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Monday, August 17
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7pm We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business
7pm ChemChamps 2015 Finals - American Chemistry Society Chemistry Champions
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Tuesday, August 18
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11:30am Harvard Business School Green Living Fair
12pm Sources of Big Data for Social Sciences
4pm JPL's robotic planetary surface exploration: challenges and expectations for risk-aware robotic autonomy
7pm Delicious Rot: Using Fermented Foods to Unlock Secrets of the Microbial World with Benjamin Wolfe
7pm Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance
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Wednesday, August 19
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7:30am August Boston Sustainability Breakfast
4pm Boston Urban Ag Visioning: Final Public Meeting + Draft Goals Survey
6pm Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
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Thursday, August 20
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12pm HBS Green Team @ Artstravaganza
2pm Information Theory: Old and New--A Personal View
6:30pm Workshop: Visual Thinking Strategies with Dabney Hailey
7pm American Drug War
7pm Standards Matter: The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
7pm Thursday Socials with Green Cambridge!
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Friday, August 21
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10am Boston Greenfest
10am BGF2015 Transportation Tomorrow Today Forum
3pm Green Entrepreneur Small Business Forum 2015: Money and the Environment
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Saturday, August 22
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Boston Greenfest
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Sunday, August 23
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Boston Greenfest
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Monday, August 24
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10am MIT-WHOI Joint Program Thesis Defense - Submesoscale Turbulence in the Upper Ocean
7pm Middlesex Fells
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Tuesday, August 25
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12:30pm In-Focus Talk: Gropius and Schawinsky, Bauhaus and Black Mountain
6pm Boston New Technology August 2015 Product Showcase #BNT56
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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
Monday, August 17
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7pm We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business
7pm ChemChamps 2015 Finals - American Chemistry Society Chemistry Champions
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Tuesday, August 18
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11:30am Harvard Business School Green Living Fair
12pm Sources of Big Data for Social Sciences
4pm JPL's robotic planetary surface exploration: challenges and expectations for risk-aware robotic autonomy
7pm Delicious Rot: Using Fermented Foods to Unlock Secrets of the Microbial World with Benjamin Wolfe
7pm Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance
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Wednesday, August 19
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7:30am August Boston Sustainability Breakfast
4pm Boston Urban Ag Visioning: Final Public Meeting + Draft Goals Survey
6pm Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
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Thursday, August 20
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12pm HBS Green Team @ Artstravaganza
2pm Information Theory: Old and New--A Personal View
6:30pm Workshop: Visual Thinking Strategies with Dabney Hailey
7pm American Drug War
7pm Standards Matter: The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
7pm Thursday Socials with Green Cambridge!
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Friday, August 21
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10am Boston Greenfest
10am BGF2015 Transportation Tomorrow Today Forum
3pm Green Entrepreneur Small Business Forum 2015: Money and the Environment
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Saturday, August 22
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Boston Greenfest
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Sunday, August 23
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Boston Greenfest
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Monday, August 24
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10am MIT-WHOI Joint Program Thesis Defense - Submesoscale Turbulence in the Upper Ocean
7pm Middlesex Fells
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Tuesday, August 25
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12:30pm In-Focus Talk: Gropius and Schawinsky, Bauhaus and Black Mountain
6pm Boston New Technology August 2015 Product Showcase #BNT56
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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
The Current Cost of Carbon
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/16/1412568/-The-Current-Cost-of-Carbon
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Monday, August 17
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We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business
Monday, August 17
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Grant Welker & Daniel Korschun, We Are Market Basket
What if a company were so treasured and trusted that people literally took to the streets—by the thousands—to save it? That company is Market Basket, a popular New England supermarket chain.
After long-time CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was ousted by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas, the company's managers and rank-and-file workers struck back. Risking their own livelihoods to restore the job of their beloved boss they walked out, but they didn't walk far. At huge protest rallies, they were joined by loyal customers—leaving stores empty. Suppliers and vendors stopped deliveries—rendering shelves bare. Politicians were forced to take sides. The national media and experts were stunned by the unprecedented defense of an executive. All openly challenged the Market Basket board of directors to make things right.
And, in the end, they prevailed.
With its arresting firsthand accounts from the streets and executive suites, We Are Market Basket is as inspiring as it is instructive. What is it about Market Basket and its leader that provokes such ferocious loyalty? How does a company spread across three states maintain a culture that embraces everyone—from cashier to customer—as family? Can a company really become an industry leader by prioritizing stakeholders over shareholders?
Set against a backdrop of bad blood and corporate greed, We Are Market Basket is, above all, a page-turner that chronicles the epic rise, fall, and redemption of this iconic and uniquely American company.
Grant Welker covered the Market Basket story from the start as a reporter for the Lowell Sun. Daniel Korschun is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, where he is also a Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation Management.
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ChemChamps 2015 Finals - American Chemistry Society Chemistry Champions
Monday, August 17
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chemchamps-2015-finals-tickets-17713088324
We’ve got four early-career chemists with a burning story to tell and we want YOU to vote for your favorite.
Doors open at 6:30 EDT
For your friends who are out of town we will livestream at http://ow.ly/PsqP4
The winning Chemistry Champion will receive a trip to Washington DC to star in an ACS Reactions video, tour the ACS headquarters to meet and chat with professional science communicators, and join the National Academy of Sciences' The Science & Enterntainment Exchange Program
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Tuesday, August 18
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Harvard Business School Green Living Fair
Tuesday, August 18
11:30 am–1:30 pm
Harvard Business School, Spangler Lawn, 117 Western Avenue, Boston
Join the HBS Green Team to celebrate health, well-being, and sustainable summer living. Enjoy delicious samples fresh from the farm stand and pick up some green tips at one of the info/demo tables that you can apply at home.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbs-green-living-fair#sthash.P3HYjhoD.dpuf
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Monday, August 17
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We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business
Monday, August 17
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Grant Welker & Daniel Korschun, We Are Market Basket
What if a company were so treasured and trusted that people literally took to the streets—by the thousands—to save it? That company is Market Basket, a popular New England supermarket chain.
After long-time CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was ousted by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas, the company's managers and rank-and-file workers struck back. Risking their own livelihoods to restore the job of their beloved boss they walked out, but they didn't walk far. At huge protest rallies, they were joined by loyal customers—leaving stores empty. Suppliers and vendors stopped deliveries—rendering shelves bare. Politicians were forced to take sides. The national media and experts were stunned by the unprecedented defense of an executive. All openly challenged the Market Basket board of directors to make things right.
And, in the end, they prevailed.
With its arresting firsthand accounts from the streets and executive suites, We Are Market Basket is as inspiring as it is instructive. What is it about Market Basket and its leader that provokes such ferocious loyalty? How does a company spread across three states maintain a culture that embraces everyone—from cashier to customer—as family? Can a company really become an industry leader by prioritizing stakeholders over shareholders?
Set against a backdrop of bad blood and corporate greed, We Are Market Basket is, above all, a page-turner that chronicles the epic rise, fall, and redemption of this iconic and uniquely American company.
Grant Welker covered the Market Basket story from the start as a reporter for the Lowell Sun. Daniel Korschun is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, where he is also a Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation Management.
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ChemChamps 2015 Finals - American Chemistry Society Chemistry Champions
Monday, August 17
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chemchamps-2015-finals-tickets-17713088324
We’ve got four early-career chemists with a burning story to tell and we want YOU to vote for your favorite.
