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::: ENN Daily Newsletter - Tuesday, May 03, 2005 ::: On Beyond Organic: 'Green' Flowers Mother's Day is often celebrated by giving flowers. But what do we really know about flower production, considering nearly 70% of all cut flowers sold in the United States are grown abroad? United Nations Meet to Seek Safer Ways to Kill Insect Pests A U.N. meeting this week will seek new ways to kill mosquitoes and termites as part of a plan to bolster a 2004 ban on use of a "dirty dozen" toxic chemicals. Some pesticides on the blacklist of 12 industrial toxins are still in use to keep humanity's worst insect foes at bay even though they have been blamed for deaths, cancers or birth defects in humans and animals. Ohio Lab Tests Solar Space Propulsion System Scientists working with a synthetic material 100-times thinner than a piece of paper are testing their theory that the sun can power interplanetary spacecraft. They believe that streams of solar energy particles called photons can push a giant, reflecting sail through space the way wind pushes sailboats across water. Interior Secretary Turns Down Request to Reduce Release of Colorado River Water California, Arizona and Nevada have scored an apparent victory in an ongoing dispute with four other Western states over how best to share water from the Colorado River in times of drought. READ ALL THE LATEST HEADLINES Texas Shrimpers Blame U.S. Government for Industry's Decline For people like Robert L. Perkins III, the U.S. government is to blame for the demise of the shrimping industry. "The same thing that happened to our textile industry is happening (to shrimping)," in the Brownsville/Port Isabel area, he said. Harvest from the Ashes Twenty-five years ago, the Weyerhaeuser Co. wanted to keep cutting trees on the flanks of rumbling, spitting Mount St. Helens. But to play it safe, the company moved loggers 15 miles from the mountain -- and thought that would be far enough. READ ALL SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY NEWS Throwplace.com Celebrates One Year of Giving and Taking READ ALL COMPANY NEWS