Harvard’s commitment to sustainability has united individuals across our Schools around common goals and a strong vision for a more vibrant community. We tap into the creative ideas that our students, faculty, and staff are generating and then work to replicate them University-wide for greater impact. The field also features a water cannon system that can produce the required conditions in only six minutes using 2,000 gallons of water, compared to the old system that used as much as 12,000 gallons with each application. Harvard’s Schools and Central Administration departments that oversee specific operational or administrative areas will be responsible for managing implementation of specific portions of the Plan that relate to their individual area of expertise. Earth Source Heat is Cornell’s version of an enhanced geothermal system that would use Earth’s internal heat to warm our campus, helping reach carbon neutrality by 2035.Cornell has secured a U.S. Department of @ENERGY grant of $7.2 million to fund the next phase of exploratory resear… https://t.co/R4TpqudEjp☑️ Let’s Vote! Our Sustainability Plan aligns Harvard’s decentralized campus around a holistic vision and sets clear University-wide goals and priorities in the areas of emissions and energy, campus operations, nature and ecosystems, health and well-being, and culture and learning. It is intended to be practical and operational from Fiscal Year 2015 through Fiscal Year 2020 and covers the entirety of Harvard’s campus in North America, spanning all Schools, administrative departments, and properties. The Office of Sustainability is hiring for the following positions during the 2020-21 Academic year: ... Tufts University's greenhouse gas emissions graphs (recorded from all campuses) for FY19 are now available to view on our Progress Reports webpage. And that everyone, from department managers to incoming students to alumni returning for events, will feel supported in taking everyday actions that make Princeton a place that we can all feel even more proud of.”Bedford Field features an optimal playing surface for field hockey with specialized water-conserving artificial turf.

Campus Strategic Sustainability Plan 2020-2025 Highlights. We also have a deeper mandate that goes to the heart of Harvard’s research and teaching mission: to educate and empower our students while on campus to become leaders who will use their knowledge to create sustainable impact in service to the world. Since a new “Revise Your Ride” campaign for employees went into effect last year, Princeton has saved almost 10,000 gallons of gas and prevented the release of nearly 1,200 metric tons of carbon emissions.Katja Luxem, a graduate student in geosciences affiliated with the Princeton Environmental Institute, said support from the campus community is key to achieving the University’s sustainability targets.“It has been exciting to see how much progress can be made when we share this common objective, and how many ideas have come out of the sustainability-focused conversations leading up to the plan,” Luxem said. Click the report to view it in full screen mode.

From creating new materials that revolutionize solar energy production, to probing the human influences on climate change, to providing analysis to policy-makers, faculty and students are making important contributions and helping to ensure a more sustainable future. “This plan sets out ambitious but attainable goals that will guide us toward a more sustainable future.”Princeton hopes to uncover best practices and innovation that could be scaled for the campus, the community and the world.“This plan is ambitious, with an intent to inform three decades of institutional decision-making and individual-scale action,” Weber said.