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...neutral. In the past, the NFL has sponsored tree plantings to offset the hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases emitted during the event--from stadium lights and other fuel burners, like the buses that shuttle spectators around town. This year the league is partnering with alternative-energy provider Sterling Planet to use renewable-energy certificates (RECs) to promote the use of nonpolluting power sources. Lowering emissions, rather than simply offsetting them, would be the next logical play...
...ah’s certainty of the continued dominance of oil. “He was a little bit too willing to assert estimates favorable to his industry,” Mitchell C. Hunter ’09 said. Chris D. Holmes, a graduate student in Earth and Planet Sciences, echoed the point. “I was surprised by his confidence in the oil industry to remain unperturbed with possible new technologies,” he said. —Staff writer Shoshana S. Tell can be reached at stell@fas.harvard.edu...
...cold, gray winter sky sags low over northern French town of Hem - a little over five miles east of the bustling city of Lille, but on a different socio-economic planet. While Lille's jobless rate of 10% is above the national average of 8.6% (in large part due to its sizeable university population), more than one in four of Hem's nearly 20,000 residents is out of work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just...
...today, there is hope under Hem's gray clouds, kindled by goodwill, hard work, and a huge injection of funds aimed at bringing the town, like hundreds of other disenfranchised suburbs that exploded in rioting late in 2005, back to Planet France...
...some signs of change. Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown? I mean, look, I profoundly believe the environment should be an issue the center-right grabs hold of. We believe that you care about what you pass on to your children. What's more important a part of inheritance than the planet? And the center-right recognize that there are lots of market-based solutions to environmental problems that we should be championing, so I think that on every grounds it's sensible for the center-right to be campaigning on these issues...