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Gardens may be green???but they're not always eco-friendly. American lawns and gardens drink up H2O at alarming rates, especially in the dry West, where more than 50% of residential water is used for landscaping. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides can damage the land as well. But xeriscaping (pronounced zeer-i-skay-ping), a term that means "dry landscaping," is becoming increasingly popular. "We're getting the message that homeowners aren't interested in environmentally irresponsible things," says Joel Lerner, founder of Maryland-based landscaping firm Environmental Design. Here's how you can have a garden that's green?...
Barnett's vision?that being green would feel good and earn him a whole lot of green???is symbolic of a marketplace revolution, says Yale's Daniel Esty, the co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. CEOS are "falling over one another," Esty says, to address climate change within their companies, while billions of venture-capital dollars are being poured into technological solutions for the planet's environmental woes. "And then you have Shaklee, with a 50-year history of doing this," says Esty, who believes...
...pear trees. Pyrethrum, a compound obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during the 19th century, and one?Paris green???was used against the Colorado potato beetle in the U.S. during the 1860s...
...ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green???to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, known to the whole Roosevelt family as "Missy." She, too, was smiling. In fact everyone was pleased with the new offices except the Secret Service men. Chubby-cheeked Richard Jervis, chief of the detail which has been guarding the lives of Presidents...
...STRANGE RIVER ? Julian Green???Harper...