Word: carbonization
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...meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali, to begin the laborious process of establishing a global climate plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Big business is on board - on Nov. 30 the leaders of 150 top firms released a petition calling on governments to establish mandatory caps on carbon emissions. Washington is finally awakening from its slumber, with Congress hammering out the first increase in auto fuel economy standards since 1984, and with the first real piece of climate-change legislation - a bill sponsored by Senators John Warner and Joseph Lieberman - ready for a vote in the Senate...
...argues that we can reduce greenhouse emissions without hurting our economy, claiming that more energy-efficient technology will pay for itself. However, if that were true, companies and consumers would already be choosing to use clean energy technologies for the lower cost. Putting a government-mandated cap on our carbon emissions is only necessary because reducing emissions has a cost that most people feel outweighs the benefits. Furthermore, that point runs contrary to the rest of her column, in which she claims that advances in energy-saving technology are not enough to stop global warming. The expert she quotes...
...Willey-Snow ticket was most recently handed a 100 dollar penalty for sending out an e-mail that was illegally blind carbon-copied (bcc'd) to several people, including a member of the election commission and the blockmate of an opposing candidate, commission official James W. Anderson ’09 told The Crimson. The commission’s official rules for the election explicitly prohibit the use of unsolicited e-mail campaigning in forums beyond open e-mail lists...
...person is to be sent e-mail regarding the campaign via BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) unless that person has given explicit prior permission to be sent e-mail via BCC,” the rules state...
...here in Cambridge. For one, they extend Harvard’s recent commitment to building a green campus in Allston to the entire campus, ensuring an environmentally-friendly future for the school’s physical infrastructure. Furthermore, this plan will significantly reduce the 100,000 metric tons of carbon emissions that the Environmental Action Committee estimates FAS generates each year. Finally, Harvard will be able to best Yale yet again. Yale recently set out a similar set of standards, but it only reduces emissions by 10 percent. Climate change is an urgent problem, and Harvard has no excuse...