hubevents: Energy (and Other) Events

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

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Monday, September 21
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12pm Webinar - The Technology-Based Transformation of the Media Industry
12pm MASS Seminar - Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
12pm Extending Locational Marginal Cost Pricing to Retail Electricity Markets and Distributed Generation
12:10pm Beyond Restoration: Planting Coastal Infrastructure
12:15pm Meanwhile in Japan – Filming in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone
12:30pm Architecture Lecture: panel discussion on tech startups related to the built environment
1pm "City Use of Technology" featuring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
3pm Boston City Council Hearing on Gas Leaks
4pm Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle - Origin, Ingassing, Storage, and Outgassing
4pm A Precinct Too Far: Assessing the Cost of Going to the Polling Place Using Boundary Discontinuities
4pm Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
4:15pm Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?
4:15pm Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
4:30pm A New Russian Ideology: Forceful but Uncertain
5:30pm Peace for Syria: A Federal Governance Strategy
6pm Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise
6pm Fresh Ideas for Sustainable Urban Living
6pm The future of our cities – meet Thomas Geisel
7pm Science and Cooking: The Science of Sugar
7pm Film Screening: The Day After Peace

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Tuesday, September 22
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11:45am GMO Rally
12pm Jonathan Capehart - Civil Rights, Partisan Values and the Media
12pm The Next Generation of Search Engines
12pm The History of Ecological Restoration
1pm Public hearing on GMO labeling
3pm Adapting to Extreme Events: Household Response to Floods in Urban Areas
3pm Communities in Networks
3pm Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales - Ensemble-based data assimilation and parameter estimation
3:30pm HBeeS Honey Tasting
4pm Science, Technology, and Innovation in China
4pm The Future of Arab Upheavals
4pm The Social Physics of Wellbeing
6pm Supply Chain Logistics in the Developing World
7pm Discussion & Signing with Harvard Alum Evan Thomas: "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
7pm An engaging reading and discussion with WILLIAM POWERS on new book: 'NEW SLOW CITY'
7pm Charles Murray

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Wednesday, September 23
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9am 2015 Summit on the Future of Europe
11:45am Obama's Clean Power Plan: The Legal Path Forward
12pm Inventing a Smarter Future: Intelligence Everywhere
12pm Lethal Force and National Security: A Case Study at the Intersection of Policy, Law, and Technological Change
12:10pm The thermodynamics of the turbulent ocean and of ice; what we know and what things are still a puzzle
12:30pm Revising the Article 9? The Constitution and History in Prime Minister Abe’s Security Strategy
4:30pm Hugh Lauder: Education and the Death of Human Capital
5pm What Now? The Iran Nuclear Deal
5:30pm 2015 Cleantech Energy Storage Finance Forum
5:30pm authors@mit with César Hidalgo: Why Information Grows
6pm Emerging Technologies that Test Ethical Boundaries
6pm How is Innovation Improving Home Healthcare?
7pm The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
7pm Energy Revolution
7pm Quantum Analytical: Seeing and Hearing the Chemistry of Art

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Thursday, September 24
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12pm Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Climate Change
2pm Cybersecurity@CSAIL Lecture Series: Security Challenges in the Internet of Things
3pm Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: What the Federal Court got wrong in Oracle v. Google
4pm FINDING NEEDLES IN HAYSTACKS: Chemical control of silicon and TiO2
5pm U.S. Department of Energy 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review
5pm Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South
6pm BSA Committee on Resilient Environments
6pm Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium
6pm 2015 Minute to Pitch It
6:30pm The Challenge of Change: The Future of Havana
7pm Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures
7pm World Premiere Performance: The Hidden Code

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Friday, September 25
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9am The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable presents: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities; and Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
9am Societal Impact through Computing Research
10am Houghton Lecture - The Fundamental Thermodynamic Relation and the First Law of Thermodynamics
10am 4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference
12pm Organics in the Atmosphere and the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change
12:30pm Health in the Era of Sustainable Development
12:30pm Funding Social Change
1pm Creative Entrepreneurs Discussion Series: David Friend
4pm Talks by the Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellows
6:30pm Taking Back What We Already Own: A Forum On Social Ownership

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Saturday, September 26
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12pm The Beantown Jazz Festival
12:10pm MA Pirate Party Freedom Rally
3pm What The Fluff?!! - 10th Annual Fluff Festival

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Sunday, September 27
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10am Urban Agricultural Fair
12pm TEDxSomerville 2015: REINVENT
9:30pm Lunar Eclipse Viewing

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Monday, September 28
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1pm Future of Solar Design
12pm MASS Seminar - Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
12pm Financial Arbitrage and Efficient Dispatch in Wholesale Electricity Markets
12:15pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
4pm Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
4pm From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
5:30pm Solve Talks at Google: REBALANCING INEQUALITY
7pm MIT Energy Week: Libby Wayman, Department of Energy

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Tuesday, September 29
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12pm The Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity Study: Towards a User Centric Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
12pm Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
12:30pm The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
2pm Speak UP for Clean Energy
3pm Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity waves from moist baroclinic jets and fronts
3pm Materials Lab Workshop: Light
4:30pm Fall Lecture Series: Leonard Miller – A Personal Overview of U.S. Water Pollution Control from a Co-Founder of the EPA
4:30pm Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
5pm An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
6pm Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
6pm Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
6pm African Women: Changing the World!
7pm MIT Energy Week: Introduction to our Flagship Events - Energy Conference, Energy Prize, Energy Night
7pm The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
7pm Merchants of Doubt Film Screening with Live Q & A

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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com

Miami by Joan Didion

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/09/miami-by-joan-didion.html

We Are Market Basket

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/09/we-are-market-basket.html

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Monday, September 21
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Webinar - The Technology-Based Transformation of the Media Industry
Monday, September 21
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/the-technology-based-transformation-of-the-media-industry/

Speaker: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD, Visiting Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Just about every industry has been transformed by the relentless advances of digital technologies that have taken place over the past 20 years. But, like few others, the media industry continues to be severely disrupted by the digital revolution. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced, delivered, and consumed, to the sources of revenue and profits. Globalization, deregulation, technological innovation, and the convergence of previously separate industries such as entertainment, communications, and consumer electronics has led to a highly turbulent media landscape.

This talk will explore some of the major changes taking place in the media industry, with particular emphasis on the major negative, as well as positive, impacts of these changes. The presentation will examine the similarly transformative changes that are taking place in other industries and will map out the innovations and cultural changes required to help companies not only survive but thrive amid such major technology-based transformations.

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

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

Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/the-technology-based-transformation-of-the-media-industry/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: Virtual -- see link above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu

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MASS Seminar - Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
Monday, September 21
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)

MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu

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Extending Locational Marginal Cost Pricing to Retail Electricity Markets and Distributed Generation
Monday, September 21
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Michael Caramanis, Professor, Boston University, will discuss "" as part of HKS's Energy Policy Seminar Series. This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.

ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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Beyond Restoration: Planting Coastal Infrastructure

Monday, September 21

12:10PM
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall,1300 Centre Street, Boston

Rosetta Sarah Elkin, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

ABSTRACT: Coastal planting strategies offer few resolutions within a variety of conditions, and tend to be over invested in replacing iconic species or renewing former ecologies, rather than creating a functional coastal space that acknowledges cultural needs and cycles of disturbance. Implicit in these ecological land types, are the nostalgic ambitions that function within native or restorative environmentalism. As a result, plants are treated as an afterthought, a conditioning of the surface, a horticultural topping or at times an inevitability of standard construction methods. As a landscape architect, I will discuss the potential of using plants as a design agent in coastal infrastructure and the need to reframe the issues in order to move beyond restrictive procedures associated with conservation or restoration.

Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.
Arnold Arboretum Seminar Series
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/

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Meanwhile in Japan – Filming in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone
Monday, September 21
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 OXford Street, Cambridge

Thorsten Trimpop, Fellow, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing

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

Thorsten Trimpop is a filmmaker from Germany currently based in Cambridge, MA. He is completing work on his new documentary film, The New Normal, a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone. His first feature film, The Irrational Remains, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 and won numerous awards. His work interweaves elements from fictional and documentary film traditions. He currently teaches filmmaking and film studies at Massachusetts College of Art and Boston University. At MIT he will be working on a digital storytelling project that touches on issues of empire, ecology, and the human obsession with beauty.

The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.

There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.

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

Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-21-161500-2015-09-21-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.hSwNTJ2b.dpuf

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Architecture Lecture: panel discussion on tech startups related to the built environment
Monday, September 21
12:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Les Norford, moderator; Jaime Gagne, Principal Building Scientist - KGS Buildings; Sam Shames, Co-Founder - Wristify; David Quinn, Co-Founder - coUrbanize; David Warsinger, CTO - Coolify

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Building Technology Group Lecture Series.

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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"City Use of Technology" featuring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
WHEN Mon., Sep. 21, 2015, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 100 North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
CONTACT INFO strothen@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will be speaking to Professor Susan Crawford's "City Use of Technology" class on Monday, Sept. 21 at 1pm in Austin North. The session is open to all.
2015 has been a stunning year in telecom policy in the US. Led by Chairman Wheeler, the FCC has preempted state laws restricting cities from choosing whether to call for competitive fiber networks, blocked a proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, reclassified high speed Internet access as a regulated service, adopted Open Internet rules, adopted rules for unlicensed uses of TV white spaces, hugely expanded funding for fiber to schools and libraries, and energetically used its enforcement powers to go after abusive acts by regulated entities.

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Boston City Council Hearing on Gas Leaks

Monday, September 21

3:00 PM
Boston City Hall, Boston

RSVP at http://www.massclimateaction.net/boston_city_council_hearing_on_gas_leaks

The Boston City Council is holding a hearing on our gas leaks crisis, and BCAN wants you to come! This is a crucial step in the campaign to stop the gas leaks now and stop new regional gas pipelines.

Gas leaks: the issue is growing
Media coverage of the issue has been excellent this past month, starting with aFRONT PAGE Globe article also covered by WBUR, and followed by letters in the Globe here, here, here, and here. Then BostonCAN’s Becca Tumposky BostonCAN’s highlighted climate justice and gas leaks in a live discussion with Kelly Bates on NECN’s Broadside. Gas leaks are gathering steam!

We’ve also seen great articles on new regional gas pipelines and why we don’t need them. Ann Berwick, former commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities, wrote an August 17 Globe op-ed titled “More gas pipelines may not be the energy answer,” and an August 24 article declared “Need for more gas pipelines is disputed.” A new report said “that the real beneficiaries of these major pipeline projects would be companies looking to export the gas to other countries. The extra capacity would be needed only on the coldest days....Meanwhile, electric customers could end up with the tab.”

And Peabody officials said “no thanks” when Kinder Morgan offered the city $400,000 in new tax money for putting their pipeline along a greenway and in the Ipswich River.

The state legislature will hold a hearing on major energy bills Tuesday, September 29th at the State House in Gardner Auditorium from 1-5 pm. Stay tuned – and spread the word about our gas leaks hearing September 21

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Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle - Origin, Ingassing, Storage, and Outgassing

Monday, Septembe

4:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Dr. Rajdeep Dasgupta, Rice University
Abstract: Earth is unique among the terrestrial planets in our solar system in having a fluid envelope that fosters life. The secrets behind Earth’s habitable climate are well-tuned cycles of carbon (C) and other volatiles. While on time-scales of ten to thousands of years the chemistry of fluids in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere is dictated by fluxes of carbon between near surface reservoirs, over hundreds of millions to billions of years it is maintained by chemical interactions of carbon between Earth’s interior, more specifically the mantle, and the exosphere. This is because of the fact that the estimated total mass of C in the mantle is greater than that observed in the exosphere and the average residence time of carbon in the mantle is between 1 and 4 Ga. But how did Earth’s mantle attain and maintain the inventory of mantle carbon over geologic time? And is the residence time of carbon in the mantle, as constrained by the present-day fluxes, a true reflection of carbon ingassing and outgassing rates throughout Earth’s history? Also, when in the planet’s history did its mantle carbon inventory become established and how did it change through geologic time? The answers to these questions are important because of carbon’s importance in a number of fields of Earth sciences. In this presentation, I will attempt to shed light onto some of these topics.

EPS Colloquium Series

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-21-200000/eps-colloquium-series#sthash.rSbgsjTf.dpuf

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A Precinct Too Far: Assessing the Cost of Going to the Polling Place Using Boundary Discontinuities
Monday, September 21
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu

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Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
Monday, September 21
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Google
As data plays an ever larger role in society, there’s a critical need for tools to help people understand and reason about complex information. Our research seeks to make data visualization--originally a tool for experts--accessible to everyone. To succeed as a mass medium, visualization must be simple to use, easy to share, and suited to the kinds of data that people care about. We will discuss these challenges and projects which address them. First, we’ll present work that explores the collaborative dimension of visualization. Second, we’ll consider socially important forms of data such as text and images that don’t fit traditional visualization approaches. We present new techniques to provide insight into media from books to photographs. Finally, a radical level of simplicity in both authoring and consumption is required for visualization to succeed on a massive scale. We’ll illustrate solutions to these challenges with data sets ranging from wind flows to global cyberattacks. This approach to visualization points the way to a future where every citizen can fully participate in a data-driven society.

Speaker Bio: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are the leaders of Google's “Big Picture” data visualization research group, which invents new ways for people to understand and explore data. They are well known for their contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems they’ve created are used daily by millions of people.

