MIT
-----
Monday, November 29, 2010
Ideological Diversity in the News Media
Speaker: Jesse Shapiro (Chicago-Booth)
Time: 4:00p–5:30p
Location: E51-151
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Labor/Public Finance Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Beneventon
theresa@mit.edu
------------------
Monday, November 29, 2010
Biomass Torrefaction Modeling and Optimization
Speaker: Richard Bates, MIT, Dept. Mechanical Engineering
Time: 4:30p–5:30p
Location: 3-343
Center for Energy and Propulsion Research Seminar Series
Gasification of lignocellulosic biomass to produce carbon neutral biofuels is experiencing increased interest due to GHG emission concerns with existing fossil fuels. However, utilization of raw biomass as a feedstock for gasification faces several challenges related to storage, transport, size reduction, and seasonality. Pretreatment processes aim to address these challenges by improving the physical and chemical characteristics of biomass prior to utilization. Torrefaction is a mild pyrolysis pretreatment which improves the energy density, grindability, and storability of biomass. Researchers so far have focused on experimental measurements of torrefaction mass/energy balance, volatile composition, and product characterization. Though existing kinetics models have been developed to predict mass balance, they do not address volatile composition or energy balance and therefore have limited applications.
This seminar will first provide an introduction to biomass pretreatment and will then focus on the status and results of efforts to improve the applicability existing torrefaction kinetics models. Then steps for further improvement as well as integration of this model to optimize process and system integration will be described.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): RGD Lab
For more information, contact:
Patrick Kirchen
----------------
Monday, November 29, 2010
Push for Peace: Human Rights and Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico
Time: 6:30p–8:00p
Location: E25-111
Economic, political and social analysis of human rights in Chiapas with commentary on appropriate technology solutions in order to build sustainable, autonomous communities.
Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/current/desc-mexicosolidarity.shtml
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): LSC, Mexico Solidarity Network
For more information, contact:
MIT Lecture Series Committee
617-253-3791
lsc@mit.edu
--------------
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Gulf of Mexico Spill: What Have We Learned?
Speaker: Dr. Dave Rainey, BP, Houston, TX
Time: 12:00p–1:30p
Location: 54-915
EAPS Department Lecture Series Special Seminar
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/index.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
-----------------
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Undergraduate Economics Association - The Next Financial Meltdown
Speaker: Simon Johnson (MIT/Sloan)
Time: 4:30p–5:30p
Location: E51-395
Undergraduate Economics Association
The Next Financial Meltdown
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Other Events
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
-------------------
November 30
4:00–6:00 pm
MIT E19-623
Linguistics and Politics
Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor emeritus of linguistics, political activist and prolific book author
speaking to the Knight Science Journalism Fellows
--------------------
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Evolution of ecosystem properties
Speaker: Simon Levin, Princeton
Time: 2:30p–3:30p
Location: 48-316
Environmental Fluid Mechanics / Hydrology Seminar Series
weekly presentations from local and international researchers in the field of hydrology and environmental fluid mechanics.
The unification of population biology and ecosystems science means going beyond thinking about ecosystems and the biosphere as if they were evolutionary units, maximizing throughput or stability or some other systemic goal. Rather, they exhibit patterns emergent from processes at much lower levels of organization. With the aid of mathematical theory and vast new metagenomic data, there now exists the capacity to study the wide range of ecosystem patterns and processes that characterize the essential features of those systems, and to examine the robustness of those patterns and their role in supporting ecosystem goods and services. By marrying theory and empirical work, we can elucidate the patterns of key macroscopic measures within ecosystems, develop explanations of variation in those patterns, and develop predictive models of responses to changing environments. This lecture will introduce a variety of examples, from the distribution and abundance of ecotypes to stoichiometry and nutrient use, from dispersal and foraging behavior to successional patterns, from quorum sensing to nitrogen fixation. Ultimately, such approaches can help to explain the robustness of macroscopic features such as the emergence of size structure distributions, trophic webs, species diversity relations and successional dynamics.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Sheila Anderson
8-5554
sherah@mit.edu
------------------
Clean Combustion Technologies
December 01, 2010 3:00p–4:30p
Carl Bozzuto has more than 40 years of experience in combustion and boiler operations and research. He began his career as a research engineer, senior project engineer, manager and director for Combustion Engineering Inc. Carl was named vice president of process technology for the company, where he was responsible for the development and commercialization of new boiler and power plant technologies including advanced cycles, ultra supercritical boilers,
alternative working fluids, fluid bed boilers, plant integration and other plant component technology. serving recently as vice president of technology for the Power Environment sector at Alstom Power Inc., he was responsible for the development and implementation of new technology for boiler and environmental products on a worldwide basis.
