Energy (and Other) Events - November 10, 2013

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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index

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Monday, November 11
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11am  Exploring the Technical and Economic Factors Underlying Internet Spam
12pm  'Humpty Dumpty and regional climate change'
12:15pm  "The Dystopian Presented as the Utopian: Does the Internet lead us to forget what we know about life?"
4pm  “Making Class Work: Migrant Labor, mobile Capital, and the Creating of an Industrial Regime in Massachusetts”
6pm  Sustainable mobility systems
6:30pm  Anarchy Apiaries: Bee Esoteric with Sam Comfort
7pm  Science & Cooking: Catalytic Conversion—Enzymes in the Kitchen

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Tuesday, November 12
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10:30am  Turkey’s Energy Future: What Role for Nuclear Power?
12pm  "The Road to War: Absent Congress, Baffled Media."
12pm  Power to the People: Life as the GC [General Counsel] of Regulated Utility
12pm  Innovate: Anton Garcia Abril
1pm  Very Small Arrays: Data Graphics at the New York Times
3pm  Building a Passive House - The Practical Low-Down
4pm  Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy: Science vs. Politics
4pm  Electrochemical Pathways towards Sustainability
4pm  Microelectronics: An Industry in Transition
4pm  "Secularism, Sexuality and Sectarian Conflict"
4:30pm  "The Uses of Forgetfulness"
5pm  "Dis-Owning Nature: The BRCA Gene Patents and the Supreme Court"
5pm  Gutman Library Book Talk: Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole-System Reform
5:30pm  Innovative Product Dev. : What the FDA's 'Innovative Initiatives' Enable
6pm  "Food, Biodiversity, and Climate Change."
6pm  "The Moment of Truth: Math, Media and Mystery."
6pm  Divest the Commonwealth: A Panel of Local Climate Heroes, and Dessert Reception
6pm Urban Planning and the Free Software Movement: A Conversation
6pm  Mass Innovation Nights MINFun
6:30pm  Passive House New England
7pm  Fracking: The Facts and Issues
7pm  How the Wounded Return from America's Wars

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Wednesday, November 13
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9:30am  Rescuing Hubble: The AeroAstro Department Gardner Lecture/Symposium
10am  The Nuclear Crisis at Plutonium Mountain: Two Journalists' Tale
11:45am  Trends in Energy Markets
12pm  The Struggle for the City: How Can Cartoons Fight to Preserve the Urban Space?
12:10pm  The natural variability of glaciers
12:15pm  Privatization Policy in Rich Democracies
12:30pm  Live Webcast: The Next Pandemic: Are We Ready?
4pm  “On the Long History of Neoliberalism”
4pm  Structural Materials Issues for Ultra-Long Reactor Life Extensions
4pm  JD’s, Journalism and Justice: What Lawyers Can Accomplish Outside the Courtroom
4pm  Digital Futures: The NOW Edition
4:10pm  “Environmental Protection, Rare Disasters, and Discount Rates”
4:30pm  A Sex Goddess and a Queen: The Discovery and Analysis of the Lost Temple of Nefertiti
5pm  Future of Energy:  "Big Unanswered Questions About Our Energy Future."
6pm  The GMO Teach-In:   A Conversation with Consumer Reports Experts about the ethics and safety of genetically engineered food
6pm  HGSE Virtual Information Session: Technology, Innovation, and Education (Ed.M.) Program
7pm  Florian Hecker: Chimerizations - Book Signing
7pm  SITN Lecture - Math in Nature:  Finding Order in Chaos
7pm  Cambridge Forum Celebrates Folk Music Month in Harvard Square
7pm  Access to the Danger Zone Film Screening, Boston

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Thursday, November 14
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9:30am  The Business Case for Net Zero and Beyond with Andrea Traber, Integral Group
10am  The Danish String Quartet master class
11:45am  Paul Tucker on Shadow Banking: A Political Economy Challenge for Regulators
12pm  Interactions between Global Supply Chains, Land Use, and Governance: The Case of Soybean Production in South America
12pm  The Cyber Security Policy of the European Union and its Transatlantic Dimensions
12:15pm  Arctic Shock: Using Climate Change to Test Theories of Resource Competition
2pm  FAS Eco Citizens Meeting
3:15pm  Harvard Divest:  How Harvard Can Help Save the World From Climate Change
4pm  "Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Limit"
4pm  Socially Assistive Robotics: Human-Robot Interaction Methods for Creating Robots that Care
4pm  Constraints on Solubility Trapping During Carbon Dioxide Storage in Deep Geological Reservoirs
4:15pm  Emerging Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility Data and Disclosure: Opportunities and Challenges
5pm  Strategic Dilemmas of Contemporary Conservatism
5:30pm  Putting Science to Work for Peace
5:30pm  Energy, Ecology, and the Distribution of Microbial Life
6pm  "Driving the Future Sustainable Collaborative Economy" Robin Chase
6pm  Illustrating Thoreau's Maine Woods: A Photographer's Journey
6pm  Soap Box: The Science of Remembering (and Forgetting) with Ki Goosens
6:30pm  Conference & Exhibition: "Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age"
7pm  HarvardX and Humanities MOOCs
7pm  Extreme by Design PBS Film Screening
7pm  "Energy Transparency Triple Play"
7pm  Urban Films: Mission Hill & the Miracle of Boston (1978)

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Friday, November 15
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MIT Clean Energy Startup Weekend
8:15am  The Arab Uprisings: Accomplishments, Failures, and Prospects
9am  Natural Gas & Electricity Interface Challenges in New England
9am  Smart Clothes
12:05pm  "Fungineering" or, Thinking Outside the Building
12:30pm  Film Screening: Duncan Campbell, It for Others (2013)
5pm  Architecture/Computation Lecture: Jurg Lehni, "Poetic Machines, Robotic Gestures and Scenarios of Production,"

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Saturday November 16
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TEDxBeaconStreet 2013
Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
5pm  2013 Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art:  Chris Marker, on the occasion of the exhibition Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Egypte.
10am  Why Divest from Fossil Fuels?: A Panel Discussion on State Divestment Bill #S1225

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Sunday November 17
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TEDxBeaconStreet 2013
1:30pm  Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in New England

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Monday, November 18
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12pm  Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
12pm  MASS Seminar - Steve Nesbitt (Illinois)
12pm  Using System Dynamics to Support Startups, Stimulate the Economy, and Create More Jobs
12:15pm  (Not) Getting from Us to We: Expertise as a roadblock to change in U.S. environmental organizations
5:30pm  Noam Chomsky: What is Anarchism?
6pm  Models of Organizing in the Arts Ecosystem
7pm  The App Generation
7pm  Science & Cooking: Fermentation — When Rotten Goes Right

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Tuesday, November 19
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Architecture Boston
12:30pm  Science fiction or reality? A discussion of near-term ethical, legal, and societal issues in robotics
4:15pm  Fifty Years after The Feminine Mystique:  What’s Changed at Home and at Work?
4:30pm  The MIT Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar: Was the Arab Spring Just a Moment?
6pm  Eat What You Want: The Intuitive Approach
6pm  Boston Gaming November Demo Night
6pm  Sustainable Business Network Massachusetts B2B
6:30pm  Majora Carter
7pm  Greenport Forum:  Hubway in Central Cambridgeport:  Let’s Talk About It
7pm  The Role of the Free Market in Solving the Climate Crisis
8pm  Lone Survivor (FREE advance screening)

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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com

The latest is 

US OIl Production and Energy Security
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/us-oil-production-and-energy-security.html

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Event Details

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Monday, November 11
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Exploring the Technical and Economic Factors Underlying Internet Spam
Monday, November 11, 2013
11:00 am
BU, Hariri Institute, MCS 148, 111 Cummington Street, Boston

Geoff Volker, UCSD (CS Distinguished Lecture)
The large-scale compromise of Internet hosts and services form a platform for supporting a range of criminal activity in the so-called Internet underground economy. In this talk I will start by quickly surveying work that our group has performed over the past decade on the problems posed by these threats, and how our research directions have evolved over time in response to them. In the remainder of the talk, I will go into detail on recent work that our group has performed in an end-to-end analysis of the spam value chain. Using extensive measurements over months of diverse spam data, broad crawling of naming and hosting infrastructures, and product purchases from a wide variety of spam-advertised sites, I'll characterize the modern spam ecosystem including system infrastructure, business models, cost accounting, and consumer demand. I'll end by characterizing the relative prospects for anti-spam interventions at multiple levels, initial results of interventions in the payment tier, and where our group is headed going forward. This work is part of a long-standing collaborative effort between UCSD and ICSI. http://www.evidencebasedsecurity.org http://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/botnets http://www.ccied.org Geoffrey M. Voelker is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and computer networks. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

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'Humpty Dumpty and regional climate change'

November 12, 2013
12pm-1pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Abstract: A climate model is a dynamical system of interacting processes. Climate modelers disassemble the system into it's individual pieces and try to improve each one in the hope that the result will aggregate into an improved representation of nature. Confidence in the predictions of such models depend on answering such questions as: how does uncertainty in one
particular process contribute to uncertainty in the climate response? How well must the connections between processes be known to constrain the response within desired bounds? These questions are naturally addressed within a feedback analysis, which is well-developed for the global-average climate response. However impacts from global-mean changes are limited and
the real goal is regional climate prediction. The same questions arise, and another can be added: how does uncertainty in the processes in one region contribute to the uncertainty in the response of another region? I'll present a careful analysis of the spatial pattern of local climate feedbacks, and address the basic challenge: can we put the pieces back together again?

Speaker's website: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/roe/GerardWeb/Home.html

MASS Seminar- Gerard Roe (UW)

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"The Dystopian Presented as the Utopian: Does the Internet lead us to forget what we know about life?"
Monday, November 11, 2013
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before

Sherry Turkle (MIT, STS)

STS Circle Lecture at Harvard

http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name:  Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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“Making Class Work: Migrant Labor, mobile Capital, and the Creating of an Industrial Regime in Massachusetts”
Monday, November 11, 2013
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Harvard, Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Shaun Nichols (Harvard University),

Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramschedule.html

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Sustainable mobility systems
Monday, November 11
6:00 pm
Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress Street, Boston
To attend, email rsvp@architects.org with "Traffic 11/11" in the subject line.

Sustainable transportation planning leader Jeffrey Tumlin, principal with Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, whose work covers urban parking techniques, streamlined transit service, road diets, and overall transportation diversity, identifies transit opportunities for Boston.

Traffic Advisory is a transportation-focused speaker series organized by the Boston Society of Architects, the Boston Foundation for Architecture, the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, and the Barr Foundation. Beginning in October and running through June 2014, the series will mine sustainable transportation opportunities that support the Boston Transportation Department’s 2014 visioning process.

http://www.architects.org/programs-and-events/traffic-advisory-speaker-series

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Anarchy Apiaries: Bee Esoteric with Sam Comfort
Monday, November 11, 2013
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Follow the Honey, 1132 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/meetthebeekeepermondays/events/139947672/

Welcome to the House that Bees Built (REST BEFORE LABOR)

In the reflections of Anarchy Apiaries: The End of Time

What is happening? Apart from global warming, apart from a weak dollar and high oil prices, apart from our energy, food, water, economic, and personal crises, why are we so grumpy? Where is the connection that sustains our life force? Are we losing our ability to live in peace with ourselves and care for living things? Well, ask not what your paradigm can do for you- nobody out there has your solution. The generations now seem like separations. Nothing out there is going to change until we change ourselves. What we have brought the Honey Bees to bear is an ecological problem. An ecological problem is a social problem. Estranged, packed-in but alone, we have allowed fear and mistrust to govern our freedom.

Working with Bees is all about overcoming fear. The Hive is love incarnate. The Hive is the window to our new world. It takes patience and emotional energy to dismantle power dynamics; more awkward than a newborn goat. We are rediscovering what it means to live in peace with the insects, the landscape, and each other, outside of the corporate scheme.

They got the bombs but Bees got the numbers. Join together!

