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insanity of war and the terrible destruction of nature. Some farmers are convertingto organic methods, that are sustainable and earning larger profits in the process.New and old farming practices are proving that increased harvests are possiblewithout inorganic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Young entrepreneurs arecreating businesses that sustain nature by selling hemp or organic cotton clothingproducts. New books come out almost every day full of ideas for sustainable living.A few large organizations like the Rocky Mountain Institute are powerfully inspiringcorporations and government towards sustainable policies and practices . Manygovernments are starting to support the Kyoto Protocol designed to reducehumanitys impact on climate change. We all can find inspiration in these and thefollowing specific examples of change that I have observe d:R Retailers like Gaiam Real Goods which have created complete large -scale showrooms like the Solar Living Center in Hopland California, full of inspiringworking examples and products for living naturally and sustainably by the powerof the sun (see www.realgoods.com );R Toyota Motor Corporation has created the Motor Trend magazine award-winningPrius hybrid that reduces pollution by 90% while doubling the fuel economy all ina comfortable, affordable, competitive and high quality product (we bought onethis year and I can tell you from first hand experience that this is the future of allcars and trucks);R Commercial carpet makers like Milliken, Collins & Aikman, and Interface arecreating products that are sold as a service, while the company retains ownershipof the product, so that when the time comes to change the floor, when it wearsout, the companies fully recycle the old products, reusing them in th e newproducts. (Sustainable Planet );R BASF has created fiber that is able to be recycled into a higher quality product, aprocess called up-cycling, in addition to having none of the toxic materials inmany current fibers (Sustainable Planet );R DesignTex has created upholstery that is biodegradable so that it can be put in acomposting unit in order to return naturally to the cycles of life, with theunintended but perhaps not surprising, additional benefit of producing effluentcomposed primarily of clean water during the manufacture process ( SustainablePlanet);23