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Given the budget crisis facing FAS, there is naturally a concern about how these greenhouse gas reductions will be funded, although the economic cost may be lower than first appears. The Environmental Action Committee (EAC) has published a position paper outlining a number of simple ways to achieve these reductions: decreasing energy demand, increasing efficiency in laboratories, and offsetting emissions with renewable energy purchases. Many of these initiatives will pay for themselves in the long run. Although the exact upfront costs are unclear at present, the purpose of the referendum is to send a message to the administration that students...
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is good. But at what cost? The Environmental Action Committee (EAC) is asking the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to cut its emissions (through on-campus energy conservation and alternative energy purchases, for example) and would like the student voice behind it. The EAC has crafted a resolution that calls on FAS to “reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a level 11 percent below total emissions in 1990 by the year 2020”—a bit more than the level mandated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the national...
...EAC has proposed a multi-prong strategy to reduce emissions but has only a rough idea of how much the entire project would cost. While some initiatives, like renovating buildings to be more energy efficient, may eventually save FAS money, others, like purchasing electricity from a wind farm, will not. Because the EAC is still assembling its plan, it cannot currently provide a firm cost estimate...
This is not to say that making the Harvard campus more efficient is a completely unworthy goal. Already, several environmental advocacy groups at Harvard—including the EAC, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, and the Resource Efficiency Program—undertake various initiatives that save the University hundreds of thousands of dollars each year through reduced energy consumption. But these projects are either small in their expense or large in their monetary savings (or both); a vow to reduce FAS-wide emissions by 11 percent will certainly bring expenses but will not guarantee savings. By this spring the EAC...
...convert the diesel-guzzling truck into an enviro-friendly vehicle was footed by the Green Campus Loan Fund, but estimates show that the money spent will soon be recovered within a year and half’s time from fuel savings. Tchou is working with the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) to raise money to expand the program, which currently uses only half of Annenberg’s waste oil. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has already pledged $5,000 to the program, and the EAC has received almost $2,000 from outside donations, Tchou...