The building developers and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture deserve to be applauded for this.
Via FastCompany:
The tallest building in the U.S. is about to get a $350 million green makeover as part of a plan to cut electricity use by 80% and save 24 million gallons of water each year. The goal of the project, according to developers, is to turn the Sears Tower into a living laboratory for green retrofits.
The climate bill debate has begun in the house. Will it be enough? Obama talks about the jobs the bill is expected to create and states that it will make clean energy profitable.
The website of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate that many believe rightfully won the election, has stated that the Iranian government has arrested 70 university professors in its continued crackdown on the Iranian protestors.
Seventy university professors were detained in Iran in a widening government crackdown on protesters, according to a Web site affiliated with Iran's key opposition figure, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who says he was robbed of victory in a rigged presidential election.
Via Slashdot:
I wonder if there's a hidden, symbolic meaning to the Iranian government selecting that trilogy. Or, maybe the translation provided will provide one.
Obama is moving on healthcare again. A bit.
In meeting with several Republican governors today (that weren't on leave in Argentina) to discuss the national healthcare system.
He sent a message to the AMA by stating that patients would be able to choose their doctors under his system.
Via the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Americans will still be able to choose their doctors under the health care changes he is seeking.
The sorry plight of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
People fall in love with other people. It happens. Okay.
People need to take a break and get away. It's true. Okay.
But STATE GOVERNORS need to communicate those things. Directly to the people that matter. A lot sooner than Gov. Sanford did.
(And not skip out of town when they have 4 little boys wondering where he is on Father's Day.)
Governor Palin | Doesn’t Finish the Job
Palin resigns her post. One can speculate that the state of Alaska will be in better hands when Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell takes over the responsibilities that Palin is abandoning.
Yet, if Palin truly is leaving in order to prepare herself for a 2012 Presidential run, what does it say about her character as a leader? We can surmise that she places her ambitions ahead of following through on a job she was elected to do.
Unless there are family matters she is attending to, which is not something she has stated, or she's too strained from her endeavours, leaving an elected office 17 months early of her term's expiration in December of 2010, while saying she's "doing what’s best for Alaska," means Palin is effectively giving herself a vote of no confidence.
From the NYTimes The Causus blog: