[BGHater]

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Fordlândia[Wiki]

The Ruins of Fordlândia

[50sDad]

Looks like the Dharma Initiiative!

[ozzymandus]

Henry was one weird dude.

[rightly_dividing]

Ford was full of great ideas, but like most great men, was hard headed, and thereby persued some really bad ideas, also, as did his close friend, T.A. Edison. On nice weekends, my wife and I celebrate one of Ford's better ideas, we cook using charcoal briquets.
pray for our nation

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BGHater, interesting piece of history probably unfamiliar to most.

[SunkenCiv]

another Michigander (if memory serves) pushed another rain forest project; when I read about it years ago (and yet years after this 1967 date) Ludwig was defending the investment, saying “the paperless office is a complete myth”.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,712318,00.html

[snip] One of Ludwig’s most intriguing ventures is little known outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan’s Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil’s remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared — at least not yet — Ludwig has quietly and steadily continued to develop what may be the largest private landholding in the Western Hemisphere. [end]