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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 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

How thredUP Is Hoping To Kick Off An Upcycling Trend

As a company, thredUp has long been of the opinion that the best way to reduce waste in fashion is for consumers to buy fewer new things, and find new life for those 43 ... and enough electricity to ... read more

Good soil is at the root of a successful garden

Trees' roots will spend their life growing in the native soil beyond the planting ... or bagged at nurseries), alfalfa meal and agricultural byproducts, such as cotton gin trash, bagasse or rice hulls ... read more

A walk in Cedar Falls Park yields unexpected pleasures

Freed from their banks, the waters cast up plastic bottles, trash and natural debris ... The settlers harnessed the waters to power a grist mill, a saw mill, a cotton gin. By 1910, Cedar Falls Dam was ... read more

Bluffton: Texas’ Lost Civilization Rises from Lake Buchanan

Great pecan trees grew in the river valley, and the residents harvested pecans and grew corn and cotton. A cotton gin ... hydroelectric power, the LCRA could deliver electricity to rural areas. By ... read more

Welcome to Uniontown: Arrowhead Landfill Battle a Modern Civil Rights Struggle

Aerial view of Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Alabama.John Wathen Foul odors, corrosive dust and menacing buzzards have become facts of life for people who live ... whose family ran a cotton gin in ... read more

Does technology drive history?

And, at first glance, they’re pleasing: you can picture the steam engine, the clock, the light bulb, the printing press, the cotton gin, the Pill, the automobile. You find yourself silently ... Jill ... 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 ... read more

Visit Afghanistan's 'Little America,' and See 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 ... 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 ... read more

The Literary Heroism Of U.S. Grant

The cotton-gin probably had much to do with the justification ... on and proclaimed that the general government had no power to interfere; that the Nation had no power to save its own life. Mr. ... read more