Tag: Sustainability
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Struggling to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
GSD Associate Professor Holly Samuelson explains how climate change is catalyzing dramatic new city and state regulations as architects, designers, and developers are struggling to stay current.
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Turning debris into haute couture
“Marine Debris Fashion Show,” a student design competition featuring outfits made from items humans dumped in oceans, was a highlight of the Arts First Festival.
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Lessons emerge as 7 thirsty states war over Colorado River water
Drought has shrunk the water supply from the Colorado River, but seven states rely on it for at least some of their water.
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Detailing endowment’s steps toward being ‘net zero’ on greenhouse gas emissions
A conversation with Michael Cappucci on Harvard Management Company’s progress towards becoming net zero in 2050.
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Launching Salata Institute to marshal Harvard resources to fight climate crisis
Jim Stock discusses climate and sustainability mission and goals as the University community marks the launch of the Salata Institute.
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Healthier options for people, planet
The Harvard Food Systems Initiative connects Harvard research on food production and consumption with on-campus experiences and meals.
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Extension School grad returns as program director
Lindi von Mutius graduated in 2005 as Harvard Extension’s first master’s degree candidate in the Environmental Management program. On Feb. 1 she returned as its director for the Sustainability and Global Development Practice programs.
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Focus on health and equity to meet 2026 climate goal, advises Sustainability Committee
Harvard is engaging its researchers and industry climate leaders to identify and invest in projects, according to the Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability.
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Pinning down a new future
Wrestling provided life lessons for senior Cliff Wang, even when the sport was taken from him.
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Eyes on tomorrow, voices of today
From environmental justice to environmental litigation, Harvard students shared their passion for the natural world and their designs on the fight for its future.
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Science and Engineering Complex named one of the world’s healthiest lab buildings
New lab complex will help Harvard progress toward its Sustainability Plan and achieve its goals to be fossil fuel-neutral by 2026 and fossil fuel-free by 2050.
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Imagine clothing that stretches or shrinks to fit you
SEAS researchers have developed a material made from recycled wool can be 3D-printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory.
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Thesis focus surfaces in West Virginia
D.C. attorney Bradley Ashton Thomas came to Harvard Extension School, discovering a small town in West Virginia along the way.
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Sustainability in Big Sky Country
Owners of ranch and nursery since the 1970s talk about the interdependence of financial and environmental viability.
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Finding new land-management lessons in old ways
A new study overturns long-held beliefs about the role humans played in shaping the landscape pre- and post- European colonization.
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Is eating red meat OK, after all? Probably not
Red meat recommendations and meat from plants: Chan School Nutrition Department head Frank Hu talks about recent developments in diet.
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Ending ‘dead zones’
Harvard scientists are teaming up with sustainability officers and landscaping experts to test a new fertilizer that won’t wash into water supplies.
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Harvard to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions
Harvard signs Cool Food Pledge, vows to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.
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Fighting flora with fauna
Scientists at the Arnold Arboretum are employing a species of predator moth to fight the invasive swallow-wort vine.
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Arboretum gets a solar boost
The Weld Hill Solar Project, currently underway, is the Arnold Arboretum’s third and largest solar project and Harvard’s most ambitious sustainability initiative to date, with nearly 1,300 solar panels powering a 45,000-square-foot science laboratory and teaching facility in Roslindale.
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Clearing the way for cleaner air in China
Researchers have analyzed technical and economic viability for China to move toward carbon-negative electric power generation and found that China can do so in an economically competitive way.
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How to feed 10 billion by midcentury
A panel of experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed how the globe might feed an estimated human population of 10 billion by midcentury and suggested a diet high in plant foods, low in red meat, as well as a host of reforms to how food is produced and distributed today.
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A gold star for going green
Harvard received an award at the Climate Leadership Conference in Baltimore, recognizing its commitment to the environment.
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Seeing the forest for the trees
Novelist Richard Powers’ “The Overstory” features trees as key characters in an entwined tale of human life and our impact on the natural world. He will speak at the Arnold Arboretum and the Mahindra Humanities Center later this month.
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Termites shape and are shaped by their mounds
Researchers investigate how centimeter-sized termites, without architects, engineers or foremen, can build complex, long-standing, meter-sized structures all over the world.
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Harvard student project to aid refugees
A Harvard student project won an award in Paris for its design of a mobile hygiene unit to aid refugees.
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In surge of strawberries, some dirty details
Julie Guthman sets her sights on a tangled story involving land, plant breeding, border policy, pathogens, and highly effective, highly toxic soil fumigants.
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Students aiding the environment
Five undergraduate women from Harvard College talk about how they spent the summer researching climate and ecological stresses.