MIT
Monday, September 27, 2010
Complex Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Speaker: Mar Reguant-Rido (MIT)
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: E62-650
Complex Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Web site: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/5938
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop (Sponsored by Analysis Group)
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Multiphase Models of Slag Layer Built-up in Solid Fuel Combustion
Speaker: Sze Zheng Yong
Time: 4:30p–5:30p
Location: 3-343
Center for Energy and Propulsion Research Seminar Series
All coals contain inorganic mineral matter and when burned, turn into an incombustible ash residue. In an entrained-flow coal combustor operating above ash fusion temperature, coal ash particles become molten and accumulate on the internal walls of the combustion chamber, changing heat transfer characteristics. Particles with combustibles may be captured by the slag layer and they will continue to burn at a different rate.
A steady-state model has been developed to describe the flow and heat transfer characteristics of slag. The model incorporates two submodels for particle capture and particle consumption; takes into consideration the temperature and composition dependent properties of slag, the contribution of momentum of captured particles and the possibility of slag resolidification. The presentation will cover the fundamentals of all submodels involved and some methods of implementing the model in a CFD framework.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): RGD Lab
For more information, contact:
Patrick Kirchen
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Engineers without Borders Fundraising Meeting
Time: 7:00p–8:00p
Location: 26-142
Engineers without Borders Fundraising Team Meeting
Web site: http://ewb.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Engineers Without Borders
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Heywood
rheywood@mit.edu
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Give Me Shelter Lecture Series: Laura Anderson Barbata
Speaker: Laura Anderson Barbata
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: E15-070
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology presents its Monday night lecture series, Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?
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This series draws together speakers from different disciplines to discuss questions such as: How can bodywear function as an extension of the human body and support it under unusual conditions such as hot and cold climates? How can we expand our thinking about the boundary between body and environment? What kind of second skin would be required to survive walking through a volcano, or for living under water or visiting outer space? When does clothing become a contested cultural arena for endangered peoples and their environment?
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Laura Anderson Barbata - Living in the Amazon: In the Order of Chaos
Laura Anderson Barbata worked with the Yanomami people of the Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest. Barbata taught them to make paper and books so they could write their own history. Their first bookShapono tells the story of the gods Omawe and Yoawe who taught the Yanomami how to build their home as a communal dwelling. In her work with the Yanomami people, she was witness to the fact that contact with outsiders brought challenges and problems for their traditional tight-knit communities. Barbata will also discuss Moko Jumbies. This project engages Haiti's at-risk youth in the ancient tradition of stilt walking in community-driven cultural activities that support a strong sense of identity.
Laura Anderson Barbata is a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Escultura, Pintura y Grabado La Esmeralda of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, M?xico.
Held at the MIT Bartos Theater (Lower Level of the Wiesner Building at 20 Ames Street)
Web site: act.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact:
Lisa Hickler
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: What Happened? Where do we go from here?
Speaker: Maria Zuber; Eric Adams; Liz Kujawinski; Alex Slocum; Jerry Milgram; Amy Glasmeier; Wyman Briggs; Earthea Nance; James Dien Bui ; Andrew Whittle; Nancy Leveson; Roland Pellenq; Kim Vandiver
Time: 1:30p–5:30p
Location: E14, 6th floor
The Macondo well, now known as the site of the nation's largest oil spill, erupted on April 22, 2010, approximately 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next 50 days, BP's oil platform, Deepwater Horizon, poured an estimated four million gallons of raw petroleum into the Gulf. Throughout the early days of the spill, accurate information in all forms was scarce, challenging a recovery response commensurate with the scale of the accident. With the well now capped, there is still incomplete information about the spill itself, as well as the temporal nature of and ecological consequences associated with the leaked oil. Also still uncalculated are the social costs that have been and will continue to be incurred by the thousands of individuals, businesses, and communities that make the Gulf coast their home.
On September 28, 2010 we will hold a forum to review what happened, and discuss how to move ahead and learn from the experience. The symposium will feature presentations on the nature of the spill and the role of information deficit in determining the state and federal government?s and public and private sectors? reactions to it.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT Energy Initiative; Center for Global Change Science
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Wealth Distribution and Human Capital: How Can Borrowing Constraints Shape Schooling Systems?
Speaker: Marti Mestieri (MIT)
Time: 4:15p–5:45p
Location: E52-244
Wealth Distribution and Human Capital: How Can Borrowing Constraints Shape Schooling Systems?
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Macro Seminar
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Democracy After Citizens United
Speaker: Lawrence Lessig
Time: 4:00p–6:00p
Location: E51-115
Boston Review Speaker Series
Lawrence Lessig speaks about the Supreme Court?s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which he believes will lead to further corruption of Congress by making legislators more dependent on special interests rather than on voters. Allison R. Hayward, John Bonifaz, and Gabriel Lenz join the discussion.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/polisci/research/boston%20review/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Political Science Department, Boston Review
For more information, contact:
Adriane Cesa
617-253-6194
acesa@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Macroscopic Models of Bandwidth Sharing Networks
Speaker: Bert Zwart
Time: 4:15p–5:15p
Location: E62-550
ORC Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives .
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Seminar reception immediately following.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact:
Allison Chang, Nikolaos Trichakis, Eric Zarybnisky
3-6185
aachang@mit.edu, nitric@mit.edu, ejz@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects
Speaker: Francisco Ricardo
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
Location: 4-231
CMS Colloquium Series
The CMS colloquium series provides an intimate and informal exchange between a visiting speaker and CMS faculty, students, visiting scholars and friends. Each week during the term, we host a figure from academia, industry, or the art world to speak about their work and its relation to our studies. These sessions are free, open to the public, and serve as an excellent introduction to our program.
One theme in the contemporary use of space involves the shift from production modeled around a physical, centralized "locus" to new virtual, extended and multi-axial modes of "projective" organization. We see this in new sculpture, new architecture, and, in electronic art, an expressive embrace of geographic dispersal. Although new materials, methods, and media have been central to modernist optimism, many of their resulting physical and actual constructions have been dismissed, discredited, misunderstood, or attacked. Using physical and virtual examples, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible.
Francisco Ricardo is media and contemporary art theorist. A Research Associate at the University Professors Program and co-director of the Digital Video Research Archive at Boston University, he also teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. His research examines historical, conceptual, and computational intersections between contemporary art and architecture, on one hand, and new media art and literature, on the other. Recent publications include Cyberculture and New Media (Rodopi, 2009) and Literary Art in Digital Performance (Continuum, 2009).
Web site: http://cms.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617.324.0490
cms@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Freakonomics (FREE sneak preview)
Speaker: MIT professor Joshua Angrist, film producer Chad Troutwine
Time: 6:30p
Location: 26-100
A FREE sneak preview!
Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): LSC
For more information, contact:
MIT Lecture Series Committee
617-253-3791
lsc@mit.edu
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Harvard
NOW? The Architecture of Natural Patterns / L. Mahadevan in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
WHEN
Mon., Sep. 27, 2010, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Room 112, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)
L. Mahadevan is the de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University; Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design
CONTACT INFO
bking@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK
www.gsd.harvard.edu
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How Expensive is Zero?
David Keith , Director, Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Department of Economics and ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group, University of Calgary
When:
Sep 28, 2010 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where:
Pierce Hall 209
David Keith will first describe technology for capturing CO2 from air being developed by Carbon Engineering a small start-up company he founded, and then use this experience to discuss the challenges of estimating the cost and performance of future technologies when government and industry need to make decisions about resource allocation. Finally, he will discuss NearZero, a project developing new tools and methods for eliciting and aggregating expert judgment about the cost and performance of low-carbon energy technologies.
For more information on David Keith: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~keith/index.html
Speaker Biography:
Professor Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology and public policy for twenty years. His work in technology and policy assessment has centered on the capture and storage of CO2, the technology and implications of global climate engineering, the economics and climatic impacts of large-scale wind power and, most recently, the land footprint of energy technologies. As a technology developer and innovator, David has built a high-accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA's ER-2 and developed new methods for reservoir engineering to increase the safety of stored CO2. Since 2009 David has led Carbon Engineering Ltd., a start-up company developing technology to capture CO2 from ambient air at an industrial scale.
Host:
HUCE
Contact:
Lisa Matthews
lisa_matthews@harvard.edu 617-495-8883
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Half the Sky: A Journalist Reports on Women Around the World
WHEN
Mon., Sep. 27, 2010, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
WHERE
Harvard Medical School
TMEC, Carl Walter Amp.
260 Longwood Ave, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Sponsored by the HMS Division of Medical Ethics
SPEAKER(S)
Nicholas D. Kristof
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
DME@hms.harvard.edu
NOTE
The 2010 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics/The Lawrence Lader Lecture on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights
Booksigning immediately following lecture.
No tickets required.
Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come. first-served basis.
LINK
medethics.med.harvard.edu
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"Education and Happiness," with Derek and Sissela Bok
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 28, 2010, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
TYPE OF EVENT
Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM
Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME
Amber Haskins
CONTACT EMAIL
askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE
617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT
Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Education
NOTE
Introduction by: Dean Kathleen McCartney
Moderator: Professor Howard Gardner
Panelists:
Derek Bok, president emeritus 1971-1991, 2006-2007, Harvard University,
300 Anniversary University Research Professor.
Sissela Bok, senior visiting fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health.
Derek and Sissela Bok will discuss the correlation between education and happiness applying themes from their recent books: The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being and Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science. Themes include how human happiness can and should be used to shape social policy, as well as the role of happiness in directing how we should lead our lives and treat one another.
Derek Bok has been a lawyer and Professor of Law, Dean of the Law School, and President of Harvard University. He has served as 300th Anniversary University Professor and since July 2003, serves as 300th Anniversary Research Professor. He has written six books on higher education, Beyond the Ivory Tower (1982), Higher Learning (1986), Universities and the Future of America (1990), The Shape of the River (1998), and Universities in the Marketplace (2003), and Our Underachieving Colleges (2006). He has also published Labor and the American Community (1970) and The Cost of Talent (1993) about how our executives and professionals are paid and why it matters. His research interests also include the adequacy of government in the United States in coping with the nation’s domestic problems. He published a book on this subject entitled The State of the Nation in 1996 and a sequel entitled The Trouble with Government in 2001. In 2010, he published a book calledThe Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the new Research on Well-Being. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the World Resources Institute, the University of Massachusetts, and Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1999, he became the National Chair of Common Cause, a position he held until 2006. He was Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for the study of nonprofit organizations from 2002-2008. He is presently Chair of the Spencer Foundation since 2001.
Sissela Bok, a writer and philosopher, was born in Sweden and educated in Switzerland and France. After marriage to Derek Bok, she came to the United States in 1955. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology at the George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph. D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1970. Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University, she is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. The third edition of her book Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life appeared in 1999 with a new Preface. Other books include Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (1982, 1989), A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (1989), Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir (1991), Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment (1998), Common Values (2002 ), and Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (2010). A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Common Knowledge, Criminal Justice Ethics, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has three children and four grand-children.
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Restoring Seoul's Cheonggyecheon River / The Tenth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 28, 2010, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE
Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Art/Design, Exhibitions, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO
bking@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE
Related to exhibit on view through Oct. 17: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/exhibitions/current.htm
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
LINK
www.gsd.harvard.edu
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Persuasion in a Climate of Uncertainty: Panel Discussion
WHEN
Wed., Sep. 29, 2010, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Geo. Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S)
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School; James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Bruce Gellerman, award-winning reporter and producer, Public Radio’s Living on Earth. Moderated by Allan Brandt, Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu
NOTE
Climate change, stem cell research, and environmental toxins and the workplace are some of the most hotly contested issues society today. Yet we often see a disconnect among scientists, policy makers, and the public when the evidence is enough to persuade experts, but is unconvincing to others. How can we foster productive discussion and resolution of critical issues when scientific knowledge is not complete? How much evidence is “enough” to support policy? What are the roles of scientists and the press in addressing these questions?
Explore this topic with: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School; James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Bruce Gellerman, award-winning reporter and producer, Public Radio’s Living on Earth. Moderated by Allan Brandt, Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Free and open to the public, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street.
LINK
www.hmnh.harvard.edu
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Urban Politics, Urban Security
WHEN
Wed., Sep. 29, 2010, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)
Neil Smith, director, Center for Place Culture and Politics
CONTACT INFO
bking@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE
Neil Smith was trained as a geographer, and his research explores the broad intersection between space, nature, social theory and history. He teaches in urban anthropology, cultural anthropology and environmental anthropology, and directs the Center for Place Culture and Politics. His environmental work is largely theoretical, focusing on questions of the production of nature. His urban interests include long term research on gentrification, including empirical work in North America and Europe and a series of theoretical papers emphasizing the importance of patterns of investment and disinvestment in the the real estate market. He also writes more broadly on New York City, focusing especially on the "revanchist city" which has filled the vacuum left in the wake of liberal urban theory.
LINK
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
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Science in the News' 11th Annual Free Lecture Series
Bots that Mimic Bugs: Flying, Crawling, and Squishy Robots
WHEN
Wed., Sep. 29, 2010, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE
Armenise Amphitheatre
Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Education, Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Sciences
CONTACT INFO
sitnboston@gmail.com
NOTE
Free weekly science seminars about today's hottest science topics.
LINK
sitn.hms.harvard.edu
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"Transparent Shanghai”: Cityscape, Vertical Montage, and a Left-Wing Culture of Glass
WHEN
Thu., Sep. 30, 2010, 12:15 p.m.
WHERE
CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation
SPEAKER(S)
Weihong Bao, Columbia University; An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
LINK
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/index.html
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The Next American Economy: Debating How To Spur Innovation, Growth, and Jobs
WHEN
Thu., Sep. 30, 2010, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Tsai Auditorium (S-010, Concourse Level), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Business, Conferences, Lecture, Social Sciences
SPEAKER(S)
Martin Baily, Brookings; Richard Freeman, Harvard; James K. Galbraith, UTAustin; Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute; Frank Levy, MIT; Theda Skocpol, Harvard
CONTACT INFO
Abby Peck: 617.496.0966, peck@wjh.harvard.edu, www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org
NOTE
What do the best projections tell us about growth, employment, and sources of economic innovation over the next one to two decades — and what can public policies do to spur improved outcomes for all Americans? The Scholars Strategy Network has commissioned four scholars and policy experts to present findings and debate policies.
