New NHL uniforms are home-grown
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- New NHL uniforms are home-grown
- More Milk from Maize and High Sugar Grass
- Economic elite ponder globalization’s ills
- David Adam on food miles | Environment | The Guardian
- President calls for 20% petrol cut
New NHL uniforms are home-grown
ABC12.com – Jan 25, 2007
The research behind the changes took place right here in Mid-Michigan. Central Michigan University is actually at the forefront when it comes to design and performance for athletic apparel. That’s why Reebok came to Mount Pleasant when it was time for the National Hockey League to overhaul the uniforms and equipment they currently use. Story continues below Advertisement digGetAd(“Rectangle”); At the All-Star game, it was out with the old and in with the new.
More Milk from Maize and High Sugar Grass
Stackyard – Jan 25, 2007
The family has farmed at Bolthow for 51 years and the policy is to stick with the current herd size and stocking rate and to concentrate on reducing inputs and making more from homegrown forage. In addition to achieving the reduced input costs, they have seen average yield increases of three litres a cow a day across the herd. Maize, grass silage and home-grown chopped straw form the basis of the winter diet, which is fed through a TMR wagon with the addition of bought-in brewers grains and topped up with a proprietary 18 per cent protein concentrate fed to yield in the parlour. Maize has been grown for the last three years at Bolthow on the advice of specialist seedsman and Formula Leys director David Baldwin, and this year’s variety from the Dutch-bred Gold range of Golden Harvest far exceeded expectations. Also on Mr Baldwin’s advice three years ago the Osborns began re-seeding ground used for both grazing and silaging with the latest Aber High Sugar Grass varieties. These have been so successful that the bulk tank quite literally overflowed when cows were turned out onto the pasture last summer! The maize crop when harvested on October 10 by local contractor Peter Sherwen was up to 12 feet tall with a high cob-to-stalk ratio and yielding around 22 tonnes to the acre. “We had always wanted to grow maize because of the crop’s high starch content and its suitability for the growing conditions on our very light land,” said Tony Osborn.
Economic elite ponder globalization’s ills
USA Today – Jan 25, 2007
“It’s clear that business as usual is not going to work,” Montek Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, told one panel, according to a summary from forum organizers. This year’s conference also is paying attention to the emergence of significant global corporations from the developing world. Home-grown corporate successes from countries such as Brazil and China are poised to acquire multinationals in the developed world. Brazil’s Gerdau Group last year acquired Sheffield Steel of Sand Springs, Okla. , while China’s Lenovo bought IBM’s laptop business in 2005. Chinese companies are expected to become increasingly active. “They’re going to become big players on the international scene, and I think it’s going to happen very quickly,” said Robert Zoellick, vice chairman, international, at Goldman Sachs, and former deputy secretary of State and U.
David Adam on food miles | Environment | The Guardian
Guardian Unlimited – Jan 25, 2007
There are other problems too. Most experts argue that renewable sources of electricity should be treated differently from energy drawn from fossil fuels, which could give some French products a much lower carbon footprint because of that country’s heavy reliance on nuclear power, which produces almost carbon-free electricity. But will shoppers share the view that such products are truly green? And some vegetables transported from abroad could still have lower carbon footprints than those home-grown inside heated polytunnels with bags of fertiliser. “There are offsetting reasons why one may not be better than the other,” says Boardman. Such difficulties have not stopped some industries trying to work out the “embodied energy” of their products. “Embodied energy is becoming a much more important aspect to take into account,” says Ken Double, head of evaluation at the Energy Saving Trust. “And when we talk about embodied energy we often mean embodied carbon.
President calls for 20% petrol cut
The Age – Jan 25, 2007
He called global climate change a "serious challenge" that should be addressed through technology. He also called for more use of hybrid vehicles and electricity produced from carbon-free sources like wind, solar and nuclear power plants. A rising focus on "energy security" by both the Bush Administration and Congress has added momentum to efforts to employ home-grown fuel sources such as ethanol to reduce US dependency on oil imports. About 60 per cent of US petroleum supplies come from imports. Mr Bush called for Congress to raise a mandatory federal renewable fuels standard to 130 billion litres by 2017, and increase the scope of the program to include fuels like cellulosic ethanol, biodiesel and methanol. That alone would displace about 15 per cent of annual US petrol use, the White House said. The rest of the reduction would come from reforming automobile fuel efficiency standards, which could save about 32 billion litres of petrol in 2017.