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...Laurie, "so the key is finding ways that existing business translates effectively to the moon." The lack of a lunar atmosphere, for example, would add thousands of years to the life of data storage. And who knows? With earth-bound economic institutions in turmoil, even if we mess this planet up maybe someday we can still find an IKEA on the moon. THE BOURSE Bear market bargain Hamleys, the British toy-retailing institution, used the economic downturn to go bargain shopping, buying defunct English Teddy Bear Co. for $1.1 million. Disastrous Insurance Europe's ailing insurance industry claimed...
Watching the news is clearly out of the question. So is mtv, which also airs footage of the tumbling World Trade Center. Even the kid-friendly Animal Planet ran a feature on rescue dogs that sifted through debris at ground zero. "Emeril is my favorite because he's so funny and distracting," says Hilary. "I don't care so much about what he actually cooks, just that he never says anything about Sept...
...more use ought to be made of renewable energy sources such as solar-, wind- and hydro-electricity; and also that it would be a really good idea to try, by the year 2015, to get clean drinking water and sanitation to half of the 2.4 billion people on the planet who currently lack access to either...
...consumers of oil joined forces to squelch a European Union initiative to set a target and a timeline for increasing the proportion of their energy needs derived from renewable sources. It's not hard to see why the Saudis - who sit on top of almost two thirds of the planet's known oil reserves - might balk at governments being urged to use tax incentives and subsidies to woo their consumers off of fossil fuels. Elsewhere, however, it was the EU in the environmentalists' doghouse for nixing any discussion of the $300 billion that rich nations pay their own farmers...
...leading corporations (among them major oil companies and auto manufacturers) have gone to Johannesburg to tout their earth-friendly credentials. Indeed, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has worked hard to promote business-environmentalist partnership as a key component of a strategy to protect the environment. So, while the planet may be a long way from being saved, when the corporate titans so often accused of being among its worst abusers see the need to spend two weeks making common cause with the tree-huggers, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel...