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Receiving another nod for its environmental friendliness, Harvard recently placed second in the Sierra Club’s ranking of the top 10 environmentally aware universities...
...Thanks, mountain!" says the grizzled old prospector played by Walter Huston, in the 1948 movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, after he and his young partners erase evidence of their digging before heading back to civilization, burros laden with gold dust...
Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, likes to say that the environmental challenge can be boiled down to a pretty simple question. How are we going to fit a billion new rising consumers - mostly from India and China - into a biosphere that is increasingly full? If the world can make room for the newcomers, then we should be able to make it through the 21st century. If not, it won't matter what we do in the U.S. - the sheer scale of the rising demand for energy and raw materials in the developing will render our actions...
...initiatives on energy have been, they don't add up to the transformative changes needed to fully wean the world - not just the U.S. - off fossil fuels. "We need private sector leadership, and it's great that Clinton is bringing this together," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "But government writes the rules of the game and government reigns...
...Nations Association Traveling Film Festival. The films, chosen from around 400 submissions last October, deal with present-day issues around the world—from civil war in Colombia and the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to an HIV-positive orphan in China and a group of Sierra Leonean refugee musicians. The opening screening will take place at the Kennedy School of Government. The subsequent 14 films, grouped into six thematic sessions, will play at the Brattle Theatre this weekend. Seven of the filmmakers will attend their screenings and answer questions about their work. The festival?...