Ethanol Producer Mag — Strategies for Collaboration in Innovation

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Ethanol Producer Magazine | EthanolProducer.com: Strategies for Collaboration in Innovation This is a short, but concise article on collaboration and strategic partnerships in the agrofarm business. In forming agreements of sole supplier, independent contractor & R&D agreements, it is clear that clairvoyance would be best to make these decisions!:-)  Unfortunately, in farming, as in many things in life, you make your bets in advance when you make your agreements and when you sow the seeds….

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Ethanol Producer Magazine

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Issuu – bbiinternational – Documents: Check out issues of Ethanol Producer Magazine… And other Biomass, biodiesel, biomass, biofuel rags. (Reading these online is surprising smooth once you get the swing of it.) Great info in this month’s edition of Ethanol Producer. Because of the trade-off between burning our food (corn) and eating it, the use of corn-ethanol as a fuel is critical. It’s especially critical during times of drought. It takes a lot of water to grow…

Dirty little Coal secrets… shhh …. Talking Tr-Ash…

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Sustainability eMagazine If you have never done so, you want to visit the EarthJustice site about coal ash: http://earthjustice.org/our_work/campaigns/coal-ash-contaminates-our-lives And what you want to do, is visit this site every time you see one of these sweet and pretty ads about “Clean Coal”. Admittedly, the EarthJustice takes the other side of this far, very far-from-clean, source of energy. However, coal produces half of the electric power in the US. Well, all right, now only about 34%….

Hain up about 20% on great earnings?

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Hain Celestial (HAIN) was way up today on great earnings… That’s right, the high end and heathy food company. Shouldn’t they be getting crushed on the high prices from the great drought of 2012? Healthy eating is “not a fad, not a trend”, according to CEO Simon. Consumption of the category is up 14%, vs about 1% on the main stream food categories. Of course the super fast growth of Whole Foods doesn’t hurt, but…

Happiness Happens Month… Diversity… Innovation..

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Happiness Happens Month This month is Happiness Happens Month.  http://sohp.com/society-celebrations/happiness-happens-month/ Sponsored by the Secret Society of Happy People. www.SOHP.com The idea is that everybody complains about stuff, but we should have a day (Aug 8) and a month (August) where people don’t complain. Nobody talks about being sick or discriminated against or … Well, you get the picture. BUT, don’t tell anybody, it’s a secret. Oh, and another secret, It’s rumored that this society has…

AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low – Yahoo! News

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AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low – Yahoo! News: CO2 from the US is down. WOW!. See the full EIA report on CO2 Emissions. The last time we had that was in 2009, we all assumed that was mainly because of the economic slowdown. But apparently, even then, part of it was because of the switching to NatGas. “[T]he U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month…