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Las Vegas to Build World’s First 30 Story Vertical Farm

By Leland ⋅ January 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

30 stories…

Las Vegas the tourist mecca of the World is set to begin development of the World’s first vertical farm. The $200 million dollar project is designed to be a functional and profitable working farm growing enough food to feed 72,000 people for a year and provide another tourist attraction to the city that does [...]

Frogs may be on the brink of extinction

By Leland ⋅ January 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This frog needs your help.

The year of 2008 has now been named among conservationists, the Year of the Frog in response to the impending doom in store for frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians across the planet. According to this article at Telegraph.co.uk, this is going to be the biggest mass extinction since the [...]