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Living "off the grid" is usually the choice of the hardened survivalist, the mountain man and perhaps the odd fugitive running from bounty hunters. But more and more Americans are now opting to disconnect from the grid - i.e., government, electric and other utility services - which delivers increasingly expensive fossil-fuel...
But going off the grid isn't as simple as unplugging your television. The grid isn't just electricity but water, heat, waste management - even your cable signal. And then there's the gas that powers your car, the government-funded roads you drive on and the air in which...
Forward-thinking medical institutions are taking a hard look at their energy portfolio. "I've seen a huge uptick in hospitals exploring and investigating" ways to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, says Nick DeDominicis of Practice Green Health, particularly since 2007 when World Health Organization and U.N. reports suggested that climate...
...this concentration on visual art that sets him apart from others in the theater community. For Vartikar-McCullough, a play goes beyond just text and characters. “There’s more to theater than just scenarios,” he says. A Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator, he is keenly aware of how set design, costumes, and movement not only accompany the text but also act as entertainment in their own right. This coming weekend, Harvard students will get the chance to see Vartikar-McCullough’s fresh and creative interpretation of Tenessee Williams?...
“I don’t know what I’m doing,” Philip Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is...