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Cuba’s sustainable agriculture in danger in UNITED STATE thaw

Plantations — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:03:05 +0000

Plantations International Information Organic ranch, Alamar. Melanie Lukesh Reed/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Miguel Altieri, College of California, Berkeley President Obama's trip to Cuba today increased the warming of U.S.-Cuban connections. Lots of people in both nations believe that normalizing connections will certainly stimulate investment that could assist Cuba develop its economic climate and improve life for [...]

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Standard shift should secure the commons, state professionals

Plantations — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:03:31 +0000

Plantations International Information Photo: Tomas Munita/CIFOR This article was composed by a social reporter. It has not been edited by the Discussion forum organisers or partners, as well as represents the opinion of the specific writer only. The idea of the commons is both old and also that brand-new, prevalent and also jeopardized, effective at [...]

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Golden Entrance Petroleum to provide renewable diesel to California state firms

Plantations — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:36:15 +0000

Plantations International News A new contract between the State of California and Golden Gate Oil may help the state make a massive jump in the direction of meeting its aggressive discharge objectives. The emission targets were mandated by Guv Jerry Brown's exec order to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) exhausts to 40 % less than 1990 [...]

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Complexity of landscapes supplies a method forward for environment policy, state professionals at GLF 2015

Plantations — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:26:07 +0000

Plantations International Information By Thomas Hubert, initially published at CIFOR's Forests InformationA holistic technique to sustainable land use adds an added and also crucial measurement to the international environment policy being shaped at COP21, speakers claimed at Sunday's closing ceremony of the 2015 Worldwide Landscapes Forum, held in Paris.The Forum united greater than 3000 people [...]

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Record: The golden state not making full use of biofuels potential

Plantations — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:42:01 +0000

Plantations International News The golden state has actually not maximized possibilities to boost its in-state manufacturing of biofuel, in spite of state policies that motivate biofuel usage, according to a report by the Environment Modification and also Company Research Campaign at the UCLA as well as UC Berkeley law institutions. Coming on the heels of [...]

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Michigan State University partners with ExxonMobil to improve algal biofuels

Plantations — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:46:32 +0000

Plantations International Information A new $ 1 million (appr. EUR890,000) connection in between Michigan State University (MSU) and also ExxonMobil will certainly increase research study developed to advance the essential scientific research required to progress algae-based fuels. The general objective of the partnership is to enhance the effectiveness of photosynthesis in microalgae to create biofuels [...]

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