Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
As fuel and feedstock prices continue to rise, government entities continue to analyze the cause. The RFA (Renewable Fuels Association) points out there are a series of dynamic factors such as the rising energy cost, the falling dollar, weather-related crop failures, increase world demand and chanding diets in developing worlds …
A 5-year-old was killed when strong winds blew over a row of tents at an Alabama air show during storms that stretched across the South on Sunday while severe weather caused airport delays in the East, officials said. The winds that toppled the tents and canceled the air show in …
We've known for a long time that a high-fat diet, obesity and lack of exercise can increase the risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes, two conditions that affect millions of Americans. What we are finding out now is that those same lifestyle factors also play an important …
Good to see quake-affected people are recovering, she says First-hand details: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits some of the areas damaged in the May 12 earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, on Sunday. CHENGDU: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday arrived in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, …
FOR most of its 271 years, an old lumber mill along the Rahway River in Cranford got its power from water spilling over the falls near its banks. The building is now used for office space, its old-fashioned waterwheel long ago displaced by electricity generated from a modern fossil fuel-burning …
HIGH gas prices are already getting us to cut back on driving, but do we really want to count on prices at the pump to solve our energy problems? A smarter approach is for the federal government to give us tax credits for driving less. It would be a simple …
P. S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: The U.S. on Saturday urged North Korea to "abandon' all its nuclear weapons in a culmination of the process set on course by Friday's demolition of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon complex. The U.S.' call acquires unusual importance because of Japan's comment that the elimination …
The United States may drop a tariff on Brazilian ethanol. But the industry is still the victim of much misplaced criticism When John McCain laid out his plans for reducing America
Hawaii has become the first state to require solar water heaters in new homes. Gov. Linda Lingle, a Republican, has signed into law a bill requiring the energy-saving systems in homes starting in 2010. The new law prohibits issuing building permits for single-family homes that do not have solar water …
It has been getting ever harder to pretend that Antarctica is a pristine place. We like to think of it as being scoured clean by hostile winds and extreme cold. But more and more, Antarctica, like the Arctic, shows the lasting scars of human negligence. The effects of climate change …
Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts' who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth. Back in May, Michael Masters, a hedge fund manager, made a big splash …
June 25: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-m
Aldo DeRubeis bought compact fluorescent bulbs on Monday at the Home Depot in New Rochelle, N.Y. Sales of compact fluorescents climbed to 75 million last year for the retailer. Recycling them is about to get easier. Home Depot, the nation's second-largest retailer, will announce on Tuesday that it will take …
by Larry Rohter When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry's most prominent boosters showed up. Leaders of the National Corn Growers Association and the Renewable Fuels Association, for instance, came to help cut the ribbon - and so …
