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...fact that Earth Day is approaching on April 22 got me wondering who's had the most positive impact on the planet in recent history? Here's a surprise: one of the world's most influential environmentalists isn't an environmentalist at all. Nor is he an activist, a conservationist, or even someone who seems to spend a lot of time in the wilderness. He's an economist. His name is Richard Sandor, and more than anyone else, he invented the idea of emissions trading - a financial technique of capping and trading pollutants - which may be our best hope...
Sandor's idea was so successful that he was asked to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to help design a program to finance reductions in carbon emissions. Sandor remembers the time fondly. "It reminded me of my days at Berkeley," he says. "There was more tie-dye than at a Grateful Dead concert. I was sitting on the beach and having a caipirinha, and I said, 'We could do this...
...rapidly as SO2 and NO has fallen under Sandor's acid rain market - without emptying our national wallet. "I'm optimistic," says Sandor. "The potential [cap-and-trade] legislation is moving in the right direction. If we design the building right, it won't punish the economy." On this Earth Day, as we grapple with worsening climate change, we should take time to recognize an unlikely hero for the planet...
...sponsored event was part of Lowell House’s Eco Month activities, which also include an “eco trivia night” and an “eco dinner,” according to Lowell HoCo Co-Chair Amanda K. Fields ’09. Although Earth Day is not until April 22, Fields said that the HoCo and Lowell House Eco-Rep Susan E DeWolf ’10 decided not to wait. “We wanted to do a whole month of eco activities,” Fields said. DeWolf, who is also...
Imprecise measurement has long crippled efforts to find Earth-like planets that may represent scientists’ best hope at finding extraterrestrial life, but Harvard scientists say a new laser-based measuring tool could bring the universe into sharper focus. The astro-comb allows astronomers to discover Earth-size planets, which are most likely to support extraterrestrial life because larger planets tend to be entirely gaseous and inhospitable to organisms like those on Earth. The laser provides a way to measure the near-imperceptible changes in a star’s light that are induced by orbiting planets. Planet gravity...