Article – Gordon Campbell
Talk about living in a bubble. As vegetarianism and veganism become normalised there are more options on restaurant menus! – it can be easy to think that the whole world is gradually giving up on meat. Alas, the reverse is true. Americans for instance
Talk about living in a bubble. As vegetarianism and veganism become normalised – there are more options on restaurant menus! – it can be easy to think that the whole world is gradually giving up on meat. Alas, the reverse is true. Americans for instance consumed 100 kilograms of meat and poultry in 2018, up from 75 kilograms in 1960, according to the US Department of Agriculture figures. Over the same 60-year period, global meat production has nearly quintupled, from 71 million tons to 340 million tons. Meat consumption per capita in China has reportedly doubled since 1990. In China as elsewhere, factors like urbanisation, population growth and the expanding middle class have combined to drive a stee
Don’t eat the yellowstone snow: Elite ski resort aims to turn sewage into powder
May 12 2021
An exclusive Montana resort wants to turn sewage into snow so that its rich and famous members can ski its slopes in a winter season that s shrinking because of climate change.
The Yellowstone Club a ski and golf resort just north of Yellowstone National Park that counts Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel among its members has asked the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a permit to allow it to use wastewater for snowmaking operations on its ski slopes.
About a dozen other ski areas across the U.S. have used wastewater to make artificial snow before, but the Yellowstone Club would be the first in Montana. The technique has also been used in Europe and Australia.
Resort wants to use treated wastewater to supplement snow
By JUSTIN FRANZMay 12, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this undated file photo is the Yellowstone Club near Big Sky, Mont., north of Yellowstone National Park. The club has asked the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a permit to allow it to use treated wastewater for snowmaking to help extend the ski season at the exclusive resort. The resort already uses treated wastewater to irrigate its golf courses. (Erik Peterson/Bozeman Daily Chronicle, File)
FILE - In this undated file photo is the Yellowstone Club near Big Sky, Mont., north of Yellowstone National Park. The club has asked the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a permit to allow it to use treated wastewater for snowmaking to help extend the ski season at the exclusive resort. The resort already uses treated wastewater to irrigate its golf courses. (Erik Peterson/Bozeman Daily Chronicle, File)
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Forest farm lauded for poverty relief efforts By LI LEI in Beijing and ZHANG YU in Shijiazhuang | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-05-10 10:09 Share Tourists visit the Saihanba forest farm area of Hebei province in October 2018. CHINA DAILY
At the gleaming Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing, forestry worker An Changming strode toward the center stage amid thunderous applause.
On behalf of generations of tree-planters at the Saihanba Machinery Forest Farm, he received a gilded plaque from Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
The plaque is inscribed National Model for Poverty Alleviation , an honorary title that central authorities in February bestowed on dozens of front-line organizations and individuals involved in the country s decadeslong poverty fight.