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
My notes from three recent presentations on the Arab Spring are at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975618/-Notes-on-the-Arab-Spring
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
mit7 unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition
Speaker: TBA
Time: 8:00a–8:00p
Location: E51
Media in Transition conference series
For this seventh Media in Transition conference we want to focus directly on our core topic-- the experience of transition. Our first conference in 1999 considered this subject, of course. But that was before Facebook, iPhones, BitTorrent, IPTV and many other changes.
How are we coping with the instability of platforms? How are the classroom, the newsroom, the corporate office exploiting digital systems and responding to the imperative for constant upgrades. Our libraries and archives? Our public entertainments? Are new technologies changing the experience of reading? The experience of watching movies or television programs? How stable, how durable are current or emerging systems? How relevant are earlier periods of media change to our current experience of ongoing instability and transformation?
We'll convene May 13-15 to explore these and related questions.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Tickets: register on website
Sponsor(s): CMS, Communications Forum, The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, Literature Section, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
For more information, contact:
Brad Seawell
617-253-3521
seawell@mit.edu
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
MiT7 Public Forum: Archives and Cultural Memory
Speaker: Frank Marchese, Pace Digital Gallery; Julia Noordegraaf, University of Amsterdam; Jason Rhody, Office of Digital Humanities, NEH; Nick Monfort, MIT (moderator)
Time: 11:00a–12:30p
Location: E51, Wong Auditorium
For this seventh Media in Transition conference, we focus directly on our core topic ? the experience of transition.
Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism? Does living in a digital age mean we may live and die in what the novelist Thomas Pynchon has called ?a ceaseless spectacle of transition?? The nearly limitless range of design options and communication choices available now and in the future is both exhilarating and challenging, inciting innovation and creativity but also false starts, incompatible systems, planned obsolescence. How are we coping with the instability of platforms?
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: limited seating; preference given to registrants
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, Communications Forum, The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, Literature Section, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
For more information, contact:
Brad Seawell
617-253-3521
seawell@mit.edu
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“Healing In Haiti: The Agape Global Health Team” by Roy Crystal, Class of 1971
Saturday, May 14, 4PM - 5:30PM (we can all go out to dinner afterwards!)
Dudley House, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Roy Crystal, Antioch College 1971, a photographer and environmental planner, will present his series of photographs entitled “Healing in Haiti: the Agape Global Health Team”. The photographs were taken in July and August 2010 and document Roy’s trip to Haiti with the Agape Global Health Team, which set up temporary medical clinics on the island of La Gonave, an island about the size of Martha’s Vineyard, and in Leogane, near the earthquake epicenter. Roy’s work included photographically documenting the medical work of the team; taking portraits of and interviewing Haitians who attended the clinic; and working with a local community development organization to develop a plan for sustainable economic development and environmental protection of La Gonave. Through his striking photographs of La Gonave, Port au Prince, and Leogane, accompanied by his observations and the actual words of patients and community members, he will make real for us the daily challenges now faced by the Haitian people. The team is now working to develop a permanent medical clinic on La Gonave to address the medical and needs of this island with limited medical facilities whose population swelled from 100,000 to 150,000 in a few months after the earthquake. Roy will also discuss his recommendations for sustainable development based on the ecological opportunities and constraints of the Haitian ecosystem, and how interested Antiochians can help with the ongoing recovery effort.
Roy Crystal works for the regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Boston, where he specializes in providing assistance to businesses on environmental compliance and pollution prevention. He has a B.A. from Antioch College in Art and a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He has completed numerous photographic projects, and widely exhibited his landscape and documentary photographs. For over 30 years he has nurtured his passion for both photography and the environment.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
mit7 unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition
Speaker: TBA
Time: 8:00a–2:00p
Location: E51
Media in Transition conference series
For this seventh Media in Transition conference we want to focus directly on our core topic-- the experience of transition. Our first conference in 1999 considered this subject, of course. But that was before Facebook, iPhones, BitTorrent, IPTV and many other changes.
