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...story building in Beijing is one of the few places in China where you'll hear people speak fondly of Japan. Inside are the offices of the Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection, where experts study how Japan became one of the world's greenest countries, with the aim of applying those lessons and methods to China. "Japan, on an international level, is a responsible country," says the center's vice director, Xia Guang. "We recognize that Japan's work promoting environmental protection in China has real seriousness, and we thank the government and people of Japan...
Here's an unorthodox candidate for the title of America's greenest President: Richard Milhous Nixon. It was the arch-Republican Nixon, after all, who created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, who signed the landmark Clean Air Act into law. Nixon isn't the only Republican President who can claim a green legacy. Environmentalism as a political force effectively began with President Theodore Roosevelt, a lifelong conservationist and outdoorsman who made Yosemite a national park and created 42 million acres of national forests. And even George H.W. Bush, whose promise to be the "environmental President...
With signs ranging from “Hug a Recycler” to “Switching to CFLs is the sexiest and greenest thing you can do,” undergraduates descended upon the Malkin Athletic Center quad Saturday to learn about different ways to contribute to sustainability. The Environmental Action Committee (EAC) sponsored the event that brought together an array of campus groups—from the Harvard College Democrats to the Harvard Outing Club—to encourage students to be involved in environmental efforts. “We are trying to make this a community event...
...Boston has made to “green” itself, and Faust’s, because she (albeit unintentionally) revealed just how much greening Harvard has yet to do. Boston was recently ranked third in Popular Science’s “America’s Greenest Cities” list, and the title is justified. Boston’s green campaign has been, and will continue to be, successful thanks to its concrete goals and quantitative benchmarks. Menino’s speech made this clear when he described both the real threats of climate change to Boston...
Who’s the greenest of them...