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...fact sheet states that “more respiratory disease, heart disease and death from heat waves are projected.” The study predicts that the frequency, duration and extent of heat waves will increase with global warming and that events such as the 10-day Chicago heat wave—which resulted in 738 deaths in June of 1995—will become more common...
...Harvard Business School graduate Jamie Dimon wrote in The Washington Post on Nov. 13 that regulators should be empowered to liquidate assets and fire management when they see fit, so that individuals engaging in risky behavior will “feel the pain.” The next day, Barclays CEO John S. Varley wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that “incentives and compensation must be better aligned to delivery, must take account of risk, and must be paid out over time...
Harvard’s green efforts at the Harvard vs. Princeton football game in October landed it in third place in the 2009 Game Day Challenge sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, marking a growing partnership between the athletics center and sustainability advocates at Harvard...
Though the Game Day Challenge was not athletic, it spurred athletic spirit among some, including Robert Gogan, a leader in the project and a recycling manager for the University’s Facilities Maintenance Operations...
...population is the most challenging aspect of the recycling efforts. “The hardest thing is getting students to know what is going on,” she said. But, as one of the only student leaders on the competition’s team, Devlin called the Game Day Challenge “one step toward raising awareness...