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But the largest savings will have to come from a combination of more tax incentives for buying home insulation, wood-burning furnaces and other oil-conserving devices, and much stiffer mandatory conservation rules. A number of innovative companies, including Du Pont, A T & T and General Motors, have reduced their...
Residents of Accra were startled last week when a low-flying jet trainer zoomed over government-built skyscrapers in the Ghanaian capital. People in villages as far as 400 miles away were later treated to the same unusual sight. The pilot of the plane was Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33...
The main impetus has come from the environmentalist movement. Conservationists recognized that the preservation of man-made environments and the reuse of finite resources should be as much a matter of concern as the natural ecology. Energy shortages and the faltering economy gave the movement immediacy. Old buildings, one critic...
In Harvard Square, after a brief battle with University community relations officials, the City Council voted to keep out skyscrapers, placing a 110-ft. ceiling on buildings and insuring forever (pending a court challenge) the place of Holyoke Center as the Square's World Trade Center.
Alarmed, local residents formed the Old State House Association in 1975 and organized a fund drive with a goal of $850,000 for restoration, and $1 million for an endowment to maintain it. They raised $1,530,000. Although large corporate donations accounted for the bulk of the money, the...