Free and open to the public. Registration not required. Reception to follow.
LINK
http://scholarsstrategynetwork.org/events.html
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Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change: "Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Conservation through Intersection of Agendas"
WHEN
Thu., Sep. 30, 2010, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE
Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S)
Daniel H. Janzen, the Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Pennsylvania
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
617.495.0368
NOTE
Daniel H. Janzen, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, has received the MacArthur Fellowship, the Crafoord Prize, and the Kyoto Prize for his work in tropical biology and conservation. Janzen and his wife, Winnie Hallwachs, were instrumental in restoring the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, and have been working for the last 25 years to expand and endow it in perpetuity.
The Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. The lecture will be followed by a reception.
LINK
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/2010-09-30/biodiversity-ecology-and-global-change
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F.O.R.E.S.T
The Future of Energy
September 20 and October 1
About the workshop:
The F.O.R.E.S.T workshop seeks to explore scientific frontiers in pure and applied sciences and device engineering in areas potentially connected to energy technologies. A related goal is to create an opportunity for students/young scholars to present and discuss their work with leading researchers.
The 2010 F.O.R.E.S.T workshop program is available here: http://www.energy.harvard.edu/files/FOREST%202010%20Schedule%20JN.pdf
Registration:
Attendance at the workshop is free, but registration is required. Registration includes a continental breakfast and lunch both days of the workshop and drinks and hors d'oeuvres at the poster session on the evening of September 30. Please register on-line: http://www.energy.harvard.edu/events/forest-registration%20
Poster session:
There will be a poster session on the evening of September 30 for students/post-doctoral scholars working in topics connected to energy (broadly defined). If you are interested in presenting a poster, please send your name, complete contact information, and poster title to Brenda Hugot. Further details on the poster session will be sent to registered participants in the spring.
Speakers*
Katharina Al-Shamery, Carl von Ossietzky University (Germany)
C. Austen Angell, Arizona State University
Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology
Michael Aziz, Harvard University
Emily Carter, Princeton University
Gerd Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Henderson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Brian Holloway, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University
Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University/Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Joachim Maier, Max Planck Institute-Stuttgart (Germany)
Andrew Peterson, Stanford University
Fritz Prinz, Stanford University
Neil Renninger, Amyris CTO
Zhigang Suo, Harvard University
Harry Tuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jihui Yang, General Motors Research & Development
*partial list of confirmed speakers. Lineup is subject to change.
The F.O.R.E.S.T workshop is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. For technical questions about the workshop, contact Shriram Ramanathan.
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Biodiversity: Conserving Through Knowing
WHEN
Fri., Oct. 1, 2010, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)
E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; Daniel H. Janzen, University of Pennsylvania
COST
Free and open to the public; donations encouraged
NOTE
At 8 p.m., a benefit dinner with Wilson and Janzen supporting conservation in
Costa Rica will take place at UpStairs on the Square. Find out more
at http://www.gdfcf.org/fr_cambridge.html for tickets visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/122701
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BU
Presidential Lecture on Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Arun Majumdar
Director, Advanced Projects Research Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
US Department of Energy
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Photonics Building
8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA
Seating is limited. Please Register: http://www.bu.edu/energy/events/pres-lectures/registration-majumdar/
“ARPA-E: Addressing the Sputniks of our Generation”
The report “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” proposed the creation of ARPA-E, which was later authorized and appropriated by Congress. The report suggested ARPA-E to be modeled after DARPA, which was created in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik. It was then felt that the US had lost its technological lead. The US now faces three Sputnik-like challenges: (a) energy security; (b) US technological lead; and (c) greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. In many cases, we as a nation are lagging behind and need to change course with fierce urgency. ARPA-E’s goal is to help catalyze this change by attracting the best minds to focus on the major technical challenges in this field and by stimulating technical and the entrepreneurial community to innovate on energy technologies. While ARPA-E is adopting many of the best practices from DARPA, there are key differences between the defense and energy sectors of our economy, which must be recognized in ARPA-E’s design. This talk will provide some thoughts of how we are putting its “DNA” together, and an outlook for the future.
Arun Majumdar became the first Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), the country’s only agency devoted to transformational energy research and development, in October 2009.
Prior to joining ARPA-E, Majumdar was the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His highly distinguished research career includes the science and engineering of energy conversion, transport, and storage ranging from molecular and nanoscale level to large energy systems. In 2005, Majumdar was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for this pioneering work.
At Berkeley Labs and UC Berkeley, Majumdar helped shape several strategic initiatives in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy storage. He also testified before Congress on how to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Majumdar has also served on the advisory committee of the National Science Foundation’s engineering directorate, was a member of the advisory council to the materials sciences and engineering division of the Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences, and was an advisor on nanotechnology to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Additionally, Majumdar – also an entrepreneur – has served as an advisor to startup companies and venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1985 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
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Other
Peeling Away: How Some Online Newsrooms Are Pulling Away from the Pack
Sep27Mon 6:00 PM
Location
Boston Globe
135 Morrissey Blvd.
Dorchester, MA 02108
Who's hosting?
Matthew S Carroll
A panel discussion with:
Lisa Williams, MIT Media Lab fellow and CEO of Placeblogger, the largest searchable index of local weblogs, will talk about the changing landscape for local news startups. Placeblogger now tracks thousands of grassroots, independent local news sites. But are these sites filling the gap left by traditional newsrooms? Ms. Williams will discuss how startup news sites are changing and which ones are beginning to dig deeper.
Robert Kempf: As vice president for product and technology at Boston.com, as well as the Your Town hyper local initiative, Kempf is responsible for product strategy and development in support of editorial, revenue and community initiatives. Since joining the company in 2006 he has led site redesign, local search, real estate, community, hyper local, mobile and video product launches – all in support of the site’s overall strategic mission to grow local reach.
Greg Reibman is vice president of Content, Development and Partnerships for GateHouse Media New England's network of 161 Wicked Local and eight daily and regional sites. He is also publisher of 18 GateHouse-owned newspapers in Greater Boston, including the Cambridge Chronicle, Somerville Journal, Brookline TAB, Newton TAB and Waltham News Tribune. He was previously a deputy managing editor at the Boston Herald.
Liz Taurasi is the first regional editor for Patch.com in the Boston area. An award-winning editor and reporter, hyper-local community journalism has been Liz's passion for as far back as she can remember. In her 19-year journalism career, Liz has worked for several community newspapers as a reporter, editor and assistant managing editor. A winner of two first place New England Press Association Awards for her reporting and column writing, Liz is also proud to be a member of a team which captured two FOLIO Eddie Gold Awards, including one for online content, as well as a Jesse H. Neal Award. After a four-year stint in magazine publishing, as executive editor for Reed Business Information's Design News Liz is back to her roots and looking forward to working with some of the brightest local editors Massachusetts has to offer.
Moderator: Dan Kennedy Dan's blog, Media Nation, tracks what is happening in the news media throughout Massachusetts and beyond. He is an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, specializing in new-media trends. He also writes a weekly online column for The Guardian’s Comment is Free America section, and was a finalist for a Syracuse University Mirror Award in media commentary in both 2008 and 2009.
Time: 6-8 p.m.
6-7 is general schmoozing (great time to meet interesting people).
7-8 is panel discussion.
Directions: http://bostonglobe.com/aboutus/career/career.aspx?id=7112
(btw, plenty of parking at the Globe and easy walk from Red Line's JFK/UMass stop.
Contact: http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/calendar/14621915/?eventId=14621915&action=detail
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Mon Sep 27
PechaKucha Boston 19
Mantra, 52 Temple Pl, Boston (near Park St T)
Doors open at 6p for drinks and chit chat. Talks start at 630p.
The event is free and open to the public. Cash bar.
RSVP is optional to help PechaKucha Boston team estimate event attendance. RSVP on Facebook or email rsvp@pechakuchaboston.org
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Party with Click & Clack and Cambridge Local First!
We would like to invite you to "Think Local, Be Local, Party Local" for Cambridge Local First's 5th annual business directory launch party.
Come party with NPR's Car Talk hosts, Click and Clack, Tom and Ray Magliozzi as we celebrate Cambridge being designated as the nation's first "Local Economy Community." We will have new 2011 business directories available, great food, and prizes!
When: September 27, 2010
Starting at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Ole Mexican Restaurant on 11 Springfield St. in Inman Square
Refreshments: Hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
Free and open to all
All attendees are eligible to win great prizes including:
Gift Certificate for brunch for two for Upstairs on the Square
$50 gift certificate from Cambridge Naturals
Unlimited Coffee for one person for a week at 1369 Coffee House
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Monday September 27, 2010 — 7pm at Middlesex Lounge (note earlier start time!)
315 Mass Ave, Cambridge
In Central Square
Talk 1: “Computational Couture: Clothing for the Techy Fashionista”
By Ada Brunstein
Talk 2: “Pigeons: The surprising story of the birds you love to hate”
by Courtney Humphries
Talk 3: “Tricks of the Trade: Using Your Stuff Better”
by Tim Lillis
Got a question about Nerdnite? Have an idea for a talk? Send us an email using the alluring “contact” tab at http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 06:00 PM
Boston Area Sustainability Group Networking Event
Our networking events create a relaxed and casual atmosphere where sustainability professionals come together every other month to exchange experiences, knowledge and ideas. We generally have about two guest speakers who give the group informal presentations relative to their niche in sustainability. Presentations are followed by a few hours of open networking and cocktails with some of Boston’s most prominent figures in sustainability and green practices. We have a great speaker lined up for you: John Katovich founded the Katovich Law Group in 2002, committed to responsible business development and assisting clients in integrating sustainable, social and environmentally responsible practices into their businesses at every level, while pursuing efforts to bring sustainable concepts into the capital markets. And our usual mix of a great venue and great networking!
Closing date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 12:00PM
http://www.basg.org/events.html
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“Home”, 4th screening in an Environmental Film series
WHEN: September 29, 2010, beginning at 6:30pm
WHERE: Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Lecture Hall; on Lowest level (L2 in elevator)
*A FREE event, with light refreshments provided*
Home, produced by French cinematographer Yann Arthus‐Bertrand. For viewers whose eyes glaze over at descriptions of the way Earth recycles energy and matter, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of that complex process.” ‐‐Tom Keogh
Co‐sponsored by the Cambridge Renewable Energy Action Team (CREATe), the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA), the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA), the Office of the Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis, and Cambridge Green Decade
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2nd Massachusetts Green Career Conference
"Find Your Role in the New Green Economy"
October 1, 2010 | Holiday Inn | Marlborough, MA
Full Conference Details at www.MassGreenCareers.com
THE CONFERENCE
Massachusetts is greening its economy and its workforce. The Massachusetts Green Career Conference strives to answer the timely question "What is my role in the new, green economy?" by showcasing experts and exhibitors who provide green career guidance, a forum for stakeholders (government, businesses, colleges, individuals), current news from business & industry experts, and networking opportunities.
THE OBJECTIVES
l Learn from leading experts about current and prospective green careers.
l Network with professionals and companies that are hiring
l Go home with knowledge and resources on green jobs and training.
THE EXHIBITORS
l Businesses That Are Hiring - Small to Corporate Businesses
l Education/Training - Universities, Colleges, Training programs
l Careers - Services and Resources
Businesses are accepting resumes at the conference for these positions and more: Administrative Assistant l Business and Home Energy Advisors l Customer Service Assistant l Customer Service Representative Spanish/English Bilingual l Electrical Energy Specialists l Employment Specialist lEnergy Efficiency Analysts l Interns with Backgrounds in Environmental Sicience/Biology/Chemistryl Journeyman l Marketing Associate l Project Engineer/Analyst l Professors/Teachers/Trainers for Energy & Sustainability Programs l Technical Support Consultants with Experience l Weatherization and Insulation Technicians/Installers/Crew Leaders... More info at www.MassGreenCareers.com.
THE PRESENTERS
Thirty-five leading experts from education, business and government sectors. More info at www.MassGreenCareers.com.
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NESEA's Green Buildings Open House Tour
Make your plans now to join us on October 2nd for the annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH). NESEA's Green Buildings Open House is the largest sustainable energy event in the Northeastern US, from Maine to Pennsylvania. It operates in conjunction with the American Solar Energy Society's (ASES) National Solar Tour and helps to kick off National Energy Awareness Month.
For the past 14 years, the Green Buildings Open House program has inspired thousands of individuals to learn about and implement energy efficient and renewable energy solutions in their homes. The goal of the GBOH event is to enable participants to see, firsthand, energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in their communities and motivate them to adopt similar solutions for their own homes. At host sites, participants are able to talk with home and business owners, ask questions, and see how their renewable energy technologies actually work. GBOH also connects building owners and managers with professionals who can provide them with sustainable energy services or energy efficiency retrofits.
In 2009, more than 15,000 people toured over 500 Green Buildings Open House host sites throughout the Northeast, including homes, businesses, and public buildings. 71 local volunteer organizers, including representatives from NESEA chapters, local and regional energy organizations, and municipal energy committees collaborated with NESEA to promote this event in local media and through organizations in their area. NESEA builds a database of host sites that can be searched by energy efficiency and renewable energy building features and by geographic area, allowing visitors to choose what interests them.
As host sites register, detailed information and photos of the buildings' innovative energy features are posted, providing an ongoing educational tool. A study by the American Solar Energy Society found that participation in this program increased the likelihood that attendees would invest in energy efficiency and/or clean energy measures by 24%, from 54% to 78%, matching our goal of bringing these measures into everyday use and thereby increasing our region's adoption of clean energy and energy efficiency.
All participating houses in MA: http://www.nesea.org/openhouse/listings/?feature=&fuel=&state=MA&submit=GO
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Saturday, October 2
11 am to 5 pm
Sustainable Business Network (SBN), in collaboration with many community groups and local businesses, is presenting the first-ever Boston Local Food Festival, to be held on Saturday, October 2, 2010, on the historic Boston waterfront at Boston Children's Museum Plaza in Fort Point Channel. This zero waste event will be a delicious outdoor celebration of the many health and economic benefits of eating locally grown food.
