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Bill McKibben may be the world's best green journalist, but even he wishes the climate-change skeptics were right. That would mean we weren't headed for a warmer planet--one that McKibben calls Eaarth (the extra a is for extra awful)--that will be profoundly more difficult to live on. But our fate is sealed: "Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality." McKibben backs up his claim with page after page detailing the impact that global warming has already had, from...
...Design School, Cahill says that 10 percent of the faculty and staff are members of the Green Team, which has encouraged composting and recycling of wood and other design materials, and Henriksen says that initiatives such as low flow fume hoods have been able to maximize efficiency in a typically energy-intensive environment at the science schools...
Though OFS assistant director Jaclyn Olsen says that the relative decentralization of green efforts provides room for innovation at the school level, the office would like to see more coordination among individual efforts across the University...
...helped organize several successful cross-university initiatives, according to Henriksen, including the sharing of behavioral best practices, the Green Office certification program, and the implementation of the University-wide temperature policies...
...energy lasted throughout the day. At 6 p.m., the downstairs area of Lowell Lecture Hall was throbbing. The soft patter of tap shoes as dancers scurried back and forth between the bathroom and the “green room,” and talk of house elves and Ellen DeGeneres was unremitting. Two girls hummed “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” while going over the sequence for the last time. After the exhilarating scramble to finish applying blush, pin costumes, and straighten hair, TAPS came together in a circle and had their...