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Monday, January 8
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Quick & Dirty Data Management: The 5 Things You Should Absolutely Be Doing with Your Data Now
Monday, January 8
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 14N-132 (DIRC), 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3760733
Do you have data? (Who doesn't?!?) Learn about the five basic things you can do now to manage your data for future happiness. These tools and techniques support practical data management and you can start using them immediately. Work with your personal data or research data, but start working now to ensure a future you who is secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data!
Contact: Christine Malinowski, cmalin@mit.edu
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Sustainability 2018
Tuesday, January 9
6:00-8:30 PM
CIC Venture Cafe, One Broadway, Fith Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-2018-tickets-40075873015
Cost: $8 - $12
About the Event
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is kicking off 2018 with a unique double feature on January 9th to engage youth and adults alike. Let’s activate what we know about sustainability and elevate our game in how we channel our passion and energy into impact!
Our guest facilitators leading the January 9th sessions will be Lauren and Patrick Belmonte, Haven Hatch, and several of the educators from Change is Simple, an environmental science education non-profit. As certified sustainability managers, environmental scientists, and learning design experts, they will provide tips, tools, and strategies for using words and actions in service of achieving our sustainability goals.
Programming will start with an afternoon workshop at the CIC for 3rd to 5th graders and teachers from the greater Boston area led by the Change is Simple team. Using giant maps, bunches of fruit, a mathematical approach, and personal experience, students will learn about sustainability from an interactive Global Food System perspective. Workshop space is limited and will be by invitation-only from a pool of teacher nominations.
Report from the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Matthew Beaton, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Katie Theoharides, Assistant Secretary of Climate Change, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Resilience in Massachusetts Emergency Management
Sarah J. White, State Hazard Mitigation Officer, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
Moving from Science to Action: UMass’ role in MA Climate Adaptation Efforts
Richard Palmer, Ph.D., University Director, Northeast Climate Science Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Modeling the Vulnerability of Transportation Infrastructure to Coastal Flooding Along the Massachusetts Coastline: The good, the bad, and the wicked difficult
Ellen Douglas, P.E., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Hydrology, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston
Natural Hazards Resiliency – An Insurer’s Perspective
Brion Callori, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Research, FM Global
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Ralph A. Child, Member, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
Fine Print: Cancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 5 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 11.
Contact: Christian Catalini, Catalini@mit.edu
Join us every month for Net Impact Boston's informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion, and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good! Feel free to drop by any time between 7:30 and 9:00 am.
Join Boston Data Science & Data Women on Wednesday, January 17 in Kendall, to hear Alex Wiltschko talk about Tangent, a new open-source Python library developed by the Google Brain team.
This talk is being hosted by Edlitera in Kendall Square.
About the talk
Tangent is a new, free, and open-source Python library for automatic differentiation. In contrast to existing machine learning libraries, Tangent is a source-to-source system, consuming a Python function f and emitting a new Python function that computes the gradient of f. This allows the user to write plain Python code, with native loops and conditionals (like in PyTorch), but benefit from ahead-of-time optimizations (like in TensorFlow). Because Tangent returns pure Python code, this allows much better user visibility into gradient computations, as well as easy user-level editing and debugging of gradients.
About the speaker
Alex Wiltschko is a research scientist at Google Brain, focusing on building more flexible machine learning software systems, and also applications of machine learning to biology. He has helped build the machine learning libraries torch-autograd and Tangent, which are used in both research and production in industry and academia. He completed his PhD in Neurobiology at Harvard, focusing on quantifying behavior and body language using depth cameras and nonparametric time-series modeling.
Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Wednesday, January 17
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned psychiatrist and author MARK EPSTEIN for a discussion of his latest book, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself.
About Advice Not Given
Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And, while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego-free reign, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free.
