Environmentalists are trying to encourage Sierra Leone's salt producers to use other methods, including drying salt in the sun, to reduce the strain on mangroves.

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"This is the phase during which investors, including producers, begin to see the value in investing in commodities, " he says.

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He produced it himself and recorded it in Los Angeles with a number of his buddies, including producers Don Was and Dave Stewart and Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, who also happens to be his brother-in-law.

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But as the market for high-end audio products grows, more consumers enter the market unaware of why recording artists, including the producers and sound engineers, make the decisions they make, and how consumer technologies can reproduce the sound just as they created it.

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