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...investment in green technologies has been announced by banks, investors and private equity alone. Markets respond to policy changes more swiftly, more efficiently and with far greater resources than the public sector. Take the successful efforts to create a market to help mitigate acid rain. The SO2 market in Chicago, the precursor to the CO2 market, illustrates that business responds better than predicted in legislative committee rooms...
...finance, as in climate change, sometimes there are tipping points. In 2004, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) traded a modest $2.2 billion in weather futures - obscure derivatives that are linked to temperatures in 29 cities worldwide and that enable traders to bet on hot or cold spells. But the weather was unusually volatile in 2005: drought and floods in Europe, record heat in Australia and an active storm season capped by Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. By the end of the year, CME had traded $36 billion in weather futures...
...heard weekly on the Morning Edition program on NPR. Now, Isay has edited a compelling new book with dozens of StoryCorps profiles, Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project (Penguin Press). TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Isay, 42, from Chicago, where he was on his book tour...
Dave Isay: I was a radio documentary producer for public radio for about 20 years. I did a documentary about 15 years ago with two kids growing up on the south side of Chicago, in a housing project. I gave them tape recorders and had them record a diary of their life for one week, and do interviews with family members and friends. And I saw when I gave these kids the tape recorders - when, for instance, one of the kids crawled into bed with his grandmother with a tape recorder - that the microphone gave him the license...
...successes. “It’s hard to say, but if the team is doing well and if it is a big important game for them, we will see a bigger turnout,” said Andy L. Cote, manager of Uno’s Chicago Grill on JFK St. City Sports, on Brattle St., has also seen an uptick in business as a result of the teams’ strong seasons. “It definitely helps business when they reach that certain plateau,” said Stephond D. Goler, manager at City Sports. Goler said...