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Across Harvard’s Schools and Units, University staff are working to make progress, leverage resources, convene new partnerships, and develop holistic solutions to accelerate positive, sustainable change.

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Green Teams are made up of individuals within Schools and Departments who are dedicated to advancing sustainability at Harvard.

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The Office for Sustainability

The Office for Sustainability is comprised of a team of professional sustainability staff dedicated to developing and implementing university-wide campaigns and initiatives that lead to real and lasting change.

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Sustainability Events

October

05

Thursday
6:00 pm-7:00 pm GMT+0000

Protecting the World’s Penguins

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Harvard Museum of Natural History
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Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal conservation, as he recounts his lifelong journey to save penguins. Dr. Borboroglu will highlight the challenges of conservation work, from protecting 32 million acres of ocean and coastal habitat to cofounding the Global Penguin Society, an international conservation coalition for the world’s penguin species. Hear about the risks and rewards he has experienced while trying to save penguins in some of nature’s wildest places.
October

13

Friday
4:00 am-5:30 pm GMT+0000

Future of Cities: Extreme Heat

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extreme heat

Future of Cities: Extreme Heat, the third installation of OVPIA’s Future of Cities series, will showcase a panel discussing concerns around environmental justice and public health as global average temperatures rise.
October

03

Tuesday
9:00 am-2:15 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change

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Food
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April

09

Tuesday
12:00 pm-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

HGSE Green Team Meeting

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Harvard Graduate School of Education
HGSE

All HGSE students, faculty, and staff interested in making our school healthier and more sustainable are encouraged to join the HGSE Green Team!
January

18

Thursday
12:00 pm-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

HGSE Green Team Meeting

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Harvard Graduate School of Education
HGSE

All HGSE students, faculty, and staff interested in making our school healthier and more sustainable are encouraged to join the HGSE Green Team!
October

17

Tuesday
12:00 pm-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

HGSE Green Team Meeting

green team
Harvard Graduate School of Education
HGSE

All HGSE students, faculty, and staff interested in making our school healthier and more sustainable are encouraged to join the HGSE Green Team!

Sustainable HARVARD

Sustainability News

Harvard’s updated Sustainability Action Plan identifies priorities, strategies

This strategic roadmap is built around three pillars of climate, equity, and health, and offers…

14 projects confronting climate change win Salata Institute grants

High schoolers go all-in at Harvard’s Active Learning Labs

Programs offer hands-on work, putting world of science and engineering within reach

Youth Climate Summit brings together high school students from across the globe

Students traveled from over 20 states and five countries with one common goal in mind…

Circe: Transforming Greenhouse Gases into Biodegradable Products

A platform that uses engineered microbes to produce synthetic polymers with minimal environmental impact

Plastivores: Plastic-Degrading Super-Microbes and Enzymes

Plastic-eating microbes and enzymes capable of degrading multiple types of plastics could help reduce global…

How prescribed burns could limit megafires in U.S. West

Controlled burns in key areas of U.S. West could drastically reduce smoke exposure, study finds

Sustainability Leaders at Harvard: 3 Questions with Mona Dai

Learn more in this Q&A with Mona Dai, an environmental science and engineering PhD student…

In the thick of Canadian wildfires

Scenes of smoke-blanketed Northeast likely to repeat, one expert says. Another offers advice for reducing…