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...star over the past year, argues that environmentalism won't just be about the environment anymore. Instead, it will drive fundamental changes in the way we do business and the jobs we create - that's what he means by a green-collar economy. Over the years, manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs have been gradually outsourced from the U.S. That has hit the working class especially hard, in both cities and rural areas, because decent-paying blue-collar employment is what pulls people out of poverty and into the middle class. At the same time, it's the working class...
...stem carbon emissions. These are not the high-tech, high-education "George Jetson" jobs, as Jones puts it, that were created by the Internet and biotech booms. Green-collar jobs include manufacturing solar panels, insulating green homes, servicing wind turbines. These are jobs that can be filled by blue-collar workers who need jobs - and they help the environment to boot. "You can put the country back to work with green solutions that are good for the Earth," says Jones...
...bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period and setting are never clear, producing an inscrutable operatic haze that frustrates singers and spectators alike.The haze finally cleared—though only briefly—in the middle...
...pleased with the results.Anchored by sophomore Dan Chenoweth, the Harvard squad put up five solid showings en route to a 28th-place team finish. Chenoweth’s 24:05.5 time was good for 21st overall individually and a personal best in the men’s 8K Blue Race. Men’s captain Chas Gillespie pulled in 30 seconds later at a personal-best 24:35.6, earning him 64th overall.A pair of freshman—Stephen Couch and Dan Stiles—and sophomore Ryan Neely rounded out Harvard’s score earners. Couch crossed the line...
...Sleep TV, a channel offering guided meditation to lull guests into slumber. Guests of the Concept Room can also receive an assortment of calming oils, a sound machine and a special jet lag-busting herbal calming tea and snacks. To encourage alertness the next morning, there's a blue light in the shower, which sends a signal through a receptor in your eye to signal wakefulness; if that doesn't do the trick, there's also a eucalyptus shower fizzer. Still groggy? The light box over the desk helps re-energize you in 20 minutes and the special morning breakfast...