Office Staff

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.

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 Harvard Hiphop Archive is a 1,497 square foot, $700,000 fit-out located on the second floor of 104 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, MA that has recently achieved LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) Silver certification.  The Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ W.E.B.

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!

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.

Jack Conlin, Group Leader at FAS’s Molecular & Cellular Biology department mailroom, began working to reduce paper waste from mailings years ago, but it was only recently that he realized that he could team up with the Office for Sustainability and with Intra-

A Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) office fit-out on the fourth floor of Holyoke Center recently achieved Harvard’s 25^th LEED certification.  This 7,730 square foot space in the north wing of the building is home to the College’s Advising Program Office and the Program in General Education. 

For the second straight year, Harvard University, led by FMO’s Recycling and Solid Waste group, has won the 2010 RecycleMania Grand Champion competition among Ivy League schools! The prize is just one of several awards handed out during RecycleMania—an annual event sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency involving more than 600 colleges and universities across the country.

April 22. Since that day in 1970, the UN encouraged Earth Day across the globe and an estimated 184 countries and 500 million people held formal Earth Day celebrations in 2000. People around the world have adapted the Day to their culture and needs.

The Campaign

The "Take the Stairs" campaign is an initiative aimed at improving human health (by getting people to take the stairs more often) and reducing our environmental impact (by using the elevator less and thereby using less energy).