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...importance of the pledge is two-fold: “It commits individuals to specific actions to reduce their impact on the earth, and it also promotes testing and implementation of renewable energy technologies on our campus,” she said. For each pledge, Harvard will contribute $1.50 toward renewable energy projects on campus. The pledge rates of each Harvard school will help determine the location of the funded project, and a contest between undergraduate houses will award points for the Green Cup. Dunster House is currently in the lead with 49 percent of its residents having already signed...
...this as a first step toward universal vegetarianism? No, I don't really. I don't. We're a pluralistic society and we have pluralism when it comes to food as well. But there must be a minimum set of standards that prevent egregious cruelty from being meted out on animals raised for meat...
...issues? The Humane Society of the U.S. is rigidly non-partisan. I do hold a position with the Humane Society Legislative Fund, which is a separate organization with a separate board of directors. I think our biggest concern at the legislative fund is Sarah Palin's very hostile record toward animal protection. She was the leader in Alaska of a program that promoted aerial gunning of wolves and bears and that has really raised alarm bells with...
...cock fighting and dog fighting. We are trying to stop the Canadian seal hunts and other large-scale commercial killing of marine mammals. We are trying to shut down canned hunts, where people shoot animals in fenced enclosures for a fee and a guaranteed kill arrangement. We are working toward eliminating euthanasia of dogs and cats in shelters and animal control agencies...
...Sunday evening, where an estimated 80,000 people sang along with Bruce Springsteen to "This Land Is Your Land." But with the finish line in sight, earlier in the day you could get a sense of the edginess that also surrounds this campaign, as Obama's plane headed toward this battleground state and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, checked his watch. "These hours could not go by fast enough for me," he said with a sigh...