Doors open at 6:30 EDT
For your friends who are out of town we will livestream at http://ow.ly/PsqP4
The winning Chemistry Champion will receive a trip to Washington DC to star in an ACS Reactions video, tour the ACS headquarters to meet and chat with professional science communicators, and join the National Academy of Sciences' The Science & Enterntainment Exchange Program
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Tuesday, August 18
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Harvard Business School Green Living Fair
Tuesday, August 18
11:30 am–1:30 pm
Harvard Business School, Spangler Lawn, 117 Western Avenue, Boston
Join the HBS Green Team to celebrate health, well-being, and sustainable summer living. Enjoy delicious samples fresh from the farm stand and pick up some green tips at one of the info/demo tables that you can apply at home.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbs-green-living-fair#sthash.P3HYjhoD.dpuf
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Sources of Big Data for Social Sciences
Tuesday, August 18
12:00p–1:00p
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E25-202, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Micah Altman
This talk reviews emerging big data sources for social scientific analysis and explores the challenges these present. Many of these sources pose distinct challenges for acquisition, processing, analysis, inference, sharing, and preservation.
Web site: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-talk-micah-altman-tbd
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Hopkins, Kelly
617-253-3044
khopkins@mit.edu
Prof. Shlomo Shamai, Electrical Engineering Department,Technion Israel Institute of Technology
The presentation starts by demonstrating in a descriptive way the origin of information theory in Shannon's 1948 monumental work, and pointing some interdisciplinary aspects within general areas of electrical engineering and beyond.
We discuss a change of paradigms in information theory from being a pure mathematical theory of communications to a theory with widescope direct practical implications and applications.
To demonstrate the rich aspects of the problems considered and their implications as well as some inter-disciplinary connections, we focus on a simple matrix based linear additive Gaussian model. We elaborate on the information-estimation intimate connection, mentioning its impact on non-linear filtering and on recent views of efficient coding in single and multi-terminal channels.
Possible extensions and a short outlook conclude the presentation
Speaker Bio: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.
During 1975-1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs, in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now a Technion Distinguished Professor, and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
This talk reviews emerging big data sources for social scientific analysis and explores the challenges these present. Many of these sources pose distinct challenges for acquisition, processing, analysis, inference, sharing, and preservation.
Web site: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-talk-micah-altman-tbd
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Hopkins, Kelly
617-253-3044
khopkins@mit.edu
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JPL's robotic planetary surface exploration: challenges and expectations for risk-aware robotic autonomy
Tuesday, August 18
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882 (Hewlett Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Masahiro Ono, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract: Destinations for space exploration are becoming more challenging, science questions more sophisticated and—as mission experience accumulates—the most accessible targets are visited, advancing the knowledge frontier to more harsh and inaccessible environments. For example, the upcoming Mars 2020 Rover mission, whose objectives include searching for potential evidence of past life and collecting soil samples that could be returned in future missions, has a requirement on driving distance far beyond that of the Curiosity rover, which will in turn require increased autonomous driving capabilities without increasing risk. This talk will give an overview of the robotic challenges for future planetary exploration as well as the ongoing collaborative research between MIT and JPL on Resilient Spacecraft Systems.
Bio: Masahiro Ono is a Research Technologist in the Robotic Controls and Estimation Group. He is particularly interested in risk-sensitive planning/control that enables unmanned probes to reliably operate in highly uncertain environments. His technical expertise includes optimization, path planning, robust and optimal control, state estimation, and automated planning and scheduling. Before joining JPL in 2013, he was an assistant professor at Keio University. He earned Ph.D. and S.M. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as an S.M. degree in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a B.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo.
Tuesday, August 18
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882 (Hewlett Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Masahiro Ono, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract: Destinations for space exploration are becoming more challenging, science questions more sophisticated and—as mission experience accumulates—the most accessible targets are visited, advancing the knowledge frontier to more harsh and inaccessible environments. For example, the upcoming Mars 2020 Rover mission, whose objectives include searching for potential evidence of past life and collecting soil samples that could be returned in future missions, has a requirement on driving distance far beyond that of the Curiosity rover, which will in turn require increased autonomous driving capabilities without increasing risk. This talk will give an overview of the robotic challenges for future planetary exploration as well as the ongoing collaborative research between MIT and JPL on Resilient Spacecraft Systems.
Bio: Masahiro Ono is a Research Technologist in the Robotic Controls and Estimation Group. He is particularly interested in risk-sensitive planning/control that enables unmanned probes to reliably operate in highly uncertain environments. His technical expertise includes optimization, path planning, robust and optimal control, state estimation, and automated planning and scheduling. Before joining JPL in 2013, he was an assistant professor at Keio University. He earned Ph.D. and S.M. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as an S.M. degree in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a B.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo.
Contact: Erez Karpas, karpase@csail.mit.edu
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Delicious Rot: Using Fermented Foods to Unlock Secrets of the Microbial World with Benjamin Wolfe
Tuesday, August 18
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Le Laboratorie Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/delicious-rot-using-fermented-foods-to-unlock-secrets-of-the-microbial-world-with-benjamin-wolfe-tickets-18044608911
Humans have been using microbes to make fermented foods such as cheese, miso, and beer for thousands of years. Benjamin Wolfe, Asst. Professor of Microbiology at Tufts University, will discuss how these traditional foods are now serving a new purpose - as model ecosystems for microbiologists. From microbial war and peace on Camembert to the funk in your homemade kimchi, learn how some of your favorite foods are changing our understanding of the microbial world.
Speaker Bio
Benjamin Wolfe is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Biology at Tufts University. His lab uses food microbial communities to address fundamental questions in microbial ecology and evolution. He received his B.Sc. from Cornell University in 2003 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. He developed an interest in food microbial communities as a post-doc with Rachel Dutton at Harvard's FAS Center for Systems Biology. Benjamin is a passionate promoter of microbial literacy through teaching and writing. He has taught food microbiology courses at the Harvard Summer School and Boston University's Gastronomy Program and has taught classes or workshops at Formaggio Kitchen, the San Francisco Cheese School, and for artisan food guilds across the country. Benjamin is a regular contributor to the food magazine Lucky Peach and writes an online series about the biology of food for Boston magazine. He is a co-founder of MicrobialFoods.org, a website that digests the science of fermented foods.
Le Laboratoire, is a unique art and design center that invites visitors to explore the experiments and wonders of innovators of all kinds discovering at frontiers of science.
CafeSci Boston is a monthly science event organized by NOVA and WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance
Tuesday, August 18
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
A look at the debate over religion in public schools—and how to best teach children religious literacy and tolerance.
Veteran education journalist Linda K. Wertheimer has traveled the nation listening to all sides of the controversy surrounding the teaching of religion in public schools, interviewing clergy, teachers, children, and parents who are Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, and atheist.
In Lumberton, Texas, a hundred people filled a school board meeting to protest a teacher’s dress-up exercise in which a girl was allowed to try on a burka during a lesson on Islam. In Tampa, the head of a Muslim civil rights group spoke to high school history classes about Islam, sparking debate about which guest speakers are appropriate. In Wichita, a Messianic Jewish family's opposition to an elementary school’s display about Islam led to such upheaval that the school hired extra security. But in Modesto, the heart of California’s Bible Belt, teachers have avoided problems since 2000, when the district began requiring high school freshmen to take a world religions course. Students learn to fight for their rights and those of religious minorities who once seemed alien.
Wertheimer’s fascinating investigation reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path forward and offers a promising roadmap for raising a generation of religiously literate Americans
Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed, Teaching About Religion In An Age of Intolerance (Beacon Press, August 2015). A veteran journalist, she is the former education editor of The Boston Globe. She was a 2014 finalist in the Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowship awards for an excerpt from Faith Ed. She teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston and also has taught journalism part-time at Boston University. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.
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Wednesday, August 19
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August Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, August 19
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EDT)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-17954739108
Join us for the August Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world. Feel free to drop by any time any time between 7:30 and 830 a.m.
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Boston Urban Ag Visioning: Final Public Meeting + Draft Goals Survey
Wednesday, August 19
4-6 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chemchamps-2015-finals-tickets-17713088324
Join us for the eighth and final Boston Urban Ag Visioning stakeholder engagement meeting. The agenda will include the results of the visioning process, perspectives from urban ag practitioners on what we have learned, and a celebratory launch of the next phase of the city's urban ag initiatives.
