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The TH Interview: News Corp.'s Carbon Neutral Empire (Part 1)
In a baffling shift of climate, Hell has frozen over. The flash freeze wasn’t precipitated by a crumbling ice shelf or rising sea—or maybe it was. Rupert Murdoch, the founder and CEO of News Corporation, has decided to render his global conglomerate
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The TH Interview: Ariella Maron—The Greening of New York City
Love it or hate it, New York's 8.25 million people are some of the greenest citizens walking among us. Whether they know it or not, New Yorkers have significantly lighter footprints than the vast majority of Americans, and Mayor Bloomberg is trying to
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The TH Interview: Chris Page—The Green Yahoo
Climate impact might not be the first thing on your mind when jumping on a search engine (unless you're searching "climate impact"). But much is going on behind the scenes of these ethereal data dealers of search. Yahoo! has recruited its secret
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The TH Interview: Paul Hawken—Blessed Unrest (Part Two)
In part two of our in-depth discussion, Paul Hawken unpacks his new opensource, wiki-based Web entity, WISER Earth. He also offers up some details on Blessed Unrest the movie (and the remix), and brings it back to basics with the
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The TH Interview: Paul Hawken—Blessed Unrest (Part One)
Image credit: Shall.us For many people, Paul Hawken is a man who needs no introduction at all. As an author, a speaker, a theorist, and a business person, Paul Hawken has shaped the discussion of what sustainability is, and how it can be achieved. His
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The TH Interview: Ray Anderson—The Man with a Spear in his Chest (Part Two)
Interface sells carpet to the tune of $1,100,000,000 each year. That is just one reason why the business world listens up when Ray Anderson speaks. Ray describes his ecological awakening as "a spear in the chest," a wound he has used to both his
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The TH Interview: Ray Anderson—The Man with a Spear in his Chest (Part One)
Ray Anderson started his company, Interface, back in the 1970s to make carpet. Like any business man, he wanted to shake up the market and make a healthy profit, which he's done, and Interface now has 17 manufacturing locations on four continents.
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The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin's Green Mayor (Part Two)
In the second half of our face-to-face with Austin's mayor, Will Wynn talks about his part in the race to be America's greenest city, the decoupling of profits and pollution, and his vision for America getting it right (after we've exhausted every
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The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin's Green Mayor (Part One)
Austin Texas is a direct challenge to typical stereotypes about the American South. As the capital of the most polluting state, Austin has decided to flip the script and become one of the most progressive cities in the nation. Mayor Will Wynn has been
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TH Radio Special: Inside Tesla Motors (With Pics)
Like Angelina Jolie, the Tesla Roadster looks smaller in person. Notwithstanding all the hype and speed-geek obsession around the electric car, it is a stunning thing to behold; truly elegant. Tesla’s San Carlos engineering facility is where the
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The TH Interview: Mark Tercek—An Investment Golden Boy Heads for the NGO World
As the world’s largest investment bank, Goldman Sachs raised some bushy eyebrows when it began putting its weight behind green investments. Spearheading the bank’s Environmental Markets Initiative was Mark Tercek, a managing director and longtime
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The TH Interview: Wangari Maathai (Part Two)
"How can the planting of trees threaten presidents and ministers and people in authority? It's not the act of planting trees, it is the act of exposing the injustices that people in office carry out." Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai empowers
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The TH Interview: Wangari Maathai (Part One)
Yes, Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, was the first to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for environmental work. But as she makes ever-so-clear, trees are not just ecological super heroes. They form a bridge to women’s rights,
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The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part Two)
It's not just any old organization that can set a goal like this: protect 10% of every ecosystem type on Earth by 2015, effectively doubling the headway of the conservation movement over the last century. But The Nature Conservancy can. Acting
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The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part One)
Immersed in the nifty slickness of "environmentalism 2.0" it's sometimes easy to forget about the patient progress of the groups like The Nature Conservancy. At 56-years old, The Nature Conservancy is a granddaddy eco-org, and was doing its leafy
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The TH Interview: Doug Fine—Kiss Your Subaru Goodbye (Part Two)
The challenge is a rather simple one: set up a life that is local and low-carbon without sacrificing the beloved creature comforts. The kicker is not getting electrocuted, shot, burned, crushed, bitten, or driven insane. Doug Fine has assumed this
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The TH Interview: Doug Fine—Kiss Your Subaru Goodbye (Part One)
"As I watched my Subaru Legacy slide backward toward my new ranch's studio outbuilding, the thought crossed my mind that if it kept going at least I would be using less gasoline." Thus begins what journalist Doug Fine calls his "epic
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The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part Two)
People call the Texas plains "flyover country." Jarid Manos calls this land a coral reef in a sea of grass. In a region that has been ground under America's boot heel, Manos and his Great Plains Restoration Council have found a rich ecosystem,
