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Dr. Rachel Stanley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Roundtable on Syria: Causes, Dynamics, and Prospects
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE CGIS South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room 020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Bassam Haddad, director, Middle East Studies Program, George Mason University; Amr Al Azm, associate professor, Middle East History and Anthropology, Shawnee State University; active member of the Syrian opposition and member of the executive committee, the Day After Project
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus, History Department, will moderate the discussion.
This event is off the record; the use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3458
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14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 6 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) J. Ronald Terwilliger
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE J. Ronald Terwilliger is chairman of the Enterprise Community Partners Board of Trustees, vice chairman Enterprise Community Investment, and chairman emeritus of Trammel Crow Residential, the largest developer of multi-family housing in the United States. He is past chairman of the Urban Land Institute and the immediate past chairman of the international board of directors of Habitat for Humanity. Terwilliger is an alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and Harvard Business School. Through philanthropic gifts, he established the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing in 2007 and created the Enterprise Terwilliger Fund, which is expected to create 2,000 affordable homes annually. His legacy gift to Habitat for Humanity International will help 60,000 families access improved housing conditions. In 2009, he was given the Person of the Year Award by the National Housing Conference.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/14th-annual-john-t-dunlop-lecture.html
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Archipelago-Town: A sustainable model for urban growth
Monday, September 30, 2013
6:00p–7:15p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: conrad-bercah
Archipelago Town-lines: an app proposing a new urban growth model gleaned from an architect's traveling notes
Three "archipelago-towns" - Berlin, Beirut, Venice - reveal their hidden urban geometry, their rites and culture, and the possible future of urban growth and de-growth.
A work by conrad-bercah, architect.
CAU Fall Lecture Series
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/lecture/archipelago-town-sustainable-model-urban-growth
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Center for Advanced Urbanism
For more information, contact:
Prudence Robinson
617-324-7045
pru@mit.edu
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"Diffusion & Spherification"
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) José Andrés, ThinkFood Group, minibar, Jaleo
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a Faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit seas.harvard.edu….
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Nerd Nite
Monday, September 30, 2013
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
$5
Talk 1 – “Science and Art: Bedfellows” by Alberta Chu
Talk 2 - “Genomics Social Networking” by Murray Robinson, PhD
More information at http://boston.nerdnite.com/2013/09/12/nerd-nite-93013/
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Tuesday, October 1
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Resilience and Climate Change
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/27/1241972/-Resilience-and-Climate-Change
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, September 30
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12pm "Twenty Years of Electricity Market Reform: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
2:30pm Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation
4pm "Biological Productivity in the Changing Arctic Ocean: Insights from Triple Oxygen Isotopes"
4pm Roundtable on Syria: Causes, Dynamics, and Prospects
6pm 14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture
6pm Archipelago-Town: A sustainable model for urban growth
7pm "Diffusion & Spherification"
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, October 1
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Boston Idea Week
8am Boston TechBreakfast
8am Extreme Weather and the Small Business Bottom Line: A business breakfast and interactive panel discussion
12pm "Transparency and Transformation Through Financial Reporting."
12:30pm Art in the Age of the Ubiquitous Image
4pm Himalaya: Mountains of Life
4pm Documentary Film Screening: Left on Pearl
4:10pm Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America
5:30pm Askwith Forum - edX: Reinventing Education
7pm Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
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Wednesday, October 2
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Boston Idea Week
10am Nuclear Fuel (Cycle)?
11:30am Smart Cities and their Research Progress in China
12pm America: Empire or Umpire, and at What Cost?
12pm [MIT Energy Club] 101 Lecture Series: Carbon Capture
12:30pm Critical Issues Confronting China: Cutting Edge Technology
3pm "Designating units of conservation: persistent challenges and emerging opportunities"
4:10pm “The Effects of Regulation in the Presence of Multiple Unpriced Externalities.”
4:15pm Rethinking Narratives and Systems for Innovation: Innovation Any Time, Any Place by Anybody
5pm Ground Zero: A Humanitarian Aid Worker in Aleppo
6:30pm "Getting to Net Zero"- A Panel Discussion
7pm Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World
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Thursday, October 3
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Boston Idea Week
8am Building A Resilient City: Preparing Our Buildings for Climate Change
11am Lab Oriented FreeCycle
11:30am A lunchtime discussion on S T E A M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math)
12:30pm Design with a Purpose: Built Tough
1pm Madison Colors Wisconsin Green
4pm "Was the Arab Spring Just a Moment?"
4pm Escalating Refugee Crises in the Middle East and the Case of the Palestine Refugees
4pm Fatally Flawed? Deconstructing US Policy Making on Afghanistan
4pm “Where Do We Begin? Problems and Prospects in Pre-Columbian North American Environmental History”
5pm Functional Nanomembrane Materials and Soft Fabrication Methods: Applications in Sustainable Energy Technologies
5:30pm Architecture Lecture: Rafi Segal, "One Line is Given,"
6pm After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace
6pm Launch Event: Inequality vs. Democracy with WBUR and NPR's On Point
6pm Let's Talk About Food Festival: Can New England Feed Itself? How Close Can We Get to Sustainability?
7pm Chris Matthews
7pm Film Screening: Countdown to Zero
7:30pm The Transition Away from Fossil Fuels and Towards Resilience
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Friday, October 4
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Boston Idea Week
12:05pm Seismic structural engineering and nuclear containment structures
3:15pm HUCTW 25th Anniversary Events/Panel: Challenges Facing Higher Education
4pm SYRIA: The Mainstream Media and Its Role in the War
4pm Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
5pm Architecture/Computation Lecture: "Drawing on the Past,"
6pm Breaking Bread Together: A Conversation on Food, Ethics, and Community
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Saturday, October 5
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Boston Idea Week
1pm Free cooking class on Glorious Greens
5:30pm IDEA Lab at the Artisan's Asylum (hosted by CEMI)
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Sunday, October 6
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Boston Idea Week
11am Boston Local Food Festival
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Monday, October 7
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Boston Idea Week
8am Eighth Annual AltWheels Fleet Day
9am MIT Consortium for Kerberos and Internet Trust Annual Conference
12pm MASS Seminar - Turbulence, Clouds and Climate: the Subtropical Cloud Transition
12pm "The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking"
12:15pm "A New Narrative for Science in America"
12:30pm Architecture/BT Lecture: "Quo Vadis Building Simulation: New Generation of Computational Tools,"
3:30pm Morison Prize Lecture: Daniel Ellsberg
4pm The Impacts of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence From Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
4pm Myths about MOOCs and Software Engineering Education
4:30pm Innovations in Wind Energy Lecture Series: Grid parity wind energy through innovative tall towers
5pm Valuing Nature: Saving Ecosystems is Good Business
5:30pm Legatum Lecture: Gearing Up in a Global Market
7pm Science & Cooking: Playing With Taste Through Browning
7pm ACT Lecture: Instantaneous! and Everywhere?
7pm 3D Virtual Worlds and Simulation: The Human-Computer Interface
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Tuesday, October 8
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Boston Idea Week
12pm Revolutions, Constitutions, and Counter-Revolutions: A Middle East Update
12:30pm The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World
2:30pm The Politics of Compromise
5pm A New System Design Paradigm under Uncertain and Adverse Events: Resilience
5pm Friends of Ngong Road: Helping Children Achieve their Dreams in Nairobi's Slums
5:15pm From Wilderness Environments to Well-Ordered Plantations: The Gifts of God Perfected by Industry
5:30pm Askwith Forum: Innovations in Teaching
6pm Screening & Discussion: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
6pm A Big Change Isn't Always the Best Change: Iterating as a Social Entrepreneur
6:30pm Beyond Architecture
7pm Discoveries Lecture: The Climate Crisis: Tracking Boston's Carbon Dioxide and Methane Digestion
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Event Details
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Monday, September 30
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"Twenty Years of Electricity Market Reform: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
Monday, September 30, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Theresa Flaim, Energy Resource Economics
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation
Monday, September 30, 2013
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jose Miguel Abito (Wharton)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, September 30
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12pm "Twenty Years of Electricity Market Reform: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
2:30pm Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation
4pm "Biological Productivity in the Changing Arctic Ocean: Insights from Triple Oxygen Isotopes"
4pm Roundtable on Syria: Causes, Dynamics, and Prospects
6pm 14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture
6pm Archipelago-Town: A sustainable model for urban growth
7pm "Diffusion & Spherification"
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, October 1
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Boston Idea Week
8am Boston TechBreakfast
8am Extreme Weather and the Small Business Bottom Line: A business breakfast and interactive panel discussion
12pm "Transparency and Transformation Through Financial Reporting."
12:30pm Art in the Age of the Ubiquitous Image
4pm Himalaya: Mountains of Life
4pm Documentary Film Screening: Left on Pearl
4:10pm Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America
5:30pm Askwith Forum - edX: Reinventing Education
7pm Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
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Wednesday, October 2
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Boston Idea Week
10am Nuclear Fuel (Cycle)?
11:30am Smart Cities and their Research Progress in China
12pm America: Empire or Umpire, and at What Cost?
12pm [MIT Energy Club] 101 Lecture Series: Carbon Capture
12:30pm Critical Issues Confronting China: Cutting Edge Technology
3pm "Designating units of conservation: persistent challenges and emerging opportunities"
4:10pm “The Effects of Regulation in the Presence of Multiple Unpriced Externalities.”
4:15pm Rethinking Narratives and Systems for Innovation: Innovation Any Time, Any Place by Anybody
5pm Ground Zero: A Humanitarian Aid Worker in Aleppo
6:30pm "Getting to Net Zero"- A Panel Discussion
7pm Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World
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Thursday, October 3
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Boston Idea Week
8am Building A Resilient City: Preparing Our Buildings for Climate Change
11am Lab Oriented FreeCycle
11:30am A lunchtime discussion on S T E A M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math)
12:30pm Design with a Purpose: Built Tough
1pm Madison Colors Wisconsin Green
4pm "Was the Arab Spring Just a Moment?"
4pm Escalating Refugee Crises in the Middle East and the Case of the Palestine Refugees
4pm Fatally Flawed? Deconstructing US Policy Making on Afghanistan
4pm “Where Do We Begin? Problems and Prospects in Pre-Columbian North American Environmental History”
5pm Functional Nanomembrane Materials and Soft Fabrication Methods: Applications in Sustainable Energy Technologies
5:30pm Architecture Lecture: Rafi Segal, "One Line is Given,"
6pm After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace
6pm Launch Event: Inequality vs. Democracy with WBUR and NPR's On Point
6pm Let's Talk About Food Festival: Can New England Feed Itself? How Close Can We Get to Sustainability?
7pm Chris Matthews
7pm Film Screening: Countdown to Zero
7:30pm The Transition Away from Fossil Fuels and Towards Resilience
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Friday, October 4
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Boston Idea Week
12:05pm Seismic structural engineering and nuclear containment structures
3:15pm HUCTW 25th Anniversary Events/Panel: Challenges Facing Higher Education
4pm SYRIA: The Mainstream Media and Its Role in the War
4pm Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
5pm Architecture/Computation Lecture: "Drawing on the Past,"
6pm Breaking Bread Together: A Conversation on Food, Ethics, and Community
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Saturday, October 5
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Boston Idea Week
1pm Free cooking class on Glorious Greens
5:30pm IDEA Lab at the Artisan's Asylum (hosted by CEMI)
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Sunday, October 6
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Boston Idea Week
11am Boston Local Food Festival
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Monday, October 7
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Boston Idea Week
8am Eighth Annual AltWheels Fleet Day
9am MIT Consortium for Kerberos and Internet Trust Annual Conference
12pm MASS Seminar - Turbulence, Clouds and Climate: the Subtropical Cloud Transition
12pm "The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking"
12:15pm "A New Narrative for Science in America"
12:30pm Architecture/BT Lecture: "Quo Vadis Building Simulation: New Generation of Computational Tools,"
3:30pm Morison Prize Lecture: Daniel Ellsberg
4pm The Impacts of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence From Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
4pm Myths about MOOCs and Software Engineering Education
4:30pm Innovations in Wind Energy Lecture Series: Grid parity wind energy through innovative tall towers
5pm Valuing Nature: Saving Ecosystems is Good Business
5:30pm Legatum Lecture: Gearing Up in a Global Market
7pm Science & Cooking: Playing With Taste Through Browning
7pm ACT Lecture: Instantaneous! and Everywhere?
7pm 3D Virtual Worlds and Simulation: The Human-Computer Interface
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Tuesday, October 8
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Boston Idea Week
12pm Revolutions, Constitutions, and Counter-Revolutions: A Middle East Update
12:30pm The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World
2:30pm The Politics of Compromise
5pm A New System Design Paradigm under Uncertain and Adverse Events: Resilience
5pm Friends of Ngong Road: Helping Children Achieve their Dreams in Nairobi's Slums
5:15pm From Wilderness Environments to Well-Ordered Plantations: The Gifts of God Perfected by Industry
5:30pm Askwith Forum: Innovations in Teaching
6pm Screening & Discussion: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
6pm A Big Change Isn't Always the Best Change: Iterating as a Social Entrepreneur
6:30pm Beyond Architecture
7pm Discoveries Lecture: The Climate Crisis: Tracking Boston's Carbon Dioxide and Methane Digestion
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Event Details
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Monday, September 30
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"Twenty Years of Electricity Market Reform: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
Monday, September 30, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Theresa Flaim, Energy Resource Economics
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation
Monday, September 30, 2013
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jose Miguel Abito (Wharton)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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"Biological Productivity in the Changing Arctic Ocean: Insights from Triple Oxygen Isotopes"
Monday, September 30, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102), 24 Oxford Street, First Floor, Cambridge
Harvard, Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102), 24 Oxford Street, First Floor, Cambridge
Dr. Rachel Stanley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
EPS Colloquium Series
Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo
scappo@fas.harvard.edu
Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo
scappo@fas.harvard.edu
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Roundtable on Syria: Causes, Dynamics, and Prospects
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE CGIS South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room 020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Bassam Haddad, director, Middle East Studies Program, George Mason University; Amr Al Azm, associate professor, Middle East History and Anthropology, Shawnee State University; active member of the Syrian opposition and member of the executive committee, the Day After Project
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus, History Department, will moderate the discussion.
This event is off the record; the use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3458
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14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 6 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) J. Ronald Terwilliger
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE J. Ronald Terwilliger is chairman of the Enterprise Community Partners Board of Trustees, vice chairman Enterprise Community Investment, and chairman emeritus of Trammel Crow Residential, the largest developer of multi-family housing in the United States. He is past chairman of the Urban Land Institute and the immediate past chairman of the international board of directors of Habitat for Humanity. Terwilliger is an alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and Harvard Business School. Through philanthropic gifts, he established the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing in 2007 and created the Enterprise Terwilliger Fund, which is expected to create 2,000 affordable homes annually. His legacy gift to Habitat for Humanity International will help 60,000 families access improved housing conditions. In 2009, he was given the Person of the Year Award by the National Housing Conference.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/14th-annual-john-t-dunlop-lecture.html
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Archipelago-Town: A sustainable model for urban growth
Monday, September 30, 2013
6:00p–7:15p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: conrad-bercah
Archipelago Town-lines: an app proposing a new urban growth model gleaned from an architect's traveling notes
Three "archipelago-towns" - Berlin, Beirut, Venice - reveal their hidden urban geometry, their rites and culture, and the possible future of urban growth and de-growth.
A work by conrad-bercah, architect.
CAU Fall Lecture Series
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/lecture/archipelago-town-sustainable-model-urban-growth
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Center for Advanced Urbanism
For more information, contact:
Prudence Robinson
617-324-7045
pru@mit.edu
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"Diffusion & Spherification"
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) José Andrés, ThinkFood Group, minibar, Jaleo
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a Faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit seas.harvard.edu….
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Nerd Nite
Monday, September 30, 2013
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
$5
Talk 1 – “Science and Art: Bedfellows” by Alberta Chu
Talk 2 - “Genomics Social Networking” by Murray Robinson, PhD
More information at http://boston.nerdnite.com/2013/09/12/nerd-nite-93013/
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Tuesday, October 1
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Boston TechBreakfast
10/1/2013
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/128096822/
Want to see cool new technology? Want to interact with other cool techies, startups, and business folks? Have some time in the morning? Then come to TechBreakfast, a monthly breakfast in Baltimore, Columbia, DC, and Northern Virginia where entrepreneurs, techies, developers, designers, business people, and interested people see showcases on cool new technology in a demo format and interact with each other. "Show and Tell for Adults" is what we usually say. No boring presentations or speakers who drone on. This is a "show and tell" format where we tell people to show me, don't tell me about the great things they are working on. Each TechBreakfast begins at 8:00am and goes until 10:00am (although people usually hang around later). This event is FREE! Thank our sponsors when you see them!
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Extreme Weather and the Small Business Bottom Line: A business breakfast and interactive panel discussion
October 1, 2013
8:00 to 10:00AM. Doors will open at 7:30
The Non Profit Center, 89 South Street, near South Station, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8059308609
Cost: $15
What is the cost to your business when extreme weather strikes?
