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...grow. And lately, for companies whose bottom line depends on moving goods on schedule, the situation has become dire. UPS, the huge parcel service, was recently forced to shift some shipments to trucks. Dow Chemical, which supplies, among other things, chlorine for water utilities, suspended operations at a Michigan plant until the distribution logjam clears. Passenger trains are affected too. Amtrak's Sunset Limited, which makes a thrice-weekly run from Orlando, Fla., to Los Angeles, has yet to arrive on time this year, rolling in as much as 40 hours late. Amtrak had to fly one near mutinous trainload...
...Calif. But when commercial production of the wheat-based plates and bowls begins next year, consumers will see only EarthShell's name on the label. There will be no reference to ARS. "We don't want the USDA to appear as an endorser," says Ed Knipling, the mild-mannered plant physiologist who runs ARS. "We don't brand our products...
...school laboratory lumped under the sprawling U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS keeps pumping out high-tech solutions to a broad array of problems, ranging from the urgent (how to eradicate plant and animal diseases) to the less pressing (how to duplicate the tangy taste of San Francisco's sourdough bread outside the Bay Area). Along the way, the agency has won numerous patents for breakthrough mechanisms, like the one pending for turning peanut shells into hydrogen fuel and another for harnessing chicken manure to remove metals from polluted water...
...Beltsville, Md., biodiesel, derived from vegetable oil, powers fleets of tractors and lawn mowers for the farms and even heats some of the buildings. Indeed, petroleum is prohibited in the carpeting (which is instead held together by soy-based urethane). The only permissible hand soaps and cleaning products are plant based. And in the parking lot, says Justin Barone, one of two ARS researchers devoted to feather-fiber research, "you'll see a lot more bicycles and Toyota Priuses than SUVs...
...East. Here in Africa, we have minerals, we have land, we have timber. I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT HAS PLANTED OVER 30 MILLION TREES. WHY TREES? The original idea was to give women firewood. I thought the easiest way was to teach them to plant trees themselves. We are just coming out of a culture where trees grew on their own. AND IT ALL STARTED IN YOUr BACKYARD? I started...