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...That's the motivation behind Global Green's sustainable-schools program, which will both retrofit existing schools to make them more energy-efficient and build entirely new classrooms from the ground up. The new schools will have solar panels, wetland habitats (which can act as a buffer for future storms) and rainwater cisterns. At Gentilly Terrace Elementary School, which is getting an energy overhaul, power bills should fall some $22,000 a year. In a city that is struggling to get back on its feet, those energy savings make a difference - as does the fact that some research has shown...
...truth is, none of us will be safe from global warming unless we can change the way we build and the way we use energy - and New Orleans just happens to provide an excellent opportunity to try that in an urban environment that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Nor will it be the last major city to be menaced by rising seas - from New York to London to Shanghai, most of our major metropolises are built next to an ocean, and it's only a matter of time before the next superstorm hits. If we can build...
...passed thousands of citizens who waited without wilting to pay their respects. Fading sunlight was softened by a few welcome clouds at the end of a blazing day. Night was falling. Cicadas chirped and thrummed. The faintest of breezes caught in the crowns of two maples flanking the opened ground. After the laughter and singing, the mixed smiles and tears of the Friday wake; after the heartbreaking hymns and ancient prayers of the Saturday morning funeral; after so many words and pictures, the burial was brief and quiet. (See TIME's photos: mourning Ted Kennedy...
...senior Pakistani military official tells TIME a ground operation in the mountainous wilds of South Waziristan would be too difficult and would risk triggering a "tribal uprising" in a region over which Islamabad has little control...
That assessment is shared by some Pakistan experts in Washington, who say the country's military, despite some success against militants in the Swat Valley, simply doesn't have the ability to confront the TTP head-on. A ground operation would leave the Pakistani army "with its nose bloodied," says Daniel Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations. Having "come out of Swat looking reasonably good," Pakistan's generals don't want to risk "taking a morale hit." (Read "Are Pakistan's Taliban Leaders Fighting Among Themselves...