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    Eat well, be active, protect the planet

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We’re building on our past progress in reducing emissions with goals to be fossil fuel-free by 2050 and fossil fuel-neutral by 2026.
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This public water and art display demonstrates just how much water the average shower can add up to!

Create a Water Awareness Display

Green Tip

There are many filtered-water filling stations across Harvard Yard where you can fill up your reusable bottle! 

Common Room Kitchen Sink Attachments:

  • Straus Kitchen
  • Grays Kitchen
  • Weld Kitchen
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Filtered-water filling locations in Harvard Yard

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Beyond the Bottle Campaign

Members of the student-run Harvard Environmental Action Committee recently kicked off the Beyond the Bottle campaign on campus. Harvard undergrads Kristen Wraith and Danny Wilson started the campaign last semester following the example of other college campuses across the country pushing to...

Environmental Action Committee's Beyond the Bottle Campaign

How To

Challenge your community to this bone-chilling game all about water.

Iceberg Jeopardy

How To
Water Footprint Website Snapshot

How much water is consumed based on what we're eating, drinking, buying, or based on where we live?

What is Your Water Footprint?

How To
Water Taste Test Challenge

Try a Water Taste Test Challenge at your school, office, with a group of friends, or even at home with the family! It’s an easy setup with impactful results.

Host a Water Taste Test Challenge

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Events

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  • 9 Jan – 6 Feb

    Harvard Valentine’s Day Toiletries Drive

    ALL DAY
  • 31 Jan

    HLC Green Team EcoOpportunity Meeting

    1–1:45 pm
  • 31 Jan

    Radcliffe Institute Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives

    4 pm
  • 7 Feb

    HKS Dinner Film Screening: "There's Something in the Water" environmental racism documentary

    5:30–8 pm
  • 8 Feb

    Radcliffe Institute Wiring Gaia in the Anthropocene: “Smart Earth” Digital Technologies and Environmental Futures

    12 pm
  • 8 Feb

    HFSI Scraps: The Environmental & Societal Implications of Reducing Food Waste

    4:30–5:30 pm
  • 13 Feb

    HBS Home Weatherization & Energy Lunch and Learn

    11 am–12 pm
  • 14 Feb

    Harvard Freecycle

    11 am–2 pm
  • 16 Feb

    HGSE Green Team Meeting

    12–12:45 pm
  • 16 Mar

    HGSE Green Team Meeting

    12–12:45 pm
  • 18 Apr

    Harvard Freecycle

    11 am–2 pm
  • 20 Apr

    HGSE Green Team Meeting

    12–12:45 pm

Events

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31 Jan

HLC Green Team EcoOpportunity Meeting

1–1:45 pm
31 Jan

Radcliffe Institute Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives

4 pm
7 Feb

HKS Dinner Film Screening: "There's Something in the Water" environmental racism documentary

5:30–8 pm

News

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  • January 26, 2023

    Listening to air, water

  • January 12, 2023

    Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better

  • January 3, 2023

    With an eye on climate, a helping hand for health care’s front lines

  • December 6, 2022

    You believe in climate change but drive a gas-guzzler, don’t recycle. Why?

  • November 30, 2022

    Tackling climate change with ‘sleeves rolled up’

  • November 28, 2022

    Raising health care’s climate voice

  • November 23, 2022

    Glimmers of movement, hope at COP27

  • November 16, 2022

    Climate change in urban America, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Calif. reservation

  • November 15, 2022

    How inflation act may help rescue greenhouse-gas goals of repealed Clean Power Plan

  • November 7, 2022

    PFAS levels lower in buildings with healthier furnishings

  • October 27, 2022

    A global beacon on climate change

  • October 25, 2022

    Launching Salata Institute to marshal Harvard resources to fight climate crisis

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  • @GreenHarvard about 2 hours 43 min — RT @Harvard: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest writing project, “Theory of Water,” asks what it means to listen to water https://t.co/OJuK4xWUac
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