Word: sierras
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...missed opportunities that may never present themselves again, given the irreversibility of much of the damage being done to the planet. "Clinton fell short by the needs of this century, but by the standards of the past century, he did rather well," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club...
DIED. DAVID BROWER, 88, uncompromising environmental activist; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Brower helped transform the Sierra Club from a 7,000-member club into one of America's most influential environmental groups. He later founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and the Earth Island Institute. He resigned in protest from the Sierra Club board several times. "The world is burning," he said, "and all I hear from them is the music of violins...
...have to add the footnote of genocide to Allison's optimistic proposition," said Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. "With Sierra Leone and Kosovo, we have a testament to the limits of progress and the bounds of state behavior...
...Africa needs help from its international allies," he said, "but they need to implement the same policies, whether they apply to Kosovo or Sierra Leone...
Five Harvard students are giving up Thanksgiving at home this month to help fight global warming. We, along with Diana R. Movius '03 and law school students Jeff M. Baran and Sierra B. Weaver, will be participating in the U.S. Student Climate Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, where we will represent the students' voice in the current round of international climate negotiations. Here...