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Extreme greens opt to get a real tree with root-ball intact, keep it alive through the stressful holiday season--then find a place to replant it. That might be easy if you have a green thumb and a backyard big enough to absorb a Douglas fir: lug the potted tree inside for the holidays, then outside once your New Year's hangover has cleared. If you keep the tree in a planter, you can reuse it every year and save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Christmas Tree | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...really does bring the issue of climate change to our very own backyard,” he said. “People are definitely buzzed about...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Walden Data Aids Climate Science | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...watt for watt, small wind is cheaper than residential solar, and for those willing to make the up-front investment, it can provide freedom from the electrical grid. Plus, in the eyes of some, there's nothing more beautiful than a wind turbine spinning in the backyard. "It looks like a giant pinwheel and sounds like a plane off in the distance," says Morrell. "I'd definitely recommend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Got Wind? Turbines for the Green Home | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...administration should try to avoid heavy-handed tactics like the proposed missile shield. Russia’s threats to attack Poland make it clear that the U.S. must stand firm in its commitment to defend NATO members in Eastern Europe. However, refraining from installing missiles in its backyard will keep Eastern Europe safer in the long run than a face-off with Russia will. While defending itself and its allies against “rogue states” like Iran is essential, the U.S. will not help its cause by antagonizing Russia. The Obama administration should use its position...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Averting Another Missile Crisis | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Striped Pajamas, written and directed by Mark Herman, requires everyone in it to remain unconscious to every clue - and there are many - about what is happening in the family's backyard. Even when the gas chambers are fired up, smoke blackening the sky and stench filling their nostrils, they insist the camp is just burning some old clothes. The largest silence is Shmuel's, who never forthrightly explains his desperate circumstances to Bruno. Maybe he doesn't want to shock his new friend. More likely his true imprisonment is in the desperate manipulations of this movie, its need to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Failed Holocaust Fable | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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