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Green Campus Profile: Harvard

AN INITIATIVE AT HARVARD IS PROVIDING THE FUNDS NEEDED TO MAKE THE CRIMSON CAMPUS GREENER.  HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS EXEMPLARY ECO-LOAN PROGRAM ON TODAY’S ENVIRONMINUTE.

JACK SPENGLER, PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, SAYS ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE HARVARD GREEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE IS ITS LOAN FUND, WHICH PROVIDES UP-FRONT CAPITAL FOR RESOURCE CONSERVATION EFFORTS.

SPENGLER "THIS GIVES US THE ECONOMIC POWER TO MAKE CHANGES."

SPONSORED EFFORTS INCLUDE SUSTAINABLE BUILDING AND ENERGY CONSERVATION PROJECTS.  AND WHAT MAKES THE PROGRAM SO EFFECTIVE IS ITS FOCUS ON ECONOMICALLY SOUND INVESTMENTS.

SPENGLER "WE WERE ABLE TO CONVINCE OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS COMPLEX UNIVERSITY THAT WE HAD VALUE, IN TERMS OF THE SERVICES AND KNOWLEDGE THAT WE COULD PROVIDE, THAT SAVED THEM MONEY, MADE THEM DO BETTER."

THIS HAS HELPED THE INITIATIVE GENERATE CAMPUS-WIDE CHANGE.

THE ENVIRONMINUTE IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE HEINZ FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES AND THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS.  LEARN MORE BY VISITING ENVIRONMINUTE-DOT-COM.

For more information, visit the Harvard Green Campus Initiative.

To read more about this and other environmental health issues, go to: www.environmentalhealthnews.org, www.ourstolenfuture.org, or www.healthandenvironment.org