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Science & Cooking: Catalytic Conversion—Enzymes in the Kitchen
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 11, 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)  Wylie Dufresne, wd~50, and Ted Russin, Culinary Institute of America
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 athttp://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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 http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
LINK seas.harvard.edu…

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Tuesday, November 12
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Turkey’s Energy Future: What Role for Nuclear Power?
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Center Library (Littauer-369), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom/The Environment and Natural Resources Program
SPEAKER(S)  Memduh Karakullukçu, vice chairman and presiden, Global Relations Forum and founding partner of the online legal informatics enterprise, kanunum.com
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO joshua_anderson@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE  Coffee and tea provided. Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6207/turkeys_energy_future.html

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"The Road to War: Absent Congress, Baffled Media."
Tuesday, November 12
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Speaker Series with Marvin Kalb, an American journalist, was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Power to the People: Life as the GC [General Counsel] of Regulated Utility
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall B015,  1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on the Legal Profession
SPEAKER(S)  Colin Owyang, executive vice president and general counsel, National Grid USA
CONTACT INFO hlakhdar@law.harvard.edu
NOTE  Lunch will be provided.
Colin Owyang is executive vice president and general counsel of National Grid USA. In this role, Colin oversees approximately 200 people in the regulation and legal functions for the company’s U.S. business.
LINK http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/plp/pages/events.php

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Innovate: Anton Garcia Abril
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Stubbins (Room 112), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate of School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Anton Garcia Abril, PhD; Ensamble, Madrid; MIT POPlab, Cambridge
COST  Free and open to the public
NOTE  Innovation occurs on multiple scales, frequently crosses disciplines, and occasionally changes lives, cities, and culture. It is not a science, but requires design skills and must be informed by an eye for opportunity. "Innovate," a noontime talk series, features 20-minute presentations followed by discussions with faculty and students. Organized by Iñaki Abalos, Chair of the Department of Architecture.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/innovate-anton-garcia-abril.html

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Very Small Arrays: Data Graphics at the New York Times
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
1:00p–2:30p
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Amanda Cox
Journalism has very little in common with big data. (The data in journalism is almost entirely tiny.) But there may be some similarities, at least in spirit: we both to know things we shouldn't be able to know, depend heavily on asking the right questions and quick iteration, and prefer way more detail than we actually need, at least at the beginning.

I'll review some of the NYT graphics department's "bigger" data collaborations with academics and others, and discuss some of the broader trends in data visualization, as it is practiced by journalists trying to communicate with large audiences.

BIG DATA LECTURE SERIES
Talks will feature distinguised individuals from academia, industry and government including pre-eminent people from all the subfields of computer science that have something to say about data, data processing and analytics, as well as people from organizations that are consumers of Big Data from both industry and government.

Web site: http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Big Data Initiative at CSAIL
For more information, contact:
Susana Kevorkova
617-324-8424

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Building a Passive House - The Practical Low-Down

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 

3pm-4pm
Webinar
RSVP at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/727309002

A Passive House building uses 90% less energy than conventional construction, and larger Passive House projects are now being designed and built in North America, following Europe’s lead. Join us for a free BCSEA Webinar to hear:
Why would a North American contractor build to the Passive House Standard?

What are the distinguishing construction features of a Passive House building?

Are they expensive to build?

And what are they like to live or work in? 

Our guest Rob Bernhardt provides answers to these questions and discusses multi-family passive house projects being designed.

Rob Bernhardt is trained in passive house design and construction, and works with Bernhardt Contracting Ltd. in providing construction management, consulting and construction services. As a commercial general contractor with an interest in high performance buildings, Bernhardt Contracting Ltd. built the first building on Vancouver Island to the International Passive House Standard of energy efficiency.  Current passive house projects in the pre-construction phase include a six-unit rental building in Victoria, a show home in a 50 lot subdivision, and two larger multi family projects.

Contact Bruce Mackenzie
Email bmackenzie@bcsea.org
Telephone 604 332 0025 ext 5

British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association  http://www.bcsea.org

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Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy: Science vs. Politics

WHEN  Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 4 p.m.
WHERE  Carl E. Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Medical School and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University
COST  Free and open to the public; registration at http://ecommons.med.harvard.edu/pub_forms.asp?sid=HMS_1425
CONTACT INFO 617.432.1540
LINK http://www.fa.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-resources/faculty-development/fae-golden-kass-lecture/

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Electrochemical Pathways towards Sustainability
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Prof. Donald R. Sadoway
Imagine a process that produces metal in such a way that the trees are greener in the vicinity of the smelter, that the water is cleaner downstream from the smelter. Imagine an electric vehicle that is superior in performance and competitively priced to one fueled by petroleum. Imagine drawing electricity from the sun even when the sun isn???t shining. Professor Sadoway believes that there are electrochemical technologies capable of meeting all of these challenges. A faculty member in DMSE for 35 years, he co-founded two companies: Ambri, Inc. (formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), which is developing new battery technology for grid-scale electricity storage, and Boston Electrometallurgical Corp., which is developing molten oxide electrolysis for the production of metals. In 2012, Sadoway delivered a TED talk on the topic of inventing the liquid metal battery. In April 2012 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Wulff Lecture
The Wulff Lecture is an introductory, general audience, entertaining lecture which serves to educate, inspire, and encourage MIT undergraduates to take up study of materials science and engineering and related fields. The entire MIT community, particularly freshmen, is invited to attend. The Wulff Lecture honors the late Professor John Wulff, a skilled, provocative, and entertaining teacher who conceived of a new approach to teaching general chemistry and inaugurated the popular freshman subject, 3.091 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
For more information, contact:
DMSE

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Microelectronics: An Industry in Transition
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Dennis Buss, Texas Instruments
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2013.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact:  Debroah Hodges-Pabon
253-5264
debb@mtl.mit.edu

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"Secularism, Sexuality and Sectarian Conflict"
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Saba Mahmood
Fall 2013 McMillan-Stewart Lecture
The Women's and Gender Studies Genevieve McMillan and Reba Stewart Fund in the School of Humanities and Social Science brings scholars of international distinction in the humanities and/or social sciences whose scholarship and teaching focus on women in the developing world and especially on women in the Middle East and North Africa.

The relegation of religion and sexual reproduction to the private sphere is widely regarded as a key feature of modern secular societies. While postcolonial states of South Asia and the Middle East are heir to this arrangement, they are also distinct in that they retain religious laws for the regulation of family affairs. As a result, both minority and majority religious communities of these polities continue to exert a fair degree of juridical autonomy over family affairs. Prof. Mahmood's talk tries to rethink the classical debate around "family law" and "minority rights" by parsing out how the modern secular political order has produced a unique and noxious cathexis between religion, sexuality and gender.

Saba Mahmood is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, which received the 2005 Victoria Schuck award from the American Association of Political Science. Professor Mahmood's work focuses on the interchange between religious and secular politics in postcolonial societies with special attention to issues of embodiment, cultural hermeneutics, law, and gender/sexuality. Her work is best known for its interrogation of liberal assumptions about the proper boundary between ethics and politics, freedom and unfreedom, the religious and the secular, and agency and submission.

Web site: web.mit.edu/wgs
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies
For more information, contact:  The Friendly WGS Staff
3-8844
wgs@mit.edu

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"The Uses of Forgetfulness"
Tuesday, November 12 

4:30PM - 6:00PM
Northeastern, Holmes Hall, 400B,  39-41 Leon Street, Boston

Annual Barrs Series Lecture: Lewis Hyde
Professor Hyde is a 2013-2014 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a former MacArthur Fellow, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.  His most recent book, Common as Air (FSG 2010) is a defense of our “cultural commons.”  His current work, on the cultural necessity of forgetting, is an interdisciplinary exploration of the beneficial uses of forgetfulness, drawing from mythology, history, politics, aesthetics, psychology, and other disciplines.

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"Dis-Owning Nature: The BRCA Gene Patents and the Supreme Court"
Science and Democracy Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Harvard, Science Center Auditorium D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Chris Hansen, American Civil Liberties Union
Panelists:
George M. Church, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute
Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School
Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Ourselves
Tania Simoncelli, Former Science Advisor, ACLU
Moderated by:
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School

Contact Name:  Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu

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Gutman Library Book Talk: Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole-System Reform
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Gutman Library Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School Of Education, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Gutman Library and Phi Delta Kappa
SPEAKER(S)  Helen Janc Malone, director of institutional advancement, Institute for Educational Leadership; Pasi Sahlberg, director general, Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, Finland; Sherry L. Deckman, assistant professor of social and cultural foundations of education, Ithaca College; Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair, Lynch School of Education, Boston College; Dennis Shirley, professor of education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO mark_shelton@gse.harvard.edu
NOTE  The featured authors in Leading Educational Change directly address contemporary challenges, misconceptions, and failed strategies, while also offering solutions, ideas, and guiding questions for examination. Unique in its breadth of ideas and diversity of voices, Leading Educational Change is must-reading for education decision makers on all levels, frontline practitioners, and everyone involved with children and adolescent learning.
LINK http://www.gse.harvard.edu/library/malone_book_talk.pdf

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Innovative Product Dev. : What the FDA's 'Innovative Initiatives' Enable
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
East Arcade room, 1 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8896223845/

Join us and a distinguished panel of local experts for a discussion about the synchronization of technical and regulatory innovation.  Based on the experience gained with Kalydeco, the first drug to receive Breakthrough Designation by the FDA and approved in record time to treat Cystic Fibrosis, our panel will discuss how a Breakthrough Designation translates into product development breakthroughs in Manufacturing and Clinical Development.
5:30-6pm   Registration
6-7:15pm  Panel speakers and Q&A
7:15-8:15  Networking social

Beverages and light hors d'oeuvres will be served

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"Food, Biodiversity, and Climate Change."
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:00pm
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Jade D'alpoim Guedes, Harvard Anthropology; Eli Rogosa, Director of the Heritage Grain Conservancy; and Richard Meadow, Director of the Zooarchaeology Lab at the Peabody Museum

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Lecture
Jointly sponsored by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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"The Moment of Truth: Math, Media and Mystery."
Tuesday, November 12
6 p.m.
Harvard, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Theodore H. White Lecture with the Honorable Alan K. Simpson, U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979–1997, and the awarding of the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Leonard Pitts Jr, columnist, the Miami Herald; winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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Divest the Commonwealth: A Panel of Local Climate Heroes, and Dessert Reception
Tuesday, November 12th
6-8pm
Cabot ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford

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Urban Planning and the Free Software Movement: A Conversation

Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Join the MIT Open Source Planning Tools Groups and Zak Rogoff, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation, to learn about new developments in the world of free software -- and discover how you can be part of the movement to create, perfect, and promote the use of free and open tools for urban planners (and others) to use. Co-sponsored by LibrePlanet Boston.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:  Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu 

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Mass Innovation Nights MINFun
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:00pm - 8:30pm
GameOn, 82 Lansdowne Street, Boston, tucked into the corner of Fenway Park
Register Here:  http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/november-12-2013-mass-innovation-nights-minfun

Mass Innovation Nights #56 is going to be a special event -- get your party hat on and get ready for some FUN!  It's Fun and Games night, hosted by GameOn, 82 Lansdowne St Boston, tucked into the corner of Fenway Park. We've collected a group of cool, super fun products, including some nifty new games.  And MORE! If you are new to Mass Innovation Nights, it's easy to participate.
Cost:  FREE

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Passive House New England

November 12, 2013 

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston

rsvp@architects.org

Highlights from the 8th Annual North American Passive House Conference
Four professionals will present highlights from the 8th Annual North American Passive House Conference

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Fracking: The Facts and Issues
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 

7:00 PM
Cambridge Public Library (Lecture Hall) 449 Broadway, Cambridge

In an effort to provide the public with the best information available, a panel of experts discusses the known scientific, health and environmental facts about fracking. This event is jointly sponsored by Science for the Public, Cambridge Public Library, and Union of Concerned Scientists. The panel presentation (moderated by Dr. Phartiyal_Pallavi of UCS) will be followed by an audience Q-A session.

Panelists 

Pallavi Phartiyal, PhD, Senior Analyst and Program Manager, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists (Moderator)
Aaron Bernstein, M.D., MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health; Physician in Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
William Moomaw, PhD, Professor of International Environmental Policy and Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Dr. Moomaw, with other members of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Andrew Rosenberg, PhD, Director, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists

Resources from the Union of Concerned Scientists: On the UCS resources page, be sure to check the Fracking Informational Toolkit, the titles on the UCS blog (The Equation), the UCS Branscomb Forum report Decisions on Fracking, and other very good information
Dr. Aaron Bernstein’s free Harvard EdX course: Human Health and Global Environment
Bloomberg Business News: Drillers Silence Water Complaints with Sealed Documents

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How the Wounded Return from America's Wars
Tuesday November 12, 2013
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
First Parish in Waltham, 50 Church Street, Waltham

New York Times Bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and acclaimed war correspondent Ann Jones discuss the lives and treatment of wounded veterans, through the lens of their new books "Breach of Trust" and "How the Wounded Return from America's Wars".  Book signing to follow.

