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...Barons profiles other do-gooders, including Andy Frank, who created the plug-in hybrid car, but those stories are less compelling than Humes' description of Tompkins. The book starts to feel repetitive as we're introduced to one extraordinary green after another. But Humes' ultimate point is well taken: at the very moment when the government began abdicating its responsibilities to the environment, the eco-barons stepped in. "We'd be years behind where we are now without these individuals," says Humes. (Read about Chevy's electric...
...Saint Patty's Day weekend. For Boston in all its beer-soaked glory, there's nowhere like the Southie parade on Sunday. It starts at 1 pm from the Broadway T-stop on the Red Line. Every Irish pub in town is trying to prove its about more than green beer, and the Globe has a round-up of places offering special Irish menus...
...pieces made for distribution in Europe, and most of the five flicks have never been seen in the U.S. before. Also, for a joint Friday the 13th/St. Paddy's Day celebration, on Friday night at 10 p.m. they'll be playing the "horror" film "Leprechaun," in which a wee green man terrorizes Jennifer Aniston. (Marshall Plan films run March 12-19; for showtimes see website...
...engineering in which stimulus creates jobs, jobs generate revenues, revenues fund an efficient health-care system, which in turn tames the deficit. What critics consider a massive intervention to impose a price on carbon emissions is, to the White House, the engine for the growth of a robust new green economy. Meanwhile, students will begin graduating from improved schools and moving seamlessly into this prosperous future. Shortcomings may lie in the details, but the economy won't really be fixed until the entire web is assembled. "I see this document differently," Obama told Congress as he introduced the budget...
...electricity. That's because most of its potential fuel is exported to neighboring countries through lucrative contracts that benefit the ruling generals instead of being used at home. The Burmese regime's stated solution to the longrunning national blackout? Jatropha. Also known as "physic nut," the plant produces a green nut that is pressed and processed into a biofuel catching on in entrepreneurial green pockets of the world from Florida to Brazil to India, which has already earmarked 100 million acres for the plant and expects the oil to account for one-fifth its diesel consumption by 2011. (Watch TIME...