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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, October 6
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12pm Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events
12pm Legal and policy perspectives on EPA’s proposed clean power plan
12pm Using Business as a Force for Good Event
12:15pm Antimicrobials and Public Health: From Serotherapy to Antibiotics (and Back)
3pm MOOCS - Open Education with Old and New Learners
3pm Open Meetings: Digital Futures Consortium
3:15pm South Sudan: What Went Terribly Wrong?
4pm Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Reflections on the Biosphere as a System
5:30pm The Growth Imperative: Plotting a Sustainable Energy Future for India
5:30pm Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Positions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
6pm Design Excellence Along Boston’s Waterfront
7pm Culturerunners
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Tuesday, October 7
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12:30pm The Great Firewall Inverts
12:30pm The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asian Regionalism
1pm Low Emissions Development in an Era of Cheap and Abundant Fossil Fuels
2pm Pre-Conference Back-to-the-Classroom Sessions: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
2:30pm At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership
4pm Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: Biomineralization
4pm The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State
4pm Gaza: A Panel Discussion
4:10pm The Responsive City: Engaging Communities through Data Smart Governance
4:30pm African Migration
6pm MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
6pm The World in your Hand: a Buckminster Fuller Map Dome Workshop
6pm Boston Area Sustainability Group: Sustainability & Innovation
6pm African Innovators: Scientists From The Continent Speak About Their Work Changing the World
7pm Ecologies in Flux: What is the role of exotic plants in urban and suburban landscapes?
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Wednesday, October 8
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7:30am “Seeing Connections: Sustainability Across Four Sectors”
8:30am Conference: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century
12pm Promoting Innovation in Agriculture: Energy; Conservation; Research and Development
12pm Governing Coercion: Armed Politics and the State in South Asia
12:15pm Global Environmental Change: Impacts on Human Nutrition
12:30pm Gubernatorial Forum on Energy, the Environment & the Innovation Economy
12:30pm Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China
4pm Biomineralization
4pm The President's Effort to Combat Climate Change Without Congress: What is EPA Proposing to Do and is it Legal?
4pm Race to Solar Workshop
4:10pm The Impact of Environmental Regulation on U.S. Oil Refineries]
5pm Healing After Genocide: Stories from Rwanda
5:30pm Askwith Forum: Is U.S. Public School Funding Fair?
6pm Getting to Net Zero Task Force
6pm Mass Innovation Nights 67 "Women Founders”
6pm Information Evening on the System Design and Management
7pm Cleantech Entrepreneurs Panel
7pm How Our Brains Interact With the World, lecture @ Science in the News
7pm Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts
7pm Can New England Feed Itself?: A “New England Food Vision”
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Thursday, October 9
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11:30am Divided We Eat: Food Inequality in America
11:45am Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
12pm Fukushima's Forbidden Zone as a Site for Performance Art: Three Years Later
1:30pm Genzyme Building Tour- Back by Popular Demand!
3pm CONNECT Symposium 2014
4pm FACTs Boston: The Impacts Of Climate Change
4:30pm Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy
5pm Heroes, Villains, and Nerds: How Science is Portrayed in the Media, and How Portrayals Have Changed
6pm Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge Kickoff
6pm Urban Films: Dark Days
6pm Forecasted: Eight artists explore the nature of climate change
6:30pm Going to Pot
6:30pm Designing Detroit: Top Down or Bottom Up?
7pm What Does Adapting to Climate Change Look Like?
7pm Emerson Accelerator: Discussion with Richard Banfield
7pm What next for solar in Massachusetts? BASEA Forum
Forecasted: Eight Artists Explore the Nature of Climate Change - opening reception
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Friday, October 10
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Honk Fest NINTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
9am Cyborg Camp
11am The Whole Organism Challenge: Or, Can We Computerize an Elephant?
12pm Ice Age Climates and Climate Oscillators
1pm GSD Talks: "Radical Cities" author Justin McGuirk in conversation with Felipe Correa
5pm Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
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Saturday, October 11
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9am IndieWebCampCambridge 2014
10am Exploring Boston’s Urban Forest
12:30pm Massachusetts Food System Listening Sessions- Boston Forum
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Monday, October 13
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7pm Science by the Pint: Engineering New Microbial Life Forms
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Tuesday, October 14
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: StayAtHand, Bedrock Data, UsinLife LLC, Ostrato, Everseat
12pm Charles Lewis, Professor and Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The American University School of Communication
12pm The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response
12pm Arts Innovation in the Digital Age
12pm Douglas G. MacMartin, Caltech
2:30pm Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
5:45pm Boston FinTech Demo Night
6pm MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
6:30pm Adaptive Technologies: Computation's Deep Ancestry
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Monday, October 6
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12pm Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events
12pm Legal and policy perspectives on EPA’s proposed clean power plan
12pm Using Business as a Force for Good Event
12:15pm Antimicrobials and Public Health: From Serotherapy to Antibiotics (and Back)
3pm MOOCS - Open Education with Old and New Learners
3pm Open Meetings: Digital Futures Consortium
3:15pm South Sudan: What Went Terribly Wrong?
4pm Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Reflections on the Biosphere as a System
5:30pm The Growth Imperative: Plotting a Sustainable Energy Future for India
5:30pm Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Positions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
6pm Design Excellence Along Boston’s Waterfront
7pm Culturerunners
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Tuesday, October 7
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12:30pm The Great Firewall Inverts
12:30pm The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asian Regionalism
1pm Low Emissions Development in an Era of Cheap and Abundant Fossil Fuels
2pm Pre-Conference Back-to-the-Classroom Sessions: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
2:30pm At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership
4pm Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: Biomineralization
4pm The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State
4pm Gaza: A Panel Discussion
4:10pm The Responsive City: Engaging Communities through Data Smart Governance
4:30pm African Migration
6pm MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
6pm The World in your Hand: a Buckminster Fuller Map Dome Workshop
6pm Boston Area Sustainability Group: Sustainability & Innovation
6pm African Innovators: Scientists From The Continent Speak About Their Work Changing the World
7pm Ecologies in Flux: What is the role of exotic plants in urban and suburban landscapes?
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Wednesday, October 8
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7:30am “Seeing Connections: Sustainability Across Four Sectors”
8:30am Conference: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century
12pm Promoting Innovation in Agriculture: Energy; Conservation; Research and Development
12pm Governing Coercion: Armed Politics and the State in South Asia
12:15pm Global Environmental Change: Impacts on Human Nutrition
12:30pm Gubernatorial Forum on Energy, the Environment & the Innovation Economy
12:30pm Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China
4pm Biomineralization
4pm The President's Effort to Combat Climate Change Without Congress: What is EPA Proposing to Do and is it Legal?
4pm Race to Solar Workshop
4:10pm The Impact of Environmental Regulation on U.S. Oil Refineries]
5pm Healing After Genocide: Stories from Rwanda
5:30pm Askwith Forum: Is U.S. Public School Funding Fair?
6pm Getting to Net Zero Task Force
6pm Mass Innovation Nights 67 "Women Founders”
6pm Information Evening on the System Design and Management
7pm Cleantech Entrepreneurs Panel
7pm How Our Brains Interact With the World, lecture @ Science in the News
7pm Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts
7pm Can New England Feed Itself?: A “New England Food Vision”
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Thursday, October 9
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11:30am Divided We Eat: Food Inequality in America
11:45am Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
12pm Fukushima's Forbidden Zone as a Site for Performance Art: Three Years Later
1:30pm Genzyme Building Tour- Back by Popular Demand!
3pm CONNECT Symposium 2014
4pm FACTs Boston: The Impacts Of Climate Change
4:30pm Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy
5pm Heroes, Villains, and Nerds: How Science is Portrayed in the Media, and How Portrayals Have Changed
6pm Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge Kickoff
6pm Urban Films: Dark Days
6pm Forecasted: Eight artists explore the nature of climate change
6:30pm Going to Pot
6:30pm Designing Detroit: Top Down or Bottom Up?
7pm What Does Adapting to Climate Change Look Like?
7pm Emerson Accelerator: Discussion with Richard Banfield
7pm What next for solar in Massachusetts? BASEA Forum
Forecasted: Eight Artists Explore the Nature of Climate Change - opening reception
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Friday, October 10
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Honk Fest NINTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
9am Cyborg Camp
11am The Whole Organism Challenge: Or, Can We Computerize an Elephant?
12pm Ice Age Climates and Climate Oscillators
1pm GSD Talks: "Radical Cities" author Justin McGuirk in conversation with Felipe Correa
5pm Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
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Saturday, October 11
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9am IndieWebCampCambridge 2014
10am Exploring Boston’s Urban Forest
12:30pm Massachusetts Food System Listening Sessions- Boston Forum
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Monday, October 13
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7pm Science by the Pint: Engineering New Microbial Life Forms
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Tuesday, October 14
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: StayAtHand, Bedrock Data, UsinLife LLC, Ostrato, Everseat
12pm Charles Lewis, Professor and Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The American University School of Communication
12pm The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response
12pm Arts Innovation in the Digital Age
12pm Douglas G. MacMartin, Caltech
2:30pm Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
5:45pm Boston FinTech Demo Night
6pm MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
6:30pm Adaptive Technologies: Computation's Deep Ancestry
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Christine Jones on Soil Carbon
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/10/christine-jones-on-soil-carbon.html
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Monday, October 6
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Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events
Monday, October 6, 2014
12pm-1pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
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Monday, October 6
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Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events
Monday, October 6, 2014
12pm-1pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford
MASS Seminar
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Legal and policy perspectives on EPA’s proposed clean power plan
Monday, October 6
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Panel discussion with David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council; Jeffrey Holmstead, Bracewell & Giuliani; and Robert Stavins (Moderator), HKS
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-06-160000-2014-10-06-173000/etipconsortium-energy-policy-seminar#sthash.fOr6eygZ.dpuf
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Scott Podolsky, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Abstract: Today, from Ebola to MRSA, we live in a global arena focused from the one end on the equitable distribution of available antimicrobials, and from the other on the dangers of antimicrobial overprescribing and overconsumption. Such concerns represent two sides of an aspiration to a “rational” therapeutics, in which the right drugs for the right patients are available at the right time in the right place for the right cost. These are longstanding concerns, and this talk will trace the course of antimicrobial policy in the United States over the course of the past century, from the advent of the treatment of pneumonia with antiserum in the first decades of the twentieth century, through the advent of antibiotics and evolving concerns over irrational therapy and antibiotic resistance in recent decades. Alternative futures – whether utopian or dystopian – have been envisioned, and alternative regulatory policies have been chosen to promote or alter such futures, throughout the past century. In the process, the roles of patients, private practitioners, public health departments, industry, regulatory bodies, and independent national and international organizations have been reimagined in the ongoing struggle to implement a rational therapeutics.
Biography: Scott Podolsky is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 2006, he has served as the Director of the Center for the History of Medicine based at the Countway Medical Library. He has co-authored Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology (1997), authored Pneumonia before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America (2006), and co-edited Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters (2009). His forthcoming book, The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January of 2015.
sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-06-161500-2014-10-06-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.XhxabQj1.dpuf
MOOCS - Open Education with Old and New Learners
Monday, October 06, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jeff Haywood & Lori Breslow
Please join us for a discussion with Professor, CIO, and Librarian Jeff Haywood of the University of Edinburgh and Dr Lori Breslow of TLL to explore new issues emerging in online education environments. Who are today’s MOOC learners? What are their backgrounds & intentions? Where and how might we broaden access to higher education? Where do we go beyond MOOCs? How can we deliver open education at scale?
xTalks: Digital Discourses
This series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/jeffhaywood-loribreslow/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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Open Meetings: Digital Futures Consortium
WHEN Mon., Oct. 6, 2014, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Lamont Library Forum Room, 11 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology
LIBRARY LOCATION Lamont Library
DETAILS Regular general meetings for the Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard University in the coming academic year will be held on the first Mondays in October, March and June. These are general meetings separate from any event planning or project working groups. They are open to anyone with interest in digital scholarship, its evolving tools, and tapping into potential working relationships.
Digital Futures is an informal network of faculty, researchers, technologists, and librarians engaged in the ongoing transformation of scholarship through innovative technology. We are dedicated to sharing expertise across the global academic community, facilitating new forms and methods of research, and fostering collaborative projects that bring about field-changing developments in scholarship.
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Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Reflections on the Biosphere as a System
Monday, October 6
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Tyler Volk (NYU)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Positions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
Monday, October 6
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E19-758, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Philippe Aghion (Harvard)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Applied Theory Workshop (Joint MIT/Harvard)
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Culturerunners
Monday, October 6
7pm – 9pm
MIT, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP by emailing rsvp@edgeofarabia.com
During the evening lecture, panels made up of selected artists, scientists and curators will present and discuss their findings from the previous week’s workshops dedicated to developing technologies for traveling artists. Findings will be presented in two categories, Mobile & Wearable Technologies as well as Online Communications & Archival Platforms, and will act as a coda for the week long collaboration betweenCULTURUNNERS, Edge of Arabia and MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology. A Q&A moderated by Ava Ansari and Azra Akšamija will follow the lecture.
Lecture Speakers include: Azra Aksamija, Ava Ansari, Carol Huh, Ahmed Mater, Daanish Masood, Regina Möller, Rashad Selim, and Stephen Stapleton.
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Tuesday, October 7
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The Great Firewall Inverts
Tuesday, October 7
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/freitas#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/freitas at 12:30 pm.
with Berkman Fellow Nathan Freitas
In the last few years, usage of the mobile messaging app WeChat (微信 Weixin), has skyrocketed not only inside China, but outside, as well. For mainland Chinese, Wechat is one of the only options available, due to frequent blockage of apps like Viber, Line, Twitter and Facebook. However, outside of China, fueled by a massive marketing campaign and the promise of "free calls and texts", overseas Chinese students and family, Tibetan exiles, and Bollywood celebrities also use the app as their primary mobile communications service. It is this phenomenon that might be called an inversion of the Great Firewall. Instead of Chinese users scaling the wall to get out, people around the world are walking up to the front gate, and asking to be let in.
Combined with the rise of attractive, low-cost mobile handsets from Huawei and Xiaomi that include China-based cloud services, being sold in India and elsewhere, the world is witnessing a massive expansion of Chinese telecommunications reach and influence, powered entirely by users choosing to participate in it. Due to these systems being built upon proprietary protocols and software, their inner workings are largely opaque and mostly insecure. Like most social media apps, the WeChat app has full permission to activate microphones and cameras, track GPS, access user contacts and photos, and copy all of this data at any time to their servers. Recently, it was discovered that Xiaomi MIUI phones sent all text messages through the companies cloud servers in China, without asking the user (Though, once this gained broad coverage in the news, the feature was turned off by default).
The fundamental question is do the Chinese companies behind these services have any market incentive or legal obligation to protect the privacy of their non-Chinese global userbase? Do they willingly or automatically turn over all data to the Ministry of Public Security or State Internet Information Office? Will we soon see foreign users targeted or prosecuted due to "private" data shared on WeChat? Finally, from the Glass Houses Department, is there any fundamental diffence in the impact on privacy freedom for an American citizen using WeChat versus a Chinese citizen using WhatsApp or Google?
About Nathan
Nathan Freitas leads the Guardian Project, an open-source mobile security software project, and directs technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. His work at the Berkman Center focuses on tracking the legality and prosecution risks for mobile security apps users worldwide.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asian Regionalism
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Peter Petri, Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance, Brandeis University; moderated by Shinju Fujihira, executive director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Low Emissions Development in an Era of Cheap and Abundant Fossil Fuels
Tuesday, October 7
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Tufts University, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/low-emissions-development-in-an-era-of-cheap-and-abundant-fossil-fuels-tickets-13184604507
How can we support development in ways that protect the planet from climate change in a future likely to be dominated by cheap and abundant supplies of fossil fuels?
This seminar, which is open to the public, will explore the emerging field of Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS), describe how the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has been working to support a variety of international LEDS initiatives and explore the significant future challenges facing these efforts.
List of Speakers:
Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director, SEI
Charles Heaps, Ph.D.Center Director and Senior Scientist, SEI
Topic: How SEI is supporting Low Emissions Development Planning around the World
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Ph. D. Tufts University
Topic: Energy and Poverty
Sivan Kartha, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, SEI
Topic: Equity and Low Carbon Development
Michael Lazarus, Senior Scientist, SEI
Topic: Climate Change Mitigation and Fossil Fuel Lock-in
The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
Contact Stockholm Environment Institute
Web sites: www.sei-us.org and www.sei-international.org
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Pre-Conference Back-to-the-Classroom Sessions: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
Tuesday, October 7
2:00p–5:00p
MIT, E-51, Wong Auditorium, corner of Amherst Street and Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
Cost: $25-50
Speaker: MIT SDM faculty
This year, on the day before the annual MIT SDM will offer pre-conference back-to-the-classroom sessions delivered by two of SDM???s best and brightest faculty members on the afternoon of October 7. This will include:
What is Systems Thinking and Why is It Important? presented by Qi Van Eilema Hommes, Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division, MIT; Senior Staff Engineer, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
A New Era in Project Management: Viewing Projects as Systems, presented by Bryan R Moser, Ph.D. Lecturer, System Design and Management, MIT: Researcher, Design Engineering Laboratory, University of Tokyo, President and CEO, Global Product Design.
Annual MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
The aim of this series is to provide practical information from multiple disciplines that will spark ideas that leaders at all developmental stages can apply to real-world challenges. Attendees will also gain insight into how to use systems thinking to support and develop current and future leaders, while meeting strategic goals, whether in industry, academia, government, or the world at large.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/systemsthinkingconference/2014/agenda.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Varies. See registration section at url below.
Tickets: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1510647
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and Management (SDM) program
For more information, contact: Joan S. Rubin
617.253.2081
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At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership
Tuesday, October 7
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ben Hermalin (UC Berkeley)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: Biomineralization
WHEN Wed., Oct. 8, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Pupa Gilbert, Radcliffe Institute Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow and University of Wisconsin at Madison
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-pupa-gilbert-fellow-presentation
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Gaza: A Panel Discussion
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Anat Biletzki, professor of philosophy, Tel Aviv University and Quinnipiac College; Sara Roy, senior research scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies.; Bill Slaughter, psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School and president, Gaza Community Mental Health Foundation, US; moderated by Roger Owen, AJ Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3712
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The Responsive City: Engaging Communities through Data Smart Governance
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 4:10 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and director of the Innovations in Government Program at Harvard Kennedy School; Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and co-director of Harvard’s Berkman Center; Bill Oates, CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
DETAILS Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Harvard Law School Visiting Professor Susan Crawford will discuss their new book "The Responsive City." When harnessed by dedicated leaders, they argue, data empowers communities and officials to make local government more transparent, responsive, accountable and cost-effective, thus thickening the bonds of democracy, increasing trust in government and improving civic life. Yet few cities are realizing the potential of digital tools and data-smart governance. Goldsmith and Crawford will explore the innovative leadership and other key strategies it takes to spearhead these new approaches to government. Bill Oates, whose work as the first Cabinet-level CIO for the City of Boston is explored in the book, will offer comments in response.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/The-Responsive-City
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MASS Seminar
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Legal and policy perspectives on EPA’s proposed clean power plan
Monday, October 6
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Panel discussion with David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council; Jeffrey Holmstead, Bracewell & Giuliani; and Robert Stavins (Moderator), HKS
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-06-160000-2014-10-06-173000/etipconsortium-energy-policy-seminar#sthash.fOr6eygZ.dpuf
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Using Business as a Force for Good Event
Monday, October 6
Monday, October 6
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (EDT)
Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th Floor, Havana Room, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-business-as-a-force-for-good-event-boston-tickets-13340155765
Cost: $16.74
Discover How to Build a Better Business & Hear from Fellow Travelers at Certified B Corporations
12:00 PM | Welcome: Open Networking
12:30 PM | Introduction: How to Build a Better Business. B Lab will give an introduction to the basics: “What are B Corps?”, “How can any company use the free B Impact Assessment tool?”, “How can the B Corp Handbook help you Measure what Matters?”
12:45 PM | Panel Discussion: Local B Corp leaders from Boston Organics, TripZero and Preserve will share their experience as a certified B Corporation and answer key questions: “How do you use Business as a Force for Good?”, “What did you learn by using the B Impact Assessment?”, “How do you engage your employees in Measuring What Matters?” and "What are the benefits of B Corp Certification?"
1:30-2 PM | Networking
Discover How to Build a Better Business & Hear from Fellow Travelers at Certified B Corporations
12:00 PM | Welcome: Open Networking
12:30 PM | Introduction: How to Build a Better Business. B Lab will give an introduction to the basics: “What are B Corps?”, “How can any company use the free B Impact Assessment tool?”, “How can the B Corp Handbook help you Measure what Matters?”
12:45 PM | Panel Discussion: Local B Corp leaders from Boston Organics, TripZero and Preserve will share their experience as a certified B Corporation and answer key questions: “How do you use Business as a Force for Good?”, “What did you learn by using the B Impact Assessment?”, “How do you engage your employees in Measuring What Matters?” and "What are the benefits of B Corp Certification?"
1:30-2 PM | Networking
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Antimicrobials and Public Health: From Serotherapy to Antibiotics (and Back)
Monday, October 6
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Scott Podolsky, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Abstract: Today, from Ebola to MRSA, we live in a global arena focused from the one end on the equitable distribution of available antimicrobials, and from the other on the dangers of antimicrobial overprescribing and overconsumption. Such concerns represent two sides of an aspiration to a “rational” therapeutics, in which the right drugs for the right patients are available at the right time in the right place for the right cost. These are longstanding concerns, and this talk will trace the course of antimicrobial policy in the United States over the course of the past century, from the advent of the treatment of pneumonia with antiserum in the first decades of the twentieth century, through the advent of antibiotics and evolving concerns over irrational therapy and antibiotic resistance in recent decades. Alternative futures – whether utopian or dystopian – have been envisioned, and alternative regulatory policies have been chosen to promote or alter such futures, throughout the past century. In the process, the roles of patients, private practitioners, public health departments, industry, regulatory bodies, and independent national and international organizations have been reimagined in the ongoing struggle to implement a rational therapeutics.
Biography: Scott Podolsky is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 2006, he has served as the Director of the Center for the History of Medicine based at the Countway Medical Library. He has co-authored Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology (1997), authored Pneumonia before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America (2006), and co-edited Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters (2009). His forthcoming book, The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January of 2015.
sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-06-161500-2014-10-06-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.XhxabQj1.dpuf
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MOOCS - Open Education with Old and New Learners
Monday, October 06, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jeff Haywood & Lori Breslow
Please join us for a discussion with Professor, CIO, and Librarian Jeff Haywood of the University of Edinburgh and Dr Lori Breslow of TLL to explore new issues emerging in online education environments. Who are today’s MOOC learners? What are their backgrounds & intentions? Where and how might we broaden access to higher education? Where do we go beyond MOOCs? How can we deliver open education at scale?
xTalks: Digital Discourses
This series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/jeffhaywood-loribreslow/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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Open Meetings: Digital Futures Consortium
WHEN Mon., Oct. 6, 2014, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Lamont Library Forum Room, 11 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology
LIBRARY LOCATION Lamont Library
DETAILS Regular general meetings for the Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard University in the coming academic year will be held on the first Mondays in October, March and June. These are general meetings separate from any event planning or project working groups. They are open to anyone with interest in digital scholarship, its evolving tools, and tapping into potential working relationships.
Digital Futures is an informal network of faculty, researchers, technologists, and librarians engaged in the ongoing transformation of scholarship through innovative technology. We are dedicated to sharing expertise across the global academic community, facilitating new forms and methods of research, and fostering collaborative projects that bring about field-changing developments in scholarship.
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South Sudan: What Went Terribly Wrong?
