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First, they will further galvanize student involvement in energy efficiency and green-technology innovation on campus, especially if the savings and rewards generated by such technologies are distributed to students. For instance, one might imagine students being rewarded with extra party grants or HoCo funds from the savings created by decreased energy expenditure...
...nations such as China and India go on a rampage of power plant-building and car-buying? Will the environmental blindness of the economic growth of these and other developing countries—not to mention continued energy-intensive expansion in America—nullify the effect of every green project for years to come...
...whether or not Harvard reaches zero emissions, or the Undergraduate Council’s recommendation of 11 percent reduction by 2020, the most important impact of any green project will radiate from the campus in the form of a greener lifestyle embedded in the minds and hearts of graduates. But this will only happen if they are made fully aware of each project’s merits...
...Such green strategies pay genuine environmental dividends. Even though EVI is still on the electrical grid and many residents commute by car to their jobs--as far as 20 miles (about 30 km) away--the group estimates it has an ecological impact 40% smaller than that of a comparable mainstream community...
...ecovillages were just isolated, survivalist lifeboats amid a sea of rising temperatures--the Branch Davidian compounds of the green movement--they wouldn't mean much. But Walker, a veteran community organizer and activist, is determined to spread the word. She has forged links with Ithaca College and the surrounding area, turning EVI into a living laboratory. At nearby Cornell University, EVI residents teach courses on environmental collectives, and villagers have become accustomed to camera-toting visitors peeking through unlocked front doors...