Word: offsets
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...according to a fact sheet from the Financial Aid Office. The old guidelines also required students to make another contribution that was “expected to be earned during the summer,” according to the HFAI guidebook. Under the old guidelines, outside scholarships could serve to offset the self-help expectation but could not be used to replace summer income. The plan unveiled yesterday will allow students to use outside scholarships “to eliminate their summer savings obligations,” according to a statement from the University. The self-help expectation rises...
...guidelines also required students to make another contribution that was “expected to be earned during the summer,” according to the HFAI guidebook. Under the old guidelines, outside scholarships could serve to offset the self-help expectation but could not be used to replace summer income...
Meanwhile, the opportunities to offset emissions are growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador. Internet ventures with names like TerraPass, myclimate and Drive Neutral enable commuters and air travelers to calculate their emissions and neutralize the damage. Some even aim to turn a profit...
...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...
...internal dialogue all the time; it?s practically unavoidable in our multi-ethnic, politically correct society, where stereotypes and reality collide more often than people would like to think, or admit. While I want to believe that my motivation is benevolent, I recognize the irony of trying to offset racial profiling by engaging in what amounts to just another form...