Past Events
Friday, June 23 AND July 21, 2023, 9 am EST
ClimateFresk Workshop
HESEC Board Hosted Climate Change Workshop
ClimateFresk is a game that aims to educate and spark conversations about climate change. Participants were HES Summer students as well as the wider Harvard Community. Due to the overwhelming positive feedback, more session will be offered in the Fall and Spring semesters!
Saturday, April 8, 2023, 12:00 pm EST
WILDER LECTURE 2: STAY WILD
Ms. Mel B. Wilson, MS & ALM, Class of 2019 Outstanding Thesis Prize Recipient
Following a sustainability course at Harvard Extension School, Mel Wilson moved to the island of St. John, USVI, to learn about national parks. As the island residents experienced climate trauma from two-category hurricanes, she realized land conservation might offer a biodiversity and climate solution. Her "Reimagining the American West to Reach Half-Earth" thesis won the Outstanding Thesis Prize in 2019. Since then, she has published two papers on half-earth and created a mini-documentary, "Stay Wild." Please join us for a lecture and film viewing.
Register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kc-mvrDMpG9EevFNRVy203BZU8d9aYEz8
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 6:00 pm EST
WILDER LECTURE 1: SAVING HALF THE EARTH
Dr. Dennis Lui, Vice President of Education, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
The predicted sixth mass extinction is among the most significant threats to the world. Half-Earth is a call by the late Dr. E.O. Wilson to protect half the land and sea, thus reversing the species extinction crisis and ensuring long-term planetary health. The Half-Earth lecture will cover how saving half the Earth helps nature and the climate for our long-term recovery
October 23rd - Trivia Night and Social 7pm
Come meet the new HESEC club with a trivia night on Sustainability and Conservation! Monthly event come and win prizes and socialize
October 29th , 7pm- " The Right Way to Flourish : Reconnecting to the Real World"
Dr. John Ehrenfeld, professor emeritus from MIT will be discussing his latest book “The Right Way to Flourish: Reconnecting to the Real World”. In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R. Ehrenfeld, critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and ineffective as a call for action. Building upon the recent work of cognitive scientist, Iain McGilchrist, who argues that the human brain’s two hemispheres present distinct different worlds, this book articulates how society must replace the current foundational left-brain-based beliefs – a mechanistic world and a human driven by self interest – with new ones based on complexity and care. Flourishing should replace the lifeless metrics now being used to guide business and government, as well as individuals. Until we accept that our modern belief structure is, itself, the barrier, we will continue to be mired in an endless succession of unsolved problems.
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