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When climate scientists use the word adaptation, they are referring to actions intended to safeguard a person, community, business or country against the effects of climate change. Its complement is mitigation--any measure that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, such as drawing power from a wind turbine rather than a coal-fired power plant. Mitigation addresses, if you will, the front end of the global-warming problem; by cutting emissions, it aims to slow rising temperatures. Adaptation is the back end of the problem--trying to live with the changes in the environment and the economy that global warming...
...Pearl River Tower, under construction in Guangzhou, China, is aiming for a net energy footprint of zero by relying on such features as on-site wind turbines and recovery and recycling of condensed water. In Paris, a new tower will rely on wind turbines to provide its heating and cooling for the equivalent of five months of the year. And if you're a corporation planning a skyscraper, don't assume you can't afford to go green. The new buildings typically cost about 5% more to construct than conventional ones but quickly exceed that outlay in energy savings...
Take General Electric. Its Ecomagination initiative centers on a line of 45 green products, including wind turbines and next-generation jet engines that go easy on the earth but land nicely on the balance sheet. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt set a goal of generating more than $20 billion in revenue from Ecomagination by 2010, and by 2006 the company had hit the $12 billion mark...
...Lieberman's G.O.P. Tryst Senator Joe Lieberman lost the democratic primary because his constituents know that he is a lightweight shifting his allegiance as the wind blows, trying to play both sides of every issue [March 5]. He is the poster child for term limits in our Congress. He is still there because he is working the system for his own good, rather than for the benefit of the American people. How do we get rid of him? Boyce Abbott, CHICAGO...
...Clay Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch’s 66 points helped Harvard to fifth place, just behind Tufts, which had 64. “There was a lot of starting and stopping for Clay and I, and we spent a lot of time waiting around for the wind to fill in,” Kovacs said. “It was difficult to get a good rhythm.” Overall, the Bulldogs took first place with Dartmouth in second. Connecticut College and host Navy followed the Crimson in the final standings. “While it might...