Tag: Sustainability
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Not just hot air
Efforts to make the University sustainable have played a critical role in changing everyday behavior, from recycling to composting to conserving energy. In the process, Harvard serves as a kind of experimental model.
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Sustaining the momentum
From a Medical School team that switched to reusable materials to trim waste to a Business School move to make its executive education programs sustainable, teams and individuals from around the University were recognized for their efforts to make Harvard greener in the annual Green Carpet Awards.
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A look inside: Currier House
The crest of Currier House shows a field of red, representing Harvard, surrounding a simple golden tree. Within their own communal “tree,” Currier residents have been “greening” the way they live.
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Harvard deems April Earth Month
April is Earth Month at Harvard, an inaugural initiative featuring campuswide events and activities to celebrate and raise awareness about environmental issues.
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Top-down approach
Efforts to promote sustainability at the Graduate School of Design include composting, freecycle, racks, and a green roof at Gund Hall.
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Medical School mends its ways
Harvard Medical School has just kicked off its five-year, $20 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan and expects to start realizing savings as soon as the spring.
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New Campus Services department takes shape
Campus Services, the administrative group that serves every School and unit across the University, announced plans today (Nov. 18) to increase efficiencies and strengthen the University commitment to sustainability.
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Its sustaining mission
Harvard Divinity School embraces the green revolution, conserving energy in buildings and harvesting from its own garden.
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Spouting off
In their new book, “Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource,” Peter Rogers and Susan Leal outline water’s global predicament as the world’s population soars to 8 billion.
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Green Team scores
In the three years since its inception, the volunteer Green Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — 15 students, faculty, and staff — has made significant strides.
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Class act
Two floors of classrooms in Larsen Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are the first in the world to win the highest LEED-CI rating.
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Belsky named managing director of Joint Center for Housing Studies
Eric S. Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has been appointed managing director of the Center.
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Two HBS professors win prize for sustainability issues in curricula
HBS professors Forest L. Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel share the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for sustainability issues in business curricula.
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‘Food Is Like Fashion’
Martin Breslin, the Dublin-born director of culinary operations at Harvard’s Dining Services, lives for food.
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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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Earth Day at 40
Harvard celebrates 40th anniversary of Earth Day with dinners, fairs, films, and discussions.
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Ecosystems under siege
Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.
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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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The greening of the Law School
Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.
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Looking ordinary, being exceptional
Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, in temporary digs at Littauer Hall, follows a gold standard for sustainability.
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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.
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Taming the energy beast
Greenhouse gas emissions drop 10 percent as Harvard eyes 2016 goal.
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Coming and going at Harvard
Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.
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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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Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Green ’13 is a new initiative from the class of 2013 that aims to change the culture of personal behavior, starting with being more sustainable.
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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.
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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.
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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.