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The Center for Health & the Global Environment (CHGE) at Harvard Medical School has been active in greening its office practices through the Harvard Office for Sustainability’s Green Office Certification Program.

Browse over $80,000 worth of gently used furniture, school and office supplies, and more at the largest campus surplus sale in the nation.

9am-5pm, August 15-16, 22-23, 27-31; and September 1, 5, 6 on the Science Center Lawn, Cambridge. Proceeds benefit Harvard Habitat for Humanity.

Sponsored by Harvard Recycling and Harvard Habitat for Humanity

It didn’t take long after FAS released photos of campus celebs engaging in President Faust’s Top 10 Actions for the highly competitive HBS community to green their scene too!

Interested in being green? Let us show you how—HKS faculty, staff, and students demonstrate President Faust’s top ten ways to be green!

Download the PDF of the HKS Top Ten posters!

Scientists at Harvard University have found that tropical cyclones readily inject ice far into the stratosphere, possibly feeding global warming.

Last October, Harvard developed a list of ten actions most of us can take to have a great impact as individuals on our collective environmental footprint.

This year, faculty, students and staff across Harvard modeled the Top Ten in a humorous poster series that's been sweeping the schools.

As part of Radcliffe's "Lectures in the Sciences" series, Christina Ravelo of University of California at Santa Cruz delivered the lecture "Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene."

A video of this February 11, 2008 talk is available on the Radcliffe Institute website (click on the screenshot below):

Earth Week 2009 was a rousing success. Check out some of the photos:

Van Gogh imprisoned stars like yellow daises smashed behind a sheet of blue glass. Winslow Homer abandoned a casual boater between angry waters and a bludgeoned cadre of clouds. Gerhard Richter stole and melted down the gray winter air into a series of polished mirrors. In each case, a painter sought to capture a small sliver of the dramatic and ever-changing atmosphere. Another kind of artist, an engineer, is also attempting to frame the sky in a box; in his case, the canvas is a laboratory.

A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana, from May 6 to 8, 2008. The team’s innovation, microbial fuel cell-based lighting systems suitable for sub-Saharan Africa, netted the Harvard group a $200,000 prize.