Campaigns
At Harvard University, the Green Living Program (GLP) has taken on a number of activities and issues in its three-year history. A sampling of these is provided in this section to demonstrate what a GLP can do and to help readers develop their own projects.
Please note that many of these campaigns had unique life cycles. They may have evolved into larger activities over time as their component parts became familiar to students. They may have been changed from year to year for the sake of variety, or they may have been worked on in small parts over the course of a semester or year.
Because you will be customizing the projects for your campus, we have provided resources and documents in formats you can edit. If you will be using the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) experience to advocate for a GLP at your school, be sure to take special note of the successes of each campaign or activity. However, please remember to consider your student population, your unique opportunities to save, the importance of individual reps' effort and enthusiasm, and other factors when assessing the level of savings you can achieve on your campus.
The HGCI GLP campaigns and projects are categorized as follows, but please be aware that overlap in the goals of these activities is inevitable:
The campus residence halls offer ample opportunities for increased resource efficiency. This section offers ideas on topics ranging from computers and lighting to laundry, waste, dining and much more!
This section covers the first of the three important Rs of sustainability: Reduction! Here we talk about campaigns to reduce junk mail and holiday waste.
Learn how to encourage the reuse of dishware, toiletries, clothes, computers and more at your college or university.
Whether it is the basics of this very important "R" or the tricks of "Recycling Beyond the Bin," this section will help you build a mountain of recycling support, awareness and action on your campus.
Partying is a natural activity on most college and university campuses. Educate the students at your school about how to party right with these tips on green events.
Students come and go multiple times during the course of the academic year, but these much-needed breaks need not come at the expense of the environment. Help your school's students tread lightly when they travel with these fun GLP activities and campaigns.
With catchy names like Envirocitizens, Green Cup and RecycleMania, these resource efficiency competitions cannot lose!
Help bring longer-lasting change to your college or university by steering your GLP in these exciting directions.
Give your reps the opportunity to hone their project management skills while at the same time letting their creative juices recharge your GLP's reserve of new project ideas.