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Reversing Global Warming While Meeting Human Needs
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/12/1178473/-Reversing-Global-Warming-while-Meeting-Human-Needs
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Monday, January 14
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10:30am - 12pm Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crises
12pm “Nibbling at the Edges: Why Current Climate Action by Cities Will Not Save Them and What May be Done About That”
12pm - 1pm The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Arctic
5:30pm Howard Gardner Three Part Lecture Series: Multiple Intelligences: The Theory, Its Applications
7pm The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
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Tuesday, January 15
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10am Planning Exercise: Managing climate change-related uncertainty in infrastructure planning
12:30pm Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
5:30pm Howard Gardner: Educating for Understanding within and across the Disciplines
5:30pm The Tipping Point: Elevating Women for Global Security
6pm Boston Composts! A Series of Boston Gardeners Council Community Forums
6pm - 7:30pm Getting Plugged In To the Boston Tech Community – A Hitchhiker’s Guide
7pm GreenPort Forum: Can New England Feed Itself?
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Wednesday, January 16
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1:30pm "Energy Critical Elements"
4pm Emerging Issues in K-12 Science, Math, Engineering Education
4:30pm "The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"
6pm Think Different: Boston Innovators & Technologists Changing Education
6-9pm The New Normal - Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather, Are You Ready?
7pm Phyllis Bennis: The U.S. & Middle East Wars: Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya?
7:30pm Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday
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Thursday, January 17
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12pm FAS Monthly Environmental Movie/Brown Bag Lunch Series
2-6pm When the Levees Broke, by Spike Lee
4:15pm "Exciton fission, quantum coherence, and solar energy conversion beyond the limit"
5-9pm Community-university partnerships in Boston: The experience of the MIT GreenHouse Studio Symposium
5:30pm Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
6:30-9-pm Jan 2013 Boston New Tech Meetup #bnt25
7pm Scott Kirsner: Covering a beat where social media & multimedia collide
7pm Joel Salatin in Concord - defense of local food systems
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Friday, January 18
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12pm The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Earth's Surface
6pm Food for Free Benefit Winter Concert with Vance Gilbert
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Saturday, January 19
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9am Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set
10am CrisisCamp Boston
1pm 2nd Annual Citywide Seed Swap
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Sunday, January 20
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10am CrisisCamp Boston
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Monday, January 21
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Martin Luther King Junior Day - be peace
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Tuesday, January 22
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10:30am Financial Crises and Amplification Mechanisms
11am Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments
12:30pm Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China
7pm-10pm Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
7pm-10pm 9/11 Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak
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Monday, January 14
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Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crises
Monday, January 14, 2013
10:30a–12:00p
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Christopher Foote (MIT) & Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Boston)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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“Nibbling at the Edges: Why Current Climate Action by Cities Will Not Save Them and What May be Done About That”
Monday, January 14, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Matthias Ruth
Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Social Sciences and Humanities and College of Engineering
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Arctic
Monday, January 14, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Rachel Chang, Harvard University
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127
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The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
Monday, January 14, 2013
7:00 PM
Clover Food Lab, 7 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/94759502/
Eating, drinking, science, art, and Wikipedia. Discussion of future speakers, Wikiversity, regional Wikipedia Ambassador efforts, and collabs with Boston-area libraries and museums.
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Tuesday, January 15
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I am looking for people to participate in a role-play simulation exercise at MIT (with lunch provided).
As part of my dissertation work, I will be using this short exercise exploring the best ways of handling the uncertainties involved in managing climate change risks on urban waterfront infrastructure with decision-makers and other stakeholders in various locations (Rotterdam, Singapore and New York). I would like to pilot it here first. I hope that this exercise will be beneficial for all involved, providing an opportunity to think about the management of uncertainty in decision-making, along with a chance to practice negotiation skills. I also expect it to be fun.
The location is to be determined, but will be somewhere here at MIT. Please RSVP directly to me if you are willing and able to attend, or if you have any questions.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Todd Schenk, (617) 230-8480, tschenk@mit.edu
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Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
January 15
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Jon Penney, Berkman Center Fellow
With Internet censorship on the rise around the world, organizations and researchers have developed and distributed a variety of tools to assist Internet users to both monitor and circumvent such censorship. This talk will examine more closely some of the international law and politics of such censorship resistance activities through three case studies involving past global communications censorship and information conflicts— telegraph cable cutting and suppression, high frequency radio jamming, and direct broadcast satellite blocking— and the world community’s response to these conflicts. In addition to illustrating some of the legal, political, and security concerns that have animated historical instances of global communications censorship, the talk will aim to extrapolate lessons and insights for Internet censorship (and its resistance) today, such as the legality of censorship and its circumvention, the effectiveness of monitoring efforts, and the role of international institutions in disrupting (or facilitating) communications.
About Jon
Jon is a lawyer, Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab / Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and a doctoral student in information communication sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where his interdisciplinary research explores regulatory chilling effects online.
In 2011, he was a Google Policy Fellow at the Citizen Lab-- where he helped lead the ONI Transparency Project while contributing to projects like the Information Warfare Monitor-- and, at Oxford, was Project Coordinator for the Privacy Value Networks Project, a large scale EPSRC funded research project on data privacy. A native Nova Scotian and graduate of Dalhousie University, he studied at Columbia Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and Oxford as a Mackenzie King Scholar, where he was Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He has also worked as a federal attorney, policy advisor, and taught law at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
His research interests include constitutional/human rights law, intellectual property, and digital media policy & culture, particularly where these areas intersect with censorship, privacy, and security.
Follow Jon on Twitter @jon_penney
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Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set
Hacks/Hackers Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
9:00 AM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Peter Hagelstein, plh@mit.edu
Experts in high-rise architecture, structural engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, explosives and demolition give you their professional expertise on 9/11. It's not conspiracy, it's forensics. Most viewed & shared for weeks on PBS nationally.
Eight experts in the workings of the human mind explain why this seems so difficult for so many of us to process.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isTGualn9A
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Join us as we kick off the MassChallenge Sampler with the most important stage every entrepreneur faces: The "Aha" moment and founding a company.
MassChallenge CEO and Founder John Harthorne will open with his experience of leaving his day job to launch the world's biggest startup accelerator and competition.
John will be joined by other successful entrepreneurs to discuss their challenges and triumphs in those early idea-stage days. Find out about how these founders realized it was time to burn their ships and dive into the inspiring world of startups!
Topics will include making a realistic business plan and dispelling the illusion that great ideas just happen.
The panel will conclude with Q&A and open networking.
The MassChallenge Sampler: An Accelerator Mini-Series
Episode I: Foundation - January 29, 2013
Episode II: Mentorship - February 5, 2013
Episode III: Marketing – February 19, 2013
Episode IV: Fundraising – February 26, 2013
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Monday, January 14
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10:30am - 12pm Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crises
12pm “Nibbling at the Edges: Why Current Climate Action by Cities Will Not Save Them and What May be Done About That”
12pm - 1pm The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Arctic
5:30pm Howard Gardner Three Part Lecture Series: Multiple Intelligences: The Theory, Its Applications
7pm The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
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Tuesday, January 15
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10am Planning Exercise: Managing climate change-related uncertainty in infrastructure planning
12:30pm Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
5:30pm Howard Gardner: Educating for Understanding within and across the Disciplines
5:30pm The Tipping Point: Elevating Women for Global Security
6pm Boston Composts! A Series of Boston Gardeners Council Community Forums
6pm - 7:30pm Getting Plugged In To the Boston Tech Community – A Hitchhiker’s Guide
7pm GreenPort Forum: Can New England Feed Itself?
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Wednesday, January 16
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1:30pm "Energy Critical Elements"
4pm Emerging Issues in K-12 Science, Math, Engineering Education
4:30pm "The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"
6pm Think Different: Boston Innovators & Technologists Changing Education
6-9pm The New Normal - Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather, Are You Ready?
7pm Phyllis Bennis: The U.S. & Middle East Wars: Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya?
7:30pm Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday
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Thursday, January 17
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12pm FAS Monthly Environmental Movie/Brown Bag Lunch Series
2-6pm When the Levees Broke, by Spike Lee
4:15pm "Exciton fission, quantum coherence, and solar energy conversion beyond the limit"
5-9pm Community-university partnerships in Boston: The experience of the MIT GreenHouse Studio Symposium
5:30pm Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
6:30-9-pm Jan 2013 Boston New Tech Meetup #bnt25
7pm Scott Kirsner: Covering a beat where social media & multimedia collide
7pm Joel Salatin in Concord - defense of local food systems
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Friday, January 18
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12pm The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Earth's Surface
6pm Food for Free Benefit Winter Concert with Vance Gilbert
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Saturday, January 19
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9am Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set
10am CrisisCamp Boston
1pm 2nd Annual Citywide Seed Swap
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Sunday, January 20
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10am CrisisCamp Boston
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Monday, January 21
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Martin Luther King Junior Day - be peace
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Tuesday, January 22
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10:30am Financial Crises and Amplification Mechanisms
11am Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments
12:30pm Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China
7pm-10pm Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
7pm-10pm 9/11 Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak
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Monday, January 14
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Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crises
Monday, January 14, 2013
10:30a–12:00p
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Christopher Foote (MIT) & Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Boston)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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“Nibbling at the Edges: Why Current Climate Action by Cities Will Not Save Them and What May be Done About That”
Monday, January 14, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Matthias Ruth
Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Social Sciences and Humanities and College of Engineering
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Arctic
Monday, January 14, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Rachel Chang, Harvard University
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127
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Howard Gardner Three Part Lecture Series: Multiple Intelligences: The Theory, Its Applications
WHEN Mon., Jan. 14, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL rhiannon_roberts@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE In the first of three lectures being presented this week, Gardner describes the background that led to his development, thirty years ago, of the theory of multiple intelligences. He outlines the major claims of the theory, the ways that it has evolved over the years, the principal misunderstandings, and the applications that he most admires.
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WHEN Mon., Jan. 14, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL rhiannon_roberts@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE In the first of three lectures being presented this week, Gardner describes the background that led to his development, thirty years ago, of the theory of multiple intelligences. He outlines the major claims of the theory, the ways that it has evolved over the years, the principal misunderstandings, and the applications that he most admires.
