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...like rooftop solar panels or energy-efficient insulation. That's great, and there are enormous energy savings that can be achieved with basic improvements in building design, but the LEED system doesn't take into account the context of a building - where it is. A design could win a Platinum LEED rating - the highest possible award - but it can't really be described as environmentally friendly if it's part of a sprawling neighborhood that just adds to car dependency. "It doesn't matter how green you are if your house in the suburb still generates 14 car trips...
...trapped on the East Coast, dreaming of “coming home again.” I would say more about Kanye, but he already sang his own praises on my behalf: “’Ye, keep making that, keep making that platinum and gold...
...Christianity.” 1. Diamond encrusted skulls. Let’s just state the facts about Damien Hirst’s “For the Love of God.” It’s a human skull made of platinum and smothered in diamonds—8,601 diamonds, to be precise. If that weren’t obnoxious enough, it sold for $100 million, which was paid to the artist in cash (straight up). Luda, you might have what “feels like a midget hanging from my necklace,” but the members...
...indices, funds and esoteric instruments have been created to meet their needs. Some, for example, offer ways for investors to ride the long-term growth of sectors such as renewable energy, waste management and Arctic shipping; others bundle and package climate-change risk so it can be traded like platinum or pork bellies by hedge-fund speculators...
Under my plan, the airlines would modify their caste system, evidently modeled on ancient India's, in which Platinum cardholders board before Gold, who board before Silver and so on, until we odious hunchbacks in straphanger class are allowed to board, trailing our leashed chickens as they peck their way down the aisle...