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...sweatshirt at the Coop and in T stations all over Boston, but there is something degrading about Harvard selling its name to a lingerie company. All we need now is for Starbucks to sell an exotic blend of coffee ground from beans that were grown deep within the Harvard Forest. If little hearts and dogs in every shade of pink don’t undermine the sanctity of the Harvard name, I don’t know what else would. It’s both disturbing and sad to know that somewhere in Arkansas, a little teenie-bopper is running...
...farm at the north end of the university’s campus; like at Yale, Harvard hopes that its farm will produce food for its dining halls. Vergason says that the combination of the farm, the greenway, and the small parks will “create an urban forest,” one that can “improve the quality of the environment and go a long way to returning natural systems to their ecological functions.”Of course, Harvard’s revised master plan is still plenty controversial—at a meeting...
...full of the rare animals that Madagascar is famous for - the panda-like indiri lemur, Parson's chameleons that blend into the trees, the greater bamboo lemurs, perhaps the rarest primate on the planet. One of the local guides, Marie Razafindrasolo, led me on a tour of the forest, spotting animals that I would never have noticed myself...
...himself. I write about endangered species all the time, but it wasn't until I went to Madagascar and saw an indri lemur for myself that I could really understand the value of what I wanted to defend. It wasn't until I saw how little of the Madagascar forest has survived - 90% of the country's original forest cover is gone - that I could truly fathom the risk. If environmentalism requires a revolution of consciousness, maybe that can't be done at home - even if traveling requires carbon emissions. As Russell Mittermeier, the president of CI and my ecotravel...
...works by such artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ad Reinhardt and Frank Stella through the lens of two contemporary art critics, Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, as they dueled over the meaning of changes in the art world. Through Jan. 11, 2009. 1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park...