Spring 2007, Volume 10 Newsletter:
CERtoon 2007: Students create cartoons about climate change
CERtoon is an annual competition run by the FAS Campus Energy Reduction Program to raise awareness about resource conservation and renewable energy in a humorous, unexpected way. Every year, we tap into the creativity of our undergraduates to encourage all members of the FAS community to make environmentally sound decisions in their own lives. CERtoon 2004 and 2005 were focused on computer energy reduction; CERtoon 2006 addressed renewable energy. This year, the contest was of particular importance to our school, as its topic was tightly aligned with the recent students’ referendum: “A Greener Harvard” that passed last December with 86% of the vote. The referendum asked Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a level 11% below total emissions in 1990 by the year 2020 and led to the creation of the FAS Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Advisory Committee.
Gosia Sklodowska & CERtoon 1st Prize Winner Mitch Hunter