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Eco Factor: Skyscraper with a rooftop-based ecosystem.
Whenever it comes to vertical farming, people mostly envision high-rise buildings where veggies are grown at different levels. Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter have a different thought to...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Alaska Governor and former Republican 2008 vice-president nominee Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her governorship.
The resignation will come at the end of the...
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A Philadelphia man’s accused of using Tarot cards and mysticism to lure three teenage girls into having sex with him.
“He was reading my cards and told me...
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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While the onslaught of miserable June weather played havoc with people’s plans and psyches, it has also provided a quiet benefit to many city neighborhoods. Fatal and...
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Amidst the fireworks, the beer and the cookouts associated with the celebration of the 4th of July Independence holiday, it is common to forget why the founders of the...
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Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
The U.S....
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Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City...
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The King of Pop still had it.
In defiance of all the critics who called him Wacko Jacko and a has-been, Michael Jackson still put on a show that eluded most artists....
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California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
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President Obama promised a break from the old Washington ways of permanent campaigning and a president unaccountable to the people. Put aside the lack of...
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With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. A handsome cardiologist’s son, he married money,...
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It has long been known that Michael Jackson had an inconsiderate stage-dad. Joe Jackson reportedly pushed his son excessively as a young star.
Jackson has long stated...
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For the first time since 1968, a party will command a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
After several months of recounts and court battles, Democratic...
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Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a...
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Dreaming of a house that is remarkably awesome? Designed by Touzet studio, the amazing North Bay Road Residence located in Miami Beach, Florida is one such example. The...
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As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...
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Eco Factor: Food factories produce organic vegetables 24 hours a day.
With the land available for farming depleting quickly, inventors have started to look toward...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Eco Factor: Green roof used to grow vegetables for the restaurant below.
The Flat, an old Holiday Inn Motor hotel, which was converted into luxury apartments with an...
made popular Apr 30 2009
Eco Factor: Crop protector powers itself using solar energy.
Protecting farmlands from animals using scary objects is a thing of the past, and inventors are using the...
made popular Apr 29 2009
Agriculture isn’t a small business by any figment of imagination be it in any part of the world, and therefore technological upgrades related to this field are of...
made popular Apr 9 2009
AP, Des Moines
It wasn’t so long ago that farmers were asked what they would do with their windfall profits.
made popular Feb 9 2009
AP, Bay St. Louis
The agency that sets fishing rules in the Gulf of Mexico has approved a plan to allow offshore fish farming.
made popular Jan 29 2009
AP, Bay St. Louis
Fishermen criticized a plan on Wednesday that would open offshore fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico, saying it would cause pollution and drive them out of business....
made popular Jan 29 2009
Perfect Sustainability New Zealand has a population of approximately 40 million sheep quite a growth from the first four sheep Captain Cook release in the Marlborough...
made popular Oct 13 2008
THE adage goes, ‘train a woman and you have trained a nation’. This is philosophy to development, right from the household. Many times it eludes society to the...
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There are quite a few projects across the world that are trying to turn the desert in to farming space both because the remaining planet is struggling to find new land...
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The word “farming” conjures up an image of a farmer toiling away on a green landscape to feed the world. However, carbon farming brings about a fresh change...
made popular Aug 20 2008
The debate has raged on for weeks and while the initial thoughts were that we were heading towards something that was a substantial concept that would feed millions of...
made popular Aug 9 2008
So is vertical farming a fancy concept that would actually never amount to anything substantial or would it actually be the idea that provides the majority of world...
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AP, Golden Pond
The U.S. Forest Service has subsidized corn and soybean farming on its lands for years _ and rankled environmentalists are now suing the agency for what they say is an...
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AP, Havana
For Miladis Bouza, the global food crisis arrived two decades ago. Now, her efforts to climb out of it could serve as a model for people around the world struggling to...
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AP, Irapuato
Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him.Supervising...
made popular May 27 2008
AP, Mcminnville
High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly...
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The earliest occupation the man adopted was agriculture. A small number of people inhabiting together formed a village. The industrialization attracted people from...
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AP, Chaleunsouk
The rice fields that blanketed this remote mountain village for generations are gone. In their place rise neat rows of young rubber trees _ their sap destined for...
made popular May 4 2008
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Workers sort apples by size and color as they roll down a conveyor belt at the Riveridge Produce Marketing in Sparta, Mich., Jan. 13, 2009. Michigan farmers soon will have the opportunity to express their concerns about the economy and other issues that.
