Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Hey students, this Fall you can take reusable mugs and CFLs off your back-to-school shopping list!  Harvard is making it easier than ever to start the new school year off on a green note.

The staff members of the Harvard Map Collection were recently recognized by the Harvard Office for Sustainability (OFS) for earning Leaf One as part of the Green Office Program.

THE COOKING DEMO HAS BEEN CANCELED. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.  The Garden welcomes helping hands every Wednesday  from 4-6pm.

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Across Harvard, building managers and University leaders are responding to the urgent need to address climate change by renovating and constructing greener buildings that cut energy use and are healthier, happier places for staff to work and students to learn.

The reports keep rolling in; Harvard is at the top of the class! The Princeton Review ranks Harvard in the top green schools nationwide. We made their 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll.

When you’re working away in your dorm or office trying to implement sustainability initiatives, it can often feel overwhelming.  It shouldn’t be that way, especially when there are so many impassioned students, staff and faculty throughout Harvard dedicated to making Green the new Crimson!

Thought REP work came to a screeching halt when summer started? Shows you how wrong you can be! REP has been busy all throughout June and July keeping Harvard Summer School green as it can be.

Five junk-mail parties and counting and the FAS Eco-Citizens are still going strong. Just this past June, five staff members and an intern threw an hour long junk-mail party that turned out to be very successful.

If you thought a yard sale was a great place to find a bargain, try a yard swap.

July 14, 2010 – Implementation of the Public Space Recycling Program is complete in Widener, Lamont, Pusey and Tozzer libraries. The project entailed removing the small trash containers located at individual study tables and carrels, and replacing them with a set of large containers in visible, high traffic locations within the public space.