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...announcement—which highlighted Chu’s role in promoting renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions both as a policymaker and as an academic—reinforced Harvard’s recent focus on sustainability and other environmental issues, which were identified as some of University President Drew G. Faust’s top commitments...
...cigarettes and wants to end tax breaks for drilling and offshoring. He seems even more eager to subsidize desirable behaviors like saving, teaching, weatherizing and buying fuel-efficient cars and energy-efficient appliances. Of course, his energy policy goes beyond incentives; he wants a strict national cap on carbon emissions. He has also signaled openness to a national health-insurance mandate. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
Though it's caricatured as a concrete jungle, New York is already surprisingly eco-friendly. Thanks to its density and public transit, the city has a per capita carbon footprint 71% smaller than the U.S. as a whole. With more than 8.2 million people calling New York home, surpassing a historical high set in the 1950s, the city's infrastructure - its crowded subways, traffic-choked streets, aging water mains - is being pushed past its limits. City planners realize that New York is on track to gain an additional 900,000 people by 2030. If that growth isn't managed properly...
...city started by focusing on what it could control directly. Bloomberg launched a $2.3 billion plan last July to reduce carbon emissions from city-owned properties 30% by 2017 by retrofitting buildings with more-efficient lights and better insulation. The payoff is that the city expects to begin saving money through reduced energy bills as early as 2015. On the streets, 15% of the city's 13,000 taxis are hybrids, with more on the way. "The city has made progress on improving what it can control," says Jonathan Rose, a New York architect and sustainable-design expert. "The place...
...Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu will be the headline speaker at Harvard's June 4 Commencement exercises, University officials announced Thursday morning. The announcement highlighted Chu's role in pushing renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and as an academic, and referenced Harvard's own recent efforts to promote sustainability and research to address environmental questions. “Steven Chu is a brilliant scientist and an eloquent exponent of thoughtful, creative approaches to meeting the challenge of global climate change,” said University President Drew G. Faust in the press...