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...green message gets broadcast in a variety of ways: at Claremont-McKenna College in California, students erected a giant Pyramid of Waste - a stack of Styrofoam to-go containers - designed to encourage students to eat in. "Fundamentally, I think consumers have to understand that some of the responsibility lies with them to create less waste," says Helene York, director of Bon Appétit Management, a company that has been dedicated to sustainable food initiatives at colleges nationwide since 1999. "If we create less waste, we don't even have to consider a need for back-end technologies [like...
...futurism; it's a Daily Kos blog.) On a nouveau Alcatraz called Terminal Island, Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen, merging her purse-lipped Pat Nixon impersonation with the imperious tenseness of Dick Nixon in late-Watergate mode) is in charge of an annual televised car-nage held on a giant track within the prison. In this Death Race, lifers drive the souped-up, heavily armed autos, and are promised an early release if they win five races. One of the inmates, a masked mystery man known as Frankenstein, is a four-time champion, hence the pay-per-view audience's favorite...
...CITY HALL Completed in 2002, the seat of London government is one of the more striking structures along the Thames. Designed by Foster and Partners, it resembles a giant steel-and-glass egg tilting in the wind. Inside, the spiral staircase at its core seems to float in midair, and the meeting chamber offers breathtaking IMAX-like views of the river. On the roof, solar panels provide power and the building's green credentials...
...only one. Along with the new geopolitical uncertainties, foreign businesses and investors are also grappling with signs of economic vulnerability such as rising inflation and slowing oil production, as well as heavy-handed corporate meddling by the government - not least in a high-profile joint venture involving British oil giant...
...flood of new business has continued unabated. Among the most recent deals: cosmetics giant L'Oréal signed an agreement in June to build a new factory in the Kaluga region; and French bank Société Générale took a controlling stake in Rosbank, which has more than 650 branches across Russia...