Word: winded
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Last year, a group of students at Harvard’s Kennedy School got wind of what millions of students, consumers, businesses, governments and various organizations had been doing for years: paying a little extra money to get some clean, renewable energy. They lobbied the student government and the administration and encouraged their peers to vote on a referendum that would add a small fee to students’ term bills. The reasons for doing so were clear enough to the majority of the school’s public policy students: the planet’s energy supply, weakened...
...think that in the near future it’d be very feasible to see Harvard University on 50 or 100 percent wind power, but it’d be really great if it were local,” Beaudoin says...
...that end, Energy Strategist Mary H. Smith says the University may purchase a long-term commitment in a New England renewable energy source such as Cape Wind, a project to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. (The proposal is facing fierce opposition from many Cape Cod residents, who fear the offshore turbines would harm their ocean view...
Looking even further ahead, some clean energy supporters hope to see the construction of Harvard’s own wind turbine on the new Allston campus, which is to be developed over the next decade...
...Renacer” continues the theme of expressing emotions in physical movement. The sporadic, almost stuttering motions of its performers seems to catch motion in midair. The piece’s South American wind-flute tones emphasize the exotic and magical feel of “Renacer” (“rebirth” in Spanish...