First, we will lobby administrators to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry; we believe we are capable of doing this due to our extensive experience lobbying administrators in the past — as treasurer, Nadine convinced the administration to increase the UC's budget by $150,000, the first time the budget has seen an increase in over 10 years.
Subsidizing the purchase of water bottles for students on financial aid. We believe we are capable of doing this because we spearheaded initiatives last year to subsidize bikes for SEF eligible students in the quad and summer storage for students in houses that don't provide storage.
Promoting sustainability in the classroom by incentivizing professors to make all course materials available online, rather than on paper. This could be through increasing a class-budget.
Creating an "environmentally friendly" points based system, where hoco's can be rewarded for environmentally making environmentally friendly decisions/changes in their houses.
Sustainability is arguably the most important issue of the 21st century, and it is of upmost importance for Harvard UC leadership to firmly take a stand on this issue. We hope our platform will create lasting impact on the future of environmental sustainability on campus and beyond.
We welcome any feedback at nadine_khoury@college.harvard.edu and arnav_agrawal@college.harvard.edu.