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Kraft couldn't cut it
2015-04-08 06:37:05| Food - Topix.net
Say goodbye to Kraft Foods, soon to be subsumed by Heinz and its Brazilian owners in a deal valued at about $36 billion. If you're looking to figure out why a once-mighty Chicago-area company is being consumed rather than being the consumer, you could start with this: salad dressing.
Hawaii utility commits highest-in-nation rooftop solar on circuits but can grid handle it?
2015-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A pitched battle that stopped a solar boom in Hawaii is over, at least temporarily. Rooftop installations are increasing again for the first time in two years. The biggest utility in the Aloha State, Oahu-based Hawaiian Electric Co., or HECO, has reopened a blocked pathway to adding more local photovoltaics. It will allow new rooftop systems on crowded circuits that the utility had all but shuttered 18 months ago. The utility at the time said the move was needed for safety reasons, as a bounty of...
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Indonesia, Brazil subsidizing forest loss far more than REDD+ slows it
2015-04-01 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: International aid to protect forests in Indonesia and Brazil pales in comparison to domestic subsidies for commodities driving deforestation there, according to a new report by United Kingdom-based think tank Overseas Development Institute (ODI). If the countries received an average of $1 billion each year via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme, their annual agricultural and biofuel subsidies for just four commodities associated with forest loss palm...
The Evolving Power Grid - As EEI President Sees It
2015-03-30 23:58:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Thomas R. Kuhn Continuing to Serve Customers EDITOR' S NOTE: Thomas R. Kuhn participated in a discussion on the future of electric power at Oracle's Industry Connect event in Washington last week moderated by The Energy Times' content director. Marty Rosenberg. He provided us with this executive summary of his views. read more
Diet Coke sales slip: Here's why we stopped drinking it
2015-03-30 14:20:54| Beverages - Topix.net
Diet drinks are going out of style - people who drink fizzy drinks want their carbonated beverage to be full of calories Diet Coke used to be the coolest beverage on the block, favoured by celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Helena Bonham Carter and Grace from Will and Grace. If you don't believe us, look at this Tumblr .
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