Especially for Managers
Apply for a Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) Loan.
Have an idea for making your workplace more efficient? HGCI has a revolving loan fund for innovative infrastructure and behavioral education projects. The goal is to reduce Harvard's environmental footprint while realizing financial savings.
Employ the Green Campus Building Service.
Take advantage of the resources and services the HGCI GCBS has to offer! We can assist you with everything from conducting building assessment and energy/resource efficient upgrades, training staff to maintain high performance buildings, applying for a Green Campus Loan and additional utilities rebates, and much much more!
Attend a Green Building or Campus Greening Conference
The annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo provides a wonderful opportunity to see how other professionals are 
applying LEED and other green building standards to both new construction projects and existing building renovations. For further information, visit the Greenbuild website.
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association sponsors an annual conference on Building Energy. For full event and registration information, see the NESEA Conference Website.
The bi-annual Ball State University Conference in Muncie, Indiana is another way to connect with university professionals of all kinds on matters of campus sustainability. For further information, visit the Ball State University Greening of the Campus Website.
Attend a LEED Workshop, Become a LEED Accredited Professional
The HGCI has sponsored private LEED Training workshops for Harvard Facilities Managers and other interested Harvard professionals in order to have them learn more about LEED Standards and Certification Process, potentially in preparation for their becoming LEED Accredited Professionals.
Priscilla Noetzel-Wilson, LEED Accredited Professional and Senior Project Manager for Harvard Real Estate Service, avows that her LEED training and Accreditation have been particularly useful for her project management work at Harvard.
“What I have personally noticed is that the training and study for the exam gave me real knowledge of the detailed requirements [for LEED Certification]. Being quite certain of the compliance requirements for each [LEED] point helps me in the day-to-day decision-making; for instance, when product changes are being proposed by the contractor, I am always vigilant that they do not affect LEED compliance. The knowledge of LEED simply gives me a broader frame of reference in approaching any problem on the project.”
To sign up for a LEED workshop, visit the LEED website. If you are interested in attending a workshop on the Harvard campus, email info@greencampus.harvard.edu to be included on a LEED workshop announcement list
Take the HGCI's Harvard Extension School Course "Sustainability: the Challenge of Changing Our Institutions"
You can use Harvard's Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) benefit to take our course for only $40! Using Harvard University and the HGCI as the main case study, the course will engage course participants to consider connections between institutional systems and earth systems and will discuss methodologies used in implementing sustainable institutional change.
Visit the ENVR E-117 course website for full course description, syllabus, and videos of lectures from the previous year.
Start Your Own Green Team!
Want to get green initiatives started at your campus? Start your own Green Team today. We have a great resource that can help.
Create frameworks to ignite, resource, organize and focus students and staff to achieve campus sustainability using our "Campus Green Team Resource".