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URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: TEA (92%); TEA FARMING (90%); COFFEE & TEA (78%); PESTICIDES (78%); RURAL COMMUNITIES (75%); FORESTS & WOODLANDS (74%); ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY (71%); FARM LABOR (66%); ENTREPRENEURSHIP (65%) COMPANY: CNINSURE INC (72%) TICKER: CISG (NASDAQ) (72%) GEOGRAPHIC: SHANGHAI, CHINA (79%); BEIJING, CHINA (79%) YUNNAN, CHINA (92%); SOUTHWEST CHINA (90%); NORTH CENTRAL CHINA (57%); EAST CHINA (57%) CHINA (94%); HONG KONG (79%) LOAD-DATE: April 21, 2008 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GRAPHIC: PHOTO: Workers pick leaves from domesticated tea plants in Pu'er, China, where leaves grown in the wild are preferred by local people.(PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN MOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES) MAP: Pu'er is in Yunnan Province, considered tea's birthplace. Map details area of Pu'er. PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company 845 of 1231 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
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E-mail: lijournal@nytimes.com SECTION: Section LI; Column 0; Long Island Weekly Desk; RECYCLING; Pg. 5 LENGTH: 820 words DATELINE: Quogue LONG before the term ''sustainability'' came into vogue, Frank L. Levy and Sergio Dell'Orco saw the potential in waste. For three decades, Mr. Levy, a mechanical engineer and sales representative with a home office here, and Mr. Dell'Orco, whose family owns a factory outside Florence, Italy, that manufactures machines, have been selling textile waste recycling machines and fiber blending equipment. The machines recycle textile waste back into fibers, Mr. Levy said. ''Then you can mix it with other fibers and make another product.'' Their customers use the technology, with specifications tweaked for the American market by Mr. Levy, 74, to reprocess leftovers from old clothing, millwork and tailoring into blankets, mattresses, automobile door panels, hood liners and dashboards and geotextiles that line the beds of manmade lakes. Two years ago Mr. Levy and Mr. Dell'Orco turned their focus to keeping used carpets out of landfills. Their newest venture, Post Consumer Carpet Processing Technologies, separates nylon fibers from polypropylene backing so both can be reused separately in new carpets and various other applications. Their process, whose patent is pending, was named one of three winners in the Energy Globe awards in the category ''Earth.'' There were more than 800 entries in five categories of the nine-year-old competition, founded by an Austrian engineer, Wolfgang Neumann. The other two winners in the ''Earth'' category were a community-based waste management program in Peru and a ''solar park'' in Germany with 12 residences and an office building. Each winner receives 10,000 euros (about $15,800) and travel expenses to the awards ceremony in Brussels on May 26. The commercial-grade recycled nylons from the carpets and the polypropylene, a petrochemical widely used to make plastic products, are ''valuable commodities,'' Mr. Levy said. Once the fibers are separated, they are collected into 650-pound bales. Processing 30 million pounds of carpet provides 9 million pounds of nylon and 9 million pounds of polypropylene; the rest is a powder used in various plastic processes as a filler, Mr. Levy said. The first customer for the processing technology, Eric Nelson, vice president of Interface Americas, a carpet and flooring maker, installed $4 million worth of Mr. Levy and Mr. Dell'Orco's machinery in the company's plant in LaGrange, Ga., to reprocess old carpets. ''It was love at first sight,'' Mr. Nelson said, estimating that the equipment will be able to process 25 million pounds of carpet a year and recycle it into nylon. Interface acquired worldwide rights to the carpet processing technology. Turning old carpet into new was a challenge the industry has ''struggled with for many years,'' Mr. Nelson said. ''Frank's technology has really given us a big step forward.'' Still, so far only a small percentage of the nylon can be reused in new carpet. After being processed by Mr. Levy's machines, the nylon is cleaned and remelted by another company, which remakes it into new fiber, in about a dozen colors. The rest is sold for use in nylon plastic, especially for cars, Mr. Nelson said. Robert Peoples, former executive director of the Carpet America Recovery Effort, a joint industry-government initiative based in Dalton, Ga., applauded the technology's ''great