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Scott wants Wal-Mart to do its part too. He has promised to cut greenhouse-gas emissions at existing stores 20% over the next few years and pledged to construct new stores that are 25% to 30% more efficient. He wants Wal-Mart's fleet of more than 7,000 trucks to get twice as many miles per gallon by 2015. Factories that show Wal-Mart they're cutting air pollution--even those in China--will get preferential treatment in the supply chain. Wal-Mart says it's working with consumer-product manufacturers to trim their packaging and will reward...
...processed into a petroleum substitute. Polygeneration could cut the carbon emissions China generates by burning its copious coal reserves and reduce its dependence on oil imports. While his team continues to refine the technology--it's still more expensive than direct coal combustion--Li is lobbying the government to construct a $600 million demonstration plant, and he's optimistic he will see it built. "China is motivated to develop this technology," Li says. And the rest of the world is hoping it does. --By Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong...
Baek said that the on-campus controversy regarding the use of student space to construct a women’s center instead of a general student center is unnecessary...
...deal announced publicly last week, Harvard offered Charlesview a five acre plot of land—currently home to K-Mart at the Harvard-owned Brighton Mills Shopping Center—and the funding to construct new units there in exchange for their current property...
...areas said at a meeting last night that they were dissatisfied with Harvard’s new offer. The University announced this week that it wants to swap five acres of land at the Harvard-owned Brighton Mills Shopping Center and provide “resources” to construct a new low-income apartment complex there in exchange for the site of the Charlesview Apartments—now located at the center of the University’s holdings across the river. According to Harvard’s director of community relations, Kevin McCluskey...