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...come directly from their age-old uses. Speaking to a small but enthusiastic crowd last Wednesday at the Office for the Arts ceramics studio in Allston, Hoy emphasized the challenges globalization presents to this art and its practitioners.“It was amazing how close everything was from land to use, and I think that carries through to the pottery as well,” Hoy remarked at her presentation, entitled “Agulu: Form from Function.” Every element of the potting process, Hoy discovered, was sustainable and came directly from the land. From...
...much energy as small wind power, which is defined as turbines that have a capacity of 100 kW or less (though most household turbines will produce 10 kW at most). That's partly because residential wind turbines require space and sky - at least half an acre of open land - to get access to consistent winds. Still, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), some 15 million homes in the U.S. fit that definition - and small turbines, unlike large wind farms, can be productive in weaker breezes, which puts more of the country into play, though the best areas...
...accommodate new research facilities. “Cambridge has made a real effort to become a biotech capital of the world, and it has been successful in doing that,” Seidel said. The city council is also considering the sale of 1.2 million square feet of land to Alexandria Real Estate for another new lab space, Seidel said. Pfizer’s new lab will be an addition to the company’s Research Technology Center, founded locally in 1999. Its research will focus on endocrine and cardiac research. It’s counterpart in England will...
...combat piracy, a ruling that does not apply to other pirate hotspots such as Vietnam or Indonesia. While this resolution was a good start, a more concerted effort to stamp out piracy should be created through an international naval peacekeeping mission that controls waterways much like land-based peacekeeping missions...
...fortunes of both the very wealthy - such as Nine Dragons Paper CEO Zhang Yin, whose recycled-paper manufacturing company made her China's richest person in 2006 - and very poor farmers who have migrated to the city to earn more from recycling than they ever could by working the land. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...