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Corporate Watch: The Selling of Organic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 10:01:10
| Organic farms have historically been small, family-run mixed farms producing for local markets, but this story is starting to change as conventional agribusiness and the supermarkets move in. Organic shops, too, are expanding, or being bought up, and increasingly resembling their non-organic counterparts. |
Richard Branson's new push, biofuels; coconut oil fueled airliner (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 10:01:10
| Richard Branson, the business man that makes headlines seemingly every week. This time, it is for a green cause, he made history by becoming the first commercial airliner owner to fuel a flight with a partial load of biofuels.
The debatable point is this, it took the oil of 150,000 coconuts and some babassu palm oil to power only 20% of one of four fat tanks on one of his 747 Virgin Atlantic airliners. The headlined trip launched at Heathrow airport and touched down at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, making the mark on what some would claim could be a revolution in environmentally responsible aviation.
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Physics lab completes world's largest jigsaw puzzle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 10:01:10
| GENEVA (Reuters) - A 100-tonne wheel, the last piece of an ambitious experiment that scientists hope will help unlock the secrets of the universe, was successfully lowered into an underground cavern on Friday.
It is the final major element in the ATLAS particle detector, the largest of four detectors being hooked up to the world's most powerful particle accelerator which the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hopes to start up around the middle of 2008. |
Alaska to sue BP over '06 Prudhoe Bay spill losses (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 10:01:10
| ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - Alaska is planning to sue BP Plc to recover "several hundred million dollars" in oil revenues it says it lost when the company partially shut down the giant Prudhoe Bay oil field because of pipeline leaks in 2006, state officials said Friday.
Alaska "estimated the number of barrels of oil not produced due to shutdowns or reduced production due to corrosion of pipelines and it was tens of millions of barrels," Assistant Attorney General Steve Mulder said. |
Conti's lithium-ion cell to power Mercedes hybrid (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 10:01:10
| FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler's luxury brand, Mercedes-Benz, will launch an S-Class hybrid next year equipped with a lithium-ion battery supplied by Continental in what Daimler said on Friday was a crucial technological breakthrough.
"The Stuttgart-based automaker is the world's first manufacturer to have succeeded in adapting lithium-ion technology to the demanding requirements of automotive applications," it said in a statement. |
California emissions waiver formally blocked (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 10:01:10
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Friday formally rejected California's bid for a waiver from U.S. law to set its own tailpipe emissions standard to reduce global warming.
The Environmental Protection Agency released a regulatory notice signed by Administrator Stephen Johnson, canceling California's plans to impose a state law that would have forced automakers to reduce emissions by making cars that achieve sharply higher gas mileage beginning next year. |
Appeals court rejects sonar waiver for Navy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 03:01:14
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court has rejected White House efforts to exempt the U.S. Navy from laws intended to protect endangered whales and other marine mammals by curbing the use of sonar off the California coast.
A three-judge panel late on Friday upheld a lower court order requiring the Navy to take precautions during the sonar training to minimize harm to marine life. |
High winds kill eight and cut power in central Europe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 03:01:14
| VIENNA/PRAGUE (Reuters) - Gale-force winds hammered Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic on Saturday, killing at least eight people, snarling transport networks and cutting power lines.
In Germany, trains were delayed by uprooted trees and an intercity express collided with a fallen tree between the cities of Cologne and Koblenz, injuring the driver. |
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