potential.'' The recycling method allows the ''very valuable face fiber'' to be separated in a single step ''resulting in a very pure form,'' Dr. Peoples said -- a clean, homogenous product. Other reprocessing approaches use multiple steps. Dr. Peoples said that about 5 billion pounds of used carpeting, which is not biodegradable, went into landfills last year. While that represents less than 1 percent by weight, or 2 percent by volume, of total landfill flow, he said, carpet is ''a hassle since it is bulky, hard to handle and does not compress well.'' So far the Interface Americas carpet recycling plant in Georgia is the only one to have been built. Mr. Dell'Orco, in a telephone interview, said the goal is to ''develop a system where these plants would be spread out through all America'' and worldwide. Mr. Levy and Mr. Dell'Orco, who talk three times a day, met in 1976 when Mr. Levy was selling machines that spin yarn for carpet. When his supplier of machines in Italy closed up shop, a friend and fellow engineer took him to see a garnett machine in the factory where the friend worked, used to open hard-twisted yarn wastes, rags and clippings. Mr. Levy noticed another machine that was processing three times as much polypropylene fiber, he said. ''It was something very special,'' Mr. Levy recalled, and asked his friend to introduce him to its inventor, who was Mr. Dell'Orco. Mr. Levy immediately asked to represent him and sell his machinery in America. ''That is when I realized the waste is being turned into gold,'' Mr. Levy said.
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Late Edition - Final BUILD SECTION: Section MM; Column 0; Magazine Desk; THE GREEN ISSUE; Pg. 72 LENGTH: 2469 words EARTH WORKS: It seems the designers of the sod hut were on to something: living beneath a layer of dirt can be a good thing. When built correctly, a roof garden acts as natural insulation, keeping a building warm in winter and cool in summer. In urban settings, green roofs help mitigate runoff problems, absorbing, cleaning and straining rainwater and reducing the load on city sewers. One of the big factors delaying the widespread use of green roofs in the United States, however, particularly on the tops of old buildings, is how much soil weighs. Soil -- or, more accurately, ''growing medium'' -- is a matter of mixture. Sand and clay, the mineral matrix in which the fertile humus lodges, are heavy, and the average roof can bear only 30 to 40 pounds a square foot. To make lightweight soil, green-roof designers have typically replaced clay and sand with ceramics and shales, adding air to make these materials less dense. And now there's garbage. Over the last few years, Paul Mankiewicz, executive director of the Bronx-based Gaia Institute, has designed one of the lightest, least-expensive soils on the market by using a patented process in which he blends locally made compost with recycled polystyrene, binding the two with a gel. ''The soil has a small carbon footprint because the materials are local, diverted from the waste stream -- we've got plenty of old polystyrene right here in New York,'' Mankiewicz says. ''And you don't have to factor in the energy costs of firing and shipping the ceramics.'' Even wet, the soil, at six inches deep, weighs only 15 pounds a square foot (natural soil weighs 60). Mankiewicz estimates that if every roof in New York were greened, the city would gain 26 square miles of new plants, and temperatures could drop by several degrees in summer, depending on the density of the plant cover and how much water was used. ''Now to get an inexpensive system in place to water those gardens with a building's gray water,'' he says. ''That's my next dream.'' TESS TAYLOR -------------------- BIOTECH: BioTech Boulder Community Hospital in Colorado became the first LEED-certified green hospital in America in 2003. But it took a waste audit financed by the Environmental Protection Agency to uncover a problem no one at the hospital had really thought about. Twenty percent of all the waste in the hospital's Dumpsters, the auditors determined, consisted of just one item: blue wrap, which was used to sterilize surgical equipment -- and then thrown away after one use. Boulder Community's sterile-processing director requested $120,000 in hard containers for sterilization. Used tools are tossed into the hard containers, the containers and the tools are sterilized together and then reused again and again. By eliminating blue wrap, and by keeping it out of the trash, the outlay for the hard containers was recouped in just a year and a half, and there's a fifth less