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Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Monday, August 3
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6pm Cameras in The Real World - Imaging Cafe
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Tuesday, August 4
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8am Boston TechBreakfast
11am Deep Learning
6pm ProfDev: Socially Responsible Investing
6pm #TechHubTuesday Demo Night - August 2015
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Wednesday, August 5
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11am Formal Theory of Fun
4pm Complex Systems discussion series at NECSI: Spreading Capability
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Thursday, August 6
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10am Architecture Building Technology Lecture: Computational Design-to-Fabrication
3pm Architecture Building Technology Lecture: Design, Optimization, and Experimental Testing of an Origami-Inspired Deployable Shelter
5:30pm EnergyBar!
6pm Sustainability Collaborative
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Friday, August 7
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12pm Responsible Business Leadership in China and the US: Private Sector and Public Value
8pm Hiroshima & Nagasaki 70th Observance Concert
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Saturday, August 8
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9am Boston Data Con
9am Learn to Observe: Tree Spotters Citizen Science Launch
3pm Organic Pest Management & ID for Gardeners
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Sunday, August 9
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9am Boston Data Con
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Monday, August 10
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7pm Science by the Pint
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Index
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Monday, August 3
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6pm Cameras in The Real World - Imaging Cafe
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Tuesday, August 4
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8am Boston TechBreakfast
11am Deep Learning
6pm ProfDev: Socially Responsible Investing
6pm #TechHubTuesday Demo Night - August 2015
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Wednesday, August 5
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11am Formal Theory of Fun
4pm Complex Systems discussion series at NECSI: Spreading Capability
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Thursday, August 6
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10am Architecture Building Technology Lecture: Computational Design-to-Fabrication
3pm Architecture Building Technology Lecture: Design, Optimization, and Experimental Testing of an Origami-Inspired Deployable Shelter
5:30pm EnergyBar!
6pm Sustainability Collaborative
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Friday, August 7
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12pm Responsible Business Leadership in China and the US: Private Sector and Public Value
8pm Hiroshima & Nagasaki 70th Observance Concert
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Saturday, August 8
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9am Boston Data Con
9am Learn to Observe: Tree Spotters Citizen Science Launch
3pm Organic Pest Management & ID for Gardeners
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Sunday, August 9
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9am Boston Data Con
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Monday, August 10
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7pm Science by the Pint
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Monday, August 3
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Cameras in The Real World - Imaging Cafe
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Tuesday, August 4
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, August 4
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, ! Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002892/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Deep Learning
Tuesday, August 4
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Refreshments: 12:15 PM
MIT, Buiding 32, G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jurgen Schmidhuber , Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano
Abstract: In recent years, deep artificial neural networks (including recurrent ones) have won numerous contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. They are now widely used in industry. I briefly review deep supervised / unsupervised / reinforcement learning, and discuss the latest state of the art results in numerous applications.
Speaker Bio: Since age 15 or so, the main scientific ambition of Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber (pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh) has been to build an optimal scientist through self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI), then retire. He has pioneered self-improving general problem solvers since 1987, and Deep Learning Neural Networks (NNs) since 1991. The recurrent NNs (RNNs) developed by his research groups at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & USI & SUPSI & TU Munich were the first RNNs to win official international contests. They have revolutionized connected handwriting recognition, speech recognition, machine translation, optical character recognition, image caption generation, and are now in use at Google, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu, and many other companies. The first 4 members of DeepMind (sold to Google for over 600M) include 2 former PhD students from his lab. IDSIA's Deep Learners were also the first to win object detection and image segmentation contests, and achieved the world's first superhuman visual classification results, winning nine international competitions in machine learning & pattern recognition (more than any other team). They also were the first to learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. His research group also established the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor. He also generalized algorithmic information theory and the many-worlds theory of physics, and introduced the concept of Low-Complexity Art, the information age's extreme form of minimal art. Since 2009 he has been member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published 333 peer-reviewed papers, earned seven best paper/best video awards, and is recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Networks Society.
Contact: Erez Karpas, karpase@csail.mit.edu
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Monday, August 3
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
MIT, Building E15-341 - Third Floor Conference Room, Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Imaging-Cafe-Researchers-Entrep-Investors-MIT-Media-Lab/events/224077135/
Imaging Cafe is a monthly event bringing together researchers, engineers, and students to foster deeper conversation with entrepreneurs, mentors and investors. This gathering is for people excited about mobile camera phones, cameras in developing countries, image-search, medical imaging, online photo sharing, home automation, computational photography, 3D printing and more.
