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The Centre has sanctioned the Rs 1296-crore ambitions scheme to build a strong, world class human resources foundation in the high-end biomedical research, as a joint programme between the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Wellcome Trust.

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EDMONDS — Information about “being green” and choosing environmentally friendly products and services abounds on the Internet. The problem is sorting through it all.

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For the eleventh consecutive year, U.S.News and World Report has recognized the University of Minnesota, Crookston as one of the top public baccalaureate colleges in the Midwest.

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Sally Garcia, a 53-year-old lawyer disabled by multiple sclerosis, was torn.

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GLENROCK - Don Quixote, famous for mistaking windmills for giants, might make of this sight a whole tribe of Titans. But if giants they are, a certain benevolent nature they also possess. …

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As a university student in Sweden, Christina Lampe-Onnerud had to choose between studying biochemistry and genetics or energy and materials science. She chose the latter, assuming her research could be used to make a positive difference in the way the world uses power..

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New Generation Biofuels Holdings Inc. is moving its headquarters from Houston to Lake Mary.

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By Kaikho Paphro, Simong Village, Upper Siang District, (Arunachal Pradesh), Sep.7 : Called the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’ Arunachal Pradesh is known for its rich bio-diversity and natural beauty.

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Chambers of commerce in Contra Costa County are jumping aboard the green-business bandwagon, with programs to help members adopt environmental practices and efforts to lure clean-tech businesses to their cities.

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HOT SPRINGS - Paul Stelter thinks in circles. Round and round, no beginning and no end, volcanic ideas fueled by the heat of the earth itself. His eyes get wide when he thinks, and his voice louder when the ideas finally start to erupt.

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Ethanol’s wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger to pork-barrel spending.

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As the days grow shorter and the nights cooler, the urge to curl up with a good book grows stronger. Plenty of volumes to satisfy the urge, many by acknowledged heavy hitters, are on their way to a bookstore near you - and already can be ordered online.

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MOHNTON, Pa. - Hidden in woods among the hilly, green farmland of southern Berks County is a place that hundreds of people think of as a sanctuary.

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Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world. Although efforts to curb emissions have improved the situation, tiny particles called aerosols still clog the air. Now, atmospheric scientists have sorted through the pall that hangs over the city to precisely identify aerosols that make up the haze and chart daily patterns of changes to the mix.

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Regulatory News: bioMerieux (Paris:BIM), a global leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics,

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Tomorrow’s entrepreneurs were unveiled on Sunday evening as Oman’s hottest young business minds came together for the final of the 2008 TKM - Ernst & Young Big Business Idea Competition (BBIC).

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Though the company has been around since 2005, biotechnology startup Cortria Corp. has existed only virtually with executives spread out among Washington, D.C., California, Florida and Canada. (PFE)

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Gang Green has arrived, and in a big way. In June, Alan Faneca, the highest-paid guard in the NFL with a five-year, $40 million contract, bought a $2.7 million home in Chatham Township.

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BEAUMONT - Anthony Albert has no problem admitting that he and others in his industry are nuts.

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Biofuels are a form of risk management in a world where there are growing fears of global warming and other environmental impacts of burning carbon fuels. And researchers in search of products that can be used for biofuel are looking beyond corn to fields of sorghum.

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Japan’s Rating and Investment Information Inc., an international credit ratings agency, has affirmed its BBB- foreign currency issuer rating on the Philippines and kept its positive outlook despite disappointing economic growth numbers and the volatility in the financial markets.

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Today I went to a meeting of  the new Co-Housing project.  It is in it early stages, so ideas are still being batted around.

Biomimicry was one of the ideas floated by Simon.  It would have us imitate nature.  The concept began with Janine M. Benyus’ book of the same name, and the idea has since gone on to form its own institutes and consulting firms, and has indeed become a school of thought.

It’s one that I love.

Our meeting ran out of time before we could plunge to the depths of what Simon was driving at (I suspect he was headed for things like waste water etc.), but biomimicry is something I think about from time to time.

Our project imitates nature.  In nature things divide.  Species don’t tend to merge.  They tend to emerge as new.

Bill Gates once introduced the world to the idea of “convergence,” in which all of our technology would arrive at a single desktop.  But Mr. Gates had it wrong.  In nature, things don’t converge.  They divide.

That’s why we use our notebooks to do our banking, our Ipods for music, our Game Boxes for games, our cell phones for telephony, etc.

Cars don’t become trucks.  I miss the El Camino as much as the next guy, but “convergence” is the opposite of nature and subsequently does not happen with products.

“Division,” on the other hand, is not always a good thing-despite the fact that it is what nature does.

Since we imitate nature we are in a constant state of “dividing” at Piedmont Biofuels.  Design Build wants to stand alone, unfettered by problems in production.  R+D wants to “go it alone,” without the baggage of the whole.  The Coop persistently wants to get distance from Industrial.  And so on.

Division is what we do.  We imitate nature, after all.

And with division comes rationale.  And the rationale is usually not pretty.

State government blames the federal government.  Canada blames the United States.  White people blame black people.  Branch offices blame head office.  And away we go.  Division is in our nature, and since we are of nature, it suits us well.

Where the break down occurs is when we lose track of the interconnectedness of all things.  That’s another concept found in nature.  And when “division” is viewed form the perspective of the “interconnectedness of all things,” it becomes a different matter all together.

At our recent “State of the Bubble” meeting we touched on some of this.  We did it in the absence of biomimicry, but the song remains the same.

Species divide in an attempt to find their ecological niches.  And subsequently we divide in an effort to find our business or career niches.  But species division is dependent on the whole.

One of the best theatrical versions of evolution I have seen came from Paper Hand Puppet Intervention’s latest performance, I Am an Insect.  It is a wonderful show that is much more backyard observation than Kafkaesque reflection.

And in it they have the bug that evolves to look like a leaf.

Spectacular.  Divide and look like a leaf.  That way the bird that would love to dine on you passes right by.  It’s a great strategy, as long as the tree you are eating can support your population.  If you are successful, and enough leaf-looking bugs come into the world and devour the tree upon which you depend, the strategy will cave.

In order for it to work, you really need the bird that figured out how to eat you in the first place.

Bird eats the bugs that eat the tree that allow life for both in the first place.  Biomimicry.

Our latest, best example of biomimicry comes from our R+D group (for which we have Simon to thank).  In our case government is the tree.  Government  generates sustenance, which feeds an engineering firm, which picks Piedmont to do the work.

We are not alone in the world.  We are not the world.  We are merely imitating nature with a small company that is seeking our ecological niche in the world.  And all we know for now is that we are stronger as one entity, despite our natural desire to divide.

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