How are we coping with the instability of platforms? How are the classroom, the newsroom, the corporate office exploiting digital systems and responding to the imperative for constant upgrades. Our libraries and archives? Our public entertainments? Are new technologies changing the experience of reading? The experience of watching movies or television programs? How stable, how durable are current or emerging systems? How relevant are earlier periods of media change to our current experience of ongoing instability and transformation?
We'll convene May 13-15 to explore these and related questions.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Tickets: register on website
Sponsor(s): Communications Forum, CMS, The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, Literature Section, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
For more information, contact:
Brad Seawell
617-253-3521
seawell@mit.edu
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Richard Heinberg: The End of Growth - Peak Oil and the Economy of the Future
at the JP Forum May 15 at 3pm; FREE
6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
In conjunction with the JP Forum and JP New Economy Transition we are honored to host Richard Heinberg, of the Post Carbon Institute. Heinberg is one of the foremost thinkers and writers on Peak Oil and the post-carbon future.
This important talk is part of the JP New Economy Transition series. On May 19 and May 26 there will be community events--open to all--at which we will discuss and plan for the post-carbon future! We'll keep you informed--or go to JP New Economy Transition for details.
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Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacemaker
WHEN Mon., May 16, 2011, 12 p.m.
WHERE Hauser Hall, Room 102
Harvard Law School Campus
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Charles F. “Chic” Dambach, president & CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding
COST Free
NOTE Chic Dambach will discuss his new memoir, "Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacemaker," which recounts his remarkable life story. Inspired by the leaders, causes, and music of the 1960s, Chic set out to dedicate his life to peace-building. He later became president of the National Peace Corps Association, Operation Respect, and several other national organizations. "Exhaust the Limits" is a compelling story of Chic’s lifelong dedication to the work of peace-making, and an inspiring read for activists young and old. For more information on the book, visit www.exhaustthelimits.org.
Sandwiches, drinks, and dessert will be served.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/exhaust-the-limits-the-life-and-times-of-a-global-peacemaker/
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Western Media Partnerships with China: Opportunities and Obstacles — An Inside Perspective
WHEN Tue., May 17, 2011, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
WHERE CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies: Visiting Scholar Presentation
SPEAKER(S) Mable Chan, journalist and visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE In the past decade since China joined the World Trade Organization, the Chinese government has gradually opened up its media market for foreign investment, co-production, and partnerships. Many global multimedia conglomerates have swarmed in to stage a presence, but few have yet claimed success. In the midst of a fast changing environment that sends mixed messages of business cooperation and government crackdown, foreign entertainment and information media companies continue to explore new grounds for business. Drawing from her work experience with western and Chinese TV networks, research and interviews with journalists, media professionals, and scholars in China and the United States, Mable Chan will discuss recent developments and implications for western media partnerships with China.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/mable-chan
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Monday, May 16, 20112:00pm – 3:00pm
Wyss Institute, Room 521, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115
CanDo: Computer-aided engineering for DNA Origami
Speaker: Mark Bathe, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Host: Peng Yin, Core Faculty, Wyss Institute, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Scaffolded DNA origami technology uniquely enables the programmed self-assembly of complex nanometer-scale objects of precise shape, mechanical properties, and chemical composition. The development of efficient computational tools to predict the three-dimensional solution shape and mechanical properties of DNA origami structures from designed sequences is of interest to enhance the rational design process of these structures for applications in synthetic biology and medicine. In this talk Mark Bathe will present one such computational tool called CanDo (Computer-aided engineering for DNA origami, http://cando.dna-origami.org) that predicts the solution shape and mechanical properties of scaffolded DNA origami designs based on input caDNAno (http://cadnano.org) design files (Figure 1)[1, 2]. The utility of this design tool is illustrated by application to a range of non-linear structures that include internal curvature and twist. He will discuss ongoing work in his group aimed at incorporating sequence specificity of nucleotide hybridization free energy into this computational framework, which will enable the automated, unsupervised design of DNA origami structures based on target shape and property specifications.
