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...supposed to fly nonstop from New York to Papeete, Tahiti, aboard Air Tahiti Nui in August for their honeymoon. Some 17 hours before the flight - which they had purchased using American Airlines (AA) miles - they got an email telling them it had been canceled. An Air Tahiti Nui rep told them the next flight wasn't for another two days, which is no good when you've got a honeymoon booked and prefer to be sitting on a beach instead of in an airport...
...REP organizes and promotes the Green Cup, which anchors many of its campaigns throughout the year. The problem with using the Green Cup as an incentive for change is, simply, that it is a poor incentive. The house that claims the Green Cup wins just more than $1000. As the standings begin to shake out, houses that stand to lose tend to tune out, defeating Green Cup’s goal of drumming up environmental excitement within the student body. The College would do well to emulate the Shut the Sash program’s structure: setting each house...
...Longwood—usually energy hogs whose buildings use three- to eight-times more energy per square foot than other buildings across campus—avoided the emission of 416 metric tons of carbon and saved $160,000 through the Shut the Sash competition. Since the Resource Efficiency Program (REP)—a university-sposnored initiative that pays students to reach out to others about environmental matters—was founded in 2002, the College has seen savings quantified at over $400,000 over the last fiscal year in utility savings, a large part of which of which, like...
...with a little help from above, REP and its relations across campus could do much better, especially when it comes to involving as much of the community as possible...
...each upperclass house and three in the Yard—spread REP’s message to the 6500-person student body. An ecoREP’s tasks include informing our peers about the environmental impacts of heating, laundry, food, lighting, and every other part of student life. REP would benefit from an increase in size, especially given the diluted value of internet-based communication with students who feel their lives are a never-ending stream of emailed tasks...