Join us on November 7 for a GRCx program Presented in Collaboration with the Campus as Lab Community of Practice Higher education institutions can play a unique role in informing, facilitating, and accelerating city climate action. Their research knowledge can inform investments and regulatory decision making; their students can provide the critical skills needed by…

This GRCx will explore the dramatic story of how expert volunteers with the sustainability advocacy group Green Newton persuaded and worked with housing developer Northland Investment Corp. to adopt and commit to rigorous, all-electric, Passive House certification for an 800-unit, mixed-use community called the Pattern District. The resulting residential buildings will be so efficient that…

Our next GRC Cultural Institutions Working Group (CIWG) All-Hands meeting is set for Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 5:30pm-7:15 pm at the New England Aquarium. It will include a reception with refreshments, opening remarks from GRC Director Amy Longsworth and New England Aquarium President & CEO Vikki Spruill, and featured speaker Alan Ricks, Founding Principal…

The Collaborative Climate Action Planning program shows that working together fosters climate progress & lasting change. Rapidly changing regulations that limit carbon emissions from large buildings in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston require adjustments to energy procurement, building plans, and site management of institutions across a range of sectors. The pace…

Large institutional property owners (higher education, health care, cultural institutions) play key roles in advancing climate action. They are major energy users and asset owners, investing in resilience and decarbonization on their own property; they invest in climate “applied R&D” that can be shared with others; and they are respected voices in climate policy deliberations. …

The Climate Beacon Conference is a new signature climate conference for the New England region. Built for and about practitioners of climate change solutions. Focused on opportunities for the region. Exploring and learning from models of thoughtful, successful implementation everywhere. The conference will convene experts and leaders around a common purpose: to share ideas across…

In August 2022, the United States enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allocated billions to grow the clean energy economy, spur private investment, revitalize manufacturing in the U.S., reduce costs for consumers, and address historic inequities and pollution that impact disadvantaged and vulnerable communities across the nation.  Now, as the IRA marks its one-year anniversary, the U.S. is…

On July 25, 2023, the GRC hosted our latest GRCx Innovation Tour at the Franklin Park Zoo, managed and operated by Zoo New England. Participants had the unique opportunity to see a Climate Action Plan come to life among the exhibits and operations across the Boston Franklin Park Zoo’s 72-acre site. A recent graduate of…

Climate change is actively harming human health — not in some distant future, but now, in communities around the globe. The more we understand these harms, the better we can confront and overcome them. That’s the goal of this symposium. We’re bringing together leading scientists, policy makers, and activists to examine our most urgent challenges…

Hosted by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University The new Institute serves as a fulcrum for collaboration across Harvard’s many areas of expertise, pursuing practical, real-world solutions that address all aspects of the climate crisis. The Symposium represents the first major event of the Salata Institute’s Climate Action Accelerator. The Accelerator will serve…