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Genevieve Bell - Divining a Digital Future
When: Monday, May 16, 2011
3:30pm - 5:00pm; refreshments served
Where: IBM Research, 1 Rogers St, Cambridge MA 02142
Free and open to the public with RSVP at http://genevieve-bell.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
Genevieve Bell
Intel Fellow, Intel Labs
Director, Interaction & Experience Research
Genevieve Bell joined Intel in 1998 as a researcher in Corporate Technology Group's People and Practices Research team — Intel's first social science oriented research team. She helped drive the company's first non-U.S. field studies to inform business group strategy and products and conducted groundbreaking work in urban Asia in the early 2000s. Bell has been the driving force behind Intel's emerging user-experience focus: over the last decade, she has fundamentally changed how Intel envisions, plans, and develops its platforms.
Bell currently leads an R&D team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers, and a range of technology researchers to create the next generation of compelling user experiences across a range of internet-connected devices, platforms, and services. She will drive user-centered experience and design across the compute continuum.
Prior to joining Intel, Bell was a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She has written more than 25 journal articles and book chapters on a range of subjects focused on the intersection of technology and society. Her book, "Divining the Digital Future," co-authored with Prof. Paul Dourish, will be released by MIT Press in spring 2011.
Raised in Australia, Bell received her bachelor's degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1990. She received her master's and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Stanford University in 1993 and 1998, respectively.
Register at http://genevieve-bell.eventbrite.com/
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Excitonics Seminar Series: Theory of light-harvesting in photosynthesis: From structure to function
Speaker: Thomas Renger, Freie Universitat Berlin
Time: 3:00p–4:00p
Location: MIT 36- 428, RLE Conference Room
Web site: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/events.htm
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Excitonics, Energy Frontier Research Center, US Dept. of Energy
For more information, contact:
Cathy Bourgeois
617-253-0085
cmbourg@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Schmitt Lecture/Biology Colloquium
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: MIT 32-123
"Switching on regeneration"
Clifford Woolf, Harvard Medical School
Web site: http://mit.edu/biology/www/biology/colloquium.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Biology
For more information, contact:
Linda Earle
lkn@mit.edu
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May 17, 2011
6:00pm - 8:30pm Smarter Living Expo
Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA
A unique and fascinating discussion among Swiss and US building experts to address the challenges of sustainable buildings.RSVP requested.
http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1075391-9PneY8RRIR
sabine@swissnexboston.org
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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7:00pm - 9:00pm "Witnesses of Climate Change"
The Laboratory at Harvard University, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Eyewitness accounts of how changing climate and extreme weather events are already impacting people and agriculture, from Kenya and Argentina to the U.S. Midwest.
http://cceag.org/node/13
Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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Sustainability in Spain: A Global Approach Involving Major Economic, Social and Environmental Issues
WHEN Tue., May 17, 2011, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE RCC conference room
26 Trowbridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Real Colegio Complutense
SPEAKER(S) Ernest Reig, University of Valencia
COST Free
CONTACT INFO rcc_info@harvard.edu
NOTE in English
LINK http://www.realcolegicomplutense.harvard.edu
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Harvard/Cambridge Walk for Peace
WHEN Wed., May 18, 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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May 18, 2011
1:15pm Webcast: Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Trading
Online
Professor Sampford outlines a number of arguments for the superiority of carbon taxes over carbon trading schemes and outlines a proposal for a carbon added tax.
http://carbonwebcast.eventbrite.com/
Contact Name: Portia Gama unuony@unu.edu
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Series: Arturo Pizano - Nocera Group - MIT
Speaker: Arturo Pizano
Time: 4:15p–6:00p
Location: MIT 6-120
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemistry
For more information, contact:
Macall Zimmerman
617 253-9385
coombs@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: The Nocera Group is working on the artificial leaf, a project that may allow each household to have an autonomous source of electricity and heat powered by sunlight with water as the "fuel".