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Wednesday, November 13
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Rescuing Hubble: The AeroAstro Department Gardner Lecture/Symposium

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
9:30a–6:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of STS 61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics' 2013 Lester D. Gardner Lecture is "Rescuing Hubble," a daylong symposium on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Participants will include five of the STS 61 Shuttle Endeavour crew, the lead flight director, the chief training supervisor, the former head of NASA space flight operations, the optical engineers who developed the optical fixes for Hubble, astronomers involved with the HST repair, and NASA's lead servicing expert. In addition to discussions of the STS 61 mission specifics, the symposium will look at the future of robotic and human space servicing missions. The symposium will be held in MIT's Bartos Theater (E15-070) and is open to the public.

Web site: http://aeroastro.mit.edu/news-events/rescuing-hubble
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): AeroAstro
For more information, contact:
AeroAstro information
aeroastro-info@mit.edu 

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The Nuclear Crisis at Plutonium Mountain: Two Journalists' Tale
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Center Library (Littauer-369), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S)  Eben Harrell, a Boston-based writer and editor, and an associate at the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School
COST  Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO 617.495.4219, atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE  Two journalists tell the inside story of how they uncovered details about a 17-year mission to secure more than a dozen bombs worth of plutonium that had been left behind at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Coffee and tea provided.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6182/nuclear_crisis_at_plutonium_mountain.html

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Trends in Energy Markets

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
11:45a–12:45p
MIT, Building E51-345, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Ethan Phillips
The MIT Energy Club invites you to a lecture from Ethan Phillips, Partner at Bain & Company. Ethan will discuss Bain & Companys perspective on significant trends and potential scenarios in energy markets.

Energy Lectures Series
The Energy Lectures Series brings experts from the industry, the public sector and academia to share their insights and visions on important energy topics.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu 

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The Struggle for the City: How Can Cartoons Fight to Preserve the Urban Space?
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Working Group on Film and Visual Arts in a Changing Middle East
SPEAKER(S)  _Z_, Tunisian political cartoonist
COST  RSVP required to elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE  In this master class with Tunisian political cartoonist _Z_, he will discuss his work to combat overdevelopment in Tunis and teach participants how to draw a political cartoon.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3523

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The natural variability of glaciers

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Gerard Roe (UW)
Sack Lunch Seminars
EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate department -- A student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography. The seminars usually take place on Wednesdays from 12.10-1pm. 2013/2014 co-ordinator: Kyle Armour (karmour@mit.edu)

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact:
Kyle Armour
karmour@mit.edu

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Privatization Policy in Rich Democracies
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe
SPEAKER(S)  Carina Schmitt, Center for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen; Visiting Scholar, CES
COST  free
CONTACT INFO Arthur Goldhammer, art.goldhammer@gmail.com
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1728

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Live Webcast: The Next Pandemic: Are We Ready?
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  http://www.ForumHSPH.org
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with PRI's The World and WGBH
SPEAKER(S)  Klaus Stöhr, vice president and global head, Influenza Franchises, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, and former senior adviser, Influenza Pandemic Vaccine Development, World Health Organization; Anita Barry, director of the Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Public Health Commission; Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard School of Public Health; Robert Huebner, director, Influenza Division, Biomedical Advancement Research and Development Authority, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
CONTACT INFO theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
NOTE  E-mail questions for the expert participants to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
LINK www.forumhsph.org

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“On the Long History of Neoliberalism”
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
4:00pm - 6:00pm
CGIS-South, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Jennifer Burns (Stanford University)

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramschedule.html

Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar

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Structural Materials Issues for Ultra-Long Reactor Life Extensions

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 1-131, 33 Massachusetts Avenue.Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Michael Short
Mechanics and Infrastructure
Can we continue to operate the current light water reactors for 60-80 years despite the fact that they are designed to only run for 40? A major unknown in the possible extension of reactor licenses up to 80 total years of operation is whether materials issues related to major structural components of the reactor, the core internals, and the pressure vessel can be solved. In this seminar we will discuss the origins of and the effects stemming from combined thermal and irradiation aging of light water reactor structural materials. We will then propose a research program to study the aging mechanisms of welds, which are often weak links in a structure, by using accelerated aging techniques. The validity of the aging acceleration plays a critical role in determining whether information required to qualify the structural materials in a reactor can be obtained before the license itself.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Prof. Oral Buyukozturk
617-253-7101
obuyuk@mit.edu 

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JD’s, Journalism and Justice: What Lawyers Can Accomplish Outside the Courtroom

November 13

4pm-6pm

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall 2009,  1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Erin Moriarty, Correspondent, 48 Hours, CBS

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Digital Futures: The NOW Edition
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Information Technology, Poetry/Prose, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Digital Futures, DARTH, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard College Library, MetaLab
SPEAKER(S)  Matthew Battles, Pablo Barria, Jeff Emmanuel, John Overholt, Vincent Brown
COST  Free and open to the public; RSVP encouraged
TICKET WEB LINK df.darthcrimson.org
NOTE  Showcase of current Harvard digital projects followed by a reception for informal conversation.
LINK df.darthcrimson.org

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“Environmental Protection, Rare Disasters, and Discount Rates”
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Robert Barro, Harvard University

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
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.
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name:  Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman@harvard.edu

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A Sex Goddess and a Queen: The Discovery and Analysis of the Lost Temple of Nefertiti
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Women's Studies in Religion Program
CONTACT Tracy Wall
NOTE  Please join the WSRP for a presentation by Jacquelyn Williamson, visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley; WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Near Eastern Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Reception to follow in the Braun Room.

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Future of Energy:  "Big Unanswered Questions About Our Energy Future."
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
5:00pm
Harvard, Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

John Deutch, Institute Professor, MIT; Co-chair Secretary of Energy Advisor; Former Undersecretary of Energy; Director of Central Intelligence.
John Deutch is an emeritus Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science and Provost. Mr. Deutch has published over 140 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues.

John Deutch has served in significant government and academic posts throughout his career. In May 1995, he was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence following a unanimous vote in the Senate, and served as DCI until December 1996. In this position, he was head of the Intelligence Community (all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States) and directed the Central Intelligence Agency. From March 1994 to May 1995, he served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense. From March 1993 to March 1994, Dr. Deutch served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology.

From 1977 to 1980, John Deutch served in a number of positions for the U.S. Department of Energy: as Director of Energy Research, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology, and Undersecretary of the Department.

In addition John Deutch has served on many commissions during several presidential administrations. He has served on the President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee (1980-81); the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (1983); the White House Science Council (1985-89); the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997-2001), the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (1990-93); the President’ Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996); the Commission on Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy (1996); and as Chairman of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998-99).

John Deutch has received fellowships and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Research Fellow 1967-69), and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (Memorial Fellow 1974-1975). Public Service Medals have been awarded him from the Department of Energy (1980), the Department of State (1980), the Department of Defense (1994 and 1995), the Department of the Army (1995), the Department of the Navy (1995), the Department of the Air Force (1995), the Coast Guard (1995), the Central Intelligence Distinguished Intelligence Medal (1996) and the Intelligence Community Distinguished Intelligence Medal (1996). He received the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board’s Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Award for exemplary public service in 2002, the Aspen Strategy Group Leadership Award in 2004, and he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. He delivered the 2010 Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council (2008) and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. (2010).

John Deutch earned a B.A. in history and economics from Amherst College, and both the B.S. in chemical engineering and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from M.I.T. He holds honorary degrees from Amherst College, University of Lowell, and Northeastern University. He has served as director for the following publicly held companies: American Natural Resources, Citigroup, CMS Energy, Cummins Engine, Perkin-Elmer, Raytheon, SAIC, Schlumberger and Cheniere Energy. He is a trustee of Center of American Progress, Resources for the Future, the Massachusetts Hospital Physician Organization, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Skolkovo Institute. He has served on the board of the Urban Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Contact Name:  Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu

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The GMO Teach-In:   A Conversation with Consumer Reports Experts about the ethics and safety of genetically engineered food

Wednesday, November 13

reception 6 pm

panel and question 6:30 - 8:30pm

Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

RSVP at http://BostonGlobe.com/GMOTeachin

Speakers include:
Urvashi Rangan, Director, Consumer Safety and Sustainability
Michael Hansen, Senior Staff Scientist
Michael Crupain, MD, MPH, Associate Director of the Consumer Reports Safety and Sustainability group

This event is free but we ask that you register in advance* 

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HGSE Virtual Information Session: Technology, Innovation, and Education (Ed.M.) Program
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 13, 2013, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Online
TYPE OF EVENT Information Session - Online
BUILDING/ROOM Other
CONTACT NAME  HGSE Admissions Office
CONTACT EMAIL  gseadmissions@harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE  (617) 495-3414
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT HGSE Admissions Office
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
NOTE  This web conference will feature faculty, staff, and students from the Technology, Innovation, and Education (TIE) master's program.
Please note that the event is listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).  Please log into the session at the time of the event. 

First time users: Please visit the Blackboard Collaborate Knowledge Base prior to the session to ensure that you have the necessary system requirements and to configure your connection, settings, and audio.
LINK https://apply.gse.harvard.edu/register/virtualTIE2013

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Florian Hecker: Chimerizations - Book Signing

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
7:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Florian Hecker and Stefan Helmreich, MIT Professor of Anthropology
Florian Hecker's book Chimerizations introduces new ways of visually representing sonic experiments. Chimerizations documents six of Hecker's most recent projects with an introduction by Tate Modern curator Catherine Wood and an essay by MIT Professor of Anthropology Stefan Helmreich. The book will be available for sale at the event.

Chimerizations is at once a record of Hecker's sound works and an artistic foray into the nature of visualization and psychoacoustic (sound perception) practice. Images, graphs, and texts are transformed through what Hecker calls chimerization, a process of decomposition and reconfiguration that relies on the computerized SIFT flow algorithm. The projects featured in the book are "Magnitude Estimation," 2010; "Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera," 2011; "Bregman/Deutsch Chimera," 2011; "Chimerization (MIT Project)," 2011; "Chimerization" 2012; and "Hinge," 2012. In his essay, Stefan Helmreich traces the cultural and biological concept of the chimera - a term that stems from Greek mythology and refers to a three-headed hybrid beast - as the underpinning of life and evolution as well as the inspiration behind Hecker's experimental sound interventions.

Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/book-signing-chimerizations/
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts Center, School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Architecture, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact:
Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu

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SITN Lecture - Math in Nature:  Finding Order in Chaos
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
7pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston

Join us for the next lecture in Harvard University's Science in the News Fall Lecture Series, Math in Nature:  Finding Order in Chaos

For those of you not familiar with SITN's lecture format, lectures are free, accessible, and open to the public. All lectures are given entirely by graduate students at Harvard and focus on hot topics in science research and news.

A team of three graduate students each present a 30-40 minute segment, with breaks for questions and refreshments. The lectures last for about two hours, and are often followed by lab tours.

They will have light refreshments before the lecture (coffee, tea, cookies, etc.)

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Cambridge Forum Celebrates Folk Music Month in Harvard Square
Wednesday, November 13
7 pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge

Cambridge Forum hosts musician and author Stephen Wade as he takes an in-depth look at the ordinary people who recorded live music for the Library of Congress during the 1930s and '40s.  Wade, who first played Club Passim in the '70s, has spent two decades tracking down these folk musicians and now brings their stories to light in an award-winning book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience.  Who were these amateur musicians and what role did music play in their lives?  What impact did their participation in the field recording projects have on them?  How did they contribute to our understanding of American folk culture?

Folklorist Maggie Holtzberg moderates the program

Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s and ‘60s, Stephen Wade started playing blues guitar at age eleven and eventually switched to the banjo. Immersing himself in the banjo, traditional music, and American folklore, he traveled across the United States to research American humor and folk tales and meet with folk musicians in the field.  Out of these experiences, he created two award-winning theatrical performances combining storytelling, traditional music, and percussive dance, Banjo Dancing and On the Way Home.  He has published numerous essays, reviews, and articles, written  and narrated  a film, Catching the Music, and released several CDs, including  the 1997 Rounder collection, A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings and the 2012 Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition. Since 1996 his occasional commentaries on folksongs and traditional tunes have appeared on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Wade is most recently the author of the book  The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience (with a companion CD), which recently won a Deems Taylor award from ASCAP.  Wade will receive the award in New York City on November 14.

Maggie Holtzberg is the Manager of the Folk Arts & Heritage Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Director of Cultural Programming, Lowell National Historical Park. She is the author of  Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts, The Lost World of the Craft Printer, and Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time; producer of the sound recording Georgia Folk: A Sampler of  Traditional Sound, and co-director/producer of the documentary film Gandy Dancers.

