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There are a few ways of doing that: invest in renewable energy sources and "cap and trade" emissions. That is, set ceilings for worldwide greenhouse-gas emission and let nations either sell emission credits if they emit below their allowance or buy credits if they exceed permitted levels. The theory is that the pursuit of greenbacks will fuel greener business. "Whenever you turn a pollution cut into a financial asset," says Joseph Goffman, an attorney at Environmental Defense, "people go out and make lots of pollution cuts...
...much CO2 did you just exhale? Tricky question. Yet that's analogous to the one businesses are struggling with on a massive scale. Until they figure it out, companies interested in trading will be on their own to determine 1) how you buy the right to emit a gas that has no standard of measurement and 2) how to do so when no nation currently assigns a CO2 property right. "It's risky as hell," says Deming...
...avoid. "There has been huge concern that this could be used for comparison shopping," says Norm Sandler, a spokesman for Motorola, the No. 2 cellular manufacturer after Nokia. To discourage what they call misleading comparisons, the companies will place a statement in boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number below the threshold is safer than any other," says Chuck Eger...
...maverick in confronting the sensitive issue of potential cell-phone health hazards, but the rest of the U.S. will soon catch up. Beginning this fall, Motorola, Nokia and all other cell-phone makers will bow to mounting concerns about safety by disclosing just how much radiation their phones emit. The once hard-to-find data--measured in "specific absorption rates," or SARs--will come packaged with the latest models, some of which could hit stores by Christmas. That is likely to launch a scramble by concerned shoppers to find the cell phones that put out the lowest levels of radiation...
...goop (which will apparently taste the same as the red stuff and even be enhanced with parent-pleasing vitamin C) will come in easy-to-squeeze bottles designed to emit a thin stream of shocking-green ketchup when aimed at, say, a plate of french fries (or the face of an unsuspecting sibling...