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Why DOES a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?

Why DOES a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?

By Chris Selland on November 13, 2010

Interesting and very informative piece on farm subsidies. The commentary on Representative Frank Lucas is particularly notable (and depressing). Business-as-usual – including farm business – needs to change in Washington. Amplify’d from pointsandfigures.com Federal crop subsidies make up a large portion of the Department of Agriculture’s budget.  Simple economics says that if there is a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged agriculture, Energy, food price inflation, subsidies, subsidy, Uncategorized

Nice Dutch project using ‘waste’ heat and CO2 to increase greenhouse yields!

Nice Dutch project using ‘waste’ heat and CO2 to increase greenhouse yields!

By Tom Raftery on October 23, 2009

Photo credit przemion 
Came across a great story on pressreleasefinder today via Twitter about a project in the Netherlands called WarmCO2.
What is WarmCO2?
It is a project which takes residual heat and CO2 from Dutch fertiliser manufacturer Yara and using infrastructure supplied by partner company Visser & Smit Hanab, pipes them to vegetable growers […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged abn amro, agriculture, chp, co2, Energy, Fossil fuel, heat, Natural gas, recycling | 1 Response

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