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Small Changes, Big Results
The CT Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge
The Yale Center for Business and the Environment is pleased to present the fourth annual installment of the Carbon Finance Speaker Series, Blueprint for Efficiency. This series of free, public webinars will feature the latest developments in energy efficiency policy, investment, technology, and community engagement.
Join Kerry O'Neill and Bryan Garcia from Earth Markets who will present the Connecticut Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge. Over three years, the Connecticut Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge will engage 10 percent of residents in 14 towns, helping them reduce their energy use by 20 percent. The program integrates several innovative approaches including:
* Clean Energy Corps - the deployment of a Clean Energy Corps to support community groups and their residents as they move step-by-step up the "food chain of sustainable energy usage,"
* Performance-Based Rewards - a three-tiered rewards and recognition program that allows residents to earn points based on their actions and that can then be redeemed by towns like Green Stamps for valuable energy efficiency rewards,
* Technology - program delivery and data collection processes that utilize enabling technologies like mobile apps, iPads, and Salesforce.com,
* Campaign Management - continuous program analysis utilizing campaign plans, dashboards, pipeline reports and acquisition marketing tools to support ongoing refinement of outreach and marketing strategies, and
* M&V - robust measurement and verification to support generation of revenue quality energy savings certificates for the state's energy efficiency resource standard and evaluation of sustainable business models
Title: Small Changes, Big Results with the CT Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge
Date and Time : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 from 12pm to 1pm (EST)
GotoWebinar URL: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/806495342
Speakers: Kerry O'Neill and Bryan Garcia
Click Here to Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/806495342
Bios
Kerry O'Neill is the co-founder and president of Earth Markets. She is an executive with over 20 years of progressive management experience in diverse sectors including direct marketing, e-commerce, business outsourcing services, and financial services holding increasingly senior roles in operations, strategy and marketing. Kerry is also the executive director of the Clean Energy Finance Center, a non-profit organization that develops innovative approaches to attract greater private and public sector capital to finance large-scale energy efficiency, renewable energy and carbon reduction initiatives.
Bryan Garcia is the co-founder and chief community officer of Earth Markets. He is an executive with over 10 years of progressive management experience in the energy, environment and economic development sectors within organizations that operate in the public, private, non-profit and academic sectors. Bryan is the program director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, an initiative of the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies that prepares environmental leaders for business and society to solve the problems that matter.
Background
The grant is administered by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and the program is managed by Earth Markets and draws resources and experience from several partner organizations, including the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund, Celtic Energy, Clean Water Fund, EMpower Devices/MIT, Mobile Genius, SmartPower, Snugg Home and the Student Conservation Association.
The Connecticut Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge is a community energy savings program made possible by a $4.17 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy through the BetterBuildings program, funded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Blueprint for Efficiency series is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Yale University and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Club. The series will take place from November 2010 through May 2011. It will be free and open to the public through online webcasts that will be conducted on a weekly basis from 12pm to 1pm EST. Each presentation will be recorded and made available to the global community through Yale University on iTunes U.
Funding for the Carbon Finance Speaker Series "Blueprint for Efficiency" was made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar
For new users of GoToMeeting, please allow 10-15 minutes before the webinar to set-up and download the software to participate.
System requirements for PC-based attendees include required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, or Vista. System requirements for Macintosh®-based attendees include required: MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) or newer.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Legatum Lecture: Promoting Inclusion
Speaker: Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Foundations
Time: 5:00p–6:00p
Location: 32-155, Reception to follow
Attend this lecture to hear about the worldwide work of the Open Society Foundations to secure education, health and justice for marginalized people.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/content-677
Open to: the general public
Cost: none
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact:
Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
agnesh@mit.edu
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Japan Nuclear Crisis: Aftermath and Implications on the World Energy Map
April 19, 2011 5:30p–8:00p
In the aftermath of the Sendai Earthquake and East Asian Tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is in critical condition. The ramifications of these events have affected, and will continue to affect, the World Energy Map.
Category: lectures/conferences
Location: School of Management Auditorium, 595 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events, Boston University Energy Club
Admission: Open to the public
For more information:
Contact Priyank Maheshwari
pm@bu.edu
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Architecture Lecture Series: The 5th Goldstein Lecture
Speaker: Guy Nordenson, Structural Engineer, New York City
Time: 6:30p–8:00p
Location: 10-250
Guy Nordenson: Patterns in Structures
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: 617-253-7791
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Space, Land and Time Underground - Adventures with Ant Farm
Speaker: BETH FEDERICI
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: E15-070
Space, Land and Time - Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
A Documentary Film Screening with Co-Director BETH FEDERICI
Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is a documentary film directed by Laura Harrison and Beth Federici. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multidisciplinary work that questioned the boundaries of architecture and predicted much of the technology we take for granted today.
The film is being publicly screened as part of the 4.332/4.333 Advanced Seminar in Networked Cultures: Tactical Design for Cooperative Agency & Disruption course taught by ACT Fellow Nitin Sawhney and is funded in part by a grant from the Council of the Arts at MIT.
Web site: http://www.antfarmthemovie.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Editorial Comment: The Ant Farm were real pioneers and did things forty years ago that are still radical.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Evolution of Engineering Systems: A Rich Past, an Exciting Future - A Symposium Honoring Professor Daniel Roos
Time: 1:00p–5:15p
Location: E15, Bartos Theater
The Charles L. Miller Symposium
The series is named for Charles L. Miller, who joined the Civil Engineering faculty in 1955, and served as head of the department from 1962-1969.
This event will explore the past, present, and future of the field of engineering systems from the perspectives of speakers from academia and industry.
Web site: http://esd.mit.edu/roos_symp/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT Portugal, MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
For more information, contact:
Gerri Powers
617-253-4919
gpowers@mit.edu
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Feeding Conflict: The Impact of US Food Aid on Civil War
Speaker: Nancy Qian (Yale)
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: E51-376
Feeding Conflict: The Impact of US Food Aid on Civil War
Web site: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6652
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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Mass Space Grant Consortium Twenty-First Annual Distinguished Lecturer Series
April 20, 2011 4:00p–5:00p
Investments in our Future: Exploring Space through Innovation and Technology
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Dr. Robert (Bobby) D. Braun, NASA Chief Technologist
Location: 26-100
Sponsored by: AeroAstro, Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium
Admission: free
Open to the public
For more information:
Contact Jeff Hoffman
617-452-2353
jhoffma1@mit.edu
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The Status of US Wind Energy
April 20, 2011 5:30p–7:00p
The Industry, Policy, Transmission, and Technology
Category: MIT events/clubs: interest clubs/groups
Speaker: Rob Gramlich, Senior Policy Advisor - American Wind Energy Association
Location: 2-105
Sponsored by: Wind Energy Projects in Action, MIT Energy Club, MIT Wind Energy Group
Admission: Open to the public
For more information:
Contact Wind Energy Group
wind@mit.edu
http://www.awea.org/
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Progress in Offshore Wind: Rhode Island and the United States
April 20, 2011 5:30p–7:00p
Deepwater Wind is the U.S. leader in offshore wind power development - increasing American energy independence with large-scale wind farms in deep ocean waters, where they are virtually invisible from shore.
Wind energy is recognized around the world as an excellent form of clean, renewable power. We can never run out of it. There's no pollution or greenhouse gas emissions. The fuel is free, and not subject to the price fluctuations of foreign oil.
