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...lighting. Twenty-six percent of Africa’s population does not have access to electricity. Fortuitously, Van Vuuren was eating among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa Competition 2008. He is a member of a team of Harvard students and alumni called Lebone Solutions??one of 16 groups to receive a $200,000 grant from the World Bank. The international competition encourages the development of low-cost technologies that could potentially provide off-grid lighting to over 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Lebone Solutions?? device, which...
...farmers, who win both from high market prices and from subsidies dished out by a Congress desperate to look like it has some kind of solution to rising oil prices. But ethanol represents, on a broader level, the tendency to rush into high profile, fix-all “solutions?? before we have fully analyzed the interdependency of all the elements involved. Instead of pursuing those modest, non-fanciful solutions that we have reason to believe might work (like forest management to increase carbon uptake and a carbon tax), we’ve seen millions of dollars plunged...
...place of the anti-democratic kernel of the Harvardian ideal, then, we must shun leadership and commit to humility. We begin our revolution by admitting our incapacity to dictate “solutions?? to anyone else and by asserting our willingness to really engage the realities of the oppressed. For what we enable, then, is democracy of a genuine sort. As the “best” represents always a subset of the general population, submission to the “best and the brightest” presupposes the annulment of properly democratic politics. Against this...
...economics is what I want to do.”And the 26-year-old is fully aware that he won’t fit into the profile of typical college students. But he’s been talking to the institutions considering his application, trying to arrange for solutions??such as living in graduate housing—that might make the adjustment process a little easier.As for extracurricular activities, Cheek wants to get involved in organizations dealing with youth activism in politics. The ever-increasing power of communication inspires him, and he has some ideas about...
...peers or community, is a great motivator for action,” she added. The pledge can be signed online at greencampus.harvard.edu/pledge. The campaign begins on Wednesday and runs until Nov. 23. The new campaign comes just two weeks after Harvard won the Center for Resource Solutions?? 2005 Green Power Leadership Award. The award, also sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, acknowledges Harvard as a leader in the use of renewable energy in higher education. Renewable sources provide 22,000 megawatt hours annually, or 7 percent of Harvard?...