"We want to avoid the idea that this is a haven for rich people or second-homers from Beijing," says Ho. "Being green isn't a luxury, it's an affordable necessity.
That will require a new round of jolting price cuts — not to mention a new image for wireless service as an affordable necessity rather than the power tool of the corporate elite.
The Beatles came along just as television was becoming an affordable necessity in American homes.
Shoppers come from neighboring towns and across the country — sometimes even the world — to scour the spread for affordable necessities and unique collector's items.
When he created the system in the early 1980s, Stevens said it would not only subsidise "affordable" necessities for rural Alaska, but passenger and commercial cargo service in a state with more runways than roads.
Some on-demand mobile apps that could appeal to middle-income consumers in the U.S. include Boxed, which delivers a low-cost 'club store' shopping experience, and any other services that offer affordable necessities, While it's perhaps more natural to build a mass-market startup in China and even India, it's far from impossible in the U.S.
But Napa is taking a different approach, providing affordable basic necessities for migrant workers — food, shelter and support — regardless of whether they are here legally or not.
But over the past 30 years, cellular phone technology has become an affordable pocket-sized necessity — revolutionizing the way we do business, interact socially and organize our daily lives.
Current trends in this country are towards a distribution of wealth that excludes more and more people from basic necessities: affordable housing, healthy food, healthcare, higher education, and in many cases, even basic employment.
The company has made basic necessities affordable for hundreds of millions of people around the world and has improved world sanitation and health.
Sustainable energy involves the provision of energy services in a sustainable manner, which in turn necessitates that energy services be provided for all people in ways that, now and in the future, are sufficient to provide the basic necessities, affordable, not detrimental to the environment, and acceptable to communities and people[51 53].
