This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence.

NEWSWEEK: Culture

His mission: to create the world's first zero-emission, hydrogen-based economy--and to pull it off through no-nonsense business principles, not tree-hugging wishful thinking.

FORBES: Mister Natural

It is a structural British problem, too: only on our side of the English Channel can you be a tree-hugging centrist and Eurosceptic.

ECONOMIST: European politics

When a former head of America's Central Intelligence Agency allies himself with tree-hugging greens that his outfit would once have suspected of subversion, you know something is up.

ECONOMIST: A survey of The future of energy