Faculty

As University President Drew Faust stated during her announcement of the Harvard-wide Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal, “Taken together, the habits, the attitudes, and the creativity of every one of us have the potential to make a great difference, not just for Harvard in the here and now, but for the larger world and its future well-being [...].

Finding or giving away working surplus equipment, furniture, and books can reduce the environmental cost of production of brand new materials and disposal of the old, and of course it saves money.

Here are 6 ways you can optimize your chances of taking advantage of campus-wide sharing of equipment and supplies at FAS:

Harvard Medical School now has two new hybrid Zipcars, the Prius “Pirrello” and Altima “Alley.” They are located in the Palace Parking lot between 180 and 164 Longwood Avenue. Harvard faculty, staff, students, post-docs and others working in the Longwood area are eligible to receive a discount on Zipcar memberships by signing up at zipcar.com/masco.

EcoChampions Crystal Stone, David Havelick, and Erin Beasley are school-wide leaders in greening the office practices at Harvard School of Public Health.

Did you know that the U.S. alone went through 50 billion plastic water bottles last year?

Did you know that Harvard School of Public Health has an EcoOpportunity Team that meets monthly in order to identify environmental sustainability-related issues and improve resource conservations practices? Do you know if your department is represented?

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.

Two waste-reduction pilots are currently underway in HMS labs. The first involves a collaboration between HMS Campus Operations and Environmental Health & Engineering, the EH&S group in the HIM & NRB buildings.

During the summer of 2009, HMS Campus Operations relocated over 750 pieces of furniture during an office move-out from the Prudential Center. Over 85% of all the perfectly good furniture that would otherwise have been disposed of in a landfill found a new home within HMS and the local community.

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.