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...that 80% of our food relies on pollination at some point in its life cycle, Jacobsen's concern for the fate of the honey bee population is easily contagious. He offers the same prescription as most authors writing about our modern food supply - it's past time to go local and organic over imported and conventional. But he has one more piece of advice: appreciate, don't shun, the honey bee, for it is the "landscape architect of the American pastoral...
...since hitting its peak last October. Even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival added insult to injury, even if local papers hastened to note that Shanghai's athletes broke more world records than those from any other Chinese city...
...national spotlight with his Oscar award-winning documentary on global warming—An Inconvenient Truth—and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase awareness about the impact of climate change. The University-wide target follows a series of recent, more local pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Harvard. Last December, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced it would seek to reduce its emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. A few months earlier, Harvard entered into a binding agreement with Massachusetts to keep future carbon emissions from...
...objections. Nobody responded. “And they become law.” Brown encouraged attendants to take part in the Graduate Student Organization, which acts as an intermediary between departments and students. “It’s about getting representation for graduate students at the local, departmental level,” Brown said. The organismic and evolutionary biology student strongly encouraged direct participation. “Sometimes you feel like the University is an organism for making committees and nothing comes out of it,” Brown said. To counter this, he held pseudo-elections...
...often question whether a short foray into the classroom can really achieve the organization’s oft-stated goal of closing the racial and income achievement gaps in education. And in locations such as New Orleans, which has become a major center of TFA activity following Hurricane Katrina, local conditions make this task even more challenging...