A green home has been designed to stay cool without the need for air conditioning. Using plants as shade the model house is an example of how we can keep both our home and our planet from becoming too warm.

Japan’s Botanic Gardens Organise for Plant Conservation
Japan’s National Network of botanic gardens are helping to support Japan in meeting it’s obligations in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Recent commitments include the allocation of responsibility for different plant groups to specific gardens, and new plans for capacity building.

True roots of the Hydatellaceae
A Recent study of the Hydatellaceae has shown this family of dwarf aquatic flowering plants to be a close relation of water lilies, or Nymphaeaceae and a survivor from before the evolutionary split between dicot and monocot plants.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition - new SearchTools Report
OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a free search engine based on the open-source Lucene core, is a reasonably full-featured search that can index up to 500,000 pages, making it an interesting competitor to the Google Search Appliance, Autonomy Ultraseek and Solr, as well as lower-end search engines. Features include an automated install package for Windows […]

Botanic Gardens on the Up
Several cities and towns around the globe have been announcing plans to revamp, enhance or promote existing botanic gardens or to build new ones. From India to Jamaica, and Malaysia to Guam via Santa Fe this international trend appears to be driven by a need to encourage tourism.

GM Will Invest About $400 Million In Northwest Ohio Plants
WDIV, MI -GM plans to renovate the Toledo plant and add new machinery, equipment and special tooling. Construction is scheduled to start in July, and production …GMGlobal Payment Technologies Announces Fiscal 2007 Second-Quarter …Business Wire (press release), CA - 8 hours agoWe will need to obtain additional […]

Gates Foundation Grant to fund Global Crop Diversity Trust Project
The Global Crop Diversity Trust and partner United Nations Foundation propose a joint initiative to preserve 21 of the world s most endangered food crops. Funded by a $45 million grant courtesy of the government of Norway ($7.5 million) and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($37.5 million).

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