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I thought you guys might enjoy this, last night on NBC nightly news there was this story about “green” banana growing at a CR university.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20862243/
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Hi Tracy, Thanks for providing the link…It wasn’t very long ago that EARTH University was still using and promoting chemical fertilizer/pesticide use. It seems like it’s been a long road to change, but change sometimes needs time to flourish in a sustainable manner. I remember facilitating an sustainable development/science seminar there in the late 90s to a group of local science school teachers and we were showered with pesticide by a plane spraying one of their fields…It was incredibly ironic that the university was providing us with the logistic space to improve local methodologies and then they were the ones to inadvertently spray us with chemical fertilizers…In any case, many people within the university have been lobbying for more sustainable agriculture and I’m so glad they have been successful with their banana production showing that sustainability can also be profitable…Thanks again 🙂
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