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Prep Athlete of Week: Evanston G Garrett Jones

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Steven Chu: Weatherization: Saving Money by Saving Energy

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mastic sealant
tank-less
water heater
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- funnel too much heat out in the winter and let too
  much heat in the summer
- weatherization
- tax credits for energy
  efficiency upgrades to your home
- Recovery Act
- Retrofit Ramp Up
- home
  retrofits
- property
  tax bil
- Since the
  financing would be attached to the property tax bill, both the savings
  and the loan payments stay with the house if the owners decide to sell
- home
  weatherization
- the highest standards of
  accountability
- caulk guns
- insulation blowers
- Weatherization Assistance
  Program
- green workforce development

Sprint Confirms Palm Pixi Launch Details: Nov. 15 And $100 - Mobile - IT Channel News by CRN

Smaller cheaper Palm phone thru Sprint

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The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

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Farmers: What Do You Think Of Pollan's Ideas? : NPR

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Michael Pollan
"In Defense of Food."
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- the omnivore's debate
- monocultures
- the grain elevator in town
- farm policies
- spike
- the agribusiness lobby
- Eric Schlosser's work
- The Journal of the American Enterpriser Institute
- "The Omnivores Delusion - Against the Agri-Intellectuals,"
- Farm Bureau in Wisconsin
- Right now, 90 percent of the consumers' food dollar goes to middlemen, processors, marketers
- pasture-raised livestock
- cogent
- he honed right in on them
- let a thousand flowers bloom
- new markets and new kinds of food being raised
- there are environmental costs to turning our back on technology
- no-till farming
- beef cattle farm
- Pasteur-cultury
- grass-finishing our beef
- The CSA is a program where members pay up front for a season of vegetables
- grain-buyers
- true cost
- farm programs
- total direct farm payments
- farming comes about 40 percent government payments
- commodity farmers
- American Corn Growers Association
- post-peak oil world
- cover crops
- widening out our rotations and utilizing animal manures
- to raise the same amount of corn
- So there's erosion costs. There's land cost. There's water cost, and there's labor cost.
- greenhouse sales
- I have tried to run our whole farm in the black with no loans
- it's a tough road to hoe
- pastured poultry
- Roundup Ready seed
- an eight-year rotation. They'll do five years of cattle on grass, they'll rotate them around their pastures. And then they'll do three years of grain. And they find if they do that, there's so much fertility in the soil, they don't need to use any nitrogen for three years of grain. They also don't need any herbicides. You know, that means putting animals back on farms.
- agricultural schools
- in need to be producing 13 billion bushels of corn

Understanding the Anxious Mind - NYTimes.com

Kagan often talks about the three ways to identify an emotion: the physiological brain state, the way an individual describes the feeling and the behavior the feeling leads to.

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Norman Borlaug, Leader of the Green Revolution, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

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overreliance on chemicals
paved the way for greater corporate control of agriculture
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- rich enough not to worry about where their next meal was coming from
- Gary H. Toenniessen, director of agricultural programs for the Rockefeller Foundation

Norman Borlaug, Leader of the Green Revolution, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

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expert in plant diseases, Elvin C. Stakman
plant pathology
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- Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican hunger project
- the greatest disease of wheat, a fungus called rust
- locales
- seed heads containing wheat grains
- “semidwarf” plants
- rice, the staple crop for nearly half the world’s population

Norman Borlaug, Leader of the Green Revolution, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

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plant breeding
food deficient
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- environmental and social critics
- career path
- assault on hunger
- Mexican soils were depleted, the crops were ravaged by disease, yields were low and the farmers could not feed themselves, much less improve their lot by selling surplus
- he manipulated tiny wheat blossoms to cross different strains

New Deal Dictionary » New Deal 2.0

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Prep Athlete of Week: Evanston G Garrett Jones

Steven Chu: Weatherization: Saving Money by Saving Energy

Sprint Confirms Palm Pixi Launch Details: Nov. 15 And $100 - Mobile - IT Channel News by CRN

The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

Farmers: What Do You Think Of Pollan's Ideas? : NPR

Understanding the Anxious Mind - NYTimes.com

Norman Borlaug, Leader of the Green Revolution, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Norman Borlaug, Leader of the Green Revolution, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Norman Borlaug, Leader of the Green Revolution, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

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