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Massachusetts has denied Harvard’s request to route trucks involved in the construction of its Cowperthwaite Street graduate dormitory along Memorial Drive, Cambridge’s city manager wrote in a letter released at yesterday’s City Council meeting. The decision means that trucks exiting the...
In the stagnant wetlands near the Alewife MBTA station, the bird calls are deafening. Hundreds of wrens swoop through the head-high reeds in dizzy spirals and whorls.But change is coming for the 90 species of birds, from hawks to owls, that call the wetlands home. The construction of the...
Harvard has just received one certificate that it should not throw into one of its readily available recycling bins. On Oct. 24, Harvard University earned a 2005 Green Power Leadership Award from the federal government and the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions for its commitment to using renewable energy. The...
Although drilling in ANWR would have a larger impact than Walters' conservation campaign-the U.S. Geological Service believes that the total amount of economically recoverable oil in ANWR is 3.2 billion barrels, or 134 billion gallons-, it's a start toward fuel-consumption savings that could dwarf the capacity of...
The Refinery Crunch Matthew Yeomans' essay "Refining the Problem" [Sept. 26] argued that building more refineries may alleviate the oil shortage. But we also need to tackle problems on the demand side. Developing countries such as India and China demand vast quantities of oil, but they don't have a...