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Cotton gin trash finding new life for electrical power

Cotton gin trash and other biomass feedstocks have been used as fuel to generate heat energy for power production. Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Blair Fannin Finding sustainable markets ... read more

The future fabric of our lives

Some may see a pile of “gin trash ... cotton represents beyond jeans and T-shirts.” This is just one of the many research projects coming out of the Biopolymer Research Group at the FBRI, which looks ... read more

The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference?

More clothing is made out of polyester and nylon, both plastics, than cotton or wool ... material of modern life. Each year, the world produces around 340m tonnes of the stuff, enough to fill every sk... read more

The future of cotton

Cotton Incorporated, the research and marketing company representing upland cotton in the U.S., is championing seven new cotton-using companies for ... this mulch is made using cotton gin "trash." The ... read more

VANISHING POINTS PART 4 – NOT GONE STILL HERE

Every day it was something new. A new room, new tests, but the voice never changed. “Make the bugs appear.” “No.” Electricity ... toward the Gin Mill. Her husband had appeared there once; he might ret... read more

Little America: An Afghan town, an American dream and the folly of for-profit war

Sometimes, Grader overextended in his own life. In 1997, he was nearly captured and killed by the Taliban while working with his Afghan Aid team in northern Afghanistan. In 2003, airport customs offic... read more

The Most Famous Story We Never Told

He does know how hard his parents worked: at least as hard as he has worked his whole life, which leaves him with a feeling akin to survivor's guilt. "They never had a chance to buy a new truck ... he ... read more

Women in Syria: Staying, supporting & surviving

Photo credit: UNDP Syria Syria’s electrical infrastructure has been deeply weakened by relentless war. Without refrigeration or steady power, food often requires ... many displaced women, finding them... read more

Off the grid: 10 places to totally unplug

“We make our own electricity, find ... power reading lights. But after a glass of Champagne and a Zanzibari supper of octopus masala, chances are books will be cast aside in favor of a romantic evenin... read more

The Worst Party in Asia

Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe ... the arrival of power changed everything. For Samui’s foreign collective, electricity was more colonialist expan... read more

Stolen Childhood

On other plantations aged slaves, children, and pregnant women worked in "trash ... Carolina, gin maker, exuded indifference toward his daughter, Maria Ann, after he became free in 1816. As a prospero... read more

19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented by Women

THE PAPER BAG iStock America got a brand new paper bag when cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented ... fiber for car tires and earned a patent in 1966. 3. THE FOOT-PEDAL TRASH CAN iStock Lillian ... read more