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A moment of silence for remembrance, the heart, and peace.
Unknown Auschwitz Satyagraha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAio8jsAoRE&feature=share&list=UUPtqzNhqtEDQU376_Vlc7hg
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, April 29
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12pm The Role of the Mid-Level Vortex in Tropical Cyclogenesis
12pm "Power Sector Technology Investment Planning under Uncertainty"
12:30pm Performative Design of Genetically-Engineered Structures
12:30pm Mapping Malaria: Populations, Parasites, and Movements
1pm "Future Africa" a talk by Jonathan Ledgard
2pm Media Lab Conversations Series: Greg Brandeau and Josh Sarantitis
4pm The Clash of Values in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
4pm Migration, Health, and Well-Being in Rural Africa
4:10pm Chinese Cities: Booming Growth or Doomed to Fail?
5pm Building Capacity for Scientific and Technological Catch-Up in Developing
Countries: The Role of The World Academy of Science
5pm Fashion Innovators @ MIT
6pm Writing in Water
6:30pm MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Innovation Showcase
7pm Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
8pm Nerd Nite
8pm FORUM: George Russell's African Game
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Tuesday, April 30
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Startup Walkabout
12pm "Evolution of the News Ecosystem."
12pm The Future of Global Maritime Ports
2pm The Billion Dollar Question in Online Videos: How VIdeo Performance Impacts Viewer Behavior
4pm Energy Management: The Next Big Thing
5pm Future of Energy: "The Well-Tempered City"
5:30pm Legatum Lecture ~ Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: The CWG Illustration
6pm Unreasonability Initiative
7pm Using Social Media for Travel
8pm David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics: Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era
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Wednesday, May 1
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Startup Walkabout
12pm "Catalyzing key chemical transformations for renewable, sustainable energy"
12:30pm China Urban Development Discussion Series: "Building a Model of Tri-Sector Collaboration to Reduce Pollution in China"
2:30pm Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests and Targeting of Malaria Treatment
3:30pm Starr Forum- "Marathon Bombing: The Global Context"
4:10pm Will Carbon Prices Reduce Emissions in the US Electricity Industry? Evidence from the Shale Gas Experience
4:15pm "Railroads of China/Railroads of India"
5pm Geoengineering Lecture Series: The Physical Science of Solar Geoengineering
5pm The Human Face of Climate Change
5pm Hello, We're MyEnergy
5:30pm One Democracy's Gains and Pains: the US-Mexico Drug Entrapment
5:30pm Askwith Forum in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of Paulo Freire’sPedagogy of the Oppressed
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Thursday, May 2
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Startup Walkabout
Extreme Inclusion
CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society
11:45am New Ideas for Achieving Economic Inclusion and Mobility in the U.S.
4pm Links between Tectonics, Erosion and Climate: insights from numerical model
4pm U.S. Policy in a Time of Transition: Ending Occupation, Enhancing Israel's Security, Realizing Palestinian Sovereignty
5:15pm Symposium on Urbanism, Spirituality, and Well-being: Contemporary Trends
6pm Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers
6pm Maestra: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Catherine Murphy
6pm MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Awards Celebration
6pm Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night
6:45pm Refusing to Kill
7pm Urban Films: Revolution '67 (2007)
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Friday, May 3
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Startup Walkabout
8am Social Capital Forum: How Can Engagement Drive Economic Growth?
9am CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society
11am SEAS Design & Project Fair
12pm MiT8: Oversharing
2pm Community Energy Program
4pm "What We Know About Climate Change"
4pm Cities for Sale: The Right to Housing vs Corporate Real Estate
5:30pm Opening Reception: Arc
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Saturday, May 4
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9:30am Climate Change and Social Action
9am Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism
12pm Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP
12pm Wake Up the Earth Festival
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Sunday, May 5
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12pm Harvard Square MAY FAIR festival
2pm Festival Floralia
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Monday, May 6
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8:30am CJP Innovation Exchange: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World MassChallenge
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Tuesday, May 7
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12:30pm Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness: The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform
2pm Personal Digital Archiving followed by Q+A with Kari Smith, Digital Archivist
2:30pm Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
5:30pm Opening Reception for From Obsolescence to Sustainability: A Century of Architectural Change
6pm Mass Innovation Night
6:30pm Kitchen Gardeners' Meeting
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Monday, April 29
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Each year we host an Innovation Showcase for this participating teams to share their work with the MIT community and the greater Boston area. Come join us to meet the teams, celebrate their work, check out the prototypes and hear what this year's teams are working towards.
It's one of the best chances to hear 40+ ideas that have the potential to make substantial impact around the world. We'll have light snacks to enjoy as you peruse, discover and learn. Get started meeting the teams online - and from April 19 - 29, you can place three votes to help three teams win $1500 to support the realization of their ideas.
Talk 1 – “Impact and Scale” by Lee Moreau
Talk 2 – “Innovation in Digital Fabrication: Creating the 1st Affordable 3D Printer” by Maxim Lobovsky, Co-founder of Formlabs
This event is brought to you in collaboration with the Boston Society of Landscape Architects‘ Emerging Professionals Committee.
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Speaker: Ramesh K. Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Akamai Technologies
Abstract: Online video is the killer application of the Internet. It is predicted that more than 85% of the consumer traffic on the Internet will be video-related by 2016. Yet, the future economic viability of online video rests squarely on our ability to understand how viewers interact with video content. For instance:
If a video fails to start up quickly, would the viewer abandon?
If a video freezes in the middle, would the viewer watch fewer minutes?
If videos fail to load, is the viewer less likely to return to the same site?
In this talk, we outline scientific answers to these and other such questions, establishing for the first time a causal link between video performance and viewer behavior. One of the largest such studies, our work analyzes the video viewing habits of over 6.7 million viewers who in aggregate watched almost 26 million videos. To go beyond mere correlation and to establish causality, we develop a novel technique based on Quasi-Experimental Designs (QEDs). While QEDs are well known in the medical and social sciences, our work represents its first use in network performance research and is of independent interest.
This talk is of general interest and is accessible to a broad audience.
Short Biography:
Ramesh K. Sitaraman received his B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University. He is currently a faculty member in the School of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an Akamai Fellow. As a principal architect, he helped build the Akamai network that currently serves a significant fraction of the world’s web content, streaming videos, and online applications. His research focuses on all aspects of Internet-scale distributed systems, including algorithms, architectures, performance, energy efficiency, and economics.
Thomas Jaramillo, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Prof. Jaramillo's research group investigates chemical transformations in energy. More specifically, they study the chemistry and physics of materials as they relate to catalyzing chemical reactions of interest. Generally speaking, they study two types of reactions: those that convert water and CO2 into fuels and chemicals utilizing renewable energy (e.g. solar or wind), and those that convert those fuels back into usable energy in the form of electricity.
Speaker: Mary Alice Haddad, Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University; Discussant: Dr. Karen R. Polenske, Peter deFlorez Professor of Regional Political Economy, MIT DUSP
More than three decades ago Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms into post-Mao China, and the results have led to the greatest reduction in poverty in human history. They have also resulted in one of the worst environmental crises the world has ever known, one that threatens the ecology and livability of the entire planet. The path of environmental degradation experienced by China has been, unfortunately, a very common one. When political leaders, citizens, and businesses prioritize economic growth, the environment suffers. When economic growth proceeds at a breakneck pace for decades, environmental pollution follows at an equally fast pace. Turning the tide on an increasingly rapid race to the bottom is not easy, but the Beijing-based Institute for Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) has made a good start. This talk uses the experience of IPE to develop a model of tri-sector cooperation that can help improve environmental behavior around the globe. The model demonstrates how a transparency-based platform can serve as a coordinating mechanism that encourages brand-sensitive multinational corporations, their suppliers, local governments, and an increasingly broad range of companies to comply with national environmental regulations, even when those regulations are not well enforced.
Complimentary lunch will be served at 12:05 pm in room 9-555; talk starts at 12:30 pm and ends by 2 pm in room 9-354.
China Urban Development Discussion Series
Web site: http://mit.edu/dusp/cud/cud_series.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Graduate Student Life Grants, China Urban Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Shan Jiang
shanjang@mit.edu
Elisabeth Koll (Harvard University) and Dave Donaldson (MIT),
Sponsored by the Joint Center for History and Economics
Speaker: Ken Caldeira
Ken Caldeira is a senior climate scientist in Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and a professor, by courtesy, in Stanford's Environmental Earth System Sciences department. Professor Caldeira has a wide-spectrum approach to analyzing the world's climate systems. He studies the global carbon cycle; marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography, including ocean acidification and the atmosphere/ocean carbon cycle; land-cover and climate change; the long-term evolution of climate and geochemical cycles; and energy technology. He is a lead author of the ???State of the Carbon Cycle Report, a study requested by the U.S. Congress. From the early 1990s to 2005, he was with the Energy and Environment Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he was awarded the Edward Teller Fellowship (2004), the highest award given by that laboratory. Caldeira received his B.A. from Rutgers College and both his M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) in atmospheric sciences from New York University.
Geoengineering: Science & Governance Series
This seminar series will explore the science, technology, governance and ethics of solar geoengineering. In bringing together international experts, participants will learn some of the greatest challenges and hear opinions on how this technology could and should be managed.
In this talk, titled “The Human Face of Climate Change: Case Studies in Agriculture and Water,” Rebecca Pearl-Martinez and Kim Foltz will discuss how recent events due to climate change such as Hurricane Sandy and the Midwest/Plains drought are beginning to put the human face of climate change in the spotlight. The pair will highlight not just how climate change is affecting people all over the world, but also how governments are beginning to respond to this problem by trying to understand human vulnerability and resilience. Take a glimpse into the new field of climate change adaptation, which uniquely bridges the environmental and developmental sectors.
Rebecca and Kim are joint teachers of the Experimental College course Rising Tide: Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Adaptation. Kim Foltz is the Director of Community Building & Environment at Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) in East Boston, where she oversees community organizing, environmental, and social justice programming. Previously she served as Board Chair and Acting Director of “Bikes Not Bombs.” She holds an M.A. in Urban Planning from MIT, with a certificate in Environmental Policy and Planning. Rebecca Pearl-Martinez is a Senior Strategist with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and inter-governmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. She has been engaged for over a decade in UN environmental negotiations, co-founded a climate change initiative with 50 UN and NGO institutions, and recently served as Senior Researcher for Climate Change at Oxfam America. She holds an M.A. in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
TIE Talks is not just another PowerPoint — TIE Talks is an opportunity to engage with other thoughtful, environmentally-focused faculty, students, staff, and alumni in a casual atmosphere.
Indian food provided; interaction and lively conversation encouraged!
Hello, We're MyEnergy
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Speaker: Alejandro Junco De la Vega
Junco has built one of the most powerful newspaper conglomerates in Latin America, with dailies in Mexico's three largest cities. Grupo Reforma, as his seven daily newspaper publishing group is known, has been the most instrumental factor in the evolution of journalism in the country in the last 30 years.
Aside from his accomplishments in establishing an independent press, Alejandro Junco has also opened greater access to public information by promoting access laws. He also promotes academic research on social problems in Mexican society, and on micro-issues like dysfunctional legal practices, education, health and sustainable energy.
Pizza will be served
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT-Mexico Program, Center for International Studies, CLUBMEX, MIT Global
For more information, contact: Griselda Gomez
617-252-1483
gomezg@mit.edu
Speaker: Jean Braun, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Universite de Grenoble
There is much debate about the links that might exist between tectonic, erosion and climate in mountain belts. Continental convergence leads to crustal thickening and the creation of surface topography which in turn is affected by surface erosion through the combined actions of rivers and glaciers. Flow in the mantle can also lead to substantial so-called "dynamic topography". Climate (mostly through precipitation rate and its variability) plays an obvious, yet poorly quantified role in setting the pace and efficiency of erosional processes, but is also strongly affected by topography (mostly through the orographic control of precipitation). Many links and feedbacks must therefore exist between the various components of this complex system, but they remain, for the most, poorly quantified. Here I will show how complex numerical models of crustal deformation, mantle flow, erosional processes and climate have been developed in the past 10-15 years in an attempt to answer these fundamental questions. I will illustrate how these models have been used to explain the geological record in terms of complex interactions between the solid Earth and the hydrosphere. I will show how landscapes are advected during continental collision events and can thus be used as markers of tectonic deformation; how mountain belts such as the Himalayas respond to rapid variations in climate; and how large continental areas can be deeply eroded in response to uplift caused by deep mantle convection.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Computational Engineering
For more information, contact: Barbara Lechner
blechner@mit.edu
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Speaker: Steven Hassan, author of Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs
Psychological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Spirituality and Religion
An exploration of why some of us experience feelings of spirituality. What is the interplay of religion and child development? Why did religions come into existence? What do religious experiences look like neuroscientifically?
Part six of a six-part lecture series on the psychological and neuroscientific foundations of spirituality and religion.
Pizza provided before lecture.
Web site: http://ssomit.mit.edu/events.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Secular Society, The Baker Foundation
For more information, contact: Secular Society Exec
ssomit-officers@mit.edu
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Join us for MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Awards Celebration on Thursday, May 2, an inspiring event that embodies MIT’s innovative humanitarian spirit. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has been a launch point for entrepreneurs and sustainable impact. We have awarded almost $500,000 to more than 90 teams to turn their ideas into reality. Those ideas are benefitting hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.
This year, more than 60 teams are working with communities around the world to develop solutions to challenges such as waste treatment, clean water, healthcare, education, disaster relief and much more.
Be part of the moment when their ideas come to life. Join us on Thursday, May 2:
6:00 pm - Mix and Mingle with Teams
7:00 pm – The Awards Ceremony
8:30 pm – A Special Toast to Teams
To meet the teams in advance and to learn about the ideas they're working on, join us on Monday, April 29 at the Innovation Showcase (open to the public). Details here:http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/294
See you on May 2!
Speaker: Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK); David Rosen, author; Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University; Moderator: Nick Montfort, MIT
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, another class of concerns has arisen: That some people (often young users of social media) are not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy and are choosing to share "too much information." Do these people's technical skills outstrip their social skills? Are they unaware of how information can persist and potentially damage their reputation? Or are the stern adults who question this behavior clinging to an outmoded idea of privacy? Are the apps and algorithms and platforms of social media invisibly transforming norms of privacy and personal freedom?
Web site: web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Communications Forum, Literature Section, CMS / Writing
For more information, contact: Brad Seawell
617-253-3521
seawell@mit.edu
The authors of the proposed carbon tax for Massachusetts, State Representative Tom Conroy (Lincoln, Wayland,Sudbury) and State Senator Mike Barrett (Lexington, Bedford, Concord etc.) will be there along with an expert in the field who will provide background on the issue including how it works and the economic impact. Tom and Mike will provide more information on their proposal. State Senator Will Brownsberger and State Representative Dave Rogers will also be part of the panel discussion.
Event Contact Lexington GWAC
Email: info@LexGWAC.org
About MassChallenge Israel:
MassChallenge Israel is the first, and so far only, formal MassChallenge program outside Boston. The mission of MassChallenge Israel is to enable top-tier Israeli startups to access global markets by connecting them with the very best people and organizations in the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem.
With the help of Israeli mentors and judges, MassChallenge Israel will identify the highest-potential startups in Israel to participate in the MassChallenge accelerator in Boston. These startups will be able to return to Israel after the MassChallenge accelerator with new sales channels, investors, mentors, and growth that wouldn't otherwise be feasible.
