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Safe to Eat: Organic Cod

A Scottish aquaculture company, Johnson Seafarms, is bringing cod – a fish species headed toward extinction from overfishing – back to world markets. Seafarms has the world’s first large-scale commercial farmed cod operation and it’s organically certified. The company is largest is Britain’s largest independently-owned farmed fish producer. Two years ago, the company switched its focus from salmon and began to pioneer organic farmed cod.What is organic fish?Currently the US National Organic Program (run by the USDA) doesn’t cover fish. In the UK, Johnson Seafarms has achieved the Organic Food Federation Cod Standard, which is officially recognized by the British Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the production of organic cod. The standards preclude the use of any unnatural or synthetic component which rules out antibiotics, herbicides, pesticides, hormone usage, or GM ingredients at any stage from hatchery to plate. Because of possible contamination and mercury levels, wild fish are not accepted as organic and cannot be labeled as organic. Johnson Seafarms certified aquaculture practices include: Rigorous rules on stocking density. “While many salmon farms have stock densities of 30 kg and more of fish per cubic meter of available seawater, we have densities of 12-14kg. This […]

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Turner Construction Goes for 100% Waste Recycling

The Katrina recovery includes the biggest waste-disposal job in U.S. history. Some of the biggest builders in the U.S. are embracing construction waste recycling on a large scale but it probably won’t help in this case. Here’s why. —In September 2004, Thomas C. Leppert, Chairman and CEO of The Turner Corp., one of the nation’s largest general builders, and a leader in green building, announced it would adopt sustainable construction and business practices throughout the organization. As part of that commitment, Turner launched an initiative to recycle construction waste on all projects commencing construction after Jan. 1, 2005. The corporate goal is to recycle waste on 100% of our projects within three years, with an overall diversion rate of 50%. Turner has a long history of leadership in sustainable construction, with more than 100 green projects in the last 10 years either completed or in progress, including 15 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified projects and an additional 45 LEED-registered projects. It is standard practice to recycle construction and demolition waste on these jobs ? often exceeding 75% diversion rates and exceeded 95% on some projects. However, with more than 1,500 active projects across the country at any given […]

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Solargenix to Build Largest PV Plant Project in the World

Solargenix Energy announced it has received the approvals needed to proceed with the development of Nevada Solar One, a 64-megawatt (MW) Solar Thermal Electric Generating Plant to be located in Boulder City, Nevada. Nevada Solar One will be the third largest solar electric power plant in the world and will make Nevada one of the largest generators of solar energy in the U. S. The Boulder City plant is scheduled to begin production of electricity in early 2007. “We are most appreciative of all of the efforts by the many participants that helped make Nevada’s Renewal Energy Portfolio standard possible, including the PUCN, Governor Guinn, the Nevada State Legislature, the Nevada Bureau of Consumer Protection, Nevada Power Company, Sierra Pacific Power Company, the Nevada Development Authority and all of the citizens of Boulder City,” said Solargenix CEO John Myles. According to the U. S. Department of Energy, the parabolic trough technology used in this plant has near-term potential to compete with fossil fuel technologies and represents a major renewable energy success story. The DOE issued a report that identifies suitable land and solar resources in Nevada that could produce over 600,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation using concentrating solar technologies. […]

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