Outdoors

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

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Looking to give your green thumb some practice, or just want to enjoy the fresh air? Every Wednesday evening this summer, weather permitting, the Harvard Community Garden hosts community gardening night. All are welcome to stop by the garden plot (on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke, in front of Lowell) between 4 and 6 p.m. to harvest veggies or pull weeds.

A garden on wheels may soon be rolling up to your department or dorm, thanks to GSD student Christina Cho. The project, undertaken this spring with the support of an OFS Sustainability Grant, combines food, public art, and community gardening into a unique setting: the Mobile Ethnic Garden.

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.

FMO Landscape Services played an integral role in the design and creation of the new Harvard Community Garden—which was officially dedicated on Sunday, April 18. The Garden consists of 25 raised beds spaced along stone dust patios at 27 Holyoke Place.

Harvard Medical School now has two new hybrid Zipcars, the Prius “Pirrello” and Altima “Alley.” They are located in the Palace Parking lot between 180 and 164 Longwood Avenue. Harvard faculty, staff, students, post-docs and others working in the Longwood area are eligible to receive a discount on Zipcar memberships by signing up at zipcar.com/masco.

Engineering and Utilities (E&U) has signed a long-term agreement with First Wind, a Massachusetts based renewable energy company, to buy 10% of the power consumed on the Cambridge and Allston campuses from a wind farm in northern Maine. According to the EPA, this agreement will make Harvard the largest purchaser of wind energy by a college or university in New England!

On a dreary March afternoon, Roy Lauridsen, Harvard Divinity School’s Facilities Manager, stopped me outside of his office. A group of students, he told me, had gotten the idea of putting in a garden somewhere on the grounds of Harvard Divinity School–but most had never done any gardening. Would I be willing to help? I accepted without hesitation.

Harvard Yard, the organically managed centerpiece of the University, got a little greener with the installation of new recycling containers in the Yard. The receptacles were installed next to five new Big Belly solar-powered trash compactors.

Since 1907, the Harvard Forest’s mission has been to further research and education in the fields of ecology, forest biology, conservation, and climate change. The Forest’s interest in climate change has recently transcended the realm of science and research and has led to efforts to reduce the Forest’s own carbon footprint.