Sunday, February 22, 2015

Energy (and Other) Events - February 22, 2015

Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.

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Monday, February 23
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12pm MASS Seminar
12pm  How to Open-source the Creative Process: Democratizing Innovation, Product Design and Development, and Technology Strategy
12pm Animal Rights, and the Future of our Planet
12pm  EPA's Clean Power Plan: What Should States Be Sure Not To Do? 
12:15pm  The Ascent of Science Fictional Futurity in Anglo-American Legal Thought
2pm  Why we have solar panels but not (yet) fusion power
2:15pm  Energy Security in Europe: The Role of Lithuania in the Broader Eastern European Context
3pm  Media Lab Conversations Series: Joi Ito and Sam Kass
3pm  Rehabilitation Robotics: From Analysis to Design to Assessment to Intervention
4pm  Rare Success: Ebola and Multiple Failures of the Global Health System
4pm  The Water, Forest, and Land Belong to Us': Collective Action and Property in an Indian Forest
4:10pm  Innovation for the Public Good: Reflections on Changing Models of Innovation in Business, Government and Civil Society
5pm  Play, Videogames and Education Reform
5:30pm  Askwith Forum:  Smarter Charters?
6pm  Community Potluck and Dessert Cafe
6pm  AB Forum with Moshe Safdie: Design for a small planet
6:30pm  Twice-forbidden Fruit: Flying Saucers and the Fall of Man
7pm  The Tyranny of the Meritocracy:  Democratizing Higher Education in America
7pm  Effective Economic Policies for Challenging Times
7pm  Boston Downwinders: Shut Pilgrim Nuclear!
7:30pm  The Age of Empathy: Building a Cooperative Society

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Tuesday, February 24
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10am  Envisioning Our Energy Future
12pm  Meredith Artley: New Rules for Modern Journalists
12pm  Workshopping Ideas: Presentations from the Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) Teams
12:30pm  The Rails Race: Japan and China in Global Infrastructure Politics
2pm  Food Sol Community Table: Chef Edition with Louis DiBiccari
3pm  BCSEA Webinar: The 2040 Climate Imperative: Zero Emissions by 2040
4pm  "It's Better To Jump" film screening and Q&A with filmmaker, Patrick Stewart
4:15pm  The Ukraine Crisis, ISIS, and Terrorism: New Challenges to the EU and the US
5pm  Brazil Beyond the Future
6pm  Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
6pm  Game Changing Business Models
6pm  Boston Green Drinks - February Happy Hour
6:30pm  How "Plankton Blooms" Absorb CO2
6:30pm  The Intersection of Industrial Waste Streams, Energy & Business Generation
6:30pm  Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific
7pm  Evolution Matters Lecture Series: The Revolution in Plant Evolution
7pm  Intel® Edison™ Workshop

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Wednesday, February 25
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10am  Illicit Commercial Flows: What They Hide and How to Counter Them
12pm  Hurricanes, Populism, and Memory: Race, Class and Disaster in the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean
12pm  Is it Possible to Have Democracy in Hong Kong under China?: An Exploration of Beijing's Offer for Political Reform for 2017
12:30pm  Understanding Western Peacebuilding in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Critical Approach
2:30pm  Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
3:30pm  Precise Engineering of Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Electronics
4pm  Leaving Prison and Entering Poverty
4pm  Microbial diversity and the carbon cycle: insights from soil fungal communities
4pm  Measles, Vaccines, and Protecting Public Health
4:10pm  Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollutants in the Philippines
6pm  NECSI Salon: Aspiration
6pm  Boston Living with Water Public Jury Review/Submission Exhibition
6:30pm  Bioinspired Materials
6:30pm  The Future of the Past: A History Ignored -- Honoring the 100 Year Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Through Art and Dialogue
7pm  The Biomimicry Opportunity: A Panel Discussion 
7pm  Russia in the 21st Century:  Cultural Evening

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Thursday, February 26
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7:45am  Exploring the Human Connectome of Multiple Sclerosis
8:30am  Preparing Buildings for Rising Seas and Severe Weather Events
11:45am  The BRICS Group in Global Regulation: Leadership, Influence, and Prospects
12pm  Officer of the World Economic Forum USA to Speak at Volpe
12pm  PETA President Ingrid Newkirk at Harvard Law School
12pm  Flooding risk and the modernization of agriculture
4pm  Rules of thumb for effective entrepreneurship in the water sector
4pm  Master Class with Dan Levy: "Making Learning Memorable"
4pm  Upstart Roundtable Venture Café
4pm  Do Muslim Women Need Saving?: Reflections on the Politics of Feminism in the Middle East
5:30pm  Creativity: It’s Not Just About the Front End of Innovation 
6pm  Vegetable Garden Planning
6pm  We Break Things...Hackers Fight for Freedom:  Prerelease screening with filmmaker Rebecca Wexler 
6pm  Boston Meetup + Pitch-Off
6:30pm  Sweet Rewards:  The Business of Chocolate
7pm  Is Shame Necessary?  New Uses for an Old Tool
7pm  Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won
7pm  Mass Extinctions: A Brief History of Life’s Worst Moments
7pm  "Russia in the 21st Century" Keynote on Russian Identity and Religion, Politics and Identity Panel

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Friday, February 27
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MIT 2015 Energy Conference
10:30am  Media Lab Conversations Series: Cam Kerry and Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin:  Transatlantic Conversation on Privacy and Personal Data
12pm  Rhetoric in Authoritarian Legislatures: Automated Content Analysis of Egyptian Parliamentary Speech
12pm  Lunch and Learn: Idea to Invention
12pm  Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe
12:30pm  "Russia in the 21st Century" The State of the Media Panel
12:30pm  Harvard Food + Research Symposium
2pm  Reality Check: Russia, Ukraine, and the West in Crisis and Conflict
2pm  Soldier, God, and the State: Religion in the Armies of India and Pakistan
2:30pm  "Russia in the 21st Century" Russia and Asia: The Bear Turns East Panel
3pm  Censors at Work:  How States Shaped Literature
3:30pm  Symposium on Climate Regulation under the Clean Air Act
4pm  Launch of the Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
4pm  Reengineering the Hand: "Mechanical Intelligence" in Robotic Manipulation
4pm  Film Screening: Our Daily Bread
5pm  Askwith Forum: How Do You Define American?
6pm  Cities Remixed: Urban Design for an Urbanizing Century book talk
6:30pm  "Russia in the 21st Century" Welcome and Keynote Addresses and The New Cold War? Russia-US Relations Panel

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Saturday, February 28
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8:30am  Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
9am  China Thinks Big Conference
9:30am  "Russia in the 21st Century" 
1pm  Rally to Save Cape Wind
2pm  Energy Saving Party
7pm  Collapse: video by Lydia Eccles 

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Sunday, February 29 
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11am  "Russia in the 21st Century"

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Monday, March 2
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9am  Eradicating Child Homelessness in Massachusetts Conference
10am  A BioFabrication Success Story: From Mushrooms to Packing/Building Materials
12pm  New York's "Reforming the Energy Vision" Initiative
12:15pm  Experts in Cruelty: Interrogation in Abu Ghraib and After
3pm  Open Meetings: Digital Futures Consortium
4pm  Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms
4pm  Global Demographic Projections: Future Trajectories and Associated Uncertainty
5pm  Micromégas. The Very Small, the Very Large, and the Objects of Digital Humanities
5pm  Music of Azerbaijan: Fargana Qasimova Ensemble
6pm  Power to the Pedals: Wenzday Jane and the Culture of Change
7pm  The Oldest Living Things in the World

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Tuesday, March 3
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BuildingEnergy 15 
8am  Boston TechBreakfast Presented by Colliers: March 2015
12pm  R. Buckminster Fuller's "Pattern Thinking," with Daniel Lopez-Perez and Hanif Kara
12:30pm  Lawyering for Social Justice in the Age of Digital Media
3:30pm  Housing Access Solutions We Don't Want to Think About...That Just Might Work
4:30pm  Offshore Nuclear Reactors
4:30pm  The Pioneer's Progress: From Revolution to Constitutional Government in Tunisia?
5pm  The World Is Not the Screen: How Computers Shape Our Sense of Place
6pm  The Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism
6pm  BASG: Tackling Sustainability in Sports (rescheduled from Feb. 3rd)
6:30pm  Discussion: Race and Climate Change
6:30pm  TechHub Boston Demo Night - March 2015
7pm  The Advent of the Anthropocene: Was that the Big Story of the 20th Century

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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, February 23
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MASS Seminar
Monday, February 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Caroline Nowlan
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact:  MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu 

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How to Open-source the Creative Process: Democratizing Innovation, Product Design and Development, and Technology Strategy
Monday, February 23
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_022315/how-to-open-source-creative-process.html

Speaker: Ali Almossawi, Data Visualization Engineer, Mozilla; Author, An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments; and SDM Alumnus
In this webinar, SDM alumnus Ali Almossawi will discuss the benefits of expanding the creative process through open-sourcing on the Internet, where there are more creators, fewer industry gatekeepers, and endless opportunities to engage directly with users. He will: 
describe a model for open-sourcing the creative process and how it can be used to build a self-sustaining product or business; 
outline the key players???often a combination of professionals with expertise in technology, business, and/or design; 
discuss what is needed for team members to work together effectively???and the pitfalls to avoid; 
provide examples of failure, success, and failure leading to success; and 
offer next steps that can be adapted and applied across all industries. 

A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.

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

Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_022315/how-to-open-source-creative-process.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all 
Tickets: See url above. 
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management (SDM)
For more information, contact:  Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu 

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Animal Rights, and the Future of our Planet
Monday, February 23
12:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC2004, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Carter Dillard of ALDF and Stephanie Feldstein of the Center for Biological Diversity will discuss the vital connections between animal agriculture, human population growth, environmental protection, and systems of rights – both human and animal. They will explain how to use this synergy – along with advocacy, creativity, and legal action – to get beyond the stigma and taboo that usually keep population growth and our diets out of conversations and they will suggest legal reforms and practical ways for each of us to create a better future for all species.

Contact Name:  Alicia Rodriguez
arodriguez@jd15.law.harvard.edu

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EPA's Clean Power Plan: What Should States Be Sure Not To Do?
Monday, February 23
12-1:30
Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Paul Sotkiewicz, Chief Economist, Markets, PJM Interconnection

ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar

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"The Ascent of Science Fictional Futurity in Anglo-American Legal Thought"
Monday, February 23
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Michael Bennett, Northeastern Law School
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/

Contact Name:   Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-02-23-171500-2015-02-23-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.wvVSRHOJ.dpuf

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Why we have solar panels but not (yet) fusion power
Monday, February 23
2:00p–3:00p
MIT, Building NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Niek Lopes Cardozo, Eindhoven Technical University

PSFC Special Seminar

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
For more information, contact:  Paul Rivenberg
617 253-8101
rivenberg@psfc.mit.edu

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Energy Security in Europe: The Role of Lithuania in the Broader Eastern European Context
WHEN  Mon., Feb. 23, 2015, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR CES Business and Government in Emerging Europe Study Group; Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the United States
SPEAKER(S)  Rokas Masiulis Minister of Energy, Republic of Lithuania
CONTACT INFO Luka Oreskovic, luka@post.harvard.edu
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/3100

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Media Lab Conversations Series: Joi Ito and Sam Kass
Monday, February 23, 2015
3:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building E14-3, 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
This talk will also be webcast at http://www.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/

Speaker: Joi Ito and Sam Kass
Joi Ito in conversation with former White House executive chef, policy advisor, and executive director of "Let's Move!".

Sam Kass is a Chicago native and college athlete, played baseball for the University of Chicago, and graduated with a degree in U.S. history. In 2009, newly elected President Obama asked Kass to move from Chicago to the White House in order to continue his work as personal chef to the Obama family, an appointment Kass had held since January of 2006, as well as to work on food and nutrition policy. During his tenure at the White House, Kass took on several additional initiatives, including roles as executive director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign (2013–2014) and senior White House policy advisor for nutrition policy (2010–2014). In these capacities, Kass worked with both Congress and the private sector to shape strategic policies and launch a global discussion around nutrition and wellness. From planting the White House Garden and brewing the first White House beer to developing national marketing campaigns around healthier eating, his work has had a tremendous impact on food, politics, and culture. In 2011, Fast Company named Kass to their list of 100 Most Creative People, and in 2012, Kass was named to the inaugural class of chefs in the American Chef Corps, which is dedicated to promoting diplomacy through culinary initiatives. During his tenure, Kass created one of the most successful branded initiatives to come out of the Obama Administration.

Media Lab Conversations Series

Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2015/02/23/media-lab-conversations-series-sam-kass-and-joi-ito
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact:
Laura Seretta
events-admin@media.mit.edu 

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Rehabilitation Robotics: From Analysis to Design to Assessment to Intervention
Monday, February 23
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Tufts, Anderson 112, 200 College Avenue, Medford

Speaker: Hermano Krebs, MIT
Abstract:  The field of rehabilitation robotics has grown steadily over the past decade, making significant clinical contributions. Studies have demonstrated both the efficacy and advantages of robotics for assessing and treating motor impairment with guidelines, such as the 2010 American Heart Association’s “Comprehensive Overview of Nursing and Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Care of the Stroke Patient,” endorsing robotic therapy for the upper extremity (UE), but not for the lower extremity (LE). In 2010, the US Veterans Administration similarly endorsed robotic therapy for UE but not for LE: “recommendation is made against routinely providing the [LE] intervention… At least fair evidence was found that the intervention is ineffective …”. This apparent immaturity of LE robotic therapy reflects the fact that, to date, knowledge of human motor control has not been applied to LE robotic therapy. Knowledge of human motor control, sensing, and cognition has matured to the point that a fundamental and unifying theory of movement for both UE arm movement and for LE walking is now within reach. Here, I will discuss some of the evidence supporting our working model based on submovements, oscillations, and impedances for UE movement collected with the MIT-Manus and how we plan to develop a competent model that encompass both arm movement and walking based on these elementary actions and how to code it into adaptive controllers that will allow multiple robotic devices to target rehabilitation.

Bio;  Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs joined MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department in 1997 where he is a Principal Research Scientist and Lecturer – Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation. He also holds an affiliate position as an Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and as a Visiting Professor at Fujita Health University, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and at University of Newcastle, Institute of Neuroscience. He is one of the founders and member of the Board of Directors of Interactive Motion Technologies, a Massachusetts-based company commercializing robot technology for rehabilitation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Dr. Krebs was nominated by two of IEEE societies: IEEE- EMBS (Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society) and IEEE-RAS (Robotics and Automation Society) to this distinguished engineering status “for contributions to rehabilitation robotics and the understanding of neuro-rehabilitation.” Dr. Krebs has published and presented extensively on rehabilitation robotics related issues, particularly applied to stroke recovery (over 200 publications). His work goes beyond Stroke and has been extended to Cerebral Palsy for which he received “The 2009 Isabelle and Leonard H. Goldenson Technology and Rehabilitation Award,” from the Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation (CPIRF). In 2015, he received the prestigious IEEE-INABA Technical Award for Innovation leading to Production “for contributions to medical technology innovation and translation into commercial applications for Rehabilitation Robotics.” His goal is to revolutionize the way rehabilitation medicine is practiced today by applying robotics and information technology to assist, enhance, and quantify rehabilitation.

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Rare Success: Ebola and Multiple Failures of the Global Health System
WHEN  Mon., Feb. 23, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Chan School Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S)  Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/lecture-genomic-surveillance-of-the-2014-ebola-outbreak/

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The Water, Forest, and Land Belong to Us': Collective Action and Property in an Indian Forest
WHEN  Mon., Feb. 23, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Anand Vaidya, SAI South Asian Studies fellow
Ajantha Subramanian, professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO sainit@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/south-asia-without-border-seminar-2/

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Innovation for the Public Good: Reflections on Changing Models of Innovation in Business, Government and Civil Society
WHEN  Mon., Feb. 23, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
SPEAKER(S)  Geoff Mulgan, CEO National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, UK, and former director of strategy, Tony Blair Government
DIRECTED BY    Mark Moore (HKS)
COST  Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Innovation-for-the-Public-Good

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Play, Videogames and Education Reform
Monday, February 23
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Gonzalo Frasca
No, videogames are not going to change the school system. Unfortunately, the majority of educational games cater to the fears of parents and administrators rather than to the children???s needs. How should we create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom?

