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...simple: the bank spends its cash on green energy projects that reduce CO2 emissions by the same amount the bank creates. "We realized we had to go above that 'business as usual' scenario," says Francis Sullivan, HSBC's adviser on the environment, speaking from the corporation's towering London HQ. The bank was already spending $7 million annually to boost the energy efficiency of its buildings but, says Sullivan, "we cannot generate all the electricity, heating, cooling and lighting we need from CO2- free sources. Buying other people's reductions seemed to be the right way forward...
...Once you start to talk to people you find they're not that much different." A sense of the common humanity that links different cultures infuses "Face of Asia," an exhibition of his pictures from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India and Tibet, the first show at Asia House's new London HQ. When he photographed a bent-backed Indian woman (Brindavan, 1995), she invited him home for tea and told him how she'd lived her whole life on charity, praying for others. Wading through floods in India put him on a level with a smiling man holding a precious sewing machine...
...Eager to show Egyptians as well as Washington policymakers that Egypt is a practicing democracy, Mubarak joined the fray with all the trappings of a slick Western-style campaign. His trips were backed up by a campaign HQ in Cairo, staffed by media experts, pollsters, lawyers and college professors, including one with a Ph. D from an American university who once worked as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill. To fill out Mubarak's political rallies, the campaign bused in students wearing Mubarak T-shirts, caps and "Mubarak 2005" buttons - young men who as often as not were...
...points: You hate this dump. You piss on the John Harvard Statue sober and always fart in the general direction of University Hall for good measure. Don’t give to Senior Gift. In fact, break into Senior Gift HQ and steal some donations to make up for your bad experience. Just don’t tell them I sent...
...Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, 4,101 m Southeast Asia's highest mountain gets its name from Aki Nabalu ("Mountain of the Dead")?the term used by the local Kadazan people, who believe their ancestors inhabit its highest peaks. Start the trek early from Kinabalu Park HQ, and you can make your overnight stop at the guesthouse at Laban Rata (3,300 m) in time for dinner. Most climbers rise around 3 a.m. the next day to start the final assault on the summit, Low's Peak, and catch the sunrise. Guides can help you identify the unique mountain flora?like...