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The HLS Green Living Program is now blogging about its activities, and much more: administrative changes, eco-minded local businesses, university wide environment happenings, environment FAQs and myths... read our posts and make a comment! 

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How many times have you wondered if you should recycle a plastic container, which you subsequently threw in the trash because you just weren't sure? If you answered in the affirmative, keep reading…you just might learn something from your HBS green corps.

On a dreary March afternoon, Roy Lauridsen, Harvard Divinity School’s Facilities Manager, stopped me outside of his office. A group of students, he told me, had gotten the idea of putting in a garden somewhere on the grounds of Harvard Divinity School–but most had never done any gardening. Would I be willing to help? I accepted without hesitation.

The hard truth is this: fine arts take a special toll on the environment. We use paper, inks, clays, metals, solvents, and rags – and in large quantities. The product of art, while gorgeous, intimate and unique, conceals a process of making and remaking. What ends up on our walls and in our imaginations shrouds a practice of producing waste.

There really aren’t enough environmentally educational, Hawaiian themed, outdoor party games out there. It’s been a real tragedy for, and dare we say a hindrance to, the environmental movement.

But not any more! Thanks to bright minds of Alexa Stern '12 and Molly Bales '10, REP premiered Eco Limbo (otherwise known as “How low can your carbon go?") on September 4th.

The Center for Health & the Global Environment (CHGE) at Harvard Medical School has been active in greening its office practices through the Harvard Office for Sustainability’s Green Office Certification Program.

During the week preceding Earth Day 2009, a group of Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine (SEAM) club members and the Longwood Sustainability Coordinator undertook a week-long daily trash audit of the TMEC building at Harvard Medical School. Students were trained by the Longwood Sustainability Coordinator and HMS Custodial staff and were provided with appropriate protective gear.

Until Wednesday 9/16, we are accepting applications to be a Lab Sustainability Rep, helping labs conserve resources without adversely impacting research! Lab Sustainability Reps are great resources for the labs which invite us to brainstorm with them because they have experience in lab settings and have seen best practices from a wide range of labs across FAS.

The newest students at Harvard have arrived on campus, and with them comes the newest sustainability initiative from the Resource Efficiency Program (REP). In honor of the class of 2013, we’ve kicked off the “Green ‘13” program. Green ‘13 will encompass all the efforts that the freshman class does to make their lives, and the Harvard community, more sustainable.

Join a team of six HBS students who will work approximately four hours per week earning $18 per hour engaging peers in Harvard’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Commitment and Sustainability Principles. As a Green Living Representative, you'll work with other Representatives to promote recycling, waste reduction, and energy and water conservation to your peers through a variety of activities and events.