The program is free and open to the public.   Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited podcasts are available at www.cambridgeforum.org.  Select forums can also be viewed in their entirety on YouTube.

Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone:  617-495-2727
email:  mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website:  http://www.cambridgeforum.org

The Adventure of Ideas.  The Power of Dialogue.

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Access to the Danger Zone Film Screening, Boston
Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres
Wednesday, November 13, 201
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Landmark Kendall Square Cinema, 355 Binney Street, Cambridge
RVP at http://accesstothedangerzoneboston-es2.eventbrite.com/

Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this new documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts.

Over 70 minutes, Access to the Danger Zone explores the strategies that Doctors Without Borders has employed to save lives in the world’s worst war zones, including Afghanistan, Somalia, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo—strategies that are tested each and every day. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in these countries in 2011 and 2012.

After working continuously in Somalia since 1991, Doctors Without Borders was forced to close all of its medical programs in the country in August 2013. In response to what became an intolerable series of attacks against its staff and facilities over the years, the organization made the difficult decision to withdraw from Somalia, illustrating the profound challenges of maintaining humanitarian access, and underscoring the timeliness and relevance of this film.

Join us following the screening for a Q&A with local Doctors Without Borders aid workers, who will share stories from their overseas assignments.

The film screening is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.

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Thursday, November 14

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The Business Case for Net Zero and Beyond with Andrea Traber, Integral Group
Thursday, November 14, 2013
9:30 – 11:00 am
Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/9068198225?utm_source=November+2013+Update&utm_campaign=NovEventUpdate&utm_medium=email

Please join us for an exciting presentation by Andrea Traber, Principal of the leading Deep Green engineering firm Integral Group. She and her colleagues are in town for the EcoDistricts Summit, and will be taking a break to share their insights and 'lessons learned' from 41 net zero projects they are currently working on. They will also be discussing Living Building Challenge and District Energy projects.  They will share their approach to the  projects, the critical considerations, and the business case. If you are still hearing how "LEED is too hard or too expensive," this will certainly blow your mind.

Andrea Traber, AIA, LEED AP, Principal in Charge, Integrated Design Services, Oakland, California

Integral Group is pleased to announce our Principal in Charge of Integrated Design Services, Andrea Traber. Internationally recognized as a green building and sustainability expert, Andrea contributes over 20 years of experience as Project Architect and Principal on numerous green building projects, climate action plans, as well as sustainability and energy programs, to the Integral team.

Delivering a holistic, integrated approach to design is Andrea's mission. Serving as a "translator," Andrea bridges the design and communication gaps naturally occurring between A/E/C disciplines, while identifying opportunities for increased resource efficiency and sustainability through informed building systems design. Her ability to translate complex technical information to understandable and actionable strategies, and alternatives, has resulted in projects which have achieved the highest sustainability and energy efficiency goals. Andrea is keenly aware of, and engaged in, the "energy transition" from centralized energy production to distributed, renewable, community scale energy planning, and she is passionate about the positive future this approach holds for her clients, collaborators and our collective future.

Contact Andrea Traber to learn more about Integral Group's Integrated Design Services, which include sustainability consulting for:
high goal LEED, Net Zero and Living Building Challenge projects;
carbon footprinting;
energy and water master planning;
energy and green infrastructure initiatives;
project planning for passive survivability, adaptation and resilience.

ABOUT ANDREA
In 2013, Andrea joined Integral Group  following  a seven year tenure at a leading global energy and sustainability consulting firm, where she led the Sustainable Buildings and Communities consulting group in the Americas.  During her leadership, she built and led a 30-person team, which performs LEED consulting, commissioning, energy modeling and high performance design for over 100 certified projects, 80 percent of which received Gold and Platinum ratings.  Andrea's expertise also includes development and management of leading energy and sustainability programs, such as the Sustainable Communities Program of SCE, long term engagements with Stopwaste.Org, and direct involvement on over 50 LEED projects using all systems.  Prior to this, Andrea practiced for 15 years as Architect on many green building and community-scale projects.

Throughout her career, Andrea has dedicated herself as a leader with several green building and sustainability organizations, including the USGBC Northern California Chapter. Andrea served three terms on the Board of Directors, with three years as President, and is currently serving on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Healthy Communities Initiative. Most recently, she co-chaired the host committee for Greenbuild 2012, and the Regionalization Committee for LEED v4.  She is a sought after speaker on such topics as zero net energy design, sustainable communities, and green building. In 2013, Andrea was invited by former Vice-President, Al Gore to attend a Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training, where she was named a "Climate Leader." Through this initiative, Andrea is educating communities about climate change and building local networks of climate activists, who work in their own communities and countries demanding solutions.

Integral Group is an interactive global network of design professionals collaborating under a single deep green engineering umbrella. The organization provides a full range of building system design, energy analysis, commissioning and sustainability consulting services, with a staff widely regarded as innovative leaders in their fields. Integral has offices and affiliates throughout North America and around the world. Integral Group currently has 28 LEED Platinum Certified projects, 31 Net Zero projects and six projects pursuing the Living Building Challenge.  www.integralgroup.com

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The Danish String Quartet master class 

November 14 

10-11:30am

Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge   

open to the general public

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Paul Tucker on Shadow Banking: A Political Economy Challenge for Regulators
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Regulatory Policy Program (RPP) at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG)
SPEAKER(S)  Paul Tucker, M-RCBG senior fellow, deputy governor, Bank of England (2009-13)
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu

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Interactions between Global Supply Chains, Land Use, and Governance: The Case of Soybean Production in South America
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR DRCLAS
SPEAKER(S)  Rachael Garrett, Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School
LINK  http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/Rachael_Garrett

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The Cyber Security Policy of the European Union and its Transatlantic Dimensions
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Future of the European Union Study Group ; Transatlantic Relations Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Annegret Bendiek, Fellow, EuroFuture Project, German Marshall Fund of the United States; Senior Associate and Deputy Head, EU External Relations Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
COST  free
CONTACT INFO Karl Kaiser, Karl_Kaiser@hks.harvard.edu; Vivien Schmidt, vschmidt@bu.edu; Ann Townes,atownes@wcfia.harvard.edu
NOTE  A snack will be available at the beginning of the seminar
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1847

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Arctic Shock: Using Climate Change to Test Theories of Resource Competition
November 14, 2013
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 Harvard, Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Jonathan Markowitz, Associate, Geopolitics of Energy Project
Related Project: International Security
Why do some leaders project power to compete over resources while others handle their disputes via legal norms and international institutions? This seminar develops a theory that utilizes domestic institutions and economic interests to explain why leaders project power to compete over resources.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Brown Bag Lunch

Open to the Public 

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FAS Eco Citizens Meeting

Thursday, November 14, 20131
2PM
Harvard, CGIS Knafel Cafe, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Every month, the FAS Green Program gathers green minded staff to talk about their ideas and hear about the latest sustainability events and campaigns.

Brown Bag Lunch encouraged.

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Harvard Divest:  How Harvard Can Help Save the World From Climate Change
Thursday November 14, 2013 

3:15 PM
Harvard, Grossman Common Room, 51 Brattle Street, Cambridge

Todd Gitlin,'63, Professor and Chair, Columbia School of Journalism’s PhD Program
Sociologist, journalist, author of 17 books, public intellectual, political activist in the New Left of the 1960s, Vietnam War protest leader, and alumni spokesman for divesting fossil fuels from Harvard’s Investment portfolio

Fred Small, Senior Minister, First Parish in Cambridge (Unitarian Universalist)
Co-chair of Religious Witness for the Earth, a national interfaith network dedicated to addressing critical environmental issues, especially global climate change. With Fred’s support, his congregation voted unanimously last June to divest from fossil fuels. Fred is a spiritual teacher, a singer and song-leader, and a longtime climate justice activist. 

Chloe Maxim, '15, Student, Harvard University
Harvard’s leading student climate activist, coordinator of Divest Harvard, and winner of the Brower Youth Award. Chloe has devoted much of her 20 years to advocating for climate change remediation in hopes of a better future for her generation.

http://hilr.dce.harvard.edu/news-and-events/how-harvard-can-help-save-world-climate-change

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"Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Limit"
November 14, 2013
4:00 pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 4-349 (The Pappalardo Community Room)

Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Over the past years, ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices have offered remarkable opportunities to investigate static and dynamic properties of strongly correlated bosonic or fermionic quantum many-body systems. In this talk, I will show how it has recently not only become possible to image such quantum gases with single atom sensitivity and single site resolution, but also how it is now possible to coherently control single atoms on individual lattice sites and to reveal the presence of individual quantum fluctuations of the many-body system. This unique control has recently allowed us to realize novel quantum crystals of matter using Rydberg atoms. I will also demonstrate how 'Higgs' type excitations occur at 24 orders of magnitude lower energy scales than in high energy experiments and how they can be detected in our experimental setting. Finally, I will show how the unique control over ultracold quantum gases has enabled the creation of negative temperature states of matter and thereby the realization of Bose-Einstein condensation at absolute negative temperatures.

See more at: http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html#sthash.qjSmA0xq.dpuf

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Socially Assistive Robotics: Human-Robot Interaction Methods for Creating Robots that Care
Thursday, November 14, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Maja J. Matarić, University of Southern California
Socially assistive robotics (SAR) is a new field of intelligent robotics that focuses on developing machines capable of assisting users through social rather than physical interaction. The robot's physical embodiment is at the heart of SAR's effectiveness, as it leverages the inherently human tendency to engage with lifelike (but not necessarily humanlike or otherwise biomimetic) social behavior.  People readily ascribe intention, personality, and emotion to robots; SAR leverages this engagement stemming from non-contact social interaction involving speech, gesture, movement demonstration and imitation, and encouragement, to develop robots capable of monitoring, motivating, and sustaining user activities and improving human learning, training, performance and health outcomes.

Human-robot interaction (HRI) for SAR is a growing multifaceted research area at the intersection of engineering, health sciences, neuroscience, social, and cognitive sciences.  This talk will describe our research into embodiment, modeling and steering social dynamics, and long-term user adaptation for SAR.  The research will be grounded in projects involving analysis of multi-modal activity data, modeling personality and engagement, formalizing social use of space and non-verbal communication, and personalizing the interaction with the user over a period of months, among others.  The presented methods and algorithms will be validated on implemented SAR systems evaluated by human subject cohorts from a variety of user populations, including stroke patients, children with autism spectrum disorder, and elderly with Alzheimers and other forms of dementia.

Maja Matarić is a professor and Chan Soon-Shiong chair of computer science, neuroscience, and pediatrics at the University of Southern California, founding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, codirector of the USC Robotics Research Lab and vice dean for Research in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.  She received her MS and PhD in CS and AI from MIT and her BS in CS from the University of Kansas.  She is a Fellow of AAAS and IEEE, and recipient of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation, Okawa Foundation Award, NSF Career Award, the MIT TR35 Innovation Award, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award.  Matarić is an associate editor of three major journals, has published extensively, and served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee, among other advisory boards.  She is actively involved in K-12 educational outreach to engage student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics.  Her research into socially assistive robotics aims to endow robots with the ability to help people through individual noncontact assistance in convalescence, rehabilitation, training, and education, with applications for children with autism spectrum disorders, survivors of stroke and traumatic brain injury, and individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia.

Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu

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Constraints on Solubility Trapping During Carbon Dioxide Storage in Deep Geological Reservoirs

Thursday, November 14, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Marc A. Hesse, Department of Geological Sciences, and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Carbon capture and storage in geological formations has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions from industrial point sources. Solubility trapping, i.e., the dissolution of CO2 into the brine to form a stable stratification, has been recognized as a trapping process that provides long-term storage security. The CO2 dissolution rate, however, is too slow to be observed directly during pilot projects, and it has to be inferred from observations of natural analogues. I will present the first constraints on the rate of CO2 dissolution over millennial timescales using observations from the Bravo Dome gas field, which contains 99.9% CO2. Before the production of CO2 for EOR in 1981, Bravo Dome contained 1.1 GtCO2, equivalent to 300 years of emissions from a coal-fired power plant. The integration of a broad range of data with models of CO2 dissolution shows that 0.23 GtCO2, equivalent to 17% of the initial CO2, have dissolved into the brine over the last 10,000 years. The average dissolution rate at Bravo Dome is 0.06 kg/m2/yr and three orders of magnitude smaller than the 10-20 kg/m2/yr estimated for the Sleipner gas field. The reduced dissolution rate is likely due to the low permeability of 20 milli Darcy at Bravo Dome. Given that most potentialstorage formations in the US have Raleigh-numbers similar to Bravo Dome solubility trapping is likely to be slow and the storage capacity that provides safe long-term storage through rapid solubility trapping is smaller than assumed.

Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.

Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/events/318
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Ruth You
617-253-7145
ryiu@mit.edu 

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Emerging Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility Data and Disclosure: Opportunities and Challenges
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hauser Institute for Civil Society at the Center for Public Leadership
SPEAKER(S)  Steven Lydenberg, founding director, Initiative for Responsible Investment
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/upcoming-events/20131114

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Strategic Dilemmas of Contemporary Conservatism
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Center for American Political Studies (CAPS); Ash Center for Deomcratic Governance and Innovation; Real Colegio Complutense
SPEAKER(S)  Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Professor of International Relations, Duke University; Chaired by:Grzegorz Ekiert, Director, Center for European Studies; Professor of Government, Harvard University
COST  free
CONTACT INFO Charlotte Cavaille, cavaille@fas.harvard.edu; Noam Gidron, gidron@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE  Reception to follow

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Putting Science to Work for Peace

Thursday, November 14, 2013
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Emile Bruneau, Research Scientist, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
In this presentation Emile Bruneau will talk about his joint efforts with Rebecca Saxe in the BCS Department at MIT to evaluate full conflict resolution programs and the 'interventions' that they are composed of, and to explore the potential role that new technologies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may play in our effort to evaluate what types of interventions which don't, and for whom. He will discuss current research efforts focused on several contemporary issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the relationship between America and the Muslim world.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT-MEET
For more information, contact:
Jeanne Fahey
jmfahey@mit.edu 

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Energy, Ecology, and the Distribution of Microbial Life
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room, Room 310, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI)
SPEAKER(S)  Jennifer Macalady, Penn State
COST  Free and open to the public
NOTE  Reception at 5:5:30 p.m., seminar at 6 p.m.

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"Driving the Future Sustainable Collaborative Economy" Robin Chase
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
MIT, Building 32-155 (Stata Center), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://gwamitlead2013-closingkeynote-es2.eventbrite.com

We are honored to welcome Robin Chase (SM '86), Co-Founder and former CEO of Zipcar, and Founder of Buzzcar and GoLoco, to speak on her pioneering work and ideas on leadership and "why sharing is the future". Chase will share her thoughts on innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking, as well as her unique meassage of why "high integrity" is at the core of her work. A catered reception will follow.

Speaker Biography
Robin Chase is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world, current founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a carsharing marketplace, and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community.

Through Chase’s leadership, Zipcar's disruptive technology gives its members on-demand access to cars by-the-hour, revolutionizing people's relationship to their cars and improving the quality of urban life for all. Buzzcar.com empowers individuals to take control of their mobility, without looking to governments or big businesses for solutions.

Chase is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the US Secretary of Commerce's National Advisory Committee for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and the US Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee. She served on the World Economic Forum Future of Transportation Council, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation transition team, and the Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force. Chase lectures widely and has been frequently featured in the major media. She has received many awards, including Time 100 Most Influential People in the World, the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-Up Woman of the Year, Business Week’s top 10 designers, Fast Company's Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, technology and innovation awards from Fortune, CIO, and Info World Magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national, state, and local governments and organizations.  Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow.

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Illustrating Thoreau's Maine Woods: A Photographer's Journey
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge

A Harvard Museum of Natural History exhibition opening lecture with Scot Miller

Scot Miller will discuss his seven-year project photographing northern Maine for his new book, The Maine Woods: A Photographic Journey Through an American Wilderness. Miller combines contemporary imagery with text from Henry David Thoreau’s classic essay collection, The Maine Woods (first published 150 years ago). He will also screen The Unexpected Journey, a short documentary about the making of the book.

Free and open to the public. Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Free event parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage after 5:00 pm.

Members-only gallery preview and reception to follow in the exhibition gallery. RSVP tomembers@hmsc.harvard.edu or call (617) 496-6972
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php

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Soap Box: The Science of Remembering (and Forgetting) with Ki Goosens

Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51. MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Ki Goosens
How Does Stress Drive PTSD?
How does fear and anxiety affect our perception of the world, and subsequent memories? Join in a discussion with Ki Goosens, MIT Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, about her recent research on these topics and more.

This is the last of a three-part discussion series on memories. Soap Box is a series of interactive, salon-style, early evening conversations with scientists and engineers who are making the news that really matters.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

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Conference & Exhibition: "Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age"
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 14, 2013, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Conferences, Education, Exhibitions, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST     Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE  Curated and convened by Charles Waldheim and Sonja Dümpelmann.
Day two of the conference is on Nov. 15. Visit the website for details.
Airport Landscape claims the airport as a site of and for landscape. Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain peripheral in design discourse. In spite of this, landscape architects have recently reasserted their historic claims on the airfield as a site of design through a range of practices. Airport Landscape presents these practices through projects for the ecological enhancement of operating airfields and the conversion of abandoned airfields. The exhibition features work by a range of leading landscape architects and designers including Agence Ter, Gross.Max., Hargreaves Associates, James Corner Field Operations, Lateral Office, LCLA, Mosbach Paysagistes, Office of Landscape Morphology, OpSys, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Topotek 1, West 8, and Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect. The conference convenes a discussion of the airport as landscape with sessions on airport cultures, infrastructures, and ecologies. The conference features keynote lectures by Peter Galison, Adriaan Geuze, Christophe Girot, and David Pascoe, as well as project presentations by Henri Bava, Philippe Coignet, Eelco Hooftman, Mary Margaret Jones, and Ken Smith.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/airport-landscape.html

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HarvardX and Humanities MOOCs

Thursday, November 14, 2013

7:00 PM
HarvardX, 125 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/newenglanddigitalhumanities/events/148269052/

Come take a tour of HarvardX and learn about how Harvard MOOCs are constructed. We will also discuss and speculate on interesting ways the humanities are, or could be, taught digitally at scale.

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Extreme by Design PBS Film Screening
Thursday, November 14, 2013 

7:00pm to 8:45pm
Jefferson 250, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Join The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for a sneak preview of the new film Extreme By Design
Extreme By Design examines the role Design Thinking can play in the lives of young people who want to compete in the global economy and pursue careers in public service. It offers inspiration to the next generation of social problem solvers.
The documentary follows a group of Stanford University business, engineering, and medical students as they design innovative products and services to solve problems of the world's poor as part of the Design for Extreme Affordability course. The film will air on PBS later this year.

Evening Schedule
6:30 - 7:00 pm / Refreshments will be available, Jefferson room 250
7:00 - 8:15 pm / Film screening, Jefferson room 250
8:15 - 8:45 pm / Panel Discussion, Jefferson room 250
Panel will include:
Dr. Fawwaz Habbal, Executive Dean, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Dr. Beth Altringer, Senior Lecturer, and Psychologist of small group innovation and human centered design, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Mr. Ralph King, Producer/Co-Director, Extreme By Design and Watch+Design Workshop/Creating Change That Matters!
How to RSVP
Although this event is complimentary, pre-registration is appreciated.
For more information and to RSVP:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ExtremebyDesignHarvardFilmScreening 

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"Energy Transparency Triple Play"
Thursday, November 14th
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square

BASEA's loaded for this month's Forum:
On first: 'BERDO', Boston Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance, a 2013 rookie ordinance expected to score reduced greenhouse gas emissions by requiring public disclosure of energy and water use, a proven strategy being fielded for larger commercial buildings.

On second: 'Home MPG', an initiative within Mass Save® to find a home's "miles per gallon" energy performance rating to better understand energy use, leading off to smart decisions about energy efficiency improvements.

On third: 'BAR', Building Asset Rating, to streamline the cost and time to home in on commercial building energy performance and achieve greater investment in energy efficiency.

Come hear the pitch from the key players in these City of Boston and Commonwealth of Massachusetts initiatives.

Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum Series
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square

Please join us at this edition of the monthly BASEA Forum Series!
The Boston Area Solar Energy Association,
http://www.BASEA.org; a chapter of NESEA. 

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Urban Films: Mission Hill & the Miracle of Boston (1978)

Thursday, November 14, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Once a predominantly Irish neighborhood of houses, churches, and small stores, after World War II Boston's Mission Hill began to change: thousands of units of public housing were built---and allowed to decay there; nearby hospitals expanded, displacing people from their homes; developers and speculators bought and sold property and built twenty-story apartment buildings. A new, poor population and an affluent professional population arrived to compete for parts of the old neighborhood. Through the voices of the people of Mission Hill, the film tells the story of urban renewal, racial conflict, and the struggle of a neighborhood to survive through changing times. Directed by Richard Broadman; special award winner, Boston Society of Film Critics, 1984. 60 minutes. Special guests: Karilyn Crockett, MLK Visiting Scholar, MIT; John Grady, Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College (producer).

Urban Planning Film Series
A mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.

Web site: urbanfilm.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu

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Friday, November 15

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The Arab Uprisings: Accomplishments, Failures, and Prospects
WHEN  Fri., Nov. 15, 2013, 8:15am - 5:35pm
WHERE  The Castle at Boston University, 225 Bay State Road, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Organized by Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilization, Center for International Relations, Boston University. Sponsored by the Trans Arab Research Institute with support from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  See website for details
COST  Free and open to the public; registration required]
TICKET WEB LINK  http://www.bu.edu/ir/center/uprisings/the-arab-uprisings-registration-page/
LINK http://www.bu.edu/ir/center/uprisings/

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MIT Clean Energy Startup Weekend
Date: Nov. 15-17
Venue: Under the Dome (Building 10-250) on Friday and the Martin Trust Center (Building E40-1st floor)
More info and weekend schedule: http://cep.mit.edu/timeline/clean-energy-startup-weekend-2013/

Have you always wanted to startup but don’t have the idea? Got an idea but don’t know how to launch? Looking for the dream team to boost your idea forward? Your wish has come true. Join us to:

Hear from prior Clean Energy Prize contestants about their team formation, idea selection, and experience the contest.

Hear innovative ideas from all over MIT and Boston at Friday's pitchathon, meet like-minded people, and find potential co-founders.

On Saturday, learn how to build the perfect CEP application and craft an awesome pitch deck.

On Sunday, present your idea to a team of kick-ass mentors for feedback.

Food and drinks will be provided all weekend. Come to one session or stay all weekend! We will have opportunities for teams to form on Friday night and Saturday morning, and you can connect with other pitchers at any time through a live feed of ideas on our website.

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Natural Gas & Electricity Interface Challenges in New England
Friday, November 15, 2013
9 am to 12:15 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston

The increasing dependence of New England's Electricity system on natural gas-fired generation has been the subject of intense discussion and debate at the Roundtable and other forums.  The recent and upcoming developments listed below make this complex topic once again ripe for a Roundtable panel:
New England States Committee on Electricity's recent release of its commissioned study Gas-Electric Study Phase III: Natural Gas Infrastructure and Electric Generation: Proposed Solutions for New England;
New England Gas/Electric Focus Group Final Report (and recommendations) due out before this Roundtable;
ISO New England's Phase II Detailed Gas Supply Study (due out in November) and also ISO's anticipated FERC FCM (gas-related) performance incentives filing;
Connecticut's recent push for more natural gas space heating, and
MA DOER's current Gas (Distribution) Expansion Study; and
Recent announcements by the owners of two of New England's largest non-gas generators-Vermont Yankee (nuclear) and Brayton Point (coal) , of plans to retire these facilities in the next few years
To discuss these various gas-electric interface developments and their potential impacts in New England, we have assembled an excellent panel:

Heather Hunt, Exec Director, New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE)
Kevin Kirby, VP Market Operations, ISO New England
Don Santa, President/CEO, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
Sue Reid, VP/Director, CLF (Massachusetts)
Dan Dolan, President, New England Power Generators Association (NEPGA)

We look forward to seeing you at the The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable. If you can't make it in person, you can watch it live - free for Roundtable Sponsors and $50 for others. Register at http://clickstreamtv.com/raabevents/?utm_source=first+RT+announce+11.15.13&utm_campaign=1st+announce+11.15.13&utm_medium=email

If you missed our last Roundtable on Modernizing the Electric Grid, you can access the presentations for free, or watch the archival video (free for Sponsors and $40 for others).

Free and open to the public.
No advanced registration!!

