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Artist’s Passion for Wildlife is Advocating for Endangered Species
Irina Pushkareva
Hello and welcome! My name is Irina, and I am grateful for the chance to connect with you through my art and love for our Mother Nature.
Local artist Irina Pushkareva is changing the way we view the landscape of SW Florida with her intricate paintings of the natural world. Through her art, she hopes to drive greater awareness that conserving animals and the natural environment is a foundation for a stable and healthy human society.
As an artist who focuses her attention on capturing the beauty of the natural world, Irina Pushkavera wanted to do her part to save it. Her latest collection of paintings showcase SW Florida's diverse wildlife, with a portion of every print sold going to support the efforts of the Florida Wildlife Federation.
"This project is important to me because I see how fast the state of Florida is being developed, and how negatively this development impacts Florida's nature and its wild species. People seem to underestimate the importance of nature in our modern society. Today, people struggle a lot with anxiety, chronic stress, depressive moods and even depression. But it was proven that watching animals in the wild brings joy, peace and harmony to one's mind," Pushkareva explained.
This project also serves as a reminder that our environment, its animals and humankind are all tied together.
"The reason I chose to paint wild animals thriving in their natural surroundings, is because I wish to bring the feelings of joy, serenity and harmony to people through my art. People often act on emotions, on whatever feels good in the moment. When we do that, we create chaos in our lives, in other people's lives, and in our surroundings as well. Only when we are calm and peaceful, our rational thinking turns on. Our emotions no longer direct how we act. Instead, we decide what is more rational and effective to do at the moment," Pushkareva said. "It is important to protect and serve the natural environment we live in, because we can't flourish as a society without it. But, nature can flourish without us. The more we connect to nature, the more we connect with our true selves."
Irina's mission as an artist is to empower others through her art and bring a feeling of serenity and joy.
To learn more about Irina Pushkareva and her work, visit ipushkareva.com.
About Irina
Irina Pushkareva began to draw and paint as soon as she could hold a pencil at the age of 1 and half. In her teenage years, Irina was trained in traditional ways of painting and drawing, but found it restricting and wanted to break free from traditional art. In 2016, while studying in Parsons, Pushkareva developed her own contemporary oil painting style, which allowed her to create "lines" of oil paint, instead of blending all the shades together like seen in traditional art forms. Since graduating in 2018 from Parsons with BFA in Fine Art, Pushkareva has been creating and showing her work in the United States.
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Agbotic Wins AgTech Breakthrough ‘Greenhouse Production System of the Year’
NEW YORK - August 25, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
Agbotic, the leader in SmartFarm automation, announced today its 2022 AgTech Breakthrough award for "Greenhouse Production System of the Year." AgTech Breakthrough is a leading market intelligence organization that annually selects the top companies, technologies and products in global agricultural and food markets. It performs the industry's most comprehensive analysis including AgTech Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with more than 1,600 nominations from 15 countries in 2022.
Agbotic builds SmartFarms with a big data and deep learning model to grow year-round, local and organic crops with the industry's lowest food production costs and leading, regenerative climate footprint. The Company's patented automation and AI capabilities integrate with traditional farms and renewable energy SmartGrids with a tech stack that extends to outdoor farming.
Because Agbotic grows in soil, it can easily switch crop types to grow leafy greens; culinary and medicinal herbs; root crops; and long-cycle woody stem crops. Agbotic has successfully grown ginger, figs and inputs for plant-based beverages and personal care products. Agbotic uses precision machines to gather high resolution data for machine learning to achieve consistent gains in yields and lower production costs. In the past year, Agbotic has generated yield gains up to 100% across multiple crops and the production costs for a number of its crops are now competitive with outdoor, chemical farming.
"We are excited to win this AgTech Breakthrough award when news cycles are dominated by climate, inflation, food security and food prices. Our technology enables the production of local, secure, low-cost food while sequestering carbon and cleaning the air, water and soil,"Â said John Gaus, a Founder at Agbotic. "Much of agriculture can be profitably distributed into community scale systems to reinvigorate rural economies; make lower cost and healthier food; draw down carbon; and clean the environment. Our decarbonized, denitrified, and digitized approach does just that. One day soon, every community will want a SmartFarm."
"The last two years serve to remind us that food security is paramount. Agbotic's model has put healthy food on hundreds of supermarket shelves and food distribution trucks across New York State. We expect it could do the same in many places with tremendous value to people and the planet." said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, AgTech Breakthrough. "We congratulate Agbotic on their important work and this award."
About Agbotic
Agbotic builds proprietary technology for distributed, organic farming. The company's systems for soil agriculture can grow more crop types than hydroponic greenhouses and do so without the use of synthetic nitrogen. Agbotic grows crops without chemicals; with 90% less water; and utilizes a deep data learning model. Agbotic's crops are certified organic by the USDA and the Real Organic Project. The Company operates its first SmartFarm in Sackets Harbor, New York, and sells fresh produce across New York State and into New England under its GoodHealthy® brand. The Company is expanding in North America and Europe and will establish manufacturing and distribution partners for other regions. www.agbotic.com
About AgTech Breakthrough
AgTech Breakthrough is a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership. The AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in agricultural & food technologies, services, companies and products around the world. The AgTech Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition for the achievements of AgTech companies and solutions in categories including farm management, indoor farming, FoodTech, automation, IoT and robotics, FoodTech, analytics and more. www.AgTechBreakthrough.com
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