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Killing in the Name of God or Land? Religious Violence along Civilizational Faultlines
WHEN Thu., May 19, 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) John F. McCauley, research fellow, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5530/killing_in_the_name_of_god_or_land_religious_violence_along_civilizational_faultlines.html
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*Thursday, May 19, afternoon*: City Sprouts Open Garden at an elementary school to be announced.
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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Bio-inspired Adaptive Coloration of Nanomaterials
WHEN Thu., May 19, 2011, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Pierce Hall 209
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Roger T. Hanlon, senior scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA and professor, ecology & evolutionary biology, Brown University
COST Free. All are welcome to attend.
CONTACT INFO Marina DiDonato-McLaughlin: marina@seas.harvard.edu, 617.495.1508
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/kavli-lectures/bio-inspired-adaptive-coloration-of-nanomaterials
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**Thursday, May 19, 5:00 - 7:00pm*: TROMP Traffic Tutorial at *Central Square intersection* by Travel Responsibility Mentoring and Outreach Project. The "tutorial" aims to instruct travelers about the LAWS of the road and how ignoring them endangers others and themselves.
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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*Thursday, May 19, 7:00 - 9:00pm*: HEET Vampire Hunt and Efficiency Ware Party. Conducted by the Home Energy Efficiency Team.
First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge.
map
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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Data visualizations: Using data to explain the world around us
Thursday, May 19, 2011
7:00 PM
Boston Globe
135 Morrissey Blvd.
Dorchester, MA 02108
Ben Fry, who is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston, is a co-developer of Processing, an open source programming environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media software. The software won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. The project also received the 2005 Interactive Design prize from the Tokyo Type Director's Club. In 2007, Casey Reas and Fry published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists with MIT Press, and in 2010, they published Getting Started with Processingwith O'Reilly and MAKE. Processing 1.0 was released in November 2008, and is used by tens of thousands of people every week.
He received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his thesis, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Insitute of MIT & Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. At the end of 2007, he finished writing Visualizing Data for O'Reilly.
Glenn McDonald is the designer and product manager for Needle (www.needlebase.com), ITA Software's graph database and platform for data collection, collation, curation, exploration, analysis and republishing. He is also the court statistician for heavy metal, and a caped data vigilante. He believes that data is important, and that computers can and should be tools for people to make sense out of what they supposedly know. ITA and Needlebase were recently acquired by Google.
Daigo Fujiwara, an infographics designer for the Boston Globe/boston.com, was born and grew up in Japan. He came to Massachusetts as a high school foreign exchanging student and as a baseball fanatic, found himself right at home with Red Sox Nation right at home. He has also worked at the Christian Science Monitor, Inc Magazine and FastCompany Magazine.
Plenty of parking & access from the Red Line. (It's a 5 min walk from the JFK/UMass stop.)
http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/16987682/?a=me1p_lnm&rv=me1p
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Linking Food Production, Nature Conservation, and Sovereignty: Land Use in the Chaco Region of Northern Argentina
WHEN Thu., May 19, 2011, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE RCC conference room
26 Trowbridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Real Colegio Complutense
SPEAKER(S) Cristina Herrero
COST Free
CONTACT INFO rcc_info@harvard.edu
NOTE in English
LINK http://www.realcolegicomplutense.harvard.edu
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Friday, May 20, 7:30pm*: Fred Small concert at First Parish in Cambridge UU, 1446 Mass. Ave. Many of his songs have an environmental theme.
map
http://www.firstparishcambridge.org/ *
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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Saturday, May 21, 10:00 - 11:30am*:**Urban Gardening Seminar, sponsored by City of Cambridge Options for urban home gardening: in yards, containers, roofs, wherever! Cambridge Main Library conference room, 449 Broadway.
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*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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Saturday, May 21, Noon - 3:30pm*: *Climate Week Finale: ActionFest*. Action oriented booths, speakers, commitments project, food. Celebrate our community's efforts and commit to specific actions you will take to fight climate change.
