Sunday, January 30, 2011

Energy (and Other) Events - January 30, 2011

MIT
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Science Writing & Communication
Time: 1:00p–2:30p
Location: 68-181
Dr. Sonal Jhaveri, Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Lecturer for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Science Program Director in the Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Affairs Office at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MIT
Amanda Yarnell, Assistant Managing Editor for science, technology and education, Chemical & Engineering News
Dr. Karen Carniol, Scientific Editor, Cell, Cell Press

Are you a good communicator? Are you interested in a career in science publishing? Come hear about a variety of careers in science writing and communication.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/biology/iap.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Biology

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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Innovation in Healthcare Symposium: Systems Thinking from Discovery to Delivery
Speaker: Read about speakers here: http://innovationinhealthcare2011.com/speakers.html
Time: All day
Location: Kresge Auditorium
On February 1, 2011, the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI) and MIT Department of Biological Engineering will co-host the Innovation in Healthcare Symposium: Systems Thinking from Discovery to Delivery at Kresge Auditorium. The day-long event will be a forum to stimulate new ways of thinking to address today's greatest healthcare challenges.

Speakers will include Michael Porter, Janet Woodcock, Peter Senge, and Don Berwick, among others.

The symposium will consist of three multi-disciplinary, expert panels structured around three major topics: improving healthcare delivery to patients, reversing the declining productivity of biomedical research, and applying lessons learned by other industries to guide a transformation of the healthcare system. Following the three panels, there will be a question-and-answer session comprising young leaders currently working in the healthcare field discussing how the issues raised by the previous panels impact their work.

The Innovation in Healthcare Symposium was conceived by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and developed in collaboration with MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation and Department of Biological Engineering. The goal of the symposium is to inspire students, our future experts, to think in new ways to find real solutions to healthcare from discovery through delivery. To learn more about the symposium and register online, visit http://innovationinhealthcare2011.com/.

Web site: http://innovationinhealthcare2011.com/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division
For more information, contact:
Stefanie Koperniak

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Dissertation defense of Karen Tapia-Ahumada
Title: Understanding the Impact of Large-Scale Penetration of Micro Combined Heat & Power Technologies within Energy Systems
Committee: E. Moniz (chair), M. Ilic (CMU), J. Kirtley, I. Perez-Arriaga (Pontificia Comillas)
Time: 10am
Location: E51-325

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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Weather and Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications of Climate Change
Speaker: Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: E51-376
Weather and Death in India: Mechamisms and Implications of Climate Change

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Development & Environment Seminar

For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu

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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

The Rock Physicochemical Basis for Time-Lapse Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Injection

Speaker: Dr. Tiziana Vanorio, Dept. of Geophysics, Stanford University

Time: 4:00p–5:00p

Location: 54-915

Department Lecture Series talk


Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/dls.html

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

For more information, contact:
Jacqui Taylor
253-2127
jtaylor@mit.edu

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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Clear as Mud: Making Sense of Post-Katrina Planning in New Orleans

Speaker: Robert B. Olshansky Professor & Associate Head of Urban and Regional Planning University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Time: 5:00p–7:00p

Location: 9-450

Urban Studies and Planning Departmental Speaker Series
Weekly Lecture Series of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Rob Olshansky teaches and researches on land use and environmental planning, with an emphasis on planning for natural hazards. He has published extensively on post-disaster recovery planning, planning and policy for earthquake risks, and environmental impact assessment. Since September 2005 he has been closely monitoring the post-Katrina planning process in New Orleans. He is the author (with Laurie A. Johnson) of Clear As Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans, ?an objective and intimate look at the people, events, and actions that defined the first 22 months of New Orleans's recovery? (APA Planners Press, 2010).
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The Spring 2011 DUSP Speaker Series explores how each invited scholar-practitioner (or practitioner-scholar) has ?made sense? out of a complex socio-spatial phenomenon. In addition to conveying the substance of their work, the speakers have been asked to reflect on how they do what they do, bringing to life the ways that planners and designers use qualitative methods in their scholarship and/or practice. The subject matter ranges across all of the intellectual domains of the Department, and each topic engages the terrain of more than one DUSP program group.

(Light refreshments served at 5:00, talk to begin at 5:30)

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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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Thomas Friedman-Because There Is No Planet B

Speaker: Thomas Friedman

Time: 3:30p–4:30p

Location: W16, Kresge Auditorium

Please join the MIT community for a conversation with
Thomas Friedman

Moderated by MIT President Susan Hockfield

Thomas Friedman is a New York Times columnist and the author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-and How It Can Renew America

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): President's Office

For more information, contact:
617-253-5734
infocenter-www@mit.edu

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Thursday, February 03, 2011
Green IT: Myth, mirage, or reality?

Speaker: Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar, Google

Time: 4:00p–5:30p

Location: 32-123

Dertouzos Lecturer Series 2010/2011
The Dertouzos Lecturer Series has been a tradition since 1976, featuring some of the most influential thinkers in computer science, including Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, and Mitchell Kapor. Formerly the Distinguished Lecturer Series, the series has been renamed in memory of Michael Dertouzos, Director for the Lab for Computer Science from 1974 to 2001.

Abstract:
It seem like just about everyone is talking about "Green IT" these days. But what is it? Can IT be "green"? This talk will discuss what Google is doing to make its servers and data centers more sustainable, as well as the prospects for future improvements. It will also touch on ways in which IT can be used to help make the rest of the world more sustainable.


Web site:http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event
&id=2763

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): CSAIL

For more information, contact:
Colleen Russell
617-253-0145
crussell@csail.mit.edu

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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Movie Screening and discussion with director : Bhopali (A documentary on the Bhopal disaster)

Speaker: Van Maximilian Carlson

Time: 6:30p–8:30p

Location: 6-120

BHOPALI (www.bhopalithemovie.com)is a feature length documentary about the world's worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India. Thousands were killed and up to 500,000 were affected by the contaminants. 26 years have passed since the disaster, yet the suffering continues and, for the victims, justice has yet to be seen. Award winning director Van Maximilian Carlson presents a modern portrait of shattered lives in the community surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory. We focus on survivors of the disaster and their families as they continue life amongst the indelible remainders of contamination and death. Set against a backdrop of high stakes activism, global politics, and human rights advocacy, this film explores the ongoing struggle for justice against Union Carbide, the American corporation responsible for the disaster. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Satinath Sarangi, and attorney Rajan Sharma.

The director Van Maximilan Carlson (http://www.maxcarlsonfilms.com/) will be present for the screening.

Open to: the general public

Cost: Free

Sponsor(s): MIT Students for Bhopal, AID-MIT, GSC Funding Board

For more information, contact:
Karthik Shekhar
217-979-9852
kshekhar@mit.edu

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Systems, Process, Art, and the Social

Friday, February 4
1:00 – 5:00 pm
Edgerton Hall – Room 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge (map)
*No tickets or registration required

This forum examines the long shadow of cybernetics and systems theory in art and design from the 1950s until today, with particular focus on a decisive shift that took place in the later phase of the development. “Systems esthetics” became a catch phrase in the 1960s, popularized by artists such as Hans Haacke and Jack Burnham, both of whom found MIT to be an important venue for their attempts to craft systemic art and theory, and both of whom, post-MIT, turned dramatically towards a social approach to their artistic work.

How do we get from wartime simulators to contemporary architectural algorithms and interactivity? What does the weather have to do with philosophies of reception in contemporary art? When does an architecture pavilion become a recursive semiotic universe? Scholars, artists, and designers look at the aesthetic and programmatic impact of ideas that at first appeared to have nothing to do with art, and that may have had their most intense articulation (if not their origin) at MIT during and after the war: systems and cybernetics (Norbert Weiner, Jay Forrester), but also computer language design (Muriel Cooper), process-driven urbanism (Gyorgy Kepes and Kevin Lynch), and computer-driven visualization of data and embodied interfaces (the Media Lab).

This forum is moderated by Caroline A. Jones, professor of Architecture at MIT and director of the program in History, Theory + Criticism.

Participants include:
Benjamin Aranda, New York architect, co-creator of “Terraswarm”
Michelle Kuo, editor-in-chief, Artforum
João Ribas, curator of exhibitions at List Visual Arts Center, MIT
Matthew Ritchie, artist, creator of The Morning Line arts pavilion commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Matthew Wisnioski, professor of science and technology in society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Harvard

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January 31, 2011 | Monday | ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Rethinking the History of Energy Transitions
12 – 1:30 pm | Bell Hall (5th floor HKS Belfer Building)

Chris Jones is a Ziff Environmental Fellow with the Harvard University Center for the Environment. His dissertation studies the development of America's first fossil-fuel intensive region, the mid-Atlantic. In particular, he focuses on the critical roles played by transportation infrastructure in creating new energy consumption patterns. His research explores the ways coal canals, oil pipelines, and electricity transmission made the widespread and intensified use of fossil fuels possible, stimulated the rise of urbanization and industrialization, and contributed to the emergence of a society dependent on ever-increasing supplies of energy.

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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
WHEN Mon., Jan. 31, 2011, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Pound Hall (HLS), Ropes Gray Room
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Labor & Worklife Program, HLS
SPEAKER(S) Simon Johnson, professor, MIT, and former chief economist, International Monetary Fund

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Tuesday, February 1
12 p.m.
"Digital Citizens: The Internet and Politics."
Caroline Tolbert, professor of political science, University of Iowa; co-author of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government

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Lewis Hyde on "Common as Air"

WHEN Tue., Feb. 1, 2011, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Barker Center, Thompson Room
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Berkman Center for Internet & Society / Harvard Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow and author of "The Gift" and "Common as Air"
COST Free
TICKET INFO RSVP to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu
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Lewis Hyde, Berkman Center Fellow & professor at Kenyon College, will discuss his new book, "Common as Air."
Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, "The Gift," illuminates and defends the noncommercial portion of artistic practice. "Trickster Makes This World" (1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. Hyde is currently at work on a book about our “cultural commons,” that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to produce.
LINK http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/02/hyde

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Wind Energy: Which Way Way Does the Media Wind Blow?

