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Still, catching BMW won't be easy. The Bavarian stalwart sold 1.5 million cars last year, nearly 336,000 of them in the States, and it is building cars at a plant in Spartanburg, S.C. That gives BMW a healthy cost advantage with the euro so strong--which is why Audi hasn't ruled out opening its own U.S. plant...
...side of sustainability education seems to be lagging behind the hardware side. One obvious reason is that the construction of a green building is fairly straightforward, but the architecture of an educational program isn't something that can be changed overnight. "If you design a part of the physical plant wrong, it's obvious quickly," says Terry Calhoun of the Society for College and University Planning. "It's not so obvious with the curriculum...
...campaign promises to pursue an aggressive alternative energy program along with offshore drilling.) Without those tax credits, the renewable energy industry "is grinding to a halt," says Peter Duprey, CEO of the North American arm of the Spanish renewable company Acciona Energy, which has a 64-megawatt solar thermal plant operating outside Las Vegas, and recently launched a 180-megawatt wind farm on the border between North Dakota and South Dakota. "Everyone says America is the land of opportunity for renewables," says Duprey. "We have to get serious about...
...best way to prevent this from happening would be to reduce the amount of nitrogen introduced into the ocean. The technology already exists to do that. If, for example, farmers in the upper part of the U.S. were given a financial incentive to plant crops like winter wheat, rather than leaving their fields fallow after the fall harvest, says marine ecologist Robert Howarth of Cornell University, much of the nitrogenous fertilizer that would normally get washed into waterways by spring thaws could instead be absorbed into winter grain crops. Measures of this sort, if uniformly implemented, could all but eliminate...
...studios to groups like Radiohead. But nobody really knows how to do it. It's like trying to herd cats." King well knows the perils (and potential embarrassments) of trying to attract analog readers through digital means. Riding the Bullet was a success, but an online serialization of The Plant - an e-book also released in 2000 - ceased after King, in a rare moment, publicly ran out of creative juice...