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Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Amsterdam’s Transition to a Circular Economy

Tue., Mar. 7, 2017 | 12:00pm

Rubenstein Building - Room 415

Join us for a discussion with Jacqueline Cramer, Professor of Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University and former Dutch Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning (2007-2010), about Amsterdam’s transition to a circular economy, including accelerating renewable energy, high-value recycling, and closing supply chains.

Lunch will be served

Co-Sponsored by the Energy and Environment PIC

Seminar - Open to the Public

Toxic Beauty: Environmental Justice and Workers' Rights

Mon., Nov. 14, 2016 | 5:45pm - 7:00pm

Belfer Building - Starr Auditorium, Floor 2.5

Join us for a conversation about promoting environmental justice and workers' rights, especially in underserved communities and with workers in often invisible positions. We will discuss these issues from the perspective of community organizing, law and advocacy, and government regulation and policy – with a focus on opportunities to collaborate across sectors.

Open to the public. RSVP here.

Special Series - Open to the Public

Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier

Fri., Oct. 28, 2016 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Harvard Book Store welcomes the Harvard Kennedy School's Venkatesh Narayanamurti and University of Virginia's Toluwalogo Odumosu for a discussion of their book, Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier. This event includes a book signing.

Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program

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Seminar - Open to the Public

Confronting Climate Change

Tue., Mar. 29, 2016 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Belfer Building - Starr Auditorium, Floor 2.5

Join us for a conversation with women leaders at the forefront of climate change action and environmental advocacy

Panelists:
Amy Larkin,
Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change,
Amy Luers, Assistant Director, Climate Resilience and Information, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
Elsie Sunderland, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at SEAS and HSPH
Neenah Estrella-Luna
, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Doctor of Law and Policy program at Northeastern University.