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...Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her goals for the trip were simple: to take an immersive Spanish class, do some painting, experience a new culture and generally relax. Says the self-described Blackberry addict: "I needed to get away to disconnect, recharge and regroup for the next step." The price tag, including airfare and all meals: $1,200. (Read more about travel and the swine flu dilemma...
...handful of major luxury companies had embraced environmental issues, and designers like Stella McCartney, who has always avoided leather even when It bags boosted the bottom line, were regarded as slightly off-kilter. Just three years later, McCartney's profits have increased 600%, companies as diverse as eBay, Tag Heuer and Ligne Roset are making huge strides in their sustainable designs and policies, and consumers are rejecting plastic for paper?or better yet, cloth?when they shop. With the environment top of mind nowadays, it's not such a stretch anymore to single out the Green Design 100: the people...
...while New Hampshire implements its new policy, many are wary of the slowly growing movement toward pay-for-rescue schemes. Howard Paul, former president of the Colorado Search and Rescue Board, worries that people will hesitate to call for help if they know it will come with a price tag. He points to numerous anecdotes in which people, fearing costs, have refused rescue despite grim injuries: a climber who hobbled down a 3,000-ft. mountain with a broken ankle; a woman who set out on her own to locate her missing husband; a lost and bewildered runner...
...fact, the initiative might never have gotten off the ground without a lot of help from Washington. Half the $200 million price tag of the first phase of the project will come from federal stimulus spending, and there's more to come. Along with the $3.3 billion in grant money set aside by the Department of Energy for smart-grid tech, another $615 million is set to be spent on projects for energy storage and monitoring. To Washington, building the smart grid is about more than energy - it's about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today...
...purchases aren't always the best purchases: "Despite your initial excitement and a high price tag, adaptation guarantees that your focus will soon stray from the wondrous pleasures of your new computer or larger apartment, consigning them to mere comfort status. Rather than binging on such big, costly amenities, a better - and cheaper - strategy for boosting your daily satisfaction quotient would be to add many more simple, inexpensive ones ... After all, on any given Monday morning, your comfortable bank balance pales beside a good cup of coffee...