Gonzalo Frasca is now making math games at okidOkO. A while ago, he sort of invented newsgames, wrote videogame and play theory, made tons of webgames for Hollywood animation studios, got PhD in videogames and even co-created the first official videogame for a US Presidential election. He calls Uruguay home and teaches game development to a bunch of merry kids at ORT University and Liceo Jubilar.

Web site: http://gamelab.mit.edu/event/gonzalo-frasca-play-videogames-and-education-reform/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Game Lab
For more information, contact:  Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu

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Community Potluck and Dessert Cafe
Monday, February 23
6 - 8pm
Gallery 344, City Hall Annex, 2nd Floor, 344 Broadway, Cambridge

At this event, you can enjoy delicious entrees and desserts, hear from guest speakers from the Cambridge Historical Society and the CRC, and listen to bluegrass by Best Ever Chicken as well as look at the exhibition "Magazine Beach: A Place Apart."

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AB Forum with Moshe Safdie: Design for a small planet
Monday, February 23
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at rsvp@architects.org

From Kuwait City to Singapore, US architecture firms are realizing an increasing share of their commissions from projects abroad. This raises immediate, sometimes delicate questions: What is the responsibility of US architects to sustainability, to the local workforce, to a country’s design aesthetic? What can we learn from the developing world? Join 2015 AIA Gold Medal winner Moshe Safdie FAIA and other Boston-area architects for a wide-ranging discussion. The event will be followed by a reception.
For those who qualify, 2.0 LUs are available.

Moderator
Jay Wickersham FAIA

Panel
Moshe Safdie FAIA
Peter Kuttner FAIA
Deborah Bentley, RIBA

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Twice-forbidden Fruit: Flying Saucers and the Fall of Man
Monday, February 23
6:30PM
Le Laboratoire, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
rsvp to programs@lelaboratoirecambridge.com

Joe Davis
As the legendary “fruit of temptation,” the apple has become a nearly universal symbol for what we know and what we choose not to know. In the last decade, advances in plant genomics have shed light on long-standing questions about the origins of the today’s domestic apples (Malus x domestica) now diversified into thousands of varieties cultivated worldwide. The genome of Malus sieversii, the progenitor fruit (a wild, diploid apple native to Central Asia) has now been sequenced by participants of an international consortium initially organized as a first-of-its-kind project in art and science. Despite the agricultural value of domesticated apples, populations of the wild Malus sieversii progenitor species still exist today, closely related to those of biblical time periods. They also display diverse phenotypic characters that represent a critical genetic resource for disease resistance, fruit quality, and tree physiology of today’s cultivated apple. Traits lost in domestic apples may thus be recovered. A companion project is also underway to clone Malus sieversii with encyclopedic information using Agrobacterium vectors to insert DNA encoded with a highly compressed version of Wikipedia. Ironically, this effort has confronted issues that are also familiar to researchers focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Both of these scenarios pose fundamental questions about nature of human beings and of the universe humans perceive themselves to be part. 

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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy:  Democratizing Higher Education in America
Monday, February 23
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Lani Guinier
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate LANI GUINIER for a discussion of her book The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America.

Standing on the foundations of America’s promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to serve as engines of social mobility and practitioners of democracy. But as Lani Guinier argues, the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic societies. Having studied and taught at schools such as Harvard University, Yale Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Guinier has spent years examining the experiences of ethnic minorities and of women at the nation’s top institutions of higher education, and here she lays bare the practices that impede the stated missions of these schools.

Goaded on by a contemporary culture that establishes value through ranking and sorting, universities assess applicants using the vocabulary of private, highly individualized merit. As a result of private merit standards and ever-increasing tuitions, our colleges and universities increasingly are failing in their mission to provide educational opportunity and to prepare students for productive and engaged citizenship.

To reclaim higher education as a cornerstone of democracy, Guinier argues that institutions of higher learning must focus on admitting and educating a class of students who will be critical thinkers, active citizens, and publicly spirited leaders. Guinier presents a plan for considering “democratic merit,” a system that measures the success of higher education not by the personal qualities of the students who enter but by the work and service performed by the graduates who leave.

Guinier goes on to offer vivid examples of communities that have developed effective learning strategies based not on an individual’s “merit” but on the collaborative strength of a group, learning and working together, supporting members, and evolving into powerful collectives. Examples are taken from across the country and include a wide range of approaches, each innovative and effective. Guinier argues for reformation, not only of the very premises of admissions practices but of the shape of higher education itself.

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Effective Economic Policies for Challenging Times
Monday, February 23, 2015
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building W20-208, Stratton Student Center, second floor - Lobdell Room, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

The OECD Student Ambassador program presents "Effective Economic Policies for Challenging Times," a panel discussion featuring Carol Guthrie, Head of the OECD Washington Center; Dr. Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; and Baruch Perl, Director of Special Projects, Israeli Consulate of Boston. A question and response session follows the program.

Free of Charge
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MISTI, OECD Student Ambassador Program
For more information, contact:  Caroline Shinkle
cshinkle@mit.edu 

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Boston Downwinders: Shut Pilgrim Nuclear!
Monday, February 23
7pm
Encuentro 5, 9a Hamilton Pl, Boston, Massachusetts

Draft Agenda:
1. Report from Cape Downwinders about the recent failure of the two power cables into Pilgrim (shades of Fukushima?), as well as more detail on how we could copy in the Boston area some of their successes on theCape.
2. Report back about activities undertaken or planned.
3. Re-organize the 8 projects that people signed up for into a more manageable and better conceived 3 or 4 projects.
4. Consider adding Boston hearings for clean energy standard (March 10) and Mothers Day demonstration at Plymouth into the mix. 
5. Meet with groups to plan future actions. 

Because we are meeting so close to the February 28 rally to Save Cape Wind, we would like to encourage people to consider attending this event which we can discuss more at the meeting.
Please check out this website for additional info and petition.

http://www.betterfutureproject.org/savecapewind

We look forward to seeing you on February 23 filled with renewed energy and ideas.

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The Age of Empathy: Building a Cooperative Society
Monday, February 23
7:30 PM
Blue Shirt Cafe, 424 Highland Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Idealists-and-Rationals-of-Boston/events/220385070/

For far too long, it has been assumed that the way to be successful is to follow the principles of the survival of the fittest. Social Darwinism, especially in the US has been the rule of thumb in politics and economics.

In his new book 'The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society', primatologist Frans de Waal questions this assumption and shows that our nature is not all about greed and competition and that empathy and cooperation is the social glue that holds human society together.

Many animals survive not by eliminating each other, or by keeping everything for themselves, but by cooperating and sharing. Empathy, both in animals and humans, originates in the care for the young. A female needs to respond to the care of her offspring or they will die. Social Darwinism advocates eliminating the unfit, whereas empathy advocates caring for the less fortunate. Empathy is in itself a neutral capacity which can be applied positively or negatively. (A torturer can be in tune with a victim's pain, which allows him to apply pain effectively).

When fully developed, empathy can be expanded to include other groups and even species. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly shows that we now (at least officially), include all of humanity in our circle of empathy.

Empathy is something modern societies have lost touch with and it would benefit us to base our institutions on the concept of sharing and cooperating, rather than competing.

This meeting is a natural follow-up on our previous topic, but will focus on the societal aspect of 'empathy' and how it could become the foundation of a new, cooperative society.

Suggested listening:
Frans de Waal and 'The Age of Empathy'

Suggested reading:
Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

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Envisioning Our Energy Future
Tuesday, February 24
10:00 AM to 3:30 PM (EST)
Federal Reserve Plaza, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Connolly Center; Harborside 4th Floor, Boston
RSVP by 2/11 at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/envisioning-our-energy-future-tickets-15275579670
Cost:  $31.59

Featuring panel discussions on:
Utility of the Future
The advancement of viable, distributed energy technologies in the marketplace is happening quickly. Arguably, technology changes in the market are occurring faster than the regulatory structure governing utilities. The potential to structure a new energy system that embraces decentralized energy technologies is large. Utilities throughout the region are reacting to the changing landscape differently; some utilities are seeking to secure revenue through rate structure changes that could impose barriers to the deployment of new technologies. Others are re-envisioning their future role and the functions the utility will provide. Participants on this panel will be asked to describe their vision of the future and identify key steps to achieving it.
Panelists:
Nathan Adams, Green Mountain Power
Tim Woolf, Synapse Energy Economics, Inc.
Jonathan Schrag, Guarini Center, NYU

 Leveling the Playing Field for Distributed Energy Resources
The current system for planning and paying for the energy system favors expenditures on poles and wires over investments that reduce demand for grid-supplied power. The failure to utilize all of the tools in the energy toolbox drives transmission and distribution costs higher than they would be if “non-wires alternatives” (NWAs) could compete on a level playing field. At the same time, successful policies and falling costs are leading to increasing investments in distributed energy resources. This panel will examine recent examples of utilizing NWAs and explore policy reforms that can facilitate competition and reduce transmission and distribution system costs.
Panelists:
Scudder Parker, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
Fran Cummings, Peregrine Energy Group
Jim Grevatt, Energy Futures Group
Kerrick Johnson, Vermont Electric Power Company

The Role for Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Resources to Reduce Price Pressures in the Energy System
Flexibility in energy efficiency investment programs offers the potential to achieve specific objectives such as serving low-income customers or geographic targeting to defer infrastructure upgrades. States across the region are beginning to target efficiency programs toward peak demand for natural gas and electricity in winter months, in response to increased electric prices during these periods in recent years. This panel will explore current efforts to utilize efficiency investments to help alleviate this and other issues, and consider challenges to efficiency program design and implementation related to targeted efficiency.
Panelists:
Jeremy Newberger, National Grid
Eric Wilkinson, ISO-NE
Michael Stoddard, Efficiency Maine Trust
Jeff Schlegel, Efficiency Expert

Lunch Speaker: Klaus Vesløv, EcoGrid EU
Developer of a €23M smart grid pilot program on the Danish island of Bornholm, which is the first pilot in the EU to focus on how customer behavior impacts grid modernization efforts. The ECOGRID pilot program is one of the foundations for fullfilling the Bornholm strategy of being 100% fossil free by 2025. For more information: http://www.eu-ecogrid.net/ecogrid-eu/the-bornholm-test-site

Please RSVP by February 11th.

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Meredith Artley: New Rules for Modern Journalists
WHEN  Tue., Feb. 24, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, Room 275, 15 Eliiot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Meredith Artley, editor-in-chief, CNN Digital
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Tim Bailey, tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617-495-8209
DETAILS  Meredith Artley is editor-in-chief at CNN Digital, where she is responsible for all of the network’s digital content creation worldwide across its mobile, social and desktop platforms and products, and president of the Online News Association. She has previously worked at LATimes.com, International Herald Tribune, and NYTimes.com. Meredith will share her expertise on the digital media landscape.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/meredith-artley/

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Workshopping Ideas: Presentations from the Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) Teams
Tuesday, February 24
12 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/02/DPSI#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/02/DPSI at 12:30 pm.

Introduction from Berkman's Executive Director, Urs Gasser
The Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI, or "dip-see") at Harvard University, is an innovative and collaborative project, hosted through the Berkman Center. DPSI brings together a diverse group of learners (students, faculty, fellows, and staff) to work on projects to address challenges and opportunities across the university. DPSI offers participants a novel opportunity to engage with research, design, and policy relating to the digital world. Student teams will be presenting their work (see link below) and seeking feedback from the Berkman community.

About Urs Gasser
Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He is a visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and at KEIO University (Japan), and he teaches at Fudan University School of Management (China). Urs Gasser serves as a trustee on the board of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the University of Torino and on the board of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. He is a Fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.

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The Rails Race: Japan and China in Global Infrastructure Politics
WHEN  Tue., Feb. 24, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S)  A. Maria Toyoda, associate professor and associate dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and Global Initiatives, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University
moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and 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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Food Sol Community Table: Chef Edition with Louis DiBiccari
Tuesday, February 24
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Tavern Road, 343 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/branchfood/events/220424170/
Calling all students of food, food entrepreneurs, curious eaters, and branding/marketing professionals!

Babson Food Sol's 2015 inaugural event features special host Chef Louis DiBiccari discussing the importance of branding and community engagement. Food Sol organizes Community Table events for you to connect and exchange ideas related to your food ventures.

Stop by to network, discuss, connect and learn from others in the field.

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BCSEA Webinar: The 2040 Climate Imperative: Zero Emissions by 2040
Tuesday February 24 
3:00 PM EST, 20:00 UTC)
Webinar
RSVP at  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1102084849606203137

The climate crisis is easy to understand once you have the key numbers. And those numbers lead to some clear and compelling conclusions.

In this webinar, Guy Dauncey will show why the global carbon budget has fallen to 493 gigatonnes of CO2, and why all countries need to aim for zero emissions by 2040.

He will explain Canada’s share of the budget, show why Canada needs to reduce its emissions by 5% a year to remain within its budget and reach zero by 2040, and lay out the key roadmap actions and policies that would enable Canada to meet its target.

For the background paper, see https://www.bcsea.org//2040-imperative

Guy Dauncey is an author, organizer and eco-futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action. He is founder and Communications Director of the BCSEA, and author of nine books, including The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming (New Society Publishers, 2009).

There is no charge for this Webinar, but you must register to attend.

See BCSEA's previous webinars at http://www.bcsea.org/webinars
GoToWebinar works with most Windows PCs, Macs, and Android tablets or smartphones, but not on Linux.

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"It's Better To Jump" film screening and Q&A with filmmaker, Patrick Stewart
WHEN  Tue., Feb. 24, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS, Knafel Building, Room S020, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Working Group on Film and Visual Arts in a Changing Middle East
SPEAKER(S)  Patrick Alexander Stewart, co-director/co-producer
CONTACT INFO Liz Flanagan, elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The ancient city of Akka, along the northern coast of Israel, is the home to a melting pot of Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Baha’i. For centuries, its surrounding forty-foot sea wall has protected its citizens and repelled invaders. As the Old City endures harsh economic pressures and vast social changes, Palestinian families who have lived here for generations are being pressured to leave. Despite the daily challenges they face, the city’s youth – sons and daughters of fishermen, school teachers, and artists – continue a perilous inter-generational rite of passage expressing individuality and the right to control their destiny: jumping from the high wall into the tempestuous sea below.
"It's Better To Jump" captures the spirit of Akka’s Arab residents and the leap of faith they make towards self-determination and a better future. Watch the film trailer here: ibtj.net….
Following the film, there will be a Q&A with the filmmaker, Patrick A. Stewart.
This event is open to the public; no registration required. This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3803

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The Ukraine Crisis, ISIS, and Terrorism: New Challenges to the EU and the US
WHEN  Tue., Feb. 24, 2015, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Transatlantic Relations Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; CES European Union Study Group; CES Special Events
SPEAKER(S)  Chaired by: Karl Kaiser, adjunct professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Jolyon Howorth, visiting professor political science, Yale University
Anand Menon, professor of european politics and foreign affairs, King's College London
Maciej Popowski, deputy secretary general, EU External Action Service
Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, BCSIA, Harvard Kennedy School
William Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor, Government Department, Dartmouth College
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/3046

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Brazil Beyond the Future
WHEN  Tue., Feb. 24, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Boylston 403, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPEAKER(S)  Lauri Tӓhtinen, History and Literature, Harvard University
COST  Free and open to the public
DETAILS  Sponsored by the Robert C Smith Fund, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
LINK http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/portuguese-seminar-lauri-tӓhtinen-history-and-literature-harvard-university

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Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
Tuesday, February 24
6:00p–7:30p
MIT Museum, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Meet Ron Fierstein, author of "A Triumph of Genius", the newest biography of Polaroid founder, Edwin Land. Book signing to follow talk.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/visit/calendar.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact:  Brindha Muniappan
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

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Game Changing Business Models
Tuesday, February 24
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/game-changing-business-models-tickets-15606129353

How can you change the game with a truly disruptive business model? Join Michael Skok, a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, and you will leave with a better idea of:
How to rewrite the rules on potential competitors
How to build value into your business with your business model
Understand how a disruptive business model is at least as important as discontinuous innovation for your business. 

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Boston Green Drinks - February Happy Hour
Tuesday, February 24
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-febrary-happy-hour-tickets-15502989860

Darned blizzard!  We will miss you in January but let's make Green Drinks double the sustainable fun in February!
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists.  Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Keep sending feedback to Lyn@bostongreendrinks.com for ideas about speakers or content for the future and mark your calendar for drinks on the last Tuesday of every month.  Also, if you RSVP and can't make it, e-mail us to let us know.

