Posts Categorized: Environment

IntoBirds Profiles The Grackle Lady of Austin, Texas

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IntoBirds, an online magazine, community, and educational resource for all things birds caught up with Carly Weaver, an artist in Austin, Texas, affectionately known as ‘The Grackle Lady’ to talk about her ongoing art series featuring this gregarious bird. Common Grackles are known as being agricultural pests for pulling up sprouting corn, and notable for… Read more »

Cox Family Holdings (CFH) announces spin-out of Tria Global Solutions, LLC

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Cox Family Holdings (CFH) is excited to announce Tria Global Solutions, LLC as a new member of its portfolio of companies.  Tria was launched as a spin-out from its sister company, Exacto, Inc. to meet the rapidly growing need for sustainable sourcing solutions in agricultural and horticultural markets. Tria Global Solutions’ portfolio starts with the… Read more »

IntoBirds Talks Perils of Rodenticide to Birds of Prey with Wildlife Advocates

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IntoBirds, an online magazine, community, and educational resource for all things birds caught up with two wildlife education non-profit groups to talk about the fatal threat rodenticide (rat poison) poses to birds of prey and other wildlife. ‘Save Our Raptors, Don’t Use Rodenticide!’ profiles how rodenticide kills more than rodents. It kills the birds that… Read more »

Flower Turbines, Maker of Small Wind Turbines, Selected by PortXL Accelerator for Sustainability

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Flower Turbines is a winner at Rotterdam’s PortXL, the world’s first port-based startup accelerator. Flower Turbines is a small, patented wind turbine technology game-changer addressing the need for wind energy in urban, suburban, and other tight spaces. Small, quiet, efficient with an excellent ROI, and elegant, they address the technology issues that are a prerequisite… Read more »

Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition and Farm Services Agency Research Demonstrates Effectiveness of Saturated Buffers

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The Farm Services Agency (FSA) and the Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC) collaborated to quantify the effectiveness of saturated buffers to reduce nutrient loading from tile drainage waters. This demonstration program builds upon this same group of collaborator’s findings from the 2012-2015 and 2016-2017 projects. FSA has made significant investments through the Conservation Reserve Program… Read more »