WHEN Wed., Feb. 2, 2011, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Bldg, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HKS Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs & Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S)
Beth Daley, Boston Globe environment reporter
Elizabeth Rosenthal, New York Times environment reporter
COST Open to the public
TICKET INFO Free
CONTACT INFO Cristine_Russell@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE
1st in Clean Energy & the Media Seminar Series
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5388/wind_energy.html

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Green Conversations: "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change - Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy"
WHEN Wed., Feb. 2, 2011, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), S020 Belfer Case Study Room, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Jon Krosnick, the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, and professor of communication, political science and pyschology at Stanford

DISCUSSANTS: Stephen Ansolabehere, professor, Harvard Department of Government
Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; director, Harvard University Center for the Environment

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During the past two decades, many scientific experts have been frustrated by the American public's apparent indifference to climate change and the threats it may pose. And even during the two years, headlines on newspapers across the country have proclaimed: "Scientists and the American Public Disagree Sharply Over Global Warming" and "Public Concern About Climate Waning." Is it really true? Do Americans really not accept the opinions of scientific experts on climate change? In this presentation, Professor Jon Krosnick will describe findings from a series of national surveys that he has designed and conducted since 1996, as well as a recent survey of Massachusetts residents, tracking what people do and do not believe on this issue and what they do and do not want to have done about it. Surprising results challenge many widely held presumptions about public opinion, illuminate the increasing politicization of the issue, and provide a context for watching and understanding future efforts to pass (and block) legislation on climate change.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2011-02-02/green-conversations-jon-krosnick

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Using Social Media to Engage Youth & Promote Democracy
WHEN Wed., Feb. 2, 2011, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)
Jonathan Margolis, a career member of the Senior Executive Service, serves as deputy coordinator for Global Programs for the Bureau of International Information Programs at the Department of State. IIP is the principal international strategic communications entity for the U.S. foreign affairs community. The bureau informs and influences foreign audiences by presenting a positive vision rooted in U.S. values, supporting U.S. foreign policy with timely and trusted information, and countering extremist violent ideologies. Margolis is responsible for overseeing all of the bureau’s Internet and print products and publications, including its multimedia content and interactivity strategies.
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Bruce Jackan: 617.495.7548, bruce_jackan@hks.harvard.edu
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Using-Social-Media-to-Engage-Youth-and-Promote-Democracy

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February 2, 2011 | Wednesday | Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes
4:10 – 5:30 pm | Littauer 382

Scott Barrett is a Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. Barrett's research focuses on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to infectious diseases. He is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making, published in paperback by Oxford University Press in 2005. His most recent book, Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, also published by Oxford University Press, will appear in paperback, with a new afterword, in May 2010. His research has been awarded the Resources for the Future Dissertation Prize and the Erik Kempe Award. He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was previously a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the Academic Panel to the Department of Environment in the UK.

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Technology, Policy and Politics: Energy in 2011 and Beyond
WHEN Thu., Feb. 3, 2011, 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School
Pound Hall 101
1563 Mass Ave, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment; Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School; Harvard Business School
SPEAKER(S)
Cathy Zoi, acting under secretary of energy; assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, U.S. Department of Energy
CONTACT INFO Lisa Matthews: matthew@fas.harvard.edu
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Zoi oversees a broad energy portfolio, including the Offices of Electricity Delivery and Reliability, EERE, Legacy Management, Environmental Management, Fossil Energy, and Nuclear Energy. Included in her purview are a multitude of programs for improving the nation’s energy infrastructure, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy security, and creating jobs.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/cathyzoi

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February 3, 2011 | Thursday | Brown Bag Lunch moderated by the Business and Government Professional Interest Council
Davos Debrief
12 – 1 pm | Malkin Penthouse, 5th Floor Littauer Building |Refreshments provided

The Davos Debrief brings together several Harvard experts just back from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In an information setting, Harvard experts will share their unique perspectives on the global proceedings. Participants include:

· David Ellwood. Dean, Harvard Kennedy School
· Daniel Shapiro. Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project
· Ricardo Hausmann. Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development
· Justin Fox. Editorial Director, Harvard Business Review Group

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Algeria: Understanding What We Are Seeing
WHEN Thu., Feb. 3, 2011, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE The Cason Room, Taubman Building Room 102, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Hugh Roberts
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5368/algeria.html

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Future of Energy: "Solar's Fit in Energy's Future"
WHEN Thu., Feb. 3, 2011, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Jefferson Lab 250, 17 Oxford Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Bruce Sohn, president, First Solar
CONTACT INFO Lisa Matthews: matthew@fas.harvard.edu
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Bruce Sohn has served as president of First Solar since March 2007. Sohn served as a director of First Solar from July 2003 until June 2009. Prior to joining First Solar as president, Sohn worked at Intel Corporation for 24 years. He is a senior member of IEEE and a certified Jonah. He has been a guest lecturer at several universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. Sohn holds a degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/bruce-sohn

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Bots that Mimic Bugs
WHEN Thu., Feb. 3, 2011, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Allston Education Portal, 175 North Harvard Street, Allston, MA. Free event parking is available at the 219 Western Avenue parking lot, at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue adjacent to the Ed Portal.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Allston Education Portal with the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory
SPEAKER(S) Ben Finio, Ph.D. student at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and researcher from the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory
COST Free
CONTACT INFO 617.496.5022, allston_edportal@harvard.edu
NOTE
How do you build a robot that can fly like a bee, crawl like a cockroach, or wiggle like a worm? How do you make the robots small enough to fit in the palm of your hand?
Ben Finio will explain how scientists and engineers in biology, mathematics, and engineering work together to build insect-sized robots modeled after real animals.
Learn how the microrobots are built, watch video demos of the robots in action, and see the display of the different robots.
LINK http://edportal.harvard.edu/news

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Place is the Space: The 'hood as a Locus of Jazz History

WHEN Fri., Feb. 4, 2011, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Lower Library, Robinson Hall
35 Quincy St.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics
SPEAKER(S) Robin D. G. Kelley, University of Southern California
COST Free
CONTACT INFO jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu
NOTE
Part of the JWE Spatial History Seminar
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/jwe/home

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Tufts

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Important Future Research Areas for Information Visualization (and Visual Analytics)
February 3, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Speaker: Georges Grinstein, UMass Lowell
Host: Carla Brodley
Abstract

In looking at current papers in Information Visualization, one does not see many striking new topics (there are some). Many papers describe an application of visualization. Most others describe either an incremental change in a technique to a classic problem or an improved algorithm reducing computational complexity. There are papers on user interfaces, on interaction, on usability, on representation, on aesthetics, on graph drawing algorithms. There are papers on a wide variety of interdisciplinary topics. There are papers on a new discipline's role in visualization. Finally there are papers describing something of relevance to the author but not to the field.

What are the exciting problems to be solved? This is an important question for a field to identify. Self-introspection is a necessity for a field to continue to grow.

There have been grand challenge panels, papers, and pamphlets (in the 70s). I, as a youngster (I am still young), participated in several of these as far back as 1992 (IEEE Conference panel on “Grand Challenge Problems in Visualization Software”). These are valuable. However in my view many of these are driven by the timely political nature of funding (see for example the excellent "Illuminating the Path: Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics").

In this talk I will present five areas which are extremely important for our field and identify key problems in these five areas. Five areas which can provide for rapid new growth and which need researchers. And I will identify one in particular which is my favorite.

These areas are:

1. Measuring Information Visualization (information, accuracy, uncertainty, insight)
2. High-dimensional Visualization (hundreds and thousands of variables)
3. Real Time Massive Data Set Visualization (sensors, networks)
4. Interactive Collaborative Information Visualization (Web 5.0)
5. Modeling Data Exploration (where is the user going?)

I will suggest a number of key problems, hints to some solutions, possible impact and future scenarios.

Bio:

Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, head of its Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Program, Co-director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and of its Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978.

His work is broad and interdisciplinary, ranging from the perceptual foundations of visualization to techniques for very high-dimensional data visualization to a theory of visualization, with the emphasis on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information systems.

He has over 30 years in academia with extensive private consulting, over 100 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, a new book on interactive data visualization, founded several companies, and has been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. He has mentored over 25 doctoral students and hundreds of graduate students. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various public agencies.

For the last seven years he has co-chaired the InfoVis and VAST contests in visual analytics leading to new research areas; has taught Radical Design, a course teaching students how to innovate with "radical" new products instead of evolutionary ones; is a member of the new Homeland Security Center CCICADA; and is co-director of the new Open Indicators Consortium that has developing a web-based interactive collaborative visualization system.

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Wentworth

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The 2030 Challenge
19 years and ticking
Tuesday, February 1
6:00 – 8:00pm
Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Watson Hall (550 Huntington Ave, Boston)
The AIA called for a commitment from architectural firms to design carbon-neutral buildings by the year 2030. Eleven years into this bold challenge, what are firms doing today to progress toward the goal, and what does the future of building energy look like?

Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) hosts a roundtable discussion with leading architects working on a broad range of sustainable projects. We'll look at real-world strategies; case studies; challenges; and opportunities related to team selection, design and implementation.

The discussion is free and open to BSA members and the public. Space is limited. Parking is also limited. Why not use public transportation?

Co-moderators
Philippe Genereux AIA, LEED AP (SMMA/Symmes Maini & McKee Associates)
Jim Stanislaski AIA (Gensler)
Panelists
Bruce Coldham FAIA (Coldham & Hartman Architects)
Martine Dion AIA (SMMA/Symmes Maini & McKee Associates)
Kenneth Fisher AIA (Gensler)
Robert Hoye AIA (TRO Jung|Brannen)
Deborah Rivers AIA (Perkins + Will)

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Clean Economy Network Boston Happy Hour and Networking
Monday, January 31, 2011 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
British Consulate General
One Broadway, Suite 700
Cambridge, MA 02142

Please join CEN Boston for our January Happy hour on January 31st at the British Consulate General in Cambridge, MA. The evening will feature plenty of networking and some light appetizers and beer.
The evening will be hosted and sponsored by the UK Trade and Investment group, who is hosting a number of companies on a trade mission to Boston from Jan 31 - Feb 2 (they'll spend the second half of the week in NYC)

The companies are involved in UK Offshore Wind, Anaerobic Digestion, and Green Build technology. We'll be scheduling a series of meetings and briefings for them at the Consulate, and they are very interested to connect with local cleantech companies and leaders. The companies are from the East of England, with ties to Cambridge, UK - so we even note the Cambridge to Cambridge connection.

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1241801261

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February 1
7 pm
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Jane McGonigal
Harvard Book Store
1256 Mass Ave
Cambridge
contact 617-661-1515 or http://www.harvard.com

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CEA Energy Social - John Harvard's Brew Pub

Harvard Square

February 01, 2011 7:00p–10:00p

Are you a student and passionate about energy? Come to the Regional Energy Social this Tuesday (2/1/11) for an evening of energy debate and discussion! All are welcome, and energy clubs from schools across the Northeast are invited to this intercollegiate mixer. This will be a unique opportunity to meet graduate and undergraduate students who are passionate about energy. Hope to see you there! Over and under 21 welcome.

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2011 FARM SHARE FAIR
Thursday February 3rd @ 5:30-8PM
The Democracy Center
@
45 Mt Auburn St in Harvard Square
* *presented by theMOVE * | *Free Admission*
*more info @ www.getoutma.org/farmsharefair
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A CSA share is a weekly box of fresh/delicious/natural veggies (and sometimes meat/fish) delivered by local farms to convenient pickup spots within our community. We're bringing all the CSAs together in one place -- to get you the info you need to get signed up! Meet the folks who grow your food, and bring your checkbook to reserve a share!

*Delicious pizza will be on sale (by donation) courtesy of Zing Pizzato benefit theMOVE
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* Co-sponsored by NOFA/Mass + Somerville Climate Action
* Arlington will also have its own CSA Fair! on Thursday February 24th @ 4:30-7:30p


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What do Madison, Wisconsin, Lawrence Township, NJ, and over 70 cities and towns in Sweden have in common? They are all Eco-communities

Learn how eco-municipalities are taking a comprehensive approach to sustainable change—as opposed to carrying out a collection of disparate sustainable development projects.

Speaker: Sarah James, Institute for Eco-municipality Education & Assistance

Also, a brief report from Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis abut her participation in the European Capital Cities Conference in Stockholm, Sweden

Thursday, February 3, 7pm
Main Library Auditorium, 449 Broadway

Sponsored by CREATE (Cambridge Renewable Energy Action Team) and CEA

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Sherry Turkle discusses
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Friday, February 4, 2011
3:00 PM

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome MIT professor of technology and society SHERRY TURKLE as she discusses the effect our technology has on our social relationships and her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.

