Foldable Solar Array

Gun Heiress Platt Sisters, the New Queens of Green

The day after President Obama made his first Oval Office speech-an attempt to harness the BP disaster to kick-start comprehensive energy reform-the lanky Lauren Remington Platt, 26-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of the founder of the Remington Arms Corporation, hobbled on rickety gold heels into an eco-friendly hut called Solar One in Stuyvesant Cove Park on the East River and 22nd Street, wearing an impossibly short, tight slitted dress-the kind that makes you avert your eyes for fear of seeing something you shouldn't. Ms. Platt, who'd just launched a start-up, lost an intern and gotten stuck in midtown traffic, was half an hour late.

"Would you like some water or something?" asked Chris Collins, the dapper executive director of Solar One.

Source: New York Observer

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