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Paul Rich, Chief Development Officer for Rhode Island, Deep Water Wind
Location: 2-105
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events
Admission: Open to the public
For more information:
Contact Kathy Araujo
kmaraujo@MIT.EDU
http://www.dwwind.com/
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Living in Emergency Movie & Reception
Time: 5:30p–8:30p
Location: 4-270
MIT's Prehealth Advising presents...
Living in Emergency Documentary
For the first time ever, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) gave a documentary crew uncensored access to its field operations. Set in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia, "Living in Emergency" interweaves the stories of four doctors as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26-year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon from Tennessee trying to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city.
Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic head of mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out. Amid the chaos, each doctor must find their own way to face the challenges of the work, the tough choices, and the limits of their idealism.
Movie Trailor: http://www.youtube.com/v/mM3Na9a2mzw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0
For more about the movie visit the Living in Emergency website - http://www.livinginemergency.com/
A discussion/reception with members of the Prehealth Advisory Board will follow the movie. Light food and refreshments will be provided.
REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED- please register through CareerBridge at https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student/ and select Workshops, Career Fairs and Events.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Preprofessional Advising
For more information, contact:
Tamara Menghi
617-715-5328
trmenghi@mit.edu
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Climate and the Oceans: Where We've Been and What's Ahead
Speaker: Dr. Wallace Broecker of The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Time: 6:00p–9:00p
Location: E51
For more than half a century, Dr. Wallace Broeker's major research interest has been the ocean's role in climate change. He was among the pioneers in radiocarbon and isotope dating - the quintessential processes for creating maps of the Earth?s past climate fluctuations since as early as the Pleistocene period. He was also the first person ever to recognize the Ocean Conveyor Belt (which he named), arguably the most important discovery in the history of oceanography and its critical relation to climate. Broecker's research interests center on climate systems, especially as they involve the role of oceans in climate change. He places strong emphasis on utilizing isotopes in investigating physical mixing and chemical cycling in the ocean and the climate history as recorded in marine sediments. A prolific researcher, teacher and author, Dr. Broecker has published over 400 scientific articles and is the author or coauthor of several textbooks.
Reception 6-7. Lecture 7 PM.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Sea Grant
For more information, contact:
Nancy Adams
253-3461
nadamsx@mit.edu
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Truck Farm Movie Screening
Time: 8:00p–9:30p
Location: 35-225
Join us for a screening of Truck Farm!
Truck Farm is a whimsical, musical documentary about the quirky world of urban agriculture. After filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn) plants a garden in the back of his pickup truck, he and the Truck Farm set out to explore the rooftops, barges and windows that represent New York City?s newest edible oases. Can these urban farmers feed a city? Can the old Dodge and its crops survive the winter? Blending serious exposition with serious silliness, Truck Farm entreats viewers to ponder the future of urban farming, and to consider whether sustainability needs a dose of fun and whimsy to be truly sustainable.
Sponsored by MIT EHS Sustainability Program and MIT Food & Agriculture Collaborative
Web site: http://food-ag.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: No tickets required
Sponsor(s): MIT Food & Agriculture Collaborative, EHS
For more information, contact:
Kristine Cass
food@mit.edu
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8am: Dropoff begins for Swapfest: Choose to Reuse
Location: Stata TSMC Lobby
Drop-off starts at 8am, swap starts at 11am. Bring something, take something – choose to reuse
If you would like more information or would like to be involved in any reuse activities at MIT please email me.
Cordially Yours,
Nancy Kim
nancykim@mit.edu
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Earth Day Fair
Time: 11:00a–2:00p
Location: 32, Student Street and Outside the Stata Center
This year's Earth Week theme recognizes 150 years of innovation at MIT to be good stewards of our planet. Come to the fair to learn how you can help the planet on a daily basis through initiatives in Transportation, Food, Green Purchasing, Energy Conservation, and Recycling. Several organizations external to MIT will be at the fair, too. Check out the web site and publicity on campus for more information.
Web site: web.mit.edu/earthday
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, EHS, Facilities
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
rhowarth@mit.edu
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MIT Energy Club @ Sloan presents Adam Bernstein
April 21, 2011 11:45a–1:00p
Join us for the exciting chance to hear a real life case study of a cleantech start-up company that New Energy Capital is funding at the moment. It will combine elements of energy finance, policy, emerging technologies and transaction structuring.
In November 2010, multiple investors, technology firms, and engineering companies began construction on the largest fuel cell electricity project in the U.S. The Project will capture over 410 million standard ft? per year of wastewater biogas, and use this gas to generate over 42 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year to power the University of California at San Diego and the City?s South Bay Reclamation Facility.
The story of how a start-up energy developer brought together major banks, manufacturers, construction firms, and government agencies to finance and build the Project holds valuable lessons for a wide audience. Adam will discuss the challenges of commercially deploying emerging energy technologies, along with the risks and opportunities for investors in this frequently misunderstood sector. NEC is the lead investor in the Project, and Adam oversaw the execution of this complex transaction.
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Adam Bernstein, Managing Partner at New Energy Capital
Location: E62-262
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Club
Admission: Open to the public
For more information:
Contact Javier Crespo
jcrespo@sloan.mit.edu
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Talk and Action: The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the Climate Challenge
Time: 3:00p–4:00p
Location: E51-115, Wong Auditorium
TODD STERN
Special Envoy for Climate
Change at the State Department
Todd Stern is the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department. Mr. Stern plays a central role in developing the U.S. international policy on climate and is the President?s chief climate negotiator, representing the United States internationally at the ministerial level in all bilateral and multilateral negotiations regarding climate change. Mr. Stern also participates in the development of domestic climate and clean energy policy.
Mr. Stern brings extensive experience in the private sector and government. Before joining the Obama Administration he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on climate change and environmental issues, and a partner at the law firm WilmerHale, where he served as Vice Chair of the Public Policy and Strategy Group.
Immediately following:
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100...
Panel Discussion
4:00-6:00pm,E51-115, Wong Auditorium
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Energy Initiative
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
Time: 4:00p–6:00p
Location: E51-115, Wong Auditorium
Moderated by: Dr. John Reilly, Co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management
Panelists:
Professor Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Director of the Program on Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate
Professor Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science; Co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Director of Center for Global Change Science
Professor Chris Knittel, William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics, MIT Sloan
School of Management
Professor Ernest Moniz, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems; Director of the MIT Energy Initiative
Professor Sarah Slaughter, Associate Director for Buildings & Infrastructure, MIT Energy Initiative
Immediately preceding the panel discussion:
MIT Earth Week Colloquium
Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, US State Department
Talk and Action: The role of international negotiations in addressing the climate challenge
3:00-4:00pm E51-115 Wong Auditorium
Todd Stern is the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department. Mr. Stern plays a central role in developing the U.S. international policy on climate and is the President?s chief climate negotiator, representing the United States internationally at the ministerial level in all bilateral and multilateral negotiations regarding climate change.
Web site: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=371
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
617-253-7492
globalchange@mit.edu
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
(Face)book of the Dead
Speaker: Mark Dery
Time: 4:00p–6:00p
Location: 2-105
CMS Colloquium Series
Are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Does this much-discussed phenomenon mark the Death of Shame, perhaps even a return to pre-modern notions of public and private?
In his illustrated lecture, "(Face)Book of the Dead," cultural critic and media theorist Mark Dery will address these and other questions, from the posthuman psychology of disembodied friendship to our growing unwillingness to untether ourselves from our social networks or the media drip, even for an instant. What does it say about us, as a society, if we're unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely? Is this, at root, a fear of the emptiness in our heads? Should we preserve some small space in our lives for solitude -- a Walden of the mind, away from the Matrix?
