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University President Drew G. Faust announced Wednesday that former Vice President Al Gore ’69 will speak as part of Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration in late October. Gore, who will be joined onstage by Faust at the Tercentenary Theater event, is known for his part in the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and was the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness about the impact of global warming. “Al Gore is the posterchild for Harvard’s impact...
...light of a financial crisis that University President Drew G. Faust called “without precedent,” Harvard responded in typical fashion—with a panel of professors to discuss the problem...
While academic forums are common at Harvard, the pressing nature of this one’s subject matter and the fact that Faust promoted it drew a crowd which filled Sanders Theatre well before the presentation started. Others watched on a live Webcast...
...secretive and stand-alone style the University has preferred over the years has produced a lamentable history of failed community relations in Cambridge, Boston, and elsewhere. By turning its back on the Charlesview project it has privately engineered, Harvard risks another iteration of that sad pattern. We ask President Faust and all our Harvard neighbors not to let this happen. Let’s reopen the conversation on Charlesview, and this time take a larger view of how this relocation could benefit us all. Let’s work together to design a new community we can all be proud...
Former Vice President and environmental crusader Al Gore ’69 will speak at a Harvard-wide “celebration on sustainability” on Oct. 22, University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. The event will formally launch a greenhouse gas reduction initiative—first announced in June—which aims to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2008 levels by 2016. The target came as the chief recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national...