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- Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?
- CNTs in agricultureChrisre: research into whether CNTs are safe for humans if ingested or used to improve seed strike or anywhere else in ag. You are correct about the potential risks, but as I read their paper, the researchers who found their tomatoes had improved propagation with CNTs are...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?
- In what can eventually kick up a firestorm similar to the genetically modified food controversy, the emerging field of "nano-agriculture" is making headlines. It involves the use of nano-particles â€" wisps 1/50,000th the width of a human hair â€" in agriculture and could have beneficial affects for crops, say...
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
- There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and ecological sense: energy is at the base of the economic pyramid, less energy means less of everything for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Photos: Israel's treatment of water
- The water treatment industry thrives in Israel because of a lack of water needed for agriculture and human use.
- Image galleries 2006-08-10
- CD3WD Agriculture 3.8 (Windows)
- CD3WD is a collection of high-quality 3rd world development information on agriculture, health, appropriate technology, construction, food processing, crop storage, woodwork, metalwork, electrical trades, education, and computer skills. All material is HTM and PDF, and is therefore platform independent. This section covers agriculture.
- Software downloads 2006-03-15
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- Diabetes can be kept at bay
- move your ass, lazy americanswalk, run, practice sports and you won't get diabetes.except type I that is geneticThey don't have the incentives ...when they keep getting free handouts that progressives love so much from the big fat@ss government. Free health care, free lunch, free everything and then of course they...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation
- Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?
- There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass
- That's not my conclusion, BTW, but the main sponsor of the newly proposed Senate bill on energy and climate change, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) admits she does not have the needed votes to pass her bill. But she's working on it. That could mean weeks or months of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin
- I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By that I presume this MSM reporter means nobody with lots of power or money in Washington. All sides want to see Congress weigh-in....
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?
- It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?
- Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Cerere 2008 1.5 (Windows)
- Cerere 2008 is a free program for people who work in agriculture and must complete and print a logbook, often by hand and with all paper-based data. This program lets the farmer insert the daily report with the operations performed by workers and farm machinery. The software calculates all of...
- Software downloads 2009-09-17
- YourWorld (Mobile)
- Ever wondered where a little state exactly is, when they talk about it on TV or the newspapers? Curious about its background, geography, political situation, economy, religion, people? With YourWorld this and many other information is always in your pocket! YourWorld is like a mini encyclopedia about all the countries...
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- Colbert heats up global warming
- The Colbert Report interviewed author Bill McKibben. He mentioned the 350PPM standard, and now the UN's Nobel Prize winning climate scientist has endorsed that standard. So here's what happened. McKibben has written Deep Economy, The End of Nature, and Fight Global Warming Now. He's a big...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- USDA News Reader 1.6.4 (Mobile)
- US Department of Agriculture USDA News Reader grabs the top stories from the USDA and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers USDA home, latest news, recovery plans, programs, and reports. It features landscape viewable mode and you can share stories with friends and coworkers.
- Software downloads 2009-08-25
- The World Factbook Lite 1.0 (Mobile)
- With The World Factbook Lite get statistic and briefing about 250 countries in the world, from widely respected database, updated regularly. Provide highlight information of each country, like population, birth rate, GDP, cellular phone users, internet users, military expenditure, percentage of agriculture, industry, services, unemployment rate, import, export, public debt,...
- Software downloads 2009-08-25
- Ohio, what are you drinking?
- That stuff in your drinking water could be detected if we applied a little green tech. Sensors, digitally linked, could alert water drinkers in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Maryland and other atrazine-rich habitat. "Atrazine alert," it could say, "drink something else for a while." Real-time monitoring of public...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- My Nutrients 1.1 (Mobile)
- My Nutrients displays nutrition for 7,000 food items from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It features easy to find, organized food items, displays commonly used proximates, minerals, vitamins, and lipids.
- Software downloads 2009-08-18
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