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HLS Energy Update

Areeda and Griswold Halls

Energy data from the first half of Fiscal Year 2010 (July- December 2009), suggest that Harvard Law School buildings consumed 21% less energy than they used during the same six month period in FY2009.  In the same period HLS has reduced its emissions by 600 MTCDE (metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents) and saved over $300,000 in energy costs.

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Green Teams from across Harvard Get Together

Green Team Leaders gather for a photo op

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!

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All this for free? HLS/FAS Summer Yardswap

Browsers peruse the book selection.

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

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Cafe Composting Comes to HLS

Recycling, compost, and trash bins and signs in Ropes Gray

Through their collaboration, Harvard Law School Restaurant Associates (RA) and the HLS Sustainability Program took what might have been a disastrous summer for dining waste and translated it into an opportunity to introduce HLS to front-of-the-house composting. 

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Valentine's Freecycle at HLS

On Friday, February 12th Law School staff, students, and faculty swapped items from home in a Valentine's Freecycle sponsored by the HLS Green Team. Between 10am and 12pm, individuals dropped by a classroom in Pound Hall with bags and boxes of books, movies, housewares, office and arts supplies, clothes, toys, electronics, and more.

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Sustained! Recent Green Living Blog Posts

The HLS Green Living Blog, "Sustained!" continues to expand: check out recent posts about double sided printing in Langdell, yummy vegan cupcakes, organic farm shares, and an upcoming film screening. Reps are also soliciting feedback as planning for the HLS Earth Day fair gets underway- be sure to leave a comment!

http://harvardgreenliving.blogspot.com/

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'Tis the Season for Green Gifting...

Looking for ways to reduce and reuse during the holiday gift giving season?

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Have you taken the Pledge?

Green Living Reps Jenny Lee and Nitya Shekar tabling in the Hark

It takes less than two minutes to become one of the thousands of Harvard community members who commit each year to reducing their environmental impacts in small yet meaningful ways: http://green.harvard.edu/pledge/

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A Greener Law Library

Langdell Library

Even considered individually, the conservation measures recently adopted at the Law School's Langdell Library would be noteworthy; together they form a concerted effort by the Library to reduce its resource consumption.  New for the 2009-2010 school year: expanded double-sided printing, automatic computer shut-downs, nightly printer shut-downs, and energy saving smart strips.  These c

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Food, Inc. at HLS

Where does our food come from and how sustainable is it?

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Introducing the NEW Law School Sustainability Web Site!

The Law School's sustainability website

Members of the HLS Community, you now have a new resource for sustainability and environment related initiatives at HLS!  Consider "Energy and Sustainability at Harvard Law School" your one stop shop for HLS-specific resource conservation tips, recycling guidelines, sustainability program details, an

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