Pitch and Ship » environmental sustainability http://pitchandship.com News about direct response, network television and affiliated e-commerce Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:01:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 National Geographic Reports on “The Real Price of Gold” http://pitchandship.com/2009/01/09/national-geographic-reports-on-the-real-price-of-gold/ http://pitchandship.com/2009/01/09/national-geographic-reports-on-the-real-price-of-gold/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:05:32 +0000 admin http://pitchandship.com/?p=448 [...]]]> Over the past eight years, the price of gold has increased by 235 percent, from $271 to more than $1,000 an ounce.  But the costs in human misery and environmental degradation may be even higher.  National Geographic’s January cover story offers mostly sobering reading about mining for gold in far-flung spots around the world — whether the miners are employing age-old techniques to extract gold remnants from an old, artisinal mine (as in the Peruvian Andes) or working at a large, modern mine (as in Indonesia).  Here is one interesting tid-bit: all of the gold that has been mined to date, worldwide, can be fit within the space of two Olympic-sized swimming pools.  National Geographic January 2009  A WHYY Fresh Air radio interview with the auther and photographer of the story is also available from National Public Radio here.  Jan. 8, 2009

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QVC's Rocky Mount, NC, Solar Farm

The one-megawatt solar electric farm has been built on five acres of QVC’s Rocky Mount distribution center.  It sells electricity to the N.C. Electric Membership Corporation, the power supply organization for the state’s electric cooperatives, which will return it to the grid for use by North Carolina consumers.  Rocky Mount Telegram (NC) Dec. 20, 2008

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