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...July 2008, University President Drew G. Faust challenged Harvard to cut all greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels within 10 years. The Office for Sustainability was founded to oversee this effort and has also coordinated other initiatives such as increasing the amount of locally grown food in undergraduate dining halls and generating more electricity from renewable sources...
...this interest in going green has been accompanied by a growing demand for energy—a demand that is expected, according to the Energy Information Administration, to rise nearly 26 percent by 2030. In my class on thermodynamics last semester, fuel-cell technology received a lot of attention, and I’ve been flagged down countless times by insistent, blue-shirted activists who solicit signatures for the proposed wind farm on Nantucket Sound. However, there is another technology being embraced by the proponents of green technology and by evolving government policy, that is making headlines. It generates...
This year Yale had 218 students apply—or 16 percent—and Brown had 13 percent apply, according to Baichorova...
...increase in the number of applicants nationwide. The program received 46,359 applications for the 2010 corps, marking the third consecutive year of over 30 percent growth, according to Baichorova...
Accepted undergraduates suggested a variety of reasons for the three percent increase in applications. Some cited TFA’s aggressive recruiting effort on campus, while others pointed to the current state of the job market...