Reducing Waste

Hey students, this Fall you can take reusable mugs and CFLs off your back-to-school shopping list!  Harvard is making it easier than ever to start the new school year off on a green note.

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.

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!

Thought REP work came to a screeching halt when summer started? Shows you how wrong you can be! REP has been busy all throughout June and July keeping Harvard Summer School green as it can be.

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.

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

July 14, 2010 – Implementation of the Public Space Recycling Program is complete in Widener, Lamont, Pusey and Tozzer libraries. The project entailed removing the small trash containers located at individual study tables and carrels, and replacing them with a set of large containers in visible, high traffic locations within the public space.

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-

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. 

The Office for Sustainability recently granted money to undergraduates and graduate students from six schools across campus to implement a range of sustainability projects.

Learn more about the projects that received funding here: http://green.harvard.edu/grants

The second round of grants will be distributed this fall- keep an eye out for the application!