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...often more popular fix at the expense of the best one, typically at the governmental and corporate level. The Whole Foods chain’s absolute abandonment of plastic bags (which, as was elegantly stated on this page last week, might end up increasing its customers’ environmental impact) is one of dozens of examples of a major corporation polishing its environmental boilerplate without retrofitting its inefficient engine...
...everything to do with the decision to rely on corn supply: While the production of most biofuels requires land that would otherwise be used for crops, one acre of corn produces 328 gallons of ethanol, compared to 662 gallons per acre of sugarcane, making the former’s impact through accelerated deforestation and reduction in available food more striking...
...Week culminates Saturday with a “Charles River Cleanup” in the morning and the afternoon EAC Earth Day Celebration on the MAC Quad, according to REP representative Nicole E. Hughes ’09. The week’s events might not have an immediate impact, Arnold said, but they aim to raise student awareness about environmental issues. “We work on the student-to-student level to change habits,” he said...
...impact of promoting Petraeus, however, may be even greater in the national security establishment than on Capitol Hill. It's a wake-up call to old-school Army officers and their vanishing dreams of massive tank battles and artillery skirmishes, some of whom privately call Petraeus "King David" for his high self-regard and chumminess with reporters. Gates has made clear that wants commanders able to carry out the messy, irregular kind of combat championed by Petraeus that the Defense Secretary envisages the U.S. fighting for years to come. The promotion reinforces the message he delivered to young Air Force...
...have been more restrained. On Sunday the African Union joined the chorus of calls for the immediate release of poll results. Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan also weighed in, calling on African leaders to find a solution to the situation, which he called "a serious crisis with impact beyond Zimbabwe." But leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) kept noticeably quiet on Zimbabwe at a summit on poverty and development being held in Mauritius - except to ask South African President Thabo Mbeki to continue to lead mediation efforts on their behalf...