If you live in an apartment in a city, could you ever imagine growing and eating your own lettuce? In your apartment? Well, apparently a growing number of Americans can.

Throughout America, there is an increasing interest in urban farming. Even in New York, with Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs...

What did you have for breakfast this morning? To play up a New York stereotype, let's say you picked up a bagel with eggs and bacon from your local store on the way to work. As you were thirsty, you also bought some freshly squeezed juice. A pretty standard breakfast;...

Last week we hit you with a number: 7,021,836,029. That is the seven-billion-twenty-one-million-eight-hundred-thirty-six-thousand-twenty-nine people living on our planet.

Now, try to imagine how much food this unbelievably large group of people consumes in one year. The result is probably quite a large pile of food. Now, multiply your pile...

7,021,836,029. As of July 2012, that is the number of people that live on our planet, according to the CIA World Factbook. Seven-billion-twenty-one-million-eight-hundred-thirty-six-thousand-twenty-nine. That's almost an incomprehensively large number. To put it into perspective, if the entire world population was to hold hands, we would comfortably circle our...

If someone asked you what the most basic need of the human race is, what would you answer? Chances are that you would say "survival." Your own and that of your nearest and dearest.

So how do we achieve these universal goals of ensuring our own survival and, subsequently,...