g*2 发帖数: 184 | 1 http://rt.com/news/china-soil-pollution-report-460/
A new official report has confirmed that one fifth of Chinese farmland is
polluted. It cites the main causes as industry and agriculture. The report
was originally a state secret and names heavy metals such as arsenic and
cadmium as main pollutants.
The report on the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection
confirms the extent of soil pollution in China as a result of the country’s
dramatic industrialization, overuse of farm chemical... 阅读全帖 |
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a*******m 发帖数: 14194 | 2 加拿大的玉米带土地价格最近几年一直在涨。
Canada’s New Corn Belt Attracts Hot Money to Bargain Farmland
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/canada-s-new-corn-belt
U.S. farmers in the Midwest, the center of corn cultivation in North America
, have watched helplessly as the worst drought in more than five decades has
devastated their crop.
Canadian farmers in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, long one of the greatest wheat-growing regions on Earth, have
started planting corn, Bloomberg ... 阅读全帖 |
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a**e 发帖数: 8800 | 4 Net: 为了所谓的绿色能源,2007,在左派推动下,立法要求在汽油里加入ethanol。
O8大力推动种植玉米生产ethanol。仅仅6年,后果已经在那里了。
大面积的原始植被/湿地变成玉米地,水土流失,被化肥污染的水进入水系,甚至影响
到饮用水,流入的污染水在墨西哥湾造成大面积的死亡区,水体生物灭绝。
最有意思的地方在于,生产ethanol的前期后期要花费的能量比生产出的ethanol能产生
的能量多。
AP Investigation: Obama's green energy drive comes with an unadvertised
environmental cost
http://news.yahoo.com/secret-dirty-cost-obamas-green-051200204.
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) -- The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's
push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed ... 阅读全帖 |
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B******e 发帖数: 16928 | 5 就是中国土壤污染问题严重,每天吃饭相当于慢性中毒,这个基本问题不解决剩下的都
是浮云。
The bad earth:The most neglected threat to public health in China is toxic
soil
And fixing it will be hard and costly
Print edition | Briefing
Jun 8th 2017 | SHIQIAO, HUNAN PROVINCE
TANG DONGHUA, a wiry 47-year-old farmer wearing a Greenpeace T-shirt, smokes
a cigarette and gesticulates towards his paddy fields in the hills of
southern Hunan province. The leaves of his rice plants poke about a foot
above water. Mr Tang says he expects to harvest about ... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 6 (1) 默瑟-, 澳议员呼吁阻止中国公司收购农田. VOA Chinese, June 30, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110630-China-Foreign-Investment.html
, which is translated from
Phil Mercer, Australia Urged to Protect Key Farmland from Foreign Buyers.
VOA, June 30, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news
/asia/Australia-Urged-to-Protect-Key-Farmland-from-Foreign-Buyers-124765804.
html
Quote:
"The Chinese state-owned mining company Shenhua Watermark Coal has purchased
large areas of coal-rich farmland in New South ... 阅读全帖 |
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d******i 发帖数: 1379 | 7 Chinese were lynched and scalped. They had their pigtails cut off and
were branded with hot irons. In one incident a mob caught a Chinese miner
and sliced off his genitals.
全文
The recent disastrous floods in California put the spotlight on the
extensive network of levees in California's Central Valley. These levees don
't just protect the farmland, there was no farmland until they were built.
These levees--that turned swampland into farmland--were built in the 1880s
by thousands of Chinese immig |
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a**e 发帖数: 8800 | 8 Kerry: Starving Africa Shouldn’t Build More Farms Because It Would
Contribute to Global Warming
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/165792-kerry-starving-africans-
Speaking at the U.S.-Africa Summit earlier this week, Secretary of State
John Kerry had a bit of astonishing advice for African leaders. While noting
that Africa faces a starvation problem, he also admonished its leaders not
to create more farms or farmland.
The reason? Adding more farms would contribute to global warming.
“Certain ag... 阅读全帖 |
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p********r 发帖数: 1980 | 9 No offense. I usually don't find Schiller's comment intelligent. I agree
with his farmland talk recently, but Jeremy Grantham at GMO mentioned about
farmland years before Schiller discovers it.
And between S&P500 and real estate, I think real estate is just in an early
stage of bubble, but S&P500 (more so with small-caps) have bubble signs all
over them. It comes down to where you can park your money relatively safely.
