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These two, along with the food subcommittee of the eco-friendly freshman group Green ’13, dreamt up the “Trayless Challenge,” currently underway in the hallowed halls of Annenberg. To reduce food waste and save water, Green ’13 is encouraging students to go trayless for a week or two and then fill out a survey to see how rewarding—or painful—the experience was. Get some of the feedback after the jump...
True, the inconvenience of fewer dispensers is small, but so is the environmental impact. And this decision promotes an attitude that treats needless burdens as essential elements of conservation: trayless dining, reusable mugs, “efficient” showerheads that just spray less water...
...avoiding such mishaps? Trayless dining: With a plate in one hand and a drink in the other, you’re free to maneuver between clumsy tray-holders with ease. And once you’ve loaded up on food, try doing a tap dance in the servery to test your balancing skills...
Move aside trayless dining, looks like Harvard’s onto a more convenient way to save the environment. Katharine (“Katie”) S. Walter ’10 and Karen A. McKinnon ’10, co-chairs of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC), have enabled students to expend their eco-friendly energy in a much easier way. In fact, it’s as simple as riding a bike—a bike that’s made entirely out of salvaged and recycled parts, that is. The EAC launched the VeriFast...
...hullabaloo about green being the new crimson, Harvard is not nearly as green as we’d like to think. Sure, we occasionally eat trayless lunches in the dining hall or hold events with fancy banners promoting sustainability and speeches by the likes of Al Gore ’69. At times, the rhetoric can even come off as something out of the show Captain Planet: we claim to reduce carbon emissions and conserve energy, all to save the earth. Yet our efforts to be heroic often come up short...