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...guidelines, which aim to ensure that new buildings are resource efficient and cause minimum disruption to the “campus ecosystem,” came in response to concerns raised by students and others following University President Lawrence H. Summers’ October 2003 announcement of plans to develop the new 341-acre campus in Allston...
...principles include promoting sustainability through institutional practices like energy efficiency, ensuring health and productivity through “the design and maintenance of the built environment,” improving the campus ecosystem, developing analytical tools, encouraging environmental awareness and monitoring progress on sustainability...
Cambridge and the Square are both the greatest attractions—and distractions—of our collegiate lives. We take part in a self-sufficient ecosystem, a place of intrigue, a cacopolis. Yet almost every student manages to escape the spell by emerging from it during the summer. For now, we must abide by the clock above the Citizens’ Bank: it’s seven past the hour, and time to sprint to class...
...reconnect them, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)--with the Indian and Nepali governments, Save the Tiger and other groups--launched the Terai Arc Landscape Program in 2001. The plan, which is projected to take 50 years to complete, aims to unite 11 reserves into one functioning ecosystem--providing habitat for tigers as well as elephants, rhinos and deer but without displacing farmers or herders. "The future of conservation in Asia is about zoning," observes Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist for the WWF. "We have to figure out how agriculture can coexist with wildlife...
...certainly much bigger than anything in the U.S. So globally, this is a problem." Archer often runs up against the view that it doesn't much matter if humans exterminate up to 70% of all species during the next few hundred years, or if we disrupt ecosystems, because technology will keep us alive. "But can we work," Archer wonders, "in an ecosystem in which the resources we may require are winking in and winking out, unpredictably and out of our control? Technology may not be able to help enough to prevent this catastrophe from consuming us as well...