Consider Facebook—it’s a form of human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. In Alone Together, Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It’s an exploration of what we are looking for—and sacrificing—in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today’s self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.

“As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our relationships.... Turkle's prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other.” —Publishers Weekly
General Info
(617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

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Green Your Condo, Save Your Money, & Help Your Planet, too.*
Learn how “green” investments in your condo can make it more sustainable and add value to your home.
Tuesday, February 8th
6:30pm-8:30pm
171 Huron Avenue, Coldwell Banker Office
At this seminar you will learn about energy efficiency and smart living starting with small steps to take within your condo like installing weather stripping, then moving onto larger steps for your entire condo building like getting a free building-wide energy assessment or even installing solar. We will also cover how to cash in on the incentives/rebates, as well as the attractive 0% financing available through local banks and NSTAR. Come learn how to make your condo greener, more energy efficient, and save yourself and neighbors money each month.
Presenters
Sustainable Life Solutions
Next Step Living
S&H Construction
Cambridge Portuguese Credit Union
Attendees will have the opportunity to win raffle prizes of green gear and purchase Smart Strips powerstrips with the utility discount already included.
*Please view the attached flier.
Co-sponsored by CEA and Coldwell Banker agents Amy Tighe and Robin Miller.
RSVP to outreach@cambridgeenergyalliance.org

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Wednesday, February 9
7:00 pm.
WORLD ON THE EDGE: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse*
Internationally renowned environmentalist Lester Brown has been assessing the health of the earth?s ecosystems for more than two decades. Over that time he has seen increasing signs of break-down until we are now facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we change direction before we go over the edge? In his new book World on the Edge, Brown attempts to answer that question by systemically laying out both challenges and potential policy solutions.

First Parish in Cambridge, Meetinghouse
3 Church Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA 02138

FREE and Open to the Public

Book: World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

Co-sponsored by Tim Weiskel and an anonymous Friend of Cambridge Forum.

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NO WAR, NO WARMING!

Friday, February 11, 2011, 7-9 PM
Photonics Bldg, Room 206, Boston University
8 St. Mary's Street, Boston
just off Comm. Ave., close to the BU Central T Stop (Green Line B)

Suggested donation, $5.00

Featured Speakers:
Barry Sanders, author of The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of
Militarism, examines the environmental impact of US military practices and
declares military activity, from fuel emissions to radioactive waste to
defoliation campaigns, as the single-greatest contributor to the worldwide
environmental crisis.

Dr. Maggie Zhou, biologist, member of Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy
Communities and Climate SOS, will discuss the climate justice perspective,
international climate conferences in Cancun, Copenhagen/Cochabamba, and the
race to militarism vs. peace.

Co-Sponsors:
Boston UNAC (United National Antiwar Committee), United for Justice with
Peace, Alliance for Democracy-Boston/Cambridge & North Bridge Chapters,
Peace & Justice Task Force of Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety,
Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, Massachusetts Global
Action, Boston University Antiwar Coalition

For further information, contact Boston UNAC at BostonUNAC@gmail.com

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February 18, 2011


FERC Policies and New England;

Smart Power and the
Future of Electric Utilities;
and

Massachusetts' and Boston's New Clean
Energy and Climate Plans for 2020


Raab Associates presents:
The 121st New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm

Foley Hoag LLP
155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
Click here for directions
We start off the new year and our 17th Roundtable season with a trifecta of exciting topics. FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur will kick-off our 121st Roundtable with a discussion of FERC's new policy directions on a variety of issues that will impact New England, ranging from capacity markets and transmission to both renewable and demand-side resources. As the former acting CEO at National Grid, Commissioner LaFleur knows New England well and is well-positioned to provide relevant and insightful comments for its regulators, market participants, and other stakeholders.

Next up is Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, author of a new and provocative book entitled Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of the Electric Utilities. Currently a principal at the Brattle Group, Peter worked in top-level positions in energy policy at U.S. DOE and the White House, and is also quite familiar with New England, having spent many years at Charles River Associates in Boston. In keeping with our "restructuring" focus, Peter's new book envisions the need for a very different utility industry and regulatory structure if we are to succeed in transforming the electricity system to meet climate and other public policy objectives.

Our final panel will feature Massachusetts' and Boston's "hot-off-the-press" and nationally-ground-breaking Clean Energy and Climate Plans. These plans will become the primary vehicles for ensuring a wide range of energy and climate goals, including lowering energy costs, increasing energy independence, growing clean energy jobs, and reducing emissions. The plans consolidate existing policies and programs, as well as present important proposed new developments spanning electricity supply, efficient buildings, and transportation.

Governor Patrick's Massachusetts Clean Energy & Climate Plan for 2020, just released in December, will be presented jointly byUndersecretary for Energy, Phil Giudice, and Assistant Secretary for Policy, Dr. David Cash, both at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Jim Hunt, Chief of Environmental and Energy Services at the City of Boston, will then present the City's forthcoming climate plan. The soon-to-be-released report is based on a year-long stakeholder and community engagement process, culminating in a comprehensive plan and set of recommendations to Mayor Menino, entitled Sparking Boston's Climate Revolution.

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Request for Help

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The Somerville Winter Farmers Market is beginning its first year! It will be Saturdays 10-2 at the Armory on 191 Highland Ave in Somerville, MA. January 8th through March 26th. Please spread the word to your friends, family and coworkers.

ALSO----We are looking for musicians, as well as people interested in leading skillshares and workshops on a variety of topics having to do with food or
sustainability in general. It would be great to collaborate!

Please email me at adrianne.schaefer@gmail.com with suggestions, leads, or contacts.

Thanks!

Adrianne Schaefer
Market Manager
Somerville Winter Farmers Market

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Resource

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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

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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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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://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/

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Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston
area that catch the editor's eye.


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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Energy (and Other) Events - January 23, 2011

MIT
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Income Inequality in America
Frank Levy
Mon Jan 24, Tue Jan 25, Wed Jan 26, 10-11:00am, 9-450A

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

In 2008, the top 1 percent of households received about 21% of all income, twice its income share in 1990 and roughly equal its share in 1929 at the end of the Gilded Age. Average household income in the top 1 percent doubled over these years (adjusted for inflation) while income of the average household grew by 5 percent.

This activity will consist of three sessions reviewing what we know about the causes of income inequality including immigration, technological change, the growth of the financial sector and international trade. We will also devote some time to discussing what is known about the consequences of inequality for national life.
Contact: Frank Levy, 9-523, x3-2089, flevy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning

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Monday, January 24, 2011
Physics IAP Lecture Series - "Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds"
Speaker: Professor Sara Seager
Time: 1:30p–2:30p
Location: 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

For thousands of years people have wondered, "Are we Alone?" With about 500 planets discovered to orbit nearby stars, the existence of exoplanets is firmly established. Astronomers are now able to routinely measure planetary sizes, masses, and atmospheres for a subset of hot, big exoplanets. The race to find habitable exoplanets is on with the realization that big Earths orbiting small stars can be both discovered and characterized with existing technology. Professor Seager will answer the four questions she gets asked most often: "What could aliens see, looking at Earth from afar?; When will we find another Earth?; Can we go there?; If we cannot go there, why look?"

Contact: Nancy Boyce, 4-315, 253-4461, nboyce@mit.edu

Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns8.html

Open to: the general public
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Materialistic Genius and Market Power: Uncovering the Best Innovations

Speaker: Glen Weyl

Time: 2:00p–3:30p

Location: E62-262

Materialistic Genius and Market Power: Uncovering the Best Innovations


Web site: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6396

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Economics Hiring Seminars

For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu

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POWER SYSTEMS ECONOMICS IN THEORY/-IES AND IN REAL LIFE
January 24-27 (MTWR), 2:30-4:00pm in MIT Bldg E52, Room 175
Dr. Jean-Pierre Hansen

Details:

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: Introductory economics helpful. Interest in electricity.
Contact: Tim Heidel, E19-439A, (617) 715-4551, heidel@mit.edu
Sponsors: MIT Electricity Student Research Group, MIT Energy Club
More Information: http://esrg.mit.edu/events/iap-2011/
Light refreshments will be served.

Description:

The translation between economic theories and real-world practice is not always straightforward in the energy industry. This lecture series will explore how a few select economic theories can (or cannot) be applied to real-world situations. Jean-Pierre Hansen (full speaker bio below) will draw examples from his long career in both industry and academia to help students navigate the sometimes confusing and counterintuitive world of energy economics. This lecture series is designed to complement other energy economics classes at MIT.

A background in introductory economic theory will be helpful for students but is not required. (Each lecture will start with a review of the basics.)

Speaker Bio: Jean-Pierre Hansen managed Electrabel, one of the leading European electricity companies, for 20 years. He has also been Chairman to a number of energy companies that operate at an international level (30 countries). He is currently a Member of the Executive Committee of GDF SUEZ, the world’s second-largest gas and electricity Group. He is a Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). Jean-Pierre holds a degree in Economics and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering.


Session Details:

Session 1: Mon Jan 24
Did you say “Market”?… (How) Does it (really) work for electricity

The move to a market system is not all that simple! Amongst other things, if we wish to replace a regulated electricity system with an electricity market system, we must consider the three elements that determine an exchange, i.e. a market: the product, the time and the place. How does it work for electricity, given the so-called forgotten hypotheses of microeconomics…?

Session 2: Tue Jan 25
Ricardo’s nuclear power plants: why should a manager know the Theory of Rent?

The general theory of rents explains several major problems in electricity economics. For instance, differential rents (or infra-marginal rents), which manifest in the operation of optimal generating facilities, are often called windfall profits. However, it is shown that such rents are necessary in order to (re)build optimal generating facilities and therefore cannot be taxed. The issue of “Missing Money.”

Session 3: Wed Jan 26
Market Power: how can it be measured – proved?

95% of economic and legal literature regarding the reform of the electricity sector concerns “Market Power”. This is both surprising and logical all at once: its definition, its calculation and its analysis foil all of the traditional indicators: Lerner, HHI, and “Pivotals”. So? How can the CEO of a company define his policy?

Session 4: Thu Jan 27
From C. Adams to Averch-Johnson… and many others: the myth of perfect regulation.

Origins, theories, paradoxes and practices of regulation: the true story and “everything you have ever wanted to know about regulation, but never dared to ask”.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
IAP - Pricing for Real Consumers: Free Units, Surprise Penalties and Bill-Shock
Speaker: Michael Grubb (MIT Sloan)
Time: 2:00p–3:00p
Location: E51-145
Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Economics Special Workshops/Seminars

For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
IAP - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Poverty and Prosperity
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu
Time: 11:00a–12:00p
Location: E51-151

Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns14.html

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Special Workshops/Seminars

For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu

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Making Efficiency Personal: A New Path to Community Engagement Blueprint for Efficiency Webinar Series

January 26, 2011 12:00p–1:00p

Next week on January 26th we will hear from Ludy Biddle, Executive Director of NeighborWorks of Western Vermont. NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, a non profit housing organization, has for years been supporting energy retrofits in low-income households as a means of saving money for homeowners concerned about every penny. Ludy will
tell us about how NWWVT plans to "blitz the county" through direct, personal, neighbor-to-neighbor contact, with information on the benefits of energy retrofits and a path to completion through NeighborWorks' one-stop-shop. The webinar will provide details on community outreach plans and the effect so far of using neighbor to neighbor efforts.

