Join the Salata Institute's Climate Action Accelerator and the Environmental & Energy Law Program at HLS to hear from EPA Chief of Staff Dan Utech and leaders working on environmental justice issues at the national, regional, and community level in the U.S. This panel conversation will explore the role of law and policy in advancing environmental justice, recent developments at EPA, and the road ahead.

Stay for a Q&A with the panel followed by light refreshments and networking. Registration required. This event is open to the Harvard community and local climate and environmental justice practitioners.

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.