FACULTY & STUDENT RESOURCES
Student Groups
Student organizations throughout the University focus on environmental issues and education.
The Harvard Environmental Law Society
The Harvard Environmental Law Society (HELS) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization directed and staffed by students at Harvard Law School. HELS provides students with hands-on exposure to the numerous issues in law, policy, science and management that confront professionals in the field of environmental law. Members participate in conferences, host speakers, take trips and collaborate with groups throughout the University and the world in their effort to address environmental issues.
The Environment Professional Interest Council (EPIC)
EPIC at the John F. Kennedy School of Government serves as a meeting ground for students interested in environmental issues from a policy perspective. Through our events, we aim at both showing our members possibilities for their future careers and discussing actual environmental questions on a high academic level. Meetings are every Friday, 3pm, at the Kennedy School's Malkin Penthouse located on the top 4th floor of Littauer building. All are welcome to attend.
Contact: Co-chairs Michelle Rosier or Aaron Jette
The Harvard College Environmental Action Committee (EAC)
The Harvard College Environmental Action Committee seeks to help achieve a sustainable world and protect the environment for its human and non-human inhabitants. To this end, the EAC aims to raise the consciousness of Harvard's students to the effect of their own actions on the environment and to their status as stewards of this planet's resources. We advocate specific changes at the campus, local, national, and international levels. Furthermore, we serve as a forum for discussion and a source of information on environmental issues. Finally, we seek to enrich our members through fun and fulfilling experiences. General Board Meetings are Wednesdays from 9-10pm in the Quincy Spindell Room.
Contact: Co-Chairs Mitch Hunter or Amy Heinzerling
Harvard Business School (HBS) Business & Environment Club (BEC)
The mission of the Business & Environment Club is to support future business leaders interested in the important relationship between business and the environment through exposure to careers, industries, organizations, leaders, and business models. Members of the Business & Environment Club are ideally positioned to identify, understand, and promote innovative environmental market opportunities and sustainability practices within the business community. The Business & Environment Club is the sole club on the HBS campus focused on the intersection of business and the environment.
Focus Areas:
- Renewable Energy
- Environmentally Friendly Consumer Products
- Cradle to Cradle Manufacturing
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Organic Foods
Contact: Paul Laszlo or Mantazh Khanna
The Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC)
A weekly journal club to facilitate discussion and understanding of the technical details of energy technology and energy economics. Each session, members will discuss a technical article regarding the science, technology, or economics of energy. HEJC's primary purpose is not to discuss policy issues, but rather it is to enable its members to develop the necessary technical background to better understand energy issues and policy. Each week, relevant papers are selected by the 4 club officers and published on this website. Participants should read the papers and come to the journal club prepared to discuss them. To find the relevant papers, participants should visit this website often. We intend to cover a broad range of topics including:
- Depletable resources: Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, CO2 storage, etc.
- Renewable resources: Geothermal, Wind, Solar, Hydro, Tidal, etc.
- Applications: Clean Coal, CO 2 Capture, Synthetic Fuels, Gassification, Fuel cells, Photovoltaic Cells, the Electric Grid, Energy Storage, etc.
Discussions are held every Monday from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in the Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room and are open to ALL Harvard or MIT students, post-docs, and faculty.
Contact: Kurt House
GSD Green Design
Founded in fall 2005, GSD Green Design offers a platform to discuss the ways in which the GSD and students can contribute in a new way to the global green design discussion using the unique methodologies practiced at the GSD. We do this by hosting speakers, tours, exhibits and events which address issues of interest to multiple disciplines and schools at Harvard. We coordinate our efforts with those of other Harvard environmental groups such as the Harvard Environmental Society, the Environmental Action Committee and the Green Campus Initiative. Recognizing the need for healthy and pleasant living and working environments, we also strive to encourage proper use, recycling, composting and disposal of materials and food in Gund Hall and throughout Harvard.
Contact: Janna Kauss, Mary Lydecker, Sydney Mainster, or Linda Shi
24 Oxford Street