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Despite these relatively high prices, Green Apple has found a niche among the more environmentally sensitive citizens of New York and New Jersey. Before Kistner opened his first store, he had 1,000 customers signed up, and today there are three Green Apple Cleaners in the metropolitan area. It may help that Kistner throws in a few green extras, paying customers to return hangers and employing reusable or biodegradable plastic bags. Outside major urban areas like New York, environmentally friendly cleaners can be tougher to find. But the company Green Earth Cleaning has licensed its technology to launderers around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilt-Free Laundry | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Jack Pelton, Cessna's CEO. "Then we will slowly crawl out of this predicament when corporate earnings improve in 2011." The demonization of corporate jets by Congress, prompted initially by the CEOs of the Detroit automakers, has helped kill thousands of jobs. The corporate-aviation market provided 1.2 million high-wage jobs in the U.S. before the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turboprop Built for Trouble | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...financing to develop the prototype and created a trust to start product development. "It was a completely novel idea born out of the fact that I didn't want to raise venture capital and lose equity control of the company, nor did I want to have to pay back high-interest loans and executive salaries," Voetmann says. "Honestly, our aim was not to make money but to find a way to help others," says Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turboprop Built for Trouble | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...need for a bush turboprop to be built with the latest aerodynamic and engine technologies. Organizations serving populations in crisis in developing countries need a plane that can operate safely on short dirt airstrips. The Kodiak, with its small wingspan of 45 ft. (15 m), advanced flap technology and high power-to-weight ratio, can land and take off in less than 700 ft. (210 m) and climb at a rapid 1,700 ft. per min. (520 m per min.). The Kodiak can be retrofitted for other uses such as border patrolling, hauling emergency equipment and carrying military paratroopers. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turboprop Built for Trouble | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...graduated from The University of Detroit Jesuit High School, the prep school you profiled, one month before the apocalyptic riots of 1967 [Nov. 9]. I am most proud of the fact that U of D chose to stay in Detroit and not abandon it as the other Catholic schools did. My class continues to contribute to our namesake city in many ways. We have purchased two bricks on the world-class Detroit RiverWalk promenade, the only school that has done so. A few years ago, I moved back to downtown Detroit after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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