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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.
Breaking New Ground Reviewed in Resurgence MagazineJohn Elkington reviewed Lester Brown's autobiography Breaking New Ground for the May/June issue of Resurgence and Ecologist. He writes, "I read the book cover-to-cover in a couple of sittings and learned an immense amount in the process, not just about Brown's extraordinary life and times but also about the mind-boggling spectrum of challenges he has taken on."
