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Bamboo grass may hold key to fighting global warming

Posted by EarthDude on Thursday, 05 May 2011 in Agriculture

Bulacan, Philippines — The Bulacan Environment and Natural Resources Office (BENRO) emphasized yesterday the value of bamboo in Philippine culture as well as its ability to fight the adverse effects of global warming, earning the support of the Capitol leadership. Recent studies show that s...

Chinese Coal Use to hit 513 million tons in 2011

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 05 April 2011 in Agriculture

China Knowledge reported that China, the world largest coal producer may see its output of coking coal to reach 513 million tonnes in 2010. The insiders estimated that the country demand for coking coal will hit 569 million tonnes this year and there will be 56 million tonnes of insufficiency betwee...

Coastline of Namibia is Now Designated a National Park

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 12 February 2011 in Agriculture

The Namib-Skeleton Coast National Park covers 26.6 million acres, making it larger than Portugal. It stretches for 976 miles (1,570km), from the Kunene River, at the northern border with Angola, to the Orange River, on the border with South Africa, and is expected to be promoted as a unified de...

Financial problems could wipe out commercial whaling

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 08 January 2011 in Agriculture

The past few years have seen a sharp rise in awareness, and criticism, of Japanese whaling practices. The Oscar winning documentary The Cove and Animal Planet's television show Whale Wars have brought western public attention to the killing of both large and small cetaceans. Whale meat is sold openl...

Denver Airport Parking, World's Greenest, to Open November 2010

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 06 November 2010 in Agriculture

In today's world, parking garages are important elements of the urban infrastructure. So it's exciting that Denver International Airport's (DIA) newest parking facility incorporates cutting-edge technologies to provide both environmental conservation and energy efficiency. DIA is the fifth ...

GM maize 'has polluted rivers across the United States'

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 02 October 2010 in Agriculture

By Steve Connor, Science Editor An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment. The insecticide is the product of a bacterial gene inserted into GM maize and other ...

350.org around the world

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 24 September 2010 in Agriculture

It’s been raining photos for 36 hours at 350.org HQ in San Francisco. As the sun moves around the globe, we’ve been watching images pour in from almost everywhere (except North Korea)–from Hanoi, from Cape Town, from Buenos Aires, from Delhi. It’s an incredible show of global solidarity. A...

Agropolis: The Future of Urban Agriculture?

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 16 September 2010 in Agriculture

Last week at the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop 2010, held in Denmark, one presentation took urban agriculture to the next level. A collaboration with NASA, you might even say it launched urban agriculture out of this world, and into the future.The idea is called Agropolis, a comb...

Ocean Thermal Energy in hawaii

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 28 August 2010 in Agriculture

The Earth’s oceans are continually heated by the sun, creating a temperature difference between deep and shallow water. This temperature difference contains a vast amount of solar energy, which can potentially be harnessed to generate electricity. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), invo...

Green edition: Nothing left to waste

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 20 June 2010 in Agriculture

A SCHOOL packed with hungry students is sure to generate a lot of waste from all those plastic bottles and sandwich wrappers. Urrbrae Agricultural High School wants to recycle as much of that as possible. The school is developing a waste/recycling facility using a $10,000 “Zero Was...

Can farms and forests mix?

Posted by joeycello on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Agriculture

August 24th, 2009Forests and farms don’t mix, according to conventional wisdom. Farmers are often portrayed as the villains, slashing and burning trees to clear land for crops and wrecking forests from the Amazon to Indonesia (…not to mention Europe, where people cleared most forests thousands of y...

Farmers care About trees too

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Agriculture

Almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover, according to a study on Monday indicating that farmers are far less destructive to carbon-storing forests than previously believed. From: Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, ReutersPublished August 24, 2009Farmers Care Ab...