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Perhaps most importantly, Sustainability Week was about actions, not just words. The event marked the official unveiling of Harvard’s new Office for Sustainability (successor to the Harvard Green Campus Initiative), which will be charged with making good on Harvard’s promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2016. What will truly define the legacy of Sustainability Week will be this body’s actions, and we hope that it will use the goodwill generated by the recent events to catalyze further progress in Harvard’s environmental development...
...Lime-colored banners festooned from trees proclaimed that “Green is the New Crimson,” event organizers hawked stickers reading “I composted today,” and even the John Harvard statue was requisitioned for the theme, donning some garish green garment for the day. One could easily get the impression that enduring such tacky and tasteless displays ranks among the manifold sacrifices of a sustainable lifestyle...
...what goes in),” and “serve finger food . . . so people can just grab and go without needing plates/knives etc.” One can only imagine how dull, and, with so few cups and napkins, how messy, a social function sponsored by the Harvard Green Initiative would...
...Environmental sustainability and reversing catastrophic climate change may very well be the most crucial challenges of our generation. But the public-relations campaign the University is waging on its behalf—and the imperious impositions on the most mundane aspects of everyday life that such green activism forebodes—seems to be most excessive...
...jobs, such as weatherizing houses and installing solar panels. Tanaka and John Bolduc, an environmental planner for the city, outlined projects like the Cambridge Energy Alliance, which gives loans to low-income homeowners to help them make their houses more energy efficient, as well as “green leases,” which provide incentives for landlords who would otherwise pass on higher energy costs to their tenants. The panelists also stressed the importance of community involvement and self-determination. Doug M. Brugge, a professor of public health at Tufts, shared stories of community organizing in Boston?...