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Charles Krauthammer chided Al Gore and Hollywood for being less green than they claim [March 26]. I suggest that for Krauthammer's next targets he look at more profound sources of the problem: auto companies that lobby to keep mileage standards low; energy companies that pay scientists to deny the human role in global warming; Vice President Dick Cheney, who pooh-poohed energy conservation and apparently met in secret with energy-company executives to create the country's energy policy; and President George W. Bush, who reneged on his campaign promise to regulate carbon output. Krauthammer could also report...
There is real value in celebrity "Greenstanding" about legitimate environmental problems. For some Americans, celebrity gossip is the only news they get. Maybe Hollywood can get through to them. We in the Western world need to wake up and realize we have a problem. We have to keep trying to educate everyone. Kimberly Johnson, HOUSTON...
Loneliness is a running theme among pastors' wives, the piper's tune that drives them online. "What do you think is the No. 1 problem that preachers' wives have?" says Lynne Dugan, author of Heart to Heart with Pastors' Wives. "Friendship. Loneliness. You're surrounded by all these other people in the congregation, and you feel isolated." The Christian support group Focus on the Family concurs: loneliness is the top topic on its hotline for pastors' wives. After all, a PW can hardly discuss marital woes or child-raising tribulations with her husband's flock, and colleagues or other friends...
Even the most effective individual action, however, is not enough. Cleaning up the wreckage left by our 250-year industrial bacchanal will require fundamental changes in a society hooked on its fossil fuels. Beneath the grass-roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before. Says Carol Browner, onetime administrator of the EPA: "It's a sea change from where we were on this issue." Here...
...first three quarters of 2006 in Silicon Valley alone. That's sparking the interest of everyday investors, who see green technology as--dare they wish it?--the next Internet. Says Ray Lane, a partner at the KPCB venture-capital firm: "If you consider the sheer scale of the problem, I think this is an order of magnitude bigger...