Bozzuto holds 16 U.s. patents and membership in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Combustion Institute and the American society of Mechanical Engineers (AsME). He has authored more than 30 published technical papers and is editor-in-chief of the textbook ?Clean Combustion Technologies,? published by Alstom Power in 2009. Bozzuto has earned Bachelor of science and Master of science degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of science degree in management from the Hartford Graduate Center.
Note: Carl will be handing out to audience members copies of Alstom's new book on Clean Combustion Technologies.
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Carl Bozzuto, Alstom Power
Location: E19-319
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: Contact John Parsons jparsons@mit.edu
---------------------
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
HOW DO WE FEED THE PLANET? GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY IN THE NEXT CENTURY
Time: 7:00p–10:00p
Location: 32-123
Terrascope students in Mission 2014 present their solutions to the challenges of combatting world hunger
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2014/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Terrascope
For more information, contact:
Aczel, Debra Gross
253-4074
daczel@mit.edu
-------------------
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Can Technology Solve Global Poverty? - Ideas Matter Lecture Series
Speaker: Kentaro Toyama, Nicholas Negroponte, Rachel Glennerster, Archon Fung
Time: 4:00p–6:00p
Location: E51-115, Wong Auditorium
Ideas Matter
Ideas Matter, a joint project of Boston Review and MIT's Political Science Department, is a lecture series that brings our writers together with other experts and practitioners for substantive debate on the challenges of our times. The series, free and open to the public, will offer nine events in the 2010-11 academic year. Visit our web page for dates and information on forthcoming events on government's role in the economy, same-sex marriage, and more.
The media and international-development advocates can't stop trumpeting information and communications technology for development (ICT4D). But, drawing on his field work in India, Kentaro Toyama argues that cell phones and the Web can take us only so far. Human capacity remains the foundation of economic growth. Joining the debate are Nicholas Negroponte, and Rachel Glennerster. Archon Fung moderates.
Web site: bostonreview.net/ideasmatter
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Political Science Department
For more information, contact:
Boston Review
6173241360
review@bostonreview.net
----------------------------
Friday, December 03, 2010
First Russian Energy Conference
Speaker: http://www.rusenergy.org/?page_id=197
Time: 8:00a–7:00p
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Mission
The conference sets a stage for the effective exchange of ideas between leading western policy and technology experts and their Russian colleagues thus nurturing the consensual and unbiased approach to the global energy problems.
Estimates for the Conference:
100 high-class attendees
*Russian Energy Sector Executives
*Faculty, Research and Field Experts from Harvard, MIT, US, EU and Russia
*US, EU and Russia Policymakers
*Harvard and MIT Students
Web site: http://www.rusenergy.org/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, Harvard Club of Russia, Evrofinance Mosnarbank
For more information, contact:
Iulian Pogor
ipogor@mit.edu
-----------------
Security Theater or Serious Security?
Airport Pat-Downs, Scanners and the Fourth Amendment
Friday, December 3
12 noon
Stata 32-155
Speaker: Nancy Murray, Director of Education
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
( http://www.aclum.org/ )
Additional speakers TBA
Brown bag lunch; coffee/tea/cold drinks provided
For more information, contact weinmann@mit.edu or go to web.mit.edu/tac
This program is free and open to the public; no registration is required.
--------------------------
Friday, December 03, 2010
MIT Sloan Energy Finance Forum - THE LIFE CYCLE OF ENERGY FINANCE
Time: 1:00p–6:00p
Location: E51-Wong
The Sloan Energy & Environment Club is thrilled to announce that the 2nd annual MIT Sloan Energy Finance Forum will take place on Friday, December 3rd, 2010 in Wong Auditorium from 1:00pm to 6:00pm. Please save the date!
This year the forum will address the theme of the Life Cycle of Energy Finance. The 2010 Energy Finance Forum will span the role of energy finance from early to late stage capital and will be an excellent opportunity to meet major energy finance professionals. We have a fantastic line-up of keynotes and panelists this year, including Ray Wood, Head of the U.S. Power Group and Global Alternative Energy Group at Credit Suisse, Dennis Costello, Managing Partner at Braemar Energy Ventures and Dave Danielson, Program Director at ARPA-E.
Topics will include:
* Dirty little secrets about Energy Venture Capital: an honest assessment of Energy Venture Capital and how it can improve
* What?s the big deal: the changing role of private equity, M&A and finance in the consolidation of the energy market
* The ABCs of Project Finance - Inside a Real Deal
* DOE Loan Guarantee Program ? What?s it all about?
Registration is free and encouraged to guarantee your spot.
