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There were limits to how green Bruce Letvin was willing to go. For years, the 53-year-old anatomy professor had wanted to install solar panels on his Manhattan Beach, Calif., home. But the up-front installation costs always outweighed the benefits for the environment and his conscience. This spring, however, he managed to work out green financing with the help of solar company SunPower. After determining that his electricity bills and roof exposure were large enough to make him a good candidate for its solar panels, the company, based in San Jose, Calif., helped him find a 15-year...
...produce enough electricity to pay for itself--a deal not unlike asking a new cell-phone owner to pay in advance for a decade's worth of minutes. But that equation will change as the cost of solar panels drops and the price of fossil-fuel-generated electricity rises. (Letvin's utility provider just put in for a 30% rate increase for the heaviest power users.) Photovoltaic solar installations were up 45% last year compared with 2006, with about a third of those systems going on residential roofs. And now solar companies and banks are helping homeowners stretch the cost...
...became the Pierian Foundation, an alumni association that currently serves as an advising board for the HRO.“The leadership of the orchestra turns over yearly and therefore, like most student-run organizations at Harvard, there is no institutional memory,” says Norman L. Letvin ’71, the current president of the Pierian Foundation and a former clarinetist in HRO. “So if there are certain types of mistakes the students are just about to make, we remember the last time the mistake was made and we give the orchestra advise...
...like to think that what we’re doing is very important for America and for the world,” Letvin said. “The commitment from the government can always be greater...
...hoping to do is first to study, in the monkeys, the nature of the immune response in the very early minutes to hours to try to get a handle on what might make up a successful immune response and what might make up an unsuccessful response,” Letvin said...