NYT Magazine's Green Issue

Published: April 23, 2008, 5:50 pm

The entire issue is here. Some of the coverage: Act. An excerpt: Demand response is, in essence, an inversion of the traditional logic of power generation: instead of paying to create power, you pay money to reduce the need for it. The procedure has been particularly popular in major cities, where grids are strained to the limit. ConsumerPowerline controls 300 huge buildings in New York alone, where hastily brokered turnoffs by Macy's and major hotels prevented the spread of a 2006 blackout in Queens a blackout that lasted for more than a week into Manhattan. If you're someone who's controlling 100 buildings at once, and with a flick of a finger you can change their energy behavior, says Gary Fromer, ConsumerPowerline's C.E.O., that's very powerful. Eat. An excerpt: It is the locavore's dilemma that organic bananas delivered by a fuel-efficient boat may be responsible for less energy use than highly fertilized, nonorganic potatoes trucked from a

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