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...officer was dispatched to Greenough Hall in response to a report of a harassing phone call...
...doesn’t have a sweater collection, he’s not really a radical, and the “turn down the heat!” e-mail he sent to Yard Ops and all of Greenough was more of a whim than a detailed proposal. But that doesn’t mean that Henry Cowles ’08 isn’t dedicated to energy conservation—and proving just how well he can withstand the Cambridge cold...
...native found himself having to peel off layers of clothing just to be comfortable in his overheated dorm room, he decided to take action. On October 22, he sent an email to Yard Ops, which manages the freshman dorms, and cc’ed it to the Greenough listserv and a few others. He judged—based on the extremities of tropical warmth he felt—that lowering the temperatures about ten degrees would be not only more cost- and energy-efficient, but also more comfortable...
...Minnesotan was so frustrated by the unnecessarily steamy weather inside his Greenough suite that he has launched an effort to knock dorm temperatures down by 10 degrees, a move he says would save Harvard in energy costs...
...computerized program called Insight runs the heating units in 14 freshman dorms, including Greenough. The system monitors temperature both outside the building and in some rooms, and then uses this data to set the temperature of the hot water that heats each room. Picott said that the system has been in use for 10 years, and has been fine-tuned to provide very effective results...