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30 Oct 09

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

11 Oct 09

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
- widening out our rotations and utilizing animal manures
- cover crops
- 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

13 Sep 09

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

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paved the way for greater corporate control of agriculture
overreliance on chemicals
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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

28 Aug 09

New Deal Dictionary » New Deal 2.0

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18 Aug 09

A New Test for Business and Biofuel - NYTimes.com

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coal-bed methane
displace land used for growing food
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- corn-based ethanol
- growing algae for fuel
- bear root
- hard-edged reality
- turning algae into vegetable oil fuel
- oil-to-fuel efforts
- carbon dioxide waste stream
- waste heat
- algae beds
- solar radiation
- algae farm
- a part owner-operator
- debt-to-asset ratio

02 Jul 09

Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel - NYTimes.com

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Algae Farm
vehicle fuel
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- bioreactors
- specialty plastics
- feedstock
- tax subsidy for ethanol

Home Buyers Are Drawn to Nearby Organic Farms - NYTimes.com

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Subdivision
raw land
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- Urban Land Institute
- parcels
- inactive farmland
- tract subdivision
- working agriculture
- epicurean club
- local community-supported agriculture group
- retiree-friendly businesses
- wildflower meadow
- edible landscaping
- tracts of ranchland
- functional agricultural units
- Farm-focused developers
- root crops
- road frontage

11 Apr 09

Eating Food That’s Better for You, Organic or Not - NYTimes.com

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food enthusiasts
magic cure
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- caloric intake
- plant kingdom
- highly processed foods
- the food would not necessarily have to be organic, which, under the United States Department of Agriculture’s definition, means it is generally free of synthetic substances;
- contains no antibiotics and hormones; has not been irradiated or fertilized with sewage sludge; was raised without the use of most conventional pesticides; and contains no genetically modified ingredients.
- returning natural nutrients and substance to the soil in the same proportion used by the growing process
- The government’s organic program, says Joan Shaffer, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department, “is a marketing program that sets standards for what can be certified as organic. Neither the enabling legislation nor the regulations address food safety or nutrition.”
- Today, most farmers who practice truly sustainable farming, or what you might call “organic in spirit,” operate on small scale, some so small they can’t afford the requirements to be certified organic by the government. Others say that certification isn’t meaningful enough to bother. These farmers argue that, “When you buy organic you don’t just buy a product, you buy a way of life that is committed to not exploiting the planet,” says Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance.
- Professor Howard estimates that major corporations now are responsible for at least 25 percent of all organic manufacturing and marketing (40 percent if you count only processed organic foods).

21 Feb 09

ouest-france.fr - La crise frappe... et change l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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crise afrique

« C'est injuste, lance le président de la Chambre régionale de commerce. Nous avons une croissance de 4 à 6 %, une inflation de 2 à 3 %, nos pays ont fini d'assainir leurs finances publiques, et nous sommes jugés comme des « pays à risques », avec des taux d'intérêt de 12 %, alors que l'incurie, ailleurs, est totale ! »
Placez votre argent en Islande ', disait-on ! En fait, la bourse a chuté là-bas de 94 %, alors que celle du Ghana a progressé de 27 %.
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- UEMOA, l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine

20 Feb 09

Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research - NYTimes.com

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agriculture biotech

Biotechnology Seed Companies
Crop Scientists
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- rootworms
- corn-insect specialists
- genetically engineered seeds
- growers honor company patent rights and environmental regulations
- land-grant universities with big agricultural programs
- the industry’s chokehold on research
- Pioneer Hi-Bred
- genetically engineered sugar beet seeds
- One will consider a request from Pioneer Hi-Bred for a new method that would reduce how much of a farmer’s field must be set aside as a refuge aimed at preventing insects from becoming resistant to its insect-resistant corn.
- An E.P.A. scientific advisory panel plans to hold two meetings next week.

19 Feb 09

Sarkozy veut consolider l'agriculture avant la réforme de la Pac - Le Monde.fr

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agriculture France réforme consolider

18 Feb 09

III - Glossary of insurance terms

Glossary of Insurance Terms

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glossary glossaire insurance assurance

L'Unesco recense 2 500 langues en péril - Planète - Le Monde.fr

langues, languages

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langues languages

13 Feb 09

Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Council on Foreign Relations

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foreign affairs palestine israel history

12 Feb 09

Maïs OGM : le gouvernement ne remet pas en cause la clause de sauvegarde - Planète - Le Monde.fr

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MON810 maïs transgénique OGM

Yvon le Maho
clause de sauvegarde
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- la Haute Autorité provisoire sur les organismes génétiquement modifiés
- Autorité européenne de sécurité alimentaire (EFSA)
- Jean-François Le Grand, sénateur UMP

Bill Gates unplugged | Video on TED.com

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malaria children education bill gates

07 Feb 09

BBC NEWS | Americas | Biden outlines US foreign policy

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USA foreign policy

promising a new American tone in the world
missile defence shield
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- We will engage. We will listen. We will consult. America needs the world, just as I believe the world needs America
- cool relations between the two nations
- European countries should "share the heavy lifting,"
- the Italian government has decided to increase its contribution to Nato forces in Afghanistan by 800 to 2,800 troops this year
- President Medvedev from the very start said very clearly and unequivocally that if there are no interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic... there will be no [Russian Iskander missiles] in Kaliningrad,

Nadine Touzet's Public Library

Steven Chu: Weatherization: Saving Money by Saving Energy

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

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

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

New Deal Dictionary » New Deal 2.0

A New Test for Business and Biofuel - NYTimes.com

Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel - NYTimes.com

Home Buyers Are Drawn to Nearby Organic Farms - NYTimes.com

Eating Food That’s Better for You, Organic or Not - NYTimes.com

ouest-france.fr - La crise frappe... et change l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research - NYTimes.com

Sarkozy veut consolider l'agriculture avant la réforme de la Pac - Le Monde.fr

III - Glossary of insurance terms

L'Unesco recense 2 500 langues en péril - Planète - Le Monde.fr

Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Council on Foreign Relations

Maïs OGM : le gouvernement ne remet pas en cause la clause de sauvegarde - Planète - Le Monde.fr

Bill Gates unplugged | Video on TED.com

BBC NEWS | Americas | Biden outlines US foreign policy

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