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The Office for Sustainability's (OFS) Green Office Certification program is receiving attention from around the University. As the Harvard Gazette reports, "[the] Harvard program launched this spring is designed to open our eyes to the environmental costs of ordinary objects in the office, and the personal habits that accompany them."
The article includes conversations with Green Office movers and shakers across the campus, including Roy Lauridsen at the Divinity School and David Havelick at the School of Public Health.
Heather Henriksen, director of OFS, had this to say:
"...if we are going to continue to move the needle, and meet our greenhouse gas reduction goal, we are going to have to go to the people," said Henriksen. "That means embedding sustainability into how we all do our day-to-day jobs."
Read more from "Workplace, green place," at the Harvard Gazette online.
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That means embedding sustainability into how we all do our day-to-day jobs.