Best Practice Exchange Events 2004
Campus Sustainability at Harvard: Principles and Practice
Date, Time, Location
Thursday, November 4 th , 3-5pm, Spangler Auditorium, lower floor of the Spangler Center
Presenters and Program Topics
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative and representatives from our interfaculty initiative presented for an exciting and extraordinary event celebrating Harvard's widespread commitment to achieving campus environmental sustainability. Harvard's new Sustainability Principles were presented, and a panel of senior leaders from all across Harvard shared the green achievements of their respective schools and departments as examples of how Harvard's commitment to sustainability is being realized campus-wide.
- Jack Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard School of Public Health
- David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Frank Hayes, Chief of Operations, Harvard Business School
- Tim Bowman, Associate Dean for Operations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- Peter Stroup, Director of Facilities, Harvard Medical School
- Danny Beaudoin, Manager of Operations, Energy and Utilities, Harvard School of Public Health
- Tom Vautin, Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental Services, Harvard University Operations Services
- Jim Gray, Associate Vice President of Harvard Real Estate Services
- Leith Sharp, Director, Harvard Green Campus Initiative
Panelists discussed Harvard's green achievements, including
- Green building design and onsite renewable energy installation projects,
- Behavioral change campaigns promoting energy and resource conservation,
- The purchase of renewable energy certificates to offset current electricity loads,
- Use of the Green Campus Loan Fund to finance high performance renovations and upgrades,
- Harvard's on-site bio-diesel fueling station,
- And much more!
Program concluded with open discussion about the Sustainability Principles, Harvard's green achievements to date, and where we can go from here.
View a video of this presentation.
A Conversation with Amory Lovins:
Energy, Sustainable & Renewable,
What Cities Can Do to Promote and Require a More Energy Efficient and
Sustainable Future
Date, Time, Location
Monday, September 27th, 2004, 9-10am, Spangler Center Auditorium, Harvard Business School
Presenter and Program Topics
Members of Boston Mayor's Green Building Task Force and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative opened their doors to the public for a presentation by Amory Lovins at the Harvard Business School. Lovins is the CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute and one of the authors of Natural Capitalism.
Amory B. Lovins, chief executive officer of Rocky Mountain Institute, is a consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford. He has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), nine honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood ("Alternative Nobel"), World Technology, and Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Happold Medal, and the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. His work focuses on transforming the hydrocarbon, automobile, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other sectors toward advanced resource productivity. He has briefed eighteen heads of state, held several visiting academic chairs, authored or co-authored twenty-nine books and hundreds of papers, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of thirty-nine people worldwide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s"; Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers"; and Car magazine ranked him the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry. View Lovins' full biography.
This event was jointly sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Rappaport Center, the Boston Mayor's Green Building Task Force and the Harvard Green Campus Initiative.
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The Longwood Medical Campus Earth Day
Date, Time, Location
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004, 12-4pm, Longwood Courtyard Cafe
Presenters and Program Topics
Sponsored by the Longwood Green Campus Initiative and the Operations Departments of HMS, HSPH and HSDM.
12 - 3pm -
Longwood Medical Area Earth Day Fair, in the Courtyard Cafe, brought over 200 students, staff and faculty in to learn how to green their office, laboratory, hospital, or home; to calculate their ecological footprint; and to enjoy free food and prizes. Tables were hosted by the following people and groups:
- Annabeth Macy, Project Manager: Green Boston Initiative, Green Roundtable .
- Christine Pace, Student, Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine , HMS.
- Daniel A. Goodenough Ph.D., Takeda Professor of Cell Biology, HMS and faculty of the HMS Center for Health and the Global Environment .
- David Beavers, Energy Star + EPA's computer power management group.
- Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, EdD, Director, Community Outreach Programs, HMS .
- Jessica Woolliams, Longwood Manager, Longwood Green Campus Initiative and Maggie Husak, Coordinator of Finance and Administration and Mike Crowley, Building Management Resources Coordinator, Harvard Green Campus Initiative.
- Maria Valenti, Executive Director, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility .
- Melissa Marantz, Program Manager, MASCO CommuteWorks .