Boston Green Drinks  builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues.  We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.

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How "Plankton Blooms" Absorb CO2
Tuesday, February 24
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont

Amala Mahadevan, PhD, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Mahadevan is a 2014-2015 Radcliffe Fellow.
Plankton are microscopic organisms that represent the base of the ocean food chain. More important for us, plankton function as a biological pump, removing about one-third of the atmospheric CO2. The planet's health depends on regular plankton "blooms," in which enormous aggregations of plankton spread for miles over the world's oceans. The NASA satellite image here is a fragment of a plankton bloom off the New Zealand coast. Scientists are trying to understand the complex physical, chemical and biological mechanisms that trigger the plankton blooms. Dr. Mahadevan is a leader in this research and recently discovered a critical trigger. She explains how plankton absorb so much CO2 and the unexpected triggers that cause the sudden aggregations.

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations

WHOI article about Dr. Mahadevan's work Scientists Discover New Trigger for North Atlantic Plankton Bloom at
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=3622&cid=143653

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The Intersection of Industrial Waste Streams, Energy & Business Generation
Tuesday, February 24
6:30-7:30pm
MIT Energy Initiative Large Conference Room E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-R69_m_q2cwvPCfhBIw5Pxh3_M41AoSSojohs_bWkAQ/viewform

Tristan Jackson co-founded Kanoot to answer the need for sanitation, energy, and fertilizer inputs by building infrastructure using closed-loop principles of waste recapture and repurposing. Kanoot empowers emerging under-served communities by manufacturing transportable bio-processors that convert dangerous waste to valuable resources, and by enabling capital development through financing and partnership.

Bio:  Tristan Jackson is a Legatum Fellow and MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. With experience in El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama, and Morocco, he is familiar with the challenges of processing waste and generating energy in locations with limited infrastructure. Over the past 15 years he has studied and tested renewable energy systems with the goal of marketing a low cost waste management, energy, and fertilizer solution for agricultural communities.

Food will be served so please RSVP!

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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific
Tuesday, February 24
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Gesmer Updegrove LLC, 2nd floor conference center at 40 Broad Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pink-globalization-hello-kittys-trek-across-the-pacific-tickets-15476176661
Cost:  $11.54
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific
In this lively, visual session, Professor Christine Yano, (Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, and professor of anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) explores the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Professor Yano will explain the international popularity of Hello Kitty within the frame of pink globalization – the spread of goods and images labeled as cute (“kawaii”) from Japan to other parts of the industrialized world.
In this session learn more about the complex relations and identities surrounding the global reach of Hello Kitty’s cute culture. Who are fans? Who are detractors? How are consumers using this iconic cat to negotiate gender, nostalgia and national identity?
Join Boston International and other Japan enthusiasts over sushi and sake, to brush up on your Hello Kitty trivia, marvel at the Sanrio marketing machine, get answers to these anthropological questions and more.
Hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLC, 2nd floor conference center at 40 Broad Street, Boston
Tuesday February 24th, 6:30-8:30PM

In Manchuria:  A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Michael Meyer, author

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Evolution Matters Lecture Series: The Revolution in Plant Evolution
Tuesday, February 24
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/evolution-matters-lecture-series-the-revolution-in-plant-evolution-tickets-15354441548

Today’s digital technologies enable museums to “unlock” their cabinets and share their treasures online. Pamela Soltis, Distinguished Professor and Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida,
will discuss how access to digital data and images of natural history collections is becoming a game changer in the understanding of plant evolution. From enabling novel research on plant genetics, to highlighting the roles plants play in nature and how they respond to climate change, museum collections are a key resource, particularly when studying plants that are rare, hard to collect, endangered, or extinct.

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Intel® Edison™ Workshop
Tuesday, February 24
7:00 PM to 10:30 PM (EST)
Coalition Space, 101 Arch Street, Suite 1950, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intel-edisontm-workshop-tickets-15504689945

Makers and Tinkerers of Boston, get ready to hack!
The Intel® IoT Roadshow is continuing its 2015 global series by making a stop in Boston and we want to make sure each one of you are set-up with the resources you need to come out on top!
Two weeks before all the hacking, on February 24th at Coalition Space, come get a jump start by familiarizing yourself with the Intel® IoT Developer Kit (Beta).
Intel® IoT experts will be on-site to show you how to set-up the Edison board. Get your hands on all the files you need. Get inspired by previous winning projects and network with other hackathon attendees to lock down the best team.
Schedule:
7:00pm - Doors open, enjoy pizza and drinks
7:30pm - Kickoff
7:35pm - Intel® Edison™ Overview - How to set-up board?
8:15pm - Idea Pitch Mentorship and Team Formation
8:30pm - Network + Remote control car races!
9:00pm - Winners for small challenges announced + Wrap-up

The Intel® IoT Roadshow Hackathon
The Intel® IoT Hackathon will take place on March 14th-15th - location TBD. The first 100 registered attendees at the hackathon will get their hands on a free Intel® Edison™ Dev Kit! There will be a workshop that will help you set-up your boards and then the hacking begins. But, attending the Meetup will give you even more time to brew up the best IoT project! Take a look at the series and winning projects from Austin, Mountain View and New York.
The technology
The Intel® Edison development board brings hardware projects unparalleled performance in a small, low power form factor ideal for IoT and connected devices. It is the first in a series of low-cost, product-ready, general purpose compute platforms that help lower the barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of all sizes - from pro makers to consumer electronics and companies working in the Internet of Things (IoT). The Intel Edison development platform packs a robust set of features into its small size, delivering great performance, durability, and a broad spectrum of I/O and software support. Check out some of the projects on Instructables!

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Wednesday, February 25
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Illicit Commercial Flows: What They Hide and How to Counter Them
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S)  Nikos Passas, professor of criminology at Northeastern University
DETAILS  Nikos Passas is a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University. He specializes in the study of corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, white-collar crime, terrorism, financial regulation, organized crime and international crime. He will present an MTA seminar on illicit commercial flows of nuclear weapons.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6535/illicit_commercial_flows.html

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Hurricanes, Populism, and Memory: Race, Class and Disaster in the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S)  Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History; Chair, Council of Latin American & Iberian Studies, Yale University
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  A Q+A will follow the lecture
LINK hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Is it Possible to Have Democracy in Hong Kong under China?: An Exploration of Beijing's Offer for Political Reform for 2017
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall (100), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR EALS, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies & Harvard-Yenching Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Margaret Ng, barrister and former legislative council member, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

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Understanding Western Peacebuilding in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Critical Approach
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Middle East Forum, Roger Owen & Sara Roy, co-chairs
SPEAKER(S)  Dr. Mandy Turner, director, Kenyon Institute/Council for British Research in the Levant, East Jerusalem, and visiting research fellow, Middle Eats Centre, London School of Economics
CONTACT INFO Liz Flanagan, elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Light lunch will be served.
This event is open to the public; no registration required. This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK  http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3831

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Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
Wednesday, February 25
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Speaker: Leo Bursztyn (UCLA)

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact:  economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu

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Precise Engineering of Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Electronics
Wednesday, February 25
3:30p–4:45p
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Prof. Christine Luscombe, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Washingtons
MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
PPSM sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Jeremiah Johnson at jaj2109@mit.edu. All talks take place on Wednesdays.

SEMINAR 3:30 PM - REFRESHMENTS 3:00 PM

Web site: http://polymerscience.mit.edu/?page_id=2425
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
For more information, contact:  Gregory Sands
(617) 253-0949
ppsm-www@mit.edu

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Leaving Prison and Entering Poverty
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Bruce Western, 2014-15 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST  Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-bruce-western-fellow-presentation

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"Microbial diversity and the carbon cycle: insights from soil fungal communities"
Wednesday, February 25
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316, Parsons Lab, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Jennifer Talbot, Boston University

Microbial Systems Seminar

Web site: microbialsystems.wordpress.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:  Kathryn Kauffman
k6logc@mit.edu

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Measles, Vaccines, and Protecting Public Health
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010,  1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center
SPEAKER(S) George Annas, Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine & School of Law
Nir Eyal, Harvard Medical School
Dyann Wirth, Harvard School of Public Health
Moderator: Ahmed Ragab, Harvard Divinity School
COST  Free and open to the public
LINK  http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/measles-vaccines-and-protecting-public-health

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Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollutants in the Philippines
WHEN  Wed., Feb. 25, 2015, 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)  Evan Peet, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744

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NECSI Salon: Aspiration
Wednesday, February 25
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
NECSI 210 Broadway Suite 101 Cambridge

You are invited to a Complex Problems Salon on Medical Systems, at the New England Complex Systems Institute [NECSI], February 25th from 18:00 to 20:00 (6-8p).

We will discuss First Day as a way of encouraging individual, community, and planetary health through medical, education, and environmental systems. We will explore these ideas (a) as global problems, (b) as complex systems, and (c) with thoughts toward building networks for influence over decision making.

Come share ideas with our group. We include people who study, enact, and are interested in addressing these issues.  You are warmly encouraged to invite others who may be interested. We recommend having read this (PDF) (http://necsi.edu/research/healthcare/healthcare_steps.pdf) in advance (p26-end)

Remote access is possible - the first nine to register will have face and voice time.

About NECSI: The New England Complex Systems Institute is a research and education institute based in Cambridge, MA.  A pioneer in the field of complex systems science, NECSI addresses questions previously considered outside the realm of scientific inquiry. Its research draws on foundations from mathematics, physics, and computer science to solve pressing problems in economics, healthcare, education, military conflict, ethnic violence, and international development. Its goal is to expand the boundaries of knowledge and to solve problems of science and society. 

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Boston Living with Water Public Jury Review/Submission Exhibition
Wednesday, February 25
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress Street #200, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blww-public-jury-review-submission-exhibition-tickets-15600289887

Rupa Shenoy moderates
Welcome by Austin Blackmon, Kairos Shen and BSA / TBHA
BLwW Overview
Jury Review of submissions and moderated jury discussion
Announcement of selected finalists
Exhibit and Reception to follow

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Bioinspired Materials
Wednesday, February 25
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Honeycomb, Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge

Joanna Aizenberg, Ph.D.
Platform Leader and Core Faculty member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Sciences, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Director, Science Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Co-Director, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology

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The Future of the Past: A History Ignored -- Honoring the 100 Year Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Through Art and Dialogue
Wednesday, February 25
6:30 PM to 8:15 PM (EST)
Washburn Auditorium, Brattle Campus, Lesley University, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-the-past-a-history-ignored-honoring-the-100-year-anniversary-of-the-armenian-genocide-tickets-15642096933

How can we process the horrors of genocide, especially when the hurt of these atrocities is compounded by a century of denial?

Between the eve of World War I and 1922, 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children were killed at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in what has been coined the first genocide of the 20th century. Those who were not rounded up to be killed at once were sent on death marches through mountains and deserts without food, drink or shelter. But still today, the Turkish government rejects the conclusions of historians, saying there was no premeditation in the deaths, no systematic attempt to destroy a people. Indeed, in Turkey today it remains a crime to use the term genocide.

The power of images from the art community has historically moved our society.  Now is the time to openly accept Armenian history, including the Genocide, and honor the numerous contributions of the Armenian civilization.
Join artists Hope Ricciardi, John Avakian, Marsha Odabashian, and Adrienne DerMarderosian as they share their personal narratives and how they make meaning of the resulting intergenerational transmission of trauma through their art.

Presented by Violence Transformed and Lesley University's Expressive Therapies and Interdisciplinary Studies Programs.

Event is Free and Open to the Public!! Walk-ins welcome!
Any questions? Please contact Beth Chambers at echambe5@lesley.edu

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The Biomimicry Opportunity: A Panel Discussion 
Wednesday, February 25
7pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105701&view=Detail

Sam Stier, Founding Director, Center for Learning with Nature
Chris Garvin, Principal, Terrapin Bright Green
Elizabeth Kripke, Visiting Researcher, Hanlon Lab, Marine Biological Laboratory
Moderator: Peter Lawrence, President and Co-founder, Biomimicry New England

Biomimicry is the process of emulating nature's strategies—which have been evolving for 3.8 billion years—to solve complex human problems. Join us for an introduction to this fascinating topic and its potential for advancement in education and sustainable design. Biomimicry, an approach to innovation that seeks inspiration from nature, often looks to the oceans and marine animals. Panelist will share their experience on this topic and how they are helping to address many of today’s environmental issues and inspire a new group of innovators to look to nature to create sustainable solutions. 

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Russia in the 21st Century:  Cultural Evening
Wednesday, Feb. 25 
7:00pm 
Distler Performance Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

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Thursday, February 26
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Exploring the Human Connectome of Multiple Sclerosis
WHEN  Thu., Feb. 26, 2015, 7:45 – 9:15 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard Faculty Club, Room 10, 2nd floor, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Technology Assessment in Health Care Seminar Series
SPEAKER(S)  Eric Klawiter, assistant professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
CONTACT INFO Debra Milamed
debra_milamed@hms.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Continental breakfast served.

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Preparing Buildings for Rising Seas and Severe Weather Events
Thursday February 26,
8:30 AM to 10:30 AM EST
Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Fort Point Room, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eadc14h371675a81&oseq=&c=&ch=

Climate projections for Boston indicate that the City will experience rising temperatures, increased storm intensity and higher sea-levels.  Boston's built infrastructure is at risk from these climate stressors, but there are technologies currently available to help asset owners increase the adaptability of both existing and new buildings.

Join A Better City at the release of their new report: Enhancing Resilience in Boston: A Guide for Large Buildings and Institutions; and its compendium online resiliency toolkit.  The report and its associated online toolkit provide building owners with information on 33 available resilience actions and technologies.  It also provides a preliminary assessment of potential regulatory touch points within the City and state for resilience actions and considers initial ideas for district-level resilience strategies for the Boston area.

Come and learn about: strategies for reducing risks to facilities located inside or outside the floodplain and current technologies used for flooding / sea level rise, storm water management, and urban heat island; and understand the costs and policy implications associated with the resiliency technologies.

Agenda:
8:00-8:30         Breakfast & Networking
8:30-9:00         Key Notes & Special Address
Rob de Vos, Consul General, Dutch Consolate
Rick Dimino, President & CEO, ABC
9:00 - 10:00     Report Presentation & Panel Discussion
Panel themes and questions to be addressed:
How to make the decision to install resilience technology at your building.
How does resiliency work into building economics?
What is the role of tenants?
How do we look to improve/streamline our local regulatory policies to facilitate resiliency investments within the private sector?
What are the lessons Boston learned from Superstorm Sandy?
10:00 - 10:30    Viewing of Boston Properties' Aqua Fence
Register Now!

Contact Name:  tdinkel@abettercity.org
617-502-6257

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-02-26-133000-2015-02-26-153000/preparing-buildings-rising-seas-and-severe-weather-events#sthash.kkg4NlSr.dpuf

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The BRICS Group in Global Regulation: Leadership, Influence, and Prospects
WHEN  Thu., Feb. 26, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Regulatory Policy Program (RPP) at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at HKS.
SPEAKER(S)  Mihaela Papa, lecturer, Fletcher School
DETAILS  Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu

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Officer of the World Economic Forum USA to Speak at Volpe
Thursday, February 26
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge

John B. Moavenzadeh, Senior Director of Mobility Industries and Officer of the World Economic Forum USA
John Moavenzadeh is senior director, Mobility Industries, and an officer of the World Economic Forum USA. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional, and industry agendas.

As an officer of the World Economic Forum USA, the Forum’s U.S.-based affiliate, Moavenzadeh shares leadership for the 100 Forum staff based in New York. Moavenzadeh’s responsibilities include engaging CEOs and business leaders from the automotive, logistics & supply chain, aviation, travel & tourism industries in projects and processes to advance strategic global issues. He has contributed to reports and initiatives on topics ranging from trade facilitation to connected and smart transportation to supply chain resilience.

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PETA President Ingrid Newkirk at Harvard Law School
WHEN  Thu., Feb. 26, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room B015, 1585 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (orgs.law.harvard.edu…)
SPEAKER(S)  Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO saldf.hls@gmail.com
DETAILS  Animal Rights, Human Obligations: An Open Forum with PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. All viewpoints encouraged. Riveting Q&A to follow.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/404248646401789/

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Flooding risk and the modernization of agriculture
Thursday, February 26
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Kyle Emerick, Department of Economics, Tufts University
Approximately 30% of the cultivated rice area in India is prone to crop damage from prolonged flooding. Dr. Emerick will discuss a two-year study in rural Odisha India investigating the effects of introducing a new flood-tolerant rice variety on farm investment. He will discuss the effects on both farm productivity and farmer decision-making.