What matters most? How will we measure it? Who will be accountable for shared outcomes? Don't miss this important community event and remember to cast your opinion on the draft goals, milestones, and proposed metrics of the urban ag vision via this brief survey.
Thank you in advance for your valued feedback and participation. See you in August!
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Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
Wednesday, August 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/change-agents-asian-american-women-activists-tickets-17561678453
Are you a change agent, or interested in becoming one?
Join us for our 15th ASPIRE (Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence) Speaker Series
Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
ASPIRE's Speaker Series event will feature a panel of inspiring, local Asian American women who are engaged in their communities as political and social justice activists. Come hear about their involvement in grassroots organizations and movements, participate in a candid dialogue about activism from an Asian American female perspective, and be empowered!
The ASPIRE Speaker Series, a free lecture series, explores topics impacting Asian American girls and women, and gives exposure to Asian American women leaders. It promotes candid conversations, encourages networking, and fosters mentoring relationships among Asian American women. Since September 2010, ASPIRE has held fourteen Speaker Series panels on such topics as women in politics, entrepreneurship, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, mental health, work/life balance, performing arts, and public sector. The Speaker Series is catered toward Asian American women who are high school students, college students, graduate students, and working professionals.
Free and Open to the Public
*Professionals may opt to donate any amount for a ticket to support future ASPIRE events
EVENT PROGRAM
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM: Registration and Networking
6:15 PM – 7:25 PM: Panel Discussion
7:25 PM – 7:45 PM: Q & A
7:45 PM – 8:00 PM: Networking
SPEAKERS
Sabrina Ghaus, Community Organizer
Jennifer Ho, Director of Education & Outreach, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)
Jenny Lau, Program Coordinator, Barbara Lee Family Foundation
Diana Mai, Asian American activist of the #Somerville18
Sabrina Ghaus is a queer Pakistani-American poet and community organizer from the Bay Area, California. Her activist story began as a child with the anti-war and Palestine solidarity work her family and community was involved with, and she has continued to organize on issues of affordable housing, abortion access, and police brutality. As a poet and a writer, Sabrina combines the power of art and storytelling to build community and write history outside of the dominant narrative.
Jennifer Ho is a Vietnamese American survivor, activist, artist and spirit.
She is a Founding Fellow and Steering Committee Member of the Dorchester Organizing and Training Initiative. She sits on the Public Policy Committee of the Asian American Resource Workshop, and currently serves as the Director of Education and Outreach at Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK).
Jenn has served as a community organizer for over 10 years, working towards social justice for communities of color, immigrants and refugees, low-income families, women, LGBTQIA+ communities, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
She is a spoken word artist and performer, sharing her story at the intersection of her identity and passion for transformative justice. She believes soul healing comes from homemade food, poetry and meditation.
Jenny Lau supports the Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s mission to advance women’s representation in American politics through research support and correspondence with grant seekers and recipients.
Prior to joining the BLFF team, Jenny was the Civic Action and Worker Center Organizer at the Chinese Progressive Association, a grassroots community group where she organized immigrant workers around workplace issues and engaged voters through several targeted campaigns.
Jenny serves on the leadership team for groups including the Chinese Progressive Political Action and the Asian American Women’s Political Initiative. Jenny is a Core Planning member for the Activist Training Institute, a leadership development and training program for Asian American activists.
Jenny earned a Bachelor’s degree in American studies and community health from Tufts University. She was an inaugural Community Fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership and a 2014 New Leaders Council Fellow in Boston.
Diana Mai was born and raised in New York City’s Lower East Side to a working-class Chinese immigrant family. Early on, she had to watch her parents confront the problems of classism and xenophobia, as well as deal with her own insecurities of having less than her peers as she grew up. Her mother worked full-time as a waitress in a dim-sum restaurant to make ends meet and usually this meant standing on her feet all day. When she became sick and subsequently disabled by severe rheumatoid arthritis, her father was left to struggle as the sole income-provider to raise Diana and her older brother.
Race, class, and gender are not the only factors that have influenced her to be the individual she is today. Her standpoint in life has been mediated by her experiences with critically examining institutionalized systems of oppression that make up the personal genesis of her political beliefs. Diana aims to highlight and give voice to marginalized and historically disenfranchised groups of people as a way to empower, and to make those who are invisible, visible. The fusing of lived experience with her perspectives of society is crucial to how she negotiates her work.
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Thursday, August 20
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HBS Green Team @ Artstravaganza
Thursday, August 20
12–2 pm
HBS Batten Hall Hives, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
Please join the 2nd annual celebration of Arts Activation on campus!
Artstravaganza will showcase all art forms appreciated and/or practiced by members of our staff, students, partners, spouses, and kids, and affiliates spread throughout the Harvard/Allston community. The HBS Green Team “hive” will feature Artists for Humanity and an afternoon of interactive and sustainable art-making.
The event is free and open to the entire community. If interested in performing or exhibiting, please contact Valeska Cambron vcambron@hbs.edu or Jean Monroe jmonroe@hbs.edu.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbs-green-team-artstravaganza#sthash.ADemuC01.dpuf
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Delicious Rot: Using Fermented Foods to Unlock Secrets of the Microbial World with Benjamin Wolfe
Tuesday, August 18
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Le Laboratorie Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/delicious-rot-using-fermented-foods-to-unlock-secrets-of-the-microbial-world-with-benjamin-wolfe-tickets-18044608911
Humans have been using microbes to make fermented foods such as cheese, miso, and beer for thousands of years. Benjamin Wolfe, Asst. Professor of Microbiology at Tufts University, will discuss how these traditional foods are now serving a new purpose - as model ecosystems for microbiologists. From microbial war and peace on Camembert to the funk in your homemade kimchi, learn how some of your favorite foods are changing our understanding of the microbial world.
Speaker Bio
Benjamin Wolfe is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Biology at Tufts University. His lab uses food microbial communities to address fundamental questions in microbial ecology and evolution. He received his B.Sc. from Cornell University in 2003 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. He developed an interest in food microbial communities as a post-doc with Rachel Dutton at Harvard's FAS Center for Systems Biology. Benjamin is a passionate promoter of microbial literacy through teaching and writing. He has taught food microbiology courses at the Harvard Summer School and Boston University's Gastronomy Program and has taught classes or workshops at Formaggio Kitchen, the San Francisco Cheese School, and for artisan food guilds across the country. Benjamin is a regular contributor to the food magazine Lucky Peach and writes an online series about the biology of food for Boston magazine. He is a co-founder of MicrobialFoods.org, a website that digests the science of fermented foods.
Le Laboratoire, is a unique art and design center that invites visitors to explore the experiments and wonders of innovators of all kinds discovering at frontiers of science.
CafeSci Boston is a monthly science event organized by NOVA and WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance
Tuesday, August 18
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
A look at the debate over religion in public schools—and how to best teach children religious literacy and tolerance.
Veteran education journalist Linda K. Wertheimer has traveled the nation listening to all sides of the controversy surrounding the teaching of religion in public schools, interviewing clergy, teachers, children, and parents who are Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, and atheist.
In Lumberton, Texas, a hundred people filled a school board meeting to protest a teacher’s dress-up exercise in which a girl was allowed to try on a burka during a lesson on Islam. In Tampa, the head of a Muslim civil rights group spoke to high school history classes about Islam, sparking debate about which guest speakers are appropriate. In Wichita, a Messianic Jewish family's opposition to an elementary school’s display about Islam led to such upheaval that the school hired extra security. But in Modesto, the heart of California’s Bible Belt, teachers have avoided problems since 2000, when the district began requiring high school freshmen to take a world religions course. Students learn to fight for their rights and those of religious minorities who once seemed alien.
