Between the Boston Mayor’s commitment to sustainability in the city, and the “inconvenient truth” revealed in Al Gore’s movie, campuses in the Fenway have little choice other than to take more actions to reduce their “carbon footprint.”
Yvonne Cancino, Physical Plan Manager at Berklee College of Music, explains that “we realize that we have lagged behind other campuses like MIT or Harvard in Cambridge and it’s time to catch up.”
With Congress seeking to address energy security and global warming this summer, the city of Boston is taking action to sensitize on renewable energy and environmental protection.
From kids to old people, all sit in silence on wooden chairs in an auditorium, among majestic walls with gold-leaf molding. The lights dim at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall for the May 23 recording of National Public Radio’s From the Top. The show spotlights highly talented young classical musicians from across the country; and in the process, promotes the idea that these prodigies are also regular kids.
In the darkness of a movie theater, yellow letters written in reverse shine on a light-emitted diode (LED) display hung next to the projector at the rear of the auditorium. On a Plexiglas rear window I have plugged on my glass holder, I can read the following message: “Welcome to Rear Window. Please adjust your reflector.”
Minutes later, a voice starts talking in the infrared headphones I’m wearing, describing what’s happening on the screen. I close my eyes and listen to the deep and dynamic voice. The details of each scene, from the characters’ movements, to the colors of their clothes, take me into the movie.