WHEN Mon., Oct. 6, 2014, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
SPEAKER(S) Ambassador Princeton Lyman, US special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan 2011-13
CONTACT INFO steven_leon@harvard.edu
DETAILS Amb. Lyman led the negotiations to complete Sudan's 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement enabling South Sudan to achieve independence in July 2011.
LINK www.hilr.harvard.edu
WHEN Mon., Oct. 6, 2014, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
SPEAKER(S) Ambassador Princeton Lyman, US special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan 2011-13
CONTACT INFO steven_leon@harvard.edu
DETAILS Amb. Lyman led the negotiations to complete Sudan's 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement enabling South Sudan to achieve independence in July 2011.
LINK www.hilr.harvard.edu
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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms
Monday, October 06, 2014
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Owen Zidar (University of Chicago)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/9948
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/9948
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Reflections on the Biosphere as a System
Monday, October 6
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Tyler Volk (NYU)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
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The Growth Imperative: Plotting a Sustainable Energy Future for India
Monday, October 6
5:30PM
MIT, E51-115 Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jairam Ramesh, Former Indian Minister for Rural Development, Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
The revival of rapid economic growth is an urgent imperative for India. At the same time, it is recognized that this growth must also be ecologically sustainable to both address domestic concerns and take into account the expectations of the international community. Energy choices will, to a very large extent, determine how successful India will be in this regard. Jairam Ramesh has, over the past three decades, been a key policy-maker at both an administrative and political level and his work has spanned all three areas of economy, energy, and the environment.
About the Speaker
Jairam Ramesh is a 2014 Fall Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh and a leader in international climate negotiations. He was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been a leading figure in international climate diplomacy for years. Mr. Ramesh also played a key leadership role at the Climate Change Summit in Cancun (2010) and at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (2009-2010). He held numerous high-level government posts, including Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development and Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests. He worked as an Advisor to the Finance Minister during 1996-98, to the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission during 1992-94, and to the Prime Minister in 1991. He has authored a number of government reports in area as diverse as energy, technology, capital goods, industrial policy, and telecom.
Contact Name: Francesca McCaffrey
mccafffr@mit.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-06-213000/growth-imperative-plotting-sustainable-energy-future-india#sthash.L16hq0lb.dpuf
MIT, E51-115 Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jairam Ramesh, Former Indian Minister for Rural Development, Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
The revival of rapid economic growth is an urgent imperative for India. At the same time, it is recognized that this growth must also be ecologically sustainable to both address domestic concerns and take into account the expectations of the international community. Energy choices will, to a very large extent, determine how successful India will be in this regard. Jairam Ramesh has, over the past three decades, been a key policy-maker at both an administrative and political level and his work has spanned all three areas of economy, energy, and the environment.
About the Speaker
Jairam Ramesh is a 2014 Fall Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh and a leader in international climate negotiations. He was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been a leading figure in international climate diplomacy for years. Mr. Ramesh also played a key leadership role at the Climate Change Summit in Cancun (2010) and at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (2009-2010). He held numerous high-level government posts, including Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development and Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests. He worked as an Advisor to the Finance Minister during 1996-98, to the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission during 1992-94, and to the Prime Minister in 1991. He has authored a number of government reports in area as diverse as energy, technology, capital goods, industrial policy, and telecom.
Contact Name: Francesca McCaffrey
mccafffr@mit.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-06-213000/growth-imperative-plotting-sustainable-energy-future-india#sthash.L16hq0lb.dpuf
or http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/growth-imperative-plotting-sustainable-energy-future-india
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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Positions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
Monday, October 6
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E19-758, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Philippe Aghion (Harvard)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Applied Theory Workshop (Joint MIT/Harvard)
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Design Excellence Along Boston’s Waterfront
Monday, October 6
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Price: Free and open to the public.
RSVP to rsvp@architects.org with "Waterfront 10/6” as the subject
Boston’s waterfront continues to grow and remains one of the city’s most appealing and significant assets. For the first time in more than a generation—since the Big Dig depressed the highway and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway was established—major buildings are being planned, including additions to the Long Wharf Marriott, the James Hook & Co. lobster site, and the Boston Harbor Garage. Can this small strip of Boston continue to be a premier North American destination while also emerging as a cutting-edge mixed-use community? What will the skyline look like 20 years from now? What might the public realm be? And how do we reconcile zoning limitations, environmental changes, and modern design with the growing demands and needs of this historic city?
Join us at District Hall (75 Northern Avenue, Boston) on Monday, October 6, at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion that explores these and other design issues related to development along this vital piece of Boston’s cityscape. The panel will be moderated by Ken Greenberg, former Boston Redevelopment Authority interim chief planner and principal of Greenberg Consultants, and includes Andrea Leers FAIA, principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates; Alex Krieger FAIA, principal, NBBJ; and David Dixon FAIA, senior principal, Stantec Urban Group, Stantec Architecture and Engineering. These urban planners and longtime Boston design advocates will discuss ways to foster the cultural, civic, residential, and economic vitality of this area while creating crucial public connections between the HarborWalk and the Greenway.
Panelists
Andrea Leers FAIA, principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Alex Krieger FAIA, principal, NBBJ
David Dixon FAIA, senior principal, Stantec Urban Group, Stantec Architecture and Engineering
Price: Free and open to the public.
RSVP to rsvp@architects.org with "Waterfront 10/6” as the subject
Boston’s waterfront continues to grow and remains one of the city’s most appealing and significant assets. For the first time in more than a generation—since the Big Dig depressed the highway and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway was established—major buildings are being planned, including additions to the Long Wharf Marriott, the James Hook & Co. lobster site, and the Boston Harbor Garage. Can this small strip of Boston continue to be a premier North American destination while also emerging as a cutting-edge mixed-use community? What will the skyline look like 20 years from now? What might the public realm be? And how do we reconcile zoning limitations, environmental changes, and modern design with the growing demands and needs of this historic city?
Join us at District Hall (75 Northern Avenue, Boston) on Monday, October 6, at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion that explores these and other design issues related to development along this vital piece of Boston’s cityscape. The panel will be moderated by Ken Greenberg, former Boston Redevelopment Authority interim chief planner and principal of Greenberg Consultants, and includes Andrea Leers FAIA, principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates; Alex Krieger FAIA, principal, NBBJ; and David Dixon FAIA, senior principal, Stantec Urban Group, Stantec Architecture and Engineering. These urban planners and longtime Boston design advocates will discuss ways to foster the cultural, civic, residential, and economic vitality of this area while creating crucial public connections between the HarborWalk and the Greenway.
Panelists
Andrea Leers FAIA, principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Alex Krieger FAIA, principal, NBBJ
David Dixon FAIA, senior principal, Stantec Urban Group, Stantec Architecture and Engineering
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Culturerunners
Monday, October 6
7pm – 9pm
MIT, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP by emailing rsvp@edgeofarabia.com
During the evening lecture, panels made up of selected artists, scientists and curators will present and discuss their findings from the previous week’s workshops dedicated to developing technologies for traveling artists. Findings will be presented in two categories, Mobile & Wearable Technologies as well as Online Communications & Archival Platforms, and will act as a coda for the week long collaboration betweenCULTURUNNERS, Edge of Arabia and MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology. A Q&A moderated by Ava Ansari and Azra Akšamija will follow the lecture.
Lecture Speakers include: Azra Aksamija, Ava Ansari, Carol Huh, Ahmed Mater, Daanish Masood, Regina Möller, Rashad Selim, and Stephen Stapleton.
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Tuesday, October 7
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The Great Firewall Inverts
Tuesday, October 7
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/freitas#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/freitas at 12:30 pm.
with Berkman Fellow Nathan Freitas
In the last few years, usage of the mobile messaging app WeChat (微信 Weixin), has skyrocketed not only inside China, but outside, as well. For mainland Chinese, Wechat is one of the only options available, due to frequent blockage of apps like Viber, Line, Twitter and Facebook. However, outside of China, fueled by a massive marketing campaign and the promise of "free calls and texts", overseas Chinese students and family, Tibetan exiles, and Bollywood celebrities also use the app as their primary mobile communications service. It is this phenomenon that might be called an inversion of the Great Firewall. Instead of Chinese users scaling the wall to get out, people around the world are walking up to the front gate, and asking to be let in.
Combined with the rise of attractive, low-cost mobile handsets from Huawei and Xiaomi that include China-based cloud services, being sold in India and elsewhere, the world is witnessing a massive expansion of Chinese telecommunications reach and influence, powered entirely by users choosing to participate in it. Due to these systems being built upon proprietary protocols and software, their inner workings are largely opaque and mostly insecure. Like most social media apps, the WeChat app has full permission to activate microphones and cameras, track GPS, access user contacts and photos, and copy all of this data at any time to their servers. Recently, it was discovered that Xiaomi MIUI phones sent all text messages through the companies cloud servers in China, without asking the user (Though, once this gained broad coverage in the news, the feature was turned off by default).
The fundamental question is do the Chinese companies behind these services have any market incentive or legal obligation to protect the privacy of their non-Chinese global userbase? Do they willingly or automatically turn over all data to the Ministry of Public Security or State Internet Information Office? Will we soon see foreign users targeted or prosecuted due to "private" data shared on WeChat? Finally, from the Glass Houses Department, is there any fundamental diffence in the impact on privacy freedom for an American citizen using WeChat versus a Chinese citizen using WhatsApp or Google?
About Nathan
Nathan Freitas leads the Guardian Project, an open-source mobile security software project, and directs technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. His work at the Berkman Center focuses on tracking the legality and prosecution risks for mobile security apps users worldwide.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asian Regionalism
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Peter Petri, Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance, Brandeis University; moderated by Shinju Fujihira, executive director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Low Emissions Development in an Era of Cheap and Abundant Fossil Fuels
Tuesday, October 7
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Tufts University, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/low-emissions-development-in-an-era-of-cheap-and-abundant-fossil-fuels-tickets-13184604507
How can we support development in ways that protect the planet from climate change in a future likely to be dominated by cheap and abundant supplies of fossil fuels?
This seminar, which is open to the public, will explore the emerging field of Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS), describe how the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has been working to support a variety of international LEDS initiatives and explore the significant future challenges facing these efforts.
List of Speakers:
Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director, SEI
Charles Heaps, Ph.D.Center Director and Senior Scientist, SEI
Topic: How SEI is supporting Low Emissions Development Planning around the World
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Ph. D. Tufts University
Topic: Energy and Poverty
Sivan Kartha, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, SEI
Topic: Equity and Low Carbon Development
Michael Lazarus, Senior Scientist, SEI
Topic: Climate Change Mitigation and Fossil Fuel Lock-in
The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
Contact Stockholm Environment Institute
Web sites: www.sei-us.org and www.sei-international.org
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Pre-Conference Back-to-the-Classroom Sessions: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
Tuesday, October 7
2:00p–5:00p
MIT, E-51, Wong Auditorium, corner of Amherst Street and Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
Cost: $25-50
Speaker: MIT SDM faculty
This year, on the day before the annual MIT SDM will offer pre-conference back-to-the-classroom sessions delivered by two of SDM???s best and brightest faculty members on the afternoon of October 7. This will include:
What is Systems Thinking and Why is It Important? presented by Qi Van Eilema Hommes, Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division, MIT; Senior Staff Engineer, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
A New Era in Project Management: Viewing Projects as Systems, presented by Bryan R Moser, Ph.D. Lecturer, System Design and Management, MIT: Researcher, Design Engineering Laboratory, University of Tokyo, President and CEO, Global Product Design.
Annual MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
The aim of this series is to provide practical information from multiple disciplines that will spark ideas that leaders at all developmental stages can apply to real-world challenges. Attendees will also gain insight into how to use systems thinking to support and develop current and future leaders, while meeting strategic goals, whether in industry, academia, government, or the world at large.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/systemsthinkingconference/2014/agenda.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Varies. See registration section at url below.
Tickets: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1510647
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and Management (SDM) program
For more information, contact: Joan S. Rubin
617.253.2081
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At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership
Tuesday, October 7
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ben Hermalin (UC Berkeley)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: Biomineralization
WHEN Wed., Oct. 8, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Pupa Gilbert, Radcliffe Institute Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow and University of Wisconsin at Madison
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-pupa-gilbert-fellow-presentation
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The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Jocelyne Cesari, senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, visiting associate professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University; director of Islam in the West, Harvard University
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/12949/
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Jocelyne Cesari, senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, visiting associate professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University; director of Islam in the West, Harvard University
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/12949/
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Gaza: A Panel Discussion
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Anat Biletzki, professor of philosophy, Tel Aviv University and Quinnipiac College; Sara Roy, senior research scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies.; Bill Slaughter, psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School and president, Gaza Community Mental Health Foundation, US; moderated by Roger Owen, AJ Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3712
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The Responsive City: Engaging Communities through Data Smart Governance
WHEN Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, 4:10 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and director of the Innovations in Government Program at Harvard Kennedy School; Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and co-director of Harvard’s Berkman Center; Bill Oates, CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
DETAILS Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Harvard Law School Visiting Professor Susan Crawford will discuss their new book "The Responsive City." When harnessed by dedicated leaders, they argue, data empowers communities and officials to make local government more transparent, responsive, accountable and cost-effective, thus thickening the bonds of democracy, increasing trust in government and improving civic life. Yet few cities are realizing the potential of digital tools and data-smart governance. Goldsmith and Crawford will explore the innovative leadership and other key strategies it takes to spearhead these new approaches to government. Bill Oates, whose work as the first Cabinet-level CIO for the City of Boston is explored in the book, will offer comments in response.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/The-Responsive-City
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African Migration
Tuesday, October 07
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Robert Lucas of Boston University
Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Boston Area Sustainability Group: Sustainability & Innovation
Tuesday, October 7
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Venture Cafe - Cambridge Innovation Center, 5th Floor, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-innovation-tickets-12892821777
Cost: $10-12
We're desperate for the innovations that can help with sustianability and climate change, but what does innovation know about sustainability and what does sustainability know about innovation? Tonight our discussion brings these two worlds together.
Come meet, hear, and engage with:
Asheen Phansey, Global head of the Sustainable Innovation Lab at Dassault Systèmes
Asheen will candidly describe the evolution of a reactive, compliance-based corporate sustainability strategy to one that supports the development of a “Sustainable Innovation Lab”. View his LinkedIn profile here: www.linkedin.com/in/asheen.
Eric Hudson, Founder & CEO | Preserve
Eric will share highlights and learnings from his experience building the Preserve brand - a sustainable product innovation requiring supply chain reinvention. Read his story here: https://www.preserveproducts.com/explore/preserve-101/founding-story.
Helen Sahi, Director for Sustainability for Avery Dennison Corporate and Retail Branding and Information Systems
Helen says, "Innovation is where art, consciousness, science, business and end-user needs intersect." She'll speak about how Avery Dennison innovates sustainable products and actions. View her LinkedIn profle here: www.linkedin.com/in/helensahi.
Rakhshita Dhar, Director, Innovation Services, MassBio
Rakhsita will talk about how MassBio Innovation Services links entrepreneurs in a distributive network to foster innovation and commercialize new ideas within the biotechnology ecosystem. View her Linkedin profile here: www.linkedin.com/pub/rakhshita-dhar/17/654/67b.
Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers share their experiences and then we open the discussion to the group.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
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African Innovators: Scientists From The Continent Speak About Their Work Changing the World
Tuesday, October 7
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, 10th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-innovators-scientists-from-the-continent-speak-about-their-work-changing-the-world-600-pm-tickets-12544714579
Working under challenging conditions, African scientists are changing the face of the continent, conducting vital research with global implications in the fields of agriculture, medicine, and resource management.
Seeding Labs and The West African Research Association invite you to hear from our partner scientists about their current research and the challenges and opportunities that working in continent present.
Join us for an inspirational evening of learning and networking, and to find out how you can get involved with our work and upcoming endeavors.
Speakers will include:
Dr. Henry Nii Nmai Bulley, Assistant Professor of Geography, Dept. of Social Sciences and Human Services, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Dr. Bulley’s interest is in understanding the interactions between land use dynamics and the natural environment with a focus on sustainable water resource management, and adoption of geospatial science and technology for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. His work has included water resource applications of GIS and remote sensing, landscape ecology, sustainable development, land use and land cover change at rural-urban fringe, machine learning (classification tree) analysis, spatial modeling, and web-based GIS.
Dr. Peter Jeranyama, Environmental Physiologist, Extension Assistant Professor, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr. Jeranyama’s work in the Zimbabwe and The U.S. has been in the crop and soil science fields, and currently focuses on irrigation water management and drainage systems, shade cycling, leaf gas exchange and frost protection related to the cranberry industry, issues which influence production, environmental concerns, costs, and regulations.
Dr. Paul Mireji, Adjunct Scientist, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Trypanosomiasis Research Centre & Visiting Scientist in Tropical Medicine, Laboratory of Public Health and Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Mireji’s work in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Tropical Entomology, Parasitology and Genomics has included research on malaria and trypanosmiasis (sleeping sickness) and the hosts of the cause of each illness, the mosquito and the tsetse fly, exploring vaccine and control effects for the latter.
The event will be moderated by Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen, whose background in technology, art, and business, and aim to foster a culture of educational excellence, has lead him to leverage local business and educational communities to create experiential learning and professional development opportunities in Cambridge. In one of his latest innovations, he has transformed his City Council Campaign into a pop-up art venue that will also become a mobile lab for science experiments.
Seeding Labs invests in exceptional scientists in developing countries who have limited resources, but limitless potential. We provide reduced-cost lab equipment and training and foster professional networks in order to enhance higher education, support vital research and create a more connected global scientific community.
Established in 1989, The West African Research Association, (WARA) is a network of scholars dedicated to the promotion of research on West Africa and the diaspora. WARA supports research through its fellowships, facilitates scholarly exchange and the dissemination of accurate information on West Africa and its diasporic communities, and works to increase awareness of the critical place of West Africa in the global community.
Conference: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
8:30a–5:30p
MIT, E-51, Wong Auditorium, corner of Amherst Street and Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1510647
Cost: $25-200
Speaker: MIT SDM faculty and alumni; industry execs.
Annual MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
The aim of this series is to provide practical information from multiple disciplines that will spark ideas that leaders at all developmental stages can apply to real-world challenges. Attendees will also gain insight into how to use systems thinking to support and develop current and future leaders, while meeting strategic goals, whether in industry, academia, government, or the world at large.
Systems thinking is a competitive imperative for leaders at all stages of their careers: established, evolving, and emerging. Not only must current leaders understand how to apply systems thinking to address complex challenges, but companies must be able to apply this approach to develop the systems-based thinkers who will become the leaders of the future.
To help organizations and their leaders succeed, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's annual Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges, sponsored by System Design and Management (SDM), will focus on best practices for leaders at all levels of the organization.
Speakers will include emerging, evolving, and established leaders from several industry and government sectors. They will discuss:
How to use systems thinking to align and lead functionally and geographically dispersed teams that are tackling complex challenges;
Ways to monitor progress and results;
Benefits achieved, lessons learned, and next steps for developing leadership within organizations and individuals; and
How systems thinking has advanced organizational objectives and benefited their personal careers.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/systemsthinkingconference/2014/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Varies. See registration section at url above.
Tickets: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1510647
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and Management (SDM) program
For more information, contact: Joan S. Rubin
617.253.2081
jsrubin@mit.edu
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The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century
Wednesday, October 8
BU, Metcalf Trustee Center, One Silber Way, Boston
This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required by October 1.
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/rsvp-the-future-is-now-urban-asia-in-the-21st-century/
A one-day conference at Boston University exploring how Asia’s cities are reshaping concepts of urban development.
Co-sponsored by Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Initiative on Cities, the Center for the Study of Asia, Global Programs India Initiatives, and the Center for Global Health and Development, in collaboration with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and BU’s Metropolitan College.
Conference Overview
The Asian continent is home to a vast array of cities and urban conditions. From the futurism of Dubai, to the extreme contrast of wealth and squalor in Mumbai, to the spectacular rise of Shanghai and Beijing as global nodes of political and economic power, cities in Asia in the 21st century are redefining notions – both positive and negative — of urbanization. While it is impossible to identify a single model of urban development, cities across Asia are providing examples of ways governmental institutions, the private sector, and civil society generate and manage rates of urbanization at scales previously unimaginable; they are pushing the boundaries of technology, governance, ecological sustainability, and the very concept of progress. Based on the proposition that cities provide a critical lens into social, cultural, economic, and political relationships, and by association humanity’s capacity to solve social and ecological problems, this conference asks: how are Asia’s cities reshaping accepted knowledge about processes of urbanization and urban management? Speakers will examine established theories of urbanization and urban management and ask whether we have the appropriate intellectual and policy toolkit to address issues associated with rapidly expanding cities in the 21st century.
The day-long conference, beginning October 8th at 9:00 a.m., will be organized into three sequential panels as follows:
Panel 1: “Idea of the City: The Asian Challenge”
This panel asks whether current visions on the Asian city, articulated by urban theorists and adopted by policy-makers in Asia, are starting to challenge the Euro-American perception of urbanization.
Panel 2: “The Politics of the City”
This panel affirms the notion that cities are sites of cooperation and conflict, and examines the politics of identify, governance, and conflict management that characterize a spectrum of urban Asian experiences and contexts.
Panel 3: “The City and Its Environment”
This panel examines how patterns of urbanization change the urban environment, from energy use intensity to pollution and public health.
More information at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/urbanasia/
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Promoting Innovation in Agriculture: Energy; Conservation; Research and Development
Wednesday, October 8
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/595361994
Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System.
All webinars are recorded and will be available at www.farmland.org/newengland. You will find these four webinars already posted there:
May 14: Introduction to the New England Food Policy Report and Project
June 18th: Organic Waste: Finding Uses for It in the Food System
July 16th: Frameworks for Regional Food System Collaboration
July 23rd: Reducing Farmland Conversion: State Land Use and Protection Policies
For a more detailed description of each of the webinars, please visit www.newenglandfoodpolicy.org
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Governing Coercion: Armed Politics and the State in South Asia
The Impact of Environmental Regulation on U.S. Oil Refineries
WHEN Wed., Oct. 8, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Richard Sweeney, Harvard University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Healing After Genocide: Stories from Rwanda
Wednesday, October 8
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
New England School of Law, 154 Stuart Street and Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-after-genocide-stories-from-rwanda-tickets-12779183883
Cost: donation
Join friends of the Rwanda Youth Healing Center and the Upstander Project (formerly Coexist Learning Project) for a special reception and screening of the documentary film, Coexist and Rwanda Youth Healing Center's film, The First 10 Years of the Healing Center.
We are thrilled to welcome Solange Nyirasafari, Executive Director of the Rwanda Youth Healing Center. Solange and the Rwanda Youth Healing Center were both featured in the film, Coexist, and she has made a special trip from Rwanda to join us for the very first time.
Also joining us at the reception and film screening are members of the Upstander Project team, director, Mr. Adam Mazo and learning director, Dr. Mishy Lesser.
The reception will be held from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the New England School of Law.
The film screening will be held from 6:45 - 9:00 p.m at Emerson College (a 5 minute walk from the reception).
Join us for one or both!
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Askwith Forum: Is U.S. Public School Funding Fair?
WHEN Wed., Oct. 8, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard GSE, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT LANDING FLAG No
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT AskWith Forum
IS THIS AN EXTERNAL EVENT? Yes
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Moderator: Susan Eaton, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99, research director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School; co-director, One Nation Indivisible
Panelists:
Bruce Baker, professor, The Rutgers University Graduate School of Education
Andrés Alonso EdM ’99, EdD ’06, professor of practice, HGSE; former CEO, Baltimore Public Schools
David Hinojosa, Southwest regional counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
David G. Sciarra, executive director, Education Law Center
Do states provide sufficient resources for all children to achieve meaningful growth in school? Does the national school funding process function fairly and effectively? This forum will use the measures of "fairness" developed in the groundbreaking "National Report Card: Is School Funding Fair?" study to explore the current state of U.S. public school funding. Panelists will discuss how inequitable funding for public schools hampers efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations.