Mark Dery (www.markdery.com) is a cultural critic. He is best known for his writings on the politics of popular culture in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Cabinet, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, Elle, and Wired. Dery's latest book is an anthology of his recent writings, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Essays on American Empire, Digital Culture, Posthuman Porn, and Lady Gaga's Lesbian Phallus, published in Brazil by Editora Sulina. He is at work on a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little, Brown.
Web site: http://cms.mit.edu/events/talks.php#042111
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cms@mit.edu
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management of Reusable Resources
Speaker: Retsef Levi
Time: 4:15p–5:15p
Location: E62-550
ORC Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
ORC Spring Seminar Series
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact:
Chaithanya Bandi, Michael Frankovich, or Anna Teytelman
253-6185
cbandi@mit.edu, mfrankov@mit.edu, or teytanna@mit.edu
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
History, Expectations and Leadership in the Evolution of Cooperation
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
Time: 5:30p–7:00p
Location: at MIT E51-395
History, Expectations and Leadership in the Evolution of Cooperation
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Applied Theory Workshop - (New Workshop Spring 2011)
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
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Friday, April 22, 20112011
MIT Sustainability Summit - Bridging Thought and Action: Creating a Sustainable Organization
Time: 8:00a–7:00p
Microsoft NERD Center 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139
8:45 - 9:30 Registration & Breakfast
9:30 - 9:45 Welcome Address
Megan Wilbur, MIT Sustainability Summit Managing Director
9:45 - 10:30 Morning Keynote
Dr. John R. Ehrenfeld | former Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:05 Session 1
Bending the Water Cost Curve: Innovations to Avert Water Crisis
Reviving New England's Fishing Economy
Sustainability in the Built Environment: Integrating Transport Planning with Land Use and Building Design
12:05 - 13:05 Lunch & Expo
13:05 - 13:50
Afternoon Keynote
Gary Hirshberg | CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm
13:50 - 14:05 Break
14:05 - 15:25 Session 2
Building a Regional Food System
All Linked Together: Sustainable Supply Chains
Waste Not: Adopting a Closed-Loop Approach
System Dynamics in Sustainability and Its Application to Climate Change Policies
15:25 - 15:40 Break
15:40 - 17:00 Session 3
The Future of Footprinting
Economic Case for Sustainability
Beyond Microfinance
17:00 - 18:30 Reception
*MIT Student pre-sale $20.00 per ticket
*Non-MIT Student pre-sale $30.00 per ticket (College ID required)
Regular Ticket Sales Start April 9 for MIT & Non-MIT Students
*MIT Student $30.00 per ticket
*Non-MIT Student $40.00 per ticket (College ID required)
Tickets Available Now For:
MIT Alumni, Faculty & Staff $50.00 per ticket
Non-Profit & Government Professionals $75.00 per ticket
Industry & Business Professionals $125.00
All ticket sales end on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:59pm
http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu
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Friday, April 22, 2011
iFair
Time: 10:00a–5:00p
Location: Kresge Oval
The International Fair at MIT marks the opening of MIT's Spring Weekend. Come for games, food, music, performances, raffles, and Tim the Beaver as international students share their culture with the MIT community.
Web site: web.mit.edu/isa
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): International Students Association
For more information, contact:
Lina Garcia
isa-execcom@mit.edu
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Computation Lecture: Emergent mindsets in the digital age: Moving between worlds
Speaker: Edith Ackermann - Visiting Scientist , MIT Design Lab
Time: 12:30p–2:00p
Location: 7-431
Computation Lecture Series
This lecture is part of the Computation Lecture Series at the Department of Architecture.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Computation Group Events
For more information, contact:
Daniela Stoudenkova
danielas@mit.edu
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"Earn Your Bull$&!*": User Lifecycles in Social Media
Speaker: Cliff Lampe, Michigan State University
Date: Friday, April 22 2011
Time: 1:00PM to 2:00PM
Refreshments: 12:45PM
Location: Patil/Kiva Seminar Room, 32-G449
Host: Rob Miller, MIT CSAIL
Contact: Juho Kim, juhokim@mit.edu
"Social media sites, or online communities, depend on user participation and contribution in order to be viable. Users contribute comments, articles, pictures and more to flesh out the architectures these sites provide. Some users take on leadership roles in user-generated content communities, becoming mentors and administrators of the sites. There's a debate about whether these contributors are socialized in some way to become valuable participants in the site, or whether they come to the sites already primed for the role they will eventually take. Using data from Everything2.com, a user generated encyclopedia started by the same team that started Slashdot, we'll discuss this debate, and show how motivation and external events can shape this lifecycle of users in these sites."
Bio
Cliff Lampe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University. He received his PhD from the School of Information at the
University of Michigan. Cliff studies the effects of social media use, which has two main aspects. In one line of work, he studies sites like Facebook, Slashdot, Everything2 and more to show how social
and technical systems interact, and what are the effects of those interactions on users. In another line of work, he creates social media sites, like GreatLakesEcho, GreatPlaceNetwork, MichEEN and more to show how social media can be used in the public sector. Cliff is crazy tall.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Materials and Assembly Techniques for Unusual Photovoltaic and Lighting Systems (Rohsenow Lecture)
Speaker: Professor John A. Rogers
Time: 3:30p–5:00p
Location: 3-270
Mechanical Engineering Colloquium
Web site: http://mechecolloquium.scripts.mit.edu/home/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MechE Seminar Series
For more information, contact:
Harris Crist
252-3076
bhcrist@mit.edu
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Architecture Design Lecture Series: BOS: Homemade
Speaker: Hansy Luz Better and Beth Whittaker
Time: 6:30p–8:30p
Location: 7-431, AVT
Hansy Luz Better of Studio Luz Architects and Beth Whittaker of Merge Architects
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Mauro Bortolussi
617-258-0931
mauro@mit.edu
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Harvard
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Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
April 18, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@harvad.edu
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA
Joseph Aldy, HKS. Topic TBA.
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Lunch Seminar — The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
WHEN Tue., Apr. 19, 2011, 11:40 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the Center for International Development at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO RSVP: MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
NOTE In this trenchant critique, economist Dani Rodrik combines historical narrative with fresh insights to challenge the conventional wisdom that portrays the advance of globalization as inevitable—and as inevitably benign—and shows that globalization carries with it an unavoidable tension.
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Tuesday Seminar: ¡El Agua es Nuestra, Carajo!: Subsistence Threats, Social Mobilization, and the Case of Bolivian Water Wars
WHEN Tue., Apr. 19, 2011, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Erica Simmons, doctoral student at University of Chicago
CONTACT INFO Sophie Jampel: sjampel@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/Tuesday_Seminar_spring11_Simmons
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Behavioral and Psychosocial Issues Related to Suicide, Accidental Death, and Violence Among Army Soldiers
WHEN Tue., Apr. 19, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge, G2
Boston, MA 02115
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Injury Control Research Center Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Michael R. Bell, associate director, Occupational Medicine Residency Program,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
CONTACT INFO RSVP online at www.hsph.harvard.edu…
NOTE Open to the public.
