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Review: Book looks at costs of pork production
2014-10-13 21:18:25| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant meatpacker Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost processed pork product in the familiar blue tins. Taking a leaf from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the impact of the production speedup on workers at the company's Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen in towns where the industry holds sway.
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Balancing renewable energy costs and optimizing energy mix
2014-10-13 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Increasing reliance on renewable energies is the way to achieve greater CO2 emission sustainability and energy independence. As such energies are yet only available intermittently and energy cannot be stored easily, most countries aim to combine several energy sources. In a new study in EPJ Plus, French scientists have come up with an open source simulation method to calculate the actual cost of relying on a combination of electricity sources. Bernard Bonin from the Atomic Energy Research Centre...
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J.B. Hunt Transport looks for strong quarter despite rising costs
2014-10-13 09:18:23| Trucking - Topix.net
Freight volume has been strong across the trucking industry in the third quarter which analysts agree should propel J.B. Hunt Transport's profits up 13% over the same period in 2013. Lowell-based Hunt reports earnings Tuesday .
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Environmental Degradation Costs Ghana 5-10% Of GDP - FC
2014-10-12 16:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PeaceFM: The Forestry Commissions (FC) estimation of Ghanas environmental degradation in its major natural resource sectors as at 2010 costs between five to 10 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The forest sector, out of this, accounted for 63 per cent, equivalent to USD $500 Million in monetary terms, Professor Mrs Esi Awuah, Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) said on Friday. Prof. Mrs Esi Awuah was speaking at a durbar organized by the National REDD+...
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UPDATE 1-UPS sets up access points for U.S. deliveries to cut costs
2014-10-09 21:13:15| Trucking - Topix.net
United Parcel Service Inc has started allowing U.S. customers to collect packages from neighborhood stores or lockers to lower failed deliveries of online purchases and costs associated with them, ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. Courier companies face higher delivery costs on online purchases by shoppers as per-package volume is lower than bulk deliveries to businesses.
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