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...Environmental Entrepreneurs "How business saw the light" [Jan. 15] stated, "2006 was the year corporations began acting as if their existence - like the rest of the planet's - was tied to the environment," but failed to mention the obvious motivator, rising oil prices. The article complained that "the Federal Government dragged its feet on alternative energy" without recognizing that taxpayers should be grateful, since venture capitalists are pouring billions into green technologies. Free markets work. Low-priced oil increases greenhouse gases; high-priced oil leads to economically viable alternatives. We tilt at windmills when we ignore this simple economic fact...
...issues. “Many evangelicals think that environmentalism is about pantheism and paganism and new-age religions,” Cizik said. To remove this stigma, the coalition developed a new terminology for talking about the environment. The coalition began “referring to life on this planet as the ‘creation,’” McCarthy said, “because it communicated a sense of deep respect and reverence for all life on this planet. The scientists were quite comfortable with this term, and this facilitated the dialogue...
...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...
...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...