Events

Rare Conversations is a virtual salon series featuring live, engaging conversations between Rare staff experts and special guests that explore how behavioral insights are expanding the field of conservation.

Past Conversations have featured:

• Alizé Carrère
• Roberta Katz
• Leidy Klotz
• Julie Packard
• Robert Frank
• Sarah Stein Greenberg
• Ryland Engelhart
• Wendy Paulson & Paul Butler
• Staci Roberts-Steele
• Annie Ryu
• Sarah Lazarovic
• Ma Jun
• Heather McTeer Toney
• Markus Knigge
• Cheryl Contee

At Climate Week NYC, Rare’s team connected with business leaders, policymakers, investors, innovators, and civil society to accelerate localized, community-led climate solutions through finance, policy, tech, partnerships, and culture.

Visit https://rare.org/climate-week-nyc-2026/ to learn more.

The story of U.S. agriculture is a story that agroecologist Liz Carlisle thought she knew.

Moderated by Kristi Marciano, Manager of Marketing & Communications, Rare

Twelve miles off the coast of Virginia lies Tangier Island, a centuries-old fishing community known for supplying the world with the famous Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab. But climate change may make Tangier Island known for something else; scientists believe that by 2050, Tangier will have lost all of its habitable landmass to sea level rise, the first area within the United States to be completely eradicated by climate change.

Join us for an engaging author talk with Earl Swift on his 2018 book, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. We’ll walk alongside Swift as he details his time with the folks who, for generations, have called Tangier Island home. We’ll explore a community whose skepticism about the science of climate change and their connection to a more traditional way of life does not diminish their desire to save their home. Chesapeake Requiem is a portrait of a community caught in between the past and the present, doubt and hope, and courage and despair.

Moderated by Kristi Marciano, Manager of Marketing & Communications, Rare

A day spent discovering how behavioral insights can help tackle our biggest environmental challenges

On Tuesday, June 11, Rare hosted its fourth BE.Hive conference at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. The event brought together behavioral scientists, environmental practitioners, foundation officers, sustainable brand professionals and climate-conscious leaders from a range of sectors to explore people-centered environmental solutions and the measurable impact they can have. Nearly 300 people spent the day listening to spark talks, laughing at witticisms, and reflecting on what the community at the intersection of behavioral science and conservation has learned since the first BE.Hive gathering in 2019.

• Sakhile Silitshena, Head of Science, Policy and Governance at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
• Elma Kay, Managing Director of the Belize Maya Forest Corridor Trust
• Monica Varela, Vice President, Rare Colombia
• Kevin Green, Vice President, Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment