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...pitched in on campaign coverage for NBC and completed a documentary on global warming in 2006. Covering the environment isn't a fad for Brokaw - the South Dakota native is a longtime outdoorsman, often fly-fishing near his home in Montana and hiking with green friends like Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. The former NBC Nightly News anchor just finished a new climate change documentary - Global Warming: The New Challenge with Tom Brokaw - which airs on the Discovery Channel on Mar. 18. Brokaw spoke to TIME in New York shortly after his return from a biking trip to Africa. Apparently semi...
...antiquated ways of doing business, and not just in the environment. You can have fresh thinking during a crisis: how can we help the environment and save ourselves some money. Packaging is a perfect example. It makes me crazy to buy two Advil in $40 worth of plastic packaging. Yvon Chouinard, who runs Patagonia, is one of my close personal friends and a big environmentalist. He tells a wonderful story: he wanted to sell underwear without any packaging. I said, 'You'll go broke!' But he just put a rubber band around it and sales went up 35%. He uses...
...uneven new book, “Let My People Go Surfing,” Yvon Chouinard proudly boasts that the outdoor gear company he founded, Patagonia, has managed to “challenge convention wisdom and present a new style of responsible business.” Unlike the stereotypical evil business, Patagonia has managed to do “good things and make a profit without losing its soul,” Chouinard writes. This prophet of responsible capitalism promises to explain how he broke the rules and won.And the lessons are there. For instance, Chouinard stresses the importance...
Philippe's motley force numbered only a few hundred soldiers. But when the rebels moved to arrest Aristide's Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune, the Americans had had enough. U.S. armored military vehicles surrounded Neptune's office, and as Philippe supporters massed at the gate, annoyed U.S. officials told them sarcastically, "Sorry, we're closed." Afterward, U.S. military commanders called Philippe in and warned that if he didn't disarm he would "be dealt with the same as anyone who gives us hostile interference out there," says a U.S. official. Philippe publicly agreed, though days later his insurgents were still armed...
...That, say most Haitians and even U.S. officials like Foley, makes it all the more incumbent on the U.S. and international community to do a far more thorough job of institution-building in Haiti than they did a decade ago. When Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (a staunch Aristide ally) presented Alexandre to the press hours after Aristide?s farewell, they were both accompanied by Foley-a strong indication that the ambassador may now be America?s de facto pro consul now in Haiti. ?I think it?s very clear that the efforts made 10 years ago did not yield...