February 2021

February 18, 2021

Public Interested

The 10th Annual Public Interested Conference took place in the first week of February drawing in students, faculty, and staff from the Harvard community to engage on how to build a better world. The virtual format through Zoom did not take away from the significance of the occasion, especially as...

February 8, 2021

Dr. Stacey Blondin and the Intersection Between Health, Food, and Sustainability

Recent alumna Sierra Tseng virtually caught up with alumna Dr. Stacey Blondin, AB ’07 to discuss her career path, ideal food systems, and the intersection between health, food, and sustainability. Dr. Blondin is a former Dunster House Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program (REP)...

February 2, 2021

On the road to a fossil fuel-free future

January 2021

January 4, 2021

The Power and Potential of Virtual Sales for Sustainability

During the last month, the Harvard Office for Sustainability partnered with TechniArt and Eversource to plan their first ever virtual Pop-Up Eversource Lighting Sale, after years of running similar sales in-person as one day community engagement events. TechniArt is an innovative company with a...

December 2020

December 16, 2020

HPO Book Drive: A Record Success for 2020

The Harvard Planning Office (HPO) surpassed their book drive donation target for 2020 with a record of 390 collected books. The annual book drive is a university-wide effort spearheaded by the HPO Green Team with support from the Office of Sustainability . Since its inception four years ago, all...

October 2020

October 10, 2020

Scoring Touchdowns for the Environment

While most people know Brandon Geller as the Assistant Director of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Sustainability and Energy Management, his legacy and roots at Harvard reach much deeper. In the Summer of 2008, Brandon graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Art in Biochemistry...

October 9, 2020

Shades of Green in Every Field

With rising attention paid to the current climate crisis, conservation surrounding sustainability has found its way into many industries, communities, and disciplines. Even though Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences comprehensively merges different fields to encompass its...

August 2020

August 15, 2020

Strategy and Sustainability with Dave Rennard, '03

Diana Zhu , ‘23 spoke with Practice Vice President at Bain & Company Dave Rennard , '03 about his work contributing to the sustainability field. Dave studied Chemistry and Physics at Harvard College , before going on to earn his PhD at the University of Minnesota and his MBA at Rice...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

The Environmental Education and Values of Rachelle Gould, '03

How UVM professor Rachelle Gould’s time at Harvard informed her work in community-based action and environmental education...

June 17, 2020

Arielle Blacklow and the Great Summer Internship

Consent decree, deposition, complaint, settlement—these words gained new meaning for Harvard student Arielle Blacklow, College '21, when she started her summer internship at the National Environmental Law Center (NELC) in 2019. For someone who hadn’t even so much as watched a TV legal...