If the last thirty years are any indication of the future, it looks like Boston could be in for more flooding. Sea levels in Boston are rising at three to four times the global average1. Annual precipitation has increased ten percent.2 The amount of rain that falls during severe weather events has increased 74%3 What does this mean for our small business community?
Boston’s leading climate adaptation experts will brief the small business community on possible near-term climate change effects in our city.
Speakers Include:
Julie Wormser Executive Director, Boston Harbor Association. The Boston Harbor Association’s 2013 report, “Preparing for the Rising Tide,” examines a “floodable zone” response to sea level rise on Boston’s waterfront. Ms. Wormser engages with business owners, developers and residents of the waterfront community around climate change issues. Ms. Wormser has a long history of leadership in prominent environmental organizations. Most recently, she served as New England Regional Director of the Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund. She also managed regional policy programs for the Appalachian Mountain Club and The Wilderness Society.
David Gleason Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Tech Networks of Boston. Mr. Gleason brings 30 years of information systems planning, development and support to non-profit IT. He has personally worked with every aspect of computer technology, from wiring networks, installing servers, and writing software to managing software development teams. As the Director of IT for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, David experienced the destruction and flooding of New York during Hurricane Sandy. In the aftermath of the storm, Planned Parenthood opened their doors to other local non-profits who were not as fortunate.
Jim Newman Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions. Linnean Solutions is a co-author of a report for the Boston Society of Architects called “Building Resilience in Boston.” Mr. Newman has over 20 years of experience in environmental planning services and tracks energy, environmental, and community impacts for companies, non-profit, and governmental organizations. He previously served as Director of Strategy and Business Development at BuildingGreen, LLC, publishers of Environmental Building News. Mr. Newman led research and production of the Cost of LEED report for BuildingGreen and was the project manager for the EPA-funded Green Guideline Specifications project.
Carl Spector Director of Climate and Environmental Planning, City of Boston. Mr. Spector is the Director of Climate and Environmental Planning for the City of Boston. Mr. Spector develops and coordinate climate and sustainability policy and programs for the city, including “Sparking Boston’s Climate Revolution,” and “A Climate of Progress. Mr. Spector also helps develop and implement climate adaptation programs and building energy reporting and disclosure requirements. Mr. Spector has a long history as a writer, EPA scientist, and environmental leader in Boston.
Panel Moderated By:
Laury Hamel Executive Director, Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts and President of the Longfellow Sports Clubs. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Hammel has founded numerous groups to bring together businesses, community leaders and individuals to help independent businesses adopt sustainable business practices and to build resilient local economies. These include the Sustainable Business Network, Business for Social Responsibility and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Laury is the author of the book, Growing Local Value.
Space is limited to 80 participants. Please register now as tickets will not be available at the door.
A continental breakfast will be served.
Contact Michael Green, Climate Action Liaison Program Coordinator.Michael.Green@climateactioncoalition.org 617-303-0150
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Art in the Age of the Ubiquitous Image
October 1, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/crabapple#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Two hundred years ago, artists had the monopoly on image making. Now, every parade or disaster is accompanied by ten thousand twitpics. In a world where mobile technology has made images instantaneous and ubiquitous, what does visual art have left to say? Drawing on her experiences doing illustrated journalism around Guantanamo Bay and the Greek economic crisis, Molly Crabapple speak about the role of art in a world captured by a million cameras.
About Molly
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer living in New York. Her work engages subculture, politics, and rebellion. Crabapple’s 2013 solo exhibition, Shell Game, a series of large-scale paintings about the revolutions of 2011, led to her being called “Occupy’s greatest artist” by Rolling Stone, and “an emblem of the way that art could break out of the gilded gallery” by The New Republic. She is the third artist in the last decade to draw Guantanamo Bay.
Crabapple is a columnist for VICE and has written for The Paris Review, CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, and Der Spiegel. Her published books include Discordia (with Laurie Penny; Random House, 2012) on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (IDW 2012). Her illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood will be published by Harper Collins in 2015.
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Himalaya: Mountains of Life
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Lecture Hall B029, Cambridge
Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur will share breathtaking photographs and stories from their new book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, to spark a conversation about why the preservation of this land is so important, not just for us, but for the future of all life on Earth. Following their presentation, a panel of distinguished Harvard professors, representing the arts, humanities, and environmental disciplines, will lead a discussion with the authors on the interconnectedness of art and the humanities in building awareness of and potential solutions to global environmental challenges.
For additional information visit the HMSC website: http://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/himalaya-mountains-life-kamal-bawa-distinguished-professor-conservation-biology
Jointly-sponsored by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Office of the Arts at Harvard, and the Office for Sustainability at Harvard.
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Documentary Film Screening: Left on Pearl
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE CGIS S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers and the Harvard College Women's Center
SPEAKER(S) Filmmaker Susie Rivo
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau@huctw.org
NOTE On March 6, 1971, International Women's Day marchers seized a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it a Women's Center and holding it for ten days. This watershed action led to the founding of the longest continuously operating community Women’s Center in the U.S.
On Oct. 1, The 888 Women’s History Project and filmmaker Susie Rivo are holding a free work-in-progress screening of their documentary film about this little-known but highly significant chapter in Boston women’s history. This screening will coincide with an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to raise the money to finish the film.
LINK www.leftonpearl.org
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Boston TechBreakfast
10/1/2013
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/128096822/
Want to see cool new technology? Want to interact with other cool techies, startups, and business folks? Have some time in the morning? Then come to TechBreakfast, a monthly breakfast in Baltimore, Columbia, DC, and Northern Virginia where entrepreneurs, techies, developers, designers, business people, and interested people see showcases on cool new technology in a demo format and interact with each other. "Show and Tell for Adults" is what we usually say. No boring presentations or speakers who drone on. This is a "show and tell" format where we tell people to show me, don't tell me about the great things they are working on. Each TechBreakfast begins at 8:00am and goes until 10:00am (although people usually hang around later). This event is FREE! Thank our sponsors when you see them!
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Extreme Weather and the Small Business Bottom Line: A business breakfast and interactive panel discussion
October 1, 2013
8:00 to 10:00AM. Doors will open at 7:30
The Non Profit Center, 89 South Street, near South Station, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8059308609
Cost: $15
What is the cost to your business when extreme weather strikes?
If the last thirty years are any indication of the future, it looks like Boston could be in for more flooding. Sea levels in Boston are rising at three to four times the global average1. Annual precipitation has increased ten percent.2 The amount of rain that falls during severe weather events has increased 74%3 What does this mean for our small business community?
Boston’s leading climate adaptation experts will brief the small business community on possible near-term climate change effects in our city.
Speakers Include:
Julie Wormser Executive Director, Boston Harbor Association. The Boston Harbor Association’s 2013 report, “Preparing for the Rising Tide,” examines a “floodable zone” response to sea level rise on Boston’s waterfront. Ms. Wormser engages with business owners, developers and residents of the waterfront community around climate change issues. Ms. Wormser has a long history of leadership in prominent environmental organizations. Most recently, she served as New England Regional Director of the Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund. She also managed regional policy programs for the Appalachian Mountain Club and The Wilderness Society.
David Gleason Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Tech Networks of Boston. Mr. Gleason brings 30 years of information systems planning, development and support to non-profit IT. He has personally worked with every aspect of computer technology, from wiring networks, installing servers, and writing software to managing software development teams. As the Director of IT for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, David experienced the destruction and flooding of New York during Hurricane Sandy. In the aftermath of the storm, Planned Parenthood opened their doors to other local non-profits who were not as fortunate.
Jim Newman Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions. Linnean Solutions is a co-author of a report for the Boston Society of Architects called “Building Resilience in Boston.” Mr. Newman has over 20 years of experience in environmental planning services and tracks energy, environmental, and community impacts for companies, non-profit, and governmental organizations. He previously served as Director of Strategy and Business Development at BuildingGreen, LLC, publishers of Environmental Building News. Mr. Newman led research and production of the Cost of LEED report for BuildingGreen and was the project manager for the EPA-funded Green Guideline Specifications project.
Carl Spector Director of Climate and Environmental Planning, City of Boston. Mr. Spector is the Director of Climate and Environmental Planning for the City of Boston. Mr. Spector develops and coordinate climate and sustainability policy and programs for the city, including “Sparking Boston’s Climate Revolution,” and “A Climate of Progress. Mr. Spector also helps develop and implement climate adaptation programs and building energy reporting and disclosure requirements. Mr. Spector has a long history as a writer, EPA scientist, and environmental leader in Boston.
Panel Moderated By:
Laury Hamel Executive Director, Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts and President of the Longfellow Sports Clubs. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Hammel has founded numerous groups to bring together businesses, community leaders and individuals to help independent businesses adopt sustainable business practices and to build resilient local economies. These include the Sustainable Business Network, Business for Social Responsibility and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Laury is the author of the book, Growing Local Value.
Space is limited to 80 participants. Please register now as tickets will not be available at the door.
A continental breakfast will be served.
Contact Michael Green, Climate Action Liaison Program Coordinator.Michael.Green@climateactioncoalition.org 617-303-0150
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"Transparency and Transformation Through Financial Reporting."
Tuesday, October 1
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Laurie Hays, Executive Editor for Company News at Bloomberg News and oversees Bloomberg’s global coverage of corporations, executives, mergers and acquisitions, law, science, environment and education.
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Art in the Age of the Ubiquitous Image
October 1, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/crabapple#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Two hundred years ago, artists had the monopoly on image making. Now, every parade or disaster is accompanied by ten thousand twitpics. In a world where mobile technology has made images instantaneous and ubiquitous, what does visual art have left to say? Drawing on her experiences doing illustrated journalism around Guantanamo Bay and the Greek economic crisis, Molly Crabapple speak about the role of art in a world captured by a million cameras.
About Molly
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer living in New York. Her work engages subculture, politics, and rebellion. Crabapple’s 2013 solo exhibition, Shell Game, a series of large-scale paintings about the revolutions of 2011, led to her being called “Occupy’s greatest artist” by Rolling Stone, and “an emblem of the way that art could break out of the gilded gallery” by The New Republic. She is the third artist in the last decade to draw Guantanamo Bay.
Crabapple is a columnist for VICE and has written for The Paris Review, CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, and Der Spiegel. Her published books include Discordia (with Laurie Penny; Random House, 2012) on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (IDW 2012). Her illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood will be published by Harper Collins in 2015.
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Himalaya: Mountains of Life
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Lecture Hall B029, Cambridge
Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur will share breathtaking photographs and stories from their new book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, to spark a conversation about why the preservation of this land is so important, not just for us, but for the future of all life on Earth. Following their presentation, a panel of distinguished Harvard professors, representing the arts, humanities, and environmental disciplines, will lead a discussion with the authors on the interconnectedness of art and the humanities in building awareness of and potential solutions to global environmental challenges.
For additional information visit the HMSC website: http://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/himalaya-mountains-life-kamal-bawa-distinguished-professor-conservation-biology
Jointly-sponsored by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Office of the Arts at Harvard, and the Office for Sustainability at Harvard.
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Documentary Film Screening: Left on Pearl
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE CGIS S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers and the Harvard College Women's Center
SPEAKER(S) Filmmaker Susie Rivo
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau@huctw.org
NOTE On March 6, 1971, International Women's Day marchers seized a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it a Women's Center and holding it for ten days. This watershed action led to the founding of the longest continuously operating community Women’s Center in the U.S.
On Oct. 1, The 888 Women’s History Project and filmmaker Susie Rivo are holding a free work-in-progress screening of their documentary film about this little-known but highly significant chapter in Boston women’s history. This screening will coincide with an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to raise the money to finish the film.
LINK www.leftonpearl.org
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Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Robert McChesney, University of Illinois and John Nichols, The Nation
NOTE In this seminar, two leading media experts — journalist John Nichols and academic Robert McChesney — examine the forces that have sapped elections of their meaning and stolen America’s democratic potential: the pay-to-play billionaires and the politicians who do their bidding, the corporations that have been freed to buy elections and the activist judges who advance their agenda, and the media conglomerates that blow off journalism while raking in billions airing intellectually and morally reprehensible political advertising.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Dollarocracy
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Askwith Forum - edX: Reinventing Education
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, 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 Speaker: Anant Agarwal, president, edX; professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction: James Ryan, dean and professor, HGSE
Anant Agarwal will talk about reinventing education through edX, a nonprofit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, the mission of which is to expand access to education for everyone, enhance teaching and learning on campus and online, and advance teaching and learning through research. EdX offers MOOCs (massively open online courses) and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence (AI). Along with offering online courses, edX researches how students learn and how technology can transform learning – both on campus and worldwide.
To receive the Askwith Forums e-newsletter for up-to-date information,
please email askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu with the subject line “Opt-in.”
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Robert McChesney, University of Illinois and John Nichols, The Nation
NOTE In this seminar, two leading media experts — journalist John Nichols and academic Robert McChesney — examine the forces that have sapped elections of their meaning and stolen America’s democratic potential: the pay-to-play billionaires and the politicians who do their bidding, the corporations that have been freed to buy elections and the activist judges who advance their agenda, and the media conglomerates that blow off journalism while raking in billions airing intellectually and morally reprehensible political advertising.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Dollarocracy
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Askwith Forum - edX: Reinventing Education
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, 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 Speaker: Anant Agarwal, president, edX; professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction: James Ryan, dean and professor, HGSE
Anant Agarwal will talk about reinventing education through edX, a nonprofit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, the mission of which is to expand access to education for everyone, enhance teaching and learning on campus and online, and advance teaching and learning through research. EdX offers MOOCs (massively open online courses) and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence (AI). Along with offering online courses, edX researches how students learn and how technology can transform learning – both on campus and worldwide.
To receive the Askwith Forums e-newsletter for up-to-date information,
please email askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu with the subject line “Opt-in.”
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Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
The bank is near the center of Central Sq., where Prospect and Mass Ave cross, - there is a Starbucks on the Northeast corner of the intersection. Next to Starbucks is a Flower shop, and next to that is Eastern Bank. You can see the conference room thru the window, so just wave to us and we will let you in.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Eastern Bank, 647 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
Eastern Bank, 647 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Green-Tech-and-Energy/events/142249322/
The Agenda is:
We will introduce ourselves and tell about our interest, expertise or work (1st hr)
You can give a ~3 to 5 minute elevator speach about your startup if you would like. (We will divide the 1st hour by # of people.)
What stage is your ideas or startup? What is your goal?
Tell what personnel or additional expertise, funding, etc. you are seeking,
Discussion and Brainstorming on (2nd hr)
ideas for viable moneymaking startups; methods of collaboration, networking, forming teams & partnerships etc.; marketing, media, social media, ideas that have worked well for publicity; agencies, websites, companies that assist startups; Boston Greenfest & Gov't opportunities;
What would ou like to see in future meetups?
Seminars - We will have seminars by Sustainable Energy engineers and other tech experts as often as possible.
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Wednesday, October 2
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Nuclear Fuel (Cycle)?
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room (Littauer - 324), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Alan Hanson, executive director, International Nuclear Leadership Education Program, MIT
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO atom@harvard.edu
NOTE Unlike fossil fuel-fired power plants which burn commodities (coal, oil, or gas), nuclear power reactors require a highly engineered product to generate thermal power, which is then converted into electricity. The process of creating nuclear fuel and then dealing with its waste products is a complicated sequence of industrial activities which have come to be called the nuclear fuel cycle.
In order to sustain a critical nuclear reaction, it is necessary to have an abundance of fissile atoms; however, the same atoms that are used to create a controlled nuclear reaction in a nuclear reactor can be used to make a nuclear explosive device. An understanding of each step in the nuclear fuel cycle is necessary if we are to "manage the atom" for peaceful purposes and preclude its misuse for the purpose of creating weapons of mass destruction.
Coffee and tea will be provided. Please join us - everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6159/nuclear_fuel_cycle.html
Michael Russello, The University of British Columbia and 2012-2013 Hrdy Visiting Fellow at Harvard University
Antonio Bento, Cornell University, Daniel Kaffine, University of Colorado, Kevin Roth, University of California, Irvine, and Matthew Aragoza‑Watkins, University of California, Berkeley.
Rethinking Narratives and Systems for Innovation: Innovation Any Time, Any Place by Anybody
This is the second event in A Better City's "Building A Resilient City" series. We have seen the effects of natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy on New York; is Boston ready for an event like this? This forum will address building design and resiliency. Hear from several leaders on how the city is focusing its efforts regarding this issue.
How do we prepare our current & future building stock to make sure it is ready for sea level rise?
Featuring: Alex Wilson, President - Resilient Design Institute, co-author of "Building Resilience in Boston: "Best Practices" for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience for Existing Buildings"
Panel Discussion
Moderator - Rick Mattila, Former Director of Genzyme Environmental Affairs
David Burson, Senior Project Manager - Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Kairos Shen, Chief Planner - Boston Redevelopment Authority
Blake Jackson, Sustainability Practice Leader - TK&A Architects
Speaker: Doug Seymour
CEE M.Eng. Friday Noon Seminar
A weekly presentation by CEE MEng Program.
