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Doing the global-action wave

When Century
editor-at-large Bill McKibben visited the White House last month, he left disappointed. After driving
from Maine with one of the solar panels installed on the White House by Jimmy
Carter and removed by Ronald Reagan (who also let subsidies for renewable
energy slide), McKibben pitched several staff members on re-installing the
panels as a symbol of an administration that will press harder for
environmental change. But staffers seemed more interested in touting existing