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...people that materialism is upsetting the equilibrium of society, they stand up and say, 'Why should we be deprived of all these things? Why should only the people in the cities get these things?'" says Kishor Tiwari, the head of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti. "The natural tendency is to adopt all these new things, whether the pocket permits...
...Sunday morning at the end of April, the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) drew a crowd of 40 students to a vigil on the steps of Memorial Church before joining a citywide rally. The group’s demand: that Harvard adopt a policy of divesting from companies that do business with the Sudanese government.Harvard continues to hold investments in firms accused of financing the ongoing genocide in Darfur. And despite selling its direct stakes in two oil firms with ties to Sudan, the University continues to maintain “indirect” investments in such companies through funds...
...spend his time in Washington, but now his tech work takes him to Silicon Valley, to the campuses of Apple and Google, where his kind of intellectual firepower is celebrated. At Apple, where Jobs invited him to join the board in 2003, Gore patiently nudged the CEO to adopt a new Greener Apple program that will eliminate toxic chemicals from the company's products by next year. Last summer, Gore led the committee that investigated an Apple scandal-the backdating of stock options in the years before Gore joined the board-and cleared Jobs of wrongdoing. Political people were surprised...
...replace it with a carbon tax, so the cost of pollution is finally priced into the market. "I understand this is considered politically impossible," he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But part of our task is to expand the limits of what's possible." He would adopt a cap-and-trade program that would allow U.S. industry to meet reduction targets in part by trading pollution credits. Critics often dismiss carbon offsets as the green equivalent of religious indulgences, but in fact they stimulate the market-moving entrepreneurs to find dirty plants, clean them up and sell...
...MPAA did not adopt the reforms Bloom mentioned, and Glantz criticized Bloom’s reaction to Thursday’s announcement as overly conciliatory...