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...very rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their carbon footprints are bigger. Between their private jets, fleets of cars and large (often multiple) houses, the wealthy tend to suck up more than their fair share of the earth's resources. And that's not even counting the environmental impact of the businesses that built their bank accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Super-Rich Go Green, They Do It Big | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...Edward Humes makes clear in his new book Eco-Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet, a high income-tax bracket gives the rich another advantage: a platform on which they can advance the causes that matter to them. And believe it or not, a surprising number of super-wealthy Americans are using their money to fight for what Humes calls "a secret plan to save the earth." (See the top 10 green stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Super-Rich Go Green, They Do It Big | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...February, reporter Rick Santelli launched into an on-air rant against helping "losers" with their mortgages, a viral-video hit that made Santelli the poor man's Rush Limbaugh - or is that the rich man's? Kudlow Report host Larry Kudlow opined that President Obama "is waging war against capital." Stock picker and professional gasket blower Jim Cramer trained his bulging eyes on Washington, accusing Obama of "the greatest wealth destruction I've ever seen by a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CNBC Under Fire: Sticking Up for the Big Guy? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...themselves now that the economy can no longer support the massive shopping centers that used to define them. Krista Mahr in Hong Kong reports on how the crunch is fueling a new kind of international trade: countries with money but little arable land are renting huge tracts from countries rich in soil but poor in cash. Alex Perry zeroes in on the unexpected star of the global economy: Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigating the New World | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Mitchell, the key benefit in coming to Harvard has been a chance to integrate into a non-military community and learn from a viewpoint he might not normally encounter. “There’s a rich variety of perspectives and experiences,” he says, “that’s hard to replicate in any of the army or [Department of Defense] schools...

Author: By H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: National Security Fellas | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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