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...Swiss government advanced the Green Movement light-years beyond the realm of sound judgment by establishing protection for the dignity of plants. Yes, that’s right, Switzerland—a country run by adults—has granted the right of dignity to plants.The Monty-Pythonesque task of defining plants’ dignity was given, of course, to a twelve-person committee of scholars—the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH). The committee rose to the occasion by producing a 22-page report entitled: “The dignity of living beings with regard...
...Faust’s speech was a bold statement of Harvard’s priorities in addressing climate change, said William C. Clark, a member of the task force whose recommendations precipitated the University’s Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction scheme and the creation of the Harvard Office for Sustainability...
...Faust] was being pushed by budget implications, that we might not make it, that we might fail,” but still adopted the task force’s recommendations, Clark said. “This commitment puts us out on a limb and Heaven knows the world will be watching...
...response to suggestions from residents and city officials, Harvard planners made connectivity, permeability, and sustainability the focal themes of their revised master plan for development in Allston, which was presented to the community at a packed task force meeting last night...
...think that this should be an integrated city, and I look at this plan and I don’t see anything towards that end,” said task force member Harry Mattison, who has been critical of Harvard’s plans in the past. “Every time you talked about your plans and said ‘Oh, maybe there will be some community there too,’ it is sort of an afterthought...