MIT
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Legatum Lecture: Governor of Bank of Bangladesh
Speaker: Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor of Bank of Bangladesh
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: 32-155
Dr. Rahman will speak on innovations in finance and banking in Bangladesh, including microfinance and mobile money.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free of charge
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact:
617-324-1875
legatum (at) mit (dot) edu
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Cynthia Rudin: Mitigating Manhole Events in Manhattan
Speaker: Cynthia Rudin, Assistant Professor of Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: 66-110
MITE Seminar Series sponsored by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates
There are a few hundred manhole events (fires, explosions, smoking manholes) in New York City every year, often stemming from problems in the low voltage secondary electrical distribution network that provides power to residential and commercial customers. I will describe work on the Columbia/Con Edison Manhole Events project, the goal of which is to predict manhole events in order to assist Con Edison (NYC's power utility company) with its pre-emptive maintenance and repair programs. The success of this project relied heavily on an understanding of the current state of Manhattan's grid, which has been built incrementally over the last century. Several different sources of Con Edison data are used for the project, the most important of which is the ECS (Emergency Control Systems) database consisting of trouble tickets from past events that are mainly recorded in free text by Con Edison dispatchers.
In this talk, I will discuss the data mining process by which we transformed extremely raw historical Con Edison data into a ranking model that predicts manhole vulnerability. A key aspect in this process is a machine learning method for ranking, called the "P-Norm Push." Our ranked lists are currently assisting with the prioritization of future inspections and repairs in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Jameson Twomey
617-324-2408
jtwomey@mit.edu
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Page Hazlegrove Lecture in Glass Art: Maya Lin
Time: 6:30p–7:30p
Location: 34-101
Lin who first won acclaim for her winning design of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, DC, has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture throughout her career, creating a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works and memorials. As an artist, she has made of discrete, studio-based objects and sculptural installations rooted in the exploratory practice of responding to materials as diverse as glass, wood, and wax. In 1994 she designed a 14-foot-long clock for New York's Pennsylvania Station, made of translucent glass lighted by hundreds of fiber optic light points. According to Newsweek, it hovers above the heads of travelers "like a glowing flying saucer."
For more than ten years, until her unexpected death in 1997, Page Hazlegrove served as director of MIT's Glass Lab. In celebration of her life and work, MIT has established the Page Hazlegrove Residency, which addresses one of Hazlegrove's highest priorities: inviting glass artists to the Institute for the benefit and further development of the MIT community.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Glass Lab
For more information, contact:
617/253-5309
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Energy Challenge: Innovation and the Role of ARPA-E
Speaker: Arun Majumdar, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: E15-070
MITE Seminar Series sponsored by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates
We are living through a Sputnik moment in our nation?s history, where we have witnessed multiple wake up calls with regards to the need for innovating in energy technologies. ARPA-E was created to address this need by investing in high-risk/high-impact projects, with a mission to: (i) reduce energy imports; (ii) reduce energy-related emissions; (iii) improve energy efficiency of all economic sectors; and (iv) to ensure US technological lead. This mission is at the heart of our national, economic and environmental security. This talk will first briefly explain the history of the agency and then focus on new technical programs that have been created to address the mission, as well as a few scientific ideas that capture the imagination of what is technologically possible. The talk will also explain how it is planning for the future, both in terms of technologies as well as an organization.
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.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Jameson Twomey
617-324-2408
jtwomey@mit.edu
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
IDEAS Generator Dinner
Speaker: Representatives from ACCION, UNICEF, Mercy Corps and others
Time: 7:00p–9:30p
Location: 50, Morss Hall (Walker Memorial)
Join us for the launch of the IDEAS Competition and the MIT Global Challenge! At the Generator you can hear from a panel of development experts who will describe innovation opportunities on the ground.
Students, pitch your ideas, pitch your skills, and connect with others who are looking to apply invention as a public service - at home and around the world. Light dinner and soft drinks.
