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...these policies are having an effect. From being one of the most wasteful cities in the U.S.--in the 1980s, Las Vegas used almost twice as much water per capita as did far wetter New York--Vegas may now get more economic bang for its water than any other place on earth. Though the city has grown by 300,000 people since 2002, it uses less water today than it did six years ago, and leakage is below 5%. "Failure is not an option," says Mulroy...
...DiGiovanni said GM's number crunchers estimated new vehicle sales, on per capita basis, had dropped to the lowest level since the recession of 1958. "2008 will go down as unlike any other year in the industry, and thus, comparisons to 2007 sales have become irrelevant," said Jim Press, Chrysler chairman...
...empty stomachs and untreated infections. In Cape Verde, an African island nation, live about 460,000 people. There are about 500,000 Cape Verdeans overseas, including a very large contingent in Boston. With the help of remittances sent back home from workers abroad, Cape Verde has doubled its per capita income since 1990—the sums amount to about 12 percent of GDP. In fact, Cape Verde migrants elect their own representatives to the National Assembly. Cape Verde has become a state beyond borders, and this is all the better for Cape Verdeans. If we start to increase human...
...trapped for reuse. In the French city of Lille, a small fleet of ten buses are also using methane, gleaned from the city's poop. And in some Indian villages, simple latrines have been built that separate waste and use it to produce compost and fertilizer at a per capita cost infinitesimally lower than any waste management budget in the West...
...even more pessimistic. Archstone Consulting, a retail consultancy based in Stamford, Conn., expects only a 0.5% to 1% sales increase for the holidays. "That's a very low number by historical standards," says Dave Sievers, Archstone's strategy and retail practice leader. "That would really translate into negative per capita growth, because we automatically expect some gains due to inflation and an expanding population, which usually average...