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Speaker: Kari Smith
Increase your understanding of common digital files-digital photos, recordings, video, documents, and others-and learn what it takes to preserve them. Technology changes rapidly. If you don't actively care for your digital possessions you may lose access to them as some technologies become obsolete. Learn about the nature of the problem and hear about some simple, practical tips and tools to help you preserve your digital stuff. Join us after the webinar for a collaborative Q+A with Kari Smith, Digital Archivist, Institute Archives and Special Collections at MIT Libraries. Kari will be on hand to discuss personal digital archiving and offer guidance for preservation of digital materials.
Web site: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=302119
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Andrew Haggarty
617-253-5282
ahaggart@mit.edu
Speaker: Roland Benabou (Princeton)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8793
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
Their 50th event will be a very special event! On Tuesday, May 7th, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, they will be celebrating the 500 products YOU have helped to launch over the past four years. They'll bring back many of our favorites, getting an update from several alumni and recognizing you, the special community that has helped to generate so much awesome visibility for local companies and entrepreneurs. Please come and join them.
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KITCHEN GARDENERS’ MEETING
Tuesday May 7
6:30 to 8:3
Central Square public library
Jules, at ejkobek@gmail.com, plans 3 once-a-month meetings; if they catch on, they’ll keep going. The first one, in April, was great: a helpful, friendly, informal veggie-garden club.
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Social Innovation and Government: Approaches from the UK
WHEN Wed., May 8, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Building, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hosted jointly by the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Executive Director, Government Innovation Group, UK Cabinet Office
LINK http://hausercenter.harvard.edu/2303/social-innovation-and-government-approaches-from-the-uk/
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Cambridge Solar Challenge KICK-OFF
Wednesday, May 8
6:45pm
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Hear from Mayor Henrietta Davis and HEET's President Audrey about how we're going to help residents get 100 solar installations this summer through a Groupon-style discount, while we distribute as much as $30,000 in donations to Cambridge nonprofits. Hear from a Next Step Living solar expert about the science of solar, as well as how to make it work for you. You can even have your home assessed with an online map to find out if you have good potential - and if you do - sign up to take advantage of the Cambridge Solar Challenge's significantly reduced price for solar. Solar experts will be available before the event begins and afterward to answer any questions you may have.
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How much closer are Middle Eastern countries to having functioning constitutional governments than they were in the spring of 2011? How will such governments impact their economies? What unique challenges and opportunities has each country faced in building new government? How has the culture played into the emerging politics?
Elizabeth F. Thompson (author, Justice Interrupted) joins us to provide an update on happenings in the Middle East, particularly in terms of consequences we did not foresee two years ago. Robert Laffey (Assistant Professor of Government, Suffolk University) guides this discussion on post-Arab Spring sociopolitical changes and mines Thompson’s book for answers.
Further background information on the participants:
Elizabeth F. Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Thompson specializes in the 20th-century Middle Eastern history including social movements, and the public sphere. She graduated from Harvard in 1981 and completed her M.I.A. and Ph.D at Columbia. She is the author of Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East and Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. Thompson has received awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is currently involved in several projects that approach issues of citizenship, state formation, and foreign intervention in the 20th-century Middle East.
Robert Laffey is an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Suffolk University. His fields of interest include international relations, Middle Eastern politics, and U.S. foreign policy, and his research interests are U.S. and Middle East relations and the U.S. and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Laffey's presentations include "Christian Communities in the Middle East" at the Paulist Center in 2003 and "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Historical Perspective" at Providence College in 2002. He is currently working on a paper entitled, "The U.S. Senate and Its Support for Israel."
David recently wrote and produced a 4-part series under this title for public radio. He will present a condensed version of his research. Click here for the full length program. The Huffington Post also recently did a piece on his work.
Event Contact Sustainable Belmont
Email: sustainablebelmont@gmail.com
Website: http://sustainablebelmont.net
RISD/Boston STEAM
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Monday, April 29
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12pm The Role of the Mid-Level Vortex in Tropical Cyclogenesis
12pm "Power Sector Technology Investment Planning under Uncertainty"
12:30pm Performative Design of Genetically-Engineered Structures
12:30pm Mapping Malaria: Populations, Parasites, and Movements
1pm "Future Africa" a talk by Jonathan Ledgard
2pm Media Lab Conversations Series: Greg Brandeau and Josh Sarantitis
4pm The Clash of Values in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
4pm Migration, Health, and Well-Being in Rural Africa
4:10pm Chinese Cities: Booming Growth or Doomed to Fail?
5pm Building Capacity for Scientific and Technological Catch-Up in Developing
Countries: The Role of The World Academy of Science
5pm Fashion Innovators @ MIT
6pm Writing in Water
6:30pm MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Innovation Showcase
7pm Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
8pm Nerd Nite
8pm FORUM: George Russell's African Game
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Tuesday, April 30
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Startup Walkabout
12pm "Evolution of the News Ecosystem."
12pm The Future of Global Maritime Ports
2pm The Billion Dollar Question in Online Videos: How VIdeo Performance Impacts Viewer Behavior
4pm Energy Management: The Next Big Thing
5pm Future of Energy: "The Well-Tempered City"
5:30pm Legatum Lecture ~ Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: The CWG Illustration
6pm Unreasonability Initiative
7pm Using Social Media for Travel
8pm David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics: Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era
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Wednesday, May 1
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Startup Walkabout
12pm "Catalyzing key chemical transformations for renewable, sustainable energy"
12:30pm China Urban Development Discussion Series: "Building a Model of Tri-Sector Collaboration to Reduce Pollution in China"
2:30pm Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests and Targeting of Malaria Treatment
3:30pm Starr Forum- "Marathon Bombing: The Global Context"
4:10pm Will Carbon Prices Reduce Emissions in the US Electricity Industry? Evidence from the Shale Gas Experience
4:15pm "Railroads of China/Railroads of India"
5pm Geoengineering Lecture Series: The Physical Science of Solar Geoengineering
5pm The Human Face of Climate Change
5pm Hello, We're MyEnergy
5:30pm One Democracy's Gains and Pains: the US-Mexico Drug Entrapment
5:30pm Askwith Forum in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of Paulo Freire’sPedagogy of the Oppressed
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Thursday, May 2
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Startup Walkabout
Extreme Inclusion
CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society
11:45am New Ideas for Achieving Economic Inclusion and Mobility in the U.S.
4pm Links between Tectonics, Erosion and Climate: insights from numerical model
4pm U.S. Policy in a Time of Transition: Ending Occupation, Enhancing Israel's Security, Realizing Palestinian Sovereignty
5:15pm Symposium on Urbanism, Spirituality, and Well-being: Contemporary Trends
6pm Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers
6pm Maestra: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Catherine Murphy
6pm MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Awards Celebration
6pm Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night
6:45pm Refusing to Kill
7pm Urban Films: Revolution '67 (2007)
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Friday, May 3
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Startup Walkabout
8am Social Capital Forum: How Can Engagement Drive Economic Growth?
9am CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society
11am SEAS Design & Project Fair
12pm MiT8: Oversharing
2pm Community Energy Program
4pm "What We Know About Climate Change"
4pm Cities for Sale: The Right to Housing vs Corporate Real Estate
5:30pm Opening Reception: Arc
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Saturday, May 4
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9:30am Climate Change and Social Action
9am Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism
12pm Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP
12pm Wake Up the Earth Festival
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Sunday, May 5
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12pm Harvard Square MAY FAIR festival
2pm Festival Floralia
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Monday, May 6
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8:30am CJP Innovation Exchange: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World MassChallenge
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Tuesday, May 7
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12:30pm Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness: The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform
2pm Personal Digital Archiving followed by Q+A with Kari Smith, Digital Archivist
2:30pm Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
5:30pm Opening Reception for From Obsolescence to Sustainability: A Century of Architectural Change
6pm Mass Innovation Night
6:30pm Kitchen Gardeners' Meeting
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Monday, April 29
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The Role of the Mid-Level Vortex in Tropical Cyclogenesis
Monday, April 29, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Dave Raymond (New Mexico Tech)
Abstract: Tropical cyclogenesis may be defined as the development and intensification of a low- level, warm-core vortex over (relatively) warm ocean water. Baroclinic processes may be involved in the formation of higher latitude cyclones and polar lows, but these processes are not necessary and generally do not occur in the low latitude regions associated with the formation of tropical cyclones. Based on observations of cyclogenesis in the tropical east Pacific, Bister and Emanuel postulated a mechanism for cyclogenesis in which the low-level vortex forms in a region moistened and stabilized by stratiform rain. Rain of this type typically occurs in the decaying phase of a large mesoscale convective system. Such systems generally spin up a mid-level vortex due to mid-level inflow.
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Dave Raymond (New Mexico Tech)
Abstract: Tropical cyclogenesis may be defined as the development and intensification of a low- level, warm-core vortex over (relatively) warm ocean water. Baroclinic processes may be involved in the formation of higher latitude cyclones and polar lows, but these processes are not necessary and generally do not occur in the low latitude regions associated with the formation of tropical cyclones. Based on observations of cyclogenesis in the tropical east Pacific, Bister and Emanuel postulated a mechanism for cyclogenesis in which the low-level vortex forms in a region moistened and stabilized by stratiform rain. Rain of this type typically occurs in the decaying phase of a large mesoscale convective system. Such systems generally spin up a mid-level vortex due to mid-level inflow.
MIT Atmospheric Seminar Series (MASS)
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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"Power Sector Technology Investment Planning under Uncertainty"
Monday, April 29, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Nidhi R. Santen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Harvard Belfer Center
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Performative Design of Genetically-Engineered Structures
Monday, April 29, 2013
12:30-2:00
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Peter von Buelow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Building Technology Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Kathleen Ross
617-253-1876
kross@mit.edu
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The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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"Power Sector Technology Investment Planning under Uncertainty"
Monday, April 29, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Nidhi R. Santen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Harvard Belfer Center
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Performative Design of Genetically-Engineered Structures
Monday, April 29, 2013
12:30-2:00
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Peter von Buelow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Building Technology Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Kathleen Ross
617-253-1876
kross@mit.edu
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Mapping Malaria: Populations, Parasites, and Movements
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health: FXB, Room G13, 651 Huntington Avenue, 7th Floor Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Infectious Disease Epidemiology and The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
SPEAKER(S) Andrew J. Tatem
CONTACT INFO skipp@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/about/staff/ajt1m11.page
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health: FXB, Room G13, 651 Huntington Avenue, 7th Floor Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Infectious Disease Epidemiology and The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
SPEAKER(S) Andrew J. Tatem
CONTACT INFO skipp@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/about/staff/ajt1m11.page
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"Future Africa" a talk by Jonathan Ledgard
Monday, April 29, 2013
1:00p–3:00p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jonathan Ledgard
The technology choices Africa makes in the next decade will help determine whether it becomes competitive or unmanageable. This informal talk will overview Africa's security and environmental challenges, underline its economic potential, and get beyond ICT to identify areas where science will be decisive.
Jonathan Ledgard is a leading thinker on risk and technology in Africa. He is director of the new Afrotech lab at EPFL and Africa correspondent at large of The Economist. He has reported from 50 countries and several wars for The Economist, with a focus on politics, security, environment and science, and has published two acclaimed novels, Giraffe (2007) and Submergence (2013).
http://submergencethebook.tumblr.com/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact:
Nicole Freedman
nicolef@media.mit.edu
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Greg Brandeau and Josh Sarantitis
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building E-14, Third-floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
What new technologies will enable new art forms? Before 1995 there had never been a computer-generated animated film--and then there was Toy Story. Creating Toy Story was not a simple matter of using new technology to make cheaper hand animated films; it was actually defining a completely new art form which was not previously possible. Former Disney CTO and collaborative community artist Josh Sarantitis will talk with Joi Ito about the ways in which art challenges technology and technology inspires art.
Media Lab Conversations Series
Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2013/04/29/media-lab-conversations-series-greg-brandeau-and-josh-sarantitis
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact: Jess Sousa
events-admin@media.mit.edu
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"Future Africa" a talk by Jonathan Ledgard
Monday, April 29, 2013
1:00p–3:00p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jonathan Ledgard
The technology choices Africa makes in the next decade will help determine whether it becomes competitive or unmanageable. This informal talk will overview Africa's security and environmental challenges, underline its economic potential, and get beyond ICT to identify areas where science will be decisive.
Jonathan Ledgard is a leading thinker on risk and technology in Africa. He is director of the new Afrotech lab at EPFL and Africa correspondent at large of The Economist. He has reported from 50 countries and several wars for The Economist, with a focus on politics, security, environment and science, and has published two acclaimed novels, Giraffe (2007) and Submergence (2013).
http://submergencethebook.tumblr.com/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact:
Nicole Freedman
nicolef@media.mit.edu
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Greg Brandeau and Josh Sarantitis
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building E-14, Third-floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
What new technologies will enable new art forms? Before 1995 there had never been a computer-generated animated film--and then there was Toy Story. Creating Toy Story was not a simple matter of using new technology to make cheaper hand animated films; it was actually defining a completely new art form which was not previously possible. Former Disney CTO and collaborative community artist Josh Sarantitis will talk with Joi Ito about the ways in which art challenges technology and technology inspires art.
Media Lab Conversations Series
Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2013/04/29/media-lab-conversations-series-greg-brandeau-and-josh-sarantitis
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact: Jess Sousa
events-admin@media.mit.edu
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The Clash of Values in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room S-020, CGIS Building South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
SPEAKER(S) Souad Mekhennet, reporter, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and ZDF and a 2013 Nieman Fellow; Denis Sullivan, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Northeastern University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room S-020, CGIS Building South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
SPEAKER(S) Souad Mekhennet, reporter, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and ZDF and a 2013 Nieman Fellow; Denis Sullivan, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Northeastern University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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Migration, Health, and Well-Being in Rural Africa
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Michael J. White, professor of sociology, Brown University
NOTE These Monday seminars are open to everyone: faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Michael J. White, professor of sociology, Brown University
NOTE These Monday seminars are open to everyone: faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Chinese Cities: Booming Growth or Doomed to Fail?
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE HARVARD, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs & Meg Rithmire, assistant professor, Harvard Business School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO melissa_danello@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE China's cities have reportedly been driving the country's decades-long economic miracle. But behind this veneer of economic stability lies a system of mass migration and debt that appears to be collapsing under the weight of its own success. Join us as Tony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, and Meg Rithmire, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, discuss the future of Chinese cities.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Chinese-Cities-Booming-Growth-or-Doomed-to-Fail
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Building Capacity for Scientific and Technological Catch-Up in Developing Countries: The Role of The World Academy of Science
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
SPEAKER(S) Romain Murenzi, executive director, The World Academy of Science (TWAS)
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Moderators: Calestous Juma and Venky Narayanamurti
Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are crucial for poverty alleviation and long-term economic development. Generally, countries can be classified in four STI categories: highly advanced, advanced, middle-advanced and least advanced. This last category comprises most of Africa – South Africa and Egypt are exceptions – and it is this category that is the main focus of TWAS.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6052/building_capacity_for_scientific_and_technological_catchup_in_developing_countries.html
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Chinese Cities: Booming Growth or Doomed to Fail?