Web site: http://beta-globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/59
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IDEAS Competition, MIT Public Service Center, MIT150, MIT Alumni Association
For more information, contact:
Lars Hasselblad Torres
617-324-5176
lhtorres@mit.edu
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Empowering consumers through transparency at GoodGuide
Speaker: Dara O'Rourke, Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer, GoodGuide.com
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: E62-276
Sustainability @ Sloan Speaker Series
Consumer-facing businesses in the next century will be defined by the need for transparency about the health, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts of their products. This trend is enabled - and partly driven - by tools like GoodGuide, the leading web and mobile tool to support conscious consumption. Dara O'Rourke is a professor at UC Berkeley and founder of GoodGuide. He will discuss GoodGuide as a learning experiment and share the emerging lessons - about what consumers care about; about how to effectively gather and deploy life cycle product data; and about how to partner across companies, NGO's, and academia to enable radical product transparency.
Web site: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/sustainability/speakers.php
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sustainability@Sloan Speaker Series, MIT Sloan Energy and Environment Club, Sloan Energy and Environment Club
For more information, contact:
Jason Jay
jjay@mit.edu
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
Speaker: Jing Wang
Time: 5:00a–7:00a
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.
Professor Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009. The project, titled NGO2.0, is a social experiment that introduces Web 2.0 thinking and social media tools to the grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China. How has new media complicated social action and civic engagement? What are the evolving stakes for social change proponents? How are change agents coping with governmental intervention in a country where social media is held suspect? Professor Wang will speculate on the emergence of a new field of inquiry -- social media action research -- while sharing insights and findings about her involvement in shaping an NGO 2.0 culture in China.
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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Friday, October 15, 2010
Energy Innovation and Research at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Speaker: Professor Gideon Grader, Head of the Technion Energy Program
Time: 8:00a–10:00a
Location: E51-335
Prof. Grader will discuss the latest multi-disciplinary efforts at the Technion to develop alternative and renewable energy, energy storage, and energy efficiency technologies. Information on opportunities for energy internships in Israel will also be presented.
-Light refreshments will be served
Web site: http://www.meetup.com/boston-israel/calendar/14930019/?from=list&offset=0
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT-Israel, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), Hillel (MIT), MIT Energy Club, Boston- Israel Cleantech Alliance, American Technion Society, Combined Jewish Philanthropies
For more information, contact:
David Dolev
617-324-5581
mit-israel@mit.edu
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Nuclear Tipping Point
Speaker: Secretary George P. Shultz
Time: 1:00p–2:30p
Location: E51, Wong Auditorium
Nuclear Tipping Point is a documentary film that focuses on conversations with four men intimately involved in American diplomacy and national security over the last four decades. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and former Senator Sam Nunn share the personal experiences that led them to write two Wall Street Journal op-eds in support of a world free of nuclear weapons and the steps needed to get there.
George Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in business. He has held four different cabinet posts, has taught at three of the United States' greatest universities, and was president of a major engineering and construction company. Mr. Shultz held two key positions in President Reagan's administration: Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-1982) and Secretary of State (1982-1989)
Web site: http://www.nucleartippingpoint.org/home.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, MIT Energy Initiative, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
Karen Gibson
kgibson@mit.edu
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Friday, October 15, 2010
MIT Energy Night
Speaker: Varied presenters in the field of energy
Time: 5:30p–8:30p
Location: N52, MIT Museum
MIT Energy Night is the MIT Energy Club's flagship event for the fall. The event seeks to showcase the most exciting energy research, education, and entrepreneurship at MIT.
The event includes presenters conducting research or work in the field of energy, both here at MIT and within surrounding local businesses and firms. Presenters will be dispersed throughout the museum with posters detailing their work and attendees are encouraged to peruse over appetizers and light refreshments.
We welcome everyone to enjoy the night with us and celebrate the wealth of work in the field of energy here at MIT.
Web site: http://energynight.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club- Energy Night Subgroup, General Motors
For more information, contact:
Kate Goldstein
(401) 345 6543
mitenergynight@gmail.com
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Architecture Lecture
Speaker: Rodolphe el-Khoury, Architect, Khoury Levit Fong, Toronto
Time: 6:30p–8:30p
Location: 7-431
IN PROGRESS "Designing with Scent"
Web site: http://architecture.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
617-253-7791
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Harvard
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The MoveOn Effect: The Internet's Impact on Political Action?Dave Karpf, Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow
Tuesday, October 12, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast).
Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of internet-mediated political advocacy groups in America. Karpf argues that changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. The talk will focus on issues with studying groups who, despite online information abundance, keep the important data behind firewalls.
About Dave
Dave Karpf is an Assistant Professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information. He holds a Ph.D in political science from the University of Pennsylvania (2009) and has held fellowships at Brown University's Taubman Center for Public Policy and the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs. He is currently a Visiting Fellow with the Yale Information Society Project.
Dave's research concerns the internet's impact on American political associations, with a particularly emphasis on the new "netroots" political groups like MoveOn, Organizing for America, and community blogs like DailyKos. He runs the Blogosphere Authority Index (www.blogosphereauthorityindex.com), an open-access dataset used by many blog researchers. His work has been published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Politics and Technology Review, and IEEE Intelligent Systems, and has also been covered in The Economist. Dave's perspective on political associations draws on over a decade of participation-observation in the leadership of the Sierra Club, having served as National Director of their student-run arm in 1999 and recently serving 2 terms on their national Board of Directors (2004-2010). His work can be found online at www.davidkarpf.com.
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Future of Energy: "The Innovation Equation at Tata"
WHEN
Tue., Oct. 12, 2010, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Science Center D
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S)
Sunil Sinha, CEO of Tata Quality Management Services, Tata Group
NOTE
Second talk in the HUCE Future of Energy series. His talk will focus on energy and innovation as it relates to both the Tata Group and India as a whole. He will also discuss Tata Motors' Nano, a $2500 four-passenger city car that entered the market in 2008, and has since received a number of innovation prizes.
LINK
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/2010-10-12/future-energy-sunil-sinha-ceo-tata-quality-management-services-tata-group
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Honeybee Democracy: Author Lecture
WHEN
Tue., Oct. 12, 2010, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Harvard Museum of Natural History
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Museum of Natural History, co-sponsored by Cambridge Entomological Club
SPEAKER(S)
Thomas Seeley, professor of biology at Cornell University
COST
Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK
www.hmnh.harvard.edu…
CONTACT INFO
hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu
NOTE
As they face the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home every year, honeybees employ a complex decision-making process that includes fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. Thomas Seeley, world-renowned animal behaviorist and professor of biology at Cornell, will explore what these incredible insects can teach us about collective wisdom and democracy.
LINK
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
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NOW? What is Structural Design? / Jurg Conzett with Mohsen Mostafavi
WHEN
Wed., Oct. 13, 2010, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Stubbins Room, Gund Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Art/Design, Education, Lecture, Research study, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
GSD
SPEAKER(S)
Jurg Conzett, structural engineer; Mohsen Mostafavi, architect, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design
CONTACT INFO
Brooke King: bking@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE
Jurg Conzett, a citizen of Schiers (Grisons, Switzerland), studied civil engineering at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Lausanne and Zurich and received his diploma in 1980. Today he leads an engineering office of about 20 people together with his partners Gianfranco Bronzini and Patrick Gartmann in Chur. Their main activities are designing structures for buildings together with architects as well as working on projects for bridges and bridge repair.
LINK
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi?startmonth=10&startday=1&startyear=2010&view=114
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Brown Bag Lunch Presentation by Next Step Living
WHEN
Wed., Oct. 13, 2010, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE
Longwood Medical Area
Kresge G3
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Classes/Workshops, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Joint Housing and Transportation Committee
SPEAKER(S)
Adam Hirsch from Next Step Living
NOTE
Learn how to lower your home energy bills by 40 percent! Attend a brown bag lunch presentation by Next Step Living (NSL), a leading Massachusetts-based residential energy efficiency company.
NSL can help you lower your electric, cooling, and heating bills, saving you money (approximately $600-$1,200 a year, on average) and reducing your carbon footprint in the process. As part of our environmental sustainability efforts, we are excited to introduce a new initiative that can provide both homeowners and renters living in Massachusetts with access to significant new weatherization subsidies. The NSL energy audit is free, and many follow-up energy improvements you choose to make are subsidized by the utility companies (up to $2,000).
LINK
http://nextsteplivinginc.com
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Grilled Cheese and Organic Farming Comes to Harvard!