Category: lectures/conferences

Location: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/320854502

Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events

Admission: Open to the public

Tickets available from Register at website

For more information:

Contact Tim Fu
timothyfu@gmail.com
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/320854502

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Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) Mixer
January 27, 2011 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
http://www.copusproject.org/
The MIT Stata Center R+D Pub (4th floor) 32 Vassar St. Cambridge, MA

A reception to launch both 2011 and a new initiative called "BroaderImpacts@MIT" - a program inspired by the National Science Foundation requirement that grant-funded research include a public outreach component. This mixer is an opportunity to meet with MIT faculty to learn about their ongoing research, and find ways to collaboratively bring that work to the public.

This mixer will also be a chance to connect with other COPUS Boston participants who want to make science more accessible and meaningful to the broadest community possible. We will spend just a few minutes at this mixer planning our next steps as a COPUS hub for additional initiatives.

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Friday, January 28, 2011
Tour of the MIT Nuclear Reactor
Time: 10:00a–12:00p
Location: NW12
The MIT Nuclear Reactor is an interdisciplinary research facility conceived to push the frontiers in research on advanced fuel and materials for Next Generation Nuclear energy systems.

Join the MIT Energy club on a tour of the 5MW experimental facility to have a direct experience of the components, operation and implementation of nuclear technology. You will get to see everything from the reactor to the experimental sub-facilities that depend on it. This tour is designed to complement your understanding of nuclear technology in practice.

There is limited space available.

To sign up for this tour, use the following link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFJGUFBQaldzSFMwLUVxN2J5SllacHc6MA#gid=0

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club

For more information, contact:
Daniel Apo
djapo@mit.edu

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Friday, January 28, 2011
Science Policy & Govt Jobs
Time: 1:00p–2:30p
Location: 32-141
Mark Fleury, Ph.D. AAAS Science & Technology Fellow (2009-2010), Legislative Assistant for Senator Claire McCaskill (2010-2011)
Jennifer Goodrich, Ph.D., Manager, Batelle National Biodefense Institute, Frederick, MD
Carrie McMahon, Ph.D.,Consumer Safety Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Maria Lebedeva, Ph.D.,Presidential Management Fellow, Veterans Health Administration, Bedford MA (2010-2012)
Jessica Palmer, Ph.D., AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (2007-2009 )
Harvard Law School, J.D. 2012 (expected)
Bruce Booth, Ph.D., Partner in the Life Sciences group Atlas Venture

Major decisions are made in Washington, D.C. that affect our research budgets, health care, and foods and drugs. As scientists we can get involved in the federal policymaking process and provide valuable scientific expertise and analysis to some of the biggest questions of our day. Come meet PhDs who make science policy. Find out what steps to take and what programs are available for soon to be Ph.D.s that want to participate in policy decisions.

Reception to follow.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/biology/iap.html
Open to: the general public
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Harvard

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1/25/11, 12:30 pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Topic: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites
Guests: Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York

Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York will discuss the recently released Berkman Center report on "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites."

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page:http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/zuckerman_roberts

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Wyss Lecture: Tiny Technologies and Medicine
WHEN
Tue., Jan. 25, 2011, 2 – 3 p.m.
WHERE
Wyss Institute, Room 521
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Wyss Institute
SPEAKER(S) Sangeeta Bhatia
LINK http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/105/tiny-technologies-and-medicine

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Panel Talk: Assessing Tunisia
WHEN
Wed., Jan. 26, 2011, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
SPEAKER(S)
Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, and William Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, director of Modern Language Programs, director, Moroccan Studies Program
COST Free
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/64/middle_east_initiative.html?page_id=285

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BU

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Sawyer Seminar Series on Energy Transitions and Society
January 28, 2011 - 10:00am - 12:30pm
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/sawyer-energy-transitions/
pardee@bu.edu
Room 424, School of Management 595 Commonwealth Ave Boston University Boston, MA

The Pardee Center and the Department of Geography and Environment are pleased to invite you to the Sawyer Series on Energy Transitions and
Society:

SEMINAR 5: ENERGY TRANSITION POLICY
Robert LIFSET (University of Oklahoma)
Paul SABIN (Yale University)
Michael C. CARAMANIS (Boston University)

Seating is limited. To register, please send an email to pardee@bu.edu.


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Tufts

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Tufts International Business Center Speaker Series
January 25, 2011 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
http://bio180.eventbrite.com/
The Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 703 Tufts University Medford, MA

David West Smith, Founder and President, Global Emerging Technologies, Advisor, Bio180 Solutions.
"The Day and Life of an Activist International Private Equity Investor."

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BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER

The Return of Ulysses
and
Decapitalization Circus

Reducing the proceedings of the historic dramma per musica to 75 minutes, brazenly updating the Baroque accents and adding two timely prologues, (Peter Schumann) labelled his marvellous mishmash a "respectful truncation?."
["The Return of Ulysses," , Dec. 6, 2010]

Boston Center for the Arts
CYCLORAMA
January 24 through January 30

presented in partnership with the Boston Center for the Arts as part of the Cyclorama Residency Series

(Boston, MA 02116) Bread and Puppet Theater presents ?The Return of Ulysses? and ?Decapitalization Circus? : two separate performances presented in partnership with the Boston Center for the Arts as part of the Cyclorama Residency Series. Performances, Art Exhibit, and Cheap Art Sale run from January 24 through January 30. All held in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), 539 Tremont St., South End, Boston. Wheelchair accessible. Tickets for the performances available for purchase [cash or
check only] in the Cyclorama one hour before each performance. For advance tickets, log onto www.breadandpuppet.org
or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). For detailed information regarding the week?s events, call the BCA's Bread and Puppet Theater information line at
617-800-9539 or log onto www.bcaonline.org.

Detailed listings information:

Evening Performances [recommended for ages 12 & older]:
Bread and Puppet Theater: The Return of Ulysses
Jan. 27-Jan. 30, Thurs.-Sun., 7 pm
$12 general admission [$10 students, seniors, & groups of 10 or more]
Description: This "respectfully truncated," rough-hewn, and bold DIY adaptation of Claudio Monteverdi's opera was first developed this past June by Bread and Puppet in collaboration with the Theatre Department of Concordia University in Montreal and the Montreal Baroque Festival. The production was initially performed as a dress rehearsal in the DB Clarke Theatre at Concordia and then presented as a festival performance in the plaza of the Centre Mondial. During July & August in Glover, VT (Bread and
Puppet?s base of operations), the opera was pared down to approximately 75 minutes, including 10 minutes of prologue. The performances have been conceived to include 20 volunteer puppeteers and 15-20 volunteer singers and instrumentalists in the chorus and orchestra with Peter Schumann playing the role of Penelope. Schumann describes the plot as follows: "In order to commit genocide on their competitors, the Trojans, the tricky Greeks employ their multitalented sky, full of custom tailored divinities, to justify the
crime, just as we employ our Judeo-Christian sky, occupied by a divine air force and permitted by the in-god-we-trust court system, to justify our atrocities in Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere. By order of Jove, the boss, and with special help from his daughter Minerva, Ulysses finally returns home, where he has to murder 100 evil suitors in order to be happily reunited with wife and property." The piece includes two prologues, "Modern Sky" and "Antique Sky." For Boston, The Return of Ulysses will be performed
by Peter Schumann and the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteer puppeteers and musicians. Informal talk back with the artists follows each performance. Sourdough rye bread will be served and cheap art will be for sale after each performance.

Family-Friendly Matinees:
Bread and Puppet Theater: Decapitalization Circus
Jan. 29-Jan. 30, Sat.-Sun., 4 pm
$10 general admission [$5 students, seniors, and pre-school children (2 & under free)]
Description: The family-friendly "Decapitalization Circus" demonstrates in numerous death-defying stunts the fantastic effects of the capitalization of life in the U.S. and citizens? courageous efforts of decapitalization. The performers represent the whole scale of the social spectrum from benign billionairism to despicable homeless anti-social-elementarianism. All the acts are FDA and FBI certified displays of patriotic correctness and defy all imaginable forms of terrorism. The Possibilitarians, a multi-instrumental variety ensemble, provide the appropriate-inappropriate sounds for the Circus. Performed by Peter Schumann and the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteer puppeteers and musicians. Take note that some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, but accompanying kids can usually explain them. The audience is welcome to examine all the masks and puppets after the performance. Cheap art will be for sale after each performance.

Visual Art Exhibit:
Bread and Puppet Theater: NOLANGUAGE, visual art installation created by
Peter Schumann
Jan. 24-Jan. 30, Mon.-Sun.
Free and open to all.
Description: Bread and Puppet Theater Artistic Director Peter Schumann?s most recent visual art exploration, ranging from very large paintings to very small string booklets, which depict matters that concern us all.
Exhibit details:
--Mon., Jan. 24, 6-9 pm: opening reception, with refreshments, an art talk given by Schumann, short skits performed by the touring company, and live music performed by the Boston Typewriter Orchestra (www.bostontypewriterorchestra.com ) and the Dirty Water Brass Band (www.dirtywaterbrassband.com ).
--Tues.-Fri., Jan. 25-28: regular Cyclorama hours: 9am-5pm [Thursday & Friday hours extended up to and after the evening performance].
--Sat.-Sun., Jan. 29-30: one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.

For this residency at the Cyclorama, the Bread and Puppet touring company includes Schumann, along with Maura Gahan, Greg Corbino, Maryann Colella, Susie Perkins, among others. Both the evening and matinee performances will be performed by the company and a large number of local volunteers and musicians, including the popular Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band ( www.slsaps.org), who is the host band for the yearly HONK! Festival (www.honkfest.org
) held in Davis Square.

In addition to Peter Schumann?s NOLANGUAGE art installation, the Cyclorama will also be decorated with the unique Bread and Puppet collection of powerful black-line posters, banners, masks, curtains, programs and set-props. All pieces are created by Schumann, including sculpting and painting all the major masks and puppets, with input from the company. After each evening performance there will be an opportunity to savor Schumann's famous sourdough rye bread, smeared with garlic aioli; and there will also be many opportunities during the week to purchase the theater's legendary "cheap art."

For more information on the Bread and Puppet Theater, log onto
www.breadandpuppet.org.

ABOUT THE BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS:

The Boston Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works, builds new audiences, and connects art to community. Visit www.bcaonline.org for more information.

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State Representative Denise Provost and Somerville Climate Action invite you to a screening of

Permaculture: The Growing Edge
followed by a discussion

Monday, January 24 at 7pm
Somerville Public Library
79 Highland Ave.
Free admission

Permaculture: The Growing Edge is an antidote to environmental despair, a hopeful and practical look at a path to a viable, flourishing future. The film introduces us to inspiring examples of projects, and includes a visit to David Holmgren’s own homestead, tracking deer with naturalist Jon Young, sheet mulching an inner-city garden with Hunters Point Family, transforming an intersection into a gathering place with City Repair and joining mycologist Paul Stamets as he cleans up an oil spill with mushrooms. We interview some of the key figures in the Permaculture movement, including David Holmgren, Penny Livingston-Stark, James Stark, Paul Stamets, Mark Lakeman, Dr. Elaine Ingham, Maddy Harland, and others.

