The challenges of teaching environmental engagement at Harvard

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https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/10/10/Quad-Garden-Climate-Sustainability/

"The garden is an alternate vision for living and learning at a university, one that promises to teach by doing. It is a model for what students’ engagement with their environment could look like. In its grandest form, it is a catalyst for optimism about the climate crisis, and a space that encourages students to create big change through small actions.

Funding limitations, however, make it difficult for the garden to reach these tall ambitions, as does the scarcity of those things needed to turn a bulb into a turnip or a House into a home: time, care, and light."

Read the full story on the Fifteen Minutes magazine website.