The inhabitants in Entlebuch aim at promoting regional products, cultivating natural resources (grass, wood, and landscape) and developing ecotourism.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.

FORBES: Techno-Optimism

But America has two things going for it: An astounding abundance of all the raw resources, coal, gas, grains and grass, and an equally astounding abundance of research talent in universities and entrepreneurial firms.

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