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The Office for Sustainability

The Office for Sustainability is comprised of a team of professional sustainability staff dedicated to…

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Harvard’s updated Sustainability Action Plan identifies priorities, strategies

This strategic roadmap is built around three pillars of climate, equity, and health, and offers…

Sustainability Spotlight: Q&A with Mohit Rauniyar, Ed. M. ’24

Mohit Rauniyar is an Adrian Cheng Fellow and Master of Education (Ed. M.) candidate at…

A playbook for policy climate change

Leah Stokes, the 2023–2024 Jeffrey S. and Margaret Mais Padnos Fellow and a professor of…

How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains

At Harvard, an expert panel discussed how air pollution affects dementia, learning, mental health and…

Letter from COP28

Junior and climate activist Angela Zhong details racing through security lines, talking oil palm deforestation,…

12 Student Takeaways from the 2023 Climate Symposium

Afomia Hunde, a GSD student and CSSL member, writes her key takeaways from attending the…

Rewilding Pilot at Harvard Business School

A small piece of the HBS landscape was rewilded in the spring of 2023; this…

Heating 101: Basic Heating Information

Bringing the Corporate “E” and “S” together in ESG to Advance Global Development

CID Speaker Series presents a panel featuring Kyle Cahill, Senior Director, Environmental Sustainability Disclosure and…

FAS faculty dream up, plan for Environmental Justice curriculum

A small group gathered last week for the first of three Climate in the Curriculum…

You bought an electric car. Why did your carbon footprint grow?

It may sound counterintuitive but you probably don’t drive enough, says grad’s research

Who will fight for the frogs?

Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard just as study shows a world increasingly…

Salata Institute Appoints Inaugural Climate Action Accelerator Director, Lindi von Mutius

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability is pleased to announce that Lindi von Mutius…

April

Monday
12:00 pm-1:00 pm GMT+0000

Community Event

Meet Your Bees Workshop

Environment

Harvard Real Estate

honeybees

Experience a day in the life of a beekeeper by opening and inspeting our buzzing Smith Campus Center hive! You’ll be invited to:

Touch, smell and taste the hive’s different products
See worker bees doing what they do best (working!)
Possibly meet the one and only, her Majest the Queen Bee
Brought to you by Harvard Common Spaces, the Office for Sustainability and Harvard Real Estate, this event will take place in Smith Campus Center Glass Box, on the 10th floor of the building. Just use your Harvard ID to reach the 10th floor with the elevators.

May

Monday
4:00 pm-5:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

Farming the Future: Livestock’s Leap to Net Zero

Farming

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Ermias Kebreab, world-renowned animal scientist and chair of the United Nations Technical Working Group on Feed Additives, will explore methane mitigation strategies that emphasize both global and region-specific targets for addressing the climate crisis. He will also discuss cutting-edge advances in livestock science, with a focus on genetic selection, microbial engineering, and early-life interventions.