dole has been giving its produce a voice: organic bananas are labeled with farm codes that, when typed into http://www.doleorganic.com/, provide information about the farm where it originated. these are the happy farmers from farm #759:
if you peer deeper into the page, you can also download the farm’s coordinates for google earth and see it from space:
what i like the best about this project is that it reveals how varied and far-reaching the life of a banana can be, when seen from the point of view of an orbiting satellite and the people who cultivate them. now it would be great if there were more information, so that we could extend the boundaries of our understanding of this product and most importantly, how our choices can have wide-ranging impacts.
via treehugger
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