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Application Deadline: HGSE Student Sustainability Educator at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s sustainability program—a collaboration between the Harvard University Office for Sustainability (OFS) and HGSE Operations—seeks a highly motivated and reliable student to serve in the paid role of HGSE Student Sustainability Educator.
Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
Haller Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust. It is also ubiquitous in the modern world, from aircraft to soda cans. Today, the efficiency with which we use—and reuse—aluminum is vital to addressing key environmental challenges and understanding humanity’s fraught relationship with the earth. In Soil to Foil (Columbia University Press, 2023), Saleem Ali tells the extraordinary story of aluminum.
Gender and climate change: an intersectional approach from Latin America and the Caribbean
Tsai AuditoriumJoin a two-part event that aims to create a space for an overview of the intersection between climate change and gender—emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of its impacts in Latin America & the Caribbean—and to share efforts on how addressing gender disparities can enhance climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation efforts.
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 StatesInterested 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.
Deadline Extended to Nov. 9: Apply to Harvard’s Climate Startup Incubator
The Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle, a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change, is now accepting applications for the 2024 cohort.
Colloquium Lecture: “Climate Change, Intergenerational Tyranny and Solar Geoengineering”
Colloquium Lecture HallHear from Steve Gardiner, author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), and co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016) and Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, in press). He is also the editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005) and the Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford, in press), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, 2016), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010) and The Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance (Routledge, 2020).
Application Deadline: OFS Data Analytics Student Position
The Harvard University Office for Sustainability (OFS) is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic student interested in a paid data analytics position for Academic Year 2023. In this paid internship, you will have the opportunity to gain experience in using analytics to inform sustainability strategy and to communicate progress towards key sustainability goals.
Energy Policy Seminar: “Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties”
Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Frances Moore, Associate Professor and the Hurlstone Presidential Chair in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California Davis. In a talk entitled "Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties," Moore will present her recent research on the social cost of carbon in the context of U.S. government estimates and the recent proposed update from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“Wild Life” Film Screening and Discussion
James Room, Schwartz Hall 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesFree and open to the public, but registration is required.
Join us for a public screening of Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's extraordinary film "Wild Life"—a story of love, wildness, and restoration in Chili and Argentina. The film follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting.
A discussion will follow the screening. Special guests include Kris Tompkins and Chai Vasarhelyi in conversation with guest curator Geralyn Dreyfous and HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.
The Conservation of Catastrophe: An Agenda for Research
CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, CambridgeSaptarishi Bandopadhyay is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology & Society Program at Harvard University, a research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School. Saptarishi holds a doctorate from Harvard University, LLMs from Harvard Law School and American University’s Washington College of Law, and a BALLB (Hons.) from the National University of Juridical Sciences, India. Saptarishi has received awards and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council, the American Society for Legal History, the American Society for Environmental History, the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Brown University. Saptarishi’s writing has appeared in encyclopedias, edited volumes, and in legal and interdisciplinary journals.
Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Climate & Health
ZoomThe Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a new series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this upcoming session, Professor Kari Nadeau will delve into the critical intersection of climate and health. Her insights will shed light on the significance of this relationship, especially as we approach COP28, where the topic of health is being addressed for the first time. Professor and Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability Jim Stock will host. This series is part of the collection of VPAL Signature Events and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association.