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...time federal agencies had given additional research funding a green light, Harvard administrators and researchers had less than two years to submit grant proposals and spend stimulus money...
Furthermore, many top rated academic institutions, including Stanford, Princeton, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have already made considerable commitments to green research and education. MIT’s Energy Initiative, for example, is financially backed by mega-corporations like BP, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin. The program boasts over 70 energy-related courses and interdisciplinary research groups of engineers, economists, management gurus, and policy experts. With BP and Ford’s blessing, the explicit mission of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative is to “lead the way to a compelling and sustainable solution...
...just Harvard that has failed to act. Many profit-seeking and socially conscientious students who feel sheepish about being “greedy I-bankers” have yet to consider careers as “green capitalists.” This is clearly evidenced by the size of the Environmental Science and Public Policy concentration, which has approximately 50 students every year...
...play catch up in order to fulfill its obligation as a premier research university and the historic focus of great policy debates. The university must develop a cohesive interdisciplinary curriculum and possible concentration or secondary field that will adequately prepare students to be the clean energy leaders and green gurus of tomorrow. Students of all disciplines must seriously consider careers in sustainability and should actively work with the university to establish these new resources. Proper forums and mechanisms should be developed to bring faculty across the university together to engage in interdisciplinary research projects at the Belfer Center for Science...
Each of the 15 guestrooms channel Fendi's creativity and style. She used furnishings she discovered at antique fairs around the world to turn them into mini-museums, incorporating items like a 1930s Mies van der Rohe sofa bed, a rare Picasso foulard and green steel furniture by Italian designer Tobia Scarpa. The glamorous Crystal Room seems weightless with its transparent Fendi Perspex furniture. The black-and-white Karl Suite, decorated with 1920s Viennese armchairs, honors designer Karl Lagerfeld (Fendi's creative director) and displays dozens of his fashion sketches. (See the best travel gadgets...