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Smart Clothes
WHEN  Fri., Nov. 15, 2013, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center (formerly Radcliffe Gymnasium), 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST  Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK  http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?404681
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8922
NOTE  Radcliffe’s annual science symposium will focus on “smart clothes” and the science of designing materials that improve and protect lives. Experts in biology, design, engineering, materials science, medicine, and nanotechnology will address a variety of topics, including digital fabrication, soldier-centric technologies, smart materials and biology, wearable technology, and the future of innovative substances.
Registration is required: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-smart-clothes-symposium
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-smart-clothes-symposium

Live webcast also available
Editorial Comment:  Which probably means it is also archived and available, as are many of these lectures.  In particular, all the Berkman Center and many of the Media Lab events.

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"Fungineering" or, Thinking Outside the Building

Friday, November 15, 2013
12:05p–1:00p
MIT, Building 3-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Jeremy Kirk, PE, SE Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Chicago, IL
While buildings may be the bread-and-butter work for most structural engineers, an occasional diversion into other realms can bring a lot of excitement and fun into our work. SOM is known for the design of tall buildings around the world, but has also collaborated with a number of renowned artists on large-scale artworks and other non-building structures. These artists include Picasso, Calder, Chagall, James Carpenter, Frank Gehry, James Turrell, and Jaume Plensa. This work sharpens our skills and expands our creative thinking capacity.

CEE M.Eng. Friday Noon Seminar
A weekly presentation by CEE MEng Program.

Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/events/
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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Film Screening: Duncan Campbell, It for Others (2013)

Friday, November 15, 2013
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building E-15, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

It for Others, 2013 (16mm film transferred to digital video, 54 minutes)
Artist and filmmaker Duncan Campbell has taken Chris Marker and Alain Resnais' 1953 film "Les Statues meurent aussi" (Statues also Die) as both source and artefact, to pursue a meditation on the life, death and value of objects. Campbell presents the older film alongside his new work, a social and historical examination of cultural imperialism and commodity that combines filmed footage, animation and archive footage.

This film screening is offered in conjunction with the 2013 Wasserman Forum which focuses on the life and work of renowned artist and filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012).

Web site: http://listart.mit.edu/wasserman_forum
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts Center
For more information, contact:
Mark Linga
617-253-4680
mlinga@mit.edu 

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Architecture/Computation Lecture: Jurg Lehni, "Poetic Machines, Robotic Gestures and Scenarios of Production,"

Friday, November 15, 2013
5:00pm

MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Jurg Lehni, UCLA Design/Media Arts Department, Los Angeles, CA
Poetic Machines, Robotic Gestures and Scenarios of Production
Artist and designer Jurg Lehni presents a mixture of historical anecdotes and tangents, along with an overview of his own collaborative works, with the aim to shed light on the hidden poetic potential of technological processes and devices, their impact on aesthetics when applied within the arts, their potential as platforms for making and as vehicles for thoughts and expression, and the need for a general openness towards technology.

Computation Lecture Series 

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Onur Yuce Gun
oyucegun@mit.edu

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Saturday November 16

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TEDxBeaconStreet 2013
November 16 - 17
Lincoln School, 19 Kennard Road, Brookline
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=gbcymnmab&oeidk=a07e81pmitb0fd95d03

More information at http://www.tedxbeaconstreet.com

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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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2013 Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art:  Chris Marker, on the occasion of the exhibition Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Egypte. 

Saturday, November 16, 2013
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E-15, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Gorin
The annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art was established in memory of Max Wasserman (MIT Class of 1935), a founding member of the Council of the Arts at MIT. This public forum is funded through the generosity of the late Jeanne Wasserman, and addresses critical issues in contemporary art and culture through the participation of renowned scholars, artists, and arts professionals.

The Forum is free and open to the public. Advance registration is strongly suggested. Seating will be available on a first come, first serve basis. Register online at http://2013-wasserman-forum.eventbrite.com/

Saturday, November 16, 5-7pm
Keynote Presentation by Jean-Pierre Gorin

Web site: http://listart.mit.edu/wasserman_forum
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Tickets: http://2013-wasserman-forum.eventbrite.com/
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts Center
For more information, contact:
Mark Linga
617-253-4680
mlinga@mit.edu 

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Why Divest from Fossil Fuels?: A Panel Discussion on State Divestment Bill #S1225
Saturday, November 16th
10am-noon
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston

For more, go to 350ma.org/calendar/

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Sunday, November 17

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TEDxBeaconStreet 2013
November 16 - 17
Lincoln School, 19 Kennard Road, Brookline
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=gbcymnmab&oeidk=a07e81pmitb0fd95d03

More information at http://www.tedxbeaconstreet.com

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Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in New England
WHEN  Sun., Nov. 17, 2013, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
WHERE  New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods, Framingham
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum, New England Wild Flower Society, and MA Audubon Drumlin Farm
SPEAKER(S)  Ailene Kane Ettinger, PhD, Botanist and Ecologist
COST  $32 general, $26 members of sponsoring orgs.
TICKET WEB LINK  https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1258&DayPlannerDate=11/17/2013
CONTACT INFO 617.384.5277
NOTE  Are alpine environments threatened because forests may expand uphill with global warming? Is maple syrup likely to remain a viable product in New England? How will salt marshes and other coastal habitats be affected by sea level rise? Will we see more invasive plants in New England? Learn what scientists know about climate change, including past warmings, and what we can expect for the future. Hear about what remains uncertain and what can be expected for New England’s flora, fauna, and unique habitats.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu

Editorial Comment:  Money and in Framingham but the wild flower society is a good source of practical knowledge on the impacts of local climate change.

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Monday, November 18

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Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
12:00 - 12:45 p.m., Eastern Time, 

55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dr. Klaus H. Jacob, Special Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

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MASS Seminar - Steve Nesbitt (Illinois)

Monday, November 18,2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Steve Nesbitt (Illinois)

MIT Atmospheric Seminar Series (MASS)
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.

Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/mass-seminar-steve-nesbitt-illinois
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact:
mass@mit.edu 

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Using System Dynamics to Support Startups, Stimulate the Economy, and Create More Jobs

Monday, November 18, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
Virtual at http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_111813/saad-webinar-epowerhouse.html

Speaker: Fady Saad, SDM '11, Cofounder and CEO, ePowerhouse

MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series

This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

About this webinar:
Startups have the potential to stimulate the economy and create employment opportunities, but their failure rate is high. How can we help them succeed?
In this webinar, Fady Saad, SDM '11, cofounder and CEO of ePowerhouse, will present a systems-based approach to cultivating the key activities necessary for sustained startup success:
growing financially;
continuously fulfilling stakeholder needs and aspirations; and
adapting to the specific conditions of the company's evolving ecosystem.

Using a system dynamics model he developed himself, Saad will then describe a holistic, system-driven conceptualization of a startup and its internal dynamics???including human resources, product development, customers, and finances???followed by a discussion of the high-leverage points in the ecosystem. A question-and-answer period will follow the main presentation.

We invite you to join us!

Web site:  http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_111813/saad-webinar-epowerhouse.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: see url above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and Management
For more information, contact:
Lois Slavin
617-253-0812
lslavin@mit.edu 

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(Not) Getting from Us to We: Expertise as a roadblock to change in U.S. environmental organizations
Monday, November 18, 2013
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Nate Towery (MIT, STS)
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.

There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.

Science, Technology and Society seminars
All meetings will take place on Mondays, from 12:15–2 pm, in Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, unless otherwise noted. Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.eduby Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

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Noam Chomsky: What is Anarchism?

Monday, November 18, 2013
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, world-renowned public intellectual and MIT Professor emeritus, will discuss the reasoning behind his fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. It is a living, evolving tradition, situated in a historical lineage, which emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.

Nathan Schneider, author of Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, will offer a brief introduction and moderate the Q&A session with the audience.

This event is based on the topic of Professor Chomsky's new volume, On Anarchism, available from New Press.

Web site: http://bostonreview.net/events#chomsky
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Political Science, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Boston Review
For more information, contact:
Daniel Pritchard
617-324-1360
daniel@bostonreview.net 

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Models of Organizing in the Arts Ecosystem
Monday, November 18, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/9090244165

Models of Organizing in the Arts Ecosystem
In order for cultural enterprises to succeed, entrepreneurs must understand the cultural landscape as well as how startups can interface with the arts and culture environment. Join us for a workshop discussing how to navigate the arts, culture, and startup ecosystems in order to create a sustainable enterprise. This workshop is part of the Deans' Challenge for Cultural Entrepreneurship. Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle and form teams based on common interests after the workshop.

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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The App Generation
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 18, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S)  Howard Gardner and Katie Davis
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2727, director@cambridgeforum.org
NOTE  Famed Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner and Katie Davis of the University of Washington’s Information School discuss the ways in which digital media are changing the way young people learn and relate to the world. Focusing on adolescents, they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled.” How does life for this generation differ from life before the digital age? What downsides do they see to young people’s deep involvement with apps? What benefits?
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org

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Science & Cooking: Fermentation — When Rotten Goes Right
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 18, 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)  David Chang, momofuku
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 http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking

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Tuesday, November 19

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Architecture Boston
November 19-21
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Hall C
Register for Exhibit Hall free until October 31 at http://abexpo.com/register/
$15 after October 31

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Science fiction or reality? A discussion of near-term ethical, legal, and societal issues in robotics
November 19, 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/2013/11/darling#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.

 Kate Darling, Berkman Center Fellow
Prominent robot ethics questions focus on liability and privacy concerns in the face of increasingly autonomous technology. A lesser-discussed issue is the emergence and effect of robots that are designed to interact with humans on a social level. Studies have begun to establish a tendency to perceive social robots differently than we do other objects. As more and more robotic companions enter into our lives and homes, our inclination to project life-like qualities onto robots could have some societal implications.

About Kate
Kate Darling is an IP Research Specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and a Ph.D. candidate in Intellectual Property and Law & Economics at the ETH Zurich. After surviving law school, she went on to pursue her passion for innovation policy at the intersection of law and technology. Her work has covered economic issues in copyright and patent systems, and she now also increasingly writes and lectures about robotics and law, with a particular interest in social and ethical issues.

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Fifty Years after The Feminine Mystique:  What’s Changed at Home and at Work?
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 19, 2013, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE  Knafel Center (formerly Radcliffe Gymnasium), 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Exhibitions, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College and Council on Contemporary Families; Ariela Dubler, Columbia Law School; and Nancy F. Cott, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST  Free and open to the public
NOTE  Two notable scholars will look back at Betty Friedan’s "The Feminine Mystique" and consider whether movement toward equality has persisted or stalled since the book was published in 1963. What has changed in roles at home and at work? How has law figured in the balance? Do we have new mystiques today?
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-fifty-years-after-feminine-mystique

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The MIT Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar: Was the Arab Spring Just a Moment?

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Tarek Masoud, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
Almost three years after the onset of the so-called Arab Spring, that season of hope and upheaval has yielded a depressingly modest harvest. Of the 22 countries of the Arab League, only four (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen) managed to bring down their autocrats. And in none of these do we yet see the democracy that protesters had clamored for.

Nowhere is the story more mournful than in Egypt. Today, as a resurgent security apparatus mounts a purge against the Brotherhood, and supporters of the president carry out a campaign of increasingly uncivil resistance, democracy in Egypt seems farther away than ever. Is Egypt's democratic experiment over? Was the vaunted Arab Spring a mere moment of enthusiasm, quickly snuffed out by deep social and political forces that had long kept the region mired in authoritarianism? What hope is there yet for genuinely responsive, accountable government in the Arab world's most populous country?

The Bustani Middle East Seminar is organized under the auspices of the MIT Center for International Studies, which conducts research on contemporary international issues and provides and opportunity for faculty and students to share perspectives and exchange views. Each year the Bustani Seminar invites scholars, journalists, consultants, and other experts from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States to MIT to present recent research findings on contemporary politics, society and culture, and economic and technological development in the Middle East.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/bustani/bustani2013fall.htm
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Technology and Culture Forum
For more information, contact:
Heidi Erickson
252-1888
hae@mit.edu

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Eat What You Want: The Intuitive Approach
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 19, 2013, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Allston Education Portal, 175 North Harvard St., Allston, MA 02134
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Special Events, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Allston Education Portal and The Center for Wellness at the Harvard University Health Services
SPEAKER(S)  Michelle Gallant
COST  Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK  .eventbrite.com/event/8766425615
CONTACT INFO Phone: 617-496-5022; Email: allston_edportal@harvard.edu
NOTE  These days, almost everyone is anxious and guilty about their eating. Is there a way out of the endless cycle of deprivation and overeating? The intuitive eating approach can help you find a balance between eating what you want and eating for health in a way that is sustainable and life affirming. Learn how giving yourself permission to eat actually allows you to gain control of your eating.
LINK http://edportal.harvard.edu/news

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Boston Gaming November Demo Night
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft, 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bosnovdemo-es2.eventbrite.com

This is the place to see the newest indepdendent games being built in Boston and network with the people who built them.  Each month, we get together to watch seven demos, drink beer and eat pizza. We're doing it again this month at Microsoft. Join our community of game developers, designers, creatives, investors and more building across multiple platforms and genres.