- Susan Whalen, Associate Executive Director, Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and rep, Alliance for a Health Tomorrow .
- Tiffany Songster, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment and Health Care Without Harm
3 - 4pm -
Ross Gelbspan spoke on: "Climate Change Science and Solutions." Mr.
Gelbspan is author of: "The Heat Is On." The New York Times Book Review
said of this book: "No other reporter has told this story as comprehensively
or explored the implications for human welfare as searchingly."
Daniel Cook spoke on: "Solar Electricity at Harvard Business School."
Mr. Cook, Co-President of Harvard Business School's Sustainable Development
Society and MBA Class 2004, will talk about the solar energy system
atop HBS's Shad Hall.
Jessica Woolliams: "Longwood Computer Energy Reduction Program." Ms
Woolliams, Coordinator, Longwood Green Campus Initiative, spoke on the
little things that we can do to make a difference. Moderated by Paul
Epstein, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment.
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Energy Use and Human Health 2004
Date, Time, Location
February 20th, 2004
Presenters & Program Topics
- Dr. Paul R. Epstein, Associate Director, HMS Center for Health and the Global Environment : "Health Impact of Our Energy Use"
- Daniel Beaudoin, Manager of Operations, Energy and Utilities, HSPH: "Current Energy Efficiency and Green Building Projects"
- Craig Campbell, Energy Manager, Unnico, HMS: "Current Energy Conservation Efforts"
- Jenny Stillwaggon, Medical Student, Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine (SEAM): "Human Health And The Environment"
- Rob Knake, Kennedy School of Government MPP Candidate: "Renewable Energy at the Kennedy School"
- Jessica Woolliams, Longwood Coordinator, Harvard Green Campus Initiative: "The Longwood Computer Energy Reduction Program"
- Dr. Jack Spengler, Professor moderate discussion at the end, and talk briefly about: "Vision Statement and Principles on Sustainability for the Allston Development"
View a video of the presentation here. View the Power Point Presentation: Paul Epstein, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment: "Energy Use and Human Health".
This forum was jointly sponsored by The Longwood Green Campus Initiative, The Center for Health and the Global Environment, and The Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine . It is also part of the NORTHEAST CLIMATE CONFERENCE, February 20-22, 2004 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Above: Photo of Dr. Paul Epstein, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and Jenny Stillwaggon, Harvard Medical School student and one of the founding members of Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine. Photo credit: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office, © 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Sustainable Planning, Design and Development at Harvard University 2004
Date, Time, Location
January 15th, 2004
Presenters & Program Topics
Harvard University representatives shared the University's perspective
on and experiences with sustainable planning, design and development.
The one-hour presentation covered:
- An overview of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, a cross-university initiative that has engaged and involved the Harvard community in the institutionalization of sustainable practices across the University;
- A discussion of the programmatic and financial incentives and historic preservation issues encountered by the Harvard Business School while incorporating sustainable practices into its operations, precinct planning and development;
- A discussion of the successes and challenges encountered by the project team that designed and built One Western Avenue, a 365-bed Harvard housing facility located in Allston; delivered on time, on budget, and currently under USGBC/LEED review for a probable Silver rating; and
- An overview of the University's approach to incorporating sustainability into University-wide campus planning.
Professor John Spengler, Professor of Environmental Health and Human
Habitation at the Harvard School of Public Health and member of the
Mayor's Green Building Task Force, and Tom Vautin, Associate Vice President
of University Operations Services will moderate the presentation. Kathy
Spiegelman, University Chief Planner and Director of the Allston Initiative
will be on hand to participate in the "Question and Answer" session.
Other presentation participants include (alphabetical order): Frank
Hayes, Chief of Operations, Harvard Business School; Jonathan Lavash,
Senior Project Manager, Harvard Real Estate Services; Leith Sharp, Director
of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative; and Beth Shepard-Rabadam, Assistant
Director of Harvard Planning + Allston Initiative.
About the Boston Mayor's Green Building Task Force: A group of public and private partners convened by Mayor Menino "to navigate the waters of environmental/high performance building in Boston, laying the groundwork for policy initiatives that will help us build a greener Boston."