Refreshments will be provided.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/seminar-series/
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The Communication Crises and the Evolution of Personal and Cultural Protocols
Greg Elliott, MIT Media Lab Researcher & Hugo Van Vuuren, Berkman Fellow / GSD
Tuesday, April 19, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast) at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
Respected newspapers (NYT) and bloggers (Swissmiss) agree: we have a full-scale "communication crisis" on our hands - “Too many channels. Too many messages. Too much noise. Too much guilt." Otherwise meaningful conversations and valuable data points are spread incoherently across various platforms, making it difficult to manage this data. Barriers exist between generations, industries and culture. Large corporations are developing technologies to help bridge these differences but behind every technology problem is a human problem.
In response to this, we built Protocol to help users - particularly multi-channel high-frequency communicators - communicate their personal communication preferences. Protocol also doubles as an interesting data gathering device to study the evolving behavior and new technology use.Interested parties can sign up for access at www.protocol.by
Many people already explain in great detail how they want to be contacted and what they will respond to, e.g. Tim Berners-Lee, Swiss Miss, LowerCase LLC, and danah boyd.
As our communication channels increase in number and function, how will formerly society-wide notions of culture and protocol evolve to a personal and group level? Methods and tools are emerging from academia and industry. How do you solve this problem?
About Hugo
Hugo is a Berkman Fellow and student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Previously he helped launch The Laboratory at Harvard whilst completing a fellowship at The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Born and raised in South Africa, Hugo graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Economics and studied in Germany and Africa. Previously he worked for Apple, co-founded MenSpeakUp, started Y Combinator startups in Cambridge and Silicon Valley, and later directed Artscience Labs initiatives in Paris and Boston.
He was selected as a 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, a TED2010 Fellow, and, with his Lebone co-founders, won the 2009 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for an off-grid dirt-powered battery design.
About Greg
Greg is currently pursuing a master's degree here at the MIT Media Lab in Information Ecology, focusing on interface and device design for healthcare and environmental impact.
In industry, he has worked with all sorts of companies, from the big guys like Dell, The BBC, and Steelcase to the counter culture innovators like Thunderdog Studios, Behance and Obsessable.
He previously completed an M.S. from ACE (Arts Computation Engineering interdisciplinary program) in the Informatics & Computer Science department at UCI. I worked with Simon Penny, Paul Dourish, Bill Tomlinson, and David Kirsh.
Several lifetimes ago, I received a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Computation (a combination of Computer Science, Nueroscience and Psychology) working with David Kirsh, Jeff Elman, Rik Belew at UCSD..
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Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence From the Rwandan Genocide
WHEN Tue., Apr. 19, 2011, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE CGIS Knafel Building
1737 Cambridge St.
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Other
CONTACT NAME Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski
CONTACT EMAIL sls418@mail.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-460-1930
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Africa Research Seminar
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
NOTE David Yanagizawa-Drott, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of propaganda on participation in violent conflict. I examine the effects of the infamous "hate radio" station Radio RTLM that called for the extermination of the Tutsi ethnic minority population before and during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. I develop a model of participation in ethnic violence where radio broadcasts a noisy public signal about the value of violence. I then test the model's predictions using a nation-wide village-level dataset on radio coverage and prosecutions for genocide violence. To identify causal effects, I exploit arguably exogenous variation in radio coverage generated by hills in the line-of-sight between radio transmitters and villages. Consistent with the model under strategic complements in violence, I find that Radio RTLM increased participation in violence, that the effects were decreasing in ethnic polarization, highly non-linear in radio coverage, and decreasing in literacy rates. Finally, the estimated effects are substantial. Complete village radio coverage increased violence by 65 to 77 percent, and a simple counter-factual calculation suggests that approximately 9 percent of the genocide, corresponding to at least 45 000 Tutsi deaths, can be explained by the radio station.
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Japan's Economy and the World: Post-Quake Reconstruction Prospects and Challenges
WHEN Tue., Apr. 19, 2011, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Hiroshi Nakaso, assistant governor, Bank of Japan
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Bruce Jackan: 617.495.7548, bruce_jackan@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Amidst Japan’s tragic situation in the aftermath of the huge earthquakes and tsunamis of March 11th, policymakers and scholars are working on resuscitation strategies for the Japanese economy. Hiroshi Nakaso will address a Harvard audience concerning challenges and prospects of post-quake Japan’s economy after attending the IMF-World Bank annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Nakaso works extensively, along with his colleagues both at home and abroad, serving as chairman of G20 Study Group on Commodities and member of G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Japan-s-Economy-and-the-World-Post-Quake-Reconstruction-Prospects-and-Challenges
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Girls' Rights in Conflict: Challenges & Opportunities for Empowerment through Education: Iraq, Lebanon & Afghanistan
WHEN Tue., Apr. 19, 2011, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Bell Hall
Belfer Building, Floor 5
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Shoubo Rasheed Jalal, Tueni Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Zeena Zakharia, Tueni Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Catherine Rielly, political economist and president of Rubia, Inc.
Moderated by: Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Director of Research at the FXB Center, Harvard School of Public Health
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/events/2011/month04/GirlsRights_19.php
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Lunch Seminar — Extended Producer Responsibility in the United States: Full Speed Ahead?
WHEN Wed., Apr. 20, 2011, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Nash, executive director, Regulatory Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO RSVP: MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
NOTE Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that requires producers to assume physical and financial responsibility for their products when consumers are ready to discard them. This research considers the factors that are driving the EPR movement in the United States; what these state laws require of manufacturers, retailers, consumers, and governments; the performance of collection and recycling systems to date; and likely next steps for this policy trend.
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PON Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents: "The Dynamics of Nonviolent Power: Egypt, Tunisia and Beyond"
WHEN Wed., Apr. 20, 2011, 12 p.m.
WHERE Pound Hall, Room 108, Harvard Law School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Hardy Merriman, senior adviser at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
COST Free
CONTACT INFO swhitman@law.harvard.edu
NOTE What makes nonviolent, civilian-based movements effective? What are the skills and strategic choices that can make the difference between success and failure for these movements?
Bring your lunch. Drinks and dessert will be provided.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/nonviolent_power/
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Harvard/Cambridge Walk for Peace
WHEN Wed., Apr. 20, 2011, 12 – 12:20 p.m.
WHERE John Harvard Statue
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Social Sciences, Special Events, Support/Social, Working@Harvard
NOTE Nearly 10 years of war. Thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani lives, trillions of dollars. Come remember, mourn, and protest.
