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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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Sustainable HARVARD

Sustainability Events

August

05

Monday
11:30 am-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to Harvard Community

Help Reduce Waste at Harvard!

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Waste

Harvard’s Waste Stewardship Committee is developing a university-wide Zero Waste plan and needs YOUR input! How can we better support recycling, composting, and reuse on campus? How can we buy less and buy smarter? We want to hear your ideas, priorities, and struggles! Explore our tabling dates and other ways to get involved.

August

13

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

Open to Harvard Community

HRE Compost Lunch ‘n’ Learn

Compost
Harvard Real Estate
Recycling

Join us for a fun and informative session on composting at 8 Story Street! Starting this summer, our composting at 8 Story Street will be managed by Harvard Recycling. This event in Conference Room 175 at 8 Story Street will teach you all about how we spare the food scraps from the landfill and capture all that embodied energy. Come hungry and leave with a belly full of plant-based foods and a head full of Harvard composting knowledge. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gather together and make a positive impact on the environment! This event is hosted by Harvard Real Estate and open to Harvard staff members who work at 8 Story Street. Please register in advance at sustainable.harvard.edu/events by Friday, July 26th. Registration is limited to the first 30 attendees. Thanks!

July

26

Multi-day Event

Open to the Public

International Workshop on Climate-Resilient Development in Southeast Asia

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climate resilience

Register by Wednesday, July 3 deadline! Through a series of talks and poster presentations, the workshop aims to promote research exchange of scholars from multiple disciplines and of diverse regional expertise on the status and dynamics of climate resilience studies, as well as to generate policy-relevant knowledge regarding climate resilient development pathways in Southeast Asian countries.