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...requirement of any responsible institution to do likewise. The first step in showing this leadership is for the task force to recommend a date by which Harvard must reduce its net emissions to zero, and in so doing to achieve climate neutrality. Karen A. McKinnon is an earth and planetary sciences concentrator in Currier House. Elizabeth R. Shope is an environmental science and public policy concentrator in Leverett House. They are members of the Harvard College Environmental Action Committee...
This past Tuesday, March 22 marked Earth Day 2008: a moment of pause in order to reflect on the growing importance of environmental issues and the escalating problems of preservation and sustainability that have become some of the most pressing modern-day realities. In our day-to-day lives as students, family members, and friends, it is all too easy to lose sight of the fact that we are also inhabitants of a fragile habitat and therefore charged with the responsibility of caring for our planet...
...didn’t know any better, we’d probably think California is the most glamorous place on Earth. Since the time of the Mamas and the Papas—earlier, probably—we’ve been dreaming of California, and shows like “The OC” and “Californication” have only served to whet our appetite for the excitement of the Golden State. But behind the mysterious allure of California exist hundreds of thousands of people leading unglamorous, decidedly un-chic, and unnoticeable lives. They are the California...
...Arts and Sciences accounts for 37 percent of emissions, more than any other school at Harvard . Compared to Menino’s hard facts, Faust’s evidence that Harvard too seeks sustainability seemed weak. The “Green Roof Demonstration Project,” and Earth Week’s “Sustainability Pledges,” Harvard’s two green successes that she alluded to in her speech (while good-spirited) do not guarantee that Harvard will pollute less. Buildings and signatures, unless backed up by demonstrable quantitative reductions in emissions, mean little...
...wanted to convey an emotional thing through a medium that looks kind of amateurish so it’d be very personal, very down to earth,” says Mayer...