World Bank Launches Global Oceans Alliance
The World Bank announced on Friday a global alliance to better manage and protect the world's oceans, which are under threat from over-fishing, pollution and climate change. …
Month: February 2012
Record Maine Lobster Catch Helps Boost Last Year's Fishing Figures
Maine fishermen landed 276.6 million pounds of seafood and bait worth more than $425 million in 2011 thanks, in part, to a record lobster haul, state fisheries officials announced Thursday. …
Tom Bowling: Seeing Green In March
Green is one of those colors that more often than not appear in most floral stylings. It can be a harmonizing color that unites other colors together or it can be the color that gives contrast and impact to other surrounding colors. How can it do both you ask? The answer lies in the color of green that is chosen. …
Taiwan Bloom 'Spring Fire' Honored At Orchid Festival
"Spring Fire," a Rhynchostylis gigantea orchid grown by a flower producer in Taiwan, has won the Merit Award in the Individual Division of the Japan Grand Prix International Orchid Festival 2012. …
pickOntario: 'Every Day Is Flower Day!' Campaign Spring 2012
'Every day is Flower Day’ This campaign will be launched at Canada Blooms (March 15) and will run for 60 days up until Mother’s Day (May 13)! Every day pickOntario will announce another reason to give flowers! Consumers can then submit your story and photo of why you or someone you know deserves to win a bouquet or plant that day! …
