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A fossil fuel-free future

We’re building on our past progress in reducing emissions with new goals to be fossil fuel-free by 2050 and fossil fuel-neutral by 2026.

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Harvard's Sustainability Report

How did we do in 2017?

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A Healthier You, A Healthier Planet

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A Healthier You, A Healthier Planet

LEED Rating System: LEED-NC

LEED Rating: GOLD

Date Completed: December, 2007

Integrated design and a commitment to sustainability make this 145-unit graduate student housing complex an enjoyable and healthy place to live, and lowers the impact on the local and global...

HUH 5 Cowperthwaite Street

Harvard housing is single streamed!

Harvard Housing Recycling Guide: English

Harvard University Housing's Sustainable Community Leader's want to help you reduce food waste at home.

Tactics to reduce food waste

Harvard Housing is single streamed!

Harvard Housing Recycling Guide: German

Environmental health scientist and instructor Gary Adamkiewicz tells us what to watch out for in our foods.

Chemicals Lurking in Your Food? Detox Your Diet!

Events

22 – 25 Apr

Secure and Sustainable Electronics Recycling Collection (find specific times/dates here)
ALL DAY
22 Apr

FixIt Event - bring your broken items!
11 am–2 pm
22 Apr

Harvard Celebrates Earth Day
12–2 pm
22 Apr

Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 3 (Climate Politics And Business)
6:30–8 pm
23 Apr

Special film screening and Q&A: Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds
6–8:30 pm
4 May

Poetry of Nature | Nature of Poerty (Arts First event)
1–2:30 pm
7 May

Stepping Up: Business In The Era of Climate Change Part 4 (The Road Map Of The Future: Transportation)
6:30–8 pm
17 May

FreeCycle
11 am–2 pm
4 Jun

Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 5 (Energy Transitions)
6:30–8 pm
4 – 6 Sep

Planetary Health Annual Meeting
8 am–5 pm

Events

22 – 25 Apr

Secure and Sustainable Electronics Recycling Collection (find specific times/dates here)

ALL DAY

22 Apr

FixIt Event - bring your broken items!

11 am–2 pm

22 Apr

Harvard Celebrates Earth Day

12–2 pm

News

February 4, 2019
Implementing the UN SDGs through the private sector
February 4, 2019 By Tajrean Rahman
December 14, 2018
Puerto Rico community benefits from Harvard’s living lab
October 31, 2018
Project offers holistic view on environmental issues
September 26, 2018
Applications open for Climate Solutions Living Lab Course
September 21, 2018
Dancing with the future
September 5, 2018
An artful response to the warming climate
September 4, 2018
Students take the lead on new climate program
August 10, 2018
Letter opposes possible EPA shift
July 31, 2018
All aboard the BioBus
For our “Greenpreneur Series”, which features alumni working in sustainability sectors, Nicole Nishizawa (Harvard College '19) interviewed alumna Sarah Weisberg. Sarah (Harvard College...
July 16, 2018
Harvard’s parking monitors can now patrol campus via bicycles
July 10, 2018
Extreme heat linked with reduced cognitive performance among young adults
July 5, 2018
Putting plants at the center of the plate