Did you know? China is planting a belt of trees to protect land from the expanding Gobi Desert. This Great Green Wall is projected to extend some 4,480 kilometers (2,800 miles), stretching from outer Beijing through Inner Mongolia (Nei Monggol). Unfortunately, recent pressures to expand food production appear to have slowed this tree planting initiative. For more information view the text and data in Chapter 8 of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Lester Brown Speaks at the Free Library of Philadelphia
December 19, 2013
Lester Brown gave a public presentation on his memoir Breaking New Ground: A Personal History at the Free Library of Philadelphia on December 12. Listen to the podcast here.