About 150 members of Harvard’s graduating class this year plan to wear green ribbons along with their caps and gowns at today’s commencement ceremony, reminders of their pledge to keep environmental and social responsibility in mind as they choose their jobs. Hundreds of graduating seniors at about 50 other colleges and universities have also made the promise, which reads, “I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organization for which I work.” Harvard student organizers want the pledge to be more than a one-time gesture, so they held a seminar for participating students and gave out guidebooks on how to live responsibly.
