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Spoon University, a prominent online food publication for college students, was founded in 2012 by Northwestern University students Sarah Adler and Mackenzie Barth. As juniors living off-campus, they struggled to cook and navigate the food scene, noticing a lack of youth-focused culinary media. This inspired them to launch a blog combining journalism and food, initially for Northwestern students.
The platform quickly grew, engaging 100 students at Northwestern to create recipes, restaurant reviews, and food-related content. Its success led to expansion, with students from other universities requesting chapters. By 2014, Spoon University had spread to over 100 campuses globally, amassing thousands of contributors. Supported by the Techstars accelerator and later acquired by Scripps Networks Interactive in 2017 for approximately $10 million, Spoon University became a key voice in the food movement, empowering young creators
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Agricultural Research Essential Works
National Archives: Morrill Act (1862)
| Standards Developer | Titles |
|---|---|
| International Code Council Agricultural / Farm |
International Building Code (IBC) International Fire Code (IFC) International Mechanical Code (IMC) |
| International Code Council Water / Plumbing / Sewage |
International Plumbing Code (IPC) International Private Sewage Disposal Code (IPSDC) International Green Construction Code (IgCC) |
| NFPA / National Electrical Code Agricultural Services |
NFPA 70 — National Electrical Code Article 547 — Agricultural Buildings |
| NFPA / National Electrical Code Fences / Grounding |
Article 547 — Agricultural Buildings Section 250.194 — Grounding and Bonding of Fences and Other Metal Structures Note: Section 250.194 applies particularly to fences associated with electrical installations and should not be confused with requirements for energized livestock fencing. |
| ASABE Farm Buildings |
ASAE EP378.4 — Floor and Suspended Loads on Agricultural Structures Due to Use ASAE EP484.3 — Diaphragm Design of Metal-Clad, Wood-Frame Rectangular Buildings ASAE S401.2 — Guidelines for Use of Thermal Insulation in Agricultural Buildings ASAE EP486.3 — Shallow Post and Pier Foundation Design ASAE EP473.2 — Equipotential Plane in Livestock Containment Areas ASAE S412.2 — Ladders, Cages, Walkways and Stairs |
| ASABE Agricultural Electrical |
ASAE EP258.5 — Installation of Electric Infrared Brooding Equipment ASAE EP473.2 — Equipotential Plane in Livestock Containment Areas |
| Illuminating Engineering Society | ANSI/IES RP-45-21 — Recommended Practice: Horticultural Lighting |
| American Society of Civil Engineers | ASCE/SEI 7 — Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures On-Farm Irrigation Systems standards and technical work |
Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures
Two redlines that run close coupled with the International Building Code are open for public consultation until September 14 and October 15, respectively:
NOAA National Weather Service: Storm Total Maps and Verification
ASCE Codes & Standards Catalog
Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee
Code and Standards Open for Comment
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Our engagement with ASCE standards dates to the founding of Standards Michigan, when we challenged legacy live-load requirements for university armories whose contemporary use no longer resembled the military occupancy from which the requirements arose.
“What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town”
What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town
Terry Nguyen | BA Public Policy
Ben Green |Assistant Professor, School of Information and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Partner | Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Introduction. [Abstract]. The rapid growth of data centers, with their enormous energy and water demands, necessitates targeted policy interventions to mitigate environmental impacts and protect local communities. To address these issues, states with existing data center tax breaks should adopt sustainable growth policies for data centers, mandating energy audits, strict performance standards, and renewable energy integration, while also requiring transparency in energy usage reporting. “Renewable energy additionality” clauses should ensure data centers contribute to new renewable capacity rather than relying on existing resources. If these measures prove insufficient, states should consider repealing tax breaks to slow unsustainable data center growth. States without tax breaks should avoid such incentives altogether while simultaneously implementing mandatory reporting requirements to hold data centers accountable for their environmental impact. Broader measures should include protecting local tax revenues for schools, regulating utility rate hikes to prevent cost-shifting to consumers, and aligning data center energy demands with state climate goals to avoid prolonging reliance on fossil fuels.
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Sharan Kalwani (Chair, Southeast Michigan Section IEEE): AI and Data Center Demand
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“Harvest Rest” | George Cole
One characteristic of the “customer experience” of school children, dormitory residents, patients in university-affiliated hospitals and attendees of large athletic events is the quality of food. School districts and large research universities are responsible for hundreds of food service enterprises for communities that are sensitive to various points along the food supply chain.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) is one of the first names in standards setting for the technology and management of the major components of the global food supply chain. It has organized its ANSI-accredited standards setting enterprise into about 200 technical committees developing 260-odd consensus documents*. It throws off a fairly steady stream of public commenting opportunities; many of them relevant to agricultural equipment manufacturers (i.e, the Producer interest where the most money is) but enough of them relevant to consumers (i.e. the User interest where the least money is) and agricultural economics academic programs that we follow the growth of its best practice bibliography.
A few of the ASABE consensus documents that may be of interest to faculty and students in agricultural and environmental science studies are listed below:
- Safety for Farmstead Equipment
- Safety Color Code for Educational and Training Laboratories
- Recommended Methods for Measurement and Testing of LED Products for Plant Growth and Development
- Distributed Ledger Technology applications to the global food supply chain
The ASABE bibliography is dominated by product-related standards; a tendency we see in many business models of standards setting organizations because of the influence of global industrial conglomerates who can bury the cost of their participation into a sold product. Our primary interest lies in the movement of interoperability standards — much more difficult — as discussed in our ABOUT.
The home page for the ASABEs standards setting enterprise is linked below:
As of this posting we find no live consultation notices for interoperability standards relevant to educational settlements. Sometimes you can find them ‘more or less concurrently’ posted at the linked below:
We always encourage our colleagues to participate directly in the ASABE standards development process. Students are especially welcomed into the ASABE Community. Jean Walsh (walsh@asabe.org) and Scott Cederquist (cedarq@asabe.org) are listed as contacts.
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But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer pic.twitter.com/X4CTPe11eT
— Conor Lynch (@c_k_lynch) July 25, 2022
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Meet Raley Kirk from San Saba, TX. Raising hair sheep and Spanish goats in the Texas Hill Country, Raley is proud to play a part in providing the food and fiber our country depends on every day.
For her, National Ag Week is about highlighting that meaningful work and ensuring… pic.twitter.com/9KKC4pzRgC
— Dept. of Agriculture (@USDA) March 19, 2026
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New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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