Last month, Starbucks announced the purchase of its first coffee farm, a verdant 600-acre property in the Costa Rican mountains.
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The first wind farm, with five floating turbines, will be completed by 2017 and a larger 500 megawatt farm (half the strength of a nuclear power plant) by 2020.
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Singapore has just seen its first commercial vertical farm open, making thrift use of the country's sparse real estate.
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This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators tech-speak for evolutionary turbine technology that will improve efficiency, reliability and grid connection capabilities.
Off the coast of Oregon, Ocean Power Technologies has received approval to begin work on the first commercial wave farm in the US. The project is expected to produce enough clean energy to power more than 1, 000 homes.
The farm's first prototype was built in 2009 and since October this year the fully operating farm has been supplying one of city's supermarkets with weekly deliveries of its greens.
In February, Wales' first commercial tidal energy farm planned off the coast of Anglesey won Welsh government approval.
It took place for the first time at Cotswold Farm Park near Stow-on-the-Wold in October 2011 and is now planned to become an annual event.
Farmed ballan wrasse have been introduced to a Scottish salmon farm for the first time.
Riyahi produced the stud farm's first Indian Derby winner in 1988, a filly called Cordon Bleu.
The project aims to create the world's first large scale wave energy farm by constructing a wave hub, or "socket", on the seabed.
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Powys said it screened its first meeting - about wind farm plans - in July 2011 when 1, 500 watched followed by subsequent debates viewed online by 3, 000 and 10, 000 people respectively.
When Hveravellir Farm constructed its first greenhouses around 20 miles from Husavik in 1933, farmers were able to grow crops that required even warmer temperatures, like tomatoes and cucumbers, bringing locally grown produce to the region for the first time.
In the distance a last glimmer of sun caught the top of Pumpkin Hill where men were still out mowing the first hay crop on the Deaver farm.
To my mind, Carol had anchored that first chaotic, overwhelming year at Bedlam Farm, for which I was immensely grateful.
Mr Trump has repeatedly clashed with local residents, environmentalists, wind farm manufacturers and the Scottish first minister since buying the land eight years ago.
The decision follows confirmation of a further case of the disease at a farm in Norfolk - the first case to be confirmed since 12 August.
First, they went through the massive farm bill and cut out some antiquated and duplicative programs -- the kind of government waste that makes voters go berserk.
He has repeatedly clashed with local residents, environmentalists, wind farm manufacturers and the Scottish First Minister since buying the land on the Menie Estate eight years ago.
Union president Ed Bailey said he appreciated the minister meeting members at a farm near Llanidloes to learn first hand the impact the snow was having on them.
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My first stop was volunteering on an organic farm in a small village outside of Timisoara, Romania, thanks to a tip from a traveller I had met in Spain a few months earlier.
It leads down at first, but just past a small trout farm, the path begins to gain elevation.
In his first year riding out of the West Lockinge Farm stables in Wantage, Culloty took the amateur championship.
His grandfather, born on a farm in Cuba, was the first member of his family to learn to read.
Isle of Man residents are being given their first chance to examine plans for a wind farm in Irish Sea.
The daughter of Len and Jackie Cox, Sara, the youngest of five, spent the first seven years of her life on a farm just outside Bolton, where her father bred pedigree bulls.
Canadian officials are quarantining pigs that tested positive for the virus -- scientifically known as 2009 H1N1 -- at an Alberta farm in what could be the first identified case of pigs infected during the recent outbreak.
The Scott Eaton design would be on the first floor terrace of the Roundhouse, overlooking Chalk Farm Road.
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