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Decentralizing Discrimination: Democracy and the Thousand Little Horrors that are Tolerated in its Maintenance
WHEN Wed., Apr. 20, 2011, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE 124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Christian Davenport, University of Notre Dame
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Bruce Jackan: 617.495.7548, bruce_jackan@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Most researchers have identified that political democracies are generally less repressive in their treatment of those under their rule relative to autocracies. This finding is robust across time, space, measurement, and methodological technique. What this work has missed, however, is how various forms of discrimination are perpetuated within democracies but in a different manner—they take place on a local level and are prevented from creating a "master" cleavage. When activities begin to aggregate these are framed in the only legitimate way that democracies can repress with the support of the citizenry: for example, in defense of the polity from politically threatening behavior. What this work also misses is the externalization (or exporting) of coercion from democracies to other locales in an effort to avoid domestic scrutiny. This seminar will lay out this argument and provide evidence from the United States, India, and Northern Ireland.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events2/Decentralizing-Discrimination
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Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change: "Fungal Diversity, Global Change, and Ecosystems"
April 20, 2011 - 5:00pm
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
lisa_matthews@harvard.edu
617-495-8883
Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Kathleen Treseder
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
"Fungal Diversity, Global Change, and Ecosystems"
We are investigating the role of fungi in mediating ecosystem responses to global change. Specifically, we tested for changes in the community composition and function of fungi under global warming, and examined potential consequences for the release of greenhouse gases from the soil. Our goal was to determine whether fungi might form positive or negative feedbacks on global warming. Our studies were conducted in boreal soils in Alaska, where a significant portion of the Earth’s carbon is stored. We used quantitative PCR and DNA sequencing to characterize shifts in the abundance and diversity of fungi, and we found that fungal abundance declined while fungal diversity increased. In addition, soil CO2 efflux slowed. In a concurrent study, we applied nucleotide analog labeling to identify fungal taxa that targeted specific forms of organic compounds in the soil. Fungal taxa that targeted lignocellulose, a recalcitrant compound, also tended to increase under warming. To examine rates of uptake of organic compounds by fungi, we used nanotechnological “quantum dots” to visually track movements of (labile) glycine and (recalcitrant) chitosan through the soil and into arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi in our field sites. We observed that ecosystem-level uptake rates of glycine as well as chitosan declined as nitrogen availability increased. Since warming also tends to increase nitrogen availability, it is possible that the use of recalcitrant organic nitrogen by mycorrhizal fungi may decrease as a result. Overall, our findings suggest that in the short term, fungi may form a negative feedback on global warming owing to their decrease in abundance, respiration, and use of recalcitrant organic nitrogen. Over the longer term, however, changes in the fungal community might lead to proliferation of fungal taxa that target lignocellulose, which could ultimately reduce soil carbon storage.
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A Brief History of the Spectre of the Internet and the Death of Writing
WHEN Wed., Apr. 20, 2011, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Geological Lecture Hall
24 Oxford St.
Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Battles, author, "Library: An Unquiet History"
COST Free
CONTACT INFO 617.496.1027
NOTE Reception follows at the Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave.
LINK http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/683
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Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Wednesday, April 20, 6:00PM
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St. 2nd Floor
RSVP to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research.
This month's presenters will include:
Acting in the networked public sphere: the Obama campaign’s strategic use of new media to shape narratives of the 2008 presidential race
Daniel Kreiss, Yale Information Society Project
While many scholars provide analytical accounts of the "networked public sphere" (Benkler, 2006), outside of a few case studies (Karpf, 2010) little is known about how campaigns act within it to drive media narratives of electoral politics. As a number of scholars have documented, sociotechnical changes over the last decade have resulted in professional media outlets, civil society organizations, governmental actors, political blogs, campaigns, and citizens interacting to an unprecedented extent to produce political culture. Building from recent work that analyzes how these actors produce "political information cycles" (Chadwick, forthcoming) shaped by the particularities of "networked news ecosystems" (Anderson, 2010), this paper provides an in-depth look at the new media messaging practices of the Obama campaign. Through interviews with much of the campaign's New Media Division, this paper details what staffers valued in the networked public sphere, the interaction of actors within it, and the sociotechnical dynamics on new media sites and within ecosystems that helped shape what content gets attention. I show how the campaign, much like its predecessors, defined 'winning the day' in terms of professional broadcast media values and audiences. The paper also shows how the campaign leveraged platforms such as YouTube and sites in the progressive "netroots" for the at times surreptitious circulation of content attacking other candidates. As such, the paper reveals how new media offer new venues for campaigns to disseminate strategic, and often anonymous, political communication.
Daniel Kreiss is a Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is currently working on a book titled Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama (Oxford University Press, 2012). The book tells the history of new media and Democratic politics over the last decade and reveals how a group of young internet staffers came together on the Dean campaign, created innovations in online electoral politics, and helped bring about a number of subsequent victories, including Obama's historic bid for the presidency. Daniel received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication from Stanford University and a B.A. in Political Science from Bates College. Daniel will be an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill beginning the 2011-2012 academic year.
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Online News and the Red Queen: Power Laws, Traffic Churn, and Why Saving Journalism Is Harder Than We Think
Matthew Hindman, George Washington University & Berkman Center Faculty Associate
Though it is now common to assert that online audiences follow a (rough) power law distribution, myriad processes--with very different implications--can produce power laws. Using a new data source with years of daily traffic data for thousands of sites, I shed new light on how these power law patterns are produced in Web traffic. I show that (1) the largest sites are far more stable over every time scale than smaller sites, and that (2) site traffic volatility grows in a regular, exponential fashion as sites get smaller. This pattern is a general property of Web traffic at nearly every level.
Simulations demonstrate that this statistically regular pattern in traffic churn--by itself--is enough to produce and maintain a power law. Even if sites start with equal traffic, a power law quickly emerges. Moreover, there is as necessary relationship between the traffic variance sites have, and the slope of that power law.
These findings show the future of journalism in a very different light. While the structure of the online news audience is stable, all but the largest sites face an uncertain future. The volatility of small sites is especially consequential for Web-native local news organizations, which have an extraordinarily high death rate and few--arguably zero--obvious success stories. I argue that the central problem facing digital news organizations is not lower per-reader revenue but radically more variable revenue, and that successful national online-only news sources demonstrate classic institutional responses to unpredictable revenue streams.
Matthew Hindman is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center and an assistant professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. His book The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton Press, 2009) won the Goldsmith Prize and the Donald McGannon Award. His current book project is on the political economy of the online public sphere.
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Best of Both Worlds: Issues of Structure and Agency in Computational Creation, In and Out of School
Karen Brennan, MIT Media Lab
Hundreds of thousands of young people have created more than 1.7 million interactive digital media projects with Scratch and shared those projects with others through the Scratch online community. How can we make the best computational creation experiences that take place in this learning environment, which is characterized by low structure and high learner agency, accessible to more young people in learning environments like schools, which are often characterized by high structure and less learner agency? In this talk, I will describe how the online community and school contexts enable – or do not enable – young people to develop as computational creators, and what these contexts have to offer each other.
Karen Brennan is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, a member of the Scratch Team, and leads the ScratchEd project. She studies the ways in which learning communities support computational creators.
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'Seeing Like a Citizen': Power, Participation and Strategies for Citizen Engagement
WHEN Thu., Apr. 21, 2011, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE 124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Bruce Jackan: 617.495.7548, bruce_jackan@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE A light lunch will be served.
Please RSVP to jesse_ledin@hks.harvard.edu.
In this seminar, John Gaventa will share his more recent approaches to understanding power, and discuss their implications for civic engagement (www.powercube.net). To illustrate his arguments, Gaventa will draw upon recent work of the Development Research Center on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, a 10-year research program on how citizens mobilize to claim their rights.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/ash/Home/News-Events/Events/Democracy-Seminar/Seeing-like-a-Citizen-Power-Participation-and-Strategies-for-Citizen-Engagement
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Faculty panel: "Water & Health: A Global Perspective"
April 21, 2011 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ecoopportunity
HSPH Kresge G-3 Boston, MA
Water: It covers more than 2/3 of the Earth and we need it to survive. This Earth Day, join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring three HSPH Professors, John Briscoe, James Shine, and Elsie Sunderland, who will be speaking on the importance of a healthy, sustainable water supply in international public health efforts. They will discuss their own research, as well as answer more general questions about the fate of our water and implications for public health. Earth-friendly snacks will be served at 12:30pm, and the panel will begin at 12:45pm.
