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...root. The trees are local - beech, ash, oak, alder and willow, among others - but the money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service, it's a "self-imposed green tax - something altruistic for the planet...
Treeflights.com is just one beneficiary of a growing environmental subindustry known as "carbon offsetting." Typically, one of this new breed of companies first calculates the amount of greenhouse gases an individual or business generates by flying, driving or heating and lighting a home or office. Customers then voluntarily pay that firm to invest in projects that will cut carbon emissions by an equal amount. (Energy-hungry Americans generate about 20 tons of CO2 per capita per year; Britons, about half that). So for anything between $4 and $40 to offset the equivalent of one ton of CO2, a consumer...
...letter, a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher throughout Canaday D, leading to the evacuation of the building and forcing students in D entryway to sleep elsewhere for the night. Although campus administrators state that the number of false alarms has not been abnormally high this year, a fair amount of controversy has surrounded recent incidents, stemming from miscommunication among students, administrators, and firefighters. Pranksters are at fault, but many students feel that the measures taken in response to the false alarms are less than fair to those who are uninvolved. After an extinguisher was sprayed in Lowell basement during September...
Students on financial aid at Harvard are expected to spend less than $2,750 a year on living expenses—and it costs about half of that to pay for a year’s worth of books. Even worse is that it requires a substantial amount of money, a lump sum of over $600 at the beginning of each semester, to buy books for classes...
Coming up with that amount of money in a short period of time is difficult for even the most well-off. It’s no wonder that students often choose not to buy their books at all, or avoid the courses with particularly high costs. Many choose, instead, to rely on the Harvard library system to have the necessary books on reserve, only to find them checked out when major assignments or exams are around the corner. It is a shame that at the world’s premier educational institution, some students don’t have access...