It’s time for the annual Harvard Recycling Valentine’s Day Toiletries Drive! From now through February 12, you can help support Cambridge’s YWCA by donating unused and unopened toiletries, cosmetics, and menstrual hygiene products.
During this cooking class, we’ll celebrate foodways and cooking traditions as influenced by African cuisine. Participants will learn how to make West African Fufu and Candied Yams—two delicious and comforting side dishes that are easy to recreate at home. Local Chef and Owner of Delectable EATS, Gaitskell Gleghorn Jr., will lead this hands-on, interactive cooking class. Participants do not need to have any previous cooking experience.
It’s time for the annual Harvard Recycling Valentine’s Day Toiletries Drive! From now through February 12, you can help support Cambridge’s YWCA by donating unused and unopened toiletries, cosmetics, and menstrual hygiene products.
Break out of the winter doldrums and let your inner scientist loose. Meet amateur and professional scientists who study and collect fossils, mushrooms, and meteorites. Talk with experts who build telescopes, track invasive species, and grow carnivorous plants. Try your hand at finding bugs or exploring sand. Craft a piece of art from polarized light. Watch a live ice sculpture demonstration in front of the museum. This popular annual event has something for everyone and is appropriate for children and adults of all ages.
Regular museum admission rates apply.
Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
With mating season just getting started, February is one of the best times to see signs of the Arboretum's resident coyote population. Join Horticulturist and wildlife enthusiast Brendan Keegan to look for coyote tracks and scat, check our trail cameras, and find out why all these coyotes are in Boston in the first place.
It’s time for the annual Harvard Recycling Valentine’s Day Toiletries Drive! From now through February 12, you can help support Cambridge’s YWCA by donating unused and unopened toiletries, cosmetics, and menstrual hygiene products.
It’s time for the annual Harvard Recycling Valentine’s Day Toiletries Drive! From now through February 12, you can help support Cambridge’s YWCA by donating unused and unopened toiletries, cosmetics, and menstrual hygiene products.
As the planet becomes increasingly urban, cities will be expected to absorb many of the impacts of climate change. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that compact urbanization is much more environmentally sustainable than car-centric sprawl. In this conversation we will focus on various dilemmas and complex scenarios. We plan to discuss questions like: what are the trade-offs between prioritizing decarbonization versus adaptation and mitigation? How does climate change present urban governance challenges and opportunities? What are the downstream environmental impacts of the overregulation of housing markets in the U.S.? How can we learn from examples elsewhere in the world? How do market-based and state-led approaches to urban sustainability compare? What roles do cultural narratives and imagination play in opening up or foreclosing a sense of possibilities? Join us for a dialogue with renowned urban specialists: Diane Davis, the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism (GSD), and Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chair of the Department of Economics (FAS). Moderated by Bruno Carvalho, co-Chair of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative and Interim Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Across the Indian Ocean world, communities have shared stories while encountering legacies of modern state-centrism, colonial capitalism, post-colonial environmental destruction and religious reform. Muslim communities, among others, have shared stories of religious environments and animals that were inherited, transmitted, and reinterpreted in light of evolving ecological crises. These stories of multispecies ancestors and colonizers, Islamic conceptions of the environment, and narrative traditions of Islamic ecological care have confronted cycles of crises with visions of pasts and futures. In this session, Teren Sevea will discuss the question, “Can listening to these stories compel us to re-evaluate our academic approaches to religion and environments and the relationship of religious pasts and presents, in our time of crisis?”
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will host a two-day academic conference alongside its new exhibition, Forest Futures.
The Salata Institute is committed to supporting research that promises to make a real-world impact on the climate crisis. The Climate Research Clusters Program delivers on that commitment by funding research about complex climate problems that produces useful and practical solutions. Clusters comprise interdisciplinary, cross-School teams of researchers, whose varied expertise is required to address the complexity of the problems that they seek to solve.
In this conversation, we will explore the science and philosophy of plant intelligence. What have cutting-edge experiments and observational research taught us about plants’ intelligence, agency, or even sentience? How do plants help us rethink these categories? What are the criticisms of these findings, and why? How, if at all, can plant science inspire new forms of care, cooperation, and interspecies relations? What do we still have to learn and explore?
