Join us at our community Freecycle in the Smith Campus Center!

Drop off reusable goods you no longer need, and browse an excellent selection of items brought by others. Popular items include books, clothes, and household goods. Only donate items in clean and working condition.

Everyone is welcome, and no donation is necessary to shop!

INFO SESSION (required to apply for CSSL program): Please RSVP by September 8 to attend the CSSL Info Session on September 9 @ 5-6pm. If you cannot attend, you must watch the recording (which will be posted here on September 10) before applying.

Daniel White is a Director of Business Development at National Grid Partners—a corporate venture capital and innovation organization he helped establish at National Grid in 2018. Since that time, Daniel has helped National Grid trial and deploy several start-up technologies including Copperleaf’s investment planning software and Linevision’s dynamic line rating technology. Prior to National Grid, Daniel was president of Thimbleberry Research L.L.C., a finance and strategy consulting firm he founded shortly after leaving The Boston Consulting Group. Before BCG, he was a finance manager at Intel Capital where he helped deal teams close several million dollars in venture investments. Daniel began his career in the institutional equity research group at D.A. Davidson & Co. He is a CFA charter holder and a licensed CPA. Daniel has an MBA with distinction from Cornell University and graduated magna cum laude from the College of Idaho.

** Note for non-Harvard affiliates and attendees without HUIDs: HKS security requires guest lists to be submitted 2 business days prior. Please register ASAP to guarantee your admission to the event.

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average, with impacts that extend far beyond the region. Connect with Arctic researchers from across Harvard at a networking breakfast hosted by the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative.

Over coffee and bagels, you’ll have a chance to give a lightning presentation to share your work and make a case for why Harvard should engage more deeply with the Arctic. You’ll also hear from members of the Arctic Initiative on climate change, conservation, health, community resilience, and geopolitics.

If you’re curious about the Arctic, come listen and learn how changes in the region may affect your work – and how you can help shape a resilient, cooperative, and peaceful future for the region.

This session is open to Harvard University ID holders. Registration required.

Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is the idea that aerosol precursors could be released into the stratosphere, where the resulting aerosols would linger and reflect incoming solar radiation, counteracting some fraction of anthropogenic warming. We know SAI would work because of volcanoes: when a volcanic eruption deposits SO2 into the stratosphere, it oxidizes to H2SO4, which forms reflective sulfate aerosols, cooling the planet. Volcanic eruptions are used to validate or tune aerosols in climate models, but the processes in an SO2 plume injected from an aircraft differ from those in a volcanic plume in important ways. Dr. Marianna Linz, Head of Research for Reflective, will walk through these differences in processes, summarize what we know and do not know about them, show which ones matter the most for aerosol evolution, and discuss how we can make progress on understanding those critical uncertainties. She will highlight those where we will need a field experiment to understand the implications of the interactions between processes and describe a hypothetical experiment. By focusing on resolving uncertainties at the process level, she argues that we can design these modest experiments with clear scientific questions and observing strategies structured to answer those questions.

As climate change leads to increased temperatures and extreme weather patterns, drought is becoming more and more of a concern at the Arboretum. Staff have been working hard to install irrigation systems around the landscape since the record-breaking drought of 2016, working to increase the resiliency of our collections to periods of drought and dry weather, and this fall represents one of the biggest irrigation projects yet. Join Head of Operations and Project Management Danny Schissler and Head Operator Jed Romanowiz to learn how the Arboretum keeps trees watered in areas without irrigation, the Arboretum’s plans for new irrigation installations, and how all of these systems actually work.

This summer, wildfire smoke degraded air quality across parts of Canada, the U.S., and other regions. In this event, experts will explain how wildfire smoke affects the lungs, heart, and body; who is most at risk; and how to reduce exposure. The discussion will cover practical steps for individuals, schools, and workplaces, including improving indoor air filtration, using portable air cleaners, and wearing protective masks.

The Salata Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association invite you to the latest installment of Harvard Voices on Climate Change, a virtual series featuring Harvard faculty and fellows on different dimensions of the climate challenge.

This session will explore El Niño in a warming world and what a changing climate could mean for this powerful driver of global weather patterns. Featuring Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, the discussion will examine how our understanding of El Niño is evolving, its far-reaching impacts, and what we may expect as the planet continues to warm.