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE HARVARD, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs & Meg Rithmire, assistant professor, Harvard Business School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO melissa_danello@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE China's cities have reportedly been driving the country's decades-long economic miracle. But behind this veneer of economic stability lies a system of mass migration and debt that appears to be collapsing under the weight of its own success. Join us as Tony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, and Meg Rithmire, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, discuss the future of Chinese cities.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Chinese-Cities-Booming-Growth-or-Doomed-to-Fail
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Building Capacity for Scientific and Technological Catch-Up in Developing Countries: The Role of The World Academy of Science
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
SPEAKER(S) Romain Murenzi, executive director, The World Academy of Science (TWAS)
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Moderators: Calestous Juma and Venky Narayanamurti
Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are crucial for poverty alleviation and long-term economic development. Generally, countries can be classified in four STI categories: highly advanced, advanced, middle-advanced and least advanced. This last category comprises most of Africa – South Africa and Egypt are exceptions – and it is this category that is the main focus of TWAS.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6052/building_capacity_for_scientific_and_technological_catchup_in_developing_countries.html
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Fashion Innovators @ MIT
Monday, April 29, 2013
5:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Come hear some of the industry's most influential experts discuss the elements of building a business in fashion - Get to know the MIT fashion community and check out what MIT fashion startups are working on.
The evening starts in the Ting Foyer with a showcase of fashion and apparel-related companies started by MIT students. Later on, key figures in fashion share their entrepreneurial stories and talk about how to make a business work in an evolving industry.
5-6 pm
Student Showcase in Ting Foyer featuring:
Ministry of Supply, Rest Devices, Jon Lou, Lallitara, Tamasha, Modalyst, Style Up, Fula & Style, Asorti, Bureh
5:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Come hear some of the industry's most influential experts discuss the elements of building a business in fashion - Get to know the MIT fashion community and check out what MIT fashion startups are working on.
The evening starts in the Ting Foyer with a showcase of fashion and apparel-related companies started by MIT students. Later on, key figures in fashion share their entrepreneurial stories and talk about how to make a business work in an evolving industry.
5-6 pm
Student Showcase in Ting Foyer featuring:
Ministry of Supply, Rest Devices, Jon Lou, Lallitara, Tamasha, Modalyst, Style Up, Fula & Style, Asorti, Bureh
More student fashion startups to be added!
6-7:30 pm
Panel "Branding Fashion in an Evolving Landscape" featuring:
Moderator: Brian Kalma - Ministry of Supply; Brant Cryder - U.S. President of Saint Laurent; Shenan Reid - Chief Media Officer of CreateThe Group; Laurent Claquin - Head of Kering Americas; Shauna Mei - Founder and CEO of AHAlife
7:30-8 pm
Keynote: Martin Trust - Founder and President of Brandot International
Seats are first come, first serve - a ticket does not guarantee a seat!
Web site: http://fashioninnovatorsatmit.eventbrite.com/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free - RSVP required
Tickets: http://mitfashionevent.eventbrite.com/
Sponsor(s): Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact: Liz DeWolf
4-7789
ldewolf@mit.edu
6-7:30 pm
Panel "Branding Fashion in an Evolving Landscape" featuring:
Moderator: Brian Kalma - Ministry of Supply; Brant Cryder - U.S. President of Saint Laurent; Shenan Reid - Chief Media Officer of CreateThe Group; Laurent Claquin - Head of Kering Americas; Shauna Mei - Founder and CEO of AHAlife
7:30-8 pm
Keynote: Martin Trust - Founder and President of Brandot International
Seats are first come, first serve - a ticket does not guarantee a seat!
Web site: http://fashioninnovatorsatmit.eventbrite.com/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free - RSVP required
Tickets: http://mitfashionevent.eventbrite.com/
Sponsor(s): Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact: Liz DeWolf
4-7789
ldewolf@mit.edu
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Writing in Water
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Emergent Visions: New Independent Documentaries
SPEAKER(S) Angela Zito, director
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Writing in Water follows two generations of calligraphy teachers, Wang Tongxin (王童性) and Liu Lanbo (刘兰波) through the eyes of an American who learned to write with them. In Tuanjiehu Park, Beijing, they practice on the plaza every day. The group is made up of the funny, philosophically inclined teachers and the community of students — people who have been retired, left behind by China’s get-rich-quick reforms. Alone at home and together in the park with their students, the teachers connect past to present, master to pupil, friend to friend, making a community, creating Chinese characters that slowly materialize, lasting long after the water has evanesced into air. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Angela Zito.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/writing-water
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Writing in Water
WHEN Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Emergent Visions: New Independent Documentaries
SPEAKER(S) Angela Zito, director
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Writing in Water follows two generations of calligraphy teachers, Wang Tongxin (王童性) and Liu Lanbo (刘兰波) through the eyes of an American who learned to write with them. In Tuanjiehu Park, Beijing, they practice on the plaza every day. The group is made up of the funny, philosophically inclined teachers and the community of students — people who have been retired, left behind by China’s get-rich-quick reforms. Alone at home and together in the park with their students, the teachers connect past to present, master to pupil, friend to friend, making a community, creating Chinese characters that slowly materialize, lasting long after the water has evanesced into air. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Angela Zito.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/writing-water
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MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Innovation Showcase
Monday, April 29
6:30-8:30pm
MIT, Stata Center, Building 32, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
MIT, Stata Center, Building 32, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Each year we host an Innovation Showcase for this participating teams to share their work with the MIT community and the greater Boston area. Come join us to meet the teams, celebrate their work, check out the prototypes and hear what this year's teams are working towards.
It's one of the best chances to hear 40+ ideas that have the potential to make substantial impact around the world. We'll have light snacks to enjoy as you peruse, discover and learn. Get started meeting the teams online - and from April 19 - 29, you can place three votes to help three teams win $1500 to support the realization of their ideas.
All are welcome; spread the word!
We'll announce the winner at the 2013 Awards Celebration on May 2. More information here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/272
We'll announce the winner at the 2013 Awards Celebration on May 2. More information here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/272
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Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
Monday, April 29
7pm
MIT, Act Cube (E15-001), Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Simin Farkhondeh
Simin Farkhondeh is an award winning filmmaker, artist, educator, and activist. From 1995 to 2003 she produced and directed the acclaimed monthly TV show Labor at the Crossroads. Her films have been screened at the Whitney Biennial, Margaret Mead Film Festival, and MoMA, as well as on PBS and BBC Channel Four. Farkhondeh's personal work includes Caught Between Two Worlds (2007), a documentary about the Iranian Diaspora in the US, and Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips (2009), a film that combines fact and fiction to discuss temporary marriage in Iran. In addition to teaching film, video arts, and communications theory at the School of Visual Arts, Farkondeh is the Education Director at the news program Democracy Now!
Spring 2013 Lecture Series
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
Monday, April 29
7pm
MIT, Act Cube (E15-001), Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Simin Farkhondeh
Simin Farkhondeh is an award winning filmmaker, artist, educator, and activist. From 1995 to 2003 she produced and directed the acclaimed monthly TV show Labor at the Crossroads. Her films have been screened at the Whitney Biennial, Margaret Mead Film Festival, and MoMA, as well as on PBS and BBC Channel Four. Farkhondeh's personal work includes Caught Between Two Worlds (2007), a documentary about the Iranian Diaspora in the US, and Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips (2009), a film that combines fact and fiction to discuss temporary marriage in Iran. In addition to teaching film, video arts, and communications theory at the School of Visual Arts, Farkondeh is the Education Director at the news program Democracy Now!
Spring 2013 Lecture Series
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
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Nerd Nite
Monday, April 29, 2013
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
$5
Talk 1 – “Impact and Scale” by Lee Moreau
Talk 2 – “Innovation in Digital Fabrication: Creating the 1st Affordable 3D Printer” by Maxim Lobovsky, Co-founder of Formlabs
This event is brought to you in collaboration with the Boston Society of Landscape Architects‘ Emerging Professionals Committee.
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FORUM: George Russell's African Game
Monday, April 29, 2013
8:00p–10:00p
MIT, 14W-111, Killian Hall, Hayden Library Building, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
AFRICAN GAME, Forum on the 30th anniversary of George Russell's African Game. Steve Elman, Mark Harvey, Alice Russell, and George Garzone. Presented in conjunction with 21M226, Jazz History. 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 30
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Startup Walkabout
April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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"Evolution of the News Ecosystem."
WHEN Tue., Apr. 30, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Taubman 275, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Richard Gingras, head of news and social products, Google
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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8:00p–10:00p
MIT, 14W-111, Killian Hall, Hayden Library Building, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
AFRICAN GAME, Forum on the 30th anniversary of George Russell's African Game. Steve Elman, Mark Harvey, Alice Russell, and George Garzone. Presented in conjunction with 21M226, Jazz History. 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 30
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Startup Walkabout
April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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"Evolution of the News Ecosystem."
WHEN Tue., Apr. 30, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Taubman 275, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Richard Gingras, head of news and social products, Google
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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The Future of Global Maritime Ports
Tuesday April 30th, 2013
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Gerhardt Muller, President of Sansail Institute & Senior LNG Consultant
Description: The management and operation of the global maritime port industry by the Year 2030 will be different from what it is today. Some of the changes will be driven by evolving but predictable improvements in passenger and cargo handling equipment and facilities that respond to local and regional economic, social, political, and environmental forces. The presentation will focus on these forces as well as others that do not receive the same attention, who should be involved, and what the maritime industry - both public and private - will need to know now in order to better understand and manage ports more efficiently for the next two decades. It is true that technological knowledge and skills will remain at the center of those activities, but the manner in which they are applied will have to reach a new and more challenging understanding and application that is in many ways different from what was or is now.
Bio: Professor Gerhardt Muller has written papers, articles, and books on advanced concepts in intermodalism and logistics management, transportation communication systems and marketing, and coastal and port operations. His book, Intermodal Freight Transportation (1999), is a world renowned reference on intermodalism. Muller was a professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, City of New York University - Baruch College, and most recently at Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy, where he was part of a team of global experts asked to evaluate what the global maritime industry will be by 2030. Lately, he has been active in teaching short and intensive courses as a visiting professor at the World Maritime University, Sweden, and Shanghai Maritime University, China. Before teaching, Gerhardt Muller was with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for more than twenty-eight years. He was responsible for the identification and potential implementation of innovative intermodal systems as well as emerging logistics and transportation technologies and concepts designed to improve regional passenger and freight mobility. Muller received his bachelor and master of science degrees from New York State Maritime College at Fort Schuyler, and sailed as a licensed officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine.
Lunch will be provided. This event is organized by the MIT International Shipping Club. For any additional information please contact Simmy Willemann (simmyw@mit.edu).
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Tuesday April 30th, 2013
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Gerhardt Muller, President of Sansail Institute & Senior LNG Consultant
Description: The management and operation of the global maritime port industry by the Year 2030 will be different from what it is today. Some of the changes will be driven by evolving but predictable improvements in passenger and cargo handling equipment and facilities that respond to local and regional economic, social, political, and environmental forces. The presentation will focus on these forces as well as others that do not receive the same attention, who should be involved, and what the maritime industry - both public and private - will need to know now in order to better understand and manage ports more efficiently for the next two decades. It is true that technological knowledge and skills will remain at the center of those activities, but the manner in which they are applied will have to reach a new and more challenging understanding and application that is in many ways different from what was or is now.
Bio: Professor Gerhardt Muller has written papers, articles, and books on advanced concepts in intermodalism and logistics management, transportation communication systems and marketing, and coastal and port operations. His book, Intermodal Freight Transportation (1999), is a world renowned reference on intermodalism. Muller was a professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, City of New York University - Baruch College, and most recently at Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy, where he was part of a team of global experts asked to evaluate what the global maritime industry will be by 2030. Lately, he has been active in teaching short and intensive courses as a visiting professor at the World Maritime University, Sweden, and Shanghai Maritime University, China. Before teaching, Gerhardt Muller was with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for more than twenty-eight years. He was responsible for the identification and potential implementation of innovative intermodal systems as well as emerging logistics and transportation technologies and concepts designed to improve regional passenger and freight mobility. Muller received his bachelor and master of science degrees from New York State Maritime College at Fort Schuyler, and sailed as a licensed officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine.
Lunch will be provided. This event is organized by the MIT International Shipping Club. For any additional information please contact Simmy Willemann (simmyw@mit.edu).
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The Billion Dollar Question in Online Videos: How VIdeo Performance Impacts Viewer Behavior
Tuesday, April 30 2013
2:00PM to 3:00PM
Refreshments: 1:45PM
MIT, Building 32-G882 (Hewlett Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, April 30 2013
2:00PM to 3:00PM
Refreshments: 1:45PM
MIT, Building 32-G882 (Hewlett Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ramesh K. Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Akamai Technologies
Abstract: Online video is the killer application of the Internet. It is predicted that more than 85% of the consumer traffic on the Internet will be video-related by 2016. Yet, the future economic viability of online video rests squarely on our ability to understand how viewers interact with video content. For instance:
If a video fails to start up quickly, would the viewer abandon?
If a video freezes in the middle, would the viewer watch fewer minutes?
If videos fail to load, is the viewer less likely to return to the same site?
In this talk, we outline scientific answers to these and other such questions, establishing for the first time a causal link between video performance and viewer behavior. One of the largest such studies, our work analyzes the video viewing habits of over 6.7 million viewers who in aggregate watched almost 26 million videos. To go beyond mere correlation and to establish causality, we develop a novel technique based on Quasi-Experimental Designs (QEDs). While QEDs are well known in the medical and social sciences, our work represents its first use in network performance research and is of independent interest.
This talk is of general interest and is accessible to a broad audience.
Short Biography:
Ramesh K. Sitaraman received his B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University. He is currently a faculty member in the School of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an Akamai Fellow. As a principal architect, he helped build the Akamai network that currently serves a significant fraction of the world’s web content, streaming videos, and online applications. His research focuses on all aspects of Internet-scale distributed systems, including algorithms, architectures, performance, energy efficiency, and economics.
Contact: Sheila Marian, x3-1996, sheila@csail.mit.edu
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Energy Management: The Next Big Thing
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
MTL Seminar Series presents Sami Kiriaki, Texas Instruments
Web site: http://mtlweb.mit.edu/seminars/spring2013.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
617-253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Energy Management: The Next Big Thing
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
MTL Seminar Series presents Sami Kiriaki, Texas Instruments
Web site: http://mtlweb.mit.edu/seminars/spring2013.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
617-253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Banks as Secret Keepers
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E52-244, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Guillermo Ordonez (U. Penn)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8782
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Macroeconomics Seminar
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E52-244, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Guillermo Ordonez (U. Penn)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8782
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Macroeconomics Seminar
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Future of Energy: "The Well-Tempered City"
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
5:00pm
Harvard, Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Rose, President, Jonathan Rose Companies.
Jonathan F.P. Rose’s career has been dedicated to integrating positive economic, environmental, and social outcomes. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate investment, development, planning, and consulting firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm has successfully completed over $1.5 billion of real estate projects aimed at building value for its investors and clients, and the communities in which it works.
Mr. Rose has been a leader in establishing the real estate impact investing field. In 2005, he created the nation’s first private equity real estate fund dedicated to delivering economic, social, and environmental returns. The firm has developed impact investment partnerships with high-net-worth investors, family offices, and institutions including Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and TIAA-CREF.
Mr. Rose is Vice Chair of Enterprise Community Partners and is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He also serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and is an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Rose chaired the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation’s first green transit plan, and was a commissioner on Governor Cuomo’s NYS 2100 Commission, tasked with identifying strategies for the long-term resilience of New York State’s infrastructure post-Hurricane Sandy.
