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.

April 30, 2011
Lester Brown's article in Foreign Policy 'The New Geopolitics of Food' is listed among Business Insider's 'Weekend Reading: A Really Strong Line-up.' Posted April 29, 2011.