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...start pumping out new wind turbines with the same industrial urgency the U.S. produced tanks and bombers in World War II, Brown writes, we could generate 3 million megawatts of wind power by 2020, enough to meet 40% of the world's energy needs. Solar thermal, plug-in hybrid and geothermal technology are all part of Plan B. (Did you know that the geothermal energy contained in the upper six miles of the Earth's crust is 50,000 times more powerful than all of our oil and natural gas? Brown does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plan B — How to Stop Global Warming | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

...defined - remote and relatively innocent, almost a fantasyland. (Consider this: Charlie is a liberal Democrat from Texas.) In focusing on the man as much as the movement, on the process of achieving a goal more than the goal itself, Charlie Wilson's War gets to celebrate an all-American hybrid: wheeler-dealer idealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Charlie Wilson, War Is Swell | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

Technology has gotten us into the climate change mess, and we assume that technology will get us out of it. Hybrid cars, wind turbines, algae biofuel - businesses and policymakers alike are searching for the technological fixes that will decarbonize our lives. But the deeper problem may be how - and where - we live our lives. The dominant pattern of development in America - large houses and sprawling, auto-dependent suburbs - requires a heavy input of fossil fuels and an output of carbon emissions. The adoption of cleaner technologies will take us part of the way, but what we really need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green is Your Neighborhood? | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

Merriam-Webster decreed “w00t” the number-one word of 2007. A hybrid of letters, numerals, shorthand, and hooting noises, “w00t” is defined as “an interjection expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word ‘yay.’” Instead of analyzing precisely why “w00t” reads better with zeros instead of “o”s, I offer some alternatives, taken from...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lindsay A. Maizel | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Linked Hybrid, Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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