The solar electric power system will supply power to the winery’s offices and processing facilities, as well as its large, barrel refrigeration rooms. The winery expects the project to pay for itself in energy cost savings in seven to eight years. The winery will begin its first solar powered wine production when the bottling line [...]
"We have never looked at manure as an opportunity," Gordon Wells of Tradex AgriSystems said at the 2005 Banff Pork Seminar. "One of the key messages that must be received is that manure has renewed value in today’s marketplace." Increasing urban pressure on water and land, and dramatically higher energy costs have created a real [...]
But biotechnology supporters complained the bill would essentially uphold a "medieval" moratorium based on backward ideas about genetically altered crops. The so-called "co-existence" law sets out rules to ensure conventional and organic crops are not contaminated by GM seeds, part of a web of European Union legislation aimed at allowing a controlled opening of the [...]
"Interdependence is no longer disputed," said Blair, speaking to a forum of business and political leaders. "If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda too." President George W. Bush’s inauguration speech last week showed the United States realised it [...]
But far from making any recommendations for action to their political masters, the scientists from 30 countries will review the state of knowledge and try to define just what constitutes "dangerous" levels of climate warming. "We will not try to come up with a consensus number on what should be a target. That is a [...]
EU health inspectors plan to test national governments to see how they cope with any outbreak of the virus and stop it from harming humans and animals, the EU’s health and food safety chief said. Last week, the World Health Organisation warned that th? virus, known to have killed 27 people in Vietnam and 12 [...]
Launching a five-day conference sponsored by the United Nations on protecting the diversity of Earth’s plant and animal life, Chirac called for a change in world attitudes to ensure more was done to protect species close to extinction. "I appeal to all scientists to gather to create a world network of expertise, and France will [...]
"Fish from some areas of the Baltic Sea are so contaminated that they may be too toxic for European Union markets," it said in a report about the state of the shallow, brackish sea in north-east Europe. It estimated that about 31 kg (68 lb) of poisonous PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, accumulated ever year in [...]
European Nickel won two exploration licences last year, for the village of Lipovac in central Serbia and for the village of Mokra Gora in the area of Mount Tara, a protected natural park in southwest Serbia. But filmmaker Emir Kus?urica, who used Mokra Gora as the setting for his latest movie "Life is a Miracle" [...]
San Francisco Bay area municipal governments are working to grow sustainable communities, by passing green building ordinances, requiring energy-efficient designs, recycled content and a host of ?green? strategies for public projects. In the city of San Francisco alone, new public projects of more than 5,000 square feet are now required to meet the Leadership in [...]
