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Perhaps that's the real benefit of having a fresh tree in your home. "Kids today are so out of touch with nature," says Bob Schildgen, the Sierra Club's environmental-advice columnist. "Just having a living thing in the house can enhance environmental values in a way you can't measure in dollars and cents." So may your days be merry and bright, but may all your Christmases (and any other holidays) be green...
...appears overwhelmed as rival military forces, from rebels to the nation's army, take turns ravaging parts of the country. Alan Doss is perhaps the world's foremost expert on peacekeeping. In a lifetime career at the U.N., he ran the peacekeeping operations in Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone before being transferred to Congo in October 2007. He spoke to TIME's Africa bureau chief, Alex Perry, by telephone while en route to U.N. headquarters in Geneva and then the U.N. Security Council in New York...
...outside Quincy House and in Annenberg. Negroponte said he hoped Harvard students would get involved by traveling to developing nations during the summer to distribute the laptops. David M. Sengeh ’10 is already organizing a trip to his native country of Sierra Leone to hand out the computers to children there. “Illiteracy in Sierra Leone is 70 percent,” said Sengeh. “If we want to keep in line with Nicholas’s 20-year education plan, we need to start reducing the 70 percent...
...Don’t you think its not very sustainable if I’m not around to see my daughter get married?’” he said. After graduating from Brown in 1995, Werbach, then 23, became the youngest-ever president of the Sierra Club. He later founded Act Now, which advised companies on how to improve their sustainability. The firm eventually merged with global marketing firm Saatchi & Saatchi. At his talk, Werbach described becoming disillusioned with many environmentalists’ goals. He told of a time when he met a female biologist who prioritized...
...state director SELMA SIERRA, denying that her agency failed to notify the state's park service about the December auction...