There is bubble everywhere now (thank you, Ben). I think both farmland and
re... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****i 发帖数: 11737 | 10 China needs no foreign help to feed itself
China can meet the demands of its growing population without importing grain
from elsewhere, says Peng Gong.
Peng Gong
China has a long-standing ambition to be self-sufficient in grain — rice,
wheat, maize (corn) and soya beans — yet it imported some 95 million tonnes
last year, about 17% of its domestic production. This raised concerns that
its grain imports would rise, and push up the price of food. These fears
were highlighted by Lester Brown of the ... 阅读全帖 |
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u***r 发帖数: 4825 | 11 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020373530457716665
BEIJING—China has announced that people living in its towns and cities now
outnumber those in the countryside, making it a predominantly urban nation
for the first time in Chinese civilization.
Migrant workers and others line up for trains ahead of the Lunar New Year
holiday in Chengdu on Tuesday.
The milestone spotlights a trend that China's government says will be a key
driver of economic growth over the next two decades as hundre... 阅读全帖 |
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A*********f 发帖数: 452 | 12 看了茅的关于耕地红线的文章,通篇只有结论,没有(正反两面)论据,
他根本不是个严谨的学者。
他知不知道美国有个Farmland Protection Policy Act (FPPA),
有些州还有自己的Bureau of Farmland Preservation
很多发达国家都有土地(不一定光是农地)保护政策。
建议他把这个“研究成果”翻成英文,看看能不能推销给美国人。
觉得他不是在卖萌。
这些年,国内好像突然冒出一堆什么大师,什么家,
除了岁数大,真不知道还有什么其他成就了,比如
文怀沙和这个茅于轼。
西? |
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B*V 发帖数: 3365 | 13 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020373530457716665
BEIJING—China has announced that people living in its towns and cities now
outnumber those in the countryside, making it a predominantly urban nation
for the first time in Chinese civilization.
Migrant workers and others line up for trains ahead of the Lunar New Year
holiday in Chengdu on Tuesday.
The milestone spotlights a trend that China's government says will be a key
driver of economic growth over the next two decades as hundre... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****x 发帖数: 3679 | 14 发信人: miza (miza), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Re: 有谁还对投资农场感兴趣?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 2 13:20:44 2011, 美东)
中文输入不便
got quite a few messages on this,
the price of farmland will keep the steady uptrend
focus on CA farmland
1.need to due diligence on watering and irrigation
2. job creation and operation
3. maintain cash flow, at least make ends meet
4. possible mid-west farms, and ask company there to help us
to run it
i am helping chinese investors to look for sound project,
plan to resell to them in ... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n 发帖数: 1962 | 15 farmland 这东西其实投机性很强的。美国历史上 farmland 不是没涨过,但是每次
都是上去的快下来的快,比普通房地产动作快多了。 |
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w****n 发帖数: 1737 | 16 现在农产品这么涨 , farmland应该也水涨船高吧。
不过不熟悉的东西, 投资起来总有点心虚, 你说投资房子, 不赚
或者亏了,大不了我自己住或者出租,
farmland要是不赚, 难不成我牵头牛去耕,or雇佣一堆老莫来帮忙
种田。 |
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l********a 发帖数: 3058 | 17 zz from sd, thx to amit19 & MFH@sd
Smart Source 9/26 Preview (incl Hasbro Toy Qs)
Act Bottle 16.9 oz+ $1 (11/30/10)
California Pizza Kitchen product $1 (11/30/10)
Carnation Evaporated Milk 12 oz .50/2 (11/30/10)
Chuck's Stunt Park Play Set $10 (10/18/10)
Duncan Hines Decadent Cake or Amazing Glazes .75 (12/31/10)
Farmland Breakfast Sausage Links $1/2 (11/30/10)
Farmland Sausage Rolls $1/2 (11/30/10)
Glad Storage products $1/2 (11/6/10)
Glade Sense & Spray Starter Kit $3 (11/6/10)
Glade Sense & S |
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 18 John W. Miller, Tiny plots spur big bets in Ukraine. Wall Street Journal (
WSJ), May 12, 2008 at page A1.
