Word: techs
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...producer of petroleum, and the wealth that oil brings this former fishing village is evident in the foreign luxury cars that choke its highways, running on gas that costs just 45 cents a gallon. But a year ago, the government launched the multibillion-dollar Masdar Initiative, a combination clean-tech investment fund, property developer and renewable-energy start-up, all dedicated to preparing Abu Dhabi for the end of oil and positioning it as an unlikely green leader. (Read TIME's "Heroes of the Environment...
...This week the city is hosting the second annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES), a gathering of clean-tech companies and luminaries that has quickly emerged as, as the New York Times put it recently, a kind of Davos for the postcarbon set. And while much of the rest of the world is using the financial crisis as an excuse to put off the transition to cleaner power, in the WFES's opening session today, Abu Dhabi announced that it had pledged that 7% of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2020, up from nothing today. "This...
Thank you, TIME, for giving us solid reasons to be hopeful on the crucial energy issue [Jan. 12]. With incentives for energy efficiency, the economy would hum with millions of local projects requiring little or no government planning. Moreover, by choosing a relatively low-tech policy that the world could readily copy, we would at last become leaders in climate protection--and in rejecting the needless and dangerous expansion of nuclear power. Egan O'Connor, SAN FRANCISCO...
...While Jobs's email appeared to shock shareholders, it did not surprise long-time Jobs watchers. The CEO is known for dissembling, perhaps as a tactic to mislead his competitors in the highly secretive and volatile consumer tech industry. In 2005, months before unveiling a video-playing iPod, for instance, he was routinely telling the press that he had no plans to build such a device. And on the eve of Macworld, according to a source, Jobs was maintaining that he'd be making a surprise appearance at the trade show. He did not show up, however...
...Philadelphia Museum of Art's recently renovated Perelman Building - currently showing exhibitions on Matisse and African-American quilts - to the Pantheon-like Ritz-Carlton, housed in the refitted century-old Girard Trust bank. America's past also gets a fresh approach at the National Constitution Center, a high-tech temple to the country's cornerstone legal document. On Jan. 19 - Martin Luther King Day - the center opens "America I AM," an exhibition celebrating the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history. Among the artifacts on display are the key to King's jail cell, Malcolm X's Koran and Muhammad...