http:\/\/green.harvard.edu\/greencarpet\/awards\/1<\/a>.)<\/p>\nMany of the pictures drew hoots and shouts, and one group kept waving green bandanas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt isn\u2019t easy being green,\u201d said one of the emcees, Harvard executive vice president Katie Lapp, especially at a University of 600-plus buildings. \u201cBut these heroes got results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Team Project Award winners came next. In the Student Project category, the Harvard Community Garden took top honors. An honorable mention went to Seeding Labs, a Harvard Medical School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences project that has distributed used laboratory equipment to 16 developing nations.<\/p>\n
In the Waste\/Water Reduction Project category, top honors came down to a tie: the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Green Team and EcoDiv for a 70-percent composting and recycling rate; and to Sebastian\u2019s Caf\u00e9 and the HSPH Green Team caf\u00e9 program. Sebastian\u2019s is the first Harvard dining operation to receive a Green Restaurant rating.<\/p>\n
In the running for that same category was the F.A.S. toilet and sink conversion project \u2014 surely one of the least Oscar-like nominations in Oscar-like history. But retrofitting 700 toilets and 900 sinks did lead to a 20 percent reduction in water use.<\/p>\n
The Capital Project Award went to HDS for its renovation of Rockefeller Hall, a late-1960s architectural artifact where energy use has been trimmed by 42 percent.<\/p>\n
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Project category was split into two parts, for energy infrastructure and for behavior\/operations.<\/p>\n
In the first category, there was a four-way tie. The winners: University Operations Services for retrofits and fuel switching at the Blackstone Steam Plant; the Graduate School of Education and the Radcliffe Institute for a fuel switch in their shared boilers; the Harvard Business School for its Chilled Water Plant Diversity Project; and Harvard Real Estate Services, in part for installing a 1,600-panel solar power array on an Arsenal Street property.<\/p>\n
In the Behavior\/Operations category, there was another tie. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to be more decisive next year, said another event emcee, Heather Henriksen, director of Harvard\u2019s Office for Sustainability (OFS).<\/p>\n
One winner was the FAS Chemistry Operations Team, for finding ways to reduce energy use in science laboratories, which account for 48 percent of FAS energy use \u2013 but only 25 percent of its square footage. (The savings so far are $200,000 a year.)\u00a0And the Harvard Law School (HLS) Facilities Team won for a series of energy audits that increased compliance with energy-saving behaviors by 15 percent.<\/p>\n
Then there was the Green Team Project award winner, the team from Alumni Affairs and Development. (Two people accepted the award. One was dressed as Kermit the Frog, who for the occasion wore lime green stockings.)<\/p>\n
OFS this year awarded its first Student Sustainability Grants. A long list of winners won a moment of Green Carpet glory, flashing onto the big screen. Two of the grant proposals were a HDS garden and a HLS dorm composting project.<\/p>\n
Toward the end of the ceremonies, the audience \u2014 still revved up \u2014 got a look at \u201cGreen is Sexy,\u201d a short from the Mather House Council. The film showed two doubtful best practices for sustainable living. (Shower with all your friends, and use body heat instead of the furnace.) But one idea would work: Once you are under the covers, turn out the lights.<\/p>\n
All three film entries, including \u201cReal Men of Genius\u201d from Sam Novey \u201911 and Sam Berman ‘12, are available for viewing on YouTube.<\/p>\n
The wrap-up had an Oscar feel as well. Special Achievement Awards went to Spengler and to Thomas Vautin, Harvard\u2019s acting vice president for administration. A dozen years ago, both were on the ground floor of Harvard\u2019s awakening to the power and importance of sustainable practices \u2014 a direction that Vautin credited to undergraduate action starting in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Today, he said of the issue, \u201cThe opportunity for continuous learning is endless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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