Wertheimer’s fascinating investigation reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path forward and offers a promising roadmap for raising a generation of religiously literate Americans
Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed, Teaching About Religion In An Age of Intolerance (Beacon Press, August 2015). A veteran journalist, she is the former education editor of The Boston Globe. She was a 2014 finalist in the Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowship awards for an excerpt from Faith Ed. She teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston and also has taught journalism part-time at Boston University. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.
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Wednesday, August 19
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August Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, August 19
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EDT)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-17954739108
Join us for the August Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world. Feel free to drop by any time any time between 7:30 and 830 a.m.
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Boston Urban Ag Visioning: Final Public Meeting + Draft Goals Survey
Wednesday, August 19
4-6 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chemchamps-2015-finals-tickets-17713088324
Join us for the eighth and final Boston Urban Ag Visioning stakeholder engagement meeting. The agenda will include the results of the visioning process, perspectives from urban ag practitioners on what we have learned, and a celebratory launch of the next phase of the city's urban ag initiatives.
What matters most? How will we measure it? Who will be accountable for shared outcomes? Don't miss this important community event and remember to cast your opinion on the draft goals, milestones, and proposed metrics of the urban ag vision via this brief survey.
Thank you in advance for your valued feedback and participation. See you in August!
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Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
Wednesday, August 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/change-agents-asian-american-women-activists-tickets-17561678453
Are you a change agent, or interested in becoming one?
Join us for our 15th ASPIRE (Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence) Speaker Series
Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
ASPIRE's Speaker Series event will feature a panel of inspiring, local Asian American women who are engaged in their communities as political and social justice activists. Come hear about their involvement in grassroots organizations and movements, participate in a candid dialogue about activism from an Asian American female perspective, and be empowered!
The ASPIRE Speaker Series, a free lecture series, explores topics impacting Asian American girls and women, and gives exposure to Asian American women leaders. It promotes candid conversations, encourages networking, and fosters mentoring relationships among Asian American women. Since September 2010, ASPIRE has held fourteen Speaker Series panels on such topics as women in politics, entrepreneurship, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, mental health, work/life balance, performing arts, and public sector. The Speaker Series is catered toward Asian American women who are high school students, college students, graduate students, and working professionals.
Free and Open to the Public
*Professionals may opt to donate any amount for a ticket to support future ASPIRE events
EVENT PROGRAM
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM: Registration and Networking
6:15 PM – 7:25 PM: Panel Discussion
7:25 PM – 7:45 PM: Q & A
7:45 PM – 8:00 PM: Networking
SPEAKERS
Sabrina Ghaus, Community Organizer
Jennifer Ho, Director of Education & Outreach, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)
Jenny Lau, Program Coordinator, Barbara Lee Family Foundation
Diana Mai, Asian American activist of the #Somerville18
Sabrina Ghaus is a queer Pakistani-American poet and community organizer from the Bay Area, California. Her activist story began as a child with the anti-war and Palestine solidarity work her family and community was involved with, and she has continued to organize on issues of affordable housing, abortion access, and police brutality. As a poet and a writer, Sabrina combines the power of art and storytelling to build community and write history outside of the dominant narrative.
Jennifer Ho is a Vietnamese American survivor, activist, artist and spirit.
She is a Founding Fellow and Steering Committee Member of the Dorchester Organizing and Training Initiative. She sits on the Public Policy Committee of the Asian American Resource Workshop, and currently serves as the Director of Education and Outreach at Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK).
Jenn has served as a community organizer for over 10 years, working towards social justice for communities of color, immigrants and refugees, low-income families, women, LGBTQIA+ communities, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
She is a spoken word artist and performer, sharing her story at the intersection of her identity and passion for transformative justice. She believes soul healing comes from homemade food, poetry and meditation.
Jenny Lau supports the Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s mission to advance women’s representation in American politics through research support and correspondence with grant seekers and recipients.
Prior to joining the BLFF team, Jenny was the Civic Action and Worker Center Organizer at the Chinese Progressive Association, a grassroots community group where she organized immigrant workers around workplace issues and engaged voters through several targeted campaigns.
Jenny serves on the leadership team for groups including the Chinese Progressive Political Action and the Asian American Women’s Political Initiative. Jenny is a Core Planning member for the Activist Training Institute, a leadership development and training program for Asian American activists.
Jenny earned a Bachelor’s degree in American studies and community health from Tufts University. She was an inaugural Community Fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership and a 2014 New Leaders Council Fellow in Boston.
Diana Mai was born and raised in New York City’s Lower East Side to a working-class Chinese immigrant family. Early on, she had to watch her parents confront the problems of classism and xenophobia, as well as deal with her own insecurities of having less than her peers as she grew up. Her mother worked full-time as a waitress in a dim-sum restaurant to make ends meet and usually this meant standing on her feet all day. When she became sick and subsequently disabled by severe rheumatoid arthritis, her father was left to struggle as the sole income-provider to raise Diana and her older brother.
Race, class, and gender are not the only factors that have influenced her to be the individual she is today. Her standpoint in life has been mediated by her experiences with critically examining institutionalized systems of oppression that make up the personal genesis of her political beliefs. Diana aims to highlight and give voice to marginalized and historically disenfranchised groups of people as a way to empower, and to make those who are invisible, visible. The fusing of lived experience with her perspectives of society is crucial to how she negotiates her work.
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Thursday, August 20
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HBS Green Team @ Artstravaganza
Thursday, August 20
12–2 pm
HBS Batten Hall Hives, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
Please join the 2nd annual celebration of Arts Activation on campus!
Artstravaganza will showcase all art forms appreciated and/or practiced by members of our staff, students, partners, spouses, and kids, and affiliates spread throughout the Harvard/Allston community. The HBS Green Team “hive” will feature Artists for Humanity and an afternoon of interactive and sustainable art-making.
The event is free and open to the entire community. If interested in performing or exhibiting, please contact Valeska Cambron vcambron@hbs.edu or Jean Monroe jmonroe@hbs.edu.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbs-green-team-artstravaganza#sthash.ADemuC01.dpuf
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Information Theory: Old and New--A Personal View
Thursday, August 20
Thursday, August 20
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin MD-G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Prof. Shlomo Shamai, Electrical Engineering Department,Technion Israel Institute of Technology
The presentation starts by demonstrating in a descriptive way the origin of information theory in Shannon's 1948 monumental work, and pointing some interdisciplinary aspects within general areas of electrical engineering and beyond.
We discuss a change of paradigms in information theory from being a pure mathematical theory of communications to a theory with widescope direct practical implications and applications.
To demonstrate the rich aspects of the problems considered and their implications as well as some inter-disciplinary connections, we focus on a simple matrix based linear additive Gaussian model. We elaborate on the information-estimation intimate connection, mentioning its impact on non-linear filtering and on recent views of efficient coding in single and multi-terminal channels.
Possible extensions and a short outlook conclude the presentation
Speaker Bio: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.
During 1975-1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs, in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now a Technion Distinguished Professor, and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications.
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Contact: Kathleen Masse
Email: kath@seas.harvard.edu
Contact: Kathleen Masse
Email: kath@seas.harvard.edu
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Workshop: Visual Thinking Strategies with Dabney Hailey
Thursday, August 20
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
Can looking deeply together at a great work of art transform your teams, projects, and strategic thinking? Yes, through rigorous practice, it can! During this session, Dabney Hailey will guide an open analysis of a work of art using specific discussion techniques that enable healthy, creative communication and effective leadership. Participants will experience the benefits of deep observation, attuned listening, and collaborative thinking that both diverges and converges. Teams can take away basic tools to establish productive communication, deepen cross-functionality, and reinvigorate a learning mindset.
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American Drug War
Thursday, August 20
7pm, doors open at 6:40pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
The US War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history: how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. The film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA.
AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire government.
http://rule19.org/videos
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Standards Matter: The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
Thursday, August 20
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
While critics rail against Common Core State Standards for national school learning guides, few know exactly what these standards are, and fewer can assess if these standards are a positive step for education.
Standards are simply the high-level literacy skills and understandings that have been traditionally taught, but only in some schools and for some students. Standards focus on careful close reading and critical analysis, help students develop ideas well in writing, boost research understandings, create skills to discern and write valid argument, spark creative writing, and release ability to learn on one's own, for continued success in life, and to help bring a brighter future to all students.
Do these standards "dumb down" learning? Do they stifle teachers' creativity and independence? Are they a low-ceiling straitjacket for teachers? Are "bubble tests" poor tests? Are standards unfair for urban and traditionally underperforming students?
In this brief volume, the author spells out each Reading and Writing Standard to show that the Common Core State Standards simply guide high-level achievement for all students, invite teacher innovation and creativity, and make school a more exciting place of learning. The national tests include extensive writing and evaluate the understanding of ideas. These standards and tests ask students to investigate and learn to make their own decisions, as we all should, based on evidence. The evidence provided here sheds light on excellent guides to help each child succeed. Common Core State Standards are an opportunity to develop a common national base of high-quality learning. We must seize this chance to raise the bar in American education.
Kay Scheidler has served as Massachusetts assistant superintendent and district curriculum director for over fifteen years.
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Thursday Socials with Green Cambridge!
Thursday, August 20
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Asgard Irish Pub, 350 Mass Avenue, Between Central Sq and MIT, Cambridge
Look for our banner!
Come and join Green Cambridge for our monthly Thursday meet-up! We are a group of Cantabrigians dedicated to improving the environment and striving for sustainability. We'll be talking about all things green, giving run-downs on our community, advocacy and organizing work, and just getting to know one another.
Can't make it? We'll be repeating the event the third Thursday of every month! Plus, our organizing and planning meetings happen the first Thursday of every month. Also check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and at www.greencambridge.org.
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Friday, August 21
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Boston Greenfest
Friday, August 21
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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BGF2015 Transportation Tomorrow Today Forum
Friday, August 21
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Boston City Hall - BRA Board Room - 9th Floor, One City Hall Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bgf2015-transportation-tomorrow-today-forum-registration-17955531478
Making strides in our city's transportation is crucial. If we can envision exciting new forms of transportation that reduce pollution, the need for fossil fuel and bring new technologies to bear, why not put them into place in the next 3-5 years instead of wait for a point in the distant future. Meet with people who can help us make these visions happen. We will hear from government officials and industry experts about the ideas they are contemplating.
Gil Penalosa, Executive Director, 8 to 80 Cities
Mr. Gil Penalosa will join us from Toronto as our keynote speaker. He has started a program called 8 to 80 Cities (click HERE for more info). How do cities and businesses gain competitive advantage when taking into consideration the ease at which an 8 year old or an 80 year old can get around the city?
PANELISTS will join us from State, City and Local Agencies (awaiting confirmation from state officials):
Vineet Gupta, Director of Policy and Planning, Boston Transportation Department
Mr. Vineet Gupta has been the Director of Policy and Planning for the City of Boston's Transportation Department since 1997. His work has focused on bringing policy to fruition through project implementation. Under his leadership the City has established its Complete Streets initiative; published Access Boston, a multi-disciplinary citywide transportation plan; designed Boston's first transit priority line; and formalized pollution-reducing parking policies. He is currently managing the design of major corridors and establishing an electric-vehicle infrastructure in Boston.
Mela Miles, Lead Community Organizer, Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
Ms. Mela Miles, Lead Community Organizer at Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. Ms. Miles is also the Program Coordinator for On the Move: Greater Boston's Transportation Justice Coalition. Currently she serves on the Rail Users Network Board of Directors advocating for equitable rail service in North America and helps coordinate the activities of the Fairmount/Indigo Coalition.
Bill James, Founder and CEO, jPods
Mr. Bill James, Physicist turned solar transit visionary and CEO of jPods, has designed a personal rapid transit system that could transform Boston and cities across the globe.
Tim Lasker, Sustainability Specialist, MBTA
A company calculates our use of oil, natural gas, water, electricity, and the amount of garbage we produce all as a single unit. In 2010 the Massachusetts Department of Transportation launched GreenDOT, an ambitious initiative to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the state's transportation system 40% by 2020. When he heard the news, Tim Lasker, the sustainability specialist for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), had one thought: How are we going to manage this? The first step was to review how much energy the MBTA was using for each task -- but given that it was using different sources of energy (fuel oil, natural gas, electricity), how was Lasker to compare the efficiency of one to another? The answer was closer than he knew. He joins us for this forum to bring his insights on public transit, but also to consider what it would take to create transit justice for public transportation.
Moderator: Jack Gregg, Director, Electric Vehicle Urban Infrastructure Study (EVUIS)
Mr. Jack Gregg has been working to promote electric vehicle infrastructure in Boston since 2010. He is an avid believer in the need to reduce overall transportation carbon emissions and has run Carbon Day at Copley Square, organized several transportation forums at Boston GreenFest and assisted with radio shows on the Rhode Island-based ReNewable Radio program.
The canvas is open for maglev, kinetic energy, solar roadways, electric vehicles of all sorts, and more. What is your vision?
organized by Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. and Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
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Green Entrepreneur Small Business Forum 2015: Money and the Environment
Friday, August 15th
3:00-5:00 pm
Boston City Hall - BRA Board Room - 9th Floor, One City Hall Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bgf2015-green-entrepreneur-small-business-forum-registration-11720336843
Throughout the year, the Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc. and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. team up to bring a series of speakers and networking opportunities to local businesses across Boston and the Greater Boston area. This larger format allows more businesses to take advantage of making valuable connections.
The Green Entrepreneur Small Business Network will sponsor a panel discussion on the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit.
The program will include brief presentations by our speakers, an interactive session with Q&A, followed by networking between attendees and our speakers.
Ambereen Mirza
Ambereen Mirza has over ten years of experience as a consultant, researcher and instructor in Social Entrepreneurship, Risk Mitigation, and International Development. She has worked with government agencies, quasi-government regulators, multilaterals, international development firms, non-governmental organizations, nonprofits, and micro, small, and medium enterprises. Her projects have targeted tourism development, workforce expansion, private sector competitiveness, disaster relief, economic governance, access to finance and healthcare at the bottom of the pyramid, and information, communication, and technology (ICT) promotion in the emerging markets.
Ambereen holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and History from Tufts University and a Master’s in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Gil Penalosa
Gil is Founder and Chair of the Board of 8 80 Cities. Gil also runs his own international consulting firm, Gil Penalosa & Associates, and is an accomplished presenter and inspirational speaker. Because of Gil's unique blend of pragmatism and passion, his leadership and advice is sought out by many cities and organizations. Over the past eight years, Gil has worked in over 180 different cities across six continents. Gil holds an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management, where he recently was selected as one of the "100 Most Inspirational Alumni" in the school's history. In 2013 he received the Queen Elizabeth II - Diamond Jubilee Medal, given by the Governor General of Canada, and was named one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians." In 2014 Gil received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at the prominent Swedish University SLU. He joins us with his international experience and local enthusiasm.
Angel Rodriguez, Co-Founder, Custom Camisas, Inc.
Angel Rodriguez is the co-founder of Custom Camisas, a game-changing company to reduce the environmental impact of T-shirt printing. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Harvard University researching technology, public health and environmental science.
Organized by GREEN NEIGHBORS EDUCATION COMMITTEE, Inc. along with Foundation for a Green Future, Inc.
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Saturday, August 22
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Boston Greenfest
Saturday, August 22
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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Sunday, August 23
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Boston Greenfest
Sunday, August 23
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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Monday, August 24
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Workshop: Visual Thinking Strategies with Dabney Hailey
Thursday, August 20
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
Can looking deeply together at a great work of art transform your teams, projects, and strategic thinking? Yes, through rigorous practice, it can! During this session, Dabney Hailey will guide an open analysis of a work of art using specific discussion techniques that enable healthy, creative communication and effective leadership. Participants will experience the benefits of deep observation, attuned listening, and collaborative thinking that both diverges and converges. Teams can take away basic tools to establish productive communication, deepen cross-functionality, and reinvigorate a learning mindset.
