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...study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), the independent investigative arm of Congress, sharply criticized the Clean Development Mechanism, the U.N. body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol's carbon-trading practices. The GAO found that carbon offsets - whereby a company in a rich nation pays for a carbon-reducing project elsewhere in lieu of cutting emissions itself - were at best a "temporary solution," not the answer to climate change. A new study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado found that there was little evidence that developing nations would ever be able to afford...
Like any other project built on youthful enthusiasm and the desire for real change in the world, any plan to use Harvard’s endowment for environmental initiatives must be tempered with a dose of reality and understanding. For example, Martin L. Weitzman, a professor in the economics department, argues that the impact of Harvard’s endowment on the alternative energy field would be relatively small and limited to its symbolic significance. Instead, Dr. Weitzman favors large, sweeping public policy changes, such as a stiff tax on carbon emissions, in order to check the emission of harmful...
...This out-of-the-box idea is one of four projects that received $100,000 through the Grand Challenges Exploration Initiative, a project backed by the Gates Foundation...
...media is compiled on a massive scale. Collective intelligence is a potentially groundbreaking development in cyberspace, allowing community organizers and advertising firms alike to tailor their message for the broader public. While we have no qualms with the MIT experiment—which is clearly a well-designed research project conducted with human subjects who have provided informed consent—we believe that it is time for policymakers and concerned citizens to begin a careful and informed dialogue regarding the new role of privacy rights in the 21st century. Given the recent and explosive growth of social-networking websites...
...variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that TIME has obtained. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. (The former officer overseeing that project reports to Hartmann, who helped select...