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...tech companies are generally more willing to invest in the hardware and software that are needed to make long-distance supervision work. "Surprisingly, one of the biggest problems is that some people will not fork over the cash for the technology," says Mareen Duncan Fisher, a consultant based in Portland, Ore., and co-author of The Distance Manager...
...municipal governments are working to duplicate such successes. In 1993, Portland, Ore., became the first U.S. city to implement its own CO2-reduction plan, joining a global partnership of municipal governments that eventually included Denver; Minneapolis, Minn.; Copenhagen; and Helsinki. The goal was to slash CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. Portland's strategy involved a six-point program that included synchronizing traffic lights, planting 75,000 acres of trees (which absorb carbon dioxide) and buying low-CO2 vehicles for the city's fleet...
...some measures, the program is working spectacularly, with mass-transit ridership increasing 30%, auto commutes to downtown falling 15%, and solid-waste disposal from homes shrinking 13%. But the city's CO2 output has actually risen, mostly because of an unanticipated population boom in the Pacific Northwest. Portland is undeterred, however--pointing out that its European partners, which were spared such demographic shifts, have had success with similar strategies. The city is taking a second look at its own program and revising it as necessary. Efforts are also under way in other U.S. localities, including Miami-Dade County, which eliminated...
...including Alaska, Southwest and Delta Airlines' relatively strong showings, for the most part the picture is pretty dismal. "The airlines promised two years ago to clean things up, and they just haven't," says Richard Gritta, professor of finance at the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland in Oregon...
...courts are not doing very much to clarify the issue. Two years ago, a federal court in Portland, Ore., ruled the web site was not protected by the First Amendment, and ordered the site's organizers to pay $109 million in damages to Planned Parenthood and the four doctors who had sued the site for inciting violence. The site was taken down. Wednesday, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned that ruling...