The current trend in food and beverage is all about freshness, with supermarkets increasingly shifting from packed and canned goods to fresh, if not produced on the premises offerings. Then, why not facilitate the selling of fresh, locally grown food to demanding consumers, businesses and restaurants?
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| There's no doubt eating locally grown food benefits both the community and the environment, but without regular visits to a farmers' market, it can be difficult for consumers to make that happen. One of the best ways to expand our locally-grown diets is to "grow our own," and the popularity of pea patches, community gardens and home-grown vegetables is on the rise.
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| Great ideas are generated every day by people all across the world, and now these ideas have a place to live and grow. A community of small business owners and entrepreneurs bounce ideas off each other and give feedback, advice and much-needed encouragement. Anyone 18 and over with a business idea or anyone wanting to share their infinite wisdom can participate. People like small business owners, entrepreneurs, students, and stay-at-home moms and dads. Oh, and bartenders, plumbers and nannies, too
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| While grass, sand, water, snow, wood and dirty streets have all been used as a medium for advertising, now there's yet another option for unconventional marketers: soap foam mixed with lighter-than-air gasses such as helium to create flying logos! These cool stuff is 100 % Green and environment friendly.
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| Microfinance is a simple but powerful tool that enables the poor to pull themselves out of poverty. Most commonly, it involves making small loans to the working poor in developing countries. These loans are usually less than $200 and are made by local organizations called microfinance institutions. The loans are used by the working poor to establish or expand small businesses that generate additional income for the family.
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| Excrement from the billions of animals raised every year in America's factory farms fouled watersheds, especially in the South, feeding oxygen-gobbling algae blooms responsible for rapidly-spreading coastal dead zones.
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| Every year, around 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. That's a lot of bags. So many that over one million bags are being used every minute and they're damaging our environment. They are difficult and costly to recycle and most end up on landfill sites where they take around 300 years to photo degrade. They break down into tiny toxic particles that contaminate the soil and waterways and enter the food chain when animals accidentally ingest them.
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| Every household in the industrialized world used tap water. As is part of indoor plumbing, which became available in the late 19th century and common in the mid-20th century. The minimum water pressure that must be supplied is approximately 1bar, (enough pressure to supply water up to 10 meters height from the stop tap in the street, The minimum flow rate is 10 liters per minute.
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| 100 million pigs are slaughtered each year in the USA alone, producing 110 million tons of waste. Much of these ends up in rivers and fed the expansion of a New Jersey-sized dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Billions of dollars are spent on waste transportation and treatment, and regulations continue to become more stringent and cost-intensive to satisfy our desire for a clean environment. Meanwhile, we have a growing need for biofuels that would reduce our dependence on foreign oil and the world's finite supply of crude petroleum.
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| According to Wikipedia, Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate or methane ice, is a solid form of water that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure. Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of Earth.
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| Cities around the world try to get cars off the roads and there's been increasing emphasis on public transportation, ride-sharing, telecommuting and bicycling as eco-minded alternatives. For instance, San Francisco now requires that all employers with 20 workers or more offer a transit benefit program to support greener commuting. One new way however, is a luxury eco-bus used to give commuters a high-end ride to work.
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| Around the world, being eco-conscious has become a status symbol for consumers, partly replacing traditional status symbols that are now associated with pollution, waste and excess. Companies now creates eye-catching green brand/products, advertise the hell out of it and make it very recognizable to the masses, which in turn makes it easy for buyers to get respect from strangers.
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| America suburbs are filled with foreclosed houses - and in each one, there's an opportunity. When people leave their homes, they also leave behind a staggering amount of used stuff. Picking through the rubble of abandoned homes is daunting both physically and psychologically. People leave their baby and family pictures, their furniture, appliances, the baby's toys, even their vehicles.
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