Before joining Google, the two founded Flowing Media, Inc., which focused on media and consumer-oriented projects. Prior to Flowing Media, they led IBM's Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking public visualization platform Many Eyes, which introduced visualization to millions of users worldwide.
Viégas has been named by multiple publications as one of the most influential women in technology. Her visualizations of email and online conversations led the way for new social media interfaces. Wattenberg, as a director of R&D at Dow Jones, created some of the earliest visualizations for digital journalism. Viégas holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab; Wattenberg has a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. Their academic work has won multiple “best paper” accolades, and they’ve received several top design and technology awards. Their visualization-based artwork has been exhibited worldwide, and is part of the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu

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Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?
Monday, September 21
4:15 pm
Radcliffe Center, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele in the 2015–2016 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
Transforming the relationship between men and women remains a global challenge. In Africa the challenge is of epic proportions: a life-and-death struggle that undermines the potential of the continent to take its rightful place at the table of the global community. African women, the pillars of their families and communities, have yet to effectively take on the role of liberating themselves and thereby liberate the men of Africa. What will it take?

This event is free and open to the public.

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele, BI '90, of South Africa, has been a student activist, a medical doctor, a community development activist, a researcher, a university executive, and a global public servant. She is now an active citizen in both the public and private sectors.
Ramphele is the author of several books and publications on socioeconomic issues in South Africa. She has received numerous national and international awards acknowledging her scholarship and had a leading role in spearheading projects for disadvantaged people in South Africa and elsewhere. She has served on many boards over the years.

In January 2013, Ramphele became the leader of Agang SA, a party for all South Africans which won two seats in the national election held in May 2014. Post election Ramphele retired from party politics to return to her role as an active citizen.

Alumna and former Radcliffe College trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild ’40 and her husband Robert Rothschild ’39 established the annual Rothschild Lecture at the Schlesinger Library in 1989. Distinguished speakers in the series have included Gail Collins, Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Julio Frenk, Linda Greenhouse, Anita Hill, Samantha Power, Adrienne Rich, Amartya Sen, Reva Siegel, and Maxine Singer.

More at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-mamphela-ramphele-lecture

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Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
WHEN Mon., Sep. 21, 2015, 4:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for Government and International Studies, Room S-020
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
SPEAKER(S) Anders Aslund, Atlantic Council
Discussant: Gene Fishel
COST Free and open to the public
LINK www.huri.harvard.edu

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A New Russian Ideology: Forceful but Uncertain
Monday, September 21
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Maria Lipman, Political Analyst and Journalist; Editor-in-Chief, Pro et Contra, Carnegie Moscow Center

Focus On Russia

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu

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Peace for Syria: A Federal Governance Strategy
Monday, September 21
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Tufts, Mugar 200, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VZwGOx5_9bc9iS8Rwq9gy8m9-F9_J_A-2jr_qxCmnPk/viewform?c=0&w=1

With Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam
Founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute, physicist and systems scientist
And Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU's School of Engineering and Visiting Fellow of The Fletcher School based at The Fares Center

In this presentation we will discuss a program that Nassim Taleb, Nadim Shehadi and I are planning on developing a roadmap toward stability and peace in Syria based upon a more distributed governance / federal system. Part of the motivation is the work we have done on ethnic violence that suggests certain conditions of patchy ethnic geography promote ethnic conflict and can be mitigated by subnational political boundaries that provide some level of local autonomy. Individual areas might be either homogeneous or heterogeneous in enthic/linguistic/religious composition. The federal system of cantons in Switzerland is a useful model for this approach. More generally, there is a desire to consider how federal systems that allow more local autonomy can serve to improve local, national (and global) decision making. This is consistent with some of the on-the-ground local governance developments in Syria, including those in Rojava. A few references to my work in this area are available at: http://www.necsi.edu/research/ethnicviolence/ and a writeup of the basic framing for Syria is here: http://www.necsi.edu/research/social/syria/

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Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise
Monday, September 21
6 pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Jerry Mitrovica, Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Conjecture about the causes, magnitude, and dramatic geographic variability of global sea level change over the past century has provoked contention within the scientific community and misinformation in the general public. Jerry Mitrovica will provide an overview of the many datasets, including archaeological evidence, geological observations, and satellite-based measurements that have confirmed both the anomalous nature of recent sea level change and its inexorable acceleration. He will demonstrate how the geographic variability in sea level can be used not only to estimate the average sea level change worldwide, but also to “fingerprint” the sources of this change.

Free and open to the public.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/ancient-eclipses-roman-fish-tanks-and-enigma-global-sea-level-rise#sthash.Wub2xSXs.dpuf

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Fresh Ideas for Sustainable Urban Living
Monday, September 21

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)

Green City Growers, 600 Windsor Place, Somerville

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/fresh-ideas-for-sustainable-urban-living-registration-18397076150
Cost: $9.43

Join us for an inspiring presentation and conversation meant for anyone trying to make urban life more people and planet-friendly.
Can we--against the odds--incubate a new city culture that’s slower, saner, and fit for the future? Be part of this lively discussion which will be led by local and internationally based speakers including:

William Powers, award-winning author of New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute.

Janet Morgenstern Passani, MBA, founder of Jute Marketing and BostonEco, growing brands, ideas and communities for a healthier, sustainable world for over 20 years.

Ali Berlow, author of The Food Activist Handbook, co-publisher of Edible Vineyard magazine, and former founding Executive Director of Island Grown Initiative, a non-profit on Martha's Vineyard that supports the island's small family farms and farmers.

Jessie Banhazl, founder of Green City Growers, transforming unused Boston spaces into thriving urban farms (including Fenway Farms), creating access to nutritious food, and revitalizing city landscapes and inspiring self-sufficiency.

See you there!
6:00 p.m. Networking and munchies
6:30 p.m. Presentation starts
7:30 p.m. Book signing and networking

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The future of our cities – meet Thomas Geisel
Monday, September 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-our-cities-meet-thomas-geisel-tickets-18418804139

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Science and Cooking: The Science of Sugar
Monday, September 21
7pm
Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Joanna Chang

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Film Screening: The Day After Peace
Monday, September 21
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Hostelling International Boston, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-the-day-after-peace-tickets-18418365828

In recognition of The International Day of Peace HI-Boston will be showing "The Day After Peace". This documentary follows Jeffery Gilley who's vision for "peace day" has now been reconized by the UN on September 21st- now known as the international day of peace. Join us for dinner and discussion after this 30 minute film screening!

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Tuesday, September 22
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GMO Rally

Tuesday, September 22

11:45am

Boston Common near the Brewer Fountain, Boston

RSVP at https://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=145016&id=132321-3460941-aVAbBzx

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Jonathan Capehart - Civil Rights, Partisan Values and the Media
Tuesday, September 22
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Jonathan Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board and writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog. He is also an MSNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Hardball and other dayside programs.

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The Next Generation of Search Engines
Tuesday, September 22

12:00 pm
Harvard, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor Conference Room, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Rudin#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Rudin at 12:00 pm

with Cynthia Rudin, Associate Professor of Statistics at MIT
From Cynthia
Hi Everyone! My goal for this year is to anticipate the next generation of search engines.

I say that the current generation of search engines just tells you where to find information (returns a list of webpages), where the next generation of search engines find the information for you (reads the webpages and returns content!).

I would like to cordially invite you to a brainstorming session on what the next generation of search engines might look like.

Challenges for the audience:
What are some cases where Google fails miserably?
Do you sometimes want to find the answer to a complicated type of question? How do you envision the answer being presented?
Do you have ideas of what the capabilities will be for the next generation of search engines?
What are some lessons we can learn from search engines from the past?

This will be mainly audience participation. Audience members are invited to *bring one slide*. Please send it in advance to rudin@mit.edu.

As an introduction to this topic, I will describe "Growing A List" which is a search engine for the problem of "set expansion."

See you there!

About Cynthia
Cynthia Rudin is an associate professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology associated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Sloan School of Management, and directs the Prediction Analysis Lab. Her interests are in machine learning, data mining, applied statistics, and knowledge discovery (Big Data). Her application areas are in energy grid reliability, healthcare, and computational criminology. Previously, Prof. Rudin was an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University, and prior to that, an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at NYU. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University at Buffalo where she received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Senior Award in Sciences and Mathematics, and three separate outstanding senior awards from the departments of physics, music, and mathematics. She received a PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University. She is the recipient of the 2013 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, an NSF CAREER award, and was named as one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by Poets and Quants in 2015. Her work has been featured in Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Times of London, Fox News (Fox & Friends), the Toronto Star, WIRED Science, U.S. News and World Report, Slashdot, CIO magazine, Boston Public Radio, and on the cover of IEEE Computer. She is presently the chair-elect for the INFORMS Data Mining Section, and currently serves on committees for DARPA, the National Academy of Sciences, the US Department of Justice, and the American Statistical Association.

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The History of Ecological Restoration

Tuesday, September 22

12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Science Center Room 469, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Fiona Smyth, Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard; and Laura Martin, HUCE Environmental Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard,

History of Science Seminar Series
http://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/news-events/departmental-seminar

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-22-160000-2015-09-22-173000/history-science-seminar-series#sthash.Iart7a7K.dpuf

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Public hearing on GMO labeling
Tuesday, September 22
1pm
Massachusetts State House, Gardner Auditorium, Boston
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H9UkQdhrHFsERwQKu%2BQSbs6o%2Bbwp%2FDKO

On September 22, 2015 at 1pm in Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House, the Agriculture Committee will hear arguments for and against transparency in GMO food labeling. This is an absolutely critical opportunity to make your voice heard and to sent a strong message to state legislators:

We need to know what we?re eating and we need the Massachusetts legislature to pass mandatory GMO labeling THIS SESSION!

The Massachusetts GMO labeling bill (H.3242 ) is the most popular bill in the State House, with over 75% of the legislature signed on as cosponsors. We could soon join with Connecticut, Maine and Vermont in setting the standard for national mandatory GMO labeling. But if it?s going to come up for a vote this session, we need to turn out with undeniable energy and make this a priority for legislators this year. With 30 new GMO crops in the pipeline and Monsanto working to pass the federal DARK Act, we don't have time to waste.

Please help us fill up the hearing room (which seats 600) with GMO labeling supporters. Click here for more info
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AkwYb5GR%2BAOi1OJskg0Yk86o%2Bbwp%2FDKO
and to sign up to attend the public hearing. We are also collecting testimony to present to the committee. www.marighttoknow.org/publichearing

"The DARK ACT passing the House shines a big, bright light on our opposition and the lengths they will go to to keep us in the DARK about what we are eating. This bright light on who controls our government and who our elected officials are actually representing will galvanize the grassroots. We did not lose today. We gained strength and momentum and now more people will be shaken from their complacency to stand and fight with us."

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Adapting to Extreme Events: Household Response to Floods in Urban Areas
Tuesday, September 22
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm

Maura Allaire, Post-doctoral Researcher, Columbia University, (Tufts BS)

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Communities in Networks
Tuesday, September 22
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Harvard, Lyman 425, 17A Oxford Street, Cambridge

Peter Mucha (UNC)

A prominent method for studying various networks across different disciplines is the algorithmic detection of tightly connected groups of nodes, known as communities. Recently, there has been increased interest in networks with multiple types of relationships, that change in time, or that network together multiple kinds of networks. We demonstrate that appropriate handling of such "multilayer" networks in identifying communities provides a variety of new insights. Examples discussed in this talk include online social networks, features of pathogenic E.coli, and political data including recent results about international relations networks. No previous knowledge about networks will be assumed.

Widely Applied Mathematics Seminar

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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales - Ensemble-based data assimilation and parameter estimation

Tuesday, September 22

3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State University

Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127

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HBeeS Honey Tasting
Tuesday, September 22
3:30–5 pm
Harvard Business School, Batten Hall, Hive 201, 125 Western Avenue, Allston

Learn more about the honeybees of Batten Hives, brought to you by Harvard Business School Operations and the Student Sustainability Associates. Hear from honeybee experts, Best Bees and sample delicious, local raw honey.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbees-honey-tasting#sthash.ZgvCD6DO.dpuf

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Science, Technology, and Innovation in China
WHEN Tue., Sep. 22, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This talk is sponsored by the Provost’s Office and co-sponsored by the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
SPEAKER(S) Professor Bai Chunli
CONTACT INFO slabauve@math.harvard.edu
DETAILS Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President Bai will discuss the roles of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in China, especially as they relate to the Chinese national strategy of Innovation-Driven Development.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/science-technology-and-innovation-china?delta=0

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The Social Physics of Wellbeing
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
4:00pm - 5:30pm
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Alex "Sandy" Pentland
For the last decade, Sandy Pentland's research has investigated what can be learned from continuous monitoring of human behavior. What has emerged is a very different picture of healthy and unhealthy human life, one that acknowledges the primacy of social relationships over internal state, and is more rooted in ethology, field biology and evolution than than in medicine or cell biology. This view of the human condition has allowed us to not only monitor human wellbeing from currently available information sources, but to predict impending problems and to re-establish healthy behavior patterns.

Biography: Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland helped to create and direct the Media Lab, where he directs the Human Dynamics research group and leads the Connection Science initiative. One of the most-cited scientists in the world, Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, and a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance, and the Institute for Data-Driven Design. Pentland and his students pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics (Penguin Press, 2014) and Honest Signals (MIT Press, 2008). He received his BS in computer science from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in computer science, psychology, and AI from MIT. Pentland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a leader within the World Economic Forum, and has received numerous awards and prizes including the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.

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The Future of Arab Upheavals
WHEN Tue., Sep. 22, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South 020, Belfer Case Study Rm, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Legal Studies Program
SPEAKER(S) His Excellency Dr. Mahmoud Gebril, Former Prime Minister of Libya
Moderated by: Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Associate Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/future-arab-upheavals

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Supply Chain Logistics in the Developing World

Tuesday, September 22

6pm

MIT, Building E19-310, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OCB_3yxu1jZVfDIj4VlecUsOjovaWCBg9_1Qze-GAKg/viewform

Tim Breitbach from the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab speak about supply chain logistics in developing countries -- please RSVP hereand check out bio/details below (along with additional events and opportunities).