Presented by CEE Meng alumnus, Doug Seymour of Stevenson & Associates
Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/events/274
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
CEE Meng Program
8-8685
ceed@mit.edu
Speaker: Jonathan Alpeyrie
A photo exhibit and discussion with Jonathan Alpeyrie
Jonathan Alpeyrie's career, which stretches over a decade, has brought him to more than 25 countries and 9 conflict zones, mostly in East Africa, the South Caucasus, the Middle East and central Asia. In the spring, while in Syria, he was taken hostage for 81 days by Syrian rebels. Born in Paris in 1979, Mr. Alpeyrie moved to the United States in 1993. He graduated from the French high school of New York City in 1998, before going to the University of Chicago to study medieval history. Today he is a staff photographer for Polaris Images. His work has been published in Paris Match, Aftenposten, Time magazine, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Glamour, BBC, World magazine, Popular Photography, the New York Times, and ELLE.
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100413_alpeyrie.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Friday, October 4, 2013
Speaker: Paul Kaiser, Digital Artist and Writer, New York City, NY
Kaiser will explore how to use drawing as a means to open up otherwise inaccessible moments of the past -- of private reveries, of abandoned spaces, of live performances long since vanished from the stage. To do so, he will examine a variety of projects and situations, which will include: children as they make a drawing; theater director Robert Wilson as he sketches long-gone productions; the intricate, fleeting, and unrepeatable movement of Merce Cunningham's hands; the oddly haunted afterlife of half-empty Detroit; and more.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Onur Yuce Gun
oyucegun@mit.edu
Green Buildings Open House
Saturday, 05 October, 2013
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
See www.nesea.org/gboh for list of houses
NESEA's annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH) is the biggest sustainable energy event in the northeastern United States. GBOH is an opportunity for the public to learn about energy improvements in their communities, and connect with NESEA members who are often behind the designs, upgrades, and products seen on the tour. In 2012, nearly 10,000 people toured 500 homes, businesses, and public buildings. 95% reported meet their goals – whether learning about sustainable building, meeting practitioners, or getting inspired! Please visit www.nesea.org/gboh for more information.
Boston Local Food Festival
4th Annual Boston Local Food Festival
Sunday, 06 October, 2013
11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston
What You'll Find at the Festival
Freshly harvested produce and seafood from farmers and fishermen
Scrumptious, $6 servings, featuring locally grown foods
Entertaining demonstrations and competitions by chefs and other food experts
Lively local music of many cultural tastes
Engaging exhibitions and playful activities for the kid in all of us
Interactive workshops featuring local food leaders
Food-inspired arts and crafts
Recycling and sustainable practices for minimal waste
See more at: http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/about-the-festival/#sthash.zLticdKu.dpuf
Event Contact Katrina Kazda
Email: katrina@sbnmass.org
Speaker: Joao Teixeira (Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech)
Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reiterated that clouds remain the largest source of uncertainty in climate projections. Clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer, and in particular the subtropical cloud transition from stratocumulus to cumulus, appear to play a key role in cloud-climate feedbacks. Recent studies have highlighted the lack of complete understanding of this transition and the fact that climate models do not simulate in a realistic manner the physics of the transition.
In this presentation, recent results on the global characterization of the subtropical cloud transition are used to illustrate its essential properties and the key questions remaining for a complete understanding of the transition. A new approach (EDMF) - which combines eddy-diffusivity (ED) methods that represent small-scale turbulence with mass-flux (MF) methods that represent moist convective plume dynamics - is proposed to represent in a unified manner the turbulent and convective properties of the transition. Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of the cloud transition are used to develop simple models of the transition and a better understanding of the small-scale dynamics that leads to the ultimate demise of stratocumulus.
Speaker's website: http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Teixeira/
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/mass-seminar-joao-teixeira-jet-propulsion-lab-caltech
with Elizabeth Kopits, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. EPA
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Adam Bly (Seed Media Group)
STS Circle at Harvard Lecture
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Speaker: Michael Wetter, Simulation Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
BT - 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
Speaker: Daniel Ellsberg
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS, SHASS Dean's Office
For more information, contact:
Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn@mit.edu
Speaker: Nathan Nunn
Web site: https://economics.mit.edu/files/9062
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): International Seminar
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
David Patterson, UC Berkeley
This talk explains how the confluence of cloud computing and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have allowed us greatly improve both the effectiveness and the reach of UC Berkeley's undergraduate software engineering course.
The first part of the talk is motivated by Industry's long-standing complaint that academia ignores vital software topics, leaving students unprepared upon graduation. Traditional approaches to software development are neither supported by tools that students could readily use, nor appropriate for projects whose scope matched a college course. Hence, instructors traditionally lecture about software engineering topics, while students continue to build software more or less the way they always had, in practice relegating software engineering to little more than a project course. This sad but stable state of affairs is frustrating to instructors, boring to students, and disappointing to industry.
Happily, cloud computing and the shift in the software industry towards software as a service has led to highly-productive tools and techniques that are a much better match to the classroom than earlier software development methods. That is, not only has the future of software been revolutionized, it has changed in a way that makes it easier to teach. UC Berkeley’s revised Software Engineering course leverages this productivity to allow students to both enhance a legacy application and to develop a new app that matches requirements of non-technical customers. By experiencing the whole software life cycle repeatedly within a single college course, students actually use the skills that industry has long encouraged and learn to appreciate them. The course is now rewarding for faculty, popular with students, and praised by industry.
The second part of the talk is about our experience using MOOCs to teach Software Engineering. While the media's spotlight on MOOCs continues unabated, a recent opinion piece expresses grave concerns about their role ("Will MOOCs Destroy Academia?", Moshe Vardi, CACM 55(11), Nov. 2012). I will try to bust a few MOOC myths by presenting provocative, if anecdotal, evidence that appropriate use of MOOC technology can improve on-campus pedagogy, increase student throughput while raising course quality, and even reinvigorate faculty teaching. I'll also explain the role of MOOCs in enabling half-dozen universities to replicate and build upon our work via Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) from EdX and our electronic textbook.
I conclude that the 21st century textbook may prove to be a hybrid of SPOCs and Ebooks.
This work is being done jointly with Armando Fox.
David Patterson joined UC Berkeley in 1977. In the past, he served as Director of the Parallel Computing Lab, Director of the Reliable And Distributed Systems Lab, Chair of Berkeley’s CS Division, Chair of the Computing Research Association, and President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
His current research is centered on cancer genomics for the AMP and ASPIRE Labs. His most successful past projects have likely been Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). All three research projects helped lead to multibillion-dollar industries. This research led to many papers and six books, with the most recent being Engineering Software as a Service co-authored with Armando Fox.
This work resulted in 35 honors, some shared with friends. His research awards include election to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, along with being named Fellow of the Computer History Museum, ACM, IEEE, and both AAAS organizations. His teaching awards include the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the IEEE Mulligan Education Medal, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
Speaker: Eric Smith - CEO of Keystone Tower Systems
In places like West Texas, wind energy is already the cheapest energy source available, undercutting the cost of conventional generation like coal and fracked natural gas. But this is only true at the windiest sites in the world, places where the lack of tree cover enable strong winds to get close to the ground level, where it can get captured by todays shorter wind turbines. Increasing hub-heights by 50%-100% gets turbines up out of the boundary layer, bringing low cost wind energy into many new areas, including those closer to load centers and areas where energy prices are higher. Increasing hub-heights requires innovative solutions because these taller towers become too large to ship from the factory to the wind farm. Keystone Tower Systems has solved this problem with an on-site fabrication process that allows towers to be produced at the wind farm, freeing them from transportation related constraints.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
cbabcock@mit.edu
Speaker: Jeff Hoffman
Q: What do Priceline.com, uBid.com and Colorjar have in common?
A: Jeff Hoffman.
Jeff Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur who was on the founding teams of Priceline.com and uBid.com. In forging his path as a highly successful innovator, Jeff Hoffman has frequently used radical, unconventional methods. On October 7th, Jeff will be at MIT to discuss methods used to gear up ventures in a global marketplace: how to build a team, establish a strategy, brand a concept, leverage technology, secure investors, and understand clients.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/our-programs/lectures/gearing-global-market
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT Club of Boston
For more information, contact:
Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-1875
agnesh@mit.edu
Speaker: Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas has been producing film and video works since the mid-1970s. He constantly experiments with new technologies and works that range from the highly flamboyant to the very minimal, including pioneering media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video art works for television, and live electronic performances. Throughout his career Atlas has collaborated with international performers and choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Douglas Dunn, Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, and Antony Hegarty. He has been described as "one of the premier interpreters of dance, theatre, and performance on video."
Speaker: Barton Fiske, zSpace
Mulitcore processors and engines can now create immersive, interactive 3D environments for computing, creating, communication and entertainment. These systems can run on ordinary PCs and gaming consoles, bringing new capabilities to computer applications and cloud-based services and changing the way people learn, play and create. zSpace provides a highly realistic 3D visualization experience that enables designers and engineers to work with product designs in a way not previously possible in a traditional 2D computing environment. Using a proprietary stereoscopic display, trackable eyewear, a new type of direct interaction stylus and an innovative software platform, objects in zSpace appear solid in open space, in full color and high resolution, and can be directly manipulated as if they were real physical objects. This capability gives users a natural way to navigate, grab, slice, carve, zoom and explore models. The talk and demonstration should be of interest to professionals working on tools for revolutionizing their industries with new human-computer interface models, and to understand zSpace's development of a unique interaction facility.
A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Barton has more than 25 years experience in a variety of roles, ranging from software engineer to systems engineer and demo architect for Sun Microsystems, senior cloud architect for Oracle and most recently as the director of technical sales and evangelism for zSpace.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact:
Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Speaker Series with Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic and blogs on its website. He is the Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT.
Anupam Chander, Director of the California International Law Center and professor of law at the University of California, Davis
On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today’s electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents, enabling individuals and corporations anywhere to provide or receive services without obtaining a visa. But the legal infrastructure for such trade is yet rudimentary and uncertain. If an event in cyberspace occurs at once everywhere and nowhere, what law applies? How can consumers be protected when engaging with companies across the world? From Facebookistan, to online gambling and PRISM, the new trade routes raise urgent questions of law and policy.
About Anupam
Anupam Chander is Director of the California International Law Center and professor of law at the University of California, Davis. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he has been a visiting professor at Yale, Chicago, Stanford and Cornell law schools.
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Speaker: Alessandro Bonatti (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
Speaker: Byeng Dong Youn, Associate Professor School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
Startup Secrets: Perfect Pitch
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Pre-HONK! Musical Showcase For Visiting HONK! Bands
Thursday, October 10
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! Lantern Parades
Friday, October 11
HONK! Kick-Off Concert
Friday, October 11
A free party for HONK!ers and their fans:
8:00 pm-10:00 pm: A HONK! Jam with reps from each HONK! band, conducted by Ken Field of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble;
10:00 pm-10:45 pm: Perhaps Contraption (London, UK);
11:00 pm-11:45 pm: Young Fellaz Brass Band (New Orleans, LA);
12:00 am-12:45 am:: Os Siderais, (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil).
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all.
For information: 617-776-2004, www.johnnyds.com.
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[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! In Davis Square: The Main Event
Saturday, October 12
Free Outdoor Concerts:
Twenty-six activist street bands, current roster:
AfroBrazil, Brass Balagan, Brass Messengers, The Bread & Puppet Theater Circus Band, Caka!ak Thunder, Colonel Pope and the Hartford Hot Several, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, EE-Environmental Encroachment, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Forward! Marching Band, Gora Gora Orkestar, Hungry March Band, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Os Siderais, Perhaps Contraption, The Riverhawk Party Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, What Cheer? Brigade, Worcester Ice Cream Social Band, andYoung Fellaz Brass Band.
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine (nearby back-up venues in case of downpour).
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
HONK! Oktoberfest, including a HONK! All-Band Blowout Concert:
Sunday, October 13
A panel discussion on key issues in the lead up to the Warsaw Climate Change Conference
Kelly Sims Gallagher (chair), Director, CIERP, and Associate Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School
Sivan Kartha, Senior Scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute
Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Mukul Sanwal, Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
Hosted by CIERP's Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program
A light lunch will be served (first come first served).
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Crowds and Climate: Mobilizing Crowds to Develop Ideas and Take Action on Climate Change
November 6-8, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
More information at http://www.climatecolab.org/conference2013
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Jillian York
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
November 16
St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The November 16 workshop will be held at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury. Registration will be available soon and if you are interested in attending this one, emailjimnail@mipandl.org to be notified when registration opens.
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
Allan Savory, Rancher and Restoration Ecologist, Founder of the Savory Institute and originator of the Holistic Management approach to restoring grasslands, winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, and finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge (watch his January 2013 presentation at Fletcher at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/News/more/Allan-Savory-Fletcher-Jan2013)
Hosted by CIERP's Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program
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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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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Cambridge Civic Journal http://www.rwinters.com
http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room (Littauer - 324), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Alan Hanson, executive director, International Nuclear Leadership Education Program, MIT
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO atom@harvard.edu
NOTE Unlike fossil fuel-fired power plants which burn commodities (coal, oil, or gas), nuclear power reactors require a highly engineered product to generate thermal power, which is then converted into electricity. The process of creating nuclear fuel and then dealing with its waste products is a complicated sequence of industrial activities which have come to be called the nuclear fuel cycle.
In order to sustain a critical nuclear reaction, it is necessary to have an abundance of fissile atoms; however, the same atoms that are used to create a controlled nuclear reaction in a nuclear reactor can be used to make a nuclear explosive device. An understanding of each step in the nuclear fuel cycle is necessary if we are to "manage the atom" for peaceful purposes and preclude its misuse for the purpose of creating weapons of mass destruction.
Coffee and tea will be provided. Please join us - everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6159/nuclear_fuel_cycle.html
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Smart Cities and their Research Progress in China
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
MIT, Building 32, G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
MIT, Building 32, G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Xiong Zhang , BeiHang University, P.R.China
Nowadays the urban development heavily relies on its ability of providing intelligent services. During the process of providing better services to all citizens and improving the efficiency of administration process, the concept of "smart cities" has been proposed as a promising solution for the incoming challenges of global urbanization. A smart city can be defined as a city which has certain "smart" ability to deal with city's problems and to provide citizens a better living environment through intelligently collecting and analyzing different kinds of data from the city's routine operation based on advanced information technology.
It is believed that for a smart city, the traditional data organization process cannot satisfy its requirements. Gathering data is becoming easier than before while finding an effective way to store, manage and analyze data becomes an important challenge. The new generation of information technology will play more and more important roles in implementing smart cities. Furthermore, some design challenges are also deserved to be highlighted, i.e., administration process changes, security promises and standard frameworks for smoothing the smart city's implementation. This talk will briefly introduce the main challenges and also recent research efforts on smart cities in China.
Prof.Xiong is a professor in Beihang University and is the Chief Scientist for China's 863 Plan Smart-City Union.
Nowadays the urban development heavily relies on its ability of providing intelligent services. During the process of providing better services to all citizens and improving the efficiency of administration process, the concept of "smart cities" has been proposed as a promising solution for the incoming challenges of global urbanization. A smart city can be defined as a city which has certain "smart" ability to deal with city's problems and to provide citizens a better living environment through intelligently collecting and analyzing different kinds of data from the city's routine operation based on advanced information technology.
It is believed that for a smart city, the traditional data organization process cannot satisfy its requirements. Gathering data is becoming easier than before while finding an effective way to store, manage and analyze data becomes an important challenge. The new generation of information technology will play more and more important roles in implementing smart cities. Furthermore, some design challenges are also deserved to be highlighted, i.e., administration process changes, security promises and standard frameworks for smoothing the smart city's implementation. This talk will briefly introduce the main challenges and also recent research efforts on smart cities in China.
Prof.Xiong is a professor in Beihang University and is the Chief Scientist for China's 863 Plan Smart-City Union.
Contact: Yajun Fang, yajufang@csail.mit.edu
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America: Empire or Umpire, and at What Cost?
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Elizabeth Hoffman, San Diego State University
SSP Wednesday Seminar Program
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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[MIT Energy Club] 101 Lecture Series: Carbon Capture
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Mike Stern, a graduating PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, will be giving a talk on carbon capture as a way of combating rising carbon emissions.
Energy 101 lecture series
Series on the basics of various fields in energy
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Elizabeth Hoffman, San Diego State University
SSP Wednesday Seminar Program
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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[MIT Energy Club] 101 Lecture Series: Carbon Capture
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Mike Stern, a graduating PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, will be giving a talk on carbon capture as a way of combating rising carbon emissions.
Energy 101 lecture series
Series on the basics of various fields in energy
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Critical Issues Confronting China: Cutting Edge Technology
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Building, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Jointly sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, with the generous support of Lee M. Folger.
