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...When a New Yorker named James Brunot contacted Butts about mass-producing the game, he readily handed the operation over. Brunot's contributions were significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrabble | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...food, you have to do it responsibly," says Bob Hawkins, Eprida's project manager. "And one way of doing that is to use it to generate sustainable energy." A prototype can turn a ton of ground peanut shells into 600 lb. (270 kg) of biochar, with energy as the bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carbon: The Biochar Solution | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...signing up. Not only can they bank carbon credits for future use, but there's a p.r. benefit that comes from protecting an endangered tropical forest that might not come, say, from cleaning up a chemical factory in China (even though the value to the climate is identical). That bonus appeals to corporations like AEP, which provided the bulk of the funding for Noel Kempff. "It's not just about the greenhouse gases, but the habitat preservation and the watershed enhancement," says Diane Fitzgerald, AEP's managing director of environment and safety. But as long as avoided deforestation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Banks: Paying Countries to Keep their Trees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...offering 10% off rates at participating hotels Thursday through Sunday through Jan. 5, 2009, along with a $10 Visa gift card (mailed to you within a week of your stay). Rooms come with a complimentary hot breakfast and hi-speed Internet access. Plus, you'll earn 250 Hilton HHonors bonus points per stay toward rooms at any Hilton property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: A Green Hotel Made Just for Do-Gooders | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

Later that day: When I get home, I really feel as if I've done a day's labor. It's not just that my mind is weary. My whole body is. Very satisfying. Bonus: too tired to tidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger: Walking While Working. | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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