Location: Virtual & GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium Symposium

In response to persistent and worsening housing affordability challenges, the idea of “social housing” has been gaining momentum across the US. While the details differ, social housing proposals all call for creating permanently affordable housing while also expanding the public sector’s direct role in financing, developing, and/or managing projects; emphasizing broad inclusion by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status; and giving residents more control over their homes. In this half-day event, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and researchers will discuss both existing models...

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Location: Harvard Kennedy School Wexner Commons, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Kennedy School Office of Career Advancement and Mignone Center for Career Success for their inaugural State and Local Government Career Expo. Open to all Harvard University students and alumni.

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Location: Pierce Hall Room 301, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Shangwei Liu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School

Abstract: In 2021, building operations in China accounted for approximately 2.2 gigatons of CO₂ emissions, representing 21% of the nation’s total emissions, from both direct fossil fuel consumption by households and indirect emissions from electricity and co-generation heating. This talk presents two projects on building sector decarbonization:...

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Location: Virtual

On April 17th, HACE will welcome Professor Cass R. Sunstein (College '75, HLS ’78), Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, for a discussion of his latest book, Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future. This event, hosted in partnership with the Salata Institute, will touch on the social cost of carbon and other themes in the book, as well as actions that Harvard Alumni can take locally and across the nation.

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Location: Virtual & The Studio, Kresge Building, 77 Huntington Avenue, Boston

A staggering 99 percent of the world’s people live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution. Dirty air has been linked to dementia, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory illnesses—and millions of premature deaths each year. And climate change is only worsening the problem. This panel brings together experts in clinical care and environmental research to discuss the threat of air pollution and explore solutions.

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Location: Charles River

Join Harvard community members on Thursday, April 17 from 9:30 AM-12:00 PM for the annual Charles River Clean-Up!

Schools and departments across the University are partnering with the Charles River Conservancy for a morning of cleaning up trash, microplastics, and debris to support a cleaner, healthier Charles River. The CRC will provide a brief education on the local river watershed and provide tools and training. All Harvard community members and their family and friends are welcome to participate! Due to event popularity, we will have a waitlist and notify all those who sign up...

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Location: Land Hall, Belfer Building, Room 400, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

This is an advanced research seminar on selected topics in environmental and resource economics. Emphasizes theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications. Includes presentations by invited outside speakers.

Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics, will present “Discounting.”... Read more about Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Location: Virtual

Students are deeply concerned about climate change, but the vastness of the issue can leave them feeling overwhelmed and powerless. Join Harvard Education Press authors Tom Roderick, Laura A. Schifter, and Mark Windschitl as they discuss how educators can help raise climate literacy among students and support and empower them to be part of climate solutions.

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Location: Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston

On Wednesday, April 16th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, The School of Public Health invite all Harvard students, faculty, and staff to join us for a workshop exploring the role of nature in well-being. This event will be led by Center Student Steering Committee member Niharika Jhingan, MPH ’26. Explore the connection between nature and well-being, learn about ways to incorporate more nature into your daily life, and join us on a mini quest to connect to the nature in our surroundings. This workshop involves a short walk outside, so please dress accordingly. We have limited spaces...

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Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Climate and Sustainability 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.

Zaneta Hong — GSD, Visiting Assistant Professor, “Edible Ecologies: Exploring entanglements between food and design”
Nurit Nobel — FAS, Post-doc at The Sustainability Transparency Accountability Research (STAR) Lab, "Close to Home: Using Proximal Cues to...

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Location: T-520 Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Hks Taubman Building, 79 JFK St., CambridgeJoin us for a candid and engaging conversation on the power of authenticity in climate leadership and how it can be used to drive meaningful change. We will examine real world insights and experiences from trailblazers in the climate action space, Miguel Sossa-Mardomingo, Vice President - Americas Sustainability GTM Lead, Capgemini, and Dr. David W. Cash, Former Regional Administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office, who will discuss how integrity, empathy, and purpose can shape effective climate leadership. As part of the Center for Public... Read more about Leading with Purpose: Authenticity in Climate Action

Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Energy Seminar at Harvard series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 4/14, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Wenxiao Huang, CEO of Feon Energy.

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Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Harvard Energy Seminar series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 2/24, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Wenxiao Huang, CEO and co-founder of Feon Energy.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Wenxiao Huang

Location: Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Since the dawn of the atomic age, humanity has struggled with the inherent duality of atomic fission, with its awesome power to either benefit or obliterate life on earth. Waves of optimism and despair have been driven by the threat of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their possible use, and by the hopes of a prodigious carbon-free energy source that has stumbled and lost public confidence in the process.... Read more about A New Nuclear Age?

Location: Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Join Madeline Murphy Turner for an introduction to a recent installation, Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas, which features more than 15 artworks from the collections, many of which are new acquisitions. Turner will delve into how and why contemporary artists across the Americas use drawing to contend with topics of the land, territory, and ecological crises—all while pushing the medium’s boundaries into the realms of conceptual and performance art.

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Location: Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge

The Food 4 Thought Festival is a one-of-a-kind innovative food conference bringing together students from global universities to envision the future of the food system. Over the course of three days, F4T 2025 will feature speakers, thought leaders, researchers, food vendors, and companies from across Boston and around the world. Through impactful panels, workshops, and fairs, the festival aims to give students the tools and knowledge to help shape the future of food to be more sustainable, equitable, healthy, and cruelty-free. Register by March 31st to secure your tickets!

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Location: Austin Hall; 111 Classroom - West, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Environmental Law Society and the Chan School’s Public Health Environmental Justice Student Organization for a symposium featuring experts on climate change, public health, and environmental justice.

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Location: Austin Hall Room 101, Harvard Law School

Join the Environmental Law Society at the Harvard Law School and the Environmental Justice Student Organization for a symposium at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Please provide your information at the link to confirm your registration for the symposium. If you would like to submit an abstract for poster presentation at the event, please indicate your preference to be directed to the abstract submission form.
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Location: R-414-ab David Ellwood Democracy Lab, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Join the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) for our special Earth Day Friday Speaker Series, featuring updates from CID's GEM Incubation Fund recipients. This event will delve into critical topics such as climate data equity, conflict fragility, and climate knowledge in Somalia, along with pioneering research on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Harry Verhoeven, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Dr. Maimuna Mohamud Head of Practice, Research, Learning, and GESI (Gender Equality and Social...

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Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge

What are possible intersections between Harvard residential life and climate & sustainability? These conversations, organized by the Dean of Students Office, are small-group dinners to engage informally with climate practitioners. Topic for April 9: Climate Justice and Decolonial Pedagogies, with Mauro Morabito, former Head of Mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross and climate education facilitator.

Reserved to Winthrop House affiliates.

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