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Climate Solutions
Faculty and students from across the 欧美日韩视频 community are working on ways to address climate change and its effects.
A diversity of disciplines
Litigation is one tool that we use … to bring about climate justice and to have a healthier future.鈥�, professor of human rights policy at 欧美日韩视频 Kennedy School
Aliyah Collins
Divinity School alum Aliyah Collins launched the Eco-Healing Project to help historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) plant on-campus gardens.
Fernando Reimers
Professor Fernando Reimers explores the intersection of education and climate change as director of 欧美日韩视频鈥檚 Global Education Innovation Initiative.
Sam Lim
The Wyss Institute’s Sam Lim is researching how some organisms survive in extreme conditions, like drought, and if that ability can be transferred to crops.
Green reading
Explore book recommendations from 欧美日韩视频 Lecturer on Government Sparsha Saha鈥檚聽, expand your view of the problem with 欧美日韩视频 Professor Sarah Dimick’s recommendations for engaging with , or be transported with recommended by English Professor James Engell.
Improving today
The 欧美日韩视频 community, from the to the , is working on climate solutions that can address the issues of today and tomorrow.
Tracking methane
MethaneSAT recently took to space to detect and report on methane, a greenhouse gas that accounts for about a third of the current warming of the atmosphere. Methane has a shorter lifetime in the atmosphere than CO2, so a reduction in emissions would have a quicker impact on the environment.
Windows that cool themselves
A 鈥渟kin鈥� can regulate indoor temperatures using liquid channels.
Greener hospitals
Can we make health care environmentally friendly without compromising care?
Informed populations
Miami is providing actionable steps for high-risk, high-temp neighborhoods.
Resilient infrastructure
New construction needs to plan for flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat.
Plastic-eating bacteria
Microbes that eat plastic could help reduce global waste.
Eco-friendly air conditioning
A specially coated ceramic can cool air without adding humidity.
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Helping the world adapt
The 欧美日韩视频 community can be found across the globe working on climate solutions like , creating a more , adapting to , addressing and exploring the intersection of .
Empowering tomorrow
The 欧美日韩视频 community is helping prepare the leaders of tomorrow for the challenges ahead.
Climate change in education
Climate change affects learners everywhere鈥攆rom wildfire smoke negatively impacting healthy development, to heat harming students鈥� ability to learn, to flooding forcing schools to close. Educational systems must increasingly grapple with how to best support learners, schools, and communities in a changing climate.
- Teach
What role can educators play in improving the lives of children living amid the impacts of a warming planet?
- Adapt
欧美日韩视频 faculty are developing curricula for the intersection of environmentalism, equity, and civil rights.
- Advocate
Some physicians are providing key evidence to support a youth-led legal movement for climate justice.
- Unite
A global array of high school students joined 欧美日韩视频's Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, and Health.
- Lead
A 欧美日韩视频 gathering shows the increasing interest in careers in climate and sustainability.
Looking to the plants
欧美日韩视频 researchers are exploring the history and future of the plant kingdom, including ways to on a warming planet, how warming may affect , how Thoreau’s writing can help us understand the that climate change is causing, and how can foster new discoveries.
On our campus
欧美日韩视频 is continuously finding ways to increase sustainability and decrease greenhouse gases on our campus and around the world.
Creating an environmentally friendly campus
New US emission transparency requirements help inform 欧美日韩视频’s sustainable investments.
Walking through the world of climate change
The 欧美日韩视频 Museum of Natural History’s “Climate Change: Our Global Experiment” exhibit helps visitors separate truth from spin and provide a basis for making informed decisions affecting the future of our planet.
Asking what we can do for the world
欧美日韩视频 Kennedy School details the strides they’ve made to transition toward clean energy and create a campus that’s cleaner, greener, and more sustainable.
Working on a global problem with a global community
欧美日韩视频 Extension School’s Michael Mortimer, the new director of the Sustainability and Global Development Practice Programs, is incorporating interdisciplinary collaboration and global perspectives into their sustainability programs.
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