Permaculture is a sustainable system of earth care that offers solutions to many of our grave environmental problems and a hopeful, proactive vision of change. The Permaculture movement, started by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the nineteen seventies, is now a worldwide network of skilled ecological designers, teachers, food growers, natural builders, environmental activists and visionaries. “Permaculture is the key to a post-carbon future,” says Maddy Harlan, editor of Permaculture Magazine.

http://www.somervilleclimateaction.org/

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Cambridge Climate Emergency Open Meeting
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 7 pm
Windsor Community Health Center, 2nd floor conference room
119 Windsor Street, Cambridge

Reports from working groups
Mini-skillshare on how to turn windows into temporary insulated walls
Discussion of how to use skillshares to promote the climate emergency movement
Discussion of other next steps we can take to build the movement

Please join us!

cambridge.climate.congress@gmail.com

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On Wednesday, January 26 at 6:00 PM,
members of the art-activist organization The Beehive Collective will discuss their latest graphic campaign, "The True Cost of Coal," at the Cambridge Arts Council?s CAC Gallery, 344 Broadway, 2nd floor.

Two years in the making, "The True Cost of Coal" is an elaborate narrative illustration that explores the complex story of mountaintop removal coal mining and the broader impact of coal usage in Appalachia and beyond. As the Collective notes, "Appalachian organizers have worked tirelessly for decades to bring mountaintop removal coal mining to national consciousness and to stop the practice from decimating the environment. The Beehive Collective contributes a unique superpower to these efforts - a visual strategy for depicting both the big picture of climate change, overconsumption and globalization while simultaneously honoring the small, human-scale stories of loss and survival."

Headquartered in Machias, Maine, the Beehive Collective has gained international attention for its collaboratively produced graphics campaigns focused on stories of resistance to forces such as globalization, resource extraction, and biotechnology. Each campaign begins with extensive interviews with affected communities that the Collective then translates into complex drawings, avoiding the use of text and human characters to make their images accessible regardless of literacy and language. The resulting "anti-copyright" images are printed as large-format banners and downloadable flyers, used by the Collective as educational and organizational tools for encouraging dialogue, critical
reflection, and strategic action.

In their interactive "picture-lecture" on Wednesday, January 26, the Bees will lead the audience through the 15-foot graphic while interweaving anecdotes, statistics, and history to prompt a discussion of contemporary struggles over energy and coal. More information on The True Cost of Coal can be found here:
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/coal.htm.

This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing in Public, curated by Liz K. Sheehan, on view at the CAC Gallery through February 18, 2011.
More information about the exhibition is available at
www.cambridgeartscouncil.org or call the Cambridge Arts Council at 617-349-4380.

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Cambridge Forum
Wednesday, January 26
at 7:00 pm
First Parish in Cambridge
Parlor
3 Church Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA 02138

FREE and Open to the Public

COMMON AS AIR: Revolution, Art and Ownership*

MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde defends the concept of the cultural commons. How has our cultural heritage, the store of ideas and art we have inherited from the past, come to be seen as ?intellectual property.? Does the emergence of Wikileaks endanger the notion of freedom of the press? Is ?net neutrality? possible in the ownership society?

Book: Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Co-sponsored by Mullane, Michel & McInnes, Counselors-at-Law
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org

"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."

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Using Social Media to Promote Your New Product
Jan27Thu 6:00 PM
New England Research & Development Center (NERD)
One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
857.453.6000

Using Social Media to Promote Your New Products - Bobbie Carlton
"That's right. No one really cares what you had for lunch but they might care about the new product you are selling. Hear how you can use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media to support your business objectives.

Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party and networking event. Every month, companies bring 10 new products to a live event and the social media community turns out to blog, tweet, post videos, pictures and otherwise increase new product buzz. In a single night, this method can help foster important connections and generate significant website traffic and even leads.

As the co-founder of Mass Innovation Nights, Bobbie Carlton has helped approximately 250 companies launch their products using social media in the last two years. Bobbie (@BobbieC and @MassInno on Twitter) is an experienced marketing, social media marketing and PR executive who headed global PR for large software companies like Cognos and PTC and has worked with dozens of companies to launch new products over the past 25+ years. Her specialty is getting the most bang for the buck, something important to young companies. Carlton PR & Marketing offers a wide array of marketing services -- public relations, marketing and social media marketing -- implementation, strategy and planning, as well as marketing coaching services.

http://www.meetup.com/Boston-WebsiteSpark-Group/calendar/16077385/

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HEET Weatherization Barn-raising
Saturday, January 29th; 12:30pm – 5pm
First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street.

“We don’t know all the [types of] work yet, but we might be installing a lot of LEDs, the lighting of the future. Help the church save money and energy while you learn how to do so in your own home.”

Sign up here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFVLeUFBeEZjVm5VYzNMY2tDSGlScFE6MQ
Please visit http://www.heetma.com for more information
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Upcoming

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A Brookline Climate Week Special Event

Meet Author Vivienne Simon and Editor Martin Keogh

Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

January 30, 2011
1:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

Editor Martin Keogh, and local contributing author and activist Vivienne Simon, will discuss the book and lead a conversation based on it.

Hope Beneath our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World is a wonderful new anthology of 53 essays by leading environmental activists and writers, talking from the heart about what they are doing, thinking and feeling that gives them hope and inspiration.

Authors featured in the book include:
Alice Walker, Michael Pollan, Derrick Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Howard Zinn, Diane Ackerman, Bill McKibben, Frances Moore Lappe, Vandana Shiva

"This compelling and inspirational anthology raises a chorus of voices in defense of the earth." ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

If you can't make it and would like to order a copy at discount:
http://shiftmakers.com/hope-beneath-our-feet/

Climate Week Brookline connects people to ways they can create a better, greener future by taking action at home and work.
See www.climatechangeactionbrookline.org/calendar.php

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2011 FARM SHARE FAIR
Thursday February 3rd @ 5:30-8PM
The Democracy Center
@
45 Mt Auburn St in Harvard Square
* *presented by theMOVE * | *Free Admission*
*more info @ www.getoutma.org/farmsharefair
*
A CSA share is a weekly box of fresh/delicious/natural veggies (and sometimes meat/fish) delivered by local farms to convenient pickup spots within our community. We're bringing all the CSAs together in one place -- to get you the info you need to get signed up! Meet the folks who grow your food, and bring your checkbook to reserve a share!

*Delicious pizza will be on sale (by donation) courtesy of Zing Pizzato benefit theMOVE
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* Co-sponsored by NOFA/Mass + Somerville Climate Action
* Arlington will also have its own CSA Fair! on Thursday February 24th @ 4:30-7:30p


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What do Madison, Wisconsin, Lawrence Township, NJ, and over 70 cities and towns in Sweden have in common? They are all Eco-communities

Learn how eco-municipalities are taking a comprehensive approach to sustainable change—as opposed to carrying out a collection of disparate sustainable development projects.

Speaker: Sarah James, Institute for Eco-municipality Education & Assistance

Also, a brief report from Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis abut her participation in the European Capital Cities Conference in Stockholm, Sweden

Thursday, February 3, 7pm
Main Library Auditorium, 449 Broadway

Sponsored by CREATE (Cambridge Renewable Energy Action Team) and CEA

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A FREE 3-day pilot workshop funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the "20% Wind Energy by 2030" initiative.
FACILITATING Wind Energy Siting

Addressing Challenges Around Visual Impacts, Noise, Credible Data, and Local Benefits Through Creative Stakeholder Engagement

When: March 23 - 25, 2011

Where:
Harvard Law School
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Application Deadline: January 28, 2011

Acceptance Notification: February 4, 2011

More information:
Kate Harvey
Senior Associate
Consensus Building Institute
kharvey@cbuilding.org
617-844-1136

The Consensus Building Institute (CBI), the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Raab Associates, Ltd. are pleased to present to present Facilitating Wind Energy Siting -- a workshop designed to help state and local government officials, wind developers, and other stakeholders develop the capacity to collaborate effectively on wind development policy, facility siting, and related energy transmission issues.

This workshop is free, however, all participants must apply for admission and if selected, pay their own travel and expenses. Seats will be allocated to 50 participants who represent diverse geographic, sector, and issue area interests.

For complete details, visit the workshop website
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=x54lw4bab&oeidk=a07e33l1grn353e3020&oseq=a0216jff5naz71

or download a workshop brochure (PDF)
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101649018839-61/3_2011FacilitateWindEnergySiting_2.pdf

If you have any additional questions about the workshop or the application process, feel free to contact us.

When you are ready to apply, click on the link provided below or on the workshop website.
Don't miss this important workshop!

Apply Here https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=x54lw4bab&oeidk=a07e33l1grn353e3020&oseq=a0216jff5naz71

Thank you for your time and we look forward to seeing you at Facilitating Wind Energy Siting.

Sincerely,

Pat Field

Managing Director


Consensus Building Institute
238 Main Street, Suite 400, Cambridge, MA 02142
www.cbuilding.org

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Request for Help

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The Somerville Winter Farmers Market is beginning its first year! It will be Saturdays 10-2 at the Armory on 191 Highland Ave in Somerville, MA. January 8th through March 26th. Please spread the word to your friends, family and coworkers.

ALSO----We are looking for musicians, as well as people interested in leading skillshares and workshops on a variety of topics having to do with food or
sustainability in general. It would be great to collaborate!

Please email me at adrianne.schaefer@gmail.com with suggestions, leads, or contacts.

Thanks!

Adrianne Schaefer
Market Manager
Somerville Winter Farmers Market

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Resource

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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

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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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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://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/

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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

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Energy (and Other) Events - January 16, 2011

MIT
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Renaissance Project - Hope for Haiti
Time: All day
Location: 9-Lobby
This exhibit represents the work of Professor Jan Wampler and his architectural students in the Haiti Workshop and shows more detail of the structures for the Village designed for Archahaie, Haiti. This design is for a Village that willhouse 1000 people and a school that will educate 400 students. It includes housing, classrooms, community facilities, dormitories, commercial facilities and a farm to financially sustain the community. Energy for the village will be provided by solar panel and wind turbines; the buildings will be constructed primarily out of bamboo and other local materials.

Open to: the general public

This event occurs daily through May 1, 2011.

Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Architecture

For more information, contact:
Scott Campbell
253-5380

scottc@mit.edu

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Introduction to Nuclear Power
Benoit Forget, Paul Romano, Jacob DeWitte
Tue Jan 18 thru Fri Jan 21, 10:30am-12:00pm, 4-149

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

Course 1: Historical perspective of nuclear fission; Overview of radioactive decay and nuclear fission; Basic concepts of a nuclear power reactor. Course 2: Introduction of nuclear reactor safety. Discussion of reactivity and feedback mechanisms. Overview of defense in depth concepts. Discussion of Chernobyl accident. Course 3: Overview of the fuel cycle; From mining to waste disposal, this course will discuss ore processing, enrichment, spent nuclear fuel and long term disposal. Course 4: Overview of closed-fuel cycles possibilities such as Pu recycling and Minor actinides recycling. Introduction to fast reactors.

