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Milkweed Mittens Common Weed Is Lightweight Insulator
Easy Mark
Lasers Stamp Prices on European Produce
Food retailers are aiming to cut plastic and cardboard packaging by ditching stickers on fruits and vegetables, instead using high- tech laser “natural branding” and creating huge savings in materials, energy and CO2
emissions. Pilot
projects are underway in Europe with organic avocados, sweet potatoes and coconuts. The technique uses a strong
light to remove pigment from the skin of produce. The mark is invis- ible once the skin is removed and doesn’t affect shelf life or produce quality. The laser technology also creates less than 1 percent of the carbon emissions needed to produce a similar-sized sticker.
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Winnebago Assists Computer Literacy
Librarian Shannon Morrison drives the Digibus, a new, 40-foot-long Winnebago computer classroom that hit the road in January bound for Fresno County, California, communities with the goal of bringing free computer literacy and job searching skills to the public. It employs 12 computer tablets with keyboards and staff that include bilingual interpreters. The library bus was scheduled to spend one week at each of two different communities each month.
The Canadian Coast Guard is testing milkweed pods as a source of potential environmentally friendly insulation in partnership with Encore3, a manufacturing company in Québec, Canada, in prototype parkas, gloves and mittens. The plant is roughly five times lighter than synthetic insula- tion and hypoallergenic. The Farm Between, in Cambridge, Vermont, harvests the
plants and sends the material to Encore3. Co-owner John Hayden says, “Milkweed is grown as an intercrop between the rows in our apple orchard to increase biodiversity and provide a host plant for monarch caterpillars. Monarch popu-
lations are in serious decline, and the two things we can do to help on the land we steward are to not use pesticides and provide milkweed habitat.”
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