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Revisiting the Productivity Dilemma: The Humanity of Work and What It Means for Sustainable Business

SHINE Summit 2023 will address how the meaning and metrics of work have been forever changed, and how this provides an opportunity to rethink the humanity of work and the measurement of business success. Together we will develop new ways to think about performance, productivity, and the humanity of work to create more humane and sustainable business measurement tools.

Food Collage

Mather House 10 Cowperthwaite Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

The Food Collage event aims to lower the barriers for learning about and engaging with food systems, biodiversity and climate change.

Event Series Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series

Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Ben Webster and Jason Neff on Decarbonization and Innovation

Harvard University Center for the Environment 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? This Fall semester, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability is launching the Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series, featuring leading climate and sustainability practitioners — many of them Harvard alumni — from a broad range of industries and sectors.

Speakers will reflect on their work and career path, providing students from across Harvard with valuable insights needed to launch a climate career. Each event will include a one hour Q&A with the speaker followed by a dinner reception.

Event Series Climate and Education Action Series

The Climate and Education Action Series: Dinner with Tara Houska

The Harvard College equity, diversity, and inclusion team is proud to have secured a Johnson Climate Action Grant, whereby we are exploring climate justice. We are hosting a series of events across the academic year that center the intersections of climate justice and empowering members of the College to engage in reflection and move to action. We are excited to invite a small group of College students to dinner with tribal rights attorney and founder of the Giniw Collective, Tara Houska, on Friday, November 3rd at 5:30 PM following the "Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond Evening” led by the Harvard University Native American Program, in partnership with The Radcliffe Institute. Please follow this link to recommend students who might be particularly interested in attending and engaging with this dynamic leader on the power of her activism, and her inspiring impact.

Event Series Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series

Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Sanjay Seth on Careers in Government Climate Action and Equity

Harvard University Center for the Environment 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? This Fall semester, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability is launching the Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series, featuring leading climate and sustainability practitioners — many of them Harvard alumni — from a broad range of industries and sectors.

Speakers will reflect on their work and career path, providing students from across Harvard with valuable insights needed to launch a climate career. Each event will include a one hour Q&A with the speaker followed by a dinner reception.

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.

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.