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...load. Their manure is processed into fertilizer and methane gas, the latter used as fuel for an electrical generator at the town's biomass facility. Nearby, a three-year project sponsored by Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry's New Energy Development Organization (NEDO) uses wood chips from larch trees to create gas that powers the farm's milk and cheese operations. The bark of other trees is also made into pellets for heating stoves used throughout the community. A local winery, for instance, has two such stoves, and Kuzumaki pays residents up to 50,000 yen ($490) toward...
...what affordable housing provider Peabody Trust is doing at Raines Dairy in North London. The block of apartments and live/work units is quicker and cheaper to build and will look better for longer than traditional blocks, says manufacturer Yorkon. The steel-framed modules, smartly clad in zinc panels and larch strips, come with doors, windows, bathrooms and kitchens, and each apartment will have a balcony. Models and plans can be seen at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) alongside other forward-looking waterside developments, towers and mobile homes currently being planned or built. - By Lucy Fisher
...pond scum. But U.S. consumers are munching more nori with their sushi. And they are also eating salads and soups with seaweed--imported and domestic. More than 950 tons of seaweed such as hijiki and nori were imported from Japan last year, up from 554 tons in 2000. Larch Hanson, proprietor of Maine Seaweed Co., has seen orders triple in two years. "Seaweed is healthy, and people are more health conscious," says Bill Morrison, owner of Seaweed Cafe in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Other companies, trying to expand the market for the plants, are peddling them as "sea vegetables...
When the Three Gorges Dam is finished in 2009 and the reservoir fills his valley, all trace of this singular way of life will be washed away. Looking at the larch-wood coffins that Chen keeps with fatalistic practicality by his family's beds, one suspects that Chen hopes he, his wife and 94-year-old mother will have slipped off by then. Chen, now retired, is one of the trackers who dragged boats upstream through the Gorges in the days before motor transport became standard. Although trackers haven't worked the Yangtze for more than a decade, they...
...also learns quite a bit more than medicine from Michael Caine's Dr. Larch. Caine perfectly embodies the Dr. Larch of the novel. Although he has a gruff exterior, Larch loves all of his orphans, especially young Homer. It breaks his heart when Homer leaves, but he never gives up--just like, you might say, a real father. His signature line, spoken to the orphans before bed, "Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England," belies an overly optimistic hope for the future all of his young ones, a love and faith that he passed on to Homer...