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While Harvard is also pursuing a diverse portfolio of green energy purchases, the University is striving to curb emissions by increasing efficiency and reducing electricity demand. Earlier this year, University President Drew G. Faust announced plans to cut Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent of 2006 levels...
Electricity use currently comprises nearly 50 percent of Harvard’s overall greenhouse gas emissions, according to Mary Smith, the manager of energy supply and utility administration for Harvard...
Harvard University Operations Services, the office that manages Harvard’s utilities, also runs the Blackstone Steam Plant, which decreases energy consumption by providing high-pressure steam to around 200 buildings for space and water heating. This provides Harvard with increased fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, Smith said...
...star: "It's the biggest musical event of the year. Of course it's politicized." A case in point, he says, is Russia and Ukraine. "Russia doesn't care if, say, Bosnia wins, but if Ukraine wins, it's a scandal." Ukraine and Russia have been scrapping ferociously over gas and oil for two winters in a row. (In a slight rule change, Eurovision is re-introducing a pool of judges to try to ameliorate any unfairness that may arise from the popular vote...
...Krauthammer claims that Obama’s plan to reduce health-care costs, make college more affordable, develop alternative sources of energy, and limit greenhouse- gas emissions is “perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.” (In a non sequitur of my own, I wish that Krauthammer had been so sensitive to non sequiturs during the Bush administration, when a terrorist attack by Saudi nationals became justification for a war in Iraq.) While Krauthammer is right that “at the very center of our economic near-depression...