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...push for sustainable dishes is much more than a health foodie’s cause or a produce connoisseur’s obsession, and the shift towards local, seasonal, and organic college dining is becoming increasingly common. But why should we, busy Harvard students, care about the origin of a chickpea or the homeland of a grapefruit...
...Although few realize it, food transportation contributes to global climate change. It is simply a matter of common sense: the greater the distance a zucchini has to travel before it hits the dinner table, the longer it takes for trucks to transport it there. As those 18-wheelers burn diesel, they release copious amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...
...delivery, though problems with enforcement of student preferences have plagued the early weeks of the pilot. That way, wasteful paper use will be diminished without altering the publications’ regular readership. At the same time, the plan is to increase the publications’ availability in common areas. My hope is that the door drop waste reduction program will spread across campus, raising students’ awareness of the fundamental tenet of environmentalism that it is more beneficial to reduce consumption than to recycle—though both are, of course, better than outright waste. I won?...
...need an example of how thoroughly national politics can still trump the notion of common European interest, look no further than the three-day meeting in Brussels of fisheries ministers that kicked off on Monday...
...programs to retire fishing vessels in the E.U. fleet, and offers compensation and retraining for those forced out of work. But it has not done enough to halt the decline in stocks, say critics of the current system. Quotas were first introduced with the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), agreed in Brussels in 1983, and set up a system of quotas for each E.U. member state. But the system is poorly enforced, and cannot maintain sustainable stocks. Also, millions of tons of dead fish are thrown back in the sea because they cannot be landed due to the quota rules. Earlier...