Tag: Office for Sustainability

  • Campus & Community

    Earth Day at 40

    Harvard celebrates 40th anniversary of Earth Day with dinners, fairs, films, and discussions.

    5–8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Lessons from the Earth

    The new Harvard Community Garden, dedicated Sunday, is expected to inspire lessons in sustainability, community, and academic collaboration.

    5–8 minutes
  • 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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The greening of the Law School

    Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.

    4–5 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
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    Coming soon: Harvard garden

    Harvard will start gardens for growing food in April, with students taking a lead role.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Bottom line gets a touch of green

    In a University-wide race to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases, Harvard Business School shares its strategies for technology and behavior.

    3–5 minutes
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    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.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    FAS continues greening its scene

    With a sweeping program in place to reduce energy use, FAS is making major inroads in savings, both in power and money.

    3–4 minutes
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    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.

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    McKibben’s movement: 350.org

    Activist and author Bill McKibben ’82 takes to the pulpit in a plea for climate change action.

    5–8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Workplace, green place

    This spring Harvard launched a certification program for “green offices,” bringing the University’s big ambitions for energy savings down to the personal scale.

    7–10 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Print directories canceled

    This fall, Harvard’s traditional phone directories are going the way of the dinosaurs, with paper savings measured in tons.

    2–3 minutes
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    Green Campus contest puts wind in energy’s sails

    The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is giving Harvard students and staff the chance to turn their energy conservation habits – or their new resolutions to conserve – into clean wind power. The EmPOWER Harvard campaign seeks to get as many people as possible to sign an online pledge form before midnight Nov. 23 – the…

    1–2 minutes
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    Practicing ‘best practices’

    Dual concerns about Harvard’s environmental impact and skyrocketing energy costs have prompted facilities managers across the University to come together monthly to share thoughts, tips, and techniques for making Harvard buildings energy efficient. The Utilities and Maintenance Focus Group, which was initiated by Harvard Real Estate Services, began meeting in January with representatives of University…

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    ‘Moving toward’ global warming solution

    Earth Day at Harvard offered a hopeful note this year, as speakers praised the University’s efforts toward sustainability, saying they reflect similar grassroots efforts around the country that are forming in response to the problem of global warming. Robert Musil, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, said that, although global warming is a serious…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    It’s easy being green

    Eleven interns worked on seven projects across Harvard University for three months in the summer of 2001. The internships were sponsored by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, in collaboration with several different departments at Harvard that hosted the interns. Among the projects was an inventory of “greenhouse” gas emissions, which found that during the last…

    1–2 minutes