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The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
Monday, January 14, 2013
7:00 PM
Clover Food Lab, 7 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/94759502/
Eating, drinking, science, art, and Wikipedia. Discussion of future speakers, Wikiversity, regional Wikipedia Ambassador efforts, and collabs with Boston-area libraries and museums.
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Tuesday, January 15
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Planning Exercise: Managing climate change-related uncertainty in infrastructure planning
Jan/15 Tue
Jan/15 Tue
10:00AM-01:00PM
Todd Schenk, PhD candidate, Environmental Policy and Planning
Interested in planning in the face of the risks and uncertainties posed by climate change? Want to practice your negotiation skills in a simulated multi-stakeholder environment? Interested in infrastructure planning?
Interested in planning in the face of the risks and uncertainties posed by climate change? Want to practice your negotiation skills in a simulated multi-stakeholder environment? Interested in infrastructure planning?
I am looking for people to participate in a role-play simulation exercise at MIT (with lunch provided).
As part of my dissertation work, I will be using this short exercise exploring the best ways of handling the uncertainties involved in managing climate change risks on urban waterfront infrastructure with decision-makers and other stakeholders in various locations (Rotterdam, Singapore and New York). I would like to pilot it here first. I hope that this exercise will be beneficial for all involved, providing an opportunity to think about the management of uncertainty in decision-making, along with a chance to practice negotiation skills. I also expect it to be fun.
The location is to be determined, but will be somewhere here at MIT. Please RSVP directly to me if you are willing and able to attend, or if you have any questions.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Todd Schenk, (617) 230-8480, tschenk@mit.edu
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Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
January 15
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Jon Penney, Berkman Center Fellow
With Internet censorship on the rise around the world, organizations and researchers have developed and distributed a variety of tools to assist Internet users to both monitor and circumvent such censorship. This talk will examine more closely some of the international law and politics of such censorship resistance activities through three case studies involving past global communications censorship and information conflicts— telegraph cable cutting and suppression, high frequency radio jamming, and direct broadcast satellite blocking— and the world community’s response to these conflicts. In addition to illustrating some of the legal, political, and security concerns that have animated historical instances of global communications censorship, the talk will aim to extrapolate lessons and insights for Internet censorship (and its resistance) today, such as the legality of censorship and its circumvention, the effectiveness of monitoring efforts, and the role of international institutions in disrupting (or facilitating) communications.
About Jon
Jon is a lawyer, Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab / Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and a doctoral student in information communication sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where his interdisciplinary research explores regulatory chilling effects online.
In 2011, he was a Google Policy Fellow at the Citizen Lab-- where he helped lead the ONI Transparency Project while contributing to projects like the Information Warfare Monitor-- and, at Oxford, was Project Coordinator for the Privacy Value Networks Project, a large scale EPSRC funded research project on data privacy. A native Nova Scotian and graduate of Dalhousie University, he studied at Columbia Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and Oxford as a Mackenzie King Scholar, where he was Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He has also worked as a federal attorney, policy advisor, and taught law at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
His research interests include constitutional/human rights law, intellectual property, and digital media policy & culture, particularly where these areas intersect with censorship, privacy, and security.
Follow Jon on Twitter @jon_penney
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Howard Gardner: Educating for Understanding within and across the Disciplines
WHEN Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL rhiannon_roberts@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE In the second lecture, Gardner describes the kind of education that he most values: an education that is grounded in the disciplines and that leads to deep understanding. He also discusses the nature, power, and perils of interdisciplinary education. In conclusion, he touches on the theme of his most recent book Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, in which he rethinks a “disciplinary education” in the digital age.
WHEN Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL rhiannon_roberts@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE In the second lecture, Gardner describes the kind of education that he most values: an education that is grounded in the disciplines and that leads to deep understanding. He also discusses the nature, power, and perils of interdisciplinary education. In conclusion, he touches on the theme of his most recent book Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, in which he rethinks a “disciplinary education” in the digital age.
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The Tipping Point: Elevating Women for Global Security
WHEN Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Six women leaders speak about their experiences influencing national policies to prevent and end violent conflict.
Ambassador Swanee Hunt will moderate a discussion with participants from Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, Liberia, Libya and Syria.
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/tipping-point-elevating-women-global-security
WHEN Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Six women leaders speak about their experiences influencing national policies to prevent and end violent conflict.
Ambassador Swanee Hunt will moderate a discussion with participants from Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, Liberia, Libya and Syria.
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/tipping-point-elevating-women-global-security
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Boston Composts! A Series of Boston Gardeners Council Community Forums
Getting Plugged In To the Boston Tech Community – A Hitchhiker’s Guide
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Intelligent.ly 500 Harrison Avenue, FL 3R Boston
RSVP at http://boston-startup-guide.eventbrite.com
Cost: $5.00
Boston is a great place to start and build a company. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career.
However, Boston is also transient town, especially given the large student population that refreshes each year. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. This class is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston.
You'll Learn:
How to become a native of the Boston tech ecosystem
How to prioritize time across large numbers of events and startup oriented services
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GreenPort Forum: Can New England Feed Itself?
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
7 PM
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, corner of Magazine St and Putnam Avenue, Cambridge
New England presents a tremendous opportunity to create a healthy, resilient, sustainable food system. By growing more food locally we can improve our health, bolster our economy, protect our environment, and empower our citizens. However, scaling up local and regional agriculture is a great challenge to achieve. New England’s population is large, and much of our landscape—while beautiful—is rough and rocky, and best left in forest. What kind and what degree of regional food production make sense here, given our soils, marine resources, climate, history, and environmental attitudes? How much quality cropland and pasture land is potentially available? How do we connect all our citizens with good, healthy food? Our vision explores connections between production and consumption; farming, fishing, and eating. Hannah Ramer joins us to discuss these critical issues.
Hannah Ramer studied the Environment and Sustainable Development at Brandeis University. She has apprenticed on farms in Minnesota, New York, and Massachusetts. She has been conducting research for the New England Food System Vision since January 2010. She also works for Certified Naturally Grown, a grassroots alternative to certified organic.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
6:00 PM To 8:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston
6:00 PM To 8:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/events/99133672/
A light dinner will be provided.
RSVP Required to [masked]
This Boston Gardeners Council event will be dedicated to learning about compost provided through the City of Boston and increasing awareness and knowledge of compost as one of many approaches to soil improvement in our gardens. Susan Cascino, Director of Recycling from the Boston Department of Public Works, who oversees yard waste collection and city composting, will present on the City’s compost plans for 2013. BNAN Garden Educator, Erika Rumbley, will lead an interactive workshop on compost and soil building. Come ready with your suggestions and questions.
This is the first of a three-part series of community forums in January - March 2013. Stay tuned for date and location for the next two workshops in this important compost series.
RSVP Required to [masked]
This Boston Gardeners Council event will be dedicated to learning about compost provided through the City of Boston and increasing awareness and knowledge of compost as one of many approaches to soil improvement in our gardens. Susan Cascino, Director of Recycling from the Boston Department of Public Works, who oversees yard waste collection and city composting, will present on the City’s compost plans for 2013. BNAN Garden Educator, Erika Rumbley, will lead an interactive workshop on compost and soil building. Come ready with your suggestions and questions.
This is the first of a three-part series of community forums in January - March 2013. Stay tuned for date and location for the next two workshops in this important compost series.
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Getting Plugged In To the Boston Tech Community – A Hitchhiker’s Guide
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Intelligent.ly 500 Harrison Avenue, FL 3R Boston
RSVP at http://boston-startup-guide.eventbrite.com
Cost: $5.00
Boston is a great place to start and build a company. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career.
However, Boston is also transient town, especially given the large student population that refreshes each year. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. This class is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston.
You'll Learn:
How to become a native of the Boston tech ecosystem
How to prioritize time across large numbers of events and startup oriented services
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GreenPort Forum: Can New England Feed Itself?
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
7 PM
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, corner of Magazine St and Putnam Avenue, Cambridge
New England presents a tremendous opportunity to create a healthy, resilient, sustainable food system. By growing more food locally we can improve our health, bolster our economy, protect our environment, and empower our citizens. However, scaling up local and regional agriculture is a great challenge to achieve. New England’s population is large, and much of our landscape—while beautiful—is rough and rocky, and best left in forest. What kind and what degree of regional food production make sense here, given our soils, marine resources, climate, history, and environmental attitudes? How much quality cropland and pasture land is potentially available? How do we connect all our citizens with good, healthy food? Our vision explores connections between production and consumption; farming, fishing, and eating. Hannah Ramer joins us to discuss these critical issues.
Hannah Ramer studied the Environment and Sustainable Development at Brandeis University. She has apprenticed on farms in Minnesota, New York, and Massachusetts. She has been conducting research for the New England Food System Vision since January 2010. She also works for Certified Naturally Grown, a grassroots alternative to certified organic.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com
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Wednesday, January 16
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"Energy Critical Elements"
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
1:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Robert Jaffe - Morningstar Professor of Science, Department of Physics
I will then turn to our recent report on "Energy Critical Elements: Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies", describing rare elements' roles in emerging technologies, constraints on availability, and government actions to avoid disruptive shortages.
Web site: http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9289af8f3b3c7818013b3d15ee340001.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact: Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
DENISEW@MIT.EDU
1:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Robert Jaffe - Morningstar Professor of Science, Department of Physics
I will then turn to our recent report on "Energy Critical Elements: Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies", describing rare elements' roles in emerging technologies, constraints on availability, and government actions to avoid disruptive shortages.
Web site: http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9289af8f3b3c7818013b3d15ee340001.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact: Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
DENISEW@MIT.EDU
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Emerging Issues in K-12 Science, Math, Engineering Education
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 32-124, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 32-124, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speakers: Thomas Kochan, Sloan School of Management; Ishara Mills-Henry, Framingham State University and TERC; Kathleen Vandiver, MIT; Richard Stutman, Boston Teachers Union; Monty Neill, National Center for Fair & Open Testing
A panel discussion on engaging and supporting K-12 teachers and students in science, math and engineering education.
Web site: http://scienceoftheeye.org/upcoming-events/emerging-issues-in-k-12-science-math-engineering-education/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Science of the Eye: Bringing Vision into the Classroom, MIT School of Science, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
For more information, contact: Lisa Guisbond
617-715-4329
guisbond@mit.edu
A panel discussion on engaging and supporting K-12 teachers and students in science, math and engineering education.
