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Sustainable Harvard Reception

The Harvard Office for Sustainability will recognize faculty, staff, and students for their support of the University’s sustainability initiatives and holistic approach to climate, equity, and health.

Climate Health Summer Welcome Reception

Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn about the climate landscape at Harvard and find ways to plug in during your time in Boston.

Predicting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in a Rapidly Changing World

Zoom

Disease ecologist Courtney Murdock will focus on understanding the climate variables that influence mosquito-borne disease transmission. Deploying advanced models of climate-based disease spread, Murdock’s research seeks to predict transmission patterns in order to respond to the epidemiological effects of the climate crisis.

Summer Solstice 2023: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, United States

Join the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture on the longest day of the year—free of charge—to explore the galleries and new exhibitions at the Harvard Museums. Step outdoors to enjoy lively musical and circus performances, play mini-golf, and make a flower crown. Ice cream, mocktails, and snacks will be available to purchase from food trucks and vendors.

Book Talk with Ann-Christine Duhaime

The 2023 summer series will begin with Ann-Christine Duhaime RI ’16, author of Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2022). Duhaime is the Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, associate director of the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, and associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Climate Change and Health.

Harvard Climate Forum

Science and Engineering Complex 150 Western Ave., Allston, MA, United States

A day of action-focused learning, bringing Harvard’s multi-disciplinary climate impact expertise to our community. This one-day event will engage Harvard thought-leaders and learners in an interactive experience – inspiring action, collaboration, leadership, and change across all sectors and industries.

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.