Location: The Coop Harvard, 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

What We Can’t Burn shines a spotlight on the chasm in first-hand experiences, tactics, and hopes between two people from vastly different backgrounds and circumstances on the issues of climate change and renewable energy. The result is a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.... Read more about What We Can't Burn: Author Event with Eve Driver

Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment, 4th Floor, 26 Oxford 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.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Breaking the Mould- Understanding Opportunities for Off-Grid Sector in West Africa

Location: Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Nicolas Stevens, a researcher at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics and a visiting researcher at the Belfer Center. Stevens will compare different pricing approaches for dealing with non-convexities in electricity auctions.... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar: Pricing Rules for Electricity Auctions with Non-Convexities

Location: Virtual & Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is a critical component in recent domestic and international climate policies, yet the recent acceleration in atmospheric methane concentrations is raising concerns over how climate change is now driving uncontrollable wetland methane feedbacks.... Read more about Advancing Methane Measurements and Models To Track and Accelerate Climate Action

Location: GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, 42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge

The earliest duck decoys, found in Ancient Egypt, were often live herons bound to ships, their presence tempting wild waterfowl to killing distance. Birds today are suspicious of their lifeless decoy counterparts, so modern versions have begun to use sensors to mimic natural movement, blurring the artificial and real.... Read more about DDes Conference 2024: RealTimeNature

Location: Belfer Bldg. L-4 Conference Room, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

A newly published paper suggests that solar geoengineering might prove the most practical tool by which humanity might fend off such near-term, high-impact tipping points. Lead author Wake Smith presents the case for a rapid acceleration of field research into this highly controversial climate intervention technique.... Read more about Climate Tipping Points and Solar Geoengineering

Location: Salata Conference Room 3.5, 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.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Politics of Water Shortages in Chile & AI and the Energy Revolution

Location: Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland St. Cambridge

Join the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) for a discussion on climate change and democracy with Luisa Neubauer, youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of “Fridays for Future Germany.”... Read more about Defending Democracy and Safeguarding Our Planet: A Dual Imperative

Location: Harvard Science and Engineering Complex, LL2.221 (Lecture) + LL2 Atrium (Reception), 150 Western Avenue, Boston

How are these start-ups solving environmental challenges with underwater robots and food-technology? Join us for the next Industry Insights event featuring Michael Bell, co-founder and CTO at Fleet Robotics, and Christophe Chantre, co-founder and CEO at Tender Food.... Read more about Industry Insights: Fleet Robotics & Tender Food

Location: Thompson Room (Barker Center 110), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge

What kind of a negotiation and home has nature built with plastic, a material that is a travelling and transformative genius? In a neo-materialist and an interobjective presence, plastic and nature have built a deeply entangled relationship – the problematic connection between the nature of plastic with what Ranjan Ghosh calls “plastic nature”.... Read more about The Environment Forum with Ranjan Ghosh: Plastic Nature

Location: Belfer Building - Bell Hall, 5th Floor, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Robert Bonnie, Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Under Secretary Bonnie will discuss agriculture's role in a clean energy future.... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar: Agriculture’s Role in a Clean Energy Future

Location: Hunnewell Visitor Center, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

A warming climate and increasing environmental pathogens pose an existential threat to Arboretum’s collection of some 16,000 woody plants, trees and shrubs that are able to survive in our climate.... Read more about Global Change at the Arboretum

Location: Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Gabriël Clemens, CEO Green Gas E.ON and Managing Director of E.ON Hydrogen GmbH

... Read more about Opportunities and Challenges of the Hydrogen Energy Transition – A Private Sector Perspective

Location: Zoom & Conference Room 2, India International Centre, New Delhi

Join us for an insightful discussion on “Building Climate Resilience in Urban India“ that aims to explore the climate change impacts of the built environment in urban landscapes. The session will address gaps and opportunities for building climate resilience and sustainability, emphasizing inclusiveness in climate response.... Read more about Building Climate Resilience in Urban India

Location: Northwest Labs B101, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge

Join the Salata Institute's Climate Action Accelerator and the Environmental & Energy Law Program at HLS to hear from EPA Chief of Staff Dan Utech and leaders working on environmental justice issues at the national, regional, and community level in the U.S.... Read more about Environmental Justice at the EPA and Beyond

Coastal communities around the world are increasingly exposed to extreme events that have been exacerbated by rising sea levels. Sustainable adaptation strategies to cope with the associated threats require comprehensive understanding of past and possible future changes at a local level.... Read more about EPS Colloquium: Disentangling the Causes and Drivers of Local Sea-Level Changes Since 1900

Location: Virtual

Isobel Ronai - Tick talk: the most dangerous animal in the United States due to environmental change... Read more about Harvard Forest Seminars: Tick talk: the most dangerous animal in the United States due to environmental change

Location: HUCE, 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.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar: Developing the Green AI Index & Assessing the Scalability of US Recycling

Location: Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Ave, Somerville

Join us at the Greentown Boston 2024 Career Fair, put on in partnership with Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN²)! We’re proud to support climatetech startups as they develop their technologies, scale their businesses, and grow their teams. Greentown startups are not only developing climatetech solutions—they’re building a climate workforce that is ready to harness the massive economic opportunities of the energy transition. And that climate workforce is hiring.

There’s a place for everyone in climatetech, whether you’ve previously worked in traditional energy, have...

Read more about Greentown Labs Climatetech Career Fair

Location: Salata Conference Room 3.5, 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.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Greening the Black Gold & Modeling Tropical Islands in Climate Models