Category: Events

The Harvard Graduate School of Design will present a lecture by Inaki Echeverria, an architect and urbanist based in Mexico City, who will discuss the future of megacities, cities in China and across the world that will eventually have a population of more than 20 million. In addition, Echeverria will discuss the status of current cities in relation to possible future ones, focusing on a city’s relationship with the environment […]

The Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard will host a discussion entitled “How Much Energy do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California,” by Arik Levinson. Levinson, a Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, will use his research on energy efficiency to lecture about the effects of energy building codes in California. Find more information here.

What: EC2342 China Economy Seminar Where: Littauer M-15, Dept of Economics, 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 When: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 @ 1:00pm Shuang Zhang from the University of Colorado, Boulder and Koichiro Ito from Boston University and the Natural Bureau of Economic Research will speak on a joint paper entitled “Using Market Data to Estimate Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from Air Filter Markets in China.” Abstract: […]

Chen Xinyu, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard China Project for the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will host a China Project Seminar titled “Decarbonizing China: Power System Strategies to Electrify Transportation and Building Heating with Renewable Sources.” Xinyu will discuss how China can effectively integrate the three largest components of the energy system—power, transportation, and space heating—to better integrate new sources of renewable energy and lower emissions […]

The Harvard Electricity Policy Group and the Harvard Environmental Economics Program are sponsoring a discussion with Alberto Pototschnig, the Founding Director of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). Potoschnig, as the first director of ACER, established in 2010 by the European Commission, will offer his perspective on ACER’s mission to complement and coordinate the work of national energy regulators at the European-Union (EU) level and work […]

Experts from the worlds of government, business, economics and history will discuss the potential perils of climate change and what society in general and universities in particular can do to prepare and combat the harmful phenomena. This candid conversation will be introduced by President Drew Faust and moderated by popular CBS and PBS news anchor Charlie Rose. Guests include Joseph Aldy, an assistant professor of public policy and President Obama’s principal science […]

The Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard will host a discussion entitled “New York’s ‘Reforming the Energy Vision’ Initiative” featuring Audrey Zibelman. Zibelman serves as the Chair of the New York State Public Service Commission and will use her unique experiences and perspective to analyze potential success and problems with New York’s future for energy production and consumption. When: April 13, 2015, 12-1:30 p.m Where: Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th […]

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities has partnered with the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard Center for the Environment to host Kairos Shen: Architect, Urban Planner and Director of Planning at the Boston Redevelopment Authority for “Harvard Climate Week.” Mr. Shen will apply his unique perspective as both builder and planner to discuss climate change resiliency of the built environment on multiple scales, from the […]

The CGBC will hold bi-weekly Research and Innovation Talks to provide a forum for collaboration within the Center, and so that select guests can learn more about current projects. This week, Bin Cao, PostDoctoral Fellow at the CGBC, will demonstrate the idea that variation of thermal condition is good for building occupants comfort and health by giving evidence from both climate chamber studies and field surveys. He will also share a case study in […]

The CGBC will hold bi-weekly Research and Innovation Talks to provide a forum for collaboration within the Center, and so that select guests can learn more about current projects. This week, Beth Pollock will introduce a project detailing health issues that arise from buildings and the products and processes within them. She will also discuss consumer confusion, buyer habits and transparency in the United States vs. Europe, and an evolving regulatory landscape. Beth is a […]