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...Vermont than it is in New York City. They use more electricity, more oil, more water. The average Vermonter burns 540 gal. of gasoline per year, and the average Manhattanite burns just 90. Only 8% of American households don't own a car. In Manhattan, it's about 77%. Backyard compost heaps notwithstanding, Vermont's environmental impacts are greater...
...These numbers require caveats. “It’s not as if once a poor couple marries, a money tree magically sprouts up in their backyard,” Valenti countered. And couples should separate if they have abusive relationships—those also harm children. Yet sociologists Paul Amato and Alan Booth note that two thirds of divorces do not stem from abusive relationships and the separations themselves traumatize children. This inquiry is not a search for the guilty, but an indicator that families are more than aesthetic arrangements...
...around the Indian subcontinent. The Indian Ocean is the thoroughfare for nearly half of all global seaborne trade, and the coastal states are home to over 60% of the world's oil and a third of its gas reserves. Traditionally, India has imagined the ocean as part of its backyard without investing serious resources in its navy - much more goes to an army and air force that are perched by the land boundaries with the old enemy of Pakistan. And that gap between India's maritime hubris and real power has been exposed in recent times by China, which...
...speech at the ceremony, the area where Tercentenary Theater now stands was once the college’s pasture, where high-ranking professors would earn the right to let their cattle, then considered a must-have accessory, graze on what Gomes called the “wild backyard.” “Pasturing cows in those days was equivalent to a parking permit,” stated Gomes in front of the boisterous audience. In his speech, Professor Cox suggested a return to a more natural lifestyle in the Yard. Students at the ceremony seemed enthusiastic about adopting...
...Join a neighborhood volunteer group like Brooklyn's In Our Backyard and Washington's CarbonfreeDC, which help groups of friends partner on projects - like planting gardens and teaching people how to green their homes - and have some fun along...