Want to demo your game?  Complete the form and we'll be in touch.

Please include your first and last name when you RSVP.  Your name must be on the list to get past building security.  Also, all guests must RSVP on their own.

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Sustainable Business Network Massachusetts B2B
Tuesday, November 19th
6-8:30 p.m.
Workbar, 45 Prospect Street, Central Square, Cambridge
Non-members cost:  $10
RSVP taryn@sbnmass.org

After nine successful B2B Networking Group Meetings, we're celebrating a year of amazing and inspirational events by throwing the final business-to-business meeting of 2013! Please join us for a special Member Appreciation Night, where SBN Members and Local First Affiliates can attend for FREE!RSVP now to reserve your seat.

Non-Members- you benefit, too!  Join us for only $10 this month. Whether this is your first time joining us, or you've been a loyal B2B Group Participant since the start, come experience what all the buzz is about!

The event will be sponsored by
New Leaf Legal, a flat fee firm that provides corporate and IP services to emerging and small businesses and artists located in the heart of Central Square.

We encourage everyone to come for a fun night of casual networking with like-minded business leaders.

Network, mingle, learn and connect- we appreciate everyone's support of SBN's newest segment in our Leadership Exchange Program, and hope to continue this success well into 2014!

Members: FREE! Please RSVP now to reserve your seat!
Non-Members: Reduced! $10 Non-Member Rate
Please e-mail taryn@sbnmass.org to secure your space!

Our Member Appreciation B2B will be generously hosted byWorkbar, a network of shared co-working office spaces made up of start-ups, creative entrepreneurs, independent professionals and enterprise teams.

Refreshments and event sponsored by New Leaf Legal, a flat fee firm that provides corporate and IP services to emerging and small businesses and artists located in the heart of Central Square.

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

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Majora Carter
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 19, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Majora Carter
COST  Free and open to the public
NOTE  Born in the Bronx, Majora Carter returned to revitalize her neighborhood through community development after attending college and earning an MFA as a filmmaker. She led a campaign to prevent construction of a waste facility near a residential area and went on to pursue other improvements with the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx, creating a park from a disused concrete plant, planning for additional green space, establishing a community market, and raising public awareness about health and air quality. She was a 2005 MacArthur Foundation fellow. As founder of the Majora Carter Group, she now serves as a consultant to city governments and businesses seeking to hone their environmental strategies and effectively communicate with the public. Her community engagement has continued in various forms, including Startup Box: South Bronx, an initiative to create an incubator workspace for neighborhood-based technology innovation.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/majora-carter.html

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Greenport Forum:  Hubway in Central Cambridgeport:  Let’s Talk About It

November 19

7:00 pm

Cambridgeport Baptist Church, 459 Putnam Avenue, Cambridge

 

Join us for a dialogue with representatives from the Cambridge Community Development Department about putting a new Hubway bicycle share station near Dana Park. The Hubway system offers a convenient and affordable way to get around by bicycle, with over 120 stations in Cambridge, Boston, Brookline and Somerville and easy connections to the MBTA system. Having a station near Dana Park would increase access for neighborhood residents to Hubway and all of the destinations it serves that are beyond walking distance. At the same time, concerns have been raised about the possible loss of on-street parking spaces. Both on- and off-road options will be discussed.

This forum offers an opportunity for an open conversation about this issue. We would like everyone's voice to be heard. Our hope is to foster a win-win solution in which the placement of a new Hubway Station addresses neighbors' concerns and works for the entire neighborhood. Please come and participate in this important conversation.

GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com

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The Role of the Free Market in Solving the Climate Crisis
November 19, 2013
7:00-8:00PM
Babson's Sorenson Theatre, 231 Forest Street, Wellesley

Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
John M. Reilly, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT
Gary Rucinski, New England Coordinator, Citizens Climate Lobby; co-creater of a 2016 ballot initiative for a revenue-neutral carbon tax
Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
Fritz Fleischmann, William R. Dill Governance Chair, Babson College

Contact E-mail: lwvWellesley@gmail.com
Event URL: http://lwvma.org/

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Lone Survivor (FREE advance screening)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
8:00p
MIT, Building 26-100, access via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Lone Survivor, starring Mark Wahlberg, tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller, this story of heroism, courage and survival is directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and also stars Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana.

Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): LSC
For more information, contact:
MIT Lecture Series Committee
617-253-3791
lsc@mit.edu

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Nuclear Proliferation, Preventive War, and a Leader's Decision to Intervene
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 20, 2013, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S)  Rachel Whitlark, research fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE  Under what conditions do states seriously consider and use preventive military force as a counter proliferation strategy against adversarial nuclear weapons programs? In this seminar, Rachel Whitlark, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, will utilize the comparative case study method and conducts archival research and process tracing into six cases of American and Israeli counter-proliferation decision-making. She will argue that it is the pre-presidential or pre-prime ministerial beliefs of executives, specifically their beliefs about the general consequences of nuclear proliferation and the ability to deter the particular proliferator in question, that determine a leader’s likely counter-proliferation behavior once in office.
To illustrate this argument, Ms. Whitlark will explore the case of U.S. decision-making vis-à-vis the Chinese nuclear program between 1961 and 1964 and will demonstrate that it is the divergent prior beliefs of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson on nuclear issues that explain why Kennedy seriously considered and planned for preventive military action prior to his untimely death, but Johnson gave no such consideration of military force in the immediate aftermath of the assassination and up through the Chinese nuclear test in October 1964.
Coffee and tea provided. Please join us - Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/even

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Boston New Technology: November 2013 Product Showcase #BNT35
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
hack / reduce, 275 3rd Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/148994162/

Free event! Come learn about 6 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT34 hashtag in social media posts: details here.

Sponsors:
FWD.us is an organization started by key leaders in the tech community to promote policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economy—including comprehensive immigration reform and education reform. Co-founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, FWD.us is organizing a hackathon aimed at combating problems within the United States immigration system. The hackathon kicks off near San Francisco on November 20th. JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM! Add your name atFWD.us.

hack/reduce: Our mission is to help Boston create the talent and the technologies that will shape our future in a big data-driven economy. At hack/reduce you’ll get access to our large-scale compute cluster, hands-on workshops, and a physical space in the heart of Kendall Square. hack/reduce is a non-profit established in partnership with the State of Massachusetts, a number of local and global firms committed to innovation, and in collaboration with MIT, Harvard and other local universities. Working closely with our partners and the community, we’ll bring developers, data scientists and domain experts across disciplines together to create the next generation of Big Data technologies and applications.

Agenda:
Join us at hack/reduce Cambridge:
6:00 - 6:30 - Networking & Pizza Dinner
6:30 to 7:30 - Special Simulcast with tech leaders - details coming!
7:30 to 7:40 - Announcements
7:40 to 8:40 - Presentations, Q&A
8:40 to 9:00 - More Networking
9:00 - hack/reduce closes

Products and Presenters:
1.Ari Weil / Yottaa
2. Stefan Reishamer / Filosync
3. Jamie Manning / Snagastool
4. Scott Barnett / Careernumbers
5. Robin Johnson / Skit App
6. Greg McHale / good2gether

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Hope for a Livable Climate
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Potluck 6:00 - 7:00 PM, Panel Discussion 7:00 - 9:00PM
University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge (Harvard Square, next to Pinocchio's Pizza)
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5069519068

The Promise of Restorative Grazing & Other Ecological Innovations to Regenerate Soil, Secure Food & Water,  Revive Rural Economies and Reverse Global Warming
Moderated by Prof. William Moomaw, Tufts University
Professor Moomaw will speak briefly on the need to “mobilize the biosphere.”
Featured Speakers
Precious Phiri - Senior Facilitator, Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe.  Precious directs training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. This helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security. This nature-based solution has been successfully used on different landscapes in Africa and the Americas. Precious was born and raised in one of the participating communities.
Judith D. Schwartz - Environmental Journalist and author of Cows Save the Planet And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth(Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013). New Yorker writer and author of Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert writes:“Judith Schwartz takes a fascinating look at the world right beneath our feet. Cows Save the Planet is a surprising, informative, and ultimately hopeful book.” Judith will discuss innovative approaches to land restoration and climate mitigation as covered in her book.
Seth Itzkan - President, Planet-TECH Associates; Advisory Board Member, Biodiversity for a Livable Planet. Seth, a consultant on innovations for a regenerative future, has spent ten weeks at the Africa Center for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe. He has given a TEDx presentation, been interviewed by Worldwatch, and written and lectured extensively on the promise of restorative grazing to reverse desertification and capture atmospheric carbon through rapid soil formation. Seth will address the climate mitigation potential of this innovation.
This event is part of an evolving series of Creating the Future We Want programs focused on the role of biology in cooling the planet.   Sponsored by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) (bio4climate.org) and Planet-TECH Associates (planet-tech.com), with support from Somerville Climate Action (somervilleclimateaction.org).

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Designing For Resilient Cities 

November 20

6:30 pm

Fletcher School/Tufts University, Cabot 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford

Lecture by Steve Heikin, Principal, ICON Architecture

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MIT Joules (Women in Energy) - Discussion on Navigating Your Career in the Energy Field
November 20, 2013 
6:30p–8:30p
MIT Campus - TBD

Navigating a career path in the fast-paced dynamic field of energy can be challenging. Come hear a panel of three successful, mid-career women share their experiences. Topics will cover the decisions they have made, opportunities they have seized and recommendations to anyone interested in starting or accelerating their careers. The event will begin with an introduction from each panelist followed by a question and answer session. Stick around after the presentation for a chance to network with these amazing women!
Please RSVP at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ceJGbS9jA-gDycQMcbDp6cgSXFncPLQ642kK2-gd71c/viewform

Sponsored by:  MIT Energy Club
Admission:  Open to the public
For more information:  Contact MIT Energy Club
bessma@mit.edu

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SITN Lecture - Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
7pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston

Join us for the next lecture in Harvard University's Science in the News Fall Lecture Series, Extreme Weather and Climate Change

For those of you not familiar with SITN's lecture format, lectures are free, accessible, and open to the public. All lectures are given entirely by graduate students at Harvard and focus on hot topics in science research and news.

A team of three graduate students each present a 30-40 minute segment, with breaks for questions and refreshments. The lectures last for about two hours, and are often followed by lab tours.

They will have light refreshments before the lecture (coffee, tea, cookies, etc.)

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"When to Blow the Whistle?" A discussion on the role of whistleblowers in society
Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 7:00 p.m.
Ed Portal, 175 North Harvard Street, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/9053791133

The Ed Portal and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society will host an evening of small-group discussions led by Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, founder and director of the Berkman Center.

With a focus on building community and thoughtful discussion, we will explore the unfolding debate around transparency, secrecy, leaks, and morality.

Come to the event to engage in small-group discussions about the pertinent questions raised by the disclosures of Edward Snowden.

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Food Chain Restoration in the Face of Climate Change
Gary Paul Nabhan, W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems, University of Arizona
1 Session: Wednesday, November 20, 7:30-8:30pm
Location: Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, Jamaica Plain

Recent years have brought spikes in the frequency of strange weather patterns and severe storms, with many blaming the increase on human-caused climate change. If this new normal, as it’s being called, is here to stay, it will have profound implications on food production. To address these challenges, food and farming activist Gary Paul Nabhan proposes that we look to the past for solutions—at crops and techniques used in regions that have historically endured this kind of weather. Hear his thoughts about the need for increased biodiversity on farmlands and how strategies, such as growing hedgerows, composting, and planting multiple-strata orchard-gardens, can play a role in relinking the broken food chain and adapting to accelerating climate change.  Nabhan was chosen as an Utne Reader visionary in 2011.
Fee $10 member, $15 nonmember, Free students (students must call 617.384.5277 to register for free)
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/SelectDate.aspx

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FAS Green Program Brown Bag Lunch Screenings
Thursday, November 21, 2013
12-1PM
Harvard, Mallinckrodt 102, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Snacks are provided.
Join the FAS Green Program as we screen environmentally themed TED Talks. Each month we pick a theme, and bring you different variants on that theme. This month is "Coexistence". Please join us!

