The interrelated challenges of climate change, planetary health, and social justice call for commitments of significant resources and for varied new practices of collaboration and reinvention across our institutions. From where will the wisdom and empathy emerge to inspire and mobilize us in these efforts? From science and a better understanding of the risks of inaction, from a reconnection with nature, from listening to other cultures and across generations, or from a flourishing of the arts and civic engagement? Or, all of these? How can we in our lifestyles, our work, and our citizenship break through old habits to co-create new narratives and pathways forward?
Welcome and Introduction by Heather Henriksen, Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Speakers include:
Virginie Greene, Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Nadia Milad Issa HDS ’22, 2020 Research Associate, The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Mark Kramer, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Co-Founder and Managing Director, FSG
Matthew Spellberg AB '09, AM '09, Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows
Mary Evelyn Tucker (moderator), Associate in Research, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar in Religion and Ecology, Yale School of the Environment
Other programs in this series include:
- Climate, Biodiversity, Pandemics, and Justice on September 23
- Climate, Government, and the Economy on October 15
- Climate Change, Protests, and Politics on December 9
- Moving Climate Action Forward on January 13
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