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Annie Schumake stands outside her one-story house in the depressed city of Richmond, Calif., just north of Oakland, and watches her electric meter slow to a crawl, stop and then begin to tick backward. Schumake's solar panel, just installed on her roof and partly financed with low-cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bring Eco-Power to the People | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

A few years ago, the Oakland-based human-rights activist came to a realization. If the U.S. accelerated the transition to a cleaner economy, millions of jobs in green construction and alternative energy could be created. Those jobs--call them green collar--were exactly what unemployed residents of cities like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bring Eco-Power to the People | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

Last year the group joined the local government and the street's two principal landlords in an alliance to keep the tailoring industry intact. "You tell me the name of a street more famous than Savile Row in Britain," Boateng says. "It has so much tradition and history. It needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tailor-Made Revival | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

Jones argues that poor marketing and promotion, rather than stiffer rents, had been the industry's main problems. "Two years ago, the industry wasn't confident. Now, it is." Rowland agrees: "We let 'Savile Row Bespoke' be used right, left and center." Today, a "collective mark" trademark registration of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tailor-Made Revival | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

For one thing, this war is tragic but not inherently dramatic. The useful clichés of old war films--capturing a hill from the bad guys, getting an enemy uniform in gun sight, wooing a pretty maiden in a distant land--don't apply to a conflict on city streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Iraq Films Are Failing | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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