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Did you know that 41 pounds of junk mail are sent to the average American adult each year? And almost half of this mail is sent to the landfill unopened (source: 41pounds.org).

Our inaugural key recycling campaign was a huge success, with departments from all across campus sending us keys. We ended up with over 2,000 keys which were brought to Whole Foods for recycling. The $75 made from recycling & selling the scrap metal will be donated to local food pantries.

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.

In October the Harvard Business School (HBS) Green Team held its 2^nd Annual Green Fair in Shad Hall, the School’s physical fitness center.  The event, which was open to the School community, brought together campus, local, and national organizations that share a passion for prote

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!

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.

It’s a little bottle that packs a big cleaning punch. FMO Custodial Services is piloting a new product within Blackstone that uses only water, but reportedly cleans even better than bleach.

The HBS Green Living Program recently conducted a student survey that attracted close to 500 respondents. The intent of the survey was to better understand the awareness among students of green initiatives within Harvard, the general green practices of students, and to see where some of the big opportunities for improvement are for us at HBS.

How many times have you wondered if you should recycle a plastic container, which you subsequently threw in the trash because you just weren't sure? If you answered in the affirmative, keep reading…you just might learn something from your HBS green corps.

Now it is even easier for Boston and Cambridge residents to recycle and compost at home. Both cities’ programs recently expanded their services and offer great resources that detail how to properly recycle and compost in the community.