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Tag: Dan Schrag
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Nation & World
Way forward on climate change
The panel of experts looked at success and failures since the first Earth Day in 1970.
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Nation & World
We are Ocean
Innovative A.R.T show aims to make clear that land, sea, air, and people form kind of community.
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Nation & World
Starting up University’s new climate, sustainability efforts
Faculty advisory panel members offer progress report on their efforts, along with those of new vice provost Jim Stock.
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Nation & World
Coming to grips with planetary existential threat
Environmental Science and Public Policy takes multidisciplinary approach to complex existential threat.
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Nation & World
Getting from no nuclear to slow nuclear
Environmental fellow Michael Ford and climate scientist Daniel Schrag say that improved nuclear power could play an important role in U.S. energy production midcentury and beyond.
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Nation & World
To help the environment, manufacture
An American manufacturing revival is needed if the United States is to transform its energy mix at the scale necessary to blunt coming climate change, the former chairman of the Sierra Club said in a Harvard University Center for the Environment discussion on the future of energy.
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Nation & World
A vote for more natural gas
James Hackett, chairman and chief executive officer of the Anadarko Petroleum Corp., described an energy future driven by new, abundant supplies of natural gas. He spoke during a Future of Energy talk sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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Nation & World
Cutting the military’s energy tether
Fueling America’s war effort is an expensive proposition, costing not only money but lives, since supply convoys are routinely attacked. The constraints imposed by an energy-hungry military prompted the Defense Department to investigate conservation techniques.
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Nation & World
The EPA at 40
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that strong Republican gains in November’s election do not mean there is a public mandate to roll back EPA protections.
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Nation & World
Sustaining the cities
An interdisciplinary Harvard working group on sustainable cities is in search of some organizational details, but is already certain of its urgent mission.
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Nation & World
Devastation by degrees
The head of the Natural Resources Defense Council examines the implications of climate change and the best ways forward for the passage of congressional legislation to combat it.
