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Leaders from the creationist Christian community and evolutionary biologists called on President Bush Wednesday to recognize the imminent threat that current fossil fuel use and climate change pose to the environment. Issuing a “call to action,” the coalition, which includes Harvard scientists and evangelical leaders, held a press conference in Washington D.C. this week. The unlikely pairing came about after a meeting of the two groups in November. “People came to this meeting not knowing how easy it was to strike common ground,” said James J. McCarthy...
...equal amount. (Energy-hungry Americans generate about 20 tons of CO2 per capita per year; Britons, about half that). So for anything between $4 and $40 to offset the equivalent of one ton of CO2, a consumer in, say, Germany might help schools and hospitals in Eritrea switch from fossil-fuel electricity generation to solar panels. The simplicity of the idea is appealing. Consumers and businesses worldwide voluntarily offset an equivalent of 6 million tons of CO2 in 2005, forking out $43 million in the process, seven times the amount spent the previous year. (Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says, "is a distraction." Many green groups agree. In a recent report, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF advised consumers to shun reforestation in favor of projects that "support the transition to non-fossil-fuel-based energy...
...Democrats to argue, correctly, on Sept. 23, 2002, that Bush's pre-emptive invasion of Iraq would be a serious mistake. Now Gore seems liberated, less awkward than he has ever before appeared in public and eager to propose more inconvenient truths?like the need for a tax on fossil fuels. I don't know if he's running for President. Probably not. But he should...
...Emig. “The pledge campaign has a far-reaching affect on the Harvard community.” Administrators had promised renewable energy certificates (RECs) to any building that managed to get 50 percent of its occupants to sign the pledge. The purchase of RECs compensates for the fossil fuels currently used by the buildings. The RECs do not actually supply energy that Harvard will consume itself—the money goes to support a wind farm in Minnesota, indirectly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Harvard will provide enough RECs to offset 10 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions produced...