Web site: http://scienceoftheeye.org/upcoming-events/emerging-issues-in-k-12-science-math-engineering-education/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Science of the Eye: Bringing Vision into the Classroom, MIT School of Science, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
For more information, contact: Lisa Guisbond
617-715-4329
guisbond@mit.edu
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"The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4:30pm-6pm
MIT Building 7-338, Stellar Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Priyanka Borpujari
Priyanka Borpujari will discuss her featured photography exhibit “The Human Cost of India’s Race for Development” displayed in Rotch Library's (7-228) exhibition space.
While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India asuperpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers - even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the 'hidden civil war in India', Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, reports and photographs from the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.
A reception and tour of the exhibit will follow the discussion.
Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, ROCHOA@MIT.EDU
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Think Different: Boston Innovators & Technologists Changing Education
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
6:00 PM To 9:00 PM
Boundless Learning, Inc., 164 Kneeland Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/emerging-business-technology/events/92331352/
In this event, we will hear from innovators using technology to change how we learn, research, and get educated.
Speakers
Aaron White / CTO of Boundless Learning
Boundless helps students learn better by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, free educational content, as well as the tools they need to succeed.
Facundo Chamut / CTO of Testive
Testive builds products that improve testing and test preparation.
We are looking for speakers. If you have a product you'd like to show please contact Dan (dadams at cantinaconsulting dot com).
About EBT: This meetup group provides engineers, practitioners and managers the context needed to evaluate and adopt rapidly evolving business technologies. Leave with an understanding of what the technology is, why it’s used, when to use it, and next steps to take. We’ll review use cases, processes, tools, and practices in a mini-conference format through short presentations, hands-on tutorials, Q&A and code walkthroughs.
Event starts at 6 PM (talks at 7 PM) and goes until 9 PM
Doors open at 6 PM for social time
Talks start promptly at 7 PM for 1 hour or so
Wrap-up until 9 PM
Organizer: Dan Adams, Senior Consultant / Cantina Consulting (@danadams)
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4:30pm-6pm
MIT Building 7-338, Stellar Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Priyanka Borpujari
Priyanka Borpujari will discuss her featured photography exhibit “The Human Cost of India’s Race for Development” displayed in Rotch Library's (7-228) exhibition space.
While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India asuperpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers - even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the 'hidden civil war in India', Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, reports and photographs from the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.
A reception and tour of the exhibit will follow the discussion.
Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, ROCHOA@MIT.EDU
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Think Different: Boston Innovators & Technologists Changing Education
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
6:00 PM To 9:00 PM
Boundless Learning, Inc., 164 Kneeland Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/emerging-business-technology/events/92331352/
In this event, we will hear from innovators using technology to change how we learn, research, and get educated.
Speakers
Aaron White / CTO of Boundless Learning
Boundless helps students learn better by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, free educational content, as well as the tools they need to succeed.
Facundo Chamut / CTO of Testive
Testive builds products that improve testing and test preparation.
We are looking for speakers. If you have a product you'd like to show please contact Dan (dadams at cantinaconsulting dot com).
About EBT: This meetup group provides engineers, practitioners and managers the context needed to evaluate and adopt rapidly evolving business technologies. Leave with an understanding of what the technology is, why it’s used, when to use it, and next steps to take. We’ll review use cases, processes, tools, and practices in a mini-conference format through short presentations, hands-on tutorials, Q&A and code walkthroughs.
Event starts at 6 PM (talks at 7 PM) and goes until 9 PM
Doors open at 6 PM for social time
Talks start promptly at 7 PM for 1 hour or so
Wrap-up until 9 PM
Organizer: Dan Adams, Senior Consultant / Cantina Consulting (@danadams)
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The New Normal - Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather, Are You Ready?
January 16, 2013
6:00 – 7:00 pm Networking Reception and hors d’oeuvres
7:00 – 8:30 pm Panel Presentation
8:30 – 9:00 pm Networking
The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Join us to hear from a panel of faculty experts as they discuss hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that could potentially affect the northeast. Learn about the impact this extreme weather poses to our cities and to you and your family.
Moderator: Lance Collins, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
Panelists Include:
Larry Brown PhD '76, Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics and Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Linda Nozick, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wysocki MS '89, Sr. Lecturer in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Hors d'oeuvres will be served
Hosted Bar
January 16, 2013
6:00 – 7:00 pm Networking Reception and hors d’oeuvres
7:00 – 8:30 pm Panel Presentation
8:30 – 9:00 pm Networking
The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Join us to hear from a panel of faculty experts as they discuss hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that could potentially affect the northeast. Learn about the impact this extreme weather poses to our cities and to you and your family.
Moderator: Lance Collins, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
Panelists Include:
Larry Brown PhD '76, Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics and Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Linda Nozick, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wysocki MS '89, Sr. Lecturer in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Hors d'oeuvres will be served
Hosted Bar
Editorial Comment: This is a Cornell University Alumni gathering and costs $35 sent to me by Madeline McDowell (madidelin@gmail.com) who will register interested people as guests. Looks like an interesting and pertinent discussion. At the most recent Restructuring Roundtable, there seemed to be agreement that what is a 100 year storm now will be an annual event by the end of this century.
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Phyllis Bennis: The U.S. & Middle East Wars: Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya?
Public Forum & Reception
January 16
Public Forum $10, - 7 p.m. Reception $50 - 6 p.m. (RSVP JGerson@afsc.org)
Washburn Hall, Episcopal Divinity School, Harvard Square - 99 Brattle St., Cambridge
American Friends Service Committee
Phyllis Bennis serves as a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute and has long been a leading figure in the U.S. peace movement and serves on the steering committees of the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. Her books include UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT and CHALLENGING EMPIRE: HOW PEOPLE, GOVERNMENTS AND THE UN DEFY U.S. POWER. She is a frequent contributor to al Jazeera TV, Democracy Now, Grit TV, BBC and more, and currently and the United for Peace & Justice anti-war coalition. She is co-author of the forthcoming book ENDING THE US WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: A PRIMER.
For additional information write Jgerson@afsc.org or phone 617-661-6130
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Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday
WHEN Wed., Jan. 16, 2013, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Mass Avenue
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Jared Diamond
COST Free
CONTACT INFO director@cambridgeforum.org, 617-495-2727
NOTE Diamond discusses his latest book ,"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" asking what we can still learn from traditional societies.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Phyllis Bennis: The U.S. & Middle East Wars: Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya?
Public Forum & Reception
January 16
Public Forum $10, - 7 p.m. Reception $50 - 6 p.m. (RSVP JGerson@afsc.org)
Washburn Hall, Episcopal Divinity School, Harvard Square - 99 Brattle St., Cambridge
American Friends Service Committee
Phyllis Bennis serves as a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute and has long been a leading figure in the U.S. peace movement and serves on the steering committees of the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. Her books include UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT and CHALLENGING EMPIRE: HOW PEOPLE, GOVERNMENTS AND THE UN DEFY U.S. POWER. She is a frequent contributor to al Jazeera TV, Democracy Now, Grit TV, BBC and more, and currently and the United for Peace & Justice anti-war coalition. She is co-author of the forthcoming book ENDING THE US WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: A PRIMER.
For additional information write Jgerson@afsc.org or phone 617-661-6130
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Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday
WHEN Wed., Jan. 16, 2013, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Mass Avenue
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Jared Diamond
COST Free
CONTACT INFO director@cambridgeforum.org, 617-495-2727
NOTE Diamond discusses his latest book ,"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" asking what we can still learn from traditional societies.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, January 17
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FAS Monthly Environmental Movie/Brown Bag Lunch Series
WHEN Thu., Jan. 17, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Mallinckrodt Faculty Room, 102, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Film, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR FAS Green Program
CONTACT INFO gosia_sklodowska@harvard.edu
NOTE Join us every month to watch some of the most inspiring TED talks on different environmental topics, such as energy, waste, water or health.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2012-10-18/fas-monthly-environmental-moviesbrown-bag-lunch-series
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When the Levees Broke, by Spike Lee
Jan/17 Thu
02:00PM-06:00PM
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 (rear) Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Subtitled "A Requiem in Four Acts," Spike Lee's heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction manages to be both intimate and epic. Originally aired as a four-part HBO miniseries, the film tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal--yet, somehow, amidst the ruins, the people of New Orleans are finding new hope and strength as the city rises from the ashes.
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FAS Monthly Environmental Movie/Brown Bag Lunch Series
WHEN Thu., Jan. 17, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Mallinckrodt Faculty Room, 102, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Film, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR FAS Green Program
CONTACT INFO gosia_sklodowska@harvard.edu
NOTE Join us every month to watch some of the most inspiring TED talks on different environmental topics, such as energy, waste, water or health.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2012-10-18/fas-monthly-environmental-moviesbrown-bag-lunch-series
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When the Levees Broke, by Spike Lee
Jan/17 Thu
02:00PM-06:00PM
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 (rear) Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Subtitled "A Requiem in Four Acts," Spike Lee's heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction manages to be both intimate and epic. Originally aired as a four-part HBO miniseries, the film tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal--yet, somehow, amidst the ruins, the people of New Orleans are finding new hope and strength as the city rises from the ashes.
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"Exciton fission, quantum coherence, and solar energy conversion beyond the limit"
Thu, January 17
Thu, January 17
4:15pm – 5:30pm
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, 02138
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, 02138
Professor Xiaoyang Zhu, Columbia University
R.B. Woodward Lectures in the Chemical Sciences, Physical Chemistry Seminar
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Community-university partnerships in Boston: The experience of the MIT GreenHouse Studio Symposium
Jan/17 Thu
Jan/17 Thu
05:00PM-09:00PM
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Sign-up by 01/14
Sign-up by 01/14
Patricia Molina Costa
Strategies for solving urban planning problems have become increasingly global in nature, reflecting the similarity in challenges cities face in a globalized economy and a changing physical climate. In order to share knowledge across boundaries, planning institutions increasingly seek to understand how similar problems are being addressed from different cultural perspectives, methodologies, and legal regulations. This approach formed the basis for the Parallel Workshop for Sustainable & Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization held in the spring of 2012 by the MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio (DUyOT) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). The workshop focused on contemporary urban challenges from two very different perspectives and formulated proposals for two different neighborhoods—Ciudad de los Angeles in Madrid, and Fields Corner in Boston— working closely with community-based organizations. On the occasion of the exhibition, a half-day symposium will be held to discuss the experience of community-university partnerships between MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and community organizations from the Boston area.
