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...short-term impact of a project vs. a long-term problem, which is climate change.' PAM EATON, executive at the Wilderness Society environmental group, arguing in favor of the plan, which is expected to power as many as 250,000 homes...
...known. Planning for the period was in its early stages; Assistant Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer had recently been appointed to lead planning for the period, and no concrete plans had yet been announced. “We are concerned that mounting a new, compressed, short-term set of offerings in January—particularly at a time when resources are highly constrained—would in fact distract from the College’s focus on other more central aspects of the undergraduate experience,” Hammonds and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...mindset of those in the American environmental movement, it could be “stop.” They advocate a stop to polluting, a stop to driving, a stop to eating meat, a stop to buying large cars, and a stop to using fossil fuels—in short, a stop to doing everything that American culture demands. They call for a stop through laws or technological standards with little explanation of why it is necessary to stop this behavior...
...despite hints of our mysterious-but-grand plans for a "January Experience," we are actually not going to go through with (un)said plans and offer any J-Term programs. But why this abrupt change of cancellation of plans?? Well, we realized that even half-assing "new, compressed, short-term set of offerings in January" would actually take time that we do not have, since we have to, like, figure out what the deal is with University finances...
...Olinto updated the company’s Twitter account “b_good_” with a cellphone picture and an invitation for its 151 Twitter followers to come claim the vouchers.Twitter, a three-year-old microblogging service, has millions of users who post steady streams of short updates called “tweets” that are limited to 140 characters. Twitter’s user base swelled 900% last year. Companies, in turn, are quickly catching onto the service as a marketing tool.“There’s so much opportunity to have dialogue...