Particularly geared for Freshman.
Contact: Benoit Forget, 24-214, (617) 253-1655, bforget@mit.edu
Sponsor: Nuclear Science and Engineering

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Plasma Science and Fusion Center IAP Series
Peter Catto, Abhay Ram, John Rice, Paul Rivenberg
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

This series introduces plasma physics research and areas of related interest at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. See URL below.
Web: http://www.psfc.mit.edu/
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, x3-8101, rivenberg@psfc.mit.edu
Sponsor: Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Using models to study climate
John Marshall
An approach to the study of climate that emphasizes modeling hierarchies, but based on a common set of modeling tools. Prof. Marshall will illustrate some of the science that such models facilitate in the context of paleo climate (focusing on the past 50 million years), exploring, for example, whether more than one stable climate might exist for a given external forcing.
Tue Jan 18, 11am-12:00pm, NW17-218

Climate change, nuclear proliferation and fusion energy
Rob Goldston, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Tue Jan 18, 03-04:00pm, NW17-218

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Wind Resource Assessment Demonstration

Speaker: Wind Energy Projects in Action

Time: 4:30p–6:00p

Location: 32d-507

Presentation and demonstration on wind resource assessment and wind farm layout using matlab.

Web site: http://windenergy.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
wepa@mit.edu

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Human Rights on the Web: dinner discussion with Ethan Zuckerman

Speaker: Ethan Zuckerman

Time: 6:00p–7:30p

Location: 4-145

Can the internet be used to promote human rights and to take down oppressive regimes around the world? Or do new technologies actually empower the authoritarian states that activists seek to challenge? Journalistic accounts of the recent turmoil in Iran suggest that new media played a key role in organizing and inspiring activists, but other evidence shows that the regime used the same tools to to harass, identify, and imprison protesters. Finally, what implications do these questions and stories have for the development of new web technologies for social change?

Join Amnesty International and Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of the global citizen media network, Global Voices, and senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, for a theoretical and empirical discussion on the interface between the web and human rights. A recent paper, co-authored by Zuckerman, on the topic can be found here (http://www.usip.org/publications/blogs-and-bullets-new-media-in-contentious-politics).

Please RSVP to karenli@mit.edu by Sunday January 16 so I know how much food to order.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Amnesty International, UA Finance Board

For more information, contact:
Karen Li
karenli@mit.edu

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Tour of the MIT Cogeneration Plant

Time: 10:00a–12:00p

Location: 42

Join the energy club on a tour of the MIT Cogeneration Gas Fired Plant that supplies power and steam for heating to MIT.

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the history, technology and operations strategy behind the MIT Cogeneration plant. The tour will expose you to the cutting edge technologies employed in the cogeneration plant, the real-time operational issues involved in running the plant and the various power equipment - from steam driven chillers to high performance turbines - installed in the facility. There is limited space available.

To sign up for this tour, use the following link:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGFib1dST1BLd2gzRkNJMmVPcVZSZVE6MQ#gid=0

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club

For more information, contact:
Daniel Apo
djapo@mit.edu

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Fifty Years of Fusion
Dale Meade, Fusion Innovation Research and Energy (FIRE)
Wed Jan 19, 11am-12:00pm, NW17-218

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Father of Chaos: The Life and Times of Edward N. Lorenz
Speaker: Prof. Kerry Emanuel, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: 54-915
This talk is part of series that celebrates the 150th anniversary of MIT, founded by a geologist, William Barton Rogers by highlighting accomplishments of EAPS faculty and students. The series features talks by current and past members of the EAPS community to cover topics about the major discoveries in the Earth and Planetary Sciences and contribution from EAPS scientists.

Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns12.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
For more information, contact:
Roberta Allard
253-3382
allard@mit.edu

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Noon - 1:30p.
"IT-Enabled Electricity Services."
Marija Ilic
MIT: E51-145

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Inspiration from Nature: Biomimicry Design Competition Preparatory Lectures
Kachina Gosselin
Wed, Fri, 19, 21, 26, 28, 01-03:00pm, 66-160

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

Have you ever marveled at the swiftness of a cheetah? The adhesive ability of gecko feet? The coherence of a flock of birds? Nature has an amazing ability to solve challenges that seem at first glance to be insurmountable. Peer into the design of natural systems and perhaps glean insight into solutions to the pressing problems facing our civilization. Compete to contribute to solving the greatest challenges of our generation.

Coordinated with The Biomimicry Institute and with guest lectures in topics from engineering to design to business development, this course will introduce you to basic biomimicry tools and concepts,encourage you to approach engineering problems from a systems thinking perspective, and help you create technically novel solutions with the simple elegance that nature inspires. This is a preparatory course to prepare students for a new biomimicry design competition to be held in the spring.

Sustainability is all around us, we just need to learn how to emulate it.
Contact: Kachina Gosselin, (617) 893-1988, kachina@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering

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Two Nuclear Lectures
Dr. Kosta Tsipis
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Dr. Kosta Tsipis will present two nuclear lectures:
Jan. 19, 2010, 2-3PM, room 5-233: Nuclear Proliferation
Jan. 20, 2010, 2-3PM, room 5-233: The Origin, History and Accomplishments of "Pugwash"
Contact: Dr. Kosta Tsipis, 3-435B, 253-2228, tsipis@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering

Nuclear Proliferation
Dr. Kosta Tsipis
Wed Jan 19, 02-03:00pm, 5-233

The Origin, History and Accomplishments of "Pugwash"
Dr. Kosta Tsipis
Thu Jan 20, 02-03:00pm, 5-233

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An Alcator chronicle, or What happened to Alcator B?
Ron Parker
Wed Jan 19, 03-04:00pm, NW17-218

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
UN Climate Roundtable: What should we expect from the UN climate negotiation process? A Discussion of International Climate Governance
Speaker: Rebecca Dell
Time: 3:00p–4:00p
Location: 5-231
The international community unanimously resolved to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" at Rio Earth Summit in 1992. In the 18 years since then, we have achieved one binding international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions--the Kyoto Protocol--but global emissions now exceed the worst case scenario outlined in the 1990s. Many have found the international process slow, confusing, and uninspiring, but there is no viable alternative framework for addressing a truly international problem like climate change.

Please join us for a round-table discussion on the UN climate negotiations process, where we will try to clarify how the UN is addressing climate change, what are some of the key sources of conflict and obstruction, and where the UN is making progress (because we are making progress in some areas). The discussion will be lead by Rebecca Dell, a PhD student in climate science and the MIT student delegate to the recent meeting of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico.

Light refreshments will be served.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative

For more information, contact:
Jennifer DiMase
jdimase@mit.edu

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The challenge of fusion burn and ITER
Steven Cowley, Culham Center for Fusion Energy
Thu Jan 20, 11am-12:00pm, NW17-218

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tour of Energy Features of Sloan E62

Speaker: Peter Cooper, Frank Higson

Time: 1:00p–2:00p

Location: E62-Lobby

Energy efficient features of the new Sloan Building (E62) will be visited and discussed on this tour conducted by Department of Facilities' Engineers. Sloan is the most efficient building of its kind on the MIT campus. Features incorporated to achieve this will be shown, and the integrated design process that was employed will be described.

For more information about this building visit: http://web.mit.edu/facilities/construction/completed/sloan.html

RSVP to Damaris Colono by 1/17/2011 4:00 pm damarisc@plant.mit.edu

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Facilities, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Damaris Colono
damarisc@plant.mit.edu

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Museum of Science Wind Lab Tour

January 20, 2011 2:30p–4:00p

tour of the the wind turbine facility on the roof of the museum of science
- rsvp to Maraian Tomusiak

Category: MIT events/clubs: interest clubs/groups

Speaker: Marian Tomusiak, wind turbine lab analyst

Location: MOS

Sponsored by: MIT Energy Club

Admission: Open to the public

Tickets available from email Marian Tomusiak

mtomusiak@mos.org
http://windenergy.mit.edu

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Recreating deep interior states of planets and stars in the laboratory
Rip Collins
Developments in inertial confinement fusion have led to new ways of exploring highly compressed materials, such as those found deep inside giant planets and low mass stars, where the crushing force of gravity makes matter extremely dense. Recent experiments show that such compressed materials have rather exotic properties; and some fundamental rules of condensed matter, chemistry, and plasma physics break down.
Thu Jan 20, 03-04:00pm, NW17-218

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Friday, January 21, 2011
Wind Grid Integration Workshop
Time: 9:00a–7:00p
Location: 26-100
The Current Status and Future of Wind and the Grid

Friday January 21, 2009
9am - 5 pm, MIT Bldg. 26-100
Registration Required!!! - Sign-Up Today!
Wind energy contributes to an ever-growing percentage of electricity generation worldwide. While places like Denmark, Spain and Germany have already reached aggressive levels of wind adoption (contributing to near 20%, 10% and 8% of their respective electricity generaiton needs resepectively), the US has had far less development on a national scale. However, on a regional scale, wind development in midwestern states, Texas and California has also been considerable. The increased overall percentage of electricity generation that comes from this intermittent resource has led to a lot of discussion over the last decade on the furture development of the grid and the impacts and implications of large scale wind energy development. This workshop will bring several experts in the area of wind-grid integration to MIT for a full day workshop that will explore issues from short-term grid code specificaitons to long-term capacity expansion planning and policy.

The MIT Energy Club's Wind Energy Group and MIT Wind Energy Projects in Action are proud to bring you this workshop which will feature the below agenda as well as an informal post-workshop networking reception.

https://sites.google.com/site/mitwindweek2011/wind-integration-workshop

Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/mitwindweek2011/wind-integration-workshop
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
WEPA
wepa@mit.edu

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MIT study on the future of natural gas
Daniel Cohn
Use of shale gas has created a large increase in the availability of low cost natural gas, and with it new opportunities for reducing CO2 and oil dependence. This talk will discuss the MIT interdisciplinary study on the future of natural gas.
Fri Jan 21, 10-11:00am, NW17-218

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Diagnosing plasma turbulence in tokamaks
Anne White
Scientists have made great progress in understanding and predicting turbulent transport in tokamaks, but challenges remain. Future fusion reactor development depends on using fluctuation diagnostics to monitor plasma turbulence, and comparing the results with advanced theory and simulations. This talk considers recent advances in diagnosing turbulent transport in tokamaks, and the path to predicting transport in ITER.
Fri Jan 21, 11:15am-12:30pm, NW17-218

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Tour of Alcator C-Mod and the Versatile Toroidal Facility (VTF)
Tour guide TBD
Visit the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a well-tested approach to fusion research that has direct applications to ITER, the world's largest tokamak, currently under construction in France. Compare this to the Versatile Toroidal Facility, a small student-built tokamak used to explore magnetic reconnection, the process observed in solar flares.
Fri Jan 21, 01:30-02:30pm, NW17-218

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Starr Forums: Gaza featuring Noam Chomsky

Speaker: Noam Chomsky, Nancy Murray

Time: 4:00p–5:30p

Location: E51-Wong Auditorium

Noam Chomsky addresses the ongoing crisis in Gaza followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. Joining Chomsky is Nancy Murray, the director of education at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts. She is the author of Rights Matter: the Story of the Bill of Rights. Nancy holds a B.Phil. and Ph.D. in modern history from Oxford University. She has experience as a teacher, scholar and social activist in Great Britain, Kenya, and the Middle East as well as the United States, and has written widely on the themes of civil liberties, civil and human rights.

Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_012110_chomsky.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Smart Innovation calls for Smart People

Time: 5:00p–6:30p

Location: 6-120

Focus on projects in France's two most ambitious innovation campuses.

