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...travels with a pet rooster, wrote a children's book, Story of the Colors. His new work is an effort to raise awareness of the Zapatistas and cash for charity. Nice try. But he seems to be ignoring another cash cow. Nothing says back-to-school clothes like a ski mask and fatigues...
Buying wind, it seems, is a complicated venture. Last week the Colorado ski and recreation company Vail Resorts Inc. announced it would purchase 100% of its energy use - roughly 152,000 megawatt-hours a year - from wind farms. But that doesn't mean Vail is dumping its old energy providers. Instead it has purchased "wind power credits" from a Boulder-based company called Renewable Choice Energy, which in turn pays wind farms throughout the country to produce electricity - enough to offset 211 million lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This purchase makes Vail the second-largest buyer of wind...
...hopes that skiers, who arguably have an interest in preserving the environment, will be encouraged to choose Vail's resorts over its competitors. "We're hoping our guests sign up and have heavy participation in our program," says Vail CEO Rob Katz, "and then think, ?maybe I'll ski an extra day, maybe an extra two days.'" The only danger would be if consumers don't respond, in which case the company may find its green goodness is full...
...carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...
...that became the satire of it. I literally was thinking, "I can't do this show because I don't have enough pain in my life." There was a time when we'd watch the Olympics and were happy to see a skier like Bode Miller ski down the hill. Now we have to know everything about his second cousin's flirt with gingivitis...