{"id":1643,"date":"2014-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-650\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:57","slug":"innovation-anthology-650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2014\/11\/27\/innovation-anthology-650\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #650:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 650.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Arial;\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Arial;\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Trebuchet MS\";\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:none;\n\tmso-hyphenate:none;\n\tmso-layout-grid-align:none;\n\tpunctuation-wrap:simple;\n\ttext-autospace:none;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">A big question around surface mining, especially in the oil sands area, is how to recreate the boreal forest that used to be there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">That&#8217;s what <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dr. Simon Landhausser<\/span> has been looking at over the last five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">He is a professor in Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta and he holds the NSERC Industrial Chair in Forest Land Reclamation and Applied Forest Ecology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">DR SIMON LANDHAUSSER:<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"color:\nblack\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; 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