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Discussion & Signing with Harvard Alum Evan Thomas: "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
WHEN Tue., Sep. 22, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Coop
SPEAKER(S) Evan Thomas
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Karen Porter
DETAILS "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
Everyone thinks they know Richard Nixon. His “Tricky Dick,” persona has come to define his perception. Evan Thomas, former editor at large of Newsweek and bestselling author of "Ike's Bluff" and "Sea of Thunder," disposes of this cartoonish version of Nixon and creates a three-dimensional portrait of a complex man filled with both light and darkness.
LINK www.thecoop.com

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An engaging reading and discussion with WILLIAM POWERS on new book: 'NEW SLOW CITY'
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Trident Booksellers, 338 Newbury Street, Boston

William Powers, author of the "green living" bestseller Twelve by Twelve, reading from his new book, New Slow City, followed by a discussion and signing. COSPONSORS include: Slow Food USA and World Policy Institute. After spending a season living off the grid in a twelve-by-twelve-foot cabin in North Carolina, Powers takes his sustainable, "slow" living approach to one of the busiest cities in the world: New York. Eschewing the burdensome culture of "Total Work," chucking 80% of his belongings and scaling down to a 20-hour workweek, Powers and his wife explore the viability of living simply in a demanding urban environment — an inspiration to those who are trying to make city life more people- and planet-friendly.

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Charles Murray
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Science Center Auditorium B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground, which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His most recent book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (Crown Forum, 2015) urges Americans to stem governmental overreach and use America's unique civil society to put government back in its place.

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Wednesday, September 23
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2015 Summit on the Future of Europe
WHEN Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 9a.m. - 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
SPEAKER(S) Multiple speakers and panels
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.496.4303 ext. 260
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/page/summit

SCHEDULE https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/files/events/summit/2015-schedule.pdf

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Obama's Clean Power Plan: The Legal Path Forward
Wednesday, September 23
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program

HKS Business & Government Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar?utm_source=MRCBG%20eblast%20list&utm_campaign=428f2fe787-eblast_9_8_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_68853e8465-428f2fe787-97238273#nextevent

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-23-154500-2015-09-23-170000/hks-business-government-seminar-series#sthash.a2keuCYS.dpuf

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Inventing a Smarter Future: Intelligence Everywhere
Wednesday, September 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Michael Mayberry, Intel

MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu

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Lethal Force and National Security: A Case Study at the Intersection of Policy, Law, and Technological Change
Wednesday, September 23
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Robert Chesney

Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar Series

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu

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The thermodynamics of the turbulent ocean and of ice; what we know and what things are still a puzzle

Wednesday, September 23

12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Trevor McDougall (UNSW)

Sack Lunch Seminars (SLS)
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Darius Collazo
617-253-2127
dcollazo@mit.edu

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Revising the Article 9? The Constitution and History in Prime Minister Abe’s Security Strategy
WHEN Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Naoyuki Agawa, professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.
Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming

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Hugh Lauder: Education and the Death of Human Capital
WHEN Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larsen 106, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Civic & Moral Education Initiative and the New Civics Early Career Scholars Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
SPEAKER(S) Hugh Lauder, professor of education and political economy, University of Bath
Commentary from HGSE Professors Bob Schwartz and Richard J. Murnane
CONTACT INFO bdm784@mail.harvard.edu
DETAILS Human Capital Theory (HCT) has dominated thinking about the relationship between education and the labour market for orthodox economists, policy makers and parents. However, key aspects of this relationship are now in doubt, theoretically and empirically. This is because many of the assumptions made by HCT with respect to education, productivity and income no longer hold. Since education policy has been justified by policy makers as enabling national competitiveness and equality of opportunity, the crisis in HCT will have a major impact on education. The role of education and related questions of equality and social justice need to be fundamentally reconsidered.
LINK cmei-harvard.ning.com

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What Now? The Iran Nuclear Deal
Wednesday, September 23
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Speaker: Lisbeth Gronlund Union of Concerned Scientists; John Tirman Executive Director; MIT Center for International Studies
This discussion will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the agreements and the security implications of Congress's decision to support or reject the deal. This event will prove to be informative and provocative. Refreshments will be provided. Please join us!

Web site: radius.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Chapter of Global Zero, MIT Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu

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2015 Cleantech Energy Storage Finance Forum
Wednesday, September 23,

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-cleantech-energy-storage-finance-forum-tickets-17897066608
Cost: $35.00

Please join us on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM for a Cleantech Energy Storage Finance Forum at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, located on the 3rd floor, at 63 Franklin St., Boston, MA 02110. Organized by Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster and North Shore InnoVentures, the Forum will feature short "pitches" from eight startup companies in this market space and a panel presentation including the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, SolarCity, and NRG Energy, Inc

Welcome - Steve Pike, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Introductions – Paul Aresta, Program Manager, Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster
Company Pitches – Tom Kinneman, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, North Shore InnoVentures, Inc (Moderator)
Gilman Industries

Conamix

Advent Technologies, Inc

Safe Hydrogen

Klenergy

Sustaintable Innovations, LLC

Helix Power Corp.

Vcharge

Energy Storage Interview – Tibor Toth, Managing Director of Investments, MassCEC (Moderator)
Judith Judson – Commissioner, Massachusetts Dept. of Energy Resources

Betty Watson - Deputy Director of Policy and Electricity Markets, SolarCity

Bill Bullock - Director - Business Development, NRG Energy, Inc. Q&A and Networking Reception

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authors@mit with César Hidalgo: Why Information Grows
Wednesday, September 23
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Speaker: César Hidalgo
Please join us as we celebrate a compelling new book from MIT associate professor César Hidalgo, leader of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab. In "Why Information Grows" Hidalgo draws on physics, complexity science, and network theory, to offer a fascinating portrait of the processes of information and economic growth.

"Why Information Grows" is published by Basic Books, 2015.

Open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

authors@mit
authors@mit is a lecture series cosponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The MIT Press Bookstore, MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: The MIT Press Bookstore
253-5249
books@mit.edu

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Emerging Technologies that Test Ethical Boundaries
Wednesday, September 23
6:00 PM
Akamai Technologies, 150 Broadway (aka 8 Kendall Center), Cambridge

Join us on Wednesday, September 23 as Mark Chodnowsky from Alstrom (GE) discusses the ethical implications of new technology in intelligence work. A wide range of tools are becoming (or will become) accessible to CI analysts in the next decade, and those tools will provide unprecedented data collection and analysis capability. In addition, changing individual and societal expectations will influence legal and ethical boundaries. Businesses and the CI community must be vigilant so that these new technologies are used effectively, yet within the evolving legal and ethical boundaries. Mark will highlight some of these new tools, issues, and challenges.

Mark Chodnowsky is currently leading the CI program at Alstom Power. Previously he was SVP at Fuld & Co. where he led three practice areas – IT, Manufacturing, and Consumer Goods. As a consultant for nearly 25 years, he has conducted and managed over 500 research projects and 50 war game exercises for numerous leading multinational corporations. Mark has pioneered several analytical frameworks including competitor strategy mapping and was the originator of the B-School war game championships. He has a BE from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

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How is Innovation Improving Home Healthcare?

Wednesday September 23

6:00 PM to 8:45 PM EDT
Mass Challenge, 23 Drydock Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebg5wc2e19b85939&oseq=&c=&ch=

Free register with code MC915

Health Innovators has ranged an exciting, informative event that features three panelists who will share their thoughts on how innovation is improving home healthcare.

Contact Health Innovators
617-651-1457
info@healthinno.org

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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Wednesday, September 23
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip, for a discussion of her latest book, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency.

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.

This is the book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.
"Filled with the intrigue and high stakes of a spy novel, Jacobsen's history of DARPA is as much a fascinating testament to human ingenuity as it is a paean to endless industrial warfare and the bureaucracy of the military-industrial complex."—Kirkus Reviews

"A fascinating and unsettling portrait of the secretive U.S. government agency....Jacobsen walks a fine line in telling the story of the agency and its innovations without coming across as a cheerleader or a critic, or letting the narrative devolve into a salacious tell-all. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable, making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most Americans know next to nothing about." —Publishers Weekly

Featured event books will be for sale at the event for 20% off. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

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Energy Revolution

Wednesday, September 23

7:00PM

Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Mara Prentiss, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard
We can launch an energy revolution that drastically decreases CO2 emissions and other deleterious consequences associated with fossil fuel burning. Energy extraction can be cut by more than 50% by converting fossil fuel burning engines to electric motors and replacing fossil fuel burning power plants with renewable sources. In addition, energy efficient systems and improvements in computation and connectivity can significantly reduce energy consumption and lower energy costs. These goals can be achieved using commercially available technologies. New technologies may offer even greater opportunities.

Science Research Public Lecture Series

Contact Name: science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-23-230000/science-research-public-lecture-series#sthash.fJcuqj0e.dpuf

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Quantum Analytical: Seeing and Hearing the Chemistry of Art
Wednesday, September 23
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Armenise Auditorium

More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/

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Thursday, September 24
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Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Climate Change
Thursday, September 24
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Matthew Nisbet, Northeastern

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Cybersecurity@CSAIL Lecture Series: Security Challenges in the Internet of Things

Thursday, September 24
2:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 32-D463, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Thomas Hardjono, Sanjay Sarma, Ned Smith
The emergence of the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) where constrained devices are operating in constrained environments brings a number of challenges in the area of security, identity and data privacy. Many existing security protocols and solutions were previously designed for client-server environments with rich computing resources. As such, many of these solutions are proving to be too burdensome for constrained devices with limited computing power. Furthermore, for new environments such as the Smart Home, there are the additional issues of personal data privacy, owner-centric control over the devices and the data streams they generate. In this Lecture Series we discuss a number of security issues related to constrained environments from an industry perspective. On-boarding of devices and taking ownership represents a new set of problems that must be addressed for successful consumer adoption of the devices. Remote access to home-based devices also presents new challenging issues. Consent and permissions which device-owners grant to service providers and other third parties requires ongoing management, with suitable audit and accountability features. A core security building block for constrained devices is cryptographic key management.

Cybersecurity@CSAIL Lecture Series

Web site: http://bit.ly/1HLpN0Y
Open to: the general public
Cost: No cost
Sponsor(s): CSAIL Alliance Program
For more information, contact: Jessica Gibson
617- 324-7302
industry@csail.mit.edu

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Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: What the Federal Court got wrong in Oracle v. Google
Thursday, September 24

3:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Hauser Hall, Room 104

with Pam Samuelson
The Federal Circuit’s May 2014 decision holding Java application programming interfaces are copyrightable has potentially far-reaching implications with respect to interoperability and computer-to-computer communications via APIs. More broadly, the decision raises questions about the scope of copyright protection for functional elements of computer code. Renowned copyright scholar and expert Pam Samuelson of University of California at Berkeley will share her views on Oracle v. Google in a talk that addresses the court’s approach to the case and the consequences of its decision. Refreshments will be served.

This talk is presented by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.

About Pam
Pamela Samuelson is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment with the Berkeley Law School and the School of Information. She is the director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and on advisory boards for the Public Knowledge, and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She is also an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Since 2002, she has also been an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam.

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FINDING NEEDLES IN HAYSTACKS: Chemical control of silicon and TiO2

Thursday, September 24, 2015
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Prof. Melissa A. Hines from Cornell University will give a lecture:
Nanocatalytic TiO2 can be produced in a wide variety of faceted shapes and polymorphs, each with different reactivity. Can we learn to control these shapes, and thus reactivities, rationally? Faceting is a macroscopic manifestation of highly site-specific surface reactions. Prof. Hines will show that reactions on silicon and TiO2 literally write a record of their chemical reactivity in the morphology of the surface, a record that can be quantified with scanning tunneling microscopy. Seemingly paradoxically, the sites targeted by these highly site-specific reactions are extremely rare. The most interesting site, the site where the reaction occurs most rapidly and most selectively, is the hardest one to find. This highly reactive site, the key to the reaction, is the needle in the haystack, often occurring in densities below 1% of a monolayer and thus invisible to surface spectroscopies. These rare reactions enable an exquisite degree of atomic-scale control if only we can learn to harness them.

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Processing Center join in welcoming a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community.

Web site: web.mit.edu/cmse
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Tickets: n/a
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT, Center for Materials Science & Engineering, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Processing Center
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
617.253.6850
gfranzet@mit.edu

Editorial Comment: Silicon and titanium dioxide are two of the most important materials of the 21st century. Studying how we manipulate them and their beneficial properties is essential.

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U.S. Department of Energy 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review
Thursday, September 24
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E14-6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Dr. Lynn Orr, Under Secretary for Science and Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution. Over the last decade, the United States has slashed net petroleum imports, dramatically increased shale gas production, scaled up wind and solar power, and cut the growth in electricity consumption to nearly zero through widespread efficiency measures. Technology is helping to drive this revolution, enabled by years to decades of research and development that underpin these advances in the energy system. The U.S. Department of Energy's 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review examines the status of the science and technology that are the foundation of our energy system, together with the research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities to advance them. This analysis is particularly instructive in the run up to the international climate negotiations taking place later this year at the 21st Conference of Parties, as technological advances will be crucial to achieving global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. During his presentation, Dr. Orr will provide an overview of the highlights of the report and will discuss examples of promising research and development opportunities that can help the nation achieve a low-carbon economy.

Reception to follow.

Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/presentation-us-dept-energy-2015-quadrennial-technology-review
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth

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Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South
Thursday, September 24
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge

Police shootings and the Black Lives Matter campaign have shone a spotlight on how different the everyday experiences are of white Americans and Americans of color. While much attention has been paid to these seemingly daily occurrences, the historical forces that led to our current situation have been less discussed: Is the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South? And is the mass incarceration of and police brutality inflicted on black Americans a result of these same forces?

