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...slung apartment structures provide a rat run for dealers and a dangerous maze for visitors. The minister believes the first step to breaking down "real and psychological walls" is to reshape the landscape by replacing towers with human-size structures interspersed with open space. It's a formula that worked for him in the 1990s, when, as mayor of the job-starved and crime-ridden city of Valenciennes, he tackled the projects and freed up land for social housing in the city center. Expanded to a national scale, Borloo's plan originally identified 500,000 complexes - housing around 2 million...
...cleaners as the real pollutants in our homes. Two years ago, Method came out with a triple-concentrated biodegradable laundry detergent and now the competition is catching on (Unilever launched its version, All Small & Mighty, last fall). Lowry says that if all detergents were to switch to concentrated formula, it would save 400 million gal. of water and about 200 million lbs. of plastic a year...
...couple hired Good, who had worked on other environmentally sensitive houses. "But this project was by far the most aggressive in its use of green elements," he says. Two decades ago, a green house was one that had a couple of solar panels. Since then, the formula has become a lot more detailed. The preferred lumber always comes from sustainably harvested forests, meaning woodlands that have not been clear-cut. For some parts of the Cannon Beach house, including the interior heavy timber framing and flooring, the wood is actually from windfallen trees. The exterior shingle walls of the house...
...good comedy, as he follows up 2003’s “Calendar Girls”—pretty much the female “Full Monty”—with another story of big-city lifestyles invading small-town, old-fashioned values. While the formula suceeds by tugging a few heart strings, the humor doesn’t live up to its British roots...
...source file-sharing software I nominate Steven Soderbergh, director, writer and producer, who broke Hollywood dogma by releasing his movie Bubble simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV and DVD. He's willing to experiment with new technologies to deliver what consumers want. Also William Poundstone, whose book Fortune's Formula gives a readable explanation of how investing for the most profit inherently involves roller-coaster downturns. It's an insightful analysis...