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Environmental Champion Colleen McCrory of Canada Dies
NEW DENVER, British Columbia, Canada, July 3, 2007 (ENS) - Dedicated environmental activist Colleen McCrory, honored internationally for her campaigns to save Canada's forests from logging, died Sunday from brain cancer in the small southeastern British Columbia town where she was born. Her sudden illness and death at age 57 was a shock to her family, friends and colleagues. 'The whole ...
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Delta Consultants expands global platform through acquisition by Dutch consulting firm
Delta Consultants, a U.S. environmental, safety and sustainability consulting firm announced it has been acquired by Oranjewoud, a Netherlands-based environment, safety and engineering consulting firm. Both firms are part of the Inogen Alliance, a global corporation formed by a network of environmental, health, safety and sustainability consulting firms to provide multinational ...
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Ethical Corporation Institute reveals that consumers are still putting ethics first
Ethical Corporation Institute (ECI) has found the current economic climate is having little effect on consumer desires to be ethical. Demand for produce certified by organisations like the Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade is soaring in 2009. We can expect further growth in the market for industry standards and certification. Rob Cameron, head of the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation, told the ...
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French courts rule in favour of environment group’s legal suit on pesticides in wine
In a recent article in the Parliament magazine 22 February 2010, Corinne Lepage MEP describes a court case she has been defending of behalf of HEAL partner NGO in France, Mouvement pour les droits et le respect de generations futures (MDRGF). MDRGF came under attack from the French grape growers’ association following a report published by MDRGF on pesticides and grapes. Ms Lepage, who has since ...
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Global ReLeaf marks 20th anniversary at KWWF
The Kirtland"s Warbler Wildlife Festival (KWWF) has drawn thousands of birding and nature enthusiasts to its annual "celebration of nature" held on the third Saturday in May at Kirtland Community College"s main campus near Roscommon. This year, the festival will also help celebrate a very important anniversary, as well as a gracious donation that will benefit the area"s wildlife for years to ...
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Whose side are you on? consumers group asks Boston Herald readers to not support empires of collusion
Today, with the backdrop of the RISI North American Forest Products Conference wrapping up in Boston, the Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity (CAGP) launched a full page ad in the Boston Herald warning readers that the "Empires of Collusion" continue to push an anti-prosperity, anti-trade agenda. Participants at the RISI conference consist of groups trying to prevent high-quality, low-cost ...
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Opportunity International and Caterpillar Foundation launch $1 million corporate challenge to help alleviate global poverty through savings-based microfinance programs
With the year-end charitable giving season just around the corner, Opportunity International and the Caterpillar Foundation, the charitable arm of global equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar Inc., have launched an aggressive $1 million challenge grant that will enable corporations and small businesses to double the impact of their donations to Opportunity International. From now through Dec. 31, ...
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Kohl`s donates $1.5 million to hunger task force for three year meal program for students in Milwaukee
Kohl's Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) is renewing its partnership with Hunger Task Force with $1.5 million over three years for the Kohl's Serving Up Supper for Kids program. Starting in June, the program will provide needed meals for kids during the summer when other school meal programs are not available. The $1.5 million donation to Hunger Task Force comes from the Kohl's Cares® cause ...
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Shoppers find easy way to spread love around the world by the spoonful
Nature's Path Organic Foods is joining forces with Whole Foods Market's nonprofit Whole Planet Foundation to help shoppers donate to fight global poverty and spread the love around the world. Nature's Path is launching Love Crunch – a delicious, limited edition dark chocolate granola – exclusively at Whole Foods Market. For every box sold, Nature's Path will donate $1 - up to $25,000 ...
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Exhibition in Turkey
We will attend the exhibition in Turkey in April: International Energy and Environment Fair 2013 Exhibition Hall: Halls 9~11 Istanbul Expo Center Turkey Date: April 24~April 26, 2014, 09:00am~05:00pm Booth Number: I116 and I118 (In Taiwan Pavilion) We welcome you to join the exhibition and visit our booth. For more information, please visit: ...
