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Some seed swaps explicitly have a biological goal—usually either educating the public in organic gardening or the attempt to maintain crop diversity. [8] [14] [16] The larger global relevance and beneficial long-range effects of ecological farming sustained by seed swaps, and the effects of such practices in countering the effects of agrichemical monoculture, are beginning to be studied.
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The Native Plant Society of Texas aims to educate both its members and the general public and to foster a greater awareness of the Texas native flora; to encourage landscaping with appropriate native plants; to protect, conserve and restore native plants threatened by development; to encourage the responsible propagation of native plants; and to promote appreciation and understanding of ...
Calpine Corporation is the largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources in the United States, [3] with operations in competitive power markets.. A Fortune 500 company based in Houston, Texas, [1] the company is owned by an affiliate of Energy Capital Partners and a consortium of other investors, including Access Industries Inc. and the Canada Pension Plan ...
On December 6, 1971, Houston Lighting & Power Co. (HL&P), the City of Austin, the City of San Antonio, and the Central Power and Light Co. (CPL) initiated a feasibility study of constructing a jointly-owned nuclear plant. The initial cost estimate for the plant was $974 million [5] (equivalent to approximately $5,700,741,167 in 2015 dollars [6]).
The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four National Forests in Texas, is located 50 miles north of Houston. The forest is administered together with the other three United States National Forests and two National Grasslands located entirely in Texas, from common offices in Lufkin, Texas .
From August 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Clark T. Randt, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 9.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a 26.7 percent return from the S&P 500.
The Columbian exchange of crop plants, livestock, and diseases in both directions between the Old World and the New World. In 1972, Alfred W. Crosby, an American historian at the University of Texas at Austin, published the book The Columbian Exchange, [2] thus coining the term. [1]