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...needed to feed herds also means fertilizer and pesticide runoff in water supplies, and trucking feed and meat around the country is a big carbon emitter. Wen Bo, China program director with the NGO Pacific Environment, acknowledges that China's cattle industry needs modernization, but says slapping an American model onto the Chinese landscape won't work. "The situation in China is completely different," he says. "In many rural areas, they do not have the infrastructure for environmental treatment." To mitigate damage, Wen says, big companies and governments will need to invest in the communities they're developing, including funding...
That may be about to change. Around the middle of next year, Indian automobile manufacturer Tata Motors intends to launch a new model that will be so inexpensive, the company hopes it will trigger a revolution in car ownership, not just in India but throughout the developing world. The planned vehicle is called the "One-Lakh Car" because, Tata says, the rear-engine, 600-cc, four-door sedan will cost a lakh, or 100,000 rupees. At current exchange rates, the sticker price would be the equivalent of about $2,500. That's $3,000 less than India's current...
...asks. "Why should the West spend so much without bothering whether that is making a difference? How does Africa accept that its affairs are run by ngos and other groups from outside? It's really something that needs to be corrected." So Rwanda is trying to build a new model of development. Though foreign assistance makes up around a third of Rwanda's gdp, Kagame refuses to limit himself to talks with aid organizations and foreign governments. "This and that department, the World Bank, human rights blah blah blah, over and over, it becomes so boring," he says...
...roommates, they “informally bounce ideas off friends”—a process formalized by StudentBusiness. May and Ramaswamy hope the site will become a national project. It will be used at the University of North Carolina “to try out the model in a different location,” May said. The Web site “seems like a great way to connect student entrepreneurs with each other,” said site user Aneesh Kulkarni ’09. “I’m looking forward to seeing...
...which has been in the Square since 1997, originally as The Wrap—likened the arrival of Chipotle to that of Real Taco about four and a half years ago. He said that now, just as it did before, Boloco will continue with the same business model that has succeeded so far—to the tune of 2.1 million burritos in the past 10 years...