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Last year India saw that biopiracy was damaging to the country and they reacted by documenting every plant and will release an encyclopedia of all the plants. They are specifically recording how these plants are used in traditional medicine in India, making it much harder for large foreign corporations to proclaim the use of plants [...]

The CBC has put online a short news report on a German town. Germany has been a pioneer in seeking to break the
addiction to fossil fuels. This clip is about one experiment using methane gas to produce power.
Our World: Green Town

Markus Antonietti from Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has devised a chemical process that converts biomass like leaves, pine cones and other plant residue into wet coal (coal + water).