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
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Tags: Apartment Complexes, Boston Lettuce, China, China Food, China Industry, Concrete Buildings, Crisp, Foreigners, Jordan Calinoff, Low Rise, Organic Food Industry, Organic Industry, Outskirts, Pioneer, Pioneer Food, Polluted Cities, S Center, Shanghai, Thyme, World Cities
Content Keyword RSS | February 28, 2009
On Tuesday, Angelenos will vote on Measure B, a plan to install 400 megawatts of solar panels around Los Angeles. Based on the title alone – the Green Energy and Good Jobs for Los Angeles Program – the measure should pass resoundingly in a city that has consistently ranked at the top of most-polluted cities lists. But Measure B’s passage is anything but assured. Controversies have erupted over how hastily the proposal was put on the ballot, two widely differing independent analyses – on
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Tags: Angelenos, Controversies, Energy Jobs, Green Energy, Green Jobs, Independent Analyses, Jobs, Megawatts, Polluted Cities, Power Vote, Proposal, Solar Panels, Solar Power, Top Lists
