Word: environmental
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Idealistic environmentalists may not like these findings, but they should pay attention to them. Many hotels appeal to guests to reuse their towels with little cards asking them to help protect the planet. But as evolutionary psychologist Vladas Griskevicius of the University of Minnesota helped show in a 2008 Journal...
With the College’s massive curricular review now in the rearview mirror, four individual departments conducted academic overhauls of their own late this year, revamping their concentration requirements to appeal to a wider variety of students.English, Classics, Music, and Astronomy modified their undergraduate programs this past year to...
At the risk of slighting those whose interests go unmentioned because of the brevity of the space available here, I would like to highlight two university priorities: global health and energy and environment. What is it that makes these areas of scholarship and teaching priorities even in the current climate...
In addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging...
Lacking any real predators, a key feature of the human environment is other humans. In our rush to focus on admittedly substantial threats such as global warming and environmental degradation, we should not overlook this fact. It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend...