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...Harvard Environmental Action Committee (EAC), which endorses the opt-out option, estimates that $10 from each of the College’s 6,559 undergraduates would pay for about 4 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy—roughly 25 percent of the College dorms’ annual electricity consumption, or the total yearly production of one state-of-the-art wind turbine...
...You’re counterbalancing your own coal use with someone else’s use of wind,” explains Alexander L. Pasternack ’05, who helped organize the Harvard Students for Clean Energy group, which co-sponsored the referendum proposal together with the EAC...
...weeks, members of the EAC have been arguing that renewable energy is a crucial first step to bringing the environmental benefits of wind power to Boston...
...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...
...that very important reason that we feel this fee should be optional—so as to provide the EAC with a mandate to sway the administration. But the question of whether to make the fee “opt-out” or “opt-in” is more complicated. The proposal’s backers called for an opt-out charge, arguing that an opt-in fee would under-represent students who support the initiative since only those students who noticed to check the box would do so. On the other hand, making...