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Conserving our forests

Mar 01, 2013

“I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree.” These are the opening lines to Joyce Kilmer’s poem Trees. With all due respect to the beloved poem, one of the few things better than a tree is a collection of trees – also known as a forest. Forests provide a diversity […]


Turning Words in Action on Climate Change

Jan 28, 2013

Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory Energy and Resources Group Goldman School of Public Policy University of California, Berkeley http://rael.berkeley.edu The most recent Conference of the Parties meeting (COP) conference in Doha, has now come and gone.  As has been dissected at necessary nauseam, more or less nothing was accomplished.  Some will see this as a […]


Colombian Scientist talks about his coffee research experience and shares the goal of the research he is conducting at USDA lab under ECPA renewable energy pillar.

Dec 17, 2012

Juan Carlos Lopez-Nunez was born in Facatativá, a town 50 km west of Bogota, capital of Colombia. He studied Microbiology at Universidad de Los Andes, and in 1991 he joined the National Coffee Research Center (Cenicafe) a dependence organism of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, which main challenge is the development of […]