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Microbes — saving lawns and creating dung power

CNET’s News.com has a couple of great stories as part of a special ”agritech” report, or what I would classify as cleantech. The first takes a look at converting barnyard waste — ahem, cow dung — into high-grade fertilizer and methane gas that’s used to create electricity. Not new, but reporter Michael Kanellos explores the growing investment in this space and looks at some companies making a good go at it against the backdrop of skyrocketing fossil-fuel prices.

The second is a story about how biopesticide companies are experiencing tremendous growth as a replacement for chemical pesticides, which are banned in many communities or restricted by regulation. The market is growing by an estimated 22 per cent a year in the United States and could be a billion-dollar industry by 2010. Kanellos takes a look at a few U.S. companies doing work in this important area, though he doesn’t mention botanical approaches (i.e. EcoSmart) and other alternatives.

For a primer on the biopesticide market in Canada, check out this Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada executive summary, which is a couple of years old unfortunately. If anybody knows of any Canadian companies focusing on this area please pass along the names.

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