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...food in the dining halls to tossing out our trash (which goes via train to a landfill in South Carolina)—result in the emission of greenhouse gases. In aggregate, these emissions help cause the average temperature of our planet to rise, which in turn causes a major change in weather patterns. The effects of climate change are real. The most dramatic effects include stronger storms that destroy coastal cities such as New Orleans, rapidly receding glaciers, spring arriving earlier, and invasive species moving into new, warmer areas. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Last January, Massachusetts’s House and Senate passed legislation to promote green energy with minimal costs to consumers. The bill was mostly progressive and earned applause from environmental groups, but there remains one major flaw. In addition to wind, solar, ocean current, geothermic, and hydroelectric power initiatives, Massachusetts is slated to pass incentives for “clean coal” power plants.One breakthrough provision in Massachusetts’s green energy bill would require a portion of electricity sold in Massachusetts to be derived from “renewable” and “alternative?...
...woman’s worn features foreshadow the unforgiving and un-idealized portraits he would paint for members of the court under Philip IV. Tracing the lines between El Greco and Velázquez, who are often considered in different artistic contexts, is the show’s major achievement.––Staff writer Claire J. Saffitz can be reached at csaffitz@fas.harvard.edu...
...showed “other institutions that it’s possible to look at this history, and face it, without having the roof collapse on your head.”Since 2006, Brown has pursued many of the initiatives suggested in the report, such as erecting the first major slave trade memorial in the U.S. and creating a center for the continuing study of slavery and justice. Simmons also exceeded the committee’s recommendations about how Brown could help public school students obtain a quality education by establishing a trust fund—grown in perpetuity...
...would ameliorate many environmental and economic problems, according to every official estimate that has been made. The most substantial of these estimates is the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which was compiled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. (EIS’s are required for any type of major project that will affect the environment.)The 3,800-page document compiled by the Corps found that Cape Cod’s dependence on fossil fuels, foreign oil, and natural gas would all be reduced by the Cape Wind project. Additionally, the price of electricity in any market spot...