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Higher Ed in the Green Economy

  • College of Lake County (IL)
  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Heartland Community College (IL)
  • Moraine Valley Community College (IL)

This panel presentation will address the role of higher education in the emerging green economy. The lessons learned greening our own campuses are helping us to understand the common barriers ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Community Partnerships for Sustainable Materials Management

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
  • Ohio University (OH)
  • University of Oregon (OR)

Can campuses help our neediest neighbors and reduce greenhouse gas at the same time? Yes we can. This session will offer several examples of how schools partner with other non-profit ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building Weatherization Planning through Cross-Campus Collaboration

  • Colby College (ME)
  • Harvard University (MA)
  • University of Virginia (VA)

Last May, more than 50 students took a break from studying for finals and partnered with the school's Environmental Action Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Green Program, and ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Internal Energy Auditing to Meet Portfolio-Wide GHG Reduction Goals at 3 Institutions

  • Colby College (ME)
  • Harvard University (MA)
  • University of Virginia (VA)

Universities worldwide are committing to greenhouse gas reduction goals and implementing climate action plans. Optimizing building efficiency is often identified as a central strategy to achieving these ambitious goals. To ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Change Management for Sustainability

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Yale University (CT)

This workshop is structured to define the new frontier for managing institutional change for sustainability. At its heart, change management for sustainability is about making change easy, desirable and rewarding ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Energy Markets 101: Everything a Sustainability Officer Needs to Know

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • University at Albany (NY)
  • EYP (NY)
  • Campus Climate Solutions (FL)

Energy market costs and volatility pose both a threat and an opportunity for advancing sustainability initiatives in the higher education market. Reducing energy consumption has the greatest immediate and long-term ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Conceptualizing a Cutting Edge Sustainability Program

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Johns Hopkins University (MD)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
  • Yale University (CT)

Since sustainability programs are still relatively new, there is considerable debate on what are the most salient factors that contribute to an effective campus sustainability program. It is clear that ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Harvard Environmental Economics Program

  • Harvard University (MA)

HEEP is a university-wide initiative addressing today's complex environmental challenges and is based in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MA in Sustainability

  • Harvard University (MA)

Gain insight into critical environmental factors affecting air, water, climate, and ecosystems. In this master’s degree program, students learn to evaluate and design practices, technologies, and systems that bring ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Master in Design Studies: Energy & Environments

  • Harvard University (MA)

Energy and Environments proposes an architectural agenda for energy in order to tackle 21st century ecological challenges. Upturning the conventional definition of "sustainable design. " which tends to privilege efficiency and ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Master in Design Studies: Risk & Resilience

  • Harvard University (MA)

Risk and Resilience considers communities and locations susceptible to crisis and develops strategies to tackle those challenges preemptively. Cities around the world face unpredictable challenges (natural disasters, long-term environmental change ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Master in Design Studies: Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology

  • Harvard University (MA)

Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology combines the vision of long range effects and swiftness of short range responses to develop new modes of representation and new forms of investigation to enable new ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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AASHE Student Diary Series: Abuzz with Rooftop Bees

  • Harvard University (MA)

The novice beekeeping adventures of a group of Graduate School of Design (GSD) students at Harvard University are featured in this installment of the AASHE Bulletin Sustainability Student Diary series ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Student Green Fund Implementation in U.S. Colleges and Universities from 1973-2010

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • University of Vermont (VT)

College campuses across the U.S. and abroad have seen a growth of student campaigns to take institutional action on climate change. The campus sustainability movement, an outgrowth of the ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Thermal Modeling with eQUEST Of Winthrop House: Engineering Sciences 96 Final Report

  • Harvard University (MA)

This abstract applies to all four papers written for Engineering Sciences 96.

In the coming decade, Harvard University will confront a system-wide student housing renovation project. For the past eighty ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Harvard House Renewal Program Energy Monitoring and Control Group

  • Harvard University (MA)

This abstract applies to all four papers written for Engineering Sciences 96.

In the coming decade, Harvard University will confront a system-wide student housing renovation project. For the past eighty ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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House Life: A closer look at the fundamental underpinnings of the House Renewal Project (Engineering Sciences 96 Final Report)

  • Harvard University (MA)

This abstract applies to all four papers written for Engineering Sciences 96.

In the coming decade, Harvard University will confront a system-wide student housing renovation project. For the past eighty ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Rethinking Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) in Harvard University's River Houses: Engineering Sciences 96 Final Report

  • Harvard University (MA)

This abstract applies to all four papers written for Engineering Sciences 96.

