Word: reductionism
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Students who walked by the Science Center last Friday were greeted by a giant heap of trash. Mt. Trashmore, an 8-foot tall mound built by Harvard’s Resource Efficiency Program volunteers (REPs), displayed one day’s worth of Yard trash as part of their ongoing...
That effectively punts the future of coal in America to President-elect Barack Obama's incoming Administration. It's not yet clear how he'll act, but his renewable energy advisor Jason Grumet has said that Obama would be willing to use the EPA to directly regulate CO2 - something President...
As an example, he referenced the Dutch practice of painting a house fly on the inside of airport urinals. This resulted in an 80 percent reduction in overall “spillage,” because men subconsciously aimed for the etching.
The question is whether that will build Obama's momentum for bigger change or merely squander his honeymoon. Here too, Clinton's history is telling. In his first year, he put so much energy and capital into his deficit-reduction package and NAFTA that, in the view of some who...
“We are certainly talking to a lot of families,” she says, nodding her head, “but it’s not really all that different for us right now because we have always done that.” While her office is...