*Cambridge College, 1000 Mass Ave.
*map
*Cambridge Climate Change Week is being organized by the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG) and was proclaimed by the Cambridge City Council. You can find us on the web at www.cceag.org or find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ *
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GREEN Entrepreneur Small Business Forum
Come to the Codman Square section of Dorchester on Saturday, May 21st, from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM.
Talk to our panel of experienced GREEN and small business owners!
Meet knowledgeable professionals who can help you move your business ideas from thought to action!
Learn what you need to know about MBE/WBE; Bank Financing and programs with the SBA at our workshops!
Seating is limited, you MUST pre-register
To register and for more information, contact Owen at
(617) 427-6293 – otoney@comcast.net
or Go to the Link Below
www.foundationforagreenfuture.org/upcoming_events
Green Entrepreneur Small Business Forum
presented by Green Neighbors Education Committee and Foundation for a Green Future, Inc
Have you been considering starting a green or small business?
Are you ready to become a Massachusetts Entrepreneur?
Are you currently a small or GREEN business owner?
When: Saturday, May 21 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Where: Codman Square Area, Dorchester, MA
Cost: FREE!
Seating is limited, you MUST pre-register*
Exciting and Knowledgeable Guest Speakers
Q & A Panel with Experienced GREEN Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners
Workshops:
TD Bank - Applying for Bank Financing: What You Need to Know
U. S. Small Business Advantage - The SBA Advantage: An overview of SBA's programs and services
How to Become an MBE/WBE and Get State Contracts (Become a State Recognized Minority or Women-Owned Business)
*To register and for more information, contact Own at (617) 427-6293 - otoney@comcast.net or go to http://www.foundationforagreenfuture.org/upcoming_events
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2011 GoGreen Awards
The City of Cambridge invites you to a breakfast to celebrate business and institutional leaders who have taken action to create a more sustainable future.
SwissNex Boston/ Consulate of Switzerland 420 Broadway Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:30-10:00 AM
Join business and community leaders working on energy, transportation, waste reduction, stormwater management
and other climate protection actions as we recognize this year’s award winners.
Thank you to Swissnex for the generous use of their facility.
If you are driving, please allow extra time due to Harvard commencement that morning.
RSVP to 617-349-4604 or randers@cambridgema.gov.
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May 27 - 30
"The Future of Biological Prototyping" - a diybio hackathon
http://futurelabcamp.com/
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Coming to Boston....
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time
Join us at the Stuart Street Playhouse!
See the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy at the Stuart Street Playhouse in Boston! Green Fire shares highlights from his extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement.
The film also illustrates Leopold's continuing influence, exploring current projects that connect people and land at the local level. Meet urban children in Chicago learning about local foods and ecological restoration. Meet ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico who maintain healthy landscapes by working on their own properties, and with their neighbors, in cooperative community conservation efforts. Meet wildlife biologists who are bringing threatened and endangered species, from cranes to Mexican wolves, back to the landscapes where they once thrived. Viewers will learn how Leopold's vision of a community that cares about both people and land ties all of these modern conservation stories together, and offers inspiration and insight for the future.
Learn more...
DATE: Thursday, June 2, 2011
TIME: Doors open at 6:00pm; remarks and film begin at 6:30pm
LOCATION: Stuart Street Playhouse
ADDRESS: 200 Stuart Street, Boston, MA 02116
TICKETS: Available through Brown Paper Tickets, $8 advance/$10 door
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.greenfiremovie.com
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The presentations from the recent Affordable Comfort National Home Performance Conference are available online at
http://2011.acinational.org/downloadable_resources
Lots of good information from what some call the best energy conference in the USA on Deep Energy Retrofits to Community Energy Challenges with details on insulation, heat flow, energy metering, ducting, hot water, and many, many other topics. If you are a practical energy wonk, this should make your eyes light up.
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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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