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...support at the executive level is crucial, the impetus for change can come from any member of the staff. At the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Calif., for instance, Joy Colangelo, an occupational therapist, helped launch the "Green Team" about six months ago. The team's first task was to do a "waste audit" in order to tally unnecessary expenditures, says Colangelo. She found that the hospital's heart department was churning out 20 pages of patient-identification labels per patient, but using only...
...tall task, and one he must accomplish without being dragged down by a department beset by scandal and dysfunction. "Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior," Earl Devaney, the department's inspector general, testified before Congress in September 2006. While Salazar drew praise from representatives of the oil and mining industries as well as some conservationists, his appointment disappointed a cadre of environmental groups and prominent scientists, more than 100 of whom had signed a petition urging President-elect Barack Obama to tap Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva. Salazar seemed...
...Salazar's most urgent task will be to remove the influence of politics and ideology from decisions that are best left to science." -New York Times editorial...
...shown an especially deep interest in climate change. He wouldn't be the first devoted biofuels advocate to change his mind after recognizing they're making climate change worse, not to mention contributing to food insecurity here and food riots in the Third World. In fact, a climate-change task force Vilsack co-chaired for the Council on Foreign Relations recommended that "the United States phase out domestic subsidies for mature biofuels such as conventional corn-based ethanol." That wouldn't go over big in Iowa...
...Association of Black Harvard Women, and we’ve met with HUPD, the provost, and representatives from the group putting the report together.”Turner said that while he did not attend the meeting himself, other BSA representatives told him that the task force came across as “really wanting to hear more about the interaction that we’ve had with HUPD, and really supportive and willing to listen.”The task force appointment was prompted by an Aug. 8 incident in which HUPD officers confronted a young black man attempting...