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Science by the Pint: Exploring Our Oceans: Ecology of Our Coasts
Monday, August 10
7pm
The Burren, Davis Square, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
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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7pm Science by the Pint
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Science by the Pint: Exploring Our Oceans: Ecology of Our Coasts
Monday, August 10
7pm
The Burren, Davis Square, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Jon Grabowski and Dr. Julie Simpson
Dr. Jon Grabowski of Northeastern University studies ecology in estuarine and marine habitats. His lab asks many exciting questions relevant to our own sea shores outside Boston, and other coastal areas: How do resource availability, habitat degradation and predation risk affect population dynamics, migratory behavior, community structure, and ecosystem functioning? How can these insights inform the conservation biology of economically important species, such as lobster, cod, herring, monkfish, oysters, and seagrass? How do management initiatives such as closed areas, fishing gear modifications, and fishing reductions impact habitat recovery and sustainability of fisheries?
Dr. Julie Simpson of MIT Sea Grant studies the ecology of coastal habitats such as salt marshes. Her diverse projects includes: tracing terrestrial pollutants (metals, fertilizers, pharmacuitcals, etc) and their impacts on these habitats, modeling the effects of climate change on these habitats, measuring ability of eel grasses to store carbon, and designing autonomous vehicles (marine robots) to explore these habitats. As a member of the MIT Sea Grant’s Marine Advisory Services, Julie applies her research to local environmental and economic issues facing our coastal community, and participates in educational programs..
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
Dr. Jon Grabowski of Northeastern University studies ecology in estuarine and marine habitats. His lab asks many exciting questions relevant to our own sea shores outside Boston, and other coastal areas: How do resource availability, habitat degradation and predation risk affect population dynamics, migratory behavior, community structure, and ecosystem functioning? How can these insights inform the conservation biology of economically important species, such as lobster, cod, herring, monkfish, oysters, and seagrass? How do management initiatives such as closed areas, fishing gear modifications, and fishing reductions impact habitat recovery and sustainability of fisheries?
Dr. Julie Simpson of MIT Sea Grant studies the ecology of coastal habitats such as salt marshes. Her diverse projects includes: tracing terrestrial pollutants (metals, fertilizers, pharmacuitcals, etc) and their impacts on these habitats, modeling the effects of climate change on these habitats, measuring ability of eel grasses to store carbon, and designing autonomous vehicles (marine robots) to explore these habitats. As a member of the MIT Sea Grant’s Marine Advisory Services, Julie applies her research to local environmental and economic issues facing our coastal community, and participates in educational programs..
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
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Wednesday, August 12
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Jon Lipsky (1944 — 2011) was a Professor of Acting and Playwriting at the Boston University School of Theater for 25 years, and he spent over three decades as a luminous voice in the Boston theater community. During this time, he forged an international career as a playwright and a pioneer of dream-based theater. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lipsky worked with the Boston-based Reality Theater Collective, where he developed his shows, Living In Exile, Beginner's Luck and Master of Ecstasy, among others. Many of his plays are derived from literary sources: Homer's Iliad, the writings of Jack Kerouac, the story of King Saul in the Bible, and Jack London's Call of the Wild and White Fang. However, several of his plays are developed from personal experiences (his or other people's) and, more specifically to his personal passions, from dreams. Eight of his finest plays are contained in this two-volume collection, with accompanying essays written by several of his closest collaborators.
Bill Barclay (Editor) is the Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. A native of Weston, MA, he earned his MFA in Theater Education (Playmaking) with Jon Lipsky at the Boston University School of Theater, and collaborated with Lipsky as actor, composer, co-teacher, and co-director on many projects, notably Living in Exile, Call of the Wild, and ‘Cross the Water, a play based on dreams. Bill has held 10-year residencies with Shakespeare & Company and the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, both as actor, composer, and director. He is a past winner of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the largest grant for actors in the US, and composes regularly for the Globe, including the Globe-to-Globe Hamlet touring to every country in the world.
