Category: Events

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 […]

On Monday, October 17, the Harvard South Asia Institute will present an urbanization seminar entitled “Urbanization in South Asia: Conversations from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.” This panel, listed below, brings together three urban scholars and practitioners from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and it deals with the contemporary challenges facing rapid urbanization in South Asia. This panel presents a unique opportunity to have a cross-cutting conversation across South Asian countries to both […]

On Friday, October 14, the Graduate School of Design will present a symposium sponsored by the CGBC on “Anachronometrics,” a neologism denoting an act of temporal displacement in which one seizes on the future or past as a point of comparison, to emphasize differences. A series of talks by GSD faculty and conversations will examine the relationships that contemporary architects and commentators on architecture have established between history and practice. This last […]

On Wednesday, October 12, the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) will host Rachel Gutter, Director, Center for Green Schools, and Kelly McCarthy, Senior Manager of Global Impact Investing Network, who will lead a talk entitled “Etymology of a Movement: Center for Green Schools and Global Impact Investment Network” at Harvard. This talk is one in the Sustainability in Health Leadership series, which seeks […]

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, September 27th, CGBC Post Doctoral Fellow Wenbo Shi will present: “Design and Implementation of Open HVAC Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Smart Buildings” 1:15 pm – 2:15pm 20 Sumner Road, Room 1D Lunch will be provided. Talks are […]

On Thursday, September 22, the Center for Global Health and the Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) will host Rick Fedrizzi, the CEO and Founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, who will deliver a lecture entitled “Green Think: How Profit Can Save the Planet” at the Harvard Club of Boston. Michelle Williams, Dean of HSPH, will introduce Fedrizzi and deliver opening remarks about the […]