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Harvard achieves historic climate goal
Thanks to the efforts of our entire community we reduced emissions 30%, from 2006 levels, despite a 12% increase in campus square footage.
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The Challenge:
In 2012, many Harvard Law School departments transitioned into new offices in the Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical building. During the moves, HLS was committed to re-using furniture they no longer needed.
The Solution:...
Green Team members from Harvard Graduate School of Education offer their advice for a sustainable holiday, without spooking Mother Nature!
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 ...
The video explains the composting process at Harvard.
When food is wasted, not only do we lose the nutrition of that food, we lose the water, gasoline, and fertilizer used to grow, process, and distribute that food. Food is wasted at every step of the food system: left-behind food rots on farm fields,...
The Harvard Office for Sustainability visits Katrina Rudnicki at the Harvard Medical School's ICCB-L Screening Facility to find out about what steps she and her team take to make their lab more sustainable. These simple actions save money, reduce energy use, and make the lab more efficient for...
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News
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August 9, 2017
Extending Environmental Ethics through Fear -
August 9, 2017
The One Life and Science: A New Relationship -
August 9, 2017
"Nature” is what we see – The Hill – the Afternoon – Squirrel – Eclipse – the Bumble bee – Nay – Nature is Heaven – “Nature” is what... -
July 5, 2017
Harvard University researchers have resolved a conflict in estimates of how much the Earth will warm in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That conflict — between...
