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BioJet Corporation and Great Plains Oil & Exploration have announced a Teaming Agreement for Aviation Bio Fuels

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- BioJet Corporation (www.biojetcorp.com) and Great Plains Oil & Exploration (www.camelinacompany.com) announced today that they have executed a Teaming Agreement for the...

Managing food waste and landfills: Bokashicycle offers a safer and more economic alternative

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Bokashicycle announces first successful full-scale commercial fermentation process. In the U.S. alone, annually, more than 30 million tons of food waste...

Oregon Floral Farms Continues to Grow Organically in More Ways than One

OREGON CITY, Ore. -- This year, Oregon Floral Farms celebrates its tenth year of supplying custom and creatively hand-tied organic floral bouquets to customers...

Obama Family Vegetable Garden at the White House Recreated with Plangarden Software

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Just after First Lady, Michelle Obama, broke ground for the White House vegetable garden, Plangarden released an online interactive...

Trees With Meaning Gains USDA Approval for First U.S. Release of Olive Trees from Israel

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- With a hard-earned U.S. Department of Agriculture signoff now in hand, Trees With Meaning Inc. (TreesWithMeaning.com) becomes one of the...

The Flax Council of Canada Announces GRAS Status Determined for Flax in U.S.

WINNIPEG, Canada -- The Flax Council of Canada announced that a panel of experts determined in January 2009 that whole and milled flax seed...

Bokashicycle Delivers More Effective Alternative to Traditional Composting

SEATTLE, Wash. -- To many, the idea of composting sounds like a positive environmental behavior, but according to Dr. Lawrence Green, M.D., Ph.D. and...

JatrophaBioJet Corp Will Develop the Jatropha and Advanced Biofuels Market for Aerospace Applications

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- JatrophaBioJet Corporation (jatrophabiojet.com) will develop the Jatropha/advanced biofuels market for jet, turbine and aerospace applications. JatrophaBioJet provides a cooperative single...

Biotronics, Inc., Announces Future Pork Grading Rivaling Beef, Ultrasound Technology Seen as a Major Advance in Grading

AMES, Iowa -- Biotronics, Inc., a food animal ultrasound research and development company recently received a $150,000 Demonstration Grant from the Iowa Department of...

National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council Hosts Public Forum on Tropical Forestry

RIO GRANDE, P.R. -- The National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) hosted a groundbreaking public forum in Puerto Rico on June 18,...

Plangarden Veggie Garden Software Adds Social Networking

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Plangarden enhances its drag-and-drop online vegetable gardening software by expanding features for its rapidly growing community of vegetable gardeners. The new Web 2.0 social networking features enable vegetable garden enthusiasts from all over the world to interact over a "virtual backyard fence" where they can ask or swap advice.

Biodiesel Venture with Mindanao Tribes to Bolster Communities

DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines, and MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Supreme Council of Datus Alimaong has reached agreement with Monterey, CA-based Abundant Biofuels Corporation to develop more than 1.2 million acres of ancestral domain for production of biodiesel from Jatropha curcas in underused Lumad lands on the island of Mindanao.

Cengea Solutions Acquires Inform Network for Systems Management

VANCOUVER, B.C. Canada -- Cengea Solutions Inc. announces today that it has acquired the assets of Inform Network for Systems Management Limited. Cengea and Inform have been the two dominant suppliers of spatially enabled information systems to the forest products industry in Canada and have had growing success in providing systems to the forest products industry in the United States.

Haywood County Tomatoes Travel Web to Promote Growers

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. -- Haywood County tomatoes are now traveling worldwide, thanks to a short web-based video recently produced by the Buy Haywood Market Development Project. More and more, people are receiving messages that communicate "thousands of miles fresher," "buy local," and "support sustainable agriculture."

Oilsource Holding Group and Abundant Biofuels Corp. Form Venture to Produce Biodiesel from Jatropha Using Agronomy Techniques

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA and MONTEREY, Calif. -- Oilsource Holding Group announced that it has joined with Abundant Biofuels Corporation to begin producing biodiesel from non-food crops in Colombia. Abundant Biofuels Colombia SRL has identified a strong interest from private and government sector.

Senators, Environmentalists, Forestry Experts from Across the Nation Share Groundbreaking Input on Catastrophic Storms and Urban Forests

BILOXI, Miss. -- The National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) hosted a groundbreaking public forum in Biloxi, Mississippi on June 6, 2007 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. 'We gathered more than 40 experts and ordinary citizens from around the country to share ideas, best practices and first-person accounts about flooding in New Jersey, Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf region, ice storms in the Midwest, and other storm events.'

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