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Sustainability & Environment

Have you heard? Green is the new Crimson. Harvard is committed to sustainable development, renewable energy, and achieving its goals aimed at saving valuable resources and reducing the University’s environmental impact.

Two Harvard teams win energy grants

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  • Happy (Sustainable) Holidays from OFS

    Harvard University will be on winter recess from December 22 through January 1.  We'll be back with more sustainable tips, news and information on January 2, 2013. Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season from all of us at OFS! Before you leave be sure to help us conserve energy by shutting down. Read More…

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  • Harvard Project Conducts Special Event at COP-18 with Government of Qatar

    The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements co-hosted, with the government of the State of Qatar, a special high-level event at the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha on December 6, 2012. Read More…

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  • Sustainable Wintersession Offerings

    Each year at Harvard, students have the option of returning to campus ten days before classes resume for Wintersession. Though some will capture every last minute of break, the students who do return are offered the opportunity to explore untapped passions, sample new electives, or spend time investigating possible career paths. Read More…

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  • Reflections from Cambridge on the Climate Talks in Doha

    Ever since I returned – some two weeks ago – from Doha, Qatar, the site of the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), I have planned to offer some commentary … Continue reading > Read More…

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  • Climate change on world stage

    In a question-and-answer session, Professor Robert Stavins discusses the recent international conference on climate change, and the prospects for nations to reach agreement on a plan to confront it. Read More…

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  • Corn in a changing climate

    Harvard researchers have concluded that omitting the adaptive ability of crops from assessments of potential damages from a warming climate could substantially overestimate losses to U.S. maize yields. Read More…

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    Harvard design students imagine multiple futures for a longtime New England military base. Read More…

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  • Harvard Project Conducts Highly Successful Side-Event at COP-18

    The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted an official side-event at the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar on December 3, 2012. The event was titled "Market Mechanisms in a Post-Durban International Climate Regime. Read More…

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  • Lessons for the next Sandy

    Disaster relief dollars flowing to those affected by hurricanes like Sandy and Katrina represent an important opportunity to ensure that communities are better able to withstand the stronger storms and higher seas likely coming as climate change worsens, panelists said. Read More…

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