Mr. Rose is also the co-founder of the Garrison Institute, where he founded the Climate, Mind and Behavior program.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
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Legatum Lecture ~ Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: The CWG Illustration
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E62-262, MIT Sloan, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Austin Okere: Founder & CEO, Computer Warehouse Group
There is an increasing global focus and emphasis on entrepreneurship as the most viable vehicle for job creation. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2011 report, there is an upsurge in entrepreneurship around the world, with a total number of about 400 million entrepreneurs spread over 54 countries. The GEM in its 2006 report revealed that there is a systematic relationship between a country's level of economic development and its level of entrepreneurial activity.
Okere believes that "It is better to have a thousand millionaires than ten billionaires. It is better still to have a million people with access to a hundred thousand dollars, if they can be taught how to nurture and grow it through entrepreneurial endeavor".
In 20 years Austin has grown the Computer Warehouse Group from a company which he founded with a seed capital of about $35,000 into a $130 million revenue company, with 650 staff spread across Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Cameroon.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/content/1283
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan Africa Business Club
For more information, contact: Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
agnesh@mit.edu
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Future of Energy: "The Well-Tempered City"
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
5:00pm
Harvard, Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Rose, President, Jonathan Rose Companies.
Jonathan F.P. Rose’s career has been dedicated to integrating positive economic, environmental, and social outcomes. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate investment, development, planning, and consulting firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm has successfully completed over $1.5 billion of real estate projects aimed at building value for its investors and clients, and the communities in which it works.
Mr. Rose has been a leader in establishing the real estate impact investing field. In 2005, he created the nation’s first private equity real estate fund dedicated to delivering economic, social, and environmental returns. The firm has developed impact investment partnerships with high-net-worth investors, family offices, and institutions including Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and TIAA-CREF.
Mr. Rose is Vice Chair of Enterprise Community Partners and is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He also serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and is an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Rose chaired the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation’s first green transit plan, and was a commissioner on Governor Cuomo’s NYS 2100 Commission, tasked with identifying strategies for the long-term resilience of New York State’s infrastructure post-Hurricane Sandy.
Mr. Rose is also the co-founder of the Garrison Institute, where he founded the Climate, Mind and Behavior program.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
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Legatum Lecture ~ Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: The CWG Illustration
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E62-262, MIT Sloan, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Austin Okere: Founder & CEO, Computer Warehouse Group
There is an increasing global focus and emphasis on entrepreneurship as the most viable vehicle for job creation. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2011 report, there is an upsurge in entrepreneurship around the world, with a total number of about 400 million entrepreneurs spread over 54 countries. The GEM in its 2006 report revealed that there is a systematic relationship between a country's level of economic development and its level of entrepreneurial activity.
Okere believes that "It is better to have a thousand millionaires than ten billionaires. It is better still to have a million people with access to a hundred thousand dollars, if they can be taught how to nurture and grow it through entrepreneurial endeavor".
In 20 years Austin has grown the Computer Warehouse Group from a company which he founded with a seed capital of about $35,000 into a $130 million revenue company, with 650 staff spread across Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Cameroon.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/content/1283
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan Africa Business Club
For more information, contact: Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
agnesh@mit.edu
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Unreasonability Initiative
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6330545833/es2005/
Unreasonability Initiative is an initiative to surface the big, bold, sometimes irrational and crazy ideas that might just have the potential to change the world. Come hear 8 participants present their "unreasonable" idea to the audience. Come listen to some of the bravest, boldest ideas you will come across this year!
Why now? The world today needs new thinking, fresh approaches and bold initiatives to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. The Unreasonability Initiative is meant to create the space where such bold thinking can be shared. By creating a fun, engaging and open environment, where participants are encouraged and licensed to be unreasonable, we hope to be able to unlock a few more ideas that could make a difference. In light of the events of Apr 15th, it is even more critical that we re-energize our efforts to create a better, safer and more just world.
Keen to present? Are you a dreamer? Someone who grapples with the what … if questions in life? Working on a BIG, BOLD, BRAVE idea that could change the world? Or an irrational idea that could profoundly change lives? Does the potential of the idea just freeze you with its potential? An audacious, absurd and possibly crazy idea? An UNREASONABLE idea? If you answered yes to any of the above, then the Unreasonability Initiative gives you the perfect space to share, air and present your dream, your idea.
We check all attendee registrations at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
Unreasonability Initiative is an initiative to surface the big, bold, sometimes irrational and crazy ideas that might just have the potential to change the world. Come hear 8 participants present their "unreasonable" idea to the audience. Come listen to some of the bravest, boldest ideas you will come across this year!
Why now? The world today needs new thinking, fresh approaches and bold initiatives to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. The Unreasonability Initiative is meant to create the space where such bold thinking can be shared. By creating a fun, engaging and open environment, where participants are encouraged and licensed to be unreasonable, we hope to be able to unlock a few more ideas that could make a difference. In light of the events of Apr 15th, it is even more critical that we re-energize our efforts to create a better, safer and more just world.
Keen to present? Are you a dreamer? Someone who grapples with the what … if questions in life? Working on a BIG, BOLD, BRAVE idea that could change the world? Or an irrational idea that could profoundly change lives? Does the potential of the idea just freeze you with its potential? An audacious, absurd and possibly crazy idea? An UNREASONABLE idea? If you answered yes to any of the above, then the Unreasonability Initiative gives you the perfect space to share, air and present your dream, your idea.
We check all attendee registrations at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
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Using Social Media for Travel
WHEN Tue., Apr. 30, 2013, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Larsen 203, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Other
CONTACT NAME Cevin Soling
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Cultural Studies Club
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE None
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE For an entire year, Shane and Amy Bugbee traveled across America with their dog, turtle, laptop, and a camera. They had no funding, no grants, and not even a credit card. They will present a sampling of the 1000+ hours of footage, approximately 10,000 photos, and interviews they collected along the way which manifested into a 532 page book and 70 minute movie, "The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America". They will discuss their experience of traveling a full year across America on only $180, aided by social media.
WHEN Tue., Apr. 30, 2013, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Larsen 203, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM Other
CONTACT NAME Cevin Soling
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Cultural Studies Club
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE None
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE For an entire year, Shane and Amy Bugbee traveled across America with their dog, turtle, laptop, and a camera. They had no funding, no grants, and not even a credit card. They will present a sampling of the 1000+ hours of footage, approximately 10,000 photos, and interviews they collected along the way which manifested into a 532 page book and 70 minute movie, "The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America". They will discuss their experience of traveling a full year across America on only $180, aided by social media.
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David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics: Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era
WHEN Tue., Apr. 30, 2013, 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Science Center Hall D, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Physics Department
SPEAKER(S) Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
COST Free and open to the public
LINK physics.harvard.edu
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics: Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era
WHEN Tue., Apr. 30, 2013, 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Science Center Hall D, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Physics Department
SPEAKER(S) Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
COST Free and open to the public
LINK physics.harvard.edu
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Wednesday, May 1
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Startup Walkabout
April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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"Catalyzing key chemical transformations for renewable, sustainable energy"
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge
Thomas Jaramillo, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Prof. Jaramillo's research group investigates chemical transformations in energy. More specifically, they study the chemistry and physics of materials as they relate to catalyzing chemical reactions of interest. Generally speaking, they study two types of reactions: those that convert water and CO2 into fuels and chemicals utilizing renewable energy (e.g. solar or wind), and those that convert those fuels back into usable energy in the form of electricity.
Energy Materials at Harvard
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China Urban Development Discussion Series: "Building a Model of Tri-Sector Collaboration to Reduce Pollution in China"
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building 9-354, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building 9-354, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Mary Alice Haddad, Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University; Discussant: Dr. Karen R. Polenske, Peter deFlorez Professor of Regional Political Economy, MIT DUSP
More than three decades ago Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms into post-Mao China, and the results have led to the greatest reduction in poverty in human history. They have also resulted in one of the worst environmental crises the world has ever known, one that threatens the ecology and livability of the entire planet. The path of environmental degradation experienced by China has been, unfortunately, a very common one. When political leaders, citizens, and businesses prioritize economic growth, the environment suffers. When economic growth proceeds at a breakneck pace for decades, environmental pollution follows at an equally fast pace. Turning the tide on an increasingly rapid race to the bottom is not easy, but the Beijing-based Institute for Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) has made a good start. This talk uses the experience of IPE to develop a model of tri-sector cooperation that can help improve environmental behavior around the globe. The model demonstrates how a transparency-based platform can serve as a coordinating mechanism that encourages brand-sensitive multinational corporations, their suppliers, local governments, and an increasingly broad range of companies to comply with national environmental regulations, even when those regulations are not well enforced.
Complimentary lunch will be served at 12:05 pm in room 9-555; talk starts at 12:30 pm and ends by 2 pm in room 9-354.
China Urban Development Discussion Series
Web site: http://mit.edu/dusp/cud/cud_series.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Graduate Student Life Grants, China Urban Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Shan Jiang
shanjang@mit.edu
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Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests and Targeting of Malaria Treatment
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Simone Schaner (Dartmouth)
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Simone Schaner (Dartmouth)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Starr Forum- "Marathon Bombing: The Global Context"
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
3:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, E51-Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Stephen Van Evera, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the MIT Dept of Political Science & MIT Security Studies Program, works on US foreign policy, & international relations of the Middle East.
Elizabeth Wood, professor of history at MIT, is an expert in the eld of Soviet history. Her current work centers on the performance of power under Vladimir Putin
Carol Saivetz, research aliate at the MIT Security Studies Program, has written widely on Soviet & now Russian policy in the Middle East & the other Soviet successor states.
Bakyt Beshimov, a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), is a leader of parliamentary fraction & deputy chairman of Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan.
Peter Krause, assistant professor at Boston College and a research associate at CIS, studies international security, Middle East politics, non-state violence, & social movements.
Jeanne Guillemin, senior advisor at the MIT Security Studies Program, is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on WMD & works on issues regarding infectious diseases & biological weapons.
Sylvia Dominguez, associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, is an expert on immigrant integration,race & ethnic relations, social networks, & violence & mental heath
Moderated by Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science & director of the MIT Center for International Studies
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_050113_marathon_bombings.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Security Studies Program, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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3:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, E51-Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Stephen Van Evera, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the MIT Dept of Political Science & MIT Security Studies Program, works on US foreign policy, & international relations of the Middle East.
Elizabeth Wood, professor of history at MIT, is an expert in the eld of Soviet history. Her current work centers on the performance of power under Vladimir Putin
Carol Saivetz, research aliate at the MIT Security Studies Program, has written widely on Soviet & now Russian policy in the Middle East & the other Soviet successor states.
Bakyt Beshimov, a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), is a leader of parliamentary fraction & deputy chairman of Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan.
Peter Krause, assistant professor at Boston College and a research associate at CIS, studies international security, Middle East politics, non-state violence, & social movements.
Jeanne Guillemin, senior advisor at the MIT Security Studies Program, is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on WMD & works on issues regarding infectious diseases & biological weapons.
Sylvia Dominguez, associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, is an expert on immigrant integration,race & ethnic relations, social networks, & violence & mental heath
Moderated by Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science & director of the MIT Center for International Studies
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_050113_marathon_bombings.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Security Studies Program, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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Will Carbon Prices Reduce Emissions in the US Electricity Industry? Evidence from the Shale Gas Experience
WHEN Wed., May 1, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k89370
WHEN Wed., May 1, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k89370
Paper available at http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1121559.files/May%201%20-%20Erin%20Mansur/GraffZivin_Kotchen_Mansur_MargEmit.pdf
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"Railroads of China/Railroads of India"
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
4:15pm
Harvard, CGIS-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Harvard, CGIS-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Elisabeth Koll (Harvard University) and Dave Donaldson (MIT),
Sponsored by the Joint Center for History and Economics
History and Economics Seminar
Contact Name: Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu
gauth@fas.harvard.edu
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Geoengineering Lecture Series: The Physical Science of Solar Geoengineering
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
5:00p–6:00p
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geo Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
5:00p–6:00p
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geo Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Speaker: Ken Caldeira
Ken Caldeira is a senior climate scientist in Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and a professor, by courtesy, in Stanford's Environmental Earth System Sciences department. Professor Caldeira has a wide-spectrum approach to analyzing the world's climate systems. He studies the global carbon cycle; marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography, including ocean acidification and the atmosphere/ocean carbon cycle; land-cover and climate change; the long-term evolution of climate and geochemical cycles; and energy technology. He is a lead author of the ???State of the Carbon Cycle Report, a study requested by the U.S. Congress. From the early 1990s to 2005, he was with the Energy and Environment Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he was awarded the Edward Teller Fellowship (2004), the highest award given by that laboratory. Caldeira received his B.A. from Rutgers College and both his M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) in atmospheric sciences from New York University.
Geoengineering: Science & Governance Series
This seminar series will explore the science, technology, governance and ethics of solar geoengineering. In bringing together international experts, participants will learn some of the greatest challenges and hear opinions on how this technology could and should be managed.
Web site: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news-events/featured-events/event_id/542
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
For more information, contact: Alli Gold
617-253-6017
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
For more information, contact: Alli Gold
617-253-6017
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The Human Face of Climate Change
Wednesday, May 1st
Wednesday, May 1st
5pm to 6:30pm
Tufts Institute of the Environment, Miller Hall Multipurpose Room (Garden Level), 210 Packard Avenue, Medford
Tufts Institute of the Environment, Miller Hall Multipurpose Room (Garden Level), 210 Packard Avenue, Medford
In this talk, titled “The Human Face of Climate Change: Case Studies in Agriculture and Water,” Rebecca Pearl-Martinez and Kim Foltz will discuss how recent events due to climate change such as Hurricane Sandy and the Midwest/Plains drought are beginning to put the human face of climate change in the spotlight. The pair will highlight not just how climate change is affecting people all over the world, but also how governments are beginning to respond to this problem by trying to understand human vulnerability and resilience. Take a glimpse into the new field of climate change adaptation, which uniquely bridges the environmental and developmental sectors.
Rebecca and Kim are joint teachers of the Experimental College course Rising Tide: Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Adaptation. Kim Foltz is the Director of Community Building & Environment at Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) in East Boston, where she oversees community organizing, environmental, and social justice programming. Previously she served as Board Chair and Acting Director of “Bikes Not Bombs.” She holds an M.A. in Urban Planning from MIT, with a certificate in Environmental Policy and Planning. Rebecca Pearl-Martinez is a Senior Strategist with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and inter-governmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. She has been engaged for over a decade in UN environmental negotiations, co-founded a climate change initiative with 50 UN and NGO institutions, and recently served as Senior Researcher for Climate Change at Oxfam America. She holds an M.A. in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
TIE Talks is not just another PowerPoint — TIE Talks is an opportunity to engage with other thoughtful, environmentally-focused faculty, students, staff, and alumni in a casual atmosphere.
Indian food provided; interaction and lively conversation encouraged!
Free and open to the public!
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Hello, We're MyEnergy
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
61 Chatham Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
RSVP at http://walkaboutmyenergy-es2005.eventbrite.com
MyEnergy helps people save both money and energy. We enable homeowners nationwide to track utility bills online and compare their energy usage to others nearby. We also offer customized energy-saving tips and rewards. Our innovative technology makes us the only company that is compatible with utilities across the country.
During this event you'll learn more about the company as well as upcoming opportunities. We aren't currently hiring but will be adding new people to the team very soon.
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MyEnergy helps people save both money and energy. We enable homeowners nationwide to track utility bills online and compare their energy usage to others nearby. We also offer customized energy-saving tips and rewards. Our innovative technology makes us the only company that is compatible with utilities across the country.