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American Drug War
Thursday, August 20
7pm, doors open at 6:40pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
The US War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history: how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. The film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA.
AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire government.
http://rule19.org/videos
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Standards Matter: The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
Thursday, August 20
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
While critics rail against Common Core State Standards for national school learning guides, few know exactly what these standards are, and fewer can assess if these standards are a positive step for education.
Standards are simply the high-level literacy skills and understandings that have been traditionally taught, but only in some schools and for some students. Standards focus on careful close reading and critical analysis, help students develop ideas well in writing, boost research understandings, create skills to discern and write valid argument, spark creative writing, and release ability to learn on one's own, for continued success in life, and to help bring a brighter future to all students.
Do these standards "dumb down" learning? Do they stifle teachers' creativity and independence? Are they a low-ceiling straitjacket for teachers? Are "bubble tests" poor tests? Are standards unfair for urban and traditionally underperforming students?
In this brief volume, the author spells out each Reading and Writing Standard to show that the Common Core State Standards simply guide high-level achievement for all students, invite teacher innovation and creativity, and make school a more exciting place of learning. The national tests include extensive writing and evaluate the understanding of ideas. These standards and tests ask students to investigate and learn to make their own decisions, as we all should, based on evidence. The evidence provided here sheds light on excellent guides to help each child succeed. Common Core State Standards are an opportunity to develop a common national base of high-quality learning. We must seize this chance to raise the bar in American education.
Kay Scheidler has served as Massachusetts assistant superintendent and district curriculum director for over fifteen years.
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Thursday Socials with Green Cambridge!
Thursday, August 20
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Asgard Irish Pub, 350 Mass Avenue, Between Central Sq and MIT, Cambridge
Look for our banner!
Come and join Green Cambridge for our monthly Thursday meet-up! We are a group of Cantabrigians dedicated to improving the environment and striving for sustainability. We'll be talking about all things green, giving run-downs on our community, advocacy and organizing work, and just getting to know one another.
Can't make it? We'll be repeating the event the third Thursday of every month! Plus, our organizing and planning meetings happen the first Thursday of every month. Also check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and at www.greencambridge.org.
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Friday, August 21
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Boston Greenfest
Friday, August 21
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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BGF2015 Transportation Tomorrow Today Forum
Friday, August 21
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Boston City Hall - BRA Board Room - 9th Floor, One City Hall Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bgf2015-transportation-tomorrow-today-forum-registration-17955531478
Making strides in our city's transportation is crucial. If we can envision exciting new forms of transportation that reduce pollution, the need for fossil fuel and bring new technologies to bear, why not put them into place in the next 3-5 years instead of wait for a point in the distant future. Meet with people who can help us make these visions happen. We will hear from government officials and industry experts about the ideas they are contemplating.
Gil Penalosa, Executive Director, 8 to 80 Cities
Mr. Gil Penalosa will join us from Toronto as our keynote speaker. He has started a program called 8 to 80 Cities (click HERE for more info). How do cities and businesses gain competitive advantage when taking into consideration the ease at which an 8 year old or an 80 year old can get around the city?
PANELISTS will join us from State, City and Local Agencies (awaiting confirmation from state officials):
Vineet Gupta, Director of Policy and Planning, Boston Transportation Department
Mr. Vineet Gupta has been the Director of Policy and Planning for the City of Boston's Transportation Department since 1997. His work has focused on bringing policy to fruition through project implementation. Under his leadership the City has established its Complete Streets initiative; published Access Boston, a multi-disciplinary citywide transportation plan; designed Boston's first transit priority line; and formalized pollution-reducing parking policies. He is currently managing the design of major corridors and establishing an electric-vehicle infrastructure in Boston.
Mela Miles, Lead Community Organizer, Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
Ms. Mela Miles, Lead Community Organizer at Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. Ms. Miles is also the Program Coordinator for On the Move: Greater Boston's Transportation Justice Coalition. Currently she serves on the Rail Users Network Board of Directors advocating for equitable rail service in North America and helps coordinate the activities of the Fairmount/Indigo Coalition.
Bill James, Founder and CEO, jPods
Mr. Bill James, Physicist turned solar transit visionary and CEO of jPods, has designed a personal rapid transit system that could transform Boston and cities across the globe.
Tim Lasker, Sustainability Specialist, MBTA
A company calculates our use of oil, natural gas, water, electricity, and the amount of garbage we produce all as a single unit. In 2010 the Massachusetts Department of Transportation launched GreenDOT, an ambitious initiative to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the state's transportation system 40% by 2020. When he heard the news, Tim Lasker, the sustainability specialist for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), had one thought: How are we going to manage this? The first step was to review how much energy the MBTA was using for each task -- but given that it was using different sources of energy (fuel oil, natural gas, electricity), how was Lasker to compare the efficiency of one to another? The answer was closer than he knew. He joins us for this forum to bring his insights on public transit, but also to consider what it would take to create transit justice for public transportation.
Moderator: Jack Gregg, Director, Electric Vehicle Urban Infrastructure Study (EVUIS)
Mr. Jack Gregg has been working to promote electric vehicle infrastructure in Boston since 2010. He is an avid believer in the need to reduce overall transportation carbon emissions and has run Carbon Day at Copley Square, organized several transportation forums at Boston GreenFest and assisted with radio shows on the Rhode Island-based ReNewable Radio program.
The canvas is open for maglev, kinetic energy, solar roadways, electric vehicles of all sorts, and more. What is your vision?
organized by Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. and Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
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Green Entrepreneur Small Business Forum 2015: Money and the Environment
Friday, August 15th
3:00-5:00 pm
Boston City Hall - BRA Board Room - 9th Floor, One City Hall Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bgf2015-green-entrepreneur-small-business-forum-registration-11720336843
Throughout the year, the Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc. and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. team up to bring a series of speakers and networking opportunities to local businesses across Boston and the Greater Boston area. This larger format allows more businesses to take advantage of making valuable connections.
The Green Entrepreneur Small Business Network will sponsor a panel discussion on the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit.
The program will include brief presentations by our speakers, an interactive session with Q&A, followed by networking between attendees and our speakers.
Ambereen Mirza
Ambereen Mirza has over ten years of experience as a consultant, researcher and instructor in Social Entrepreneurship, Risk Mitigation, and International Development. She has worked with government agencies, quasi-government regulators, multilaterals, international development firms, non-governmental organizations, nonprofits, and micro, small, and medium enterprises. Her projects have targeted tourism development, workforce expansion, private sector competitiveness, disaster relief, economic governance, access to finance and healthcare at the bottom of the pyramid, and information, communication, and technology (ICT) promotion in the emerging markets.
Ambereen holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and History from Tufts University and a Master’s in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Gil Penalosa
Gil is Founder and Chair of the Board of 8 80 Cities. Gil also runs his own international consulting firm, Gil Penalosa & Associates, and is an accomplished presenter and inspirational speaker. Because of Gil's unique blend of pragmatism and passion, his leadership and advice is sought out by many cities and organizations. Over the past eight years, Gil has worked in over 180 different cities across six continents. Gil holds an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management, where he recently was selected as one of the "100 Most Inspirational Alumni" in the school's history. In 2013 he received the Queen Elizabeth II - Diamond Jubilee Medal, given by the Governor General of Canada, and was named one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians." In 2014 Gil received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at the prominent Swedish University SLU. He joins us with his international experience and local enthusiasm.
Angel Rodriguez, Co-Founder, Custom Camisas, Inc.
Angel Rodriguez is the co-founder of Custom Camisas, a game-changing company to reduce the environmental impact of T-shirt printing. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Harvard University researching technology, public health and environmental science.
Organized by GREEN NEIGHBORS EDUCATION COMMITTEE, Inc. along with Foundation for a Green Future, Inc.
