Word: consumptionism
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In China, one doesn't have to look far to see the country's commitment to renewable energy. In cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, rooftops are now covered with solar water heaters. On the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, towering white wind turbines are popping up where only cattle, sheep...
The debate hasn't reached the same level of specificity in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration has given food companies the freedom to tout the health benefits of omega-3s without differentiating between the plant-derived and fish-derived kinds. Instead of worrying about food labels, scientists there...
According to Jonathan M. Mansbach—lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School—vitamin D is acquired primarily through sun exposure and food consumption.
The additional savings also included reductions in utility rates and consumption in buildings that were aided by reduced hiring, which led to lower occupancy rates in the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering and the Northwest Science Building.
In a move that clarified why administrators have tamed fiscal messages of late after months of stressing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ impending financial deficit, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith delivered the news Friday that the school had posted a $58.6 million surplus in its unrestricted funds...