With great insight, and in a deeply personal style, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix, grounded in two traditions devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better life. Using the Eightfold Path, eight areas of self-reflection that Buddhists believe necessary for enlightenment, as his scaffolding, Epstein looks back productively on his own experience and that of his patients. While the ideas of the Eightfold Path are as old as Buddhism itself, when informed by the sensibility of Western psychotherapy, they become something more: a roadmap for spiritual and psychological growth, a way of dealing with the intractable problem of the ego. Breaking down the wall between East and West, Epstein brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapist's practicality to Buddhism. Speaking clearly and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that encourages people to be more watchful of their ego, an idea with a strong foothold in Buddhism but now for the first time applied in the context of psychotherapy.
Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it. Completely unique and practical, Epstein's advice can be used by all—each in his or her own way—and will provide wise counsel in a confusing world. After all, as he says, "Our egos can use all the help they can get."
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You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side
Wednesday, January 17
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/orly-lobel-you-dont-own-me-how-mattel-v-mga-entertainment-exposed-barbies-dark-side-tickets-40922652756
When Carter Bryant began designing what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel, where he designed outfits for Barbie. Later, back at Mattel, he sold his concept for Bratz to rival company MGA. Law professor Orly Lobel reveals the colorful story behind the ensuing decade-long court battle.This entertaining and provocative work pits audacious MGA against behemoth Mattel, shows how an idea turns into a product, and explores the two different versions of womanhood, represented by traditional all-American Barbie and her defiant, anti-establishment rival―the only doll to come close to outselling her. In an era when workers may be asked to sign contracts granting their employers the rights to and income resulting from their ideas―whether conceived during work hours or on their own time―Lobel’s deeply researched story is a riveting and thought-provoking contribution to the contentious debate over creativity and intellectual property.
About the Author
Orly Lobel is an award-winning author and a renowned legal scholar. A graduate of Harvard University, she was recently named one of the top minds in research by The Market Magazine. Her books and research are critically acclaimed and have been featured in top media including the New York Times. the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, NPR and TED. A dynamic speaker and thought leader, Lobel is a world traveler. She lives and teaches in La Jolla, California.
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The State of Our Union Is Wrong
Wednesday, January 17
7:30 PM - 9 PM
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
In the weeks leading up to the State of the Union, join us for "The State of the Union Is Wrong: A Climate Prebuttal with Bill McKibben." Author and professor Juliet Schor will moderate a conversation with author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben about the climate movement and what we can do in the face of backward climate and energy policy at the federal level. Ticket sales support Better Future Project and 350 Mass!
We will be holding a space-limited reception with Bill prior to this event. If you are interested in learning more or attending this event, please visit http://www.betterfutureproject.org/evening_with_mckibben or email Beth@betterfutureproject.org
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NECEC’s Emerging Trends Series event will highlight how clean energy has been providing customers with resilient and reliable electricity service and how it can do more, and do it better and more cost-effectively than traditional solutions.
Please join the NECEC team, and speakers from the industry, regulatory community and more to discuss how microgrids, energy storage, distributed generation, demand response and energy efficiency are proven solutions to the challenge of improving grid resiliency and reliability.
Confirmed speakers include:
Inspired by Antiquity: The Future of Durable, Sustainable Infrastructure
Thursday, January 18
11:00am to 12:00pm
Webinar at
The Masic Lab at MIT is working to unlock the secrets of ancient materials including Roman concrete and pigments such as Mayan and Egyptian blues. In this webinar, Admir Masic, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), will discuss what engineers could learn from his lab’s “antiqua-inspired methodology”-- where ancient technologies, practices, and techniques guide the development of future materials -- about constructing longer-lasting modern infrastructure with lowered environmental impacts.
The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) webinar series offers information of general interest to members of the building, paving, and construction communities, as well as to educators, students, journalists, and law and policy-makers interested in the environmental and economic impacts of decision-making concerning infrastructure. Videos of past webinars are archived to the CSHub YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/CSHubMIT
Webinars are free and open to the public. Presentations are geared toward a lay audience.
