Climate Week at Penn will take place October 13-17. Now in its sixth year, Climate Week at Penn offers opportunities for every member of the Penn community to learn about and act on the climate crisis. The theme for 2025 is “Hot Spots,” be they literal (wildfires and extreme heat) or figurative (political, cultural, interpersonal, or scholarly hot topics). The Climate Week core organizing committee looks forward to working with partners across campus on this year’s lineup.

Highlights include:

• Stop by the Climate Week Tent for the 1.5* Minute Climate Lectures, where faculty and students will convey their personal and scholarly connections to climate change and environmental action.
• Attend a reception and ceremony honoring Edward Humes, the recipient of the Penn Libraries’ Book Prize in Sustainability and author of Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World, for outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability.
• Participate in Bee the Change: Climate Action to Support Bees, helping construct native bee hotels to support native bee populations while learning from Penn Vet faculty about bees’ responses to climate change.
• Vote for your favorite proposals to improve campus sustainability at Transform Penn, where students will pitch their ideas in a “Shark Tank”-style competition, the winners receiving mentorship to implement their ideas through Penn Sustainability’s Green Fund.
• Hear from Michael Mann, Director of Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, and Bill Nye the Science Guy in a conversation about the urgency of the climate crisis and how we can all take action.

See the full Climate Week calendar for additional events and the latest details.

*1.5 degrees Celsius=The maximum amount the average temperature can rise in order to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. We’re already past 1 degree Celsius.