This faculty panel is sponsored by the HSPH EcoOpportunity Team:www.hsph.harvard.edu/ecoopportunity
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Teaching for Social Transformation: Approaches to Human Rights Education in India, Lebanon, and Turkey
WHEN Thu., Apr. 21, 2011, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Panel
BUILDING/ROOM Eliot Lyman
CONTACT NAME Andrew Conning
CONTACT EMAIL asc349@mail.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-794-1664
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Civic and Moral Education Initiative
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE None
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE A panel discussion with:
Monisha Bajaj, Assistant Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Felisa Tibbitts, Executive Director, Human Rights Education Associates
Zeena Zakharia, Tueni Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Moderator: Helen Haste, Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Presenters will critically explore the “empowerment model” of human rights education – both conceptually and in practice. Examples from the formal and nonformal learning sectors in India, Lebanon and Turkey will be used to investigate program variations and evidence of outcomes within these national contexts.
This event is free and open to the public.
LINK http://cmei-harvard.ning.com/events/teaching-for-social
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April 21
4:00–6:00 pm
E19-623
How the Hippies Saved Physics
David Kaiser, Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html
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The Impact of Concurrent Shocks and the Ban on Opium on Stability in Helmand and Nangarhar
WHEN Thu., Apr. 21, 2011, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Carr Center Conference Room
Rubenstein Building, Floor 2, Room 219
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
State Building & Human Rights in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
SPEAKER(S) David Mansfield, Carr Center Fellow, longtime field researcher at the forefront of policy development in drugs and development in Afghanistan
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/sbhrap/events/2011/month04/PSS_21.php
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Workshop: "Energy and Environment: A Global History"
April 22, 2011 - 12:00pm - 6:30pm
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy/globalhistory/
Contact Name: Philipp Lehmann
plehmann@fas.harvard.edu
HUCE 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge
The workshop will consider energy history in a global perspective. It will present new research by graduate students from Harvard and MIT, and will conclude with a roundtable session of faculty from both institutions. The workshop is the first in a series of events hosted by theEnergy History Project, an initiative that explores the ways in which the historical study of energy use and its transformations can contribute to the understanding of economic, social, and environmental change.
Participants will include David Blackbourn, Alison Frank, Richard Hornbeck, Ian Miller, Harriet Ritvo and Emma Rothschild.
If you would like to attend the workshop and access the pre-circulated papers, please RSVP to Philipp Lehmann at plehmann@fas.harvard.edu.
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Soldiering: The Afterlife of a Modern Experience
WHEN Fri., Apr. 22 – Sat., Apr. 23, 2011
WHERE Barker Center, Thompson Room
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) James Der Derian, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Elaine Scarry, Steven Caton and many others
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=soldieringconference
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CID Graduate Speaker Series: Breaking the Poverty Cycle
WHEN Fri., Apr. 22, 2011, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Rubenstein Building, Perkins Room 4th Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies
SPEAKER(S) Susan Pick, professor in the faculty of psychology at the National University of Mexico, and founder and president of the Mexican Institute of Family and Population Research (IMIFAP)
CONTACT INFO Jennifer Gala: jennifer_gala@harvard.edu
LINK http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/Spring11_CID_April22
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Boston University Dining Services with the New England Aquarium is hosting the event, Sustainable Seafood, on 6 pm, Thursday April 21st . We will be showing the documentary, The End of the Line, and following there will be a panel discussion with local experts, moderated by BU professor in Marine Biology, Les Kaufman. We invite you to come and enjoy the film, discussion, and refreshments. The event is free and open to the public. Please see the attached flyer for more information.
The address of the event is 775 Commonwealth in Boston, second floor GSU. Limited parking is available on the street as well as a pay lot at 665 Commonwealth. We are also reachable on the Green B line, BU Central stop.
Panel members:
Moderated by Les Kaufman, BU Professor of Marine Biology
Jen Goldstein, Wild Fisheries Specialist, New England Aquarium
Katy Hladki, Aquaculture Specialist, New England Aquarium
Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Bios:
Les Kaufman, BU Professor of Marine Biology
Professor Kaufman is faculty in the Boston University Marine Program, is Senior Marine Scientist with Conservation International, and Research Scholar at The New England Aquarium. He is an expert on fisheries and coral reef ecology. Les was full-time NEAq staff for 11 years, during which he helped found the Aquarium's Conservation Program and led the Education, Exhibit Development, and Research departments in turn. Les does basic research on rapid evolution in East African and coral reef fishes, and environmental research on the dynamics and sustainability of coastal ecosystems. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers, several books (both "adult" and children's), does collaborative research with our regional fishermen on their vessels, and is an avid naturalist and fisherman himself. He attended Johns Hopkins University, probably for too long (undergrad, grad, research faculty), where he worked on Maryland's forests, striped bass and many other species in the Chesapeake Bay. His current research and conservation projects take him out onto Stellwagen Bank, and to coral reefs in Florida, Jamaica, Brazil, Belize, Panama, Fiji, and the central Pacific- the last as part of the Aquarium's research and conservation work in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Nation of Kiribati
Jennifer Goldstein, M.S. Wild Fisheries Specialist
Jennifer has been a member of the Sustainable Seafood Programs team since 2008, where she researches wild-capture fisheries for environmental responsibility and develops recommendations for corporate partners. Jennifer began working on fishery related issues with a focus on tuna and large pelagics in 1994. Working closely with fishermen and industry, she continued her graduate work on tuna looking at issues pertaining to reproduction, migration and seasonal abundance of bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Maine. While maintaining a focus on large pelagics, Jennifer’s work has broadened to include a number of different species and fisheries.
Katherine Hladki, M.A., Aquaculture Specialist
Katy joined the Sustainable Seafood Programs team in 2008 and is responsible for researching and developing reports related to aquaculture for our corporate clients. Katy works primarily on issues surrounding farmed salmon by engaging producers and suppliers to improve operations, conducting site visits, and participating in the Farmed Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue. She participates in dialogues and public comment periods particularly for Pangasius and farmed bivalve species. Katy is one of the technical staff leads for education and outreach, developing recommendations for the New England Aquarium’s Celebrate Seafood outreach programs.
Niaz Dorry
Niaz is the director of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, a regional organization working with ecologically minded fishermen on policies and market transformation strategies. She and her dog, Hailey, live in Gloucester, Massahcusetts - the oldest settled fishing port in the US. A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, Hailey is Niaz' daily reminder of all the fishing communities that are yet to be rebuilt since the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and other human-induced disasters that have destroyed traditional fishing communities while making our coastlines vulnerable to industrialization. Niaz began working with small-scale, traditional, and indigenous fishing communities in the US and from around the globe as a Greenpeace oceans and fisheries campaigner. After leaving Greenpeace, she went on working on advancing the rights and ecological benefits of the community-based fishermen as a means of protecting global marine biodiversity. Time Magazine named Niaz as a Hero For The Planet for this work. Her fisheries articles appear regularly in Fishermen's Voice and SAMUDRA as well as a range of random publications. Niaz' work and approach have been noted in a number of books including Against the Tide, Deeper Shade of Green, The Spirit's Terrain, Vanishing Species, The Great Gulf, Swimming in Circles, A Troublemaker's Teaparty and The Doryman's Reflection. She is a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Program’s Leading From Inside Out as well as Art of Leadership trainings. Before joining NAMA in 2008, she served as the COO Chief of the Healthy Building Network.
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Sabrina Pashtan
Sustainability Coordinator
Boston University Dining Services
775 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (617) 358-5551
Fax: (617)353-3862
harpers@bu.edu
http://bu.edu/sustainability
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GEOGRAPHIES OF ENERGY
Friday, April 22, 2011, Pardee Center
Peter O’Connor, Boston University
Rania Ghosn, Boston University
Adil Najam and Cutler Cleveland, Boston University
4th Floor of the BU School of Management (Hariri Building, 595 Commonwealth Avenue) at Rm 424 from 10.00AM to 12.30PM.