Open to: the general public

Cost: free

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI, MIT-France

For more information, contact:
Erin Baumgartner
3-8813
embaum@mit.edu

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Harvard

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Rethinking Malaria: The Science of Eradication Symposium
WHEN
Thu., Jan. 20, 2011, 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Conferences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Harvard Institute for Global Health
TICKET WEB LINK
gid.globalhealth.harvard.edu…
TICKET INFO
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
Brenda Rodriguez: brenda_rodriguez@harvard.edu
NOTE
This symposium will provide an in-depth discussion of current control and eradication efforts. It will also serve as a forum to discuss recent scientific and policy advances, challenges and new approaches to encourage interdisciplinary research in malaria. It will feature presentations and an expert panel discussion session. This will be the perfect setting for networking with faculty, students, researchers, and invited guests.
LINK
http://gid.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k54064&pageid=icb.page395574

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Imagining War and Keeping Peace? Military Cultures and Peace Operation Effectiveness
WHEN
Thu., Jan. 20, 2011, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)
Chiara Ruffa, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO
susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5366/imagining_war_and_keeping_peace_military_cultures_and_peace_operation_effectiveness.html

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Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement
WHEN
Thu., Jan. 20, 2011, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Harvard Faculty Club
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Labor & Worklife Program, HLS
SPEAKER(S)
Julius G. Getman, professor of law, University of Texas

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January 21, 2011, Alex Stanković, Tufts University
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 901

Alex Stanković
Tufts University

Smart Grid and Other Desiderata: A Future for Electric Energy
The area of energy processing, which includes power electronics, electric drives and power systems, is at crossroads. Its challenges are both external (contribution to climate change, nonfunctional markets) and internal (inability to integrate renewable sources and efficient loads). The promise of energy processing comes from a growing array of potentially transformative technologies that currently exist in energy components, power electronics, distributed sensing, and embedded control.

The first part of the talk will review available energy technologies, and outline salient features of the existing energy systems. The second part of the talk will present a more personal view, and introduce the dynamic phasor approach to modeling and analysis of transients in high-power electronic converters and electromechanical systems. Some recent extensions involving filter banks will also be presented. The third and final part of the talk will outline desirable future developments in electric energy systems with an emphasis on interconnection of networks with different energy carriers.

Alex Stanković received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1992 after earning his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. Alex’s research interests include analytical and experimental work involving modeling, control, and estimation in electric energy processing for power electronics, power systems, and electric drives. His work uses electronics to efficiently condition energy sources for practical uses. Alex has been appointed as the first Alvin H. Howell Professor in Electrical Engineering at Tufts in 2010.

He is a Fellow of IEEE and has served from 1997 to 2010 as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. He has held visiting positions at the United Technologies Research Center (sabbaticals in 2000 and 2007) and at L’Universite de Paris-Sud and Supelec (in 2004). He is a coeditor of book series on Power Electronics and Power Systems for Springer.

Hosting Professor: Michael Caramanis and Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Michael Rahaim


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Northeastern

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On January 21, 2011, the Northeastern University Law Journal will host its annual symposium: "From Seed to Stomach: Food and Agricultural Law." The symposium will focus on recent legal developments in the areas of food and farming law, including intellectual property and genetically-modified foods, sustainable economic farming, and food labeling and obesity. Experts on food and agriculture policy from around the nation will be in attendance.

Admission is free, but registration is required. Please visit www.nulj.org/symposium to register and to check out the list of speakers and panels! Flyer attached.
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Other

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The first Nerdnite of 2011 is at a special time and place – January 17 at the A.R.T Oberon Theater in Harvard Square
We’ll return to the Middlesex on the last monday of February

The next Nerdnite:
Monday January 17, 2010 — 8pm at the Oberon
2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
In Harvard Square
$5 at the door or in advance from the Oberon website

Click http://boston.nerdnite.com/2011/01/07/jan-17-special-nerdnite-event-at-the-oberon/ to buy advance tickets
The lineup:

Talk 1: “R. Buckminster Fuller: Prototype of the American Nerd”
by D.W. Jacobs

Talk 2: “Derivatives Work: The Brief Histories of “Happy Birthday” and “Who Let the Dogs Out”
by Ben Sisto

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GreenPort Forum:
Growing Community-Scale Energy in New England: What Vermont's District Heating Efforts Could Mean for Cambridge
with speaker Ralph Meima, Board Co-Chair, Brattleboro Thermal Utility, Inc.

Ralph Meima is Program Director, MBA in Managing for Sustainability, Marlboro College Graduate School, Brattleboro, VT. Until he joined Marlboro College in 2006, Ralph Meima was Assistant Professor of Organizational Management at the School for International Training. He has written books and articles on environmental management and policy. Other research interests include simulation design, experiential education, CSR, and sustainable development. Meima serves on the board of the Vermont Environmental Consortium, and is Co-Chairman of the Board of Brattleboro Thermal Utility, which is developing a biomass district energy system. Meima began his career as an IT industry engineer.

Brattleboro Thermal Utility's mission is to create a community energy system for the Town of Brattleboro, Vermont generating both electricity and thermal energy, using biomass as a fuel, for the benefit of multiple stakeholders and the town as a whole. Their long-term aim is to eliminate Brattleboro's dependency on fossil fuels (primarily oil and natural gas) for heating, and obtain most of its electricity from renewable local sources.

District energy could have direct applications in Cambridge, as the most efficient means of delivering heat and energy to our homes.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

7:00pm

Cambridgeport Baptist Church

459 Putnam Av, Cambrige

(corner of Magazine St. and Putnam Av)

For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at swineman@gis.net

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January 2011 Tech Meetup

Jan18Tue 7:00 PM
Location
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD)
One Memorial Drive
Suite 100
Cambridge, MA 02142
857-453.6000
How to find us: "We will be in the Horace Mann conference room on the 1st floor."

First Boston Tech Meetup under new management! Join us at Microsoft NERD to see what's new and cool on the local tech startup scene. Doors open at 7, presentations run from 7:30-8:30.
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/newtech-73/calendar/15917041/

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Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology Invites You To Celebrate Ben's
Birthday and to meet our new President. George Chryssis

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6-8 p.m.

"Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - Reflections from Ben Franklin &
Other Great Thinkers:" A Conversation with William Powers, author of
Hamlet's Blackberry, and the British Consul General, Dr. Phil Budden,
moderated by Xconomy's William A. Ghormley.

Please CLICK HERE
for full details on our website.

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, 41 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA
02116 www.bfit.edu

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*Skillshare: Art of the Schmooze - Thursday, January 20 from 6PM-8:30PM*
The NonProfit Center, downtown Boston
This highly interactive, fast-paced skillshare hosted by Robbie Samuels will help you make the most out of Connecting for Justice the following week. Forming and cultivating relationships is at the heart of any successful fundraising campaign, volunteer drive, committee effort or community building activity. This workshop will give you the confidence to pursue your personal goals. Learn how to get in and out of conversations smoothly, how to create a welcoming space by considering yourself a host and the
difference between croissants vs. bagels.
*RSVP:* http://www.sojust.org/calendar/15792339/ and *spread the word:*
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176827112338467

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http://www.mos.org/events_activities/events&ser=Let%27s%20Talk%20About%20Food
Lets Talk about Food events at Museum of Science

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: FOOD ACCESS
Forum [Return to listing page]
Museum of Science
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
Friday, January 21, 2011 | 7:00 pm
Register: http://survey.mos.org/public_survey/Checkbox/Survey.aspx?s=dba49bd3c5bc4dc2bb1117cf2fabc9b2

Free, but seating is limited; advance registration is required.Take a new look at how something as fundamental as food can become very complicated. Is food a human right? Why are there so few locations to buy fresh food in cities? How do we address the economic inequities of those who do or do not get healthy food? And how can we make healthy, fresh, and safe food products more affordable?

This forum is part of the Food for Thought series, encouraging conversation about what we can do to improve how we grow our food and feed our bodies.

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It is now possible to order tickets for "R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE" in Cambridge, MA. Performances start on Jan 14th and run through Feb 5th. During previews (1/14 - 1/18) all tickets are $35 (for A and B sections). After previews tickets are from $25 - $65 (the $25 tickets are for the last two rows in the theater).

You can take advantage of a special offer to see the Saturday, January 22nd 2:00pm or the Sunday, January 23rd 7:30pm performance by using the Promotional Code THIRTYVERTI for $35 tickets (Normally $50-$65) for those two specific performances. This discount can not be combined with any other offers such as Student, $25 advance or Senior Discount and are subject to availability.

Tickets are on a first come, first served basis, so please order your tickets for the play now.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.AmericanRepertoryTheater.org, by phone at 617.547.8300, or in person at the A.R.T. Box Office, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Please register for the event on-line at
http://synergeticscollaborative.org/registration.01.2011.html

Jan 22 Special Exhibit
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After the Saturday, January 22nd 2:00pm performance, the Synergetics Collaborative, Foundation for New Directions (FND), Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), and American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) will present an exhibit featuring a special geometry activity led by George Hart of MoMath. Synergetics Collaborative, MoMath and FND will have people on hand to discuss, explain, demonstrate and engage participants with the displays. Some displays will be hands-on.

Jan 23 Discussion/Seminar
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On Sunday, 23 January from 10am to 4pm, the Foundation for New Directions (FND) will host a discussion seminar on "Building on Marvin Solit's Work". We plan to break in time so that interested participants can go to the theater to see the Dymaxion Car #4 presentation (see next item).
Please either bring a potluck or pre-register and bring $15 so we can provide enough food for lunch and snacks.

Jan 23 Special Presentation
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After the Sunday, January 23rd 2pm and 7:30pm performances, the Synergetics Collaborative and American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) will present a special presentation by Thomas T. K. Zung on Lord Norman Foster's Dymaxion Car #4. Thomas T. K. Zung was Buckminster Fuller's long-time architectural partner, editor of the book Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millenium, and a Distiguished Fellow to the Stanford University Libraries.

Anyone with a ticket stub for a performance of the A.R.T. production of R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE will be able to attend the special events at the A.R.T. by presenting their ticket stub to gain access. The special events are scheduled for 4:30pm after a matinee performance and 10pm after the evening performance.

Please register for the event on-line at
http://synergeticscollaborative.org/registration.01.2011.html

More details are on the event web page at
http://synergeticscollaborative.org/snec.announce.meeting.2011.01.html

Editorial Comment: I have met the writer and director of this play and friends who saw it last summer in Washington DC enjoyed it. I will most definitely be at George Hart's presentation, having attended a couple of his presentations, learned a lot, and had much fun building geometric sculptures of his design.

If you want to see my own geometric modeling, you can watch this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEinwxzzUEs

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Steampunk Meetup, January 23, 2010

Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, 154 Moody St, Waltham
Join the Museum on, Sunday, January 23rd, from 1 to 3pm, for the New England Steampunk Meetup. Gather with other steampunkers, exchange stories, show off your latest projects and find what what other steampunkers are up to.

http://www.crmi.org/events/museum-events/

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Upcoming

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MIT Independent Activities Period
January 3 - 28
http://web.mit.edu/iap/

IAP is a month-long celebration of learning where anyone at MIT, from a professor emeritus to the cleaning staff, can present a course or lecture. It is primarily for the MIT community but if you don't make a scene you can partake of the educational banquet too.