Registration: http://mitsloaneff2010.eventbrite.com/
Open to: the general public
Tickets: http://mitsloaneff2010.eventbrite.com/
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
Emmanuel Boros
eboros@mit.edu
----------
Harvard
----------
Spatialization of human migration, environmental history and global change
November 30, 2010 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Contact Name:
Wendy Guan
wguan@cga.harvard.edu
Room K262, CGIS Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
Professor Peng Gong, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley and Center for Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studie, Tsinghua University.
Global environmental change has become a focus of the society. Human factors particularly since the beginning of industrialization have been studied as a major cause. To fully understand today's global environmental change, we need a clearer understanding of the past as a background, an understanding on how humans migrated and evolved in the past without industrialization. However, this is hampered by the lack of spatialized historical environmental data. China has a rich archive of historical events. Mining of the historical data on China's environment will provide useful information and perhaps wisdom in solving today's global environmental problems.
-------------------------
Condoleezza Rice, American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
WHEN
Tue., Nov. 30, 2010, 4 p.m.
WHERE
JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Conferences, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S)
Condoleezza Rice, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
COST
Free, but ticket required
TICKET INFO
iop.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO
617 495 8508
NOTE
American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
Tue., Nov 30, 4pm
The National Interest, Africa and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?
Wed., Dec 1, 4pm
Multiethnic Democracy: Is the American Experience Unique?
Thu., Dec 2, 4pm
Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad
Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
LINK
dubois.fas.harvard.edu
------------------------------
Condoleezza Rice, American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
WHEN
Wed., Dec. 1, 2010, 4 p.m.
WHERE
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Conferences, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S)
Condoleezza Rice, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
COST
Free, but ticket required
TICKET INFO
iop.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO
617 495 8508
NOTE
American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
Tue., Nov 30, 4pm
The National Interest, Africa and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?
Wed., Dec 1, 4pm
Multiethnic Democracy: Is the American Experience Unique?
Thu., Dec 2, 4pm
Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad
Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
LINK
dubois.fas.harvard.edu
-------------------------
Social Entrepreneurship and the Built Environment — James Rouse and His Legacy
WHEN
Wed., Dec. 1, 2010, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE
Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Art/Design, Ethics, Film, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)
Actor and activist Edward Norton with real estate developer, planner, and investor Jonathan Rose
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Brooke King: events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE
A discussion with Rouse's grandson, actor and activist Edward Norton and with "green" real estate developer, planner, and investor Jonathan Rose. Norton and Rose are both Trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a unique for-profit/nonprofit hybrid, founded by Rouse, that has raised and invested more than $10 billion to finance more than 270,000 affordable homes across the United States.
By 2050, the world's population will exceed more than nine billion people, and two thirds of the population will live in cities. Rose and Norton will discuss some of the larger trends that affect cities today and in the future, and in particular, long-term strategies for accommodating this significant population growth in the most environmentally, socially, and economically responsible way possible. They will address the significant role that social entrepreneurs can play, following in Rouse's footsteps, as well as the role of design and placemaking in addressing the challenges of affordable housing and community development.
LINK
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/weekly.cgi?startmonth=12&startday=1&startyear=2010&view=114
----------------------------------------
Environmental Nanotechnology Symposium
December 2, 2010 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Contact Name: Brenda L. Mathieu
bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu
209 Pierce Hall, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Overview
The goal of this symposium is to keep the researchers in our field updated on the current research progress of environmental nanotechnology with a focus on carbon nanomaterials. The symposium will encompass areas related to the utilization of nanotechnology for environmental applications such as water and wastewater treatment, environmental remediation, and solar energy conversion.
Speakers
Michael Hoffmann has pioneered studies of advanced oxidation processes for water treatment purposes, including use of quantum-sized TiO2 and ZnO photocatalysts. His group is currently investigating heterogeneous semiconductor photocatalysis and electrocatalysis for aqueous contaminant remediation, solar to hydrogen conversion, and carbon dioxide sequestration.
Menachem Elimelech is a world leader in advanced separation processes for water treatment purposes, and was among the first to identify the strong ecotoxicological effects of carbon nanotubes. His book, Particle Deposition and Aggregation, is a standard for describing physicochemical processes in aquatic systems. His group is currently applying carbon nanomaterials to enhance water purification processes.
Chad Vecitis has investigated a range of water treatment processes from the sonochemical degradation of persistent fluorochemical pollutants to point-of-use technologies for the developing world. His lab is currently evaluating the potential of electrochemically-active carbon nanotube filtration towards a number of water treatment applications.
---------------------------------
Condoleezza Rice, American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
WHEN
Thu., Dec. 2, 2010, 4 p.m.
