Sustainability at Harvard

A fossil fuel-free future

We’re building on our past progress in reducing emissions with new goals to be fossil fuel-free by 2050 and fossil fuel-neutral by 2026.

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Research Highlight

Leading climate change researchers—including Harvard's James McCarthy—launch an interactive website to demystify climate change.

What We Know Initiative

Case Study

For the first time ever, all first-year students at Harvard Business School were challenged to consider some big questions around climate change.

As part of the Technology & Operations Management (TOM) class students were asked to reflect on these questions and challenges, write...

Harvard MBAs tackle climate change

Video

HSPH Professor Greg Norris speaks about how organizations and individuals can build net-positive enterprises

Building Net-Positive Enterprises

Video

MudWorks was a design-build installation produced by the Harvard GSD Loeb Fellows Class of 2012 under the direction of Loeb Fellow Anna Heringer and Austrian earth artist, Martin Rauch.

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Harvard Divinity School hosts lectures and events exploring the intersection of religion, science, and sustainability. Divinity School faculty and esteemed guests show how notions of human flourishing, quality of life, and common good have been...

Religion, Science, and the Environment Series

Research Highlight

Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes gave this TED Talk in May 2014.

"Many of the world's biggest problems require asking questions of scientists — but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to...