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Whole Foods Joins Canadian Seafood Boycott to Save the Seals

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: WFMI) has joined the list of companies who have responded to The Humane Society of the United States’ call for a boycott of seafood from Canada until that country’s annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seals is permanently halted. The hunt is undeniably cruel — baby and juvenile seals are clubbed or shot to death primarily for their pelts — many are skinned while still alive and conscious. The U.S. has long banned imports of seal products, but the market for seal pelts in Europe provides an incentive for the sealers to take to the ice every spring to kill as many seals as they can. This year’s hunt, with over 300,000 seals slaughtered, was the largest killing of marine mammals in the world. Whole Foods Market is the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods with 167 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. The company joins Legal Sea Foods, Downeast Seafood, and Spectrum Organics in the United States, and Marks and Spencer in the United Kingdom in taking steps to reduce or end their Canadian seafood sales. In support of the seals, Whole Foods Market has agreed not to sell […]

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Konarka Signs $1.6 million Contract with the Army

Konarka Technologies, Inc. announced it signed a $1.6 million contract with the United States Army. Konarka’s light-activated power plastic will provide critical power supply to soldier systems and Army support infrastructure. Electric power requirements are going up for both soldiers and facilities in theater of war situations, as the military is using sophisticated electronic technologies for sensing, surveillance, communications, search and destroy, and survival on the battlefield. Today’s soldiers are being weighed down, though, by the batteries that drive these devices. They are required to carry a daily supply of primary batteries, but limited power capacity and the continual need for re-supply can limit the mobility, range and mission length required for effective field operations. Since rechargeable batteries can alleviate the soldiers’ burden and the extensive logistics support to maintain the battery supply, the Army now favors their use wherever possible, and recharging those batteries in the field is a priority. To ensure soldiers can become less dependent on supply logistics and locally available power sources to charge batteries, Konarka will deliver its renewable energy generation capabilities to the Army in the devices, systems and structures that are normally deployed for remote operations. Power goes to the battlefield via equipment […]

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