Energy and Greenhouse Gas

Harvard Medical School (HMS) unveils an online tool that will help HMS students, staff and faculty to monitor energy use.

Harvard Business School (HBS) sustainability efforts have caught the notice of quite a few people around campus...

Kevin Bright, Jessica Parks, and Jesse Foote have just completed a two-day hands-on training on Energy Modeling. This course, held at the Green Roundtable’s Nexus center in Boston, taught a step-by-step procedure for completing building simulation analyses using the eQUEST modeling software.

Sparked with friendly competition and the will to help decrease Harvard’s environmental impact, eight finalists came together in early December to present their individual eco-projects and compete for first place in this fall’s Eco-Project Competition.

Achieving Gold Certification under LEED for Commercial Interiors version 2.0 in November 2009, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Schreiber Lab is a 1,700 square foot Chemistry Lab located on the first floor of the Naito Chemistry Building at 12 Oxford Street in Cambridge, MA.

A new article in the Harvard Gazette details progress made by the University toward its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In recent months, several lights in libraries managed by HCL Operations have been turned off and occupancy sensors installed in other areas, helping the library not only contribute to the green efforts, but save some green as well.

The results are in….Hamilton is the winner of the 2009 HBS Reduce Your Juice Electricity Competition! It was a fight until the end, but Hamilton outperformed Gallatin with a 4% reduction in the last week making their average reduction for the competition 3.5%. Congratulations Hamilton!

For the first time ever, the HBS Green Living program coordinated with HBS Operations to offer students a tour of campus energy conservation projects. In 2008 President Faust announced the University’s greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) goal; to reduce GHG emissions 30% below a 2006 baseline by 2016, including growth. HBS has been hard at work and has since achieved a 27% GHG reduction!

Regular session, intersession, summer session – for years, the heating and cooling systems in several HCL libraries ran virtually all day, whether the buildings were open or not.