There are three tracks - Imaging, Health-Tech, and Fabrication
There are three tracks - Imaging, Health-Tech, and Fabrication
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Tuesday, August 4
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, August 4
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, ! Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002892/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Deep Learning
Tuesday, August 4
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Refreshments: 12:15 PM
MIT, Buiding 32, G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jurgen Schmidhuber , Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano
Abstract: In recent years, deep artificial neural networks (including recurrent ones) have won numerous contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. They are now widely used in industry. I briefly review deep supervised / unsupervised / reinforcement learning, and discuss the latest state of the art results in numerous applications.
Speaker Bio: Since age 15 or so, the main scientific ambition of Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber (pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh) has been to build an optimal scientist through self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI), then retire. He has pioneered self-improving general problem solvers since 1987, and Deep Learning Neural Networks (NNs) since 1991. The recurrent NNs (RNNs) developed by his research groups at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & USI & SUPSI & TU Munich were the first RNNs to win official international contests. They have revolutionized connected handwriting recognition, speech recognition, machine translation, optical character recognition, image caption generation, and are now in use at Google, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu, and many other companies. The first 4 members of DeepMind (sold to Google for over 600M) include 2 former PhD students from his lab. IDSIA's Deep Learners were also the first to win object detection and image segmentation contests, and achieved the world's first superhuman visual classification results, winning nine international competitions in machine learning & pattern recognition (more than any other team). They also were the first to learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. His research group also established the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor. He also generalized algorithmic information theory and the many-worlds theory of physics, and introduced the concept of Low-Complexity Art, the information age's extreme form of minimal art. Since 2009 he has been member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published 333 peer-reviewed papers, earned seven best paper/best video awards, and is recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Networks Society.
Contact: Erez Karpas, karpase@csail.mit.edu
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ProfDev: Socially Responsible Investing
Tuesday, August 4
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
The NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston
Fee: $10 advance/$20 door - split with trainer
Limited space - register ahead of time: www.sojust.org
Credit cards accepted online. Cash only at the door (if space available).
Newcomers always welcomed!
Refund policy available
Limited space - register ahead of time: www.sojust.org
Credit cards accepted online. Cash only at the door (if space available).
Newcomers always welcomed!
Refund policy available
http://www.meetup.com/sojust-tm/events/221745463/
Uncertain how to work towards a secure financial future while living out your values? Join Socializing for Justice for a ProfDev on Socially Responsible Investing on August 4, 6:00 - 8:30 PM.
How do we manage our savings to best sustain ourselves and support our vision of a more just economy? Whether you’re investing now, informing yourself for the future, or organizing a divestment or financial campaign, this is a chance to learn investment basics and discuss all those questions with a local progressive activist and finance professional. No prior knowledge expected: we'll start with basic terms and concepts, and also cover political choices and investment strategies. Participants gain a more intuitive sense of how to use investments, and ideas about how to research and choose between different financial tools without checking your politics at the door.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Joby Gelbspan is a lifelong progressive activist who has dedicated her career to "translating finance for activists." She holds a Master's in Accounting and an MBA, with financial and management experience ranging from non-profit organizations to the investment management industry. She has served on several nonprofit Boards and as CFO and Financial Consultant for grassroots, progressive organizations. She currently coordinates strategic corporate and financial research to support Corporate Accountability International's grassroots campaigns challenging the World Bank and some of the world's largest corporations to halt their abusive practices.
SCHEDULE
6:00-6:30 Socializing - bring your own dinner
6:30-8:30 Training and Q&A
DIRECTIONS - The NonProfit Center is located one block from South Station at 89 South Street. The Center is physically accessible through the main lobby.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
Invite your friends to the Facebook event.
Join the SoJust Facebook group: http://on.fb.me/SoJust
On Twitter? Follow @SoJust and SoJust's Co-Founder @RobbieSamuels #sojust
How do we manage our savings to best sustain ourselves and support our vision of a more just economy? Whether you’re investing now, informing yourself for the future, or organizing a divestment or financial campaign, this is a chance to learn investment basics and discuss all those questions with a local progressive activist and finance professional. No prior knowledge expected: we'll start with basic terms and concepts, and also cover political choices and investment strategies. Participants gain a more intuitive sense of how to use investments, and ideas about how to research and choose between different financial tools without checking your politics at the door.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Joby Gelbspan is a lifelong progressive activist who has dedicated her career to "translating finance for activists." She holds a Master's in Accounting and an MBA, with financial and management experience ranging from non-profit organizations to the investment management industry. She has served on several nonprofit Boards and as CFO and Financial Consultant for grassroots, progressive organizations. She currently coordinates strategic corporate and financial research to support Corporate Accountability International's grassroots campaigns challenging the World Bank and some of the world's largest corporations to halt their abusive practices.