Kyle Emerick received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2014. His research is in development economics — with a particular focus on the economics of agricultural development. His work has included studies on the effects of risk-reducing technologies on the decisions of poor farmers in rural India, the efficiency of informal seed exchanges between Indian farmers, and the effects of more secure property rights on labor reallocation in Mexico. His studies rely on both field experiments and observational data.

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Rules of thumb for effective entrepreneurship in the water sector
Thursday, February 26
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 36-156, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Nadav Efraty
Please join us for an exciting Water Entrepreneurship talk hosted by the MIT Water Club and the MIT Water Innovation Prize. Nadav Efraty, our guest speaker, is the co-founder of water startup Desalitech, a company that is on its way to becoming a leader in water treatment. Under his management, Desalitech has partnered with some of the leading water companies in the world to sell innovative RO systems to top Fortune 500 companies, raised $24M in growth funds and has recently been identified by Global Water Intelligence as the most advanced water tech company in the world. Nadav Efraty will discuss pivotal decisions and key lessons learned toward success.

Web site: http://waterclub.scripts.mit.edu/wp/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club
For more information, contact:  Neha Mehta
waterclub-officers@mit.edu 

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Master Class with Dan Levy: "Making Learning Memorable"
WHEN  Thu., Feb. 26, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larsen G08, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Community Programming, Discussion, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
TOPIC  Evaluation and Assessment, Learning, Teaching
BUILDING/ROOM  Other
CONTACT NAME  Nate Hinchey
CONTACT EMAIL  nathaniel_hinchey@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Dean's Office
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION  Education
DETAILS  On Thursday, February 26, 2015 HGSE will welcome Dan Levy, senior lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, faculty chair of the Kennedy School's SLATE (Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence) initiative, and co-chair of the HarvardX research committee. Dan, who teaches courses in quantitative methods and program evaluation, has won multiple teaching awards throughout his career, including the Kennedy School’s Carballo Award. Bridget Terry Long, HGSE Academic Dean and Saris Professor of Education and Economics will serve as the discussant.
About HGSE Master Class
Master Class is a series at HGSE celebrating inspiring teaching in its many forms. Each event is 90 minutes in length and involves a demonstration of teaching followed by a reflective discussion with the participants. The “demonstration” part of the time is intended to be an authentic experience of learning for members of the audience, drawing on the faculty member’s chosen teaching approach and topic. The “reflection” part is a dialogue in which the faculty member shares his or her pedagogical assumptions, intentions, and moves, and engages in a discussion with the audience that “pulls back the curtain.” Each Master Class is open to the entire Harvard community.
We invite you to join the conversation about HGSE Master Classes on Twitter using #hgsemc.
LINK  http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-tags/master-class

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Upstart Roundtable Venture Café
Thursday, February 26
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Venture Cafe, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://thecapitalnetwork.cloverpad.org/event-1810234

TCN UpStart Roundtables are monthly gatherings at the Venture Cafe that bring together Boston-area early-stage startups and seasoned entrepreneurs. This free series with The Capital Network, Venture Cafe, and Silicon Valley Bank is a great opportunity for you to ask burning questions about starting a company and meet other like-minded entrepreneurs in a casual cafe setting.

Pre-registration is not required to attend the TCN UpStart Roundtable series, but we do appreciate knowing in advance how many people to expect.

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?: Reflections on the Politics of Feminism in the Middle East
WHEN  Thu., Feb. 26, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS, Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar, Herbert Kelman, Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy, co-chairs
SPEAKER(S)  Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science; director, Middle East Institute, Columbia University
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Liz Flanagan, elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This event is open to the public; no registration required. This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3821

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Creativity: It’s Not Just About the Front End of Innovation
Thursday, February 26
5:30pm - 9:30pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center (NERD Center), 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.pdma.org/p/cm/ld/fid=63
Cost:  $10 -$20

Creativity, the production of novel ideas that serve a purpose, is the starting point for innovation and an essential input for growth in our companies and in our economy at large. But creativity also has application well beyond the front end of innovation and can be deliberately invoked to assist with challenges and opportunities presented at all stages of new product development.

Learn how creativity operates, how to apply it to challenges, how to elicit it within your team and what’s required from your organization to support it. Join the Greater Boston PDMA on Thursday, February 26th to hear a presentation by Courtney Zwart, who will address these questions and more and will provide you with tangible actions that you can take to both apply and harness creativity in your organization. Register now for this event and network with other product development, product management and innovation professionals in the Boston area.

Speaker:
Courtney Zwart, Consultant – Innovation & Creative Problem Solving

Event Date:
Thursday, February 26th, 2015

Timing:
5:30 – 6:30 PM: Networking (food and soft beverages provided)
6:30 – 7:30 PM: Courtney Zwart
7:30 – 8:15 PM: Q&A
8:15 – 9:30 PM: Post-Event Networking

Post-Event Networking Location:
Za Restaurant
350 Third Street, Cambridge

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Vegetable Garden Planning
Thursday, February 26
6:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston 
Registration required: http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-1836.html

Do you want to get more out of your vegetable garden? Come learn about planting schedules, spacing, succession planting, interplanting, and drafting your own garden plan. 

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We Break Things...Hackers Fight for Freedom:  Prerelease screening with filmmaker Rebecca Wexler
Thursday, February 26 
6:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room B010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Journal of Law and Techology and the Harvard Law Documentary Studio

WE BREAK THINGS pulls back the curtain on one of society’s increasingly powerful political forces, which to most people remains a mystery. Meet the hackers who build and break technology to defend civil liberties worldwide. Featuring intimate personal stories from deep inside the hacker community, this film showcases gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other kinds of diversity among tech activists. Hacker culture, technology, and wit fuse in an electrified movement for digital freedom, as obscure figures behind the screens come forward for the first time to share their loves, losses, and deepest motivations.

Director/Producer Rebecca Wexler is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School where she is currently a J.D. candidate writing on speech, privacy, Internet and democracy issues. She has produced, directed, shot and edited documentaries for the Yale Art Gallery and the Long Wharf Theater, and has worked as an Associate Producer and Archivist for PBS WETA and PBS American Experience. Rebecca recently completed work as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Sri Lanka, where she collaborated with a post-war media collective and taught documentary film production at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Trincomalee.

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Boston Meetup + Pitch-Off
Thursday, February 26
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Estate Club, One Bolyston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-meetup-pitch-off-tickets-14985607355
Cost:  $10.00

TechCrunch's legendary meetup + pitch-off event is coming to Boston! Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds.

Pitch-Off Competition
Participants interested in competing in the pitch-off will have 60 seconds to explain why their startup is awesome. These products must currently be in stealth or private beta. The application will open soon.
Office Hours
Office Hours are for companies selected to compete in the Pitch-Off. These 15 minute one-on-one talks will be held the day of the event. We’ll hear about your company, give feedback and reommend the best pitch strategy for the 60-second rapid-fire competition. Think of us as Adam Levine on The Voice.
Pitch-Off Winners
Pitches will be rated by 3-5 judges, including TechCrunch writers and local VCs. First Place will receive a table in Startup Alley at an upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt. Second Place will receive (2) tickets to an upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt. Third Place will receive (1) ticket to the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt.
VENUE:  Estate - One Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
This is a 21+ only event.
AGENDA:
6:00 Doors Open
7:00 Pitch-Off Competition
8:15 Winners Announced
8:20 Networking

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Sweet Rewards:  The Business of Chocolate
Thursday, 26 February
6:30 – 8:30 pm
GA Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/sweet-rewards-the-business-of-chocolate/boston/10952
Cost:  $10

Carla D. Martin, Lecturer, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Miles Masci, Director of Operations, Perfect Fuel Chocolate
Dylan McGraw, Manager, Pemberton Farms
Kevin McCarthy, Operations Manager, UNREAL Candy
Chocolate can be a symbol of love, a promoter of health, and the spark of political, economic and social debate. While a decidedly unaccommodating climate for growing cocoa, Boston is home to some of the most innovative companies and organizations in the chocolate industry. Join Branchfood, WeWork and General Assembly to learn more about the challenges, opportunities and future of the chocolate business.

Carla D. Martin, Lecturer, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University will lead a discussion on the ins and outs of sourcing, testing packaging, and tasting this fabled food.

There will also be time for networking with panelists and fellow attendees before and after the event over a chocolate and beer tasting. The panel discussion will start promptly at 7:00pm. Come join the conversation.
Tasting Includes:
Apotheker's Kitchen
Equal Exchange
Pemberton Farms
PMS Bites
Pure 7
Scoopsies Ice Cream
Taza Chocolate

About the Speakers
Carla D. Martin Lecturer, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Dr. Carla D. Martin is a Lecturer in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she teaches classes on chocolate and food politics, black ethnic diversity, and race and technology. Her current historical and ethnographic research projects focus on the politics of cacao and chocolate in global perspective and language, music, and digital media in the former Portuguese colonies. An award-winning educator, she is currently developing a curriculum on fine cacao and chocolate for the general public. Find her online at BittersweetNotes.com and @carladmartin.

Miles Masci Director of Operations, Perfect Fuel Chocolate
Working with cocoa farmers in Ecuador during his time in the Peace Corps, Miles developed a deep appreciation for cocoa production and the chocolate process. His connection to producers and searching for ways to solve their business problems led him to Babson College once he returned to the US. He earned his MBA in 2011 and joined Nicolas in his mission for creating Perfect Fuel Chocolate.

Dylan McGraw Manager, Pemberton Farms
Dylan graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2009 with a BA degree in Communications. Dylan brings his background in hospitality and retail to the food industry having managed high-end marinas in Florida and New England along with a boutique clothing store in Martha's Vineyard and Newport, Rhode Island. Currently he manages front-end operations at Pemberton Farms in Cambridge, MA. It is here where his primary focus and expertise lies within specialty foods and chocolate. As buyer, Dylan takes a considerate and holistic approach when identifying chocolate with the appropriate "Pemberton feel."
Kevin McCarthy Operations Manager, UNREAL Candy

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Is Shame Necessary?  New Uses for an Old Tool
Thursday, February 26
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Jennifer Jacquet, author

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Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won
Thursday February 26
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline

Marc Solomon
Ten years ago no state allowed same-sex couples to marry, support for gay marriage nationwide hovered around 30 percent. Today, same-sex couples can marry in seventeen states, polls consistently show majority support, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe legalization is inevitable. In Winning Marriage Marc Solomon, a veteran leader in the movement for marriage equality, gives the reader a seat at the strategy-setting and decision-making table in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. With depth and grace he reveals the inner workings of the advocacy movement that has championed and protected advances won in legislative, court, and electoral battles over the decade since the landmark Massachusetts ruling guaranteeing marriage for same-sex couples for the first time.

More information at http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/mark-solomon-winning-marriage-inside-story-how-same-sex-couples-took-politicians-and-pundits-a

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Mass Extinctions: A Brief History of Life’s Worst Moments
WHEN  Thu., Feb. 26, 2015, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE  Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Phoebe Cohen, assistant professor of geosciences, Williams College
COST  $10 (students: email to register for free)
TICKET WEB LINK  https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1409&DayPlannerDate=2/26/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
617.384.5277
DETAILS  Life on Earth has experienced at least five major events we call “mass extinctions,” during which a huge number of species have gone extinct in a short period of time. In this talk, paleontologist Phoebe Cohen will explore how scientists decide which extinctions get to be considered “mass,” the ways in which these events have reshaped life as we know it, and how a deep understanding of past extinctions can help us see the future.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu

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"Russia in the 21st Century" Keynote on Russian Identity and Religion, Politics and Identity Panel
Thursday, February 26 
7:00pm
Cabot Intercultural Center, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

Editorial Comment:  The EPIIC International Symposium is a student-run conference and all those I've attended have been deeply informative meetings.  This year's conference seems to be a thorough look at Russia and the 21st century.  If you can, attend some of the events.

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Friday, February 27
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MIT 2015 Energy Conference
Global Energy Shifts: Disruption and Convergence
February 27-28, 2015
Cost:   $53.74 - $401.35

More information at http://mitenergyconference.org

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Media Lab Conversations Series: Cam Kerry and Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin:  Transatlantic Conversation on Privacy and Personal Data
Friday, February 27
10:30a–11:45a
MIT, Building E14-3, 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
This talk will be webcast at http://www.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/

Speaker: Cam Kerry and Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin
Cameron Kerry joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow in December 2013. He is also a visiting scholar with the MIT Media Lab. Kerry served as General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues laying a new foundation for U.S. economic growth in a global marketplace. He continues to speak and write on these issues, particularly privacy and data security, intellectual property, and international trade.

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin is the chair of the French Data Protection Authority (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés). She was also recently elected chair of the Article 29 Working Party on the 27th of February, 2014. She first held various posts with the French State Council (Conseil d’Etat). After serving as chair of the Interministerial Commission on Internet Affairs in 1996, she was appointed as an expert adviser for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin graduated in France from the HEC School of Business Management, the National Administration School (Ecole Nationale d’Administration) and the Multimedia Institute.

Media Lab Conversations Series

Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2015/02/27/media-lab-conversations-series-isabelle-falque-pierrotin-conversation-cam-kerry
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact:  Laura Seretta
events-admin@media.mit.edu 

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Rhetoric in Authoritarian Legislatures: Automated Content Analysis of Egyptian Parliamentary Speech
WHEN  Fri., Feb. 27, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Library, Littauer Building, Room 369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S)  Muhammed Y. Idris, MEI research fellow and Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
COST  Free and open to the public
DETAILS  Part of the Middle East Initiative Research Fellow Seminar Series.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6564/rhetoric_in_authoritarian_legislatures.html

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Lunch and Learn: Idea to Invention
Friday, February 27
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EST)
Workbar Boston, 711 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-and-learn-idea-to-invention-tickets-15008222999?aff=es2&rank=1018
Cost:  $11.54

Idea to Invention
You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - it's simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown, inventor of the original, best selling rear-facing car seat mirror, has turned common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products. She will teach you how to master the invention process and achieve success in a timely and cost-effective way. Don't have an idea yet? No worries - she will teach you how to come up with one! Check out the instructor's website at www.patricianolanbrown.com.
Key takeaways:
This session covers:
How to successfully run any business
Essential success traits
What you need to know to cash in on your inspiration
Social media platform building

About the Instructor:
As a successful inventor, Patricia offers her advice to aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs -- based on 24 years of experience. Patricia has broken down the invention process into 6 Simple Steps. She offers a do-it-yourself method which saves inventors a ton of time and money.

The Workbar Lunch and Learn classroom series is designed to connect and educate professionals from every industry and on a variety of topics.  The Workbar Lunch and Learn classroom is open to members and non-members alike.  To ensure the right vibe and to deliver value to the sponsors and supporters who make our community possible, we do not allow soliciting of any kind.  We appreciate your help, please see our event guidelines for more information regarding participation in our events.

Space is limited.  Lunch is included.

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Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe
WHEN  Fri., Feb. 27, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, R-G-20 Neustadt Classroom, Rubenstein Building, HKS
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, HKS
SPEAKER(S)  Marco Magnani, author and former M-RCBG senior fellow
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University
Richard Cooper, Harvard University
Hans-Helmut Kotz, former member of the Board of the Bundesbank and visiting professor at Harvard University
CONTACT INFO Please RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu. Lunch will be served.

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"Russia in the 21st Century" The State of the Media Panel
Friday, February 27
12:30pm 
Tufts, Barnum Hall Room 008, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

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Harvard Food + Research Symposium
Friday, February 27
12:30–4:30 pm
Harvard CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17xpktLWDCdmijI-fZIR4fPT5dtcqQm2Uc8QkfN_hwW8/viewform?usp=send_form

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the first Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (or as we call it, the Food+ Symposium). The Symposium will feature 20 Harvard faculty members from 8 schools and a dozen departments giving 7 minute "speed presentations" on their current Food+ research. A reception will follow at the Weatherhead Center.

The goal of the Food+ Research Symposium is to provide attendees with a sense of the excitement and breadth of the Food+ research underway at Harvard and foster cross-fertilization among researchers.

