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...their resources." Development is on the minds of the priests of the Church of Narga Selassie. Standing inside the round building, its walls covered in vividly colored paintings of Bible stories, its air filled with a heady mix of burning frankincense and the fresh straw thatch used in the roof, Father Moges says he would like the government to buy the priests a faster boat so more tourists could visit their church. Electricity, he says, would be a miracle. "We learn from our grandfather and our father that this river crosses many countries," he says slowly. "But even they...
...Seattle's Environmental Home Center, a one-stop shop for building an eco-friendly house. The 30,000-sq.-ft. space functions as a warehouse, showroom and design center. "We marry good information about a product with convenient access to it," says Taylor. "It's all under one roof in a high-style setting." Some of the sustainable products for sale include 100% organic-wool carpets, nontoxic paints and home-insulation units made from recycled denim...
...house that they completed last year has three bedrooms, 2½ baths and an open-plan kitchen-dining-living area with a cathedral ceiling. It also has a pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course of a year...
...upper curve is even more ingenious. It holds a vegetative roof?basically an overhead meadow. To build it, the contractors covered a plywood surface with a drainage mat, which was then layered with four inches of soil and vermiculite and planted with perennials like sedum and wild strawberry. The roof-meadow helps keep the house cool, controls storm-water runoff and gives neighbors up the hill something more interesting to look at than shingles. As a bonus, they get to watch the owners periodically weeding their roof...
...Bodriganal's roof is four stories up, so we can also see around another corner, where shouts alert us to ten more policemen caning a passer-by, ramming him into a metal shutter, dragging him by the T-shirt and cracking their sticks over his head. We look back to the first demonstrator. He seems unconscious, but the police are still beating him. A woman on the terrace of her house three floors directly above screams and throws a pail of water over them. The police respond by picking up bricks from the ground and throwing them through...