Environment
City Council Encourages Meeting Between Union and Local Developer
The Cambridge City Council adopted an order encouraging a local labor union to meet with the president of Cambridge-based developer Urban Spaces LLC to address the company’s preference toward hiring out-of-state Monday evening.
Arctic Evolution
Prof. Francis A. McDonald discussed his research in understanding the geological evolution of the Arctic at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
The Vegan Challenge
THE CHALLENGE: Go vegan for a week (Monday-Friday only—denying ourselves Annenberg brunch was not an option)
A Taste of HUDS
“I grew up on a farm; my father was a farmer. I could walk out into the field and pick peas and eat them off the vine.” Crista Martin, director of communications for Harvard University Dining Services, sits on a swivel office chair surrounded by piles of papers.
Future of Energy
Allison Macfarlane, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, presents "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Fukushima Experience: Dynamic Regulation in Dynamic Times". This lecture is the first installment in a series on the Future of Energy sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
NRC Chair Talks Nuclear Regulation
Allison Macfarlane, chairman of the Nuclear Regulator Commission, argued that NRC oversight of U.S. nuclear technology is important for ensuring the adequate protection of public health and safety.
Professor Calls for Action on Climate Change
Environmental science professor Michael B. McElroy suggests that climate change is a threat to national security in a recent report.
Warming Up
Nicholas Lemann ‘76 speaks, as Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skopol looks on, during a panel about the politics of global warming on Thursday. Lemann discussed the next steps in environmental legislation.
With Faust in Attendance, Professors Advocate Environmental Activism
A panel of professors from Harvard and the University of Michigan on Monday night urged both citizens and businesses to make environmental activism their top priority.
Office of Sustainability Launches E-Waste Collection Program
Harvard’s Office for Sustainability has placed clear, blue, e-waste collection tubes in over 50 locations across campus. The new program strives to increase the degree to which Harvard students recycle smaller, handheld e-waste from laptops, batteries, chargers, and phones that is harder to keep track of than the larger waste already collected by building managers and other personnel.
Al Gore Talks Climate Change
Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore ’69 praised recent efforts of Harvard students involved in environment and divestment campaigns during a speech focused on the health hazards of global warming which he gave in Memorial Church on Wednesday night.
Flyby Presents: The Gen Ed Course Trailer Awards
In honor of the Academy, we at Flyby have created awards to recognize this semester's best course trailers. Check out these videos while you’re procrastinating packing those suitcases.
Letters Express Concern Over Environmental Impact of Harvard in Allston
Letters to the Boston Redevelopment Authority about Harvard’s Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF)—a rough draft of the University’s plans for Allston—ask Harvard to look for ways to protect the area against floods and rising sea levels.
McKibben Pushes End of Fossil Fuels
Environmental activist Bill E. McKibben ’82, a former Crimson president, and writer Naomi Klein lambasted oil companies and promoted divestment from fossil fuel companies at Boston’s Orpheum Theater Thursday night.
Panel Discusses Sustainable Food
The shrinking source of elements used in fertilizers and the practices of corporate farming pose significant problems for the agriculture ...
Solar Geoengineering Holds Promise for Addressing Climate Change
Stopping or reversing climate change can be achieved with significantly reduced side effects if solar radiation management efforts are optimized for the different seasons and latitudes, according to a new study by a team of researchers at Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, and the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Cabot Reduces Deserted Grill Items
In an effort to encourage Harvard students to emulate the upstanding young men and women pictured on the school's brochures, the Cabot dining hall has created a poster to remind people to stop leaving their grill orders unattended.
Cloudy With a Chance of Solutions
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study presents “Cloudy with a Chance of Solutions: The Future of Water”, a symposium examining the science and policy of delivering clean water to the world. Above ecologist Sandra Steingraber speaks on the topic of how hydraulic fracturing (fracking) can affect drinking water
Sheila Jasanoff
William Clark, Rebecca Henderson, John Spengler, Bill McKibben, Frances Beinecke, Andrew Revkin, Sheila Jasanoff, and James McCarthy field questions at the Science & Advocacy discussion.
Faculty Talk ‘Silent Spring’
Environmental leaders and Harvard faculty gathered in Sanders Theatre Thursday afternoon to discuss Rachel Carson’s book, “Silent Spring”, and the future of environmentalism.