It is indeed becoming curiouser and curiouser (to quote Alice in Wonderland) that this discussion should focus so one-sidedly on our lowly alfalfa crop. Even the National Geographic article implies that the quantity of 'water' exported with ...
Tags: Fresh lettuce, spinach, onions, broccoli and cauliflower
Spooky lights heralding the onset of earthquakes have been tied to divine portents or UFO sightings in the past. But the true culprit may be certain rocks that release electric charges when stressed by the Earth's seismic shifts, ...
Tags: earthquakes, earthquake lights, certain rocks, electronic process
Editor's note: One of our Food Safety News Christmas traditions is to annually recognize those who have been "naughty" and those who have been "nice" – from a strictly food safety perspective, of course. This year, we've opted to ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture, Food
Boxed beverages, like juice-boxes, have been around since the mid-60s. Children have been drinking juice out of cardboard squares lined with plastic or aluminum for years. This hybrid, multi-layer construction makes recycli ng the ...
Last year, I penned a blog for this site, discussing the "Problem with the popularity of pouches", citing the excellent packaging qualities of pouches, but expressing concern about the inability of most to be recycled through traditional ...
Action camera giant GoPro has acquired website and software developer General Things, Inc. The San Francisco, California, company had worked with GoPro since 2010, helping it advance its business backend and consumer-facing website. GoPro ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
"Absolutely, categorically untrue. An urban myth." That's how National Lighting Bureau Chair Howard P. Lewis (Visioneering Corporation) describes claims that compact-fluorescent lamps (CFLs) pose a fire hazard when they reach the end of ...
The Guardian Chair features a bulletproof vest that can be draped over the chair, worn or kneeled behind in event of a shooting. On display at NeoCon, the famous office furniture expo held in Chicago last month, were all the usual ...
City College of San Francisco’s Glass Curtainwall Features Silk-Screened High-Definition Images Although the City College of San Francisco’s Chinatown/North Beach campus has operated from more than 30 different locations ...
Tags: Viracon Glass, Construction Glass
It took just two weeks for this year's Toymaster show to sell out – beating the record which had been set in 2012, when all space had been filled by the end of January. This time round, however, the organisers revealed in ...
Tags: Toys, toy industry
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day', and the darkness he called 'night' - and humans came along and left lights switched on all night, illuminating the world like a ...
IT'S not often ExecTech dons a wetsuit and plunges off a boat into the cruel, deep ocean to test a consumer-oriented, waterproof camcorder. But to film wild dolphins with Panasonic's rather unusual offering, the HX-WA30 full HD camcorder, ...
An independent research study commissioned by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), revealed 65 percent of decision makers at Fortune 500 consumer product companies ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, steel, consumer packaged goods
US-based Silk, a provider of nutritious milk alternatives, has launched Change the Course, an initiative to conserve freshwater and preserve the ecological health of the heavily dammed, diverted and overused Colorado River Basin. Silk had ...
Tags: milk, Silk, water restoration
News reports indicate that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may propose restrictions on the use of polystyrene foam foodservice products in New York City, ostensibly as a way to increase recycling rates. American Chemistry Council (ACC) vice ...
Tags: polystyrene foam foodservice products, Plastics makers