In a conscientious turn of events, the farmers have embarked on an ambitious endeavor to grow sugar beets for supplying a local bio refinery, which would produce commercial ethanol for the state of California. Central Valley beet growers closer to massive bioenergy plant. After a year they were again given around $1.5 Via: WesternFarmPress MORE >>

Battlesteads Hotel in Wark, Northumberland, a holder of a coveted Gold Award from the Perth- based Green Tourism Business Scheme, has painted several of their rooms with the recycled water-based paint. said Katie Meyrick, the Green Officer of the Battlesteads Hotel. They solved the immediate problem with low energy bulbs. MORE >>

The Green Tourism Business Scheme has reported a 50 per cent rise in the number of applications to its world famous independent certification scheme compared to the same time last year. Many organisations that assumed 'going green’ would be more expensive have discovered the reverse is true. MORE >>

Make 2009 Your Green Year. Last year, on April 22, my wife and I started Our Green Year. This was our initiative to go green every single day for a year, so in a way 2008-09 was Our Green Year. Choosing to spend 2009 going green is a great idea for those people who love the environment and want to do something special. MORE >>

Nguyen Tri Dung sits across from me and says he created this one-hectare garden--perhaps the largest private green space in Ho Chi Minh City, where the opportunity cost for this expanse of paths and trees is likely in the millions of dollars--for his own philosophy. Greening is now a matter of survival 7. Green roofs and open space. MORE >>