Word: carbonization
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...States to date have come exclusively from the private sector, where individual companies and corporations have taken it upon themselves to explore new alternatives. In the past year, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM and Johnson & Johnson have all made (and followed through with) pledges to cut their production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner products. And just last week, BP and Ford donated $20 million to Princeton University to develop a technique called carbon sequestration, which could potentially stow carbon emissions safely...
...debate, Bush stated that he would not let the U.S. carry the burden for cleaning up the world's air. He is correct in asserting that excluding India and China from the treaty exempts the world's two most populous nations from contributing to the reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions. The ultimate goal must be to include all developed and developing countries in a joint effort to curb the world's greenhouse gas emissions. But this cannot happen without U.S. leadership. It seems unlikely that Bush would provide such leadership if elected...
...Much of the community is open to Harvard speaking to the moment, and not being a carbon-copy of the past," Power says. "There is a realization that if everything is designed to look the same, the true historic buildings can get lost...
...carbon copy" Harvard's architecture from the late '70s to the late '90s could be described as architecturally unchallenging, Levitan says. The attitude of the administration at the time, he says, was to promote consensus--an aim reflected in the architecture of the time...
...should you care? Even if you're not concerned that the world's greatest trove of biological diversity, including millions of undiscovered animal and plant species, is vanishing in a cloud of smoke, you should know that the burning of the Amazon is pumping countless tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, intensifying the threat of global warming...