The festival will feature freshly harvested produce, delicious dishes created with locally grown ingredients, and take-away from Made in Massachusetts producers. Participants will be able to meet local farmers, interact with local Boston restaurant chefs, check out a "Fishstock", featuring a fish "Throwdown" competition and demonstrations, and sample local beer. Other activities include health and fitness activities, urban gardening exhibits, chef and butchering demonstrations, kids activities, local music, and a variety of workshops.The most important objective of the Boston Local Food Festival is to increase accessibility and availability ofhealthy local food for all. Massachusetts eaters of all ages, races, and socio-economic levels will be able to see, taste, and appreciate the variety of healthy, ethnic, and delicious food choices that local specialty crops and products make available to them in their own back yards. We anticipate festival participants to come from the Greater Boston area, and extending throughout Massachusetts into other New England states.
This unique festival will bring Massachusetts farms together with individuals and families from diverse backgrounds, organizations, businesses and local food advocates in an informative and fun way. Join us on October 2, 2010, and enjoy luscious local food and support our farmers and food entrepreneurs!
http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/
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Greenport will be tabling on Saturday Oct 2 at 2:00 PM at Dana Park in conjunction with "If This House Could Talk". We'll be highlighting the potential effects of rises in sea level on Cambridgeport. If you are able to help, please contact Steve Wineman at swineman@gis.net.
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Upcoming
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--EXCHANGE FREE EFFICIENT LIGHT BULBS IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE
SUNDAY 10/10/10, 1-5:00 p.m.,
followed by potluck dinner, open to all
MEET AT CAMBRIDGE COHOUSING,
175 RICHDALE AVE.
MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS. HAND THEM A GIFT
WE WILL GO DOOR TO DOOR AND EXCHANGE compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs for inefficient incandescent bulbs. Each CFL bulb exchanged SAVES $60 in electricity costs over its lifetime. Exchanging 20 bulbs saves OVER 8 TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE. Free CFL’s provided by Cambridge Energy Alliance.
JOIN THOUSANDS OF GROUPS WORLDWIDE and participate in the Global Work Party on climate change—see www.350.org
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! You must sign up at either
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dC1RS25Jb2VXMl9KVjhBMk1PNk1hV0E6MQ
or by e-mailing heet.cambridge@gmail.com
COSPONSORS: Cambridge Cohousing, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group, Home Energy Efficiency Teams (HEET), Richdale Neighborhood Association
FOR MORE INFORMATION, Contact Robin Finnegan rfinnegan@comcast.net or John_MacDougall@uml.edu
HEET is also looking for Cambridge non-profits who need weatherization for upcoming barnraisings.
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Thursday, October 14
Boston Area Solar Energy Association
The BASEA forums are held September through May, the second Thursday of each month, at the 1st Parish Unitarian Church, #3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge.
A reception begins at 7:00 p.m., with the program beginning at 7:30 p.m.
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Ongoing
What happens when an artist finds a new source of energy?
"Park Spark" Project by Matthew Mazzotta
Turning Dog Waste into Energy
First public methane digester for dogs in the world is in Cambridge!
Location: Pacific Street Park (Sidney St. between Pacific and Tudor), Cambridge
Dates: August 25 - September 25, 2010
www.parksparkproject.com
The Cambridge Arts Council invites you to visit and participate in the Park Spark Project - a scientific-art intervention that transforms dog waste into energy. Artist Matthew Mazzotta has installed the first Dog Park Methane Digester in the United States at Pacific Street Park in Cambridge. As dog owners dispose of their pet's waste in the Park Spark Digester, it creates a steady stream of burnable methane gas that powers an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in the park.
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Resource
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project
http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
This is a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation.
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Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
MIT Energy Club Calendar http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
Harvard Green Events http://green.harvard.edu/events
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
MIT
Monday, September 20, 2010
Give Me Shelter Lecture Series: Regina Maria Moeller
Speaker: Regina Maria Moeller
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: E15-070
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology presents its Monday night lecture series, Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?
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This series draws together speakers from different disciplines to discuss questions such as: How can bodywear function as an extension of the human body and support it under unusual conditions such as hot and cold climates? How can we expand our thinking about the boundary between body and environment? What kind of second skin would be required to survive walking through a volcano, or for living under water or visiting outer space? When does clothing become a contested cultural arena for endangered peoples and their environment?
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Regina Maria Moeller - com(ment)ic: wondersuits, fast skin, Poison Ivy
Comic superheroes dress in hightech suits with magic powers. Are these "wondersuits" fictional? Or have they become models for current "second" skin developments, including survival and performance enhancement suits worn by astronauts, athletes, and others? Regina Maria Moeller will also discuss the power of nature as personified by the DC Comics supervillainess Poison Ivy, a key figure in her exhibition embodiment - dress plot.
Regina Maria Moeller is a German artist, author, founder of the magazine regina, and creator of the label "embodiment." She is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art / Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Held at the MIT Bartos Theater (Lower Level of the Wiesner Building at 20 Ames Street)
Web site: http://act.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact:
Lisa Hickler 617-253-5229 act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Energy Policy Seminar Series presents John Lassiter
Speaker: John Lassiter, Harvard Business School
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: Bell Hall Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge
Harvard Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Building Green Businesses: Issues in Entrepreneurial Finance."
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, Harvard University Center for the Environment
For more information, contact:
Louisa Lund louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture: Energy Innovation at Scale
Speaker: Steven Koonin, Under Secretary of Science, US Dept. of Energy
Time: 2:00p–3:00p
Location: 32-123
Hoyt C. Hottel Lectureship
Dr. Steven E. Koonin was confirmed by the Senate on May 19, 2009 as the second Undersecretary for Science in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Koonin brings to the post a distinguished career as a university professor and administrator at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as well as experience in industry.
In 1985, Dr. Koonin received the Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award and, in 1998 the Deparment of Energy's E. O. Lawrence Award for " his broad impact on nuclear many-body physics, on astrophysics, and on a variety of related fields where sophisticated numerical methods are essential; and in particular, for his breakthrough in nuclear shell model calculations centered on an ingenious method for dealing ,with the huge matrices of heavy nuclei by using path integral methods combined with the Monte Carlo technique." He was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/hottel/index_2010.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering Department
For more information, contact:
Melanie Miller 617-253-6500 melmils@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Short and long-term climatic impacts on water circulation in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
Speaker: Jason Antenucci
Time: 2:30p–3:30p
Location: 48-316
Environmental Fluid Mechanics / Hydrology Seminar Series
weekly presentations from local and international researchers.
Abstract:
Lake Tanganyika, located in east Africa, is the second largest lake in the world and an important sentinel of climate change over a range of timescales. The stability of the lake has increased due to local warming, dramatically altering the circulation in the lake such that fisheries catches are now a fraction of past values. In this study, we investigated the lake circulation using a combination of field measurements, scaling analysis and numerical modelling. We demonstrate that the dominant large-scale circulation pattern during the southeast monsoonal trade winds is a southwards, upwind, flow in the upper region of the water column. This is in the opposite direction to all prior literature available on the lake, which has assumed that the southeast trade winds must drive a northwards surface flow due to momentum induced by the wind. We demonstrate that the latitudinal variation in buoyancy flux due to the latitudinal variability in wind speed and relative humidity is strong enough to drive a convective flow in the opposite direction to the wind. We postulate how this circulation has changed over the past 100 years based on historical measurements dating back to the 19th Century, and in particular the implications for vertical mixing, primary productivity and fisheries.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Sheila Anderson sherah@mit.edu
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September 23
4:00–6:00 pm
MIT E19-623
The Earth’s Energy Draws From the Sun; Is There Good News From Solar-in, Solar-out?
Daniel Nocera, Professor of Energy in MIT's Chemistry department
Editorial Comment: Nocera and his team are working on a catalytic conversion of water to oxygen and hydrogen which may result in an affordable way to provide electricity and combustible fuels on a decentralized basis.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
Speaker: Fox Harrell
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
Location: E14-633
CMS Colloquium Series
The CMS colloquium series provides an intimate and informal exchange between a visiting speaker and CMS faculty, students, visiting scholars and friends. Each week during the term, we host a figure from academia, industry, or the art world to speak about their work and its relation to our studies. These sessions are free, open to the public, and serve as an excellent introduction to our program.
Professor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems.
In particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related types of expressive digital media. In this talk, he will discuss his recent works and collaborations including the "Living Liberia Fabric," an AI-based interactive video documentary produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia to memorialize 14 years of civil war, "Generative Visual Renku," an AI-based form of generative animation, and several other projects.
Harrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project "Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." He is currently completing a book, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, for the MIT Press. Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Comparative Media Studies, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
Web site: http://cms.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre 617.324.0490 cms@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
"Cultures of War" Book Talk by Professor John Dower
Speaker: Professor John Dower
Time: 6:00p–8:00p
Location: W20-306, Student Center, Twenty Chimneys
Professor John Dower will speak about his new book "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and Iraq". Copies of "Cultures of War" will be available for signing following the talk.
John W. Dower, author of Cultures of War, has also written Embracing Defeat (winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), War without Mercy (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as many other books on Japan. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT and founder/co-director of the online Visualizing Cultures project, established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Center for International Studies, MIT Japan Program, Japan Society of Boston
For more information, contact:
Michelle Kern 617-258-8208 mkern@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Life 2.0 (FREE admission, with professor Sherry Turkle and director Jason Spingarn-Koff)
Speaker: Sherry Turkle, Jason Spingarn-Koff
Time: 7:30p
Location: 32-123
FREE Admission!
Life 2.0 will be followed by a short talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle, and a Q&A session with director Jason Spingarn-Koff. Sponsored by the Knight Science Journalism Program.
Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Tickets: 32-123
Sponsor(s): LSC
For more information, contact:
LSC 617-253-3791 lsc@mit.edu
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Friday, September 24, 2010
International Development Fair
Time: 1:00p–3:00p
Location: Student Street / Stata Center
The 9th annual International Development Fair provides incoming and continuing MIT students, recent graduates and members of the MIT community an opportunity to become engaged in international development through student groups, non-profit organizations, academic course offerings and other activities on and around MIT's campus.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/idi
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): International Development Initiative, The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
For more information, contact:
Laura Sampath 617-253-7052 lsampath@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: This is always a great event and a chance to meet the MIT student and faculty groups working on international development issues.
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Harvard
Europe’s View on International Climate Policy
WHEN
Mon., Sep. 20, 2010, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE
Nye ABC, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Energy Policy Distinguished Speaker Lunch, Sponsored by The Harvard Project on International Climate
SPEAKER(S)
Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Trudi_Bostian@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE
Please RSVP to Trudi_Bostian@hks.harvard.edu
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Hacking the Casebook: The H20 Development Team
Tuesday, September 21, 12:00 pm **Please note earlier start time for this week only**
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor Cambridge, MA
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:00 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast).
Traditional law school casebooks are expensive, bulky and stagnant. With the support of the HLS Library, Berkman has been updating our suite of classroom tools, H2O, to create an online alternative to casebooks that are free, online and remixable. H2O includes our new tool Collage for editing down and annotating cases, Playlists for aggregating materials, the Question Tool for in-classroom back channel, and the Rotisserie for out-of-class discussion. In this lunch we'll demo some of the tools (all still in alpha) and show how Jonathan Zittrain's Torts class is using them this term.
About H20
H2O is an open source, educational exchange platform that explores powerful ways to connect professors, students, and researchers online. There are four tools within the H2O platform: the Question tool, the Rotisserie, Playlists and Collage.
The question tool is an organized backchannel for conferences and classes that allows participants to submit, answer, and vote on questions. It’s an effective way to keep feedback focused, direct speakers to audience interests, and potentially prevent the mic from being hijacked by that weirdo.
Rotisserie discussions represent an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that that traditional threaded messaging systems do not, in the process solving some of the universal complaints about online discussion boards: that the substance of discussions is poor, that participants post quickly rather than thoughtfully, that participation is uneven (most people lurk, and a few posters dominate the rest), and that discussion forums are segregated into balkanized communities of people with similar thoughts and beliefs.
An H2O playlist is a shared list of readings (links to books and articles) and other content about a topic of intellectual interest. It is a simple yet powerful way to group and exchange useful links to information -- online and offline. It can be used as a syllabus or reading list for a class. The playlist items can then be remixed by other authors, lending influence to the items themselves and their original contributors.
Finally, Collage is the newest tool being added to the H2O platform. Collage is an annotation engine for online materials. It allows for tagging text, annotating it, and hiding portions of text without changing the original document.
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Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: A Conversation about the President’s Cancer Panel Report
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 21, 2010, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE
John Chipman Gray Room, 2nd floor, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Silent Spring Institute, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Commonweal
SPEAKER(S)
Margaret Kripke, President's Cancer Panel
COST
Free
NOTE
Join the conversation about the President's Cancer Panel's groundbreaking report, "Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now." Learn about how the panel selected this controversial topic, evaluated the evidence, and reached its conclusions in the face of uncertainty.
LINK
http://www.silentspring.org/support-our-work/events/presidents-cancer-panel-comes-harvard-law-school-september-21-2010
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Ending Homelessness
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 21, 2010, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Malkin Penthouse, 5th floor of Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Classes/Workshops, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Taubman Center for State and Local Government
SPEAKER(S)
Moderated by Julie Boatright Wilson, senior lecturer and director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Panel includes
Lyndia Downie, president and executive director, Pine Street Inn
Philip Mangano, president and CEO, The American Roundtable to End Homelessness
Geraldine McCafferty, director of housing, City of Springfield, MA
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Heather Marie Vitale: heather_marie_vitale@hks.harvard.edu
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The Future of Energy: "Energy Innovation at Scale"
Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, US Dept of Energy
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 21, 2010, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Science Center D
One Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S)
Steven Koonin, under secretary for science, U.S. Department of Energy
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
Brenda Hugot: 617.496.1788, bhugot@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE
The under secretary for science plays a key role in defining and enabling science programs that knit the U.S. Department of Energy together and lead to significant energy and security research efforts. In this role, Steven E. Koonin acts as the department’s chief research officer, identifying synergies and gaps in research programs, looking after the health of National Laboratory activities, and ensuring that sound science and technology underpin everything the Department does. In addition, William F. Brinkman, director of the Office of Science, reports to Koonin. Together they set science’s strategic direction, help resolve the more difficult operational problems, and ensure its connectivity within and outside the department.
