Word: conservationism
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By joining the Green Lights program, Harvard would not only do its share of energy conservation, but it would encourage others to follow. If energy-efficient lighting were used everywhere profitable, the EPA figures that the nation's demand for electricity could be cut by more than 10 percent.
Opposition will be bitter. Truckers and other big fuel users are claiming that energy taxes depress the economy and wipe out jobs. They have been joined by the very liberal Citizens for Tax Justice, which complains that energy taxes would hurt the poor and middle class. The Administration would probably...
The gas tax does have some powerful backers. Among them: Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Michigan's John Dingell, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "Who's gonna conserve energy as long as gas is cheaper than bottled water?" asks...
Keepers of the p.c. flame have renamed New York's grand old Bronx Zoo -- to be known henceforth as the International Wildlife Conservation Park -- feeling that the word zoo has taken on unfortunate connotations. But to be fair, how about neutral names for animals whose names have unsavory second meanings...
Internationally, the Administration can reassert American efforts to put some substance into the neutered agreements that came out of last June's Earth Summit. Gore has the opportunity to signal determination if he meets with Brundtland. If he were feeling sadistic he might quote from her Harvard commencement address last...