Word: conservationism
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With the best of intentions, you inverted my views by 180° [July 31]. I believe that the world economy entered in 1972 the fifth Kondratieff upswing, not a downswing. At the core of this upswing is the prospect that the prices of energy, food, raw materials will fluctuate in...
Unfortunately, this will leave the U.S. practically where it was before in terms of energy policy. We will still be importing 8.5 million barrels of oil per day, still driving our gas-guzzlers down the expressways at 70 miles per hour, still stalling in the developement of solar, geothermal, wind...
The U.S. can still forge a strong, coherent national energy policy which will encourage conservation, develop potentially economical energy technologies like solar and wind, and avoid excessive dependence on foreign imports or nuclear energy. But first political obstacles must be overcome: there will have to be less pork-barreling of...
"We will see a major expansion in spending for energy conservation and development. For nuclear, solar, shale, sands-all of them. We will get an extraordinary amount of basic research. There will be an awful lot of replacement and modernization across the board-in steel, paper, textiles, chemicals, aluminum. I...
Randy Moir, a project archaeologist at the Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), was walking past Harvard Hall last Friday and stopped to explore the trenches dug by Metropolitan Boston Transportation Authority (MBTA) workers. The workers are rerouting pipes to make way for the extension of the Red...