SCHEDULE
6:00-6:30 Socializing - bring your own dinner
6:30-8:30 Training and Q&A
DIRECTIONS - The NonProfit Center is located one block from South Station at 89 South Street. The Center is physically accessible through the main lobby.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
Invite your friends to the Facebook event.
Join the SoJust Facebook group: http://on.fb.me/SoJust
On Twitter? Follow @SoJust and SoJust's Co-Founder @RobbieSamuels #sojust
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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - August 2015
Tuesday, August 4
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
TechHub, 3rd Floor, 212 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-august-2015-tickets-16129703377
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for refreshments, network, talk to members of the community, or take a look round the space.
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Monday, August 10
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Science by the Pint
Monday, August 10
7pm
The Burren, Davis Square, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - August 2015
Tuesday, August 4
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
TechHub, 3rd Floor, 212 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-august-2015-tickets-16129703377
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for refreshments, network, talk to members of the community, or take a look round the space.
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Wednesday, August 5
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Formal Theory of Fun
Wednesday, August 5
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Refreshments: 12:15 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jurgen Schmidhuber , Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano
Abstract: I will talk about the active, unsupervised, curious, creative systems we have developed since 1990. They not only learn to solve externally posed tasks, but also their own self-generated tasks, to improve their understanding of the world according to our Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, which requires two interacting modules: (1) an adaptive predictor or compressor or model of the growing data history as the agent is interacting with its environment, and (2) a reinforcement learner. The learning progress of (1) is the FUN or intrinsic reward of (2). That is, (2) is motivated to invent skills leading to interesting or surprising novel patterns that (1) does not yet know but can easily learn (until they become boring). I will discuss how this simple principle explains science & art & music & humour.
Speaker Bio: Since age 15 or so, the main scientific ambition of Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber (pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh) has been to build an optimal scientist through self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI), then retire. He has pioneered self-improving general problem solvers since 1987, and Deep Learning Neural Networks (NNs) since 1991. The recurrent NNs (RNNs) developed by his research groups at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & USI & SUPSI & TU Munich were the first RNNs to win official international contests. They have revolutionized connected handwriting recognition, speech recognition, machine translation, optical character recognition, image caption generation, and are now in use at Google, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu, and many other companies. The first 4 members of DeepMind (sold to Google for over 600M) include 2 former PhD students from his lab. IDSIA's Deep Learners were also the first to win object detection and image segmentation contests, and achieved the world's first superhuman visual classification results, winning nine international competitions in machine learning & pattern recognition (more than any other team). They also were the first to learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. His research group also established the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor. He also generalized algorithmic information theory and the many-worlds theory of physics, and introduced the concept of Low-Complexity Art, the information age's extreme form of minimal art. Since 2009 he has been member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published 333 peer-reviewed papers, earned seven best paper/best video awards, and is recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Networks Society.
Contact: Erez Karpas, karpase@csail.mit.edu
Formal Theory of Fun
Wednesday, August 5
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Refreshments: 12:15 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jurgen Schmidhuber , Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano
Abstract: I will talk about the active, unsupervised, curious, creative systems we have developed since 1990. They not only learn to solve externally posed tasks, but also their own self-generated tasks, to improve their understanding of the world according to our Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, which requires two interacting modules: (1) an adaptive predictor or compressor or model of the growing data history as the agent is interacting with its environment, and (2) a reinforcement learner. The learning progress of (1) is the FUN or intrinsic reward of (2). That is, (2) is motivated to invent skills leading to interesting or surprising novel patterns that (1) does not yet know but can easily learn (until they become boring). I will discuss how this simple principle explains science & art & music & humour.
Speaker Bio: Since age 15 or so, the main scientific ambition of Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber (pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh) has been to build an optimal scientist through self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI), then retire. He has pioneered self-improving general problem solvers since 1987, and Deep Learning Neural Networks (NNs) since 1991. The recurrent NNs (RNNs) developed by his research groups at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & USI & SUPSI & TU Munich were the first RNNs to win official international contests. They have revolutionized connected handwriting recognition, speech recognition, machine translation, optical character recognition, image caption generation, and are now in use at Google, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu, and many other companies. The first 4 members of DeepMind (sold to Google for over 600M) include 2 former PhD students from his lab. IDSIA's Deep Learners were also the first to win object detection and image segmentation contests, and achieved the world's first superhuman visual classification results, winning nine international competitions in machine learning & pattern recognition (more than any other team). They also were the first to learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. His research group also established the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor. He also generalized algorithmic information theory and the many-worlds theory of physics, and introduced the concept of Low-Complexity Art, the information age's extreme form of minimal art. Since 2009 he has been member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published 333 peer-reviewed papers, earned seven best paper/best video awards, and is recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Networks Society.