5:00-6:15pm: A Plan for Sustainability in Fields Corner: the GreenHouse Studio collaboration with VietAID
6:15-6:30pm: Break
6:30-8:00pm: Community-university partnerships in the Boston area: reflections from diverse experiences
8:00-9:00pm: Exhibition opening
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Patricia Molina Costa, pmolina@mit.edu
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Strategies for solving urban planning problems have become increasingly global in nature, reflecting the similarity in challenges cities face in a globalized economy and a changing physical climate. In order to share knowledge across boundaries, planning institutions increasingly seek to understand how similar problems are being addressed from different cultural perspectives, methodologies, and legal regulations. This approach formed the basis for the Parallel Workshop for Sustainable & Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization held in the spring of 2012 by the MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio (DUyOT) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). The workshop focused on contemporary urban challenges from two very different perspectives and formulated proposals for two different neighborhoods—Ciudad de los Angeles in Madrid, and Fields Corner in Boston— working closely with community-based organizations. On the occasion of the exhibition, a half-day symposium will be held to discuss the experience of community-university partnerships between MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and community organizations from the Boston area.
5:00-6:15pm: A Plan for Sustainability in Fields Corner: the GreenHouse Studio collaboration with VietAID
6:15-6:30pm: Break
6:30-8:00pm: Community-university partnerships in the Boston area: reflections from diverse experiences
8:00-9:00pm: Exhibition opening
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Patricia Molina Costa, pmolina@mit.edu
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Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
WHEN Thu., Jan. 17, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL rhiannon_roberts@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE In the third lecture—wearing the “hat” of the policy maker, rather than that of the psychologist—Gardner describes the five kinds of minds most necessary for surviving and thriving in the 21st century: Three of these minds are cognitive—disciplined, synthesizing, creating. Two of these minds entail human relations—respectful and ethical. As in the second lecture, Gardner discusses how these minds can be nurtured in a digital era.
WHEN Thu., Jan. 17, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL rhiannon_roberts@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE In the third lecture—wearing the “hat” of the policy maker, rather than that of the psychologist—Gardner describes the five kinds of minds most necessary for surviving and thriving in the 21st century: Three of these minds are cognitive—disciplined, synthesizing, creating. Two of these minds entail human relations—respectful and ethical. As in the second lecture, Gardner discusses how these minds can be nurtured in a digital era.
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Jan 2013 Boston New Tech Meetup #bnt25
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30 PM To 9:00 PM
Hult International Business School, 1 Education Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/97820432/
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Scott Kirsner: Covering a beat where social media & multimedia collide
Thursday, January 17, 2013
7:00 PM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/97719122/
What does it mean to cover a topic area using new tools and technologies, as the relationship with sources and readers is changing? Scott will share some of his experiences and ask you for your help brainstorming about what's next.
Scott has been thinking digital thoughts since he was part of the team that launched Boston.com in 1995. He writes the popular Innovation Economy blogfor Boston.com and has been writing a column for the Boston Globe since 2000.
His work has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Variety. Scott is also the author of the books "Fans, Friends & Followers" and "Inventing the Movies," was the editor of "The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England," and was a contributor to "The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston."
Scott also helps organize several local events on entrepreneurship, including the Nantucket Conference and Future Forward.
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Joel Salatin in Concord - defense of local food systems
Thurs, Jan. 17
7PM.
Fenn School, 516 Monument Street, Concord
RSVP at 978-369-9763 ext. 216.
SPACE IS LIMITED - BE SURE TO GET A RESERVATION.
The Museum welcomes Joel Salatin, a full-time farmer at Polyface, a multi-generational, "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. Author of Folks, This Ain't Normal : A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World(on the Concord Reads booklist), Salatin speaks in defense of small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. His humorous and conviction-based speeches are akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations. Book signing to follow lecture.
The talk is sponsored by the Concord Museum. You may have seen Joel in "Food, Inc." explaining his method of farming.
Event Contact Info Concord Museum
Email: cm1@concordmuseum.org
Phone: 978-369-9763 ext. 216
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30 PM To 9:00 PM
Hult International Business School, 1 Education Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/97820432/
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Scott Kirsner: Covering a beat where social media & multimedia collide
Thursday, January 17, 2013
7:00 PM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/97719122/
What does it mean to cover a topic area using new tools and technologies, as the relationship with sources and readers is changing? Scott will share some of his experiences and ask you for your help brainstorming about what's next.
Scott has been thinking digital thoughts since he was part of the team that launched Boston.com in 1995. He writes the popular Innovation Economy blogfor Boston.com and has been writing a column for the Boston Globe since 2000.
His work has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Variety. Scott is also the author of the books "Fans, Friends & Followers" and "Inventing the Movies," was the editor of "The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England," and was a contributor to "The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston."
Scott also helps organize several local events on entrepreneurship, including the Nantucket Conference and Future Forward.
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Joel Salatin in Concord - defense of local food systems
Thurs, Jan. 17
7PM.
Fenn School, 516 Monument Street, Concord
RSVP at 978-369-9763 ext. 216.
SPACE IS LIMITED - BE SURE TO GET A RESERVATION.
The Museum welcomes Joel Salatin, a full-time farmer at Polyface, a multi-generational, "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. Author of Folks, This Ain't Normal : A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World(on the Concord Reads booklist), Salatin speaks in defense of small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. His humorous and conviction-based speeches are akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations. Book signing to follow lecture.
The talk is sponsored by the Concord Museum. You may have seen Joel in "Food, Inc." explaining his method of farming.
Event Contact Info Concord Museum
Email: cm1@concordmuseum.org
Phone: 978-369-9763 ext. 216
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Friday, January 18
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The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Earth's Surface
Friday, January 18, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Aldona Wiacek, St. Mary's University
The IAP Lecture Series theme this year is "The Atmosphere as an Intersection" This the third of four talks will be by Dr. Aldona Wiacek, Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Aldona Wiacek, St. Mary's University
The IAP Lecture Series theme this year is "The Atmosphere as an Intersection" This the third of four talks will be by Dr. Aldona Wiacek, Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127
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Food for Free Benefit Winter Concert with Vance Gilbert
Friday, January 18, 2012
6 p.m.
Christian Life Center St. Paul AME Church, 85 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge
TICKETS: $25 Buy tickets at http://www.foodforfree.org/ticket-sales
Christian Life Center St. Paul AME Church, 85 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge
TICKETS: $25 Buy tickets at http://www.foodforfree.org/ticket-sales
Warm up with some local butternut soup and fantastic music all while supporting two local organizations committed to getting fresh healthy food to those in need…
Join Food For Free for a cozy winter evening of music, laughter, and of course, food! “With the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil, and the guitar playing of a god” (Fort Worth Star Telegram), Vance Gilbert has performed with artists as varied as Arlo Guthrie, Anita Baker, Shawn Colvin, and the late George Carlin, and is known for his thoughtful lyrics, clever melodies, and comedic performances.
Proceeds from the Winter Concert will support Food For Free and St. Paul AME Food Pantry, one of Food For Free’s recipient agencies.
Butternuts generously donated by Plato’sHarvest Organic Farm and soup prepared with love and care by JJ Gonson and Cuisine en Locale
Proceeds from the Winter Concert will support Food For Free and St. Paul AME Food Pantry, one of Food For Free’s recipient agencies.
Butternuts generously donated by Plato’sHarvest Organic Farm and soup prepared with love and care by JJ Gonson and Cuisine en Locale
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Saturday, January 19
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Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set
Hacks/Hackers Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
9:00 AM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/98369922/
NOTE: This is *proposed only*. If there's a good turnout, we'll schedule.
AdvancedNLFStats has released every play in the NFL since 2002. What can that tell us about Belichick's 3rd down mentality? Help find out at a hackathon focused on NFL data: We'll work on visualizations, interactives, and any other creative ideas you come up with.
AdvancedNLFStats has released every play in the NFL since 2002. What can that tell us about Belichick's 3rd down mentality? Help find out at a hackathon focused on NFL data: We'll work on visualizations, interactives, and any other creative ideas you come up with.
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CrisisCamp Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
10:00 AM - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EST)
MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media space, Wiesner Building, E15, Room 344, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
CrisisCamp brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.
Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.
CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.
In response to Hurricane Sandy a group of netizens began to congregate online via etherpads, Google Docs, and IRC calling themselves Hurricane Hackers. In trying to find a fit between a predominant set of technological skills and Sandy needs, HurricaneHackers converged with SandyCrisisCamps and rebooted CrisisCamp Boston in conjunction with a globally coordinated hackathon held November 3rd.
It quickly became clear that effective crisis response is built upon preexisting disaster preparedness efforts which is why we are organizing a series of 2013 CrisisCamp Boston hackathons!
Come design, code, and learn with other people at the MIT Media Lab. Even if you aren't a software developer there will be plenty to do including sharing experiences and ideas, documenting activity, running social media communications, taking and editing video, organizing future events, etc!
This event is free and open to the public.
Come prepared:
There will also be local Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on hand to discuss how technology can be used (and not) in crisis situations.
About CrisisCommons - http://crisiscommons.org/
CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development.
CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis.
CrisisCamp brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.
Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.
CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.
In response to Hurricane Sandy a group of netizens began to congregate online via etherpads, Google Docs, and IRC calling themselves Hurricane Hackers. In trying to find a fit between a predominant set of technological skills and Sandy needs, HurricaneHackers converged with SandyCrisisCamps and rebooted CrisisCamp Boston in conjunction with a globally coordinated hackathon held November 3rd.
It quickly became clear that effective crisis response is built upon preexisting disaster preparedness efforts which is why we are organizing a series of 2013 CrisisCamp Boston hackathons!
Come design, code, and learn with other people at the MIT Media Lab. Even if you aren't a software developer there will be plenty to do including sharing experiences and ideas, documenting activity, running social media communications, taking and editing video, organizing future events, etc!