Faculty, staff, students, and members of the wider Boston community should RSVP at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17xpktLWDCdmijI-fZIR4fPT5dtcqQm2Uc8QkfN_hwW8/viewform?usp=send_form

Confirmed faculty presenters include:
Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Forestry in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Elsie Sunderland, Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard raduate School of Design
Michael Kremer, Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
J. Gunnar Trumbull, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
David Ludwig, Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health
Samuel Myers, Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health
Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health
Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
William Clark, Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Harvard Kennedy School
Daniel Schrag, Professor of Geology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment
Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Emily Broad Leib, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instruction at the Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic
Jacob Gersen, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Food Law Lab
PK Newby, Lecturer at the Harvard Extension School and author of the blog The Nutrition Doctor is in the Kitchen

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/harvard-food-research-symposium#sthash.0sQWA8MG.dpuf

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Reality Check: Russia, Ukraine, and the West in Crisis and Conflict
Friday, February 27
2:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Matthew Rojansky, Director of the Kennan Institute
The death toll from the war in Ukraine's southeast is in the thousands, the government in Kyiv is on the edge of bankruptcy, and mutual hostility between Russia and the West has not been so intense for more than a quarter century. The intensity of this ongoing crisis threatens not only to upend the precarious security balance in the post-Soviet space and beyond, but to reinforce a serious challenge to the very political and economic system that Ukrainians embraced when they turned out support the so-called Euro-Maidan by the hundreds of thousands last Fall and Winter. With poor prospects for a comprehensive diplomatic settlement, and political pressure for escalation from all sides, what can be done to contain the damage? Is crisis and confrontation the new normal for Europe and Eurasia, and if so will these problems come home to roost in the West?

Matthew Rojansky is Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.. An expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, especially Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, he has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance shared security throughout the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian region.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Security Studies Program, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact:  Ema Kaminskaya
617-2542793
ekaminsk@mit.edu

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Soldier, God, and the State: Religion in the Armies of India and Pakistan
Friday, February 27
2:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Amit Ahuja, UCSB
A session of the South Asia Politics Seminar Series cosponsored by MIT, Harvard and Brown.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Brown University, Watson Institute
For more information, contact:  Laurie Scheffler
617 253-3121
lauries@mit.edu

Editorial Comment:  I wonder if anyone will mention the world's first non-violent army, the Khudai Khitmadgar, the Servants of God, the Red Shirts which were Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh who gathered together to institute Gandhi's Constructive Programme and protect people during religious riots.  They were formed and led by Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Badshah Khan, the Khan of Khans from around 1930 until 1948.
More at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/06/27/534378/-Islamic-Satyagraha-Army

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"Russia in the 21st Century" Russia and Asia: The Bear Turns East Panel
Friday, February 27
2:30pm 
Tufts, Barnum Hall Room 008, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

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Censors at Work:  How States Shaped Literature
Friday, February 27
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Robert Darnton, author

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Symposium on Climate Regulation under the Clean Air Act
Friday, February 27
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall West, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Environmental Law Review for a panel discussion on climate regulation under the Clean Air Act in the wake of the Supreme Court's June 2014 decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (UARG). UARG was a critical case in efforts to combat climate change, with the Court largely upholding EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from certain new and modified sources of air pollutants. The panel will focus on the UARG opinion and its implications for future climate regulation, including EPA's Clean Power Plan. Panelists are leading environmental law scholars Jody Freeman (Harvard Law School), Richard Lazarus (Harvard Law School), William Buzbee (Georgetown Law Center), Megan Herzog (UCLA School of Law), Thomas McGarity (University of Texas School of Law) and Craig Oren (Rutgers School of Law). Sponsored by the Milbank Tweed Conference Fund.

Reception to follow.

https://journals.law.harvard.edu/elr/events-resources/

Contact Name:   Genevieve Parshalle
gparshalle@jd14.law.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-02-27-203000-2015-02-27-220000/symposium-climate-regulation-under-clean-air-act#sthash.g4402Yt3.dpuf

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Launch of the Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
WHEN  Fri., Feb. 27, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Information Technology, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This event is cosponsored by the Center for American Political Studies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and the Massachusetts Archives.
COST  Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-ma-anti-slavery-anti-segregation-petitions-digital-archive-launch

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Reengineering the Hand: "Mechanical Intelligence" in Robotic Manipulation
Friday, February 27
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge

Speaker: Aaron Dollar, Yale University
Despite decades of research, current robotic systems are unable to reliably grasp and manipulate a wide range of unstructured objects in human environments. The somewhat traditional approach of attempting to copy the immense mechanical complexity of the human hand in a stiff "robotic" mechanism, and the subsequently required levels of sensing and control, has not yet been successful. Alternatively, with careful attention to the design of the mechanics of hands, including adaptive underactuated transmissions and carefully tuned compliance, we have been able to achieve a level of dexterity and reliability as yet unseen in the field. I will describe ongoing efforts to further develop grasping and dexterous manipulation capabilities in robotics and prosthetics applications, as well as touch upon work in tangential areas such as human manipulation and biomechanics.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MechE Seminar Series
For more information, contact:  Tony Pulsone
617-253-2294
pulsone@mit.edu 

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Film Screening: Our Daily Bread
Friday, February 27
4:00 PM
BU College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave, Boston

Film Screening: Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2006, 92 min.)
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living. 

OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest - and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas. Free and open to the public. 

http://www.bu.edu/european/2015/02/04/event-announcement-global-fridays-film-series-focus-on-food-farming-spring-2015/

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Askwith Forum: How Do You Define American?
WHEN  Fri., Feb. 27, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT  Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM  Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME  Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL  askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE  617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS  Speaker: Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and the founder of Define American
This forum is held in conjunction with Alumni of Color Conference (AOCC). Jose Antonio Vargas is a 2015 AOCC Keynote Speaker.
The 2015 AOCC conference theme, “The Other Narrative: Celebrating Untold Stories,” will provide participants the opportunity to challenge dominant narratives that position the racial, ethnic, and cultural identities belonging to communities of color as inferior. By highlighting untold stories and counter-narratives, AOCC will engage participants in exploring different voices that celebrate just alternatives that include and go beyond academic discipline and pedagogy.

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Cities Remixed: Urban Design for an Urbanizing Century book talk
Friday, February 27
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at rsvp@architects.org

As markets shift, environmental considerations evolve, neighborhoods gentrify, and data and technology upend everything, the design of cities has gained new importance and taken on new complexity. Join David DixonFAIA, and Lance Jay BrownFAIA, for an open discussion on the evolving role of urban planning and design in a time of dramatic change. Using their 2014 book Urban Design for an Urban Century: Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities as a springboard for discussion, Lance and David will paint a picture of the forces dramatically shaping cities and offer a glimpse of where today’s trends and approaches may take cities over the next 20 years.

About the Authors:
Lance Jay Brown FAIA, DPACSA, is the principal of Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design in NYC, Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, and ACSA Distinguished Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY where he served as Chair and Director.  He was  also appointed 2014 President of the AIA New York Chapter. He is a recipient of the prestigious AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education and recently, has been honored with local and national awards for his Post-Sandy work. Brown teaches, lectures, and consults nationally and internationally.

David Dixon FAIA, leads Stantec’s multidisciplinary Urban Places Group. He writes and speaks regularly about the rapid changes reshaping America’s cities and suburbs and has led key planning efforts in Greater Boston. In 2007 David received the AIA's Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture for “a lifetime of…significant achievement in [creating]…livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and vital downtowns.” Before joining Stantec, David founded and led Goody Clancy’s planning and urban design practice, which was the third firm to receive APA’s national Excellence in Planning Award. 

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"Russia in the 21st Century" Welcome and Keynote Addresses and The New Cold War? Russia-US Relations Panel
Friday, February 27 
6:30pm
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

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Saturday, February 28
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
Saturday, February 28
8:30 am – 12:30 pm
St. John's Church, 1 Roanoke Avenue, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://bit.ly/SHOWFeb28
Cost:  $10

Attend this informative, hands-on workshop conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light to evaluate the essential areas of energy use and costs in your House Of Worship:
Electricity – How to recognize the major energy hogs – and what to do about them.
Solar Power – Is solar an option for you?
Heat & Air Conditioning – Is it time for an upgrade?
Building Envelope – How to make your congregation more comfortable & save money.
Behavior – How simple actions can reduce your energy bill – and carbon footprint – by 10% or more.

Thanks to the support of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the workshop fee is only $10 per attendee.

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China Thinks Big Conference
Harvard Association for US China Relations
Saturday, February 28
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard University Northwest Labs Event Spacem 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/china-thinks-big-conference-tickets-15777041556
Cost:  $9.43 - $16.82

China Thinks Big is a premier US-China Relations conference that strives to bring together the top minds of the Greater Boston Area to promote the exchange of ideas and discussion on the state of current day US-China relations.  From leaders and professionals in social entrepreneurship, education, modern-day business, and other various sectors, CTB has invited many keynote speakers and panelists to share their thoughts in this cross-cultural exchange.

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"Russia in the 21st Century"
Saturday, February 28
9:30 - 8pm
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

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Rally to Save Cape Wind
Saturday, February 28
1 pm
Boston Common (note: we are also exploring alternate locations in light of the unprecedented snowfall)
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/155naShnCxRAfAW0SCQt9IMxGN9RRXvQCRkYrJc0uFM0/viewform

It's our turn to make history: this could be our last chance to make the nation's first offshore wind farm a reality.

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Energy Saving Party
Next Step Living
Saturday, February 28
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Honan-Allston Branch Library, 300 North Harvard Street, Allston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-saving-party-tickets-15832128322

Looking to Save Energy? Increase the Value of your Home?
The City of Boston's Renew Boston Program is teaming up with premier real estate agency, Boston Green Realty, to help residents, landlords, and homeowners of 1-4 unit buildings save energy, save money, and have healthier, more comfortable homes.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
 1.   Save Energy in your homes and money on your utility bills
 2.   Increase the Value of your home
 3.   Access the Mass Save no-cost Home Energy Assessment Program
 4.   Access up to 90% off insulation costs and free air sealing
 5.  Hear from stories and tips from Boston Green Realty experts who truly understand energy efficient upgrades and knows how to market them properly

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Collapse: video by Lydia Eccles
Saturday, February 28
7PM
Brickbottom Gallery, 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville

COLLAPSE INTERVIEWS: A Gathering of People With Nothing In Common (2 hours) with intermission, refreshments and discussion. (free)

More information at http://www.brickbottom.org

The water is rising. Keep calm and create.

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Sunday, February 29 
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"Russia in the 21st Century"
Sunday, February 29
11am - 4pm
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/russia-in-the-21st-century-tickets-15623938621

"Russia in the 21st Century" is the topic for the Institute for Global Leadership's 30th Annual EPIIC International Symposium which happens at Tufts University Wednesday, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

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Monday, March 2
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Eradicating Child Homelessness in Massachusetts Conference
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)
Monday, March 2
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/eradicating-child-homelessness-in-massachusetts-conference-tickets-15836606717

Share Eradicating Child Homelessness in Massachusetts Conference     
9:25 AM  Greetings: Mary DeLorse Coleman, Dean of the College Liberal Arts and Sciences, Lesley University
9:30- 11:00 AM   Morning Panel: "Why Has Massachusetts Failed to Eradicate Homelessness and Child Poverty"
Speaker: Noah Berger, President, MA Budget and Policy Center
Respondents: Kelly Turley, Director of Legislative Advocacy, MA Coalition for the Homeless  
The Honorable Rodney Elliott, Mayor of Lowell
11:30 - 1:00 PM  Child Homelessness in Massachusetts: Lesley University's Role and Commitment
Occasion: Laurie Schoen, Founder of U.S. 4 Kids and the Lesley University Child Homelessness Initiative
Joseph Moore, President of Lesley University
Keynote Address: Elisabeth Babcock, President and CEO of Crittenton Women's Union
"Using Brain Science to Create Pathways Out of Poverty"
1:30 - 2:45 PM  Afternoon Panel 1: "Preparing Teachers Who Work on the Front Lines with Home"
3:00 - 4:15 PM Afternnon Panel 2: " A Governmental Response to Child and Family Homelessness
 
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A BioFabrication Success Story: From Mushrooms to Packing/Building Materials
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 10 – 11:45 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Room 521, Wyss Institute, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Pat Sapinsley, visiting scholar, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, president, Building Efficiently, LLC
SPEAKER(S)  Eban Bayer, CEO and co-founder, Ecovative Design
COST  Free and open to the public
DETAILS  Started in 2007 by two engineering students, Ecovative Design is a company founded around a biologically grown substitute for plastic foam. Ecovative Design has become a commercially viable company with strategic relationships with 3M, Dell, Steelcase and Sealed Air (manufacturers of Bubblewrap). Eban Bayer, CEO and co-founder, will share knowledge and lessons learned about the path to commercialization. Topics covered will range from the decision to move from building insulation to packaging, funding process, scale-up issues of bio-fabrication, intellectual property and licensing issues. Bayer will start the conversation with a short presentation, to be followed by a discussion with attendees.
LINK http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/447

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New York's "Reforming the Energy Vision" Initiative
Monday, March 2
12-1:30
Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Audrey Zibelman, Chair, New York State Public Service Commission

ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar

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"Experts in Cruelty: Interrogation in Abu Ghraib and After"
Monday, March 2
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Steve Caton, Harvard, Anthropology
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/

Contact Name:  Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-03-02-171500-2015-03-02-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.jgKMoBwx.dpuf

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Open Meetings: Digital Futures Consortium
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 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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Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms
Monday, March 2
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Lauren Cohen and Scott Kominers (Harvard)

Web site: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2464303
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microeconomic Applications
For more information, contact:  economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu

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Global Demographic Projections: Future Trajectories and Associated Uncertainty
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HCPDS
SPEAKER(S)  John Wilmoth, director of the population division, United Nations; professor, Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/

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Micromégas. The Very Small, the Very Large, and the Objects of Digital Humanities
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of English
SPEAKER(S)  Franco Moretti
The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor in the Humanities
Stanford University
COST  Free and open to the public.
LINK english.fas.harvard.edu

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Music of Azerbaijan: Fargana Qasimova Ensemble
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Andover Chapel, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Concerts, Music, Religion
SPONSOR Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Aga Khan Music Initiative.
CONTACT Krystina Friedlander
DETAILS  Please join the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Aga Khan Music Initiative for an evening of Azerbaijani music with the Fargana Qasimova Ensemble.
For Fargana Qasimova, the passionate lyrics of Azerbaijani mugham and spirited songs of the bardicashiq tradition provided the soundscape of her childhood. Now a consummate vocalist in her own right, Fargana has developed her own distinctive style that builds on the formidable artistic legacy bequeathed to her by her father, the renowned musician Alim Qasimov. Accompanied by the same quartet of young musicians as her father, Fargana offers a brilliant example of tradition-based music performed with a contemporary sensibility.
Reception to follow.

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Power to the Pedals: Wenzday Jane and the Culture of Change
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012, 1585 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Film, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic & Transactional Law Clinics, of Harvard Law School
DIRECTED BY  Bob Nesson
COST  Free and open to the public
DETAILS  Power to the Pedals: Wenzday Jane and the Culture of Change, a film by Bob Nesson, portrays the transformative vision and extraordinary efforts of a woman whose mechanical skills and innovative actions are reshaping her community. Wenzday Jane heads a movement to replace trucks with human powered vehicles for local cargo transportation. She goes to the heart of the sustainability issue by offering practical solutions.

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The Oldest Living Things in the World
WHEN  Mon., Mar. 2, 2015, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE  Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Rachel Sussman, photographer
COST  Free, but registration required
TICKET WEB LINK  http://arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/directors-lecture-series/
CONTACT INFO 617.384.5277 or adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Since 2004 Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Her work spans disciplines, continents, and millennia: it is part art and part science, has an innate environmentalism, and is underscored by an existential incursion into Deep Time. Her original index of millennia-old organisms has never before been created in the arts or sciences. Enjoy her awe-inspiring photographs and hear what it means to bear witness to organisms that perhaps predate human history and that may survive well into future generations. Her book, The Oldest Living Things in the World, will be available for purchase and signing.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu

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BuildingEnergy 15
March 3 – 5, 2015
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.

This is the biggest regional green building conference in the New England; sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).  To see the program and register ata http://nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-15

Editorial Comment:  Your editor will be part of a panel on urban agriculture.

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Boston TechBreakfast Presented by Colliers: March 2015
Tuesday, March 3
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215003132/

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!

