As CEO and co-founder of LST Energy Jim Trussler is a man on a mission: to promote growing and using hay, or rather concentrated hay pellets, for home heating across North America. Cheaper, cleaner, plentiful and renewable, the benefits of doing so look to be numerous and varied.
It lives on damaged, infertile, and eroded soils, improves the ecosystem of forest floors, removes CO2 from the atmosphere and produces a sugary sweet juice at an amazing rate. The Arenga Sugar Palm is arguably Indonesia’s best kept secret.
No matter how great the idea, making a business from an urban garden is no easy task. Just ask Mike Yohay, founder of San Francisco-based Cityscape Farms, which provides urban greenhouse systems for agricultural production with low water use.
