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Tag: Rebecca Henderson
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Nation & World
Finding a way forward on climate change
If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.
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New committee to advise Bacow on sustainability goals
Members of the new Presidential Committee on Sustainability discuss why it is so important to act now to address climate change, the committee’s role in developing collaborative and innovative projects, and how community members can get involved.
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What weighed on us in 2019? ‘Climate emergency’
Harvard faculty reflect on 2019’s word of the year: “climate emergency.”
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Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use
Members of Harvard climate change task force explain how they reached ambitious goals to end fossil fuel use on campus by 2050.
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Students help groups to pursue climate action
Harvard living lab course works to find practical alternatives to carbon use.
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Sizing up climate change
Experts on energy, the environment, and climate change gathered at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre Monday to discuss how governments and universities can help meet the challenge.
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Let’s talk climate change
The Harvard University Center for the Environment is sponsoring Climate Week, featuring breakfasts with scientists working on the problems along with a variety of climate-centered activities, from talks by prominent scientists to poetry readings to informal gatherings.
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Nation & World
Progress on sustainability
Harvard University has made significant progress in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released by President Drew Faust, who announced the next steps that the institution will take to meet its goal of cutting emissions 30 percent by 2016.
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Nation & World
Advising on climate change
In addition to conducting research and teaching about climate, energy, and the environment, Harvard faculty members also serve as expert advisers to policymakers, putting their science to work to improve laws and regulations and to foster understanding between the worlds of government and academics.
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Harvard kicks off fundraising effort
Harvard University kicked off the public phase of a $6.5 billion fundraising campaign today, designed to benefit key priorities during constrained financial times. If successful, it would be the largest ever in higher education.
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A groundswell on climate change
More vigorous grassroots social action is needed to drive the reforms that could address climate change, panelists said during a discussion at Sanders Theatre.
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‘Silent Spring,’ 50 years on
Environmentalists and faculty members gathered at Sanders Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” which catalyzed the environmental movement in its impassioned presentation of the impact of chemicals on nature.
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Changing the world, in under 9 minutes
The inaugural event “One Harvard: Lectures that Last” featured short talks by a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools. The session was designed to reveal the crosscurrents of innovation that can flow from discipline to discipline, and to expose students to fresh ideas.
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Harvard Thinks Green: Making Money While Making a Difference: Is it Really that Easy?
Professor Rebecca Henderson from Harvard Business School is the Co-Director of their Business and Environment Initiative and recently named the John and Natty McArthur University Professor December 8, 2011
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Thinking green, and thinking big
At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to seek big solutions for complex and potentially intractable problems such as climate change.
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The looming water shortage
The head of Nestlé explored ways to address a looming worldwide water crisis during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Preserving both planet and profits
Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson delivered a talk last week in honor of Earth Day that offered a business strategy aimed at saving the planet.
