Tag: Envirionment

  • Nation & World

    Harvard to become largest institutional buyer of wind power in New England

    Harvard University announced today (Nov. 2) that more than 10 percent of the electricity consumed on its Cambridge and Allston campuses soon will be supplied from a wind farm in northern Maine

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  • Nation & World

    New wheels on campus spin for sustainability

    There are some new wheels on campus, and they come attached to the new fleet of VeriFast Cycles, the first bicycles in a pilot bike-share program based out of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. The program will officially be launched during Harvard’s Earth Day Celebration “Block Party” on Saturday (April 25), hosted by the Environmental Action Committee…

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  • Nation & World

    Cities can help turn the world green

    Can green cities save a blue planet? That question was posed last week by Harvard climatologist Daniel Schrag, director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment. The professor of Earth and planetary sciences and professor of environmental science and engineering was one of three technical experts who spoke at a conference March 5 — co-sponsored by…

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