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...with the collapse of the U.S.S.R., Estonia (pop. 1.35 million) was the first former Soviet republic to introduce its own currency and adopt a flat-tax system, now widely copied in the rest of Eastern Europe. It has also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking, buy bus tickets or check your children's school schedule. Wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous, and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which eBay acquired for $2.6 billion. That's slightly more...
...their vantage point to assess how a changing China is changing the world. As Michael Elliott, editor of TIME International and author of this week's cover story, says, "Watching China now is like being in one of those science-fiction movies where you can see a whole new planet take shape before your eyes." It's a story that could have many different outcomes: China could fulfill its sense of destiny and become the next great superpower, or it could succumb to internal strife, as it has many times in its long history. What happens to China--and what...
...plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service, it's a "self-imposed green tax - something altruistic for the planet...
...seen as an easy way out for governments, businesses and individuals to continue polluting without making changes to their behavior," say Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF in their recent report on offsetting. So if offsetting does have a role to play in preventing mankind from cooking the planet, at best it's a supporting one. Up in the hills of Llanybydder, Hartwell says he makes it clear to his customers that offsetting is only a small part of the fight, and that such frankness costs Treeflights.com "a lot of custom." But he says that...
...country from Oregon to Maine. Compacters are posting from Brazil to Britain, while television stations from China and Poland have broadcast reports on the movement. "My impulse buying urges have subsided," says Rachel Kesel, 26, one of the founders. "I've tried to lighten my impact on the planet...