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...ballot initiative that may help to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases Harvard produces. If the proposal is passed, the council will place a referendum on next week’s presidential ballot which would ask students two questions: first, whether they support placing a $10 renewable energy fee on termbills and second, whether the charge should be “opt-in,” “opt-out,” or mandatory. We emphatically urge the council to pass the legislation, and we hope students will approve the fee...
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?...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resource Efficiency Program survey conducted in 2003 found that 70 percent of undergraduates would support a $25 fee to switch to renewable energy sources. The proposed fee, which is considerably smaller, ought to at least be available to students who wish to pay it. Expansion of renewable energy technologies is one of the most important priorities of the next decade...
...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 ought to be paying for as well. The EAC has vowed to lobby the administration to match...
...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 the fee...