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When the NGO’s project leaders handed us worn-out jerrycans, shovels, and hoes to do the physically-grueling work, which lasted two days in total, I felt that invoking T. I. A. to cope with the situation—which the project leader did—was...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: T.I.A. | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

Getting Americans to switch from paying 50¢ for a lightbulb to $50 won't be easy. But such shifts have happened before. Electric toothbrush, anyone?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Bulbs | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Electric lighting currently accounts for 19% of the world's electricity use, pumping as much greenhouse-gas pollution into the atmosphere every year as half the world's cars. Much of that results from outdated, inefficient light sources in homes, offices and parking lots. Energy-efficiency advocates say that because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Bulbs | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Of course, the tiny renewable-power industry has little weight in Washington. The major coal-powered utility American Electric Power spent $4.6 million to lobby Congress in the first six months of the year, $1.3 million more than it did over the same period last year. By contrast, "I don...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean Energy: U.S. Lags in Research and Development | 8/1/2009 | See Source »

Miami Police Major Charles Nanney says informants played a crucial role in the success of a statewide crackdown in June that resulted in the seizure of 6,828 marijuana plants and 120 residential marijuana labs over the course of a few days. Among the best tipsters, they say, are electricians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Marijuana Boom: House-Grown, and Potent | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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