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...common regulation - for financial markets. Yet he says spotty bank balance sheets were just as evident and untreated in Europe as the were in the U.S. until the crisis hit. "Europe, like America, decided it was easier to assume the sun would keep shining and the grass would remain green," Lannoo says...
...Green was on the tip of Harvard undergraduates’ tongues last night as they feasted on a Sustainable Dinner composed entirely of local ingredients. The dinner, which featured autumn vegetable soup and cider-and-thyme-steamed mussels, was Harvard University Dining Services’ chief contribution to the University’s Sustainability Week. “Sustainability is something that we’ve focused an enormous amount of attention on and is one of our department’s overriding goals,” said HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. “[This dinner] is a great...
...friend Tim, and one of my fellow interns, Kevin, to explore Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood famous for spawning the hippie movement of the 1960s. We made our way down the central vein of the neighborhood, which brought us to the entrance of Golden Gate Park, an urban green space of more than 1000 acres, making it larger than Frederick Olmsted’s creation in New York City. Having heard that there were live buffalo in the park, we set off to find them and see what other surprises...
...when residents protesting new student housing disrupted the Commencement ceremony in 1970.By contrast, when Harvard presented its plan for the Northwest Science Building in 2005, the University dealt with resident objections without either side taking it to the courts.When neighbors objected to the building’s obstruction of green space, Harvard turned the building 90 degrees so that the green space would open onto the street—creating what a local resident affectionately dubbed “the emerald earring.”Though Harvard officials note say that the context of the Riverside and Agassiz expansions were...
...need to show we’re willing to make sacrifices.” Despite her clear preference for the policies of the Democrats, Jasanoff expressed skepticism about whether either candidate will be able to support both the environment and job creation and whether “green-collar jobs” will be successful. “New technology initiatives do not create jobs in depressed areas,” she said. Jasanoff concluded by emphasizing the need for fundamental shifts in U.S. behavior and ideology. “Just seeing the United States come out of this stagnant...