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Solar Sidewalk Missouri Debuts Energy-Generating Pavers
Missouri is roll- ing out a set of energy-generating photovoltaic pavers along a section of the iconic Route 66 highway in a sidewalk pilot project—the first on a public right of way—in the
U.S. The street pavers were developed by Solar Roadways, a company created by inventors Scott and Julie Brusaw, which raised more than $2.2 million in crowdfunding in 2014 to bring their technology to market. The Brusaws claim that replacing all of America’s roads and parking lots with their solar pavers would generate more than three times what the country consumed in elec- tricity in 2009. The Missouri Department of Transportation considered
their own crowdfunding campaign to support their energy experiment; plans called for the hexagonal solar panels to be fully installed and operational by the end of this year.
Source: NBC
America Outdone Venezuela Bans GMOs
Venezuela has passed a law that imposes some of the world’s tough- est regulations on geneti- cally modified organisms (GMO) and patenting of seeds in order to con- solidate national food sovereignty, regulate the production of hybrid
seed, reject the production, distribution and import of GMO seeds and ban transgenic seed research. Canada’s Centre for Research on Globalization describes it as one of the most progressive seed laws in the world. The country intends to establish a national seed sys- tem to implement the new law. The group will monitor and sanction any agricultural violations, with a focus on the protection of traditional seeds.
Source:
gmwatch.org
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