HLS Green Living Program

The Harvard Law School Green Living Program is in its fifth year as a peer-to-peer initiative which promotes sustainable living in the Harvard Law School residence halls and elsewhere on campus.  Five Green Living Representatives ("Reps") connect with fellow students about energy and water conservation, recycling, and waste reduction through activities and information sharing, and also take on independent projects designed to help students reduce their environmental impacts.  The program is supported by HLS Facilities Management and is coordinated through the Office for Sustainability.

Read our Blog!

The HLS Green Living Program is now blogging about our activities and much more: administrative changes, eco-minded local businesses, university wide environment happenings, environment FAQs and myths... read our posts and make a comment!  Do you have suggestions for topics you'd like to see addressed? Send them to mblake@jd11.law.harvard.edu.

http://harvardgreenliving.blogspot.com/

 Energy Tips for Residents

 Visit the Green Living Energy page for more specific information about reducing the energy intensity of residential life. 

 Contact your Rep

Students, do you have questions about recycling, ideas for campus resource conservation, or would you like to obtain a CFL light bulb?  Contact your Rep!

• "At Large" 
• Ames and Dane
• Holmes and Shaw
• Hastings
• North and HLS Apartments (1637 Mass Ave, Baker, Carriage)

Myra Blake
Rep for: students not living in HLS residences
E-mail: mblake@jd11.law.harvard.edu

Myra Blake is a 2L from Mississippi who enjoys riding the T and watching episodes of Planet Earth. When she is not working as the Green Living Rep-at-Large, she edits articles with the Environmental Law Review and plans events with the Environmental Law Society. She can’t wait to make the HLS world a better place this coming year, and among other things hopes to plant gardens on the Gropius dorm roofs, compost paper towels in the bathrooms, and convince businesses around campus to go green!

Jenny Lee
Rep for: Ames and Dane
E-mail: jelee@jd11.law.harvard.edu

As a Portland native who went to college in Eugene, Oregon, I've long been passionate about the environment. My personal environmental interests include eating local, organic gardening, what's going on in the polar regions, and reusing and recycling as much as possible. This year, I want to help make green living an instinctive habit, and am excited to learn and share with the HLS community how our choices, even the simple ones, really do matter.

Mike Rozensher
Rep for: North Hall, HLS Apartments (1673 Mass Ave, Baker, Carriage)
E-mail: mrozensher@jd11.law.harvard.edu

Mike Rozensher is a 2L at Harvard Law School. As a 1L, he founded the Student Association of Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS), the first known student organization in the country to focus on the burgeoning body of research at the intersection of these two fields. This past summer he worked as a legal intern at CAPLAW where he provided legal advice to community action agencies nationwide assisting them in their efforts to provide low income individuals with a range of social services. Prior to matriculating at HLS, Mike worked in Boston for three years as a business strategy consultant.

Nitya Shekar
Rep for: Holmes and Shaw
E-mail: nshekar@jd10.law.harvard.edu

I am a 3L from Houston, TX. I did my undergrad at Rice University, where I was a psychology and Hispanic studies major. I spent my 1L summer at Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, India, and my 2L summer at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York. I love music, movies, and long walks on breezy days. I grew up in a very “green” family in a very “green” community, so I have always had a great deal of interest in conservation and awareness regarding the environment. My primary goal for this year as a Green Living Representative for Shaw and Holmes would be to integrate the roles played by Resident Assistants (RAs) and Green Living Reps in the dorms since both roles involve a great deal of community-building, awareness-raising, and connection to the HLS dorms in general. I would also like to see the Green Living Program better integrated with the other environmental organizations at HLS, including the Environmental Law Review and the Environmental Law Society in order to reach a broader spectrum of students on campus with the same message of living a green lifestyle on campus.

Stephanie Young
Rep for: Hastings Hall
E-mail: syoung@jd11.law.harvard.edu

Stephanie Young, the Green Living Rep for Hastings Hall, is a 2L from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before law school, she was a violin teacher and served a year in AmeriCorps teaching computer skills in a public library. This past summer she clerked at Orleans Public Defenders. She hopes to create awareness and interest around sustainability and environmental issues on campus. She also hopes that everyone reading this will immediately go recycle something!