Not just hot air
When Claire Reardon was growing up in Rhode Island, she regularly reviewed the family’s shopping lists to make sure her father avoided buying shampoo brands that had been tested on animals. Now she is a Northwest Building lab manager, working to ensure that one of Harvard’s most energy-intensive activities is as green as possible. Before enrolling at Harvard Business School (HBS), Carol Choy was a member of her company’s green team, encouraging colleagues to tend the environment even as they tended to business. Now Choy is a student green-living representative at HBS, similarly raising environmental awareness among fellow students by encouraging recycling and using resources wisely. On the eve of Earth Day (April 22), all across Harvard, in ways big and small, people increasingly are pitching in to help the University reach its lofty conservation goals that will soften its environmental impact and could make it a national model on the uncharted...