trash in the waste stream, according to Kai Abelkis, Boulder Community's sustainability coordinator since 2001. Recycling confidential documents instead of shredding them has cut costs by $90,000, Abelkis says. Switching to energy-efficient light bulbs has saved another $40,000. These and other success stories at Boulder Community have landed Abelkis speaking gigs this year in Australia and Canada. Other hospitals are starting to factor environmental impact into their business plans. ''Twenty years ago there were cigarette machines in the lobby,'' Abelkis says. ''Nowadays you'd never think of smoking in a hospital. The culture's changed, and continues to change.'' ROBERT ANDREW POWELL -------------------- HOW-TO SOLAR: The roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels 1. generate electricity, which feeds into a device, an array disconnect 2., that allows the electricity to be turned on or off. An inverter 3. converts dc electricity to ac, making it compatible with common 110-volt household appliances, before it passes through a familiar circuit-breaker box 4. In a system like this one, excess electricity is returned to the utility grid 5.; in most states, homeowners earn an electrical ''credit'' they can use during cloudy periods. Currently, solar photovoltaic panels cost about $5 per watt, but new thin-film technologies could lower costs to less than $1 per watt within the next decade. BEN HEWITT -------------------- WASTE LAND: Earthships -- solar homes made of natural and recycled materials -- are all about waste: aluminum cans molded into walls, dirt-filled tires stacked like bricks. To hide their pedestrian appearance, the tires are plastered with adobe or cement. Michael Reynolds, an architect -- he calls himself a biotect -- living in Taos, N.M., came up with the concept in the mid-'70s. Motivated by the energy crisis, his ambition was to build an affordable home that would produce energy (from wind and solar power), collect water and snow in cisterns, contain and treat sewage and manufacture biodiesel fuel. Reynolds says he took his cue from Noah and his ark. He likes to boast that his creations have a total annual utility bill of a mere $100. In 1989, Reynolds started the first Earthship community, called Rural Earthship Alternative Community Habitat (REACH) on 55 acres just north of Taos. In 1994, a sustainable subdivision, called the Greater World Earthship Community, was built on 633 acres. Today, there are Earthship developments all over the world. In Taos, you can rent a fully furnished and very high-tech Earthship -- with high-speed wireless Internet access and digital satellite TV -- for $135 a night. Reynolds, who is featured in Oliver Hodge's recent documentary, ''Garbage Warrior,'' also runs workshops where he teaches people how to build their own earth-friendly houses, but for those who'd rather figure it out themselves, there's his three-volume step-by-step series on how to build your own Earthship. Otherwise, you can hone your Earthship-building skills by traveling this summer to the Netherlands Antilles to help erect one (the cost is $350 a week, not including room and board or airfare). And Fannie Mae is now exploring environmental loans that might include Earthships. Though the average price hovers around $175 a square foot, it's possible to spend more: in 1989, the actor Dennis Weaver built a $1 million, 10,000-square-foot Earthship in Ridgway, Colo. Call it an Earthyacht. ABBY ELLIN -------------------- A NEW LEAF: The first thing most visitors notice about the LEAFHouse is the interior design: the wall of windows and the spine of skylights; the kitchen with concrete and reclaimed-wood counters that follow the natural contours of the tree; the glowing waterfall encased in the living-room wall. It takes a moment to remember that the house is a test lab of advanced green-design technology. Those skylights support 34 photovoltaic panels that produce 770 kilowatt-hours a month -- enough to power the household. That kitchen counter has an induction-cooking surface that runs on electromagnetic energy. The windows are clad in specialized shutters that adjust to the amount of exterior sunlight and help regulate the temperature inside. And the waterfall is a one-of-a-kind liquid desiccant system that uses calcium chloride to remove humidity from the air, mitigating the need for air-conditioning. A team from the University of Maryland created the LEAFHouse for the Department of Energy's third Solar Decathlon. At last fall's competition, the 800-square-foot prototype earned second place out of 20 for its ability to run