Tag: Environments & Sustainability
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Science & Tech
Trees tell of shifting world
Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide.
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Campus & Community
EPA recognizes Harvard as a leader in green power purchasers
Harvard University has been announced as one of three schools in the Ivy League that were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as 2009-10 Collective Conference Champions for using green power.
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Campus & Community
Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley
The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School’s John Spengler, and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment.
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Science & Tech
Battling climate change on all fronts
Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.
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Campus & Community
Campaign to turn Crimson green
Harvard makes great strides in cutting its everyday energy use, saving money and greening the campus in the process.
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Arts & Culture
‘Walden’ for the 21st century
In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.
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Campus & Community
It’s lights out
For the second consecutive year, Harvard University will join the city of Boston by turning out the lights for “Earth Hour,” a major community awareness event about climate change, taking place in Boston and cities worldwide.
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Science & Tech
Scientists discover how ocean bacterium turns carbon into fuel
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. We hear this mantra time and again. When it comes to carbon—the “Most Wanted” element in terms of climate change—nature has got reuse and recycle covered. However, it’s up to us to reduce.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating a green campus
The Green Carpet awards ceremony will premier this spring honoring Harvard faculty, students, and staff who have made significant contributions to greenhouse gas reduction and sustainability at Harvard. Submission deadline is April 15.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
For the January Experience, Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is offering students two opportunities to “dig in.”
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Campus & Community
Forests focus of gift
Paul Zofnass ’69, M.B.A. ’73, has become the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s (HMNH) largest donor since its founding in 1998.
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Campus & Community
Save with Harvard’s Vendor Fair
Harvard University Strategic Procurement will host seminars Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on how to cut costs, work more efficiently, and be green.
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Campus & Community
Foster elected to Trustees of Reservations board of directors
Harvard Forest’s David Foster elected to the Trustees of Reservations board of directors at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner on Sept. 26.
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Campus & Community
The Grass Is Greener at Harvard
THERE is an underground revolution spreading across Harvard University this fall. It’s occurring under the soil and involves fungi, bacteria, microbes and roots, which are now fed with compost and compost tea rather than pesticides and synthetic nitrogen.
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Campus & Community
Harvesting watts from the wind
Harvard installs two tall turbines on the top deck of its Soldiers Field Road parking garage, the University’s largest wind power installation to date.
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Campus & Community
Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Science & Tech
Green reunions: Groundwork set
As of June 4, Harvard has celebrated 358 commencements. Add to that the simultaneous celebration of untold thousands of reunions.
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Campus & Community
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s address at Harvard’s Afternoon Exercises
United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s commencement speech at Harvard’s Afternoon Exercises on June 4, 2009.
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Science & Tech
Class of 1984 takes giant step in reducing carbon footprint
For its fifth reunion, the Class of 1984 added community service to the celebration — a novel feature that other reuniting classes have since copied.
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Campus & Community
Sobering poems, more sobering oration mark PBK
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) chapter first met in 1781, two years before the end of the Revolutionary War.
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Nation & World
The environment
THE ENVIRONMENT: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Nation & World
Energy
ENERGY: Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Campus & Community
Organic brew puts green back into Yard
Earth Week is a good time to celebrate earth itself — the planet’s loose covering of fine-ground ancient rock we call soil.
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Science & Tech
Earth Week emphasizes notion of human stewardship
Earth is shielded by a film of air barely 6 miles high. About 10 million species of plants and animals, including 6 billion humans, reside within this thin skin of gases.
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Science & Tech
GPM tells you more than MPG, say management professors
“Miles per gallon” (mpg) is the most common measure of a car’s fuel efficiency. The typical U.S. consumer, in shopping for a car, uses mpg as a way of calculating gas consumption and carbon emissions.
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Science & Tech
Energy policies: ‘Forty-year failure’
In 1973, four weeks after the Arab oil embargo, President Richard Nixon went on national television to talk about an energy crisis that had been mounting for two years. He asked Americans to turn off their Christmas lights.
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Science & Tech
International conference thinks about sustainable cities
What will the cities of the future look like? Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) offered some ideas last week at a three-day international conference, “Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future,” April 3-5.
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Campus & Community
Reservoir system proposed to meet needs
A former Massachusetts water official is proposing a new network of central Massachusetts reservoirs to meet population-driven demand that he says will outstrip current supplies in the coming decades.
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Science & Tech
Climate change an ‘opportunity’ as well as a threat
Conservation pioneer Russell A. Mittermeier started this year’s Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture (April 5) with a quiz. In front of several hundred listeners at Harvard’s Science Center he turned on a small recorder.
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Science & Tech
Disasters, and how to cope with them
Nine out of 10 disasters in the world are related to climate change — the consequence of “a new normal of extreme weather,” said Sir John Holmes. He talked about an accelerating pace of floods, drought, heat waves, and catastrophic storms.