The Guardian: In an attempt to cut costs, Canada Post has announced plans to scrap all home deliveries… Once the cuts are implemented, only some business addresses will get post through the letter box – not even residents of cities such as Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal will receive mail at home. Could/should the US be […]
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Business Week: America’s love affair with kale has been good for farmers, who produced nearly 60 percent more of the trendy green in 2012 than they did in 2007, according to new data from the Department of Agriculture.
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Urban restaurateurs with plenty of left over milk crates and not enough vegetables have discovered a novel solution: Savvy urban restaurateurs from New York to California have recently discovered that growing their own produce, whether on a rooftop farm or a neighboring site, is easier than trekking to local farmer’s markets or buying from suppliers—and
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A few years ago, Greg Hankerson was an investment banker in Phoenix with a problem. No, not a problem at work. A problem at home. His wife wanted a patio, and Hankerson was too cheap to buy her one. This need eventually drove Hankerson out of the world of high finance and into business manufacturing
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Only about 2% of Cubans can get online (although that could change thanks to the recent arrival of a fibre-optic cable from compañero Chávez in Venezuela), but it doesn’t matter. You don’t need the internet to get Radio Bemba. The news may be a little stale by the time you read it, but it gets
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Bloomberg: U.S. oil output is poised to surpass Saudi Arabia’s in the next decade, making the world’s biggest fuel consumer almost self-reliant and putting it on track to become a net exporter, the International Energy Agency said. Growing supplies of crude extracted through new technology including hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations will transform the
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There is a reason why people who eat lobster at a restaurant receive one of those ‘bibs’ to cover their shirt. Good lobster can be very messy. According to Boston.com, T.J. “Lats” Latvis loves lobster but sometimes the mess can be too much. So he created a unique platter that helps cut down on the
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The Week: The smartphone has become the bane of the retail industry, as savvy customers use physical stores to comparison-shop before going online on their phones to buy the same goods at a cheaper price, a practice known as showrooming. But brick-and-mortar stores are now fighting fire with fire, using smartphones to entice customers into
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On this day in 1929, Jozef Murgaš died. He was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot, and Roman Catholic priest. Murgaš was nicknamed the Radio Priest. In 1905, Murgaš achieved radio transmission between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania, or a distance of 20 miles (30 km). The tone system is the use of two signals
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