The fruit giant innovates for a better planet. Chiquita has announced the release of an innovative biodigester in Costa Rica that will improve fertilizer, reduce energy consumption, and provide a sustainable energy source for its operations. The company behind the famous blue and yellow sticker found on your bananas and pineapples (along with their newly introduced green Rainforest Alliance sticker ) is at work on a wide-sweeping sustainability plan.
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Chiquita Goes Carbon Neutral, Harnesses Fruit Power With New Biodigester
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The explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon was caused by a BP engineering error, says the firm’s official report into the catastrophe . Although it is not due to be released for another ten days, the report says that an employee misread pressure data, giving the go-ahead to replace the drilling fluid with seawater
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BP Report Points Finger at Own Engineers for Deepwater Blowout
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New research indicates that drastic approaches to the problem are too risky. The challenge of climate change and its warrior activists have asked many things of us — changing to energy-efficient lightbulbs, biking to work, flying less, turning off the lights more often, and more — but even with the most severe treatment for the global threat, a new report from the Proceedings from the National Acadmey of Sciences of the United States of America says that repairing the damage will prove extremely difficult and non-cost-effective. Severe treatment would mean injecting “sulphur dioxode particles equivalent to a major volcanic eruption, such as that of Mt Pinatubo, every 18 months to reduce temperatures and delay ice-cap melt and sea-level rises,” The Ecologist reports
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Climate Change is Worse Than We Thought
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Anyone who’s got to that stage in life where they contemplate death more than life (it’s a midlife thing, I’m told) and who worries about their legacy to the world might be interested in record label boss Jason Leach’s idea, And Vinyly .
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Records Made From Your Ashen Remains Proves Vinyl’s Dead
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Photographs by Spencer Platt/Getty Images (Bezos); Bloomberg/Getty Images (Jobs) The iPad won’t kill the Kindle. In fact, says Farhad Manjoo, the tech industry is maturing out of its “[insert product here] killer” days. Not since the days of “Amazon.toast” has the smell of death hung in the air at Amazon.com ’s annual shareholder meeting.
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Why Tech Companies Now Compete for Equal Market Share
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Apple ’s “Apple TV” is due a refresh–you know it, I know it , and Steve Jobs knows that the time is ripe to move his experimental project from a slightly popular curio into the million-selling mainstream. The rumor mill is grinding up to top speed, for starters
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Rumor: Apple TV Refreshed Into "iTV," With iPhone OS and Games in Mind
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After the long, storied mess that is Google vs. China , with its accusations of government-sponsored hacking, flimsy workarounds , and censorship debates, Google ’s legal status and availability in China ended up varying day to day. So the company set up a site that monitors the availability of lots of Google’s services, like Search, Images, YouTube, News, Gmail, Blogger, and Picasa, updated daily
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Google Says Its Services Are Now Blocked in China, Chinese Residents Say Otherwise
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Tony Hayward is reported to be out as the CEO of BP, with a sweet 600,000-pound pension waiting for him (that’s $928K) as a “reward” for not only presiding over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but performing like a whiny schoolboy in the weeks and months since. “I want my life back” ? Congratulations, you’ve got it
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Tony Hayward Out at BP; Don’t Be Surprised If They Pick a Woman to Replace Him
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Do genetically modified fruits and vegetables make you uneasy? Get ready for transgenic salmon, set to become the first genetically modified animal to be approved by the FDA. AquaBounty, the company behind the salmon, claims that its AquaAdvantage salmon reaches market size twice as fast as regular salmon (16 to 18 months)
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Mutant Salmon Coming to a Kitchen Table Near You
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BlackBerry’s still the number one smartphone platform in the States, but it’s losing ground in the consumer market to iPhone and Android thanks to a relatively stagnant development history–BlackBerry looks pretty much the same now as it did three years ago, an unforgivably slow pace in the smartphone world. The upcoming BlackBerry 6 OS is the biggest change for BlackBerry in a long time, bringing all kinds of new features to compete with flashier consumer OSes like Apple iOS, Google Android, Palm/ HP WebOS, and even the not-yet-released Microsoft Windows Phone 7. We got a first look at BB6 back in late April , but we’ve been waiting for a video demo–and RIM just released their first promo .
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BlackBerry 6 First Look Video: Let’s Play Spot the Influence
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