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Julie Claire Guest ’11 looks displeased when she receives Al Gore ’69 as her source for inspiration in FM’s third annual Fast Fashion Challenge...
...tough choices on climate. Instead of a new Manhattan Project - the metaphor often used for global warming - Sterman believes that what is needed is closer to a new civil rights movement, a large-scale campaign that dramatically changes the public's beliefs and behaviors. New groups like Al Gore's We Campaign are aiming for just such a social transformation, but "the reality is that this is even more difficult than civil rights," says Sterman. "Even that took a long time, and we don't have that kind of time with the climate...
...Despite the fashionable status that environmental activism and “sustainability” efforts have acquired of late, and the sanctimonious banalities of celebrity supporters like Gore, “green” initiatives indeed serve a noble goal. Amid constantly escalating energy costs and further scientific evidence of climate change, few people deny the value of encouraging more responsible use of resources...
Throughout the University’s weeklong sustainability celebration, the Phillip Brooks House Association sought to bring global environmental problems down to the local level, with a series of events focused on environmental justice. The sustainability celebration coincided with PBHA’s decision to give keynote speaker Al Gore ’69 the “Robert Coles Call of Service” award and continued with panels and speeches over the weekend. James S. Hoyte ’65, professor of environmental science and public policy and assistant to University President Drew G. Faust, traced the history...
...these final eight days of the campaign hinges on winning a slew of red states in which Obama currently holds leads of varying sizes in the polls - Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada - and then somehow producing an upset in Pennsylvania, a Blue state that went for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 and where Obama currently boasts a lead in the low double digits...