Disease that spawned Ireland's potato famine hits New England

Organic farming is the best practice to ensure both food security and environmental respect, Europe recognizes. The only weak point is that productivity is still far below that of traditional farming methods, which use fertilisers and pesticides.

Boston Sand & Gravel will now be powered almost completely by clean energy.The company announced its 110 kilowatt solar energy plant is now operational. The solar power plant was manufactured and installed by Evergreen Solar.

Regulators have shut six banks in Georgia including branches in Metro Atlanta and a small bank in New York state, boosting to 64 the number of federally

FedEx increased its North America hybrid truck fleet by 50 percent with today's announcement of 92 additional retrofitted delivery trucks. FedEx now boasts 264 hybrid trucks, which it says is the largest hybrid package delivery fleet in North America.

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President Obama may have spoken out against assessing carbon tariffs on goods entering the United States that are produced in countries without adequate control of their greenhouse gas emissions, but speaking in China, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke

Large companies such as Comcast Cable TV Company sell contract labor jobs to many smaller contractors nationwide. They hire desperate people and work them for a few weeks then they end the employment of the individuals. When time comes to pay people simp

PETRA SOLAR IS THE FIRST BUSINESS AWARDED FUNDING UNDER NEW JERSEY'S CLEAN ENERGY MANUFACTURING FUND, a New Program Supporting Manufacturing of Innovative Clean Energy Technologies. South Plainfield-based Petra Solar, Inc. is the first business

"Cheap" has plenty of targets, and many are usual ones. Ms. Ruppel Shell lambastes Wal-Mart, saying it underpays its workers and enables other retailers to do the same. She criticizes China as tolerating sweatshops with dangerous working conditions.