Melissa Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at MIT. She is also a collaborator and advisory board member of Northeastern Law School's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice clinic.

Tracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, she was the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago; she was the first African-American woman granted tenure at both institutions' law schools. She's worked extensively with the federal government, and since December 2014 she has a been a member of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/jim-crow.html
Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Communications Forum

For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu

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BSA Committee on Resilient Environments

September 24

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston
RSVP by emailing bsa.core@gmail.com

As our sea levels rise, our storms strengthen, and global climate change impacts our urban environments, the architecture and planning industries must respond with resilient solutions and adaptive environments. The Committee on Resilient Environments (CORE) seeks to better understand the problems we face and the many strategies we can employ for a more resilient future.

To learn more about the Committee on Resilient Environments, visit architects.org/committees/committee-resilient-environments-core

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Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium
WHEN Thu., Sep. 24, 2015, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS A monthly series of dinner talks organized by HDS's Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative. More details about each talk will be included here at the start of the fall semester. A brief reception will follow the formal program.

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2015 Minute to Pitch It

Thursday, September 24

6:00PM-8:30PM
23 Drydock Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://events.attend.com/#/register/1383769266/0

A high-octane, high-stakes pitch competition featuring MassChallenge Finalists! Which startup will be deemed worthy of the title of "MC Pitch Champion?" It's up to you!

On September 24th, MassChallenge's 128 Finalists will only have one minute to pitch their startup idea to a rowdy crowd of hundreds of innovation enthusiasts. You don't want to miss this opportunity to see first-hand how entrepreneurs can deliver massive value-in-a-minute!

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The Challenge of Change: The Future of Havana
WHEN Thu., Sep. 24, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard,, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Since the Cuban revolution in 1959, Havana has been stuck in time. While the city has decayed, little has been either completely destroyed or rebuilt. The result is a crumbling urban jewel. The city now faces a huge pent-up demand for new housing, infrastructure and commercial space. With the thawing of US-Cuban relations, and intensifying economic reform, Havana will undergo major change in the coming years. But whether the city can modernize while also preserving its unique character is an open question.
This event brings together four leading Cuban thinkers to present different perspectives on Havana’s future. Miguel Coyula will first frame the city’s current choices in a historical context; Patricia Rodriguez will then showcase the impressive restoration efforts in Old Havana. In addition, Orlando Inclan and Claudia Castillo will present new proposals for Havana’s harbor and involving the public in determining the city’s future. The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion.
Photo Cred: Carlos Rodriguez
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/the-challenge-of-change-future-of-havana.html

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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures
Thursday, September 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Derek Diedricksen, Microshelters
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a microshelter of your own. You'll also find guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable and easy to inhabit.

Derek "Deek" Diedricksen is the author of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, a tiny housing and micro-design concept book. Diedricksen hosts the YouTube channel RelaxshacksDOTcom and has hosted, built, and designed for the HGTV series Extreme Small Spaces and Tiny House Builders, as well as for the DIY Network. His work has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Home and Garden section and in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Times, China’s Bund Pictoral, the Wall Street Journal, Make magazine, and ApartmentTherapy.com; on NPR, CBS, PBS, and ABC; and on the homepage of Yahoo.com. Diedricksen lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts.

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World Premiere Performance: The Hidden Code
Thursday, September 24
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Museum of Science, Charles Hayden Planetarium, 1 Science Park, Boston

Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, performer, composer, and multimedia artist; National Geographic Emerging Explorer; and author, Imaginary App, Rhythm Science, and Book of Ice
Imagine a visual odyssey through the cosmos, driven by lush musical compositions and inspired by complex themes of astronomy, engineering, biology, and psychology. Join us for the world premiere of the newest work by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky. Commissioned by Dartmouth College's Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Miller composed The Hidden Code based on conversations with several of Dartmouth's leading researchers.

This premiere performance features live appearances by Miller as well as Dartmouth theoretical physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander; Dartmouth physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser who will read his original poetry; and stunning original visuals created by the Charles Hayden Planetarium staff.

Savor this synthesis of emerging science, poetry, and melody with immersive visions overhead as The Hidden Code pushes art into science. Science into music. Music into art.

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Friday, September 25
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable presents: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities; and Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
Friday, September 25
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
The general admission fee for this Roundtable is $65 (A discounted fee of $35 is available for government & non-profit employees, students, retirees, and low-income individuals).

Panel I: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities
Our first panel will examine the forthcoming Grid Modernization plans to be filed at the Massachusetts DPU in August by Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil. The utilities' plans will likely cover a wide range of grid modernization actions and activities, including the integration of distributed resources, advanced metering functionality, grid modernization demonstration projects, and cost recovery for grid modernization investments, and will be presented by the following speakers:
Camilo Serna, VP of Strategic Planning & Policy, Eversource
Peter Zschokke, Director of Regulatory Strategy, National Grid
Justin Eisfeller, Director of Energy Measurement & Control, Unitil
Next, we will hear comments about the filed plans from the following key stakeholders, before opening the discussion to all six panelists and the audience:
Rebecca Tepper, Deputy Chief, Energy & Environment, MA AGO
Janet Gail Besser, VP, Policy & Government Affairs, NECEC
Daniel Sosland, President, Acadia Center

Panel II: Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
Our second panel focuses on the future of ISO New England's Winter Reliability Program for 2016-2018. On July 15, under the "jump ball" provision of the Participant's Agreement, ISO New England and NEPOOL jointly submitted competing proposals for FERC to resolve. The primary difference between the two proposals relates to the types of resources that are eligible to receive compensation under the winter reliability program. NEPOOL's proposal is based on the design of last winter's program, and includes three main components: (1) compensation for certain oil inventory that remains in New England following the end of each winter period; (2) compensation for LNG contract volumes; and (3) a supplemental demand response program.

The ISO's proposal shares the first two design features of NEPOOL's proposal, but additionally would provide compensation for any generator that is supplied by on-site fuel. Therefore, the ISO's proposal would eliminate the demand response component, and provide compensation not only for fuel, oil and LNG, but also for nuclear, hydro, biomass, and coal-fired resources. Andrew Gillespie, Principal Analyst for Market Development at ISO New England, will present ISO-New England's proposal, and Jeff Bentz, Director of Analysis at NESCOE, will present
the competing NEPOOL proposal.

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Societal Impact through Computing Research
Friday, September 25
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/societal-impact-through-computing-research-tickets-18001651424
Cost: $25.00

The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) presents "Societal Impact through Computing Research” on Friday, September 25, 2015 at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, in Maxwell Dworkin at 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Speakers will address topics at the intersection of computer science and areas of intense societal importance, such as healthcare, privacy, security, economic fair division, and government.
Ben Adida, lead Engineering at Clever, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
Krzysztof Gajos, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Ariel Procaccia, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessie Tenenbaum, Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Duke Translational Medicine Institute
Jim Waldo, Harvard Chief Technology Officer, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University
Christopher S. Yoo, Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania Law School

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Houghton Lecture - The Fundamental Thermodynamic Relation and the First Law of Thermodynamics

Friday, September 25
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Trevor McDougall, Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales

Houghton Lecture
Supported through the Houghton Fund, Houghton Lecturers are distinguished visitors from outside MIT who we invite to spend a period of time, ranging from a week to several months as scientists-in-residence within our Program. During their stay it is customary for each lecturer to offer a short-course or a series of lectures on some topic of wide interest. Houghton Lecturer recommendations are welcome throughout the year. Contact Raffaele Ferrari with your suggestions.

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Christine Maglio
617-253-6603
cliberty@mit.edu

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4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference
Wednesday, September 25
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Massachusetts State House, Great Hall, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-ma-sustainable-economy-conference-how-resilient-is-ma-addressing-climate-change-tickets-6890085431

How Resilient is Massachusetts?
Addressing Climate Change
The actions of Massachusetts in building resilience to the consequences of climate change will shape our ability to adapt and prosper now and in the long term.
Across the United States extreme weather and other climate impacts are affecting communities and businesses. To contribute to climate change resilience, the 4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference brings together multi-sector leaders to explore both short term tactics and long-term strategies.
Network with and learn from Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this exclusive dialogue that looks at current issues, emerging solutions and markets that can contribute to Massachusetts' climate change resilience.

Agenda
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Opening Remarks
Crystal Johnson, Founder and Senior Environmental Planner and Strategist, ISES
10:15 am – 11:15 am
Dialogue I: Energy System Resilience in a Changing Climate
What new strategies, technologies, companies and jobs are contributing to Massachusetts achieving its nation-leading energy goals? Is energy resilience possible? By when and with what technologies and practices? Join diverse multi-sector energy leaders in this critical discussion. This dialogue provides an understanding of key issues concerning the Massachusetts energy sector.

Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator Benjamin B. Downing, Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (Moderator)
Steven Clark, Undersecretary of Energy, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Alicia Barton, CEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Michael Jacobs, Senior Energy Analyst, Climate & Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Howard Herzog, Senior Research Engineer, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program, MIT Energy Initiative

11:20 am - 12:20 pm Dialogue II: How is Massachusetts Building Climate Change Resilience?
A dynamic dialogue with Massachusetts Thought Leaders who will share and reflect on current issues pertaining to how Massachusetts is preparing for building resilience in a changing climate.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator James B. Eldridge, Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change (Moderator)
Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy, City of Boston
John Kassel, President, Conservation Law Foundation
Matthew Patsky, CEO, Trillium Asset Management
Anamarija Frankić, Ph.D., Director, Green Harbor Projects, Faculty at UMass Boston and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Split, Croatia.

12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Closing Remarks
State Representative Frank I. Smizik, Chair, House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Networking

More information at http://sustainableeconomyconference.com

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Organics in the Atmosphere and the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change

Friday, September 25

12:00PM - 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Joost de Gouw, Research Physicist, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory; CIRES Senior Scientist & Fellow of CIRES

This lecture is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences's Atmospheric Sciences Seminar.

Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/84426

Contact Name: Lu Hu
luhu@g.harvard.edu

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Health in the Era of Sustainable Development
WHEN Fri., Sep. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Chan School Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) K. Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India
DETAILS A light lunch will be served.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/milton-j-rosenau-lectures/

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Funding Social Change
Friday, September 25

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (EDT)

Northeastern University, 310 Renaissance Park, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/funding-social-change-tickets-18614345007

Lunch and thoughtful conversation at the Social Impact Lab.

Peace and Social Justice Week(s) 2015 is a series of events and workshops aimed at empowering students and equipping them with the tools they need to help realize our shared vision of a better world. This series is made possible with the support of our partners and our sponsors, the Social Justice Resource Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.

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Creative Entrepreneurs Discussion Series: David Friend
Friday, September 25

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Berklee, David Friend Recital Hall, 921 Boylston Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-entrepreneurs-discussion-series-david-friend-tickets-17971155209

Kickoff the academic year with a discussion between BerkleeICE's Managing Director Panos Panay and David Friend, co-founder of ARP Instruments and the lead designer of the original Odyssey. David Friend has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years. He made and sold the first low-cost portable synthesizer, putting it into the hands of The Who, Steve Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Herbie Hancock and countless high school rock bands. He has since co-founded 5 additional companies, such as Carbonite, and is a champion of the arts, including Trustee (emeritus) of Berklee and the New England Conservatory.

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Talks by the Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellows

Friday, September 25

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge

The Program in Global American Studies, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, presents talks from postdoctoral fellows.

Megan Black will discuss “The Global Interior: America’s Quest for Mineral Frontiers in the Modern World Order.”

Samantha Iyer will speak on “The Agricultural Metropolis: The Politics of Food in the United States, Egypt, and India, 1870s to 1970s.”

Justin Leroy will present on “Freedom’s Limit: Slavery and Its Afterlives in the Long Nineteenth Century.”

Stuart Schrader will discuss “American Streets, Foreign Territory: How Counterinsurgent Police Waged War on Crime.”

A discussion will follow the talks.

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-25-200000-2015-09-25-220000/talks-global-american-studies-postdoctoral-fellows#sthash.9hmbnYNp.dpuf

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Taking Back What We Already Own: A Forum On Social Ownership
Friday, September 25
6:30-9 PM (doors open at 6)
Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place (near Park Street Station T Stop), Boston

Featuring
Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow, The Democracy Collaborative, Author of Owning our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution and The Divine Right of Capital
with Nancy Goldner, Co-Chair, Hub Public Bank
and Julie Matthaei, Co-Coordinator of Boston Area
Solidarity Economy Network (BASEN)

Break Out groups and time for discussion

Sponsored by Hub Public Banking, BASEN, Boston Chapter, Democratic Socialists of America, the Democracy Collaborative, Massachusetts Global Action, Alliance for Democracy

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Saturday, September 26
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The Beantown Jazz Festival
Saturday, September 26
noon to 6 p.m.
Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street, Boston

Boston's biggest block party takes place on Saturday, September 26, from noon to 6 p.m. on Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street in Boston's South End. The outdoor performances, which have drawn as many as 80,000 music fans, are open to the public free of charge. Check berklee.edu/beantownjazz for updates and a full schedule of events.

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MA Pirate Party Freedom Rally
Saturday, September 26
12:10am - 8:00pm
Boston Common, Between Park Street, Tremont Street, Boylston Street, And Beacon Street, Boston

Bigger and better every year, we've grown from a table to an encampment, all we need is you to keep the party rolling along.

We’re there every year because it’s a great time and a good opportunity to meet activists (aka future pirates!)

We will be tabling at the 26th Freedom Rally on September 26th and 27th. It will be on Boston Common and both days are currently scheduled from noon to 8pm. This is our sixth year at Freedom Rally and fifth year tabling at it. We hope you will help us make it a success.

What is the Freedom Rally? An opportunity for activists interested in ending the war on drugs and extending civil liberties to meet other likeminded individuals. You can also attend interesting lectures and presentations given by vendors and activists.

