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...College’s purchase of renewable energy has garnered nearly unequivocal support among the current candidates for council leadership, all of whom co-sponsored the legislation for the referendum...
Before submitting the referendum bill to the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) last Tuesday, proponents of renewable energy for the College spent so much time debating the best way to pursue their goal that they almost ran out of time to push a referendum onto the presidential ballot, which has historically drawn higher participation than other campus-wide votes...
...initially considered whether to pass referendum legislation through the council, to ask the administration itself to foot the bill, or to solicit donations, as Quincy House did last April when they powered the House with renewable energy for one week...
With less than three weeks left before this week’s presidential vote, the EAC chose the referendum, which they thought would likely raise more money than a donation drive and send a signal of student support to Mass. Hall...
Supporters of the referendum see it as a stepping stone to eventually deriving all of Harvard’s electricity—about 225 million kWh annually, according to the EAC—from renewable sources, and to encourage the creation of wind farms closer to Cambridge...