Tag: Harvard Green Campus Initiative

  • Science & Tech

    Turn off the Lights

    A sustainability music video produced by Harvard University students Akshay Sharma ’14, Maura Church ’14 and Molly O’Laughlin ’11 in anticipation of Earth Day 2011. It was presented at Harvard’s second annual Green Carpet Awards sustainability celebration and recognition event. Miranda J. Morrison ’14 also assisted with writing the lyrics.

  • Campus & Community

    Green report card

    For the fourth-straight year, Harvard is at the top of the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, a report that grades the green credentials of 300 colleges and universities.

  • 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.

  • Science & Tech

    Environmental report card grades Harvard A-

    Harvard received the highest ranking in a recent “College Sustainability Report Card” that graded the green credentials of 300 colleges and universities. Harvard received high ranks for an array of activities, including recycling, green buildings, energy supply, transportation, and student involvement. Overall, the University was among 15 nationwide that received the top A- grade, earning…

  • Campus & Community

    Jason Luke

    You might not know Jason Luke ’94, but you know his work. He’s associate director for custodial and support services at Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations. That makes him the Commencement superintendent who every June transforms the campus into a well-oiled machine for merriment (and solemnity).

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Life classes’ teach local, global ways to go green

    In the offices of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI), there is everything you would expect from that arm of University Operations Services: no-glue carpeting, energy-efficient lighting, high-tech windows, and sensors that adjust ventilation by measuring CO2. But in plain sight, next to one of the recycled cubicles, there is also a toilet. The bowl…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard takes the LEED in green buildings

    If you could fly in a small plane over Harvard, looking down wouldn’t tell you much about the University’s sustainable buildings.

  • Campus & Community

    Nathan Gauthier

    He’s only 31, but Nathan Gauthier has had an adventurous life so far. He spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, studied red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, shot underwater video for NASA, and worked as a fisheries biologist in Washington state and Hawaii.

  • Campus & Community

    The biggest challenge of sustainability: Changing minds

    In 1999, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) made plans to move its offices to the Landmark Center, a converted Sears, Roebuck and Co. warehouse in Boston. Danny Beaudoin — the School’s manager of operations, energy, and utilities — was asked to look into sustainable design for the renovation: a realm of low-emitting paints,…