The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.

FORBES: Off-The-Grid Mansions

And that way the expansion then becomes more self-generating and sustained, and perhaps to some extent makes believers out of even those who sort of argued against the fact that it would continue, and certainly, I think, put to rest any talk of double dips.

FORBES

Nevertheless, it firmly rejects any expansion of the scope of self-defence under Article 51.

ECONOMIST: A preview of a report that may help to rescue the rule of law

And the industry should look to its own self-interest: it would be a shame if reckless expansion spoiled a good innovation.

ECONOMIST: Exchange-traded funds

Bush Doctrine: As a successor to the Reagan Doctrine, a Bush Doctrine should be articulated early in the new administration stating that the United States will provide economic, diplomatic and appropriate military assistance to reverse the consolidation or expansion of communist regimes in the Third World and to promote self-determination and freedom through the achievement of independent, non-communist regimes.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The New Soviet Challenge

It is hard to ignore the role of European expansion in the creation of the underdeveloped world's extractive institutions which, in self-perpetuating fashion, continue to constrain reform and development.

ECONOMIST: Creating economic wealth