Contact: Erez Karpas, karpase@csail.mit.edu
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Complex Systems discussion series at NECSI: Spreading Capability
Wednesday, August 5
Wednesday, August 5
4:00-6:00 PM
NE Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway Suite 101 Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html
How can we take what we've learned about applying complexity science, and teach it to others? On August 5th from 4-6 pm at NECSI, we'll reflect on the structures of the salons we've held so far, begin working on templates for others to host similar gatherings, and start brainstorming how we would like to support others in these endeavors. Bring a sense of constructive criticism, of distributing power and knowledge, and of building something which others might iterate on.
The salon will also be streamed online at https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ctbpbmtkjkuapul89lnet1paeqs
Sign up here.
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Thursday, August 6
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How can we take what we've learned about applying complexity science, and teach it to others? On August 5th from 4-6 pm at NECSI, we'll reflect on the structures of the salons we've held so far, begin working on templates for others to host similar gatherings, and start brainstorming how we would like to support others in these endeavors. Bring a sense of constructive criticism, of distributing power and knowledge, and of building something which others might iterate on.
The salon will also be streamed online at https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ctbpbmtkjkuapul89lnet1paeqs
Sign up here.
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Thursday, August 6
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Architecture Building Technology Lecture: Computational Design-to-Fabrication
Thursday, August 6
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kristina Shea
In this talk I will introduce Computational Design-to-Fabrication and give an overview of our research on computational design methods for the generation, optimization and direct fabrication of structural and mechanical systems. Current work focuses on new methods that capitalize on additive manufacturing freedoms, including multi-material printing, and the necessary elements to automate the design of end-use, functional parts and structures that can be directly fabricated. This includes testing and characterization of polymer-based AM processes and integration of resulting models into computational design methods.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kristina Shea
In this talk I will introduce Computational Design-to-Fabrication and give an overview of our research on computational design methods for the generation, optimization and direct fabrication of structural and mechanical systems. Current work focuses on new methods that capitalize on additive manufacturing freedoms, including multi-material printing, and the necessary elements to automate the design of end-use, functional parts and structures that can be directly fabricated. This includes testing and characterization of polymer-based AM processes and integration of resulting models into computational design methods.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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Architecture Building Technology Lecture: Design, Optimization, and Experimental Testing of an Origami-Inspired Deployable Shelter
Thursday, August 6
3:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
3:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Ashley P. Thrall
Rapidly deployable shelters are critical for housing on forward operating military bases and for relief following natural or anthropogenic disasters. Design priorities for these structures include deployability (high volume expansion ratio), transportability (low self-weight), and erectability (on site erection without the use of heavy lifting equipment). A critical design criterion is also energy efficiency in heating and cooling. To meet these priorities, the research team has utilized origami as inspiration for a thermally insulated, rigid wall deployable shelter (comprised of sandwich panels connected by hinges) that can be erected manually through counterweighting. This presentation will discuss (1) concept development and analysis of this novel form, (2) shape optimization to determine a geometry that maximizes structural performance and energy efficiency, (3) experimental testing on a half-scale prototype, and (4) concept demonstration of a full-scale prototype.
This material is based upon work supported by the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) under Contract W911QY-12-C-0128.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
Rapidly deployable shelters are critical for housing on forward operating military bases and for relief following natural or anthropogenic disasters. Design priorities for these structures include deployability (high volume expansion ratio), transportability (low self-weight), and erectability (on site erection without the use of heavy lifting equipment). A critical design criterion is also energy efficiency in heating and cooling. To meet these priorities, the research team has utilized origami as inspiration for a thermally insulated, rigid wall deployable shelter (comprised of sandwich panels connected by hinges) that can be erected manually through counterweighting. This presentation will discuss (1) concept development and analysis of this novel form, (2) shape optimization to determine a geometry that maximizes structural performance and energy efficiency, (3) experimental testing on a half-scale prototype, and (4) concept demonstration of a full-scale prototype.
This material is based upon work supported by the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) under Contract W911QY-12-C-0128.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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EnergyBar!
Thursday, August 6
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734100117
Suggested contribution - $10
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30 pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual.
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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, August 6
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe – Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
The Venture Café Foundation has partnered with EcoMotion to bring the Sustainability Collaborative to monthly Venture Café gatherings.
Stay tuned for more information about this month’s Sustainability Collaborative.
Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan@ecomotion.us
Venture Cafe Foundation
http://vencaf.org/
http://www.vencaf.org/calendar
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Friday, August 7
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Responsible Business Leadership in China and the US: Private Sector and Public Value
WHEN Fri., Aug. 7, 2015, 12 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Taubman Building, Alison Dining Room and NYE ABC, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
SPEAKER(S) William C. Kirby, Harvard Business School professor, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies
John D. Donahue, Harvard Kennedy School Professor, Raymond Vernon Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Xiang Bing, CKGSB founding dean, professor of China Business and Globalization
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/responsible-business-leadership-in-china-and-the-us-private-sector-and-public-value-tickets-17448825908
TICKET INFO Complimentary tickets to this conference will be available through August 1, 2015, at 5PM.
CONTACT INFO maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.4264
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/responsible-business-leadership-china-and-us-private-sector-and-public-value
EnergyBar!
Thursday, August 6
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734100117
Suggested contribution - $10
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30 pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual.
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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, August 6
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe – Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
The Venture Café Foundation has partnered with EcoMotion to bring the Sustainability Collaborative to monthly Venture Café gatherings.
Stay tuned for more information about this month’s Sustainability Collaborative.
Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan@ecomotion.us
Venture Cafe Foundation
http://vencaf.org/
http://www.vencaf.org/calendar
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Friday, August 7
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Responsible Business Leadership in China and the US: Private Sector and Public Value
WHEN Fri., Aug. 7, 2015, 12 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Taubman Building, Alison Dining Room and NYE ABC, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
SPEAKER(S) William C. Kirby, Harvard Business School professor, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies
John D. Donahue, Harvard Kennedy School Professor, Raymond Vernon Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Xiang Bing, CKGSB founding dean, professor of China Business and Globalization
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/responsible-business-leadership-in-china-and-the-us-private-sector-and-public-value-tickets-17448825908
TICKET INFO Complimentary tickets to this conference will be available through August 1, 2015, at 5PM.
CONTACT INFO maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.4264
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/responsible-business-leadership-china-and-us-private-sector-and-public-value
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki 70th Observance Concert
The tragic effect of these events continues to be significant, even to this to this day. So we gather to remember and to celebrate the healing power of music, community, and our wonderfully enduring cultures.
Featuring:
Chorus Boston
Singing contemporary and traditional Japanese music. (www.chorusboston.org)
Elizabeth Bennett, shakuhachi
Aaron Larget-Caplan, classical guitar playing selections from 'The Legend of Hagomoro'.
Ambient 'Steel Cello', Peter Warren & Matt Samolis, Meditative ambient soundscapes from an acoustic 'Steel Cello’.
Suggested Donation: $10
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Saturday, August 8
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Friday, August 7
8:00 PM
Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston
Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Japanese-Flower-Arranging/events/224039913/
Suggested Donation: $10
https://shoebei.wordpress.com
"The Hiroshima & Nagasaki 70th Observance Concert" is being offered as an opportunity to gather, reflect, and meditate on the atomic bombings of August 6th and 9th, 1945.
The tragic effect of these events continues to be significant, even to this to this day. So we gather to remember and to celebrate the healing power of music, community, and our wonderfully enduring cultures.
Featuring:
Chorus Boston
Singing contemporary and traditional Japanese music. (www.chorusboston.org)
Elizabeth Bennett, shakuhachi
Aaron Larget-Caplan, classical guitar playing selections from 'The Legend of Hagomoro'.
Ambient 'Steel Cello', Peter Warren & Matt Samolis, Meditative ambient soundscapes from an acoustic 'Steel Cello’.
Suggested Donation: $10
Saturday, August 8
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Boston Data Con
Saturday, August 8
9am - 5pm
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-for-social-good-projects-aka-civic-tech-tickets-17976691769
A "Data Science for Social Good" Conference will be held the weekend of August 8th and 9th at Microsoft NERD. The conference will have two main tracks that will occur in parallel. On the top floors at MS there will be presentation from local speakers across a wide variety of organizations and DSSG topics including healthcare, education, transportation, energy, and more. On the lower 1st floor there will be workshops on R and Python.
Please note these are two separate tracks that will have their own registration. The prices for each are relatively low: a weekend presentation pass is $25 and individual workshops are $15. There are half-day passes so one can attend a workshop and lectures without having to pay the full day-pass amount. Registration is on EventBrite (below website has an RSVP page). We are able to have this be low (relative to the hundreds of dollars that other conferences charge) as Microsoft NERD is hosting us for free leaving us with primarily food, drink and administrative costs (such as the workshop instructors). Please see the following links:
http://data-con.org/
http://data-con.org/2015-presentations/
http://data-con.org/2015-workshops/
Please note these are two separate tracks that will have their own registration. The prices for each are relatively low: a weekend presentation pass is $25 and individual workshops are $15. There are half-day passes so one can attend a workshop and lectures without having to pay the full day-pass amount. Registration is on EventBrite (below website has an RSVP page). We are able to have this be low (relative to the hundreds of dollars that other conferences charge) as Microsoft NERD is hosting us for free leaving us with primarily food, drink and administrative costs (such as the workshop instructors). Please see the following links:
http://data-con.org/
http://data-con.org/2015-presentations/
http://data-con.org/2015-workshops/
Editorial Comment: One of the projects will be working on automating some of the tasks I do by hand to produce this listing. Thanks to all who have been working on this project.
