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There's an old joke in Brazil that it is the nation of the future--and always will be. For decades the same has been said of the renewable-energy industry. Someday soon, its promoters kept promising, solar cells and wind turbines would produce electricity more cheaply than would traditional plants burning coal and oil and natural gas. There have been many false dawns, as fossil-fuel prices soared and then swooned. But the promised day appears finally to have arrived at, among other places, windswept hilltops in Texas and Colorado. On King Mountain, near McCamey, Texas, Renewable Energy Systems...
...netting, paddling the backwaters of the Amazon in a dugout canoe. He's on the hunt--for a new investment. Forgach, 52, spent decades making money the old-fashioned way, as an investment banker in places like Geneva and New York City. Now he is back in his native Brazil to show that preserving the environment and indigenous cultures can be profitable. As CEO of a Sao Paulo-based private company called A2R Environmental Funds, Forgach raises money from institutions like the Swiss government and the World Bank Group and invests mainly in sustainable agriculture and food processing in Latin...
...that sustained the plants and their surroundings. But the company was drowning in debt, headed for bankruptcy. Forgach restructured the debt and scaled down a top-heavy management team. Today, with bank loans paid off, Muana Alimentos is the second largest supplier of organic palm hearts in Brazil and profitably exports its product to Europe...
Mexico 6 U.S. 10 Japan 10 Canada 10 Britain 20 Australia 20 Brazil 22 Germany 24 France 25 Finland...
...blastocysts” or “somatic cell nuclear transfer”; the concepts involved aren’t hard, and in any case they have staff to explain it to them. The problem is that cloning is, in a sense, ethically new. Although The Boys From Brazil predates Dolly the sheep by almost two decades, it wasn’t until 1997—when the technology for human cloning seemed within reach—that the social and ethical debate was seriously joined. Abortion and euthanasia are also difficult issues, but at this point the detailed positions...