Environment

Philip van Traa: Gardening on Rooftops

Philip Van Traa, founder of GrownDownTown, has been transforming the rooftops of a number of commercial buildings in Amsterdam. He collaborated with Master Chef Chris Naylor, of the Michelin-starred restaurant Vermeer in Amsterdam, to develop Rooffood, a year-round, higher-yielding roof garden for the restaurant.

By |2025-11-15T17:25:33+00:00August 16th, 2016|Environment|

Daniel Spitzer, founder and CEO, Mountain Hazelnuts

Mountain Hazelnuts is committed to growing 10 million hazelnut trees in Bhutan. The company is a significant commercial producer in the world, has between 10,000 to 15,000 farm households and monasteries involved in their planting program, and employs over 800 people, of which 50 percent are women.

By |2025-11-14T09:29:19+00:00January 19th, 2014|Environment|
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