Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Isuzu
California winery uses nothing but alternative-energy vehicles
The Kathryn Kennedy Winery in Saratoga, California is a good example of how a green mindset can affect an entire business. I've never tasted the company's wine, but the sustainability information on their website makes me interested to see how the eco-conscious farmers there operate. The farm uses integrated pest management and on-farm composting, and the green attitude extends to the office, where the workers use recycled office supplies. All of the farm's vehicles are green, too, from the electric golf cart they use for small jobs and general transport to the B100-powered tractor out in the field. They say the tractor has not had any mechanical alterations and runs great. Even the family cars and the winery flatbed Isuzu NQR run on biodiesel. On the winery's website, the reasons behind the green vehicles are spelled out: "Our company has taken the position that America's intrenched [sic] dependence on petroleum is not only bad for the environment but also bad for our national security."
[Source: Kathryn Kennedy Winery via SF Biofuels]
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Ian 5:18PM (9/15/2006)
My wife and I tried a bottle of Lateral, from this winery, a couple of weeks ago. Excellent wine! I'm so glad to hear they are responsible corporate citizens as well as great winemakers.
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GreenAngel 10:12PM (7/30/2007)
That's great, alternative energy cars are becoming more and more visible on public streets, Toyota just introduced a plugin hybrid... I also saw a
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GreenAngel 10:16PM (7/30/2007)
Opps link didn't show up... to finish off Solar DIY Car kit here http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/alternative-energy/diy-convert-your-car-to-use-hydrogen-today
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Stephen L. Tvedten 4:42PM (10/30/2007)
How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......
There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint". But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive and unnecessary pollution - we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.
We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe "knowledge drought" - a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the "right way". The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.
National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. At least two peer-reviewed studies have described associations between autism rates and pesticides (D'Amelio et al 2005; Roberts EM et al 2007 in EHP). It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year just in the United States - No one is checking chronic contamination.
In order to try to help "stem the tide", I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated at my new website at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ .
This new website at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ has been basically updated; all we have left to update is Chapter 39 and to renumber the pages. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.
Stephen L. Tvedten
2530 Hayes Street
Marne, Michigan 49435
1-616-677-1261
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo
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