Thanks to the efforts of our entire community we reduced emissions 30%, from 2006 levels, despite a 12% increase in our campus size.
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The average American lawn can use as much as 20,000 gallons of water a year, and up to 50% of that water is wasted (EPA).
Time-spent outdoors has wide ranging benefits, and there are easy ways to integrate it into the school day.
Authored by Student Sustainability Associates Ruth Isenstadt, MBA ’18, Jina Choi, MBA ’18, and George Hanscom, MBA ’18
A green tip from the facilities team at the Radcliffe Institue for Advanced Study
Help to incorporate and increase access to nature for young people.
At Harvard, as part of our organic landscaping and maintenance program, staff are creating compost tea.
Compost Teas are a specific liquid biological...
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September 21, 2017
New England is in danger of squandering its conservation “second chance,” according to the authors of a new Harvard Forest report. The region, heavily deforested in colonial days, is... -
September 15, 2017
Climate change knows no borders. As temperatures and seas rise, ecosystems change, and extreme weather patterns affect communities around the globe, insights that help identify solutions to these... -
September 6, 2017
Harvard's labs rise to North American Freezer Challenge. -
September 5, 2017
“I didn’t always enjoy it,” author Lynda Mapes says of her year doing “the nothing that is everything” at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass. Mapes devoted her Charles...
