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...Jersey, Virginia and Maryland--a recognition that momentum is growing in Washington for legislation to mandate caps on carbon emissions. On Feb. 26, California and four other states agreed to establish within 18 months a market to trade emission credits. TXU, as part of its agreement, plans to join DuPont, Alcoa, General Electric and seven other firms in pushing Congress for a national cap-and-trade program, that would give companies "credits" for carbon emissions to use--or sell at a profit. It's a win for the environment, notes Reilly, and not bad for the bottom line either...
...Gordon Gekko might say today, green is good, and behemoths like GE and DuPont are carving profits out of a worldwide green-business market worth more than $600 billion. "This is a watershed moment in the business community," says Daniel Esty, director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University and co-author of the book Green to Gold. "The environment has become a strategic issue. It's something every company must do to stay competitive...
...Altman's grandfather had been a boss at the Calvin Film Company, which over the decades produced more than 3,000 educational and industrial films; and young Bob got his start directing some 60 shorts for companies like General Motors and DuPont. He had tried Hollywood right after his war service (during which he co-piloted B-24 bombers), but his only official work was an uncredited story gig on the 1947 Christmas Eve. "I'd go to California and try to write scripts," he told Tibbetts, "but then return, broke, to Calvin. Each time they'd drop me another...
...size of this market," says Matt Crouch, son of televangelists Paul and Jean Crouch and producer of One Night with the King, the story of Esther. The movie opened in 900 theaters on Oct. 13 and has grossed $10 million so far, with lush costumes and sets, newcomer Tiffany Dupont in the title role and cameos by Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole, their first screen pairing since Lawrence of Arabia. In September, 20th Century Fox announced plans to release about half a dozen Christian-theme films a year in theaters under the banner FoxFaith. Facing the Giants, an independent...
...Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful of Darnum, Victoria; and Rory Callinan met the crocodile-shooting, yarn-spinning "Wolf" Arneth of Normanton, Queensland. Our stories are brought to life by some of Australia's finest photographers: Ross Bird, Paul Blackmore, Stephen Dupont, Randy Larcombe, Trent Parke, David Dare Parker, Peter Solness and Robert Young...