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Sustainability Events

April

10

Thursday
12:00 pm-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to Harvard Community

Spring HGSE Green Team Meeting

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Harvard Graduate School of Edcuation

All HGSE students, faculty, and staff interested in making our school healthier and more sustainable are encouraged to join the HGSE Green Team! Come enjoy a (free!) plant-based and planet-friendly lunch and connect with each other to exchange ideas and explore collaborations. Please RSVP for this in-person event by Wednesday, April 2nd for the meeting so we can plan accordingly to avoid food waste.

April

22

Tuesday
12:00 pm-2:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to Harvard Community

2025 Earth Day Celebration on Science Center Plaza

Earth Day

Join 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!

April

28

Monday
12:00 pm-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Students, Schools and Our Climate Moment

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Attend this talk in which 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 consumption and carbon emissions.

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Sustainability News

Accelerating Climate Action, 11 Boston and Cambridge Institutions Collaborate to Invest in Wind and Solar Power

Harvard announces the formation of the Consortium for Climate Solutions (the Consortium), a first-of-its-kind renewable…

Updated Harvard Sustainable Building Standards advance climate, health and equity

Harvard University released its 2024 Sustainable Building Standards, which mark the most significant update since…

Harvard Expands Green Revolving Fund to support campus decarbonization

Harvard has increased the size of its Green Revolving Fund (GRF) from $12 million to…

When the woods are your climate change lab

HKS’ HUDS Awarded Prestigious Green Restaurant Award for Sustainability

The Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce that its Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS)…

FAQ: Harvard and Partners Collaborate on Renewable Energy Consortium

Learn more about the Consortium for Climate Solutions, a unique collaboration between Harvard and other…

Harvard, MIT, Mass General form renewable energy collaboration

Harvard announced on Wednesday the formation of the Consortium for Climate Solutions, a first-of-its-kind renewable…

New ‘Greenplexity’ tool guides policymakers, investors on strategies for green growth

At the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP29) on Friday (Nov. 15), the Growth Lab at…