Please RSVP at pardee@bu.edu
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Northeastern
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Going "Green" - Green Chemistry and Neglected Disease Discovery: Making Molecules with a Conscience
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Alumni Center
716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA
Michael Pollastri, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Science
As a science, chemistry is a red flag for many people, who frequently associate chemistry with "toxic" or "dangerous." However, chemistry plays a significant role in our daily lives by improving materials, enhancing drugs and medications, and discovering renewable energy technologies. Professor Michael Pollastri will discuss how many scientists have adopted green chemistry to encourage research and development
practices in a pharmaceutical research environment, with a focus on neglected disease drug discovery.
Also, meet Dr. J. Murray Gibson, Dean of the College of Science.
» Register online now at https://northeastern.ealumni.com/default.aspx?Page=EVNTEventDetail&EventID=2127
Professor Michael Pollastri earned his bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross, a master’s degree from Duke University, and his PhD at Brown University. He joined Pfizer Global Research & Development in Groton, CT as a medicinal chemist in 1998, and moved to the Pfizer-Cambridge site in 2003, where he worked in hit-to-lead medicinal chemistry for gene-family-based medicinal chemistry programs. In 2005 he became the Head of Chemical Technologies at the Cambridge site, where he led global research programs investigating new chemical technologies, including green chemistry. Dr. Pollastri moved to Boston University in 2007 to establish the BU Center for Molecular Discovery, and in 2009, he accepted a position as Associate Professor at Northeastern University. The primary focus of his current research is in neglected tropical diseases, such as African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease. Professor Pollastri has authored and co-authored various publications, which includes: Overview on Lipinski's Rule of Five; Identification and Characterization of Kava-derived Compounds Mediating TNF-α Suppression"; and "Development of continuous flow synthesis for production of compounds for medicinal chemistry."
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Wentworth
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Infrastructure Forum
Thursday, April 21, 2011 from 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM (ET)
Boston, MA
Watson Auditorium
Wentworth Institute of Technology
550 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
The symposium will highlight the issues that are constantly confronted by policy makers, engineers, designers, and constructors. The panelists will share perspectives on project scheduling issues and budgetary and regulatory constraints, and discuss new efficient approaches to improve the delivery of public projects. These approaches may be applicable to privately financed projects as well.
Former Governor Michael S. Dukakis will be the honored guest, and Congressman Stephen Lynch will provide the keynote address.
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1518695459
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Discussion/Signing- Martin A. Nowak: SuperCooperators
Harvard COOP, Harvard Square
Details: Monday, Apr 18 @ 7:00 pm
Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Martin Nowak, one of the world's experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. He offers a new explanation for the origin of life and a new theory for the origins of language, biology's second greatest information revolution after the emergence of genes.
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GreenPort Forum
Street Trees in Cambridgeport
With David Lefcourt, City Arborist, Ellen Coppinger, DPW Landscape Administrator, and Carolyn Shipley from the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association
Please join us for a neighborhood discussion on street trees and plantings in Cambridgeport. How do street trees contribute to sustainability? What is the city’s approach to planning for trees in our neighborhood? How can neighbors help take responsibility for maintaining and improving street trees, and help in identifying areas that could benefit from more planting, or better care? This is your chance to learn from the experts, and ask questions of the leaders in street tree planning and implementation in Cambridge as a whole, and more specifically in Cambridgeport.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
7:00pm
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, 459 Putnam Av, Cambrige (corner of Magazine St. and Putnam Av)
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at swineman@gis.net
For more information on street trees, see these links, courtesy of Carolyn Shipley:
Recommended city trees: http://www.arborday.org/Shopping/Trees/Treelist.cfm?Categories=6
Trees and tree care: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/uf/plant_trees/planting_trees.htm
Link to state law that the city uses as a guideline. http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter87
If you want to have the city plant a tree on your front lawn:
http://www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/ourservices/urbanforestry/treeplanting1.aspx
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Showing Thursday, April 21, in Cambridge: [please download & distribute flyer
Gasland
Tension begins when Josh Fox researches a letter he receives at his rural PA farmhouse, inviting him to sell his land for $100,000 and permission to mine natural gas. His neighbors tell him horror stories about water contamination due to hydraulic fracturing.
Fox tours other states where the process has already contaminated myriad underground wells, His continuing investigation ties this unchecked chemical process to Dick Cheney's Halliburton activity and bills covertly passed during the Bush administration [and sustained under Obama].
*Gasland* sheds light on a practice that many American citizens have assumed is benign. This is grassroots documentary filmmaking at its finest. Gasland is edifying in the most entertaining and palatable way. --Trinie Dalton
"We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children." ~Daniel Quinn, novelist (Ishmael)
"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor". ~Seneca, Roman statesman
*
NOTE: early bird short film at 6:40pm*
*When/where*
6:30 pm, doors open for refreshments, extra
*7pm, film starts promptly*
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,
entrance on Windsor
*rule19.org/videos
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.
[donations are accepted]
"/You can't legislate good will - that comes through education./" ~
Malcolm X
*UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos
Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights...
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Earth Day 2011 at the State House
Make Your Voice Heard on Earth Day
Thursday, April 21
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Educational Fair
12:30 pm- Lobby Training
1:00 pm- Lobby Visits
This year's event will feature both an educational tabling as well as lobby training. We anticipate that more than 20 different environmental organizations from around the Great Boston Area will come out in support. Sponsors for this event include Senator Marc Pacheco and Representative Frank Smizik. Additionally, Michael Dukakis has graciously agreed to come speak at the event in support of 1% for the Environment in the budget, an issue that should be a major concern to all residents of Massachusetts. We encourage participants of all ages and walk to life to come join us in making our voices heard-whether it be Bottle Bill, E-Waste or Safer Alternatives. Participants are welcomed to interject their local issue as well! We hope to see you all there!! If you have any questions, please contact Phil at phil@mlev.org.
Supporting organizations: Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Environmental League of Massachusetts, Mass Audubon, The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, The Trustees of Reservations.
RSVP at https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERkampkcno0aXh0SGUzODFCdDNFN3c6MQ
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This Earth Day:
Three Great Violinists
Come Together to Beat Climate Change!
Mimi Rabson, Tara Bangalore, Beth Bahia Cohen
Friday, April 22 — 7:00 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Tickets Are Available Online.
Regular Admission: $20 — Buy Now From CCNow http://www.ccnow.com/cgi-local/sc_cart.cgi?7768419881412979
Student/Senior Admission: $15 — Buy Now From CCNow http://www.ccnow.com/cgi-local/sc_cart.cgi?7768419881412979
Advance Ticket Orders Are Accepted Until 3 pm on April 22.
Orders received after Tuesday, April 19 will be held at the door.
One of the most exciting concerts this year! Enjoy an evening of dazzling virtuosity, daring improvisation and exquisite melody as three great violinists from different world traditions join together to celebrate Earth Day while drawing attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: the great South Indian violinist Tara Bangalore, Eastern European and Middle-Eastern perspectives from Beth Bahia Cohen and her ensemble, and the vibrant jazz-rock of the Mimi Rabson quartet. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734 or go to the event website.
