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...Immelt responding to a guilty corporate conscience? Nope. He's seizing a blossoming opportunity: Green is where the green is. Eyeing the hot market for eco-friendly technologies like wind turbines, Immelt says he aims to double revenues in green products from $10 billion to $20 billion by 2010. He promises to improve GE's energy efficiency 30% and cut greenhouse-gas emissions 1% by 2012 as the company grows at a projected 8% average annual rate (emissions would rise 40% if left unchecked). GE will issue annual "citizenship" reports on its environmental progress. With a new ad campaign...
...policy into greener arenas despite the Federal Government's recalcitrance. For instance, Senate proposals to cap CO2 emissions--opposed by congressional Republicans and President Bush--failed to make it into the energy bill. The Senate bill does require utilities to generate 10% of electricity from renewable fuels like wind or solar by 2020, but Bush wants more emphasis on tax breaks for oil and gas production. Immelt is one of a growing number of chief executives, including the heads of major utilities, who think carbon caps are both inevitable and a feasible response to global warming--a condition that nearly...
Whatever Washington's agenda, GE sees eco-friendly products as a growth business, especially overseas. In the past three years, GE's wind business, snapped up from Enron for $358 million, has grown into a $2 billion enterprise, with sales up 300%. GE has been rolling out a new generation of supersized turbines for offshore wind farms, the latest one off the coast of Ireland, and announced its third contract to supply smaller windmills to mainland China--where energy demand is soaring and the government aims to spend $85 billion on pollution controls, especially in smog-choked cities like Beijing...
...Kans., where the three-story, hollowed-out brick Public School 21 looms over rows of abandoned homes, about all that's left functioning in the business district is, again, a grain elevator and a severely weathered tiny wooden post office with the ever present wind whipping an American flag out front. A rusting sign recalls better times: RESERVED FOR U.S. MAIL VEHICLES--as if there's any competition for a parking spot...
...that it was only an IM championship (they lost the football, basketball and volleyball championship matches in three consecutive nailbiters—all videotaped by Paul’s dad and score tallied by Lindsey). It was Paul who could play soccer with the stars and run like the wind, but didn’t mind going on a gentle bike-ride through Cambridge with Danny and Danny’s less-than-jockish sister. He even helped me convince my brother that “extreme” biking exploits in the woods were less preferable than actually sticking...