A few days ago, Voice of America Chinese dition talked about Beijing denying
buying farmland abroad. I said, go for it. Then the WSJ has this report,
which is available free online at
http://www.rockymountainnews.com
A summaryL Ukraine is a former communist nation, whose "property laws bar
private land sale." Under such circumstance, a Briton went door to door to
lease farmlands from a multi |
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r****t 发帖数: 10904 | 19 when was Grantham's call on farmland? People are on to farmland since 2009.
about
early
all
safely.
and
individual
a |
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m**a 发帖数: 269 | 20 中文输入不便
got quite a few messages on this,
the price of farmland will keep the steady uptrend
focus on CA farmland
1.need to due diligence on watering and irrigation
2. job creation and operation
3. maintain cash flow, at least make ends meet
4. possible mid-west farms, and ask company there to help us
to run it
i am helping chinese investors to look for sound project,
plan to resell to them in 1-1.5 yrs
webinar discussion |
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G****s 发帖数: 3523 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 Farmland 俱乐部 】
发信人: Grapes (老葡萄), 信区: Farmland
标 题: 计划组织个讲座(UPDATE)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat May 28 23:21:25 2011, 美东)
我有个朋友认识农场broker,有希望让他来弯曲给我们做一个免费的讲座。
只要人数不太少,这个broker应该会愿意来。我想统计一下,看有多少人
有兴趣来听。
时间初步计划在6/11-6/12那个周末。有兴趣的请发email给我到
o*******[email protected],请注明BBS ID,谢谢。
我会用email通知时间地点等信息。
(update)
说一下农场交易以及这个broker的背景。
农场交易的broker很少(不象住房交易的房地产agent),好的更少。农场交易中一个好的broker的
重要性比买房子时好的agent要重要的多,简单的例子:几乎每一个房地产agent都能带你看任意一个
房子,但是相当多的农场,尤其是好的农场,只有好的broker才能看见,一块好地基本上没等在公开市
场上出现就已经卖掉了,所以一个有经验的好的br... 阅读全帖 |
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e****e 发帖数: 877 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 Farmland 俱乐部 】
发信人: euchee (I like magic), 信区: Farmland
标 题: 还有人对农场投资感兴趣吗?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 1 12:28:10 2011, 美东)
我们有几个人对农场投资很有兴趣,主要是看到粮食价格不停的涨价,农业用地也有上
涨的空间。大家想见面聊一聊对这个投资项目的看法,交流一下意见。
不知道大家怎么看待这个项目,希望有想法的同学表达一下意见,正面负面都欢迎。 |
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D***r 发帖数: 7511 | 23 You can take a phoenix man out of the farmland.
But you cannot take the farmland out of a phoenix man. |
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d********f 发帖数: 43471 | 24 http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/08/230219.htm
Kerry to非洲人民
And now, another part of this story is that certain agricultural processes
can actually release carbon pollution and help contribute to the problem in
the first place. It’s a twisted circle, always complicated. But we also
know there are ways to change that. For example, rather than convert natural
areas to new farmland, a process that typically releases significant
amounts of carbon pollution, we can instead concentrate our ... 阅读全帖 |
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M*********r 发帖数: 50 | 25 Chinese investment policy was not so smart. Chinese government has been
purchasing US T-bills, T-bonds for years regardless the negative yield
problem. Quite a few infamous/notorious/shameful Chinese economists as far
as I know work for the US government. Chinese government only slowly
realized the problem in the recent years.
Alan Greenspan once said, "even if the Chinese government wants to sell T-
bills/bonds, they can't do it. Because there are no other buyers. " See the
arrogance of US gove... 阅读全帖 |
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o**1 发帖数: 6383 | 26 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
MarketMaker (BigWave) 于 (Wed Nov 10 16:44:14 2010, 美东) 提到:
I always thought respect is mutual.
《每日电讯报》说,卡梅伦与阁员在人民大会堂时,拒绝中方对他们除下罂粟花的要求。
该报引述随行的一名首相府人员说:“中方人员对我们说佩戴罂粟花是不恰当的,因为
两国曾经发生鸦片战争。我们告诉他们这花对我们有重大意义,我们所有人会继续佩戴
。”
很多英国人习惯在11月份在衣襟佩戴罂粟花,纪念两次大战和其他战争中牺牲的英国军
人和平民。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
The first Opium War was the beginning of a long period of weakening the
state and civil revolt in China, and long-term depopulation. In 1842, China'... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 27 The four reports are closely related.
(1) Regional Jets Struggle For Traction In China. Aviation Week, Apr 25,
2011.
This report is for subscribers only. It talks about regional jets. But most
important, it mentions airports in China are mostly underutilized. I will go
to a library tonight and make a few quotes available tomorrow.
My point is return on investment (ROI) dimishes over time even under the
best of circumstances. China seems profligate and prodigal to me.
