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Heightened attention to all elements of the environment is only one of the factors driving the increasing popularity of nature-inspired décor. Technology, says Tony Whitfield, chair of product design at Parsons The New School for Design, is also playing a role in the current trend. "If you look...
...bill that would cap such emissions in the U.S. passed out of the Senate's environment committee. Outside Washington, city and state governments, as well as private industry, are taking action. "Suddenly climate change is at the crossroads of what everyone is interested in," says Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, a green NGO based in Washington. "There is a coming together on the issue that just hasn't been there before...
More so than many of their European counterparts, America's new environmentalists believe climate change is about more than saving the environment. They care about polar bears, but like Schwarzenegger, they also view global warming as an economic challenge and opportunity - an outlook shared by a growing number of U.S...
Even before the measures were formally announced, Washington was casting the proposals as old-fashioned trade protectionism under the modern guise of mitigating climate change. "We have been dismayed at a variety of suggestions where we have seen the climate and the environment being used as an excuse to close...
It appears that the Socialists were paying attention. Environment Minister Cristina Narbona, seated in the audience Saturday, was impressed with Stiglitz's discussion of education as a key stimulus for economic growth. "To hear him say that gives us incentive to improve our proposals even more." And in a speech...