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...protect street trees that are in the path of construction.” In a letter delivered yesterday, Healy said such concerns already fall under a Massachusetts law allowing city governments to charge an assailant who “wantonly injures, defaces or destroys a shrub, plant, [or] tree” with a $500 fine and the cost of the defaced shrubbery...
...still came again another day. With inclement weather conditions pounding Soldiers Field, the Harvard softball team’s home opener against Holy Cross was postponed indefinitely, with no makeup date announced. The Crimson spent the two previous weekends on the road, competing at the Northern Invitational in Plant City, Fla. and the Eller Media Stadium Classic in Las Vegas, Nev. Harvard tallied a 4-5 record in the non-conference matchups. Harvard is next scheduled to take the field in Macon, Ga., where the Crimson will compete in the Mercer Nissan Classic on the first weekend of Harvard?...
...hidden glories of Paris. On the Oise River northwest of the city, the SEDIF water-purification plant uses a nanofiltration system that forces water through 84 acres of membranes housed in a giant matrix of 190 metal tubes. South of the capital in Valenton, one can breathe the swampy odors of a massive wastewater plant that treats 159 million gal. of sewage every day and converts the solid waste into 82,000 tons of combustible pellets--enough to provide 80% of the sewage plant's annual energy needs. And there's that old favorite, les gouts de Paris...
...succeeded in reducing acid rain by half. But even the Kyoto treaty doesn't put any cap on greenhouse gases in China and India, where billions of these carbon credits are traded. Sure, you can pretend you're offsetting Western greenhouse pollution by supposedly cleaning up a dirty coal plant in China. But China is adding a new coal plant every week. You could build a particularly dirty "uncapped" power plant, then sell hundreds of millions in carbon credits to reduce it to a normal rate of pollution. The result? The polluter gets very rich. The planet continues to cook...
...edge of town, he built a sanctuary for gorillas, chimpanzees, wild pigs, deer and other animals rescued from hunter traps or injured on the roads. His self-financed foundation is part scientific institute, part environmental lobby, part zoo. His latest project is to have Port Gentil's schoolchildren plant thousands of palm trees around town. If his oil industry friends thought he was crazy before, he confides, they now openly refer to him as Deng Deng, a term from the local Fang language that loosely translates as "Hot Brains...