HGCI News Updates & Info
Harvard Receives Top Green Rating in Princeton Review
Harvard's environmental sustainability efforts have once again placed the school in the top rankings of the Princeton Review. Only eleven colleges received the top Green Rating of 99 this year, and areas such as transportation, purchasing, teaching, and green building were considered.
posted: 10. 1.08 [permalink]
Harvard Museum of Natural History Hosts Fall Lecture Series
Check out the full schedule of speakers at the museum through October, which includes an October 16 lecture entitled "Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity" by E.O. Wilson and Eric Chivian.
posted: 09.24.08 [permalink]
Harvard Receives Highest Grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute
In its annual Sustainability Report Card, the Sustainable Endowments Institute ranked Harvard among the top fifteen most environmentally sustainable colleges and universities in the country. Harvard received the highest grade of A-, and the Green Campus Initiative was mentioned as the administrative force behind Harvard's sustainability work. Some of the other areas of consideration in the report card include approaches to food and recycing, student involvement, green building, and transportation. See Harvard's full report card
posted: 09.24.08 [permalink]
Byerly Hall Project Highlighted in Harvard Gazette
The September issue of the Gazette spotlights the work of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative in the renovation of Byerly Hall at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. Check out the full article
posted: 09.23.08 [permalink]
Grist Features Outgoing HGCI Director, Leith Sharp
As she departs from the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Leith Sharp leaves a legacy of hard work and great acheivement with environmental sustainability at Harvard. Leith would be the first to say that there is more work to be done, but as Grist points out, there is also much to celebrate as we thank Leith for her dedication over the past nine years. See the full story
posted: 09.18.08 [permalink]
Harvard Assesses Wind Power with Study
Harvard continues to move forward with the exploration of alternative energy sources, and a new study will allow the university to see if wind power can meet some of Harvard's energy needs. With the recent installation of a 164-ft meteorological tower (MET) and wind meters (anemometers), the university plans to collect data over the next 12-18 months in order to assess if (and where) wind turbines would be effective energy producers on campus. Visit the University Operations Services website for more information about the MET project.
posted: 09.18.08 [permalink]
HGCI Accepting Applications for Special Projects Assistant
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is accepting applications for Special Projects Assistant. To learn more about the position and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=39164
posted: 09.16.08 [permalink]
Harvard Wind Turbines Mentioned in NY Times Article
Harvard's wind turbine project at Holyoke Center was highlighted in the NY Times article "Assessing the Value of Small Wind Turbines" yesterday. For more information about wind energy at Harvard visit our wind energy page.
posted: 09. 5.08 [permalink]
Harvard Magazine Highlights Green Initiatives on Campus
The September/October issue of Harvard Magazine features a segment assessing President Faust's greenhouse gas emissions commitment and a brief overview of initiatives underway with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. You can learn more about President Faust's pledge or FAS projects on our website.
posted: 08.27.08 [permalink]
Be a leader. Be part of the solution. Be a Green Living Rep.
The Green Living Programs are hiring graduate students in HLS and HBS to work part-time, engaging peers in living more sustainably. (more...)
posted: 08.14.08 [permalink]
Medical School's Sustainable Dining Program Wins Award
The Harvard Medical School sustainable dining program was awarded "Best Menu" by Food Management magazine recently. Two of the features noted in the article were compostable food containers and consistent use of local produce. (more...)
posted: 08.13.08 [permalink]
Kennedy School's Summer Picnic Goes Green
The Harvard Kennedy School's Green Team created new sustainability guidelines for their annual summer picnic this July. With the goal of "zero-waste," the picnic goers ate and drank out of compostable or recyclable dishware, and the event raised awareness about the need for "efficiency and innovation" in order to minimize impact on the environment. (more...)
posted: 08. 2.08 [permalink]
New Position: Coordinator, New Construction
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is hiring two new coordinator positions within their Green Campus Building Services - New Construction group. If you are interested, please submit your application through the link below.
