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Encouraging Green Architecture in Malaysia

MIT Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program, Spring 2016View the complete course: : Shraddha PandeyShraddha Pandey evaluates the efficacy of Green Building indices and rating systems in creating strong incentives for developers to design more…

Unlocking the Cage Premiere

Unlocking the Cage is a fascinating film that documents the legal battle by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) to liberate chimpanzees from the worst forms of captivity. The documentary is directed by legendary filmmakers Pennebaker and…

Rockburn Presents – D.A. Pennebaker

Pennebaker is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of his generation. Awarded an honorary Oscar in 2012 for his collection of work that include such landmark films such as The War Room, Dont Look and Back and Monterey Pop,…

Alec Baldwin & Pennebaker Hegedus Films

Alec Baldwin, a big supporter of documentary films and animal rights, shared many kind words about our work and you can watch his testimonial for "Unlocking The Cage" in the video above. To learn more about "Unlocking the Cage" visit

Kengo Kuma, From Concrete to Wood: Why Wood Matters

The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami shattered coastal cities in Japan in 2011. Kengo Kuma, taking as a point of departure his experiences in the aftermath of that natural disaster, will examine humans relationship with nature, questioning the…

Harvard CGBC Inaugural Conference: Alejandro Murat

Alejandro Murat, CEO of INFONAVIT, on "Urban Development and Housing Policy, 2014-2018"November 7, 2014Inaugural Challenge Conference of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities was…

Harvard Geography Colloquium April, 2016

by Wu (Capital University of Economics and Business)Noon - 1:00. Room S153 CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge :Functional Urban Area (FUAs) refers to the functional economic units, consisting of highly densely populated municipalities…

Symposium on Architecture: “Design Techniques”

At a moment of dissolution in design, technique is all an architect can grasp. Techniques occupy a beautifully indeterminate void on the fault line between theory and practice. Spared of reductive allegiance to either, design techniques are…

Seminar: Building Cluster Simulations

Dartmouth's Jones Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society."Building Cluster Simulations for Early Design, Retrofitting and Real-time Optimal Control."Xiwang Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and , March 31,…

Harvard CGBC Lecture Series: Gordon Gill

"Discovering Form Through Performance: From Master Planning to the Tallest Building in the World" April 20, 2017Gordon Gill is one of the worlds preeminent exponents of performance-based architecture. His work, which ranges from the worlds…

Dr. Paul Epstein on the Trust Cost of Coal

We are dismayed to hear that Dr. Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment passed away on Sunday. In February 2011, Greenpeace was lucky enough to host a press conference on board the Greenpeace…

Climate Change Basics

NOTE: If you need captions, please click the CC button on the player to turn them video provides an introduction to the issue of climate change. The narration discusses the causes of modern-day climate change, signs that the climate is…

Dr. Epstein – Full Cost of Coal

Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment, speaks about a new report he co-authored, ""Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal." From mining, to burning, to global warming, coal…

Zika, Ebola and Other Emerging Diseases

Catherine Machalaba, Program Coordinator for Health and Policy, EcoHealth Alliance, Zika, Ebola and Other Emerging Diseases: Exploring Animal and Environmental Connections to Human Health Tuesday, May 10, 041 Haldeman Center, Dartmouth…

Before The Flood

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist and Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes occurring around the…

The Daily Show – Burn Noticed

The historic People's Climate March takes place in New York City while a House of Representatives committee struggles with the basic principles of global warming. Watch full episodes of The Daily Show now:

Water Changes Everything.

Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It's a crisis because it only starts with water -- but water affects everything in life. Health. Education. Food security. And the lives of women and…

Climate Change and Health

Google Tech TalksOctober 30, 2006Paul EpsteinABSTRACTClimate change has multiple direct and indirect consequences for human health. Heat waves affect health directly and are projected to take an increasing toll in developed and…

Human Population Through Time

It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billionand only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our…

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