Sustainability at Harvard

Harvard Business School - Green Living Program

What is the HBS Green Living Program?

The HBS Green Living Program is a peer-to-peer education program that promotes sustainable living. Green Living Representatives work to encourage energy and water conservation and recycling and waste reduction through activities and information sharing in each HBS dorm and the common areas. They also suggest infrastructure and policy improvements that will remove barriers to student conservation. The program is supported by HBS Housing and Operations, and is just one of the many ways that these departments are working to make the campus more sustainable.

A total of six students are employed to work four hours each per week on a range of ecological education programs and energy-efficiency measures. Five students work in the dorms and one works in the school's common areas.

The program is modeled in part on the successful undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resource Efficiency Program.

Recent Stories

HBS Green Living Program is Hiring

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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.

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When it Comes to Water, Chris Rock Knows Best

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In his latest comedy special, Chris Rock jokes that in America, consumers often create demand for products or services that are free to the public. One of the products that Rock highlighted was bottled water - specifically emergence of the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry.

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Local HBS Celebs Show Ten Ways to Green Your Scene

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It didn’t take long after FAS released photos of campus celebs engaging in President Faust’s Top 10 Actions for the highly competitive HBS community to green their scene too!

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Less is more

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The second RC Section Sustainability Competition was due to be a challenging one. With just two public printers having duplex capacity, seeing which section would print the most case write-ups double-sided was sure to be daunting. That was until MBA IT Support Services came through with spooky timing.

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A (Green) Message in a Bottle

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One look around campus and it is clear that bottled water is in hot supply. Perhaps we missed the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's standards for tap water are more stringent than the Food and Drug Administration's standards for bottled water.

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