Global Warming

The United States might change its perspective on global climate change, as President-elect Trump says he'll not follow the Paris climate change accords.
Read More...

An annual lecture within the Harvard GSD Lecture Series, this event intends to expose a large audience of students, faculty and members of the public to the importance of green design and planning. The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and…
Read More...

A national study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Chan School of Public Healths Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) and SUNY Upstate Medical, is the first to show that working in high performing, green certified…
Read More...

Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Phil Harrison, President and CEO of Perkins and Will, on "Translational Networks" November 7, 2014Inaugural Challenge Conference of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and CitiesThe Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities was…
Read More...

James Carpenter, Founder and President of James Carpenter Design Associates, on "Light in the Public Realm: The Substance of Transparency" November 7, 2014Inaugural Challenge Conference of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities…
Read More...

Joshua Prince-Ramus, Principal of REX, on "Density and Diversity" November, 7, 2014 Inaugural Challenge Conference of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities was established to…
Read More...

Gordon Gill, Founding Partner of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, on "The Beauty of Utility" November 7, 2014Inaugural Challenge Conference of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities The Harvard Center for Green Buildings…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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,…
Read More...

"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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Healthy Planet, Health People: Global Warming and Public Health - Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - 2008-04-09 - On Wednesday, April 9, Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Select Committee on Energy…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Dr. Deborah L. Swackhamer is Professor in Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Hubert H, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and Co-Director of the University's Water Resources Center. She also is Professor in Environmental Health…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States and the world. Over the coming century, it is expected to affect agriculture, energy, health, infrastructure, natural resources, national security and water…
Read More...

Visionary Business Leader Presents a New Model for Commerce in the 21st Anderson, Founder and Chairman of Interface, world-renowned sustainability expert, executive and published author, spoke at UCLA Anderson School of Management on…
Read More...

Learn how the environment impacts human health and the ecosystems around us, on both a small/local and large/global
Read More...

According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are tossing up to 40 percent of the food supply each year, along with all the resources used to produce food that never gets eaten. Food waste occurs at home, on the…
Read More...

The Paris Climate Agreement will cost at least $1 trillion per year, and climate activists say it will save the planet. The truth? It won't do anything for the planet, but it will make everyone poorer--except politicians and…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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:
Read More...

With the Millennium Development Goals expiring in 2015, the global community seeks a path forward that continues the progress made over the last 15 years. At the heart of this is careful consideration and development of new indicators and…
Read More...

Deadly air pollution is the biggest global environment killer according to an announcement by the World Health Organization who found that the millions of deaths it cause nearly doubled their estimated and outnumbered those caused by…
Read More...

The Trump election and populist movements in Europe and Asia can be considered akin to true revolutionary movements--ideologically driven; brought about by a slow-down in social mobility, elite factionalization and decline in public goods;…
Read More...

Distinguished international alumnus and Nobel Laureate Dr. Rajendra Pachauri returned to NC State on September 29, 2014 to deliver a lecture on Global Climate Change. Dr. Pachauri is an internationally recognized leader on environmental and…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Laurie Mazur, Director of the Population Justice Project, discusses her new book, A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge.
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Johan Rockstrm, Professor and Executive Director of SEI and Stockholm Resilience Centre presents examples of global environmental challenges put in a resilience perspective.
Read More...

Seminar with Dr. Benjamin Planque Institute of Marine Research, Troms, Norway. Read more here:
Read More...

Stockholm Resilience Centre director Johan Rockstrm talks about the quadruple squeeze humanity is putting on the planet through overpopulation, climate change, ecosystem loss and the problem of surprises tipping points in the presentation…
Read More...

Ecosystem services elasticity describes how human wellbeing changes in response to changes in ecosystem services. Read more here:
Read More...

Gwendolyn Meyer at the Resilience and Development Colloquium in Johannesburg, South Africa, 8-10 May 2017.
Read More...

Rio+20 (17/06/2012) -- Thomas Elmquist, Stockholm Resilience Centre talks about the centre's work with ICLEI to do a global assessment of how urbanisation is affecting biodiversity and ecosystems. He says we need to be aware of the…
Read More...

Whiteboard seminar with Brian Walker. Read more here:
Read More...

Thomas Friedman visited the Stockholm Resilience Centre in January 2016.
Read More...

Leading scientist of the global 'planetary boundary' research, Johan is the Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and a professor in Environmental Sciences at Stockholm the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program…
Read More...

Speaker: Johan Rockstrm Professor of Water Systems and Global Sustainability and Executive Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm UniversityAbstract: Resilience for Human Development in the Anthropocene There is growing…
Read More...

Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks and lead investigator of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecologial Research program.
Read More...

It has taken over 200 years for scientists to understand Earths climate, from the greenhouse effect to our own emissions. You can learn it in a minute. Take the "Become a Climate Expert" App is part of the This is My #EarthStatement…
Read More...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre will present and answer question on latest findings on the New Global Context for the Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations, New York Marco Lambertini,…
Read More...

Interview with Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Read More...

Panel debate during the Stockholm Dialogue, which was part of the 2011 Nobel Laureate Symposium on global sustainability.
Read More...