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...Greening the Future Japan has allocated $17 billion to help Asian countries with development projects to help stimulate their economies [Jan. 26]. This seemingly altruistic gesture is typical of Japan's long-term focus. They recognize that consumers in the developed countries are not going to resume their past spending patterns any time soon, despite tax cuts and rebates. But if the economies of developing countries can be grown, then their people will eventually become the replacement consumers and will buy goods produced in Japan and other hard-hit manufacturing/exporting countries. This is why it is so important...
...tempting to assume that Denmark is innately green, with the kind of Scandinavian good conscience that has made it such a pleasant global citizen since, oh, the whole Viking thing. But the country's policies were actually born from a different emotion, one now in common currency: fear. When the 1973 oil crisis hit, 90% of Denmark's energy came from petroleum, almost all of it imported. Buffeted by the same supply shocks that hit the rest of the developed world, Denmark launched a rapid drive for energy conservation, to the point of introducing car-free Sundays and asking businesses...
...turning that research into reality was not just generous government aid, but the fact that Denmark stayed with it. While countries like the U.S. let tax credits for renewable energy wax and wane, smothering infant green industries in the crib, Denmark looks to the long term. In the 1990s, the government inaugurated tariffs that required utilities to offer 10-year fixed-rate contracts for wind power. That sort of security led to a rapid expansion of wind power at home - the country has more than 5,200 turbines producing in excess of 3,100 MW of electricity - and helped firms...
...first European nation to sign up for the innovative electric car model promoted by start-up company Better Place, which plans to construct a network of charging stations throughout the small country. Then there's the way Danes build. Denmark doesn't quite lead the world in green building, but it is expert in certain materials. Take VKR, founded during World War II as a window manufacturer. Through its subsidiaries the firm now markets efficient skylights and vertical windows, and in recent years has shifted into rooftop solar heating. Government policies and strict regulations have helped here too. "The mega...
Whoever is in charge, the security situation is much improved. I do not hear explosions every morning, as reporters used to. But for all I have heard about improved security, no one I have met here acts as though Baghdad, outside the Green Zone, is really a secure place. There are still blast walls and precautions and nerves, though of course 6½ million people live here, as they must. Maybe the numbers speak for themselves. On Feb. 19, 2008, Iraqi Body Count, one of the several contentious projects to record violent civilian deaths, reported 37 dead. On the same...