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...student group, HLS Lambda, and fellow-signatories of the brief—which include national environmentalist and women’s organizations—claim that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the FAIR lawsuit could substantially impact the future of the First Amendment...
What has always kept this kind of energy free-lancing from becoming more than environmentalist daydreaming is that the necessary technologies have remained unreliable and prohibitively expensive (with the exception of wind turbines)--particularly if you are talking about microgenerators that serve only a single home. Lately, however, the question of cost, at least, is coming under control. "The price of solar cells has fallen," says Douglas. "Natural-gas microturbines are more affordable too. The economics are coming closer to reality...
Then again, Arnold also describes himself as an environmentalist, but no one did more to popularize the gas-guzzling Humvee as a car for ordinary civilians. When a reporter asked him last week to detail his environmental positions, he made do with "I will fight for the environment. Nothing to worry about." One of the first members of Congress to endorse Schwarzenegger's candidacy was Dana Rohrabacher, a longtime friend who is one of the most conservative members of the California congressional delegation. Is that just further evidence of Arnold's gift for befriending people of all kinds, or does...
...former Vice President attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, earlier this year, he arranged a series of private meetings with politically oriented entertainment industry figures. One session was with a handful of people from the Environmental Media Association, a group that promotes the idea of incorporating environmentalist story lines into movies. "He was very interested in what we are doing, because he is very interested in media," says Debbie Levin, the group's executive director...
DIED. PRINCE SADRUDDIN AGA KHAN, 70, tireless philanthropist and environmentalist; after a short illness; in Boston. Both the youngest and longest serving U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin spent nearly four decades working with the U.N. on disaster relief before devoting his later years to preserving the Alps and protecting rare birds...