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...addressed by clean-tech development has less to do with the economy than with climate change, dependence on foreign oil and energy waste - all long-term threats. If green tech will be to the 21st century what high tech was to the last, then this is no time to scale back. With investors rightly spooked, however, governments on both sides of the Atlantic need to show more leadership. "Seen in the right way, people can learn important lessons from [the crisis]," says Nicholas Stern, the British economist whose 2006 report laid out the financial merits of tackling climate change...
...turmoil in financial markets has become a critical issue for both presidential candidates, and Harvard students’ concerns kept with national trends. Respondents gave the crisis 4.4 of 5 on a scale of importance (with 5 being “very important”), the highest rating among 10 commonly-discussed issues...
...along with the distribution of a student survey and the creation of the HPPC in the first place, deserves praise, since such actions demonstrate the administration’s interest in obtaining some level of student input during the House renewal process. Yale and Princeton both embarked on large-scale construction and reconstruction projects in the recent past, and Harvard planners in HPPC were clearly wise to learn from their peer institutions’ experiences. As important, however, was the administrations’ decision to send students to Yale and Princeton as part of the team. Including these student members...
...conservative intelligentsia are speaking up now about reforming the party on a national scale,” Bolduc says. “Republicans are going to have to think about ‘How do we win back people who work with their brains...
...knows individual players and how to talk to them, when to talk to them,” sophomore Liza Ryabkina says. “She’s not putting everyone on one scale. She’s approaching everyone with a different understanding...