SPEAKER(S) Edward Steinfeld, associate professor of political science, MIT; co-director, IPC China Energy Group
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE This event is part of the "Critical Issues Confronting China" seminar organized by Ezra Vogel, William Overholt, and William Hsiao. The weekly series will take a comprehensive view of the complex issues China faces today. Featured speakers will present political, economic, geopolitical, and social issues in a broad cultural, historical, Asia regional, and international context. Each session will raise concrete issues, point out controversies, and explore possible options for Chinese leaders.
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Building, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Jointly sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, with the generous support of Lee M. Folger.
SPEAKER(S) Edward Steinfeld, associate professor of political science, MIT; co-director, IPC China Energy Group
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE This event is part of the "Critical Issues Confronting China" seminar organized by Ezra Vogel, William Overholt, and William Hsiao. The weekly series will take a comprehensive view of the complex issues China faces today. Featured speakers will present political, economic, geopolitical, and social issues in a broad cultural, historical, Asia regional, and international context. Each session will raise concrete issues, point out controversies, and explore possible options for Chinese leaders.
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"Designating units of conservation: persistent challenges and emerging opportunities"
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
3:00pm
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Michael Russello, The University of British Columbia and 2012-2013 Hrdy Visiting Fellow at Harvard University
OEB Weekly Seminar Series
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
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“The Effects of Regulation in the Presence of Multiple Unpriced Externalities.”
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Harvard, Littauer 382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Littauer 382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Antonio Bento, Cornell University, Daniel Kaffine, University of Colorado, Kevin Roth, University of California, Irvine, and Matthew Aragoza‑Watkins, University of California, Berkeley.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman@harvard.edu
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman@harvard.edu
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
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Rethinking Narratives and Systems for Innovation: Innovation Any Time, Any Place by Anybody
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai
Please join us for our next fall seminar. Dr. VA Shiva is a visiting researcher at the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. He is a systems scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and author across the fields of media and medicine.
SSRC Seminar: Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Web site: ssrc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
For more information, contact:
Jacqueline Paris
jparis@mit.edu
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4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai
Please join us for our next fall seminar. Dr. VA Shiva is a visiting researcher at the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. He is a systems scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and author across the fields of media and medicine.
SSRC Seminar: Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Web site: ssrc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
For more information, contact:
Jacqueline Paris
jparis@mit.edu
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Ground Zero: A Humanitarian Aid Worker in Aleppo
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Weil Town Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, The Harvard Humanitarian Academy
SPEAKER(S) Pablo Marco, 2013 mid-career graduate working with Medicins sans Frontieres
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Pablo Marco, a 2013 mid-career graduate, will discuss his experiences in Aleppo this summer with Medicins sans Frontieres. Representatives from other NGOs with “humanitarian boots on the ground in northern Syria” will also discuss the difficulties of their work in a region where civilians, hospitals, and medical workers have become targets.
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/news-events/carr-center-events/event-details/2013/ground-zero-a-humanitarian-aid-worker-in-aleppo
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Weil Town Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, The Harvard Humanitarian Academy
SPEAKER(S) Pablo Marco, 2013 mid-career graduate working with Medicins sans Frontieres
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Pablo Marco, a 2013 mid-career graduate, will discuss his experiences in Aleppo this summer with Medicins sans Frontieres. Representatives from other NGOs with “humanitarian boots on the ground in northern Syria” will also discuss the difficulties of their work in a region where civilians, hospitals, and medical workers have become targets.
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/news-events/carr-center-events/event-details/2013/ground-zero-a-humanitarian-aid-worker-in-aleppo
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"Getting to Net Zero"- A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 2
6:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Please join Mayor Henrietta Davis, city public officials, and a diverse group of speakers to discuss Net Zero: the challenges and opportunities for our city.
To RSVP, go here: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/4619238903?s=17280101
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Graham Allison
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2727, director@cambridgeforum.org
NOTE Harvard’s Graham Allison discusses his new biography (co-authored with Robert Blackwell) of Lee Kuan Yew, “the power behind the throne” in modern Asian political leadership. The 89-year-old founding father of modern Singapore, Lee has been a mentor to every Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and has counseled every U.S. president since Nixon. This concise book extracts the essence of Lee Kuan Yew’s visionary thinking about the critical global issues of our time, including the future of China, the fate of U.S.-China relations, India’s murky prospects, and Europe’s deep problems. How is leadership exercised from the position of adviser that Lee occupies?
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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"Getting to Net Zero"- A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 2
6:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Please join Mayor Henrietta Davis, city public officials, and a diverse group of speakers to discuss Net Zero: the challenges and opportunities for our city.
To RSVP, go here: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/4619238903?s=17280101
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Graham Allison
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2727, director@cambridgeforum.org
NOTE Harvard’s Graham Allison discusses his new biography (co-authored with Robert Blackwell) of Lee Kuan Yew, “the power behind the throne” in modern Asian political leadership. The 89-year-old founding father of modern Singapore, Lee has been a mentor to every Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and has counseled every U.S. president since Nixon. This concise book extracts the essence of Lee Kuan Yew’s visionary thinking about the critical global issues of our time, including the future of China, the fate of U.S.-China relations, India’s murky prospects, and Europe’s deep problems. How is leadership exercised from the position of adviser that Lee occupies?
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, October 3
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Building A Resilient City: Preparing Our Buildings for Climate Change
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
8:00am - 10:00am
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Conference Room 1A, 300 First Avenue, Boston
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Conference Room 1A, 300 First Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=i7ljcybab&oeidk=a07e82udkap380f5ec2&oseq=a023sugtvyqj5z
This is the second event in A Better City's "Building A Resilient City" series. We have seen the effects of natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy on New York; is Boston ready for an event like this? This forum will address building design and resiliency. Hear from several leaders on how the city is focusing its efforts regarding this issue.
How do we prepare our current & future building stock to make sure it is ready for sea level rise?
What will be different 1, 5, 10 years from now in terms of preparedness?
What different sectors learn from Superstorm Sandy and how has that changed the discussions happening internally to increase attention on preparedness?
What steps are being taken to ensure that future investments in maintaining and replacing our buildings takes into account potential sea level rise and other climate threats?
Featuring: Alex Wilson, President - Resilient Design Institute, co-author of "Building Resilience in Boston: "Best Practices" for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience for Existing Buildings"
Panel Discussion
Moderator - Rick Mattila, Former Director of Genzyme Environmental Affairs
David Burson, Senior Project Manager - Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Kairos Shen, Chief Planner - Boston Redevelopment Authority
Blake Jackson, Sustainability Practice Leader - TK&A Architects
Contact Name: Mihir Parikh
mparikh@abettercity.org
(617) 502-6245
mparikh@abettercity.org
(617) 502-6245
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Lab Oriented FreeCycle
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Northwest Lawn (Rain location: NW Lobby), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Sustainability, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR FAS Green Program
CONTACT INFO Brandon_geller@harvard.edu
NOTE Bring your unwanted lab equipment and office supplies to the Northwest Labs Courtyard, and take away any that you need! Donations are welcome starting at 9 a.m., and all items will be fair game from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All unclaimed items will be taken away at 2 p.m. by Harvard Recycling to be given another chance at reuse elsewhere.
LINK http://green.harvard.edu/node/5928
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Northwest Lawn (Rain location: NW Lobby), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Sustainability, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR FAS Green Program
CONTACT INFO Brandon_geller@harvard.edu
NOTE Bring your unwanted lab equipment and office supplies to the Northwest Labs Courtyard, and take away any that you need! Donations are welcome starting at 9 a.m., and all items will be fair game from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All unclaimed items will be taken away at 2 p.m. by Harvard Recycling to be given another chance at reuse elsewhere.
LINK http://green.harvard.edu/node/5928
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A lunchtime discussion on S T E A M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math)
Thursday, October 3, 2013
11:30AM - 1:30PM
Cambridge Public Library Auditorium, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Thursday, October 3, 2013
11:30AM - 1:30PM
Cambridge Public Library Auditorium, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8303276323
Lunch Provided
Educators have discovered that teaching math and science together with other related fields such as technology, engineering and art enriches learning, sparks creativity and inspires innovation.
Moderator: Steve Seidel, Director of the Arts in Education Program at HGSE
Panelists:
Madison Colors Wisconsin Green
Learn how the City of Madison, Wisconsin started with a vision, developed a plan and systematically grew into one of the greenest cities in the Midwest.
This free, one-hour webinar, sponsored by Crescent Electric Supply Company, will feature Jeanne Hoffman, facilities and sustainability manager for the City of Madison. Ms. Hoffman will outline Madison's approach to sustainability from implementing energy efficiency in municipal buildings to engaging businesses and citizens to share in the vision.
As the capital of Wisconsin and home to a Big Ten university, Madison is a regional center for government, education and healthcare – recently recognized by Forbes Magazine as the city with the highest percentage of individuals holding Ph.D.s in the United States. Long-time Mayor Paul Soglin started his political career as a student activist in the late 1960s and has been a strong advocate for environmental and social issues ever since.
Madison leadership must be doing something right: even at the height of the recent recession, its unemployment rate was 3.5 percent.
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Speaker: Matthew Waldman, Harvard Kennedy School
Central and South Asia After 2014
This is the first seminar in the "After 2014: What next for Central and South Asia?" speaker series, sponsored by the MIT Security Studies Program.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
Presented by the Workshop on The Environment and the American Past
Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Ron will put the NSA revelations in a broader context, emphasize the political economy of the cyber security industrial complex and its unintended consequences in a world of Big Data, and then spend some time outlining an alternative approach to securing cyberspace, drawing from his book, Black Code.
About Ron
Ron Deibert is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor (2003-2012) projects.
Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc. Deibert has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on issues related technology, media, and world politics. He has been a consultant and advisor to governments, international organizations, and civil society/NGOs on issues relating to cyber security, cyber crime, online free expression, and access to information.
Let's Talk About Food Festival: Can New England Feed Itself? How Close Can We Get to Sustainability?
Thursday, October 3
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Forum, Trinity Church in the City of Boston, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://cannewenglandfeeditself-eorg.eventbrite.com
We talk about local and sustainable. Shop at the Farmers Markets and buy sustainable seafood. Yet today, much of our food still comes from other regions and countries. We often don’t know where it comes from and how it is grown.
What would it really take for New England to feed itself? Is it even possible? What would it mean for our eating habits, the landscape and the local economy? Can our farmland even keep up with the population?
On Thursday, October 3 at 6 pm, we’ll explore all of these questions at a Town Hall Forum at Trinity Church in Copley Square. This forum is part of the 2013 Let's Talk About Food Festival, sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.
Distinguished list of speakers at the event include:
Chef and Wholesome Wave CEO Michel Nischan, a James Beard Award-winning chef, author and restaurateur who has become a catalyst for change in the sustainable food movement.
U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (ME), a long-time advocate for local farms
Gregory Watson, Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture
Amanda Beal, director of the By Land and By Sea Project and a member of Food Solutions New England.
Brian Donohue, Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University
Timothy Griffin, Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Glynn Lloyd, Co-Founder of City Growers and CEO of City Fresh Foods
John Piotti, Executive Director of Maine Farmland Trust
This event is free but we ask people to register in advance at http://www.LetsTalkAboutFood.com
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Chris Matthews
Thursday, October 3
7:00 PM
Cambridge Main Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Join the political discussion with Chris Matthews, former top aide to legendary Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. and host of MSNBC's Hardbal, as he talks about his latest book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. Co-sponsored by Porter Square Books
Lunch Provided
Educators have discovered that teaching math and science together with other related fields such as technology, engineering and art enriches learning, sparks creativity and inspires innovation.
Moderator: Steve Seidel, Director of the Arts in Education Program at HGSE
Panelists:
Martha Mckenna, University Professor, Lesley University & Director of Creativity Commons
Dishon Mills, Director of the Boston ArtScience Prize
Eli Tucker-Raymond, Project Leader at TERC
Vivian Siegel, Director of Education and Outreach at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Contact mayor@cambridgema.gov
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Design with a Purpose: Built Tough
Thursday, October 3, 2013
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST
Webcast at http://www.inhabitat.com
In celebration of Archtober happening next month in NYC, the Ford Motor Company and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) chapter are teaming up to bring us a brand new panel discussion and webcast focused on resilient design. ’Design With a Purpose‘ is the third in Ford’s illuminating webcast series which has hosted talks between several of today’s leading architects and automotive designers. This month’s webcast will feature high-profile architects and builders from across New York, including Erik Churchill, project manager at SHoP Construction; Frank J. Sciame Jr., Hon. AIANY Chapter and CEO/chairman of Sciame Construction Company; Ford’s VP of Global Design J Mays; and moderator Rick Bell, FAIA, the executive director of the AIANY. This panel of though-leaders will discuss how designers can create strong, functional buildings that are resilient enough to endure the test of time, much like New York City‘s famous skyscrapers. We’ll be live streaming this discussion on Inhabitat.com on October 3rd, so mark your calendars!
We want your participation in this conversation! You can join in by submitting your questions in advance below in the comments, or during the live panel by tweeting questions to @Ford and @Inhabitat with the hashtag #FordArchitecture! We’ll be sending Inhabitat t-shirts to the selected question submitters, so send us good ones!
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We want your participation in this conversation! You can join in by submitting your questions in advance below in the comments, or during the live panel by tweeting questions to @Ford and @Inhabitat with the hashtag #FordArchitecture! We’ll be sending Inhabitat t-shirts to the selected question submitters, so send us good ones!
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Madison Colors Wisconsin Green
Thursday, Oct. 3
1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific, 11 a.m. Mountain, noon Central)
RSVP at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/612783006?utm_source=SCN+InBox+e-Newsletter&utm_campaign=d1cba2b5ea-MadisonWebinar9-26-13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_11e7ac761c-d1cba2b5ea-188562049
Learn how the City of Madison, Wisconsin started with a vision, developed a plan and systematically grew into one of the greenest cities in the Midwest.
This free, one-hour webinar, sponsored by Crescent Electric Supply Company, will feature Jeanne Hoffman, facilities and sustainability manager for the City of Madison. Ms. Hoffman will outline Madison's approach to sustainability from implementing energy efficiency in municipal buildings to engaging businesses and citizens to share in the vision.
As the capital of Wisconsin and home to a Big Ten university, Madison is a regional center for government, education and healthcare – recently recognized by Forbes Magazine as the city with the highest percentage of individuals holding Ph.D.s in the United States. Long-time Mayor Paul Soglin started his political career as a student activist in the late 1960s and has been a strong advocate for environmental and social issues ever since.
Madison leadership must be doing something right: even at the height of the recent recession, its unemployment rate was 3.5 percent.
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"Was the Arab Spring Just a Moment?"
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Tarek Masoud, associate professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6107/tarek_masoud.html
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Tarek Masoud, associate professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6107/tarek_masoud.html
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Escalating Refugee Crises in the Middle East and the Case of the Palestine Refugees
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge st., K262 (Second floor), Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Richard Wright, head of the UNRWA Representative Office to the UN, NY; former EC Ambassador to Russia; and former fellow at the Weatherhead Center
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/middle_east
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge st., K262 (Second floor), Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Richard Wright, head of the UNRWA Representative Office to the UN, NY; former EC Ambassador to Russia; and former fellow at the Weatherhead Center
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/middle_east
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Fatally Flawed? Deconstructing US Policy Making on Afghanistan
Thursday, October 03, 2013
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Matthew Waldman, Harvard Kennedy School
Central and South Asia After 2014
This is the first seminar in the "After 2014: What next for Central and South Asia?" speaker series, sponsored by the MIT Security Studies Program.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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“Where Do We Begin? Problems and Prospects in Pre-Columbian North American Environmental History”
Thursday, October 3, 2013
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Harvard, Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Presented by the Workshop on The Environment and the American Past
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramschedule.html
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Functional Nanomembrane Materials and Soft Fabrication Methods: Applications in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Thursday, October 3
Thursday, October 3
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Professor Ralph Nuzzo, U. Illinois
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Architecture Lecture: Rafi Segal, "One Line is Given,"
Thursday, October 03, 2013
5:30 pm
5:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Rafi Segal, Principal, Rafi Segal Architecture Urbanism, Princeton, NJ
Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
617-253-7791
Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
617-253-7791
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After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace
October 3, 2013
6:00pm ET
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2013/10/deibert#RSVP
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2013/10/deibert#RSVP
Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Ron will put the NSA revelations in a broader context, emphasize the political economy of the cyber security industrial complex and its unintended consequences in a world of Big Data, and then spend some time outlining an alternative approach to securing cyberspace, drawing from his book, Black Code.
About Ron
Ron Deibert is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor (2003-2012) projects.
Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc. Deibert has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on issues related technology, media, and world politics. He has been a consultant and advisor to governments, international organizations, and civil society/NGOs on issues relating to cyber security, cyber crime, online free expression, and access to information.
http://blackcodebook.com/
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Launch Event: Inequality vs. Democracy with WBUR and NPR's On Point
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Tom Ashbrook, Chrystia Freeland, Martin Gilens, and Alex Keyssar
NOTE This discussion, moderated by Tom Ashbrook and to be broadcast on WBUR and NPR's On Point soon after, will examine economic inequality and its relationship with political inequality — in particular how and why life looks so different for the richest and the poorest Americans. What is our government doing about this: how has public policy been both a source of and a solution to inequality? What should it be doing?
