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...environmentalists who are already anticipating innovations that may be spawned from the billions of dollars earmarked for green tech in Obama's stimulus package. After all, if there's one federal institution that industry pays more attention to than the White House, it's the Pentagon. Indeed, the impact of the British military's call in February was immediately recognizable: one day after the publication of the "Defense Technology Plan," the august think tank the Royal United Services Institute held a conference in London, sponsored by defense giant BAE Systems, called "Alternative Energy and Sustainability for the Military." Representatives from...
...impact would be dramatic for the planet as well, Popkin writes in an editorial that accompanies the study. Popkin, whose recently published book The World Is Fat examines the global trends driving the obesity epidemic, joins a growing cohort of researchers, environmentalists and foodies clamoring for an overhaul of the American diet. Currently, the average American consumes more than 200 lb. of meat a year, a habit that comes at considerable environmental cost, Popkin says. He cites a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization finding that livestock account for 18% of global greenhouse-gas emissions - more than transportation...
...near term, the Nano will have little effect on Tata Motors' revenue, adding just 3% to sales, analysts estimate. It will have even less impact on the company's ailing bottom line, because the Nano's profit margin is tiny, says Vaishali Jajoo, a senior automotive-research analyst at Angel Broking, an investment firm in Mumbai. "It will take at least four to five years to break even" and recoup the company's development costs, she says. There's more profit to be made from fully equipped Nanos with air-conditioning, power windows and upholstered seats, which cost about...
...rural poor but as another urban burden. If middle-class mobility comes to millions of people in the developing world, their shiny new Nanos could greatly add to traffic congestion and air pollution in major cities. Tata doesn't see it that way, calling complaints about the potential environmental impact of widespread Nano adoption "somewhat ironic." "It's almost like a car is O.K. for some people, but don't spread it to the larger base of the population," he says. "Why are we denying the masses comforts that we enjoy today?" There are millions of other families still...
...years. Mamah seems to have sent him into a spiral of fervent public defiance of the contemporary behavioral norms. As her story unfolds, details that previously seemed extraneous begin to fall into place. Though the reader knows how the story will end, the sense of foreboding and the emotional impact in the final cataclysm does not diminish. The florid effervescence of the rest of the work ends on a genuinely somber and powerfully affective note, hinting at what Boyle might accomplish if all his work could be as tightly constructed as this last segment. Boyle does not shy away from...