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Georgia Tech gives hand up to local industry
2014-06-19 00:58:32| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Georgia Tech’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership does for industries what the University of Georgia Extension Service does for farmers.
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Green waste subject of local fire concern
2014-06-18 02:03:06| Waste Management - Topix.net
Concern over fire danger regarding the size of the green waste pile at the Idyllwild Transfer Station prompted Mike Esnard, president of the Mountain Communities Fires Safe Council Board of Directors, to contact Waste Management Inc., the company the county contracts to manage the station.
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New Winnebago Site Boosts Local Workforce
2014-06-16 15:26:20| Mobile Homes - Topix.net
A big investment by the city of Lake Mills, Iowa, began paying off for both the community and for Winnebago Industries Inc. when the area's largest employer opened its newest plant last February.
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We're losing faith in global change as local causes boom
2014-06-14 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Localism is all in the interpretation. So to Eric Pickles, it's decentralising planning. In surfing culture, it's the right, assumed by local surfers, to chase non-locals off their wave breaks. And now environmental localism is beginning to mean something too. Something big. Might it even refresh the parts other green movements can't reach, and take them mainstream? Certainly, the London venue where I hosted the Observer Ethical Awards last week was bursting with eco talent from grassroots organisations....
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07.09: American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
2014-06-13 21:34:10| Powells Books Events Calendar
In American Catch (Penguin Press), Paul Greenberg takes the same skills that won him acclaim in Four Fish to uncover the tragic unraveling of the nation's seafood supply. In 2005, the United States imported five billion pounds of seafood, nearly double what we imported 20 years earlier. Bizarrely, during that same period, our seafood exports quadrupled. American Catch examines New York oysters, Gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to reveal how it came to be that 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat is foreign. With American Catch, Greenberg proposes a way to break the current destructive patterns of consumption and return American catch back to American eaters.
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