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Mass Innovation Nights 67 "Women Founders”
Wednesday, October 8
6:00pm
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Central Square, Cambridge
For our 67th Mass Innovation Nights featuring "Women Founders". Babson's CWEL - Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership - is the generous sponsor! A collection of inspiring new products await you! Join us on October 8th. You will not want to miss out; trust us. - See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-67-women-founders#sthash.eJEmTPq2.dpuf
More information at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-67-women-founders
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Information Evening on the System Design and Management
Wednesday, October 8
6 - 9 p.m.
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room (Under the Dome), 222 Memorial Drive,
Please join us in the Bush Room at MIT for an Information Evening on the System Design and Management (SDM) program. You will have the opportunity to learn about MIT's master of science in engineering and management, discuss career opportunities, and network with SDM alumni, faculty, students, and staff.
For further information please feel free to email SDM Admissions at sdm@mit.edu or call 617.253.1055.
The MIT Master's Program in Engineering and Management
More at: https://lgosdm.mit.edu/VCSS/servlet/SDMFrontEnd?VIEW=1&id=319#sthash.ZTZX2pjv.dpuf
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How Our Brains Interact With the World, lecture @ Science in the News
Wednesday, October 8
7PM to 9:00 PM
Armenise Ampitheatre, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
To
Science in the News presents grad students giving this free two hour lecture in three parts: first covering the basics of the topic of the night as a foundation before they talk about the intermediate topics related to their field and launch into the advanced topics of what they are doing at the Harvard Medical School.
About Science in the News (SITN):
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/what-is-sitn/
"Science in the News is a Graduate Student Group at the Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences.
"Our mission: To bridge the communication gap between scientists and non-scientists. We accomplish this by providing free seminars, lessons, social events, and written material on varying science topics for the general public. We provide science PhD students the chance to hone their communication skills by hosting these events and by giving feedback on their presentations and articles.
"Our members: Our membership includes graduate students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Public Health, Medical School, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University".
Can't make the lecture in person?
All of the lectures are live streamed and can be viewed online at the Science in the News webpage:http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/sitn-live/
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Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts
Wednesday, October 8
7pm
3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
This summer’s focus on the 50,000+ children crossing the southern border of the United States has again brought U.S. immigration policy into sharp relief.
Are current policies adequate for today’s immigrant experience? How is modern immigration different from that of previous generations?
By examining the immigrant experience of various ethnic and religious groups throughout U.S. history, the book Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts demonstrates that the same patterns of native resistance, immigrant struggles and contributions have occurred over and over again. This panel discussion, featuring historian Deborah Dash Moore, Constitutional Law expert William G. Ross, and policy analyst Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute, puts today’s immigration debate into a larger political, historical, sociological, and legal perspective. Diane Portnoy, founder and CEO of The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc., moderates.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Can New England Feed Itself?: A “New England Food Vision”
Wednesday, October 8
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Church In Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Permaculture/events/209489322/
What does it mean to “buy local”? What’s our vision for supporting local farmers and fishers, engaging in sustainable agriculture and fisheries, and changing our broken food system?
Come join us as Professor Brian Donahue of Brandeis University presents A New England Food Vision, a collaborative report that considers the future of our region. The Vision calls for New England to reach a bold goal of producing at least 50% of our food by 2060 – food that will be clean, fair, just and accessible for all.
Incorporating more than three years of collaborative research and input from hundreds of voices throughout New England, A New England Food Vision imagines a future in which food nourishes a social, economic, and environmental landscape that supports a high quality of life for everyone, including generations to come
A panel of experts will respond with additional reflections about food justice, challenges for new food producers, and the state of our land and ocean resources. In addition to Professor Donahue we will hear from:
Karen Spiller - Network Team member of Food Solutions New England and former director of Boston Collaborative of Food and Fitness
Eva Agudelo - National Incubator Farm Training Initiative (NIFTI) Coordinator, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, food justice and what is happening with new immigrant farmers
Brett Tolley - Community Organizer, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance is from a four-generation commercial fishing family and working to advance social, environmental, and economic justice throughout the seafood value chain.
There will then be plenty of time for Q&A and discussion. Bring your questions!
Co-Sponsored by JPNET, JP Forum, Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness, Greater Boston Permaculture MeetUp, and Boston Nature Center.
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Thursday, October 9
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Divided We Eat: Food Inequality in America
WHEN Thu., Oct. 9, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE The Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum, formerly the Theological Opportunities Program at Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Parke Wilde, associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
COST $15 general; $5 students
CONTACT INFO info@womenexplore.org
DETAILS WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum was formed in 1973 as the Harvard Divinity School program Theological Opportunities Program. In the fall of 2013 WE celebrated 40th years of thought-provoking lectures within a strong feminist community. WE brings together people from the Cambridge and Greater Boston area.
This lecture is part of a 10-week lecture and discussion forum addressing topics relevant to our society, aimed at better understanding our world and ourselves. The Fall 2014 series examines the theme of " Class and Privilege Through a Feminist Lens," and runs each Thursday from September 18th through November 20th.
Visit www.womenexplore.org and Facebook for more information.
LINK www.womenexplore.org
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Fukushima's Forbidden Zone as a Site for Performance Art: Three Years Later
Thursday, October 9
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
William Johnston, Professor, Wesleyan University; Dancer/Choreographer, Eiko; Photographer
In January and July, 2014, William Johnston traveled to areas affected by the explosions of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. In this presentation, Johnston will show images of Eiko performing in these places in the context of the ongoing measures to deal with this crisis.
William Johnston received his BA from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, and his MA in Regional Studies East Asia and PhD in History and East Asian Languages, both from Harvard. He is Professor of History, East Asian Studies, and Science in Society at Wesleyan University, where he was also a Faculty Fellow at the College of the Environment for the 2012-13 academic year; during the 2014-15 academic year he is the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor in History at Harvard and Visiting Artist in the Dance Department and the College of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. He has pursued photography seriously since 1993, and his images of Eiko in the Fukushima area are scheduled for exhibitions at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Colorado State University at Colorado Springs, and at Wesleyan University.
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Genzyme Building Tour- Back by Popular Demand!
Thursday, October 9
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Genzyme, 500 Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/genzyme-building-tour-back-by-popular-demand-tickets-13154081211
Join Common Boston for a tour of one of the country's most environmentally responsible office buildings. Completed just over 10 years ago, this building breathes good design, having earned earning LEED Plantinum, the highest rating by the US Green Building Council.
Designed by the award-winning German architectural firm Behnisch, Behnisch and Partner, theGenzyme Center in Kendall Square is an innovative, twelve-story, 350,000 square foot office building that shines as a beacon in Kendall Square. As the global company's headquarters, this building's presence in Kendall Square, and the 900 Genzyme employees that bring it to life, serve as both an anchor anda catalyst for more urban revitalization in the neighborhood of Cambridge.
Led by a Genzyme insider, the tour will showcase the building's greatest features and give us a glimpse into life at the company. Tour begins promptly at 1:30pm, beginning in the Main Lobby.
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CONNECT Symposium 2014
Thursday, October 9
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Avenue, #100, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/connect-symposium-2014-tickets-12367927805
The CONNECT Symposium is an annual forum to examine best practices in helping families move from poverty to long-term economic stability. Attendees include business and civic leaders, leading thinkers, policymakers and practitioners, elected officials and other concerned individuals and institutions.
Join CONNECT as we discuss the role of individual and peer support in integrated service delivery for economic development programs. The Symposium is free and open to the public.
Panel 1: Research and data panel: Research has shown that integrated service delivery exponentially improves financial outcomes for individuals working toward financial stability and mobility. What’s the role of coaching and peer support in ensuring that the gains made are lasting?
Panel 2: Practitioners Panel: Practitioner spotlight on programs that are supporting lasting change through coaching and peer support.
The CONNECT Investors Forum, held immediately following the Symposium, is an important venue for building collaborative working relationships among individuals and organizations from the business, nonprofit, and public sectors involved in the work and mission of CONNECT. Individual tickets to the Investors Forum are available for a donation of $100 each.
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FACTs Boston: The Impacts Of Climate Change
Thursday, October 9
4:00 PM to 8:30 PM
MIT Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/facts-boston-the-impacts-of-climate-change-tickets-12784983229
Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, Inserm
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Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy
Thursday, October 9
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E25-111
Speaker: Barry Posen, Frank Gavin, Stephen Walt
Barry Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and the director of MIT's Security Studies Program. His most recent book is "Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy" (Cornell University Press, 2014)
Frank Gavin is the first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is the author of many books including "Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age" (Cornell University Press, 2012).
Stephen Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs. Among the books he has written is "Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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Heroes, Villains, and Nerds: How Science is Portrayed in the Media, and How Portrayals Have Changed
Thursday, October 9
5:00PM -6:00PM
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street, Boston
James Shanahan, Associate Dean, College of Communication, Boston University
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
Contact Name: Jennifer L. Berglund
berglund@bu.edu
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Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge Kickoff
Thursday, October 9
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Lobby Area, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/deans-cultural-entrepreneurship-challenge-kickoff-tickets-13315010555
Join us for the kickoff of the 2015 Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge! The Challenge calls upon students with an entrepreneurial spirit to develop venture-based solutions that provide the organizational infrastructure necessary for artists and the arts to thrive. Randy Weiner, esteemed American playwright and theatre producer, will give a keynote address sharing insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with starting and growing cultural enterprises.
Students will have the chance to meet like-minded individuals from across the University and within the community to explore ideas, partnerships, and opportunities focused on issues that include, but are not limited to, the following:
Funding and Audiences
Broad Cultural Impact and Access
Artists' Services and Support
Expanding Horizons
The Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge is Co-sponsored by Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School, Dean Diana Sorensen of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Silkroad, a nonprofit arts organization affiliated with Harvard University and led by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team and ventures throughout the Challenge timeline. More information on programming can be found on the i-lab’s website: www.i-lab.harvard.edu.
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What Does Adapting to Climate Change Look Like?
Thursday, October 9
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105502&view=Detail
Allie Goldstein, associate, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, and Kirsten Howard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coastal Management Fellow, NH Department of Environmental Services
*Reception to follow
What does adapting to climate change look like? In the summer of 2013, Allie Goldstein and
Kirsten Howard set out on a cross-country road trip to answer that question. They met with
farmers, city planners, climate scientists, rainwater harvesters and a queen to find out what communities across the United States are doing to build resilience to climate impacts such as hotter temperatures, more extreme storms and droughts, and rising seas. Over three months, they visited 31 states and gathered 33 stories of climate resilience, which were published on their blog, www.adaptationstories.com and in national news outlets. Allie and Kirsten will share some of these stories and the most important lessons they learned about how we can adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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Emerson Accelerator: Discussion with Richard Banfield
Thursday, October 9
Prof. David Harel has been at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, and is incumbent of the William Sussman Professorial Chair. He was Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from 1989 to 1995, and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1998 for seven years.
Ice Age Climates and Climate Oscillators
Friday, October 10
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Richard Peltier
Speaker Bio: http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/~peltier/
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
Host: Ploy Achakulwisut
Email: pachakulwisut@fas.harvard.edu
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GSD Talks: "Radical Cities" author Justin McGuirk in conversation with Felipe Correa
WHEN Fri., Oct. 10, 2014, 1 – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Loeb Library, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/justin-mcguirk-radical-cities-author-justin-mcguirk-in.html
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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Friday, October 10
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
FXB Atrium, Harvard Longwood Campus, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at www.paperlesspost.com/events/9026868-270057df/replies/155670489-39a414f5
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Saturday, October 11
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IndieWebCampCambridge 2014
Saturday, October 11 to Sunday, October 12
9 am
MIT Stata Center, room 32-D463, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us in Cambridge, MA for the very first IndieWebCamp at MIT - one of many IndieWebCamps.
Join us at MIT for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web!
The IndieWeb movement is a global community that is building an open set of principles and methods that empower people to take back ownership of identity and data instead of relying on 3rd party websites.
At IndieWebCamp you’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, WebMention and more!
http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/Cambridge
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Exploring Boston’s Urban Forest
Saturday, October 11
10am-4pm
Cambridge DPW, 147 Hampshire Street, Cambridge
Cost $15.00 but free if you use the
RSVP at http://earthwatch.org/expeditions/exploring-bostons-urban-forest but free if participants use the promo code TREES upon sign-up
How are our most important neighbors—our cities' trees—faring? Find out while exploring one charming city.
Urban forests are more than pretty: they mitigate climate change, improve psychological health, filter pollutants, and increase oxygen levels.
Cities are made up of buildings and streets, but between and among human structures are thousands of trees that make up the urban forest. Earthwatch is collaborating with the arborist of the City of Cambridge, just across the river from Boston, to collect data to study and protect the 18,000 trees that make up the city's critically important urban forest.
You'll be trained in techniques for identifying species, measuring and observing individual tree samples, and uploading data via mobile apps. During the course of the day you'll work in groups, exploring Cambridge's urban forest and collecting data on the health, growth patterns, and impact on buildings and streets of individual trees.
You'll help build a growing database of information needed to understand how trees positively impact urban areas and what trees need to survive and thrive in stressful environments.
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Massachusetts Food System Listening Sessions- Boston Forum
Saturday, October 11
12:30 PM to 3:30 PM (EDT)
Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/massachusetts-food-system-listening-sessions-boston-forum-tickets-13077905367
What will it take for Massachusetts to have an equitable and sustainable food system - one that provides good food, thriving jobs and businesses, and a healthy environment for everyone in the Commonwealth?
Massachusetts is developing the first stage of its Food Systems Plan, and we want to make sure that all those who care about a good food system for Boston have their voices represented in the plan.
So if you eat, grow, catch, cook, process, package, distribute or sell food in the city, please join us at the Reggie Lewis Center, 1350 Tremont St.,Boston on October 11th from 12:30 to 3:30pm! Share your ideas with other Bostonians as we talk about how our food system works, how it doesn't, and what we want to do about it.
Douglas G. MacMartin, Caltech
Tuesday, October 14
12:30pm-1:30pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
MASS Seminar
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Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
Tuesday, October 14
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mariaflavia Harari (MIT Graduate Student)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
Tuesday, October 14
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105
Speaker: Vlada Stamenkovic (MIT)
Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
Speaker: Ms. Sudha Maniam, GE Global
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2014.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie DiNardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Productivity, and the Wealth of Nations
WHEN Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy,
Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Geoffrey Heal, Columbia Business School, and Jisung Park, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Adapting Species to a Changing World: The Potential of Genome Editing
Wednesday, October 15
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Innovative new technologies may enable scientists to manipulate ancient and modern DNA to safeguard ecosystems from invasive organisms, help species recover their genetic diversity, and address issues of climate change. However, as geneticist George Church will discuss, while resurrecting mammoths could help maintain the Arctic permafrost, such developments require thoughtful consideration of complex system interactions and potential unintended consequences.
Lecture. Free and open to the public.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-15-220000/adapting-species-changing-world-potential-genome-editing#sthash.FV8VwWLP.dpuf
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Crowdfunding’s role in the future of technology innovation
Wednesday, October 15
6:30 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Join us for a Feature Presentation including interviews with serial entrepreneur and leading Angel investor, David S. Rose, and equity Crowdfunding pioneer, Ryan Feit. Hear how Crowdfunding is changing the way early-stage technology is financed.
Agenda:
Speed networking & registration (6:30 sharp)
Premier of Feature Presentation
Interactive ’Needs & Asks’ session
Feature Presentation starring:
David S. Rose, Founder & CEO, Gust, Managing Partner, Rose Tech Ventures, Chairman Emeritus, NY Angels
Ryan Feit, Co-Founder & CEO, SeedInvest
Following the Feature Presentation we'll begin the interactive "Needs & Asks" session. Requests will be announced to the group and connections can be made in real-time. Attendees are encouraged to submit their request when registering.
About the speakers:
David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur, Inc 500 CEO and active angel investor who has helped to fund over 100 companies. He is the author of the New York Times best selling book, “Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups”. David has been described by Forbes magazine as “New York’s Archangel” and by Red Herring magazine as "Patriarch of Silicon Alley." He is the founder and CEO of Gust, the international collaboration platform for startup financing that connects over 50,000 business angels and 250,000 entrepreneurs. David is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Associate Founder and Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies.
Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Carlson Capital, Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Prior to the passage of the JOBS Act, Ryan supported The Startup Exemption, the nonprofit responsible for bringing the concept of equity crowdfunding to Washington, D.C. Ryan co-founded the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serves as a Board Member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates group. Whenever given the chance, Ryan enjoys traveling and has been to 77 countries. Ryan received an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Wheelock College is pleased to host 2014 Presidential International Visiting Scholar, Dr. Renate Minas from October 13-27. Dr. Minas currently serves as a faculty member for the Department of Social Work at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her topic and research areas include, applied social research, social welfare policy, international scholarship and research, and international teaching perspectives.
The Presidential International Visiting Scholars series is a cross-cultural initiative designed to promote global understanding and literacy and an international educational experience for faculty, learners, and administrators at Wheelock and beyond. During their stay, the College invites the Visiting Scholars to present a lecture on a topic related to their expertise. Please join us for Dr. Minas' public lecture, "Combating Poverty the Swedish Way," on October 16th!
Doris Sommer's new book, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development. From the top and from below, creative projects and their interpretation fuel positive change and renew humanists' opportunities to make civic contributions.
Sommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
This is the story of how the American Empire affects us and the world. We're the victims and the enablers.
*American Empire* is an indictment on the country that has supposedly nurtured us, but is slowly destroying us. Beginning with the founding of the Federal Reserve our economy is controlled by a system of debt and inflation. It has become an economic empire that is destroying our planet and all its natural resources driven by a relentless need to amass money and power.
"the first film to connect the dots"
"a revolution in film" ~ Huffington Post
"Our founding fathers broke away from an empire to found a Republic, but today we are once again under an empire's rule, the American Empire. And the goal of an empire is to exploit the world. Empires by their nature are never free and can not coexist with a Republic." ~ American Empire, Patrea Patrick
"We in the United States don't realize that our corporations have created this very subtle, very clandestine empire. It's been done in secret - and that's very dangerous, because democracy is based on the premise that you have an informed electorate, and if the electorate doesn't understand the most basic premise of our foreign policy --which is taking resources and markets from around the world --we can't vote intelligently, which means we can not be a true democracy." ... "No rational person assumes that we can continue on this course." ~John Perkins, author, former _Economic Hit Man_
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
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*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos
Startup Stir: Engaging Fans with Social Media
Thursday, October 16
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-stir-engaging-fans-with-social-media-registration-12452863851
Cost: $5-10
Engaging Fans with Social Media
This month, Beacon Hill Partners is excited to host a forum on social media for fan engagement.
If you're starting a new venture or energizing an old one, online fan engagement can make or break your marketing efforts. Are you emotionally connecting with your fans? Are you meeting them at the times and on the platforms where they want to hear from you? Are you retaining, engaging and converting your fans in to customers?
To get to the bottom of this, we've assembled an expert panel of social media gurus from Dunkin Donuts, the Boston Celtics, area ad agencies and more. Best of all, Startup Stir is an excellent networking event with complimentary cocktails sponsored by Boston cocktail caterer Revolution Cocktails. This is an event you won't want to miss!
Expert Social Media Panelists:
Jessica Gioglio, Director of Social Media, Dunkin' Brands
Peter Stringer, Sr. Director, Digital Media, Boston Celtics
Mike Proulx, Executive VP, Digital + Director of Social Media, Hill Holliday
Surprise Panelist Coming Soon!
Startup Stir is a place for professionals from all industries to exchange knowledge.
Our monthly networking event covers a range of topics that are pertinent to small businesses and entrepenuers. With guest speakers, free food and beverages, and an exchange of knowledge, what’s not to love? Here you will sharpen your skills, learn something new, and creatively collaborate. Come grow your network and stay on tap!
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Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life
Thursday, October 16
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
New England Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105501&view=Detail
Peter Molnar, 4th Annual John H. Carlson Lecture, presented by MIT’s Lorenz Center and The New England Aquarium
*Reception will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center’s 4th Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre. Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT’s School of Science launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry, to foster creative approaches to learning how climate works. The annual Carlson Lecture features exciting new results in climate science each year to the general public; it is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center at MIT.
Three million years ago, ice covered Canada for the first time, the first Ice Age, in hundreds of millions of years. Concurrently, mountain lions crossed the Isthmus of Panamá from North America to South America, while Armadillos moved into North America, in the Great American Interchange. Many geologists imagine that the Isthmus of Panamá emerged three million years ago not only to provide a land bridge for the Interchange, but also to facilitate Ice Ages. During Ice Ages, however, Panamá cools and dries out. Could it have been global climate change instead, associated with an ice-covered Canada, that temporarily transformed Panamá’s uninviting jungles into a savanna highway conducive to overland travel?
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Thursday, October 16
7pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and best-selling author, has been exploring the interface between environmental degradation and capitalism for more than a decade. Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, provides a far-reaching explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
\Who benefits from the status quo? How deeply are the current power structures embedded in our political economy? How difficult will it to be change them?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
MIT Energy Night 2014
Friday, Oct 17, 2014
6:00PM - 9:00PM
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
Speaker: With Daniel Rothman (MIT), Andrew H. Knoll (Harvard), Hillary Young (UCSB), and Anthony Barnosky (Berkeley)
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Tuesday, October 21
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Charles M. Blow, op-ed columnist,The New York Times; author of the forthcoming book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Tuesday, October 21
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/charles-m-blow/
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Harpoon Brewery Sustainability Tour, Tasting, & Talk
Tuesday, October 21
Harpoon Brewery ("HB") is a great case study for different types of sustainability including environment, community, and employee relationships. Since obtaining a brewering permit in 1986, HB has been recognized for its sustainable best practices specifically in areas of waste reduction, responsible chemical usage, operational efficiency measures, and energy management initiatives; and In 2012 was awarded the 2012 Boston Green Business Award. HB also made a commitment to be a "good neighbor" by creating Harpoon Helps, a philanthropic group that donates resrources and volunteer hours to local charities. Most recently, HB moved to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in order to give employees an added benefit and ensure that HB's mission and values would remain committed to great product and experience for customers!
Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS17 (GA)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
General Assembly, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/203939772/
Cost: $5.00/per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, October 21st for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
We're happy to hosted by our friends at General Assembly. Be sure to RSVP early to grab your spot! Come to meet new people, check out new hands-on gadgets and tools, enjoy healthy food, and learn from personal stories.
QS Boston is dedicated to hosting events that are safe and comfortable for everyone. All QS Boston events will follow the QS Boston Code of Conduct. Questions/feedback can be sent to Maggie (maggie.delano@gmail.com).
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Vincent at vmcphillip at gmail dot com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm IGNITE SHOW&TELLS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Maggie at maggie.delano at gmail dot com, so you can discuss your topic. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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SOMERVILLE ROVING ART EVENTS BUS
We are looking for folks to help us program our new M.U.S.C.R.A.T. Bus (Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport).
About the MUSCRAT
The city of Somerville, led by the Somerville Arts Council, has bought an old school bus, which has been transformed into a Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport (M.U.S.C.R.A.T). We anticipate that the inside will be used to conduct roaming art classes, performance art or dance, while the outside could be used to screen films or host concerts. The intent for our M.U.S.C.R.A.T. is to create a flexible roving catalyst for creation.
