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...past several years, however, Gates has had a far greater and nobler impact on the world through his philanthropy. With an endowment of $33 million, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation gave away $1.55 billion in 2005 alone. From working to cure diseases in the third world to funding improvements in American public schools, the Gates Foundation has established itself as the central presence in worldwide philanthropy...
...Tokyo bureau chief Bryan Walsh, who canvassed the experts to determine the 51 things we can do--here, today--to begin setting the broken climate right. The solutions range from changing your lightbulbs to checking your tire pressure to planting a bamboo fence. We tell you what the impact of each initiative is, when it can start to produce results and when the feel-good factor outweighs the real value. Thottam began to feel the pressure to act even before she started to work on this issue. "My daughter is almost 9 months old," she says. "I am aware...
...atmosphere for decades, while oceans store heat for centuries--ensures that no matter how much humanity cuts greenhouse-gas emissions, our previous emissions will keep warming the planet for decades. Even if we were to magically stop all emissions today, "temperatures will keep rising, and all the impacts will keep changing for about 25 years," says Sir David King, chief science adviser to the British government. So while we strive to green our economies, we must also mount a major new effort to strengthen our resilience against the impact on the climate that our past emissions have set in motion...
...adaptation is no exception. "You can't adapt to a problem you don't admit exists," notes Richard Klein of the Stockholm Environment Institute, another IPCC co-author. The U.S. has only recently acknowledged global warming, while other countries are already taking concrete action to prepare for its impact. The Netherlands has some of the strongest flood defenses in the world and is making them stronger. Britain has doubled spending on flood and coastal-defense management, to about $1 billion a year. France, Spain and Finland have launched less ambitious adaptation initiatives. Even Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest...
...needle, but how much and how fast? Different green strategies, after all, yield different results. (See "51 Things We Can Do," page 69.) You can choose a hybrid vehicle, but simply tuning up your car and properly inflating the tires will help too. Buying carbon offsets can reduce the impact of your cross-continental travel, provided you can ensure where your money's really going. Planting trees is great, but in some parts of the world, the light-absorbing color of the leaves causes them to retain heat and paradoxically increases warming...