http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=38437
(more...)posted: 07.28.08 [permalink]
Harvard Commits to 30% Reduction of Greenhouse Gases by 2016
On July 8, President Faust issued a statement on the new report by the Harvard Greenhouse Gas Task Force. In her statement, she announced intention to proceed with several recommendations from the Task Force. Among others, these include: the pursuit of a comprehensive program to reduce Harvard's emissions, with a primary emphasis on Harvard's own operations; a short-term goal of a 30% reduction of emissions below 2006 levels by 2016; the establishment of administration and staff support to meet the goals; and commitment to sustainability teaching and research to generate knowledge that can benefit the rest of the world.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Task Force Report (pdf)
posted: 07.11.08 [permalink]
Harvard Earns Top Ranks in Green Report Card
Harvard earns an A-, the highest grade earned in 2008, on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's Green Report Card. The other 5 recipients are Dartmouth, the University of Washington, Middlebury, Carleton College and the University of Vermont. HGCI Director Leith Sharp was quoted in a related Forbes Magazine article on "America's Greenest Colleges."
posted: 05. 6.08 [permalink]
Harvard Green Cleaning Chapter Released
HGCI staffer Dara Olmsted and Jason Luke, Associate Director at Facilities Maintenance Operations, wrote up Harvard's Green Cleaning Program for "The Green Campus," a recently published book edited by Walter Simpson of SUNY Buffalo.
posted: 05. 6.08 [permalink]
The Earth Wins: FAS Environmental Competition 2008
From November to March, occupants and managers of 13 buildings in FAS competed in areas like recycling and energy use reduction. The energy savings from the event lightened the FAS bottom line by $72,472! (more...)
posted: 04.21.08 [permalink]
Help out Green Campus!
We are redesigning our website, and would love to ask you a few quick questions. Please take our poll.
posted: 02.13.08 [permalink]
New LEED certified buildings at Harvard
Four buildings recently achieved LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC): Aldrich Hall, Wyss Hall, and Hamilton Hall at the Harvard Business School, and 5 Cowperthwaite Street in Cambridge. (more...)
posted: 02.13.08 [permalink]
Reusable Shipping Containers Pilot with Office Max!
As part of OfficeMax's commitment to the environment, beginning on January 4th, portions of orders will be shipped in a reusable shipping container in place of a cardboard box. This initiative is being piloted by OfficeMax at Harvard University with support from the Harvard Strategic Procurement Office and endorsement by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. (more...)
posted: 01. 4.08 [permalink]
Registration is Open! ENVR E-117: SUSTAINABILITY, THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGING OUR INSTITUTIONS
posted: 12.19.07 [permalink]
Growing Green - Harvard aims to help save the planet
Within the last decade, the University has steadily built on a series of "sustainability principles" that dictate sweeping changes aimed at reducing waste and conserving energy across all of its campuses and schools.
posted: 10.31.07 [permalink]
Green Gauge - Harvard by the Numbers
The ever-useful Harvard University Fact Book (published annually by the Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional Research) contains, for the first time, indicators of environmental performance.
posted: 10.31.07 [permalink]
Green Campus Loan Fund at Work - Harvard Forest
...These experiments, which explore the impact of global warming on the environment, now receive approximately 8% of their power needs from this renewable energy source.
posted: 10.30.07 [permalink]
Harvard ranks 2nd in the Sierra Club's Top 10 Environmentally Aware Universities
Harvard ranks 2nd in the Sierra Club's Top 10 Environmentally Aware Universities
posted: 10.29.07 [permalink]
Harvard gets an A- on Sustainability Report Card in 07!
The "College Sustainability Report Card" grades the performance of 200 public and private institutions on their administration's commitment to sustainability; sustainability programs related to food and recycling, green buildings, climate change, and energy; and a number of measures related to their endowments. (more...)
posted: 10.26.07 [permalink]
New Position: Web Developer
To Apply: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=35609 (more...)
posted: 10.12.07 [permalink]
Lecture by Devra Davis, author of "The Secret History of the War on Cancer."
Wednesday October 17th, from 7:30 - 8:30 pm in 104 Harvard Hall (more...)
posted: 10.12.07 [permalink]