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
LINK
http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2010-09-21/future-energy
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BU
AN OVERVIEW OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Monday, September 20, 2010
Martin Melosi (History, University of Houston)
Bruce Podobnik (Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College)
Cutler Cleveland (Geography and Environment, Boston University)
Boston University School of Management Room 424 between 10:00am and 12:30pm.
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Tufts
Wicked Digital Dilemmas: Unintended Consequences and Hidden Opportunities in the Democratized Digital Age
September 23, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Speaker: Jeff Weekley, Naval Postgraduate School
Host: Sara Su
Abstract
This talk will focus on two areas of emerging concern in Information Technology: our seemingly brittle individual and societal relationships to the digital data we now produce on an ever-increasing scale; and the implications of ubiquitous computing for a carbon-constrained world. We will examine the historical role of archives and libraries and compare that to contemporary digital data preservation. Bits are notoriously ephemeral, yet we all dive enthusiastically into the digital future without perhaps stopping to ask some important questions. Also, as more and more people gain access to the digital revolution, we will discuss the risk that we are creating a digital "Tragedy of the Commons" by exporting our carbon-intense digital habits to the entire world. We'll look behind the computer screen to try to understand the implications of our digital lifestyles in a carbon-constrained world and ask if that approach is sustainable and scaleable. We will examine how technology might be part of the problem, but also how it might ultimately help us solve the problem of global climate change. Finally, we'll talk about new techniques that are emerging for solving some of the world's oldest and most intractable problems, such as piracy (no, not digital piracy...real swashbuckling pirates on the high seas) and the broad societal collapse that causes it.
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Other
09/21/10 - Tech Tuesday
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Cambridge, MA
Event Details
Where? Microsoft's NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge overlooking the Boston skyline. Easily reached on the T at Kendall (Red Line), there is also parking in the building.
What? Join your fellow geeks, tech savvy professionals, DIY-ers, press, and other industry luminaries for this informal gathering. Bring your laptops, robots, OLPC XO's, Amazon Kindles, new cell phones, gadgets, and other new-fangled devices. Got a great demo or YouTube clip? Bring it! LCD projector and wi-fi will be available for ad hoc show and tell. This event is free!
This month we will be celebrating the region's digital game industry - bring your games, or come play others!
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/750358342
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Greenport Forum
PLENITUDE: The Path to a Small Scale, Ecologically Light Economy
Presented by Author and Economist Juliet B. Schor
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 at 7pm
Livable Streets Office, 100 Sidney Street, Cambridge
At a moment of ecological and financial crisis, bestselling author and economist Juliet B. Schor presents a revolutionary strategy for transitioning toward a richer, more balanced life. The economic downturn that has accompanied the ecological crisis has led to another type of scarcity: incomes, jobs, and credit are also in short supply. Our usual way back to growth-a debt-financed consumer boom- is no longer an option our households, or planet, can afford.
Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts - nature, community, intelligence, and time - Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.
Juliet B. Schor is the author of Plenitude, Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics department, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is also a cofounder of the Center for a New American Dream.
contact Steve Morr-Wineman at swineman@gis.net
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9/22/2010
Discussion/Signing - Susan Leal
Running Out of Water The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource.
While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is that the availability of this essential element is declining. Global warming creates moonscapes where there were once snow-packed mountains. Population growth has pushed demand, straining our current supply almost ensuring that water will become as coveted as oil in the twenty-first century. As the water supply declines, there are critical questions to answer: Can we learn to conserve? Can we find ways to renew this resource? Do we have the political will to act wisely before it is too late?
Time: 07:00 PM-08:00 PM
Location: Harvard Coop, Level 3, Harvard Square
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Control Issues
A selection of video work from "To the Elements! – Aesthetic Phenomena of Climate Change"
Curated by Alfons Hug
Exhibition 9/17 – 10/24/10
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
551 Tremont Street, Boston
Admission free
Info: +1 (617) 426-8835 or
millsgallery@bcaonline.org
The Artists:
Eugenio Ampudia
Simon Faithfull
Laura Glusman
Shin Kiwoun
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Reynold Reynolds
Michael Sailstorfer/Jürgen Heinert
Guido van der Werve
Exhibition opening:
Wednesday, September 22, 6 PM
followed by the first film screening @ 7 PM
Film Screenings:
Wednesdays @ 7 PM
September 22: Above Water
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The Green Neighbor’s
Codman Sq. Energy Fair
At the Second Church in Dorchester, 600 Washington St. in the Codman Square section of Dorchester
Saturday, September 25th, 10:00 AM – 2:00PM
Open at 9:00AM for set up.
Editorial Comment: The editor will be doing solar workshops at this event.
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Upcoming
Mon Sep 27
PechaKucha Boston 19
Mantra, 52 Temple Pl, Boston (near Park St T)
Doors open at 6p for drinks and chit chat. Talks start at 630p.
The event is free and open to the public. Cash bar.
RSVP is optional to help PechaKucha Boston team estimate event attendance. RSVP on Facebook or email rsvp@pechakuchaboston.org
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“Home”, 4th screening in an Environmental Film series
WHEN: September 29, 2010, beginning at 6:30pm
WHERE: Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Lecture Hall; on Lowest level (L2 in elevator)
*A FREE event, with light refreshments provided*
Home, produced by French cinematographer Yann Arthus‐Bertrand. For viewers whose eyes glaze over at descriptions of the way Earth recycles energy and matter, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of that complex process.” ‐‐Tom Keogh
Co‐sponsored by the Cambridge Renewable Energy Action Team (CREATe), the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA), the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA), the Office of the Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis, and Cambridge Green Decade
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2nd Massachusetts Green Career Conference
"Find Your Role in the New Green Economy"
October 1, 2010 | Holiday Inn | Marlborough, MA
Full Conference Details at http://www.MassGreenCareers.com
THE CONFERENCE
Massachusetts is greening its economy and its workforce. The Massachusetts Green Career Conference strives to answer the timely question "What is my role in the new, green economy?" by showcasing experts and exhibitors who provide green career guidance, a forum for stakeholders (government, businesses, colleges, individuals), current news from business & industry experts, and networking opportunities.
THE OBJECTIVES
l Learn from leading experts about current and prospective green careers.
l Network with professionals and companies that are hiring
l Go home with knowledge and resources on green jobs and training.
THE EXHIBITORS
l Businesses That Are Hiring - Small to Corporate Businesses
l Education/Training - Universities, Colleges, Training programs
l Careers - Services and Resources
Businesses are accepting resumes at the conference for these positions and more: Administrative Assistant l Business and Home Energy Advisors l Customer Service Assistant l Customer Service Representative Spanish/English Bilingual l Electrical Energy Specialists l Employment Specialist lEnergy Efficiency Analysts l Interns with Backgrounds in Environmental Sicience/Biology/Chemistryl Journeyman l Marketing Associate l Project Engineer/Analyst l Professors/Teachers/Trainers for Energy & Sustainability Programs l Technical Support Consultants with Experience l Weatherization and Insulation Technicians/Installers/Crew Leaders... More info at www.MassGreenCareers.com.
THE PRESENTERS
Thirty-five leading experts from education, business and government sectors. More info at http://www.MassGreenCareers.com.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--EXCHANGE FREE EFFICIENT LIGHT BULBS IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE
SUNDAY 10/10/10, 1-5:00 p.m.,
followed by potluck dinner, open to all
MEET AT CAMBRIDGE COHOUSING,
175 RICHDALE AVE.
MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS. HAND THEM A GIFT
WE WILL GO DOOR TO DOOR AND EXCHANGE compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs for inefficient incandescent bulbs. Each CFL bulb exchanged SAVES $60 in electricity costs over its lifetime. Exchanging 20 bulbs saves OVER 8 TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE. Free CFL’s provided by Cambridge Energy Alliance.
JOIN THOUSANDS OF GROUPS WORLDWIDE and participate in the Global Work Party on climate change—see www.350.org
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! You must sign up at either
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dC1RS25Jb2VXMl9KVjhBMk1PNk1hV0E6MQ
or by e-mailing heet.cambridge@gmail.com
COSPONSORS: Cambridge Cohousing, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group, Home Energy Efficiency Teams (HEET), Richdale Neighborhood Association
FOR MORE INFORMATION, Contact Robin Finnegan rfinnegan@comcast.net or John_MacDougall@uml.edu
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Ongoing
What happens when an artist finds a new source of energy?
"Park Spark" Project by Matthew Mazzotta
Turning Dog Waste into Energy
First public methane digester for dogs in the world is in Cambridge!
Location: Pacific Street Park (Sidney St. between Pacific and Tudor), Cambridge
Dates: August 25 - September 25, 2010
http://www.parksparkproject.com
The Cambridge Arts Council invites you to visit and participate in the Park Spark Project - a scientific-art intervention that transforms dog waste into energy. Artist Matthew Mazzotta has installed the first Dog Park Methane Digester in the United States at Pacific Street Park in Cambridge. As dog owners dispose of their pet's waste in the Park Spark Digester, it creates a steady stream of burnable methane gas that powers an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in the park.
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Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
MIT Energy Club Calendar http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
Harvard Green Events http://green.harvard.edu/events
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Give Me Shelter Lecture Series: Regina Maria Moeller
Speaker: Regina Maria Moeller
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: E15-070
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology presents its Monday night lecture series, Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?
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This series draws together speakers from different disciplines to discuss questions such as: How can bodywear function as an extension of the human body and support it under unusual conditions such as hot and cold climates? How can we expand our thinking about the boundary between body and environment? What kind of second skin would be required to survive walking through a volcano, or for living under water or visiting outer space? When does clothing become a contested cultural arena for endangered peoples and their environment?
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Regina Maria Moeller - com(ment)ic: wondersuits, fast skin, Poison Ivy
Comic superheroes dress in hightech suits with magic powers. Are these "wondersuits" fictional? Or have they become models for current "second" skin developments, including survival and performance enhancement suits worn by astronauts, athletes, and others? Regina Maria Moeller will also discuss the power of nature as personified by the DC Comics supervillainess Poison Ivy, a key figure in her exhibition embodiment - dress plot.
Regina Maria Moeller is a German artist, author, founder of the magazine regina, and creator of the label "embodiment." She is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art / Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Held at the MIT Bartos Theater (Lower Level of the Wiesner Building at 20 Ames Street)
Web site: http://act.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact:
Lisa Hickler 617-253-5229 act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Energy Policy Seminar Series presents John Lassiter
Speaker: John Lassiter, Harvard Business School
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: Bell Hall Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge
Harvard Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Building Green Businesses: Issues in Entrepreneurial Finance."
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, Harvard University Center for the Environment
For more information, contact:
Louisa Lund louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture: Energy Innovation at Scale
Speaker: Steven Koonin, Under Secretary of Science, US Dept. of Energy
Time: 2:00p–3:00p
Location: 32-123
Hoyt C. Hottel Lectureship
Dr. Steven E. Koonin was confirmed by the Senate on May 19, 2009 as the second Undersecretary for Science in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Koonin brings to the post a distinguished career as a university professor and administrator at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as well as experience in industry.
In 1985, Dr. Koonin received the Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award and, in 1998 the Deparment of Energy's E. O. Lawrence Award for " his broad impact on nuclear many-body physics, on astrophysics, and on a variety of related fields where sophisticated numerical methods are essential; and in particular, for his breakthrough in nuclear shell model calculations centered on an ingenious method for dealing ,with the huge matrices of heavy nuclei by using path integral methods combined with the Monte Carlo technique." He was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/hottel/index_2010.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering Department
For more information, contact:
Melanie Miller 617-253-6500 melmils@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Short and long-term climatic impacts on water circulation in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
Speaker: Jason Antenucci
Time: 2:30p–3:30p
Location: 48-316
Environmental Fluid Mechanics / Hydrology Seminar Series
weekly presentations from local and international researchers.
Abstract:
Lake Tanganyika, located in east Africa, is the second largest lake in the world and an important sentinel of climate change over a range of timescales. The stability of the lake has increased due to local warming, dramatically altering the circulation in the lake such that fisheries catches are now a fraction of past values. In this study, we investigated the lake circulation using a combination of field measurements, scaling analysis and numerical modelling. We demonstrate that the dominant large-scale circulation pattern during the southeast monsoonal trade winds is a southwards, upwind, flow in the upper region of the water column. This is in the opposite direction to all prior literature available on the lake, which has assumed that the southeast trade winds must drive a northwards surface flow due to momentum induced by the wind. We demonstrate that the latitudinal variation in buoyancy flux due to the latitudinal variability in wind speed and relative humidity is strong enough to drive a convective flow in the opposite direction to the wind. We postulate how this circulation has changed over the past 100 years based on historical measurements dating back to the 19th Century, and in particular the implications for vertical mixing, primary productivity and fisheries.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Sheila Anderson sherah@mit.edu
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September 23
4:00–6:00 pm
MIT E19-623
The Earth’s Energy Draws From the Sun; Is There Good News From Solar-in, Solar-out?
Daniel Nocera, Professor of Energy in MIT's Chemistry department
Editorial Comment: Nocera and his team are working on a catalytic conversion of water to oxygen and hydrogen which may result in an affordable way to provide electricity and combustible fuels on a decentralized basis.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
Speaker: Fox Harrell
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
Location: E14-633
CMS Colloquium Series
The CMS colloquium series provides an intimate and informal exchange between a visiting speaker and CMS faculty, students, visiting scholars and friends. Each week during the term, we host a figure from academia, industry, or the art world to speak about their work and its relation to our studies. These sessions are free, open to the public, and serve as an excellent introduction to our program.