WHERE
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Conferences, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S)
Condoleezza Rice, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
COST
Free, but ticket required
TICKET INFO
iop.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO
617 495 8508
NOTE
American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
Tue., Nov 30, 4pm
The National Interest, Africa and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?
Wed., Dec 1, 4pm
Multiethnic Democracy: Is the American Experience Unique?
Thu., Dec 2, 4pm
Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad
Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
LINK
dubois.fas.harvard.edu
--------------------------
The EPA @ 40: Protecting the Environment & Our Communities
WHEN
Fri., Dec. 3, 2010, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
WHERE
Ames Courtroom - Austin Hall
Harvard Law School
1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Conferences, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S)
Keynote address by Lisa P. Jackson, EPA administrator
Additional participants:
Paul Anastas, EPA assistant administrator, Office of Research & Development
William Clark, Harvard Kennedy School
Michelle DePass, EPA assistant administrator
Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School
Mary Gade, Gade Group; former EPA regional administrator
C. Boyden Gray, Gray & Schmitz LLP; former U.S. ambassador to the European Union; former counsel to George H.W. Bush
James Hammitt, Harvard School of Public Health
Lisa Heinzerling, EPA associate administrator, Office of Policy
John Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology; director,
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School
Henry Lee, Harvard Kennedy School
Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Gina McCarthy, EPA assistant administrator, Office of Air & Radiation
Mary Nichols, chair, California Air Resources Board; former California
secretary of environmental affairs; former EPA assistant administrator, Office of Air & Radiation
Bob Perciasepe, EPA deputy administrator
William Ruckelshaus, Madrona Group; founding EPA administrator
Daniel Schrag, Harvard University
Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health
Ron Sims, deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Robert Sussman, senior policy adviser to administrator Jackson
Nancy Sutley, chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Deborah Swackhamer, University of Minnesota; chair of the EPA Science Advisory Board
Jay Williams, mayor, Youngstown, Ohio
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
Lisa Matthews: lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617.495.8883
NOTE
Please join us for a conference that brings together thought leaders from academia, NGOs, business, and government to celebrate 40 years of history and achievements of the Environmental Protection Agency and to discuss the future challenges it faces.
LINK
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/epa
----
BU
----
The Business of Energy
December 03, 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: Martha Amram (Founder and CEO, Ennovationz), Joseph Pratt (History, University of Houston), Paul McManus (School of Management, 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
Tickets available from 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/
--------
Other
--------
Monday November 29, 2010 — 8pm
Nerdnite at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge in Central Square
The lineup:
Talk 1: “City Hauls: Foraging for wild plants and other foodstuffs within the city limits”
by David Craft
Talk 2: “Fun with joints”*
*(or, “what you probably want to know about how wood gets connected to more wood and other things.”)
by Vaughn Tan
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
------------------
11/30 Whistleblower Wendell Potter Discusses
Deadly Spin at Cambridge Forum
Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2727
email: director@cambridgeforum.org
www.cambridgeforum.org
RENEWING DEMOCRACY: Deadly Spin<
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at 7 p.m. join Wendell Potter, currently the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, in discussing his new book, Deadly Spin. As a well paid executive for a major health insurance company, he was on the inside team that created the public relations strategy to challenge threats from government regulation. But after viewing the 2007 Michael Moore film Sicko and taking notes so he could prepare a counter, he found himself agreeing with a great deal of the film. He left his thirty-year career and returned home to Tennessee, he had received a journalism degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville-- and wrote a classic corporate insider, whistle blowing critique, Deadly Spin, praised by Howard Dean and Bill Moyers. In June, 2009, he testified before Congress, giving powerful specifics of industry practices to "dump the sick" to increase share holder value that, in turn, justifies high executive salaries and bonuses.
What is Wendell Potter's take on the new health care reform law? How much did industry lobbyists influence its writing? What sections should President Obama and Congressional Democrats defend?
Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at www.cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.
Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
-----------------------
Join BostonCAN, Carl Spector, Executive Director of Boston's Air Pollution Control Commission, and representatives from several of Boston's many neighborhood sustainability organizations for a roundtable dialogue about community climate action in Boston. Come see a short video about how climate change is already affecting in Boston and our future vulnerabilities, and share your ideas for engaging more people in making Boston more sustainable.
Panelists include Eric Smalley from Greening Rozzie, Khalida Smalls from ACE, Rosanne Foley from Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition, Ray Porfilio from West
Roxbury Saves Energy, and Stepanie Valovic from Planet Southie.
Location: Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, 12th floor, Trustees Conference Room
Date and time: Wednesday, December 1, 6pm-7:30pm
Snacks provided. Free and open to the public.
