Year: 2016

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities will present a series of Research & Innovation Talks. Given by members of the CGBC Research Team, talks will highlight and discuss projects underway at the Center. On Tuesday, December 16th, Elena Vanz will present on: “Ecological Urbanism Metric Systems (EUMS).” 1:15 pm – 2:15pm 20 Sumner Road, Room 1D Refreshments will be provided. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please […]

On Wednesday, November 16, President Drew G. Faust, the Harvard Global Institute, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment will present the symposium, “Climate Change and the Developing World.” Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor; Jennifer Leaning, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; and Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, will moderate panel discussions on urbanization and adaptation, […]

On Wednesday, November 9, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) will host Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Assistant Director of Center for Health and the Global Environment, Heather Henriksen, Director of Harvard University Office of Sustainability, and Austin Blackmon, Chief of the Environment Energy and Open Spaces in the City of Boston, who will lead a talk entitled “Local Sustainability: Climate and Health at Harvard and in Boston” at Harvard. This talk is part of the […]

On November 3-4, the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure will host the Planning Sustainable Cities Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The conference aims to present an infrastructure-based approach to city planning, an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems. This conference will serve as the launch of the latest Zofnass Program publication ‘Planning Sustainable Cities. An Infrastructure-based Approach,’ directed and edited by Prof. […]

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities will present a series of Research & Innovation Talks. Given by members of the CGBC Research Team, talks will highlight and discuss projects underway at the Center. On Tuesday, November 1st, Bin Yan will present on: “Energy Demand Forecasting: Model development, uncertainty analysis and forecasting.” 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm 20 Sumner Road, Room 1D Refreshments will be provided. Talks are open to members of the Harvard […]

On Wednesday, October 26, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) will host Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Assistant Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and John Mandyck, Chief Sustainability Officer of United Technologies, who will lead a talk entitled “Sustainable Urbanization: the Future of Aviation, Buildings and Food” at Harvard. This talk is one in the Sustainability in Health Leadership series, which seeks to showcase the latest research techniques and highlight opportunities to […]

On Tuesday, October 18, Rachel Kyte, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, will deliver a lecture entitled “Looking Up: How coalitions of bottom-up organizations are driving action for sustainable development” at Emerson Hall. Kyte will discuss how the work of organizations can accelerate the national energy plans that countries around the world are currently putting into action. This event is the latest installment of the […]