This event is free and open to the public.
Come prepared:
Make sure your programs are up to date.
Learn how github works.
Review projects and lessons learned from the last CrisisCamp Boston.
Check out the CrisisCamp Boston page on the CrisisCommons wiki for more information.
About CrisisCommons - http://crisiscommons.org/
CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development.
CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis.
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2nd Annual Citywide Seed Swap
Saturday, January 19, 2013
1:00 PM To 3:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston
1:00 PM To 3:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/events/98791
Come gather with other gardeners from around the city to swap seeds and share stories and wisdom about growing your favorite vegetables and flowers. Bring your favorite heirloom, your most unique find or all time dependable seeds and pour over seed catalogs. Guidance on spring garden planning, seed saving and seed storage will be provided by Boston Natural Areas Network staff. We will even have some of our own free seeds on hand.
Event is free and open to the public. Drop by anytime between 1:00 and 3:00pm.
Event is free and open to the public. Drop by anytime between 1:00 and 3:00pm.
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Sunday, January 20
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CrisisCamp Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
10:00 AM - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EST)
MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media space, Wiesner Building, E15, Room 344, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
CrisisCamp brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.
Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.
CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.
In response to Hurricane Sandy a group of netizens began to congregate online via etherpads, Google Docs, and IRC calling themselves Hurricane Hackers. In trying to find a fit between a predominant set of technological skills and Sandy needs, HurricaneHackers converged with SandyCrisisCamps and rebooted CrisisCamp Boston in conjunction with a globally coordinated hackathon held November 3rd.
It quickly became clear that effective crisis response is built upon preexisting disaster preparedness efforts which is why we are organizing a series of 2013 CrisisCamp Boston hackathons!
Come design, code, and learn with other people at the MIT Media Lab. Even if you aren't a software developer there will be plenty to do including sharing experiences and ideas, documenting activity, running social media communications, taking and editing video, organizing future events, etc!
This event is free and open to the public.
Come prepared:
Make sure your programs are up to date.
Learn how github works.
Review projects and lessons learned from the last CrisisCamp Boston.
Check out the CrisisCamp Boston page on the CrisisCommons wiki for more information.
There will also be local Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on hand to discuss how technology can be used (and not) in crisis situations.
About CrisisCommons - http://crisiscommons.org/
CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development.
CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis.
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10:00 AM - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EST)
MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media space, Wiesner Building, E15, Room 344, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
CrisisCamp brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.
Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.
CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.
In response to Hurricane Sandy a group of netizens began to congregate online via etherpads, Google Docs, and IRC calling themselves Hurricane Hackers. In trying to find a fit between a predominant set of technological skills and Sandy needs, HurricaneHackers converged with SandyCrisisCamps and rebooted CrisisCamp Boston in conjunction with a globally coordinated hackathon held November 3rd.
It quickly became clear that effective crisis response is built upon preexisting disaster preparedness efforts which is why we are organizing a series of 2013 CrisisCamp Boston hackathons!
Come design, code, and learn with other people at the MIT Media Lab. Even if you aren't a software developer there will be plenty to do including sharing experiences and ideas, documenting activity, running social media communications, taking and editing video, organizing future events, etc!
This event is free and open to the public.
Come prepared:
Make sure your programs are up to date.
Learn how github works.
Review projects and lessons learned from the last CrisisCamp Boston.
Check out the CrisisCamp Boston page on the CrisisCommons wiki for more information.
There will also be local Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on hand to discuss how technology can be used (and not) in crisis situations.
About CrisisCommons - http://crisiscommons.org/
CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development.
CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis.
Monday, January 21
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Martin Luther King Junior Day - be peace
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Tuesday, January 22
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Financial Crises and Amplification Mechanisms
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
10:30a–12:00p
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alp Simsek (MIT)
10:30a–12:00p
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alp Simsek (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments
Jan/22 Tue
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments
Jan/22 Tue
11:00AM-01:00PM
MIT, Building 4-153, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz
Excess power production in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment; lack of confirmation in early negative experiments; theoretical problems and Huizenga's three miracles; physical chemistry of PdD; electrochemistry of PdD; loading requirements on excess power production; the nuclear ash problem and He-4 observations; approaches to theory; screening in PdD; PdD as an energetic particle detector; constraints on the alpha energy from experiment; overview of theoretical approaches; coherent energy exchange between mismatched quantum systems; coherent x-rays in the Karabut experiment and interpretation; excess power in the NiH system; Piantelli experiment; prospects for a new small scale clean nuclear energy technology.
Excess power production in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment; lack of confirmation in early negative experiments; theoretical problems and Huizenga's three miracles; physical chemistry of PdD; electrochemistry of PdD; loading requirements on excess power production; the nuclear ash problem and He-4 observations; approaches to theory; screening in PdD; PdD as an energetic particle detector; constraints on the alpha energy from experiment; overview of theoretical approaches; coherent energy exchange between mismatched quantum systems; coherent x-rays in the Karabut experiment and interpretation; excess power in the NiH system; Piantelli experiment; prospects for a new small scale clean nuclear energy technology.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Peter Hagelstein, plh@mit.edu
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Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China
January 22
January 22
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/01/wertime#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Co-sponsored by the MIT Center for Civic Media
David Wertime, Tea Leaf Nation
In what ways is the Chinese Internet a better source for grassroots Chinese sentiment than traditional quotes and sources? In what ways is it worse? More broadly, what best practices can and should journalists use when mining social media for sentiment?
About David
David Wertime is the co-founder and co-editor of Tea Leaf Nation, an English-language online magazine that synthesizes and analyzes Chinese social media. Tea Leaf Nation is a partner site with The Atlantic and has dozens of volunteer contributors.
Before founding Tea Leaf Nation, David graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York and Hong Kong. He first encountered China as a Peace Corps Volunteer, serving in Fuling, China from 2001 to 2003.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/01/wertime#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Co-sponsored by the MIT Center for Civic Media
David Wertime, Tea Leaf Nation
In what ways is the Chinese Internet a better source for grassroots Chinese sentiment than traditional quotes and sources? In what ways is it worse? More broadly, what best practices can and should journalists use when mining social media for sentiment?
About David
David Wertime is the co-founder and co-editor of Tea Leaf Nation, an English-language online magazine that synthesizes and analyzes Chinese social media. Tea Leaf Nation is a partner site with The Atlantic and has dozens of volunteer contributors.
Before founding Tea Leaf Nation, David graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York and Hong Kong. He first encountered China as a Peace Corps Volunteer, serving in Fuling, China from 2001 to 2003.
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Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
7:00 PM To 10:00 PM
Eastern Bank, 647 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
7:00 PM To 10:00 PM
Eastern Bank, 647 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The bank is near the center of Central Square, where Prospect and Mass Ave cross, - there is a Starbucks on the Northeast corner of the intersection. Next to Starbucks is a Flower shop, and next to that is Eastern Bank. You can see the conference room thru the window, so just wave to us and we will let you in.
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Clean-Tech-and-Energy/events/93233652/
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Clean-Tech-and-Energy/events/93233652/
The Agenda is:
We will introduce ourselves and tell about our interest, expertise or work (1st hr)
We will introduce ourselves and tell about our interest, expertise or work (1st hr)
You can give a ~3 to 5 minute elevator speach about your startup if you would like. (We will divide the 1st hour by # of people.)
What stage is your ideas or startup? What is your goal?
Tell what personnel or additional expertise, funding, etc. you are seeking,
Discussion and Brainstorming on (2nd hr)
ideas for viable moneymaking startups,
methods of collaboration, networking, forming teams & partnerships etc.
marketing, media, social media, ideas that have worked well for publicity
Agencies, websites, companies that assist startups
Boston Greenfest & Gov't opportunities.
What would you like to see in future meetups?
Seminars - We will have seminars by Sustainable Energy engineers and other tech experts as often as possible.
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9/11 Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak
Jan/22 Tue
Jan/22 Tue
07:00PM-10:00PM
MIT, Building 56-114 (the tallest building on campus)
Experts in high-rise architecture, structural engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, explosives and demolition give you their professional expertise on 9/11. It's not conspiracy, it's forensics. Most viewed & shared for weeks on PBS nationally.
Eight experts in the workings of the human mind explain why this seems so difficult for so many of us to process.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isTGualn9A
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CONTINUITY Hurricane Sandy Hot Wash and After Action Survey: GBFEB and FEMA Region I
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
1:30 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)
The John W. McCormack Building, 5 Post Office Square, Memorial Hall, 1st Floor, Boston
If you plan to attend this free event, please RSVP by Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at http://sandycontinuityregion1aar-es2001.eventbrite.com
FEMA Region I, the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board, and the regional COOP Working Group will sponsor a Post Hurricane Sandy Continuity Lessons Learned Hot Wash on January 23, 2013to identify continuity of operations (COOP) experiences lessons learned, and best practicesbefore, during, and after Hurricane Sandy. In addition, this process will provide the continuity of operations component to the overall Hurricane Sandy After Action Report (AAR)/Improvement Plan and will be driven by feedback from the attached survey.
The target audience for participation is the Federal D/As and the Federal Executive Boards and Associations (FEB/FEA) from within FEMA Regional Offices in Regions I, II, and III that were affected by Hurricane Sandy.
FEMA Region I, the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board, and the regional COOP Working Group will sponsor a Post Hurricane Sandy Continuity Lessons Learned Hot Wash on January 23, 2013to identify continuity of operations (COOP) experiences lessons learned, and best practicesbefore, during, and after Hurricane Sandy. In addition, this process will provide the continuity of operations component to the overall Hurricane Sandy After Action Report (AAR)/Improvement Plan and will be driven by feedback from the attached survey.
The target audience for participation is the Federal D/As and the Federal Executive Boards and Associations (FEB/FEA) from within FEMA Regional Offices in Regions I, II, and III that were affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Objectives
Identify and document agency continuity of operations and related strengths and weaknesses during the Hurricane Sandy event.
Share lessons learned from D/A’s ability or inability to conduct their respective Mission Essential Functions (MEFs) and Essential Supporting Activities (ESAs).