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Launch-Event
WHEN Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Tom Ashbrook, Chrystia Freeland, Martin Gilens, and Alex Keyssar
NOTE This discussion, moderated by Tom Ashbrook and to be broadcast on WBUR and NPR's On Point soon after, will examine economic inequality and its relationship with political inequality — in particular how and why life looks so different for the richest and the poorest Americans. What is our government doing about this: how has public policy been both a source of and a solution to inequality? What should it be doing?
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Launch-Event
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Let's Talk About Food Festival: Can New England Feed Itself? How Close Can We Get to Sustainability?
Thursday, October 3
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Forum, Trinity Church in the City of Boston, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://cannewenglandfeeditself-eorg.eventbrite.com
We talk about local and sustainable. Shop at the Farmers Markets and buy sustainable seafood. Yet today, much of our food still comes from other regions and countries. We often don’t know where it comes from and how it is grown.
What would it really take for New England to feed itself? Is it even possible? What would it mean for our eating habits, the landscape and the local economy? Can our farmland even keep up with the population?
On Thursday, October 3 at 6 pm, we’ll explore all of these questions at a Town Hall Forum at Trinity Church in Copley Square. This forum is part of the 2013 Let's Talk About Food Festival, sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.
Distinguished list of speakers at the event include:
Chef and Wholesome Wave CEO Michel Nischan, a James Beard Award-winning chef, author and restaurateur who has become a catalyst for change in the sustainable food movement.
U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (ME), a long-time advocate for local farms
Gregory Watson, Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture
Amanda Beal, director of the By Land and By Sea Project and a member of Food Solutions New England.
Brian Donohue, Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University
Timothy Griffin, Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Glynn Lloyd, Co-Founder of City Growers and CEO of City Fresh Foods
John Piotti, Executive Director of Maine Farmland Trust
This event is free but we ask people to register in advance at http://www.LetsTalkAboutFood.com
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Chris Matthews
Thursday, October 3
7:00 PM
Cambridge Main Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Join the political discussion with Chris Matthews, former top aide to legendary Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. and host of MSNBC's Hardbal, as he talks about his latest book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. Co-sponsored by Porter Square Books
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Film Screening: Countdown to Zero
Thursday, October 03, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Film screening of "COUNTDOWN TO ZERO", a film about the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
Web site: mit.edu/tac
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Global Zero
For more information, contact:
Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Film screening of "COUNTDOWN TO ZERO", a film about the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
Web site: mit.edu/tac
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Global Zero
For more information, contact:
Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
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The Transition Away from Fossil Fuels and Towards Resilience
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT)
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, ASEAN Auditorium, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, ASEAN Auditorium, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://transition-tufts-eanrecfb101.eventbrite.com
Join us for a conversation with Rob Hopkins, founder of the international Transition Towns Movement, to learn how communities across the country and around the world are transforming their economic, energy, and food systems from the bottom up.
Following Rob's talk we will hear from a panel of local community resilience leaders including Mayor Michael J McGlynn, City of Medford, MA, and Mayor Lisa A. Wong, City of Fitchburg, on strategies and opportunities for local resilience and sustainability.
Co-sponsored by Transition US, Post Carbon Institute, Tufts University's Peace and Justice Studies, Institute for Policy Studies, and New Economic Institute.
Who is Rob Hopkins?
A British permaculture teacher, Rob launched the first Transition Initiative in Ireland in 2005. Since then, the Transition Movement has taken root in 43 countries, with 142 Transition Towns in the US and more than 1,000 around the world. Rob continues lending his energy, ideas, and voice to the Transition Movement as it grows and deepens around the world, in addition to working with his own community, Transition Totnes, to pioneer innovative Transition strategies and projects like REconomy and Transition Streets. Rob's new book, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, launched in June and has received rave reviews.
Rob was the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists.
In the words of Bill McKibben:
“In the leaking ship that we’ve made of our planet, the Transition movement is like a flotilla of life rafts. And they’ve come not to pull us off the earth, but to help us patch it and make it right. There’s no one on earth who’s just done more stuff–and inspired more doing – than Rob Hopkins."
Rob doesn't usually fly, but was asked to come to the US to speak with foundations about the power of local action to address the ecological and economic crises we face in light of passing 400 ppm... an invitation that's hard to refuse given what is at stake.
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Friday, October 4
Following Rob's talk we will hear from a panel of local community resilience leaders including Mayor Michael J McGlynn, City of Medford, MA, and Mayor Lisa A. Wong, City of Fitchburg, on strategies and opportunities for local resilience and sustainability.
Co-sponsored by Transition US, Post Carbon Institute, Tufts University's Peace and Justice Studies, Institute for Policy Studies, and New Economic Institute.
Who is Rob Hopkins?
A British permaculture teacher, Rob launched the first Transition Initiative in Ireland in 2005. Since then, the Transition Movement has taken root in 43 countries, with 142 Transition Towns in the US and more than 1,000 around the world. Rob continues lending his energy, ideas, and voice to the Transition Movement as it grows and deepens around the world, in addition to working with his own community, Transition Totnes, to pioneer innovative Transition strategies and projects like REconomy and Transition Streets. Rob's new book, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, launched in June and has received rave reviews.
Rob was the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists.
In the words of Bill McKibben:
“In the leaking ship that we’ve made of our planet, the Transition movement is like a flotilla of life rafts. And they’ve come not to pull us off the earth, but to help us patch it and make it right. There’s no one on earth who’s just done more stuff–and inspired more doing – than Rob Hopkins."
Rob doesn't usually fly, but was asked to come to the US to speak with foundations about the power of local action to address the ecological and economic crises we face in light of passing 400 ppm... an invitation that's hard to refuse given what is at stake.
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Friday, October 4
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Seismic structural engineering and nuclear containment structures
Friday, October 04, 2013
12:05p–1:00p
MIT, Building 3-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
12:05p–1:00p
MIT, Building 3-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Doug Seymour
CEE M.Eng. Friday Noon Seminar
A weekly presentation by CEE MEng Program.
Presented by CEE Meng alumnus, Doug Seymour of Stevenson & Associates
Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/events/274
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
CEE Meng Program
8-8685
ceed@mit.edu
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HUCTW 25th Anniversary Events/Panel: Challenges Facing Higher Education
WHEN Fri., Oct. 4, 2013, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers
SPEAKER(S) Sue Dynarski, professor of public policy and education, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Jeffrey R. Young, editor and writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014 Nieman Foundation Fellow, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau@huctw.org
LINK www.huctw.org
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers
SPEAKER(S) Sue Dynarski, professor of public policy and education, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Jeffrey R. Young, editor and writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014 Nieman Foundation Fellow, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau@huctw.org
LINK www.huctw.org
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SYRIA: The Mainstream Media and Its Role in the War
Friday, October 04, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jonathan Alpeyrie
A photo exhibit and discussion with Jonathan Alpeyrie
Jonathan Alpeyrie's career, which stretches over a decade, has brought him to more than 25 countries and 9 conflict zones, mostly in East Africa, the South Caucasus, the Middle East and central Asia. In the spring, while in Syria, he was taken hostage for 81 days by Syrian rebels. Born in Paris in 1979, Mr. Alpeyrie moved to the United States in 1993. He graduated from the French high school of New York City in 1998, before going to the University of Chicago to study medieval history. Today he is a staff photographer for Polaris Images. His work has been published in Paris Match, Aftenposten, Time magazine, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Glamour, BBC, World magazine, Popular Photography, the New York Times, and ELLE.
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100413_alpeyrie.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Friday, October 4, 2013
4:00–5:30 p.m
Tufts, Tisch Library, Hirsh Reading Room, 35 Professors Row, Medford
Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor
of Philosophy, and a University
Professor at Tufts University, received his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford. He has taught at Tufts since 1971, excepting periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the London School of Economics, and the American University of Beirut. He was the co-founder and Co-Director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston. He has been the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
His current book, his seventeenth, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, offers seventy-seven of his most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant as a guide through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. Dennett’s thinking tools teach his audience to “think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions.” Dennett also has authored over three hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, publishing in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. A book signing sponsored by Tufts Bookstore will follow the talk. An exhibit about Daniel C. Dennett will be on display in Tisch Library’s lobby from August 25–October 11, 2013.
Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor
of Philosophy, and a University
Professor at Tufts University, received his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford. He has taught at Tufts since 1971, excepting periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the London School of Economics, and the American University of Beirut. He was the co-founder and Co-Director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston. He has been the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
His current book, his seventeenth, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, offers seventy-seven of his most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant as a guide through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. Dennett’s thinking tools teach his audience to “think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions.” Dennett also has authored over three hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, publishing in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. A book signing sponsored by Tufts Bookstore will follow the talk. An exhibit about Daniel C. Dennett will be on display in Tisch Library’s lobby from August 25–October 11, 2013.
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Architecture/Computation Lecture: "Drawing on the Past,"
Friday, October 04, 2013
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
MIT, Building Room 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Paul Kaiser, Digital Artist and Writer, New York City, NY
Kaiser will explore how to use drawing as a means to open up otherwise inaccessible moments of the past -- of private reveries, of abandoned spaces, of live performances long since vanished from the stage. To do so, he will examine a variety of projects and situations, which will include: children as they make a drawing; theater director Robert Wilson as he sketches long-gone productions; the intricate, fleeting, and unrepeatable movement of Merce Cunningham's hands; the oddly haunted afterlife of half-empty Detroit; and more.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Onur Yuce Gun
oyucegun@mit.edu
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Breaking Bread Together: A Conversation on Food, Ethics, and Community
Friday, October 4, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://breakingbreadtogether-eorg.eventbrite.com
Food is so much more than what we eat. Food is both sustenance and celebration- the way we weave together a community, the way we feed ourselves and our families, and the way we sustain our neighbors in need.
How do food justice, ethics and faith come together? How do we ensure a sustainable food system that provides enough for everyone? Can we get beyond emergency food solutions? Is genetic engineering of food necessary - or does it go beyond what Nature intended? Does that matter? And how do faith-based communities play a role?
On Friday, October 4, Join us for a community-wide conversation about food and ethics. Our panelists will include:
Fred Bahnson, director of the Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and the author of Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread, Massachusetts' only statewide anti-hunger organization committed to providing all people sustainable, reliable access to nutritious food
Urvashi Rangan, Ph. D, the director of the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports and their national spokesperson in the area of sustainable production/consumption practices.
The Reverend Patrick C. Ward, Associate Rector for Worship and Communications at Trinity Church in Boston
We hope to see you there!
*This event is free but we ask people to register in advance
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Saturday, October 5
Friday, October 4, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://breakingbreadtogether-eorg.eventbrite.com
Food is so much more than what we eat. Food is both sustenance and celebration- the way we weave together a community, the way we feed ourselves and our families, and the way we sustain our neighbors in need.
How do food justice, ethics and faith come together? How do we ensure a sustainable food system that provides enough for everyone? Can we get beyond emergency food solutions? Is genetic engineering of food necessary - or does it go beyond what Nature intended? Does that matter? And how do faith-based communities play a role?
On Friday, October 4, Join us for a community-wide conversation about food and ethics. Our panelists will include:
Fred Bahnson, director of the Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and the author of Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread, Massachusetts' only statewide anti-hunger organization committed to providing all people sustainable, reliable access to nutritious food
Urvashi Rangan, Ph. D, the director of the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports and their national spokesperson in the area of sustainable production/consumption practices.
The Reverend Patrick C. Ward, Associate Rector for Worship and Communications at Trinity Church in Boston
We hope to see you there!
*This event is free but we ask people to register in advance
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Saturday, October 5
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Green Buildings Open House
Saturday, 05 October, 2013
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
See www.nesea.org/gboh for list of houses
NESEA's annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH) is the biggest sustainable energy event in the northeastern United States. GBOH is an opportunity for the public to learn about energy improvements in their communities, and connect with NESEA members who are often behind the designs, upgrades, and products seen on the tour. In 2012, nearly 10,000 people toured 500 homes, businesses, and public buildings. 95% reported meet their goals – whether learning about sustainable building, meeting practitioners, or getting inspired! Please visit www.nesea.org/gboh for more information.
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Free cooking class on Glorious Greens
Saturday October 5
Saturday October 5
1:00-3:00 pm
City Natives, 30 Edgewater Drive, Mattapan
RSVP at dana@bostonnatural.org
Participants will learn from Wendy Simard, Holistic Health Coach, about the top-10 healthiest greens and easy ways to turn them into tasty treats. Join us to learn the benefits of greens and make some delicious smoothies and salads.
The event is free and will be held rain or shine. All are welcome.
The event is free and will be held rain or shine. All are welcome.
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IDEA Lab at the Artisan's Asylum (hosted by CEMI)
Of course, CEMI Members get in free! We usually charge $15 for the workshop, $5 for the lab just to cover teacher's expenses and other related costs. Each month is different, so stay check back here for details.
Schedule:
5:30-7pm Workshop
Each month we host a different workshop, from DJing to programming, projection mapping and electronics. Stay tuned for this month's workshop!
7-8:30
Open Jam
Jam out musically or visually, in a semi-coordinated group! We choose a BPM and a key and everyone just goes for it!
8:30-11
Social time! Music, art, food, drinks. Good discussions with good people.
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Sunday, October 6
Saturday, October 5, 2013
5:30 PM to 11:00 PM
Artisan's Asylum Inc, 10 Tyler Street, Somerville
Artisan's Asylum Inc, 10 Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/IDEA-Independent-Digital-and-Electronic-Artists-by-CEMI/events/136451102/
Lots happening every month at the IDEA lab!
Of course, CEMI Members get in free! We usually charge $15 for the workshop, $5 for the lab just to cover teacher's expenses and other related costs. Each month is different, so stay check back here for details.
Schedule:
5:30-7pm Workshop
Each month we host a different workshop, from DJing to programming, projection mapping and electronics. Stay tuned for this month's workshop!
7-8:30
Open Jam
Jam out musically or visually, in a semi-coordinated group! We choose a BPM and a key and everyone just goes for it!
8:30-11
Social time! Music, art, food, drinks. Good discussions with good people.
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Sunday, October 6
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Boston Local Food Festival
4th Annual Boston Local Food Festival
Sunday, 06 October, 2013
11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston
What You'll Find at the Festival
Freshly harvested produce and seafood from farmers and fishermen
Scrumptious, $6 servings, featuring locally grown foods
Entertaining demonstrations and competitions by chefs and other food experts
Lively local music of many cultural tastes
Engaging exhibitions and playful activities for the kid in all of us
Interactive workshops featuring local food leaders
Food-inspired arts and crafts
Recycling and sustainable practices for minimal waste
See more at: http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/about-the-festival/#sthash.zLticdKu.dpuf
Event Contact Katrina Kazda
Email: katrina@sbnmass.org
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Monday, October 7
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Eighth Annual AltWheels Fleet Day
Monday, Oct. 7th, 2013
Monday, Oct. 7th, 2013
8am - 4pm
Four Points by Sheraton, Norwood MA
RSVP at http://www.altwheels.org/fleetday.html#reg11
Cost $50
AltWheels Fleet Day is the largest meeting of corporate and municipal Fleet Managers on the East Coast. Come see and hear the latest in fleet transportation technologies, alternative fuels and fleet management practices.
The day consists of panels, exhibits, and vehicles offering a showcase of alternative transportation solutions — from concept vehicles, to vehicles that are available and affordable today.
The day consists of panels, exhibits, and vehicles offering a showcase of alternative transportation solutions — from concept vehicles, to vehicles that are available and affordable today.
More information at http://www.altwheels.org
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MIT Consortium for Kerberos and Internet Trust Annual Conference
Monday 7 October 2013
Monday 7 October 2013
9AM to 6PM
MIT, Building E14, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street (corner of Ames & Amherst Streets), Cambridge
RSVP at http://kit.mit.edu/2013-mit-kit-conference-registration
Information and contact at http://kit.mit.edu/events/annual-conference
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MASS Seminar - Turbulence, Clouds and Climate: the Subtropical Cloud Transition
Monday, October 07, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Joao Teixeira (Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech)
Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reiterated that clouds remain the largest source of uncertainty in climate projections. Clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer, and in particular the subtropical cloud transition from stratocumulus to cumulus, appear to play a key role in cloud-climate feedbacks. Recent studies have highlighted the lack of complete understanding of this transition and the fact that climate models do not simulate in a realistic manner the physics of the transition.
In this presentation, recent results on the global characterization of the subtropical cloud transition are used to illustrate its essential properties and the key questions remaining for a complete understanding of the transition. A new approach (EDMF) - which combines eddy-diffusivity (ED) methods that represent small-scale turbulence with mass-flux (MF) methods that represent moist convective plume dynamics - is proposed to represent in a unified manner the turbulent and convective properties of the transition. Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of the cloud transition are used to develop simple models of the transition and a better understanding of the small-scale dynamics that leads to the ultimate demise of stratocumulus.
