Word: cubical
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Logging is only one cause of deforestation, but in Southeast Asia it is an important one. And Japan is the world's largest consumer of tropical timber: in 1986 it imported 15.7 million cubic meters, approximately equal to the imports of the entire European Community. Tokyo has begun to finance programs aimed at replanting trees in Southeast Asia but has not yet tried to limit wood imports...
...recent court order, some of the creek's water pours over a narrow spillway and meanders seven miles down its ancient route to Mono Lake. "There's probably 5 c.f.s. flowing in there," a water activist remarks in the technical shorthand (c.f.s. meaning cubic feet per second) that characterizes California water talk...
...skiing, my friends still tell me, is worth the effort. It's not just a sport, they say, it's an art form. And they're right; skiing is the art of falling brutally at high speeds, eating several cubic meters of snow, screaming for dear life and being able to say at the bottom, "That was great. Another...
Imposing a CO2 fee would not be as difficult as it sounds. It is easy to quantify how much CO2 comes from burning a gallon of gasoline, a ton of coal or a cubic yard of natural gas. Most countries already have gasoline taxes; similar fees, set according to the amount of CO2 produced, could be put on all fossil-fuel sources. At the same time, companies could be given credits against their CO2 taxes if they planted trees to take some...
...biggest users are Harvard and MIT, yet the rate increase does not reflect them," Walsh said, adding that the proposal would merely perpetuate the present system. Instead, he said the rates per cubic foot should be highest for the institutions using the most water...