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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What about the changes we do make - hybrid cars, solar panels - do they help at all? We are very good at solutions that involve buying things. "Oh, I'll buy a hybrid." "Oh, when I redo my kitchen I'll use bamboo flooring." But when it comes to actually cutting back, to real deprivation and sacrifice, it's like, "No, forget that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why New York City Is Greener Than Vermont | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...fail to augment their aural attack with subtlety. HEALTH, to their credit, have avoided the path of mere derivation. As with their fellow L.A. scenesters No Age, one of the few bands to successfully grapple with Nu Gaze in recent years, the four piece has created a brutal, hybrid sound that is entirely its own. Unfortunately, originality alone does not a triumph make, and “Get Color” largely shows that while HEALTH has plenty of promise, the band has yet to discover how to make a consistently good album. That is not to say that...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HEALTH | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...meantime, carriers aim to encourage more of us in middle age to start tapping. Their best sweetener? Hybrid phones that don't carry a smartphone's hefty price tag but do offer nice little QWERTY keyboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guess What Texting Costs Your Wireless Provider? | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

Mendillo also emphasized that HMC has taken steps this past year to increase flexibility and control over internal and external funds. The report said that she intends to continue using a “hybrid model” of internal and external managers, but that she is not targeting any specific proportion. Instead, she noted that internal management is highly cost effective and that HMC would look to “increase the share of our internally managed assets under the right conditions...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Endowment, Largest in Higher Education, Plummets by 27% | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...kind of citizen consumers, and that is related to this idea of service. The President: Well, I think you especially see that in the next generation, even among our daughters. I remember Malia maybe three years ago - she was eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears. And you really start seeing, I think, a level of awareness about how decisions you make, about where you shop or what car you drive has an impact on the broader world. And so I think it's a positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive Interview: The Obamas on The Meaning of Public Service | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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