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Green Lights benefits the environment as much as those who sign on to it. According to the EPA, lighting accounts for 20 to 25 percent of the electricity used annually in the United States-up to 90 percent of a lighting energy is used by businesses...
...joining the program, Harvard would be sending an important environmental message to the future leaders it is breeding, and to the many educational institutions for which it is a model. If the University does not cooperate with a voluntary EPA program, it will be sending out one, blatant message: "We don't really care about the environment--even if doing so would save us millions of dollars...
...joining the Green Lights program, Harvard would not only do its share of energy conservation, but it would encourage others to follow. If energy-efficient lighting were used everywhere profitable, the EPA figures that the nation's demand for electricity could be cut by more than 10 percent...
...already shaping up to reflect this bias, at least where women are concerned. Of Clinton's top female appointees, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and now Reno are unmarried and have no children; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and U.N. Representative Madeleine Albright have grown kids; only EPA chief Carol Browner has to worry about child care. So much for the President's vaunted vow to create a government "that looks like America...
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