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...known as "green building." They include a Massachusetts "solar zealot" making sun power more affordable for homeowners, a couple in India developing eco-friendly communities, an Italian promoting concrete that "eats" air pollution and a Texas crusader for greener hospitals. They all want a world where concern for the earth is "built in" from the start...
...devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. He then launched the Worldwatch Papers, the annual State of the World reports, World Watch magazine, a second annual publication called Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, and the Environmental Alert book series. In 2001, he founded the Earth Policy Institute to promote environmental sustainability...
...However, according to Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Daniel P. Schrag, we are unlikely to witness any changes paralleling a global deep freeze or a new ice age. Instead, the consequences of a disruption to the thermohaline circulation are more likely to simply mitigate the predicted effects of global warming. “The important thing is that part of the world, Scandinavia and Europe, is likely to warm by 4-6 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years,” Schrag says. “So this [effect] will just cause these areas to return to normal...
...They [Houses] can do eco-projects, which are led by individuals in the house, in order to ‘green the house,’” says Greeney. The house that wins gets $1,038, to celebrate the 38th anniversary of Earth...
...Perhaps the most zealous trash warrior is Alex K. Pasternack ’05, a former Environmental Action Committee publicity chair, who put on a garbage art (pronounced gar-BAJ or alternatively spelled gARTbage) show for Earth Day 2005. Speaking from his home in Beijing, he talked about his fascination with garbage and desire to challenge other people. “It’s not out of sight, out of mind. Interestingly, it’s in sight, out of mind,” Pasternack says...