Perhaps you'd like to…
create a comix workshop for youth in an underserved area; this might take place at Mystic River Housing, for example
produce a dance performance in or around the bus in an unlikely location
host a public craft night inside the bus
We look forward to hearing your ideas!
Official Call
For more details and the official call to Producers, go here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/muscrat
Rachel Strutt, Program Manager, Somerville Arts Council
p: 617.625.6600, x2985 f: 617.666.4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Visit Nibble, a blog about food & culture at
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/nibble
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CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS ARTS GRANT PROGRAM - October 15, 2014
Cambridge Arts makes annual awards of $200-$2000 to support access to professional arts and culture events for Cambridge youth through Field Trip Grants and supports individual artists and organizations through Project Grants. Project Grants are awarded in two categories: Creating & Presenting and Education & Access. Entry fee.
Details: 617-349-4380
http://www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/grants
cambridgearts@cambridgema.gov
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
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://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
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/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
High Tech Events: http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
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/
Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Tuesday, October 7
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Origins of Life on Earth
Greg Fournier - Associate Professor of Geobiology, MIT
Francis Macdonald - Associate Professor of Geology, Harvard
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Fall 2014 Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Discover the origins of life on earth and how life itself can drastically alter the landscape of our planet. Then learn what prospects lie ahead of finding habitable planets and even other types of life outside of the Earth. Come with questions, share your thoughts, and leave with new knowledge and understanding.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu
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Greg Fournier - Associate Professor of Geobiology, MIT
Francis Macdonald - Associate Professor of Geology, Harvard
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Fall 2014 Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Discover the origins of life on earth and how life itself can drastically alter the landscape of our planet. Then learn what prospects lie ahead of finding habitable planets and even other types of life outside of the Earth. Come with questions, share your thoughts, and leave with new knowledge and understanding.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu
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The World in your Hand: a Buckminster Fuller Map Dome Workshop
Tuesday, October 7
Tuesday, October 7
6-8 PM
Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon
Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon
RSVP at http://maps.bpl.org/content/buckminster-fuller-registration
Cost: $10 Materials fee per person (includes Dymaxion Map and ‘Buckyball’ kit)
Upon creating the “Dymaxion Map”, or Fuller Projection Map, in 1943 Buckminster Fuller stated that the maps we use still cause humanity to “appear inherently disassociated, remote, self-interestedly preoccupied with the political concept of its got to be your or me; there is not enough for both.”
Come learn about scientist-philosopher-artist Buckminster Fuller and his amazing body of work and philosophy about design.
This session will include an overview of the inspiring story of Buckminster Fuller and enormity of ‘what one man can do’ and a hands on workshop where teachers will construct a Dymaxion Globe and Fuller’s geodesic dome, aka ‘buckyball’ that won the Nobel prize in 1996.
Each teacher will take home a Dymaxion map kit as well as a ‘Buckyball’ kit
Instructor: Thomas Zung is president of Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects and a former student of Buckminster Fuller. He is a founding member of Buckminster Fuller Institute, founding member of SNEC and a Distinguished Senior Fellow to the Stanford University Libraries and author/editor of Fuller’s “Anthology for a New Millennium’ from St. Martin’s Press.
Copies of Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the Millennium, Second Edition, edited by Thomas Zung will be available for purchase at this event.
Cost: $10 Materials fee per person (includes Dymaxion Map and ‘Buckyball’ kit)
Upon creating the “Dymaxion Map”, or Fuller Projection Map, in 1943 Buckminster Fuller stated that the maps we use still cause humanity to “appear inherently disassociated, remote, self-interestedly preoccupied with the political concept of its got to be your or me; there is not enough for both.”
Come learn about scientist-philosopher-artist Buckminster Fuller and his amazing body of work and philosophy about design.
This session will include an overview of the inspiring story of Buckminster Fuller and enormity of ‘what one man can do’ and a hands on workshop where teachers will construct a Dymaxion Globe and Fuller’s geodesic dome, aka ‘buckyball’ that won the Nobel prize in 1996.
Each teacher will take home a Dymaxion map kit as well as a ‘Buckyball’ kit
Instructor: Thomas Zung is president of Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects and a former student of Buckminster Fuller. He is a founding member of Buckminster Fuller Institute, founding member of SNEC and a Distinguished Senior Fellow to the Stanford University Libraries and author/editor of Fuller’s “Anthology for a New Millennium’ from St. Martin’s Press.
Copies of Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the Millennium, Second Edition, edited by Thomas Zung will be available for purchase at this event.
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Boston Area Sustainability Group: Sustainability & Innovation
Tuesday, October 7
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Venture Cafe - Cambridge Innovation Center, 5th Floor, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-innovation-tickets-12892821777
Cost: $10-12
We're desperate for the innovations that can help with sustianability and climate change, but what does innovation know about sustainability and what does sustainability know about innovation? Tonight our discussion brings these two worlds together.
Come meet, hear, and engage with:
Asheen Phansey, Global head of the Sustainable Innovation Lab at Dassault Systèmes
Asheen will candidly describe the evolution of a reactive, compliance-based corporate sustainability strategy to one that supports the development of a “Sustainable Innovation Lab”. View his LinkedIn profile here: www.linkedin.com/in/asheen.
Eric Hudson, Founder & CEO | Preserve
Eric will share highlights and learnings from his experience building the Preserve brand - a sustainable product innovation requiring supply chain reinvention. Read his story here: https://www.preserveproducts.com/explore/preserve-101/founding-story.
Helen Sahi, Director for Sustainability for Avery Dennison Corporate and Retail Branding and Information Systems
Helen says, "Innovation is where art, consciousness, science, business and end-user needs intersect." She'll speak about how Avery Dennison innovates sustainable products and actions. View her LinkedIn profle here: www.linkedin.com/in/helensahi.
Rakhshita Dhar, Director, Innovation Services, MassBio
Rakhsita will talk about how MassBio Innovation Services links entrepreneurs in a distributive network to foster innovation and commercialize new ideas within the biotechnology ecosystem. View her Linkedin profile here: www.linkedin.com/pub/rakhshita-dhar/17/654/67b.
Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers share their experiences and then we open the discussion to the group.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
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African Innovators: Scientists From The Continent Speak About Their Work Changing the World
Tuesday, October 7
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, 10th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-innovators-scientists-from-the-continent-speak-about-their-work-changing-the-world-600-pm-tickets-12544714579
Working under challenging conditions, African scientists are changing the face of the continent, conducting vital research with global implications in the fields of agriculture, medicine, and resource management.
Seeding Labs and The West African Research Association invite you to hear from our partner scientists about their current research and the challenges and opportunities that working in continent present.
Join us for an inspirational evening of learning and networking, and to find out how you can get involved with our work and upcoming endeavors.
Speakers will include:
Dr. Henry Nii Nmai Bulley, Assistant Professor of Geography, Dept. of Social Sciences and Human Services, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Dr. Bulley’s interest is in understanding the interactions between land use dynamics and the natural environment with a focus on sustainable water resource management, and adoption of geospatial science and technology for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. His work has included water resource applications of GIS and remote sensing, landscape ecology, sustainable development, land use and land cover change at rural-urban fringe, machine learning (classification tree) analysis, spatial modeling, and web-based GIS.
Dr. Peter Jeranyama, Environmental Physiologist, Extension Assistant Professor, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr. Jeranyama’s work in the Zimbabwe and The U.S. has been in the crop and soil science fields, and currently focuses on irrigation water management and drainage systems, shade cycling, leaf gas exchange and frost protection related to the cranberry industry, issues which influence production, environmental concerns, costs, and regulations.
Dr. Paul Mireji, Adjunct Scientist, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Trypanosomiasis Research Centre & Visiting Scientist in Tropical Medicine, Laboratory of Public Health and Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Mireji’s work in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Tropical Entomology, Parasitology and Genomics has included research on malaria and trypanosmiasis (sleeping sickness) and the hosts of the cause of each illness, the mosquito and the tsetse fly, exploring vaccine and control effects for the latter.
The event will be moderated by Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen, whose background in technology, art, and business, and aim to foster a culture of educational excellence, has lead him to leverage local business and educational communities to create experiential learning and professional development opportunities in Cambridge. In one of his latest innovations, he has transformed his City Council Campaign into a pop-up art venue that will also become a mobile lab for science experiments.
Seeding Labs invests in exceptional scientists in developing countries who have limited resources, but limitless potential. We provide reduced-cost lab equipment and training and foster professional networks in order to enhance higher education, support vital research and create a more connected global scientific community.
Established in 1989, The West African Research Association, (WARA) is a network of scholars dedicated to the promotion of research on West Africa and the diaspora. WARA supports research through its fellowships, facilitates scholarly exchange and the dissemination of accurate information on West Africa and its diasporic communities, and works to increase awareness of the critical place of West Africa in the global community.
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Ecologies in Flux: What is the role of exotic plants in urban and suburban landscapes?
Tuesday, October 7
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1382&DayPlannerDate=10/7/2014
Cost: $0-10
Panelists: Peter Del Tredici, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
John Silander,PhD, Director, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England
Bryan Connolly, PhD, Former State Botanist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage Endangered Species Program and now Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Framingham State University
Moderator: William (Ned) Friedman, PhD, Director, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Most people live in environments that have been drastically altered by humans. While we are well aware of the built structures (houses, roads, stores) in our communities, we are less aware of the organisms that co-inhabit the surrounding landscapes. In this dialogue, three prominent botanists will discuss the ecological impacts of exotic plants in both urban and suburban communities. The panelists will present different viewpoints on the various roles that plants play in these altered ecosystems and how human values and aesthetics influence biodiversity.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-07-230000-2014-10-08-003000/arnold-arboretum-panel-discussion#sthash.zvdmMl2r.dpuf
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Wednesday, October 8
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Panelists: Peter Del Tredici, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
John Silander,PhD, Director, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England
Bryan Connolly, PhD, Former State Botanist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage Endangered Species Program and now Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Framingham State University
Moderator: William (Ned) Friedman, PhD, Director, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Most people live in environments that have been drastically altered by humans. While we are well aware of the built structures (houses, roads, stores) in our communities, we are less aware of the organisms that co-inhabit the surrounding landscapes. In this dialogue, three prominent botanists will discuss the ecological impacts of exotic plants in both urban and suburban communities. The panelists will present different viewpoints on the various roles that plants play in these altered ecosystems and how human values and aesthetics influence biodiversity.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-07-230000-2014-10-08-003000/arnold-arboretum-panel-discussion#sthash.zvdmMl2r.dpuf
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Wednesday, October 8
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“Seeing Connections: Sustainability Across Four Sectors”
Wednesday, October 8
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/evtssareg.custid?p_event_id=1386
Cost: $40
Environmental-awareness programs and sustainable action plans are common components in most organizations’ mission statements, but how are they implemented in the real world? Join us for the first Client Conversations session of the 2014-2015 season, where we will go beyond the rhetoric and discuss how environmental goals are put into action with leaders representing four diverse markets that drive the New England economy: healthcare, higher education, transportation, and biotechnology.
Hear visionary leaders describe their respective industry’s overall environmental impact and how they approach big-picture sustainable action plans and goals. What are the common organizational challenges and successful strategies that can affect behavior and mindset? What do these leaders see as focus areas that designers need to consider to make the most impact? How do relationships with tenants, developers, and contractors inform the process? Architects attending this session will receive a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how sustainable policies are created and implemented in and around the City of Boston.
Speakers:
Ned Codd, assistant secretary, GreenDOT, Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Lisa Hartman, principal environmental engineer, Genzyme
Jaclyn Olsen, assistant director, Office for Sustainability, Harvard University
David Burson AIA, senior project manager, Partners HealthCare
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Cost: $40
Environmental-awareness programs and sustainable action plans are common components in most organizations’ mission statements, but how are they implemented in the real world? Join us for the first Client Conversations session of the 2014-2015 season, where we will go beyond the rhetoric and discuss how environmental goals are put into action with leaders representing four diverse markets that drive the New England economy: healthcare, higher education, transportation, and biotechnology.
Hear visionary leaders describe their respective industry’s overall environmental impact and how they approach big-picture sustainable action plans and goals. What are the common organizational challenges and successful strategies that can affect behavior and mindset? What do these leaders see as focus areas that designers need to consider to make the most impact? How do relationships with tenants, developers, and contractors inform the process? Architects attending this session will receive a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how sustainable policies are created and implemented in and around the City of Boston.
Speakers:
Ned Codd, assistant secretary, GreenDOT, Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Lisa Hartman, principal environmental engineer, Genzyme
Jaclyn Olsen, assistant director, Office for Sustainability, Harvard University
David Burson AIA, senior project manager, Partners HealthCare
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Conference: Systems Thinking for Emerging, Evolving, and Established Leaders
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
8:30a–5:30p
MIT, E-51, Wong Auditorium, corner of Amherst Street and Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1510647
Cost: $25-200
Speaker: MIT SDM faculty and alumni; industry execs.
Annual MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
The aim of this series is to provide practical information from multiple disciplines that will spark ideas that leaders at all developmental stages can apply to real-world challenges. Attendees will also gain insight into how to use systems thinking to support and develop current and future leaders, while meeting strategic goals, whether in industry, academia, government, or the world at large.
Systems thinking is a competitive imperative for leaders at all stages of their careers: established, evolving, and emerging. Not only must current leaders understand how to apply systems thinking to address complex challenges, but companies must be able to apply this approach to develop the systems-based thinkers who will become the leaders of the future.
To help organizations and their leaders succeed, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's annual Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges, sponsored by System Design and Management (SDM), will focus on best practices for leaders at all levels of the organization.
Speakers will include emerging, evolving, and established leaders from several industry and government sectors. They will discuss:
How to use systems thinking to align and lead functionally and geographically dispersed teams that are tackling complex challenges;
Ways to monitor progress and results;
Benefits achieved, lessons learned, and next steps for developing leadership within organizations and individuals; and
How systems thinking has advanced organizational objectives and benefited their personal careers.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/systemsthinkingconference/2014/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Varies. See registration section at url above.
Tickets: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1510647
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and Management (SDM) program
For more information, contact: Joan S. Rubin
617.253.2081
jsrubin@mit.edu
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The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century
Wednesday, October 8
BU, Metcalf Trustee Center, One Silber Way, Boston
This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required by October 1.
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/rsvp-the-future-is-now-urban-asia-in-the-21st-century/
A one-day conference at Boston University exploring how Asia’s cities are reshaping concepts of urban development.
Co-sponsored by Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Initiative on Cities, the Center for the Study of Asia, Global Programs India Initiatives, and the Center for Global Health and Development, in collaboration with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and BU’s Metropolitan College.
Conference Overview
The Asian continent is home to a vast array of cities and urban conditions. From the futurism of Dubai, to the extreme contrast of wealth and squalor in Mumbai, to the spectacular rise of Shanghai and Beijing as global nodes of political and economic power, cities in Asia in the 21st century are redefining notions – both positive and negative — of urbanization. While it is impossible to identify a single model of urban development, cities across Asia are providing examples of ways governmental institutions, the private sector, and civil society generate and manage rates of urbanization at scales previously unimaginable; they are pushing the boundaries of technology, governance, ecological sustainability, and the very concept of progress. Based on the proposition that cities provide a critical lens into social, cultural, economic, and political relationships, and by association humanity’s capacity to solve social and ecological problems, this conference asks: how are Asia’s cities reshaping accepted knowledge about processes of urbanization and urban management? Speakers will examine established theories of urbanization and urban management and ask whether we have the appropriate intellectual and policy toolkit to address issues associated with rapidly expanding cities in the 21st century.
The day-long conference, beginning October 8th at 9:00 a.m., will be organized into three sequential panels as follows:
Panel 1: “Idea of the City: The Asian Challenge”
This panel asks whether current visions on the Asian city, articulated by urban theorists and adopted by policy-makers in Asia, are starting to challenge the Euro-American perception of urbanization.
Panel 2: “The Politics of the City”
This panel affirms the notion that cities are sites of cooperation and conflict, and examines the politics of identify, governance, and conflict management that characterize a spectrum of urban Asian experiences and contexts.
Panel 3: “The City and Its Environment”
This panel examines how patterns of urbanization change the urban environment, from energy use intensity to pollution and public health.
More information at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/urbanasia/
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Promoting Innovation in Agriculture: Energy; Conservation; Research and Development
Wednesday, October 8
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/595361994
Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System.
All webinars are recorded and will be available at www.farmland.org/newengland. You will find these four webinars already posted there:
May 14: Introduction to the New England Food Policy Report and Project
June 18th: Organic Waste: Finding Uses for It in the Food System
July 16th: Frameworks for Regional Food System Collaboration
July 23rd: Reducing Farmland Conversion: State Land Use and Protection Policies
For a more detailed description of each of the webinars, please visit www.newenglandfoodpolicy.org
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Governing Coercion: Armed Politics and the State in South Asia
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: PAUL STANILAND, University of Chicago
SSP Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
253-7529
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12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: PAUL STANILAND, University of Chicago
SSP Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
253-7529
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Global Environmental Change: Impacts on Human Nutrition
Wednesday, October 8
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Tufts, Jaharis, Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Samuel S. Myers (Harvard Medical School)
Public lecture and Q&A will be followed by an informal discussion in Jaharis 133 until 2pm.
Contact Name: Charlene Stevens
charlene.stevens@tufts.edu
For details on the Friedman Seminar series, please see:http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/event/friedmanseminar
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Gubernatorial Forum on Energy, the Environment & the Innovation Economy
Wednesday, October 8
12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/gubernatorial-forum-on-energy-the-environment-the-innovation-economy-tickets-13178676777
Come hear from the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates. Learn where they stand on key environmental and energy issues. Each candidate will offer 20 minutes of remarks: Jeff McCormick (I), Martha Coakley (D), Charlie Baker (R), Evan Falchuk (I).
Co-hosts include: Environmental League of Massachusetts, Suffolk University Environmental Studies Program, The Trust for Public Land, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Mass Audubon, The Trustees of Reservations, and Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, with more to come.
Location: First Floor Function Room, Suffolk Law School, 120 Tremont Street. Conveniently located to public transportation (Park Street, Downtown Crossing, State Street, Silver Line).
Spread the word: #gogreengovma
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Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China
Wednesday, October 8
12:30pm to 1:50pm
Harvard, CGIS Building, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Nicholas Lardy, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Critical Issues Confronting China
http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/events/critical-issues-confronting-china
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Biomineralization
Wednesday, Oct 8
4:00 pm
Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lecture by Pupa Gilbert RI '15
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, is the iridescent inner lining of many mollusk shells. The microscopic structure of nacre may depend on the water temperature at the time the nacre was deposited. During her Radcliffe fellowship, Pupa Gilbert is conducting experiments to test this hypothesis. If successful, this discovery will enable measuring water temperatures as old as 450 million years, using nacre-containing shells from the fossil record. If validated in modern and ancient shells, this discovery will expand our knowledge and understanding of the natural world.
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The President's Effort to Combat Climate Change Without Congress: What is EPA Proposing to Do and is it Legal?
Wednesday, October 8
4:00PM
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Lessin Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
With Jody Freeman, Cox Professor of Law (HLS) and Director, Environmental Law Program; and Richard Lazarus, Aibel Professor of Law (HLS). Moderated by Daniel Schrag, Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, SEAS; Director, HUCE
Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law, is a leading scholar of administrative law & regulation and environmental law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. Her new book, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND U.S. LAW (co-edited with Michael Gerrard) and her most recent article, Old Statutes, New Problems (co-authored with David Spence), will be published in 2014. Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10. In that role, she contributed to a variety of policy initiatives on greenhouse gas regulation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy, oil and gas drilling, and comprehensive energy and climate legislation to put a market-based cap on carbon. Freeman led the White house effort on the Obama Administration's landmark fuel efficiency standards and negotiated the historic agreement among the federal government, the auto industry and the states, to set the first federal greenhouse gas emission standards and the most ambitious fuel efficiency standards in U.S. history. These standards launched the Administration's climate program. After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process,. In 2011, she was elected to the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2012 Professor Freeman was elected as an outside director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the public policy and compensation committees. She has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times.
Professor Freeman is a prominent scholar of administrative law and regulation, and a leading thinker on collaborative and contractual approaches to governance. Her article, “Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory space,” the subject of her chair lecture, appears in the Harvard Law Review in 2012."The Obama Administration's National Auto Policy: Lessons from the Car Deal" was published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review in 2011. She is the co-author of leading casebooks in environmental law and administrative law, and is the co-author with Mike Gerrard of the forthcoming new edition of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law.
Richard Lazarus is the Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Supreme Court Advocacy, and Torts. He also recently served as the Executive Director of the President’s Commission responsible for investigating the root causes of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and has a B.S. from the University of Illinois in Chemistry and a B.A. in Economics. He has previously served on the law school faculties of Indiana University, Washington University, and Georgetown University, where he was the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law. He has been a visiting professor of law at Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of San Diego, and the University of Texas schools of law. For the past five summers, he has co-taught a course on the history of the Supreme Court of the United States with the Chief Justice of the United States. Professor Lazarus worked for the United States Justice Department, both in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (1979-83) and the Solicitor General's Office (1986-89), where he was Assistant to the Solicitor General.
Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the United States Supreme Court in 40 cases and has presented oral argument in 13 of those cases. He recently served as counsel of record for environmental respondents Riverkeeper et al in Entergy v. Riverkeeper, decided in April 2009, and co-counsel for respondents in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, decided in June 2010. He also represented the United States in U.S. v. Chem-Dyne, the first case to establish joint and several liability under the federal Superfund law, and the California Supreme Court case, National Audubon Society v. Superior Court of Alpine County, applying the public trust doctrine to Mono Lake.
His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. He has published two books, The Making of Environmental Law (U. Chicago 2004), and Environmental Law Stories (Aspen Press, co-edited with O. Houck 2005). He was also the principal author of Deep Water – The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), which is the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission, for which he served as the Executive Director. Professor Lazarus has won the faculty teaching award at both Washington University and Georgetown University. At the Annual Meeting in 2011, the American Bar Association gave Professor Lazarus its Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy for 2011.
Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information on climate change from the geologic past can lead to better understanding of anthropogenic climate change in the future. In addition to his work on geochemistry and climatology, Schrag studies energy technology and policy, including carbon capture and storage and low-carbon synthetic fuels.
Schrag currently serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among various honors, he is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and a MacArthur Fellowship. Schrag earned a B.S. in geology and geophysics and political science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-08-200000/presidents-effort-combat-climate-change-without-congress-what-epa-proposing#sthash.9CR8sRLT.dpuf
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Wednesday, October 8
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Tufts, Jaharis, Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Samuel S. Myers (Harvard Medical School)
Public lecture and Q&A will be followed by an informal discussion in Jaharis 133 until 2pm.
Contact Name: Charlene Stevens
charlene.stevens@tufts.edu
For details on the Friedman Seminar series, please see:http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/event/friedmanseminar
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Gubernatorial Forum on Energy, the Environment & the Innovation Economy
Wednesday, October 8
12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/gubernatorial-forum-on-energy-the-environment-the-innovation-economy-tickets-13178676777
Come hear from the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates. Learn where they stand on key environmental and energy issues. Each candidate will offer 20 minutes of remarks: Jeff McCormick (I), Martha Coakley (D), Charlie Baker (R), Evan Falchuk (I).
Co-hosts include: Environmental League of Massachusetts, Suffolk University Environmental Studies Program, The Trust for Public Land, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Mass Audubon, The Trustees of Reservations, and Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, with more to come.
Location: First Floor Function Room, Suffolk Law School, 120 Tremont Street. Conveniently located to public transportation (Park Street, Downtown Crossing, State Street, Silver Line).
