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Location: Virtual

Trained in anthropology and education, Gabrielle Oliveira works at the intersections of migration, education, family, and childhood studies. At Radcliffe, she will write her third book, which will focus on how migrant children conceptualize climate change, land loss, and mobility in schools in Venezuela and Brazil.... Read more about My Home, Our Planet: Venezuelan Migrant Children in Brazil and the Role of Education of Climate Change

Location: Virtual

Join the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program for an upcoming webinar, where we will present and seek input on our research that examines the intersection of climate and development finance.... Read more about Disentangling Climate and Development Finance

Location: Harvard SOCH, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge

The Summer Opportunities & Funding Fair is Harvard's largest summer planning event of the year. Attending Harvard College students will meet representatives from various Harvard centers and departments, as well as external organizations, offering domestic and international research, study, internship, volunteer, and funding opportunities.... Read more about 2024 Harvard Summer Opportunities & Funding Fair

Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Greenwashed Groceries

Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Greenwashed Groceries

Location: Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Yu Zhao, Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project... Read more about The effectiveness of China's emission controls on air quality, deposition and health burdens

Location: Zoom

Alivia Moore - Remembering the Earth as Our First Teacher: Wabanaki Land Rematriation Efforts... Read more about Harvard Forest Seminars: Remembering the Earth as Our First Teacher: Wabanaki Land Rematriation Efforts

Location: Pierce Hall Room 209, 29 Oxford St, Cambridge

Join the Environmentalists of Color Collective and  HUEJ for an engaging in-person conversation on environmental justice, where we will gather together while Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome, the Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, joins us virtually via Zoom.... Read more about Environmental Justice Spotlight: Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome

Location: Virtual

Join us for a live, virtual event to hear from Harvard faculty about the possible implications of the 2024 U.S. elections. Speakers will address U.S. and global climate policy, the outlook for corporate climate action, and more.... Read more about What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Climate Change?

Location: HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Please join us for the Fall 2024 Solar Geoengineering Lunchtime Seminar Series: Geopolitics and the Governance of Solar Geoengineering: High Stakes on an Over-Heated Planet... Read more about SGRP Lunchtime Seminar Series: Geopolitics and the Governance of Solar Geoengineering: High Stakes on an Over-Heated Planet

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Challenges to Native Plants in Residential Landscapes

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Challenges to Native Plants in Residential Landscapes

I have a 8' x 12' office that is a kit shed in the back yard. I purchased the house and the shed has a mold issue that is from…

I've been reading a lot about spray foam roof assemblies lately and the general underlying assumption is that when properly applied, closed-cell spray foam acts as an adequate vapour barrier. But…

Thought people might be interested in this ...12K & 8K BTU outputsThru the wall/no outside unitMade in Italy sold in US (not sure if available yet)https://olimpiasplendidusa.com/maestro-pro-inverter-12-hp

Location: MCZ 101, Gilbert Room, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge

Join the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology for a special lecture hosted by Andrew Knoll with Ron Milo from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel on The Biomass Distribution on Earth and the Impact of Humanity on It.... Read more about The Biomass Distribution on Earth and the Impact of Humanity on It

Hi All,We have a high efficiency HTC mod con natural gas boiler w/ radiant downstairs and flat panel radiators upstairs. It does amazing in our 2200 ft2 Vermont house and…

Location: CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

In the seminar, Nilanjana Mukherjee will present her research on the Thar Desert in North-Western India. She will argue that the desert has evolved as a frontier zone due to British imperial transactions and stakes in the region and due to the politico-economic exigencies of a specific spatial cartographic logic of the colonial state. This rationale, format, and layout has come to be adopted by the present-day independent India. The desert’s location at the fringes, as though guarding the mainland, strengthens the imagination around its constructed identity as an altogether impervious...

Read more about “Unmapping the Thar: The Desert Reimagined” – with Mittal Institute Bajaj Fellow Nilanjana Mukherjee

I am preparing to build a new home in climate zone 6a. I am going to. E installing 2 inches of exterior gps foam boards. The home has an attached…