Harvard Real Estate

Harvard Real Estate is committed to supporting Harvard in building and operating a healthier, more sustainable campus community.

In addition to building improvements and operation practices, the tenant engagement program at Harvard Real Estate is available to provide occupants of HRE properties with guidance on reducing their impact while at work, recognition for their efforts, and a method for best practicing sharing.

Sustainable Workplace Initiative

Join the Race to Leaf 1 Green Office Challenge!

Compete against offices in your building and in other HRE properties as you work with your colleagues to Leaf 1 Green Office certification.

Learn about the Green Office Program

How to play:

Register your office for the Green Office Program
Download and review the application form, where you will track your progress
Invite your coworkers to join and work with you on earning points
Earn more points than any other participating office and win the grand prize of an ice cream social for you and your coworkers next summer

Take action

save energy

Change your power management settings for Windows and Mac
Use smart power strips
Help reduce energy during heat waves and peak demand days
Turn off before you leave for vacation

Getting to Zero Waste

How to host a zero waste event
10 tips for hosting a successful freecycle
Reduce your paper use
6 ways to minimize your e-waste
How to host a waste audit
Start an interoffice envelope reuse system
4 tips to reduce your junk mail
Do you double side? Printing instructions for Windows and Mac
Download waste signage

promoting a healthy, productive environment

Follow the healthy eating plate

10 tips from Harvard's bike commuting pros

Biking to work 101

Use Hubway between meetings

6 yoga exercises to do at your desk

Re-charge initiative

8 challenges for greater fundamental happiness

Chemicals lurking in your food? Detox your diet

Engaging your team

Start a Green Team

Start a Green Office

10 tips for a successful green team

Use the green team campaigns and volunteer calendar

Quick sustainability talks and films for brown bag lunches

Explore

Green Tip

HRE Tenant Tip: 14 Story Street

Switch to a bean-to-cup coffee machine

Poster

Recent efforts to make healthy eating a default choice include making nutrition education more accessible to children and adults, incentivizing the purchase and consumption of
healthier foods at farmers markets and retail outlets, and using health insurance...

Food Better: Nutrition and Health

Green Tip

Here's a green tip to help reduce disposables in your meeting areas.

Create a mobile, rolling mug tree

How To

5 ways to save energy before holiday break.

Shut Down for the Holidays

How To

Set your computer to default "double-side" with the following 7 steps.

Double-sided Printing for Windows Computers

Poster

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,...