Energy Efficiency

Cuba feeds its citizens with a food stamp system that entitles them to 3 weeks food per month and the fourth week they have to provide for themselves. Ask any citizen and they will tell you the food is not enough as they have to supplement the food available with more to make a meal. [...]

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The Queensland Labor Party has never heard of the old Navajo Proverb ‘only when the last tree has been cut down, when the last fish has been caught, when the last river has been poisoned, only then will we realize we can’t live on money as they sign away the Darling Downs as an important [...]

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The brave new world of food security in the 60′s and 70′s is being threatened on many quarters, from the far ranging side effects of chemicals through the whole food chain (even affecting marine life); diminishing fertilizers and oil supplies and changing weather patterns affected – like it or not – by greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars – not people, new figures show; new analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies. One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than [...]

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In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats. As you are probably aware, rats are used in trials of most foods. In this study, three varieties of [...]

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