# Sustainability
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The foundation of Sustainability at Harvard is collaborative decision-making and a clearly defined administrative leadership and organizational management framework to engage and empower students, staff and faculty across every one of Harvard’s Schools and administrative departments.
This governance structure was created to foster continuous improvement and coordinated decision-making, and to ensure that all stakeholders have a voice in policy development through active participation in planning and implementation efforts.
The [Office for Sustainability](https://green.harvard.edu/) convenes and manages the university-wide committees and working groups that represent hundreds of stakeholders from across the university. These teams meet regularly to brainstorm strategies and goals that will drive continuous improvement over the long-term. By creating opportunities to work across disciplines and between sectors the entire University is focused on creating solutions for a more sustainable future that can be replicated at Harvard and beyond.
For more information on Sustainability at Harvard University please visit
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## Sustainability News
[### Science and Engineering Complex named one of the world’s healthiest lab buildings
](/news/science-and-engineering-complex-named-one-world%E2%80%99s-healthiest-lab-buildings) March 18, 2021
Harvard University’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) has been certified by two international building certification programs as one of the healthiest, most sustainable, and energy-efficient laboratories in the world. ...
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[### Translating Research into Practice
](http://report.green.harvard.edu/) August 16, 2016
Explore the 2015 Harvard Sustainability Report and learn how we’re transforming our campus into a healthier, more resilient community focused on well-being.
[### Reinventing the Wheel
](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/publications/hks-magazine/archives/summer-2016/reinventing-the-wheel) August 05, 2016
Running a large bike-sharing system is harder than running an urban transit system, contends Jay Walder MPP 1983. He ought to know. He's done both.
[### Looking indoors to health
](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/06/looking-indoors-to-health/) June 15, 2016
Renovations to University housing interiors focus on long-term health of students and staff
[### A focus on what we eat
](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/a-focus-on-what-we-eat/) April 20, 2016
The Foodbetter Harvard summit aims to bring wider awareness and understanding of our daily diets
[### WCC evolves from a sustainable space into a high-performing, energy efficient facility
](http://today.law.harvard.edu/wcc-evolves-from-a-sustainable-space-into-a-high-performing-energy-efficient-facility/) November 04, 2015
When you speak with John Holleran, the assistant director of Facilities Management for Harvard Law School, about what goes on behind the scenes at the Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing building (WCC) on the school’s campus, he says...