This is an opportunity for us specifically to meet more people at our table and tell them about the Pirate Party. We can share ongoing revelations about the US government’s mass. surveillance, in the name of “homeland security” and what citizens can do to stay connected and anonymous, since these post 9/11 powers have been used mostly to spy on drug enthusiasts, not on terrorists. We teach folks about how the internet and social media make excellent tools for getting out the word about the safety and efficacy of cannabis, since the commercial media has shown us they are dead set against legalization. We teach people about the racist origins of the war on hemp, and how useful and free it is: Easy to grow, easy to share, and how big government and big business despise a market they can’t get a big cut from. And if you have technology related hemp education teachings to share, we especially welcome you!

Before or after your shift you can enjoy the rally, which will feature live music and speakers, as well as alternative religion, philosophies, and politics, and a great variety of vendors selling nifty stuff you can’t find anywhere else. We really want to take full advantage of this opportunity to network and recruit new Pirates. Plus cannabis reform is a very critical civil liberties issue.

We encourage you to dress in your favorite pirate gear, be loud and show your support for the Internet, civil liberties and Chelsea Manning.

Please, invite your friends and family and help us find more Pirates to join us! If you are unable to table, please help in other ways, such as spreading the word about the Rally as well as our presence there.

We are in the same spot every year and we don't expect that to change: We can be found under a blue awning with pirate flags flying, right behind the central most Boston Common parking kiosk.

We need supporters to help from noon to 6pm as well as during setup on Saturday and take down on Sunday. You don’t have to table all day. An hour or two is great, though we would never turn you away if you want to help longer. Generally, it’s a mellow time to get to know your fellow Pirates as well as meet non-Pirates. Thanks!

To volunteer send us a message at the Massachusetts Pirate Party Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/masspirates

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What The Fluff?!! - 10th Annual Fluff Festival
Saturday, September 26
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Union Square, Somerville

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Sunday, September 27
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Urban Agricultural Fair
Sunday, September 27
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain

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TEDxSomerville 2015: REINVENT
Sunday, September 27
12:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
Tufts University Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxsomerville-2015-reinvent-tickets-18177620753
Cost: $43.19 - $80.12

TEDxSomerville brings together innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, designers, humans with extraordinary ideas that are reinventing the future of our city, and our day-to-day lives. For one day, we will share the brilliant ideas that these remarkable people are bringing to life in an event for the entire community.

TEDxSomerville 2015 REINVENT
The event will take place on September 27 at Tufts University’s Aidekman Arts Center, Cohen Auditorium. After an afternoon featuring some of Somerville’s most inspiring speakers, we’ll celebrate at Assembly Row with a Slumbrew after-party!

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Lunar Eclipse Viewing
Sunday, September 27
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge

When the Moon passes into Earth's shadow it glows red with an ethereal beauty, lit by the combined sunrises and sunsets of our world. Tonight's eclipse will be a record-breaker, with the Moon at its closest to Earth and largest in our sky. This is also your last chance to see a total eclipse of the Moon until 2018, so don't miss out! Join us on the roof to look through binoculars and telescopes at this marvelous sight. (This event is weather dependent. Call 617-495-7461 to check for cancellation. No webcast.)

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Monday, September 28
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Future of Solar Design
Monday, September 28
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
ML Strategies, 1 Financial Center #41, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-solar-design-tickets-18398360993
Cost: $26.62 - $52.24

On Monday, September 28, SEBANE will be hosting a discussion on the future of solar design. The event will feature two speakers who stand ready to help as your organization faces new code requirements and an increasing need for high quality performance monitoring for all PV systems - from residential scale to multi-MW scale projects. In addition, David O'Connor of ML Strategies will provide a briefing on the state of play of solar legislation in Massachusetts.
Speakers will include:
Bob Anderson, Tigo,
Stephen Condon, Director of Sales East, Solar Data Systems, Inc.
David O'Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy & Clean Technology, ML Strategies

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MASS Seminar - Dennis Hartmann (Washington)

Monday, September 28
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Dennis Hartmann (Washington)

MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127

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Financial Arbitrage and Efficient Dispatch in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Monday, September 28

12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management

This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.

ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

Monday, September 28

12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

David A. Mindell, Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS), MIT; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.

There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.

Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu

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Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
Monday, September 28
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Richard McDowell (MIT)

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu

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From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center and the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.
SPEAKER(S) Judith G. Edersheim, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital; assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), senior lecturer on law, Harvard Law School; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Kinscherff, faculty in the doctoral program in clinical psychology and associate vice president for community engagement at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; and senior associate at the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Leah Somerville, assistant professor of psychology, Harvard University; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen, professor of law, Harvard Law School, and faculty director, Petrie-Flom Center
CONTACT INFO chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us after the panel discussion for the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Open House!
The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on this neuroscience in Roper v. Simmons (2005) in barring execution for capital crimes committed as a juvenile and in Miller v. Alabama (2012) in holding that mandatory life without possibility of parole for juveniles is also unconstitutional. This panel will examine the implications of developmental neuroscience for law in specific domains including death penalty mitigation for young adults over age 18 such as the Tsarnaev case, a developmentally informed view of Miranda and Competence to Stand Trial for juveniles, trial of youth as adults, and conditions of confinement in juvenile and adult incarceration. The panel will also discuss the promises and perils for constitutional jurisprudence, legal and public policy reform, and trial practice of relying upon a complex body of science as it emerges.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-event-from-troubled-teens-to-tsarnaev

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Solve Talks at Google: REBALANCING INEQUALITY
Monday, September 28
5:30p-7:30p

Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/solve-talks-at-google-a-thought-leadership-speaker-series-in-the-heart-of-kendall-square-tickets-18214057737

Guests: David Autor, MIT; Ian Condry, MIT; Marybeth Campbell, SkillWorks
Is there anything we can actually do about growing inequality? Top scholars explain how we got here, and what real solutions might look like.

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MIT Energy Week: Libby Wayman, Department of Energy

Monday, September 28

7pm

MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

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The Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity Study: Towards a User Centric Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
Tuesday, September 29

12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Francois#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Francois at 12:00 pm

with Camille François, Josephine Wolff, Andy Ellis, and Bruce Schneier
Join us on September 29th for a discussion of the "Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity 1.0. Study: Towards A User Centric Policy Framework," presented by lead researcher Camille François with Berkman community members Josephine Wolff, Andy Ellis, and Bruce Schneier, who participated in the study.

Camille worked for several months with the Mozilla Foundation to orchestrate the study and resulting report. The study used a modified version of the Delphi research technique. More than 30 leading cybersecurity experts from a wide variety of backgrounds – including academia, civil liberties, government and military, security, and technology – participated in the study. Using a pseudonymous format to encourage candid feedback and open dialogue on the issues, the study tackles the following questions: what is the role of policy in cybersecurity? How consensual is the definition of cybersecurity? What are the current priorities for cybersecurity policy? Which issues get too little or too much attention? What are measures that a diverse set of cybersecurity actors can agree on as being both feasible and desirable?

The study produced a map of priorities, issues, and solutions for cybersecurity that highlights consensus and dissensus in the space. Join us to discuss the lessons learned in this process and the report's findings.

About Camille
Camille François is a researcher and consultant on cyber policy, with a focus on questions relating to cybersecurity, human rights and state interactions in cyberspace.

A Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society from 2013-2015, Camille focuses her work on the building of norms for cyber peace and rights-respecting cybersecurity policies, and related questions in the robotics field.

She has led initiatives with institutions such as the French Prime Minister Office Task Force on Open Data & Open Government; the Mozilla Foundation; the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); as well as Google, the French-American Foundation & the Software Freedom Law Center.

She serves as a member of the Freedom Online Coalition international Working Group on An Internet Free and Secure. Camille has also been involved in a wide range of free culture advocacy projects and serves as a Digital Advisor for Libraries Without Borders and on the Scientific Committee of the French Wikimedia Foundation.

A Fulbright Fellow, Camille holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) & a Masters Degree in International Security from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she won first prize at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 National Challenge in Cyber Policy and later held a Visiting Scholarship at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She completed her Bachelor at Sciences-Po Paris, with a year as a visiting student at Princeton University, and received legal education at Paris II - Sorbonne Universités.

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Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
Tuesday, September 29
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Peter Hamby is Head of News at Snapchat, and a political contributor for CNN. Hamby is known as an early adopter of social media platforms, and as a Spring 2013 fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he authored “Did Twitter Kill…

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The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
Tuesday, September 29
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Jane Nakano, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/jane-nakano-center-strategic-and-international-studies-csis-geopolitical-implications

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Speak UP for Clean Energy

Tuesday, September 29

2:00 PM
MA Statehouse, Gardner Auditorium, Boston

RSVP at http://www.massclimateaction.net/speak_up_for_clean_energy

In the first major hearing of the fall, ALL the energy bills about wind, hydro, natural gas, solar, and net metering will be discussed.

Come make your support for clean energy heard!

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Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
Tuesday, September 29
3:00 to 4:00 pm

Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm

Ana Fernandes, MWH Global, (Tufts BS/MS) (The first WSSS student!)

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity waves from moist baroclinic jets and fronts

Tuesday, September 29

3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University

Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127

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Materials Lab Workshop: Light
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Francesca Bewer
COST $15
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Francesca Bewer, research curator for conservation and technical studies, along with guest experts, will lead this exploration of light in art. The workshop will combine close looking at select objects in the collections with hands-on experimentation in the museums’ Materials Lab, a space designed to encourage the investigation of materials and techniques used in works of art.
The event will be held in the Materials Lab, Lower Level.
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and payment must be made in advance. Please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu or stop by the museums’ admissions desk to register. Space is limited to 12 participants. Minimum age of 14.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-light-2

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Fall Lecture Series: Leonard Miller – A Personal Overview of U.S. Water Pollution Control from a Co-Founder of the EPA
Tuesday, September 29

4:30 pm

MIT, Building 1-150, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

This Water Club Lecture will provide an overview of the historical evolution of the US EPA, and the regulation of wastewater in the United States. While discussing regulation development from the 60’s until now, Len Miller will touch on relevant policy/engineering issues, and present some short “case histories” – all with a little humor and some ideas of what it is like to help grow the environmental regulations.

Leonard A. Miller is a 2015 Advanced Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is also Senior Counsel to the international law firm Sullivan & Worcester and Senior Advisor to Dawson & Associates, a consulting firm providing assistance on U.S. water issues. He has consistently been ranked as one of the leading environmental lawyers in the U.S. Mr. Miller was one of the founding members of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), where, among other things, he developed the U.S. national pollutant discharge elimination system and headed the U.S. water permit and enforcement programs. Mr. Miller has a BA from Brandeis University and a JD from the Harvard Law School.

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Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, September 29
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Loren Landau, TUFTS University

A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu

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An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute
Paula A. Johnson, executive director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; chief, Division of Women’s Health Brigham and Women’s Hospital; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," will be speaking about her book and her path to writing it. The event will conclude with a panel discussion, moderated by health care pioneer Paula A. Johnson '80, MD '84, MPH '85, about the intersection of biomedical science, research ethics, poverty, and race. Register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-rebecca-skloot-lecture

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Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Complimentary parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Brian D. Farrell, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Can the reconciliation of the arts and sciences inform our understanding of nature and our place in it? Drawing on neurobiological, paleontological, and genetics research, philosophical studies of music and other arts, and our current understanding of the influence of nature on human health, Brian Farrell will suggest an evolutionary framework for integrating these fields, offering new perspectives on human culture and humanity’s role in fostering a productive and sustainable future.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/biology-culture-bridging-art-and-science

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Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-september-happy-hour-tickets-18262697219

Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Job hunting?
This month's Green Drinks is co-hosted by Next Step Living. They will have staff on hand to discuss career opportunities in sustainable residential buildings.

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African Women: Changing the World!
Tuesday, September 29

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)

Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-west-africa-tickets-17944767282

On Tuesday September 29, 2015, the West African Research Association and The YWCA Cambridge will host a panel discussion that should be of interest to both the general public and more specifically the Kendall Square community. This will be the kick-off event for our annual Giving Common Campaign.

From Queen Nzingha in the 17th century who bravely fought and defended her people, to Funmilayo Ransome Kuti well-known Nigerian women’s rights activist and mother of musician activist Fela Kuti in the mid-20th century, African women continue to take leadership roles on the continent and beyond. Today Folorunsho Alakija is one of the richest women in the world and a pioneer in philanthropy.
The goal of this presentation is to highlight the important contributions of African Women—in politics, business, the arts, philanthropy, journalism, and other fields. There will be a panel of three distinguished scholars, each of whom will talk about different aspects of African women’s leadership.
Featured Speakers:

Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers University
Muslim Women Reshaping Islam: West Africa in a Global Context
An active feminist scholar, Dr. Ousseina D. Alidou is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. She is Affiliate Graduate Faculty of the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses mainly on African Muslim Women’s Education, Agency and Leadership. She is the author of Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, Political and Social Change; Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger Republic; Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa (co-edited with Ahmed Sikainga); and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (co-edited with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis); and the forthcoming Writing through the Visual and Virtual in Africa and the Caribbean(co-edited with Renée Larrier).

Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY
African Women and Migration

Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome is an international political economist whose regional specialization is on the African continent. Professor of Political Science, Okome has served as Women’s Studies Program Director and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College. This past year, Okome founded #BringBackOurGirlsNYC after consulting with the founders of the movement in Nigeria.

Born in Nigeria, she has worked on international development issues as a consultant for clients including the United Nations. Okome's teaching interests include a focus on the meanings of inclusive, equitable citizenship in the context of the interplay between globalization, democratization and economic development. Her research interests include: Effects of globalization, post-colonialism, and post-modernity on economic and political transformation; Gender, democracy and citizenship in Africa and African Diaspora Studies.

