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Brazilian Seed Grows into Diesel Tree: Farmers Happy

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2008-04-09 08:00:00 by Gloria Campos in Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
Australian farmers in North Queensland have recently invested in 20,000 Brazilian trees not just for the sake of the environment, but also for what the trees can give the farmers in about 15 to 20 years. Fuel Technorati Tags: Environment Food and Drink History Nature News Products Science Shopping
 
Tags: farmers, brazilian trees, australian farmers, environment, environment food, trees, north queensland, technorati tags, fuel
 
 
 
 
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Robotic suit for Japanese farmers crushes plans for early retirement

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2008-01-09 16:44:18 by HASH0x89e0058 in DVICE
...farmers who have trouble performing their labor-intensive tasks to carry them out with less strain The effort to develop the suit is being led by Shigeki Toyama at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The team hopes to have the suit done in four years, selling it for $4,500 to $9,000 apiece
 
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British Farmers to Build Giant, Artificial, 220-Acre Farm Under Glass [Too Much Green]

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2008-06-12 21:09:10 by Adrian Covert in Gizmodo
...farmers in Kent, England are building a 220-acre series of connected greenhouses, where nothing will be grown in soil. Instead, nutrient-packed water will be used to grow 1.3 million plants hydroponically. The 7 greenhouses will increase the UK's green vegetable supply 15%, and the green houses will be self sufficient during the dry season by...
 
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Chinese Farmers Build Birds Nest Stadium Out of Bamboo [DIY]

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2008-08-10 14:00:00 by Elaine Chow in Gizmodo
...farmers close to Hangzhou (located in the southeast of China), the Herzog & de Meuron structure was just too darn far away... so in a fit of DIY ingenuity, they built their own replica out of bamboo. Steel's apparently kind of hard to get when you're living on a couple of dollars a day Altogether, it took ten bamboo sculptors roughly two...
 
Tags: bamboo, stadium, bamboo sculptors roughly, structure, meuron structure, nest, weird asia news, diy structure, national stadium
 
 
 
 
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Google bursts a few balloons for better service.

2008-02-22 07:35:27 by HASH0x88f3770 in Newlaunches.com
 
...farmers after it drifts back using a small parachute. The farmers do it because they get $100 per payload retrieved. Really wishing you were farmers now aren't you? Source
 
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What Disposable Cameras Can Do

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2007-12-18 19:00:01 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...farmers - at a small village in Lesotho, Southern Africa and asked them to take pictures of their life. What returned are some truly amazing pictures, un-mediated by the professional photographer's eye I posted a number of them here, you might find them interesting. They are really amazing, especially considering they were taken by a...
 
Tags: school lunch program, school, program, world food program, food, lesotho, disposable cameras, lesotho chezpim, support
 
 
 
 
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BioGas Digesters

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2008-01-23 07:15:00 by Grupo Gavilán in Green Gadget Inspector
...farmers in the Chinese province of Guangxi Province are the flagship of Chinese biogas technology. The central government pays half the price of building a $260 biogas digester in their backyards. Its an example of what the Chinese government, in its 11th five-year economic plan, refers to as a new socialist village environmentally...
 
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Askinosie Chocolate

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2008-03-31 12:34:44 by HASH0x8be40b0 in Cool Hunting
...farmers in order to ensure the highest quality chocolate possible. All of Askinosie Chocolate bars are made in small batches, pressed from their own cocoa butter, using traceable single origin beans Besides the direct relationship with cocoa farmers (which includes paying above fair trade prices and profit sharing), Askinosie has taken...
 
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Askinosie Chocolate

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2008-03-31 17:34:44 by Brian Fichtner in Cool Hunting
...farmers in order to ensure the highest quality chocolate possible. All of Askinosie Chocolate bars are made in small batches, pressed from their own cocoa butter, using traceable single origin beans Besides the direct relationship with cocoa farmers (which includes paying above fair trade prices and profit sharing), Askinosie has taken...
 
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