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...says is coming on the heels of the carbon emission dark ages. Creamer has spent the past three years amassing a near monopoly on low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) management in the U.S. His company now handles 99% of such waste, which includes contaminated clothing, equipment residue from reactor water and other materials. After acquiring eight companies and putting them under the Utah-based EnergySolutions umbrella, Creamer took the company public last November. Revenues for 2007 were just over $1 billion, but are expected to climb this year...
Just two months old, Kyaw Zin Htay was already gravely ill when Cyclone Nargis slammed into his village on Saturday, killing more than 40 of its inhabitants. His mother wrapped him in a blanket and fled through knee-deep water to a temple nearby, where hundreds of people-mostly very young children-now shelter. Kyaw Zin Htay is too weak to struggle or cry when his mother pulls aside the blanket to display his emaciated limbs. He survived Burma's biggest natural disaster in living memory, but his short life will almost certainly end here, on a fly-blown concrete...
...funerals. While the place is in tatters, the death toll may be greater in more exposed villages closer to the sea. Bogalay is slightly inland; the majority of deaths occurred in more flimsy coastal villages fully exposed to the elements and unprotected from a 12-foot-high surge of water...
...environmental awareness and activism isn't just a question of health," says Jonathan Spalter, a 45-year-old father in eco-haven Berkeley, Calif. "It's a moral and ethical issue that we hope to teach our three little girls." That means early potty-training, monitoring the water temperature in their children's baths and choosing "products that walk softly on the planet." Their kids are already on board, with one daughter telling Spalter's wife Carissa Goux, 41, "Mommy, you shouldn't waste so much...
...published Growing Up Green! "They're realizing they need to get involved in greening their communities." Take actress Laura Dern, mother of two. First she hired Green Life Guru, a Los Angeles--based environmental-services company, to evaluate the eco-fitness of her house. "After they advised me on water filtration and solar paneling," Dern says, "I realized, Wait a minute--I'm sending my children off to a school, which can be a toxic environment." Now she and other parents are working with the company to eliminate chemical-ridden carpeting and pesticides at their children's school and introduce...