completely off the grid and for its design, inspired by a leaf's capacity to harvest solar energy. The home offers a glimpse into the future of energy-efficient living -- but don't call it sustainable. ''We think that's an uninspiring buzzword,'' says Julie Gabrielli, an architect who served as a faculty adviser. ''Nature is abundant. This house is about being lush and beautiful while having a light footprint.'' A Web-based program called the Smart House Adaptive Control system, or SHAC, runs things. Created by two computer-engineering students, the Jetsons-like system monitors the house and adjusts the interior environment in sync with the exterior weather. If it's sunny, SHAC dims the lights. If the extended weather report calls for clouds, SHAC warns you to conserve solar-energy reserves. Empyrean International, which manufactures the prefabricated Dwell Homes, is working with the Maryland team to bring it to market in 2009. ELIZABETH EVITTS DICKINSON -------------------- POINT SYSTEM: Twelve years ago, Boulder, Colo., implemented a Green Points program, encouraging builders to incorporate energy-saving and resource-saving features. A new house of, say, 4,000 square feet needs to earn at least 40 green points before its blueprints are approved. Each energy-saving addition is worth a certain number of points: insulated, precast concrete in the foundation is 2 points; planting up to five shade trees in the yard gets up to 5 points; energy-efficient windows or bolting photovoltaic panels to the roof can fetch as much as 10 points. The program was beefed up in February: now every new home must be tested for energy efficiency before it can be occupied. Houses must be disassembled rather than simply torn down, and at least 65 percent of the concrete, wood and other materials must be recycled; 50 percent of waste from the construction of a new house in place of an old one must also be recycled. Though Boulder aims to achieve zero-waste construction with this program, the city has been criticized for creating a unique set of rules instead of simply following the construction guidelines of the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council. But what else would you expect from a city that decided to conform to the Kyoto Protocol whether or not the U.S. government ever ratifies it? ROBERT ANDREW POWELL -------------------- LEARNING FROM KANSAS: Before Greensburg began to live up to its name, it was a dying town in rural Kansas. Then, last May, it was ravaged by a tornado, and most of its 1,400 residents were left homeless. Some saw hope in the devastation. ''We were left with a blank slate,'' says Daniel Wallach, a resident from a nearby town who started Greensburg GreenTown, a nonprofit group devoted to making the place the ultimate energy-efficient community. There will be a biodiesel plant, LEED-certified churches and schools and geothermal-powered homes. ''Ninety-five percent of the town was destroyed,'' Wallach says. ''You don't get opportunities to reimagine towns from scratch.'' Already, 26 public and commercial buildings (including the John Deere dealership) and half of the town's homeowners have committed to sustainable rebuilding, Wallach says. The endeavor hasn't gone unnoticed: Leonardo DiCaprio produced a documentary series about the town that will be broadcast on Discovery Planet Green, formerly the Discovery Home Channel, in June. The radical re-creation of this conservative farming town may seem unlikely, but the project, Wallach says, ''gives meaning to our pain and suffering.'' EMILY BIUSO -------------------- SKY HIGH: ''Skyscrapers consume more energy and materials because of their height,'' says Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect based in Britain and a pioneer of ''bioclimactic'' skyscrapers. So his designs, like this prototype for a 26-story tower in Singapore, take into account the local climate and try to make the best use of air, wind, sunlight and local vegetation to cool and heat the structure. ''If you can't get away from the building's form,'' Yeang says, ''you have to try to make them as green and germane as possible.'' CHARLES WILSON. -------------------- FACTORY FRESH: Food manufacturers in the United States produce more than 105 million tons of carbon-dioxide emissions a year. That bothered John Z. Blazevich, the president and chief executive of Contessa Premium Foods in Los Angeles, so he decided that his new factory would minimize energy use. But to build his ''Green Cuisine Plant,'' the first LEED-certified frozen-food manufacturing plant in the country, Blazevich had to collaborate with