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This summer, solar panels were installed on the roof of Cabot Science Library, and plans are now emerging for wind turbines on the roof of William James Hall. These projects are the most recent—and possibly the most prominent—example of the warm embrace that Harvard and other progressive-minded colleges have given alternative energy, and they are a first step—albeit almost laughably small—toward the dream of locally produced renewable energy...
...light of these staggering figures, I asked myself how I could still be encouraged by the fact that Harvard has installed solar panels that generate 12 kilowatts of energy or that Harvard may install wind turbines that generate 29 kilowatts...
...help rather than drastically hurt the global environment in the coming century is to ensure that every time you walk anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step in that direction. I hope that both projects will shatter the inertia, ignorance, and general apathy surrounding efficient, clean energy on campus...
...homefront remains on alert, but in a leisurely, one-eye-open kind of way. Police at the Pentagon scrape the air for signs of radiation or chemical attack, track the wind direction to guide escaping employees. But 9/11 Commission chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton used the anniversary to remind people that security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need...
Here's a mental exercise for you: picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean. Glossy palm fronds twist gently in the temperate wind, as islanders harvest coconuts along the immaculate powder-white beaches. Leathery sea turtles bob lazily off shore and the light cacophony of birdsong accents the ambient sound of wind and waves...