Discuss best practices that serve as the basis for designing or improving a continuity of operations capability to ensure continued performance of MEFs during a disruption to normal operations.
Develop useful continuity-related information to disseminate to D/As prior to another similar event.
For more information, please contact Nate Spada at nathan.spada@fema.dhs.gov or (617) 832-4745.
Identify and document agency continuity of operations and related strengths and weaknesses during the Hurricane Sandy event.
Share lessons learned from D/A’s ability or inability to conduct their respective Mission Essential Functions (MEFs) and Essential Supporting Activities (ESAs).
Discuss best practices that serve as the basis for designing or improving a continuity of operations capability to ensure continued performance of MEFs during a disruption to normal operations.
Develop useful continuity-related information to disseminate to D/As prior to another similar event.
For more information, please contact Nate Spada at nathan.spada@fema.dhs.gov or (617) 832-4745.
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CROWDFUNDING INNOVATION 2 - A MASS INNOVATION NIGHTS SPECIAL EVENT
1/23/2013
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://crowdinno2-zvents.eventbrite.com
Cost: $25
Crowdfunding Innovation 2 is Mass Innovation Nights' second special crowdfunding event, designed to help you make sense of what's happening RIGHT NOW in the crowdfunding space.
Meet the people behind exciting NEW projects that are looking for your support!
Three projects from our September Crowdfunding Innovation event will tell their crowdfunding success stories. The panel will feature:
Lessons learned - What works and what doesn't
How to take advantage of the "rewards" model while the space is at a fever pitch
The pros and cons of the new crowdfunding model
What's next for our crowdfunding veterans?
At Crowdfunding Innovation 2, you'll :
Meet innovative people who are kicking off exciting new projects before anyone else does.
Learn how you can earn cool rewards while you support local crowdfunding projects
Learn how you can set up and promote your own crowdfunding effort
Participate in an exciting and exclusive networking opportunity
PLUS refreshments and fun
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CROWDFUNDING INNOVATION 2 - A MASS INNOVATION NIGHTS SPECIAL EVENT
1/23/2013
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://crowdinno2-zvents.eventbrite.com
Cost: $25
Crowdfunding Innovation 2 is Mass Innovation Nights' second special crowdfunding event, designed to help you make sense of what's happening RIGHT NOW in the crowdfunding space.
Meet the people behind exciting NEW projects that are looking for your support!
Three projects from our September Crowdfunding Innovation event will tell their crowdfunding success stories. The panel will feature:
Lessons learned - What works and what doesn't
How to take advantage of the "rewards" model while the space is at a fever pitch
The pros and cons of the new crowdfunding model
What's next for our crowdfunding veterans?
At Crowdfunding Innovation 2, you'll :
Meet innovative people who are kicking off exciting new projects before anyone else does.
Learn how you can earn cool rewards while you support local crowdfunding projects
Learn how you can set up and promote your own crowdfunding effort
Participate in an exciting and exclusive networking opportunity
PLUS refreshments and fun
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The Analysis of Social Network Data: An Exciting Frontier for Statisticians
WHEN Thu., Jan. 24, 2013, 7:45 – 9:15 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Room 10, 2nd floor
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Technology Assessment Group
SPEAKER(S) A. James O'Malley, associate professor of healthcare policy, Harvard Medical School
CONTACT INFO debra_milamed@hms.harvard.edu
NOTE Breakfast is provided.
WHEN Thu., Jan. 24, 2013, 7:45 – 9:15 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Room 10, 2nd floor
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Technology Assessment Group
SPEAKER(S) A. James O'Malley, associate professor of healthcare policy, Harvard Medical School
CONTACT INFO debra_milamed@hms.harvard.edu
NOTE Breakfast is provided.
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Evening Performances [recommended for ages 12 & older]:
Bread and Puppet Theater: The Possibilitarians and Dead Man Rises
Jan. 24-Jan. 27, Thurs.-Sun.
Bread and Puppet Theater: The Possibilitarians and Dead Man Rises
Jan. 24-Jan. 27, Thurs.-Sun.
7:00 pm
$12 general admission ($10 students, seniors, & groups)
http://tinyurl.com/aw2h4yh - provides a discount offer of 2 for 1 for the Thurs. nite show (so $6 ea.), and $2 off regular admission ($12) for all shows. [There are also student, senior, and kid discounts already in place.] And then of course, all kids 2 and under get in free for the Circus matinees.
$12 general admission ($10 students, seniors, & groups)
http://tinyurl.com/aw2h4yh - provides a discount offer of 2 for 1 for the Thurs. nite show (so $6 ea.), and $2 off regular admission ($12) for all shows. [There are also student, senior, and kid discounts already in place.] And then of course, all kids 2 and under get in free for the Circus matinees.
Running time: 1 1/2 hours with a short intermission.
Description:
The Possibilitarians, a play with live music and giant puppets, addresses present day occupiers, uprisers, and possibilitarians to learn from the 17th century diggers and levelers, and to start digging and leveling and opposing and countering the crumbling economic system and its inherited misrelation to Mother Earth, and to re-educate the disemployed hands & feet of the machine-age! Dead Man Rises is a fairytale-like life-size puppet show originally created by Bread & Puppet in the mid 60's, most notably performed as part of the student occupation at Columbia University in New York City in 1968. After each performance, the audience is invited to join an informal talk-back with the artists, to eat home-made sourdough rye bread smeared with aioli, and to peruse the Cheap Art for sale.
Family-Friendly Matinees:
Bread & Puppet Theater: The Circus of the Possibilitarians
Jan. 26 & Jan. 27, Sat. & Sun., 2:00 pm
$12 general admission ($10 students, seniors, & groups, $6 kids ages 3-11 [2 & under free])
Running time: 1 hour w/o intermission.
Description:
The Circus of the Possibilitarians is a satirical horse and butterfly circus, addressing pertinent national and international issues in a clownish fashion, including rotten ideas, a wild dancing horse and some mellow lions, a solemn salute to the world's casualties and much more! The Dire Circumstance Jubilation Ensemble provides a little bit of brass and plenty of noise. Please take note that even if some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, accompanying kids can usually explain them. After each performance, the audience is welcome to examine all the masks and puppets and to peruse the Cheap Art for sale.
Visual Art Exhibit:
Bread and Puppet Theater: 50th anniversary visual art installation created by Peter Schumann.
Jan. 21-Jan. 27, Mon.-Sun.
Free and open to all.
Description: Bread and Puppet Theater Artistic Director Peter Schumann’s most recent visual art exploration which speaks to matters that concern us all.
Exhibit details:
—Mon., Jan. 21, 6:00-8:00 pm: 50th anniversary opening reception, with refreshments, a fiddle talk given by Schumann, short skits, and music performed by the touring company along with local musicians.
—Tues.-Fri., Jan. 22-25: regular Cyclorama hours: 9:00 am-5:00 pm [Thursday & Friday hours extended up to and after the evening performances].
—Sat. & Sun., Jan. 26 & 27: one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.
For this residency at the Cyclorama, both the evening and matinee performances will be performed by Peter Schumann, the Bread and Puppet touring company, and a large number of local volunteers and musicians, including the popular Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band (www.slsaps.org), which serves as the house band for Bread & Puppet’s Boston performances and is also the host band for the annual HONK! Festival (www.honkfest.org) held in October in Davis Square, Somerville.
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Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs: An Urgently Needed Land-Based Option
Friday, January 25, 2013
2:00 - 4:00 PM, ASEAN Auditorium
The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Reception to follow
RSVP at http://allansavory.eventbrite.com
Allan Savory, Rancher and Restoration Ecologist, Founder of the Savory Institute and originator of the Holistic Management approach to restoring grasslands, winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, and finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge
Presented by CIERP’s Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program with the Friedman School’s Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program and Planet-TECH Associates
Free and open to the public. Convened by the Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher;
the Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program of Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; and Planet-TECH Associates.
First in a Series of "Creating the Future We Want" Events.
While governments posture and dither, a pragmatic practitioner and intellectual entrepreneur, Allan Savory,has been developing and demonstrating a powerful technique that can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere immediately while reversing desertification and providing livelihoods and food for millions of people. His applied research based in Zimbabwe on the restoration of grasslands has now been replicated on millions of acres worldwide. The application of his methods has the potential to significantly reduce atmospheric carbon through an increase in plant growth and soil formation. This process begins immediately and involves no new technologies, only a shift to the Holistic Management practices for livestock that he has pioneered. Major organizations and institutions are now recognizing his work, but climate scientists and governments have yet to incorporate it into their analyses and policy prescriptions.
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BEANPOT HACKATHON
1/25/2013 - 1/27/2013 ADD TO CALENDAR
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://hackbeanpot.eventbrite.com
Audience: Students in the Boston area
Description: We're hosting a hackathon to bring together the student hacker community in Boston through some friendly competition. We're bringing in mentors from the area to help students deal with their technical and design challenges. This event is a collaboration with Hack Harvard and MIT's SIPB group.
We also usually bring in sponsors to get food and prizes, which include local and nationally-known companies and startups.
Also, anyone who attends this hackathon would be able to continue to build their idea at a workshop at PayPal a few weeks later, which I guess makes this the playoffs.
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Regional Environmental Action
January 26th, 2013
Portland, Maine
ONE (Occupy New England) and 350 New England are hosting a day of regional action for the environment in Portland Maine! Topics on the table include: fracking in the Pioneer Valley; the Northern Pass project; the Vermont Yankee power plant; and, of course, the infamous Trailbreaker tar sands pipeline! After the rally, we will be meeting to discuss this year’s events. The event might be catered by Food Not Bombs Portland, so come on an empty stomach!
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Description:
The Possibilitarians, a play with live music and giant puppets, addresses present day occupiers, uprisers, and possibilitarians to learn from the 17th century diggers and levelers, and to start digging and leveling and opposing and countering the crumbling economic system and its inherited misrelation to Mother Earth, and to re-educate the disemployed hands & feet of the machine-age! Dead Man Rises is a fairytale-like life-size puppet show originally created by Bread & Puppet in the mid 60's, most notably performed as part of the student occupation at Columbia University in New York City in 1968. After each performance, the audience is invited to join an informal talk-back with the artists, to eat home-made sourdough rye bread smeared with aioli, and to peruse the Cheap Art for sale.
