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...whose flat screens for mobile electronic devices produce color in a manner similar to the way microscopic structures create color on butterflies' wings. And in The New Economy of Nature, Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison tell the stories of innovators trying to "make conservation profitable," including financier Richard Sandor...
...Richard Sandor's vast collection of vintage photographs reflects his fascination with divergent thinkers, from Albert Einstein to Fidel Castro to Man Ray. Yet his tactic for saving the earth couldn't be more Establishment. He wants to entrust the task to financial markets...
...Sandor, 60, the CEO and founder of Environmental Financial Products, based in Chicago, is one of several innovators who think the key to stopping global warming is to encourage companies to cut greenhouse-gas pollution by making it profitable for them to do so. The trick, contends the economist, who was a pioneer in the development of financial futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, is to create a market in permits to emit greenhouse gases. "The power of the free market is that it can restore nature's wealth as it increases financial wealth," Sandor says. Just...
Never mind computers, there weren't many telephones in Sandor Hau's hometown when he was a boy. Hau grew up in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home to the austere Amish farming community. "Mine isn't a classic Silicon Valley pedigree," jokes Hau, 28, who speaks Korean, English, Japanese and the archaic Amish-German dialect. "I think my family were the only Koreans in the county...
...talented cast is the main attraction of this production. As the hilariously affected Natasha Navratilova, Janine Poreba is a marvelous Russian femme fatale. Her performance is just overdone enough to maintain the farcical edge, never lapsing into cliched corn. Chip Rossetti gives a pat, almost smug performance as playwright Sandor Turai. Turai is almost a straight parody of the Author in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of the Character and while studied, Rossetti is more than amusing enough to keep us engaged...