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Even most critics of the legislation agree on the seriousness of the problem of global climate change and the need to encourage energy conservation and increased efficiency. According to Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC)—which co-wrote the original proposal for the fee with the Harvard Students for Clean Energy—Harvard dorms currently use 17,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. The EAC estimates that each Harvard student contributes 3,340 lbs. of pollutants to the atmosphere each year. And according to a study conducted by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Harvard?...
...EAC claims that if each student were to contribute just $10 per year, a quarter of College dorms could be powered by wind, which is currently the most economically-feasible and technologically advanced form of renewable energy. And switching to wind power is easy—it’s not a matter of the University needing to build turbines. Harvard would simply purchase renewable energy certificates, which currently come at a slight premium compared to conventional sources of energy. Already, the School of Public Health receives half of its power from wind sources; meanwhile, the Kennedy School of Government...
...sure, we acknowledge that $10 is only the beginning. This project is only partly about raising money from students; it is also about encouraging the University to move more of its energy consumption in this direction. As the EAC points out, several other universities, including Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, among others, have already implemented successful green energy initiatives. By implementing an optional renewable energy fee, Harvard students can demonstrate to the central administration that environmentally friendly energy policy is an important student concern—one that students are willing to pay for and one that the University...
...Quincy House Small Dining Room on Wednesday night, the EAC was hard at work preparing to make the campus more aware. Members made posters, miniature wind turbines, and buttons reading “The Power is Ours,” to publicize their support of the referendum and of the opt-out option...
...EAC and Harvard Students for Clean Energy estimated in their position paper for the proposal that $10 from every undergraduate would pay for 4 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity—equal to 25 percent of the College dorms’ yearly energy consumption, or the yearly production of one “state-of-the-art wind turbine...