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...website's sheer ambition is. Launched in the teeth of the recession and a media apocalypse that has not spared environment-themed properties - the paper edition of the eco-friendly magazine Plenty folded on Jan. 5 - MNN aims to be nothing less than a one-stop shop, a "green CNN" for the online audience. "Our product is going to be better than anything out there," says Joel Babbit, MNN's president. "We're not just another site." (See the 50 best websites...
...system would not have prevented the current crisis at all," says Johnson, because the people taking crazy risks didn't think they were taking crazy risks. Top executives at now defunct Lehman Brothers had most of their wealth tied up in company stock, for example, yet that didn't stop them from steering the company over the cliff--because they had no inkling that was what they were doing...
...mainly on financial markets. If they come roaring back over the next few years, the whole clawback conversation will probably be forgotten. If they don't, investment banks and hedge funds will have to reinvent themselves to win back investors. Partnerships will make a comeback. Hedge funds will stop charging investors 20% fees. And clawbacks will be everywhere...
...worry about. Old phones and computers can be dismantled to get at the useful metals inside, but doing so safely is time-consuming. Thus, many electronics recyclers ship American e-waste abroad, where it is stripped and burned with little concern for environmental or human health. And authorities rarely stop the export of potentially hazardous e-waste. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that refused to ratify the 19-year-old Basel Convention, an international treaty designed to regulate the export of hazardous waste to developing nations. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversees the export of only...
...tiny activist group can't stop the mountain of e-waste Americans are producing, a mountain that will only grow when cable companies stop broadcasting analog signals on Feb. 17 and render obsolete the millions of rabbit ears used on old TV sets. Some TV manufacturers, like Sony, are offering free take-back programs, but if you really want to be e-green, try this: get a coupon from Uncle Sam for a discounted digital converter, and don't upgrade your old TV (or phone or computer) for a little while longer. It may not be in the generous holiday...