Four-Season Farming in the Pacific Northwest

While visiting the Olympic Peninsula, we stayed on the beautiful Colinwood Farm in Port Townsend, Washington, where farm manager Jesse Hopkins showed us how greenhouses allow him to grow crops through the cold months of the year. In this video, we follow the life-cycle of an organic zucchini plant from seed to harvest. For more videos visit: OrganicNation.tv

Green Rim – Towards a Sustainable Pacific Rim – Preview

**Film Premiere on Thursday November 12, 2009 at SJSU’s College of Engineering** More info about the premiere here: www.engr.sjsu.edu As the worlds top two carbon emitters, China and the US face significant challenges reducing their carbon emissions while keeping up with each nations growing demand for more energy. Is there the potential for cooperation between both Pacific Rim nations around this important issue, or is each nation seeking its own distinct solutions? Green Rim documents how people from universities, NGOs and industries in both countries can learn from each other as they work to reduce CO2 emissions, increase energy efficiency, create new methods to produce renewable energy and conserve natural resources. Filmed on location in China and Silicon Valley (California), Green Rim shows why clean tech energy solutions to climate change problems can only be effective if they also address the underlying social values which hinder or enable those solutions to be integrated into the everyday lives of members of each society. (57 Minutes) Produced by Bob Gliner in association with Belle Wei, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San Jose State University, Sandy Chau, and the US China Green Energy Council. Copyright Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, 2009. Bob Gliner is an award winning documentary producer with more than 40 programs to his credit. His programs have appeared on PBS stations throughout the United States, been used by many nonprofit …

Union Pacific Is First Railroad To Earn Eastman Chemical Company’s Highest Level Supplier Excellence Award

Salon owner helping soak up oil spill
ST. MARYS – Since the oil spill off the Louisiana coast two weeks ago, Mary Rose Cannistraro has urged her customers to get a little more taken off the top when they come to her St. Marys salon for a hair cut. It’s her way of helping with ongoing efforts to contain the oil spill that is threatening environmentally sensitive coastal areas throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Cannistraro, owner of On …

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O-I Launches New Line of Lightweight Wine Bottles
PERRYSBURG, Ohio — O-I , the world’s largest manufacturer of glass containers, is launching its lightest-ever North American wine bottle, which is up to 27 percent lighter than similar wine bottles.

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Weston’s Courtyard by Marriott Fort Lauderdale Weston Awarded the Prestigious Green Eco-Leaf Rating
Courtyard by Marriott Fort Lauderdale Weston (http://www.istaygreen.org/property.cfm/hid/11278881) has earned a 3 Green Eco-Leaf Rating this week by completing a 70 point comprehensive eco-audit survey administered by iStayGreen.org – the online social network of environmentally friendly travel. (PRWeb May 9, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb …

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China steel ripe for consolidation – ArcelorMittal
* ArcelorMittal CEO forecasts Chinese consolidation

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Union Pacific Is First Railroad To Earn Eastman Chemical Company’s Highest Level Supplier Excellence Award
Union Pacific is the first railroad to earn the Eastman Chemical Company Supplier Excellence Award for overall company performance.

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Pacific Electric Red Cars

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Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the P. E. and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the Great Merger into a new Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the World’s Great Interurban.