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Three years ago, Barnett spent about $310 million of his money to buy Shaklee, a company that devoted itself to manufacturing earth-friendly products long before green meant anything more than a color made by mixing blue and yellow. Founded by California chiropractor Forrest Shaklee in 1956, the company introduced a nontoxic, biodegradable cleaner in 1960 and a phosphate-free laundry detergent in 1972 and sold lines of natural health supplements and skin-care products. In 2000 it became the first company in the world to entirely offset its carbon emissions and be certified climate neutral. But Shaklee's sales...
...packaging has won design awards, but more important, it has won rave reviews from people like Oprah Winfrey, who showcased a number of environmentally friendly products on her Earth Day show. She waved toward the others, saying "You know, I haven't tried those products. But I have tried this [the dishwasher powder]. I use this now ... I love the packaging." Winfrey then raved about Shaklee's Basic H2, an improved, more concentrated version of the cleaner that Forrest Shaklee introduced in 1960. "It's amazing," she said. "You can clean the windows. You can clean the counters...
...most frightening of all, the report acknowledged the possibility that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which would release enough fresh water to swamp coastal cities, could occur over centuries, rather than millennia. "If you add to this the melting of some of the ice bodies on Earth, this gives a picture of the kinds of issues we are likely to face," said Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's chairman...
What if humans were suddenly wiped off the face of this earth? That is the question Alan Weisman tackled yesterday in a talk at the Science Center about his best-selling book, “The World Without Us.” The book is an effort to reach out to people who are normally wary of reading about ecological problems, Weisman said. “The idea was to get around the primordial fear that we all have when we hear about the environment and think, is this going to kill us,” Weisman said...
...realize, however, is that they have unwittingly predicted the real apocalypse, set in motion by the deceleration of the earth’s rotation and a war-related accident in Iraq. The premise behind the prediction, according to Santaros, is that “the rotation of the earth is slowing down at a rate of .00000006 miles per hour each day, disrupting the chemical equilibrium in the human brain, causing very irrational criminal behavior.” Santaros and his porn-star lover Krysta Now, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Cruel Intentions”), work...