Harvard and City of Boston to Co-sponsor March 5 Conference on Green Cities President Faust, Mayor Menino and others to discuss “lessons from Boston”

Contact: David Luberoff
Phone: (617) 495-1346
Date: March 05, 2008

Cambridge, Mass. – Local efforts to respond to the threats posed by global climate change will be the focus of discussion Wednesday March 5 at a half-day conference co-sponsored by the city of Boston and Harvard University’s Center for the Environment, Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government.

“Green Cities: Lessons from Boston and Beyond” will take place from 8:30-11:30 am at the Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston. 

The conference will highlight and better connect four interrelated efforts:

  • Cutting-edge policies that the city of Boston has implemented to address climate change;
  • Research by two members of Harvard’s faculty on the importance and limitations of local efforts to address the issue;
  • Examples of environmentally sensitive development, in particular Harvard’s commitments to environmentally sensitive growth in Allston;
  • Related efforts by for-profit and non-profit entities in Boston.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Harvard University President Drew Faust will present opening remarks.

Presentations will be delivered by Daniel Schrag, professor of earth and planetary sciences, and director, Harvard Center for the Environment; Edward Glaeser, Glimp professor of economics, and director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government; and James W. Hunt, III chief of environmental and energy services, city of Boston. 

The event will end with a panel discussion featuring David Cash, Massachusetts assistant secretary for energy and environmental affairs; Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres; and Penn Loh, executive director of Alternatives for Community and Environment.  David T. Ellwood, dean, Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate and deliver closing remarks.

Journalists are welcome. Please RSVP by contacting David Luberoff by phone at: (617) 495-1346 or by email: david_luberoff@harvard.edu

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