ProduceGuru.com
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ProduceGuru is your portal to everything you need to know about fruits and vegetables. Here, you’ll find answers to all kinds of questions – from why you should eat more produce to how to prepare endive.
A handy fruit or vegetable pull-down tab at the top allows for quick navigation, or type the name in the search tool and voila!
Once you enter the world of your chosen produce item, you’ll find oodles of background and variety information, nutrition specifics, serving sizes, preparation ideas and care and handling tips.
Looking for a specific nutrient? Just use the search tool to locate the nutrient and the veggies or fruits associated with it.
ProduceGuru also carries a broad look at the ever-changing realm of news related to produce. There’s also answers to the great questions of life like “How do I get me son to stop feeding his peas to the dog under the table?” . . . well probably not phrased in that way but you get the picture.
Get started on your tasty trip by pointing your browser to www.ProduceGuru.com.
The World Wind Energy Institute
The World Wind Energy Institute (WWEI) is a unique educational network dedicated to renewable energy training and technology transfer. The network is comprised of seven existing specialized training and research centres on five continents. The WWEI offers a ten-month global education program in wind and integrated renewable energy technology for postgraduate students from around the world.
www.wwei.info
FINDSOLAR.COM
Since its launch Findsolar.com online directory has linked thousands of home and small business owners around the country to qualified solar energy system installers serving their area. The web site also provides assistance in estimating costs and output of solar systems for hot water, electricity, and pool or spa heating.
Findsolar.com is a joint partnership between the American Solar Energy Society, Solar Electric Power Association, Energy Matters LLC, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The site serves as a convenient, user-friendly means for homeowners and businesses to learn about incentives and the economics of solar energy and to find qualified professionals who can install and service systems. For no charge, listed installers receive instant email notification of sales leads that are targeted to match their company's capabilities and geographic area. www.findsolar.com
Global Perspective in Miniature.
The late Donella Meadows, widely acknowledged to have been the lead writer of the landmark “Limits to Growth” in 1990 proposed an exercise to put the world into perspective in the palm of your hand. In 1990 she published the “State of the Village Report” under the title "Who lives in the Global Village?" Her report was based on a village of 1000. She asked her readers and students and those to whom she spoke to imagine what the world would look like if it were a village of 1000 people. A few years later, according to Wikkipedia, “David Copeland, a surveyor and environmental activist, revised the report to reflect a village of 100, and distributed 50,000 copies of a Value Earth poster at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.”
Today this conceptual framework is employed as an ongoing educational tool by the Miniature Earth Project.
According to the Miniature Earth web site, which employs the 100 people model: 74 people would come from Asia and Africa, while just 8 would come from North America. 30 people would live without electricity, 16 would have inadequate access to potable water, and 13 would be hungry or suffer from malnutrition. More than half of the population would live on less than US $2 per day.
www.miniature-earth.com
A Video depiction of this concept is also found on Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-u6kdHuXE
You can read many of Donella Meadow’s columns reprinted at: www.pcdf.org/meadows/
“The Road to Vegetaria”
The “Vegetarians in Paradise” web magazine is a very useful website for those thinking about making the switch to a meatless lifestyle. Their Vegetarian Basics 101 has been approved by the USDA as a resource for inclusion in its USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center Vegetarian Resource List. Also included in that resource list is their feature story The Road to Vegetaria.
www.vegparadise.com/basics.html
Incentives for Going Green
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
www.dsireusa.org/
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