Jonah Lipsky (Editor) is Jon Lipsky's son, an actor and a writer. Some of his favorite acting roles include Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV, produced in 2013 by the Vineyard Playhouse, and Louis in both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, produced in the fall of 2011 by Bennington College. He has worked in journalism, most notably during the summer of 2011 when he was an intern with the Vineyard Gazette. Work on this collection has overlapped with his graduation from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, where he concentrated in psychology and drama. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he works in and manages the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Brown University.
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Thursday, August 13
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Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? presents an alternative look at the global bee crisis as it weaves together an unusual story of the struggles of bee keepers from around the world. Local snacks will be provided!
Still have questions? Contact us @ bountifulbrookline@gmail.com
The Plays of Jon Lipsky
Wednesday, August 12
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Jon Lipsky (1944 — 2011) was a Professor of Acting and Playwriting at the Boston University School of Theater for 25 years, and he spent over three decades as a luminous voice in the Boston theater community. During this time, he forged an international career as a playwright and a pioneer of dream-based theater. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lipsky worked with the Boston-based Reality Theater Collective, where he developed his shows, Living In Exile, Beginner's Luck and Master of Ecstasy, among others. Many of his plays are derived from literary sources: Homer's Iliad, the writings of Jack Kerouac, the story of King Saul in the Bible, and Jack London's Call of the Wild and White Fang. However, several of his plays are developed from personal experiences (his or other people's) and, more specifically to his personal passions, from dreams. Eight of his finest plays are contained in this two-volume collection, with accompanying essays written by several of his closest collaborators.
Bill Barclay (Editor) is the Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. A native of Weston, MA, he earned his MFA in Theater Education (Playmaking) with Jon Lipsky at the Boston University School of Theater, and collaborated with Lipsky as actor, composer, co-teacher, and co-director on many projects, notably Living in Exile, Call of the Wild, and ‘Cross the Water, a play based on dreams. Bill has held 10-year residencies with Shakespeare & Company and the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, both as actor, composer, and director. He is a past winner of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the largest grant for actors in the US, and composes regularly for the Globe, including the Globe-to-Globe Hamlet touring to every country in the world.
Jonah Lipsky (Editor) is Jon Lipsky's son, an actor and a writer. Some of his favorite acting roles include Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV, produced in 2013 by the Vineyard Playhouse, and Louis in both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, produced in the fall of 2011 by Bennington College. He has worked in journalism, most notably during the summer of 2011 when he was an intern with the Vineyard Gazette. Work on this collection has overlapped with his graduation from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, where he concentrated in psychology and drama. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he works in and manages the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Brown University.
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Thursday, August 13
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Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
Thursday, August 13
4-6 p.m
Brookline Interactive Group, 46 Tappan Street (top floor), Brookline
What's the buzz about the bees? Join Bountiful Brookline Thursday, August 13th from 4-6 p.m. as we showcase the third film in our Summer Film Series.
What's the buzz about the bees? Join Bountiful Brookline Thursday, August 13th from 4-6 p.m. as we showcase the third film in our Summer Film Series.
Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? presents an alternative look at the global bee crisis as it weaves together an unusual story of the struggles of bee keepers from around the world. Local snacks will be provided!
Still have questions? Contact us @ bountifulbrookline@gmail.com
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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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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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Info Session and Tour at CommonWealth Kitchen
Thursday, August 13
Thursday, August 13
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
CWK Pearl, 196 Quincy Street, Dorchester
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/info-session-and-tour-at-commonwealth-kitchen-tickets-17850144262
Are you looking to start a small food business and need technical assistance and a commercial kitchen space? Would contract production help your current small business scale? Come for an info session and tour at CommonWealth Kitchen!
Take a tour of our commercial shared kitchen spaces and storage areas. We'll also go over our technical assistance resources and review our application process, as well as information about the upcoming application review dates.
HARVEY WASSERMAN, renowned no nuclear journalist, activist, organizer
6:00 pm Potluck dinner
7:30 pm Harvey will discuss why the nuclear power crisis is as dangerous as the climate crisis
Radioactive Waste and Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, MA, (same model as Fukushima, Japan), including a clarion call to CLOSE PILGRIM NOW
Followed by Q&A
Harvey Wasserman helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in 1974 and has been fighting atomic reactors around the world ever since. His "Solartopian" vision for a totally green-powered Earth was introduced in 2005 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He's a Voting Member of Greenpeace USA and has spoken to audiences in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Co-sponsors: Clean Water Action; Pilgrim Coalition; Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment
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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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Are you looking to start a small food business and need technical assistance and a commercial kitchen space? Would contract production help your current small business scale? Come for an info session and tour at CommonWealth Kitchen!