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Learn to Observe: Tree Spotters Citizen Science Launch
Saturday, August 8
9:00am–12:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Policies.aspx
Presenters: Jehane Samaha and Suzanne Mrozak
Would you like to learn more about the Arnold Arboretum's trees? Would you enjoy connecting with the Arboretum ecologists and fellow citizen science volunteers? If so, we invite you to observe trees by participating in our new “Tree Spotters" program.
This citizen science program will open a window into the Arboretum's phenology - the timing of natural events, such as the leafing out of trees in the spring and the turning of colors in the fall. Attend a free training session. All experience levels welcome.
At the training session, you will learn about phenology, explore the tracking methods we will be using, and get hands-on experience with one of the ten species of trees we are tracking. Tree Spotters will participate in the program by visiting the Arboretum two or more times a month from May through mid-November for a 1 to 2 hour tree-spotting session. You can do this on your own, with friends or family, or with other volunteers. You will enter your observations into your Nature’s Notebook Observation Deck — allowing you to see patterns across the season! Registered participants will receive an e-mail before the training with further information.
Free, but registration requested
If you cannot make this training but are still interested in the program, please contact us at TreeSpotters@fas.harvard.edu.
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Organic Pest Management & ID for Gardeners
Saturday, August 8
3:00-4:30pm
Waltham Fields Community Farm, 240 Beaver Street, Waltham
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eba3k42e5e1a80bc&llr=47sznzbab
Cost: WFCF Members $15/Non-Members $20
Fee assistance available, contact Alex@communityfarms.org for more information
Walk the fields with Sue Scheufele from the Extension Vegetable Team and Farmer Zannah to identify common vegetable pests and discuss organic controls. Perfect for a backyard farmer or beginner gardener. Co-presented by UMass Extension.
Learn to Observe: Tree Spotters Citizen Science Launch
Saturday, August 8
9:00am–12:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Policies.aspx
Presenters: Jehane Samaha and Suzanne Mrozak
Would you like to learn more about the Arnold Arboretum's trees? Would you enjoy connecting with the Arboretum ecologists and fellow citizen science volunteers? If so, we invite you to observe trees by participating in our new “Tree Spotters" program.
This citizen science program will open a window into the Arboretum's phenology - the timing of natural events, such as the leafing out of trees in the spring and the turning of colors in the fall. Attend a free training session. All experience levels welcome.
At the training session, you will learn about phenology, explore the tracking methods we will be using, and get hands-on experience with one of the ten species of trees we are tracking. Tree Spotters will participate in the program by visiting the Arboretum two or more times a month from May through mid-November for a 1 to 2 hour tree-spotting session. You can do this on your own, with friends or family, or with other volunteers. You will enter your observations into your Nature’s Notebook Observation Deck — allowing you to see patterns across the season! Registered participants will receive an e-mail before the training with further information.
Free, but registration requested
If you cannot make this training but are still interested in the program, please contact us at TreeSpotters@fas.harvard.edu.
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Organic Pest Management & ID for Gardeners
Saturday, August 8
3:00-4:30pm
Waltham Fields Community Farm, 240 Beaver Street, Waltham
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eba3k42e5e1a80bc&llr=47sznzbab
Cost: WFCF Members $15/Non-Members $20
Fee assistance available, contact Alex@communityfarms.org for more information
Walk the fields with Sue Scheufele from the Extension Vegetable Team and Farmer Zannah to identify common vegetable pests and discuss organic controls. Perfect for a backyard farmer or beginner gardener. Co-presented by UMass Extension.
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Sunday, August 9
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Boston Data Con
Sunday, August 9
9am - 5pm
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-for-social-good-projects-aka-civic-tech-tickets-17976691769
A "Data Science for Social Good" Conference will be held the weekend of August 8th and 9th at Microsoft NERD. The conference will have two main tracks that will occur in parallel. On the top floors at MS there will be presentation from local speakers across a wide variety of organizations and DSSG topics including healthcare, education, transportation, energy, and more. On the lower 1st floor there will be workshops on R and Python.
