Ethiopia welcomes the new millenium by planting trees (BBC)

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Ethiopia set for millennium party

By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Addis Ababa

Ethiopia has launched a programme of festivities in the run-up to its millennium celebrations in September.

The country uses the ancient Coptic calendar. It is about seven years behind the more widely used Gregorian calendar so it is still 1999 there.

The countdown to entering the third millennium on 12 September began with a campaign to plant 60 million trees.
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The chilly climate of the Ethiopian highlands creates a huge demand for firewood.
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Every Ethiopian is being urged to plant two trees in the millennium season.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6725073.stm

If they are assiduous in their efforts to replace each harvested tree with at least one successful planting, they will be heating their homes in a carbon-neutral way, and maybe even converting some extra CO2 to biomass! A shame heavily industrialized/urbanized societies can't seem to manage the same thing.

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1. Very nice.

This is good news, for a change. I hope they succeed in planting 1 million trees. That's what every country needs to do.