As green as Speed

MANILA, Philippines - The November issue of Speed magazine is as green as…                                 

• Yoda — The Force is truly with the Jedi Master as Star Wars makes its list of top 10 movie franchises. It’s as green as The Hulk, too; The Avengers is on the list as well. So, who’s greener?

• Green-minded geeks — The people behind green Filipino startups ECHOcafe, Pedala, So True Naturals, and Manila Sole share their advocacies, while the magazine hangs out with GMA-7’s resident meteorologist Nathaniel Cruz to unearth his uncanny penchant for storm landfalls in People@Speed.

• Our face with envy — Speed sits down with the architect who designed the 28-story The Globe Tower, where you can write on walls, check your e-mail in a garden, get assistance from Globe service crew clad in Rajo Laurel threads, and buy food without cash.

• Your face with envy — Speed puts together a list of sexy electric cars that may test your budget. Speaking of test, it gets its hands on cherry-picked products such as the Huawei Ascend P6 and the Hyundai Accent Hatch CRDi. But among all the shiny toys this month, it loves the Sony Xperia Ultra Z1 the most. See it in a four-page favorite-toy spread in Pole Position.

• A mistletoe — Who would you want to be with under a mistletoe? Speed cover girl Jessy Mendiola, perhaps? She is more than the newest Pinay Thalia: she reads three books at a time, knows muay Thai, and is not into the usual flowers and chocolates nonsense.