....the mother lode in green marketing for retailers may be found in the phenomenon of local production. Consumers are convinced that it's better for the environment, and that it tastes better, too. True or not, it's nonetheless a golden formula.

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 Reuters Brussels - The European Commission may again put off a decision on whether farmers can grow more genetically modified crops when it holds a long-awaited biotech policy debate in May, officials said on Monday.

More and more family friendly foreclosure fairs, where mortgage lenders and counselors offer advice to desperate homeowners, are taking place in Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Columbus, Ohio, and other hard-hit cities and towns across the country.

The Bank of England announced an unprecedented series of £5 billion cash injections for the banking sector, after high street bank chiefs pleaded for more liquidity.

In a disturbing news item the day after American Home Mortgage dropped 90% based on liquidity concerns, the National Association of Realtors trys to prop up market with misleading "good news".

According to a Russian hacker team called "web-hack," Apple's much heralded and overly hyped iPhone contains "a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history.........

WASHINGTON - Fast-food waitress Fawn Townsend of Raleigh, N.C., knows exactly what she is going to do if her salary goes up with Tuesday's increase in the federal minimum wage: start saving for a car so she can find a second job to make ends meet.

PEOPLE JOSTLED cameras and squirmed on benches inside a trailer on a high-mountain meadow as the tour guide gently opened retractable doors, turning the bird blind into a window on one of nature's most spectacular shows: Strutting, chest-puffing male sage

Canon Electronics Inc. , athletic gear leader Nike Inc. and food and consumer goods giant Unilever Plc topped a list rating climate-friendly companies released Tuesday.

A federal vaccine court in Washington is confronting the contentious and highly emotional issue of whether early childhood vaccinations might have caused autism in thousands of children. Virtually every major scientific study and organization . . .