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Asheville area natural products industry on the rise - 1 views

www.citizen-times.com/...7520403

industry

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  • Western North Carolina is not just where the wild things grow, but home to a growing number of businesses using technology to turn those native plants into consumer products.
  • Blue Ridge has added a natural products manufacturing line to help small start-ups venturing into skin care, cosmetics and even dietary supplements. This market relies on rigorous manufacturing standards, quality testing in high-tech labs, and carefully documenting ingredients through the process.
  • WNC is now home to this industry that goes all the way from the field from people growing and harvesting plants to manufacturers processing materials at Blue Ridge Food Ventures, to quality testing at A-B Tech and the U.S. Botanical Safety Lab, all the way to the market,”
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  • A new AdvantageWest report shows the fruits of three years of local efforts to cultivate that industry, resulting in more than 48 full-time jobs, 15 new manufacturers, 1,487 farmers trained and 44 new acres in production of medicinal plants, such as goldenseal, black cohosh and others.
  • Meanwhile smaller businesses and start-ups are joining the growing market for natural products.
  • As more manufacturers spring up, with a demand for locally sourced plants, more farmers may beginning to see botanicals as a feasible cash crop, Raker said.
  • “There’s a consumer demand,”
  • Gaia Herbs moved its operations to the region in 1997. Now 140 workers process 300 different lines of herbs and nutritional supplements in the 25,000-square-foot facility on rolling countryside outside Brevard.
  • buying healing plant materials from across the mountains to ship through New York brokers to pharmaceutical companies.
  • But the modern-day herbal market has gone more high-tech.
    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 10 Apr 14
       
      a.) I am surprised that this specific operation and factories in the North Carolina region have existed since  1989, but are now gaining millions of dollars in revenue just from the medicine industry.
    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 10 Apr 14
       
      b.) The theme of cultural landscape is found in this article.  Cultural landscape is used because the farmers and growers for these industries are changing the landscape so that they are able to produce crops from the land.  Nature culture is also fit into this because the farmers could be influenced by nature if there is a poor crop or something from the environment that influences their farming.
    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 10 Apr 14
       
      c.) One reference to the industrial sector is how this specific industry is located near the farms in the region.  This makes sense to what we learned about industry because most of the product includes the crops harvested in this region so the actual facility locates near these crops.
    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 10 Apr 14
       
      d.) Are these types of medicinal industries bulk-gaining or bulk-reducing?
    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 10 Apr 14
       
      e.) http://www.ibtimes.co.in/video/?video_id=NTQwODEzfHwxNDcxfHx8fHx8MTZ8fA==&video_tile=Romanian+bees+still+creating+a+buzz+in+health+industry This article relates to this article here because both are about natural products from the environment being made into medicinal products.  Although the medicine from bees in the linked article is then transported and sold in stores, it is not on a scale that is as large as the industries in North Carolina in this article.
Nathan Vrabel

States with the Largest and Fastest-Growing Immigrant Populations - 8 views

Migration
started by Nathan Vrabel on 16 Oct 13 no follow-up yet
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    #2 Alec Gehman on 16 Oct 13
     
    It is very surprising that Nebraska has a fast growing population of immigrants because it is situated in the center of the country. I wonder where the majority of these immigrants are migrating from??
Alec Gehman

BBC News - Mapping Mediterranean migration - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-24521614

Migration

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  • Every year thousands of people, many fleeing conflict and instability in Africa and the Middle East, risk their lives in small, often decrepit vessels while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to European territories.
  • Syrians fleeing the country's civil war are also making the journey.
  • Migration charities believe that as many as 20,000 people may have died at sea trying to reach Europe in the last two decades.
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    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 16 Oct 13
       
      Many of the Immigrants are fleeing from Africa or the Middle East from conflict such as Syria's civil war.
  • Alec Gehman on 16 Oct 13
     
    Many people are fleeing Africa and the Middle East to European territories such as Italy, Greece, France, and Spain. This map shows the routes taken from Africa and the Middle East into Europe.
Alec Gehman

Migration Trends of the Future | TIME.com - 2 views

ideas.time.com/...migration-trends-of-the-future

shared by Alec Gehman on 16 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Over the past 40 years we have seen two such surges—large-scale immigration from Latin America and Asia
  • People are less likely to move in times of economic distress
  • our future will continue to be shaped by the mass movements of people who are pursuing dreams or escaping nightmares.
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  • acceleration in immigration by high-skilled foreigners, mostly from Asia but from other parts of the globe as well.
  • People join mass migrations not just for economic reasons but also because of personal choice and the forces of history.
    • Alec Gehman
      Alec Gehman on 16 Oct 13
       
      Many immigrants leave their country for economic reasons, but many others also leave because they are in a mass movement, escaping wars, or personal choices.
  • Alec Gehman on 16 Oct 13
     
    We have already touched on the topic that a large amount of immigrants today are from Asia and Latin America. In the future it is expected that America will see an increase of immigrants that are skilled workers. These mass migrations in the future will most likely not be for economic reasons, but will be for personal reasons or forces in history.
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