Word: environmentalist
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About 400 students descended on Harvard last Friday in an environmentalist convention organized by Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC) and the Climate Campaign, a coalition students against global warming from Northeastern universities...
...fanatic environmentalist by any means, but some basic consideration for the health of the environment—and more importantly, our own—is clearly warranted. What puzzles me, however, is that the coal-burning power industry seems to disagree...
...student group, HLS Lambda, and fellow-signatories of the brief—which include national environmentalist and women’s organizations—claim that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the FAIR lawsuit could substantially impact the future of the First Amendment...
...with marriage? How much appeal will Dean have beyond Internet-cafe society and the liberal salons of the two coasts? As he stumped in South Carolina last week, Dean rarely missed an opportunity to introduce himself archly as a "guy from the North," "a Vermont Yankee" or "this environmentalist, Birkenstock-wearing guy from Vermont." The joke on himself is evidence of self-confidence, but he has yet to show how mass-market he can go. In a state where as much as half the Democratic electorate is likely to be African American, the crowds that showed up to hear Dean...
What has always kept this kind of energy free-lancing from becoming more than environmentalist daydreaming is that the necessary technologies have remained unreliable and prohibitively expensive (with the exception of wind turbines)--particularly if you are talking about microgenerators that serve only a single home. Lately, however, the question of cost, at least, is coming under control. "The price of solar cells has fallen," says Douglas. "Natural-gas microturbines are more affordable too. The economics are coming closer to reality...