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Harvards Longfellow Hall marks a milestone
2014-05-27 17:53:00| American School & University
Harvard University recently held a topping-off ceremony for the renovation and vertical expansion of Longfellow Hall. read more
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Harvards destroying our planet: Americas grand, institutional failure to stop climate change
2014-03-23 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: hen faced with intractable problems, we often make up stories to console ourselves. The boats not really sinking, we say: Were just going through a rough patch. Were not headed for disaster; weve just been blown off course. Better to keep a bright outlook on things, we presume, than to acknowledge our desperate situation. This sort of hopeful self-deception was on exhibit three weeks ago at Harvard University, where a student activist confronted the universitys president, Drew Faust, over...
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A Closer Look at Harvards Choice on Fossil Fuels
2013-10-04 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The student effort to get universities and colleges to sell off their investments in companies hawking fossil fuels continues, as can be seen in the Twitter item and photo above from Bard College. But on Thursday, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust released a long and reasoned explanation of why the school will not remove fossil fuel investments from its portfolio. Her arguments were mostly macroeconomic (why disinvest when society still buys the companies products?) and financial (the...
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