Okome founded and edits the journal Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration (www.africamigration.com), and was co-founder of Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies (www.jendajournal.com). Her most recent publications are two edited books published in 2013: State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria; and Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization; and one book co-edited with Afia Serwaa Zakiya, Nigeria: Women’s Political and Legislative Participation in Nigeria: Perspectives From the 2007 Elections.

Okome was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Long Island University, and Columbia University.

Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University
West African Women in Politics
Pearl T. Robinson is Associate Professor of Political Science and a former Director of the Program in International Relations at Tufts University. She has been a Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at Makerere University in Uganda, a Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and a Research Affiliate of the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niger. She helped establish the Tufts study abroad program with the University of Ghana in Legon.
With interests focusing on African and African American Politics, she has authored more than forty articles and book chapters, is co-editor and contributor to Transformation and Resiliency in Africa, and a co-author of Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society. Her work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Political Science Quarterly, African Studies Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Today, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Robinson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a past President of the African Studies Association, and a former chair of the SSRC/ACLS Joint Committee on African Studies. She has served on the national boards of Oxfam-America, TransAfrica and the National Council of Negro Women’s International Division. Her two current projects are “Mama Kiota,” a documentary film about Islam and female empowerment among the Tidjaniyya in Niger, and Ralph Bunche the Africanist, an intellectual biography.

Sponsoring Organizations:
West African Research Association. Established in 1989, WARA is a 501(c) 3 non-profit whose mission is to promote research and scholarly exchange and production among West African scholars and their counterparts in the US and elsewhere. WARA is a consortium of more than 50 colleges and universities with significant academic interests in West Africa. WARA is headquartered at Boston University’s African Studies Center, and operates a major research center in Dakar, Senegal.

YWCA Cambridge. The YWCA Cambridge, since its inception in 1891, has advocated for women's rights and provided affordable accommodations and support services for women. Today, the YWCA Cambridge is a Cambridge institution with a variety of classes and programs, including the largest women's residential facility in the city. As a place for women, children and families to find shelter, support and opportunities to learn and grow, the YWCA Cambridge is committed to being a welcoming resource and center of vibrant activity, responding to the ever-changing needs of the community in the 21st century.

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MIT Energy Week: Introduction to our Flagship Events - Energy Conference, Energy Prize, Energy Night
Tuesday, September 29
7pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

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The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
Tuesday, September, 29
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1446&DayPlannerDate=9/29/2015

Kamal Bawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore will discuss “The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons”. The Eastern Himalaya—land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows—is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular and fragile as the mountains themselves. Even today, these mountains hold many mysteries: unnamed species, primeval cultures and the promise of magical cures to heal all of humanity. But development superimposed on global change will have an incalculable impact on this area. Dr. Kamal Bawa will discuss the role and limitations of science in addressing the pressing issues arising out of interaction between nature and society in the Himalaya, and suggest ways to move forward in resolving critical issues. Dr. Bawa is a newly elected Fellow of the Royal Society. His book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free but registration is required.

arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-29-230000-2015-09-30-003000/himalaya-global-change-land-primulas-and-rhododendrons#sthash.Gz2nPBxG.dpuf

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Merchants of Doubt Film Screening with Live Q & A

Tuesday, September 29
7-9pm

MIT, Building 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1646087868968497/

Join us for a free screening of Merchants of Doubt, a powerful film that exposes the anti-science tactics devised to mislead the public on matters ranging from the risks of smoking to the reality of global warming.

The movie will be followed by a 30-min Q & A session with Jean Sideris, the Climate Campaign Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Refreshments will be provided, and we’ll have giveaways for early arrivers!

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Wednesday, September 30
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Will MIT rise to the climate challenge?

Wednesday, September 30
12-1pm

MIT, Student Center W20-201, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/467792230047933/

Join us for a panel discussion to find out what MIT is currently doing about climate change, and to discuss what MIT could be doing in the near future.
Last year, the MIT community participated in the campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, an effort that resulted in a myriad of suggestions on what MIT could to tackle the climate crisis. President Reif is now reviewing the recommendations made in the report of the Conversation Committee, and will announce this fall how (or if) the institute will take action. This event aims to provide context for this much-awaited decision. Will our administration choose to take bold action on this pivotal issue of our generation?

Panelists:
Jason Jay – Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative
Jeremy Poindexter – Ph.D. student in Materials Science & Engineering and member of Fossil Free MIT
Jonathan King – Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biology
Jacqueline Kuo – Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Chair of UA Sustainability
Ian Condry – Professor of Japanese Culture & Media Studies and Head of Global Studies & Languages
Lunch will be served at 11:45am.

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Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
Wednesday, September 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Marco De Fazio, STMicroelectronics

MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu

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How the Wizards of Armageddon Became the High Priests of the Cult of the Irrelevant
Wednesday, September 30
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Michael Desch (University of Notre Dame)

Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar Series

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu

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ANIMAL FARM: A talk by Farm Sanctuary's President & Founder. FREE CHINESE FOOD.

Wednesday, September 30

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, #102, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/978250598882787/

We invite you to hear Farm Sanctuary's President and Founder, Gene Bauer, discuss his national animal rescue organization. Sponsored by Harvard Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine. For 25 years he has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. Gene’s latest book, published by Rodale, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day, is available for sale April 2015. His previous bestseller, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, was published by Touchstone in March 2008.

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Sack Lunch Seminar Series - Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)

Wednesday, September 30
12:10p–1:10p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)

Sack Lunch Seminars (SLS)
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Darius Collazo
617-253-2127
dcollazo@mit.edu

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The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: Lecture by Ben Rivers
WHEN Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ben Rivers, filmmaker, Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow, David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In this lecture, Rivers will be sharing his perspective on different forms of storytelling from his new ethnographic film, The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers. As its backbone, Rivers' new work is a film about a film being made in Morocco, which includes fictional stories spoken by writer Mohammed Mrabet, reenacted fictional stories acted by non-professionals in Tangier and the Atlas Mountains, also written by Mrabet, and a short story by Paul Bowles.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-ben-rivers-fellow-presentation

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Energy Tax Incidence under Imperfect Competition: An Application to Automotive Fuel
Wednesday, September 30
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Samuel Stolper, Harvard University

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The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance
WHEN Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall, Room 203, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Dance, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Music, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences, Special Events, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cosponsored by the Mahindra Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence and the Committee on Degrees in Theater, Dance, and Media.
SPEAKER(S) Rustom Bharucha, professor of theatre and performance Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/aftermath-reflections-emterror-and-performanceem

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Visualizing Marine Conservation Presentation and Panel Discussion

Wednesday, September 30
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 6C-442, Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen with Caleb McClennen Executive Director, Marine Conservation Wildlife Conservation Society and Merry Camhi, Director New York Seascape Program, Wildlife Conservation Society.

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen is an acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer who focuses on environmental conservation. Ellenbogen documents marine life to showcase its beauty and to elicit an emotional connection to the underwater world. He aims to inspire social change and action toward protecting the marine environment.
In collaboration with MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams, Ellenbogen will develop high-speed and long-duration camera systems to create images of nature in exquisite (and previously unseen) detail. As part of his residency, Adams and Ellenbogen developed an Underwater Conservation Photography Course at MIT that will challenge students to push technical and aesthetic boundaries, with a goal of marine environmental conservation and positive social change. Ellenbogen's residency will feature a public seminar series on underwater photography throughout fall 2015, culminating in the in-depth course to be offered during IAP 2016.

Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/keith-ellenbogen/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Arts at MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information, contact: Leah Talatinian
617.252.1888

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Gene Baur, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary
Wednesday, September 30
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Babson College, Olin Auditorium, Olin Hall, 231 Forest Street, Babson Park

On September 30, Gene Baur of Farm Sanctuary will visit Babson for a conversation on how the food industry impacts people and planet and on entrepreneurial opportunities for food solutions.

Gene is a food entrepreneur of the highest order, having launched his venture in 1986 selling veggie hotdogs outside Grateful Dead concerts. TIME Magazine has hailed him “the conscience of the food movement” and his writing has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. This spring he appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Audience: This event is free and open to all.

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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - From DNA to Designer Genomes
Wednesday, September 30
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Christopher Voigt, John Doench
Join us on Wednesday evenings this September and October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Explore what "synbio" is, how scientists are using innovative techniques to modify organisms, and for what purposes. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!

Free.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

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Footprint: Building a Dialogue
Wednesday, September 30
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge

A collaborative art/science project between swissnex Boston, the University of Zurich (Institute of Evolutionary Biology) and Boston based artist Edward Monovich, Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/footprint-he1-epi2/#sthash.MMnaaNNk.dpuf

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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #1: The U-STEAM Center for Resilience
Wednesday, September 30

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthos-conversation-1-the-u-steam-center-for-resilience-tickets-14269858531
Cost: $16.82 (suggested donation)

Together, during the Earthos Conversation Series 2015, we will be examining the power of the Bioregional Resilience Toolbox to inform important projects in the Boston area, and to address complex environmental and social issues of today.

Building on past successes, such as the ARTFarm Initiative in Somerville, we be looking at how the toolbox can help catalyze and incubate new and emerging projects in the region during the Conversation Series 2015-16

During Conversation #1 we will examine the need for education and training centers that prepare our young people and communities for bioregional resilience. We will be exploring this as a larger topic, as well as exploring how to bring to fruition the GROVE HALL U-STEAM CENTER a project located at the heart and epicenter of Boston.

The Earthos Lab brings people together to research, learn, and collaborate towards robust regional systems.

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Music-Tech: Learn. Teach. Demo. Eat
Wednesday, September 30
6:30 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Music-Technology-Group/events/225020873/

We're excited to announce the next Boston Music-Tech Meetup will take place on Thursday, September 30th at Workbar in Cambridge. Big thanks to BerkleeICE for sponsoring the event and providing food for everyone! RSVP now for free to reserve your spot!

Event Overview:
6:30 - 7:00: Pizza and networking (yay and yum).
7:00-7:30: Breakaway group networking exercise – we'll be keeping things (inter)active in the first hour to get the blood and creative juices pumping. We have something fun planned. We've done this before. Trust us.
7:30 - 7:50: Featured Presentation TBD
8:00 - 9:00: Product demos from group members and local music-tech startups. Lineup TBA soon!

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MIT Energy Week: Introduction to research and education on campus
Wednesday, September 30
7pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

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Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology Is Improving the World Around Us
Wednesday, September 30
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Armenise Auditorium

More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/

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Thursday, October 1
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Microgrid Controller Symposium
Thursday, October 1

8:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)

District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/microgrid-controller-symposium-tickets-16631822228

You’re invited to attend the Microgrid Controller Symposium. The event will bring together microgrid controller developers, energy infrastructure decision makers, utility representatives, as well as state and national energy leaders.

The goal is to introduce the latest developments in microgrid controller technology and standards, demonstrate functionality of existing microgrid controllers, and foster connections between microgrid developers & Massachusetts distribution utilities.

DHS S&T, in collaboration with DOE OE, is developing a microgrid controller hardware-in-the-loop evaluation platform. The platform, which simulates microgrid operation in real-time, will allow developers to demonstrate the functionality of their controllers during the Sympos‎ium.

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Green Transportation Celebration
Thursday, October 1
11 am–1 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Join Harvard for the 2nd annual Green Transportation Celebration on the Plaza. New this year, take a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation.

CommuterChoice and their transportation partners will feature the many options for making your travel safer, healthier, and more efficient.

Learn about the many sustainable transportation options Harvard offers, including Hubway, Zipcar, and Shuttle Services, and enjoy food and prizes.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/green-transportation-celebration-0#sthash.6WHBxEzW.dpuf

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Russia's Military: Capabilities, Conflict in Ukraine, and Challenges for NATO"

Thursday, October 1
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Michael Kofman, Johan Norberg

Focus on Russia
Focus on Russia is a seminar series sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies, The MIT Security Studies Program and MISTI Russia.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu

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Will the Courts Strike Down the President's Clean Power Plan?
Thursday, October 1
5 pm
Harvard, Northwest Science Building, Room B-103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School
Richard Lazarus, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderated By:
Daniel Schrag, Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, Harvard Paulson School; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. She is a leading scholar of both administrative law and environmental law. Professor Freeman’s new book, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND U.S. LAW (co-edited with Michael Gerrard) was published in 2015.

Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10, where she was the architect of the president’s historic agreement with the auto industry to double fuel efficiency standards, launching the administration’s greenhouse gas program under the Clean Air Act. In her role, she also contributed to a host of initiatives on renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy and oil and gas drilling, as well as the administration’s effort to pass legislation placing a market based cap on carbon.

After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process, and elected the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2012, Professor Freeman was elected as an outside director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the public policy and compensation committees.

Professor Freeman has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and Los Angeles Times.

Richard Lazarus is the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches environmental law, natural resources Law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts. Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the United States Supreme Court in 40 cases and has presented oral argument in 13 of those cases. His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. He has published two books, The Making of Environmental Law (U. Chicago 2004), and Environmental Law Stories (Aspen Press, co-edited with O. Houck 2005). He was also the principal author of Deep Water - The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), which is the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission, for which he served as the Executive Director. The Commission was charged with investigating the root causes of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and recommending changes in law and policy to reduce the risk of future spills and to mitigate their impacts. Prior to joining the Harvard law faculty, Professor Lazarus was the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he also founded the Supreme Court Institute. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and has a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois.

Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information on climate change from the geologic past can lead to better understanding of anthropogenic climate change in the future. In addition to his work on geochemistry and climatology, Schrag studies energy technology and policy, including carbon capture and storage and low-carbon synthetic fuels.