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FAO celebrates quinoa’s legacy with Peru and Bolivia during World Food Week
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, Peru’s First Lady and Special Ambassador for the International Year of Quinoa, Nadine Heredia , and Bolivian Minister of Rural Development and Lands, Nemecia Achacollo have participated today in a symbolic quinoa harvest in FAO headquarters. The harvest was by hand, as has been done for centuries in the Andean region. The harvest was the ...
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John Deere`s Intelligent Boom Control Makes North American Debut
In a milestone for forestry equipment technology, John Deere introduced its Intelligent Boom Control (IBC) option for its forwarders at Elmia Wood in Sweden on June 5-8, 2013. A feature the industry has anticipated for over 30 years, IBC is now offered as an option on all of John Deere's 1210E and 1510E Forwarders in North America. This technological breakthrough significantly increases forwarder ...
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MSC launches `seafood matters` global blog
Our new global blog has launched. Seafood Matters will host a diverse array of authoritative voices on sustainable seafood topics. It will also explain our sometimes complex standards and principles; introduce some of the people who work hard behind the scenes at the MSC; provide a wide range of perspectives on the urgent issues facing our oceans; explore species we all love, offer photoessays ...
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Livestock Event National Dairy Show Results 2014
Stall bookings for cattle reached record levels at the Livestock Event, at The NEC, Birmingham on Wednesday 2 and 3 Thursday July. Over 200 stalls were allocated for the National Dairy Show, together with over 145 pedigree beef cattle. “Last year visitors requested more livestock, consequently the event featured more space for dairy cows, more beef with three national shows for performance ...
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Successful Breeder Management is All in the Details
"How do we optimize egg production? We all know that a lot of things have to fall into place…programs such as housing and nutrition, but the biggest factor is understanding the reproductive system in both male and female breeders,” remarked Chad Mason, breeder-hatchery manager with Columbia Farms, a division of House of Raeford, at USPOULTRY’s 2014 Hatchery-Breeder Clinic held ...
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Governor Cuomo Signs New York Ban on Ivory Trade into Law on World Elephant Day
On World Elephant Day, Governor Andrew Cuomo today signed a law banning the trade of ivory antiques in the state and increasing penalties for traffickers, a move that can help curb the ongoing slaughter of African elephants for their tusks. A statement follows from Peter Lehner, Executive Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “Zoos shouldn’t be the only place our ...
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Farm Bureau on USDA Report: Worldwide Corn Yields Up; Wheat, Cotton and Soybeans, Too
The USDA’s latest report on agricultural supply and demand for the 2014-2015 marketing year suggests supplies will continue to be on the tight side for key U.S. crops despite record harvests, the American Farm Bureau Federation said today. “The most interesting feature of today’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report is the projected corn yield of 167.4 bushels ...
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New Nitrogen Fertiliser and Fertiliser Storage Tanks
For the second year in a row, fertilizer prices remain high. With fertiliser constituting one of the industry’s biggest consumable expenses, it’s no wonder that it’s constantly monitored and forever debated. A new Koch Advanced Nitrogen product is said to be bringing potential savings to growers and it is claimed to be as effective as CAN, despite being made from urea. A ...
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EP wants animal cloning ban extended to offspring and imports
Parliament beefed up the Commission’s initial proposal to ban animal cloning to include the cloning of all farm animals, their descendants and products derived from them, including imports into the EU, in a vote on Tuesday. "The technique of cloning is not fully mature, and in fact, no further progress has been made with it. The mortality rate remains equally high. Many of the animals ...
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Don’t Miss The Algae Biomass Organization Summit, October 23-26, 2016, In Phoenix, Arizona
The Algae Biomass Summit is the largest algae conference in the world. This is where leading producers of algae products go to network with industry suppliers and technology providers, where project developers converse with utility executives, and where researchers and technology developers rub elbows with venture capitalists. Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group (BRAG®) affiliate ...
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