Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture has become necessary as agriculture has become more industrial, increasing its output of greenhouse gasses and waste and increasing use of water. Sustainable agriculture explores ways to reduce agricultural impacts through the use of renewable and recyclable resources. We also include articles on agricultural products that increase sustainability elsewhere, for example, the use of biofuels.
Constellation Wines Claims Largest Solar Footprint in U.S. Wine Industry
Constellation Wines U.S. plans to invest in three new solar energy installations across California at its Clos du Bois winery in Geyserville, Ravenswood winery in Sonoma, ...
Chiquita Unveils Biodigester in Costa Rica
As part of its global sustainability efforts, Chiquita Brands International has installed a biodigester system at its Mundimar S.A. facility in Guapiles, Costa Rica. ...
Nestle to Spend $487M on Sustainable Coffee Supply Chain
Nestle will invest CHF 500 million (approximately $487 million) to address responsible farming, sourcing and consumption across its coffee supply chain. Nestle purchases around ...
Methane Digester Delivers 750 kW Electricity at Holsum
Kirk Van Dussen, manager at one of Holsum Dairy farms, discusses the dairy's use of an anaerobic methane digester to recycle, ...
Egg Ranch Taps Chicken Waste for Electricity
Olivera Egg Ranch French Camp, Calif., is planning to turn its poultry waste into "green" power through a waste digester system, which is expected to ...
Carlson Orchards Powers up 220-kW Solar Array
Carlson Orchards in Harvard, Mass., has powered up its two-acre, 220-kilowatt ground-mounted solar-array installation that will supply about two-thirds of its power.
The solar array consists ...
Vermont Resort Cuts Carbon Footprint with ‘Cow Power’
The Equinox resort will eliminate about 212 metric tonnes of carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions through its partnership with the Central Vermont Public Service's "Cow ...
Sun World Yields 20% Fuel Savings through Smart Farming
Sun World International, an agribusiness based in Bakersfield, Calif., is using IBM analytics technology to help the company implement more cost effective and energy-efficient ...
Roundup – BP, MCM, Spirit AeroSystems
BP Says That Oil Flow Has Stopped as Cap Is Tested
NY Times
China says energy efficiency higher than earlier report
Reuters
MCM Electronics ...
Seafood Industry Seeking Sustainable Solutions
Seafood restaurants are looking for new sustainable solutions for their supply chain amid worries that overfishing could threaten the viability of the industry, according ...
GE Generates 625 kW With Cow Waste
General Electric announced that it has finished testing a biogas cogeneration plant powered by the manure produced by 4,000 cows for a dairy in ...
Roundup – Toyota, HSBC, Empire State
Toyota to launch green-car barrage in 2012
CNet
HSBC Drops Indonesian Palm Oil After Illegal Deforestation Report
Triple Pundit
Empire State Building ...
Monsanto to Pay $2.5M Penalty for Misbranded Cotton Seed
Monsanto has agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty for violating a U.S. pesticide law. The agreement resolves misbranding violations related to the sale ...
Farm Output Efficiency Climbed 158% Since 1948
American farmers have become far more efficient over the last 60 years, experiencing efficiency gains of 158 percent per unit of energy used since 1948, ...
Agri Businesses Can Achieve Big Benefits from Solar Energy
While a fruit packing and storage company in California is eliminating its entire utility bill with a 622 kW solar power system, a Georgia pecan ...
OSU Energy Efficiency Center Offers Services to Farmers, Rural Businesses
Oregon State University's Energy Efficiency Center is offering its energy-efficiency services to Oregon farmers and rural businesses looking to cut their energy expenses, reports Sustainable ...
Cadbury says Aussies Less Informed about ‘Green’ Certifications
Although Cadbury started to ship Dairy Milk chocolate bars to Australia in March with the Fairtrade label, the chocolate maker said it has no ...
Roundup – McCandless, Dow Corning, Ingram
Free range eggs contain a little something extra: pollutants
LA Times
Tree-free paper products come from bananas, waste
Scripps Howard News Service
ERA Carbon ...
Roundup – Coca-Cola, Toyota, Kenworth
Coca-Cola facility recognized for sustainability goals
Waste Recycling News
Cleantech meets green building
Sustainable Industries
Toledo reinvents itself as a solar-power innovator
USA Today...
Pesticide Use in Sustainable Potato Production
Leonard Gianessi, Director of the Crop Protection Research Institute, presents his talk on the sustainability of potato production with regard to pesticide use at the National Potato Expo this past February....
Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy's SPAWAR
