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Work on London's main Olympic site is progressing well. The 600-acre former industrial zone in east London that will become the focal point of the 2012 event has been transformed into Europe's biggest construction site. Steel for shoring up the massive new stadium's seating terraces is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hard Times, Olympic Plans Go On a Budget | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

"This is a superior biodiesel," says Roy Beckford, a University of Florida researcher and expert on sustainable farm development. He has been studying different varieties of jatropha and in February plans to publish his findings that trees like those the Daltons are growing (since 2006 they've planted 900,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Biofuel? | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Native to the Caribbean, Jatropha curcas was taken to India in the 1600s by Portuguese sailors who used the seeds for long-burning lamp oil. When Paul Dalton, 54, a Washington child-advocate attorney, decided to invest $500,000 in an alternative-fuel venture, he followed the Portuguese trail to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Biofuel? | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

But creativity isn't the problem in places like this gorgeous, wind-strafed corner of Minnesota, where clergy are trying out several innovative ways to keep God in the heartland. The fertile, Scandinavian-settled farm towns in the Red River Valley were the models for Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rural Churches Grapple with a Pastor Exodus | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Aromatic lemongrass permeates the air as you stroll down gravel paths that lead toward a 140-ft. (42 m) bamboo bridge. It spans the Ayung River to link two sides of a 20-acre (eight hectare) campus set among rice terraces. As you traverse the whooshing rapids, you can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Greener Education in Bali | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

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