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...have been perturbed by Fielding's appearance in a German magazine photo spread, but Borer makes no apology for the shots of his glamorous blonde wife in a strapless gown astride a horse and toting toy guns in a red miniskirt - a dollar sign above her cleavage - on the roof the newly refurbished embassy. "Thanks to those pictures we had about 200 journalists at the inauguration of our embassy and a lot of positive press," he says. "Meanwhile, my colleagues who didn't do anything comparable had about two journalists and no mention. That's what I call...
...result, which is scheduled to open next year, may not fulfill all McDonough's ideals, but it will be the greenest car factory ever. Thirty-five skylights will illuminate the 2.1 million-sq.-ft. area to save money on lighting. Sedum, an ivy-like plant, will cover the roof and help insulate the building while absorbing storm water, providing a natural habitat--and saving the company an estimated $35 million in construction costs and much more from lower energy use. Just as Henry Ford was the father of the Model T and modern mass production, his great-great-grandson says...
...renewable energy and pay a premium price; today the country gets 18% of its electricity from wind. Thanks largely to Germany and Spain, which have enacted vigorous incentives for renewables, Europe today accounts for 70% of the world's wind power. In Japan 80,000 households have installed solar roof panels since the government offered generous subsidies in 1994; consequently, Japan has displaced the U.S. as the world's leading manufacturer of photovoltaics. India established a fund that has lent $1.1 billion to alternative-energy projects; the country is now the globe's fifth largest generator of wind and solar...
Some green architecture is literally green. Dwellings that nestle directly into the landscape like caves, with carpets of earth and grass rolling over them as roofing, were among the first and most thoroughgoing examples of green architecture in the 1970s. Buildings like those take their inspiration from such time-honored examples as Bronze Age settlements that were dug into the earth. But they operate on principles that can be adapted to modern midtown high-rises. For the past year, Chicago's City Hall, a 1911 Classical Revival building, has been topped by a "green roof...
...span of history." Iain Banks thinks Dead Air slots into the second category, which examines the state of the world after the attacks. The story, about radio DJ Ken and his affair with a gangster's wife, begins with guests at a party merrily throwing random objects from the roof of a tall building. (Images of falling pervade the book.) Then comes the news from New York. Ken starts filling his radio airtime with political diatribes, on topics ranging from the Bush presidency to the Middle East. "Ken's arguments, although caricatured, crystallize today's issues," says Banks. "He wants...