Location: Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability invite you for a pre-release screening of Nuclear Now, followed by a discussion featuring Oliver Stone, Director and Co-Writer; Joshua S. Goldstein, Co-Writer; and Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost, MIT. The panel will be moderated by Dan Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, with opening remarks by Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University.... Read more about Pre-Release Screening & Discussion: NUCLEAR NOW

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

"Sustainability and the Fashion Industry: What Does It Mean to Be in Charge of Impact?" with Juliet Russell, Head of Sustainability at Stella McCartney.... Read more about Master in Design Engineering Public Lecture

Location: 414AB, David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Rubenstein Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Jahi Wise, Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Acting Director for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at the U.S. EPA, will present "The Outlook for the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund."... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: Multiple Locations

Join the Harvard Law School China Law Association for  “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” where various panels will discuss disability law, education in China, US-China climate change collaborations, antitrust law, and blockchain technology.... Read more about 2023 China Law Symposium

Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 42 Quincy St., Cambridge

HarvardxDesign is an annual conference launched in 2012 and led by students at the Harvard GSD this year. They bring together creative thinkers, industry leaders, professors, and students to engage, debate, and reinterpret the design process across scales and sectors. The goal is to share knowledge, tools, and resources that can empower creatives to become change agents through design.

... Read more about Care x Design

March 24, 2023

HUCE Faculty Associate Steven Wofsy is the principal investigator for the satellite project MethaneSAT, which aims to spot global sources of methane emissions... Read more about Buying Crucial Time in Climate Change Fight

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

"Realizing Hydrogen Economy and Rethinking Catalyst Layer Design: Interplay between Activity and Durability for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers" with Iryna Zenyuk, UC Irvine.

... Read more about SEAS Climate & Energy Seminar

Location: Room L-332, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

"Asymmetric Climate Policies and International Trade" with Kimberly Clausing, University of California, Los Angeles, and Catherine Wolfram, Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, HKS.

... Read more about Harvard Seminar in Environmental Economics & Policy

Location: Haller Hall (102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

"Exploring the Subsurface Processes of Ice Sheets and Icy Moons with Ice Penetrating Radar" with Dustin Schroeder, Stanford University.... Read more about SEAS Seminar

Location: Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

The STS Program at HKS invites you for the latest installment of the Sciece & Democracy Lecture Series featuring Bill de Blasio, former Mayor of New York City. A discussion will follow with panelists Mike Firestone, City of Boston Chief of Policy and Strategic Planning; Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Ya-Wen Lei, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, and moderated by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, HKS.

... Read more about AI for Cities or Cities for AI: Who Should Decide?

February 1, 2023

Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard GSD... Read more about How to Adapt to Climate Change

March 14, 2023

It may ignite fears for children and guilt for parents, but the key is focusing on solutions, experts at HGSE webinar say... Read more about Talking with Kids About Existential Threat of Climate Change

Location: Zoom & Emerson 104, 25 Quincy St., Cambridge

Erum Sattar, Former Program Director, MS in Sustainable Water Management and Water Diplomacy Track Leader, Tufts University, will speak as part of the Series on Climate Change and Muslim Societies. 

... Read more about Between Drought and Drowning: Lessons from the Maldives, Pakistan, and Sudan

Location: YouTube & Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre St., Boston

Jackie Matthes, Senior Scientist at the Harvard Forest, will present "The Ecosystem Responses of Concurrent Biotic and Climatic Disturbances in New England Forests."... Read more about Arboretum Research Talk

Location: HKS Littauer, L-140, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

"A Path to Green Energy, Healthy Communities, and Racial Equity" with with Colette Pichon Battle, partner at Taproot Earth and founder of Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy.... Read more about Climate Justice Seminar

Location: 414AB, David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Rubenstein Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Eyck Freymann, joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Belfer Center's Arctic Initiative and Columbia University, will present "Chinese Perspectives on Climate Geopolitics."... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: Zoom & Geological Museum 102, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Dennis Baldocchi, UC Berkeley, will give a talk (title TBA).... Read more about EPS Colloquium

Location: 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

"Observing Neighborhood-Level Air Pollution Inequality from Space" with Sally Pusede, University of Virginia.... Read more about Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar

Environmental Fellow: 2023-2025
Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Arnold Arboretum
PhD, Ecology, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Megan Wilcots researches how the timing and intensity of warming events in the Arctic affects nitrogen fixation and carbon uptake in tundra plant...

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Environmental Fellow: 2023-2025
PhD, Environmental Research: Marine Biogeochemistry, University of Oxford

Roxana Shafiee is biogeochemist interested in the global cycling of major and minor elements, and their implications for the climate and biosphere....

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