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...increase has been smaller than at many other schools, it still continues to outstrip inflation—even in the higher education sector. The Higher Education Price Index—a gauge of inflation calculated by Commonfund, an investment firm in Wilton, Conn. that serves schools and other nonprofit organizations—has increased by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent over the past five years. The index measures movements in the prices of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities. In an interview on Monday, Kirby pointed to a “very significant spike in energy...
...consumer offsets work? Take the nonprofit Carbonfund.org It sells absolution for personal and commercial emissions at a cut rate of $5.50 per ton of CO2. (A full year of carbon neutralization typically costs $99.) Carbonfund allows buyers to choose where their money winds up--in alternative energy, forest conservation or energy efficiency. Co-founder Eric Carlson says Carbonfund has offset about 40,000 tons of CO2 so far. That's not much. But its ultimate aim, he says, is to channel what support it gets into driving down the cost of clean energy--and, along the way, increase awareness...
...Higher Education Price Index—a gauge of inflation calculated by Commonfund, an investment firm in Wilton, Conn. that serves schools and other nonprofit organizations—has increased by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent over the past five years. The index measures movements in the prices of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities...
...city. The New Orleans Police Department claims the murder rate is actually lower than this, largely because the department relies upon a an estimated population of 190,000 for the city. TIME is using a population estimate of 155,000 released on March 15 by RAND, a nonprofit research organization that has been asked to do regular estimates by the Bring New Orleans Back Commission...
...rediscovery is the latest in a line of literary good deeds by the Dalkey Archive Press, which is becoming a major force on the global literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print...