Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Sixty-eight percent of the region's electricity is consumed by buildings. Now local governments are adopting new carrots and sticks to encourage builders and owners to "go green" and save energy. We look at new initiatives in Montgomery...

It's a story well-known in Japan, but virtually unknown here -- how ordinary Japanese citizens were kidnapped by North Korea over the last thirty years. We hear about Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, an award-winning documentary...

Baghdad is not Saigon. Yet analogies to Vietnam pervade discussions about the U.S. role in Iraq. So how useful are these comparisons? Kojo explores the use- and misuse- of history and analogies to describe today's crisis in Iraq.