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...fronts. Emerging technologies, strategies to streamline efficiency, and conservation initiatives must work in concert. Researchers who tackle these critical issues, however, are scattered across the University. Because much can be gained both by Harvard and society at large by cooperation among scholars studying this critical issue, we propose the creation of a multidisciplinary center for energy studies, the likes of which academia has never seen. Oxford’s Institute for Energy Studies is a good starting point. Bringing together all of the social sciences, it analyzes economic concerns, international relations, and environmental politics centered on energy-related issues. Harvard?...
Students have shown themselves ready and able to take an ethical stand when they see individual injustices happening around them. But that is not enough. This outrage must be channeled into a sustained demand for the creation of a campus labor code of conduct. Unless this happens, our collective aspiration to social justice will ring hollow in the ears of generations of Harvard workers to come...
...moments that reveal fundamental problems—and even occasional success—in the couple’s family life. The characters’ attempts to come to terms with their own faults culminate in a single moment of emotional payoff at the end. Stern’s creation handles this complex portrayal with elegance, suggesting that, despite the many problems that plague it, the marriage of Bette and Boo ultimately achieves its own beauty.—Staff writer Mary A. Brazelton can be reached at mbrazelt@fas.harvard.edu...
...that have characterized Silicon Valley's impact in microprocessors, PCs, biotechnology, telecommunications and the Internet," Khosla tells TIME. The promise of today's green tech boom, however, isn't just sky-high IPOs. Khosla is betting that his investments, along with his own bold policy ideas, will speed the creation of a clean tech economy and drive energy independence...
...companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition 87 is 100% a subsidy," says Cleantech blogger and energy investor Neal Dikeman, who is opposed to Prop. 87's call for the creation of a new state bureaucracy spending $4 billion on "an undefined bunch of renewable programs," and prefers that the money come from California's General Fund or by raising taxes. Khosla maintains that Prop. 87 is a "limited, one-time extraction fee" that levels the playing field for alternative energy by providing...