In the coming decade, Harvard University will confront a system-wide student housing renovation project. For the past eighty ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Carbon Neutral U

  • Columbia University (NY)
  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Yale University (CT)

In the age of global warming, the greening of the American college campus is a largely grassroots effort driven by students, faculty, and in-house staff dedicated to sustainable thinking.

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Tracking Greenhouse Gas Emissions on College Campuses in the U.S.

  • Harvard University (MA)

This paper discusses the methodology behind reporting an institution (or regional) greenhouse gas inventory; explaining the scope of emissions included in GHG inventories, standards and variations in reporting GHG inventories ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Colleges Compete to Shrink Their Mark On the Environment

  • Berea College (KY)
  • University at Buffalo (NY)
  • Princeton University (NJ)
  • Tufts University (MA)
  • Harvard University (MA)
  • College of the Atlantic (ME)

From the College of the Atlantic's zero-waste graduation this month in Maine to Ball State University's biodiesel-powered shuttle fleet in Indiana, schools are moving in ways large and ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Campus Sustainability Practitioners: Challenges for a New Profession

  • Harvard University (MA)

The purpose of this paper is to put forward a number of ideas about the deep challenges that must be faced by campus sustainability practitioners, in the hope that it ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Massachusetts Green High Performing Computing Center

  • Harvard University (MA)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts along with 5 research institutions in the Greater Boston area built a state of the art 377 square feet data center dedicated to research computing on ...

  • Posted April 11, 2014
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591 kW Rooftop Array: Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Building

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Borrego Solar (MA)

The Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis building now sports the University's largest solar energy project. During the course of six weeks, a local construction crew installed 2,275 solar ...

  • Posted Oct. 31, 2012
  • Green Power Projects
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26 kW Wind Turbines

  • Harvard University (MA)

Perched on 40-foot towers, two Bergey Excel turbines turn the wind into watts for Harvard’s electrical grid. The twin turbines, each rated at 10 kilowatt-hours, represent the University’s ...

  • Posted May 18, 2012
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10 kW Ground Mount Array: Harvard Forest

  • Harvard University (MA)

A renewable energy source was commissioned at Harvard Forest in 2007. Moss Hollow, LLC (Lunenburg, MA) completed installation of a 10KW solar array next to the new Facilities Barn. Support ...

  • Posted Oct. 19, 2011
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5 kW Rooftop Array: Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Harvard University (MA)

In 2010, Harvard Graduate School of Education installed solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of Gutman Library to generate renewable energy for the building. In 2012, the renovation of the ...

  • Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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500 kW Rooftop Array: Arsenal on the Charles

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • SunPower Corp (CA)

Harvard University installed a massive array of solar panels on a centuries-old arms factory to help meet the goal of reducing its carbon footprint. A 500-kilowatt solar array - nearly 2 ...

  • Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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Harvard Green Office Program

  • Harvard University (MA)

The Green Office Program's offers staff practical solutions needed to meet Harvard's GHG reduction goal and fulfill our Sustainability Principles, and a fun, competitive way for offices to ...


Harvard Facility Maintenance Operations Organic Landscaping

  • Harvard University (MA)

Harvard University's Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) group has developed a highly successful Organic Landscaping Program. It is currently implemented across more than 25 acres of University landscape. The program ...


Achieving GHG Reductions of 30% or More Through Facilities Asset Management At the Harvard School of Public Health

  • Harvard University (MA)

Harvard School of Public Health (HPSH) has an innovative approach to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and sustainability based on integrated facilities asset management. This program enables HSPH to holistically manage ...


Harvard Green Carpet Awards

  • Harvard University (MA)

The Harvard Green Carpet Awards were held for the first time this year to honor and recognize Harvard faculty, students, and staff who have made significant contributions to greenhouse gas ...

  • Posted June 30, 2010
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Harvard Medical School Reusable Sharps Container Pilot

  • Harvard University (MA)

In collaboration with Harvard Medical School (HMS) Campus Operations, Environmental Health & Safety, and the Office for Sustainability, two large research buildings constituting HMS' 'North Campus' have fully transitioned from ...

  • Posted June 30, 2010
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Phillips Brooks House Student Weatherization Project

  • Harvard University (MA)

On May 2nd, more than 50 Harvard students took a break from studying for finals and picked up caulk guns to help improve the energy efficiency of the Phillips Brooks ...

  • Posted June 30, 2010
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