Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Trends in ESG Reporting & COP29 Negotiations: What to Expect and Why It Matters

Location: Hunnewell Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

As we approach the end of the growing season, it’s time to start thinking about next year’s plantings! What trees or shrubs should you plant in your own yard? Which plants will fare best in your particular space and microclimate?... Read more about Garden Design for Woody Plants

Location: Harvard Business School, 117 Western Ave, Boston

The Climate Symposium at Harvard Business School is a flagship student-led conference, organized by the Energy & Environment, Food & Agriculture, and Sustainability Clubs. Each year, we bring together global thought leaders, industry experts, and innovative minds to tackle the pressing challenges of climate change.... Read more about HBS Climate Symposium 2024

Location: GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, 42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge

The exhibition Changing Climates explores how built environments can be transformed into urban ecologies. Producing an enhanced micro-climate, each of these ecologies has the capacity to augment the resilience of the urban condition under the challenges of the climate crisis.... Read more about Bas Smets, “Changing Climates”

Location: Harvard Business School, Aldrich Hall, Classroom 010, Boston

Join the Salata Institute and Harvard Business School Business and Environment Initiative for a book talk featuring businessman and philanthropist André Hoffmann and journalist Peter Vanham. André Hoffmann is Vice-Chairman of Roche, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Roche was founded by the Hoffmann family in 1896. Peter Vanham is Editorial Director, Leadership at Fortune. ... Read more about The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability with André Hoffmann and Peter Vanham 

Location: Zoom

Maciej Zwieniecki - Understanding Forest Ecosystems Through Seasonal Nonstructural Carbohydrates Dynamics... Read more about Harvard Forest Seminars: Understanding Forest Ecosystems Through Seasonal Nonstructural Carbohydrates Dynamics

Location: GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, 42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge

What would it mean for a city to be ecologically robust and socially just? What would such a place be like? Through what means might such a vision be accomplished? And how might change be created and sustained? These are not questions to be explored in the abstract. They call for action research, for testing ideas in practice, and engaging with real people in actual places to make discoveries from which principles can be drawn.... Read more about Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Anne Whiston Spirn, “Restoring Nature, Rebuilding Community”

Location: GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, 42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge

What would it mean for a city to be ecologically robust and socially just? What would such a place be like? Through what means might such a vision be accomplished? And how might change be created and sustained?... Read more about Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Anne Whiston Spirn, “Restoring Nature, Rebuilding Community”

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Confessions from a former Oil and Gas professional

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Confessions from a former Oil and Gas professional

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Inequality in Outdoor Occupational Exposure to Heat Waves in India

Location: Virtual & Knafel Center,10 Garden Street, Cambridge

The climate crisis poses ethical and political challenges of the highest magnitude—challenges that go beyond technical innovation and policy reform. In this panel discussion, speakers will address these questions, as well as the multinational and multifaceted ways that global climate change undermines conventional understandings of ethical responsibility, political community, and rational decision-making.... Read more about Catastrophic Dilemmas: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Climate Change

Location: Zoom & Geo Mus 102 (Haller Hall), 24 Oxford St, Cambridge

It is widely believed that global warming will make land surfaces drier, on average. Yet, the same climate models used to project strong aridification show no obvious signs of drastic drying in relevant land surface variables, such as soil water storage or ecosystem productivity.... Read more about EPS Colloquium: Kaighin McColl

Location: Zoom & Geo Mus 102 (Haller Hall), 24 Oxford St, Cambridge

It is widely believed that global warming will make land surfaces drier, on average. Yet, the same climate models used to project strong aridification show no obvious signs of drastic drying in relevant land surface variables, such as soil water storage or ecosystem productivity.... Read more about EPS Colloquium: Kaighin McColl

Location: Zoom & Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

Clean energy systems require land for solar arrays, wind turbines, transmission lines, and other infrastructure, but biofuel feedstocks occupy by far the largest area of land dedicated to energy production.... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar: Land Use and the Role of Biomass in Achieving Net Zero Greenhouse Emissions

Location: Bussey Street Gate, Arnold Arboretum, 243 Walter St, Boston

Join docent Paul Eldrenkamp for a visit to five groups of trees that each played a particularly significant role in shaping five very different civilizations: Eastern White Pine, Cedar of Lebanon, Western Red Cedar, Oaks, and the five sacred trees of the Kiso Forest in Japan.... Read more about Trees that Shaped Civilization

Location: Zoom

Join us in a group discussion of shared experiences and personal opinions (with no presentations or breakouts) on Environmental Racism: Examples and Prospects.... Read more about Harvard Diversity Discussion on Environmental Racism: Examples and Prospects

Location: Zoom

Join us in a group discussion of shared experiences and personal opinions (with no presentations or breakouts) on Environmental Racism: Examples and Prospects.... Read more about Harvard Diversity Discussion on Environmental Racism: Examples and Prospects

Location: Virtual & Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

The last five years have illuminated our growing global interconnectedness: from the pandemic to volatile food prices and shortages to global tech outages. As we enter the second quarter of the twenty-first century, the twin threats of climate change and conflict are now converging with urgent global consequences for all: destruction of food systems and livelihoods; mass displacement and migration; and fierce competition over depleting natural resources.... Read more about Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet

Location: Virtual & Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

The last five years have illuminated our growing global interconnectedness: from the pandemic to volatile food prices and shortages to global tech outages. As we enter the second quarter of the twenty-first century, the twin threats of climate change and conflict are now converging with urgent global consequences for all: destruction of food systems and livelihoods; mass displacement and migration; and fierce competition over depleting natural resources.... Read more about Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet