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...tell everyone in your home village that you've been up in the mountains for the weekend. The fact that the snowmen often block windshield visibility doesn't seem to bother anyone. Indeed, a certain joie de vivre in the face of danger is as Lebanese as the cedar tree. As my Lebanese skiing buddy, Alex, said when an errant snowboarder went crashing through the plastic orange protective webbing separating skiers and the lunchtime crowd sunning themselves at a base lodge: "They ski like they drive...
...Part of the reason the impact is so great is that the freeze hit with 70% of California's citrus still hanging on the tree. Unlike many other fruits, such as cherries, oranges aren't picked until they are ready to be sold. Some 12,000 fruit pickers and packers will now lose months of work, as a harvest meant to last until June will now probably end in March, after the remaining fruit is picked...
Despite its better-known identification with gloves and condoms, latex starts its life cycle as a substance collected from Hevea brasiliensis, better known as the rubber tree. Vivètique in Arcadia, Calif., gets the natural-latex mattress cores primarily from its supplier in Sri Lanka and finishes them with a cover of quilted wool and cotton. "More than half of the inquiries we get are from consumers who don't want synthetic fire retardants in their mattresses," says Scott Carwile, who co-owns Vivètique with his brother Steve. "More people are doing their homework...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
Going carbon neutral has become very popular with businesses recently, but there is some concern that it may not be as effective as advertised--that just planting a tree may not be enough. How will the company ensure that this actually works...