The recent outbreak of salmonella in the United States has cost the Food industry over 250 million dollars. It now turns out that cost may have been entirely their own fault.
The Food and Drug Administration first thought that the salmonella bacteria was being spread by tomatoes and it took them four months of intensive investigation [...]
The East African nation of Kenya has a problem. They import two very expensive commodities, sugar and fuel.
Their solution. Grow lots of sugar cane, which would help reduce their need to import over 200 thousand tonnes of sugar a year, and relieve their dependency on oil by producing considerable amounts of sugar cane bio fuel [...]
The world’s wetlands are in danger and if they are damaged further they could release a “carbon bomb” which could greatly affect Global Warming conditions.
Wetlands are natural carbon traps that contain the same amount of carbon that is currently in the earth’s atmosphere, in all they contain a fifth of the world’s carbon.
It seems that there is concern in Arizona about mosquitoes spreading the West Nile disease.
The main breeding grounds, in the normally dry and arid state, are backyard swimming pools that have been left unattended because the households were foreclosed on or abandoned.
How clean is your kitchen? Not very according to a recent study. Chances are that your bathroom maybe the cleanest room in your house.
Our kitchens are the center of our all home activity, the room we prepare food in, socialize in and eat in. And it maybe the most dangerous room in the house.
The G8 leaders meeting in Japan last week backed away from accepting realistic binding greenhouse gas limits. Adopting a attitude of denial about carbon emissions and in an attempt to coddle U.S. President George Bush during his waning days of office the major leaders of the Western World decided to fudge their math test.
According to some authorities they are the terrorists of the flora and fauna world. They strike at night at unusual places and attack their targets with force and passion. By the time they leave the crime scene the landscape is unrecognizable.
They are Guerrilla Gardeners, a collection of secret cells around the world that sneak around [...]
A secret World Bank report has revealed that bio fuel production has had a significant influence on the rising global prices of food. Global food prices have increased over 75 percent over the last two years and bio fuels are largely to blame according to the report.
This strongly contradicts the United States government’s claim that bio [...]
As the leaders of the G8 nations gather this week in Northern Japan to discuss the issues of rising oil prices, greenhouse gases, world poverty, the current food crisis and what to do about Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe they might take a little time to consider alternatives to corn and wheat as bio fuel additives.
Process a tonne of gold ore and you will get 5 grams of pure gold. Process a tonne of cell phones and you’ll get, on average, 150 grams of gold. And there is a bonus, you will also be the proud owner of 100 kilograms of copper, 3 Kg of silver plus other minor metals.
This [...]