“Playing For The Planet: World Violins Against Climate Change” was conceived as a way for these creative musicians to contribute to the urgent struggle against global warming. Because the climate problem recognizes no national boundaries, the artists represent musical styles from three different parts of the globe. Rabson, Bangalore, Cohen and their accompanists may present different melodic and rhythmic concepts, but they share key musical values: listening, honesty, creativity, and respect. And, of course, all these artists are committed to raising awareness of the potentially devastating effects of global warming. Their choice of beneficiary, 350.org, is focused on building global consensus on reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels — action which climatologists agree is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes. It’ll be an incredible evening of powerful music — from some of the finest musicians in New England and the world.
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Boston CyberArts Festival
April 22 - May 8
http://bostoncyberarts.org/festival/
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Museum of Science, Boston
Now through May 12 (except for April 19 - 21), the Museum is celebrating Neighborhood Days and offering free admission to view
RACE: Are We So Different? for residents of Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Revere, Somerville, and Quincy on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, from 2:30-4:30 p.m.
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Upcoming
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April 25: Fred Kirchenmann on Sustainable Agriculture
4pm, Sever Hall 113, Harvard Yard
Join farmer, agrarian philosopher, author, and sustainable food advocate Fred Kirchenmann for a lecture and discussion about the future of sustainable agriculture. Free and open to the public.
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*Dorchester Common Security Club*
Intro Session Monday, April 25
First Parish Church in Dorchester
Intro Session Facilitated by Chuck Collins and Andrea Nagel
*Open to the entire community, not just UUs! Join us to learn more and sign up!*
Click here for more info
The Great Recession has reminded us of our vulnerabilities. Debt. Foreclosure. Unemployment and Anxious Employment. Evaporating Savings. Rising Costs. In response, communities are forming "Common Security Clubs" to build resilience and strengthen community ties.
*Common Security Clubs are small groups where individuals find connection, information, and avenues to a new kind of security ? one based on mutual aid and support.*
Sometimes called "Resilience Circles," clubs meet for six initial sessions to learn, support each other, and take action in order to create a new economy that serves everyone in harmony with the planet. Many clubs continue to meet.
Sarah Byrnes
Common Security Clubs Organizer
IPS New England
617.477.8630 x307
http://commonsecurityclub.org
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April 27: Maria Speck book talk (Ancient Grains for Modern Meals)
5:30pm, Emerson 210, Harvard Yard
Food writer Maria Speck’s passion for propelling Old World staples such as farro, barley, polenta, and wheat berries to the forefront of new American cooking is beautifully presented in Ancient Grains for Modern Meals. In this inspired and highly personal book, Maria Speck draws on food traditions from across the Mediterranean and northern Europe to reveal how versatile, satisfying, flavorful, and sophisticated whole grains can be. Free and open to the public.
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April 27 – “How to Organize a Common Security Club” Informational Webinar
Please join us for an interactive online webinar about Common Security Clubs, an approach to building individual and community resilience during difficult economic times.
We’ll talk about how to start a club for your community or congregation, including:
• finding an organizing partner
• how to share the idea of a club with others
• how to find a facilitator (if it’s not you)
• some notes on the curriculum
Wednesday, April 27 at 7 PM EDT (4 PM Pacific)Register for the free webinar here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/976173790
You will receive a confirmation email after registering with information about how to join the webinar.
Before the webinar, please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the Common Security Club six-session curriculum, which can be downloaded in Word or PDF format at these links:
http://commonsecurityclub.org/files/CSCGuide2011.doc
http://commonsecurityclub.org/files/CSCGuide2011.pdf
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Colleges of the Fenway Annual Muddy River Symposium
When: April 28, 2011, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Where: Wheelock College, Brookline Campus, 43 Hawes Street
Co-sponsored by
The Colleges of the Fenway Center for Sustainability and the Environment
and
The Maintenance and Management Oversight Committee (MMOC)
of the Muddy River Restoration Project
For information contact Michael Berger: 617.290.5984 or michael.berger@simmons.edu
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Greetings Green Friends,
The Green Neighbors and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc.
Mayday Spring Planting
May 1, from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Jamaica Pond, meet us by the Boathouse and Bandstand.
Come learn how you can prepare for the world food crisis by learning how to grow food at your house in the yard, on the porch and indoors.
Find out about Raised Bed Gardening from the Food Project
Get tips on Container Gardening from some BNAN volunteers
Check out more information from other friends
At the same time, join us to welcome springtime by trying Maypole dancing and watching the Maypole Dance Contest.
Enjoy the music
Make flags for Boston GreenFest 2011
Take walking tours of the area
The Food Project will have a workshop - A Garden of one's Own: a practical how-to about growing food.
The purpose of this workshop is to help aspiring gardeners successfully grow food in a small space. We'll talk about how to build a raised bed or use containers, as well as how to how to evaluate a site, what grows well in a small space, timing and spacing.
You must register in advance for this class by sending email to the address below.
For more information
To sign up for the Maypole dance Contest
To register for the Food Project workshop
Or to volunteer
Contact Owen Toney at: Otoney@comcast.net
(617) 427-6293
Saturday, May 21, 2011, join the Green Neighbors and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. for a Green Entrepreneur Small Business Forum at the Second Church in Dorchester, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Stay tuned In¡
Owen Toney
Green Neighbors Education Committee
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Save the date: 150th Barnraising!
Sunday, May 1, 9:30 am - 2 pm
Boston Community Boathouse
Technically it is in Boston, but you can see it from our side of the river! Our next event will be at the Boston Community Boathouse. Check out the beautiful view from its dock, and help this nonprofit that offers so much to the Boston and Cambridge communities.
This will be our 150th building that we have worked on (either on our own or with another barnraising group). Come sign up to volunteer at
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE4wOGdoWS10QkdDUzNpY3BzZXZXNkE6MQ
Save some money? Spare some money?Have you put the skills learned at a HEET event to good use? Have you saved money by doing so? It would be great if you could help “pay it forward” with even a small gift to HEET at http://newgenerationenergy.org/node/130
Matching Grant:
Right now we have a matching grant - for every one dollar you donate, we’ll make another from a generous donor. The deadline for the matching grant is fast approaching (the end of April), so please take a few moments to donate today!
Matching Donations:
Many corporations and businesses have a matching grants program and will give grants to
organizations their employees support or volunteer for. Please help us to sustain our work by asking your employer if they have a similar program!
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Collective Intelligence: What is it? How can we measure it? And how can we increase it?
Monday, May 02, 2011 from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Where: IBM Research, 1 Rogers St, Cambridge MA 02142
Free and open to the public with RSVP at http://tom-malone.eventbrite.com
Discounted parking at Galleria Mall, next to IBM. Bring parking ticket for validation.
Join us at the IBM Center for Social Software for a talk with
Tom Malone
founder of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
- A Cambridge Science Festival Event (http://cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx) -
Collective Intelligence: What is it? How can we measure it? And how can we increase it?
Tom’s talk will describe how the statistical techniques used to measure individual intelligence can be used to measure the "collective intelligence" of groups. Just as with individuals, a single statistical factor can predict the performance of a group on a wide range of different tasks. Although this factor is weakly correlated with the individual intelligence of group members, it is strongly correlated with the social perceptiveness, conversational behavior, and gender of group members.
Tom will also discuss other work being done to increase collective intelligence by: (a) combining predictions from humans and computers, (b) mapping the "genome" of collective intelligence, and (c) harnessing ideas from thousands of people around the world for dealing with global climate change.
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century". Professor Malone teaches classes on leadership and information technology, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology.
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Resource
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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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, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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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://sustainability.mit.edu/
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://pechakuchaboston.org/blog/
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
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