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Saturday, August 22
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Boston Greenfest
Saturday, August 22
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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Sunday, August 23
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Boston Greenfest
Sunday, August 23
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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Monday, August 24
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MIT-WHOI Joint Program Thesis Defense - Submesoscale Turbulence in the Upper Ocean
Monday, August 24
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus), Cambridge
Speaker: Jorn Callies
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus), Cambridge
Speaker: Jorn Callies
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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Middlesex Fells
Monday, August 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Comprising over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and rugged hills, Middlesex Fells, just seven miles north of Boston, is one of the nation's first state parks and contains the world's first public land trust, Virginia Wood. For centuries, the Fells provided rich hunting and fishing grounds for Native Americans. In 1632, Gov. John Winthrop and others explored the area and named the largest pond Spot Pond because of the many islands and rocks protruding through the ice. The Fells was used for farming and timber, and Spot Pond Brook became the focus of industrial activity, which culminated in 1858 with the Hayward Rubber Mills. In the 1880s and 1890s, Middlesex Fells was a key property in the Boston metropolitan park movement driven by conservationists Wilson Flagg, Elizur Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Eliot, George Davenport, and Sylvester Baxter. In 1894, the Metropolitan Park Commission began acquiring Fells land. Electric trolleys crossed the Fells from 1910 to 1946, and in 1959, with the car culture in control, Interstate 93 was built through the area. Today, the Fells, as envisioned by its founders, is a forested haven for city dwellers.
Alison C. Simcox and Douglas L. Heath are environmental scientists with an interest in local history. For this book, they traced the history of the Fells using images selected from private collections and public archives.
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Tuesday, August 25
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In-Focus Talk: Gropius and Schawinsky, Bauhaus and Black Mountain
WHEN Tue., Aug. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Robert Wiesenberger
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Join us for a gallery talk by Robert Wiesenberger, the Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, as he discusses continuity and change from the Bauhaus in Germany to Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He will focus on an architectural proposal by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer for the Black Mountain College campus, as well as on the work of Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky at Black Mountain.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and is available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration required.
In-Focus gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.
LINK www.harvardartmuseums.org…
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Boston New Technology August 2015 Product Showcase #BNT56
Tuesday, August 25
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft NERD, Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/222960168/
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT56 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 – Networking with dinner and drinks
7:00 to 7:10 – Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 – Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 – More Networking
http://bit.ly/1q7U6I6
Middlesex Fells
Monday, August 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Comprising over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and rugged hills, Middlesex Fells, just seven miles north of Boston, is one of the nation's first state parks and contains the world's first public land trust, Virginia Wood. For centuries, the Fells provided rich hunting and fishing grounds for Native Americans. In 1632, Gov. John Winthrop and others explored the area and named the largest pond Spot Pond because of the many islands and rocks protruding through the ice. The Fells was used for farming and timber, and Spot Pond Brook became the focus of industrial activity, which culminated in 1858 with the Hayward Rubber Mills. In the 1880s and 1890s, Middlesex Fells was a key property in the Boston metropolitan park movement driven by conservationists Wilson Flagg, Elizur Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Eliot, George Davenport, and Sylvester Baxter. In 1894, the Metropolitan Park Commission began acquiring Fells land. Electric trolleys crossed the Fells from 1910 to 1946, and in 1959, with the car culture in control, Interstate 93 was built through the area. Today, the Fells, as envisioned by its founders, is a forested haven for city dwellers.
Alison C. Simcox and Douglas L. Heath are environmental scientists with an interest in local history. For this book, they traced the history of the Fells using images selected from private collections and public archives.
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Tuesday, August 25
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In-Focus Talk: Gropius and Schawinsky, Bauhaus and Black Mountain
WHEN Tue., Aug. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Robert Wiesenberger
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Join us for a gallery talk by Robert Wiesenberger, the Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, as he discusses continuity and change from the Bauhaus in Germany to Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He will focus on an architectural proposal by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer for the Black Mountain College campus, as well as on the work of Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky at Black Mountain.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and is available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration required.
In-Focus gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.
LINK www.harvardartmuseums.org…
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Boston New Technology August 2015 Product Showcase #BNT56
Tuesday, August 25
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft NERD, Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/222960168/
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT56 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 – Networking with dinner and drinks
7:00 to 7:10 – Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 – Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 – More Networking
http://bit.ly/1q7U6I6
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Wednesday, August 26
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BNID's International Development Networking Night
Wednesday, August 26
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
HI Boston, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bnids-international-development-networking-night-tickets-17819171622
Come enjoy an evening of networking and international conversation during BNID's end of the summer international development mixer. Held in Hostelling International-Boston's Community Room, attendees will have the chance to learn about Boston's premier international development organizations and how they can support their work. Partners include Boston International, the Next Mile Project, United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB), Acumen Boston, MercyCorps, The Philanthropic Initiative (Center for Global Philanthropy) and more. Light appetizers and refreshments will be provided.
Please make sure you are at our program by 7:00pm to hear about the work of some incredible organizations.
Partners: Boston International, Boston Network for International Development, Acumen Boston, Mercy Corps, United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB), the Next Mile Project and Hostelling International
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Surreal & Brain Power
Wednesday, August 26
6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Cambridge Innovation Center - Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
Join us and explore the virtual universe created by Surreal, a NYC based VR studio. Learn about how smart glasses and AR can be used to help people with autism from Brain Power, a Boston based company.
Surreal is the first fully immersive virtual universe for VR, where players engage in real-time adventures with their friends, in and out of this world. Soar over Manhattan at dawn in your own futuristic drone transport, or ride the dragon and survey your medieval kingdom. Dance the night away or just kick back in the hot tub and talk about your day. Unless of course you want to explore the Rings of Saturn, or find a dragon egg in the sacred forest and hatch it. We'll keep you entertained, whether you want to ride with Genghis Khan or dance to Chaka Khan. See: http://surre.al/
Brain Power - The World's First Wearable System for Autism
The award-winning Brain Power System is an augmented reality toolset that helps people with autism work toward their own customized goals for happy self-sufficiency. (http://www.Brain-Power.com) The focus is on teaching language (with multi-lingual support), interview skills, control of behaviors, physiology-triggered cues to relax yourself, and the like, which would be fun for anyone. We choose smart glasses and AR as opposed to VR (or phones or tablets), in order to keep the person with autism looking up and at people in his or her world. Brain power is platform-independent and portable to all the new smart glasses. Google called it the most creative and impactful use of Google Glass. It has been featured in TechCrunch, WIRED and almost 200 media outlets.
Presentation by Dr. Ned T. Sahin, Brain Power CEO http://www.nedsahin.com/about/professional-bio/
See videos:
http://bpwr.co/bp_loveU2_pieces
http://bpwr.co/bp_launch_event
http://bpwr.co/bp_plymouth_arc
Schedule
6 - Doors open, demos begin
7 - 7:30 - Brain Power Presentation
7:30 - 8 - Surreal Presentation
8 - 8:15 - Demo intros & announcements
8:15 - 9:45 Demofest!!
9:45pm - Come with us to the afterparty at Firebrand Saints (it's right downstairs!!)
Wednesday, August 26
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BNID's International Development Networking Night
Wednesday, August 26
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
HI Boston, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bnids-international-development-networking-night-tickets-17819171622
Come enjoy an evening of networking and international conversation during BNID's end of the summer international development mixer. Held in Hostelling International-Boston's Community Room, attendees will have the chance to learn about Boston's premier international development organizations and how they can support their work. Partners include Boston International, the Next Mile Project, United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB), Acumen Boston, MercyCorps, The Philanthropic Initiative (Center for Global Philanthropy) and more. Light appetizers and refreshments will be provided.
Please make sure you are at our program by 7:00pm to hear about the work of some incredible organizations.
