• Interdisciplinary Sustainability Working Group

    Language Center

    Are you passionate about sustainability and its integration into learning across disciplines? Join this new initiative to join peers to brainstorm and work together on topics like:
    - Greening syllabi and sharing best practices,
    - Incorporating interdisciplinary connections between research, course design, and sustainability,
    - Harnessing diverse disciplinary perspectives for impactful learning,
    - Creating a supportive and sustainable environment between peers.

    We welcome faculty, graduate students, and motivated undergraduate students from all disciplines to join us!

  • Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Federal Climate Rules – A Status Report

    Zoom

    The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this session, Professor Jody Freeman will discuss the EPA’s greenhouse gas rules for the auto, power, and oil and gas sectors and the SEC’s final rule on climate-related financial risk. Professor Freeman will also explore if these rules were weaker than expected and what lies ahead in the courts. Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Director of the Salata Institute, Jim Stock, will host.

  • HBS Springfest

    Earth Day Events 2024
    Schwartz Common and Pavilion

    The HBS community is invited to celebrate Earth Day and watch the eclipse from the Schwartz Pavilion.

  • Meet Your Bees Workshop

    Experience a day in the life of a beekeeper by opening and inspeting our buzzing Smith Campus Center hive! You'll be invited to:

    Touch, smell and taste the hive's different products
    See worker bees doing what they do best (working!)
    Possibly meet the one and only, her Majest the Queen Bee
    Brought to you by Harvard Common Spaces, the Office for Sustainability and Harvard Real Estate, this event will take place in Smith Campus Center Glass Box, on the 10th floor of the building. Just use your Harvard ID to reach the 10th floor with the elevators.

  • Littauer Center Freecycle

    Littauer Center 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The Economics Sustainability Working Group, with the help of Harvard University Recycling Services, is organizing a Freecycle from 9 am to 5 pm on Thursday, August 22! Please bring your unwanted but still usable office supplies, small household goods, and books, and browse items that others have brought.

  • I ♥ Science

    Shake off the winter blues and let your inner scientist loose. This popular annual event offers the opportunity to interact with professional scientists and amateur collectors while trying your hand at simple science explorations. Meet Harvard scientists who study extinct animals, zombie flies, and black holes! Learn from the Boston Mineral Club and MassWildlife. Bring your rock, mineral, or fossil samples to discuss with local collectors. Create colorful shadows while exploring light. Design a button portraying your favorite part of the natural world. This event has something for everyone and is appropriate for children and adults of all ages.

    Regular museum admission rates apply.

    Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.

  • Harvard Parents Freecycle

    Freecycle Events
    Smith Campus Center

    Harvard Commons Spaces and Harvard Recycling are hosting a Harvard Parents Freecycle event on September 9 on the first floor of the Smith Campus Center! Donations can be dropped off any time after 11:00 a.m. and the event will run from 12-2 pm. Drop off reusable goods you no longer need, and browse a fantastic selection of items brought by others. Find new homes for kids' clothing, books, and toys, from newborns to teens!

  • Exxon Mobil’s Approach to the Energy Transition

    Rubenstein Building, Room 414 AB, 79 JFK St., Cambridge
    Hybrid Event

    In this Energy Policy Seminar, Vijay Swarup, Senior Director of Climate Strategy and Technology at Exxon Mobil, will give a talk entitled, "Our Approach to the Energy Transition." His talk will examine energy’s critical role in advancing global progress. It will highlight how affordable, reliable energy continues to enhance quality of life and explore how accelerating policy and technology adoption can enable a successful transition to lower-emission energy solutions. Through cross-sector collaboration, we can meet rising energy needs while advancing shared climate goals.

  • Earth Day 2026

    Earth Month 2026
    The Science Center Plaza 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, United States

    Join the Harvard Office for Sustainability and Harvard Common Spaces for an Earth Day Festival on Wednesday, April 22, 2026 from 12 to 2 pm at the Science Center Plaza.