WHEN
Wed., Oct. 13, 2010, 1 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Harvard Community Garden
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Office for Sustainability and the Harvard Community Garden
SPEAKER(S)
Travis Forgues
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Rachel Johnson: rachel_johnson@harvard.edu
NOTE
Hosted by Generation Organic — a group of young, dynamic, organic farmers touring the country this fall in their non-GMO-veggie oil-sippin’ Gen-O school bus.
"Grilled Cheese Social" from 1 – 3:30 p.m.: The farmers will serve fresh grilled cheese sandwiches plus homemade pesto sourced from the garden. Stop by to eat, chat, and conspire about a more sustainable future for food and the planet.
"Sustainable Farming Conversation" from 4 – 5 p.m. in the Lowell JCR, featuring special guest organic pioneer and Vermont native Travis Forgues, followed by a reception and dinner with the farmers in Lowell.
LINK
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163523933660157&ref=ts
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Beyond Agribusiness: New and Old Ways to Grow Food
WHEN
Wed., Oct. 13, 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
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/
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Design and Global Crisis: World Economic Forum at Harvard
WHEN
Thu., Oct. 14, 2010
WHERE
MULTIPLE locations
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Art/Design, Conferences, Education, Lecture, Special Events
CONTACT INFO
Brooke King: bking@gsd.harvard.edu
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Brown Bag Lunch presentation by Next Step Living
WHEN
Thu., Oct. 14, 2010, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge St.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Classes/Workshops, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Joint Housing and Transportation Committee
SPEAKER(S)
Adam Hirsch from Next Step Living
NOTE
Learn how to lower your home energy bills by 40 percent! Attend a brown bag lunch presentation by Next Step Living (NSL), a leading Massachusetts-based residential energy efficiency company.
NSL can help you lower your electric, cooling, and heating bills, saving you money (approximately $600-$1,200 a year, on average) and reducing your carbon footprint in the process. As part of our environmental sustainability efforts, we are excited to introduce a new initiative that can provide both homeowners and renters living in Massachusetts with access to significant new weatherization subsidies. The NSL energy audit is free, and many follow-up energy improvements you choose to make are subsidized by the utility companies (up to $2,000).
LINK
http://nextsteplivinginc.com
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Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
WHEN
Thu., Oct. 14, 2010, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE
Maxwell Dworkin G-115, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Institute for Applied Computational Science and the SEAS Computer Science Faculty
SPEAKER(S)
Ben Shneiderman, professor of computer science and founder of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland
CONTACT INFO
gioia@pacific.harvard.edu
NOTE
Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science
LINK
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/computer_science/distinguished-lecture-in-computational-science-ben-shneiderman-university-of-maryland/view
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BU
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Energy, Society, and Culture
October 15, 2010 10:00a–12:30p
During the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, the BU Department of Geography and Environment and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future 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 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.
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Laura Nader (Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley), Peter Shulman, (History, Case Western Reserve University), James McCann (History, Boston University)
Location: Room 424, School of Management building (595 Commonwealth Avenue), Boston University
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events, Boston University Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative (CEESI)
Admission: Open to the public
Seating is limited. To register, please send an email to pardee@bu.edu
For more information:
Contact Rania Ghosn
rghosn@gmail.com
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/sawyer-energy-transitions/
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Tufts
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The Gulf Oil Spill: What Have We Learned?
October 12, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
sponsored by: The Global Development And Environment Institute, Tufts Institute for the Environment and the Tufts Department of Economics
Location: Medford/Somerville Campus
Pearson Chemical Laboratory
Room 106
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest marine oil spill ever. Join us for a panel discussion of the legal, economic, and policy implications of the spill. Panelists will provide a short presentation on their unique perspectives on the spill, followed by an open discussion of the issues.
Antje Danielson, Director of the Tufts Institute for the Environment and co-founder of Zipcar
Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University Professor of Economics and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Brian Roach, Senior Researcher at the Global Development And Environment Institute and former consultant for the Minerals Management Service
John Rumpler, Tufts University alum and Senior Environmental Attorney for Environment America
Beverages and snacks will be provided.
Contact: Lauren Denizard lauren.denizard@tufts.edu
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Other
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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.
http://www.basea.org
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EarthWorks Dissolution
Final Volunteer Date!