Spread the word: #gogreengovma
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Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China
Wednesday, October 8
12:30pm to 1:50pm
Harvard, CGIS Building, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Nicholas Lardy, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Critical Issues Confronting China
http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/events/critical-issues-confronting-china
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Biomineralization
Wednesday, Oct 8
4:00 pm
Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lecture by Pupa Gilbert RI '15
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, is the iridescent inner lining of many mollusk shells. The microscopic structure of nacre may depend on the water temperature at the time the nacre was deposited. During her Radcliffe fellowship, Pupa Gilbert is conducting experiments to test this hypothesis. If successful, this discovery will enable measuring water temperatures as old as 450 million years, using nacre-containing shells from the fossil record. If validated in modern and ancient shells, this discovery will expand our knowledge and understanding of the natural world.
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The President's Effort to Combat Climate Change Without Congress: What is EPA Proposing to Do and is it Legal?
Wednesday, October 8
4:00PM
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Lessin Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
With Jody Freeman, Cox Professor of Law (HLS) and Director, Environmental Law Program; and Richard Lazarus, Aibel Professor of Law (HLS). Moderated by Daniel Schrag, Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, SEAS; Director, HUCE
Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law, is a leading scholar of administrative law & regulation and environmental law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. Her new book, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND U.S. LAW (co-edited with Michael Gerrard) and her most recent article, Old Statutes, New Problems (co-authored with David Spence), will be published in 2014. Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10. In that role, she contributed to a variety of policy initiatives on greenhouse gas regulation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy, oil and gas drilling, and comprehensive energy and climate legislation to put a market-based cap on carbon. Freeman led the White house effort on the Obama Administration's landmark fuel efficiency standards and negotiated the historic agreement among the federal government, the auto industry and the states, to set the first federal greenhouse gas emission standards and the most ambitious fuel efficiency standards in U.S. history. These standards launched the Administration's climate program. After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process,. In 2011, she was elected to the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2012 Professor Freeman was elected as an outside director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the public policy and compensation committees. She has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times.
Professor Freeman is a prominent scholar of administrative law and regulation, and a leading thinker on collaborative and contractual approaches to governance. Her article, “Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory space,” the subject of her chair lecture, appears in the Harvard Law Review in 2012."The Obama Administration's National Auto Policy: Lessons from the Car Deal" was published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review in 2011. She is the co-author of leading casebooks in environmental law and administrative law, and is the co-author with Mike Gerrard of the forthcoming new edition of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law.
Richard Lazarus is the Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Supreme Court Advocacy, and Torts. He also recently served as the Executive Director of the President’s Commission responsible for investigating the root causes of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and has a B.S. from the University of Illinois in Chemistry and a B.A. in Economics. He has previously served on the law school faculties of Indiana University, Washington University, and Georgetown University, where he was the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law. He has been a visiting professor of law at Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of San Diego, and the University of Texas schools of law. For the past five summers, he has co-taught a course on the history of the Supreme Court of the United States with the Chief Justice of the United States. Professor Lazarus worked for the United States Justice Department, both in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (1979-83) and the Solicitor General's Office (1986-89), where he was Assistant to the Solicitor General.
Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the United States Supreme Court in 40 cases and has presented oral argument in 13 of those cases. He recently served as counsel of record for environmental respondents Riverkeeper et al in Entergy v. Riverkeeper, decided in April 2009, and co-counsel for respondents in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, decided in June 2010. He also represented the United States in U.S. v. Chem-Dyne, the first case to establish joint and several liability under the federal Superfund law, and the California Supreme Court case, National Audubon Society v. Superior Court of Alpine County, applying the public trust doctrine to Mono Lake.
His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. He has published two books, The Making of Environmental Law (U. Chicago 2004), and Environmental Law Stories (Aspen Press, co-edited with O. Houck 2005). He was also the principal author of Deep Water – The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), which is the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission, for which he served as the Executive Director. Professor Lazarus has won the faculty teaching award at both Washington University and Georgetown University. At the Annual Meeting in 2011, the American Bar Association gave Professor Lazarus its Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy for 2011.
Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information on climate change from the geologic past can lead to better understanding of anthropogenic climate change in the future. In addition to his work on geochemistry and climatology, Schrag studies energy technology and policy, including carbon capture and storage and low-carbon synthetic fuels.
Schrag currently serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among various honors, he is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and a MacArthur Fellowship. Schrag earned a B.S. in geology and geophysics and political science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-08-200000/presidents-effort-combat-climate-change-without-congress-what-epa-proposing#sthash.9CR8sRLT.dpuf
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Race to Solar Workshop
Wednesday, October 8
Wednesday, October 8
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Through the Race to Solar program, eligible nonprofits can acquire a solar electric energy system for their school, house of worship, food pantry, community center, or other building owned by their nonprofit organization. Learn more about the Race to Solar program at the upcoming workshop and meet the solar and efficiency experts that can help your organization save energy and money. Please RSVP to attend the workshop.
Workshop 4pm -5pm. Open House from 5-6pm.
Contact: http://www.heetma.org/event-view/race-to-solar-workshop-october-8th/
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Workshop 4pm -5pm. Open House from 5-6pm.
Contact: http://www.heetma.org/event-view/race-to-solar-workshop-october-8th/
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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on U.S. Oil Refineries
WHEN Wed., Oct. 8, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Richard Sweeney, Harvard University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Healing After Genocide: Stories from Rwanda
Wednesday, October 8
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
New England School of Law, 154 Stuart Street and Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-after-genocide-stories-from-rwanda-tickets-12779183883
Cost: donation
Join friends of the Rwanda Youth Healing Center and the Upstander Project (formerly Coexist Learning Project) for a special reception and screening of the documentary film, Coexist and Rwanda Youth Healing Center's film, The First 10 Years of the Healing Center.
We are thrilled to welcome Solange Nyirasafari, Executive Director of the Rwanda Youth Healing Center. Solange and the Rwanda Youth Healing Center were both featured in the film, Coexist, and she has made a special trip from Rwanda to join us for the very first time.
Also joining us at the reception and film screening are members of the Upstander Project team, director, Mr. Adam Mazo and learning director, Dr. Mishy Lesser.
The reception will be held from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the New England School of Law.
The film screening will be held from 6:45 - 9:00 p.m at Emerson College (a 5 minute walk from the reception).
Join us for one or both!
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Askwith Forum: Is U.S. Public School Funding Fair?
WHEN Wed., Oct. 8, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard GSE, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT LANDING FLAG No
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT AskWith Forum
IS THIS AN EXTERNAL EVENT? Yes
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Moderator: Susan Eaton, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99, research director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School; co-director, One Nation Indivisible
Panelists:
Bruce Baker, professor, The Rutgers University Graduate School of Education
Andrés Alonso EdM ’99, EdD ’06, professor of practice, HGSE; former CEO, Baltimore Public Schools
David Hinojosa, Southwest regional counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
David G. Sciarra, executive director, Education Law Center
Do states provide sufficient resources for all children to achieve meaningful growth in school? Does the national school funding process function fairly and effectively? This forum will use the measures of "fairness" developed in the groundbreaking "National Report Card: Is School Funding Fair?" study to explore the current state of U.S. public school funding. Panelists will discuss how inequitable funding for public schools hampers efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations.
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Getting to Net Zero Task Force
Wednesday, October 8
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, 1st floor Ballroom
*All Task Force meetings are open to the public.
*Please feel free to forward this notice to others who might be interested.
Information on the Getting to Net Zero Task Force is available at www.cambridgema.gov/home/CDD/Projects/Climate/netzerotaskforce.aspx
Wednesday, October 8
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, 1st floor Ballroom
*All Task Force meetings are open to the public.
*Please feel free to forward this notice to others who might be interested.
Information on the Getting to Net Zero Task Force is available at www.cambridgema.gov/home/CDD/Projects/Climate/netzerotaskforce.aspx
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Mass Innovation Nights 67 "Women Founders”
Wednesday, October 8
6:00pm
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Central Square, Cambridge
For our 67th Mass Innovation Nights featuring "Women Founders". Babson's CWEL - Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership - is the generous sponsor! A collection of inspiring new products await you! Join us on October 8th. You will not want to miss out; trust us. - See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-67-women-founders#sthash.eJEmTPq2.dpuf
More information at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-67-women-founders
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Information Evening on the System Design and Management
Wednesday, October 8
6 - 9 p.m.
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room (Under the Dome), 222 Memorial Drive,
Please join us in the Bush Room at MIT for an Information Evening on the System Design and Management (SDM) program. You will have the opportunity to learn about MIT's master of science in engineering and management, discuss career opportunities, and network with SDM alumni, faculty, students, and staff.
For further information please feel free to email SDM Admissions at sdm@mit.edu or call 617.253.1055.
The MIT Master's Program in Engineering and Management
More at: https://lgosdm.mit.edu/VCSS/servlet/SDMFrontEnd?VIEW=1&id=319#sthash.ZTZX2pjv.dpuf
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Cleantech Entrepreneurs Panel
Wednesday, Oct 8
Wednesday, Oct 8
7:00PM - 8:00PM
MIT, Building E40-160, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
MIT, Building E40-160, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Dinner will be served. RSVP at: http://bit.ly/1lowAcH
Four entrepreneurs with varying backgrounds will discuss their paths to entrepreneurship, their experiences starting companies, and their advice for those thinking about pursuing entrepreneurship.
Panelists include:
Melinda Sims founded Loci Controls and has a PhD and SM from MIT in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship.
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Four entrepreneurs with varying backgrounds will discuss their paths to entrepreneurship, their experiences starting companies, and their advice for those thinking about pursuing entrepreneurship.
Panelists include:
Melinda Sims founded Loci Controls and has a PhD and SM from MIT in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship.
Sarah Haig founded Silverside Detectors and has an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Comparative Area Studies from Duke University.
Eliza Becton founded Refresh Water and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Emily Reichert is the CEO of Greentown Labs and has a PhD in Physical Chemistry and an MBA from MIT.
How Our Brains Interact With the World, lecture @ Science in the News
Wednesday, October 8
7PM to 9:00 PM
Armenise Ampitheatre, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
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Science in the News presents grad students giving this free two hour lecture in three parts: first covering the basics of the topic of the night as a foundation before they talk about the intermediate topics related to their field and launch into the advanced topics of what they are doing at the Harvard Medical School.
About Science in the News (SITN):
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/what-is-sitn/
"Science in the News is a Graduate Student Group at the Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences.
"Our mission: To bridge the communication gap between scientists and non-scientists. We accomplish this by providing free seminars, lessons, social events, and written material on varying science topics for the general public. We provide science PhD students the chance to hone their communication skills by hosting these events and by giving feedback on their presentations and articles.
"Our members: Our membership includes graduate students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Public Health, Medical School, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University".
Can't make the lecture in person?
All of the lectures are live streamed and can be viewed online at the Science in the News webpage:http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/sitn-live/
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Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts
Wednesday, October 8
7pm
3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
This summer’s focus on the 50,000+ children crossing the southern border of the United States has again brought U.S. immigration policy into sharp relief.
Are current policies adequate for today’s immigrant experience? How is modern immigration different from that of previous generations?
By examining the immigrant experience of various ethnic and religious groups throughout U.S. history, the book Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts demonstrates that the same patterns of native resistance, immigrant struggles and contributions have occurred over and over again. This panel discussion, featuring historian Deborah Dash Moore, Constitutional Law expert William G. Ross, and policy analyst Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute, puts today’s immigration debate into a larger political, historical, sociological, and legal perspective. Diane Portnoy, founder and CEO of The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc., moderates.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Can New England Feed Itself?: A “New England Food Vision”
Wednesday, October 8
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Church In Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Permaculture/events/209489322/
What does it mean to “buy local”? What’s our vision for supporting local farmers and fishers, engaging in sustainable agriculture and fisheries, and changing our broken food system?
Come join us as Professor Brian Donahue of Brandeis University presents A New England Food Vision, a collaborative report that considers the future of our region. The Vision calls for New England to reach a bold goal of producing at least 50% of our food by 2060 – food that will be clean, fair, just and accessible for all.
Incorporating more than three years of collaborative research and input from hundreds of voices throughout New England, A New England Food Vision imagines a future in which food nourishes a social, economic, and environmental landscape that supports a high quality of life for everyone, including generations to come
A panel of experts will respond with additional reflections about food justice, challenges for new food producers, and the state of our land and ocean resources. In addition to Professor Donahue we will hear from:
Karen Spiller - Network Team member of Food Solutions New England and former director of Boston Collaborative of Food and Fitness
Eva Agudelo - National Incubator Farm Training Initiative (NIFTI) Coordinator, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, food justice and what is happening with new immigrant farmers
Brett Tolley - Community Organizer, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance is from a four-generation commercial fishing family and working to advance social, environmental, and economic justice throughout the seafood value chain.
There will then be plenty of time for Q&A and discussion. Bring your questions!
Co-Sponsored by JPNET, JP Forum, Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness, Greater Boston Permaculture MeetUp, and Boston Nature Center.
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Thursday, October 9
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Divided We Eat: Food Inequality in America
WHEN Thu., Oct. 9, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE The Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum, formerly the Theological Opportunities Program at Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Parke Wilde, associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
COST $15 general; $5 students
CONTACT INFO info@womenexplore.org
DETAILS WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum was formed in 1973 as the Harvard Divinity School program Theological Opportunities Program. In the fall of 2013 WE celebrated 40th years of thought-provoking lectures within a strong feminist community. WE brings together people from the Cambridge and Greater Boston area.
This lecture is part of a 10-week lecture and discussion forum addressing topics relevant to our society, aimed at better understanding our world and ourselves. The Fall 2014 series examines the theme of " Class and Privilege Through a Feminist Lens," and runs each Thursday from September 18th through November 20th.
Visit www.womenexplore.org and Facebook for more information.
LINK www.womenexplore.org
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Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
WHEN Thu., Oct. 9, 2014, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Taub, professor of law, Vermont Law School
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WHEN Thu., Oct. 9, 2014, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Taub, professor of law, Vermont Law School
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Fukushima's Forbidden Zone as a Site for Performance Art: Three Years Later
Thursday, October 9
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
William Johnston, Professor, Wesleyan University; Dancer/Choreographer, Eiko; Photographer
In January and July, 2014, William Johnston traveled to areas affected by the explosions of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. In this presentation, Johnston will show images of Eiko performing in these places in the context of the ongoing measures to deal with this crisis.
William Johnston received his BA from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, and his MA in Regional Studies East Asia and PhD in History and East Asian Languages, both from Harvard. He is Professor of History, East Asian Studies, and Science in Society at Wesleyan University, where he was also a Faculty Fellow at the College of the Environment for the 2012-13 academic year; during the 2014-15 academic year he is the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor in History at Harvard and Visiting Artist in the Dance Department and the College of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. He has pursued photography seriously since 1993, and his images of Eiko in the Fukushima area are scheduled for exhibitions at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Colorado State University at Colorado Springs, and at Wesleyan University.
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Genzyme Building Tour- Back by Popular Demand!
Thursday, October 9
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Genzyme, 500 Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/genzyme-building-tour-back-by-popular-demand-tickets-13154081211
Join Common Boston for a tour of one of the country's most environmentally responsible office buildings. Completed just over 10 years ago, this building breathes good design, having earned earning LEED Plantinum, the highest rating by the US Green Building Council.
Designed by the award-winning German architectural firm Behnisch, Behnisch and Partner, theGenzyme Center in Kendall Square is an innovative, twelve-story, 350,000 square foot office building that shines as a beacon in Kendall Square. As the global company's headquarters, this building's presence in Kendall Square, and the 900 Genzyme employees that bring it to life, serve as both an anchor anda catalyst for more urban revitalization in the neighborhood of Cambridge.
Led by a Genzyme insider, the tour will showcase the building's greatest features and give us a glimpse into life at the company. Tour begins promptly at 1:30pm, beginning in the Main Lobby.
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CONNECT Symposium 2014
Thursday, October 9
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Avenue, #100, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/connect-symposium-2014-tickets-12367927805
The CONNECT Symposium is an annual forum to examine best practices in helping families move from poverty to long-term economic stability. Attendees include business and civic leaders, leading thinkers, policymakers and practitioners, elected officials and other concerned individuals and institutions.
Join CONNECT as we discuss the role of individual and peer support in integrated service delivery for economic development programs. The Symposium is free and open to the public.
Panel 1: Research and data panel: Research has shown that integrated service delivery exponentially improves financial outcomes for individuals working toward financial stability and mobility. What’s the role of coaching and peer support in ensuring that the gains made are lasting?
Panel 2: Practitioners Panel: Practitioner spotlight on programs that are supporting lasting change through coaching and peer support.
The CONNECT Investors Forum, held immediately following the Symposium, is an important venue for building collaborative working relationships among individuals and organizations from the business, nonprofit, and public sectors involved in the work and mission of CONNECT. Individual tickets to the Investors Forum are available for a donation of $100 each.
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FACTs Boston: The Impacts Of Climate Change
Thursday, October 9
4:00 PM to 8:30 PM
MIT Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/facts-boston-the-impacts-of-climate-change-tickets-12784983229
Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, Inserm
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Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy
Thursday, October 9
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E25-111
Speaker: Barry Posen, Frank Gavin, Stephen Walt
Barry Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and the director of MIT's Security Studies Program. His most recent book is "Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy" (Cornell University Press, 2014)
Frank Gavin is the first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is the author of many books including "Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age" (Cornell University Press, 2012).
Stephen Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs. Among the books he has written is "Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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Heroes, Villains, and Nerds: How Science is Portrayed in the Media, and How Portrayals Have Changed
Thursday, October 9
5:00PM -6:00PM
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street, Boston
James Shanahan, Associate Dean, College of Communication, Boston University
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
Contact Name: Jennifer L. Berglund
berglund@bu.edu
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Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge Kickoff
Thursday, October 9
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Lobby Area, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/deans-cultural-entrepreneurship-challenge-kickoff-tickets-13315010555
Join us for the kickoff of the 2015 Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge! The Challenge calls upon students with an entrepreneurial spirit to develop venture-based solutions that provide the organizational infrastructure necessary for artists and the arts to thrive. Randy Weiner, esteemed American playwright and theatre producer, will give a keynote address sharing insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with starting and growing cultural enterprises.
Students will have the chance to meet like-minded individuals from across the University and within the community to explore ideas, partnerships, and opportunities focused on issues that include, but are not limited to, the following:
Funding and Audiences
Broad Cultural Impact and Access
Artists' Services and Support
Expanding Horizons
The Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge is Co-sponsored by Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School, Dean Diana Sorensen of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Silkroad, a nonprofit arts organization affiliated with Harvard University and led by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team and ventures throughout the Challenge timeline. More information on programming can be found on the i-lab’s website: www.i-lab.harvard.edu.
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Urban Films: Dark Days
Thursday, October 09, 2014
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (rear), Cambridge
Independent filmmaker Marc Singer explores the underground world inhabited by residents of New York's underground tunnels. Music by DJ
Shadow.
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (rear), Cambridge
Independent filmmaker Marc Singer explores the underground world inhabited by residents of New York's underground tunnels. Music by DJ
Shadow.
Urban Planning Film Series
A semi-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
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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A semi-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
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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Forecasted: Eight Artists Explore the Nature of Climate Change - opening reception
Thursday, October 9
6-8pm
Northeastern University's Gallery 360, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
A group show curated by Resa Blatman with: Dana Clancy, Audrey Goldstein, John Guthrie, Andy Mowbray, Cristi Rinklin, Deb Todd Wheeler and Joe Wardwell
exhibit runs: October 1st-November 5th, 2014
Thursday, October 9
6-8pm
Northeastern University's Gallery 360, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
A group show curated by Resa Blatman with: Dana Clancy, Audrey Goldstein, John Guthrie, Andy Mowbray, Cristi Rinklin, Deb Todd Wheeler and Joe Wardwell
exhibit runs: October 1st-November 5th, 2014
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Going to Pot
Thursday, October 9
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street (behind the State House on Beacon Hill), Cambridge
Eric Steenstra (Hemp Industries Association), Cara Crabb-Burnham (Mass NORML), and Michael Head(Beacon Hill Institute)
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6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street (behind the State House on Beacon Hill), Cambridge
Eric Steenstra (Hemp Industries Association), Cara Crabb-Burnham (Mass NORML), and Michael Head(Beacon Hill Institute)
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Designing Detroit: Top Down or Bottom Up?
Thursday, October 9
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/censsareqauth?p_url=evtssarsvp.display_page%3Fp_cust_id%3D__CUSTID__%26p_event_id%3D1425%26p_item_id%3DCTE_RSVP
Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities began shedding people and jobs. Today, the future of these places is precarious. Detroit is an emblem of decline, but the city has also begun to reimagine its future through large-scale design projects and small-scale "bottom up" strategies. On October 9 at 6:30 pm at BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston) The BSA Urban Design Committee hosts “Designing Detroit: Top Down or Bottom Up?”
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/censsareqauth?p_url=evtssarsvp.display_page%3Fp_cust_id%3D__CUSTID__%26p_event_id%3D1425%26p_item_id%3DCTE_RSVP
Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities began shedding people and jobs. Today, the future of these places is precarious. Detroit is an emblem of decline, but the city has also begun to reimagine its future through large-scale design projects and small-scale "bottom up" strategies. On October 9 at 6:30 pm at BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston) The BSA Urban Design Committee hosts “Designing Detroit: Top Down or Bottom Up?”
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What Does Adapting to Climate Change Look Like?
Thursday, October 9
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105502&view=Detail
Allie Goldstein, associate, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, and Kirsten Howard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coastal Management Fellow, NH Department of Environmental Services
*Reception to follow
What does adapting to climate change look like? In the summer of 2013, Allie Goldstein and
Kirsten Howard set out on a cross-country road trip to answer that question. They met with
farmers, city planners, climate scientists, rainwater harvesters and a queen to find out what communities across the United States are doing to build resilience to climate impacts such as hotter temperatures, more extreme storms and droughts, and rising seas. Over three months, they visited 31 states and gathered 33 stories of climate resilience, which were published on their blog, www.adaptationstories.com and in national news outlets. Allie and Kirsten will share some of these stories and the most important lessons they learned about how we can adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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Emerson Accelerator: Discussion with Richard Banfield
Thursday, October 9
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Emerson College, Iwasaki Library, 120 Boylston Street, Boston
Emerson College, Iwasaki Library, 120 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/discussion-with-richard-banfield-tickets-13415069835
Join us for a discussion on carving your own path to creative expression and financial profitability with Fresh Tilled Soil CEO Richard Banfield. This is an intimate, discussion-style meeting - a great opportunity to meet other like-minded students and some of Boston's sharpest entrepreneurs. Seats are limited, please RSVP below.
Richard wears the strategic hat around the office and never met a whiteboard he didn’t like. He’s worked his way up the web marketing food chain, starting with online ad sales at MultiChoice, Africa’s largest TV and Internet media business. He was in the thick of it during the heady dot-com years, founding Acceleration, an international e-marketing business headquartered in London.
Richard has delivered high-level business strategy, global marketing campaigns, and materials to clients in the US, UK, Europe, and Africa. His colorful life experience includes being a dive master on the remote Islamic Republic of the Comoros, where he learned the survival skills he uses daily in the office. Richard is a mentor at TechStars and BluePrintHealth, an Advisor and lecturer at the Boston Startup School and serves on the executive committees of TEDxBeaconStreet, TEDxBoston, the AdClub’s Edge Conference, and Boston Regional Entrepreneurship Week (BREW). Most importantly, Richard is a closet foodie and a procurer of team members named ‘Alex.’
Join us for a discussion on carving your own path to creative expression and financial profitability with Fresh Tilled Soil CEO Richard Banfield. This is an intimate, discussion-style meeting - a great opportunity to meet other like-minded students and some of Boston's sharpest entrepreneurs. Seats are limited, please RSVP below.