During this event you'll learn more about the company as well as upcoming opportunities. We aren't currently hiring but will be adding new people to the team very soon.
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One Democracy's Gains and Pains: the US-Mexico Drug Entrapment
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alejandro Junco De la Vega
Junco has built one of the most powerful newspaper conglomerates in Latin America, with dailies in Mexico's three largest cities. Grupo Reforma, as his seven daily newspaper publishing group is known, has been the most instrumental factor in the evolution of journalism in the country in the last 30 years.
Aside from his accomplishments in establishing an independent press, Alejandro Junco has also opened greater access to public information by promoting access laws. He also promotes academic research on social problems in Mexican society, and on micro-issues like dysfunctional legal practices, education, health and sustainable energy.
Pizza will be served
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT-Mexico Program, Center for International Studies, CLUBMEX, MIT Global
For more information, contact: Griselda Gomez
617-252-1483
gomezg@mit.edu
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Askwith Forum in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of Paulo Freire’sPedagogy of the Oppressed
WHEN Wed., May 1, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Forum, Lecture, 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, Special Events
NOTE
Speakers:
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics, emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WHEN Wed., May 1, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Forum, Lecture, 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, Special Events
NOTE
Speakers:
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics, emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruno della Chiesa, visiting lecturer on education, HGSE; and Head of International Studies, ZNL Center for Neurosciences and Learning, University of Ulm, Germany
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, HGSE; and adjunct Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Panel members will talk about the impact of Freire’s work and its relevance to education today, tying Pedagogy of the Oppressed to current educational research and practice and evaluating its meaning and worth.
PLEASE NOTE: Seating for this forum will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Askwith Hall is expected to fill up quickly and we encourage participants to arrive early in order to obtain a seat. Seats may not be saved for those pending arrival.
The queue for Askwith Hall seating will start at 3:30 p.m. Out of respect for the academic and classroom environment, we request that you do not arrive prior to 3:30 p.m. Doors will open at 3:45 p.m. Additional seating will be available in satellite spaces on campus once Askwith Hall fills to capacity.
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, HGSE; and adjunct Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Panel members will talk about the impact of Freire’s work and its relevance to education today, tying Pedagogy of the Oppressed to current educational research and practice and evaluating its meaning and worth.
PLEASE NOTE: Seating for this forum will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Askwith Hall is expected to fill up quickly and we encourage participants to arrive early in order to obtain a seat. Seats may not be saved for those pending arrival.
The queue for Askwith Hall seating will start at 3:30 p.m. Out of respect for the academic and classroom environment, we request that you do not arrive prior to 3:30 p.m. Doors will open at 3:45 p.m. Additional seating will be available in satellite spaces on campus once Askwith Hall fills to capacity.
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Thursday, May 2
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Startup Walkabout
April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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Extreme Inclusion
May 2, 2013
The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Cabot 404, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Extreme Inclusion (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/5jqiib), a conference exploring the role and impact of financial services in reducing poverty and generating well-being for marginalized populations.
Participants of Extreme Inclusion will have the opportunity to engage with decision makers and thought leaders, including:
Keynote speaker Reverend James Lawson (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/lcriib), Activist and Principal Strategist for the American Civil Rights Movement
Daryl Collins (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/14riib), Director, Bankable Frontier Associates
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/hxsiib) Global Economic Advisor, MasterCard Worldwide
Lauren Hendricks (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/xptiib), Executive Director, Access Africa, CARE
Joanna Ledgerwood (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/diuiib), Senior Advisor, Access to Finance, Aga Khan Foundation
Ignacio Mas (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/taviib), Senior Fellow, The Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME), The Fletcher School
Conference co-chairs Nicholas Sullivan (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/92viib), CEME Senior Fellow and author of Money Real Quick and You Can Hear Me Now, and Kim Wilson (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/pvwiib), CEME Senior Fellow and Lecturer, The Fletcher School
Please register here (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/5nxiib) (registration is free). New speakers are being confirmed every day, so make sure to visithttp://fletcher.tufts.edu/ExtremeInclusion (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/lgyiib) for updates. Please forward this invitation to others in your network who might benefit from attending as well.
Questions? Email fletcherextremeinclusion@gmail.com or call CEME at: (617) 627-3700. We hope to see you at the conference!
Join the live-tweet on May 2nd: #extremeinclusion
@IBGC_Fletcher (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/18yiib)
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May 2, 2013
The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Cabot 404, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Extreme Inclusion (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/5jqiib), a conference exploring the role and impact of financial services in reducing poverty and generating well-being for marginalized populations.
Participants of Extreme Inclusion will have the opportunity to engage with decision makers and thought leaders, including:
Keynote speaker Reverend James Lawson (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/lcriib), Activist and Principal Strategist for the American Civil Rights Movement
Daryl Collins (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/14riib), Director, Bankable Frontier Associates
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/hxsiib) Global Economic Advisor, MasterCard Worldwide
Lauren Hendricks (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/xptiib), Executive Director, Access Africa, CARE
Joanna Ledgerwood (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/diuiib), Senior Advisor, Access to Finance, Aga Khan Foundation
Ignacio Mas (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/taviib), Senior Fellow, The Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME), The Fletcher School
Conference co-chairs Nicholas Sullivan (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/92viib), CEME Senior Fellow and author of Money Real Quick and You Can Hear Me Now, and Kim Wilson (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/pvwiib), CEME Senior Fellow and Lecturer, The Fletcher School
Please register here (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/5nxiib) (registration is free). New speakers are being confirmed every day, so make sure to visithttp://fletcher.tufts.edu/ExtremeInclusion (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/lgyiib) for updates. Please forward this invitation to others in your network who might benefit from attending as well.
Questions? Email fletcherextremeinclusion@gmail.com or call CEME at: (617) 627-3700. We hope to see you at the conference!
Join the live-tweet on May 2nd: #extremeinclusion
@IBGC_Fletcher (http://e2.ma/click/xluge/tuenmp/18yiib)
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CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society
May 2-3
May 2-3
Harvard, CGIS Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
Organized by the Center for Geographic Analysis and co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
The 2013 CGA Annual Spring Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 2013 in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Location matters. Energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, natural hazards, traffic and transportation, crime and political instability, water quality and availability, climate change, migration and urbanization – all key issues of the 21st century – have a location component. Critical geographic thinking, understanding and reasoning are essential skills for modern societies, and geospatial technologies for location based data collection, management, analysis and visualization have developed rapidly in recent decades. Today, these technologies are widely applied in routine operations in large corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the social media of our daily lives. They save cost, improve efficiency, increase transparency, enhance communication, and help solve problems. Location-enabled devices are weaving "smart grids" and building "smart cities;" they allow people to discover a friend in a shoppi ng mall, catch a bus at its next stop, check surrounding air quality while walking down a street, or avoid a rain storm on a tourist route – now or in the near future. And increasingly they allow those who provide services to track, whether we are walking past stores on the street or seeking help in a natural disaster. Such deep penetration of the geospatial technologies into people's daily lives, however, generates policy and legal concerns with privacy, ownership rights of location information, national and homeland security, uncertainty about government funding and regulation, and more. These issues are relatively new to the academic community and to human societies at large. Technology developers, industries, legal experts, policy makers and citizen rights advocates would be well served in talking to one another as they grapple with the opportunities and challenges of a location-enabled society. The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy based in Washington, DC, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University are co-hosting a two-day program examining the legal and policy issues that will impact geospatial technologies and the development of location-enabled societies.
The 2013 CGA Annual Spring Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 2013 in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Location matters. Energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, natural hazards, traffic and transportation, crime and political instability, water quality and availability, climate change, migration and urbanization – all key issues of the 21st century – have a location component. Critical geographic thinking, understanding and reasoning are essential skills for modern societies, and geospatial technologies for location based data collection, management, analysis and visualization have developed rapidly in recent decades. Today, these technologies are widely applied in routine operations in large corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the social media of our daily lives. They save cost, improve efficiency, increase transparency, enhance communication, and help solve problems. Location-enabled devices are weaving "smart grids" and building "smart cities;" they allow people to discover a friend in a shoppi ng mall, catch a bus at its next stop, check surrounding air quality while walking down a street, or avoid a rain storm on a tourist route – now or in the near future. And increasingly they allow those who provide services to track, whether we are walking past stores on the street or seeking help in a natural disaster. Such deep penetration of the geospatial technologies into people's daily lives, however, generates policy and legal concerns with privacy, ownership rights of location information, national and homeland security, uncertainty about government funding and regulation, and more. These issues are relatively new to the academic community and to human societies at large. Technology developers, industries, legal experts, policy makers and citizen rights advocates would be well served in talking to one another as they grapple with the opportunities and challenges of a location-enabled society. The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy based in Washington, DC, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University are co-hosting a two-day program examining the legal and policy issues that will impact geospatial technologies and the development of location-enabled societies.
Registration Required.
more information on CGA's website: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
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New Ideas for Achieving Economic Inclusion and Mobility in the U.S.
WHEN Thu., May 2, 2013, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Ray Boshara, senior adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Timothy Flacke, executive director, Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund; and Sherry Riva, founder and executive director, Compass Working Capital
COST Free; RSVP to MRCBG@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE The panel will be moderated by Brigitte Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, HKS.
WHEN Thu., May 2, 2013, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Ray Boshara, senior adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Timothy Flacke, executive director, Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund; and Sherry Riva, founder and executive director, Compass Working Capital
COST Free; RSVP to MRCBG@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE The panel will be moderated by Brigitte Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, HKS.
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Links between Tectonics, Erosion and Climate: insights from numerical model
Thursday, May 02, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jean Braun, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Universite de Grenoble
There is much debate about the links that might exist between tectonic, erosion and climate in mountain belts. Continental convergence leads to crustal thickening and the creation of surface topography which in turn is affected by surface erosion through the combined actions of rivers and glaciers. Flow in the mantle can also lead to substantial so-called "dynamic topography". Climate (mostly through precipitation rate and its variability) plays an obvious, yet poorly quantified role in setting the pace and efficiency of erosional processes, but is also strongly affected by topography (mostly through the orographic control of precipitation). Many links and feedbacks must therefore exist between the various components of this complex system, but they remain, for the most, poorly quantified. Here I will show how complex numerical models of crustal deformation, mantle flow, erosional processes and climate have been developed in the past 10-15 years in an attempt to answer these fundamental questions. I will illustrate how these models have been used to explain the geological record in terms of complex interactions between the solid Earth and the hydrosphere. I will show how landscapes are advected during continental collision events and can thus be used as markers of tectonic deformation; how mountain belts such as the Himalayas respond to rapid variations in climate; and how large continental areas can be deeply eroded in response to uplift caused by deep mantle convection.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Computational Engineering
For more information, contact: Barbara Lechner
blechner@mit.edu
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U.S. Policy in a Time of Transition: Ending Occupation, Enhancing Israel's Security, Realizing Palestinian Sovereignty
WHEN Thu., May 2, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Room K262, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
SPEAKER(S) Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Geoffrey Aronson, director, Research and Publications, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Washington, D.C.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO mivanova@wcfia.harvard.edu
WHEN Thu., May 2, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Room K262, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
SPEAKER(S) Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Geoffrey Aronson, director, Research and Publications, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Washington, D.C.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO mivanova@wcfia.harvard.edu
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Symposium on Urbanism, Spirituality, and Well-being: Contemporary Trends
WHEN Thu., May 2, 2013, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center, Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Religion, and Culture Project, Harvard Divinity School; Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Richard Jackson, Rahul Mehrotra, Jack Spengler
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/srcp/pages/urbanism-spirituality-and-well-being-initiative
CONTACT INFO 617.496.9221
NOTE How does the design of contemporary cities support spiritual, physiological, and ecological well-being? This event, the second in a series of three symposium meetings, will feature the perspectives of UCLA-based public health expert and pediatrician Professor Richard Jackson in dialogue with Harvard Graduate School of Design’s own architect and urban theorist Professor Rahul Mehrotra.
Their conversation will highlight contemporary global trends in urbanism that support spiritual, physiological, and ecological well-being. Specific attention will be paid to our relationship with the natural resources and environments—both ecological and social—that sustain us. Professor Jack Spengler, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health, will moderate the discussion.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/579010862123910/
WHEN Thu., May 2, 2013, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center, Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Religion, and Culture Project, Harvard Divinity School; Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Richard Jackson, Rahul Mehrotra, Jack Spengler
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/srcp/pages/urbanism-spirituality-and-well-being-initiative
CONTACT INFO 617.496.9221
NOTE How does the design of contemporary cities support spiritual, physiological, and ecological well-being? This event, the second in a series of three symposium meetings, will feature the perspectives of UCLA-based public health expert and pediatrician Professor Richard Jackson in dialogue with Harvard Graduate School of Design’s own architect and urban theorist Professor Rahul Mehrotra.
Their conversation will highlight contemporary global trends in urbanism that support spiritual, physiological, and ecological well-being. Specific attention will be paid to our relationship with the natural resources and environments—both ecological and social—that sustain us. Professor Jack Spengler, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health, will moderate the discussion.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/579010862123910/
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Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers
Thursday, May 02, 2013
6:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
6:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Steven Hassan, author of Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs
Psychological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Spirituality and Religion
An exploration of why some of us experience feelings of spirituality. What is the interplay of religion and child development? Why did religions come into existence? What do religious experiences look like neuroscientifically?
Part six of a six-part lecture series on the psychological and neuroscientific foundations of spirituality and religion.
Pizza provided before lecture.
Web site: http://ssomit.mit.edu/events.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Secular Society, The Baker Foundation
For more information, contact: Secular Society Exec
ssomit-officers@mit.edu
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Maestra: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Catherine Murphy
Thursday, May 2
Thursday, May 2
6pm
Harvard, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge
Moderator: Kirsten Weld, Department of History, Harvard University
Commentator: Rainer Schultz, Department of History, Harvard University
During the event, the film will be shown, followed by remarks that contextualize and historicize the campaign, before opening up for a discussion on the film and its subject in the presence of the director.
Reception to follow.
About the film: Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
Harvard, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge
Moderator: Kirsten Weld, Department of History, Harvard University
Commentator: Rainer Schultz, Department of History, Harvard University
During the event, the film will be shown, followed by remarks that contextualize and historicize the campaign, before opening up for a discussion on the film and its subject in the presence of the director.
Reception to follow.
About the film: Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
More info at: http://www.maestrathefilm.org
About the director: Catherine Murphy is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who has spent much of the last 10 years working in Latin America. She is founder & director of The Literacy Project, a multi-media documentary project on adult literacy in the Americas. Murphy served as senior staff producer at the TeleSur TV Washington bureau in 2006 and has produced content for PBS, TeleSur, Avila TV, Pacifica Radio National, WBAI and KPFA. /Maestra/ is her directing debut. She holds a Masters Degree from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) at the University of Havana and is currently teaching for the Center of Global Affairs at New York University.
Cuban Studies Program | David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Co-sponsored by ARTS@DRCLAS.
Please contact Linda Rodríguez (lmrodrig@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.
About the director: Catherine Murphy is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who has spent much of the last 10 years working in Latin America. She is founder & director of The Literacy Project, a multi-media documentary project on adult literacy in the Americas. Murphy served as senior staff producer at the TeleSur TV Washington bureau in 2006 and has produced content for PBS, TeleSur, Avila TV, Pacifica Radio National, WBAI and KPFA. /Maestra/ is her directing debut. She holds a Masters Degree from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) at the University of Havana and is currently teaching for the Center of Global Affairs at New York University.