~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words

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R. Buckminster Fuller's "Pattern Thinking," with Daniel Lopez-Perez and Hanif Kara
WHEN  Tue., Mar. 3, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Stubbin's Room, 48 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Daniel Lopez-Perez and Hanif Kara
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In celebration of R. Buckminster Fuller’s 120th anniversary (1895-2015), “Pattern Thinking” explores the relationship between artifacts and inventions in his work, and their legacy in contemporary practice. Daniel López-Pérez will present historical and contemporary documentation that traces Fuller’s trajectory of exploration spanning four decades, while Hanif  will speak about their analysis (local and global, stick and surface, linear non-linear) and reflect upon Fuller’s legacy in contemporary projects and current design trends.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/innovate-daniel-lopez-perez-and-hanif-kara-on-buckminster-fuller.html

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Lawyering for Social Justice in the Age of Digital Media
Tuesday, March 3
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 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/03/Cohen#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/03/Cohen at 12:30 pm.

Harvard Law School Lecturer on Law, Rebecca Richman Cohen
sTwenty years ago, effective legal advocacy required some fluency with press releases and mainstream media -- but today's digital media tools require a different sort of training.  These tools enable lawyers to bring the voices of their clients directly to policymakers and mass audiences; to create new and richer ways to present evidence and expert reports; to expose government and corporate corruption; to crowdsource the documentation of law violations; to gather and authenticate visual evidence on mobile phones; to enhance public understanding of the law, to give legal information to unrepresented litigants en masse; and so much more.  How do we teach today’s young advocates to integrate rich, multi-platform media campaigns into their legal work?

About Rebecca
Rebecca Richman Cohen has been a Lecturer on Law art Harvard Law School since 2011.  She is an Emmy Award nominated documentary filmmaker with experience in international human rights, criminal defense, and drug policy reform. Rebecca was profiled in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces in Independent Film as an "up-and-comer poised to shape the next generation of independent film." She has taught classes at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American University's Human Rights Institute, and most recently at Columbia University. Rebecca graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She was a 2012-2013 Soros Justice Fellow.

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Housing Access Solutions We Don't Want to Think About...That Just Might Work
Tuesday, March 3
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Light Refreshments served at 3:00 PM)
ABCD Melnea Cass Room, 3rd Floor, 178 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/housing-access-solutions-we-dont-want-to-think-aboutthat-just-might-work-registration-15745275543
Help ask the tough questions...
How can landlords help keep rents 'affordable'?
How might linkage, zoning, and other regulatory mechanisms increase the housing supply for families living in poverty?
Is micro-housing an answer for low-income individuals?
Should housing expenses be earmarked in a person's cash benefits?
... and leave with answers that lead to action! 

Sheila Dillon, City of Boston, Chief of Housing & Director, Neighborhood Development
Richard Taylor, Center for Real Estate, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Director
Greg Vasil, Greater Boston Real Estate Board, President & CEO

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Offshore Nuclear Reactors
Tuesday, March 3
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
MIT, Building  E19-623, Knight Conference Room, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

Jacopo Buongiorno, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering/MIT

Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuc Eng PhD, MIT, 2000; Nuc Eng BS, Polytechnic of Milan, 1996) is Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in thermo-fluids engineering and nuclear reactor engineering. His areas of technical expertise and research interest are reactor design, nanofluid technology, fluid dynamics, and two-phase flow and heat transfer in advanced nuclear systems. For his work in these areas and his teaching at MIT Prof. Buongiorno won several awards, including, recently, the MacVicar Faculty Award (MIT, 2014), and Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (American Nuclear Society, 2011). Professor Buongiorno is a member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Co-Director of the Reactor Technology Course for Nuclear Utility Executives, which is offered jointly by MIT and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO); and a consultant for the nuclear industry (AREVA, DCNS, B&W, Westinghouse, and South Texas Project) in the area of reactor thermal hydraulics. He served on the ANS Special Committee on Fukushima, and currently is on the accrediting board of INPO’s National Academy of Nuclear Training (NANT). From 2000 to 2004 he worked as a research scientist at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where he led the DOE’s Generation-IV program for the development of the supercritical water cooled reactor in the United States.

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The Pioneer's Progress: From Revolution to Constitutional Government in Tunisia?
Tuesday, March 3
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Hugh Roberts
Dr. Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA and a specialist on North African history and politics. He took up his post at Tufts in January 2012.

Between 1976 and 1997 Roberts lectured in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. From 1997 to 2002 he was a Senior Research Fellow of the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Roberts has also worked outside academia, as an independent scholar and consultant on North African affairs and as Director of the International Crisis Group's North Africa Project, based in Cairo, from 2002 to 2007 and again from February to July 2011. His book, The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002. Studies in a broken polity, was published by Verso in 2003. His newest books, Berber Government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria, and Algerie-Kabylie: Etudes et interventions de Hugh Roberts (in French) were published in 2014.

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

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/bustani/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Technology and Culture Forum
For more information, contact:  Heidi Erickson
253-1888
hae@mit.edu

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The World Is Not the Screen: How Computers Shape Our Sense of Place
WHEN  Tue., Mar. 3, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Nicholas Carr, writer
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-nicholas-carr-lecture

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The Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism
WHEN  Tue., Mar. 3, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Marvin Kalb, veteran reporter for CBS News, NBC News, and former moderator of Meet The Press
COST  Free and open to the public
TICKET INFO  Available for streaming online: http://shorensteincenter.org/shorenstein-center-announces-finalists-for-2015-goldsmith-prize/
CONTACT INFO Alison Kommer, alison_kommer@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Featuring the presentation of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting; and the presentation of the Goldsmith Book Prizes. finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting include: The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, The Post and Courier, ProPublica and NPR, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/shorenstein-center-announces-finalists-for-2015-goldsmith-prize/

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BASG: Tackling Sustainability in Sports (rescheduled from Feb. 3rd)
Boston Area Sustainability Group
Tuesday, March 3
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center - Venture Cafe, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-tackling-sustainability-in-sports-rescheduled-from-feb-3rd-tickets-15296472160
Cost:  $10 - $12

As the Patriots celebrate another Superbowl win, Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics advances, and shoveling becomes the official sport of the city, the Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) gathers to discuss and to debate the sustainability playbook of the sports industry.We will take a break from the traditional format of speakers in favor of a highly interactive audience session in March. From green certified stadiums, to inaugural national league sustainability reports, to high profile partnerships, participants will examine brief case studies of the sports industry and weigh in on who's winning and second-place strategies.

Guest Speaker

Michael Joseph is the PR/Communications Manager at Killington Resort and Pico Mountain. Originally hailing from West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains to the south, this Mountaineer has settled in to the Green Mountains just fine. Michael is a 2011 graduate of the P.I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University and previously worked as a publicist for socially responsible business and nonprofits at PMG Public Relations in Burlington, Vermont. He has been in his role with Killington and Pico since 2013. Michael will touch on the vicious climate change cycle of the snow sports industry.

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Discussion: Race and Climate Change
Tuesday, March 3
6:30 PM to 8:45 PM
Community Change Inc, 14 Beacon Street #605, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Antiracists/events/220578281/

The effects of climate change are unpredictable, and can be direct or indirect. But despite crushing natural disasters around the world, most nations have chosen to shield their economies from prudence and preparedness. The booming voices of monied interests have drowned out the voices of those meant to protect the well-being of all. Most at risk are the poor of the world. The link between poverty and race is what make climate change more alarming for people and communities of color.

Questions:
How threatening do you perceive climate change to be?
Whose voices are loudest in the climate change “debate”?
Subject aside, how would you like to see your lifestyle improved?
What parts of your current lifestyle do you think contribute most to climate change?

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TechHub Boston Demo Night - March 2015
Tuesday, March 3
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
 Brooklyn Boulders Somerville, 12A Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhub-boston-demo-night-march-2015-tickets-15727778208?aff=es2&rank=663

Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech! Join TechHub Tuesday night at Brooklyn Boulders Somerville to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community.

Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience.

Afterwards, stick around for beer and wine, network, play ping pong or experience Brooklyn Boulders amazing selection of climbing walls for 1st timers to experts. We will have free gear (shoes, harness, chalk bags) & climbing facilitators ready.  So arrive in your gym clothes or change at the onsite locker rooms and be set for an amazing evening on and off the walls.

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“The Advent of the Anthropocene: Was that the Big Story of the 20th Century”
Tuesday, March 3
7:00 pm
BU, Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston

Speaker: John McNeill

More information to follow.

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Wednesday, March 4
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BuildingEnergy 15
Wednesday, March 4
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.

This is the biggest regional green building conference in the New England; sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).  To see the program and register ata http://nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-15

Editorial Comment:  Your editor will be part of a panel on urban agriculture.

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Goldsmith Seminar on Investigative Reporting
WHEN  Wed., Mar. 4, 2015, 9 – 10:30 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Panelists include investigative reporters from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, NPR, The Boston Globe, ProPublica, The Miami Herald, The Post and Courier; and Marvin Kalb, veteran reporter for CBS News, NBC News, and former moderator of "Meet the Press"
CONTACT INFO Alison Kommer, alison_kommer@hks.harvard.edu
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/goldsmith-seminar-2015/

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The Policeman at the Elbow: The Neuroscience of Addiction, Self-Control, and Criminal Responsibility
WHEN  Wed., Mar. 4, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 3019, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S)  Joshua Buckholtz, assistant professor, Harvard University Department of Psychology, Amanda Pustilnik, senior fellow in law and applied neuroscience, Petrie-Flom Center/Center for Law Brain and Behavior, Judge Nancy Gertner, senior lecturer on law, Harvard Law School
CONTACT INFO petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Do criminal penalties have any deterrent effect on drug addicts – people who already are willing to throw away their jobs, relationships, or even lives for their "fix"? What does brain science tell us about addicts' capacities to exert self control and to be held criminally responsible? This panel discussion brings together a leading neuroscientist of addiction, a criminal law scholar, and a former judge to ask whether the law should reconsider aspects of responsibility and punishment in light of new science about self-control.
Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/law-applied-neuroscience2

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Hydromechanical Challenges (and opportunities) during Geologic Carbon Storage
Wednesday, March 4
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 1-131
Speaker: Dr. Joshua White
Carbon capture and storage remains an appealing option to help minimize global CO2 emissions. In the past decade, a number of new demonstration- and commercial-scale projects have come online. While these projects have been largely successful, they have faced their share of hurdles. This talk will present case studies highlighting a few of these challenges, with a focus on the geomechanical behavior of the storage reservoir and seals. Injecting fluid at relatively high pressure can create unwanted hazards, including the potential for hydraulic  fracturing, fault reactivation, and induced seismicity. I will provide a broad overview of our ongoing research program at LLNL to address these hazards. A central goal of this research is to create a tighter integration between monitoring tools, modeling and data analysis techniques, and adaptive field control. In the second half of the talk, I will turn to modeling challenges, and discuss the design of coupled reservoir/geomechanical simulators to take advantage of large high-performance computing resources. In particular, the talk will describe a class of implicit solution algorithms that scales efficiently to thousands of  processors and billions of unknowns.
Joshua White is a research scientist in the Computational Geosciences Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He holds a B.S.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in CEE from Stanford University

Mechanics and Infrastructure

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:  Rebecca Fowler
617 253-7101
ceed@mit.edu 

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Data and Goliath:  The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Bruce Schneier
Harvard Book Store welcomes security tech expert and bestselling author BRUCE SHNEIERfor a discussion of his latest book, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.
You are under surveillance right now.

Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.
The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.

Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us exactly what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.

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Renew Boston Multi-Family Energy Efficiency Workshop
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Commonwealth Salon, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/renew-boston-multi-family-workshop-tickets-15444857986

The Mass Save Program and Renew Boston are co-hosting a community workshop tailored to help multi-family landlords, condominium associations, and tenants with energy efficiency measures that can help save money on energy bills. These programs provide no-cost equipment such as high-efficiency light bulbs, power strips, as well as advice on how to to continue saving on energy bills. For more information please contact MassSave/Renew Boston Multi-Family Program at 1-800-594-7277.
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BuildingEnergy 15
Thursday, March 5
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.

This is the biggest regional green building conference in the New England; sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).  To see the program and register ata http://nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-15

Editorial Comment:  Your editor will be part of a panel on urban agriculture.

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The African Elephant Poaching Crisis
Thursday, March 5
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Nicole St. Clair Knobloch, Writer
Ms. St. Clair Knobloch will discuss the poaching crisis facing African elephants – the direct causes and the indirect circumstances that worsen it -- and the potential solutions. She has been particularly focused on the fate of the now critically endangered African forest elephant, on U.S. foreign policy goals in the region the forest elephants inhabit, and on how those goals are disrupted by the ivory trade.

Nicole St. Clair Knobloch worked on climate policy, communications, and strategy for Ceres, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. She is now writing full-time, pursuing interests in looking at how change is made and at how environmental challenges affect global stability. She also currently works as a speechwriter for Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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The Paradox of Forever War and the Concept of the Enemy in International Law
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 5, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)  Emile Simpson, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK  http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6581/paradox_of_forever_war_and_the_concept_of_the_enemy_in_international_law.html

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Japan’s Aging Society and the Role of Higher Education
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 5, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S)  Atsushi Seike, president, Keio University, Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and 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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Labyrinth of Things: Lecture by Diana Taylor
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 5, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Dance, Lecture, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Diana Taylor, University Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish, and Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University
Introduction by Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Committee on Dramatics, Harvard University
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Diana Taylor, a scholar of Latin American and U.S. theater and performance, will speak about the power of a specific play, Bom Retiro 958 metros, which leads us on a walk through São Paulo’s phantasmagoric world of things. The piece conveys broad societal meanings about the accumulation and transformation of things.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-diana-taylor-lecture

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An Operations Lens on the Effectiveness of Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation
Thursday, March 5
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Beril Toktay

ORC Spring Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.

Seminar reception immediately following the talk.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact:  Peng Shi, Nataly Youssef, or Jerry Kung
253-6185
pengshi@mit.edu, youssefn@mit.edu, jkung@mit.edu 

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"Media and Memory at the Videotheque de Paris"
Thursday, March 5
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Catherine E. Clark
The Videotheque de Paris, a moving image archive of the French capital, opened in 1988, during a period when French technological advances led the world in revolutionizing the circulation of people and information. The Videotheque would be no mere dusty archive but rather a high-tech institution of robots, computers, VCRs, and Minitels. Its organizers deployed the latest technologies to place a century of fiction films, documentaries, television programs, and advertising with Paris as their subject or setting at visitors' disposal. Organizers promised that within a year or two the whole archive would be available in Parisian living rooms, as its collections became the basis of a Parisian on-demand cable channel.

Contemporaries imagined that these technologies would transform users' relationship to the past, to turn institutionalized history into memory, a flexible, customizable, and ultimately personal, experience of the past. The dream of an archive that replaced all others by providing constant access to cultural and social memory through technology did not last more than a decade. But the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Videotheque's creation illuminates and calls into question the utopian promises of the more recent revolution in digital history.

MIT assistant professor Catherine E. Clark is a cultural historian who specializes in 19th- and 20th-century France and visual culture.

Join our mailing list for an event reminder: http://cmsw.mit.edu/signup

Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/catherine-clark-media-memory-videotheque-de-paris/
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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 MIT Water Night
Thursday, March 5
5:00 - 8:00 PM
MIT Building W20, Stratton Student Center

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EnergyBar!
Thursday, March 5
5:30pm-8:30pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-tickets-15734093096

EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.

Our attendees typically span a variety of disciplines within energy, efficiency, and renewables. If you're looking for a job in cleantech or energy, trying to expand your network, or perhaps thinking about starting your own energy-related company this is the event for you. Expect to have conversations about issues facing advanced and renewable energy technologies and ways to solve our most pressing energy problems.

Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30 pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual.

Grab your tickets now, seats are filling up!

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Evolution Matters Lecture Series: The Revolution in Plant Evolution
Thursday, March 5
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Pamela Soltis, Distinguished Professor and Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

Today’s digital technologies enable museums to “unlock” their cabinets and share their treasures online. Pamela Soltis will discuss the way in which access to digital data and images of natural history collections is becoming a game changer in the understanding of plant evolution. From enabling novel research on plant genetics, to highlighting the roles plants play in nature and how they respond to climate change, museum collections are a key resource, particularly when studying plants that are rare, hard to collect, endangered, or extinct.

The Evolution Matters Lecture Series is supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit.

