The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to fostering sustainability at Smith. We work to educate and support the campus community and the college's sustainability committee in the efficient use of finite natural resources. Our work touches many areas of Smith's operations, including construction, transportation, purchasing, materials use, energy use, and waste management. We also coordinate with those who determine the college's curriculum and investment practices to increase awareness of the relationship between Smith policies and environmental concerns. Through incremental changes in everyday activities, we seek to transform the college's practices so we can achieve the greatest possible efficiencies in preventing pollution and using natural resources.
Image from Klobetime Driven by the increasingly pressing need to provide a stable food supply for its surging population (1.3 billion and growing), China has decided to engineer its own "Green Revolution" by embarking on a massive $3.5 billion GM crops R&D initiative, reports Science's Richard Stone. With this new biotechnology infrastructure in place, the Chinese hope to discover and patent their own genes "of great value" -- engaging in direct competition with the likes of Monsanto and ...
People should consider eating less meat as a way to tackle global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.
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