Richard wears the strategic hat around the office and never met a whiteboard he didn’t like. He’s worked his way up the web marketing food chain, starting with online ad sales at MultiChoice, Africa’s largest TV and Internet media business. He was in the thick of it during the heady dot-com years, founding Acceleration, an international e-marketing business headquartered in London.
Richard has delivered high-level business strategy, global marketing campaigns, and materials to clients in the US, UK, Europe, and Africa. His colorful life experience includes being a dive master on the remote Islamic Republic of the Comoros, where he learned the survival skills he uses daily in the office. Richard is a mentor at TechStars and BluePrintHealth, an Advisor and lecturer at the Boston Startup School and serves on the executive committees of TEDxBeaconStreet, TEDxBoston, the AdClub’s Edge Conference, and Boston Regional Entrepreneurship Week (BREW). Most importantly, Richard is a closet foodie and a procurer of team members named ‘Alex.’
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What next for solar in Massachusetts? BASEA Forum - Boston Area Solar Energy Association
Thursday, October 9
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
A major overhaul of Massachusetts policy for solar power was considered in the legislature this summer. Bill H.4185 did not pass. Instead, net metering caps were raised slightly to allow continued development of some public and private photovoltaic projects at risk, and a task force was created to study overall policy and engage public participation.
The task force will submit its report in March, 2015. The future of solar in Massachusetts is uncertain.
Our October BASEA Forum introduces Nathan Phelps of Vote Solar, to present:
1. the growth of solar power in Massachusetts from 2007 to present
2. an overview of Bill H.4185 and the last legislative session
3. the future of solar in Massachusetts (and how to help)
If solar power in the Commonwealth is important to you, please join us this Thursday. Learn how you can help support renewable energy in Massachusetts.
About our speaker:
Nathan Phelps is Program Manager of Distributed Generation Regulatory Policy at Vote Solar. Nathan’s work focuses primarily on the regulation of distributed generation, including net metering and rate design, at state public utility commissions. In addition to his work at Vote Solar, Nathan has applied his expertise on renewable energy and distributed generation in assistance to the MA Climate Protection and Green Economy Advisory Committee, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, and the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to joining Vote Solar, Nathan was a Senior Economist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities with a primary focus on renewable energy and distributed generation. Before joining the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Nathan worked at the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust in 2007. Nathan went to Willamette University for undergraduate studies in both environmental science and politics before attending Tufts University for graduate studies in environmental policy.
Thursday, October 9
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
A major overhaul of Massachusetts policy for solar power was considered in the legislature this summer. Bill H.4185 did not pass. Instead, net metering caps were raised slightly to allow continued development of some public and private photovoltaic projects at risk, and a task force was created to study overall policy and engage public participation.
The task force will submit its report in March, 2015. The future of solar in Massachusetts is uncertain.
Our October BASEA Forum introduces Nathan Phelps of Vote Solar, to present:
1. the growth of solar power in Massachusetts from 2007 to present
2. an overview of Bill H.4185 and the last legislative session
3. the future of solar in Massachusetts (and how to help)
If solar power in the Commonwealth is important to you, please join us this Thursday. Learn how you can help support renewable energy in Massachusetts.
About our speaker:
Nathan Phelps is Program Manager of Distributed Generation Regulatory Policy at Vote Solar. Nathan’s work focuses primarily on the regulation of distributed generation, including net metering and rate design, at state public utility commissions. In addition to his work at Vote Solar, Nathan has applied his expertise on renewable energy and distributed generation in assistance to the MA Climate Protection and Green Economy Advisory Committee, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, and the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to joining Vote Solar, Nathan was a Senior Economist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities with a primary focus on renewable energy and distributed generation. Before joining the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Nathan worked at the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust in 2007. Nathan went to Willamette University for undergraduate studies in both environmental science and politics before attending Tufts University for graduate studies in environmental policy.
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Friday, October 10
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Honk Fest NINTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
October 10 through 12, 2014
a wide variety of events scheduled in Somerville, Cambridge, & Boston
ALL FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
There'll be dancing ... dancing in the streets ... a guaranteed ingredient at HONK!, this year to include a total of 27 bands (www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/bands-2014), all with social and/or political activism as part of their charters, as well as individual local players who are inevitably inspired to run home, grab their respective unplugged sound makers, and dive right under the HONK! community umbrella.
The "official" participants for this year's HONK! will be travelling from as far as Moscow, Paris, New Orleans, and Los Alamos, to as near as Somerville and Boston. The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band (www.secondlinebrassband.org), the band who got this world-wide phenomenon rolling in the first place, will once again serve as the hometown HONK! host band.
The overall HONK! schedule is available for perusal at www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/schedule-2014, with many familiar aspects, including the whimsical Lantern Parades and the spectacular "Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet" Parade, by now well loved by the many true-blue HONK! fans!
But there is also a new development this year that is important to note. HONK! 2014 will be hosting a "Day of Action" to be held specifically on Friday October 10th. The goal is to set the stage for a targeted weekend long partnership between HONK! bands and local community organizations. More info. on this new HONK! initiative can be www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/friday-day-of-action-2014/, with updates available as HONK! gets closer to the day.
Specific HONK! Festival performance schedules will be made available after October 3, 2014. For more background information on HONK!'s origins and purpose, visit www.honkfest.org/about/. HONK! is a rousing spectacle featuring social activist street bands from all over who come together to share their different approaches to merry making while also instigating positive change in their communities. Born in Somerville in 2006, similar HONK!s have since spread to Austin, Seattle, Detroit, Providence, and New York City, with the first ever HONK! OZ (www.honkfest.org.au) to take place in Australia in January 2015.
For almost a decade now, the original Somerville/Cambridge HONK! just keeps on rolling and expanding! HONK! ON!
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Cyborg Camp
Friday, October 10
9am to 6pm
MIT, Media Lab, 3rd floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cyborgcamp-mit-media-lab-tickets-11004586013
Cost: $0 - 30
What is CyborgCamp?
CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We will discuss topics such as futures of identity, privacy, surveillance, hardware to wetware, drones, 3D printing, cyberpunk, human augmentation, constructed reality, the second self, ethics, robot rights, sexuality, urban design, and anthropology.
CyborgCamp welcomes people from different backgrounds, especially human (and nonhumans) at the crossroads of, liminal spaces between, and in utter disregard of different boundaries. This includes friendly IRC bots. You can find our code of conduct here.
CyborgCamp was founded by @caseorganic in 2008 as a way of bringing together people from many different backgrounds to discuss future trajectories for both humans and nonhumans. Since then, CyborgCamps have been independently organized all over the US, Canada, and Brazil.
How unconferences work / what to expect of the day
CyborgCamp is a small unconference (fewer than 100 people). This makes it easier to have more in-depth discussions with people across different fields.
While CyborgCamps usually have some formal speakers, the majority of the conference sessions are determined on the day of the event via an open whiteboard grid for session signups.
At an unconference, you teach as much as you learn. Anyone can add a discussion topic to the conference schedule. If you want to learn about something, simply suggest that session on the board. Reciprocally, share your knowledge by joining a session you’re prepared to teach. If you're part of a session you're not getting much from, you should move elsewhere.
You are encouraged to bring hardware, robots, strange contraptions, hacked Google Glasses, art, and materials for workshops. RFID installation kits, DIY drones, DIY bio, and wearable computers are also welcome. There will be room to demo and show off what you’ve built.
How to join in remotely
We live in the future, and you don’t necessarily need to attend to participate.
IRC Channel: #cyborgcamp on irc.freenode.net
WebIRC: (forthcoming)
Livestream: talky.io/cyborgcamp
More information at http://cyborgcamp.com/2014/08/cyborgcamp-mit/
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Friday, October 10
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Honk Fest NINTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
October 10 through 12, 2014
a wide variety of events scheduled in Somerville, Cambridge, & Boston
ALL FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
There'll be dancing ... dancing in the streets ... a guaranteed ingredient at HONK!, this year to include a total of 27 bands (www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/bands-2014), all with social and/or political activism as part of their charters, as well as individual local players who are inevitably inspired to run home, grab their respective unplugged sound makers, and dive right under the HONK! community umbrella.
The "official" participants for this year's HONK! will be travelling from as far as Moscow, Paris, New Orleans, and Los Alamos, to as near as Somerville and Boston. The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band (www.secondlinebrassband.org), the band who got this world-wide phenomenon rolling in the first place, will once again serve as the hometown HONK! host band.
The overall HONK! schedule is available for perusal at www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/schedule-2014, with many familiar aspects, including the whimsical Lantern Parades and the spectacular "Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet" Parade, by now well loved by the many true-blue HONK! fans!
But there is also a new development this year that is important to note. HONK! 2014 will be hosting a "Day of Action" to be held specifically on Friday October 10th. The goal is to set the stage for a targeted weekend long partnership between HONK! bands and local community organizations. More info. on this new HONK! initiative can be www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/friday-day-of-action-2014/, with updates available as HONK! gets closer to the day.
Specific HONK! Festival performance schedules will be made available after October 3, 2014. For more background information on HONK!'s origins and purpose, visit www.honkfest.org/about/. HONK! is a rousing spectacle featuring social activist street bands from all over who come together to share their different approaches to merry making while also instigating positive change in their communities. Born in Somerville in 2006, similar HONK!s have since spread to Austin, Seattle, Detroit, Providence, and New York City, with the first ever HONK! OZ (www.honkfest.org.au) to take place in Australia in January 2015.
For almost a decade now, the original Somerville/Cambridge HONK! just keeps on rolling and expanding! HONK! ON!
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Cyborg Camp
Friday, October 10
9am to 6pm
MIT, Media Lab, 3rd floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cyborgcamp-mit-media-lab-tickets-11004586013
Cost: $0 - 30
What is CyborgCamp?
CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We will discuss topics such as futures of identity, privacy, surveillance, hardware to wetware, drones, 3D printing, cyberpunk, human augmentation, constructed reality, the second self, ethics, robot rights, sexuality, urban design, and anthropology.
CyborgCamp welcomes people from different backgrounds, especially human (and nonhumans) at the crossroads of, liminal spaces between, and in utter disregard of different boundaries. This includes friendly IRC bots. You can find our code of conduct here.
CyborgCamp was founded by @caseorganic in 2008 as a way of bringing together people from many different backgrounds to discuss future trajectories for both humans and nonhumans. Since then, CyborgCamps have been independently organized all over the US, Canada, and Brazil.
How unconferences work / what to expect of the day
CyborgCamp is a small unconference (fewer than 100 people). This makes it easier to have more in-depth discussions with people across different fields.
While CyborgCamps usually have some formal speakers, the majority of the conference sessions are determined on the day of the event via an open whiteboard grid for session signups.
At an unconference, you teach as much as you learn. Anyone can add a discussion topic to the conference schedule. If you want to learn about something, simply suggest that session on the board. Reciprocally, share your knowledge by joining a session you’re prepared to teach. If you're part of a session you're not getting much from, you should move elsewhere.
You are encouraged to bring hardware, robots, strange contraptions, hacked Google Glasses, art, and materials for workshops. RFID installation kits, DIY drones, DIY bio, and wearable computers are also welcome. There will be room to demo and show off what you’ve built.
How to join in remotely
We live in the future, and you don’t necessarily need to attend to participate.
IRC Channel: #cyborgcamp on irc.freenode.net
WebIRC: (forthcoming)
Livestream: talky.io/cyborgcamp
More information at http://cyborgcamp.com/2014/08/cyborgcamp-mit/
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The Whole Organism Challenge: Or, Can We Computerize an Elephant?
Friday, October 10
Friday, October 10
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Refreshments: 10:45 AM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor David Harel , The Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL
The talk shows how techniques from computer science and software engineering can be applied beneficially to research in the life sciences. I will discuss the idea of comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems, where we try to understand and analyze an entire system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort all that is known about it. I will address the motivation for such modeling and the philosophy underlying the techniques for carrying it out, as well as the crucial question of when such models are to be deemed valid, or complete. The examples will be from among the biological modeling efforts my group has been involved in: T cell development, lymph node behavior, organogenesis of the pancreas, rat whisking, cancer tumor formation, and various projects regarding the C. elegans nematode worm. The ultimate long-term “grand challenge” is to produce an interactive, dynamic, computerized model of an entire multi-cellular organism, such as the C. elegans, which is extremely complex despite its small size, but well-defined in terms of anatomy and genetics. The sweeping potential benefits of such a model will be discussed.
Refreshments: 10:45 AM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor David Harel , The Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL
The talk shows how techniques from computer science and software engineering can be applied beneficially to research in the life sciences. I will discuss the idea of comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems, where we try to understand and analyze an entire system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort all that is known about it. I will address the motivation for such modeling and the philosophy underlying the techniques for carrying it out, as well as the crucial question of when such models are to be deemed valid, or complete. The examples will be from among the biological modeling efforts my group has been involved in: T cell development, lymph node behavior, organogenesis of the pancreas, rat whisking, cancer tumor formation, and various projects regarding the C. elegans nematode worm. The ultimate long-term “grand challenge” is to produce an interactive, dynamic, computerized model of an entire multi-cellular organism, such as the C. elegans, which is extremely complex despite its small size, but well-defined in terms of anatomy and genetics. The sweeping potential benefits of such a model will be discussed.
Prof. David Harel has been at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, and is incumbent of the William Sussman Professorial Chair. He was Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from 1989 to 1995, and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1998 for seven years.
Contact: Sally O. Lee, 253-6837, sally@csail.mit.edu
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Ice Age Climates and Climate Oscillators
Friday, October 10
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Richard Peltier
Speaker Bio: http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/~peltier/
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
Host: Ploy Achakulwisut
Email: pachakulwisut@fas.harvard.edu
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GSD Talks: "Radical Cities" author Justin McGuirk in conversation with Felipe Correa
WHEN Fri., Oct. 10, 2014, 1 – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Loeb Library, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/justin-mcguirk-radical-cities-author-justin-mcguirk-in.html
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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Friday, October 10
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
FXB Atrium, Harvard Longwood Campus, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at www.paperlesspost.com/events/9026868-270057df/replies/155670489-39a414f5
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Saturday, October 11
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IndieWebCampCambridge 2014
Saturday, October 11 to Sunday, October 12
9 am
MIT Stata Center, room 32-D463, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us in Cambridge, MA for the very first IndieWebCamp at MIT - one of many IndieWebCamps.
Join us at MIT for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web!
The IndieWeb movement is a global community that is building an open set of principles and methods that empower people to take back ownership of identity and data instead of relying on 3rd party websites.
At IndieWebCamp you’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, WebMention and more!
http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/Cambridge
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Exploring Boston’s Urban Forest
Saturday, October 11
10am-4pm
Cambridge DPW, 147 Hampshire Street, Cambridge
Cost $15.00 but free if you use the
RSVP at http://earthwatch.org/expeditions/exploring-bostons-urban-forest but free if participants use the promo code TREES upon sign-up
How are our most important neighbors—our cities' trees—faring? Find out while exploring one charming city.
Urban forests are more than pretty: they mitigate climate change, improve psychological health, filter pollutants, and increase oxygen levels.
Cities are made up of buildings and streets, but between and among human structures are thousands of trees that make up the urban forest. Earthwatch is collaborating with the arborist of the City of Cambridge, just across the river from Boston, to collect data to study and protect the 18,000 trees that make up the city's critically important urban forest.
You'll be trained in techniques for identifying species, measuring and observing individual tree samples, and uploading data via mobile apps. During the course of the day you'll work in groups, exploring Cambridge's urban forest and collecting data on the health, growth patterns, and impact on buildings and streets of individual trees.
You'll help build a growing database of information needed to understand how trees positively impact urban areas and what trees need to survive and thrive in stressful environments.
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Massachusetts Food System Listening Sessions- Boston Forum
Saturday, October 11
12:30 PM to 3:30 PM (EDT)
Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/massachusetts-food-system-listening-sessions-boston-forum-tickets-13077905367
What will it take for Massachusetts to have an equitable and sustainable food system - one that provides good food, thriving jobs and businesses, and a healthy environment for everyone in the Commonwealth?
Massachusetts is developing the first stage of its Food Systems Plan, and we want to make sure that all those who care about a good food system for Boston have their voices represented in the plan.
So if you eat, grow, catch, cook, process, package, distribute or sell food in the city, please join us at the Reggie Lewis Center, 1350 Tremont St.,Boston on October 11th from 12:30 to 3:30pm! Share your ideas with other Bostonians as we talk about how our food system works, how it doesn't, and what we want to do about it.
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Monday, October 13
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Science by the Pint: Engineering New Microbial Life Forms
Tuesday, October 14
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Boston TechBreakfast: StayAtHand, Bedrock Data, UsinLife LLC, Ostrato, Everseat
Tuesday, October 14
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155723042/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
StayAtHand - Avery Walker
Bedrock Data, Inc.: Bedrock Data - Ben Smith
UsinLife LLC - Anil Tarachandani
Ostrato - Brock Spradling
Everseat - Jeff Peres
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Charles Lewis, Professor and Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The American University School of Communication.
Tuesday, October 14
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/charles-lewis/
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The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response
Tuesday, October 14
12:00 pm
MIT, Building E62-687, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Lunch will be provided.
Speaker: Rebecca Vince, UN World Food Programme, Global Logistics Cluster Support Cell, Cash and Markets Officer (Rome)
Rebecca Vince is currently working as a Cash and Markets Specialist for the Global Logistics Cluster, UN WFP. After graduating with a Masters in Astrophysics from University College London, Rebecca has been in the international development sector for the last decade, living and working across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific. Before working on this assignment, Rebecca was the Deputy Head of Logistics for Oxfam Great Britain, working to deliver an improvement strategy across their portfolio of more than 70 countries. As well as specialising in cash and market based programming, developing SOPs and models for this topic, Rebecca’s thematic areas have included local Partner Capacity Building, leading the innovative interagency PARCEL project for the last year and a half. Rebecca has also worked on Supply Chain performance metrics, designing the SLEAT tool which is now rapidly becoming an INGO sector standard and has recently transformed Oxfam’s approach to evaluating financial benefits and Return on Investment (RoI), applying new methods to several multi-million pound projects. Rebecca is an active member of the Humanitarian Logistics Association and Women in Logistics UK and has recently qualified as a Workplace Coach. Originally from the UK, Rebecca enjoys trying to get things to grow in her garden, professional singing and photography.
Lauren Seelbach, EIT, CFM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology and Policy Program | MIT Humanitarian Response Lab
seelbach@mit.edu
Monday, October 13
7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Nikhil Nair
Dr. Nikhil Nair's lab is interested in evolving new microbial life forms for two reasons. The first is to develop biological systems for a variety of biochemical and biomedical applications. The second is to glean fundamental understanding from these engineered microbes about how biological systems work, and how and why they naturally evolved to their current state.
Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
Contact: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
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Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
Contact: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
Tuesday, October 14
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Boston TechBreakfast: StayAtHand, Bedrock Data, UsinLife LLC, Ostrato, Everseat
Tuesday, October 14
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155723042/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
StayAtHand - Avery Walker
Bedrock Data, Inc.: Bedrock Data - Ben Smith
UsinLife LLC - Anil Tarachandani
Ostrato - Brock Spradling
Everseat - Jeff Peres
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Charles Lewis, Professor and Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The American University School of Communication.
Tuesday, October 14
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/charles-lewis/
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The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response
Tuesday, October 14
12:00 pm
MIT, Building E62-687, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Lunch will be provided.
Speaker: Rebecca Vince, UN World Food Programme, Global Logistics Cluster Support Cell, Cash and Markets Officer (Rome)
Rebecca Vince is currently working as a Cash and Markets Specialist for the Global Logistics Cluster, UN WFP. After graduating with a Masters in Astrophysics from University College London, Rebecca has been in the international development sector for the last decade, living and working across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific. Before working on this assignment, Rebecca was the Deputy Head of Logistics for Oxfam Great Britain, working to deliver an improvement strategy across their portfolio of more than 70 countries. As well as specialising in cash and market based programming, developing SOPs and models for this topic, Rebecca’s thematic areas have included local Partner Capacity Building, leading the innovative interagency PARCEL project for the last year and a half. Rebecca has also worked on Supply Chain performance metrics, designing the SLEAT tool which is now rapidly becoming an INGO sector standard and has recently transformed Oxfam’s approach to evaluating financial benefits and Return on Investment (RoI), applying new methods to several multi-million pound projects. Rebecca is an active member of the Humanitarian Logistics Association and Women in Logistics UK and has recently qualified as a Workplace Coach. Originally from the UK, Rebecca enjoys trying to get things to grow in her garden, professional singing and photography.
Lauren Seelbach, EIT, CFM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology and Policy Program | MIT Humanitarian Response Lab
seelbach@mit.edu
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Arts Innovation in the Digital Age
Tuesday, October 14
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-207, Wiesner Conference Room, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Karim Ben Khelifa
Moderated by William Uricchio
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-207, Wiesner Conference Room, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Karim Ben Khelifa
Moderated by William Uricchio
Karim Ben Khelifa is a photojournalist who freelances regularly for Time, Vanity Fair, Le Monde and dozens of other publications. Khelifa created The Enemy, a project at the crossroad between neurosciences, artificial Intelligence and storytelling. The Enemy takes us on an extraordinary odyssey through some of the most contested conflicts in the world in order to acknowledge people's humanity.
Khalifa is currently a fellow at the MIT OpenDocLab and the 2013 Carroll Binder Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Free and open to the public.
Lunch will be provided for those who register prior to October 10.
Space is limited; please register early.
Khalifa is currently a fellow at the MIT OpenDocLab and the 2013 Carroll Binder Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Free and open to the public.
Lunch will be provided for those who register prior to October 10.
Space is limited; please register early.
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Douglas G. MacMartin, Caltech
Tuesday, October 14
12:30pm-1:30pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
MASS Seminar
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Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
Tuesday, October 14
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mariaflavia Harari (MIT Graduate Student)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
Tuesday, October 14
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105
Speaker: Vlada Stamenkovic (MIT)
Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
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Boston FinTech Demo Night
If you participate, you'll have at least five minutes to demo your product / technology and then the panel will spend five minutes on Q&A and constructive suggestions. If you are interested in demo'ing, please send Sarah Biller ([masked]) an email with a brief description of your company, technology and presenter no later than Weds., Sept. 17th. We'll respond to all interested in demo'ing. Please note we plan to have Demo nights every 4-5 months going forward. ***Note the New Date***
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM - Registration + Networking
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Intro + Pitch + Feedback
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Networking
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Tuesday, October 14
5:45 PM to 8:45 PM
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-FinTech/events/206898562/
The Boston FinTech Meetup is hosting its second Demo Night on ***Tuesday, October 14th*** at the IBM Innovation Center. In between networking, we'll showcase up to six of Boston's hottest FinTech Startups, and we're bringing together some of Boston's most engaged VC's, industry veterans and Tech experts in addition to the entrepreneurs to see the action. Please plan to join us for this exciting evening. We are also seeking your innovative start-up to showcase! The details:
If you participate, you'll have at least five minutes to demo your product / technology and then the panel will spend five minutes on Q&A and constructive suggestions. If you are interested in demo'ing, please send Sarah Biller ([masked]) an email with a brief description of your company, technology and presenter no later than Weds., Sept. 17th. We'll respond to all interested in demo'ing. Please note we plan to have Demo nights every 4-5 months going forward. ***Note the New Date***
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM - Registration + Networking
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Intro + Pitch + Feedback
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Networking
MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Tuesday, October 15
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Tuesday, October 15
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Invisible Majority
Ann Pearson - Professor of Environmental Sciences, Harvard
Giulio Mariotti - Crosby Postdoctoral Fellow, EAPS, MIT
Ann Pearson - Professor of Environmental Sciences, Harvard
Giulio Mariotti - Crosby Postdoctoral Fellow, EAPS, MIT
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Fall 2014 Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Discover the origins of life on earth and how life itself can drastically alter the landscape of our planet. Then learn what prospects lie ahead of finding habitable planets and even other types of life outside of the Earth. Come with questions, share your thoughts, and leave with new knowledge and understanding.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu
Fall 2014 Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Discover the origins of life on earth and how life itself can drastically alter the landscape of our planet. Then learn what prospects lie ahead of finding habitable planets and even other types of life outside of the Earth. Come with questions, share your thoughts, and leave with new knowledge and understanding.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu
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Adaptive Technologies: Computation's Deep Ancestry
WHEN Tue., Oct. 14, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 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) Greg Lynn and others
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS This discussion will feature designers, historians, and experimentalists who probe the resonance or conflict between design and exact science. We will explore the attraction, limits, amplifications, and subversions of exactness and deduction. As designers have turned to physics and mathematics as models for technique or knowledge in computational design, what have they learned? What might be hidden or pathological ancestors and antecedents to our current and future design technology? Moderated by Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, with Greg Lynn and others.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/greg-lynn-adaptive-technologies-computations-deep-ancestry.html
WHEN Tue., Oct. 14, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 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) Greg Lynn and others
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS This discussion will feature designers, historians, and experimentalists who probe the resonance or conflict between design and exact science. We will explore the attraction, limits, amplifications, and subversions of exactness and deduction. As designers have turned to physics and mathematics as models for technique or knowledge in computational design, what have they learned? What might be hidden or pathological ancestors and antecedents to our current and future design technology? Moderated by Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, with Greg Lynn and others.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/greg-lynn-adaptive-technologies-computations-deep-ancestry.html
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Wednesday, October 15
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October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, October 15
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
Join us for the October installment of our Boston Sustainability Breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
Though our Sustainability Breakfast Series is now a little over one year old, this is an evolving event so your input and participation is more than welcome.
