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...realities of the food system do not allow for that at this point.” But Martin said HUDS will continue to take active steps in that direction. “We do continue to try and find new sources for local food and improve our general [carbon] footprint in creative ways” she said. —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...push from environmentalists. A new report by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) found that the industry's top performers managed to reduce electricity use 5% to 25% per $1 million in revenue over the past three or four years. Other companies within the industry are managing to reduce their carbon emissions per million dollars of revenue or by cutting emissions outright. And the best are doing even more - the $56 billion computer maker Dell announced in August that it had gone fully "carbon neutral," which is about as green as you can get. "We look at environmental responsibility holistically," says...
...rolled out a new desktop that is up to 70% more efficient than the average PC - an attractive quality for server farms, the computer banks that make up the backbone of the Internet, which have grown increasingly energy hungry in recent years. Reducing energy consumption does a lot for carbon emissions - but even more for the balance sheets of IT companies. "The total cost of powering a server over its lifetime is beginning to outpace the cost of the computer itself," says Arbogast. "Customers are going to demand innovation on this - for the environment and for efficiency...
...take Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously as a hero of the environment, when you show him surrounded by a collection of dead, stuffed animals? Perhaps they all died from carbon emissions, which is why he has become so passionate about it. Lynn Moss, FISH HOEK, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Harvard Kennedy School, pushed the belief that individual collective action is a critical component of the solution. Clark, who also chaired the task force that drafted Harvard’s emissions reduction plan, explained that up to 10 percent of the total emissions reductions needed to lower atmospheric carbon to a safe level can come from cutting emissions in personal residences. “The problem is connecting [individual] behaviors to the implications of this problem [of climate change] that they all admit is there,” Clark said. Robert N. Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program...