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...Walking City is primed to become America’s Biking City. In an exciting announcement on Tuesday, top Boston officials unveiled plans for a citywide bike-sharing program similar to Paris’s famous Vélib’. The plan eventually calls for 6,000 communal bikes to be stationed at 600 public racks around Boston; anyone with a bike card can swipe in to unlock a bike, ride it as long as he or she chooses, and return it to any rack in the city...
Blue recycling bins peeking out from under office desks will no longer be emptied by the cleaning crews. Staff and administrators will now be responsible for transporting the bins themselves to the communal receptacles at the end of the hall...
...residents - and Danes as a whole - have adapted to 21st-century realities about energy and the environment. Hermansen credits the Danish tendency to organize in groups, which helps reinforce support for going green. "To us, going for lower energy use is like a sport," he says. That sense of communal competition is shared by Denmark's Scandinavian neighbors, and may help explain why countries like Sweden and Finland are also among Europe's greenest. On a regional level, cooperation is a necessary component of Denmark's success - the Nordic nations share an electrical grid, and Denmark can take power from...
...safety of their dorm rooms and library study carrels. However, at the Let’s Go office, located within the Harvard Student Agencies building on Mt. Auburn, three editors are typing diligently on computers aligned neatly along the sides of the office’s large communal cubicles, engaged in a different kind of work. Even though the Let’s Go team has yet to finish selecting their team of editors and researcher-writers for 2009, they are already laying the groundwork for the next set of upcoming guides. “I’ve been...
...widely mocked B movies of the 1950s were certainly characterized by tackiness, but they also explored clever political allegory at the height of the Cold War. In luring people back to Somerville year after year, the lineup of films is secondary to the festival’s unique communal experience, a theme that emerges repeatedly in conversations with both male and female audience members. (Contrary to any stereotypes of sci-fi as an exclusively male pursuit, the festival draws at least as many female attendees as male ones.) The festival is a richly interactive experience, with performers and audience competitions...