Speaker's website: http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Teixeira/
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/mass-seminar-joao-teixeira-jet-propulsion-lab-caltech
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.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC)
For more information, contact:
mass@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.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC)
For more information, contact:
mass@mit.edu
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"The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking"
Monday, October 7, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Elizabeth Kopits, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. EPA
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
Lunch will be provided
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
Lunch will be provided
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"A New Narrative for Science in America"
Monday, October 7, 2013
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Adam Bly (Seed Media Group)
STS Circle at Harvard Lecture
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
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Architecture/BT Lecture: "Quo Vadis Building Simulation: New Generation of Computational Tools,"
Monday, October 07, 2013
12:30pm
12:30pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Wetter, Simulation Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
BT - 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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Morison Prize Lecture: Daniel Ellsberg
Monday, October 07, 2013
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, Building E51-115, Tang Center/Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, Building E51-115, Tang Center/Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Daniel Ellsberg
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS, SHASS Dean's Office
For more information, contact:
Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn@mit.edu
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The Impacts of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence From Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
Monday, October 07, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E18-202, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E18-202, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nathan Nunn
Web site: https://economics.mit.edu/files/9062
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): International Seminar
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Myths about MOOCs and Software Engineering Education
Monday, October 7, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
David Patterson, UC Berkeley
This talk explains how the confluence of cloud computing and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have allowed us greatly improve both the effectiveness and the reach of UC Berkeley's undergraduate software engineering course.
The first part of the talk is motivated by Industry's long-standing complaint that academia ignores vital software topics, leaving students unprepared upon graduation. Traditional approaches to software development are neither supported by tools that students could readily use, nor appropriate for projects whose scope matched a college course. Hence, instructors traditionally lecture about software engineering topics, while students continue to build software more or less the way they always had, in practice relegating software engineering to little more than a project course. This sad but stable state of affairs is frustrating to instructors, boring to students, and disappointing to industry.
Happily, cloud computing and the shift in the software industry towards software as a service has led to highly-productive tools and techniques that are a much better match to the classroom than earlier software development methods. That is, not only has the future of software been revolutionized, it has changed in a way that makes it easier to teach. UC Berkeley’s revised Software Engineering course leverages this productivity to allow students to both enhance a legacy application and to develop a new app that matches requirements of non-technical customers. By experiencing the whole software life cycle repeatedly within a single college course, students actually use the skills that industry has long encouraged and learn to appreciate them. The course is now rewarding for faculty, popular with students, and praised by industry.
The second part of the talk is about our experience using MOOCs to teach Software Engineering. While the media's spotlight on MOOCs continues unabated, a recent opinion piece expresses grave concerns about their role ("Will MOOCs Destroy Academia?", Moshe Vardi, CACM 55(11), Nov. 2012). I will try to bust a few MOOC myths by presenting provocative, if anecdotal, evidence that appropriate use of MOOC technology can improve on-campus pedagogy, increase student throughput while raising course quality, and even reinvigorate faculty teaching. I'll also explain the role of MOOCs in enabling half-dozen universities to replicate and build upon our work via Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) from EdX and our electronic textbook.
I conclude that the 21st century textbook may prove to be a hybrid of SPOCs and Ebooks.
This work is being done jointly with Armando Fox.
David Patterson joined UC Berkeley in 1977. In the past, he served as Director of the Parallel Computing Lab, Director of the Reliable And Distributed Systems Lab, Chair of Berkeley’s CS Division, Chair of the Computing Research Association, and President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
His current research is centered on cancer genomics for the AMP and ASPIRE Labs. His most successful past projects have likely been Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). All three research projects helped lead to multibillion-dollar industries. This research led to many papers and six books, with the most recent being Engineering Software as a Service co-authored with Armando Fox.
This work resulted in 35 honors, some shared with friends. His research awards include election to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, along with being named Fellow of the Computer History Museum, ACM, IEEE, and both AAAS organizations. His teaching awards include the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the IEEE Mulligan Education Medal, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Innovations in Wind Energy Lecture Series: Grid parity wind energy through innovative tall towers
Monday, October 07, 2013
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Eric Smith - CEO of Keystone Tower Systems
In places like West Texas, wind energy is already the cheapest energy source available, undercutting the cost of conventional generation like coal and fracked natural gas. But this is only true at the windiest sites in the world, places where the lack of tree cover enable strong winds to get close to the ground level, where it can get captured by todays shorter wind turbines. Increasing hub-heights by 50%-100% gets turbines up out of the boundary layer, bringing low cost wind energy into many new areas, including those closer to load centers and areas where energy prices are higher. Increasing hub-heights requires innovative solutions because these taller towers become too large to ship from the factory to the wind farm. Keystone Tower Systems has solved this problem with an on-site fabrication process that allows towers to be produced at the wind farm, freeing them from transportation related constraints.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
cbabcock@mit.edu
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Valuing Nature: Saving Ecosystems is Good Business
WHEN Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Sustainability Science Program, Environment and Natural Resources Program
SPEAKER(S) Glenn Prickett, The Nature Conservancy; Neil Hawkins, vice president, Global EH&S and Sustainability, the Dow Chemical Company; Leslie Carothers, scholar in residence, Pace Law School; moderated by William Clark, professor, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO enrp@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Join a conversation with the members of The Dow-TNC Collaboration on valuing ecosystem services about how corporations and NGOs can integrate the value of forests, watersheds, and biodiversity into business and community decisions.
In January 2011, Dow and TNC launched their 5-year collaboration to promote valuing ecosystem services in business decision-making. Since the launch, Dow and TNC have worked together to identify key ecosystem services that Dow relies upon as well as the environmental impacts of priority Dow manufacturing sites around the world. Scientists from TNC and Dow are working together at selected Dow pilot sites to implement and refine models that support corporate decision-making by taking into consideration the value and resources that ecosystem services provide. These sites serve as a “living laboratories” where Dow and TNC are testing methods and models of ecosystem valuation so they can be used to inform more sustainable business decisions at Dow and influence the decision-making and business practices of other companies globally.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6151/valuing_nature.html
WHEN Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Sustainability Science Program, Environment and Natural Resources Program
SPEAKER(S) Glenn Prickett, The Nature Conservancy; Neil Hawkins, vice president, Global EH&S and Sustainability, the Dow Chemical Company; Leslie Carothers, scholar in residence, Pace Law School; moderated by William Clark, professor, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO enrp@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Join a conversation with the members of The Dow-TNC Collaboration on valuing ecosystem services about how corporations and NGOs can integrate the value of forests, watersheds, and biodiversity into business and community decisions.
In January 2011, Dow and TNC launched their 5-year collaboration to promote valuing ecosystem services in business decision-making. Since the launch, Dow and TNC have worked together to identify key ecosystem services that Dow relies upon as well as the environmental impacts of priority Dow manufacturing sites around the world. Scientists from TNC and Dow are working together at selected Dow pilot sites to implement and refine models that support corporate decision-making by taking into consideration the value and resources that ecosystem services provide. These sites serve as a “living laboratories” where Dow and TNC are testing methods and models of ecosystem valuation so they can be used to inform more sustainable business decisions at Dow and influence the decision-making and business practices of other companies globally.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6151/valuing_nature.html
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Legatum Lecture: Gearing Up in a Global Market
Monday, October 07, 2013
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jeff Hoffman
Q: What do Priceline.com, uBid.com and Colorjar have in common?
A: Jeff Hoffman.
Jeff Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur who was on the founding teams of Priceline.com and uBid.com. In forging his path as a highly successful innovator, Jeff Hoffman has frequently used radical, unconventional methods. On October 7th, Jeff will be at MIT to discuss methods used to gear up ventures in a global marketplace: how to build a team, establish a strategy, brand a concept, leverage technology, secure investors, and understand clients.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/our-programs/lectures/gearing-global-market
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT Club of Boston
For more information, contact:
Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-1875
agnesh@mit.edu
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Science & Cooking: Playing With Taste Through Browning
WHEN Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Carme Ruscadella, Restaurant Sant Pau
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE The Science & Cooking lecture series runs weekly through the end of the fall semester. A full schedule, including the lecture topics, is available at seas.harvard.edu….
Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit seas.harvard.edu….
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Carme Ruscadella, Restaurant Sant Pau
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE The Science & Cooking lecture series runs weekly through the end of the fall semester. A full schedule, including the lecture topics, is available at seas.harvard.edu….
Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit seas.harvard.edu….
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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ACT Lecture: Instantaneous! and Everywhere?
Monday, October 07, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas has been producing film and video works since the mid-1970s. He constantly experiments with new technologies and works that range from the highly flamboyant to the very minimal, including pioneering media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video art works for television, and live electronic performances. Throughout his career Atlas has collaborated with international performers and choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Douglas Dunn, Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, and Antony Hegarty. He has been described as "one of the premier interpreters of dance, theatre, and performance on video."
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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3D Virtual Worlds and Simulation: The Human-Computer Interface
Monday, October 07, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-315, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-315, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Barton Fiske, zSpace
Mulitcore processors and engines can now create immersive, interactive 3D environments for computing, creating, communication and entertainment. These systems can run on ordinary PCs and gaming consoles, bringing new capabilities to computer applications and cloud-based services and changing the way people learn, play and create. zSpace provides a highly realistic 3D visualization experience that enables designers and engineers to work with product designs in a way not previously possible in a traditional 2D computing environment. Using a proprietary stereoscopic display, trackable eyewear, a new type of direct interaction stylus and an innovative software platform, objects in zSpace appear solid in open space, in full color and high resolution, and can be directly manipulated as if they were real physical objects. This capability gives users a natural way to navigate, grab, slice, carve, zoom and explore models. The talk and demonstration should be of interest to professionals working on tools for revolutionizing their industries with new human-computer interface models, and to understand zSpace's development of a unique interaction facility.
A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Barton has more than 25 years experience in a variety of roles, ranging from software engineer to systems engineer and demo architect for Sun Microsystems, senior cloud architect for Oracle and most recently as the director of technical sales and evangelism for zSpace.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact:
Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tuesday, October 8
12 p.m
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic and blogs on its website. He is the Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT.
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Revolutions, Constitutions, and Counter-Revolutions: A Middle East Update
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Rami Khouri, director, Issam-Fares Institute for Public Policy, American University of Beirut; senior fellow, Middle East Initiative
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6140/rami_khouri.html
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Rami Khouri, director, Issam-Fares Institute for Public Policy, American University of Beirut; senior fellow, Middle East Initiative
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6140/rami_khouri.html
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The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World
October 8, 2013
October 8, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/chander#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/chander#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Anupam Chander, Director of the California International Law Center and professor of law at the University of California, Davis
On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today’s electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents, enabling individuals and corporations anywhere to provide or receive services without obtaining a visa. But the legal infrastructure for such trade is yet rudimentary and uncertain. If an event in cyberspace occurs at once everywhere and nowhere, what law applies? How can consumers be protected when engaging with companies across the world? From Facebookistan, to online gambling and PRISM, the new trade routes raise urgent questions of law and policy.
About Anupam
Anupam Chander is Director of the California International Law Center and professor of law at the University of California, Davis. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he has been a visiting professor at Yale, Chicago, Stanford and Cornell law schools.
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The Politics of Compromise
Tuesday, October 08, 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: Alessandro Bonatti (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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A New System Design Paradigm under Uncertain and Adverse Events: Resilience
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
5-6pm
MIT, Building E40-298, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5-6pm
MIT, Building E40-298, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Byeng Dong Youn, Associate Professor School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
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Friends of Ngong Road: Helping Children Achieve their Dreams in Nairobi's Slums
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room 102, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR HDS Lutherans
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE Please join us for this gathering where you will:
John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University
Comment: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Authors will not read their essays but will offer brief remarks; please read the paper ahead of time and come prepared to join in the discussion. If you are not a subscriber to the series (subscribers receive online advance access to the papers) you may pick up a copy at the MHS front desk on the day of the program. Please phone 617-646-0568 with any questions.
Screening & Discussion: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 6 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Hall, Room 202, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Du Bois Graduate Society, Dept. of African & African American Studies
SPEAKER(S) S. Epatha Merkerson (of Law & Order) and Rockell Metcalf
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO SParsons@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Join co-producers and co-directors S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf for a special screening and discussion of their provocative film "The Contradictions of Fair Hope."
Merkerson is best known for her portrayal of Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on NBC’s Law & Order (2006/2010/2011 NAACP Image Award). She received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Image Award for her performance as Nanny Crosby in the HBO movie "Lackwanna Blues," and can be seen in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" and in the comedy "Peeples" to be released May 2013.
Rockell Metcalf is vice president and chief counsel at Amerprise Financial Inc., where he concentrates on broker- dealer, marketing and banking law. He received his LL.M from Columbia Law School and his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law, where he was executive editor of the Law Review. He is co-author of the "Practical Guide to Broker-Dealer Regulation."
LINK www.contradictionsoffairhope.com
Cities concentrate people, economic activity and pollution. Covering less than 5% of global land area, cities are home to more than half the Earth's human population, produce over 96% of global gross domestic product, and consume nearly 80% of energy.Join us on campus for our Discoveries Lecture Series featuring Professors Lucy Hutyra and Nathan Phillips of the Department of Earth & Environment. Hutyra and Phillips are in the midst of a National Science Foundation funded research project; studying Boston's energy and resource flows and tracking carbon as the lifeblood of Boston's urban metabolism.They will discuss two key carbon compounds and greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), what these compounds tell us about Boston's environmental health, and opportunities for greater urban sustainability. Discoveries, a series of dynamic learning opportunities for alumni and friends, features faculty experts from the College of Arts & Sciences and is brought to you by the Boston University Alumni Association.
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WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room 102, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR HDS Lutherans
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE Please join us for this gathering where you will:
meet local sponsors and supporters;
learn the power of personal connections; and
find out how local congregations and individuals can make a difference.
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From Wilderness Environments to Well-Ordered Plantations: The Gifts of God Perfected by Industry
8 October 2013Environmental History Seminar
5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at seminars@masshist.org or 617-646-0568
John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University
Comment: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Authors will not read their essays but will offer brief remarks; please read the paper ahead of time and come prepared to join in the discussion. If you are not a subscriber to the series (subscribers receive online advance access to the papers) you may pick up a copy at the MHS front desk on the day of the program. Please phone 617-646-0568 with any questions.
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Askwith Forum: Innovations in Teaching
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Panel, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP needed.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events
NOTE Speakers:
Robert Kegan, The William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
Meira Levinson, Associate Professor of Education
Host and moderator: James Ryan, dean and professor, HGSE
Part of Teaching and Learning Week at HGSE
Faculty members at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are pushing the boundaries of how we learn and teach, both inside and outside of traditional Harvard classrooms. HGSE faculty members Robert Kegan and Meira Levinson will share some of the innovations in learning they are actively developing. Kegan, a leading expert on learning in adulthood, is creating HGSE's first edX course with his colleague and co-author, Lisa Lahey. Kegan and Lahey's ITCx is the first "transformational-learning" Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). Kegan's work takes on a fascinating question: how can a digital learning experience create the conditions for deep and lasting personal transformation and development? Levinson, a political theorist and former urban middle-school teacher, is developing a new kind of case-study discussion for the field of education. Using what she calls normative case studies, Levinson is creating new ways for educators and scholars to explore complex moral dilemmas and strengthen their capacities to enact justice in schools. Both faculty members are piloting approaches to learning meant to transform the way we see our world and act within it each day.
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Panel, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP needed.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events
NOTE Speakers:
Robert Kegan, The William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
Meira Levinson, Associate Professor of Education
Host and moderator: James Ryan, dean and professor, HGSE
Part of Teaching and Learning Week at HGSE
Faculty members at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are pushing the boundaries of how we learn and teach, both inside and outside of traditional Harvard classrooms. HGSE faculty members Robert Kegan and Meira Levinson will share some of the innovations in learning they are actively developing. Kegan, a leading expert on learning in adulthood, is creating HGSE's first edX course with his colleague and co-author, Lisa Lahey. Kegan and Lahey's ITCx is the first "transformational-learning" Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). Kegan's work takes on a fascinating question: how can a digital learning experience create the conditions for deep and lasting personal transformation and development? Levinson, a political theorist and former urban middle-school teacher, is developing a new kind of case-study discussion for the field of education. Using what she calls normative case studies, Levinson is creating new ways for educators and scholars to explore complex moral dilemmas and strengthen their capacities to enact justice in schools. Both faculty members are piloting approaches to learning meant to transform the way we see our world and act within it each day.
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Screening & Discussion: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 6 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Hall, Room 202, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Du Bois Graduate Society, Dept. of African & African American Studies
SPEAKER(S) S. Epatha Merkerson (of Law & Order) and Rockell Metcalf
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO SParsons@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Join co-producers and co-directors S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf for a special screening and discussion of their provocative film "The Contradictions of Fair Hope."
Merkerson is best known for her portrayal of Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on NBC’s Law & Order (2006/2010/2011 NAACP Image Award). She received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Image Award for her performance as Nanny Crosby in the HBO movie "Lackwanna Blues," and can be seen in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" and in the comedy "Peeples" to be released May 2013.