Professor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems.
In particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related types of expressive digital media. In this talk, he will discuss his recent works and collaborations including the "Living Liberia Fabric," an AI-based interactive video documentary produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia to memorialize 14 years of civil war, "Generative Visual Renku," an AI-based form of generative animation, and several other projects.
Harrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project "Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." He is currently completing a book, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, for the MIT Press. Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Comparative Media Studies, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
Web site: http://cms.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre 617.324.0490 cms@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
"Cultures of War" Book Talk by Professor John Dower
Speaker: Professor John Dower
Time: 6:00p–8:00p
Location: W20-306, Student Center, Twenty Chimneys
Professor John Dower will speak about his new book "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and Iraq". Copies of "Cultures of War" will be available for signing following the talk.
John W. Dower, author of Cultures of War, has also written Embracing Defeat (winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), War without Mercy (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as many other books on Japan. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT and founder/co-director of the online Visualizing Cultures project, established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Center for International Studies, MIT Japan Program, Japan Society of Boston
For more information, contact:
Michelle Kern 617-258-8208 mkern@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Life 2.0 (FREE admission, with professor Sherry Turkle and director Jason Spingarn-Koff)
Speaker: Sherry Turkle, Jason Spingarn-Koff
Time: 7:30p
Location: 32-123
FREE Admission!
Life 2.0 will be followed by a short talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle, and a Q&A session with director Jason Spingarn-Koff. Sponsored by the Knight Science Journalism Program.
Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Tickets: 32-123
Sponsor(s): LSC
For more information, contact:
LSC 617-253-3791 lsc@mit.edu
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Friday, September 24, 2010
International Development Fair
Time: 1:00p–3:00p
Location: Student Street / Stata Center
The 9th annual International Development Fair provides incoming and continuing MIT students, recent graduates and members of the MIT community an opportunity to become engaged in international development through student groups, non-profit organizations, academic course offerings and other activities on and around MIT's campus.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/idi
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): International Development Initiative, The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
For more information, contact:
Laura Sampath 617-253-7052 lsampath@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: This is always a great event and a chance to meet the MIT student and faculty groups working on international development issues.
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Harvard
Europe’s View on International Climate Policy
WHEN
Mon., Sep. 20, 2010, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE
Nye ABC, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Energy Policy Distinguished Speaker Lunch, Sponsored by The Harvard Project on International Climate
SPEAKER(S)
Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Trudi_Bostian@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE
Please RSVP to Trudi_Bostian@hks.harvard.edu
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Hacking the Casebook: The H20 Development Team
Tuesday, September 21, 12:00 pm **Please note earlier start time for this week only**
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor Cambridge, MA
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:00 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast).
Traditional law school casebooks are expensive, bulky and stagnant. With the support of the HLS Library, Berkman has been updating our suite of classroom tools, H2O, to create an online alternative to casebooks that are free, online and remixable. H2O includes our new tool Collage for editing down and annotating cases, Playlists for aggregating materials, the Question Tool for in-classroom back channel, and the Rotisserie for out-of-class discussion. In this lunch we'll demo some of the tools (all still in alpha) and show how Jonathan Zittrain's Torts class is using them this term.
About H20
H2O is an open source, educational exchange platform that explores powerful ways to connect professors, students, and researchers online. There are four tools within the H2O platform: the Question tool, the Rotisserie, Playlists and Collage.
The question tool is an organized backchannel for conferences and classes that allows participants to submit, answer, and vote on questions. It’s an effective way to keep feedback focused, direct speakers to audience interests, and potentially prevent the mic from being hijacked by that weirdo.
Rotisserie discussions represent an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that that traditional threaded messaging systems do not, in the process solving some of the universal complaints about online discussion boards: that the substance of discussions is poor, that participants post quickly rather than thoughtfully, that participation is uneven (most people lurk, and a few posters dominate the rest), and that discussion forums are segregated into balkanized communities of people with similar thoughts and beliefs.
An H2O playlist is a shared list of readings (links to books and articles) and other content about a topic of intellectual interest. It is a simple yet powerful way to group and exchange useful links to information -- online and offline. It can be used as a syllabus or reading list for a class. The playlist items can then be remixed by other authors, lending influence to the items themselves and their original contributors.
Finally, Collage is the newest tool being added to the H2O platform. Collage is an annotation engine for online materials. It allows for tagging text, annotating it, and hiding portions of text without changing the original document.
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Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: A Conversation about the President’s Cancer Panel Report
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 21, 2010, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE
John Chipman Gray Room, 2nd floor, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Silent Spring Institute, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Commonweal
SPEAKER(S)
Margaret Kripke, President's Cancer Panel
COST
Free
NOTE
Join the conversation about the President's Cancer Panel's groundbreaking report, "Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now." Learn about how the panel selected this controversial topic, evaluated the evidence, and reached its conclusions in the face of uncertainty.
LINK
http://www.silentspring.org/support-our-work/events/presidents-cancer-panel-comes-harvard-law-school-september-21-2010
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Ending Homelessness
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 21, 2010, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Malkin Penthouse, 5th floor of Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Classes/Workshops, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Taubman Center for State and Local Government
SPEAKER(S)
Moderated by Julie Boatright Wilson, senior lecturer and director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Panel includes
Lyndia Downie, president and executive director, Pine Street Inn
Philip Mangano, president and CEO, The American Roundtable to End Homelessness
Geraldine McCafferty, director of housing, City of Springfield, MA
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Heather Marie Vitale: heather_marie_vitale@hks.harvard.edu
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The Future of Energy: "Energy Innovation at Scale"
Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, US Dept of Energy
WHEN
Tue., Sep. 21, 2010, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Science Center D
One Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S)
Steven Koonin, under secretary for science, U.S. Department of Energy
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
Brenda Hugot: 617.496.1788, bhugot@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE
The under secretary for science plays a key role in defining and enabling science programs that knit the U.S. Department of Energy together and lead to significant energy and security research efforts. In this role, Steven E. Koonin acts as the department’s chief research officer, identifying synergies and gaps in research programs, looking after the health of National Laboratory activities, and ensuring that sound science and technology underpin everything the Department does. In addition, William F. Brinkman, director of the Office of Science, reports to Koonin. Together they set science’s strategic direction, help resolve the more difficult operational problems, and ensure its connectivity within and outside the department.
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
LINK
http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2010-09-21/future-energy
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BU
AN OVERVIEW OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Monday, September 20, 2010
Martin Melosi (History, University of Houston)
Bruce Podobnik (Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College)
Cutler Cleveland (Geography and Environment, Boston University)
Boston University School of Management Room 424 between 10:00am and 12:30pm.
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Tufts
Wicked Digital Dilemmas: Unintended Consequences and Hidden Opportunities in the Democratized Digital Age
September 23, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Speaker: Jeff Weekley, Naval Postgraduate School
Host: Sara Su
Abstract
This talk will focus on two areas of emerging concern in Information Technology: our seemingly brittle individual and societal relationships to the digital data we now produce on an ever-increasing scale; and the implications of ubiquitous computing for a carbon-constrained world. We will examine the historical role of archives and libraries and compare that to contemporary digital data preservation. Bits are notoriously ephemeral, yet we all dive enthusiastically into the digital future without perhaps stopping to ask some important questions. Also, as more and more people gain access to the digital revolution, we will discuss the risk that we are creating a digital "Tragedy of the Commons" by exporting our carbon-intense digital habits to the entire world. We'll look behind the computer screen to try to understand the implications of our digital lifestyles in a carbon-constrained world and ask if that approach is sustainable and scaleable. We will examine how technology might be part of the problem, but also how it might ultimately help us solve the problem of global climate change. Finally, we'll talk about new techniques that are emerging for solving some of the world's oldest and most intractable problems, such as piracy (no, not digital piracy...real swashbuckling pirates on the high seas) and the broad societal collapse that causes it.
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Other
09/21/10 - Tech Tuesday
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Cambridge, MA
Event Details
Where? Microsoft's NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge overlooking the Boston skyline. Easily reached on the T at Kendall (Red Line), there is also parking in the building.
What? Join your fellow geeks, tech savvy professionals, DIY-ers, press, and other industry luminaries for this informal gathering. Bring your laptops, robots, OLPC XO's, Amazon Kindles, new cell phones, gadgets, and other new-fangled devices. Got a great demo or YouTube clip? Bring it! LCD projector and wi-fi will be available for ad hoc show and tell. This event is free!
This month we will be celebrating the region's digital game industry - bring your games, or come play others!
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/750358342
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Greenport Forum
PLENITUDE: The Path to a Small Scale, Ecologically Light Economy
Presented by Author and Economist Juliet B. Schor
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 at 7pm
Livable Streets Office, 100 Sidney Street, Cambridge
At a moment of ecological and financial crisis, bestselling author and economist Juliet B. Schor presents a revolutionary strategy for transitioning toward a richer, more balanced life. The economic downturn that has accompanied the ecological crisis has led to another type of scarcity: incomes, jobs, and credit are also in short supply. Our usual way back to growth-a debt-financed consumer boom- is no longer an option our households, or planet, can afford.
Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts - nature, community, intelligence, and time - Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.
Juliet B. Schor is the author of Plenitude, Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics department, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is also a cofounder of the Center for a New American Dream.
contact Steve Morr-Wineman at swineman@gis.net
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9/22/2010
Discussion/Signing - Susan Leal
Running Out of Water The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource.
While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is that the availability of this essential element is declining. Global warming creates moonscapes where there were once snow-packed mountains. Population growth has pushed demand, straining our current supply almost ensuring that water will become as coveted as oil in the twenty-first century. As the water supply declines, there are critical questions to answer: Can we learn to conserve? Can we find ways to renew this resource? Do we have the political will to act wisely before it is too late?
Time: 07:00 PM-08:00 PM
Location: Harvard Coop, Level 3, Harvard Square
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Control Issues
A selection of video work from "To the Elements! – Aesthetic Phenomena of Climate Change"
Curated by Alfons Hug
Exhibition 9/17 – 10/24/10
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
551 Tremont Street, Boston
Admission free
Info: +1 (617) 426-8835 or
millsgallery@bcaonline.org
The Artists:
Eugenio Ampudia
Simon Faithfull
Laura Glusman
Shin Kiwoun
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Reynold Reynolds
Michael Sailstorfer/Jürgen Heinert
Guido van der Werve
Exhibition opening:
Wednesday, September 22, 6 PM
followed by the first film screening @ 7 PM
Film Screenings:
Wednesdays @ 7 PM
September 22: Above Water
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The Green Neighbor’s
Codman Sq. Energy Fair
At the Second Church in Dorchester, 600 Washington St. in the Codman Square section of Dorchester
Saturday, September 25th, 10:00 AM – 2:00PM
Open at 9:00AM for set up.
Editorial Comment: The editor will be doing solar workshops at this event.
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Upcoming
Mon Sep 27
PechaKucha Boston 19
Mantra, 52 Temple Pl, Boston (near Park St T)
Doors open at 6p for drinks and chit chat. Talks start at 630p.
The event is free and open to the public. Cash bar.
RSVP is optional to help PechaKucha Boston team estimate event attendance. RSVP on Facebook or email rsvp@pechakuchaboston.org
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“Home”, 4th screening in an Environmental Film series
WHEN: September 29, 2010, beginning at 6:30pm
WHERE: Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Lecture Hall; on Lowest level (L2 in elevator)
*A FREE event, with light refreshments provided*
Home, produced by French cinematographer Yann Arthus‐Bertrand. For viewers whose eyes glaze over at descriptions of the way Earth recycles energy and matter, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of that complex process.” ‐‐Tom Keogh
Co‐sponsored by the Cambridge Renewable Energy Action Team (CREATe), the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA), the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA), the Office of the Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis, and Cambridge Green Decade
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2nd Massachusetts Green Career Conference
"Find Your Role in the New Green Economy"
October 1, 2010 | Holiday Inn | Marlborough, MA
Full Conference Details at http://www.MassGreenCareers.com
THE CONFERENCE
Massachusetts is greening its economy and its workforce. The Massachusetts Green Career Conference strives to answer the timely question "What is my role in the new, green economy?" by showcasing experts and exhibitors who provide green career guidance, a forum for stakeholders (government, businesses, colleges, individuals), current news from business & industry experts, and networking opportunities.
THE OBJECTIVES
l Learn from leading experts about current and prospective green careers.
l Network with professionals and companies that are hiring
l Go home with knowledge and resources on green jobs and training.
THE EXHIBITORS
l Businesses That Are Hiring - Small to Corporate Businesses
l Education/Training - Universities, Colleges, Training programs
l Careers - Services and Resources
Businesses are accepting resumes at the conference for these positions and more: Administrative Assistant l Business and Home Energy Advisors l Customer Service Assistant l Customer Service Representative Spanish/English Bilingual l Electrical Energy Specialists l Employment Specialist lEnergy Efficiency Analysts l Interns with Backgrounds in Environmental Sicience/Biology/Chemistryl Journeyman l Marketing Associate l Project Engineer/Analyst l Professors/Teachers/Trainers for Energy & Sustainability Programs l Technical Support Consultants with Experience l Weatherization and Insulation Technicians/Installers/Crew Leaders... More info at www.MassGreenCareers.com.
THE PRESENTERS
Thirty-five leading experts from education, business and government sectors. More info at http://www.MassGreenCareers.com.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--EXCHANGE FREE EFFICIENT LIGHT BULBS IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE
SUNDAY 10/10/10, 1-5:00 p.m.,
followed by potluck dinner, open to all
MEET AT CAMBRIDGE COHOUSING,
175 RICHDALE AVE.
MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS. HAND THEM A GIFT
WE WILL GO DOOR TO DOOR AND EXCHANGE compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs for inefficient incandescent bulbs. Each CFL bulb exchanged SAVES $60 in electricity costs over its lifetime. Exchanging 20 bulbs saves OVER 8 TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE. Free CFL’s provided by Cambridge Energy Alliance.