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Things We Don't Talk About - Schlesinger Movie Night
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 5, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe College Room, Schlesinger Library, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Schlesinger Library
DIRECTED BY  Isadora Leidenfrost
COST  Free and open to the public
DETAILS  The Things We Don’t Talk About: Healing Stories of the Red Tent chronicles the growing Red Tent Temple Movement. Inspired by Anita Diamant’s historical novel The Red Tent, women in various stages of life gather together to share stories about their lives, their bodies, and what it means to be female. Since the grassroots movement began in 2007, thousands of Red Tent spaces and gatherings have been organized around the world. 72 min.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-things-we-dont-talk-about

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The Social and Not-Social Entrepreneur’s 2-Hour College of Hard Knocks
Thursday, March 5
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Classroom (Room 122), Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-social-and-not-social-entrepreneurs-2-hour-college-of-hard-knocks-tickets-15731120204

How do you start something big from nothing? How do you come up with an idea? How do you capitalize it? What are the nasty interpersonal and relationship mine fields they don’t teach you about in business school?

In this session, social entrepreneur (he didn’t know he was one at the time, because the phrase hadn’t been coined yet) Dan Pallotta will tell you how he went from being a freshman at Harvard trying to raise money for Oxfam to the creator of the largest for-profit charitable fundraising experience in history. Dan created the AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-days, which raised over half a billion dollars in nine years and were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. His company had 400 full-time employees in 16 U.S. offices. He is now leading an effort to transform the way the donating public thinks about social change.

In this session you will learn:
How to think about the difference between social business and not-social-business;
How to think innovatively about capitalization;
The value of authenticity in marketing;
The value of bending your career path to the times;
How to turn adversity into contribution.

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(Un)Familiar Deaths: Politics of Death and Dying in the Contemporary World
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 5, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S)  Professor James Cone
Professor Mark Jordan
COST  Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unfamiliar-deaths-politics-of-death-and-dying-in-the-contemporary-world-tickets-15639132065
CONTACT INFO 617.496.9221 / srcp@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Science, Religion, and Culture at Harvard Divinity School is excited to present (Un)familiar Deaths, a two-part lecture with James Cone and Mark Jordan. Together, Cone and Jordan will chart the unsettling and central ways in which race, sexuality, death, and politics coincide in modern America. Cone, one of the founders of black liberation theology, has revolutionized how we think of religion and race, and continues to shed new light on the problems and possibilities of religion and social justice. Jordan writes on the boundary of sexuality and religion: his work on sexual ethics, marriage, and homosexuality has pioneered new ways of talking about religion and faith. In the wake of Ferguson and nation-wide police brutality, and as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on same-sex marriage, it's clear that race and sexuality are topics that demand attention, that intersect repeatedly with religion, and that remind us of the often fatal nature of American politics.
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/srcp/event/march-5-unfamiliar-deaths-politics-death-and-dying-contemporary-world

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Designing Boston: Olympics 2024
Thursday, March 5
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Register at rsvp@architects.org

This event was rescheduled from its originally scheduled date of February 9.

Join us for our next Designing Boston conversation, this time on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision to back Boston as the host for the 2024 Olympics.

As former Boston city councilor Mike Ross said during a recent interview with WBUR’s Radio Boston, “[The Big Dig] changed the shape and face of Boston and... the Olympics will do the same thing.”

Focusing on the role that architecture has (or has not) played in making previous Olympics successful, Ross will moderate this panel discussion and dive into lessons learned by architects and planners with past Olympic experience in such cities as Barcelona, Beijing, Sydney, and London. This event launches a series of conversations and debates related to potential roles, responsibilities, and opportunities available to architects, planners, and developers as this huge and exciting undertaking unfolds.

Moderator:  Michael P. Ross, attorney, Prince Lobel Tye
Panelists will include:  Dennis Pieprz Assoc. AIA, Principal, Sasaki Associates;  Gavin McMillan, Senior Principal, Hargreaves Associates;  Kyu Sung Woo FAIA, Kyu Sung Woo Architects

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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, March 5
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor,  Cambridge

The Venture Café Foundation has partnered with EcoMotion to bring the Sustainability Collaborative to monthly Venture Café gatherings. Stay tuned for more information about this month’s Sustainability Collaborative.

Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan@ecomotion.us

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Olympics Meeting
Thursday, March 5 
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, One Circuit Drive, Dorchester

Hear a presentation by the 2024 Olympics group and ask questions about their plans for Franklin Park. Afterwards Franklin Park users will have an opportunity to discuss the proposal among themselves. Please come learn more and weigh in!

Franklin Park Coalition
Phone:  617-442-4141
Email:  mail@franklinparkcoalition.org
Website:  www.franklinparkcoalition.org

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Our Lives Matter: Art as Protest at SCATV
Thursday, March 5
 7-8pm
Somerville Community Access Television, 90 Union Square, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/803311989722962/

Please join your neighbors at this free, public panel discussion. We will discuss how local artists, poets and performers use creative expression to respond to current events and social injustices. The panelists will highlight their own work and how this was used to raise awareness about a particular issue in society. Those who attend may leave feeling inspired to pursue their own creative form.

Our Local Panelists: Poet Afaa Weaver, Artist & Performer De Ama Battle, Books of Hope Youth Staff Leader Jordan Young, and moderation by artist & comedian, Janet Cormier.

Please RSVP as there is a limited number of seats. We hope to see you at this event.

Somerville Community Access TV
scatvsomerville.org

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Future Crimes:  Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
Thursday, March 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Marc Goodman
Harvard Book Store welcomes leading authority on global security MARC GOODMAN for a discussion of his book Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It.

Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip side: our technology can be turned against us. Hackers can activate baby monitors to spy on families, thieves are analyzing social media posts to plot home invasions, and stalkers are exploiting the GPS on smart phones to track their victims’ every move. We all know today’s criminals can steal identities, drain online bank accounts, and wipe out computer servers, but that’s just the beginning. To date, no computer has been created that could not be hacked—a sobering fact given our radical dependence on these machines for everything from our nation’s power grid to air traffic control to financial services. 

Yet, as ubiquitous as technology seems today, just over the horizon is a tidal wave of scientific progress that will leave our heads spinning. If today’s Internet is the size of a golf ball, tomorrow’s will be the size of the sun. Welcome to the Internet of Things, a living, breathing, global information grid where every physical object will be online. But with greater connections come greater risks. Implantable medical devices such as pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt of electricity and a car’s brakes can be disabled at high speed from miles away. Meanwhile, 3-D printers can produce AK-47s, bioterrorists can download the recipe for Spanish flu, and cartels are using fleets of drones to ferry drugs across borders.

With explosive insights based upon a career in law enforcement and counterterrorism, Marc Goodman takes readers on a vivid journey through the darkest recesses of the Internet. Reading like science fiction, but based in science fact, Future Crimes explores how bad actors are primed to hijack the technologies of tomorrow, including robotics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. These fields hold the power to create a world of unprecedented abundance and prosperity. But the technological bedrock upon which we are building our common future is deeply unstable and, like a house of cards, can come crashing down at any moment.

Future Crimes provides a mind-blowing glimpse into the dark side of technological innovation and the unintended consequences of our connected world. Goodman offers a way out with clear steps we must take to survive the progress unfolding before us. Provocative, thrilling, and ultimately empowering, Future Crimes will serve as an urgent call to action that shows how we can take back control over our own devices and harness technology’s tremendous power for the betterment of humanity—before it’s too late.

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Friday, March 6
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18th Annual International Women's Day Breakfast:  Making Women's Rights Real
Friday, March 6
7:30 AM -  9:30 AM
Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 300 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-international-womens-day-breakfast-registration-15716030069
Cost:  $9 suggested donation

The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 36 years ago. Called the International Bill of Rights for Women, CEDAW has been ratified by 186 nations across the world, not including the United States. Join us for an engaging and informative discussion about this international convention which outlines standards for equal rights for women. At Making Women's Rights Real, you will learn about new initiatives and recent developments locally and globally, including earned sick time, paid family leave, and a Bill of Rights for domestic workers.

Speakers include:
Sheila Dallas Katzman, Chair, UN-CSW Cities for CEDAW/New York City
Lydia Edwards, Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow, Greater Boston Legal Services
Anjali Sakaria, Legislative Director and Legal Counsel, Office of Senate Chair, MA Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

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"The Mystery of the Missing Watt: Electricity in the Making of Modern Tokyo"
Friday, March 6
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Ian Miller, Professor of HIstory, Harvard University
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): History Office
For more information, contact:  Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu 

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Energy Revolution:  The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology
Friday, March 6
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Mara Prentiss
Harvard Book Store welcomes MARA PRENTISS, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, for a discussion of her book Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology.

Energy can be neither created nor destroyed—but it can be wasted. The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy, including 80 percent of the energy used in transportation. So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs. But to do that we need facts—not hyperbole, not wishful thinking. Mara Prentiss presents and interprets political and technical information from government reports and press releases, as well as fundamental scientific laws, to advance a bold claim: wind and solar power could generate 100 percent of the United States’ average total energy demand for the foreseeable future, even without waste reduction.
To meet the actual rather than the average demand, significant technological and political hurdles must be overcome. Still, a U.S. energy economy based entirely on wind, solar, hydroelectricity, and biofuels is within reach. The transition to renewables will benefit from new technologies that decrease energy consumption without lifestyle sacrifices, including energy optimization from interconnected smart devices and waste reduction from use of LED lights, regenerative brakes, and electric cars. Many countries cannot obtain sufficient renewable energy within their borders, Prentiss notes, but U.S. conversion to a 100 percent renewable energy economy would, by itself, significantly reduce the global impact of fossil fuel consumption.

Enhanced by full-color visualizations of key concepts and data, Energy Revolution answers one of the century’s most crucial questions: How can we get smarter about producing and distributing, using and conserving, energy?

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Maple Syrup Festival
Saturday, March 7 
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EST)
Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/maple-syrup-festival-tickets-15638562361

Stop by this event hosted by Groundwork Somerville to watch and learn as sap from local sugar maple trees is boiled down into pure maple syrup over a warm fire. Attendees can expect to enjoy syrup-tasting, music, activities, and much more!
Don't be confused! This event is being held at 22 Vinal AVENUE, not STREET in Somerville.

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"Changing the Way we Eat"
Saturday, March 7
10.30 am -6 pm
TEDx Manhattan viewing party, location TBA

Changing the Way We Eat is a one day annual event focused on sustainable food and farming. 

Contact http://www.branchfood.com

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Oxfam America Hunger Banquet®
Saturday, March 7
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EST)
Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, 18 Mason Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxfam-america-hunger-banquet-tickets-15191552342

In a world as rich as ours, why are so many of us still going hungry? And what can we in Boston do to help?

To find out, join Oxfam and special guests for an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet. This event will feature celebrity guest speakers, an interactive dinner experience, and much more.

Celebrity chef and longtime supporter Aarti Sequeira, of the Food Network, will appear at the Hunger Banquet on behalf of Oxfam America.

Registration and Photo Gallery 4:30-5:00pm
Main Event 5:00-6:30pm
Space at the event is limited. If you wish to bring more than three guests, please email us at OxfamAmericaEvents@OxfamAmerica.org.

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The Health of Democracy: Privatizing Education
WHEN  Sun., Mar. 8, 2015, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE  3 Church Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S)  Julian Vasquez Heilig, education policy, California State University, Sacramento
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2727
director@cambridgeforum.org
DETAILS  Julian Vasquez Heilig, internationally recognized leader in education policy, examines the variety of ways in which public education is being privatized in the name of "reform" and suggests ways for citizens to respond that both improve educational experience and strengthen the societal and civic role that education plays.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org

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Monday, March 9
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"'Science and World Order': Uses of Science in Plans for International Government, 1899-1950"
Monday, March 9
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Geert Somsen, Columbia/Maastricht, History
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/

Contact Name:  Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-03-09-161500-2015-03-09-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.bij5DvcM.dpuf

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Tuesday, March 10
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Webinar: Urbanization and the Changing Landscape:  Land Use Changes and Carbon Budgets in China
Tuesday, March 10
8:30 am
To join this webinar, log in to Adobe Connect via this URL: https://gsd-fll.adobeconnect.com/hapi031015/ as a “Guest”.  Then enter your full first and last names to help the administers of the webinar better identify you.

Presenters: Dr. Jack Spengler, Professor; Linda Tomasso, Project Associate, both at the Harvard School of Public Health
Description: This webinar will address the change in regional carbon balances related to land use change and land converted in the process of urbanized development in China. Identifying the existing vegetation and carbon stock values of southern China’s regional landscape will anchor this discussion, with the goal of estimating carbon sequestration levels of existing biomass sinks. Understanding these changes will be critical in our understanding of the relative importance of carbon sources and sinks in China over the next century.

Instructions at http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/hapi/overview/activities-and-events/webinar-series-2015/urbanization-and-the-changing-landscape-land-use-changes-and-carbon-budgets-in-china/

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/webinar-urbanization-and-changing-landscape#sthash.U0zpYvLJ.dpuf

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Local Specialty Crop Trade Show & Local Food Trade Show
Connecting Wholesale Buyers and Producers of Local Food
Tuesday, March 10
8:30AM -1:30PM
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
 
Stay tuned for the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts' 4th Trade Show to connect local specialty crop growers and other local food producers to wholesale buyers, like retailers, institutions and restaurants. Registration will open in January. The event will feature open floor trading between wholesale buyers and producers of local food as well as workshops addressing common barriers to local food trading.

Please check out our webpage  HERE for Trade Show details.

If you would like to participate as a speaker in a workshop, contact maddie@sbnmass.org.

We are currently seeking sponsors for this year's Local Food Trade Show. If you are interested, contact Maddie Phadke at maddie@sbnmass.org or call (617) 395-0250 to learn more!

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Anna Holmes
Tuesday, March 10
12 P.M.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Anna Holmes is an editor of Digital Voices at Fusion, a columnist for the New York Times Book Review, and founder of Jezebel.com. She has written and edited for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, InStyle and The New Yorker, and has edited two books including The Book of Jezebel.

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Survival and Recovery from the Tohoku Disaster
WHEN  Tue., Mar. 10, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S)  Daniel Aldrich, associate professor of Political Science, Purdue University
Chiaki Moriguchi, professor, Institute for Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and 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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Clean Energy Standard Hearings 
Tuesday, March 10
1:00 pm
DEP offices, One Winter Street, Boston  

The Massachusetts Department of Envrionmental Protection is proposing a new clean energy standard to increase the amount of non-fossil fuel generated electricity for consumers.  The standard is part of the Commonwealth’s efforts to achieve an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions statewide by 2050. 

More information at http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/massdep/climate-energy/climate/ghg/ces.html

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43rd James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture
Tuesday, March 10
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Sallie Chisholm : Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies in CEE
Sallie Chisholm thought she was just going to a regular faculty meeting on Wednesday afternoon, but there was a surprise in store for the much-lauded scientist: At the meeting, she was named as the 2014 recipient of MIT's highest honor for full-time faculty members, the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, in recognition of her extraordinary professional accomplishments.
The James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional accomplishments by full-time members of the MIT faculty. It is the greatest honor the faculty can bestow upon one of its members. A faculty committee chooses the recipient from among candidates nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to their fields, to MIT, and to society.

Web site: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/sallie-penny-chisholm-receives-mits-killian-award-0522
Open to: the general public
Cost: None
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, Information Center, Provost's Office, Killian Award Committee
For more information, contact:  Joe Coen
617-253-4795
jcoen@mit.edu

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Next Steps After Ferguson, Garner & Rice
Tuesday, March 10
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Ropes & Gray LLP, 800 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/next-steps-after-ferguson-garner-rice-tickets-15673101669

NEXT STEPS AFTER FERGUSON, GARNER & RICE:  Strategies to Foster Relationships between Law Enforcement and Communities
Please join us for a panel discussion on strategies to foster positive relationships between law enforcement officials and the communities they serve in the wake of Ferguson, Garner, and Rice.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Moderator
Jack McDevitt, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Director, Institute on Race and Justice, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University
Panelists
Michael Curry, President, Boston National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross, Boston Police Department
Rahsaan Hall, Deputy Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice
Please contact Katherine Sartiano at ksartiano@adl.org or (617) 406-6364 with any questions. 