Rockell Metcalf is vice president and chief counsel at Amerprise Financial Inc., where he concentrates on broker- dealer, marketing and banking law. He received his LL.M from Columbia Law School and his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law, where he was executive editor of the Law Review. He is co-author of the "Practical Guide to Broker-Dealer Regulation."
LINK www.contradictionsoffairhope.com
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A Big Change Isn't Always the Best Change: Iterating as a Social Entrepreneur
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 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/8403738809/
Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, writes that one of the most common pieces of advice he gives to entrepreneurs is to DO THINGS THAT DON'T SCALE. For entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs alike, a scalable model is an alluring model...a quick fix to a huge problem and significant opportunity. However, neither business or social change really work that way. Instead, social entrepreneurs must be thinking about making small changes every day as a path to sustainable, SCALABLE social change and business success. But how is this done? Zack Rosenburg, founder of DoGoodBuyUs will share his insights into how (social) entrepreneurs can apply a framework of constant iteration to their goals for social and business impact.
We check all attendee registrations at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID if you have registered as a Harvard Student. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, writes that one of the most common pieces of advice he gives to entrepreneurs is to DO THINGS THAT DON'T SCALE. For entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs alike, a scalable model is an alluring model...a quick fix to a huge problem and significant opportunity. However, neither business or social change really work that way. Instead, social entrepreneurs must be thinking about making small changes every day as a path to sustainable, SCALABLE social change and business success. But how is this done? Zack Rosenburg, founder of DoGoodBuyUs will share his insights into how (social) entrepreneurs can apply a framework of constant iteration to their goals for social and business impact.
We check all attendee registrations at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID if you have registered as a Harvard Student. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
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Beyond Architecture
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Takaharu Tezuka
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Since the turn of the century our relationship to technology has changed; we use technology to make ourselves feel more "human," according to Takaharu Tezuka, who with Yui Tezuka is principal of Tezuka Architects in Tokyo. The results may be seen in the firm's architecture projects, which make frank but delicate use of structural principles, each different from the others yet all deliberate and somehow intimate, regardless of scale. The House Without Walls (2000), Floating Roof House (2004), Fuji Kindergarten (2007), and Ring Around a Tree (2011) are among the most widely publicized examples to date.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/beyond-architecture-takaharu-tezuka.html
WHEN Tue., Oct. 8, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Takaharu Tezuka
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Since the turn of the century our relationship to technology has changed; we use technology to make ourselves feel more "human," according to Takaharu Tezuka, who with Yui Tezuka is principal of Tezuka Architects in Tokyo. The results may be seen in the firm's architecture projects, which make frank but delicate use of structural principles, each different from the others yet all deliberate and somehow intimate, regardless of scale. The House Without Walls (2000), Floating Roof House (2004), Fuji Kindergarten (2007), and Ring Around a Tree (2011) are among the most widely publicized examples to date.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/beyond-architecture-takaharu-tezuka.html
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Discoveries Lecture: The Climate Crisis: Tracking Boston's Carbon Dioxide and Methane Digestion
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
7:00 pm
BU, The Florence & Chafetz Hillel House 213 Bay State Road, Boston
Cities concentrate people, economic activity and pollution. Covering less than 5% of global land area, cities are home to more than half the Earth's human population, produce over 96% of global gross domestic product, and consume nearly 80% of energy.Join us on campus for our Discoveries Lecture Series featuring Professors Lucy Hutyra and Nathan Phillips of the Department of Earth & Environment. Hutyra and Phillips are in the midst of a National Science Foundation funded research project; studying Boston's energy and resource flows and tracking carbon as the lifeblood of Boston's urban metabolism.They will discuss two key carbon compounds and greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), what these compounds tell us about Boston's environmental health, and opportunities for greater urban sustainability. Discoveries, a series of dynamic learning opportunities for alumni and friends, features faculty experts from the College of Arts & Sciences and is brought to you by the Boston University Alumni Association.
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Toys in Mathematics
WHEN Wed., Oct. 9, 2013, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Tadashi Tokieda, 2013-14 William and Flora Hewlett Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, University of Cambridge
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-tadashi-tokieda-fellow-presentation
WHEN Wed., Oct. 9, 2013, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Tadashi Tokieda, 2013-14 William and Flora Hewlett Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, University of Cambridge
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-tadashi-tokieda-fellow-presentation
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Starr Forum- The Passion of Chelsea Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Chase Madar, Noam Chomsky
Book talk with Chase Madar
The astonishing leaks attributed to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantanamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young soldier forces citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.
About the speakers:
Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in New York and the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso). He tweets @ChMadar.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100913_manning.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Chase Madar, Noam Chomsky
Book talk with Chase Madar
The astonishing leaks attributed to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantanamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young soldier forces citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.
About the speakers:
Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in New York and the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso). He tweets @ChMadar.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100913_manning.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Boston Idea Week
October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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October 1-10
http://www.bostonideaweek.org/
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Startup Secrets: Perfect Pitch
Thursday, October 10, 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/8404513125
Are you preparing to enter an accelerator program or business plan competition? Are you working on your pitch to potential investors? A pitch often replaces a business plan in today’s world. Get the inside track from Michael Skok, a serial entrepreneur turned VC on how to put together the perfect pitch. Understand what needs to be behind the slides that gets your venture the attention and the funding it deserves. Find out what really matters to investors and use those insights to gain an unfair competitive advantage. This is NOT a workshop about presentation "style" -- it focuses on the strategic content necessary to create the perfect pitch from value proposition, to business model, to go to market strategy and how to bring it all together seamlessly.
We check all attendee registrations at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID if you have registered as a Harvard Student. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
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Are you preparing to enter an accelerator program or business plan competition? Are you working on your pitch to potential investors? A pitch often replaces a business plan in today’s world. Get the inside track from Michael Skok, a serial entrepreneur turned VC on how to put together the perfect pitch. Understand what needs to be behind the slides that gets your venture the attention and the funding it deserves. Find out what really matters to investors and use those insights to gain an unfair competitive advantage. This is NOT a workshop about presentation "style" -- it focuses on the strategic content necessary to create the perfect pitch from value proposition, to business model, to go to market strategy and how to bring it all together seamlessly.
We check all attendee registrations at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID if you have registered as a Harvard Student. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
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Mass Innovation Nights MIN55
10/09/2013
06:00pm - 08:30pm
VMware, 5 Cambridge Center 10th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142
10/09/2013
06:00pm - 08:30pm
VMware, 5 Cambridge Center 10th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/october-9-2013-mass-innovation-nights-min55
At Mass Innovation Nights #55 we'll be returning to Kendall Square and partying with our friends at VMware. You can easily take the T there (Red line!) - their offices are right across from the Kendall Square T stop.
If you are new to Mass Innovation Nights, it's easy to participate.
Check out the new PRODUCTS at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/october-9-2013-mass-innovation-nights-min55
Contact http://mass.innovationnights.com/
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Money & Power: A Debate
with Hedrick Smith (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The New York Times) and Yaron Brook (President, Ayn Rand Institute);
moderated by Rachael Cobb (Chair, Suffolk University's CAS Government Dept.)
Thursday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Modern Theatre, Suffolk University
Associate Professor Rachael Cobb (Chair, SU CAS Government Dept.) moderates a critical debate between former New York Times journalist Hedrick Smith and Ayn Rand Institute President Yaron Brook on money and power. Smith argues that a pro-business power shift in Washington and a change in the American business ethos away from stakeholder capitalism to shareholder capitalism has created a harmful economic divide in America. Brook counters that today’s mess is a product, not of capitalism, but of empowering the government to restrict free enterprise and dole out favors to preferred groups. Smith offers ideas for reviving middle class power and prosperity, while Brook tells us how laissez-faire capitalism offers individuals on all levels of ability the greatest promise of prosperity in this incredible debate on wealth and power in the 21st century.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org.
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net
Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris@suffolk.edu.
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About Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University:
Ford Hall Forum is the nation's oldest free public lecture series. The Forum provides an open venue for sharing opinions and discussing controversial points of view. It advances the First Amendment through freedom of expression, encouraging attendees to engage directly with speakers. Ford Hall Forum discussions illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking orators from a broad range of perspectives. These experts participate for free, and in settings that promote a culture of involvement in a non-partisan environment.
The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held at the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in Boston. While the original building no longer exists, the public conversations have continued throughout the Boston area with the generous support from state agencies, foundations, corporations, academic institutions, and individuals. In its 104th year of programming, the Forum continues to build upon its partnership with Suffolk University. Suffolk is now housing the Forum's administrative offices just a block away from where the original Ford Hall once stood.
Ford Hall Forum programs are made possible through the generous contributions from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including Compass Eight, The Fred & Marty Corneel Fund, Helen Rees Literary Agency, Iron Mountain, LCMG Certified Public Accountants, The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, North Hill, Penny Pimentel, The Pfizer Foundation, Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Prince Lobel & Tye, Suffolk University, and WBUR 90.9 FM.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org. Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris@suffolk.edu.
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At Mass Innovation Nights #55 we'll be returning to Kendall Square and partying with our friends at VMware. You can easily take the T there (Red line!) - their offices are right across from the Kendall Square T stop.
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Money & Power: A Debate
with Hedrick Smith (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The New York Times) and Yaron Brook (President, Ayn Rand Institute);
moderated by Rachael Cobb (Chair, Suffolk University's CAS Government Dept.)
Thursday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Modern Theatre, Suffolk University
Associate Professor Rachael Cobb (Chair, SU CAS Government Dept.) moderates a critical debate between former New York Times journalist Hedrick Smith and Ayn Rand Institute President Yaron Brook on money and power. Smith argues that a pro-business power shift in Washington and a change in the American business ethos away from stakeholder capitalism to shareholder capitalism has created a harmful economic divide in America. Brook counters that today’s mess is a product, not of capitalism, but of empowering the government to restrict free enterprise and dole out favors to preferred groups. Smith offers ideas for reviving middle class power and prosperity, while Brook tells us how laissez-faire capitalism offers individuals on all levels of ability the greatest promise of prosperity in this incredible debate on wealth and power in the 21st century.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org.
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net
Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris@suffolk.edu.
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About Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University:
Ford Hall Forum is the nation's oldest free public lecture series. The Forum provides an open venue for sharing opinions and discussing controversial points of view. It advances the First Amendment through freedom of expression, encouraging attendees to engage directly with speakers. Ford Hall Forum discussions illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking orators from a broad range of perspectives. These experts participate for free, and in settings that promote a culture of involvement in a non-partisan environment.
The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held at the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in Boston. While the original building no longer exists, the public conversations have continued throughout the Boston area with the generous support from state agencies, foundations, corporations, academic institutions, and individuals. In its 104th year of programming, the Forum continues to build upon its partnership with Suffolk University. Suffolk is now housing the Forum's administrative offices just a block away from where the original Ford Hall once stood.
Ford Hall Forum programs are made possible through the generous contributions from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including Compass Eight, The Fred & Marty Corneel Fund, Helen Rees Literary Agency, Iron Mountain, LCMG Certified Public Accountants, The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, North Hill, Penny Pimentel, The Pfizer Foundation, Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Prince Lobel & Tye, Suffolk University, and WBUR 90.9 FM.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org. Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris@suffolk.edu.
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The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
5:00p--6:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Chase Madar, Noam Chomsky
Book talk with Chase Madar
The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantanamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing
About the speakers:
Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in New York and the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso). He tweets @ChMadar.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Sea Ice, Climate and Observational Mathematics
Thursday, October 10
7 pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at upport.neaq.org/site/Calendar/806848331
MIT Lorenz Center Lecture
Professor John Wettlaufer, A.M. Bateman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Geophysics and Physics, Yale University and Professor of Applicable Mathematics, Oxford University
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center’s 3rd Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre. Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT recently launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry. By emphasizing curiosity-driven research, the center fosters creative approaches to learning how climate works. To better understand this intricate system, we seek theories that predict observations regionally and globally, from human to geologic time scales. But what are the relevant observations? And how do we construct useful and realistic theories?
This year’s lecturer, John Wettlaufer, has grappled with these questions by creating a mathematical observatory and focusing its telescopes on Arctic ice and climate. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the physics of ice and its role in climate. Register here.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
5:00p--6:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Chase Madar, Noam Chomsky
Book talk with Chase Madar
The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantanamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing
About the speakers:
Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in New York and the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso). He tweets @ChMadar.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Sea Ice, Climate and Observational Mathematics
Thursday, October 10
7 pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at upport.neaq.org/site/Calendar/806848331
MIT Lorenz Center Lecture
Professor John Wettlaufer, A.M. Bateman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Geophysics and Physics, Yale University and Professor of Applicable Mathematics, Oxford University
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center’s 3rd Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre. Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT recently launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry. By emphasizing curiosity-driven research, the center fosters creative approaches to learning how climate works. To better understand this intricate system, we seek theories that predict observations regionally and globally, from human to geologic time scales. But what are the relevant observations? And how do we construct useful and realistic theories?
This year’s lecturer, John Wettlaufer, has grappled with these questions by creating a mathematical observatory and focusing its telescopes on Arctic ice and climate. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the physics of ice and its role in climate. Register here.
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Pre-HONK! Musical Showcase For Visiting HONK! Bands
Thursday, October 10
7 pm
Throughout Union Square, Somerville
Throughout Union Square, Somerville
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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Gideon's Promise and Peril: Meeting the Mandate for Indigent Defense
Friday, October 11th, 2013
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Harvard Law School, WCC 2036 Milstein East, Cambridge
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Court ruled state courts were obligated to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who could not otherwise afford it. The logic of this unanimous decision has had far-reaching implications for the way we think about justice in the United States and held such promise to those of us dedicated to the fairness of our judicial system. On October 11th, we will gather here at Harvard Law School for an all-day conference: "Gideon's Promise and Peril: Meeting the Mandate for Indigent Defense."
More information at http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Harvard Law School, WCC 2036 Milstein East, Cambridge
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Court ruled state courts were obligated to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who could not otherwise afford it. The logic of this unanimous decision has had far-reaching implications for the way we think about justice in the United States and held such promise to those of us dedicated to the fairness of our judicial system. On October 11th, we will gather here at Harvard Law School for an all-day conference: "Gideon's Promise and Peril: Meeting the Mandate for Indigent Defense."
More information at http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org
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Hedrick Smith
Friday, October 11
12 p.m.
Harvard, Fainsod Room (Room 324), Littauer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Conversation with Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Timesreporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Conversation with Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Timesreporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
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HONK! In The Neighborhoods
Friday, October 11
3 pm-5 pm
HONK! bands play for and with community and after-school groups throughout the greater Boston area.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! bands play for and with community and after-school groups throughout the greater Boston area.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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This Week in Startups Live in Boston
10/11/2013
10/11/2013
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://twistliveboston.eventbrite.com
Cost $2
Audience: Top Startup Founders, Serial Entrepreneurs, VC’s, Angel Investors, CEO's, C-Level Executives @ SMB's, App/ Mobile Developers and Media
Description: The popular online TV show, "This Week in Startups" is filming live in Boston! Host Jason Calacanis will have angel investor & Oscar winner Bill Warner of Warner Research join him for a fireside chat on October 11, 2013.
Entrepreneur and angel investor -- commonly heard together. But add Oscar & Emmy winner? You’re almost definitely talking about Bill Warner. The founder of AVID Technology revolutionized film and music with digital editing software ProTools, and many other products along the way. Bill is also a great champion of entrepreneurship in Massachusetts -- he mentors companies through MIT Engineering, TechStars Boston, MassTLC Innovation unConference, and helps them grow at the Brickyard Collaboration Space in Cambridge. Bill likes to be the first investor in a company. More than the idea, he invests in the entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur and angel investor -- commonly heard together. But add Oscar & Emmy winner? You’re almost definitely talking about Bill Warner. The founder of AVID Technology revolutionized film and music with digital editing software ProTools, and many other products along the way. Bill is also a great champion of entrepreneurship in Massachusetts -- he mentors companies through MIT Engineering, TechStars Boston, MassTLC Innovation unConference, and helps them grow at the Brickyard Collaboration Space in Cambridge. Bill likes to be the first investor in a company. More than the idea, he invests in the entrepreneur.
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HONK! Lantern Parades
Friday, October 11
7 pm-9 pm
Davis Square, Somerville
Sidewalk HONK! processions around Davis Square, Somerville, accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting.
Open community lantern-making workshops from 4 pm-6 pm, held prior to the lantern parades which start and end in Hodgkins-Curtin Park near Davis Square.
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
Sidewalk HONK! processions around Davis Square, Somerville, accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting.
Open community lantern-making workshops from 4 pm-6 pm, held prior to the lantern parades which start and end in Hodgkins-Curtin Park near Davis Square.
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! Kick-Off Concert
Friday, October 11
8:00 pm-12:45 am
Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant and Music Club, 17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant and Music Club, 17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
A free party for HONK!ers and their fans:
8:00 pm-10:00 pm: A HONK! Jam with reps from each HONK! band, conducted by Ken Field of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble;
10:00 pm-10:45 pm: Perhaps Contraption (London, UK);
11:00 pm-11:45 pm: Young Fellaz Brass Band (New Orleans, LA);
12:00 am-12:45 am:: Os Siderais, (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil).
