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Farm-in-a-truck teaches kids about sustainability
Nice example.
"Compass Green is a mobile greenhouse built into a truck, which runs on vegetable oil (natch). Handsome hipsters Nick Runkle and Justin Cutter retooled the truck, which was already fitted with Plexiglas display panels, to turn it into a biofuel-powered educational farm on wheels."
read more:
http://grist.org/list/farm-in-a-truck-teaches-kids-about-sustainabi...
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