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...David Jones, Shell's former head of wind energy. The company estimates it will have about $600 million invested in renewable-energy infrastructure projects over the next five years--notably in wind-turbine hardware. "We have identified renewable energy as an absolute growth market," says Thomas Pütter, chief executive of Allianz. He points to China's embrace of wind power. The government has wind-mapped the entire country and is committed to building the world's largest wind-power farm, with an eventual output of 200 gigawatts...
...David Jones, Shell's former head of wind energy. The company estimates it will have €500 million invested in renewable-energy infrastructure projects over the next five years - notably in wind-turbine hardware. "We have identified renewable energy as an absolute growth market," says Thomas Pütter, chief executive of Allianz Capital Partners. Swiss Re, one of the first companies to pledge to make its own business carbon neutral (by cutting energy use and offsetting carbon emissions by purchasing credits or even planting trees) says that it is comparing its underwriting and investment portfolios, hoping to maximize profits...
...director of the family-run Bayreuth Festival in 1951. He began by throwing out all the traditional trappings-animal skins, horned helmets, swan boats and ponderous sets-replacing them with simple robes and stark, dimly lit slabs designed to evoke modern psychological drama; the old guard cried, "Götter-dämmerung!," but critics and audiences hailed "the new Bayreuth style" which soon established itself in opera companies around the world...
...though hardly bearable in the original. The fact is often missed because in the U.S., at least, opera is usually sung in the original language, and most members of the audience have little more than a basic vocabulary consisting of amore morire, andia-mo, bene, coraggio, preghiera; Götter, Liebe, Tod, Sturm, Blut; merveille, sourire, larmes, yeux. English-language performances usually do not help because the translation is too often done by journeymen rather than by competent poets. As it is, the operagoer has the simple duty, to himself and to the work, of glancing at a libretto before...
Even after two unsettling defeats, in which Yankee power had been merely a tter of rhetoric and Yankee fielding had resembled that of the Bums of Flatbush their zaniest, the New York club remained confident of ultimate victory and tain of a win today...