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...remains a vital area for exploration, the shift eastward means the old Energy Capital must diversify. "A lot of us in Houston have been saying that the energy industry in Houston needs to be a lot more innovative," Jaffe said. Energy industry and political leaders are beginning to develop wind energy offshore in the Gulf, and look to other alternatives. From now on, the "bidness" discussions at the Petroleum Club are more likely to focus on new energy technologies like carbon sequestration than wildcatting...
...free of genetically modified material, and organic crops are required to be isolated from other crops. But as GM crops become more prevalent, there is little that an organic farmer can do to prevent a speck of GM pollen or a stray GM seed from being blown by the wind onto his land or farm equipment and, eventually, into his products. In 2006, GM crops accounted for 61% of all the corn planted in the U.S. and 89% of all the soybeans. "I feared that there weren't enough safeguards," Straus says...
...throes of that ubiquitous Harvard-freshman identity crisis. Only the EAC remained. In a bizarre twist of fate, I had become its co-chair by my freshman spring. The previous fall, we had worked tirelessly on a referendum calling for an optional termbill fee that would go towards wind energy. To boost publicity, I built an eight-foot windmill with my bare hands. We yelled, we postered, we e-mailed, and the referendum passed with a resounding 82 percent of the vote. That spring, however, the administrators all shook their heads in unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat...
...more concerted, uniform effort throughout the entire student body, which may cut costs and increase the visibility of the program. Despite REP’s shortcomings, it has the long-term potential to effect widespread change on the entire University campus, from increased recycling to projects as large as wind energy for all of Harvard. REP obviously has the financial backing; only time will tell whether it has the potential for more than fleeting success...
...called "The Last Marathon" - a 26.2-mile race across ice, rock, snow, and mud on Antarctica's King George Island. Runners huddle by the start line, shielded from the wind in the lee of a Russian research base, before bursting out along the rugged, hilly course. Up and down three quarters of a mile of glacier - twice - and looping through a further three Antarctic research stations, the 145 finishers race in hats, gloves, fleece and windbreakers. In fact, on race day in late February, it's warm enough to be snowing - this is, after all, the end of the Antarctic...