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That doesn't mean we are powerless. There are steps we can take now: adopting combined heat-and-power systems; switching from coal to natural gas; embracing renewable and nuclear energy; and favoring more fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles. In addition, we can reduce and offset up to 20% of our emissions by conserving and restoring the world's forests. Forests not only store twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere, but constantly reabsorb it through photosynthesis. Nature's carbon-storage technology is extraordinarily efficient and can mitigate climate change better over the next 50 years than...
...additional science funding, which will come from the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC)—the body charged with overseeing University-wide science initiatives—will offset a recent downturn in national grant money...
...largest farms and the wealthiest landowners. While most of the CAP budget is dispersed as direct aid to farmers, most of that goes to the largest farmers. Another large chunk goes toward other CAP schemes such as export refunds to large companies, storage outlays and payments to slaughterhouses to offset costs of measures to eradicate BSE, or Mad Cow Disease...
...yellow. Founded by California chiropractor Forrest Shaklee in 1956, the company introduced a nontoxic, biodegradable cleaner in 1960 and a phosphate-free laundry detergent in 1972 and sold lines of natural health supplements and skin-care products. In 2000 it became the first company in the world to entirely offset its carbon emissions and be certified climate neutral. But Shaklee's sales weren't as impressive as its environmental credentials. They were essentially the same in 2004 as they had been a decade before, despite significant growth in the overall "green" market. Barnett, who in 2003 was casting about...
China, Japan and others welcome the chance to scale back their U.S. holdings, but even the hint of a sale could send the dollar tumbling - as happened earlier this month when a Chinese official suggested China might shift some of its currency reserves to offset the "weak" dollar. The notion that the days of the dollar's dominance are numbered is, in fact, increasingly popular. In September, Alan Greenspan, former chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said it's "absolutely conceivable that the euro will replace the dollar as [the] reserve currency, or will be traded as an equally important...