Partners: Boston International, Boston Network for International Development, Acumen Boston, Mercy Corps, United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB), the Next Mile Project and Hostelling International
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Surreal & Brain Power
Wednesday, August 26
6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Cambridge Innovation Center - Venture Cafe, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
Join us and explore the virtual universe created by Surreal, a NYC based VR studio. Learn about how smart glasses and AR can be used to help people with autism from Brain Power, a Boston based company.
Surreal is the first fully immersive virtual universe for VR, where players engage in real-time adventures with their friends, in and out of this world. Soar over Manhattan at dawn in your own futuristic drone transport, or ride the dragon and survey your medieval kingdom. Dance the night away or just kick back in the hot tub and talk about your day. Unless of course you want to explore the Rings of Saturn, or find a dragon egg in the sacred forest and hatch it. We'll keep you entertained, whether you want to ride with Genghis Khan or dance to Chaka Khan. See: http://surre.al/
Brain Power - The World's First Wearable System for Autism
The award-winning Brain Power System is an augmented reality toolset that helps people with autism work toward their own customized goals for happy self-sufficiency. (http://www.Brain-Power.com) The focus is on teaching language (with multi-lingual support), interview skills, control of behaviors, physiology-triggered cues to relax yourself, and the like, which would be fun for anyone. We choose smart glasses and AR as opposed to VR (or phones or tablets), in order to keep the person with autism looking up and at people in his or her world. Brain power is platform-independent and portable to all the new smart glasses. Google called it the most creative and impactful use of Google Glass. It has been featured in TechCrunch, WIRED and almost 200 media outlets.
Presentation by Dr. Ned T. Sahin, Brain Power CEO http://www.nedsahin.com/about/professional-bio/
See videos:
http://bpwr.co/bp_loveU2_pieces
http://bpwr.co/bp_launch_event
http://bpwr.co/bp_plymouth_arc
Schedule
6 - Doors open, demos begin
7 - 7:30 - Brain Power Presentation
7:30 - 8 - Surreal Presentation
8 - 8:15 - Demo intros & announcements
8:15 - 9:45 Demofest!!
9:45pm - Come with us to the afterparty at Firebrand Saints (it's right downstairs!!)
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Social Good – How Groups Make it Easier to Have an Impact
August 26
August 26
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
GA Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/social-good-how-groups-make-it-easier-to-have-impact/boston/15778
Join Boston Rotaract at General Assembly to learn about the advantages of joining a group that creates social change in local and international communities.
Boston Rotaract, part of the global Rotary family, is committed to connecting professional and community leaders, exchanging ideas, and taking action through local and international service projects.
We’ll be showing the documentary The Final Inch, talking about how Rotary and service have impacted our lives, and then discussing the aspects of groups that make it easier to do social good.
Join Boston Rotaract at General Assembly to learn about the advantages of joining a group that creates social change in local and international communities.
Boston Rotaract, part of the global Rotary family, is committed to connecting professional and community leaders, exchanging ideas, and taking action through local and international service projects.
We’ll be showing the documentary The Final Inch, talking about how Rotary and service have impacted our lives, and then discussing the aspects of groups that make it easier to do social good.
Email: boston@generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly
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Thursday, August 27
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From Idea to Product - A Talk with Founders
Thursday, August 27
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
CIC Venture Cafe (5th floor - Havana room), 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-idea-to-product-a-talk-with-founders-tickets-17928547769
StayInDrops (www.stayindrops.com) organizes an even featuring founders and their stories of how they went from idea to the product. How they found product-market fit, identified target customers and acquired first users. What are the hard lessons and how to avoid them. Presentations and panel will be followed by q&a. You would also need to register at the lobby and at the entrance of Venture Cafe.
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Friday, August 28
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Theo Jansen's Strandbeests
Friday, August 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at City Hall Plaza
Friday, August 28, 4:30-7 p.m. at the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Dewey Square
Thursday, September 10, 3-7 p.m. at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge (a panel discussion with Jansen, PEM curator Trevor Smith, and MIT associate professor Neri Oxman will take place from 3 to 5 p.m., after which the standbeests will walk around the plaza outside).
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2015/07/24/strandbeest-boston/
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Monday, August 31
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Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor
Monday, August 31
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Three decades ago, Jim O’Connell, MD, was fresh out of Harvard Medical School and on his way to a prestigious oncology fellowship at Sloan-Kettering. His mentor, a legendary Boston doctor-humanitarian, asked him to head up a new pilot medical program for the city’s homeless men, women and children— Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP). Dr. O’Connell thought he’d put in a few years, and then get back on track with his “real” career. But along the way, he fell in love with the challenges of homeless medicine, his patients and their stories.
Those stories are now collected in a book by Dr. O’Connell, Stories from the Shadows. As president of BHCHP with an active practice working with “rough sleepers,” (people who live outside), Dr. O’Connell has become an international expert on homeless medicine, helping transform it into a highly respected specialty with a strong research base. His book eloquently and poignantly tells the history of homeless medicine in Boston, largely through the treatment, triumphs and tragedies of some of his most memorable patients.
Jim O’Connell, MD, has a master’s degree in theology from Cambridge University and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the founding physician and president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which delivers services to more than 12,000 homeless men, women and children at more than 60 shelters and sites. Working with the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science, Dr. O’Connell designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program in 1995. He is the editor of The Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases in Shelters and on the Streets. His articles have appeared in many journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. He has received numerous awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award in 2012.
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Tuesday, September 1
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Boston TechBreakfast featuring awesome tech demos
Tuesday, September 1
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002782/
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!
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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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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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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
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly
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Thursday, August 27
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From Idea to Product - A Talk with Founders
Thursday, August 27
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
CIC Venture Cafe (5th floor - Havana room), 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-idea-to-product-a-talk-with-founders-tickets-17928547769
StayInDrops (www.stayindrops.com) organizes an even featuring founders and their stories of how they went from idea to the product. How they found product-market fit, identified target customers and acquired first users. What are the hard lessons and how to avoid them. Presentations and panel will be followed by q&a. You would also need to register at the lobby and at the entrance of Venture Cafe.
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Friday, August 28
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Theo Jansen's Strandbeests
Friday, August 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at City Hall Plaza
Friday, August 28, 4:30-7 p.m. at the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Dewey Square
Thursday, September 10, 3-7 p.m. at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge (a panel discussion with Jansen, PEM curator Trevor Smith, and MIT associate professor Neri Oxman will take place from 3 to 5 p.m., after which the standbeests will walk around the plaza outside).
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2015/07/24/strandbeest-boston/
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Monday, August 31
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Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor
Monday, August 31
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Three decades ago, Jim O’Connell, MD, was fresh out of Harvard Medical School and on his way to a prestigious oncology fellowship at Sloan-Kettering. His mentor, a legendary Boston doctor-humanitarian, asked him to head up a new pilot medical program for the city’s homeless men, women and children— Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP). Dr. O’Connell thought he’d put in a few years, and then get back on track with his “real” career. But along the way, he fell in love with the challenges of homeless medicine, his patients and their stories.
Those stories are now collected in a book by Dr. O’Connell, Stories from the Shadows. As president of BHCHP with an active practice working with “rough sleepers,” (people who live outside), Dr. O’Connell has become an international expert on homeless medicine, helping transform it into a highly respected specialty with a strong research base. His book eloquently and poignantly tells the history of homeless medicine in Boston, largely through the treatment, triumphs and tragedies of some of his most memorable patients.
Jim O’Connell, MD, has a master’s degree in theology from Cambridge University and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the founding physician and president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which delivers services to more than 12,000 homeless men, women and children at more than 60 shelters and sites. Working with the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science, Dr. O’Connell designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program in 1995. He is the editor of The Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases in Shelters and on the Streets. His articles have appeared in many journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. He has received numerous awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award in 2012.
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Tuesday, September 1
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Boston TechBreakfast featuring awesome tech demos
Tuesday, September 1
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002782/
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!
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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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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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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
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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