Take a tour of our commercial shared kitchen spaces and storage areas. We'll also go over our technical assistance resources and review our application process, as well as information about the upcoming application review dates.
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Potlucks & Politics: Community Restaurant as Economic Pipelines
Thursday, August 13
Thursday, August 13
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
ArtRox Hub, 22 Warren Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/potlucks-politics-community-restaurant-as-economic-pipelines-tickets-17484231808
There are vibrant discussions taking place in our city around culture, access to space & mobility, local economics, and of course its election season. With that said, Future Boston would like to invite community members to come together around some of these discussions.
This session will be an open dialogue on Restaurant Incubation & Liquor Licensing
Featured Panelists:
Luther Pinckney, General Manager of Dudley Dough
Jessica Taubner, Chief Aid for Councillor Ayanna Pressley
Max Gruner, Executive Director of East Boston Main Streets
Where: ArtRoxHub!
22 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
When: Thursday, August 13th 6pm - 9pm
We believe there is no better way to bring folks together than around food so we ask that everyone bring a favorite dish to share with the group.
Come & Join us for this conversation about Restaurants, Restoration, & Race.
There are vibrant discussions taking place in our city around culture, access to space & mobility, local economics, and of course its election season. With that said, Future Boston would like to invite community members to come together around some of these discussions.
This session will be an open dialogue on Restaurant Incubation & Liquor Licensing
Featured Panelists:
Luther Pinckney, General Manager of Dudley Dough
Jessica Taubner, Chief Aid for Councillor Ayanna Pressley
Max Gruner, Executive Director of East Boston Main Streets
Where: ArtRoxHub!
22 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
When: Thursday, August 13th 6pm - 9pm
We believe there is no better way to bring folks together than around food so we ask that everyone bring a favorite dish to share with the group.
Come & Join us for this conversation about Restaurants, Restoration, & Race.
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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
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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Why the nuclear power crisis is as dangerous as the climate crisis
Friday, August 14
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
319 Arlington Street, corner of Arlington & Mt Auburn Streets, Watertown
319 Arlington Street, corner of Arlington & Mt Auburn Streets, Watertown
HARVEY WASSERMAN, renowned no nuclear journalist, activist, organizer
6:00 pm Potluck dinner
7:30 pm Harvey will discuss why the nuclear power crisis is as dangerous as the climate crisis
Radioactive Waste and Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, MA, (same model as Fukushima, Japan), including a clarion call to CLOSE PILGRIM NOW
Followed by Q&A
Harvey Wasserman helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in 1974 and has been fighting atomic reactors around the world ever since. His "Solartopian" vision for a totally green-powered Earth was introduced in 2005 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He's a Voting Member of Greenpeace USA and has spoken to audiences in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Co-sponsors: Clean Water Action; Pilgrim Coalition; Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment
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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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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
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
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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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
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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Delicious Rot: Using Fermented Foods to Unlock Secrets of the Microbial World with Benjamin Wolfe
Tuesday, August 18
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.
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
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.
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!
Change Agents: Asian American Women Activists
Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence
Wednesday, August 19
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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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
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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
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
Wednesday, August 19
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EDT)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Boston
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.
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
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
Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence
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 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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Are you a change agent, or interested in becoming one?
Join us for our 15th ASPIRE 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
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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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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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.
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
Thursday, August 20
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
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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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
Friday, August 21
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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BGF2015 Transportation Tomorrow Today Forum
Friday, August 21
Friday, August 21
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Boston City Hall - BRA Board Room - 9th Floor, One City Hall Square, Boston
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?
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.
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
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
Sunday, August 23
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
http://www.bostongreenfest.org
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Monday, August 24
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Middlesex Fells
Monday, August 24
Monday, August 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
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
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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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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