Please note these are two separate tracks that will have their own registration. The prices for each are relatively low: a weekend presentation pass is $25 and individual workshops are $15. There are half-day passes so one can attend a workshop and lectures without having to pay the full day-pass amount. Registration is on EventBrite (below website has an RSVP page). We are able to have this be low (relative to the hundreds of dollars that other conferences charge) as Microsoft NERD is hosting us for free leaving us with primarily food, drink and administrative costs (such as the workshop instructors). Please see the following links:
http://data-con.org/
http://data-con.org/2015-presentations/
http://data-con.org/2015-workshops/
Editorial Comment: One of the projects will be working on automating some of the tasks I do by hand to produce this listing. Thanks to all who have been working on this project.
Sunday, August 9
9am - 5pm
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-for-social-good-projects-aka-civic-tech-tickets-17976691769
A "Data Science for Social Good" Conference will be held the weekend of August 8th and 9th at Microsoft NERD. The conference will have two main tracks that will occur in parallel. On the top floors at MS there will be presentation from local speakers across a wide variety of organizations and DSSG topics including healthcare, education, transportation, energy, and more. On the lower 1st floor there will be workshops on R and Python.
Please note these are two separate tracks that will have their own registration. The prices for each are relatively low: a weekend presentation pass is $25 and individual workshops are $15. There are half-day passes so one can attend a workshop and lectures without having to pay the full day-pass amount. Registration is on EventBrite (below website has an RSVP page). We are able to have this be low (relative to the hundreds of dollars that other conferences charge) as Microsoft NERD is hosting us for free leaving us with primarily food, drink and administrative costs (such as the workshop instructors). Please see the following links:
http://data-con.org/
http://data-con.org/2015-presentations/
http://data-con.org/2015-workshops/
Editorial Comment: One of the projects will be working on automating some of the tasks I do by hand to produce this listing. Thanks to all who have been working on this project.
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Monday, August 10
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Science by the Pint
Monday, August 10
7pm
The Burren, Davis Square, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
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Thursday, August 13
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BostInno's BostonFest 2015
Thursday, August 13
5:30 PM to 10:30 PM (EDT)
Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostinnos-bostonfest-2015-tickets-17387143414
Cost: $34.75 - $60.07
Each ticket includes access to entertainment, (2) drink tickets & (1) food truck item. (Price listed is price per ticket)
BostonFest hits the Seaport World Trade Center August 13th for the fourth year running, and it will be bigger and better than ever!
Celebrate living, working, and playing in the Hub with:
Local food truck favorites
Live entertainment from some of Boston's hottest entertainers including Louie Bello and Young Love & The Thrills
Lawn games
Cold brews & summer cocktails
Boston's most loved brands & companies
For larger ticket packages for your company and information on featuring your brand at this event contact sales@streetwise-media.com.
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The Future of Wearables: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, August 13
6:00 PM
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/TechinmotionBoston/events/223125217/
The wearable tech industry has really taken off in 2015. It seems as though the possibilities are endless. Tech in Motion Boston decided the best way to celebrate these possibilities would be to host a discussion on just where the future of this technology can take us! Join us at the Microsoft NERD Center on August 13th for a night with wearable tech experts, free refreshments, a cash bar, and as always, a lot of networking!
The panelists will be announced soon.
As always a huge thank you to our monthly sponsors Jobspring Partners and Workbridge Associates.
For live updates on the meetup follow us on Twitter @Tech_in_Motion, @JobspringBoston and @WorkbridgeMA. We look forward to meeting you at this fun-filled, networking event. Feel free to bring a friend along!
http://www.techinmotionevents.com
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Living Fossil and Blue Blood: The Story of the Horseshoe Crab and Human Health
Thursday, August 13
7:30 p.m.
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium, Aquarium Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106041&view=Detail
Kathryn Tuxbury, MS, DVM, Associate Veterinarian, New England Aquarium, and
John Dubczak, General Manager, Endotoxin and Microbial Detection Division, Charles River Laboratories
The American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is an ancient marine arthropod with a lineage that goes back 440 million years. It is an important species for both its pivotal place in the ecosystem and for its valuable use in everyday human health; biomedical manufacturers and conservationists alike have a vested interest in making sure this species continues to thrive and flourish. As stewards of the environment, we have a responsibility to preserve, protect and strive to achieve balance between our need for this valuable material and the livelihood of the animal that provides it. In this presentation, we’ll discuss how these animals experience challenges in and out of their natural habitat and also review the significance of their remarkable blue blood to human health and the innovative technology that further safeguards this species and assures the sustainability of this important resource.