JOIN THOUSANDS OF GROUPS WORLDWIDE and participate in the Global Work Party on climate change—see www.350.org
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! You must sign up at either
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dC1RS25Jb2VXMl9KVjhBMk1PNk1hV0E6MQ
or by e-mailing heet.cambridge@gmail.com
COSPONSORS: Cambridge Cohousing, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group, Home Energy Efficiency Teams (HEET), Richdale Neighborhood Association
FOR MORE INFORMATION, Contact Robin Finnegan rfinnegan@comcast.net or John_MacDougall@uml.edu
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Ongoing
What happens when an artist finds a new source of energy?
"Park Spark" Project by Matthew Mazzotta
Turning Dog Waste into Energy
First public methane digester for dogs in the world is in Cambridge!
Location: Pacific Street Park (Sidney St. between Pacific and Tudor), Cambridge
Dates: August 25 - September 25, 2010
http://www.parksparkproject.com
The Cambridge Arts Council invites you to visit and participate in the Park Spark Project - a scientific-art intervention that transforms dog waste into energy. Artist Matthew Mazzotta has installed the first Dog Park Methane Digester in the United States at Pacific Street Park in Cambridge. As dog owners dispose of their pet's waste in the Park Spark Digester, it creates a steady stream of burnable methane gas that powers an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in the park.
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Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
MIT Energy Club Calendar http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
Harvard Green Events http://green.harvard.edu/events
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Monday, September 13, 2010
MIT
Monday, September 13, 2010
What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling
Speaker: Jason Abaluck (MIT)
Time: 4:00p–5:30p
Location: E51-151
What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Labor/Public Finance Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Beneventon
theresa@mit.edu
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September 13, 2010
4:15 pm
Fascination with Nanocarbons
Speaker: Professor C.N.R. Rao
Inorganic Chemistry: AD Little Seminar
Category: science/engineering
Location: 6-120
Sponsor: Chemistry
Admission: the general public
For More Information Contact: Chemistry Department
coombs@mit.edu
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Monday, September 13 at 7:00 PM
"Climate Changes in Science Fashion"
Elke Gaugele
Bartos Theater
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Fall 2010 Lecture Series
Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?
Climate Changes in Science Fashion
As future technologies of the modern augmented self and its geopolitical extensions, proactive clothing was first anticipated at the turn of the century in popular culture, science fiction and art. Since the 1960s, this question has become a fixed part of the cyborg discourse while “science fashions” were shifting from astronautics and military research to wearable computing and smart clothes. The political climate also changed since the Cold War. Artists, architects and fashion designers started to create climate capsules, green wearables and interactive research and communication tools for climate activists. Gaugele will reflect upon these climate changes in “science fashion” and discusses different points of departure for its contemporary artistic research.
Elke Gaugele
Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Fashions and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Starr Forum "Washington Rules"- A book talk with Andrew Bacevich
Speaker: Andrew Bacevich
Time: 4:30p–6:00p
Location: 66-110
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations and history at Boston University. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, he taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power. He also has authored several books and his essays are published widely. At MIT, he will discuss his most recent book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War.
Books will be for sale at the event
Light refreshments will be served
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_091410_bacevich.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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September 15, 2010
7:30a–8:30a
Location: E51-145
Sustainability and resource productivity - Opportunities for companies, countries and cities
Speaker: Scott Nyquist
Scott Nyquist, a senior leader with McKinsey & Company's Global Energy & Materials group, will discuss McKinsey's latest thinking on sustainability and resource productivity. Specifically he will describe research that McKinsey has done on trends in water, greenhouse gases, land use, oil, and clean technology; how these trends may effect the future of transportation, power, and buildings/cities; and what countries, companies and cities are doing to build a sustainable future in light of these trends.
Please RSVP with your email address here: http://bit.ly/bNtvIn so that we can order breakfast.
Category: lectures/conferences
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: energyclub@mit.edu
http://bit.ly/bNtvIn
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September 15, 2010 10:00a–3:00p
In celebration of Carbon Day: Electric Vehicle Showcase
Participants
Boston SegGlider: Segway, EZ Peddler Bicycles
Boston University Smart Neighborhood
ConVerdant Vehicles: 2002 Chevy Avalanche 1500 Plug-In Hybrid Pickup Conversion and 2005 Toyota Prius Hybrid Plug In Conversion
eCars of New England: Wheego Whip EV
Electric Vehicle Urban Infrastructure Study (EVUIS)
Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources:
Clean Cities Coalition
MyBike: EG Electric Bicycles
National Grid-Ford Escape Hybrid Plug-In
Vectrix LLC: VX-1, VX-2, VX-3 Electric Scooters
Category:
MIT events/clubs: social
Location: Boston/Back Bay - Copley Square Park
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events, Boston University Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative, the Electric Vehicle Urban Infrastructure Study (EVUIS)
Admission: Open to the public
Contact Lindsay Sansom lsansom84@gmail.com
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Corruption: A Central Underappreciated Factor in Nuclear Proliferation
Speaker: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University
Time: 12:00p–1:30p
Location: E40-496
SSP Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Just City
Speaker: Susan Fainstein, Professor, Urban Planning & Design, Harvard University
Time: 3:00p–5:00p
Location: 32-124
Urban Studies and Planning Departmental Speaker Series
Weekly Lecture Series of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Direct Determination of Deep Ocean Nitrate During the Last Glacial Maximum
Speaker: Professor Art Spivack
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 68-180
EAPS Department Lecture Series
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/dls.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0.00
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
For more information, contact:
Jacqui Taylor
253-2127
jtaylor@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sustainable Energy and National Security: The U.S. Navy Perspective
Speaker: Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: E62-276
Sustainability @ Sloan Speaker Series
Energy security is a critical component of national security. Trends in energy markets, warfare, and global climate have put the United States and our global partners at a critical crossroads for action. How the Navy and the nation at large manage limited resources will impact economic growth and international relations over the next century. Identifying and understanding global energy trends has led the Navy to institute a cultural change to increasing energy efficiency, improve technology, and expand its use of alternative fuels and renewable energy. This discussion on global trends impacting energy policy will highlight the impact on the Navy and national energy security, as well as tie these factors to Navy investments which will enhance combat capability, reduce costs, and improve energy security. Recent efforts include the commissioning of the first Navy ship with a hybrid electric drive; the supersonic flight of an F/A-18 Super Hornet on a biofuel blend; and partnerships across industry, academia, and federal agencies to advance energy initiatives. Addressing key challenges will require innovations in technology, policy, and business models as the Navy and the nation take action.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sustainability@Sloan Speaker Series, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Jason Jay
jjay@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sloan Automotive Laboratory & Electrochemical Energy Laboratory FALL 2010 SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Amir Maria
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: 37-212
Sloan Automotive Laboratory & Electrochemical Energy Laboratory FALL 2010 SEMINAR SERIES
Topic: The Role of Fuel in Extending the High-Load Limit of Controlled Auto Ignition Engines
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for 21st Century Energy
For more information, contact:
Janet Maslow
3-4529
jsabio@mit.edu
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Friday, September 17, 2010
China Scope Lecture Series
Speaker: Susan Mays
Time: 6:00p–9:00p
Location: 34-101
On Friday evening September 17th and Saturday September 18th, please join us for six intensive lectures, Q&A, and networking. China Scope offers a solid introduction and analysis of major trends and issues in contemporary China. As today's professionals increasingly work with Chinese counterparts, a broad understanding of China's economic sectors, educational system, legal structure, talent pool, technological initiatives, living standards, and society is vital to forging effective trans-national relationships and businesses. By providing historical and contemporary perspectives on critical aspects of today's China, this series serves professionals and advanced students in their 21st century roles. Net proceeds from the event are being donated to the China Care Foundation.
Web site: http://www.china-scope.org/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): China Care
For more information, contact:
Alina Rwei
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Harvard
Sebastian Junger on War
WHEN
Wed., Sep. 15, 2010, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE
Sanders Theatre
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
SPEAKER(S)
Sebastian Junger
COST
Free
TICKET INFO
Tickets available Sept. 1 at Harvard Box Office
CONTACT INFO
loan@dcemail.harvard.edu
NOTE
Free and open to the public. Tickets required and available from Harvard Box Office (617.496.2222).
LINK
www.hilr.harvard.edu
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Wednesday, September 29
6 pm
Persuasion in a Climate of Uncertainty
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Geological Lecture Hall
24 Oxford Street
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American Policy and Afghan Realities: Problems and Prospects
WHEN
Thu., Sep. 16, 2010, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)
Thomas Barfield, professor of anthropology, Boston University
CONTACT INFO
Elizabeth Lawler: 617.495.3816, elawler@wcfia.harvard.edu
NOTE
This is a session of the Middle East Seminar
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Other
Boston CHI
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Many Bills (http://manybills.researchlabs.ibm.com)
Government transparency is a critical issue in today's environment. The recent controversy in the US over health care reform is just one example of how hard it can be to see the realities behind the rhetoric. As researchers, we believe we can help by giving people the right tools to understand, explore, and communicate about government data. Many Bills is a web-based visualization that enables members of the public to see the high-level topic structure of US Congressional Bills, then drill down and read the actual content. The dataset currently includes all bills considered by both houses in 2009, plus some select content from 2010, courtesy of GovTrack.
IBM Center For Social Software
1 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
6:30-7 Networking
7-8:30 Meeting
8:30-9 Networking & Dessert
RSVP http://www.eventbrite.com/event/684554521
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Tuesday, September 14
7:30 pm
To everyone interested in Cambridge Community Kitchen,
Cambridge community kitchen will support community food security and promote economic sustainability by facilitating food-focused education, providing certified food preparation and storage space and encouraging small business growth in Cambridge. You may have heard of our initiative and we hope we can count you as an ally in our mission as a supporter, user of the space, volunteer, board member, or advisor.
On Tuesday, September 14th at 7:30 pm , we are holding a meeting to hear from interested parties and to solicit help in its many forms. We will share our goal for this organization and its five revenue streams, education, contract use, occasional use, storage, and market space. We then will provide an opportunity for feedback and brainstorming to help us create our business plan. In addition to seeking board members and donors, we are looking for people to get their hands dirty in one or many of the following areas:
• Financial services
• Non-profit Governance
• Commercial Real Estate
• Donor/ foundation relations
• Kitchen and architectural development
• Familiarity with non-profit organizations, membership organizations, and/ or culinary entrepreneurship
The meeting will be held at Lesley University, at Porter Exchange , which is just south of the Porter square T stop at 1815 Massachusetts ave. There is a pay for parking lot in the back of the building as well. When you come in the building, the meeting will be in room
3-094, and there will be signs posted to help you find your way.
Please RSVP by Sunday, September 12th to
cambridgecommunitykitchen@gmail.com .
Thank you in advance for your support of this budding organization. We look forward to meeting with you, and building the Cambridge Community Kitchen together.
Sincerely,
JJ Gonson, Sarah Martin, Dan Meyers, Matthew Stein, and Brianne Studer
http://cambridgecommunitykitchen.org
cambridgecommunitykitchen@gmail.com
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Mass Innovation Night
Registration and networking starts at 6:00 p.m. The Main Event runs from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center (The NERD Center)
1 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
(857) 453-6000
RSVP to http://massinnovationnights.com/event-rsvp
Please note, your privacy is assured, we will not sell or share your email address, just use it to send you the event reminder and occasional information about our events.
Mass Innovation Nights connect Massachusetts-based innovators with the marketplace using social media. The monthly Launch Parties and networking events are FREE for everyone — companies and guests alike. All we ask is that guests help spread the word about cool new products they see at our events. Blog, Tweet (#MIN), Facebook, LinkedIn or tell a neighbor or a friend (yes, in person, you know, talking…)
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
7pm panel
6 pm reception
When a crisis occurs, local, state, regional, national and sometimes international organizations (on both the public and the private side) spring into action to coordinate efforts. In many regards, social media makes this easier and easier to manage. But concerns exist: for example, how do you manage the spread of misinformation?
A panel of practitioners will talk through what happens -- and what should happen -- when a crisis strikes. Our moderator will be Ellen Rossano, principal of Crisis Media Consultants.
Stay tuned for program details. Food and drink will be provided at the reception.
THIS FREE EVENT IS HOSTED AND SPONSORED BY THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION.
The BBA is located at 16 Beacon St., Boston, MA.
http://socialmediaemergency.eventbrite.com/
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The Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) invites you
to a meeting on
Community Response to Climate Change
September 16, 2010 , from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
at the Windsor Street Community Health Center,
119 Windsor St. in Conference Room 1.
Since a meeting of community groups at the Main Library in April, we have begun work on many of the ideas offered there for launching a city-wide awareness/action campaign: circulating an action pledge, appearing at community events, establishing a website (cceag.org), assembling resources and speakers, opening an office at Margaret Fuller House.
You, your ideas, effort and understanding of your community are critical to further progress.
The Action Group is prepared to help support your efforts. We can't build momentum without you and your corner of town.
Please come and tell us what we can bring to you and yours.
RSVP. Please email questions to: cambridge.climate.congress@gmail.com or call me at 617-864-0506.
Joanna Herlihy for the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group
71 Cherry Street
Cambridge MA 02139
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Friday, September 17, 2010
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM (ET)
A Progressive Business Leaders Network Forum: A Progress Report on Federal Energy/Climate Change Legislation: Where do we go from here?
United States Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA)*
Tim Healy, CEO, EnerNOC
Christina Lampe-Onnerud, CEO, Boston-Power*
Moderators:
Mitch Tyson, CEO, Advanced Electron Beams
Roger Freeman, Managing Principal, Solventerra LLP
EnerNOC
101 Federal Street
11th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
RSVP http://pblnforum.eventbrite.com/
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Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 9:00 am to 12:45 pm
"Renewable Energy's Future in New England"
Raab Associates presents: The 118th New England Restructuring Roundtable
Foley Hoag LLP
155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
September: Renewable Energy's Future in New England
Our first Fall Roundtable of 2010 focuses on renewable energy's future in New England. Renewable energy installations of all types (wind, biomass, solar, landfill gas) have been proliferating in New England, while Renewable Portfolio Standards continue to ratchet-up. At the same time, recent developments have introduced significant uncertainty into the renewable energy markets in New England. These include the failure to enact federal legislation to price carbon, the uncertain status of future federal renewable tax credits, the TransCanada law suit, the EIPC transmission and renewable planning process, and the biomass study for MA DOER by Manomet.
