The city floated the burned-out husks up here 120 years ago and just left them.
In those days only a handful of people and institutions scoured corporate husks for hidden value.
Two months ago, she spoke confidently of her prospects and talked about wearing ultra-light shoes partly made of rice husks.
The coconut husks left over from making its drinks are used as foam for beds, seat cushions and other products.
He wades through the rows of fruit-laden plants, which smell faintly of chocolate thanks to the ground cocoa husks fertilizing the soil.
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Scotts plans to gradually introduce more gardening soil, fertilizer and bug killer made with natural ingredients, including animal manure and Sri Lankan coconut husks.
We tramp through a landscape of shrunken brown plants, dried husks crunching under our feet as Marion searches for some small sign of fruitful growth.
Steven Grisales, 21, went over to talk to some youths who had been throwing the conkers still in their spiky husks, in north London on 31 August 2011.
Hypermarkets have sprouted in the husks of Lodz's abandoned factories.
Burning biomass fuel sources such as wood, sunflower husks or animal faeces is part of the government's plans to get 15% of the UK's energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
His first U.S. effort is full of bold, broad comic book strokes -- some of them pleasingly original, like a car chase through a cornfield, the husks of corn thudding against the windscreens like oversized bugs.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
Food stalls dish out hearty country dishes like locro (a meaty stew from northwest Argentina), deep-fried empanadas, and humitas (lightly sweetened corn meal wrapped in corn husks), all washed down with sweet patero wine - this is La Feria de Mataderos, an authentic celebration of Argentine country traditions.
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