Schrag currently serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among various honors, he is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and a MacArthur Fellowship. Schrag earned a B.S. in geology and geophysics and political science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/will-courts-strike-down-presidents-clean-power-plan#sthash.PIR1VRfJ.dpuf

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Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan's Mass Media Revolution
Thursday, October 1
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Modern Japan experienced what could be described as its first wave of "mass media revolution" in the period stretching from the mid-1920s into the 1930s, when new forms of media industry as well as technology vastly expanded the number of potential consumers of media products. This talk, with Hiromu Nagahara, explores the political implications of this development, especially as it relates to how the rise of mass media reshaped existing social and cultural hierarchies in Japan (and how, in some cases, it didn't). Based on his current book project, Japan's Pop Era: Music in the Making of Middle-Class Society, this talk will focus on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizo (M.S. 1923), an MIT grad who found himself in the center of all of this as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.

Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/hiromu-nagahara-hierarchy-democracy-modern-japan-mass-media-revolution/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu

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Starr Forum: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State

Thursday, October 1
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

A conversation with William McCants
William McCants is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam" (Princeton University Press, 2011) and most recently "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State" (St. Martin's Press, 2015).

Refreshments will be served.

Copies of the book, "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State," will be available for purchase at the event.

CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100115.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu

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EnergyBar!
Greentown Labs
Thursday, October 1

5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734102123

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

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

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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Thursday, October 1
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/robert_reich/
Cost: $5.00

Harvard Book Store welcomes Professor ROBERT B. REICH, former Secretary of Labor and author of The Work of Nations, for a discussion of his latest book, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the “free market” is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit.

Reich exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by huge corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street: that all workers are paid what they’re “worth,” that a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, and that corporations must serve shareholders before employees. He shows that the critical choices ahead are not about the size of government but about who government is for: that we must choose not between a free market and “big” government but between a market organized for broadly based prosperity and one designed to deliver the most gains to the top. Ever the pragmatist, ever the optimist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity when we shore up the countervailing power of everyone else.

Passionate yet practical, sweeping yet exactingly argued, Saving Capitalism is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.

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Your Obedient Servant: The Unlikely History of the Handheld Navigational Device
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center (Hall A), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
SPEAKER(S) Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and chair, Program in American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2779
DETAILS Handheld devices that can provide an exact location with a click, tap, or swipe have become ubiquitous. The brand and cost of these devices often contribute to the owner’s perceived social standing, and the ultimate status symbols are increasingly devices that are worn, not held, such as Google Glass® and the Apple Watch®. There is historical precedent for this: in the past, only low-ranking people held instruments in their hands. Highborn individuals and navigators would have other people carry their instruments unless they could attach them to their bodies, as with eyeglasses or wristwatches. Joyce Chaplin will discuss the historical connections between handheld devices and social status, and the impact of people becoming the self-navigating holders of their own devices.
LINK http://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/your-obedient-servant-history-hand-held-navigational-device

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Iran Nuclear Deal
The Civic Series
Thursday, October 1

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)

Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/iran-nuclear-deal-registration-18564687480

The United States has had an uneasy relationship with Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution over 30 years ago. In the past two decades, the country has developed nuclear technology, which has many countries -- including the U.S. -- concerned that it could develop nuclear weapons.
After many months of difficult negotiations, an international agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached this year by Iran, the U.S., the European Union and other nations. The agreement, however, was met by opposition by the American Republican Party and several countries that neighbor Iran.
- How did we get here? Why is there so much mistrust between Iran and the U.S.?
- Who is for and who is against this agreement, and why?
- The agreement will lift sanctions on Iran in return for limiting its nuclear capabilities. What does all this mean for the Iranian people, and for the rest of the world?
Join us for a brief background presentation followed by Q&A and open discussion.

Speaker: Jim Walsh
Dr. Jim Walsh is an expert in international security and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons and terrorism.
Dr. Walsh has testified before the United States Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program. He is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled to both Iran and North Korea for talks with officials about nuclear issues.
His comments and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Economist, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and numerous other national and international media outlets (over 1000 TV appearances since 2001). He has many recent and upcoming writings, including, “Rivals, Adversaries, and Partners: Iran and Iraq in the Middle East” in Iran and Its Neighbors, Palgrave Macmillan (2015); “50 Years After Gilpatrick: Reflections on Nuclear Age,” in Reassessing the Global Nuclear Order – Past, Present, and Future (2015); [Contributor], Iran and Its Neighbors: Regional Implications for U.S. Policy of a Nuclear Agreement,The Iran Project (2014).

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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, October 1
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge

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

Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan@ecomotion.us

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CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS FORUM
Thursday, October 1
6:00 p.m.
Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP by email to caroline_miller@harvard.edu with the subject of "Climate+Change+Solutions+Forum+RSVP"

From rising sea levels and increased drought, to heat-related illness and economic losses, the consequences of global climate change will be felt for centuries to come. Confronting these threats and transforming the energy systems on which we rely are among the greatest challenges of our time.

Please join hosts John K. F. Irving AB '83, MBA '89; Robert Kaplan MBA '83; Richard D. McCullough; and Jane Mendillo and Ralph Earle III AB '79 to hear about some of the research innovations Harvard University faculty and students are pursuing to hasten the transition to renewable energy and accelerate progress toward a greener world.

The program will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. A reception will follow. Please reserve your seat today.

FEATURED SPEAKERS
Richard D. McCullough, Vice Provost for Research; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Jisung Park, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
RSVP

Please reply by September 17, even if you are unable to attend, to caroline_miller@harvard.edu or 617-496-2464.

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MIT Energy Week: The Boston area Energy Ecosystem – Startup Success Stories

Thursday, October 1
7pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Guest Speakers: Geoff Chapin (Next Step Living), Emily Reichert (Greentown Labs)

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Program on Negotiation Film Series: "Two Days, One Night"
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School Campus, Langdell South, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Film, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
DIRECTED BY Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Beth Hankes, bhankes@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join PON for a free film screening of "Two Days, One Night." In the film, Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne team up with a major international star, Marion Cotillard, to create a universal story about working-class people living on the edges of society. This engaging film also raises enduring questions about work, negotiations, and gender.
The screening will be followed by a lively discussion with Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, a scholar of labor-management negotiation. Pizza, popcorn, and drinks will be provided.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/two-days-one-night-screening-and-discussion/

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Food Law Student Leadership Summit
Friday, October 2– Sunday, October 4
application instructions and requirements:
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/application-instructions-and-requirements/

Food law and policy is a fast-growing field of interest among law students, legal professionals, and society at large. Communities around the country and the world are searching for ways to improve the environmental, public health, and social impacts of the food system. Law students and lawyers are uniquely situated to make significant contributions to this emerging field. In response, growing numbers of law schools now offer food law and policy courses, operate student food law organizations, have undertaken clinical work related to food policy, and have hosted conferences on various food law and policy topics.

The Food Law Student Leadership Summit is the first conference to convene law students from around the country who share a passion for food law and policy. Participants will hear from national experts about key food law and policy issues related to the environment, health, food safety, and food waste; develop strategies to start or expand student food law organizations; build a national network of food law and policy colleagues; and begin to develop coordinated strategies for addressing some of society’s most pressing food law and policy concerns.

We are excited to welcome Michele Merkel, Co-Director of the Food & Water Justice Project at Food & Water Watch, as the keynote speaker. Michele’s bio may be viewed here.

The Summit will be held October 2-4, 2015 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Travel to and from Boston, accommodations in Cambridge, as well as meals during the Summit will be provided for all accepted applicants. Law students interested in applying to attend the Summit should read the application instructions and requirements:
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/application-instructions-and-requirements/

The Summit will be hosted by the Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), a Division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. The FLPC is an experiential learning program for law students, which works to address the health, environmental, and economic consequences of the laws and policies that govern our food system. Click here to learn more about our work and email any questions about the Summit to flpc@law.harvard.edu.

http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/food-law-student-leadership-summit/

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/food-law-student-leadership-summit#sthash.mQV9viKR.dpuf

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Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium
Friday, October 2, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 4:00 PM (EDT)

Boston University Photonics Center, 8 Saint Marys Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-university-digital-humanities-2015-symposium-tickets-18454380549

What ARE the digital humanities? How can digital pedagogy change the classroom experience, and revolutionize your scholarship? What skills do you need to make your way in the "digital academy"? JOIN US on 2-3 October 2015 for the inaugural BU Digital Humanities Symposium 2015, an interdisciplinary forum of roundtables (Day 1) and workshops (Day 2) designed to orient you in the major methodologies and debates of this emerging field. Online registration is required. #BUDH2015
Program:

FRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2015
8:00-9:00 Registration Check-in & Welcome Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Roundtable 1: What are the Digital Humanities?
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:30 Roundtable 2: Digital Humanities at Work
12:30-2:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:30 Roundtable 3: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:00 Keynote: Julia Flanders, Digital Scholarship Group Director, Northeastern University: "Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working in the Digital Academy"
5:00-6:00 Reception

SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2015
9:00-10:00 Registration Check-in & Welcome Breakfast
10:00-12:00 Workshop 1: Introduction to Mapping
12:00-2:00 LUNCH (on your own)
2:00-4:00 Workshop 2: Introduction to Crowdsourcing

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The Past, Present, and Future of DNA
Friday, October 2
9:30 am - 4:30pm
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://radcliffe-nenmf.formstack.com/forms/dna

The one-day science symposium will focus on the explosion of knowledge about past and present DNA, and will include discussions about possible directions and applications for future research. The event will include experts in ancient DNA, de-extinction, human origins, population genetics, forensic science, ethics, business, future synthetic life, and the personal genome.
This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required.
Contact events@radcliffe.harvard.edu with questions.

SCHEDULE
9:30 a.m.
WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
INTRODUCTION
Janet Rich-Edwards, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10 a.m.
MAMMOTHS, NEANDERTHALS, AND YOUR ANCESTORS
Moderator: George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
John Hawks, Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beth Shapiro, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spencer Wells, Director, Genographic Project, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
11:45 a.m.
LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION
1 p.m.
FORENSIC DNA INVESTIGATION
Introducer: Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School
Greg Hampikian, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Joint appointment in Department of Criminal Justice, Director of the Idaho Innocence Project, Boise State University
1:45 p.m.
THE ETHICAL FRONTIER OF DNA
Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine
2:30 p.m.
BREAK
2:45 p.m.
THE FUTURE UTILITY OF DNA SCIENCE
Moderator: Christine Seidman, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jacob Corn, Scientific Director, Innovative Genomics Initiative; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Head of Department, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Fertility Centre for Life, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Floyd Romesberg, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
4:15 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards
4:30 p.m.
RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION

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EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Friday, October 2

12:00PM - 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Melissa Weitz, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Change Division, EPA

Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/84526

Contact Name: Bram Maasakkers
maasakkers@seas.harvard.edu

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Rally for Climate Action
Friday, October 2
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building W20-Steps, Student Center Steps & Kresge Oval, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

MIT Climate Countdown
Following last year's campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, President Reif has now committed to deciding this fall semester how (or if) our university will take action against climate change. In the run-up to this potentially game-changing moment of decision, help us tip the balance by joining MIT Climate Countdown - a series of public events, starting September 28, culminating in a rally on October 2, the day of the MIT Corporation's Annual Board Meeting. So mark the Countdown on your calendar, and then we'll explain...
mitclimatecountdown.org

Flood the campus in a sea of blue to urge MIT to take bold and immediate action against the threats of climate change. Show up at the student center steps wearing blue or dressed for the beach since that's what Kresge oval would look like if a hurricane like Sandy hit Boston in 2050 due to sea level rise from climate change. Enjoy music by Melodeego, a band that uses a bike powered sound system, before hearing from students and faculty about the importance of MIT taking action on climate change and following through on recommendations from the Climate Change Conservation Committee. Following the event will be an ice cream social.

Why flood? Because we need to show the administration, who is meeting with the MIT board that day, that there is overwhelming support for MIT to take action on climate change. So flood the president with postcards, flood the open letter calling for action with signatures, and most importantly help us flood Kresge oval with a sea of blue. Let's celebrate the progress we've made last year and encourage MIT to stand with its community, stand with science, and make history.

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1647245262213215/

Web site: mitclimatecountdown.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Fossil Free MIT
fossilfree@mit.edu

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Taking Stock: Ingredients for a Regional Food System

Friday, October 2

1:30-3:30

Tufts, Goddard Chapel, 3 The Green, Medford

Robin Alden (Penobscot East Resource Center), Brian Donahue (Brandeis University), Liz Morningstar (Boston Public Market), Bob Perschel (New England Forestry Foundation), and Greg Watson (Schumacher Center for New Economies) will share their visions for what the next decade looks like.

Moderator: Julian Agyeman (Tufts University)

Free and open to the public.

More information at http://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/documents/events2015oct2.pdf

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Saturday, October 3
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Hubweek
Saturday, October 3 - Saturday, October 10

http://www.hubweek.org

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Let's Talk About Food Festival

Saturday, October 3

10:30am - 5pm

Copley Square, Boston

The fourth Let's Talk About Food Festival returns to Copley Square on Saturday, October 3—this year as part of the city's first HUB Week celebration. This festival lets participants dive into the most important food conversations and debates happening in society today. Through hands-on cooking demonstrations, edible gardens, and more, participants can also explore how to take advantage of the food around them by cooking better and eating healthier.