Our two panels at the September Roundtable will examine the net effect of these and other factors impacting renewable energy development in New England. The first will be a high level, cross-cutting panel whose speakers will share their expectations about the future of renewables in New England. This panel is comprised of:
Commissioner Phil Giudice, MA Department of Energy Resources
Bob Grace, President, Sustainable Energy Advantage
Ellen Angley, VP Energy Supply/Supply Chain Management, NSTAR
Michael Hachey, VP/Director, Eastern Commercial, TransCanada
Alan Nogee, Dir. of Climate & Energy Strategy & Policy, UCS
A second panel will dive into the complex world of biomass carbon accounting and sustainable biomass issues. Tom Walker, the lead author of the Manomet biomass study for MA DOER, will start us off. Marco Albani, Expert Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co., will discuss the recent study led by a consortium of major European industry and environmental organizations. The European biomass study employs a different methodology than the Manomet study, and reaches different conclusions. Coincidentally, both studies were released on the same day in the U.S. and Europe, respectively. (You can access both studies through the Roundablewebsite.) We will round this panel off with two leading academics, Professors William Moomaw of Tufts University andCameron Wake of the University of New Hampshire, who will offer their reflections on both studies and discuss the complexities of biomass and carbon accounting.
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Sat., Sept. 18, 10-3
in the basketball court area at Dana Park, Cambridge
Freeport, the Really, Really Free Market
Start putting aside stuff to pass on! Questions? Contact Alysha Suley (alyshasuley@gmail.com) or Jeff Reinhardt (jeffm.reinhardt@gmail.com)
FREEPORT:
The Really, Really Free Market, Saturday, September 18th at Dana Park in Cambridgeport from 10am to 3pm. (Raindate on Sunday the 19th. REUSE quality goods, REDUCE waste, REDUCE consumption.)
Take some time to clean out your house of unneeded goods and bring them to Cambridgeport's first Really Really Free Market. Bring clothes, home goods, small appliances, books, office supplies, etc. Leave hazardous materials, furniture, broken crap, electronics and garbage at home. We will be swapping at the basketball courts in Dana Park.
Bring what you can, take what you want. No barter system or money involved. Experience the wonders of gift economics, a healthy alternative to the all-too-common trend of turning our goods into trash. Take this time to help out your neighbors and build connections through the age-old tradition of gift giving.
Brought to you by: Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, Greenport, Cambridge DPW, and ordinary residents like you!
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THE SECOND ANNUAL URBAN-AG FAIR IN HARVARD SQUARE Sun. Sep. 19, 11 to 5, at Mt. Auburn St./Winthrop Park in Harvard Square.
http://www.harvardsquare.com/Home/Articles/Second-Annual-Urban-Ag-Fair.aspx
Cambridge’s Second Urban Ag Fair in Harvard Square:
Celebrating Local Gardens, Growers, and Foods!
Sunday, September 19, 2010 11 am to 5 pm
Mount Auburn Street (between Eliot and JFK) and Winthrop Park
The Second Annual Urban Ag fair is being held on the site of Newtowne’s first marketplace in the 1630s and will showcase some incredible locally grown fruits and vegetables. Visitors can sample recipes prepared using local ingredients and get tips from local experts on gardening topics like composting, container gardening, and raising chickens and bees. The entire event is free, open to the public, and family-friendly. Cooking demonstrations by local chefs and Cambridge School student growers will be held throughout the day, along with talks on gardening topics. Prizes will be awarded for fruits, vegetables, flowers, honey, eggs, baked goods, preserves/pickles, and beverages, in the categories of tastiest, biggest, prettiest/most creative, most interesting/funny-looking, and student grower (under 17).
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Upcoming
Boston University
Monday, September 20, 2010
10:00am and 12:30 pm
AN OVERVIEW OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Martin Melosi (History, University of Houston)
Bruce Podobnik (Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College)
Cutler Cleveland (Geography and Environment, Boston University)
Boston University School of Management
Room 424
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society. The seminar series, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will meet once each month during the two semesters and will bring together leadings scholars from across the United States and abroad to discuss various aspects of how energy transitions are themselves socially constituted and how they have, and are likely to, impact society. To facilitate an interdisciplinary discourse, each seminar will feature three speakers, in most cases from different academic disciplines.
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GreenPort Forum
PLENITUDE: The Path to a Small Scale, Ecologically Light Economy
Presented by Author and Economist Juliet B. Schor
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 at 7pm
Livable Streets Office
100 Sidney Street, Cambridge
At a moment of ecological and financial crisis, bestselling author and economist Juliet B. Schor presents a revolutionary strategy for transitioning toward a richer, more balanced life. The economic downturn that has accompanied the ecological crisis has led to another type of scarcity: incomes, jobs, and credit are also in short supply. Our usual way back to growth-a debt-financed consumer boom- is no longer an option our households, or planet, can afford.
Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts - nature, community, intelligence, and time - Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.
Juliet B. Schor is the author of Plenitude, Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics department, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is also a cofounder of the Center for a New American Dream.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at swineman@gis.net
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Ongoing
What happens when an artist finds a new source of energy?
"Park Spark" Project by Matthew Mazzotta
Turning Dog Waste into Energy
First public methane digester for dogs in the world is in Cambridge!
Location: Pacific Street Park (Sidney St. between Pacific and Tudor), Cambridge
Dates: August 25 - September 25, 2010
www.parksparkproject.com
The Cambridge Arts Council invites you to visit and participate in the Park Spark Project - a scientific-art intervention that transforms dog waste into energy. Artist Matthew Mazzotta has installed the first Dog Park Methane Digester in the United States at Pacific Street Park in Cambridge. As dog owners dispose of their pet's waste in the Park Spark Digester, it creates a steady stream of burnable methane gas that powers an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in the park.
Editorial Comment: A cat was visiting recently and I thought about the possibility
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2nd Massachusetts Green Career Conference
"Find Your Role in the New Green Economy"
October 1, 2010 | Holiday Inn | Marlborough, MA
Full Conference Details at www.MassGreenCareers.com
THE CONFERENCE
Massachusetts is greening its economy and its workforce. The Massachusetts Green Career Conference strives to answer the timely question "What is my role in the new, green economy?" by showcasing experts and exhibitors who provide green career guidance, a forum for stakeholders (government, businesses, colleges, individuals), current news from business & industry experts, and networking opportunities.
THE OBJECTIVES
l Learn from leading experts about current and prospective green careers.
l Network with professionals and companies that are hiring
l Go home with knowledge and resources on green jobs and training.
THE EXHIBITORS
l Businesses That Are Hiring - Small to Corporate Businesses
l Education/Training - Universities, Colleges, Training programs
l Careers - Services and Resources
Businesses are accepting resumes at the conference for these positions and more: Administrative Assistant l Business and Home Energy Advisors l Customer Service Assistant l Customer Service Representative Spanish/English Bilingual l Electrical Energy Specialists l Employment Specialist lEnergy Efficiency Analysts l Interns with Backgrounds in Environmental Sicience/Biology/Chemistryl Journeyman l Marketing Associate l Project Engineer/Analyst l Professors/Teachers/Trainers for Energy & Sustainability Programs l Technical Support Consultants with Experience l Weatherization and Insulation Technicians/Installers/Crew Leaders... More info at www.MassGreenCareers.com.
THE PRESENTERS
Thirty-five leading experts from education, business and government sectors. More info atwww.MassGreenCareers.com.
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Links to events at over 30 colleges and universities at Hubevents (http://hubevents.blogspot.com)
Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area (http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
Monday, September 13, 2010
What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling
Speaker: Jason Abaluck (MIT)
Time: 4:00p–5:30p
Location: E51-151
What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Labor/Public Finance Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Beneventon
theresa@mit.edu
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September 13, 2010
4:15 pm
Fascination with Nanocarbons
Speaker: Professor C.N.R. Rao
Inorganic Chemistry: AD Little Seminar
Category: science/engineering
Location: 6-120
Sponsor: Chemistry
Admission: the general public
For More Information Contact: Chemistry Department
coombs@mit.edu
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Monday, September 13 at 7:00 PM
"Climate Changes in Science Fashion"
Elke Gaugele
Bartos Theater
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Fall 2010 Lecture Series
Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?
Climate Changes in Science Fashion
As future technologies of the modern augmented self and its geopolitical extensions, proactive clothing was first anticipated at the turn of the century in popular culture, science fiction and art. Since the 1960s, this question has become a fixed part of the cyborg discourse while “science fashions” were shifting from astronautics and military research to wearable computing and smart clothes. The political climate also changed since the Cold War. Artists, architects and fashion designers started to create climate capsules, green wearables and interactive research and communication tools for climate activists. Gaugele will reflect upon these climate changes in “science fashion” and discusses different points of departure for its contemporary artistic research.
Elke Gaugele
Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Fashions and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Starr Forum "Washington Rules"- A book talk with Andrew Bacevich
Speaker: Andrew Bacevich
Time: 4:30p–6:00p
Location: 66-110
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations and history at Boston University. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, he taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power. He also has authored several books and his essays are published widely. At MIT, he will discuss his most recent book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War.
Books will be for sale at the event
Light refreshments will be served
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_091410_bacevich.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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September 15, 2010
7:30a–8:30a
Location: E51-145
Sustainability and resource productivity - Opportunities for companies, countries and cities
Speaker: Scott Nyquist
Scott Nyquist, a senior leader with McKinsey & Company's Global Energy & Materials group, will discuss McKinsey's latest thinking on sustainability and resource productivity. Specifically he will describe research that McKinsey has done on trends in water, greenhouse gases, land use, oil, and clean technology; how these trends may effect the future of transportation, power, and buildings/cities; and what countries, companies and cities are doing to build a sustainable future in light of these trends.
Please RSVP with your email address here: http://bit.ly/bNtvIn so that we can order breakfast.
Category: lectures/conferences
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: energyclub@mit.edu
http://bit.ly/bNtvIn
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September 15, 2010 10:00a–3:00p
In celebration of Carbon Day: Electric Vehicle Showcase
Participants
Boston SegGlider: Segway, EZ Peddler Bicycles
Boston University Smart Neighborhood
ConVerdant Vehicles: 2002 Chevy Avalanche 1500 Plug-In Hybrid Pickup Conversion and 2005 Toyota Prius Hybrid Plug In Conversion
eCars of New England: Wheego Whip EV
Electric Vehicle Urban Infrastructure Study (EVUIS)
Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources:
Clean Cities Coalition
MyBike: EG Electric Bicycles
National Grid-Ford Escape Hybrid Plug-In
Vectrix LLC: VX-1, VX-2, VX-3 Electric Scooters
Category:
MIT events/clubs: social
Location: Boston/Back Bay - Copley Square Park
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events, Boston University Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative, the Electric Vehicle Urban Infrastructure Study (EVUIS)
Admission: Open to the public
Contact Lindsay Sansom lsansom84@gmail.com
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Corruption: A Central Underappreciated Factor in Nuclear Proliferation
Speaker: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University
Time: 12:00p–1:30p
Location: E40-496
SSP Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Just City
Speaker: Susan Fainstein, Professor, Urban Planning & Design, Harvard University
Time: 3:00p–5:00p
Location: 32-124
Urban Studies and Planning Departmental Speaker Series
Weekly Lecture Series of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Direct Determination of Deep Ocean Nitrate During the Last Glacial Maximum
Speaker: Professor Art Spivack
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 68-180
EAPS Department Lecture Series
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/dls.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0.00
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
For more information, contact:
Jacqui Taylor
253-2127
jtaylor@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sustainable Energy and National Security: The U.S. Navy Perspective
Speaker: Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: E62-276
Sustainability @ Sloan Speaker Series
Energy security is a critical component of national security. Trends in energy markets, warfare, and global climate have put the United States and our global partners at a critical crossroads for action. How the Navy and the nation at large manage limited resources will impact economic growth and international relations over the next century. Identifying and understanding global energy trends has led the Navy to institute a cultural change to increasing energy efficiency, improve technology, and expand its use of alternative fuels and renewable energy. This discussion on global trends impacting energy policy will highlight the impact on the Navy and national energy security, as well as tie these factors to Navy investments which will enhance combat capability, reduce costs, and improve energy security. Recent efforts include the commissioning of the first Navy ship with a hybrid electric drive; the supersonic flight of an F/A-18 Super Hornet on a biofuel blend; and partnerships across industry, academia, and federal agencies to advance energy initiatives. Addressing key challenges will require innovations in technology, policy, and business models as the Navy and the nation take action.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sustainability@Sloan Speaker Series, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Jason Jay
jjay@mit.edu
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sloan Automotive Laboratory & Electrochemical Energy Laboratory FALL 2010 SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Amir Maria
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: 37-212
Sloan Automotive Laboratory & Electrochemical Energy Laboratory FALL 2010 SEMINAR SERIES
Topic: The Role of Fuel in Extending the High-Load Limit of Controlled Auto Ignition Engines
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for 21st Century Energy
For more information, contact:
Janet Maslow
3-4529
jsabio@mit.edu
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Friday, September 17, 2010
China Scope Lecture Series
Speaker: Susan Mays
Time: 6:00p–9:00p
Location: 34-101
On Friday evening September 17th and Saturday September 18th, please join us for six intensive lectures, Q&A, and networking. China Scope offers a solid introduction and analysis of major trends and issues in contemporary China. As today's professionals increasingly work with Chinese counterparts, a broad understanding of China's economic sectors, educational system, legal structure, talent pool, technological initiatives, living standards, and society is vital to forging effective trans-national relationships and businesses. By providing historical and contemporary perspectives on critical aspects of today's China, this series serves professionals and advanced students in their 21st century roles. Net proceeds from the event are being donated to the China Care Foundation.
