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...shabby relic after six years of monumental misrule. The economy is a shambles. Nobody is starving, since there are plenty of bananas, the main staple for both food and (in distilled form) liquor. Corn, tapioca and yams also help ensure enough food for survival. But apart from the soil, not much of anything works today in Idi Amin's Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices, 2 million bags...
...Midwest's dry period presents at least an equal threat of disaster. The danger is twofold: a lack of moisture to nourish either the winter wheat crop, already in the ground, or the crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed...
...decreasing surpluses in good years to maintain higher prices. He would also like to see far more conservation of water on a regular basis, rather than only during crises. University of Nebraska Agricultural Meteorologist Norman J. Rosenberg advocated breeding plants that require less water for growth and survival, greater soil conservation measures and more widespread planting of windbreaks to reduce soil erosion...
Whether from Wilson, Emerson, or the honeybee, the message is the same: know what you have, and use it. To properly manage the colony of 100 trillion brain, muscle and skin cells entrusted to you (more than all the people that will ever enrich the earth's soil) is a divine task, and the unique privilege of being human. Alan White...
...energy-conserving schools, which opens this month for 990 kindergarten through sixth-grade students. Built into a hill in Reston, the school contains four large "learning circles," each of which is divided into eight wedge-shaped classrooms, plus a "media center," a gymnasium and a cafeteria. A layer of soil three to five feet thick covers the top and three sides. A panel structure on top of the hill contains 4,900 solar collectors to turn the sun's rays into heat. The yearly cost for energy to run Terraset is a projected $10,000. Conventional heating would require...