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Urban Agriculture Summit From Sky Vegetables

Sky Vegetables, will host a summit of industry-leading specialists from around the world at the first-ever Building-Integrated Sustainable Agriculture (B-ISA) Summit

10 Dec 2008

Stunted and Deformed Fish in Polluted San Francisco Water

Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of pesticides, industrial chemicals and flame retardants that their mothers acquire from estuary waters and food sources and pass on to their eggs

10 Dec 2008

Global Food Security Through Organic Farming

Ogranic Farming methods proven worldwide can sustain farmer profits, address hunger and malnutrition and restore ecological health

10 Dec 2008

New Guidebook Gives Schools Instruction to Generate the Power They Consume

California's State and Consumer Services Agency (SCSA) announced the release of Grid Neutral - Electrical Independence for California Schools and Community Colleges, a step-by-step guide to help California schools and community colleges cut energy costs through on-site electricity generation

10 Dec 2008

Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings For Californian Schools With Custom-Bilt Metal Roofs

Custom-Bilt Metals is pleased to announce its low-maintenance and energy-saving Titan Cool Roof metal roofing is helping Southwest College to significantly reduce its energy costs and contribute to green building energy certification

9 Dec 2008

Environmentally Friendly Economic Stimulus Package to be Presented to Barack Obama Congress

The Nature Conservancy released a "green" economic stimulus package today, advocating for the funds to restore ecosystems, initiate green infrastructure construction, and create much-needed jobs in the process

9 Dec 2008

World Leading Wave Power Comes From Dissertation

A technology that is adapted to the special conditions for wave energy places the wave energy technology from Uppsala on the absolute cutting edge in the world

9 Dec 2008

Carbon Dioxide Found on a Planet Outside Our Solar System

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life, as we know it

9 Dec 2008

Hurricane Proof Homes to Battle Climate Change Head On

Home foundations and frames built of a lightweight composite material that may bend - but won't break - in a hurricane and can simply float on the rising tide of a storm's coastal surge

9 Dec 2008