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...It’s a test because Cornell is Cornell—one of the best teams in the league,” senior forward Evan Harris said. “But we love to play in the hostile environment??at Cornell, the fans are right on top of you, yelling, and it should make it a good game...
...greatest threat to environmentalists right now may be not insecticides or intransigent oil companies, but indifference. According to a recent Pew Center poll, 15 percent fewer voters deemed “protecting the environment?? a top priority than in 2006. Such general apathy frustrates and puzzles adherents of the green movement—all indicators, after all, point to nothing less than impending doom. They thrust forth pamphlets full of statistics (bright red), CO2 graphs (alarmingly inclined), and before-and-after images of Arctic ice caps (now you see ’em, now you don?...
...Nature writing encompasses robust narrative and well-grounded observations from the science of the natural world,” Elder said. He said that 20th century nature writing—as well as the 19th-Century Transcendentalist movement’s emphasis on the connection between people and the environment??had greatly inspired him. “Most people are not interested in nature. We’re more interested in other people,” Peterson, the moderator, said. “The trick is to draw people away from the human experience to another foreign experience...
...Future of Energy” lecture series. Since then, the bank has extended its funding in order to support two other lecture series: “Green Conversations” and “Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change.” Daniel P. Schrag, the Center for the Environment??s director, said that Bank of America’s funding has been central to the expansion of the center’s activities. “Only about a quarter of our budget comes directly from the provost,” he said...
Peat bogs—pools of dead plant material that does not decay due to the cold, wet environment??facilitate a build-up of undecomposed carbon...