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all.
For information: 617-776-2004, www.johnnyds.com.
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HONK! Opening Ceremonies
Saturday, October 12
12:00 pm-12:30 pm:
7 Hills Park, Davis Square, Somerville
7 Hills Park, Davis Square, Somerville
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! In Davis Square: The Main Event
Saturday, October 12
12:30 pm – 9 pm
Davis Square, Somerville
Davis Square, Somerville
Free Outdoor Concerts:
Twenty-six activist street bands, current roster:
AfroBrazil, Brass Balagan, Brass Messengers, The Bread & Puppet Theater Circus Band, Caka!ak Thunder, Colonel Pope and the Hartford Hot Several, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, EE-Environmental Encroachment, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Forward! Marching Band, Gora Gora Orkestar, Hungry March Band, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Os Siderais, Perhaps Contraption, The Riverhawk Party Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, What Cheer? Brigade, Worcester Ice Cream Social Band, andYoung Fellaz Brass Band.
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine (nearby back-up venues in case of downpour).
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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Energy Upgrade Work Party
Emmanuel Church of Boston
October 13th - Time TBA, around 1pm-5pm
15 Newbury Street
Boston
Emmanuel Church of Boston has the most beautiful Sanctuary and chapel we've ever been in. As an additional plus, the artist who builds the Bread and Puppets' puppets has a studio in the basement. A truly amazing place to be. We'll teach you how to install pipe insulation, and how to save energy in many other ways.
Sign up here: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdrVnFLeW1neWtxVjNMSVl6WE1DOVE6MA#gid=0)
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Energy Upgrade Work Party
Emmanuel Church of Boston
October 13th - Time TBA, around 1pm-5pm
15 Newbury Street
Boston
Emmanuel Church of Boston has the most beautiful Sanctuary and chapel we've ever been in. As an additional plus, the artist who builds the Bread and Puppets' puppets has a studio in the basement. A truly amazing place to be. We'll teach you how to install pipe insulation, and how to save energy in many other ways.
Sign up here: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdrVnFLeW1neWtxVjNMSVl6WE1DOVE6MA#gid=0)
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HONK! Parade From Davis Square To Harvard Square
Sunday, October 13
noon – 2 pm (11 am assembly):
HONK! Parade to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”:
A perambulating street spectacle featuring all the HONK! bands plus 24 community organizations, visual artists, and performers, including the Bread & Puppet Theater, the Boston Hoop Troop, Veterans for Peace, the Tibetan Association of Boston, the Open Air Circus, the Boston Sprockettes, and special guests the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club of New Orleans, whom the parade will honor for their efforts to reduce gun violence and support community street performance for younger generations in their city's Seventh Ward.
Parading from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration; the parade assembles in Davis Square, Somerville, at 11 am, leaving Davis at 12 noon, travelling down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave. to Harvard Square, Cambridge, to participate in Oktoberfest. Led by the Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge. Those wishing to participate in the parade or to volunteer as a parade facilitator, contactparade@honkfest.org.
[Conveniently located near the Davis, Porter, and Harvard Square stops on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! Parade to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”:
A perambulating street spectacle featuring all the HONK! bands plus 24 community organizations, visual artists, and performers, including the Bread & Puppet Theater, the Boston Hoop Troop, Veterans for Peace, the Tibetan Association of Boston, the Open Air Circus, the Boston Sprockettes, and special guests the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club of New Orleans, whom the parade will honor for their efforts to reduce gun violence and support community street performance for younger generations in their city's Seventh Ward.
Parading from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration; the parade assembles in Davis Square, Somerville, at 11 am, leaving Davis at 12 noon, travelling down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave. to Harvard Square, Cambridge, to participate in Oktoberfest. Led by the Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge. Those wishing to participate in the parade or to volunteer as a parade facilitator, contactparade@honkfest.org.
[Conveniently located near the Davis, Porter, and Harvard Square stops on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), contact@honkfest.org.
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HONK! Oktoberfest, including a HONK! All-Band Blowout Concert:
Sunday, October 13
2:15 pm-6 pm:
All HONK! bands will be featured in Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest, after the arrival of the HONK! Parade, with separate side show sets and an all-afternoon all-band blowout held on the Main Stage. The participating bands are:
AfroBrazil, Brass Balagan, Brass Messengers, The Bread & Puppet Theater Circus Band, Caka!ak Thunder, Colonel Pope and the Hartford Hot Several, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, EE-Environmental Encroachment, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Forward! Marching Band, Gora Gora Orkestar, Hungry March Band, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Os Siderais, Perhaps Contraption, The Riverhawk Party Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, What Cheer? Brigade, Worcester Ice Cream Social Band, andYoung Fellaz Brass Band.
[Conveniently located near the Harvard Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information, visit www.harvardsquare.com, 617-491-3434, hsba@harvardsquare.com.
All HONK! bands will be featured in Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest, after the arrival of the HONK! Parade, with separate side show sets and an all-afternoon all-band blowout held on the Main Stage. The participating bands are:
AfroBrazil, Brass Balagan, Brass Messengers, The Bread & Puppet Theater Circus Band, Caka!ak Thunder, Colonel Pope and the Hartford Hot Several, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, EE-Environmental Encroachment, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Forward! Marching Band, Gora Gora Orkestar, Hungry March Band, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Os Siderais, Perhaps Contraption, The Riverhawk Party Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, What Cheer? Brigade, Worcester Ice Cream Social Band, andYoung Fellaz Brass Band.
[Conveniently located near the Harvard Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information, visit www.harvardsquare.com, 617-491-3434, hsba@harvardsquare.com.
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Nieman night: Impact of digital and social media in Latin America, India, China
The Road Ahead for Planetary Environmentalism: An Appreciation of Professor Bill Moomaw
Friday, October 18
3:00-4:30 PM
ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School , 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Registration required at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/Events/RegisterOctober182013
A talk by Professor Robert Socolow, Princeton University
Followed by a reception in the Hall of Flags at 4:30 to honor Professor Moomaw
Open to the public. Convened by the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) and The Fletcher School to honor the distinguished career of William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy. Professor Moomaw recently stepped down as Director of CIERP, which he founded in 1992, and will retire at the end of this academic year.
Robert Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His current research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” (Science, August 13, 2004). Socolow recently served on two committees of the National Academies: “America's Energy Future” and “America's Climate Choices.” He received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics in l964 from Harvard University.
"Planetary environmentalism" is an evolving perspective on the human condition, which sees a planet of modest size straining to absorb the aggregate activity of our irrepressible species. The science is incomplete but sobering, and the public is rightly skeptical of simple solutions. We have barely begun to think about what is required to conduct a multi-generational project.
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
October 19
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South Street, Foxborough
RSVP at Register at
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e81d32ua44d430ff&llr=s4blzzbab
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The October 19 workshop will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South Street in Foxborough. Register at
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e81d32ua44d430ff&llr=s4blzzbab
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
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Sensing Wonder, Serious Play: Ecology and Children’s Literature
October 25, 2013
Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
A Graduate Student Conference hosted by Harvard University's American Studies Program the will explore children’s literature through an ecocritical lens, giving priority to the ways in which these texts illustrate the relationship between nature and children. The Conference is accepting paper submissions through September 15 – visit the website for more information.
http://www.sensingwonder.us
Contact Name: ecoconferenceharvard@gmail.com
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7th Biennial Cambridge City Council Candidates' Night on Environmental and Energy (E/E)
Wednesday, 30 October, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Cambridge Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
Attend the 7th biennial energy and environmental issues forum for Cambridge City Council candidates sponsored by Green Cambridge.
Event Contact Info
Quinton Zondervan
Email: president@greencambridge.org
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
7:00 PM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
The Globe Lab on the 2d floor (there will be signs)
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/hackshackersboston/events/140537532/
Join three Nieman fellows to discuss the growth and impact of digital and social media in Latin America, India, China—how users are employing technology to report and comment on the news, organize and motivate civic groups, and circumvent government controls.
Leslie Hook is a Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times, covering energy, the environment, commodities and general news in China. She has written stories on topics ranging from Mongolian herders in the Gobi Desert to rare earth mines in Southern China to solar-powered villages in Xinjiang. She previously worked forThe Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, where she wrote editorials and op-eds on political and human rights issues in Asia. She also worked at the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, writing cover stories about China and editing essays for the magazine.
Hasit Shah is a senior broadcast journalist at BBC News in London who has produced award-winning national and international news programs. He has also worked in social media in the BBC newsroom and as a foreign affairs producer specializing in South Asia. He has covered major breaking news stories and events including the Mumbai attacks, riots in France, violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, the London bombings, regime change in Egypt and the earthquake in Japan. He recently produced the “Indian Dream” series, which profiles people moving to India from the West. Shah is a 2014 Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation at Harvard.
Daniel Eilemberg, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Animal Político website, will use his time at Harvard to build the site into the leading digital editorial company in Mexico. While on campus, he hopes to work in partnership with others to conceptualize and build the platforms, teams and tools needed to expand his organization into a modern, digital newsroom, integrating the best technology and journalistic practices. Daniel Eilemberg is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Animal Político. A journalist, entrepreneur and producer, Daniel has been editor of Poder Hispanic Magazine and executive editor of the magazine LOFT. He also served as editor of Page One Daily News, a daily newsletter directed to 40,000 senior executives throughout the hemisphere.In 2008, Daniel produced Operation Checkmate: The Rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, for National Geographic Channel. The film was named Best Documentary of the year by viewers of NatGeo. From 2001 to 2005, Daniel lived in Los Angeles, California where he worked in the creative department of the studies of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Daniel conducted his university studies in London, England. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.
Leslie Hook is a Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times, covering energy, the environment, commodities and general news in China. She has written stories on topics ranging from Mongolian herders in the Gobi Desert to rare earth mines in Southern China to solar-powered villages in Xinjiang. She previously worked forThe Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, where she wrote editorials and op-eds on political and human rights issues in Asia. She also worked at the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, writing cover stories about China and editing essays for the magazine.
Hasit Shah is a senior broadcast journalist at BBC News in London who has produced award-winning national and international news programs. He has also worked in social media in the BBC newsroom and as a foreign affairs producer specializing in South Asia. He has covered major breaking news stories and events including the Mumbai attacks, riots in France, violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, the London bombings, regime change in Egypt and the earthquake in Japan. He recently produced the “Indian Dream” series, which profiles people moving to India from the West. Shah is a 2014 Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation at Harvard.
Daniel Eilemberg, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Animal Político website, will use his time at Harvard to build the site into the leading digital editorial company in Mexico. While on campus, he hopes to work in partnership with others to conceptualize and build the platforms, teams and tools needed to expand his organization into a modern, digital newsroom, integrating the best technology and journalistic practices. Daniel Eilemberg is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Animal Político. A journalist, entrepreneur and producer, Daniel has been editor of Poder Hispanic Magazine and executive editor of the magazine LOFT. He also served as editor of Page One Daily News, a daily newsletter directed to 40,000 senior executives throughout the hemisphere.In 2008, Daniel produced Operation Checkmate: The Rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, for National Geographic Channel. The film was named Best Documentary of the year by viewers of NatGeo. From 2001 to 2005, Daniel lived in Los Angeles, California where he worked in the creative department of the studies of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Daniel conducted his university studies in London, England. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Nonprofit Storytelling in a Digital World
10/17/2013
10/17/2013
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://npostorytelling.eventbrite.com
Digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way people read and consume information. If your nonprofit is not embracing digital tools to compose a compelling narrative around your cause, your information could be getting lost in the noise.
In this increasingly competitive landscape for donors’ attention and support, getting people to notice and to hear your message can seem impossible. Email communications, social media, and mobile are all important to understand, but how will these tools really help you connect with your donors and supporters?
In this workshop, we will cover:
How to use digital tools to tell your nonprofit story
This is a free training for non-profits from HandsOn Tech Boston. HandsOn Tech Boston builds nonprofit capacity through free technology trainings, pro bono technology assistance, and volunteer engagement, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes for local communities.
In this workshop, we will cover:
How to use digital tools to tell your nonprofit story
How to make your message stand out and cut through the clutter and noise
How to use video-sharing tools to connect with supporters
Who Should Attend: Any nonprofit professional or volunteer interested in learning more about using digital tools for storytelling. Suitable for all experience levels. This is a free training for non-profits from HandsOn Tech Boston. HandsOn Tech Boston builds nonprofit capacity through free technology trainings, pro bono technology assistance, and volunteer engagement, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes for local communities.
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The Road Ahead for Planetary Environmentalism: An Appreciation of Professor Bill Moomaw
Friday, October 18
3:00-4:30 PM
ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School , 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Registration required at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/Events/RegisterOctober182013
A talk by Professor Robert Socolow, Princeton University
Followed by a reception in the Hall of Flags at 4:30 to honor Professor Moomaw
Open to the public. Convened by the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) and The Fletcher School to honor the distinguished career of William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy. Professor Moomaw recently stepped down as Director of CIERP, which he founded in 1992, and will retire at the end of this academic year.
Robert Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His current research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” (Science, August 13, 2004). Socolow recently served on two committees of the National Academies: “America's Energy Future” and “America's Climate Choices.” He received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics in l964 from Harvard University.
"Planetary environmentalism" is an evolving perspective on the human condition, which sees a planet of modest size straining to absorb the aggregate activity of our irrepressible species. The science is incomplete but sobering, and the public is rightly skeptical of simple solutions. We have barely begun to think about what is required to conduct a multi-generational project.
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
October 19
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South Street, Foxborough
RSVP at Register at
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e81d32ua44d430ff&llr=s4blzzbab
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The October 19 workshop will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South Street in Foxborough. Register at
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e81d32ua44d430ff&llr=s4blzzbab
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
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Sensing Wonder, Serious Play: Ecology and Children’s Literature
October 25, 2013
Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
A Graduate Student Conference hosted by Harvard University's American Studies Program the will explore children’s literature through an ecocritical lens, giving priority to the ways in which these texts illustrate the relationship between nature and children. The Conference is accepting paper submissions through September 15 – visit the website for more information.
http://www.sensingwonder.us
Contact Name: ecoconferenceharvard@gmail.com
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7th Biennial Cambridge City Council Candidates' Night on Environmental and Energy (E/E)
Wednesday, 30 October, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Cambridge Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
Attend the 7th biennial energy and environmental issues forum for Cambridge City Council candidates sponsored by Green Cambridge.
Event Contact Info
Quinton Zondervan
Email: president@greencambridge.org
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Road to Paris via Warsaw
Monday, November 4, 2013
12:30-1:45p
12:30-1:45p
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Mugar 200, 160R Packard Avenue, Medford
A panel discussion on key issues in the lead up to the Warsaw Climate Change Conference
Kelly Sims Gallagher (chair), Director, CIERP, and Associate Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School
Sivan Kartha, Senior Scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute
Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Mukul Sanwal, Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
Hosted by CIERP's Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program
A light lunch will be served (first come first served).
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Crowds and Climate: Mobilizing Crowds to Develop Ideas and Take Action on Climate Change
November 6-8, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
More information at http://www.climatecolab.org/conference2013
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Jillian York
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
5:30pm - 6:30pm
MIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
MIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jillian York in Conversation with Ethan Zuckerman
Jillian C. York is Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her work focuses on free expression, with an focus toward the Arab world, and as such she has written for a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and CNN. Jillian contributed chapters to the upcoming volumes Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communication, Journalism and Society (Palgrave Macmillan; March 2013) and State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide(Ashgate Publishing; expected November 2013). She serves on the Board of Directors of Global Voices Online, and on the Advisory Boards of R-Shief, OnlineCensorship.org, Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund and Internews’ Global Internet Policy Project.
Jillian C. York is Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her work focuses on free expression, with an focus toward the Arab world, and as such she has written for a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and CNN. Jillian contributed chapters to the upcoming volumes Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communication, Journalism and Society (Palgrave Macmillan; March 2013) and State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide(Ashgate Publishing; expected November 2013). She serves on the Board of Directors of Global Voices Online, and on the Advisory Boards of R-Shief, OnlineCensorship.org, Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund and Internews’ Global Internet Policy Project.
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
November 16
St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The November 16 workshop will be held at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury. Registration will be available soon and if you are interested in attending this one, emailjimnail@mipandl.org to be notified when registration opens.
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
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Managing Holistically: Policies and Actions to Restore and Sustain Ecosystem Services
Friday, November 22, 2013
9:00a-12:00p
Friday, November 22, 2013
9:00a-12:00p
Tufts, ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Allan Savory, Rancher and Restoration Ecologist, Founder of the Savory Institute and originator of the Holistic Management approach to restoring grasslands, winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, and finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge (watch his January 2013 presentation at Fletcher at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/News/more/Allan-Savory-Fletcher-Jan2013)
Hosted by CIERP's Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program
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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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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Cambridge Civic Journal http://www.rwinters.com
http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
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