What an intriguing coincidence.

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By Johnny Neihu 強尼內湖
There I was again, back off the wagon and sucking down Taiwan's finest ales at 3am at a crap nightclub that not even a Combat Zone mama-san could love. The mutt Punkspleen had been heavily sedated with a toxic dose of China-made dog chow. And I'd gotten Cathy Pacific off my back about my weekly benders with the promise of a full spa treatment in Wulai (烏來).

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Dark days at end of Empire

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By Liou Ming-lone 劉銘龍
Representatives from around the world are congregating in Bali, not for a meeting of the UN General Assembly, but for a global climate conference. We are not a member of the UN, yet our government has sent a large entourage of officials.

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About 7,000 small wind turbines were sold in the US last year as companies and households seek eco-friendly options
By Kristina Shevory
When Rena Wilson Jones and her husband, Drew, were building a house 10 years ago in a subdivision near the edge of Urbana, Illinois, they knew the property was likely to be windy, bordered as it was by open fields to the north and west. But they did not realize how fierce the winds would be until construction of their house was under way. In the decade that followed, the wind drove Wilson Jones crazy from November through April, she said, whipping across her yard and making it difficult to work in the garden. At times, it was hard to walk outside.

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By Eric Wilson
Let us set aside the cliches about green fashion, ye cynical Kermits, and presume that everyone is now on board with saving the world by doing our holiday shopping at Barneys, where even the window displays promote eco-friendly clothing.

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