Cuban Studies Program | David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Co-sponsored by ARTS@DRCLAS.
Please contact Linda Rodríguez (lmrodrig@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.
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MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Awards Celebration
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building 34, Room 101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
MIT, Building 34, Room 101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us for MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Awards Celebration on Thursday, May 2, an inspiring event that embodies MIT’s innovative humanitarian spirit. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has been a launch point for entrepreneurs and sustainable impact. We have awarded almost $500,000 to more than 90 teams to turn their ideas into reality. Those ideas are benefitting hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.
This year, more than 60 teams are working with communities around the world to develop solutions to challenges such as waste treatment, clean water, healthcare, education, disaster relief and much more.
Be part of the moment when their ideas come to life. Join us on Thursday, May 2:
6:00 pm - Mix and Mingle with Teams
7:00 pm – The Awards Ceremony
8:30 pm – A Special Toast to Teams
To meet the teams in advance and to learn about the ideas they're working on, join us on Monday, April 29 at the Innovation Showcase (open to the public). Details here:http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/294
See you on May 2!
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Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night
Thursday, May 2, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/111251842/
These events fill up fast!
Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night will feature researchers, entrepreneurs and companies who are leading the way to more personalized health and wellness using self-tracking systems. The evening will start with live product demonstrations showcasing cutting-edge innovation that is transforming health and wellness, followed by world-class speakers and finally a compelling panel discussion moderated by IDEO's Life Sciences Chief Strategist Rodrigo Martinez.
SCHEDULED SPEAKERS
Jonathan Farringdon - Director of Informatics, BodyMedia
Jaqueline Thong - Co-founder & CEO, Ubiqi Health
John Moore, MD - Doctor & Technologist, New Media Medicine (MIT)
If you are a designer, tech inventor, entrepreneur, journalist, scientist, health professional or user, please join us for an evening of inspiration packed with great speakers, demos, networking and more!
Boston Quantified Self would like to thank our event partner Harvard Innovation Lab for hosting this event at their amazing facility.
Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night
Thursday, May 2, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/111251842/
These events fill up fast!
Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night will feature researchers, entrepreneurs and companies who are leading the way to more personalized health and wellness using self-tracking systems. The evening will start with live product demonstrations showcasing cutting-edge innovation that is transforming health and wellness, followed by world-class speakers and finally a compelling panel discussion moderated by IDEO's Life Sciences Chief Strategist Rodrigo Martinez.
SCHEDULED SPEAKERS
Jonathan Farringdon - Director of Informatics, BodyMedia
Jaqueline Thong - Co-founder & CEO, Ubiqi Health
John Moore, MD - Doctor & Technologist, New Media Medicine (MIT)
If you are a designer, tech inventor, entrepreneur, journalist, scientist, health professional or user, please join us for an evening of inspiration packed with great speakers, demos, networking and more!
Boston Quantified Self would like to thank our event partner Harvard Innovation Lab for hosting this event at their amazing facility.
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Refusing to Kill
Thursday, May 2
6:45 to 9pm
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl St., Camb
Refusiniks from around the world speak out
Produced by Payday, a network of men working with the Global Women's strike
"I'd rather go to prison for desertion than kill a child by mistake", Sgt Camilo Meja, US army. Sentenced to a year in prison for refusing to return to Iraq.
Refuseniks and their families, supporters and other anti-war protesters around the world, from the Second World War, wars in Africa, Vietnam, Palestine and the two Gulf wars tell their stories.
Only 2% of soldiers shoot to kill. So the military needs to brainwash the 98% who don't. Everywhere people are drafted into the military by law or poverty. Those who refuse to kill are punished, jailed, sometimes killed. In spite of that, there is a growing movement of refuseniks supported by their loved ones usually women.
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl St., Camb
Refusiniks from around the world speak out
Produced by Payday, a network of men working with the Global Women's strike
"I'd rather go to prison for desertion than kill a child by mistake", Sgt Camilo Meja, US army. Sentenced to a year in prison for refusing to return to Iraq.
Refuseniks and their families, supporters and other anti-war protesters around the world, from the Second World War, wars in Africa, Vietnam, Palestine and the two Gulf wars tell their stories.
Only 2% of soldiers shoot to kill. So the military needs to brainwash the 98% who don't. Everywhere people are drafted into the military by law or poverty. Those who refuse to kill are punished, jailed, sometimes killed. In spite of that, there is a growing movement of refuseniks supported by their loved ones usually women.
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Urban Films: Revolution '67 (2007)
Thursday, May 02, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Revolution '67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history---the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J., outbreak in mid-July, Revolution '67 reveals how the disturbances began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice. Voices from across the spectrum---activists Tom Hayden and Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, Mayor Sharpe James, and other officials, National Guardsmen and Newark citizens---recall lessons as hard-earned then as they have been easy to neglect since. Directed by Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno. A co-production with the Independent Television Service (ITVS); presented in collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov).
Urban Planning Film Series
A mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Revolution '67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history---the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J., outbreak in mid-July, Revolution '67 reveals how the disturbances began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice. Voices from across the spectrum---activists Tom Hayden and Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, Mayor Sharpe James, and other officials, National Guardsmen and Newark citizens---recall lessons as hard-earned then as they have been easy to neglect since. Directed by Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno. A co-production with the Independent Television Service (ITVS); presented in collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov).
Urban Planning Film Series
A mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
Web site: http://www.urbanfilm.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Friday, May 3
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Startup Walkabout
April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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Social Capital Forum: How Can Engagement Drive Economic Growth?
Friday, May 3, 2013
8:00 AM to 10:30 AM (EDT)
Goulston & Storrs, 400 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://socialcapitalforum-eanrecl.eventbrite.com
Event Details
8 a.m. Registration, networking & light breakfast
8:30-10:30 a.m. Program
The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) study “Civic Health & Unemployment II ”, released in September 2012, presents data linking high levels of civic health to lower unemployment rates. In particular, the study points to the importance of “social cohesion” and the presence of nonprofits that engage the community as contributing to a stronger employment picture.
The goal of this inaugural Social Capital Forum is to present this research to Boston area community leaders and identify practical steps we can take to increase community engagement that leads to economic and social benefits.
Format: Presentation of the research by one of the study authors, followed by a panel of experts and small group discussion.
Audience: A diverse range of community leaders, including nonprofit leaders, foundations, government, academics and business.
About the Presenter: Peter Levine will open the Forum by presenting a summary of the Civic Health & Unemployment II study, which he co-authored. Levine is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Director of CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Levine graduated from Yale in 1989 with a degree in philosophy. Levine studied philosophy at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, receiving his doctorate in 1992. In the late 1990s, he was Deputy Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Levine is the author of numerous books, including The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens (2007). He also co-editedThe Deliberative Democracy Handbook (2006) with John Gastil and Engaging Young People in Civic Life(2009) with Jim Youniss. He has served on the boards or steering committees of AmericaSpeaks, Street Law, the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, the Kettering Foundation, the American Bar Association Committee’s for Public Education, the Paul J. Aicher Foundation, and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
April 30 - May 3
Startup Walkabout is a week long event where startups open their doors to let the tech community get a look inside some of Boston's most innovative companies.
http://startupwalkabout.com
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Social Capital Forum: How Can Engagement Drive Economic Growth?
Friday, May 3, 2013
8:00 AM to 10:30 AM (EDT)
Goulston & Storrs, 400 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://socialcapitalforum-eanrecl.eventbrite.com
Event Details
8 a.m. Registration, networking & light breakfast
8:30-10:30 a.m. Program
The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) study “Civic Health & Unemployment II ”, released in September 2012, presents data linking high levels of civic health to lower unemployment rates. In particular, the study points to the importance of “social cohesion” and the presence of nonprofits that engage the community as contributing to a stronger employment picture.
The goal of this inaugural Social Capital Forum is to present this research to Boston area community leaders and identify practical steps we can take to increase community engagement that leads to economic and social benefits.
Format: Presentation of the research by one of the study authors, followed by a panel of experts and small group discussion.
Audience: A diverse range of community leaders, including nonprofit leaders, foundations, government, academics and business.
About the Presenter: Peter Levine will open the Forum by presenting a summary of the Civic Health & Unemployment II study, which he co-authored. Levine is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Director of CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Levine graduated from Yale in 1989 with a degree in philosophy. Levine studied philosophy at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, receiving his doctorate in 1992. In the late 1990s, he was Deputy Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Levine is the author of numerous books, including The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens (2007). He also co-editedThe Deliberative Democracy Handbook (2006) with John Gastil and Engaging Young People in Civic Life(2009) with Jim Youniss. He has served on the boards or steering committees of AmericaSpeaks, Street Law, the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, the Kettering Foundation, the American Bar Association Committee’s for Public Education, the Paul J. Aicher Foundation, and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
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CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society
May 2-3
Harrvard CGIS Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
Organized by the Center for Geographic Analysis and co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
The 2013 CGA Annual Spring Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 2013 in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Location matters. Energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, natural hazards, traffic and transportation, crime and political instability, water quality and availability, climate change, migration and urbanization – all key issues of the 21st century – have a location component. Critical geographic thinking, understanding and reasoning are essential skills for modern societies, and geospatial technologies for location based data collection, management, analysis and visualization have developed rapidly in recent decades. Today, these technologies are widely applied in routine operations in large corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the social media of our daily lives. They save cost, improve efficiency, increase transparency, enhance communication, and help solve problems. Location-enabled devices are weaving "smart grids" and building "smart cities;" they allow people to discover a friend in a shoppi ng mall, catch a bus at its next stop, check surrounding air quality while walking down a street, or avoid a rain storm on a tourist route – now or in the near future. And increasingly they allow those who provide services to track, whether we are walking past stores on the street or seeking help in a natural disaster. Such deep penetration of the geospatial technologies into people's daily lives, however, generates policy and legal concerns with privacy, ownership rights of location information, national and homeland security, uncertainty about government funding and regulation, and more. These issues are relatively new to the academic community and to human societies at large. Technology developers, industries, legal experts, policy makers and citizen rights advocates would be well served in talking to one another as they grapple with the opportunities and challenges of a location-enabled society. The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy based in Washington, DC, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University are co-hosting a two-day program examining the legal and policy issues that will impact geospatial technologies and the development of location-enabled societies.
Registration Required.
more information on CGA's website: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
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Harrvard CGIS Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
Organized by the Center for Geographic Analysis and co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
The 2013 CGA Annual Spring Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 2013 in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Location matters. Energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, natural hazards, traffic and transportation, crime and political instability, water quality and availability, climate change, migration and urbanization – all key issues of the 21st century – have a location component. Critical geographic thinking, understanding and reasoning are essential skills for modern societies, and geospatial technologies for location based data collection, management, analysis and visualization have developed rapidly in recent decades. Today, these technologies are widely applied in routine operations in large corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the social media of our daily lives. They save cost, improve efficiency, increase transparency, enhance communication, and help solve problems. Location-enabled devices are weaving "smart grids" and building "smart cities;" they allow people to discover a friend in a shoppi ng mall, catch a bus at its next stop, check surrounding air quality while walking down a street, or avoid a rain storm on a tourist route – now or in the near future. And increasingly they allow those who provide services to track, whether we are walking past stores on the street or seeking help in a natural disaster. Such deep penetration of the geospatial technologies into people's daily lives, however, generates policy and legal concerns with privacy, ownership rights of location information, national and homeland security, uncertainty about government funding and regulation, and more. These issues are relatively new to the academic community and to human societies at large. Technology developers, industries, legal experts, policy makers and citizen rights advocates would be well served in talking to one another as they grapple with the opportunities and challenges of a location-enabled society. The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy based in Washington, DC, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University are co-hosting a two-day program examining the legal and policy issues that will impact geospatial technologies and the development of location-enabled societies.
Registration Required.
more information on CGA's website: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
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SEAS Design & Project Fair
WHEN Fri., May 3, 2013, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Plaza Tent, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Exhibitions, Information Technology, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
NOTE We invite you to attend a showcase of our undergraduate and graduate design activities featuring student demonstrations, presentations, and prototypes. Academic areas include engineering (biomedical, mechanical, electrical, environmental), applied mathematics, applied physics, materials science, computer science, and computation. See what's new at SEAS this year!
LINK http://seas.harvard.edu
WHEN Fri., May 3, 2013, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Plaza Tent, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Exhibitions, Information Technology, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
NOTE We invite you to attend a showcase of our undergraduate and graduate design activities featuring student demonstrations, presentations, and prototypes. Academic areas include engineering (biomedical, mechanical, electrical, environmental), applied mathematics, applied physics, materials science, computer science, and computation. See what's new at SEAS this year!
LINK http://seas.harvard.edu
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Integration of Renewable Energy: Challenges and Solutions
May 03, 2013
May 03, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Guenter Conzelmann and Audun Botterud , Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis, Argonne National Laboratory
Speaker Biography: http://www.anl.gov/contributors/guenter-conzelmann
Contact: Brenda Mathieu
bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu
Speaker Biography: http://www.anl.gov/contributors/guenter-conzelmann
Contact: Brenda Mathieu
bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu
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MiT8 conference panel: Oversharing
Friday, May 03, 2013
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK); David Rosen, author; Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University; Moderator: Nick Montfort, MIT
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, another class of concerns has arisen: That some people (often young users of social media) are not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy and are choosing to share "too much information." Do these people's technical skills outstrip their social skills? Are they unaware of how information can persist and potentially damage their reputation? Or are the stern adults who question this behavior clinging to an outmoded idea of privacy? Are the apps and algorithms and platforms of social media invisibly transforming norms of privacy and personal freedom?
Web site: web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Communications Forum, Literature Section, CMS / Writing
For more information, contact: Brad Seawell
617-253-3521
seawell@mit.edu
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Community Energy Program
We have several Boston area towns that want us to help them with clean renewable energy systems. The program brings together sponsor, volunteers and students to learn and install real world, working systems for solar & wind as a source of clean energy for municipal buildings such as; Police, Fire, Library, Town Hall, etc…
Friday, May 3, 2013
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Christopher's Restaurant, 1920 Massachusetts Avenue, Porter Square, Cambridge
Christopher's Restaurant, 1920 Massachusetts Avenue, Porter Square, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/AltEnergyBoston/events/64764902/
Ask at the door
We have several Boston area towns that want us to help them with clean renewable energy systems. The program brings together sponsor, volunteers and students to learn and install real world, working systems for solar & wind as a source of clean energy for municipal buildings such as; Police, Fire, Library, Town Hall, etc…
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"What We Know About Climate Change": EAPS Author Night with Kerry Emanuel
Friday, May 03, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carlton Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carlton Street, Cambridge
with reception to follow in MIT 54-923 (the tallest building on campus)
Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science at M.I.T. Kerry Emanuel, presents his book "What We Know About Climate Change" (MIT Press)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2013/author-night-kerry-emanuel
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127
jtaylor@mit.edu
Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science at M.I.T. Kerry Emanuel, presents his book "What We Know About Climate Change" (MIT Press)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2013/author-night-kerry-emanuel
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127
jtaylor@mit.edu
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Cities for Sale: The Right to Housing vs Corporate Real Estate
Friday, May 03, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 3-333, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
A discussion on the right to housing vs. corporate real estate interests with Professor Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; Graduate Center, City University of New York and
Respondents
Fred Salvucci, Departments Civil and Environmental Engineering; Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; Former Secretary of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Caesar McDowell, Associate Professor of the Practice of Community Development; Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice, Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Web site: web.mit.edu/tac
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, Co-sponsors: Department of Urban Studies & Planning and MIT CoLab
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 3-333, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
A discussion on the right to housing vs. corporate real estate interests with Professor Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; Graduate Center, City University of New York and
Respondents
Fred Salvucci, Departments Civil and Environmental Engineering; Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; Former Secretary of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Caesar McDowell, Associate Professor of the Practice of Community Development; Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice, Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Web site: web.mit.edu/tac
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, Co-sponsors: Department of Urban Studies & Planning and MIT CoLab
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
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Opening Reception: Arc
WHEN Fri., May 3, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center Sert + Main Galleries, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Film, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR VES, Carpenter Center
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3251
NOTE Opening reception for Arc, an exhibition of thesis projects, including photography and video installation, by students in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
Artists: Keoni Correa, Caroline Cuse, Kayla Escobedo, Oliver Luo, Meryl Natow, Sally Scopa, Abby Sun
LINK http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/thesis2013.html
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WHEN Fri., May 3, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center Sert + Main Galleries, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Film, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR VES, Carpenter Center
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3251
NOTE Opening reception for Arc, an exhibition of thesis projects, including photography and video installation, by students in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
Artists: Keoni Correa, Caroline Cuse, Kayla Escobedo, Oliver Luo, Meryl Natow, Sally Scopa, Abby Sun
LINK http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/thesis2013.html
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Saturday, May 4
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Climate Change and Social Action
Saturday, 04 May, 2013
09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Saturday, 04 May, 2013
09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Cary Library, 1874 Mass. Avenue, Lexington
The authors of the proposed carbon tax for Massachusetts, State Representative Tom Conroy (Lincoln, Wayland,Sudbury) and State Senator Mike Barrett (Lexington, Bedford, Concord etc.) will be there along with an expert in the field who will provide background on the issue including how it works and the economic impact. Tom and Mike will provide more information on their proposal. State Senator Will Brownsberger and State Representative Dave Rogers will also be part of the panel discussion.
