CREATING HARVARD’S SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY

EMISSIONS & ENERGY

REDUCTION in greenhouse gas REDUCTION in energy use 20% emissions including growth and REDUCTION in energy use 2% including growth 16% excluding growth renovation (FY06-FY15) (FY06-FY15) (FY06-FY15)

REDUCTION in greenhouse gas 31% emissions excluding growth Expansion of a COMBINED HEAT OVER 1 MW of SOLAR (FY06-FY15) AND POWER SYSTEM is estimated to PROJECTS installed 58,000 MTCDE reduced since further reduce emissions by a on campus 2006 = 12,000 CARS off the road TOTAL OF 14,000 MTCDE

Signed the WHITE HOUSE’S AMERICAN CAMPUS ACT ON CLIMATE PLEDGE and HEALTH EDUCATORS CLIMATE COMMITMENT PLEDGE

HEALTH & WELL-BEING NATURE & ECOSYSTEMS

First university to sign a national pledge stating RAINWATER HARVESTING AND REUSE is incorporated preference for PURCHASING FURNITURE FREE OF TOXIC across campus including a 10,000 gallon underground CHEMICAL FLAME RETARDANTS cistern at the Harvard Art Museums

SUSTAINABLE AND Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of 8 vegetated green HEALTHFUL FOOD across campus promote Public Health are conducting research on roofs STANDARDS are biodiversity, prevent stormwater campus to investigate the relationship between being developed runoff, and reduce building INDOOR OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS and the HEALTH, using latest research energy consumption PRODUCTIVITY, AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF EMPLOYEES on nutrition and health

8 Schools are SMOKE OR TOBACCO FREE, as well as Harvard Yard, North Yard, and all Harvard University Housing properties CAMPUS OPERATIONS

129 LEED CERTIFIED AND SINGLESTREAM RECYCLING, COMPOSTING, REGISTERED PROJECTS and REUSE contributed to 19% decrease in WATER USE since FY06 36% more than any higher drop in per capita waste education institution in the world Harvard University Dining Services is partnering with Food For Free to donate surplus food to families in need. Over 2,000 meals are donated weekly, and 101,000 lbs. of food has been recovered since the program’s inception.

83% of commuters use sustainable transportation. CERTIFIED GREEN CLEANING on more than 14 million Harvard is recognized as a GOLD LEVEL BICYCLE sq. ft. of campus = WIDENER LIBRARIES 30 FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY

CULTURE CHANGE & COMMUNITY

10 MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS received support in HARVARD GLOBAL INSTITUTE HARVARD’S PLANETARY the second round of grants from Harvard’s established, with an HEALTH ALLIANCE $12 MILLION CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS FUND inaugural $3.75 million grant to aims to understand linkages between global Since 2010, the Office for Sustainability investigate CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT environmental change has awarded 68 STUDENT GRANTS for and human health innovative, impactful, and on-campus projects IN CHINA

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL leveraged the University-wide Sustainability Plan to create and adopt their OWN CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY PLAN that focuses on promoting the inclusive notion of SOCIAL WELL-BEING

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