Green Homes News

I recently built a house in climate zone 5, my first house. I tried to find a good way to seal around pipes sticking out of the basement floor but…

Location: Carpenter Center Theater, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a new film by AFVS alumnus Daniel Goldhaber, in collaboration with and edited by AFVS alumnus Daniel Garber, follows a group of young environmental activists as they plan to sabotage and explode an oil pipeline in Texas.... Read more about Art, Film, and Visual Studies Alumni & Faculty Film Seminar

Location: The Forum, 79 JFK St., HKS, Cambridge

Join the Institute of Politics at HKS for a panel that will examine the history of systemic racism and exclusion in America’s National Parks, public lands, and outdoor industry, and how leaders and organizations are challenging these structures and creating new equitable practices and policies.... Read more about The Great Outdoors? Tackling Structural Racism in National Parks

Hi! I’m about to get a new roof, and I’m planning to add 2” of exterior rigid polyiso foam insulation on top of the existing roof sheathing. This is primarily to…

Location: Smith Campus Center Commons, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

Join the Center for International Development at HKS for an in-person film screening of The Territory, followed by remarks from and a student-moderated Q&A with Field Producer Paula Moura. Regionally significant refreshments from a local restaurant will be served.... Read more about Film Screening of “The Territory”

Location:  Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will speak in the third of this four-part lecture series. She is a religion and ecology expert, having worked with faith and Indigenous leaders around the world on developing faith-led environmental and climate projects for 15 years.... Read more about William Belden Noble Lecture

Location: Sperry Room, HDS, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, will present "The Role of Religion in the Anthropocene."... Read more about William Belden Noble Lecture

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

“Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They and Where Are They?” with E. Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University, and Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania.

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

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

Ernani Choma, Research Fellow in the Dept of Environmental Health, HSPH, will present "Source-Specific Mortality Attributable to PM2.5—Implications for Emission Control in the US and the World."... Read more about Harvard-China Project Research Seminar

Distilling information from various sources here, with my head spinning, I would appreciate confirmation that the following formula is correct.  I have three years of gas usage, and the company…

I have a multi unit residential project that I am looking at, and each unit is supplied with BB electric heat as well as a PTAC unit, and an ERV.…

currently live in a single story 1500 sqft house located in the southern us.  last year we replaced the 20 year old 12 seer 3 ton central ac with a…

Location: Zoom & Haller Hall (102), 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

"Toward Reliable Projections of Ocean Warming and Climate Change" with Laure Zanna, Courant Institute, NYU.... Read more about SEAS Seminar

100 year raised old house in hot humid south louisiana. Following several local publication, my preference would be to install 2” foil faced poly iso to bottom of joist. Cost…

Location: Zoom & Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), LL2.224, Boston

"Wildfire Risk Mitigation and Data-Driven Methods for Electric Power Systems" with Alyssa Kody, Argonne National Laboratory.... Read more about SEAS Seminar

Building diagnostics help determine the causes of corrosion in electrical boxes

Does anyone guide me if tempered windows are required for basement windows?Window sizes 36"x18" Sill height from inside 7'Window sizes 72"X 52" Sill height from inside 44"Thank you

I spent a fortune for an almost PassiveHouse so I don't need much power for heating/cooling, only to find my new house is using hundreds of dollars a month in…

Location: S354 (3rd Floor), CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Join the Mittal Institute for an opening reception for the new exhibit featuring our Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Fellows: Manjot Kaur and Dhara Mehrotra, both visual artists from India. The artists will be joined by Professor Jinah Kim in a panel discussion about their work.... Read more about South Asian Art Through Nature Narratives

Location: HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge & YouTube Livestream

Wayne M Jurick II, Research Plant Pathologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service, will give a talk. Title TBA.... Read more about HUH Seminar