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Nutrient hotspots and the role of ancient herders in the creation of African savannas
Wednesday, October 15
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Tozzer Library Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Dr. Fiona Marsall, Washington University
Archaeology Seminar
Contact Name: Dr. Christian Tryon
christiantryon@fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-15-160000-2014-10-15-170000/archaeology-seminar#sthash.cgyPvCCk.dpuf
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Transportation, Economic Competitiveness, and Megaregions
Wednesday, October 15
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP to Ellen Bell, director of Strategic Initiatives for Research and Innovation, at ellen.bell@dot.gov
Webinar https://volpe-events.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=volpe-events
Dr. Catherine Ross, Director of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
Dr. Catherine L. Ross is one of the world’s experts on megaregions—how to bring together regions on transportation, water, energy, land, housing, and health to create great places to live that compete in a global world. She is the director of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) and deputy director of the National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management.
Dr. Ross is vice president of Euquant, Inc., an Atlanta-based economic and planning consulting firm. In July 2009, she was selected to advise the Obama Administration on the first-ever White House Office of Urban Affairs.
She is the editor of Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness(Island Press, 2009) and the co-author of The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century (1997). Dr. Ross has conducted research on transportation and urban planning and how to make cities, neighborhoods and regions safer, healthier places for all to live. She has published extensively. Her recent book, Health Impact Assessment in the United States, was published in 2014 by Springer. Her research provides solutions to numerous problems, including global warming, affordable housing, congestion, job growth in a global economy, air quality and health, and the built environment.
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Growing the Region’s Farm and Food Workforce
Wednesday, October 15
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/525141978
Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System.
All webinars are recorded and will be available at www.farmland.org/newengland. You will find these four webinars already posted there:
May 14: Introduction to the New England Food Policy Report and Project
June 18th: Organic Waste: Finding Uses for It in the Food System
July 16th: Frameworks for Regional Food System Collaboration
July 23rd: Reducing Farmland Conversion: State Land Use and Protection Policies
For a more detailed description of each of the webinars, please visit www.newenglandfoodpolicy.org
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Wednesday, October 15
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October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, October 15
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
Join us for the October installment of our Boston Sustainability Breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
Though our Sustainability Breakfast Series is now a little over one year old, this is an evolving event so your input and participation is more than welcome.
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Nutrient hotspots and the role of ancient herders in the creation of African savannas
Wednesday, October 15
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Tozzer Library Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Dr. Fiona Marsall, Washington University
Archaeology Seminar
Contact Name: Dr. Christian Tryon
christiantryon@fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-15-160000-2014-10-15-170000/archaeology-seminar#sthash.cgyPvCCk.dpuf
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Transportation, Economic Competitiveness, and Megaregions
Wednesday, October 15
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP to Ellen Bell, director of Strategic Initiatives for Research and Innovation, at ellen.bell@dot.gov
Webinar https://volpe-events.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=volpe-events
Dr. Catherine Ross, Director of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
Dr. Catherine L. Ross is one of the world’s experts on megaregions—how to bring together regions on transportation, water, energy, land, housing, and health to create great places to live that compete in a global world. She is the director of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) and deputy director of the National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management.
Dr. Ross is vice president of Euquant, Inc., an Atlanta-based economic and planning consulting firm. In July 2009, she was selected to advise the Obama Administration on the first-ever White House Office of Urban Affairs.
She is the editor of Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness(Island Press, 2009) and the co-author of The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century (1997). Dr. Ross has conducted research on transportation and urban planning and how to make cities, neighborhoods and regions safer, healthier places for all to live. She has published extensively. Her recent book, Health Impact Assessment in the United States, was published in 2014 by Springer. Her research provides solutions to numerous problems, including global warming, affordable housing, congestion, job growth in a global economy, air quality and health, and the built environment.
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Growing the Region’s Farm and Food Workforce
Wednesday, October 15
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/525141978
Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System.
All webinars are recorded and will be available at www.farmland.org/newengland. You will find these four webinars already posted there:
May 14: Introduction to the New England Food Policy Report and Project
June 18th: Organic Waste: Finding Uses for It in the Food System
July 16th: Frameworks for Regional Food System Collaboration
July 23rd: Reducing Farmland Conversion: State Land Use and Protection Policies
For a more detailed description of each of the webinars, please visit www.newenglandfoodpolicy.org
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Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
Wednesday, October 15
12:00a–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401
Light lunch at 11:30am
MIT, Building 34-401
Light lunch at 11:30am
Speaker: Ms. Sudha Maniam, GE Global
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2014.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie DiNardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Productivity, and the Wealth of Nations
WHEN Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy,
Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Geoffrey Heal, Columbia Business School, and Jisung Park, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Adapting Species to a Changing World: The Potential of Genome Editing
Wednesday, October 15
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Innovative new technologies may enable scientists to manipulate ancient and modern DNA to safeguard ecosystems from invasive organisms, help species recover their genetic diversity, and address issues of climate change. However, as geneticist George Church will discuss, while resurrecting mammoths could help maintain the Arctic permafrost, such developments require thoughtful consideration of complex system interactions and potential unintended consequences.
Lecture. Free and open to the public.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-15-220000/adapting-species-changing-world-potential-genome-editing#sthash.FV8VwWLP.dpuf
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Crowdfunding’s role in the future of technology innovation
Wednesday, October 15
6:30 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Join us for a Feature Presentation including interviews with serial entrepreneur and leading Angel investor, David S. Rose, and equity Crowdfunding pioneer, Ryan Feit. Hear how Crowdfunding is changing the way early-stage technology is financed.
Agenda:
Speed networking & registration (6:30 sharp)
Premier of Feature Presentation
Interactive ’Needs & Asks’ session
Feature Presentation starring:
David S. Rose, Founder & CEO, Gust, Managing Partner, Rose Tech Ventures, Chairman Emeritus, NY Angels
Ryan Feit, Co-Founder & CEO, SeedInvest
Following the Feature Presentation we'll begin the interactive "Needs & Asks" session. Requests will be announced to the group and connections can be made in real-time. Attendees are encouraged to submit their request when registering.
About the speakers:
David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur, Inc 500 CEO and active angel investor who has helped to fund over 100 companies. He is the author of the New York Times best selling book, “Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups”. David has been described by Forbes magazine as “New York’s Archangel” and by Red Herring magazine as "Patriarch of Silicon Alley." He is the founder and CEO of Gust, the international collaboration platform for startup financing that connects over 50,000 business angels and 250,000 entrepreneurs. David is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Associate Founder and Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies.
Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Carlson Capital, Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Prior to the passage of the JOBS Act, Ryan supported The Startup Exemption, the nonprofit responsible for bringing the concept of equity crowdfunding to Washington, D.C. Ryan co-founded the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serves as a Board Member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates group. Whenever given the chance, Ryan enjoys traveling and has been to 77 countries. Ryan received an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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"The Art of Cyber Warfare"
Wednesday, October 15
6:30 PM
Microsoft NERD, 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA (map)
Microsoft NERD, 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA (map)
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/National-Information-Security-Group-Boston/events/209746042/
Cost: Free and includes pizza!
Reservations and Photo ID: Required. Reserve here at Meetup. We require your full name for building security purposes, so please include that if your Meetup username does not provide it or you will NOT be added to the security list. Please also bring a photo ID to present to building security upon entering the building.
Topic #1:
"How Flashlight Apps Spy on You," presented by Gary Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall.
Description: As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Gary Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall, will show us how the top ten flashlight apps have been spying on nearly half a billion people, then discuss best practices for mobile security and show some of the hottest new free tools to help lock down and reclaim privacy.We have seen cycle after cycle of change and disruption in technology and security, and it seems that on each iteration the industry goes through the same series of mistakes, panic, despair, and finally varying levels of resolution. In this presentation, Jack Daniel will review disruptions from early computing systems to the cloud, to the current "Bring Your Own [whatever]" and "Internet of Things" panics, and then focus the conversation on the common issues and solutions to these cycles.
Topic #2: "The Art of Cyber Warfare," presented by Radware.
Description: Is the world in the midst of a cyber-war? If so, what are the implications? Hear Radware explore some of the most notable recent cyber-attacks and how many of the findings correlate with the tenets of warfare as defined in The Art of War by Sun Tzu, the ancient military general, strategist and tactician. How should organizations be prepare for an information security landscape that is shaped by ideologically motivated cyber warfare rather than just opportunistic cyber-crime? Discuss the techniques being employed to safeguard IT operations in a theatre that is witnessing ever more sophisticated attacks.
Topic #1:
"How Flashlight Apps Spy on You," presented by Gary Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall.
Description: As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Gary Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall, will show us how the top ten flashlight apps have been spying on nearly half a billion people, then discuss best practices for mobile security and show some of the hottest new free tools to help lock down and reclaim privacy.We have seen cycle after cycle of change and disruption in technology and security, and it seems that on each iteration the industry goes through the same series of mistakes, panic, despair, and finally varying levels of resolution. In this presentation, Jack Daniel will review disruptions from early computing systems to the cloud, to the current "Bring Your Own [whatever]" and "Internet of Things" panics, and then focus the conversation on the common issues and solutions to these cycles.
Topic #2: "The Art of Cyber Warfare," presented by Radware.
Description: Is the world in the midst of a cyber-war? If so, what are the implications? Hear Radware explore some of the most notable recent cyber-attacks and how many of the findings correlate with the tenets of warfare as defined in The Art of War by Sun Tzu, the ancient military general, strategist and tactician. How should organizations be prepare for an information security landscape that is shaped by ideologically motivated cyber warfare rather than just opportunistic cyber-crime? Discuss the techniques being employed to safeguard IT operations in a theatre that is witnessing ever more sophisticated attacks.
Contact: http://boston.naisg.org/
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Thursday, October 16
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Thursday, October 16
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Temperate Forest Dynamics on a Grand Scale: the Harvard Forest Global Earth Observatory Plot
Thursday, October 16
12:00-1:00pm
Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Rd Tufts University, Medford
David Orwig, PhD; Senior Forest Ecologist, Harvard Forest
In his talk, David Orwig will present current research at Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA), focusing on the integrated study of forest dynamics and ecosystem processes. He will discuss how this type of research helps answering long-term questions and informs forest management.
David Orwig is a forest ecologist for Harvard University’s Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. He has worked there for the last 19 years. He received a B.S. in Biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and he holds a MSc in Ecology and PhD in Forest Resources both from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests encompass various aspects of forest ecology and ecosystem science, with particular emphasis on dendroecology, old-growth forests, and the role of land use history and disturbance on forest composition and structure. He has integrated stand, community, landscape, and ecosystem approaches in examining the ecological consequences of several invasive insect pests in forests of southern New England. He has studied and written extensively on the hemlock woolly adelgid and the impact this pest is having on forests in the region, and within the last several years, began studying the invasive elongate hemlock scale, the Sirex wood wasp, and the Asian Long-horned beetle.
David Orwig, PhD; Senior Forest Ecologist, Harvard Forest
In his talk, David Orwig will present current research at Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA), focusing on the integrated study of forest dynamics and ecosystem processes. He will discuss how this type of research helps answering long-term questions and informs forest management.
David Orwig is a forest ecologist for Harvard University’s Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. He has worked there for the last 19 years. He received a B.S. in Biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and he holds a MSc in Ecology and PhD in Forest Resources both from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests encompass various aspects of forest ecology and ecosystem science, with particular emphasis on dendroecology, old-growth forests, and the role of land use history and disturbance on forest composition and structure. He has integrated stand, community, landscape, and ecosystem approaches in examining the ecological consequences of several invasive insect pests in forests of southern New England. He has studied and written extensively on the hemlock woolly adelgid and the impact this pest is having on forests in the region, and within the last several years, began studying the invasive elongate hemlock scale, the Sirex wood wasp, and the Asian Long-horned beetle.
Contact environmentalstudies@tufts.edu
Webcast live at https://tufts.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=tufts&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc0901l%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dtufts%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D316416707%26UID%3D516099667%26Host%3Df428050922031802%26FrameSet%3D2%26MTID%3Dm67c61a87cdb5cfefee82fbc7955c0aa8
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Expansion and Decline: Al Qaeda's Franchising Strategy and Its Consequences
WHEN Thu., Oct. 16, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369 at HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Barak Mendelsohn, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@hks.harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6438/expansion_and_decline.html
WHEN Thu., Oct. 16, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369 at HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Barak Mendelsohn, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@hks.harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6438/expansion_and_decline.html
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Drone Warfare: Discussion/Signing with Sarah Kreps & John Kaag
Thursday, October 16
Thursday, October 16
3:00pm
The first book to engage fully with the political, legal, and ethical dimensions of UAVs. In it, political scientist Sarah Kreps and philosopher John Kaag discuss the extraordinary expansion of drone programs from the Cold War to the present day and their so-called effectiveness’ in conflict zones.
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The first book to engage fully with the political, legal, and ethical dimensions of UAVs. In it, political scientist Sarah Kreps and philosopher John Kaag discuss the extraordinary expansion of drone programs from the Cold War to the present day and their so-called effectiveness’ in conflict zones.
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Energy, Peace, and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean
Thursday, October 16
4:15PM - 6:00PM
Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion with: Sir Michael Leigh, Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund; Dr. Marina Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Middle East Program; Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-16-201500-2014-10-16-220000/energy-peace-and-conflict-eastern-mediterranean#sthash.GZyaX1DN.dpuf
Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion with: Sir Michael Leigh, Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund; Dr. Marina Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Middle East Program; Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-16-201500-2014-10-16-220000/energy-peace-and-conflict-eastern-mediterranean#sthash.GZyaX1DN.dpuf
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Shooting Science
Thursday, October 16
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street
Graham Chedd, Producer, Visiting Professor, The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
Contact Name: Jennifer L. Berglund
berglund@bu.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-16-210000-2014-10-16-220000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.L7fRtz5y.dpuf
berglund@bu.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-16-210000-2014-10-16-220000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.L7fRtz5y.dpuf
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Combating Poverty the Swedish Way
Thursday, October 16
Thursday, October 16
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (PDT)
Campus Center Student Residence Building (CCSR), 150 the Riverway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/combating-poverty-the-swedish-way-tickets-12753113907?
Wheelock College is pleased to host 2014 Presidential International Visiting Scholar, Dr. Renate Minas from October 13-27. Dr. Minas currently serves as a faculty member for the Department of Social Work at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her topic and research areas include, applied social research, social welfare policy, international scholarship and research, and international teaching perspectives.
The Presidential International Visiting Scholars series is a cross-cultural initiative designed to promote global understanding and literacy and an international educational experience for faculty, learners, and administrators at Wheelock and beyond. During their stay, the College invites the Visiting Scholars to present a lecture on a topic related to their expertise. Please join us for Dr. Minas' public lecture, "Combating Poverty the Swedish Way," on October 16th!
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Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement
Thursday, October 16
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Doris Sommer's new book, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development. From the top and from below, creative projects and their interpretation fuel positive change and renew humanists' opportunities to make civic contributions.
Sommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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An Act of Collective Madness
Thursday, October 16
Thursday, October 16
oors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,entrance on Windsor
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,entrance on Windsor
This is the story of how the American Empire affects us and the world. We're the victims and the enablers.
*American Empire* is an indictment on the country that has supposedly nurtured us, but is slowly destroying us. Beginning with the founding of the Federal Reserve our economy is controlled by a system of debt and inflation. It has become an economic empire that is destroying our planet and all its natural resources driven by a relentless need to amass money and power.
Watch the trailer!
"the first film to connect the dots"
"a revolution in film" ~ Huffington Post
"Our founding fathers broke away from an empire to found a Republic, but today we are once again under an empire's rule, the American Empire. And the goal of an empire is to exploit the world. Empires by their nature are never free and can not coexist with a Republic." ~ American Empire, Patrea Patrick
"We in the United States don't realize that our corporations have created this very subtle, very clandestine empire. It's been done in secret - and that's very dangerous, because democracy is based on the premise that you have an informed electorate, and if the electorate doesn't understand the most basic premise of our foreign policy --which is taking resources and markets from around the world --we can't vote intelligently, which means we can not be a true democracy." ... "No rational person assumes that we can continue on this course." ~John Perkins, author, former _Economic Hit Man_
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos
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Startup Stir: Engaging Fans with Social Media
Thursday, October 16
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-stir-engaging-fans-with-social-media-registration-12452863851
Cost: $5-10
Engaging Fans with Social Media
This month, Beacon Hill Partners is excited to host a forum on social media for fan engagement.
If you're starting a new venture or energizing an old one, online fan engagement can make or break your marketing efforts. Are you emotionally connecting with your fans? Are you meeting them at the times and on the platforms where they want to hear from you? Are you retaining, engaging and converting your fans in to customers?
To get to the bottom of this, we've assembled an expert panel of social media gurus from Dunkin Donuts, the Boston Celtics, area ad agencies and more. Best of all, Startup Stir is an excellent networking event with complimentary cocktails sponsored by Boston cocktail caterer Revolution Cocktails. This is an event you won't want to miss!
Expert Social Media Panelists:
Jessica Gioglio, Director of Social Media, Dunkin' Brands
Peter Stringer, Sr. Director, Digital Media, Boston Celtics
Mike Proulx, Executive VP, Digital + Director of Social Media, Hill Holliday
Surprise Panelist Coming Soon!
Startup Stir is a place for professionals from all industries to exchange knowledge.
Our monthly networking event covers a range of topics that are pertinent to small businesses and entrepenuers. With guest speakers, free food and beverages, and an exchange of knowledge, what’s not to love? Here you will sharpen your skills, learn something new, and creatively collaborate. Come grow your network and stay on tap!
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Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life
Thursday, October 16
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
New England Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105501&view=Detail
Peter Molnar, 4th Annual John H. Carlson Lecture, presented by MIT’s Lorenz Center and The New England Aquarium
*Reception will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center’s 4th Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre. Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT’s School of Science launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry, to foster creative approaches to learning how climate works. The annual Carlson Lecture features exciting new results in climate science each year to the general public; it is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center at MIT.
Three million years ago, ice covered Canada for the first time, the first Ice Age, in hundreds of millions of years. Concurrently, mountain lions crossed the Isthmus of Panamá from North America to South America, while Armadillos moved into North America, in the Great American Interchange. Many geologists imagine that the Isthmus of Panamá emerged three million years ago not only to provide a land bridge for the Interchange, but also to facilitate Ice Ages. During Ice Ages, however, Panamá cools and dries out. Could it have been global climate change instead, associated with an ice-covered Canada, that temporarily transformed Panamá’s uninviting jungles into a savanna highway conducive to overland travel?
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Thursday, October 16
7pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and best-selling author, has been exploring the interface between environmental degradation and capitalism for more than a decade. Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, provides a far-reaching explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
\Who benefits from the status quo? How deeply are the current power structures embedded in our political economy? How difficult will it to be change them?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Beyond Neutrality - enabling a world of connected things
Thursday, October 16
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-315, Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-315, Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Bob Frankston
Network Neutrality and related policy issues are framed by the assumption that intelligence is inside a network and (tele)communications is a service. Today that intelligence is now in our devices which can communicate by exchanging packets using any means available. This shift in intelligence has also moved value creation outside of networks.
In this talk I'll trace the history of this fundamental transformation and the technical and policy implications and what it means to
"communicate". This shift has opened up new opportunities for how to cooperate in creating a 21st century infrastructure. By paying for the infrastructure as a common facility we will not be limited to messages that profit intermediaries be they telecom providers or chip makers.
For more background read http://rmf.vc/IEEENotTheMessage or the longer essay http://rmf.vc/ConnectivityPolicy.
Bob Frankston is perhaps best known as the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet program) and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
He's a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and MIT, where he co-founded the Student Information Processing Board and worked on project MAC, worked at Lotus and Microsoft for a while, and is now an angel investor and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact: Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
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Friday, October 17
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Strategic Ozonesonde Networks: Insights from SHADOZ (1998-) and SEACIONS (2013)
Friday, October 17
Network Neutrality and related policy issues are framed by the assumption that intelligence is inside a network and (tele)communications is a service. Today that intelligence is now in our devices which can communicate by exchanging packets using any means available. This shift in intelligence has also moved value creation outside of networks.
In this talk I'll trace the history of this fundamental transformation and the technical and policy implications and what it means to
"communicate". This shift has opened up new opportunities for how to cooperate in creating a 21st century infrastructure. By paying for the infrastructure as a common facility we will not be limited to messages that profit intermediaries be they telecom providers or chip makers.
For more background read http://rmf.vc/IEEENotTheMessage or the longer essay http://rmf.vc/ConnectivityPolicy.
Bob Frankston is perhaps best known as the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet program) and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
He's a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and MIT, where he co-founded the Student Information Processing Board and worked on project MAC, worked at Lotus and Microsoft for a while, and is now an angel investor and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact: Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
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Friday, October 17
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Strategic Ozonesonde Networks: Insights from SHADOZ (1998-) and SEACIONS (2013)
Friday, October 17
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Anne Thompson
ABSTRACT: Ozonesonde data support satellite validation, model assimilation and evaluation as well as studies of atmospheric dynamics. Strategic ozonesonde networks coordinate and schedule launches in a fixed region to answer specific questions (Thompson et al., 2011)*. We have organized five such networks in the past 15 years. Most of this talk will focus on the Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ;) network that consists of a dozen tropical and subtropical stations, with 2-4 launches monthly. An overview of SHADOZ origins and workings will be given along with illustrative findings in the troposphere and stratosphere. In campaign-class strategic networks daily launches look at ozone short-term variability to complement NASA aircraft missions. Examples from the 2013 SEACIONS (Southeastern American Consortium for Intensive Ozonesonde Network Study), from the SEAC4RS campaign, will be presented.
*Strategic ozone sounding networks: Review of design and accomplishments, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.05.002. Or Atmos. Environ., 45, 2145-2163, 2011.
