Word: coline
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...York City-based writer Colin Beavan was casting around for a new book idea a few years ago - and fretting over the state of the planet - when he had an epiphany. He and his family - wife Michelle and baby daughter Isabella - would live for an entire year while making as little impact on the environment as possible. That meant no motorized transportation, no elevators, no nonlocal food, no caffeine and (eventually) no electricity. TIME talked to Colin and Michelle about the new book and documentary on their green year, No Impact Man, and why pulling the plug on modern life...
...Colin: I find it interesting that everyone asks that question. But the surprising thing to me is that instead of how hard it was to live environmentally, we discovered how joyful it was. We found that by creating space in our lives in terms of letting go of stuff, cutting out the TV screens, we had more time for relationships - more time to spend with each other and with friends. More time just reading books or going to the park and going swimming. We were eating better and getting more exercise. That's what really struck...
...Everyone can agree that FDR led this country through a difficult time,” said Colin J. Motley ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club. “But from what I’ve observed, there’s a tendency in the work of the Roosevelt Institution to favor government intervention in the economy and other things that might make it difficult for conservative students to become involved in the organization...
...heated discussion that centered primarily around the public healthcare option advocated by President Barack Obama, Democrats William F. Weingarten ’11 and Cyrus B. Kornfeld ’12, asserted that public option will increase care access, while Republicans Colin J. Motley ’10 and Jordan A. Monge ’12, contested that the plan will be costly and inefficient...
...plight as leaving a soldier on the battlefield [Aug. 3]. During the G.W. Bush Administration, I was struck by the fervor for military action from an inner circle who had largely not served in the U.S. armed forces. The odd man out during the drumbeat for war was Colin Powell, whose long military career included serving in Vietnam and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His voice of caution against entanglement in Iraq resulted in his getting pushed out by the "believers." It's too bad they didn't listen to the one man who knew what...