SCA magazine Shape 3 2011 English

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1,000,000,000 TREES
BY PLANTING a billion trees, the conservation
organization The Nature Conservancy aims
to save Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. More than
85 percent of the forest has been cleared
over the last few centuries, and what remains
is highly fragmented. The remaining
part is still among the biologically
richest and most diverse forests in the
world and is home to a large number of species
that are found nowhere else on Earth.
By stitching together a mosaic of land through the tree
plantings, The Nature Conservancy plans to restore 30
million acres of the forest. Read more:
www.plantabillion.org
CHINA DRAINS WHISKEY SUPPLY
MALT WHISKIES are booming globally, especially in
rapidly growing economies such as China, India and
Russia. China's growing taste for good Scotch is actually
causing a global shortage of 12-year-old and older
malt whiskies, and distilling companies in Scotland have
been forced to ration supplies, reports Advertising Age.
DID YOU KNOW...
...that US president
Barack Obama proclaimed
September to
be National Prostate
Cancer Awareness
Month.
Wooden bridge
A 240-METER-long
wooden bridge for pedestrians
and cyclists
is being constructed
in southern Sweden.
When fi nished, the
bridge will be one of
the longest made of
wood in the country.
The suspension
bridge will cross one
of Sweden’s major
highways and connect
a residential area with
a shopping center. The
work will be completed
in early 2012.
Wooden tablet
WHAT DO YOU GET if
you combine the latest
technology with luxury
design? Maybe an iPad
made out of African
blackwood completed
with Apple’s “brand
apple” in 18K gold.
The wooden iPad is
designed and manufactured
by Russia's
Gresso and the price
is still undisclosed but
most certainly high.
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