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...dollars for green jobs and alternative-energy strategies that included almost $20 billion for energy efficiency, $26 billion for renewable and alternative energies and $10.5 billion for electrical-grid modernization. The investments went a long way toward fulfilling the lobbying efforts of several core Democratic constituencies - unions, environmentalists and high-tech companies - which had been mounting more aggressive campaigns on behalf of the clean-energy sector as the Bush era came to a close. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...company that makes Web-enabled home thermostats. Describing his investments as "missionary" work, Doerr stepped up his political advocacy for the energy savings they could generate. In 2006 he headed a lobbying push that led California lawmakers to adopt the first state limits on carbon emissions, presaging the current high-tech campaign for clean energy in Washington. "I have referred to prior energy policies as really the sum of all lobbyists," Doerr told TIME in February. "My lesson about policy is not to argue about your self-interest," he told a group of smart-grid venture capitalists in late...
...government more than 6.5% to borrow money. Now it costs less than 2.5%. That means we can borrow 2½ times as much today for the same cost. Also, the overall economy has expanded dramatically, and relative to the size of the economy, the debt isn't particularly high by global standards. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...greatest admirers were writers themselves. In 2000, when news spread that Barry had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 50 young writers staged a banquet to honor him. They came from Montana and New York and Florida to be with the author of Airships and High Lonesome for one evening and let him know how much he meant to them...
...characters loved and hated deeply, soared high and were tortured with abysmal despair. For them, he plundered the rich, ravaged history of Mississippi and the Deep South, which, he said, "might be wretched, but it can howl." Many have chronicled this past, but none have captured its psyche as Barry did. He wrote and lived his life in the same way he led the post-Faulkner literary renaissance in Oxford--wide open and fearlessly, the same way that Civil War cavalrymen rode into battle, hurling an expression that Barry often employed when signing books for friends: "Sabers...