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Monday, 12 December 2011
The 150-year-old family-owned Royal Wine Corporation installed a 1.15-megawatt solar power system on the roof of its corporate headquarters and warehouse facility in Bayonne, New Jersey, which took six months to complete and is expected to provide for 65 percent of the site’s power needs.
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
French multinational Danone, a market leader in fresh dairy products, will be using green plastic packaging for two of their popular dairy products lines as part of their goal to reduce their carbon emissions. Danone has set a global target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent over the next four years, from 2008 to 2012.
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Meat grown in a lab has less greenhouse gas emissions and requires less energy to produce than conventionally produced meat. This is the finding of scientists from the Oxford University and the University of Amsterdam after analyzing meat produced via tissue engineering. The Oxford team claimed that `cultured meat` would require approximately 7 to 45 percent lower energy use and result in 78 to 96 percent lower greenhouse gas emissions depending on the type of meat.
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Wednesday, 08 June 2011
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 7 (Reuters) - High-tech seeds and innovations in chemicals and farming will not be enough to solve looming food shortages for the world, according to a report issued Tuesday by a committee formed by food and chemicals conglomerate DuPont.
Billions of dollars in private investment, government incentives and charitable work must be funneled into collaborative projects if global food production is to match growing demand, the report urged.
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Monday, 06 June 2011
A group of schools in California are participating in a program that has so far recycled over one million foam-based lunch trays every month. The lunch tray recycling initiative, headed by food packaging company Dart Container Corporation and food supplies distributor P&R Paper, is dubbed as the state’s largest volunteer lunch tray recycling effort and participated into by at least 11 unified school districts.
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Monday, 06 June 2011
Hotter, more unpredictable weather brought by climate change is bound to disrupt crop yields and livestock for millions of people in regions already deep in food shortages and poverty, a new report from an agricultural research group warned. Researchers from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research observed that climate change “hotspots”.
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Wednesday, 04 May 2011
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should halt the rapid extinction of plant and animal species by 2020 because it will cost less than trying to repair the damage once it is done, Europe's environment chief said on Tuesday. Worldwide, species extinction rates are between 100 and 1,000 times the natural rate, the European commission said in its latest biodiversity strategy.
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Monday, 21 March 2011
United States food, beverage and consumer product manufacturers would have already eliminated four billion pounds of packaging waste nationwide from 2005 to 2020, according to two industry-wide surveys commissioned by the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
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Thursday, 17 March 2011
More soda, fruit and energy drinks will soon be consumed from recyclable bottles made from plants, as the world’s leading beverage makers continue to develop their own versions of green bottles.
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Wednesday, 09 March 2011
OSLO, March 8 (Reuters) - Many farmers in developing nations can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a United Nations report showed on Tuesday. Insect-trapping plants in Kenya and Bangladesh's use of ducks to eat weeds in rice paddies are among examples of steps taken to increase food for a world population that the U.N. says will be 7 billion this year and 9 billion by 2050.
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Thursday, 03 March 2011
The word ‘organic’ may not give that sonic jolt to the unacquainted, but the mere sound of what an organic liquor is made of can be pretty mouth-watering. Vodka infused with hand-zested lemons or Bourbon vanilla beans. A gin of juniper berries, lavender, cinnamon, cloves, and more fresh herbs and spices. Fresh sugarcane and orange zest rum. Crystal clear tequila from blue agave. Hibiscus and jasmine liqueurs.
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Monday, 14 February 2011
Hotel chain covers everything on V-day, from spas to food
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011
Greenhouse gas emissions dropped to 1.94 million metric tons
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Friday, 14 January 2011
A look at the Ayurvedic system which is about honoring the body
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Thursday, 13 January 2011
Viriam recommends growing your own fruit and veg to be truly ecofriendly
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Emission reduction measures can add millions of dollars in earnings
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Friday, 07 January 2011
Joshua Rosenthal talks to Essence of Life about being a health coach
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Meat eating is draining the world's resources and we can make a change
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Thursday, 16 December 2010
Time To Get Into The Kitchen.
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Friday, 05 November 2010
Researchers take into account agricultural and animal production
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