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...release, California passed sweeping legislation to curb greenhouse gases. In the days leading up to the legislature's vote, one of the bill's co-authors hosted free screenings of the film. "For policymakers, the release of a movie becomes a focusing event, like a natural disaster," says Matthew Nisbet, professor of communications at American University...
...main task of computer-network manager Mike Nisbet at Rheem Manufacturing in Montgomery, Ala., is to keep 500 PCs and laptops virus-free and humming. Last year he was haunted by another worry: averting an avalanche. The obsolete or trashed equipment that he and his staff routinely piled in a storage room was in a heap 6 ft. high and growing. "I was afraid someone might get hurt," he says...
...Nisbet could find only one state-approved electronics hauler, which promised for $6,000 to entomb 300 pieces of e-waste in concrete before taking it all to a landfill. The price, along with Nisbet's unease about burdening the landfill, bothered him enough to seek another solution. He found one in St. Charles, Mo., paying EPC the same price to recycle an even larger load of high-tech trash...
...Peter Nisbet, head curator of the Busch-Reisinger, spoke of the excitement of putting the show together. “It’s been wonderful to watch this show evolve,” he said. “So many surprises have come...
...Nisbet explained the difficulty many museums often face when trying to do architecture shows. He said that the emphasis in the exhibit need not necessarily be on the chairs themselves. Rather, they create windows into the architects’ larger plans and styles...