Word: grass
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They said the goal of their book was to begin a social movement at the grass-roots level, describing the health-related obstacles women face in the developing world, including death and injury during childbirth, sex-trafficking, slavery, denial of education, and malnutrition...
Check out the living ball of adorable fur, rollicking in grass that might as well wilt and die of shame from being in the same picture of Max and his lustrous black coat. Look at how he daintily lifts a paw, as his dark eyes sit like deep wells in the face of a poet. What a creature...
Over the last few years, Harvard has taken numerous bold steps to create a more environmentally friendly campus, and the recent move to convert all of its grounds to organic grass is another impressive initiative. What started as a one-acre pilot project is now slated to be a full organic overhaul, an encouraging sign that the university is willing to seize worthy ideas that help the environment and save money...
Harvard’s grass initiative is not only helping preserve the environment but also cutting unnecessary costs. The savings from reduced water usage and from composting the grass clippings, branches, leaves, and other material that used to have to be transported off campus amounts to $35,000 a year. In addition, now that Harvard is composting its own materials, it no longer has to buy fertilizers, saving another $10,000 a year. In a time of budgetary constraints for colleges throughout the country, not to mention our nation as a whole, Harvard is continually demonstrating that reducing our environmental...
...standby mode when unused, and increasing vegetarian dining choices can further reduce our footprint and help us achieve President Faust’s goal of reducing Harvard’s greenhouse-gas footprint 30 percent by 2016. That being said, creative ideas such as changing the treatment of our grass are encouraging signs that we will reach, if not surpass, this target...