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...Every knowledgeable agriculturist knows that there is a plant with very high methanol content that grows well on land already too desalinated to grow food, which actually rejuvenates its host soil a little with every crop: hemp. Planting the 30% of our planet's arable land that is already too desalinated to grow food with hemp for the next two decades would give us plenty of biofuel without interrupting vital food production. Robert James-Herbert, sydney...
...derived from “renewable” and “alternative” energy sources. As one such energy source, the bill endorses coal gasification, a new coal combustion technology that in some respects is less environmentally damaging than traditional coal processing methods. At least one gasification plant is underway in Massachusetts, and this legislation could precipitate more. But as we’ll see, given the current state of the technology and the potential consequences of the legislation, coal gasification should not be endorsed as an alternative energy source.Their proponents predicate the justifications for coal gasification incentives...
...Korean government, was sentenced to death for expressing her disagreement with the government’s smearing of an innocent man, Choi described the standard of living in his home country. He spoke about the extreme lack of food in North Korea, describing how people would eat tree bark, plant roots, and weeds to stay alive. “He knows very well about the situation in North and South Korea,” said Hyung Kun Lee, a Korean consul in Boston, who attended Choi’s speech. “His story is very tragic...
...many weeks at the top of the stairs facing the front door. That was where she and the boy had waited together whenever my husband and I had left the house without them. In the garden, next to the pond that the boy dog loved, I will plant a dwarf crab apple tree. It will flower in the spring...
...Whoosh and Bong,” our group of 10 freshmen—formerly strangers to one another—grew together as we worked together. Carrying the rotting wooden planks of a fallen home out of a marsh, shoveling chunks of grass out of wetlands to plant trees there, filling in the white spots of a shed built over the site of a fallen home with red paint and love: all were opportunities to learn and grow. On Easter Sunday—a few days after arriving in Biloxi—we took a day trip to New Orleans...