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Garrett G. D. Nelson ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator in Cabot House...
This summer, solar panels were installed on the roof of Cabot Science Library, and plans are now emerging for wind turbines on the roof of William James Hall. These projects are the most recent—and possibly the most prominent—example of the warm embrace that Harvard and other progressive-minded colleges have given alternative energy, and they are a first step—albeit almost laughably small—toward the dream of locally produced renewable energy...
After all, if these two projects generate as much energy as predicted, they will provide one ten-millionth of the energy generated by fossil-fuel burning power plants in America—about enough energy to power the lights in the Cabot Science Library and in one floor of William James Hall. But I firmly believe that their impact will far exceed the miniscule dent they will put in America’s present polluting ways...
...ensure that America does its part to help rather than drastically hurt the global environment in the coming century is to ensure that every time you walk anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step in that direction. I hope that both projects will shatter the inertia, ignorance, and general apathy surrounding efficient, clean energy on campus...
Jessica C. Coggins ’08 is a women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator in Cabot House...