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...Every knowledgeable agriculturist knows that there is a plant with very high methanol content that grows well on land already too desalinated to grow food, which actually rejuvenates its host soil a little with every crop: hemp. Planting the 30% of our planet's arable land that is already too desalinated to grow food with hemp for the next two decades would give us plenty of biofuel without interrupting vital food production. Robert James-Herbert, sydney...
...town are hit by a hurricane of unusually high intensity—a storm that they were not expecting. The connection between these two groups of events may seem tenuous at first, but in our globalized age, the actions we take at Harvard can have direct effects around the planet. Many of our everyday habits—from charging our laptops and cell phones to eating industrially-produced food in the dining halls to tossing out our trash (which goes via train to a landfill in South Carolina)—result in the emission of greenhouse gases. In aggregate...
...generate the same amount of electricity. In the long run, gasification with CCS is likely to become more expensive, not only compared to gasification or traditional coal pulverization, but also compared to truly renewable technologies like wind and solar power. Gasification plants are not only damaging to the planet today; future attempts to decrease their impact are neither environmentally nor financially viable.In the end, the six conference committee members currently reviewing Massachusetts’s energy bill are faced with three possibilities. Should they maintain incentives for gasification, they can limit emissions to natural gas levels, thereby compromising the meaning...
...most pressing modern-day realities. In our day-to-day lives as students, family members, and friends, it is all too easy to lose sight of the fact that we are also inhabitants of a fragile habitat and therefore charged with the responsibility of caring for our planet...
...political showmanship and corporate spin. President Bush planted an oak in New Orleans (249,999 more would bring the canopy back to pre-Katrina levels). In Indonesia, activists painted themselves green (above). Bolivia's socialist President Evo Morales told the U.N. that "if we want to save our planet Earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system." And capitalists polished their image to a green sheen: Macy's unveiled a new solar-power system in San Jose, Calif.; Chevron ran ads extolling the power of "human energy" to save the world...