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...through investments in renewable energy projects. "However many trees we planted around the world, we could not keep up [with global CO2 output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says, "is a distraction." Many green groups agree. In a recent report, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF advised consumers to shun reforestation in favor of projects that "support the transition to non-fossil-fuel-based energy...
...Times, apparently having decided to cast subtlety to the wind, recently asked, "Could Harvard be preparing to select a woman as its new president? A scientist? A female scientist?" With this reference to the fondly remembered "intrinsic aptitude" debacle, the Times has offered a perfect example of what the press really seems to be interested in when discussing Harvard’s presidential search: not who is selected or why, but how that selection can be best spun to look like it was all about former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Rules are rules, and however much College students despise the Core (and will probably come to despise its successor), they also must cope with it. Only the most brazen, worldly-wise student, at ease with casting his GPA to the wind, will remain obdurate to the Core’s nefarious invitation to partake of novel “global perspectives”—generously complimented by a course’s tinge of academic ease...
Still, given the severity of climate change--and with rising consumerism in China and India set to complicate the crisis--it's hard not to wonder whether these initiatives are more than greenwashing. GE will sell wind turbines, but it will probably sell even more jet engines, contributing to the rising carbon emissions caused by air travel. Wal-Mart pledges to double the efficiency of its vehicle fleet over the next 10 years, but it's also eager to introduce hundreds of millions of Chinese to middle-class consumption, American-style. "I find it hard to look...
...enrolment exceeds what professors had anticipated. Pre-registration would diminish the need for faculty members to guess the number of students they’ll attract and the number of TFs they’ll require, and would lead to significant improvements in the quality of the instructors that wind up teaching undergraduate sections. By making the process formal, but not binding, we stand to benefit from better-planned teaching staffs while avoiding the harms of over-planned academic programs...