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Location: Virtual

A presentation from 2024–2025 Maury Green Fellow Gabrielle Oliveira

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.

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Location: Meadow Mist Farm, 12 Bacon St, LexingtonGet your hands dirty and learn more about regenerative agriculture with Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice, and Council of Student Sustainability Leaders at Meadow Mist Farm on Saturday, May 3, 10 AM—3 PM! The trip will consist of a tour of the farm, a Q&A with a staff member, and opportunities to interact with farm animals and do farm work (e.g., planting, hoeing, transplanting plants, etc).

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Location: Mission Dupont Circle, 1606 20th St NW, Washington, DC

​Join fellow Harvard alumni for a Climate Happy Hour during DC Climate Week! Co-hosted by Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment SIG, the Harvard Club of DC, the HBS Club of DC, and the HKS DC Alumni Council, this gathering is a great opportunity to reconnect, network, and share ideas with alumni from across Harvard schools and graduation years.

​Whether you're deeply involved in climate and environmental issues or simply curious to learn more, come enjoy good conversation and great company in an informal setting. This is a no-host event, so feel free to grab your favorite...

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Location: Virtual & Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 102Learn about Harvard’s “Museum of Trees” and what it takes to keep North America’s first public arboretum open to all. Presented by Danny Schissler, Head of Operations and Project Management at the Harvard University Arnold Arboretum.

RSVP to susan_bottino@harvard.edu or join the Zoom here.

Sponsored by EcoOpportunity, working together to advance sustainability efforts and build community at the Harvard University Longwood Campus, and Harvard University T.H... Read more about Springtime & Sustainability at the Arnold Arboretum

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 4/28, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Chad Vecitis, Chief Scientist at Nth Cycle.

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Location: Virtual & Gutman Conference Center E4, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

Laura A. Schifter and Jonathan Klein highlight the many ways in which K-12 schools and students have tremendous potential to advance solutions on environmental issues, and they provide frameworks for enacting change, in Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment. Schifter and Klein demonstrate how the effects of climate change intersect with US public schools on multiple levels—for example, schools must prepare students to face the challenges of an uncertain future, accommodate disruptions brought about by extreme weather conditions, and evaluate their systems’ energy...

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Location: Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium

As the keynote speaker for the Center for Green Buildings and Cities symposium, “Environmental Adaptions/Adaptive Environments,” Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, the co-founder of Snøhetta, will provide insights into the firm’s work, highlighting the relationship between people, nature, and built environments. Established in Oslo, Norway, in 1989, Snøhetta was inspired by the Brundtland Commission’s report on sustainability, Our Common Future, published by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) two years earlier. Today, Snøhetta is a transdisciplinary practice with studios in...

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Location: CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

2025 Surin Pitsuwan Lecture in Thai Politics and Society

In Thailand today, there are tens of thousands of disputes over forests in the courts. Most are between local communities and state agencies. Many have lingered for decades. Occasionally some break out in violence of burning and killing. This situation is not good for either people or trees. Climate change has lent new importance to Thailand’s forests for the ecosphere, for the economy, and for the world. Urban residents, bothered by haze and floods, have become interested in how the forests are managed. New technologies are...

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Location: Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium

How do we design spaces that evolve with us—shaping, shifting, and adapting to the conditions, behaviors, and needs of those who inhabit them? Adaptive Environments explores how architecture can move beyond the static, making adaptability a core principle in creating resilient, future-ready environments that respond dynamically to their users and surroundings.

This symposium, bringing together leading voices in architecture and design—including keynote speaker Kjetil Thorsen, Founding Partner of Snøhetta—delves into the dynamic interplay between people, nature, and built...

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Location: University Club of San Francisco, 800 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative, and HLS's Environmental & Energy Law Program invite you to join us for a panel discussion on how businesses, policymakers, and communities can better prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate-driven disasters. Hosted during San Francisco Climate Week, this event will bring together Harvard alumni experts from across schools and disciplines to discuss interdisciplinary approaches to enhancing resilience and adaptation in the face of extreme weather events such as the recent LA...

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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.

Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present “The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics.”... Read more about Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Location: HBS, Aldrich 107

Featuring Mike Messersmith (ex-President of OATLY North America and current CEO of Somerville-based Tender Food), Chloe Sorvino (Forbes reporter and author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat), and Marcia Hooper (Co-founder of Branchfood).

Complimentary snacks from Clover featuring Tender. The first 30 guests will also get free copies of Raw Deal!

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Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge

Urban rooftops—spaces that belong to everyone and no one—hold untapped potential to become critical components in addressing urban challenges such as climate adaptation, food security, energy transition, and socio-ecological inclusion.

In this lecture, Hasibe Akın will share her ongoing dissertation work as a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Harvard University, where she is developing a Multifunctional Rooftop Model for Urban Biodiversity. Her work bridges architecture, landscape architecture, and urban ecology to explore how rooftops in metropolitan cities can be reimagined as...

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Location: Virtual

Solving many if not most sustainability challenges requires coordination and cooperation amongst a wide variety of actors with diverse interests, resources, and abilities. Governance for sustainability therefore requires improving our capacity to work together between many different types of actors and across different scales of governance. This seminar will explore the experience of leaders who have strategic insights into what it takes to build and maintain a capacity to work together to advance sustainability goals. This seminar is the sixth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building...

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Location: Virtual

Solving many if not most sustainability challenges requires coordination and cooperation amongst a wide variety of actors with diverse interests, resources, and abilities. Governance for sustainability therefore requires improving our capacity to work together between many different types of actors and across different scales of governance. This seminar will explore the experience of leaders who have strategic insights into what it takes to build and maintain a capacity to work together to advance sustainability goals. This seminar is the sixth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building...

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Location: Graduate Student Lounge, Lehman Hall, Harvard University

Join the Harvard Griffin GSAS Science Policy Group for an solutions-focused conversation on climate policy with Katherine Antos, Undersecretary of Decarbonization & Resilience in the Executive Officer of Energy and Environmental Affairs at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). This event is part of our Policy Bridges initiative, supported by the Harvard Presidential Building Bridges Fund, and will explore the role of state-level climate action, building bipartisan support for decarbonization, and navigating policy in times of shifting federal...

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

Dr. Jeroen Oomen, assistant professor at the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecth University, will present as part of the Solar Geoengineering Research Program Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Lunch will be provided.

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Location: Science Center PlazaJoin the Harvard Office for Sustainability and Harvard Common Spaces for an Earth Day Festival on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from 12 to 2 pm at the Science Center Plaza.

• Bring everyday items you no longer need and pick up stuff for free at a Freecycle hosted by Harvard Recycling. No donation is required to shop!
• Have electronics to recycle? Harvard University Information Technology will collect them. See electronic waste items HUIT can accept. Please note lithium batteries should be taped and there should be no leaking or oversized batteries.
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Location: Virtual

The sweeping rollback of federal climate risk policies, including the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, leaves cities more vulnerable to extreme weather events, rising property insurance costs, and financial strain from disaster recovery. Without federal guidance, communities must take proactive steps to strengthen infrastructure and implement innovative, localized climate resilience strategies tailored to their needs.

Join an expert panel for a special Earth Day discussion to explore cutting edge approaches through risk protection, public-private partnerships, and insurance...

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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 4/21, the Energy Seminar welcomes Michael Segal, Senior Director of Open Innovation at Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

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