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...absence of forward-looking environmental stewardship been more evident this year than in the debate over new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (CAFÉ). The U.S. automakers argued to congress that Americans don’t want the kinds of cars that are needed to dramatically reduce the one-third of total emissions that come from the transportation sector. In the end, the American automakers were given a pass by the country’s elected officials to continue placing heft and horsepower ahead of what is right for the country and the planet...
Harvard, Reardon said, had solicited 649 of these gifts in the first three years of the fundraising effort. Out of this number of targets, he added, 634 have given “something significant”—all combined to the tune of $135 million, more than one-third the Campaign’s goal...
...focus its attention on buying more locally sourced animal products to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support nearby farms and communities. Animal production is the number one producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. food system—contributing nearly two-thirds of all nitrous oxide and one-third of all methane emissions globally...
...China is willing to speak out, it's hard to know just how much influence it would have on Burma's top brass. The extent of the regime's disconnect with reality struck me as I drove the broad, empty avenues of Naypyidaw. This is a country where roughly one-third of children were malnourished even before Nargis. Yet the generals saw no problem with spending tens of millions of dollars constructing a massive new capital. But even there, the disregard for citizens is matched only by the junta's pursuit of personal gratification; to wit: the generals have signed...
Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 presented a proposal that would also allow for undergraduates to use online lecture videos in lieu of direct instruction, provided that they attend one-third of “the instructional periods of the course...