Event Contact Lexington GWAC
Email: info@LexGWAC.org
http://lexgwac.org
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Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism
Saturday, May 4, 2013
9:00 AM
Cambridge Public Library Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Register at http://citizenjournalismforum.eventbrite.com/ to attend this free half-day forum organized by Cambridge Community Television, Center for Civic Media/Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and the Digital Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The Forum will explore the quickly expanding world of citizen journalism: how technology is fueling its growth, and how that growth is changing the way we see our world, enact change, and disseminate the news.
This forum is a must for both consumers and creators of local news content; journalists and media professionals;
independent and collaborative website owners; legal
professionals; and everyone who values local information, civic participation, and social justice.
Schedule:
9 am - 9:45 am: Coffee, Refreshments, & Registration
9:45 am- 10:45 am: Oases in the News Desert
11 am -12 pm: Newsgathering and the Law: Hot Topics for Citizen Journalists in Massachusetts
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm: The Most Experimental Storytellers: Citizen Journalists
Presenters to date:
Christopher Bavitz, Cyberlaw Clinic, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Joe Bergantino, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Denise Cheng, MIT Center for Civic Media
Jeff Hermes, Digital Media Law Project, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Joanna Kao, The Tech
Marc Levy,Cambridge Day
Andy Sellars, Digital Media Law Project,
Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
David Schalliol, Gapers Block
CB Smith-Dahl, Oakland Local
Josh Stearns, Free Press
Saul Tannenbaum, NeighborMedia and Cambridge Happenings
Robert Winters, Cambridge Civic Journal
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The Spring 2011 Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP
Saturday May 4
NOON to 2 pm
Fayette Park (near the corner of Broadway and Fayette St., across from former Longfellow School)
Rain date—in case of DOWNPOUR—is Saturday May 11, 12-2
Bring anything that's growing in too much abundance in your garden. Elegant packaging not required, but please do write down the names of plants. We expect to have perennials, biennial seedlings, seeds, indoor plants, catalogs, pots, and lots of "whatever." Feel free to just come, chat with neighbors, talk gardening.
Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism
Saturday, May 4, 2013
9:00 AM
Cambridge Public Library Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Register at http://citizenjournalismforum.eventbrite.com/ to attend this free half-day forum organized by Cambridge Community Television, Center for Civic Media/Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and the Digital Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The Forum will explore the quickly expanding world of citizen journalism: how technology is fueling its growth, and how that growth is changing the way we see our world, enact change, and disseminate the news.
This forum is a must for both consumers and creators of local news content; journalists and media professionals;
independent and collaborative website owners; legal
professionals; and everyone who values local information, civic participation, and social justice.
Schedule:
9 am - 9:45 am: Coffee, Refreshments, & Registration
9:45 am- 10:45 am: Oases in the News Desert
11 am -12 pm: Newsgathering and the Law: Hot Topics for Citizen Journalists in Massachusetts
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm: The Most Experimental Storytellers: Citizen Journalists
Presenters to date:
Christopher Bavitz, Cyberlaw Clinic, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Joe Bergantino, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Denise Cheng, MIT Center for Civic Media
Jeff Hermes, Digital Media Law Project, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Joanna Kao, The Tech
Marc Levy,Cambridge Day
Andy Sellars, Digital Media Law Project,
Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
David Schalliol, Gapers Block
CB Smith-Dahl, Oakland Local
Josh Stearns, Free Press
Saul Tannenbaum, NeighborMedia and Cambridge Happenings
Robert Winters, Cambridge Civic Journal
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The Spring 2011 Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP
Saturday May 4
NOON to 2 pm
Fayette Park (near the corner of Broadway and Fayette St., across from former Longfellow School)
Rain date—in case of DOWNPOUR—is Saturday May 11, 12-2
Bring anything that's growing in too much abundance in your garden. Elegant packaging not required, but please do write down the names of plants. We expect to have perennials, biennial seedlings, seeds, indoor plants, catalogs, pots, and lots of "whatever." Feel free to just come, chat with neighbors, talk gardening.
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Wake Up the Earth Festival
12pm
Southwest Corridor, Jamaica Plain
http://www.spontaneouscelebrations.org
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Sunday, May 5
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Harvard Square MAY FAIR festival
Sunday May 5
noon to 6
Palmer Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
A repeat of the Get Growing at the May Fair held last spring—techniques for urban gardening, even in a tiny space. Will likely include composting, beekeeping, raised beds, hydroponics,
mushrooms, urban fruit, chickens, herbs, etc. Free and fun! Volunteers—and people offering info—very welcome. Contact me for more info.
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Festival Floralia
Sunday May 5
2 to 4:30
Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle Street, Cambridge
A lovely fund-raiser for Grow Native Massachusetts, which encourages us to use native plants in our gardens. Great event: info sessions, music, food, native plants for sale. More info: www.grownativemass.org/programs/festivalfloralia
Harvard Square MAY FAIR festival
Sunday May 5
noon to 6
Palmer Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
A repeat of the Get Growing at the May Fair held last spring—techniques for urban gardening, even in a tiny space. Will likely include composting, beekeeping, raised beds, hydroponics,
mushrooms, urban fruit, chickens, herbs, etc. Free and fun! Volunteers—and people offering info—very welcome. Contact me for more info.
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Festival Floralia
Sunday May 5
2 to 4:30
Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle Street, Cambridge
A lovely fund-raiser for Grow Native Massachusetts, which encourages us to use native plants in our gardens. Great event: info sessions, music, food, native plants for sale. More info: www.grownativemass.org/programs/festivalfloralia
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Monday, May 6
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CJP Innovation Exchange: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World MassChallenge
Monday, May 6, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
MassChallenge Headquarters, One Marina Park Drive, Boston
RSVP at http://innovationexchange2013.eventbrite.com
Like Massachusetts, Israel has few natural resources but abundant brainpower and creativity. And both have “cracked the code” on how to innovate successfully. Meet two of Israel’s brightest entrepreneurs – a solar power pioneer and a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who have helped make the country a world leader in innovation. Join us for a morning of networking and discussion moderated by Alexandra Adler, Northeast regional director at Cleantech Open.
Yosef Abromowitz and Eyal Gura
Yosef Abromowitz, president of Arava Power and Energiya Global, wasnamed by CNN as one of the top six Green Pioneers worldwide.
Eyal Gura, one of Israel’s 40 under 40 leaders, has created tech start ups that have been purchased by giants including eBay and Getty Images.
Like Massachusetts, Israel has few natural resources but abundant brainpower and creativity. And both have “cracked the code” on how to innovate successfully. Meet two of Israel’s brightest entrepreneurs – a solar power pioneer and a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who have helped make the country a world leader in innovation. Join us for a morning of networking and discussion moderated by Alexandra Adler, Northeast regional director at Cleantech Open.
Yosef Abromowitz and Eyal Gura
Yosef Abromowitz, president of Arava Power and Energiya Global, wasnamed by CNN as one of the top six Green Pioneers worldwide.
Eyal Gura, one of Israel’s 40 under 40 leaders, has created tech start ups that have been purchased by giants including eBay and Getty Images.
This is a free event. Breakfast will be served. Pre-registration is required.
For more information, email laurensm@cjp.org.
Innovation Exchange 2013: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World
Massachusetts is a global hub of innovation in fields as diverse as business, education and renewable energy. Engaging with experts from around the world ensures that we maintain our competitive edge. The Innovation Exchange offers an opportunity to interact with Israeli leaders at the forefront of entrepreneurship, multicultural education and solar energy technology.
MassChallenge is the largest-ever startup accelerator and the first to support high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs with no strings attached. Benefits for startups include world-class mentorship and training, free office space, access to funding, legal advice, media and more. Over $1 million in cash awards and $10 million of in-kind support are awarded to winning startups, and no equity is taken.
For more information, email laurensm@cjp.org.
Innovation Exchange 2013: Visionary Minds Shaping a Better World
Massachusetts is a global hub of innovation in fields as diverse as business, education and renewable energy. Engaging with experts from around the world ensures that we maintain our competitive edge. The Innovation Exchange offers an opportunity to interact with Israeli leaders at the forefront of entrepreneurship, multicultural education and solar energy technology.
MassChallenge is the largest-ever startup accelerator and the first to support high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs with no strings attached. Benefits for startups include world-class mentorship and training, free office space, access to funding, legal advice, media and more. Over $1 million in cash awards and $10 million of in-kind support are awarded to winning startups, and no equity is taken.
About MassChallenge Israel:
MassChallenge Israel is the first, and so far only, formal MassChallenge program outside Boston. The mission of MassChallenge Israel is to enable top-tier Israeli startups to access global markets by connecting them with the very best people and organizations in the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem.
With the help of Israeli mentors and judges, MassChallenge Israel will identify the highest-potential startups in Israel to participate in the MassChallenge accelerator in Boston. These startups will be able to return to Israel after the MassChallenge accelerator with new sales channels, investors, mentors, and growth that wouldn't otherwise be feasible.
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Tuesday, May 7
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Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness: The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform
May 7
May 7
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/05/reich#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
For decades, policymakers and futurists have heralded digital tools as essential to the the future of learning. Has the moment of disruptive transformational revolution finally arrived? If we are at a watershed moment, what futures are available to us?
Researchers are developing new methods to leverage big data for personalized learning systems. Free-market advocates are envisioning how online learning could let students use vouchers not only to buy whole school experiences, but to buy individual courses from multiple vendors. Most radical of all, technologists and policymakers are exploring ways of using technology to "unbundle teaching", to create a suite of new roles in schools from rockstar teachers to full-time remote classroom observers, much as health care has shifted from the general practitioner to teams comprised of a few surgeons and many orderlies.
In this luncheon presentation we'll explore the different futures made possible by these digital tools, and examine the political and civic implications of transforming schools and learning with networked technologies.
About Justin
Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. Currently, he is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a visiting lecturer at MIT, and the director of online community, research, and practice at Facing History and Ourselves. Justin is the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University, where he led the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how social media are used in K-12 classrooms. He writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week, and his writings have appeared in Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/05/reich#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
For decades, policymakers and futurists have heralded digital tools as essential to the the future of learning. Has the moment of disruptive transformational revolution finally arrived? If we are at a watershed moment, what futures are available to us?
Researchers are developing new methods to leverage big data for personalized learning systems. Free-market advocates are envisioning how online learning could let students use vouchers not only to buy whole school experiences, but to buy individual courses from multiple vendors. Most radical of all, technologists and policymakers are exploring ways of using technology to "unbundle teaching", to create a suite of new roles in schools from rockstar teachers to full-time remote classroom observers, much as health care has shifted from the general practitioner to teams comprised of a few surgeons and many orderlies.
In this luncheon presentation we'll explore the different futures made possible by these digital tools, and examine the political and civic implications of transforming schools and learning with networked technologies.
About Justin
Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. Currently, he is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a visiting lecturer at MIT, and the director of online community, research, and practice at Facing History and Ourselves. Justin is the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University, where he led the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how social media are used in K-12 classrooms. He writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week, and his writings have appeared in Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications.
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Personal Digital Archiving followed by Q+A with Kari Smith, Digital Archivist
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 14N-132, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 14N-132, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Kari Smith
Increase your understanding of common digital files-digital photos, recordings, video, documents, and others-and learn what it takes to preserve them. Technology changes rapidly. If you don't actively care for your digital possessions you may lose access to them as some technologies become obsolete. Learn about the nature of the problem and hear about some simple, practical tips and tools to help you preserve your digital stuff. Join us after the webinar for a collaborative Q+A with Kari Smith, Digital Archivist, Institute Archives and Special Collections at MIT Libraries. Kari will be on hand to discuss personal digital archiving and offer guidance for preservation of digital materials.
Web site: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=302119
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Andrew Haggarty
617-253-5282
ahaggart@mit.edu
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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Roland Benabou (Princeton)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8793
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Opening Reception for From Obsolescence to Sustainability: A Century of Architectural Change
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 7-338, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Obsolescence as a model of impermanence in architecture emerged a century ago with advances in technology and society causing even recent buildings to be rapidly devalued and made expendable. In response, efforts emerged to reinstitute permanence and slow change-- from a vitalized historic preservation movement, and concrete brutalist monumentality, to adaptive reuse, architectural postmodernism and green design. Sustainability, in all these guises, has superseded obsolescence as a dominant paradigm for comprehending and managing change in the built environment.
This exhibition, curated by Daniel A. Abramson, Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University, traces the concept of obsolescence in the built environment through its evolution in architecture, economics and culture and the subsequent development of sustainability.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning
For more information, contact: Amber Sinicrope
617.258.9106
asinicro@mit.edu
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 7-338, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Obsolescence as a model of impermanence in architecture emerged a century ago with advances in technology and society causing even recent buildings to be rapidly devalued and made expendable. In response, efforts emerged to reinstitute permanence and slow change-- from a vitalized historic preservation movement, and concrete brutalist monumentality, to adaptive reuse, architectural postmodernism and green design. Sustainability, in all these guises, has superseded obsolescence as a dominant paradigm for comprehending and managing change in the built environment.
This exhibition, curated by Daniel A. Abramson, Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University, traces the concept of obsolescence in the built environment through its evolution in architecture, economics and culture and the subsequent development of sustainability.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning
For more information, contact: Amber Sinicrope
617.258.9106
asinicro@mit.edu
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Mass Innovation Night - #MIN500 Special Event
05/07/2013
06:00pm - 08:30pm
The Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
05/07/2013
06:00pm - 08:30pm
The Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/min500-special-event
Their 50th event will be a very special event! On Tuesday, May 7th, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, they will be celebrating the 500 products YOU have helped to launch over the past four years. They'll bring back many of our favorites, getting an update from several alumni and recognizing you, the special community that has helped to generate so much awesome visibility for local companies and entrepreneurs. Please come and join them.
