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Great Plains Offer Global Warming Solutions

The prairies offer opportunities for capitalizing on environmentally friendly farming practices and potentially useful agricultural waste to produce jobs, economic growth, commercial opportunities, and renewable energy sources

8 Apr 2009

Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia Takes Step Towards Sustainability

A major Indonesian plantation company has become the country’s first certified maker of sustainable palm oil as WWF simultaneously collaborated with the Indonesian Department of Agriculture and others to hold a first-time regional training workshop for small producers

8 Apr 2009

Queensland Government in Australia to Fund Research Into Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Cattle and Sheep

The Queensland Government has secured funding for three new, major research projects aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas belched out by livestock

6 Apr 2009

Farming is a Business and What is the Better Strategy - Conventional Cropping or Organic?

The rise in organic cropping has led agronomists at the University of Wisconsin to study whether or not it can be as profitable for farmers as monocropping systems, and they were able to conclude that governmental policy supporting mono-culture is outdated and should be shifted to promote organic farming practices

6 Apr 2009

State of the Art Lab to Make Non-Woven Fabrics to Protect People and the Environment

The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University introduced a new, state-of-the-art fabric laboratory to help researchers continue creating products that can protect both military and civilian populations

6 Apr 2009

Scotland Introduces Program to Turn Algae into Biofuels

BioMara research project is investigating the feasibility of using algae to produce biofuel

6 Apr 2009

SABIC Innovative Plastics Honored for Reducing Vehicle Emissions With Next Generation Polymers and Composites

SABIC Innovative Plastics has been honored with a 2009 Green Dot Award in Transportation for its pioneering work on the Hyundai QarmaQ Advanced Technology Demonstration Vehicle

6 Apr 2009

Rubber Technology From Dow Corning Helps Save Water on Plantations

Less is more as the world seeks to find solutions to global warming and rapidly depleting water levels, Dow Corning develops rubber silicone technology to help control water efficiency on plantations by at least 40 percent

2 Apr 2009

First Accurate Test Developed to Determine Arsenic in Soil

Analytical chemists have developed the first accurate test for arsenic compounds in soil, providing improved environmental and health impact assessment for children playing on treated wood, cats and dogs under the deck, and for detecting high arsenic levels in some Asian rice supplies, for example

1 Apr 2009

Leader in Wind Energy, Vestas Partners with UW College of Engineering

Vestas, the world’s leading producer of wind power technology, has entered into a long-term partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering that promises to propel wind-energy research, provide student learning opportunities and give the company a long-term presence in Madison

1 Apr 2009