(2) George Magnus, China Ris... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 28 (1) Tom Orlik, No Appreciation for the Rising Yuan; Heard on the Street.
Wall Street Journal. June 21, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052
702304070104576397513517003444.html
("It's been a year since the yuan's peg to the dollar ended. * * * The yuan
has reached 6.4696 to the dollar, up 5.5%. * * * Data collected by the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics show the price of U.S. imports from China in May
up just 2.8% year on year. * * * China's trade surplus with the U.S. is
larger in t... 阅读全帖 |
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C*******d 发帖数: 15836 | 29 嗯,还代表American Federation of Teachers, American Farmland Trust.
看来afantibbs.com应该更好。不过到时候我也可以把aftbbs.com弄过来给那些喜欢少
几个键盘的同学,呵呵呵。 |
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q*******2 发帖数: 431 | 30 all major participants of WWI suffered horrendous losses, saw practically
zero hope in keeping fighting, yet only Russian army disintegrated
completely in a matter of month at the end. Military censorship warned way
before actual revolution broke out that they detected among millions of
mails exchanged between soldiers and their families a overwhelming desire
for peace at ANY PRICE: soldiers simply put their weapon down and walked
away, either back to their home villages; or, for hundreds of tho... 阅读全帖 |
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s******n 发帖数: 518 | 31 英国继续禁止转基因
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/gm-crops-will-continue-banned-
britain-brexit-says-michael-gove/
GM crops will continue to be banned in Britain after Brexit says Michael
Gove in blow to UK/US trade deal
Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent
28 November 2017 • 9:00pm
Food made from genetically modified crops will continue to be banned in the
UK after Britain leaves the European Union, Michael Gove has suggested.
The Environment secretary’s admission could dam... 阅读全帖 |
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x****b 发帖数: 584 | 32 美国自己漏油事件不作为,不忘中国啊。 而且文章标题让人误以为美国漏油使用中国
油管。 太搞了。
看读者留言:
Kevin220
lol what's the point of posting this article?
Officials: Oil leak from China pipeline mostly cleaned
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 3, 2010 10:49 p.m. EDT
RELATED TOPICS
* China
* Shandong Province
(CNN) -- A petroleum pipeline leaked some 240 metric tons of oil onto
farmlands and roads in eastern China Sunday but crews were able to recover
about 90 percent of the spill, China's state-run news agency Xinhua said.
The pipeline, ow |
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S*********4 发帖数: 5125 | 33
Australia has everything that China wants, iron, Uranium, farmland, gas.....
.
Just like honey to bear, meat to tiger, bamboo to panda.... |
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t***e 发帖数: 3601 | 34 You said it backwards. South korea has better farmland than north. |
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m**********n 发帖数: 27535 | 35 BRUSSELS (AP) — Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech
stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air
superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come
from the U.S. itself.
Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press
that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know
-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.
Nighthawks were the world's first s... 阅读全帖 |
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a********l 发帖数: 39524 | 36 访问结束了,媒体运作回复正常。
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_us_stealth_t
_china
China's new stealth fighter may use US technology
BRUSSELS – Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth
fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority
— and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the
U.S. itself.
Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated
Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their
... 阅读全帖 |
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z*******g 发帖数: 416 | 37 You are right. Actually the farmable lands (not in production) in US is even
higher. USDA put a lot of farmland to idle to keep relatively stable
agricultural output.
Agricultural production (machinary, breeding etc) is based on high tech and
nobody can beat it.
Another resource: precipitation is ideal for many part of US and US has
plenty of fresh water. For example, US great lakes contain 24% of total
freshwater in the world.
How can you beat that?
积最大的国家。美国人均耕地0.7公顷,是世界人均耕地(0.23公顷)的2.9倍)
.16... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******h 发帖数: 2882 | 38 有一百三十万公顷,也就是一点三万平方公里。棒子心太大了,这种交易不可能持续九
十九年不出问题。香港面积才一千多平方公里。
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7952628.stm
Madagascar's new leader has cancelled a controversial deal for a South
Korean firm to lease a vast tract of land to grow food crops.
Andry Rajoelina said he was axing the deal because the people should be
consulted. Daewoo Logistics has reportedly expressed its frustration.
...
Correspondents say Malagasy people have deep ties to their land and some had
condemned the deal as "neo-colonialis... 阅读全帖 |
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w*****9 发帖数: 2315 | 39 send her and her relatives'kids to farmland. |
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y***o 发帖数: 503 | 40 TOKYO (Reuters) – While images of brutal destruction wreaked by a
devastating earthquake and tsunami have stunned the nation and the world,
Japanese are finding both inspiration and reasons to vent in the aftermath
of the disaster.
