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...years ago, the U.S. Green Building Council, an environmentally conscious industry group, adopted a rating system to promote green practices on "institutional" projects like office buildings and factories. In recent years, the council has been developing a similar set of standards that it hopes will be observed by homebuilders, especially the big companies that put up 25% of all new houses. Meanwhile, there are people who aren't waiting for anybody else to set standards. They have standards of their own. For decades there have been individual homeowners dedicated to incorporating green principles into their custom-designed homes. This...
...every corner of the corporation, from the floor tiles (which are made of 50% postconsumer waste) to the company's composting efforts to its four solar stores (and one all-sustainable store, which received the rigorous LEED?Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?certification from the U.S. Green Building Council) to a Green Mission Team, which provides input on every new store...
When I was hesitant about asking out the first girl I ever liked, my father gave me life-changing advice: “Just be direct,” he told his eleven-year-old son. I now find that at Harvard, the Undergraduate Council (UC) should take note of my father’s wisdom. It is time our Harvard representatives think beyond their personal interests and change the voting system that governs general—not presidential—campaigns and elections. The UC is currently divided into three committees: Student Affairs Committee, Campus Life Committee, and Finance...
...first glance, the latest bill to modify how the Undergraduate Council (UC) awards grants seems like little more than a technical shift. Currently, groups of students qualify for funding only if they comply with the UC’s strict nondiscrimination code. Under the new proposal, however, a group could also receive funding if Harvard College’s Committee on College Life (CCL) recognizes it as an official student group, regardless of whether the group meets the UC’s nondiscrimination policies. In both the current and proposed frameworks, the event or project for which a student organization...
...with Harvard’s peers.Empty seats early in the session left some wondering whether the requisite one-sixth of the Faculty would show up to conduct a binding vote.“It was close, there were a lot of people out of town,” Faculty Council Vice Chair Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said after the meeting.But after a few professors trickled in late, the Faculty achieved a quorum and approved the legislation overwhelmingly by voice vote.The first bill bars departments from restricting sophomore fall courses to would-be concentrators. But it allows them to declare certain courses...