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KITCHEN GARDENERS’ MEETING
Tuesday May 7
6:30 to 8:3
Central Square public library
Jules, at ejkobek@gmail.com, plans 3 once-a-month meetings; if they catch on, they’ll keep going. The first one, in April, was great: a helpful, friendly, informal veggie-garden club.
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Social Innovation and Government: Approaches from the UK
WHEN Wed., May 8, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Building, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hosted jointly by the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Executive Director, Government Innovation Group, UK Cabinet Office
LINK http://hausercenter.harvard.edu/2303/social-innovation-and-government-approaches-from-the-uk/
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Cambridge Solar Challenge KICK-OFF
Wednesday, May 8
6:45pm
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Hear from Mayor Henrietta Davis and HEET's President Audrey about how we're going to help residents get 100 solar installations this summer through a Groupon-style discount, while we distribute as much as $30,000 in donations to Cambridge nonprofits. Hear from a Next Step Living solar expert about the science of solar, as well as how to make it work for you. You can even have your home assessed with an online map to find out if you have good potential - and if you do - sign up to take advantage of the Cambridge Solar Challenge's significantly reduced price for solar. Solar experts will be available before the event begins and afterward to answer any questions you may have.
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To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
WHEN Thu., May 9, 2013, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HSPH Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Paul Farmer, Wafaie Fawzi, Dean Julio Frenk
CONTACT INFO deansevents@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK www.hsph.harvard.edu…
WHEN Thu., May 9, 2013, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HSPH Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Paul Farmer, Wafaie Fawzi, Dean Julio Frenk
CONTACT INFO deansevents@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK www.hsph.harvard.edu…
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2013 Legatum Conference: Visions | Values | Ventures
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
8:00am - 5:00pm
MIT Media Lab Complex (Building E14) 75 Amherst Street (Corner of Ames & Amherst) Cambridge
Cost: $60 - Professional $30 Students
Register for the 2013 Legatum Conference at http://legatum.mit.edu/conference2013_registration
On May 11th, the Legatum Center will convene entrepreneurs from developing countries around the world—and those who support them—to share stories of success and make lasting connections. The conference will showcase entrepreneurial visions in emerging economies, in diverse areas from finance to fashion. Keynote speakers, investors and panels will celebrate the values of innovative entrepreneurs who are helping to advance broad-based economic progress in low-income countries globally. Join us as our speakers, including our own Legatum Fellows, present and discuss cutting-edge ventures in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Register for the 2013 Legatum Conference at http://legatum.mit.edu/conference2013_registration
On May 11th, the Legatum Center will convene entrepreneurs from developing countries around the world—and those who support them—to share stories of success and make lasting connections. The conference will showcase entrepreneurial visions in emerging economies, in diverse areas from finance to fashion. Keynote speakers, investors and panels will celebrate the values of innovative entrepreneurs who are helping to advance broad-based economic progress in low-income countries globally. Join us as our speakers, including our own Legatum Fellows, present and discuss cutting-edge ventures in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Editorial Comment: Not too much money and this is a critical area.
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MIT Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, May 11
Saturday, May 11
12:30 pm - 5 pm
Theta Delta Chi frat house
Among other ills, these students are victims of the typical dorm/rental housing plague of uncontrollable steam heat leading to windows open all winter. We're going to change that. They've done a great job of installing efficient lighting, but could definitely use our help to lower their bills further. Less money toward fossil fuels, more money toward pizza and bee... EDUCATION!
**We need team leaders!!**
We'll work on: Placing gaskets under wall switches and outlets, posting info on how to properly use steam heat, changing computer settings, calculating energy use of ACs and heaters, door and window weatherization, water efficiency (aerators & shower heads), light bulbs, and fixing fireplace dampers
Sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpvTWZxM2ZIekM2eVJiSGM1ZzlhNVE6MA#gid=0&utm_source=Special+HEET+eNewsletter+April+25+2013&utm_campaign=HEET+eNewsletter&utm_medium=email
Theta Delta Chi frat house
Among other ills, these students are victims of the typical dorm/rental housing plague of uncontrollable steam heat leading to windows open all winter. We're going to change that. They've done a great job of installing efficient lighting, but could definitely use our help to lower their bills further. Less money toward fossil fuels, more money toward pizza and bee... EDUCATION!
**We need team leaders!!**
We'll work on: Placing gaskets under wall switches and outlets, posting info on how to properly use steam heat, changing computer settings, calculating energy use of ACs and heaters, door and window weatherization, water efficiency (aerators & shower heads), light bulbs, and fixing fireplace dampers
Sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpvTWZxM2ZIekM2eVJiSGM1ZzlhNVE6MA#gid=0&utm_source=Special+HEET+eNewsletter+April+25+2013&utm_campaign=HEET+eNewsletter&utm_medium=email
More information at http://www.heetma.com
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Hope Arab Springs Eternal
Thursday, May 16
6:30-8 pm
C. Walsh Theatre at Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents Hope Arab Springs Eternal with Elizabeth F. Thompson; discussion moderated by Robert Laffey.
C. Walsh Theatre at Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents Hope Arab Springs Eternal with Elizabeth F. Thompson; discussion moderated by Robert Laffey.
How much closer are Middle Eastern countries to having functioning constitutional governments than they were in the spring of 2011? How will such governments impact their economies? What unique challenges and opportunities has each country faced in building new government? How has the culture played into the emerging politics?
Elizabeth F. Thompson (author, Justice Interrupted) joins us to provide an update on happenings in the Middle East, particularly in terms of consequences we did not foresee two years ago. Robert Laffey (Assistant Professor of Government, Suffolk University) guides this discussion on post-Arab Spring sociopolitical changes and mines Thompson’s book for answers.
Further background information on the participants:
Elizabeth F. Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Thompson specializes in the 20th-century Middle Eastern history including social movements, and the public sphere. She graduated from Harvard in 1981 and completed her M.I.A. and Ph.D at Columbia. She is the author of Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East and Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. Thompson has received awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is currently involved in several projects that approach issues of citizenship, state formation, and foreign intervention in the 20th-century Middle East.
Robert Laffey is an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Suffolk University. His fields of interest include international relations, Middle Eastern politics, and U.S. foreign policy, and his research interests are U.S. and Middle East relations and the U.S. and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Laffey's presentations include "Christian Communities in the Middle East" at the Paulist Center in 2003 and "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Historical Perspective" at Providence College in 2002. He is currently working on a paper entitled, "The U.S. Senate and Its Support for Israel."
For more information, contact Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University: 617-557-2007, www.fordhallforum.org.
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The Diet Climate Connection by David Freudberg
Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Belmont Public Library, 336 Concord Avenue, Belmont
David recently wrote and produced a 4-part series under this title for public radio. He will present a condensed version of his research. Click here for the full length program. The Huffington Post also recently did a piece on his work.
Event Contact Sustainable Belmont
Email: sustainablebelmont@gmail.com
Website: http://sustainablebelmont.net
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Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, May 25
9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Roxbury Presbyterian, 328 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA
We'll work on: Window and door weatherization, programmable thermostats, insulating attic hatches, duct repair, potentially mortar with a professional mason, and efficient computer settings.
Sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGVSZURVV0MtU1E2cHhkTmxVMmtFb2c6MA#gid=0&utm_source=Special+HEET+eNewsletter+April+25+2013&utm_campaign=HEET+eNewsletter&utm_medium=email
We'll work on: Window and door weatherization, programmable thermostats, insulating attic hatches, duct repair, potentially mortar with a professional mason, and efficient computer settings.
Sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGVSZURVV0MtU1E2cHhkTmxVMmtFb2c6MA#gid=0&utm_source=Special+HEET+eNewsletter+April+25+2013&utm_campaign=HEET+eNewsletter&utm_medium=email
More information at http://www.heetma.com
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RISD/Boston STEAM
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Microsoft New England Development + Research (NERD) Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Microsoft New England Development + Research (NERD) Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://risdsteamboston.eventbrite.com
RISD has been talking a lot about STEAM lately, but what is it really? STEAM is a RISD-led initiative to add Art and Design to the national agenda ofSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education and research in America.
STEM + Art = STEAM. The goal is to foster the true innovation that comes with combining the mind of a scientist or technologist with that of an artist or designer. RISD President John Maeda and other members of the community have been championing the idea that STEM expands into STEAM when art is part of the equation.
OK, now what does it mean really? We've brought together 4 members of the RISD community - faculty, alumni and students - who will share with you how they are using their art and design education to explore new solutions to current economic, social, political, organizational and environmental challenges.Come on out and be part of the conversation!
Light refreshments will be served. Panelists are:
Ryan Scott Barsdley 98 ID
Ryan is a researcher who's work is dedicated to making the field of medicine safer. For the past 15 years, he has worked to improve medical education through the advancement of simulation technologies for both the Massachusetts General Hospital and the U.S. Army. He is currently tinkering in surgical gesture recognition, 6mm cardiac ablation robots, and an ultra low-flow infusion monitoring system. He lives in Boston with his wife and two fine sons.
Samantha Dempsey 13 IL
Samantha Dempsey is a senior in Illustration at RISD and a Maharam STEAM Fellow. She is a fierce advocate for collaboration between designers and medical professionals and spent the last summer working with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation to develop new methods of visual communication between doctors and patients. She is always looking for the fuzzy areas where art and science combine and most recently found this at the TEDMED conference where she performed as a graphic facilitator.
Catherine Schmidt 14 GD
Catherine is a rising senior in Graphic Design at RISD and the president of the RISD STEAM club. With Sarah Pease 13 FD, she is working to develop a vision for STEAM in K-12 schools and at the university level. Catherine is interested in non-latin scripts and the relationship between design & code.
Lucy Spelman
Lucy is a biologist with an unusual background: she is one of a handful of veterinarians certified in zoological medicine. Her patients have included giant pandas in China, Asian elephants in Burma, giant river otters in Guyana, and mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She is also a writer and an educator with a keen interest in exploring new ways to use the arts to communicate and interpret science.
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Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, June 1
10 am - 2 pm
Saint James Church, 1991 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
We'll work on: Door weatherization, thermostat programming, closing up wide open damper that looks like it has been open since the church was built, basement air-sealing with masonry and spray foam, and grading some of the ground outside so the water runs away from the foundation.
Sign up to participate at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdncEo1d1pWRzljTjYtd3ZxLTYzR3c6MA#gid=0&utm_source=HEET+eNewsletter+April+2013&utm_campaign=HEET+eNewsletter&utm_medium=email
RISD has been talking a lot about STEAM lately, but what is it really? STEAM is a RISD-led initiative to add Art and Design to the national agenda ofSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education and research in America.
STEM + Art = STEAM. The goal is to foster the true innovation that comes with combining the mind of a scientist or technologist with that of an artist or designer. RISD President John Maeda and other members of the community have been championing the idea that STEM expands into STEAM when art is part of the equation.
OK, now what does it mean really? We've brought together 4 members of the RISD community - faculty, alumni and students - who will share with you how they are using their art and design education to explore new solutions to current economic, social, political, organizational and environmental challenges.Come on out and be part of the conversation!
Light refreshments will be served. Panelists are:
Ryan Scott Barsdley 98 ID
Ryan is a researcher who's work is dedicated to making the field of medicine safer. For the past 15 years, he has worked to improve medical education through the advancement of simulation technologies for both the Massachusetts General Hospital and the U.S. Army. He is currently tinkering in surgical gesture recognition, 6mm cardiac ablation robots, and an ultra low-flow infusion monitoring system. He lives in Boston with his wife and two fine sons.
Samantha Dempsey 13 IL
Samantha Dempsey is a senior in Illustration at RISD and a Maharam STEAM Fellow. She is a fierce advocate for collaboration between designers and medical professionals and spent the last summer working with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation to develop new methods of visual communication between doctors and patients. She is always looking for the fuzzy areas where art and science combine and most recently found this at the TEDMED conference where she performed as a graphic facilitator.
Catherine Schmidt 14 GD
Catherine is a rising senior in Graphic Design at RISD and the president of the RISD STEAM club. With Sarah Pease 13 FD, she is working to develop a vision for STEAM in K-12 schools and at the university level. Catherine is interested in non-latin scripts and the relationship between design & code.
Lucy Spelman
Lucy is a biologist with an unusual background: she is one of a handful of veterinarians certified in zoological medicine. Her patients have included giant pandas in China, Asian elephants in Burma, giant river otters in Guyana, and mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She is also a writer and an educator with a keen interest in exploring new ways to use the arts to communicate and interpret science.
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Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, June 1
10 am - 2 pm
Saint James Church, 1991 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
We'll work on: Door weatherization, thermostat programming, closing up wide open damper that looks like it has been open since the church was built, basement air-sealing with masonry and spray foam, and grading some of the ground outside so the water runs away from the foundation.
Sign up to participate at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdncEo1d1pWRzljTjYtd3ZxLTYzR3c6MA#gid=0&utm_source=HEET+eNewsletter+April+2013&utm_campaign=HEET+eNewsletter&utm_medium=email
More information at http://www.heetma.com
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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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Cambridge Solar Challenge
We're working to get 100 solar-panel installations on residential roofs in Cambridge this summer.
Because of the scale of the project, we've managed to bargain with Next Step Living (the solar installer) to get a:
20% discount for Cambridge residents from May 1st until August 1st. (That's 20% below the state average price per watt installed.) The discount applies whether the solar is purchased outright or leased.
$300 donation to any nonprofit for any solar installations that result from their referral. So, if your church, preschool or other nonprofit persuades a family in its community to sign up for a solar evaluation, and the family ends up installing solar, the nonprofit will earn $300 for its sustainability needs (such as adding insulation, installing efficient lighting, creating a garden, etc.). In this way we double the amount of good we are doing.
You can easily look up your home's solar potential through MIT's solar map (http://www.cambridgema.gov/solar/). Then email us (heet.cambridge@gmail.com) to sign up for a free solar assessment with an expert.
If you are associated with a nonprofit and want to help sign up solar assessments to increase the renewable energy in Cambridge as well as earn money for your nonprofit, email us with questions or to get started.
We will happily attend events at your nonprofit in order to explain how solar works, figure out who has good solar potential and explain how it can save residents money.
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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/
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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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Cambridge Solar Challenge
We're working to get 100 solar-panel installations on residential roofs in Cambridge this summer.
Because of the scale of the project, we've managed to bargain with Next Step Living (the solar installer) to get a:
20% discount for Cambridge residents from May 1st until August 1st. (That's 20% below the state average price per watt installed.) The discount applies whether the solar is purchased outright or leased.
$300 donation to any nonprofit for any solar installations that result from their referral. So, if your church, preschool or other nonprofit persuades a family in its community to sign up for a solar evaluation, and the family ends up installing solar, the nonprofit will earn $300 for its sustainability needs (such as adding insulation, installing efficient lighting, creating a garden, etc.). In this way we double the amount of good we are doing.
You can easily look up your home's solar potential through MIT's solar map (http://www.cambridgema.gov/solar/). Then email us (heet.cambridge@gmail.com) to sign up for a free solar assessment with an expert.
If you are associated with a nonprofit and want to help sign up solar assessments to increase the renewable energy in Cambridge as well as earn money for your nonprofit, email us with questions or to get started.
We will happily attend events at your nonprofit in order to explain how solar works, figure out who has good solar potential and explain how it can save residents money.
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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/
