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...strategies: a new Industrial Revolution based on much more than just raw output, high-tech buildings that are environmentally savvy, incentives to speed the switch to clean energy sources, fast and safe cars that don't pollute and innovative programs to keep the sprawling global village from swallowing our precious wilderness. "So much environmental reporting emphasizes only the problems," says Alexander. "We wanted to focus on the solutions...
...lawyers' fees clicked away, the Chicks retreated to their Texas homes last year to make music with their own money and at their own pace. They aren't precious about their songs (says Maines: "I'll never write as well as Sheryl Crow or Patty Griffin; I don't have the turmoil in my life"). But while strumming away in one another's living rooms, they talked about entering a new phase of life, with husbands and kids (Maines has a son, 1; Robison is seven months pregnant) and adult responsibilities. The songs they wrote and other writers' songs they...
Imagine a future of relentless storms and floods; islands and heavily inhabited coastal regions inundated by rising sea levels; fertile soils rendered barren by drought and the desert's advance; mass migrations of environmental refugees; and armed conflicts over water and other precious natural resources...
...size and have a human population of no more than 5 people per sq km. These "last wild places," as the group calls them, cover 46% of the land surface of the planet. With all the resources and strategies at our disposal, much of this precious territory can still be saved...
Last week Prague prepared for war. As sirens wailed, volunteers built sandbag barricades and rescue workers went door-to-door evacuating residents and tourists. Museum curators hurried to secure paintings, rare manuscripts and other precious art objects, while appeals for donations of blood, food and clothing were broadcast over radio and television. Military rescue vehicles took up positions throughout the city. The residents of Prague were at war with the elements, as a week of heavy rains swelled the Vltava River to 35 times its average flow, swamping the metro system, collapsing apartment buildings, engulfing roads and bridges and displacing...