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Is it a good idea to pay farmers to store carbon in soil?
2014-03-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Climate protection is getting down and dirty Down Under. Soil serves as a great reservoir for carbon, yet it`s often overlooked in climate protection efforts. That`s changing in Australia, where farmers will soon be able to earn cash for projects that store carbon in the soil - such as tree plantings, dung beetle releases, and composting. Aussie farmers are already eligible to make money by reducing greenhouse gas pollution from livestock, manure, and rice fields. Australia`s environment minister...
Google wins DARPAs robotics challenge, wonders if it was a good idea to turn down future military contracts
2013-12-23 18:20:53| Extremetech
DARPA's Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world's most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for a famously acquisitive Silicon Valley company, the winning robot was fielded by a company called Schaft -- a Japanese company that was recently acquired by Google as part of its rather sudden segue into robotics. Google now officially, and probably not unintentionally, has its hands on the best humanoid robot in all the land.
Labeling GMOs is a good idea but may not make a difference
2013-11-13 12:10:30| Chemicals - Topix.net
Even scarier, much of our food is bio-engineered and not grown, but bred. Given this reality, it is reasonable for a consumer to want to know something about the engineering, which produces foods that are known as GMOs, an acronym for products that contain genetically modified organisms.
Investing Idea; The Good Life: Luxury Stocks to Watch
2013-04-19 03:34:58| Jewelry - Topix.net
April 18, 2013 Investorideas.com staff: Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in investing ideas in leading sectors reports on trading for luxury stocks for April 18th, 2013.
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