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The Future of the Documentary
Tuesday, March 10
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
MIT, Building E19-623, Knight Conference Room, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

Raney Aronson, Frontline / WGBH

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North America's Shale Gas Resources; Energy and Environmental Perspectives
WHEN  Tue., Mar. 10, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S)  John H. Shaw, chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology; and professor of environmental science and engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmnh@hmnh.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045
DETAILS  Over the last decade, natural gas extracted from shale rock formations (shale gas) has become an important source of energy in North America. These abundant natural gas resources offer tremendous economic potential and are reshaping the landscape of energy production, including fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy options. Natural gas is also the lowest-emission fossil energy option available today. However, like other energy options, shale gas development has potential adverse impacts on our environment. John Shaw will discuss where and how shale gas resources are found, the geologic processes responsible for their formation, and the economic and environmental impacts associated with their extraction and use.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming

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High-Tech Med:  The Newest Wave of Medical Innovation
Tuesday, March 10
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

From the introduction of the smallpox vaccine to the first successful kidney transplant to developing genome sequencing methods, HMS researchers have been on the cutting edge of scientific discovery.  In this seminar learn about today's innovative wonders being developed in Harvards laboratories and what's next on the horizon as medicine and technology converge.

More information:  seminar@hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038

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SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2015 Koch Institute Image Awards
The Koch Institute at MIT
Tuesday, March 10
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 500 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-withinsight-2015-koch-institute-image-awards-registration-15180607606

Ten remarkable images. One dynamic evening of science, technology, and inspiration.
Join MIT’s life scientists and engineers for a fascinating glimpse into the stories behind the fifth annual Koch Institute Image Awards exhibition. The evening will feature lightning talks from this year’s award winners and networking in the Koch Institute Public Galleries. Surround yourself with passionate people whose big ideas expand microscopic worlds into transformative landscapes of discovery and innovation.

Reception at 6:00 p.m., Presentations at 7:00 p.m., Coffee and dessert follow.

Editorial Comment:  Yes, that Koch.

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Wednesday, March 11
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'Where There is Fire, There is Politics': Material Life and Ungovernability in Urban South Africa
WHEN  Wed., Mar. 11, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S)  Kerry Chance, independent scholar in anthropology
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  A Q+A will follow the lecture
LINK hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Webinar: Planning and Design Guidelines and Prototypes for Healthier Places
Wednesday, March 11
1:00 PM
To join this webinar, log in to Adobe Connect via this URL: https://gsd-fll.adobeconnect.com/hapi031115/ as a “Guest”.  Then enter your full first and last names to help the administers of the webinar better identify you.

Presenters: Dr. Ann Forsyth, Professor; Leire Asensio-Villoria, Lecturer, Design Coordinator; David Mah, Lecturer, Design Coordinator; Laura Smead, Research Associate, all of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Description: Members of HAPI's Harvard Graduate School of Design team will present evidence-based guidelines for healthier places. It will also introduce conceptual proposals operating at multiple scales: urban and local residential development as well as at the scale of specific buildings and typologies. The guidelines are based on a synthesis of existing research on the multiple dimensions connecting health and place, focusing on effective strategies most relevant to urban planners and the built environment. Topics include accessibility to health services, air quality, water quality, opportunities for physical activity, universal design, access to community resources, the connections between green space and mental health, healthy food access, noise, health effects of disasters, and safety.

Instructions at http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/hapi/overview/activities-and-events/webinar-series-2015/planning-and-design-guidelines-and-prototypes-for-healthier-places/

This webinar is sponsored by the Health and Places Initiative (HAPI). This project investigates how to create healthier cities in the future, with a specific emphasis on China. Bringing together experts from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (HGSD) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), it creates a forum for understanding the multiple issues that face cities in light of rapid urbanization and an aging population worldwide.

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Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy Efficiency Labels
WHEN  Wed., Mar. 11, 2015, 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) Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744

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Forum: Overcoming Violence Video Screening & Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 11
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, CPCS Plaza, Wheatley Hall 4th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-overcoming-violence-video-screening-panel-discussion-tickets-15649761859

Join the College of Public and Community Service for this important discussion around “Overcoming Violence” in our community.  Meet community and university partners who collaborated to produce this inititiative including an updated “Understanding Violence” curriculum presented in city schools and youth centers for the past 10 years; a thought provoking video and a highly visable billboard campaign.
Learn more about our academic and certificate programs in Community Development, Human Services and Gerontology.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Community Relations at UMass Boston.

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Thursday, March 12
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City to City Dialogue: Innovations in Energy and Mobility Affecting the Future of Our Cities | #TasteofIceland in Boston
Thursday, March 12
8:15 AM to 11:00 AM (EDT)
MIT Media Lab, E14-674, Multi-Purpose Room , 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-to-city-dialogue-innovations-in-energy-and-mobility-affecting-the-future-of-our-cities-registration-15714810421

Iceland Naturally is partnering with the MIT Media Lab and the City Science Initiative to host an energy innovation panel discussion on March 12. The panel will focus on Boston’s and Reykjavik’s efforts in innovating energy for a better future, including the work being done around electric cars and data centers. The Mayor of Reykjavik and executives from Iceland’s national power company, Landsvirkjun, will represent Iceland on this panel.

Agenda
8:15 - 9 AM: Breakfast
9 AM: Welcome
Michael Brown, Head of Business Development, Verne Global
Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavik
9:15 AM: Panel Discussion
Moderator: Greg Lindsay, Author and Journalist
Bjorgvin Sigurdsson, EVP of Business Development, Landsvirkjun
Ryan Chin, City Science Initaitive & MIT Media Lab
Vineet Gupta, Head of City of Boston Transportation, City of Boston
Einar Gunnar Guðmundsson, Director Entrepreneurship, Arion Bank
Additional panelists to be announced
10:30 AM: Q&A

About Taste of Iceland in Boston
This event is part of Taste of Iceland in Boston, a five-day cultural event that will celebrate Iceland's food, music, film and environmental initiatives from March 12-16 to give Bostonians a taste of what life is like in Iceland. Click here to RSVP on Facebook, and join the conversation on Twitter & Instagram by tagging @IcelandNatural with the hashtag #TasteofIceland.

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Air quality in developing world disaster and conflict zones: the case of Haiti
Thursday, March 12
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Ann Rappaport, Urban, Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University
Mary Davis, Urban, Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University
Data on air quality are remarkably limited in the poorest of the world's countries. This is especially true for post conflict and disaster zones, where international relief efforts focus on more salient public health challenges such as water and sanitation, infectious diseases and housing. We use post-earthquake Haiti as an example case and contend there is an unmet need for additional attention to an important health challenge.

Dr. Ann Rappaport has helped develop and implement the hazardous waste regulatory program in Massachusetts, and maintains an active interest in the dynamic relationship between environmental laws and regulations and innovations in environmental technology and corporate management of environmental issues. Her current research interests include enterprise-level decision making with respect to the environment, institutional responses to climate change, voluntary initiatives related to companies and the environment, and contemporary issues in corporate social responsibility. She co-directs the Tufts Climate Initiative, the university commitment to meet or beat the emission reductions associated with the Kyoto Protocol.

Dr. Mary Davis's research is broadly focused on environmental health issues, including air pollution, occupational health, children's health, and biostatistics. Her recent research projects include an investigation of the relationship between the economy and human health, evaluations of working conditions in Haitian apparel factories and in the New England commercial fishing industry, and an assessment of economic trade-offs in marine resource use along the Maine coastline. She is currently the chair of a National Academy of Sciences research panel investigating the effect of noise on children's learning outcomes, and has testified on multiple occasions at state legislative panels as an advocate for pro-children's health legislation.

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Volcanic Winter, Population Bottlenecks, and Human Evolution
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 12, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S)  Stanley H. Ambrose, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-496-1027, hmsc@hmsc.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The eruption of the Mount Toba supervolcano in the Indonesian island of Sumatra 74,000 years ago brought about an era of severe environmental degradation that decimated populations of Neanderthals and modern humans. Archaeological evidence suggests that modern humans survived this era by creating cooperative intergroup social networks and behaving like tribes. Neanderthals on the other hand, behaved more like primate troops, living in small, closed territories with limited intergroup interaction. Stanley Ambrose, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss the behaviors that contributed to the competitive advantage of modern humans and the demise of Neanderthals.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
LINK https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/2156

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Crossing: A Lecture/Recital
WHEN  Thu., Mar. 12, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Paine Hall, Music Building, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Concerts, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the American Repertory Theater
SPEAKER(S)  Matthew Aucoin, composer; Harvard University
Davone Tines, Harvard University
COST  Free and open to the public; seating limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-0738
DETAILS  Join composer Matthew Aucoin (Harvard '12) for a recital and discussion about Crossing, his new opera inspired by the journals and poetry of Walt Whitman, premiering this May at the American Repertory Theater. Aucoin will address the concept of "crossing" as both transcendence and transgression, in relationship to poetry, music, and history. He will be joined by Davone Tines (Harvard '09), one of the performers in Crossing.
For more information about Crossing, please visit the American Repertory Theater's website.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emcrossingem-lecturerecital

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Cambridge Climate Protection Action Committee
Thursday, March 12
6:00 pm
City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, 2nd floor meeting room, Cambridge



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Friday, March 13
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ITIG DigiCamp 2015
Information Technology Interest Group (ITIG)
Friday, March 13
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM (EDT)
Simmons College, Lefavour Hall, Kotzen Room, 2 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/itig-digicamp-2015-registration-15621803234
Cost $10 - $20

Join us @ DigiCamp '15! This low-cost, half-day youConference focuses on technology in libraries. How does ITIG's DigiCamp work? If you are interested in hearing about how other libraries use technology, or if you wish to share innovative or interesting things that are happening at YOUR library, just show up and share. DigiCamp will feature a community-driven format where each session is designed and delivered by you. This format fosters spontaneous sharing, therefore, no PowerPoints allowed. Even the topics chosen for each session will be chosen by you.
What is ITIG? ITIG is the Information Technology Special Interest Group of ACRL New England.
Is DigiCamp right for me? DigiCamp is designed for all technology levels, so come one, come all!
Schedule:
Registration from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. (Coffee and energizing breakfast of muffins, bagels, fruit salad, Chobani yogurts, granola, juice and water will be served.)
Sessions run from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

During the registration process, you will be asked to pick 3 technology topics you would be interested in discussing at DigiCamp. Need suggestions? See last year's sessions.
Registration ends on Saturday, February 28, 2015.
Have questions about ITIG DigiCamp 2015? Contact Kieran (kayton@ric.edu).

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New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
Friday, March 13
9:00AM
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/313-roundtable-state-of-ne-states-energyclimate-important-regional-generation-developments-tickets-15453589101?utm_campaign=3.13.15+second+notice&utm_medium=email&utm_source=3.13.15+Roundtable+Second+Announcement
Cost:  $35 -$65

Panel I: State of the New England States (Energy/Climate) -  MA, CT, & ME
For our first panel, New England State leaders will discuss their states' major energy and climate policies, programs, and initiatives and share their evolving perspectives on potential regional infrastructure investments. The panel opens with Massachusetts' new Secretary for Energy and Environmental Affairs, Matthew Beaton. Then we will hear from Connecticut Department of Energy and Environment Protection Deputy Commissioner, Katie Dykes, who will discuss DEEP's recently-released draft integrated resource plan for the state. We will round off the panel with Maine's new Public Utilities Commission Chair, Mark Vannoy, who will provide a northern New England state perspective.

Panel II: Important Regional Generation Developments
Our second panel will provide an update on a range of important developments related to the future of power generation in New England. First, Bob Ethier, VP Market Operations at ISO New England, will discuss the results of the upcoming (2/2) Forward Capacity Market (FCM) auction and will brief us on how electric system reliability and prices have fared so far this winter. He will also update us on expected generation retirements in New England. Next, Abigail Hopper, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. DOI, has been invited to discuss the results of the upcoming (1/29) BOEM offshore wind auction of over 700,000 acres off the NE coast. Lastly, Scott Silverstein, President and CEO of Footprint Power, will discuss Footprint's redevelopment of Salem Harbor, having recently secured the necessary financing for a quick-start combined-cycle gas turbine.

Registration and Cancellation Policies

Registration policy:
The Roundtable registration policies introduced last Fall will continue:
We are capping attendance and requiring pre-registration.
There is a fee for this Roundtable of $65 (There is a discounted fee of $35 for government or non-profit employees, students, retirees, and lower-income individuals).
Both in-person attendance and live webstreaming will continue to be free for sponsors, but sponsors will have to pre-register like everyone else.
Cancellation policy:  If you register, but can't attend, please let us know ASAP so we can allow someone from the waiting list to take your place. Refunds will be accepted up to 72 hours before the start of the Roundtable. To cancel your registration or get a refund, please reply to your confirmation email or log in to Eventbrite.
Thanks!

Contact Name:   Susan Rivo
susan@raabassociates.org
http://www.RaabAssociates.org

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The Future of Violence:  Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting A New Age of Threat
Friday, March 13, 2015
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Gabriella Blum?
Harvard Book Store welcomes GABRIELLA BLUM, Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, for a discussion of her book The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting A New Age of Threat, co-authored with Benjamin Wittes.

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the U.S. government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to potentially dangerous technologies—from drones to computer networks and biological agents—which could be used to attack states and private citizens alike.

In The Future of Violence, law and security experts Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum detail the myriad possibilities, challenges, and enormous risks present in the modern world, and argue that if our national governments can no longer adequately protect us from harm, they will lose their legitimacy. Consequently, governments, companies, and citizens must rethink their security efforts to protect lives and liberty. In this brave new world where many little brothers are as menacing as any Big Brother, safeguarding our liberty and privacy may require strong domestic and international surveillance and regulatory controls. Maintaining security in this world where anyone can attack anyone requires a global perspective, with more multinational forces and greater action to protect (and protect against) weaker states who do not yet have the capability to police their own people. Drawing on political thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to the Founders and beyond, Wittes and Blum show that, despite recent protestations to the contrary, security and liberty are mutually supportive, and that we must embrace one to ensure the other.

The Future of Violence is at once an introduction to our emerging world—one in which students can print guns with 3-D printers and scientists’ manipulations of viruses can be recreated and unleashed by ordinary people—and an authoritative blueprint for how government must adapt in order to survive and protect us.

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Saturday, March 14 - Sunday, March 15
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Saturday, March 14 - Sunday, March 15
The Intel® IoT Roadshow Hackathon 
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://iotroadshow.intel.com/en/home/registration/19/

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Tuesday, March 17
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Webinar: Creating Evidence-based Healthy and Energy-Efficient Housing
Tuesday, March 17
8 am
To join this webinar, log in to Adobe Connect via this URL: https://gsd-fll.adobeconnect.com/hapi031715/ as a “Guest”.  Then enter your full first and last names to help the administers of the webinar better identify you.

Presenter:  Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, Ph.D., MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Description: Modern indoor environments can directly affect human health. This is partly driven by the dramatic increase in the quantity and diversity of chemical exposures from household furnishings and consumer products over the past 50 years. While some exposures are difficult to estimate in the general population, many of the dominant pathways can be understood and modified.

This webinar will present findings from a ten-city housing study in China, in order to understand the key housing-based drivers of occupant health. The China, Children, Homes, and Health (CCHH) study will provide a unique and valuable evidence base, and provides a model for future studies of the linkages between urbanization and health.

The first phase of this study, conducted from 2010 through 2012, involved the completion of a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of nearly 50,000 families with children aged 1-8 years. This session will also elaborate on best practices to reduce indoor environmental exposures in newly-constructed residences; selection of materials which minimizes exposure to key pollutants including known and suspected endocrine disruptors; and the creation of a model of future energy demands for residences in Chinese cities based on anticipated climatic change.

Instructions at http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/hapi/overview/activities-and-events/webinar-series-2015/creating-evidence-based-healthy-and-energy-efficient-housing/

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/webinar-creating-evidence-based-healthy-and-energy-efficient-housing#sthash.B9JpF34P.dpuf

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Fertility Surveillance and the Production of Families for the Nation: Russian Demographic Science and the Search for a Liberal Biopolitics
Tuesday, March 17
4:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill
The talk will outline how key shifts in demographic research on fertility reveal broader contestations over the scope and type of biopolitics from the Soviet to Putin eras. The systematic surveillance and analysis of demographic trends was a major preoccupation of Soviet governance and continues to be so for Russia. For both the Soviet and Russian regimes, moderate population growth was a sign of national vitality, and public policy-- a vehicle for engineering population dynamics to achieve this collective good. Thus, when steady trends of gradually declining fertility during the 1970s and 1980s became stark drops in the birth rate during the chaotic 1990s, politicians and conservative demographers urged using state resources to increase fertility.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:  Ema Kaminskaya
617 324-2793
mit-russia@mit.edu

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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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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/

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/