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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
- Recovery Act
- tax credits for energy
  efficiency upgrades to your home
- 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.
- I have tried to run our whole farm in the black with no loans
- greenhouse sales
- 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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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

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).

14 Jan 09

Consecutive interpreting without note taking: blasphemy? « Alessio Iacovoni’s Weblog

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04 Jan 09

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Auroville, histoire d'une utopie

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29 Dec 08

An Office Space of One’s Own for Entrepreneurs - New York Times

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27 Dec 08

FT.com / Brussels - EU climate bill ushers in hard year of talks

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climate change package
crunch meeting
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- committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020;
- generating at least 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020; and committing billions of euros in funding to develop carbon capture and storage technology.
- • Internationally agreed targets for greenhouse gas emissions cuts by developed countries
  • Commitments, probably falling short of absolute cuts, but including curbs on greenhouse gases
  • Agreement on measures to help poor countries adapt
  • Agreement on how to finance transfer of low-carbon technology to developing countries and for forest preservation
- emissions cuts
- mandatory targets
- Yvo de Boer, the UN’s senior climate change official
- Few would expect developing countries to sign up for absolute cuts in emissions of the kind that developed countries have taken on
- business as usual

FT.com / Brussels - Kouchner expects Afghan test for Europe

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France wanted to see the UN take a bigger role in co-ordinating international reconstruction and security
played down tensions
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- the days when France and Germany alone could set the agenda for Europe were “finished”
- aid campaigner
- government promotion of human rights was incompatible with government diplomacy

Management idea: Balanced scorecard | Balanced scorecard | The Economist

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Balanced scorecard
activity-based costing
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- If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it
- The customer’s perspective
- The company’s internal perspective
- Innovation and improvement
- short-termist
- It acts as an integrating device for a variety of often disconnected corporate programmes, such as quality, re-engineering, process redesign and customer service.

Sol LeWitt at Mass MoCA - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 10

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01 Dec 08

Farmers Panic About a ‘Cow Tax’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Cow Tax
greenhouse gas regulation
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- agricultural operations
- our agricultural landscape is comprised of 1.9 million farms with an average value of production of $25,589 on 271 acres.
- shouted down
- heat-trapping potential of carbon dioxide