Content Keyword RSS | March 1, 2009
A company that makes wind and solar power systems in China has been approved for a $2.5 million state grant to help it build a production center west of Jacksonville. ARI Green Energy of Manassas, Va., told state officials it expected to create 175 jobs within two years of opening an office in Genoa in Hamilton County. It also could have a Jacksonville office but hasn’t made any …
Content Keyword RSS | February 28, 2009
From Jordan Calinoff, for GlobalPost . It’s an unlikely sight in the grungy outskirts of one of the world’s most polluted cities: row upon row of organically farmed buttery Boston lettuce, fresh thyme, and crisp cabbages. Just drive an hour north of Shanghai’s center, as massive apartment complexes fade into crumbling low-rise concrete buildings, and there it is – City Farm, a pioneer in China’s burgeoning organic food industry. “Many of our customers are foreigners and like to eat
Content Keyword RSS | February 20, 2009
As the Peanut Corp. of America scandal rolls on, a new bit of information has thickened the plot: Chinese organic peanuts may have been the source of another Salmonella outbreak at PCA back in 2006. Now that China is part of the story we have a full blown worst practice…
