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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: FLEET ROBOTICS & TENDER FOOD

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

Join us for the next Industry Insights event featuring Michael Bell, co-founder and CTO at Fleet Robotics, and Christophe Chantre, co-founder and CEO at Tender Food. Come learn how two startups from SEAS—and incubated at Greentown Labs—have turned their research into products that aim to reduce environmental harm. The speakers will also share advice on how to join an early-stage startup and how to spin out a company from Harvard. The conversation will be moderated by Paul Hayre, Executive Director of the Harvard Grid.

Thinking with Plants and Fungi: “The Quest for the Plant Script, a Talk by Author Sumana Roy

Common Room, Center for the Studies of World Religions 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Why have our writers, artists, thinkers, and scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Beginning from Jagadish Chandra Bose’s “torulipi”—the handwriting of plants or the plant script through which he hoped plants would write their autobiography—and moving through Rabindranath Tagore’s songs about the language of flowers; to poets writing about the syntax of the falling of leaves to artists trying to coax a vocabulary out of plants or creating a “tree alphabet,” Sumana Roy shall speak about the quest for the plant script, its codes, its compulsions, and its intimate histories.

Apply by Sept. 29: HGSE Student Sustainability Educator

If you are an HGSE graduate student looking to lead your own campus sustainability project, you're in the right place. Starting August 25th, you can apply to become the 2024-25 HGSE Student Sustainability Educator. 

HRE Compost Lunch ‘n’ Learn

8 Story Street 8 Story Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join us for a fun and informative session on composting at 8 Story Street! Starting this summer, our composting at 8 Story Street will be managed by Harvard Recycling. This event will teach you all about how we spare the food scraps from the landfill and capture all that embodied energy. Come hungry and leave with a belly full of plant-based foods and a head full of Harvard composting knowledge. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gather together and make a positive impact on the environment!

HRE Compost Lunch ‘n’ Learn

8 Story Street 8 Story Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join us for a fun and informative session on composting at 8 Story Street! Starting this summer, our composting at 8 Story Street will be managed by Harvard Recycling. This event in Conference Room 175 at 8 Story Street will teach you all about how we spare the food scraps from the landfill and capture all that embodied energy. Come hungry and leave with a belly full of plant-based foods and a head full of Harvard composting knowledge. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gather together and make a positive impact on the environment! This event is hosted by Harvard Real Estate and open to Harvard staff members who work at 8 Story Street. Please register in advance at sustainable.harvard.edu/events by Friday, July 26th. Registration is limited to the first 30 attendees. Thanks!

National Fossil Day

Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions. Join us to celebrate National Fossil Day with short talks and table-top presentations for all ages.

Regular museum admission rates apply. Presented in collaboration with the Stephanie Pierce Lab of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Javier Ortega-Hernández Lab of Invertebrate Paleontology. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.

Green Growth: The Opportunity of Supplying the Global Energy Transition

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

As the world transitions to a lower carbon economy, new industries, markets, and paths to economic prosperity are emerging. Join Prof. Ricardo Hausmann for a seminar on how the current energy transition is reshaping economic opportunity around the world—opening new doors for some and posing threats to others.

Whether attending in person or online, please register in advance. In-person attendance is limited to the Harvard community. The Zoom is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

This seminar is part of Worldwide Week at Harvard - an opportunity for Harvard Schools, research centers, departments, and student organizations to host academic and cultural events with global or international themes.

Reading Group: Thinking with Plants and Fungi

CSWR Conference Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA

Meets biweekly from 3-5 PM at the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Recent scientific research has shed light on the sophisticated ways in which plants and fungi sense, make sense of, and interact with the world. Alongside these discoveries is a wave of interest in the “more-than-human” humanities, this scholarship raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human and the non-human: what is mind, where does it extend, and how? How do plants and fungi trouble our understanding of “thinking" – and perhaps cause us to reconsider what it means to be human? How do we ethically work with them? What cultural frameworks give us opportunities to think about next means of engagement? In its third year of gathering, this reading group will explore these questions and more. Past scholarship has included works by leading thinkers such as Emanuele Coccia, Monica Gagliano, Suzanne Simard, Michael Marder, and more.
Email plants@hds.harvard.edu to be added to the reading group mailing list
Instructor's bio:
Natalia is an herbalist, wildlife rescue & rehabilitation apprentice, and Ph.D. candidate in the Study of Religion at Harvard University, where she recently completed a Master of Theological Studies degree with a focus on the intersection of ecology and spiritual practice. She researches relational ontologies, posthuman ethics, and diction on personhood in scientific discourse, specifically neuroscience. Her secondary work is in Celtic Studies on trans-species soul migration in mythology and plants addressed in the vocative in Old Irish poetry.
Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Vice, For The Wild, and more. For more information + publications, visit selkieprojects.com.
Subsequent meetings are: 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21