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...WEEE Man is part of an effort by activists to promote what they call "ecological footprinting": calculating the amount of resources we each consume to supply our needs. Pioneered in 1996 by regional planners Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, the measurement takes into account the production of food, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, as well as the waste that's left behind. According to WWF, each person should currently have an average footprint of 1.8 hectares, the rough equivalent of two soccer fields, for the supply of his or her needs. But WWF estimates that the average stomping ground...
...consequence of assimilation,” than from the actions of Europeans and Americans. Summers remarked on the tragedy of the situation, and then segued from this point into a contemplative statement on the way we make decisions in the world today, and on the importance of taking into account all possible consequences of all of our intended or unintended actions: “And it speaks to the tremendous importance of us all reflecting on what we do consciously and of what are the innocent by-products—or the non-innocent by-products?...
Gordimer spoke of Soyinka as “something absolutely indispensable to the African continent.” She then read from her story, “The Ultimate Safari,” an account of flight from the Mozambique Civil War, narrated by an eleven-year-old. The title, Gordimer noted, was taken from a European travel advertisement—which, she mused, most likely had “a different kind of Safari” in mind...
...group created an escrow account, promising to give the money to Harvard if it met several demands regarding the status of women at the university—prime among them an increase in the number of tenured female faculty. The fund grew to $100,000—not a lot in terms of Harvard fundraising, but enough to attract the national media...
...press coverage I think is what tipped the balance,” Welch says. The group closed the account in 2000 and gave the $100,000 to help establish the Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship, which was fully established...