Word: eco
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...received wisdom, and she has never been afraid to commit heresy. In the 1970s she began experimenting with science fiction - it is unlikely that any other Nobel laureate could lay claim to a work like her 1994 novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, about an eco-catastrophe on a distant world. In August Lessing published a new novel, The Cleft, in which she re-imagines the history of the human race - originally, she proposes, humanity consisted entirely of women, all the trouble having begun when women inexplicably began giving birth to male babies. "The best thing...
...years, the utility plans to spend $3 billion to do the same for 4.5 million of China's poorest people in 18 provinces - and that's just one of 30 promises the state-owned firm has made to its customers and business partners to improve society, including investment in eco-friendly energy projects. "There was both internal and global pressure to do this," says Li Weiyang, who oversees State Grid's social initiatives. "But this work has made us both more innovative and more profitable...
...also racked up impressive successes. It shows no tolerance for corruption, it has been hailed for its success in fighting HIV and AIDS and is one of the first in Africa to tackle overpopulation. Rwandan coffee is now some of the most sought after in the world and its eco-tourism industry is booming, but the effects of the country's bloody recent past linger on. Kagame, 49, met Africa bureau chief Alex Perry at his offices in Kigali...
...plastic bags since 2005 and a mandatory national "tidy up" one afternoon each month, in which even government ministers clean the streets. Partly as a result, and partly because of careful rain-forest management and a mountain gorilla baby boom, Rwanda is also a growing eco-tourism destination. The government says the economy as a whole will grow 6.5% this year...
...COOL TO BE GREEN, but in 1976, when Anita Roddick launched her eco-friendly Body Shop in Brighton, England, she was just odd. Taking cues from myriad cultures, the former U.N. worker infused her moisturizers and cleansers with natural ingredients, opposed animal testing, helped develop Third World communities and used her visibility to protest human-rights abuses. Roddick, who saw her company expand to 2,000 sites in 50 countries, died of a brain hemorrhage...