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...harvested by locals and sold for biofuel production. The plan dovetails with Beijing's ambitious goal of generating 2 million tons of bio-ethanol a year by 2010, and 15% of its energy from renewable resources by 2020. (Seventy percent of mainland China's energy comes from coal today.) In another desert village, drought-resistant shrubs called sand willows are being planted to keep encroaching sands at bay, but there are also plans to start processing them in a biomass thermal power plant, which will burn the willows to generate electricity and create another clean source of fuel...
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, speaking to a crowd of about 250, said that Iceland has undergone a radical transformation from dependence on coal and oil in the past 30 years...
...before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine is our values and our gift to the world. It's pureness, freshness, enjoyment and happiness...
...Beijing and have suffered the greatest destruction--is no picnic. Most of the courtyard houses that held one family before Beijing fell to the Communists in 1949 are now packed with five or six. Toilets and showers are communal and sometimes hundreds of meters away. Heating comes from smoky coal fires, and deaths from asphyxiation are common. Xu Xiaotang, who has lived in the same central-Beijing alley for nearly a half- century, would move out tomorrow if he could afford to. "This is not a place for humans to live," Xu says...
...There are particular demands to a star's job - basically, to be photographed looking great while pretending to be other people - but it's not exactly coal-mining in West Virginia. So some of them give back to the world that gave them so much; Clooney, whom I'd call the exemplary Hollywood star, has been especially generous in lending his aura to well-chosen issues and charities. The top actors also appear in films that are, in their subject matter and their underdog status in the commercial movie universe, their own worthy causes. That's what brought Reese...