Although it relies on water-generated electricity for most of its power, Ethiopia is now turning to the wind to keep its county going. Right now the nation is in the early stages of a near $300 million scheme to develop 120 wind turbines — the largest such project in the world Set for completion in [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
WANTED: 800 Extras for Governors Island Zombie Movie Shoot
This weekend welcomes the Summer opening of Governors Island, which kicks off the warm-weather with a polo championship headlined by none other than Britain’s Prince Harry. While youthful royalty are certainly lures, the real news over on the former military base is that hip arts organization Creative Time is helping to develop a new move [...]
OPEN IN MALLORCA: The Monocle Pop-Up Shop
Mere weeks after debuting their Los Angeles outpost, Monocle Magazine is setting up shop on the sunny island of Mallorca with a special “pop-up” boutique all summer long. Located in Palma’s Santa Catalina quarter, the shop will house all sorts of Monocle-branded goodies as well as the latest — and greatest — issues. There will [...]
AT RISK: The Bolivian Andean Club
Founded back in 1939, the Bolivan Andean Club is the highest-altitude ski club in all of Latin American and one of the highest in the world — nearly 5,500 meters in the mountains. But global warming is taking a toll on one of the least-known ski spots on the planet. In recent years some 80 [...]
BATTLE OF THE BEAUTIES: Brazilian Fashion Shows Must Meet Minority Model Quotas
Despite a population that is over 50 percent non-white, Brazilian fashion weeks in Sao Paulo and Rio are notorious for their near all-Caucasian models. Indeed, much like during NYC Fashion Week, a model of color is almost as common as a model of size. But now Brazilian prosecutors are taking legal action to compel fashion [...]
SONY vs. EMI: New Character Enters Nasty Legal Drama
Earlier this month Sony Music took smaller rival EMI — and its exec Ron Werre — to court after Werre broke a last-minute/$3 million deal to join Sony as President of the Commercial Music Group. It appears as if Werre was doing some shady double-dealing and only used the threat of moving to Sony to [...]
DEVELOPMENT DEBATE: Dambisa Moyo vs. Jeffrey Sachs
Back in February, we wrote about economist and author Dambisa Moyo, whose new book Dead Aid offers a scathing critique of the conventional international aid model. Three months on, it appears as if Moyo’s global vision — one in which poor African nations are lifted out of poverty via investment, trade and micro-finance — is [...]
TREND ALERT: Money-Management Cruises
Even though it may be one of the costliest cruise lines around, Crystal Cruises is helping its passengers tackle their money woes. This fall, the company is launching a series of voyages with on-board experts who will help cruisers learn to better handle their money and investments. Their October 8th sailing between NYC and Montreal, [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Transracial-in-Chief Barack Obama
Long before he became President, Barack Obama was a nice boy from Hawaii who moved to LA to study at Occidental College in the late 1970s There he did what most young adults do in SoCal — experimented with fashion, friends and even drugs before heading full-steam onto the path that would lead him to [...]
WE SALUTE: Saudi Lingerie Maverick Reem Assad
Saudi Arabia’s Reem Assad is a one-woman force for change. A lecturer in banking and finance at Jeddah’s Dar al-Hekma Women’s College, she is a leading campaign to make life easier for women in this notoriously male-dominated society. Here target: Women’s lingerie stores. It appears as if nearly every female underwear store in Saudi Arabia [...]