Hosted by Suffolk University Sustainability Committee, the Government Department, Human Resources, and the Boston Climate Action Network.
More info at: http://www.suffolk.edu/offices/44417.html
Loie Hayes
Boston Climate Action Network www.BostonCAN.org
home/office 617-278-1885
cell 857-544-6846
---------------
The Locavore Way: Book Talk & Book Signing with Amy Cotler
Wednesday, December 1, 7:00-8:30 pm
Location:
Room: BU Central, in the basement of the George Sherman Union building at Boston University (775 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215)
Description:
Join Slow Food BU for a book talk and book signing of "The Locavore Way," with author Amy Cotler, a food activist, cookbook writer, recipe developer, and chef. "The Locavore Way" is a comprehensive how-to guide for everyone to seeking out and savoring local food, as well as becoming an advocate in your community. By focusing on the joy of connecting with the people and places responsible for producing what we eat, Cotler shows readers how easy it can be to embrace the locavore lifestyle. For more information about the book and about the author, visit Cotler's website and local food recipes blog at :http://www.amycotler.com.
Free and open to the public.
-------------------------
Chairman Frank I. Smizik of the House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change invites you to attend an informational hearing on
Plans for the Future
Implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act
The hearing will be held at:
2:30 p.m on Thursday, December 2, 2010
Hearing Room A1, State House
This informational hearing will show the Commonwealth’s progress of implementing the Global Warming Solutions Act. Starting last fall the Climate Protection and Green Economy Advisory Committee and Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee participated in a series of briefings discussing the current effects of global warming and the progress of our efforts to deal with climate change. This upcoming hearing will focus on the implementation plan required by the Act, which will be completed by the end of the year. EEA Assistant Secretary for Policy, David Cash, will be joined by the Advisory Committee Co-Chairs, Dr. Susan Avery of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Martin Madaus former CEO of Millipor, who will present recommendations and strategies under consideration to address global warming and climate change.
For more information, contact Sydney Schneir at Sydney.Schneir@mahouse.gov, or Jonathan Goldberg at Jonathan.Goldberg@mahouse.gov, or (617) 722-2676
-----------------------
CFL swaps produce tremendous CO2 savings (averaging four times that of our
barnraisings).
If you don't like getting dirty using spray foam in attics, but still want
to help cut lots of carbon, or if you want to meet your neighbors and hand
them a holiday gift, this is the event for you.
Saturday, December 4, 12 - 4 p.m.
*Meet at Link Room in Youville House at 1575 Cambridge Street*
We will knock on doors and swap free efficient CFLs for inefficient
incandescent bulbs.
Food and drinks provided after the event, as well as musical entertainment.
Cosponsored by Cambridge Energy Alliance and the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood
Association.
Sign up here https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDViRnFNRXhudE5sZUxULWdwTl9oR3c6MQ or by emailing: Outreach@cambridgeenergyalliance.org
------------------------
Arlington Barnraising
Happy Thanksgiving!
As part of the celebration, join us December 5, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., as the community comes together to weatherize a home at 14 Wright Street in Arlington.
The event will address improvements most homes need as well as some less common air-sealing work. We’ll be caulking and sealing windows with v-strip, replacing door weatherstripping, fixing problem areas in the basement, wrapping pipes, installing smart strips, and more.
At the end of the event, we’ll also be installing a chimney balloon. Chimneys are frequently a giant hole allowing all your conditioned air up and out. We’re plan to run a blower door test immediately before and after installing the balloon to test just how effective it is.
This will probably be the least dirty event we’ve had yet – a clean finished basement, no attic, etc. – but there will still be some amount of foam and plenty of caulk, so don’t wear your Thanksgiving finest on December 5.
PLEASE RSVP – but also feel free to pass this announcement along to friends.
Thanks, Jeremy
arlheet@gmail.com
http://arlingtonheet.org/
-----------------------------
In our recent survey, many people indicated they'd like to be part of an online Common Security Club information session and facilitator training. We're happy to announce our first info and training "webinar" on Wednesday, December 8. Please click here to tell us what time you can make the session, and we will accommodate as many people as possible.
Registration for the webinar will be available after we choose a time
Common Security Clubs Organizer
617.477.8630 x307
info@commonsecurityclub.org
http://commonsecurityclub.org
------------
Resource
-----------
Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
----------------------
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
-----------------------------------------------------
Links to events at 60 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/
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://green.harvard.edu/events
--------------------------------------------------
Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most
Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston
area that catch the editor's eye.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events
email gmoke@world.std.com
No comments:
Post a Comment