Web site: http://www.china-scope.org/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): China Care
For more information, contact:
Alina Rwei
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Harvard
Sebastian Junger on War
WHEN
Wed., Sep. 15, 2010, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE
Sanders Theatre
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
SPEAKER(S)
Sebastian Junger
COST
Free
TICKET INFO
Tickets available Sept. 1 at Harvard Box Office
CONTACT INFO
loan@dcemail.harvard.edu
NOTE
Free and open to the public. Tickets required and available from Harvard Box Office (617.496.2222).
LINK
www.hilr.harvard.edu
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Wednesday, September 29
6 pm
Persuasion in a Climate of Uncertainty
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Geological Lecture Hall
24 Oxford Street
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American Policy and Afghan Realities: Problems and Prospects
WHEN
Thu., Sep. 16, 2010, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)
Thomas Barfield, professor of anthropology, Boston University
CONTACT INFO
Elizabeth Lawler: 617.495.3816, elawler@wcfia.harvard.edu
NOTE
This is a session of the Middle East Seminar
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Other
Boston CHI
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Many Bills (http://manybills.researchlabs.ibm.com)
Government transparency is a critical issue in today's environment. The recent controversy in the US over health care reform is just one example of how hard it can be to see the realities behind the rhetoric. As researchers, we believe we can help by giving people the right tools to understand, explore, and communicate about government data. Many Bills is a web-based visualization that enables members of the public to see the high-level topic structure of US Congressional Bills, then drill down and read the actual content. The dataset currently includes all bills considered by both houses in 2009, plus some select content from 2010, courtesy of GovTrack.
IBM Center For Social Software
1 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
6:30-7 Networking
7-8:30 Meeting
8:30-9 Networking & Dessert
RSVP http://www.eventbrite.com/event/684554521
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Tuesday, September 14
7:30 pm
To everyone interested in Cambridge Community Kitchen,
Cambridge community kitchen will support community food security and promote economic sustainability by facilitating food-focused education, providing certified food preparation and storage space and encouraging small business growth in Cambridge. You may have heard of our initiative and we hope we can count you as an ally in our mission as a supporter, user of the space, volunteer, board member, or advisor.
On Tuesday, September 14th at 7:30 pm , we are holding a meeting to hear from interested parties and to solicit help in its many forms. We will share our goal for this organization and its five revenue streams, education, contract use, occasional use, storage, and market space. We then will provide an opportunity for feedback and brainstorming to help us create our business plan. In addition to seeking board members and donors, we are looking for people to get their hands dirty in one or many of the following areas:
• Financial services
• Non-profit Governance
• Commercial Real Estate
• Donor/ foundation relations
• Kitchen and architectural development
• Familiarity with non-profit organizations, membership organizations, and/ or culinary entrepreneurship
The meeting will be held at Lesley University, at Porter Exchange , which is just south of the Porter square T stop at 1815 Massachusetts ave. There is a pay for parking lot in the back of the building as well. When you come in the building, the meeting will be in room
3-094, and there will be signs posted to help you find your way.
Please RSVP by Sunday, September 12th to
cambridgecommunitykitchen@gmail.com .
Thank you in advance for your support of this budding organization. We look forward to meeting with you, and building the Cambridge Community Kitchen together.
Sincerely,
JJ Gonson, Sarah Martin, Dan Meyers, Matthew Stein, and Brianne Studer
http://cambridgecommunitykitchen.org
cambridgecommunitykitchen@gmail.com
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Mass Innovation Night
Registration and networking starts at 6:00 p.m. The Main Event runs from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center (The NERD Center)
1 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
(857) 453-6000
RSVP to http://massinnovationnights.com/event-rsvp
Please note, your privacy is assured, we will not sell or share your email address, just use it to send you the event reminder and occasional information about our events.
Mass Innovation Nights connect Massachusetts-based innovators with the marketplace using social media. The monthly Launch Parties and networking events are FREE for everyone — companies and guests alike. All we ask is that guests help spread the word about cool new products they see at our events. Blog, Tweet (#MIN), Facebook, LinkedIn or tell a neighbor or a friend (yes, in person, you know, talking…)
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
7pm panel
6 pm reception
When a crisis occurs, local, state, regional, national and sometimes international organizations (on both the public and the private side) spring into action to coordinate efforts. In many regards, social media makes this easier and easier to manage. But concerns exist: for example, how do you manage the spread of misinformation?
A panel of practitioners will talk through what happens -- and what should happen -- when a crisis strikes. Our moderator will be Ellen Rossano, principal of Crisis Media Consultants.
Stay tuned for program details. Food and drink will be provided at the reception.
THIS FREE EVENT IS HOSTED AND SPONSORED BY THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION.
The BBA is located at 16 Beacon St., Boston, MA.
http://socialmediaemergency.eventbrite.com/
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The Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) invites you
to a meeting on
Community Response to Climate Change
September 16, 2010 , from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
at the Windsor Street Community Health Center,
119 Windsor St. in Conference Room 1.
Since a meeting of community groups at the Main Library in April, we have begun work on many of the ideas offered there for launching a city-wide awareness/action campaign: circulating an action pledge, appearing at community events, establishing a website (cceag.org), assembling resources and speakers, opening an office at Margaret Fuller House.
You, your ideas, effort and understanding of your community are critical to further progress.
The Action Group is prepared to help support your efforts. We can't build momentum without you and your corner of town.
Please come and tell us what we can bring to you and yours.
RSVP. Please email questions to: cambridge.climate.congress@gmail.com or call me at 617-864-0506.
Joanna Herlihy for the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group
71 Cherry Street
Cambridge MA 02139
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Friday, September 17, 2010
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM (ET)
A Progressive Business Leaders Network Forum: A Progress Report on Federal Energy/Climate Change Legislation: Where do we go from here?
United States Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA)*
Tim Healy, CEO, EnerNOC
Christina Lampe-Onnerud, CEO, Boston-Power*
Moderators:
Mitch Tyson, CEO, Advanced Electron Beams
Roger Freeman, Managing Principal, Solventerra LLP
EnerNOC
101 Federal Street
11th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
RSVP http://pblnforum.eventbrite.com/
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Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 9:00 am to 12:45 pm
"Renewable Energy's Future in New England"
Raab Associates presents: The 118th New England Restructuring Roundtable
Foley Hoag LLP
155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
September: Renewable Energy's Future in New England
Our first Fall Roundtable of 2010 focuses on renewable energy's future in New England. Renewable energy installations of all types (wind, biomass, solar, landfill gas) have been proliferating in New England, while Renewable Portfolio Standards continue to ratchet-up. At the same time, recent developments have introduced significant uncertainty into the renewable energy markets in New England. These include the failure to enact federal legislation to price carbon, the uncertain status of future federal renewable tax credits, the TransCanada law suit, the EIPC transmission and renewable planning process, and the biomass study for MA DOER by Manomet.
Our two panels at the September Roundtable will examine the net effect of these and other factors impacting renewable energy development in New England. The first will be a high level, cross-cutting panel whose speakers will share their expectations about the future of renewables in New England. This panel is comprised of:
Commissioner Phil Giudice, MA Department of Energy Resources
Bob Grace, President, Sustainable Energy Advantage
Ellen Angley, VP Energy Supply/Supply Chain Management, NSTAR
Michael Hachey, VP/Director, Eastern Commercial, TransCanada
Alan Nogee, Dir. of Climate & Energy Strategy & Policy, UCS
A second panel will dive into the complex world of biomass carbon accounting and sustainable biomass issues. Tom Walker, the lead author of the Manomet biomass study for MA DOER, will start us off. Marco Albani, Expert Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co., will discuss the recent study led by a consortium of major European industry and environmental organizations. The European biomass study employs a different methodology than the Manomet study, and reaches different conclusions. Coincidentally, both studies were released on the same day in the U.S. and Europe, respectively. (You can access both studies through the Roundablewebsite.) We will round this panel off with two leading academics, Professors William Moomaw of Tufts University andCameron Wake of the University of New Hampshire, who will offer their reflections on both studies and discuss the complexities of biomass and carbon accounting.
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Sat., Sept. 18, 10-3
in the basketball court area at Dana Park, Cambridge
Freeport, the Really, Really Free Market
Start putting aside stuff to pass on! Questions? Contact Alysha Suley (alyshasuley@gmail.com) or Jeff Reinhardt (jeffm.reinhardt@gmail.com)
FREEPORT:
The Really, Really Free Market, Saturday, September 18th at Dana Park in Cambridgeport from 10am to 3pm. (Raindate on Sunday the 19th. REUSE quality goods, REDUCE waste, REDUCE consumption.)
Take some time to clean out your house of unneeded goods and bring them to Cambridgeport's first Really Really Free Market. Bring clothes, home goods, small appliances, books, office supplies, etc. Leave hazardous materials, furniture, broken crap, electronics and garbage at home. We will be swapping at the basketball courts in Dana Park.
Bring what you can, take what you want. No barter system or money involved. Experience the wonders of gift economics, a healthy alternative to the all-too-common trend of turning our goods into trash. Take this time to help out your neighbors and build connections through the age-old tradition of gift giving.
Brought to you by: Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, Greenport, Cambridge DPW, and ordinary residents like you!
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THE SECOND ANNUAL URBAN-AG FAIR IN HARVARD SQUARE Sun. Sep. 19, 11 to 5, at Mt. Auburn St./Winthrop Park in Harvard Square.
http://www.harvardsquare.com/Home/Articles/Second-Annual-Urban-Ag-Fair.aspx
Cambridge’s Second Urban Ag Fair in Harvard Square:
Celebrating Local Gardens, Growers, and Foods!
Sunday, September 19, 2010 11 am to 5 pm
Mount Auburn Street (between Eliot and JFK) and Winthrop Park
The Second Annual Urban Ag fair is being held on the site of Newtowne’s first marketplace in the 1630s and will showcase some incredible locally grown fruits and vegetables. Visitors can sample recipes prepared using local ingredients and get tips from local experts on gardening topics like composting, container gardening, and raising chickens and bees. The entire event is free, open to the public, and family-friendly. Cooking demonstrations by local chefs and Cambridge School student growers will be held throughout the day, along with talks on gardening topics. Prizes will be awarded for fruits, vegetables, flowers, honey, eggs, baked goods, preserves/pickles, and beverages, in the categories of tastiest, biggest, prettiest/most creative, most interesting/funny-looking, and student grower (under 17).
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Upcoming
Boston University
Monday, September 20, 2010
10:00am and 12:30 pm
AN OVERVIEW OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Martin Melosi (History, University of Houston)
Bruce Podobnik (Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College)
Cutler Cleveland (Geography and Environment, Boston University)
Boston University School of Management
Room 424
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society. The seminar series, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will meet once each month during the two semesters and will bring together leadings scholars from across the United States and abroad to discuss various aspects of how energy transitions are themselves socially constituted and how they have, and are likely to, impact society. To facilitate an interdisciplinary discourse, each seminar will feature three speakers, in most cases from different academic disciplines.
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GreenPort Forum
PLENITUDE: The Path to a Small Scale, Ecologically Light Economy
Presented by Author and Economist Juliet B. Schor
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 at 7pm
Livable Streets Office
100 Sidney Street, Cambridge
At a moment of ecological and financial crisis, bestselling author and economist Juliet B. Schor presents a revolutionary strategy for transitioning toward a richer, more balanced life. The economic downturn that has accompanied the ecological crisis has led to another type of scarcity: incomes, jobs, and credit are also in short supply. Our usual way back to growth-a debt-financed consumer boom- is no longer an option our households, or planet, can afford.
Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts - nature, community, intelligence, and time - Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.
Juliet B. Schor is the author of Plenitude, Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics department, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is also a cofounder of the Center for a New American Dream.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at swineman@gis.net
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Ongoing
What happens when an artist finds a new source of energy?
"Park Spark" Project by Matthew Mazzotta
Turning Dog Waste into Energy
First public methane digester for dogs in the world is in Cambridge!
Location: Pacific Street Park (Sidney St. between Pacific and Tudor), Cambridge
Dates: August 25 - September 25, 2010
www.parksparkproject.com
The Cambridge Arts Council invites you to visit and participate in the Park Spark Project - a scientific-art intervention that transforms dog waste into energy. Artist Matthew Mazzotta has installed the first Dog Park Methane Digester in the United States at Pacific Street Park in Cambridge. As dog owners dispose of their pet's waste in the Park Spark Digester, it creates a steady stream of burnable methane gas that powers an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in the park.
Editorial Comment: A cat was visiting recently and I thought about the possibility
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2nd Massachusetts Green Career Conference
"Find Your Role in the New Green Economy"
October 1, 2010 | Holiday Inn | Marlborough, MA
Full Conference Details at www.MassGreenCareers.com
THE CONFERENCE
Massachusetts is greening its economy and its workforce. The Massachusetts Green Career Conference strives to answer the timely question "What is my role in the new, green economy?" by showcasing experts and exhibitors who provide green career guidance, a forum for stakeholders (government, businesses, colleges, individuals), current news from business & industry experts, and networking opportunities.
THE OBJECTIVES
l Learn from leading experts about current and prospective green careers.
l Network with professionals and companies that are hiring
l Go home with knowledge and resources on green jobs and training.
THE EXHIBITORS
l Businesses That Are Hiring - Small to Corporate Businesses
l Education/Training - Universities, Colleges, Training programs
l Careers - Services and Resources
Businesses are accepting resumes at the conference for these positions and more: Administrative Assistant l Business and Home Energy Advisors l Customer Service Assistant l Customer Service Representative Spanish/English Bilingual l Electrical Energy Specialists l Employment Specialist lEnergy Efficiency Analysts l Interns with Backgrounds in Environmental Sicience/Biology/Chemistryl Journeyman l Marketing Associate l Project Engineer/Analyst l Professors/Teachers/Trainers for Energy & Sustainability Programs l Technical Support Consultants with Experience l Weatherization and Insulation Technicians/Installers/Crew Leaders... More info at www.MassGreenCareers.com.
THE PRESENTERS
Thirty-five leading experts from education, business and government sectors. More info atwww.MassGreenCareers.com.
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Links to events at over 30 colleges and universities at Hubevents (http://hubevents.blogspot.com)
Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area (http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
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