As fall quickly sets in, we have one last open volunteer day to clean up the orchards and put them to rest for winter. On Sunday October 17th from 10am - 1pm we will be working to pick any last fruit lingering on trees, clean up in and around the orchards, taking down summer pest control management, and making sure that the trees are lovingly tucked away for winter. Please call or email to sign up!
617.442.1059 or info@earthworksboston.org
http://earthworksboston.org/
As we have worked in the orchards this summer, we are so proud of the contribution that EarthWorks orchards and Outdoor Classrooms have made to the City of Boston. We introduced the model of public urban orchards, which non-profit groups in other cities are now emulating, and created an outdoor curriculum that uses the orchard setting to introduce children to the concept of an urban ecosystem.
These programmatic achievements have come alongside serious organizational challenges and insufficient financial support to keep EarthWorks solvent. The Board thus reached the conclusion that the success of our programs can be maintained only through an organizational transition, and made the decision to dissolve. We are working to identify organizations that can keep the orchards public and productive and can use the Outdoor Classroom curriculum as a means to educate and inspire our communities about the value of locally grown fruit and other foods.
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Upcoming
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Climate Change, Arts and the Media: A Transatlantic Symposium
Monday, October 18, 2010, 6–8 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9 AM–1:30 PM
School for Management, Boston University, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
In English
Admission free - RSVP requested
RSVP/Info: program2@boston.goethe.org
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ges/umw/en6413732v.htm
The perception of climate change is strongly influenced by the media as well as the work of filmmakers, artists, etc. While the majority of Europe’s population and governments identifies human-made climate change as one of the fiercest challenges of our time, the issue of global warming remains disputed within American public. We aim to examine the perceptions of climate change within Europe and the United States, and ask: what is the role and indeed the responsibility of the media and the arts in shaping this perception and enabling an appropriate response to climate change?
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Passivhaus, LEED, and the City of Boston
A Green Housing Symposium
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Cascieri Hall, Boston Architectural College
320 Newbury Street,
Boston, MA
This timely gathering aims to answer one simple question: Within Boston's urban reality, what indicates a successful green home design and how is it best achieved? Framed with a keynote presentation by Wolfgang Feist and Katrin Klingenberg, and explored in snapshot presentations of local examples, the answer will ultimately be found in a panel discussion that examines the real-world relationship between Passivhaus, LEED, and the CIty of Boston's new Energy Plus housing program.
Hosted bt the Boston Architectural College, this event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to keefe@placetailor.com if you plan to attend.
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2010 MCAN Climate Action Conference
"Act Locally, or Sink Globally"
Sunday, October 24th, 2010, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Clark University, Main Street, Worcester, MA
http://massclimateaction.net/conference/2010-conference.html
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Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum
~ An Open Conversation about Next Steps in Cambridge ~
Windsor Community Health Center, 2nd floor
119 Windsor Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 7 pm
Last winter more than 100 residents and representatives from local businesses and institutions met at City Hall on three Saturdays to discuss the climate emergency and develop proposals for response. Delegates to this congress formed the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) to promote awareness, civic action and other proposals of the congress. In past months, at markets and outdoor events, awareness campaigners have talked with over a thousand residents.
Meanwhile, as evidence of accelerating climate change increases, response on the national level has been scant. Coming elections put progress at the federal and state levels into question. What should we be doing now at the local level?
Come and share your ideas to build a movement to reach beyond our borders.
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Ongoing
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To members of the Climate CoLab community,
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Climate CoLab contest, as well as a major upgrade of our software platform.
The contest will address the question: What international climate agreements should the world community make?
The first round runs through October 31 and the final round through November 26.
In early December, the United Nations and U.S. Congress will be briefed on the winning entries.
We are raising funds in the hope of being able to pay travel expenses for one representative from each winning team to attend one or both of these briefings.
We invite you to form teams and enter the contest--learn more at http://climatecolab.org.
We also encourage you to fill out your profiles and add a picture, so that members of the community can get to know each other.
And please inform anyone you believe might be interested about the contest.
Editorial Comment: I played a previous version of this simulation. This time around, I like the 350 plan which is as close to zero emissions as the exercise will get.
http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans#plans=
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Resource
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/studios
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
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/
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://green.harvard.edu/events
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