One sentiment that is emerging is that such a calamitous event could occur
again at any time, in any place.
"We don't know when it will happen to us," said Masatoshi Masuda, 52, a seal
carver in the southwest city of Kagoshima, far from the deadly, three-meter
-high w... 阅读全帖 |
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o**y 发帖数: 3065 | 41 Here is an interesting point. Capitalists are always as greedy as the greedy
can be. The one who control the core technology/assets, will decide how
much money the downstream can make.
It is said that one IPHONE4 costs American importers $178.96, but there is
only $6.5 goes to Jerry Guo and his workers. If Jerry Guo bet Jobs' mercy to
ask for $10, Jobs will definitely say no. But wait a minute, in fact Jobs
has no choice except Jerry Gao, because there is no other factory can hire
300,000 works ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********8 发帖数: 901 | 42 GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash. – The giant concrete dams of the Pacific Northwest
are overflowing with water. Wyoming has deployed National Guard troops to
pile up sandbags. A federal official compares the impending situation to a
bucking bull ready to storm out of his chute.
States across the West are bracing for major flooding in the coming weeks
once a record mountain snowpack starts melting and sending water gushing
into rivers, streams and low-lying communities. The catalyst will be warmer
tempera... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********8 发帖数: 901 | 43 ..WASHINGTON (AP) — New House Speaker John Boehner doesn't have as many
millions as his predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, but like many new committee
chairmen and other leaders, he has holdings in companies that have major
financial stakes in the actions of Congress.
For Boehner, that includes a portfolio of stocks in oil companies, financial
firms, communication companies and pharmaceuticals. Holdings among other
lawmakers include farmland, real estate and investments in high tech
companies.
None of t... 阅读全帖 |
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T*R 发帖数: 36302 | 45 EPA Approves E15 Gas for Newer Cars
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a higher blend of ethanol
for use in gasoline, but only for vehicles built since 2007. The move will
raise the amount of ethanol from 10% — called E10, which is sold at most
gas pumps — to 15%, or E15. However, you might not see the new blend at the
pump right away.
The effort to adopt E15 has earned support from alternative fuel advocates
and corn-producing states that have urged the government to use more of t... 阅读全帖 |
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u***r 发帖数: 4825 | 46 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/what-china-can
By DANIEL A. BELL
Published: January 7, 2012
FROM the outside, China often appears to be a highly centralized monolith.
Unlike Europe’s cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity
and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing forces of
globalization, most Chinese cities suffer from a drab uniformity.
But China is more like Europe than it seems. Indeed, when it comes to
economics, China is more a thin politica... 阅读全帖 |
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A***6 发帖数: 243 | 47 I have talked to Ethiopia about renting 1000 square kilometer or so farmland
, for example. Cost is not high. Similar idea is special economic zone. Rent
the area for farming, hire local people, and invite Chinese companies to
setup factories etc. If any of you are serious, lets form a company and just
do it. Don't rely on government. Start the work as private company and
government may follow, but don't depend on government. Start from Africa or
South America where there is large area of land n... 阅读全帖 |
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g*q 发帖数: 26623 | 48 After a highly visible meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Foxconn’s founder Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie Center, Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately 2,000 residents of that small town with workers from in and around Iowa. The company will hire 300,000 employees for the new factory, about 10% of Iowa’s population.
The plant will include dormitories for workers, multiple swimming pools and Internet cafes, and meal seating for 100,000 employees.
T... 阅读全帖 |
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G*****h 发帖数: 33134 | 49 4.1
Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie
Center, Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately 2,000 residents of
that small town with workers
and Internet cafes, and meal seating for 100,000 employees.
thousands of acres of farmland around the area. Experts expect further
economic growth as small parts manufacturers begin building, importing, and
exporting from around Guthrie
probably eat double that, easy,” said Harlon Williams, a pig farmer in
nearby Fansl... 阅读全帖 |
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Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie
Center, Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately 2,000 residents of
that small town with workers
and Internet cafes, and meal seating for 100,000 employees.
thousands of acres of farmland around the area. Experts expect further
economic growth as small parts manufacturers begin building, importing, and
exporting from around Guthrie
probably eat double that, easy,” said Harlon Williams, a pig farme... 阅读全帖 |
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