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Friday, August 14
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Second Fridays at the MIT Museum: A Celebration of Polaroid and Edwin Land
Friday, August 14
5:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum
Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum. Enjoy performances, demonstrations, and short talks throughout our galleries. Mix and mingle; relax and unwind!
Celebrate the genius of Edwin Land's invention of instant photography through historical and technological stories told by the people who worked at Polaroid with Land. Explore the science of Polaroid innovations through hands-on activities and mini-talks. See one-of-a-kind artifacts from the museum's Polaroid Collection and even the new Historic Landmark plaque marking the location of Land's famous laboratory just around the corner from the museum.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/secondfridays.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free with Museum admission
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617.324.7313
novotney@mit.edu
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Sunday, August 16
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Swapfest
Sunday, August 16
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Streeet Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM. $4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
$4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
Sellers call 617 253 3776 for more information.
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
Cost: $6
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 18, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, MIT UHF Repeater Assn. , MIT Electronics Research Society
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
617-253-3776
w1mx-officers@mit.edu
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Thursday, August 13
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BostInno's BostonFest 2015
Thursday, August 13
5:30 PM to 10:30 PM (EDT)
Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostinnos-bostonfest-2015-tickets-17387143414
Cost: $34.75 - $60.07
Each ticket includes access to entertainment, (2) drink tickets & (1) food truck item. (Price listed is price per ticket)
BostonFest hits the Seaport World Trade Center August 13th for the fourth year running, and it will be bigger and better than ever!
Celebrate living, working, and playing in the Hub with:
Local food truck favorites
Live entertainment from some of Boston's hottest entertainers including Louie Bello and Young Love & The Thrills
Lawn games
Cold brews & summer cocktails
Boston's most loved brands & companies
For larger ticket packages for your company and information on featuring your brand at this event contact sales@streetwise-media.com.
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The Future of Wearables: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, August 13
6:00 PM
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/TechinmotionBoston/events/223125217/
The wearable tech industry has really taken off in 2015. It seems as though the possibilities are endless. Tech in Motion Boston decided the best way to celebrate these possibilities would be to host a discussion on just where the future of this technology can take us! Join us at the Microsoft NERD Center on August 13th for a night with wearable tech experts, free refreshments, a cash bar, and as always, a lot of networking!
The panelists will be announced soon.
As always a huge thank you to our monthly sponsors Jobspring Partners and Workbridge Associates.
For live updates on the meetup follow us on Twitter @Tech_in_Motion, @JobspringBoston and @WorkbridgeMA. We look forward to meeting you at this fun-filled, networking event. Feel free to bring a friend along!
http://www.techinmotionevents.com
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Living Fossil and Blue Blood: The Story of the Horseshoe Crab and Human Health
Thursday, August 13
7:30 p.m.
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium, Aquarium Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106041&view=Detail
Kathryn Tuxbury, MS, DVM, Associate Veterinarian, New England Aquarium, and
John Dubczak, General Manager, Endotoxin and Microbial Detection Division, Charles River Laboratories
The American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is an ancient marine arthropod with a lineage that goes back 440 million years. It is an important species for both its pivotal place in the ecosystem and for its valuable use in everyday human health; biomedical manufacturers and conservationists alike have a vested interest in making sure this species continues to thrive and flourish. As stewards of the environment, we have a responsibility to preserve, protect and strive to achieve balance between our need for this valuable material and the livelihood of the animal that provides it. In this presentation, we’ll discuss how these animals experience challenges in and out of their natural habitat and also review the significance of their remarkable blue blood to human health and the innovative technology that further safeguards this species and assures the sustainability of this important resource.
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Friday, August 14
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Second Fridays at the MIT Museum: A Celebration of Polaroid and Edwin Land
Friday, August 14
5:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum
Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum. Enjoy performances, demonstrations, and short talks throughout our galleries. Mix and mingle; relax and unwind!
Celebrate the genius of Edwin Land's invention of instant photography through historical and technological stories told by the people who worked at Polaroid with Land. Explore the science of Polaroid innovations through hands-on activities and mini-talks. See one-of-a-kind artifacts from the museum's Polaroid Collection and even the new Historic Landmark plaque marking the location of Land's famous laboratory just around the corner from the museum.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/secondfridays.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free with Museum admission
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617.324.7313
novotney@mit.edu
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Sunday, August 16
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Swapfest
Sunday, August 16
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Streeet Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM. $4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
$4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
Sellers call 617 253 3776 for more information.
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
Cost: $6
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 18, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, MIT UHF Repeater Assn. , MIT Electronics Research Society
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
617-253-3776
w1mx-officers@mit.edu
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Monday, August 17
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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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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
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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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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