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...forty years I have been recycling, making compost from my lawn clippings and household refuse. I have planted some 300 trees. I've replaced all my light bulbs with energy-saving bulbs. I conserve water and electricity by boiling the kettle only three times a day, keeping the hot water in a vacuum flask. I turn the hot-water heater on only to heat water for a shower. In doing all this, I tell myself I am helping to solve the world's environmental problems. But this will never be enough so long as overpopulation continues. While I say bravo...
Supermarkets are struggling to meet consumer demand for bananas as a fad diet sweeps the country. The popularity of the scheme, which prescribes a banana and a glass of warm water every morning, has been fed by online social networks, a best-selling book called Morning Banana Diet and celebrity testimonials. Leading banana importer Dole Japan reported that sales of the fruit are up 25% since the same period last year. Yet despite the empty shelves and rising prices, nutrition experts have been skeptical, saying bananas do not directly trigger weight loss...
...minute film festival would be a more approachable format to people who haven’t made a lot of films,” Hale says. Forty-eight of the entries were from local artists, including Kristina R. Yee ’10, whose piece, “No Water, No Moon,” won the award for best local entry. Originally created as a four-and-a-half minute animation, Yee’s adaptation of a Zen short story lent itself to the short form. “The thing about Zen short stories is that they...
...later, I returned triumphant, with that week’s special “Brangelina” cover in hand. I was so confident in my ability to handle this simple task that I didn’t even bother to look inside the magazine. This was not treading water, or even mastering the ever-elusive cartwheel. This was easy, and I was (almost) a college graduate...
...dirty energy.” “Bank of America is guilty of being one of the biggest funders of the coal industry,” said Alysha Suley, a representative from Rising Tide Boston. “In the Appalachian mountains, these coal companies are contaminating the water supplies in mountain communities, filling them with all kinds of carcinogens and toxic waste.” While protesters decried Bank of America for funding the coal industry, the bank has publicly made environmental strides. Since 2006, Bank of America has provided funding for Harvard’s Center...