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When Bo Barefoot gives directions to his house in Bethesda, he stops with the turn onto his street. After that, he says, "You'll see the banana trees."

In one of the largest and most ecologically significant public conservation deals in recent years, the state has acquired a 900-acre parcel in the southern Berkshires that contains pristine old-growth forest, including Eastern hemlock trees that predate the Pilgrims' arrival at Plymouth.

You can't do green design without green materials, and material innovations tend to come from chemists. Chemists also produce many products in their own right: paints, adhesives, cleaning products, whole industries. So what are chemists doing to save the world?

We applaud Tyson's decision to produce fresh chickens without antibiotics. Healthy livestock does not need them.