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First Generation Ethanol:  Evolution, Potential and Constraints
Thursday, November 21, 2013
12:30-1:45 PM
(a light lunch will be served – no RSVP, first-come first-served)
Murrow Room, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

with José Roberto Moreira, Professor of Energy, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Open to the public. Convened by the Sustainable Development Diplomacy and Governance Program of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher.

Dr. Moreira will present an update on ethanol and bioelectricity co-production in Brazil, followed by a discussion about its near-term potential to further mitigate climate change in the transportation sector through the synergistic use of ethanol and electricity in hybrid cars. Finally, he will show how ethanol derived efficiently from sugar fermentation can be used as a negative GHG emission fuel and as the starting point to promote Biomass Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies. He has played a major role in the development of Brazil’s extensive biofuels program.

José Roberto Moreira is professor of Energy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He began his career as professor of Physics at the University of Sao Paulo in 1971. He was an energy expert at Princeton University from 1979-1980, and in 1987, he moved to the Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of Sao Paulo, where he launched a graduate program in Energy/Environment. Dr. Moreira joined the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1994 to 2011 and was one of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. He has also worked for several other United Nations Programs and is author  of  more  than  200  books  and  papers  on  Nuclear  Physics,  Atomic Physics, Energy Conservation, Energy Planning and Environment. Outside of the University he was director of Companhia Energetica de São Paulo from 1983 - 1987, Secretary of Energy at the Ministry of Mines and Energy from 1985 - 1986, executive director of the Biomass Users Network from 1992 - 1997, and is presently director of NEGAWATT, a private engineering company.

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Findings from the Kilowatt Crackdown, a Commercial Office Building Competition in Energy Efficient Operation
November 21
2pm  EST
Webinar
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GNKTAcup6Ql9fhOkwVMZMyEw6W4LZWBHTQu13sJqkoQ/viewform

TOPIC: The Kilowatt Crackdown program offers the opportunity for community engagement and competitive dynamics among commercial buildings, in regards to energy efficiency goals. Through a process of benchmarking, auditing, implementation, and evaluation, energy savings can be accomplished. With a focus on operational recommendations, savings can be achieved at a relatively low cost. This session will summarize the goals and strategies of the Kilowatt Crackdown program, as well as commonly found energy efficiency measures.

PRESENTERS: JACK DAVIS - has over 18 years of experience in the energy, development, and marketing fields, and manages JDM’s West Coast clients. Advising clients on strategy development, program design and implementation, and market based environmental initiatives, Jack’s work has led to innovative programs and materials such as Carbon4Square, the Kilowatt Crackdown, the Green Building Opportunity Index, the Deep Retrofit Playbook, and the High Performance Portfolio Framework. Jack serves on the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Responsible Property Investing Product Council and the ULI Northwest Advisory Board. Jack has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University and a MBA in Marketing from the University of Minnesota.

KATIE LEICHLITER - Katie Leichliter is a Research Scientist at the University of Idaho – Integrated Design Lab in Boise. She conducts energy efficiency field work, measurement and verification, and operational and investment grade audits. Katie also conducts simulation research for energy efficiency in existing building renewal projects, and has developed stand-alone energy analysis tools. Katie graduated with a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho and spent three years in a private mechanical design practice specializing in BIM, building simulation, and HVAC design. Katie serves on the board of governors of the Idaho ASHRAE Chapter.

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Food Hubs: Local Food 2.0

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

04:00 PM EST

webinar

RSVP at https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=crcrd2f7yfq3

Rowan Jacobsen
Rowan Jacobsen is the author of numerous books including A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America which won a 2008 James Beard Award. He has written for the New York Times, Harper’s, Outside, Mother Jones, Orion, and others, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing andBest Food Writing collections.

John Fisk
With extensive experience in sustainable food and agricultural systems development, John Fisk serves as the Director of the Wallace Center at Winrock International, a leading voice on   innovative food systems like food hubs. He is a founding board member of the Food Routes Network and serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. 

Jean Hamilton
Jean Hamilton is Communications Director for Black River Produce, a food hub in Springfield, Vermont. She previously served as Market Development and Consumer Outreach Coordinator at Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, and has worked for numerous farms and artisan food producers.

The local food movement has grown remarkably fast in the last decade. There are scores of farmer's markets now, numbering over 7,800 in the U.S. alone at last count, which is almost double the 1994 tally. Plus grocery stores and menus increasingly trumpet their local selections, and food media has mushroomed as well.

But lately the movement has begun to hit a wall. For one thing, sales at farmer's markets have not kept pace with the growth, as there are simply more farmers competing for the same pool of customers.

What farmers and their allies increasingly need is a way to add value to their produce and increase its shelf life, places where they can cook or can fruits and vegetables, slaughter animals, process meat, and store products. But the costs and regulatory requirements are truly prohibitive, especially for people who already own and operate farms.

In the new issue of Orion, award-winning food writer Rowan Jacobsen looks at the recent growth of food hubs, facilities that house such services, as part of the magazine's new, two-year series, Reimagining Infrastructure. He visits Mad River Food Hub in Vermont and interviews people at others around the U.S. to hear what the challenges and opportunities are.

To learn more, read "From Farm to Table" in the November/December 2013 issue of Orion and plan to join him and a panel of guest experts to discuss his findings during a live event on November 21 at 4 p.m. Eastern/1 p.m. Pacific.

The call is also toll-free and only pre-registration is required, so please register at https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=crcrd2f7yfq3 

and mark your calendar for this unique event. 

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The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy and Affinity
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 21, 2013, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hauser Institute for Civil Society at the Center for Public Leadership
SPEAKER(S)  NATHALIE LAIDLER-KYLANDER | Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/upcoming-events/20131205

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Eat Red Meat, Save the Planet - featuring Allan Savory and Mathieu Lalonde, Ph.D.
Thursday, November 21
6:00pm
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, 1515 Mass Avenue, Cambridge

Join the Food Law Society for a special evening with Allan Savory of the Savory Institute and Harvard Chemist Mathieu Lalonde, Ph.D. Many of us have heard about some of the recent studies claiming that eating red meat is unhealthy. Dr. Lalonde will debunk these studies and illustrate how pasture-raised herbivores are actually ideal for human consumption. Then, Allan Savory will discuss how managing grazing animals through Holistic Planned Grazing, a strategic planning process that addresses the complexity of Nature, has reversed desertification and is bringing back to life once unusable land, and helping to reverse global warming.

Featuring speakers:
Mathieu Lalonde, Ph.D., Harvard Chemist
Mathieu Lalonde is an organic chemist with a genuine interest in human metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, health, and athletic performance. Mat obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry from the University of Ottawa preceding his departure to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended Harvard University for a Doctorate in Organic Chemistry. Upon the completion of his Ph.D., Mat reconnected with his lifelong interest in nutrition and decided to apply the rigors of the core sciences to the primary literature published on nutrition. Mat aims to teach individuals how to 1) interpret published material such that they themselves can distinguish between legitimate versus unsound research, and 2) evaluate both the strengths and relevancies of the publications’ reported conclusions. Mat has recently developed an interest in nutrient density and is currently studying both chemical biology and nutritional biochemistry while working in Harvard's department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Allan Savory, Savory Institute
Allan was born in Rhodesia, southern Africa. He pursued an early career as a research biologist and Game Ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia), and later as a farmer, game rancher, politician, and international consultant, based in Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). In the 1960s, while working on the interrelated problems of increasing poverty and disappearing wildlife, he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems. He went on to work, as a resource management consultant, with numerous managers, eventually on four continents, to develop sustainable solutions.

His early results in reversing land degradation in a manner that made, rather than cost, money were impressive. But, as he often states, his failures were equally impressive! Finally, in the mid-1980’s the last of some key missing pieces fell into place. Since then thousands of land, livestock and wildlife managers have been able to demonstrate consistent results following the methodology he called “holistic management.”

Savory served as a Member of Parliament in the latter days of Zimbabwe’s civil war and leader of the opposition to the ruling party headed by Ian Smith. Exiled in 1979, as a result of his opposition, he emigrated to the United States where he cofounded the non-profit organization Holistic Management International with his wife, Jody Butterfield. In 1992 they formed a second non-profit (social welfare) organization near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. Savory and the five local Chiefs are permanent Trustees of the Africa Centre. Savory and his wife divide their time between Zimbabwe and New Mexico.

In 2003, Savory was awarded the Banksia International Award for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale. His current work in Africa is receiving much praise and recognition and the Africa Centre for Holistic Management was announced the winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Award for the organization working to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

To register, visit eatredmeat.eventbrite.com.

There is also a separate bundled dinner/lecture option. For $125 you'll receive a VIP ticket to the lecture and to the Savory Institute's gluten-free gourmet dinner being prepared by the chefs at Upstairs on the Square. Registration for the dinner/lecture combination can be found here and there is no need to reserve a separate lecture ticket in that case.

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Dirty Energy
Thursday, November 21
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
rule19.org/videos 

*Just in times for Xmas: a limited quantity of original DVDs will be available for $10 ea.*

Showing ...., in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer


This film packs a wallop! It has stunning visuals and a gripping tale of greed and corruption. You'll see up-close and personal what mainstream media and our government would rather you didn't.

On April 20th, 2010, the *Deepwater Horizon* oil rig exploded off the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven BP workers and spewing 200 million barrels of oil into the ocean.

*DIRTY ENERGY* brings to light the personal stories of the Louisiana fishermen and local residents directly impacted by the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Filmmaker Bryan D. Hopkins gains intimate access to the lives and homes of these people, as they struggle to rebuild their lives and contend with emerging health crises related to the toxic dispersants used to clean up the spill.

DIRTY ENERGY paints a poignant portrait of the human cost of the calamity, and the systematic failure by BP and the U.S. Government to effectively and transparently manage the environmental impact.

Three years after the disaster, thousands of families who have lost their livelihood, their health and/or family members are still waiting for recompense while BP maneuvers to try and avoid making full compensation payments.

"/The greatest environmental disaster with no end in sight! Eleven workers dead. Millions of gallons of oil gushing for months (and years) to come. Jobs vanishing. Creatures dying. A pristine environment destroyed for generations. A mega-corporation that has lied and continues to lie, and a government that refuses to protect the people/." ~Seize BP

"/BP is now engaged in an aggressive legal and public-relations campaign to limit how much it pays individuals and businesses for the losses its reckless behavior caused./"
~Stephen Teague, June, 2013, NYT Op-Ed

"/It takes some cheek to go and use a sunflower logo when your business is dirty oil"  ~ /Ben Stewart, Greenpeace activist

/"We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him 'What's that all over your face?/"
~Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, about BP CEO Tony Hayward

Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.**
**[donations are encouraged]*

"/You can't legislate good will - that comes through education/." ~ Malcolm X

*UPandOUT film series* - see http://rule19.org/videos

Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights…

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Managing Holistically: Policies and Actions to Restore and Sustain Ecosystem Services
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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Autumn Convergence for a New National Agenda

Sunday, November 24th

1:00 to 5:30 PM
SEIU Local 615, 26 West Street, Boston (across from Park St Station)
The chain that bound us yesterday will be the link that connects us today.

Featuring:
Ben Thompson, climate activist, 350MA
Harris Gruman, SEIU political director
Leslie Cagan, peace, LGBT, and justice organizer
Neta Crawford, professor of political science at BU
AND YOU!
Many agree that we need to forge a more democratic nation based on social justice, sustainability, employment, and peace. Our groups share many values, aspirations, and goals as we work on the important issues. But to turn things around we need a vision of a new economy, a just society, and a new foreign policy that connects the issues -- a vision that can mobilize a social movement toward a society that works for everyone. We need a message that points more clearly to the future we seek.
This convergence relies on conversation—listening and talking with each other.  Join in roundtable discussions about how we can create a positive common vision that can bring peace, climate, economic, and social justice activists together to become a more powerful force for change.

For more information, seemasspeaceaction.org/event/covergence-2013

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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.

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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

MIT Events:  http://events.mit.edu

MIT Energy Club:  http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template

Harvard Events:  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/

Harvard Environment:  http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/

Sustainability at Harvard:  http://green.harvard.edu/events

Mass Climate Action:  http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php

Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/

Eventbrite:  http://www.eventbrite.com/

Microsoft NERD Center:  http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx

Startup and Entrepreneurial Events:  http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar

High Tech Events:  http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html

Cambridge Civic Journal:  http://www.rwinters.com

Boston Area Computer User Groups:  http://www.bugc.org/

Arts and Cultural Events List:  http://aacel.blogspot.com/

Boston Events Insider:  http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/

Nerdnite:  http://boston.nerdnite.com/