the U.S. Green Building Council, which had yet to establish any standards for the industry. Contessa needed a four-million-cubic-foot facility that, because the company makes frozen food, would be almost entirely temperature-controlled -- kept between 5 and 40 degrees -- and energy efficient. Among the plant's innovations is a heat-recovery system that captures the wasted energy produced by refrigeration compressors and uses it to heat water. A special loading dock minimizes the loss of refrigerated air, reducing temperature fluctuation -- and thus energy use. A solar-power system cuts carbon-dioxide emissions by an amount equal to 730,000 pounds a year. In all, the building, which was completed in January, will produce two million pounds less carbon dioxide than a conventional plant of its size. That, Blazevich says, is the equivalent of keeping 200 cars off the road for a year, even as Contessa produces nearly 150 million pounds of frozen food. ABBY ELLIN -------------------- GREEN ACRES: Last July, a Florida real estate entrepreneur, Frank McKinney, broke ground on one of the largest, most expensive homes to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council and the Florida Green Building Council. According to McKinney, the place, which he calls Acqua Liana, or ''water flower,'' is 3 times as large and 25 times as expensive as any home trying to gain certification by the U.S.G.B.C. The 15,000-square-foot home is being built on spec in Manalapan, Fla., and will be finished, McKinney says, next year. For a mere $29 million, the house's owner will have enough solar panels to generate as much electricity as two average-size homes consume; a water system that collects and treats sufficient ''gray'' water (water used to wash dishes or bathe in, for example) to fill the average swimming pool every 14 days; pools, ponds and misters that will reduce the interior temperature two to three degrees below that of neighboring properties; and the satisfaction of knowing that enough reclaimed wood was used in construction to equal 10.5 acres of Brazilian rain forest. ABBY ELLIN URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: GREEN BUILDING (90%); GARDENING (89%); ENVIRONMENTALISM (89%); CITY LIFE (77%); MANUFACTURING FACILITIES (73%); ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT (69%); MATERIALS RECOVERY & RECYCLING (69%); ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES (65%); PLANT CONSTRUCTION (50%); ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENTS (50%); CLIMATOLOGY (62%); MEDICAL DEVICE STERILIZATION (60%) ORGANIZATION: US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (59%) GEOGRAPHIC: NEW YORK, NY, USA (75%) NEW YORK, USA (92%); COLORADO, USA (79%); KANSAS, USA (77%) UNITED STATES (93%) LOAD-DATE: April 20, 2008 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GRAPHIC: PHOTOS: 1. A Dish on the roof and scalloped sun shades on the sides catch rain, which flows through natural soil-bed filters before being diverted to flush the toilets and water the landscaping. 2. Vegetation and biomass, which enhance the microclimates on each floor within the tower, facilitate natural cooling. 3. Sewage from the building's toilets is composted and used to create biogas fuel. 4. Recyclable materials are collected on each floor. These drop down a chute to waste separators in the basement. 5. Solar panels generate 10 to 20 percent of the tower's electricity CIGS: A type of Photovoltaic (PV) solar technology that uses the elements copper, indium and gallium to convert sunlight into electricity ENERGY-WATER NEXUS: The term employed by the U.S. Department of Energy to express the close relationship between water and energy use. Water systems require vast amounts of energy for treatment and transport energy systems, like nuclear and coal plants, require vast amounts of water for cooling SOLAR THERMAL: Technology that uses large arrays of mirrors to focus sunlight on water, oil or molten salt. At high temperatures, the liquid makes steam and turns turbines, generating electrical power CARBON NEGATIVE: Describes a process, lifestyle or invention that results in a net removal of carbon from the atmosphere. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEAF: AMY E. GARDNER. POINT: STEVE SANFORD. KANSAS: KEVIN CHRISTY. SKY HIGH: TR HAMZAH & YEANG. ACRES: FRANK MCKINNEY EARTH WORKS: THOMAS HANNICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES. SOLAR: STEVE SANFORD. WASTE LAND: LAURENT GUERIN.) Download 5,58 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham:
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