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Delegates—representing a wide range of ages, socioeconomic statuses, and occupations—attended the Climate Congress in order to provide specific recommendations to the City Council for how residents, businesses, and institutions can adopt more environmentally friendly practices...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Holds Climate Congress | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...opening speech, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons said that 10 years have elapsed since the city first publicly acknowledged the consequences of climate change. This past May, the Cambridge City Council officially recognized climate change as an “emergency,” and plans to hold a city-wide climate congress has been in the works since Thanksgiving...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Holds Climate Congress | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...public will vote to finalize recommendations made to the City Council and the Cambridge community at a follow-up congress...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Holds Climate Congress | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...Cambridge was the 55th community to join the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an international association of local governments that have made a commitment to sustainable development. Today, there are a few hundred communities involved in the United States and a few thousand internationally...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Holds Climate Congress | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Justice Goldstone told the U.N. Human Rights Council that “the lack of accountability for war crimes and possible crimes against humanity has reached a crisis point.” Rather than hold Israel accountable, the Harvard Middle East Initiative provided one of its official spokesmen a platform to defend the indefensible actions of “Operation Cast Lead.” Oren jokingly quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and others as telling him that he will have “a very hard job” as Israel?...

Author: By Abdelnasser A. Rashid | Title: Defending the Indefensible | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

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