Late last week was the annual Summer BBQ at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, located outside of Harvard Sq. This event and the Holiday party mark the two biggest events where hundreds of scientists, along with their friends and family enjoyed a couple hours of festivities (and luckily some great weather as well). This year the Harvard Green Team, with support from the Harvard Office of Sustainability, teamed up with the event’s long time organizers: the Harvard-Smithsonian Social and Recreation Committee. The organizers tried to make it a zero waste event – not an easy task with that many people and the “this is how we’ve always done it, we’re not changing a thing” mentality.

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