Redesigning Restaurants

Ritu Primlani, founder of Thimmakka’s Resources for Environmental Education, is on a remarkable mission. Through her brainchild, Greening Ethnic Restaurants (GER), Primlani reaches out to Indian and other Asian eateries with little environmental knowledge and transforms them into "green" enterprises. That’s no easy feat, considering that restaurants consume more energy per square foot than any other industry, gobbling water and producing huge amounts of solid waste. Add in the difficulty of approaching overworked restaurant owners who rarely speak fluent English, and the task seems nearly impossible.

Farming’s Brave New Face

Welcome to the world of precision agriculture. This brave new field benefits from the emergence and convergence of several technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS), automated machine guidance, infield and remote sensing, mobile computing, telecommunications and advanced information processing. Global positioning systems (GPS), which provide highly accurate geo-spatial information, are one of precision agriculture’s key technologies.

Undiscovered Florida

Think Florida vacation and the mind turns inevitably to Disney World, which takes up 47 square miles of prime Orlando real estate and is as big as San Francisco. But there’s another side of Florida, one that places you amid some of the nicest white sand beaches anywhere, and within shouting distance of the state’s unique and sporadically protected wildlife.

Organic Profits

Eco-conscious investors looking to put their money where their mouths are need look no further than natural foods supermarkets
and NASDAQ. Two of the three leading national chains, Whole Foods and Wild Oats, are publicly traded stocks that have weathered the recent recession.

Suburban Shangri-la

The author makes his backyard friendly to wildlife and children alike by avoiding pesticides and creating a natural environment.

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Sleep Tight

Some natural alternatives for those looking to avoid synthetic sleeping pills include homeopathy, herbal remedies, behavior modification & sleep therapies.

Farm Fresh

Farmers" markets that are committed to selling only regionally grown products exist throughout the country. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there’s been a 63 percent increase in the number of farmers" markets nationwide since 1994. There are more than 3,000 farmers" markets currently in operation, generating over $1 billion annually.

There Goes the Sun

Catching rays, soaking up sun, baking on the beach—there are myriad ways to describe the typical summer tanning experience. The popularity of tanning continues, despite well-proven correlation between sun exposure and skin cancer.

Bitter Sweets

The sugar industry has been devastating the Everglades for years.

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