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Location: Zoom

Andy Hoffman, the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, will speak on “Creative or Controlled Destruction: The Fate of the Fossil Fuel Sector in a Climate Changed World.”... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: Zoom

Priyank Lathwal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, will speak on “Pollution from Freight Trucks in the Contiguous United States: Public Health Damages and Implications for Environmental Justice.”... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: Zoom

Frederick J. Stoddard Jr, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at HMS, MGH and Shriners Hospital; Caroline Hickman, Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Centre for Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath; and Ashlee Cunsolo, Founding Dean, School of Arts and Subarctic, Labrador Institute Memorial University, will discuss "Planetary Mental Health: How Accelerating Environmental Change is Impacting the Mental Health of Different Populations."... Read more about The Planetary Health Colloquium

Location: Zoom

Liza Reed, Research Manager for Low Carbon Technology Policy at the Niskanen Center, will speak on “The Exploding Federal Role in Electricity Transmission.”... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: Zoom

This workshop, led by Harvard C-CHANGE Interim Director Aaron Bernstein, aims to help the Harvard community identify strategies, including effective communication, to use when engaging climate skepticism.... Read more about How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

Environmental Fellow: 2022-2024
PhD, Atmospheric Science, University of Washington

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello works to understand the sources of climate variability and the impacts of climate change across Earth's land surface.... Read more about Lucas Vargas Zeppetello

lucas.zeppetello@gmail.com

Shading parking lots with solar panels could provide abundant power and ease pressure on undeveloped land

Remodeler Josh Oduin describes plans for an outdated kitchen

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Alex Wall
• Term: Spring
• Days: W
• Time: 10:30-11:15AM
• School: Graduate School of Design
• Course ID: 216827... Read more about DES 3396. Thinking Landscape - Making Cities

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Russell Rymer
• Term: Spring
• Days: Th
• Time: 3:00-5:45PM
• School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Course ID: 207988
• Subject Area: English... Read more about ENGLISH CWSR. The Art of Writing about Science and the Environment: Workshop

An online educator and an industry-backed job-placement and career-building agency join forces

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Emanuele Coccia
• Term: Spring
• Days: Th
• Time: 3:00-5:45PM
• School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Course ID: 219757
• Subject Area: Romance Languages & Literature... Read more about ROM-STD 153. Ecology as Non-Human Sociology: A Critical Counter-History

A review of Lloyd Alter's book—a deeply researched look at what it takes to live an ultra-low-carbon lifestyle

January 11, 2022

Will create new cross-University strategic research initiatives and incentives to remove barriers to collaboration... Read more about John H. Shaw Named Vice Provost for Research

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Abby Spinak
• Term: Spring
• Days: W
• Time: 12:00-2:45PM
• School: Graduate School of Design
• Course ID: 213347... Read more about SES 5409. Climate Justice

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Meghan O'Sullivan
• Term: Spring
• Days: T, Th
• Time: 10:30-11:45AM
• School: Harvard Kennedy School 
• Course ID: 170365... Read more about IGA 412. The Geopolitics of Energy

Challenges remain for an all-renewable energy future, but answers are on the horizon

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Robin Wordsworth
• Term: Spring
• Days: M, W
• Time: 10:30-11:45AM
• School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Course ID: 205144
• Subject Area: Earth & Planetary Sciences... Read more about E-PSCI 237. Planetary Radiation and Climate

Semester: N/A

• Professor: Mike Aziz
• Term: Spring
• Days: W, F
• Time: 3:00-4:15PM
• School: Graduate School of Design; Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 
• Course ID: 204450... Read more about SCI 6277. Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)

Insights from two authors who have turned to centuries-old building techniques and biomimicry principles to inform resilient design