More information at http://www.boston.com/sponsored/extra/letstalkaboutfood/festival

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TEDxJamaicaPlain
Saturday, October 3
1-5pm
First Church of Jamaica Plain, 6 Elliot Street, Jamaica Plain
After-Party: 5-8pm
The Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
After-party includes food, drink, music and games - and an opportunity to connect with speakers and attendees around the ideas shared at the day's event.
RSVP at http://www.tedxjamaicaplain.com/#!tedxjp-2015/c1tom
Cost: General Admission ($25)
This ticket grants admission to the TEDx event only, (1-5pm).
General Admission + After-Party ($35)
This all-access ticket includes admission to the TEDx event and After-Party

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Sunday, October 4
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Fenway Forum: What's the Right Thing to Do?
WHEN Sun., Oct. 4, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Fenway Park, Yawkey Way, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hosted by HUBweek
SPEAKER(S) Professor Michael Sandel, Arianna Huffington, Yo-Yo Ma, Alexis Wilkinson
TICKET WEB LINK http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/hub_week.jsp
DETAILS Should we try to live forever? Make machines that can outthink us? Create perfect kids? Trade our privacy for convenience? HUBweek invites you to an unprecedented civic event, led by one of the world's leading political philosophers, in an iconic Boston setting: Fenway Park.
Harvard's Michael Sandel has been described as "the most relevant living professor" and a "rockstar moralist." (Newsweek) Join us as he leads an all-star panel of authors, artists, entertainers and other well-known public figures in a lively discussion-with audience participation- about some hard ethical questions and the meaning of citizenship today. The event will feature musical performances by the Silkroad Ensemble and a special guest, as well as previews of the coming HUBweek events.
LINK http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/hub_week.jsp
COST: $18.00 plus online service fees

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Monday, October 5
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HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
Monday, October 5
9am - 1:30pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8gBM6lI9MKxGzr

Join faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a wide-ranging discussion examining four major global health threats that are challenging the lives and health of people in the US and globally. Learn what new research and public policy solutions can begin to solve these threats on a large scale for millions of people.

Panel discussions will focus on: 1) Old and New Pandemics, ranging from AIDS, TB, and malaria to new threats including ebola , obesity and diabetes; 2) Social and Environmental Threats, ranging from air and water pollution to violence and war; 3) Poverty and Humanitarian Crises and their effects on health; and 4) Failing Health Systems as we seek to get more and better health care for the money we spend, both here in the US and internationally.

Please visit this page again for more information. Registration for attendance will be required. Register here.

Draft Agenda
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
David Hunter

9:15-10:15 AM Old and New Pandemics: Developing tools to reverse killer diseases
Dyann Wirth (Moderator), Flaminia Catteruccia, Sarah Fortune, Marc Lipsitch, Richard Marlink
10:15-11:15 AM Harmful Physical and Social Environments: Preventing Pollution, promoting healthy communities
Francesca Dominici (Moderator), Aaron Bernstein, David Christiani, Ichiro Kawachi, Eric Rimm
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Poverty and Humanitarian Crises: Advancing health as a human right
Michael VanRooyen (Moderator), Theresa Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jennifer Leaning
12:30-1:30 PM Failing Health Systems: Leading change, changing leaders
Ashish Jha (Moderator), Katherine Baicker, Peter Berman, Margaret Kruk

Visit the HUBWeek homepage for a comprehensive list of events.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-four-global-health-threats-four-global-health-opportunities#sthash.Mu3A4YmW.dpuf

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MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)

Monday, October 5
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Joan Alexander (NWRA)

MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu

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Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
Monday, October 5
12pm - 1:30pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Harry Singh, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.

HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu

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Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future

Monday, October 5

Michael Aaron Dennis, U.S. Naval War College

The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.

There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.

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

Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu

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Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
Monday, October 5

1:00 to 6:30 pm
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236

A Call to Solve Hard Problems
Welcome by L. Rafael Reif, President, MIT and Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MIT Technology Review; Keynote by Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Solve Roundtable: CURE - Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare
Introduction by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, MIT; Nobel Laureate
The CURE roundtable will undertake the challenge of how to leverage innovations in healthcare delivery and medical research to make care affordable and universally available. To deliver on this challenge, CURE seeks to impact near-term productivity improvement and longer-term radical innovation as a path to transform everything from fundamental research to delivery of patient services at all points of care. CURE will focus on five areas of research and healthcare innovation, tackling issues that include cancer, brain disorders, mitigating the risk of infectious disease, leveraging IT, and more.

Solve Roundtable: MAKE - Internet Access for All: A Civic Responsibility or a Corporate Opportunity
Introduction by Dr. Rodney Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder and Chairman, Rethink Robotics
The MAKE roundtable addresses the issues of basic infrastructure, the future of work, and new foundations for innovation in the digital economy. MAKE invites members of the greater Boston community who seek to better understand the social and economic factors that foster prosperity. Explore ways to reconcile the economic goals of more jobs, more automation, and greater efficiency. How will we create modern cities, using less energy and producing less waste? How can we make the tools required to usher in a new era of entrepreneurship? How can we spark a new era of business innovation that enables all who work to benefit equitably from the value they create?

These events are hosted in conjunction with HUBweek and as part of Solve, which will hold its inaugural meeting on the MIT campus October 5-8, 2015. Solve aims to inspire extraordinary people to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges in the context of four content pillars- Learn, Cure, Fuel, and Make- with a common purpose: to make the world a better place. For more information about Solve, please visit solve.mit.edu.

This is a free event, please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236

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Global Sustainability

Monday, October 5

4:15PM
Harvard, S010 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Han Seung-Soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water; former Prime Minister of South Korea, will lead a discussion on global sustainability. This event is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Korea Institute.

Asia Center/Korea Institute Special Event
http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/global-sustainability

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How does the environment affect our health?
Monday, October 5
6 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

John D. Spengler, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joseph Allen, Program Leader, Healthy Buildings, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Julia Africa, Program Leader, Nature, Health, & the Built Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The world is becoming increasingly urban. Factors such as overcrowding, air pollution, excessive noise, and lack of access to nature contribute to the emotional and physical stress of urban life. As cities continue to grow, there is a pressing need to design buildings, neighborhoods, and common spaces to foster a vital connection with nature and promote human health and the health of the planet. The speakers will share current research about environmental impacts on health and discuss new technologies, initiatives, and policies designed to promote human well-being.

Panel Discussion. Free and open to the public.

Presented in collaboration with the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/how-does-environment-affect-our-health#sthash.hXqJLHIz.dpuf

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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, October 5
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston

Andrea Wulf reveals in her new book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. Wulf traces Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature. In The Invention of Nature, Wulf brings this lost hero to science and the forgotten father of environmentalism back to life. This event is free for members, $20 for non-members. There will be a reception at 5:30pm. Sponsored by The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718

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Art. Science. Learning.
WHEN Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Boston,
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Ed Portal
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS What happens when we bring art and science together in the classroom: their approaches, their values, the learning potentials inherent in both? What is it like for a student to combine approaches drawn from the arts and sciences either in a classroom activity or in their individual work? What is it like for an instructor to develop learning experiences that are similarly cross-cutting and interdisciplinary? The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Harvard Ed Portal hosts an evening of interactive demonstrations and discussion exploring the remarkable power of art and science brought together in the classroom. Come explore and experience a multimedia happening that spans the perspectives of instructors, students, artists and scientists.
LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-learning-tickets-18523386949

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Tuesday, October 6
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Crowds & Climate Conference
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 am - 7:30 pm
MIT, W20-202, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

The MIT Climate CoLab (www.climatecolab.org) is an online community of over 40,000 people, where experts and non-experts work together to develop proposals for how to address climate change.

Join us at Crowds & Climate, the Climate CoLab's event on the MIT campus, where we bring together leaders from businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and communities around the world to advance an online global problem-solving effort to more effectively tackle climate change.

We will celebrate the innovative proposals that emerged from the 2015 Climate CoLab contests. These winners will present how their work tackles specific climate change challenges and will engage with leaders in the field to help accelerate their ideas. Presentations will be followed by a highly interactive workshop, where you can meet and contribute to these winners yourself, as well as engage in conversations with other attendees about how the world's experts and citizens can work together to solve the complex, complicated problem of climate change.

Sessions will be followed by Solve's roundtable panel on fuel, where world-class thought leaders will discuss the future of energy, food and water.

Attendees are also invited to join the Solve opening session on Monday afternoon, as well as the other events that are a part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area.

Student scholarships are available.

Web site: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0-$50
Tickets: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Sponsor(s): Climate CoLab, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Energy Initiative, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Sustainability@Sloan
For more information, contact: Richard Hill
conference@climatecolab.org

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Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Kristen Soltis Anderson is co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion research, data analysis and digital intelligence firm. She is author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America

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State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
Tuesday, October 6
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast at 12:00 pm

In September 2002 the Berkman Center helped launch the RSS 2.0 spec, paving the way for the subscription-based audio downloading services that make podcasts work.

In the 13 years since, podcasts have become the default news and entertainment option of choice for millions, launching audio producing careers, companies, and an entire industry, and upending traditional media models.

Join us for a discussion with pioneering figures in the field of podcasting and Internet audio to talk about how podcasting emerged, and what trends could be determining its future.

Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists, location, and how to RSVP!

This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.

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Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and HDS Student Association
CONTACT rsl@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Casper ter Kuile is a fourth year joint degree MDiv and Master of Public Policy student. Working toward UU ordination, Casper's work is at the intersection of the sacred and the secular, particularly the growing number of millennial non-religious communities.

This presentation is part of a series co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and the HDS Student Association, "Practicing Divinity: HDS Students Sharing Wisdom on Spiritual Practices," consisting of four, one-hour informal lunchtime presentations/workshops.
The series will feature HDS students sharing some of their expertise, research, and wisdom about a particular spiritual practice with other students, faculty, and staff, and each presentation will briefly highlight a different spiritual practice.

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Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
Tuesday, October 6
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm

A. Sankarasubramanian, Professor, North Carolina State University, (Tufts PhD)

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Gym, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) David Grossman
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Arrangements for the appearance of David Grossman made through Greater Talent Network, Inc., NYC.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/writing-jerusalem

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BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
Tuesday, October 6

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)

Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-oct-6-clean-energy-renewables-tickets-18571587117
$10 - $12

The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is excited to continue our fall event series with a focus on clean energy and renewables. Interest and investment in this industry continues to grow globally and there are numerous initiatives in the US and our own back yard to explore together. With our guest speakers, we will discuss where the different types of renewable energy are in their evolution, outstanding barriers to scaling implementation and adoption, the regulatory environment, the innovative approaches of companies and organizations leading the way to a cleaner future, and what we can each do as consumers and professionals.

Speakers:
Tom Kinneman, VP & Chief Operating Office, North Shore InnoVentures
NSIV is a non-profit, public/private partnership, focused on turning breakthrough technologies into thriving businesses. As part of the senior leadership team, Tom’s responsibilities include establishing and managing facilities for the Cleantech InnoVenture Center and the Biotech Innoventure Center. He is also an advisor for selected portfolio companies.

Mark Vasu, Executive Vice President, Greentown Labs
As Executive Vice President, Mark Vasu leads and supports revenue-generating activities that sustain and grow Greentown Labs. This includes managing corporate sponsors, partnerships and overseeing the member pipeline. He leads the effort to build the brand, visibility and partnerships. He also consults to and supports a national network of cleantech incubators, helping to build the ecosystem given Greentown Labs’ position as the nation’s largest clean tech incubator.

Prior to Greentown Labs, Mark was the founder of perCent Inc., a software company focused on reducing personal energy use and spending. He also founded and led CMV Marketing, a marketing and sustainable strategy-consulting firm for social-purpose companies and high-performing social enterprises.

He served in marketing and business development leadership roles for three high growth social enterprises: City Year, ChildrenFirst (acquired by Bright Horizons), and Jumpstart.

Mark was on the founding steering committee, co-chair, and ran the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon (2012, 2013, 2014). He has served on the Board of uAspire, a Boston based education non-profit from 2007 – 2015. Mark holds a BA Economics from Duke University.

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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
Tuesday, October 6

6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)

The Bell In Hand Tavern, 45 Union Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-october-2015-tickets-16129832764

Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!

Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.

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

Afterwards, stick around for a beer and networking

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FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Needs a location
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Climate-Action-Business-Association-Meetup/events/224772405/

Firstly, we are using this meetup to garner support and find the right audience to have these discussions. Also, we will be polling our members to find a good time that works for everyone! Lastly, look for our guest speakers, who will share a quick success story from a climate action or sustainability project.

More at http://cabaus.org

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Soil: The Skin of the Earth
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont

Andrew Kurtz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University.

2015 is the International Year of Soil, and soil expert Professor Kurtz is sharing his expertise with the public. We take soil for granted, but it is the indispensable "skin" of the Earth, a vital component of the global ecosystem, and it needs some respect. Dr. Kurtz explains how soils evolve, diversify and enable plant and animal life. And why there is increasing concern today about threats to soil, the "pedosphere".

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Media Storytelling
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by HUBweek and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
DETAILS Join Boston’s best chroniclers of innovation for an evening of unforgettable storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall.
This signature HUBweek event will feature the city’s best journalists, authors and innovators offering a behind-the-scenes look at stories that originated in Boston and reverberated around the world.
From best-selling author Ben Mezrich’s gripping tale of the Harvard undergrad who went on to help found Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, to Tom Ashbrook’s amazing story of dancing in the living room of legendary MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, this is a rare chance to hear the stories-behind-the-stories about Boston’s most renowned innovators.
Hosted by author Steve Almond, this intimate HUBweek event features Ashbrook, the host of the nationally syndicated radio program On Point, and Mezrich, the best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires, the book on which the film The Social Network was based, as well as the head of MIT’s Media Lab – the incomparable Joi Ito – Kara Miller, host and executive editor of the nationally syndicated radio show Innovation Hub, the award-winning Boston Globe technology columnist Hiawatha Bray, and Laurie Penny, feminist, journalist and author writing on social justice, pop culture, gender & digital politics.
LINK http://hubweek.org/events/media-storytelling-at-faneuil-hall

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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)

Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org

Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.

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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits

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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)

Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.

I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.

I am asking for your help!

Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich

Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com

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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.

We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!

Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.

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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

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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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Energy (and Other) Events - September 20, 2015

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