Word: footprints
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Harvard has recently undertaken several measures to reduce its carbon footprint. A 500-kilowatt photovoltaic solar array—approximately 2 1/2 football fields long—is in development for the rooftop of The Arsenal, the largest building at the Harvard-owned Watertown office complex. Harvey added that this project would not have gone forward without the $1.1 million grant from the state’s Commonwealth Solar rebate program...
Luckily for the U.S., China's pre-eminence in Southeast Asia isn't yet a foregone conclusion. Countries like Vietnam, which was colonized by its northern neighbor for a millennium, are wary of China's growing footprint. And in nations like Indonesia, Burma and Cambodia, it wasn't so long ago that the economic dominance of local Chinese communities catalyzed bloody pogroms and discriminatory laws against the ethnic Chinese. Despite the occasional bursts of anti-Chinese violence, businesses in Thailand and Indonesia are still disproportionately controlled by overseas Chinese today. As a consequence, even as Beijing pleads that...
...long term, 20 years-plus, we all want to be at a place where we have, if not zero-emission vehicles, then to be as close to a zero-carbon footprint as possible. People would like to imagine that Utopia is around the corner, and that electrically powered cars are the instant solution. And I will tell you that there is no silver bullet. We have to embrace a whole range of alternative technologies. If we want to view electrically powered cars as one very viable means of getting to the Promised Land, then we have to face the reality...
...technology. How do you get around the negative perception of diesel cars in the U.S.? Clean-diesel technology represents an immediate technological leap - you immediately, very significantly, reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Biodiesel, too, could get you very close to the point where you can have a neutral carbon footprint. This can all be attained in a relatively shorter space of time, and at lower costs, than waiting 20 years-plus until we get our act together with electric cars. I should say, though, that hybrids are important. It is not diesel vs. hybrid - they are complementary technologies...
...reminder that U.S. troops who die in Afghanistan are twice as likely to be killed in helicopter crashes as are their counterparts in Iraq. And the reasons for that discrepancy are not to be found in the country's skies, but on the ground - the Taliban's growing footprint has forced the U.S. to be far more reliant on moving troops and supplies by air. And the rugged terrain often makes helicopters the only option, even as the altitudes involved greatly increase the risks...