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Income Inequality in America
Frank Levy
Mon Jan 24, Tue Jan 25, Wed Jan 26, 10-11:00am, 9-450A

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

In 2008, the top 1 percent of households received about 21% of all income, twice its income share in 1990 and roughly equal its share in 1929 at the end of the Gilded Age. Average household income in the top 1 percent doubled over these years (adjusted for inflation) while income of the average household grew by 5 percent.

This activity will consist of three sessions reviewing what we know about the causes of income inequality including immigration, technological change, the growth of the financial sector and international trade. We will also devote some time to discussing what is known about the consequences of inequality for national life.
Contact: Frank Levy, 9-523, x3-2089, flevy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning

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MIT Physics Lecture Series:
Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Professor Sara Seager
Mon Jan 24, 01:30-02:30pm, 6-120

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

For thousands of years people have wondered, “Are we Alone?” With about 500 planets discovered to orbit nearby stars, the existence of exoplanets is firmly established. Astronomers are now able to routinely measure planetary sizes, masses, and atmospheres for a subset of hot, big exoplanets. The race to find habitable exoplanets is on with the realization that big Earths orbiting small stars can be both discovered and characterized with existing technology. Professor Seager will answer the four questions she gets asked most often: “What could aliens see, looking at Earth from afar?”; “When will we find another Earth?”; “Can we go there?”; “If we cannot go there, why look?”
Contact: Nancy Boyce, 4-315, 253-4461, nboyce@mit.edu
Sponsor: Physics

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POWER SYSTEMS ECONOMICS IN THEORY/-IES AND IN REAL LIFE
January 24-27 (MTWR), 2:30-4:00pm in MIT Bldg E52, Room 175
Dr. Jean-Pierre Hansen

Details:

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: Introductory economics helpful. Interest in electricity.
Contact: Tim Heidel, E19-439A, (617) 715-4551, heidel@mit.edu
Sponsors: MIT Electricity Student Research Group, MIT Energy Club
More Information: http://esrg.mit.edu/events/iap-2011/
Light refreshments will be served.

Description:

The translation between economic theories and real-world practice is not always straightforward in the energy industry. This lecture series will explore how a few select economic theories can (or cannot) be applied to real-world situations. Jean-Pierre Hansen (full speaker bio below) will draw examples from his long career in both industry and academia to help students navigate the sometimes confusing and counterintuitive world of energy economics. This lecture series is designed to complement other energy economics classes at MIT.

A background in introductory economic theory will be helpful for students but is not required. (Each lecture will start with a review of the basics.)

Speaker Bio: Jean-Pierre Hansen managed Electrabel, one of the leading European electricity companies, for 20 years. He has also been Chairman to a number of energy companies that operate at an international level (30 countries). He is currently a Member of the Executive Committee of GDF SUEZ, the world’s second-largest gas and electricity Group. He is a Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). Jean-Pierre holds a degree in Economics and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering.


Session Details:

Session 1: Mon Jan 24
Did you say “Market”?… (How) Does it (really) work for electricity

The move to a market system is not all that simple! Amongst other things, if we wish to replace a regulated electricity system with an electricity market system, we must consider the three elements that determine an exchange, i.e. a market: the product, the time and the place. How does it work for electricity, given the so-called forgotten hypotheses of microeconomics…?

Session 2: Tue Jan 25
Ricardo’s nuclear power plants: why should a manager know the Theory of Rent?

The general theory of rents explains several major problems in electricity economics. For instance, differential rents (or infra-marginal rents), which manifest in the operation of optimal generating facilities, are often called windfall profits. However, it is shown that such rents are necessary in order to (re)build optimal generating facilities and therefore cannot be taxed. The issue of “Missing Money.”

Session 3: Wed Jan 26
Market Power: how can it be measured – proved?

95% of economic and legal literature regarding the reform of the electricity sector concerns “Market Power”. This is both surprising and logical all at once: its definition, its calculation and its analysis foil all of the traditional indicators: Lerner, HHI, and “Pivotals”. So? How can the CEO of a company define his policy?

Session 4: Thu Jan 27
From C. Adams to Averch-Johnson… and many others: the myth of perfect regulation.

Origins, theories, paradoxes and practices of regulation: the true story and “everything you have ever wanted to know about regulation, but never dared to ask”.

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BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER

The Return of Ulysses
and
Decapitalization Circus

Reducing the proceedings of the historic dramma per musica to 75 minutes, brazenly updating the Baroque accents and adding two timely prologues, (Peter Schumann) labelled his marvellous mishmash a "respectful truncation?."
["The Return of Ulysses," , Dec. 6, 2010]

Boston Center for the Arts
CYCLORAMA
January 24 through January 30

presented in partnership with the Boston Center for the Arts as part of the Cyclorama Residency Series

(Boston, MA 02116) Bread and Puppet Theater presents ?The Return of Ulysses? and ?Decapitalization Circus? : two separate performances presented in partnership with the Boston Center for the Arts as part of the Cyclorama Residency Series. Performances, Art Exhibit, and Cheap Art Sale run from January 24 through January 30. All held in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), 539 Tremont St., South End, Boston. Wheelchair accessible. Tickets for the performances available for purchase [cash or
check only] in the Cyclorama one hour before each performance. For advance tickets, log onto www.breadandpuppet.org
or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). For detailed information regarding the week?s events, call the BCA's Bread and Puppet Theater information line at
617-800-9539 or log onto www.bcaonline.org.

Detailed listings information:

Evening Performances [recommended for ages 12 & older]:
Bread and Puppet Theater: The Return of Ulysses
Jan. 27-Jan. 30, Thurs.-Sun., 7 pm
$12 general admission [$10 students, seniors, & groups of 10 or more]
Description: This "respectfully truncated," rough-hewn, and bold DIY adaptation of Claudio Monteverdi's opera was first developed this past June by Bread and Puppet in collaboration with the Theatre Department of Concordia University in Montreal and the Montreal Baroque Festival. The production was initially performed as a dress rehearsal in the DB Clarke Theatre at Concordia and then presented as a festival performance in the plaza of the Centre Mondial. During July & August in Glover, VT (Bread and
Puppet?s base of operations), the opera was pared down to approximately 75 minutes, including 10 minutes of prologue. The performances have been conceived to include 20 volunteer puppeteers and 15-20 volunteer singers and instrumentalists in the chorus and orchestra with Peter Schumann playing the role of Penelope. Schumann describes the plot as follows: "In order to commit genocide on their competitors, the Trojans, the tricky Greeks employ their multitalented sky, full of custom tailored divinities, to justify the
crime, just as we employ our Judeo-Christian sky, occupied by a divine air force and permitted by the in-god-we-trust court system, to justify our atrocities in Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere. By order of Jove, the boss, and with special help from his daughter Minerva, Ulysses finally returns home, where he has to murder 100 evil suitors in order to be happily reunited with wife and property." The piece includes two prologues, "Modern Sky" and "Antique Sky." For Boston, The Return of Ulysses will be performed
by Peter Schumann and the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteer puppeteers and musicians. Informal talk back with the artists follows each performance. Sourdough rye bread will be served and cheap art will be for sale after each performance.

Family-Friendly Matinees:
Bread and Puppet Theater: Decapitalization Circus
Jan. 29-Jan. 30, Sat.-Sun., 4 pm
$10 general admission [$5 students, seniors, and pre-school children (2 & under free)]
Description: The family-friendly "Decapitalization Circus" demonstrates in numerous death-defying stunts the fantastic effects of the capitalization of life in the U.S. and citizens? courageous efforts of decapitalization. The performers represent the whole scale of the social spectrum from benign billionairism to despicable homeless anti-social-elementarianism. All the acts are FDA and FBI certified displays of patriotic correctness and defy all imaginable forms of terrorism. The Possibilitarians, a multi-instrumental variety ensemble, provide the appropriate-inappropriate sounds for the Circus. Performed by Peter Schumann and the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteer puppeteers and musicians. Take note that some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, but accompanying kids can usually explain them. The audience is welcome to examine all the masks and puppets after the performance. Cheap art will be for sale after each performance.

Visual Art Exhibit:
Bread and Puppet Theater: NOLANGUAGE, visual art installation created by
Peter Schumann
Jan. 24-Jan. 30, Mon.-Sun.
Free and open to all.
Description: Bread and Puppet Theater Artistic Director Peter Schumann?s most recent visual art exploration, ranging from very large paintings to very small string booklets, which depict matters that concern us all.
Exhibit details:
--Mon., Jan. 24, 6-9 pm: opening reception, with refreshments, an art talk given by Schumann, short skits performed by the touring company, and live music performed by the Boston Typewriter Orchestra (www.bostontypewriterorchestra.com ) and the Dirty Water Brass Band (www.dirtywaterbrassband.com ).
--Tues.-Fri., Jan. 25-28: regular Cyclorama hours: 9am-5pm [Thursday & Friday hours extended up to and after the evening performance].
--Sat.-Sun., Jan. 29-30: one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.

For this residency at the Cyclorama, the Bread and Puppet touring company includes Schumann, along with Maura Gahan, Greg Corbino, Maryann Colella, Susie Perkins, among others. Both the evening and matinee performances will be performed by the company and a large number of local volunteers and musicians, including the popular Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band ( www.slsaps.org), who is the host band for the yearly HONK! Festival (www.honkfest.org
) held in Davis Square.

In addition to Peter Schumann?s NOLANGUAGE art installation, the Cyclorama will also be decorated with the unique Bread and Puppet collection of powerful black-line posters, banners, masks, curtains, programs and set-props. All pieces are created by Schumann, including sculpting and painting all the major masks and puppets, with input from the company. After each evening performance there will be an opportunity to savor Schumann's famous sourdough rye bread, smeared with garlic aioli; and there will also be many opportunities during the week to purchase the theater's legendary "cheap art."

For more information on the Bread and Puppet Theater, log onto
www.breadandpuppet.org.

ABOUT THE BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS:

The Boston Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works, builds new audiences, and connects art to community. Visit www.bcaonline.org for more information.

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2011 FARM SHARE FAIR
Thursday February 3rd @ 5:30-8PM
The Democracy Center
@
45 Mt Auburn St in Harvard Square
* *presented by theMOVE * | *Free Admission*
*more info @ www.getoutma.org/farmsharefair
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A CSA share is a weekly box of fresh/delicious/natural veggies (and sometimes meat/fish) delivered by local farms to convenient pickup spots within our community. We're bringing all the CSAs together in one place -- to get you the info you need to get signed up! Meet the folks who grow your food, and bring your checkbook to reserve a share!

*Delicious pizza will be on sale (by donation) courtesy of Zing Pizzato benefit theMOVE
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* Co-sponsored by NOFA/Mass + Somerville Climate Action
* Arlington will also have its own CSA Fair! on Thursday February 24th @ 4:30-7:30p


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Request for Help

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The Somerville Winter Farmers Market is beginning its first year! It will be Saturdays 10-2 at the Armory on 191 Highland Ave in Somerville, MA. January 8th through March 26th. Please spread the word to your friends, family and coworkers.

ALSO----We are looking for musicians, as well as people interested in leading skillshares and workshops on a variety of topics having to do with food or
sustainability in general. It would be great to collaborate!

Please email me at adrianne.schaefer@gmail.com with suggestions, leads, or contacts.

Thanks!

Adrianne Schaefer
Market Manager
Somerville Winter Farmers Market

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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

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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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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://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/

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