Family-Friendly Matinees:
Bread & Puppet Theater: The Circus of the Possibilitarians
Jan. 26 & Jan. 27, Sat. & Sun., 2:00 pm
$12 general admission ($10 students, seniors, & groups, $6 kids ages 3-11 [2 & under free])
Running time: 1 hour w/o intermission.
Description:
The Circus of the Possibilitarians is a satirical horse and butterfly circus, addressing pertinent national and international issues in a clownish fashion, including rotten ideas, a wild dancing horse and some mellow lions, a solemn salute to the world's casualties and much more! The Dire Circumstance Jubilation Ensemble provides a little bit of brass and plenty of noise. Please take note that even if some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, accompanying kids can usually explain them. After each performance, the audience is welcome to examine all the masks and puppets and to peruse the Cheap Art for sale.
Visual Art Exhibit:
Bread and Puppet Theater: 50th anniversary visual art installation created by Peter Schumann.
Jan. 21-Jan. 27, Mon.-Sun.
Free and open to all.
Description: Bread and Puppet Theater Artistic Director Peter Schumann’s most recent visual art exploration which speaks to matters that concern us all.
Exhibit details:
—Mon., Jan. 21, 6:00-8:00 pm: 50th anniversary opening reception, with refreshments, a fiddle talk given by Schumann, short skits, and music performed by the touring company along with local musicians.
—Tues.-Fri., Jan. 22-25: regular Cyclorama hours: 9:00 am-5:00 pm [Thursday & Friday hours extended up to and after the evening performances].
—Sat. & Sun., Jan. 26 & 27: one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.
For this residency at the Cyclorama, both the evening and matinee performances will be performed by Peter Schumann, the Bread and Puppet touring company, and a large number of local volunteers and musicians, including the popular Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band (www.slsaps.org), which serves as the house band for Bread & Puppet’s Boston performances and is also the host band for the annual HONK! Festival (www.honkfest.org) held in October in Davis Square, Somerville.
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Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs: An Urgently Needed Land-Based Option
Friday, January 25, 2013
2:00 - 4:00 PM, ASEAN Auditorium
The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Reception to follow
RSVP at http://allansavory.eventbrite.com
Allan Savory, Rancher and Restoration Ecologist, Founder of the Savory Institute and originator of the Holistic Management approach to restoring grasslands, winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, and finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge
Presented by CIERP’s Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program with the Friedman School’s Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program and Planet-TECH Associates
Free and open to the public. Convened by the Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher;
the Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program of Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; and Planet-TECH Associates.
First in a Series of "Creating the Future We Want" Events.
While governments posture and dither, a pragmatic practitioner and intellectual entrepreneur, Allan Savory,has been developing and demonstrating a powerful technique that can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere immediately while reversing desertification and providing livelihoods and food for millions of people. His applied research based in Zimbabwe on the restoration of grasslands has now been replicated on millions of acres worldwide. The application of his methods has the potential to significantly reduce atmospheric carbon through an increase in plant growth and soil formation. This process begins immediately and involves no new technologies, only a shift to the Holistic Management practices for livestock that he has pioneered. Major organizations and institutions are now recognizing his work, but climate scientists and governments have yet to incorporate it into their analyses and policy prescriptions.
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BEANPOT HACKATHON
1/25/2013 - 1/27/2013 ADD TO CALENDAR
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://hackbeanpot.eventbrite.com
Audience: Students in the Boston area
Description: We're hosting a hackathon to bring together the student hacker community in Boston through some friendly competition. We're bringing in mentors from the area to help students deal with their technical and design challenges. This event is a collaboration with Hack Harvard and MIT's SIPB group.
We also usually bring in sponsors to get food and prizes, which include local and nationally-known companies and startups.
Also, anyone who attends this hackathon would be able to continue to build their idea at a workshop at PayPal a few weeks later, which I guess makes this the playoffs.
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Regional Environmental Action
January 26th, 2013
Portland, Maine
ONE (Occupy New England) and 350 New England are hosting a day of regional action for the environment in Portland Maine! Topics on the table include: fracking in the Pioneer Valley; the Northern Pass project; the Vermont Yankee power plant; and, of course, the infamous Trailbreaker tar sands pipeline! After the rally, we will be meeting to discuss this year’s events. The event might be catered by Food Not Bombs Portland, so come on an empty stomach!
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Brookline Climate Week 2013! Save the Dates!
January 26 - February 3
events and displays throughout town, Brookline , MA
info@ClimateActionBrookline.org
www.climateactionbrookline.org
Our third annual Brookline Climate Week 2013 features over 50 events and displays. Thid year's Climate Week centerpiece is Brookline Reads, a community reads together program, a collaboration between the Brookline Public Library and Climate Action Brookline. This year's book selection is The Dirty Life, a Memoir of Farming, Food and Love. Copies of the book are available at the Brookline Libraries and Brookline Booksmith. Author Kristin Kimball appears for a special author event scheduled for Thursday, January 31, Hunneman Hall, Main Library, 7:00 pm. Other Climate Week features include a Climate Week kick off event, a 3R Depot: Reduce, Renew, Recycle Extravaganza at Town Hall, 333 Washington St. scheduled for Saturday, January 26, 10am-2pm. There will be eleven stations including a youth sports equipment exchange and youth formal wear collection and swap, plus strofoam, building materials,and kids clothing drop offs along with 4 separate information sessions to learn ways to make your home energy efficient. While you are there, visit Be A-MAZED, an outdoor installation between town hall and the Main Library and Farm2Table2Farm a cyclorama at the Main Library, Hunneman Hall and take a Harvard Street Walking Tour of storefronts and displays from Brookline Village to Coolidge Corner. For details and information on over fifty events and displays visit our Climate Week website at www.brooklineclimateweek.org. The site includes event and display descriptions and details and a downloadable map/schedule. See you at Brookline Climate Week 2013.
January 26 - February 3
events and displays throughout town, Brookline , MA
info@ClimateActionBrookline.org
www.climateactionbrookline.org
Our third annual Brookline Climate Week 2013 features over 50 events and displays. Thid year's Climate Week centerpiece is Brookline Reads, a community reads together program, a collaboration between the Brookline Public Library and Climate Action Brookline. This year's book selection is The Dirty Life, a Memoir of Farming, Food and Love. Copies of the book are available at the Brookline Libraries and Brookline Booksmith. Author Kristin Kimball appears for a special author event scheduled for Thursday, January 31, Hunneman Hall, Main Library, 7:00 pm. Other Climate Week features include a Climate Week kick off event, a 3R Depot: Reduce, Renew, Recycle Extravaganza at Town Hall, 333 Washington St. scheduled for Saturday, January 26, 10am-2pm. There will be eleven stations including a youth sports equipment exchange and youth formal wear collection and swap, plus strofoam, building materials,and kids clothing drop offs along with 4 separate information sessions to learn ways to make your home energy efficient. While you are there, visit Be A-MAZED, an outdoor installation between town hall and the Main Library and Farm2Table2Farm a cyclorama at the Main Library, Hunneman Hall and take a Harvard Street Walking Tour of storefronts and displays from Brookline Village to Coolidge Corner. For details and information on over fifty events and displays visit our Climate Week website at www.brooklineclimateweek.org. The site includes event and display descriptions and details and a downloadable map/schedule. See you at Brookline Climate Week 2013.
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Askwith Forum on the Futures of School Reform
WHEN Tue., Jan. 29, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Panel, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture
NOTE Speakers include:
Frederick Hess, Ed.M.’90, resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Jal Mehta, assistant professor of education, HGSE
Paul Reville, secretary of education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and senior lecturer on education, HGSE
Robert Schwartz, C.A.S.’68, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Description coming soon. Please check back for additional information.
Please note: Seating for all Askwith Forums is on a first-come, first-serve basis unless otherwise noted. It is recommended you arrive early in order to obtain a seat as seats cannot be saved.
Want to win a reserved seat for this forum? Become a fan of the Ed School on Facebook (www.facebook.com/harvardeducation) and watch for a posting about this event.
Connect with Us:
Tweeting at an Askwith Forum? Use the #Askwith hashtag.
Attending a Forum? Check in on Foursquare (www.foursquare.com/hgse)
For more information on Askwith Forums, please visit our Frequently Asked Questionspage.
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Askwith Forum on the Futures of School Reform
WHEN Tue., Jan. 29, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Panel, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture
NOTE Speakers include:
Frederick Hess, Ed.M.’90, resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Jal Mehta, assistant professor of education, HGSE
Paul Reville, secretary of education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and senior lecturer on education, HGSE
Robert Schwartz, C.A.S.’68, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Description coming soon. Please check back for additional information.
Please note: Seating for all Askwith Forums is on a first-come, first-serve basis unless otherwise noted. It is recommended you arrive early in order to obtain a seat as seats cannot be saved.
Want to win a reserved seat for this forum? Become a fan of the Ed School on Facebook (www.facebook.com/harvardeducation) and watch for a posting about this event.
Connect with Us:
Tweeting at an Askwith Forum? Use the #Askwith hashtag.
Attending a Forum? Check in on Foursquare (www.foursquare.com/hgse)
For more information on Askwith Forums, please visit our Frequently Asked Questionspage.
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The MassChallenge Sampler: An Accelerator Mini-Series
Episode I: Foundation - The "Aha" Moment
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Episode I: Foundation - The "Aha" Moment
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
MassChallenge Headquarters, Marina Park Drive, Boston
MassChallenge Headquarters, Marina Park Drive, Boston
RSVP at http://mcsamplerfoundation.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=1%2F10+Newsletter+Draft&utm_campaign
Join us as we kick off the MassChallenge Sampler with the most important stage every entrepreneur faces: The "Aha" moment and founding a company.
MassChallenge CEO and Founder John Harthorne will open with his experience of leaving his day job to launch the world's biggest startup accelerator and competition.
John will be joined by other successful entrepreneurs to discuss their challenges and triumphs in those early idea-stage days. Find out about how these founders realized it was time to burn their ships and dive into the inspiring world of startups!
Topics will include making a realistic business plan and dispelling the illusion that great ideas just happen.
The panel will conclude with Q&A and open networking.
