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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 [...].

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.

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:

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?

Last November, Harvard University’s Building Energy Auditing Service completed a comprehensive energy assessment of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) campus. After completing an assessment at HDS’ Andover Library over the summer of 2009, the audit team won a competitive bid to perform an energy audit of the school's remaining six buildings.

The first FAS Eco-Citizens junk mail party was a huge success. Eight staff and students came together to call and email catalogs, journals, and other junk mail senders to remove staff names from the mailing lists.

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

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.