Speaker Bio: http://ploneprod.met.psu.edu/people/amt16
Contact Eloise Marais
emarais@seas.harvard.edu
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Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Anne Thompson
ABSTRACT: Ozonesonde data support satellite validation, model assimilation and evaluation as well as studies of atmospheric dynamics. Strategic ozonesonde networks coordinate and schedule launches in a fixed region to answer specific questions (Thompson et al., 2011)*. We have organized five such networks in the past 15 years. Most of this talk will focus on the Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ;
*Strategic ozone sounding networks: Review of design and accomplishments, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.05.002. Or Atmos. Environ., 45, 2145-2163, 2011.
Speaker Bio: http://ploneprod.met.psu.edu/people/amt16
Contact Eloise Marais
emarais@seas.harvard.edu
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xTalks: Alain Mille - Observing an Open Learning Process - A Knowledge Oriented Process
Friday, October 17
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 4-231,
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 4-231,
Speaker: Alain Mille
Alain Mille of the French National Center for Scientific Research and France's Universite Scientifique will speak about developing, instrumenting and understanding MOOCs, including ethical issues and data access for research.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
xTalks is a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/alain-mille/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
Alain Mille of the French National Center for Scientific Research and France's Universite Scientifique will speak about developing, instrumenting and understanding MOOCs, including ethical issues and data access for research.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
xTalks is a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/alain-mille/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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A Conversation with Jaime Lerner: Urban Acupuncture Book Talk
Friday, October 17
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP by emailing rsvp@architects.org with "Acupuncture 10/17” as the subject
Hear Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, talk about the pioneering urban strategies he implemented in the 1970s and ’80s that turned Curitiba into one of the world’s most sustainable cities.
To celebrate the release of his latest book, Urban Acupuncture, Lerner will share many of the ideas and initiatives that fulfilled his vision, from a groundbreaking bus rapid transit system to parks that minimize flooding to the creation of city zones reserved entirely for pedestrians. He will also revisit some of his legacy projects in other cities around the world, including the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona, Spain, and the revitalized Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea.
Following the presentation, Lerner will be joined by Nigel Jacob, co-chair, Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics—Boston, and Katie Swenson, vice president, National Design Initiatives, Enterprise Community Partners, for a discussion and Q&A session. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public, and is made possible with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Center for the Living City.
Books will be on for sale for $19.99.
Hear Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, talk about the pioneering urban strategies he implemented in the 1970s and ’80s that turned Curitiba into one of the world’s most sustainable cities.
To celebrate the release of his latest book, Urban Acupuncture, Lerner will share many of the ideas and initiatives that fulfilled his vision, from a groundbreaking bus rapid transit system to parks that minimize flooding to the creation of city zones reserved entirely for pedestrians. He will also revisit some of his legacy projects in other cities around the world, including the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona, Spain, and the revitalized Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea.
Following the presentation, Lerner will be joined by Nigel Jacob, co-chair, Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics—Boston, and Katie Swenson, vice president, National Design Initiatives, Enterprise Community Partners, for a discussion and Q&A session. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public, and is made possible with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Center for the Living City.
Books will be on for sale for $19.99.
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MIT Energy Night 2014
Friday, Oct 17, 2014
6:00PM - 9:00PM
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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Is Global Warming Dead?
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Saturday, October 18
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2014 HBS Energy Symposium
HBS Energy & Environment Club
Saturday, October 18
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Harvard Business School, 500 Soldiers Field Road, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-hbs-energy-symposium-tickets-12619686823
Cost: $25-110
In the Twenty-First Century, we have seen a dramatic change in the energy industry. The discovery of shale gas has transformed the United States from an energy importer to an energy exporter. Meanwhile, political instability in the Middle East has added to the volatility of global energy supplies. These changes are impacting us while the energy industry itself is undergoing a tremendous technological shift. The technology utilized within the industry is ever more complex and the talents to work in this field are increasingly difficult to find.
The 11th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School will navigate these transitions to find the path to the future of the energy industry. The symposium will end with a showcase and networking hour with of some of the hottest companies in the energy and environment space.
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37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert: "A Love Supreme"
Saturday, October 18
7:30 pm
Blackman Theatre, Ell Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
For tickets: tickets.neu.edu, 617-373-4700 (TTY 617-373-2184); further information on the concert can be found at www.friendsofjcmc.org
Tickets: $30 general admission, $25 students/seniors, $40 VIP [all ticket prices include service charge]
The Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert (fJCMC) is pleased to announce their plans for this year's 37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, which will celebrate and honor the 50th anniversary of Coltrane's majestic suite "A Love Supreme," considered by many to be the greatest spiritual jazz composition of all times.
This year's concert, co-presented with Northeastern Center for the Arts, will feature guest artist Donald Harrison, New Orleans saxophonist, composer, arranger and principal consultant for the "Treme" series on HBO.
Harrison will join Boston-based master musicians Carl Atkins, Leonard Brown, Yoron Israel, Ron Mahdi, Bill Pierce, John Ramsay, and George W. Russell, Jr. Together, this all-star ensemble will perform contemporary versions of some of Coltrane’s sacred music from the later stages of his life that served to bring the devotional essence of African and African American music to “jazz”.
A feature of the evening will be the Ensemble’s performance of the complete “A Love Supreme” Suite with recitation of Coltrane’s prayer by Eric Jackson of WGBH radio, who will also serve as host for the evening.
The John Coltrane Memorial Concert is co-produced by Leonard Brown, Associate Professor of Music & African American Studies at Northeastern University, and Emmett G. Price III, Associate Professor of Music and former chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northeastern. Preliminary information on this year's concert can be found at friendsofjcmc.org.
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Sunday, October 19
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The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival- “Post-disaster Civil Society”
Sunday, October 19
12:30 PM to 7:00 PM
MIT, Building Room 4-730, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Urban Risk Lab at MIT, JREX, TEWASSA, and Satsuki Kai USA (Alumni organization of the University of Tokyo) present
The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival
"Post-disaster Civil Society"
This October we will again commemorate “3.11” with three film screenings under the theme “Post-Disaster Civil Society.” Those screenings will include discussions with the directors of the films.
Schedule:
12:30pm -Film screening
“Nuclear Nation~The Fukushima Refugees Story”
2:00pm -Discussion
Atsushi Funabashi, director of “Nuclear Nation”
3:30pm -Film screening
“X Years Later,"
5:00pm -Discussion
Hideaki Ito, director of “X years Later,”
6:00pm -Short Film screening
“Radioactive”
7:00pm -Reception
Itadaki Boston, 269 Newbury Street, Boston
Tickets: We welcome donations, though this event is free for educational purposes.
Friday, October 17
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Diesel Cafe, 257 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/InquisitiveMinds/events/193615092/
Calling all Deniers & Alarmists, Warmists, skeptics, true believers and other open minded folk...
Antarctic sea ice is increasing to record levels
Global average sea levels are rising at a tiny rate of 3mm/year
In spite of the fact that CO2 levels have increased, satellite temperature data for the last 17 years, 10 months and counting, fail to show a warming trend. Climate models failed to predict this.
Let's discuss 3 questions:
Is man made global warming dead? If not, what can we realistically say are the likely consequences of such? Will we doing anything significant in our life time policy wise to address man's CO2 emissions?
Join us for a moderated discussion of global warming.
Antarctic sea ice is increasing to record levels
Global average sea levels are rising at a tiny rate of 3mm/year
In spite of the fact that CO2 levels have increased, satellite temperature data for the last 17 years, 10 months and counting, fail to show a warming trend. Climate models failed to predict this.
Let's discuss 3 questions:
Is man made global warming dead? If not, what can we realistically say are the likely consequences of such? Will we doing anything significant in our life time policy wise to address man's CO2 emissions?
Join us for a moderated discussion of global warming.
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Saturday, October 18
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2014 HBS Energy Symposium
HBS Energy & Environment Club
Saturday, October 18
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Harvard Business School, 500 Soldiers Field Road, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-hbs-energy-symposium-tickets-12619686823
Cost: $25-110
In the Twenty-First Century, we have seen a dramatic change in the energy industry. The discovery of shale gas has transformed the United States from an energy importer to an energy exporter. Meanwhile, political instability in the Middle East has added to the volatility of global energy supplies. These changes are impacting us while the energy industry itself is undergoing a tremendous technological shift. The technology utilized within the industry is ever more complex and the talents to work in this field are increasingly difficult to find.
The 11th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School will navigate these transitions to find the path to the future of the energy industry. The symposium will end with a showcase and networking hour with of some of the hottest companies in the energy and environment space.
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37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert: "A Love Supreme"
Saturday, October 18
7:30 pm
Blackman Theatre, Ell Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
For tickets: tickets.neu.edu, 617-373-4700 (TTY 617-373-2184); further information on the concert can be found at www.friendsofjcmc.org
Tickets: $30 general admission, $25 students/seniors, $40 VIP [all ticket prices include service charge]
The Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert (fJCMC) is pleased to announce their plans for this year's 37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, which will celebrate and honor the 50th anniversary of Coltrane's majestic suite "A Love Supreme," considered by many to be the greatest spiritual jazz composition of all times.
This year's concert, co-presented with Northeastern Center for the Arts, will feature guest artist Donald Harrison, New Orleans saxophonist, composer, arranger and principal consultant for the "Treme" series on HBO.
Harrison will join Boston-based master musicians Carl Atkins, Leonard Brown, Yoron Israel, Ron Mahdi, Bill Pierce, John Ramsay, and George W. Russell, Jr. Together, this all-star ensemble will perform contemporary versions of some of Coltrane’s sacred music from the later stages of his life that served to bring the devotional essence of African and African American music to “jazz”.
A feature of the evening will be the Ensemble’s performance of the complete “A Love Supreme” Suite with recitation of Coltrane’s prayer by Eric Jackson of WGBH radio, who will also serve as host for the evening.
The John Coltrane Memorial Concert is co-produced by Leonard Brown, Associate Professor of Music & African American Studies at Northeastern University, and Emmett G. Price III, Associate Professor of Music and former chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northeastern. Preliminary information on this year's concert can be found at friendsofjcmc.org.
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Sunday, October 19
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The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival- “Post-disaster Civil Society”
Sunday, October 19
12:30 PM to 7:00 PM
MIT, Building Room 4-730, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Urban Risk Lab at MIT, JREX, TEWASSA, and Satsuki Kai USA (Alumni organization of the University of Tokyo) present
The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival
"Post-disaster Civil Society"
This October we will again commemorate “3.11” with three film screenings under the theme “Post-Disaster Civil Society.” Those screenings will include discussions with the directors of the films.
Schedule:
12:30pm -Film screening
“Nuclear Nation~The Fukushima Refugees Story”
2:00pm -Discussion
Atsushi Funabashi, director of “Nuclear Nation”
3:30pm -Film screening
“X Years Later,"
5:00pm -Discussion
Hideaki Ito, director of “X years Later,”
6:00pm -Short Film screening
“Radioactive”
7:00pm -Reception
Itadaki Boston, 269 Newbury Street, Boston
Tickets: We welcome donations, though this event is free for educational purposes.
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Monday, October 20
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MASS Seminar - Yi Ming (GFDL)
Monday, October 20
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Yi Ming
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Yi Ming
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Prospects for shale gas development in Eastern Europe
Monday, October 20
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Andreas Goldthau, Fellow, Geopolitics of Energy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Andreas Goldthau, Fellow, Geopolitics of Energy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
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Bridging the Basic-Applied Dichotomy and the Cycle of Discovery and Invention
Monday, October 20
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard, SEAS
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard, SEAS
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-20-161500-2014-10-20-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.YVGZ6aCS.dpuf
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-20-161500-2014-10-20-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.YVGZ6aCS.dpuf
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Energy as a Tool of Foreign Policy
WHEN Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye A, 5th Floor Taubman Building at HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Brenda Shaffer, University of Haifa
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6458/energy_as_a_tool_of_foreign_policy.html
WHEN Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye A, 5th Floor Taubman Building at HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Brenda Shaffer, University of Haifa
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6458/energy_as_a_tool_of_foreign_policy.html
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Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Panel: The Next Great Mass Extinction
Monday, October 20
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105
Speaker: With Daniel Rothman (MIT), Andrew H. Knoll (Harvard), Hillary Young (UCSB), and Anthony Barnosky (Berkeley)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
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Boston New Technology October 2014 Product Showcase #BNT46
Monday, October 20
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PayPal Start Tank, One International Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/207287012/
Free event! Come learn about 7 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 Questions & Answers. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT46 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
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WORK ON PURPOSE: A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND DINNERS
Monday, October 20, 2014
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building W-1, 305 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
This fall, Radius and the Public Service Center are offering three modules from Echoing Green's Work on Purpose. Work on Purpose is designed to help people who want to find meaningful work to create careers that are right for them and have positive impact in the world. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to run a non-profit or have the next brilliant social enterprise idea (although those are good too!). It could mean identifying an industry or field that needs your skills to do better from a social or environmental perspective.
Dinner will be included with each session.
Maximum of 15 participants per class. First come, first served via RVSP. Please email weinmann@mit.edu to reserve your spot!
Web site: web.mit.edu/tac
Open to: the general public
This event occurs on Mondays and Wednesdays through November 3, 2014.
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building W-1, 305 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
This fall, Radius and the Public Service Center are offering three modules from Echoing Green's Work on Purpose. Work on Purpose is designed to help people who want to find meaningful work to create careers that are right for them and have positive impact in the world. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to run a non-profit or have the next brilliant social enterprise idea (although those are good too!). It could mean identifying an industry or field that needs your skills to do better from a social or environmental perspective.
Dinner will be included with each session.
Maximum of 15 participants per class. First come, first served via RVSP. Please email weinmann@mit.edu to reserve your spot!
Web site: web.mit.edu/tac
Open to: the general public
This event occurs on Mondays and Wednesdays through November 3, 2014.
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
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National Security and Double Government
WHEN Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard COOP Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Oxford University Press
SPEAKER(S) Professor Michael J. Glennon
DETAILS Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" – the President, Congress, and the courts. Their roles, he argues, have become largely illusory. Presidential control is now nominal, congressional oversight is dysfunctional, and judicial review is negligible. The book details the dramatic shift in power that has occurred from the Madisonian institutions to a concealed "Trumanite network" – the several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints. Reform efforts face daunting obstacles. Remedies within this new system of "double government" require the hollowed-out Madisonian institutions to exercise the very power that they lack. Meanwhile, reform initiatives from without confront the same pervasive political ignorance within the polity that has given rise to this duality. The book sounds a powerful warning about the need to resolve this dilemma—and the mortal threat posed to accountability, democracy, and personal freedom if double government persists.
WHEN Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard COOP Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Oxford University Press
SPEAKER(S) Professor Michael J. Glennon
DETAILS Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" – the President, Congress, and the courts. Their roles, he argues, have become largely illusory. Presidential control is now nominal, congressional oversight is dysfunctional, and judicial review is negligible. The book details the dramatic shift in power that has occurred from the Madisonian institutions to a concealed "Trumanite network" – the several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints. Reform efforts face daunting obstacles. Remedies within this new system of "double government" require the hollowed-out Madisonian institutions to exercise the very power that they lack. Meanwhile, reform initiatives from without confront the same pervasive political ignorance within the polity that has given rise to this duality. The book sounds a powerful warning about the need to resolve this dilemma—and the mortal threat posed to accountability, democracy, and personal freedom if double government persists.
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Tuesday, October 21
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Charles M. Blow, op-ed columnist,The New York Times; author of the forthcoming book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Tuesday, October 21
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/charles-m-blow/
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The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance
Tuesday, October 21
Tuesday, October 21
12:30 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse at 12:30 pm.
with authors Emily Horne & Tim Maly
In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require supervision—factories, poorhouses, hospitals, and schools—would benefit from such a design. The French philosopher Michel Foucault took Bentham at his word. In his groundbreaking 1975 study, Discipline and Punish, the panopticon became a metaphor to describe the creeping effects of personalized surveillance as a means for ever-finer mechanisms of control.
Forty years later, the available tools of scrutiny, supervision, and discipline are far more capable and insidious than Foucault dreamed, and yet less effective than Bentham hoped. Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance and prime opportunities for revolution. The Inspection House is a tour through several of these sites—from Guantánamo Bay to the Occupy Oakland camp and the authors' own mobile devices—providing a stark, vivid portrait of our contemporary surveillance state and its opponents.
'Someone you can't see is watching you. That idea, long the stuff of feverish dystopian fantasy, is now an unremarkable statement of fact, true in most public places, and true in many that used to be private. Yet most of us being watched have no idea how this vast, casual surveillance came to be, or how it works. The Inspection House is a remedy for our collective incomprehension of the panopticon, built in our name, that we all now inhabit.
— Clay Shirky
About Emily Horne
Emily Horne lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is the photographer and designer for the webcomic A Softer World, and freelance edits books for kicks. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Coast and Tor.com. She is @birdlord on Twitter.
About Tim Maly
Tim Maly writes about design, architecture, networks and infrastructure. He is a Fellow at Harvard’s metaLAB and is big into cyborgs. His work has appeared in Wired, Medium, The Atlantic and Urban Omnibus. He is @doingitwrong on Twitter.
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse at 12:30 pm.
with authors Emily Horne & Tim Maly
In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require supervision—factories, poorhouses, hospitals, and schools—would benefit from such a design. The French philosopher Michel Foucault took Bentham at his word. In his groundbreaking 1975 study, Discipline and Punish, the panopticon became a metaphor to describe the creeping effects of personalized surveillance as a means for ever-finer mechanisms of control.
Forty years later, the available tools of scrutiny, supervision, and discipline are far more capable and insidious than Foucault dreamed, and yet less effective than Bentham hoped. Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance and prime opportunities for revolution. The Inspection House is a tour through several of these sites—from Guantánamo Bay to the Occupy Oakland camp and the authors' own mobile devices—providing a stark, vivid portrait of our contemporary surveillance state and its opponents.
'Someone you can't see is watching you. That idea, long the stuff of feverish dystopian fantasy, is now an unremarkable statement of fact, true in most public places, and true in many that used to be private. Yet most of us being watched have no idea how this vast, casual surveillance came to be, or how it works. The Inspection House is a remedy for our collective incomprehension of the panopticon, built in our name, that we all now inhabit.
— Clay Shirky
About Emily Horne
Emily Horne lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is the photographer and designer for the webcomic A Softer World, and freelance edits books for kicks. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Coast and Tor.com. She is @birdlord on Twitter.
About Tim Maly
Tim Maly writes about design, architecture, networks and infrastructure. He is a Fellow at Harvard’s metaLAB and is big into cyborgs. His work has appeared in Wired, Medium, The Atlantic and Urban Omnibus. He is @doingitwrong on Twitter.
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Harpoon Brewery Sustainability Tour, Tasting, & Talk
Tuesday, October 21
4:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall, 306 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/harpoon-brewery-sustainability-tour-tasting-talk-tickets-12879018491
Join Simmons Net Impact at Boston's Harpoon Brewery to learn about sustainable best practices for business on Tuesday October 21. The event will consist of a brewery tour and tasting ($5 per person), followed by a chat with Harpoon's Sustainability Committee to discuss their environmental, community, and employee initiatives and answer your questions! **Tickets are limited, so RSVP ASAP!
Join Simmons Net Impact at Boston's Harpoon Brewery to learn about sustainable best practices for business on Tuesday October 21. The event will consist of a brewery tour and tasting ($5 per person), followed by a chat with Harpoon's Sustainability Committee to discuss their environmental, community, and employee initiatives and answer your questions! **Tickets are limited, so RSVP ASAP!
Harpoon Brewery ("HB") is a great case study for different types of sustainability including environment, community, and employee relationships. Since obtaining a brewering permit in 1986, HB has been recognized for its sustainable best practices specifically in areas of waste reduction, responsible chemical usage, operational efficiency measures, and energy management initiatives; and In 2012 was awarded the 2012 Boston Green Business Award. HB also made a commitment to be a "good neighbor" by creating Harpoon Helps, a philanthropic group that donates resrources and volunteer hours to local charities. Most recently, HB moved to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in order to give employees an added benefit and ensure that HB's mission and values would remain committed to great product and experience for customers!
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MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Why Life Got Big
David Gold, Postdoctoral Associate, Summons Lab, MIT
David Johnston, Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard
Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu
David Gold, Postdoctoral Associate, Summons Lab, MIT
David Johnston, Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard
Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu
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Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS17 (GA)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
General Assembly, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/203939772/
Cost: $5.00/per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, October 21st for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
We're happy to hosted by our friends at General Assembly. Be sure to RSVP early to grab your spot! Come to meet new people, check out new hands-on gadgets and tools, enjoy healthy food, and learn from personal stories.
QS Boston is dedicated to hosting events that are safe and comfortable for everyone. All QS Boston events will follow the QS Boston Code of Conduct. Questions/feedback can be sent to Maggie (maggie.delano@gmail.com).
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Vincent at vmcphillip at gmail dot com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm IGNITE SHOW&TELLS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Maggie at maggie.delano at gmail dot com, so you can discuss your topic. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
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The Secret Life of Cities
WHEN Tue., Oct. 21, 2014, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Business, Humanities, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by Harvard South Asia Institute, co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Suketa Mehta, author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/urbanization-lecture-series/
WHEN Tue., Oct. 21, 2014, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Business, Humanities, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by Harvard South Asia Institute, co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Suketa Mehta, author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/urbanization-lecture-series/
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"Close to Home: Indoor air quality & your health” @ CafeSci Boston
Air pollution is not limited to smokestacks and traffic jams. The air inside your home can be more polluted than the air outside, even in a busy city. Over the past 20 years, we've learned a lot about how our health and the health of our children can be affected by our homes. In this Science Cafe, we'll talk about how everyday health problems and conditions like asthma can be directly linked to environmental exposures at home and what you can do about it.
Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities at Harvard's School of Public Health.
Join us for a pint and conversation on Gary's work. We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
7:00 PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/NerdFunBoston/events/211017712/
Air pollution is not limited to smokestacks and traffic jams. The air inside your home can be more polluted than the air outside, even in a busy city. Over the past 20 years, we've learned a lot about how our health and the health of our children can be affected by our homes. In this Science Cafe, we'll talk about how everyday health problems and conditions like asthma can be directly linked to environmental exposures at home and what you can do about it.
Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities at Harvard's School of Public Health.
Join us for a pint and conversation on Gary's work. We hope to see you there!
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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SOMERVILLE ROVING ART EVENTS BUS
We are looking for folks to help us program our new M.U.S.C.R.A.T. Bus (Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport).
About the MUSCRAT
The city of Somerville, led by the Somerville Arts Council, has bought an old school bus, which has been transformed into a Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport (M.U.S.C.R.A.T). We anticipate that the inside will be used to conduct roaming art classes, performance art or dance, while the outside could be used to screen films or host concerts. The intent for our M.U.S.C.R.A.T. is to create a flexible roving catalyst for creation.
Perhaps you'd like to…
create a comix workshop for youth in an underserved area; this might take place at Mystic River Housing, for example
produce a dance performance in or around the bus in an unlikely location
host a public craft night inside the bus
We look forward to hearing your ideas!
Official Call
For more details and the official call to Producers, go here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/muscrat
Rachel Strutt, Program Manager, Somerville Arts Council
p: 617.625.6600, x2985 f: 617.666.4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Visit Nibble, a blog about food & culture at
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/nibble
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CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS ARTS GRANT PROGRAM - October 15, 2014
Cambridge Arts makes annual awards of $200-$2000 to support access to professional arts and culture events for Cambridge youth through Field Trip Grants and supports individual artists and organizations through Project Grants. Project Grants are awarded in two categories: Creating & Presenting and Education & Access. Entry fee.
Details: 617-349-4380
http://www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/grants
cambridgearts@cambridgema.gov
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
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://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
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/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
High Tech Events: http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
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/
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