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Mary Nichols, former chair of the California Air Resources Board, will be a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Mary Nichols ’66 brings fresh air to Cornell Atkinson
March 10, 2021
In the summer of 1964, Mary D. Nichols ’66 joined 30 other Cornell student volunteers to explain civics and to register Black citizens as voters in a deep-South Tennessee county. She traces her passion for justice and the environment to that moment.
“That experience is what led me eventually to law school and to environmental activism,” said Nichols, now an internationally acclaimed environmental regulator who has spent her career working for California governors and U.S. presidents to cool a warming Earth and to provide fresh air.
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Tony Hockley offers his view on the recently leaked draft white paper, suggesting that the government is planning major reforms in a proposed shake-up of NHS England.
Professor Alan Maynard once referred to successive governments’ health policies as ‘redisorganisation’. A leaked health white paper suggests that the latest episode of redisorganisation may be about to commence. Boris Johnson would be right to worry. The change that is needed is cultural not structural.
Since the 1960s, legislative change has been seen as the solution to the problems of the NHS. Eventually each change is unpicked. Centralisation appears the solution to the complexities of decentralisation, and vice versa. A step-change in public funding appears the solution to falling standards, then more measured spending growth appears the solution to falling productivity. The cycle of redisorganisation goes round and round, diverting resources and political capital as it does, and de
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Ann Oliva is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Housing team. Prior to joining the Center, she was the Senior Policy Advisor at the Corporation for Supportive Housing. From 2007 to 2017 Oliva was a career federal official at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), most recently overseeing the Department’s multi-billion dollar homelessness and HIV/AIDS housing portfolio as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs. She also worked as Director of Programs at the Community Partnership in Washington, D.C. and as a human services consultant in multiple communities nationwide. In 2015, Oliva was named one of the 50 Most Influential Leaders in HUD’s 50-year history and was honored with the True Colors Fund’s True Leader Award. Moreover, she was a finalist for a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammie) for the distinction of management excellence in 2011, and was part of an interagency team that won a Sammie for reducing veteran homelessness in
Planning to get an electric scooter? Know pros and cons
Planning to get an electric scooter? Know pros and cons
ByRiya SharmaRiya Sharma / Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 06:00 IST
All that you should know before buying an
electric two-wheeler
With climate change becoming one of the biggest global issues, many people are going sustainable in their lifestyle choices. This has brought electric vehicles closer to the mainstream. E-bikes and e-scooters are great for travelling
short distances and are cost effective, but they also pose certain challenges. We speak to experts and electric two-wheeler owners.
‘Ideal for short commutes, only disadvantage is of charging points’