The MassChallenge Sampler: An Accelerator Mini-Series
Episode I: Foundation - January 29, 2013
Episode II: Mentorship - February 5, 2013
Episode III: Marketing – February 19, 2013
Episode IV: Fundraising – February 26, 2013
Episode V: Leadership – March 5, 2013
Episode VI: Media – March 12, 2013
Episode VII: Networking – March 19, 2013
Episode VIII: Entrepalooza – April 9, 2013
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Suggestions?
events@masschallenge.org
Episode VI: Media – March 12, 2013
Episode VII: Networking – March 19, 2013
Episode VIII: Entrepalooza – April 9, 2013
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Suggestions?
events@masschallenge.org
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
From Geometry to Time and Compositionality: Movement Representations in the Brain
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013
4:00 pm
Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Tamar Flash will expand upon a recently developed theory regarding movement representation in the brain, based on a mixture of geometries. She will study the possible relationships between spatial, temporal, and movement representations in the brain and will formulate ideas and models concerning motor compositionally.
http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-tamar-flash-fellow-presentation
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Hand Held Screening and Reception
Thursday, January 31, 2013
7:00 pm Screening
followed by Q&A with Mike Carroll and Reception
Boston College, Fulton Hall, Auditorium 511, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
Screening is free and open to the public. Donation suggested.
Seating is limited, so registration is encouraged.
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e6u3bx6a56c8eb9c&llr=mmpotodab
The inspiring and heartwarming story of award winning photographer, Mike Carroll and his founding of Romanian Children's Relief
Romanian Children's Relief is a 501c3 non-profit charity.
Donations are tax deductible.
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Al Gore
February 6, 2013
7pm
The Memorial Church, Harvard University, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.
Click here to register for reminders and updates. Registration is optional and does not guarantee seating.
Seats are first come-first serve. Doors open at 6:15 PM, early arrival is encouraged.
Sponsored by the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health
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Urban Farming Conference - “Cultivating Lands, Nourishing Communities, Building Businesses”
Saturday, February 9, 2013
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Roxbury Community College Reggie Lewis Center, Boston, MA
Presented by: City Growers And Urban Farming Institute (UFI)
In partnership with: MA Department of Agricultural Resources
The annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance the opportunities and address the barriers involved in cultivating a thriving urban farming sector. The UFC is a forum to share information regarding what is currently happening in Boston and other local urban communities and to map out a vision for urban farming in Massachusetts.
The UFC brings together participants representing all aspects of urban farming including, but not limited to, farmers (including roof top, chicken, bees, etc.), commercial buyers, policy makers, and investors. The UFC conference is being convened to foster best urban farming practices, sustainable networks and business relationships. This will be achieved with following interactive panels and roundtable discussions:
Open Field Farming and Season Extension Techniques
Organic Farming and Its Importance
Lessons from Successful CSA Strategies
Composting: Policy, Practice and Viable Business Enterprise
Roof Top Techniques
Food System Investors Meeting
Urban Farming Thought Leaders: A Panel Discussion
Land: Strategy, Community Control, Zoning and Policy
Viable Enterprises Other Than Fruits and Vegetables
Investing in Workforce Training
Marketing Options
Registration $25. Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4701198411
Limited Seating. Register Early.
Limited Scholarships are available.
For Inquiries and Sponsorship Details, Please Contact: Crystal Johnson at Crystal@isesplanning.com, 617-416-4915
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
From Geometry to Time and Compositionality: Movement Representations in the Brain
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013
4:00 pm
Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Tamar Flash will expand upon a recently developed theory regarding movement representation in the brain, based on a mixture of geometries. She will study the possible relationships between spatial, temporal, and movement representations in the brain and will formulate ideas and models concerning motor compositionally.
http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-tamar-flash-fellow-presentation
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Hand Held Screening and Reception
Thursday, January 31, 2013
7:00 pm Screening
followed by Q&A with Mike Carroll and Reception
Boston College, Fulton Hall, Auditorium 511, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
Screening is free and open to the public. Donation suggested.
Seating is limited, so registration is encouraged.
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e6u3bx6a56c8eb9c&llr=mmpotodab
The inspiring and heartwarming story of award winning photographer, Mike Carroll and his founding of Romanian Children's Relief
Romanian Children's Relief is a 501c3 non-profit charity.
Donations are tax deductible.
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Al Gore
February 6, 2013
7pm
The Memorial Church, Harvard University, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.
Click here to register for reminders and updates. Registration is optional and does not guarantee seating.
Seats are first come-first serve. Doors open at 6:15 PM, early arrival is encouraged.
Sponsored by the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health
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Urban Farming Conference - “Cultivating Lands, Nourishing Communities, Building Businesses”
Saturday, February 9, 2013
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Roxbury Community College Reggie Lewis Center, Boston, MA
Presented by: City Growers And Urban Farming Institute (UFI)
In partnership with: MA Department of Agricultural Resources
The annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance the opportunities and address the barriers involved in cultivating a thriving urban farming sector. The UFC is a forum to share information regarding what is currently happening in Boston and other local urban communities and to map out a vision for urban farming in Massachusetts.
The UFC brings together participants representing all aspects of urban farming including, but not limited to, farmers (including roof top, chicken, bees, etc.), commercial buyers, policy makers, and investors. The UFC conference is being convened to foster best urban farming practices, sustainable networks and business relationships. This will be achieved with following interactive panels and roundtable discussions:
Open Field Farming and Season Extension Techniques
Organic Farming and Its Importance
Lessons from Successful CSA Strategies
Composting: Policy, Practice and Viable Business Enterprise
Roof Top Techniques
Food System Investors Meeting
Urban Farming Thought Leaders: A Panel Discussion
Land: Strategy, Community Control, Zoning and Policy
Viable Enterprises Other Than Fruits and Vegetables
Investing in Workforce Training
Marketing Options
Registration $25. Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4701198411
Limited Seating. Register Early.
Limited Scholarships are available.
For Inquiries and Sponsorship Details, Please Contact: Crystal Johnson at Crystal@isesplanning.com, 617-416-4915
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Climate Change Demonstration in Washington DC
February 17, 2013
RSVP at http://act.350.org/signup/presidentsday
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“Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications”
Monday, February 25, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Kirsten Rodine Hardy
Assistant Professor, Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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“Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications”
Monday, February 25, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Kirsten Rodine Hardy
Assistant Professor, Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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NESEA Building Energy Conference
March 5-7
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston
Register at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
Building Energy is the premier green building and energy conference in the Northeast. It's audience is primarily professional architects, buildings, planners, and designers but it showcases the latest technology available for the energy conscious consumer as well.
It costs money but is definitely worth it, even if you are just going to the trade show.
This year should be especially good as Paul Eldrenkamp of Biggmeister, a fine energy craftsman, led the conference committee.
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“Open Source Science and Social Science: Forming a Public Laboratory”
Monday, March 11, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Sara Wylie
Senior Research Scientist, Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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“Building Social-Ecological Cities: Community Development and the Institutional Challenge of Urban Environmentalism”
Monday, March 18, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
James Connolly
Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Policy and Urban Affairs, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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“Ecological Forecasting: How Science Can Help Society to Proactively Prepare for a Warmer World”
Monday, March 25, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Brian Helmuth
Professor, Marine and Environmental Science and Public Policy, College of Science and College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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Opportunity
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Boiler Rebate
If your boiler is from 1983 or earlier, Mass Save will give a $1,750 to $4,000 rebate to switch it out for a new efficient boiler that uses the same fuel (i.e. if you have oil, you have to continue to use oil) so long as it is installed by July 31, 2012.
Call Mass Save (866 527-7283) to sign up for a home energy assessment or sign-up online at www.nextsteplivinginc.com/HEET and HEET will receive a $10 contribution from Next Step Living for every completed assessment.
This is a great way to reduce climate change emissions for the next 20 or so years the boiler lasts, while saving money.
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CEA Solar Hot Water Grants
Cambridge, through the Cambridge Energy Alliance initiative, is offering a limited number of grants to residents and businesses for solar hot water systems. The grants will cover 50% of the remaining out of pocket costs of the system after other incentives, up to $2,000.
Applications will be accepted up to November 19, 2012 and are available on a first come, first serve basis until funding runs out. The Cambridge grant will complement other incentives including the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center solar thermal grants. For more information, see
http://cambridgeenergyalliance.org/resources/additional-resources/solar-hot-water-grant-program
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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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
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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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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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://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Cambridge Civic Journal http://www.rwinters.com
http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
“Open Source Science and Social Science: Forming a Public Laboratory”
Monday, March 11, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Sara Wylie
Senior Research Scientist, Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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“Building Social-Ecological Cities: Community Development and the Institutional Challenge of Urban Environmentalism”
Monday, March 18, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
James Connolly
Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Policy and Urban Affairs, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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“Ecological Forecasting: How Science Can Help Society to Proactively Prepare for a Warmer World”
Monday, March 25, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Brian Helmuth
Professor, Marine and Environmental Science and Public Policy, College of Science and College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities@neu.edu
617-373-4140
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Opportunity
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*************
Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Boiler Rebate
If your boiler is from 1983 or earlier, Mass Save will give a $1,750 to $4,000 rebate to switch it out for a new efficient boiler that uses the same fuel (i.e. if you have oil, you have to continue to use oil) so long as it is installed by July 31, 2012.
Call Mass Save (866 527-7283) to sign up for a home energy assessment or sign-up online at www.nextsteplivinginc.com/HEET and HEET will receive a $10 contribution from Next Step Living for every completed assessment.
This is a great way to reduce climate change emissions for the next 20 or so years the boiler lasts, while saving money.
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CEA Solar Hot Water Grants
Cambridge, through the Cambridge Energy Alliance initiative, is offering a limited number of grants to residents and businesses for solar hot water systems. The grants will cover 50% of the remaining out of pocket costs of the system after other incentives, up to $2,000.
Applications will be accepted up to November 19, 2012 and are available on a first come, first serve basis until funding runs out. The Cambridge grant will complement other incentives including the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center solar thermal grants. For more information, see
http://cambridgeenergyalliance.org/resources/additional-resources/solar-hot-water-grant-program
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
---------------------
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
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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
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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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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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://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Cambridge Civic Journal http://www.rwinters.com
http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
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