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Super-refrigerators use 87% less electricity than older, standard models while costing the same (assuming mass production) and performing better, as Paul Hawken and Amory and L. Hunter Lovins explain in their book Natural Capitalism. In Amsterdam the headquarters of ING Bank, one of Holland's largest banks, uses one...
The Web breeds a sense of togetherness too, and togetherness is important to these activists, so many of whom have spent the last few decades of market capitalism uber alles feeling more than a little isolated. "From my perspective, and I came out of the '60s," says Carl Pope, the...
The new novel, like Humboldt's Gift, portrays the effects of a powerful personality on an impressionable observer, in this case Chick, the narrator. Abe Ravelstein, his friend and academic colleague at a university in Chicago, has recently astounded everyone, including himself, by writing a book that has made him...
Yet, all those factors aside, Rwanda today can be understood only through the harsh prism of the genocide that ravaged it in 1994. That bloodbath, fueled by an incendiary combination of misguided Belgian colonial policy, divisive domestic politics, ethnic stereotyping and tragic French foreign policy, took the lives of 800...
As a farm child in Kenya, Njoki Njehu grew up in a house with no electricity and worked after school with her five brothers and sisters on plots of bananas, sugarcane and maize. From her mother, a champion of women's and environmental causes, Njehu imbibed the importance of social...