JHIPH Convening on Technological Innovation to Address the Earth Crisis

Description

A convening will be held to bring together the engineering, data science, and the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) community with the new Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health (JHIPH) to discuss opportunities to tailor technological innovation to address the Earth crisis.

The field of planetary health has emerged in response to the fact that Earth's natural systems—climate, biodiversity, land use and cover, marine systems—are beginning to crumble under the weight of humanity's ecological footprint. Increasingly, this Earth crisis is driving a global humanitarian crisis, impacting every dimension of human health and threatening the habitability of many places people live. To safeguard a livable future for humanity and the rest of life on Earth will require transformational change in how we live across most sectors of human activity including energy and food production, urban design, and manufacturing. The JHIPH has been created to build community across Johns Hopkins University to address these human dimensions of the Earth crisis.

This convening will bring together members of the Johns Hopkins engineering and APL community with interests in innovations that help us reduce humanity's ecological footprint and chart a more sustainable course toward people and planetary systems functioning in harmony. These innovations may be focused on energy systems, food systems, manufacturing and circular economy, waste and pollution reduction, water resources, or cities and built environment—and other areas.