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Harvard Endowment Hires Environment Head Amid Divestment Demands
2013-07-31 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Harvard University hired Jameela Pedicini as vice president for sustainable investing, a position created in the wake of student activist calls for the worlds richest school to purge its holdings of fossil-fuel companies. Pedicini, who most recently was the investment officer for global governance at the California Public Employees Retirement System, will work for Harvard Management Co., the university-controlled investment arm that oversees more than $30 billion of assets. She will report to Kathryn...
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New EPA head McCarthy outlines ambitious agenda in Harvard speech
2013-07-31 14:37:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In her first public speech since talking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency two weeks ago, Administrator Gina McCarthy told an audience at Harvard Law School cutting carbon pollution will feed the economic agenda of this country. Climate change will not be resolved overnight, she told the 310-person audience. But it will be engaged over the next three years. That I can promise you. McCarthy made a full-throated defense of her agency`s right to address greenhouse gas emissions...
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Harvard creates brain-to-brain interface, allows humans to control other animals with thoughts alone
2013-07-31 13:45:23| Extremetech
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human... and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat's tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans -- which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech.
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Harvard: U.S. Oil Production Fortunes Could Soar By 2017
2013-07-08 09:00:00| OGI
Logistical bottlenecks and steep declines in well production over time could be barriers.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Report Predicts Housing Recovery, but Not for All Americans
2013-06-27 17:07:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Harvard Research Center releases "The State of the Nations Housing 2013" read more
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