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CARE Recieves Grant For Sustainable Agriculture Program In Peru
New York NY (SPX) May 12, 2009The ACE Group has announced that the ACE Charitable Foundation is making a three-year, $600,000 grant to CARE, one of the world's largest humanitarian aid agencies, to help create and support the Sustainable Andean Agriculture program in Peru. The program, designed by CARE, offers an innovative response to the global food crisis by training and organizing local farmers to increase the prod ... more Air Quality Funding Boost For California Agriculture 
Fresno CA (SPX) May 12, 2009Dave White, Chief of the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, enriched California's air quality resources by $5 million during his first visit to California as head of the national conservation agency. The additional money will bring to $20.9 million the funds NRCS in California is making available to help farmers and ranchers reduce air quality emissions from off-road mobile or ... more DuPont Agriculture Businesses Growing Strongly 
Wilmington DE (SPX) May 12, 2009Robust research and development product pipelines and local investments in business infrastructure will continue to fuel double-digit growth of the DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition business through 2013, said two DuPont leaders during an investors' Business Review Series here. James C. Collins, Jr., vice president and general manager - DuPont Crop Protection, and Daniel Glat, Pioneer regio ... more Leading Indicators Of Land Degradation In Abu Dhabi 
Washington DC (SPX) May 12, 2009Desert environments are characterized by poor vegetative cover, strong winds, dry, non-cohesive sandy soils, and hyper-arid conditions. In this context, the land resources of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the United Arab Emirates are subjected to various land degradation stresses, including wind erosion, salinization, waterlogging, landfilling, and overgrazing. To sustain the land resources ... more Nordic Windpower Awarded Contracts For 19MW Of Wind Projects 
Chicago IL (SPX) May 12, 2009Nordic Windpower USA has announced that it has been awarded contracts for 19 of its N1000 one-megawatt wind turbines for public- and private-sector community wind projects in North and South America. The 70 meter high N1000 turbine, with blades 59 meters in diameter, will provide clean and renewable wind energy for schools, wind farms, a military base, a municipal utility, and a sustainabl ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 8, 2009 Small professional armies are much more popular for large, prosperous, secure nations and empires to run than massive conscript armies. That is why the army of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years was far smaller than the enormous citizen armies that the old Roman Republic was able to raise in earlier centuries from a seemingly limitless reservoir of sturdy yeoman farmers in the Italian peni ... more Virtual Earth gets 3D Photosynth views 
San Francisco (AFP) May 7, 2009Microsoft on Thursday enhanced its Virtual Earth online mapping service with Photosynth technology that melds pictures to create 3D views of places and spaces. The move allows businesses or government agencies to provide virtual tours of locations displayed online with 360-degree views. "The integration of Photosynth into Virtual Earth marks an important step in enabling businesses to us ... more Premier Power Continues Growth In Spain Despite Crash Of Spanish PV Market 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 11, 2009Despite the once hot Spanish solar farming market coming to a grinding halt, Premier Power Renewable Energy's business in Spain will grow by more than 200 percent this year with future prospects increasingly bright. ASIF, a Spanish solar PV industry association, estimates that the commercial rooftop market will become the leading market segment in Spain, growing to more than 4.4 gigawatts ... more EcoSystem Announces Integrated Biofuel Feedstock Machine 
Dayton OH (SPX) May 11, 2009EcoSystem has announced its plans to conduct operational trials of its Feedstock Machine at targeted poultry and swine processing companies. The Feedstock Machine is an integrated, scalable solution that converts poultry and swine manure into high protein feeds, natural oils, and high quality soil amendments. The Feedstock Machine consists of three major subsystems: ... more Bioelectricity Promises More Miles Per Acre Than Ethanol 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 11, 2009Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand farmland will aggravate the climate change problem. How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2009NASA's Langley Research Center has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument. The cost-plus-award fee, incentive fee contract has a maximum value of $44.5 million over 10 years. Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems Sector will perform the ... more US Organic Sales Grow By 17.1 Percent In 2008 
Greenfield MA (SPX) May 07, 2009U.S. sales of organic products, both food and non-food, reached $24.6 billion by the end of 2008, growing an impressive 17.1 percent over 2007 sales despite tough economic times, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA), which has made available final results from its 2009 Organic Industry Survey. While the overall economy has been losing ground, sales of organic products reflect ... more 'Ghost fishing' major sea threat: UN report 
Nairobi (AFP) May 6, 2009Lost or discarded fishing nets can continue to catch fish for years and are a growing threat to the planet's marine ecosystem, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. "The report estimates that abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear in the oceans makes up around 10 percent, (640,000 tonnes) of all marine litter," said a statement from the UN Environment Programme. ... more New And Improved Tomato Analyzer 
Wooster OH (SPX) May 07, 2009Tomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software. The Tomato Analyzer is "rapidly becoming the standard for fruit morphological characterizations," according to a study led by Marin Talbot Brewer of The Ohio State University's Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. Details of the team's latest Tomato Analyzer resea ... more Helping Agriculture Reduce Air Quality Emissions 
Davis CA (SPX) May 07, 2009Farmers and ranchers interested in reducing air quality emissions from off-road mobile or stationary agricultural sources are invited to apply between April 30 and June 26, 2009, for funds made available under a new air quality provision of the 2008 federal Farm Bill. "The primary goal of this new portion of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is to help farmers and rancher ... more
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