could be converted to farms.

By Liz Carver  

CLF Ventures has successfully facilitated the installation of cleaner, more efficient diesel engines in two recreational/fishing charter boats through EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction Program and has created an educational brochure to promote the environmental, health, and business benefits of clean diesel repowers to a broader audience.

By Jo Anne Shatkin and Melissa Hoffer  

Today CLF and CLF Ventures released a report that, for the first time, details the economic development potential for urban agriculture in Greater Boston, assesses its environmental and health co-benefits, and examines current market and policy barriers to expanded food production in Greater Boston. The report‘s findings confirm that urban agriculture can play an important role in creating a more livable, carbon resilient, healthier, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable city—if we put smart policies in place and encourage market development for Boston-grown foods.

By Jo Anne Shatkin, PhD 

Innovation – a word commonly used, and commonly associated with big money and big business. But as 15-year-old Jack Thomas Andraka, recent winner of an Intel prize for his cancer detection technology, demonstrated: innovation is unfolding in unlikely places. We should nurture these innovations, and we must do more to leverage these breakthroughs.

By Liz Carver  

Jo Anne Shatkin will lead an international standards workshop on the environmental health and safety aspects of nanocellulose at the 2012 TAPPI Nanotechnology Conference on June 7 in Montreal.

By Liz Carver  

On May 16, CLF Ventures CEO Dr. Jo Anne Shatkin will participate as a panelist at a nanotechnology conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence, the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, and Prince Lobel. The program, "Destination Nano: Concept to Commercialization," will explore nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanobusiness topics of interest to high technology and nanotechnology business representatives, policymakers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, educators, and students.

By Jasmine Tanguay  

There’s a saying in the American West, “Water flows uphill towards money.” In the case of greening stormwater infrastructure, letting money flow towards water could be an investment we all benefit from.

By Jo Anne Shatkin  

CLF and CLF Ventures are proud to again co-sponsor the third annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference (SEC), April 30 at the Federal Reserve in Boston. I invite you to please come to the panel discussion I will moderate on the opportunities and barriers involved in cultivating Boston’s and the region’s urban agricultural sector, with some of the area’s leading entrepreneurs.