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Get Up. Stand Up! History of Activism at MIT via a Glance at the Institute Archives
Thursday, January 18
2:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 2-139,, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3784575
MIT students have been involved with activism for decades. While the most well-recorded protests are those of the 1960s and 1970s against the Vietnam War, MIT students have stood up for what they believe in throughout the Institute's history. In addition, students of color, LGBTQ students, Black students, and international students have all had to establish their claims to equal space in the Institute. The Institute Archives and Special Collections preserves documentation of the history of the Institute, including many activist efforts by students, faculty and staff. Join us to learn about the struggle for equity and inclusion inside and outside of MIT.
Contact: Alena McNamara, amcnamar@mit.edu
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Finding Gene Info & More: A Tour of the NCBI "Omics" Network
Thursday, January 18
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 14N-132 (DIRC), 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) family of databases are filled with information for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several NCBI specific databases. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to or curious about bioinformatics research tools.
Contact: Courtney Crummett, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
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The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT Economy
Thursday, January 18
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
MIT Stata Center, Room 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Pre-registration is required at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/the-inversion-factor-iot-economy-sanjay-sarma-linda-bernardi/
Cost: $25 Members; $45 Non-Members: $10 Students; $5 Student Members
(In-Auditorium or Live Stream)
The First 50 Registrants will Receive a Copy of the Book!The Inversion Factor Book Cover
This event will be live streamed - select the live stream ticket option @ checkout if you would like to watch the event online.
If you registered for the live stream, you'll be emailed a link & password between 5:30PM & 6:00PM on 1/18.
A Fireside Chat with Authors Linda Bernardi and Sanjay Sarma
The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT EconomyIn the past, companies found success with a product-first orientation; they made a thing that did a thing. The Inversion Factor explains why the companies of today and tomorrow will have to abandon the product-first orientation. Rather than asking “How do the products we make meet customer needs?” companies should ask “How can technology help us reimagine and fill a need?” Zipcar, for example, instead of developing another vehicle for moving people from point A to point B, reimagined how people interacted with vehicles. Zipcar inverted the traditional car company mission.
The authors, Linda Bernardi, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Element AI, and Prof. Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning and Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Managing Partner IoTask LLC, will talk about how the introduction of “smart” objects connected by the Internet of Things signals fundamental changes for business.
The IoT, where real and digital coexist, is powering new ways to meet human needs. Companies that know this include giants like Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, Google, Tesla, and Apple, as well as less famous companies like Tile, Visenti, and Augury. The Inversion Factor offers a roadmap for businesses that want to follow in their footsteps.
Event Schedule
5:30 - 6:00pm - Registration and Networking
6:00 - 8:00pm - Welcome & Fireside Chat
8:00 - 9:00pm - Networking
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GeNES Konsultations: "The Future of E-Mobility"
Thursday, January 18
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
German Consulate General Boston, 3 Copley Place, Suite 500, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/genes-konsultations-the-future-of-e-mobility-tickets-40903658945
The first installment of our Konsultations series in the New Year will take place on Thursday, January 18, 2018. Consul General Ralf Horlemann will host a panel discussion with Philipp Robbel (Head of Safety and Validation at nuTonomy) and one other panelist TBA on the future of autonomous driving and electromobility. To join the lively conversation, reserve your spot now! Guests are invited to stay for German beer and wine after the panel discussion.
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Community Choice Energy Celebration
Thursday, January 18
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-choice-energy-celebration-tickets-41643055500
In 2017, Boston City Council passed Community Choice Energy and Mayor Walsh signed it!
We're throwing an event to celebrate this victory with our fellow green justice and climate activist coalition groups. All are welcome!
There will be food and good company, and we'll talk about what's next for us to get the City to follow through on its implementation of CCE.
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Cambridge Forum: How Storytelling Shaped the History of the World
Thursday, January 18, 2018
7:00 PM
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cambridge Forum is pleased to present "How Storytelling Shaped the History of the World" featuring Martin Puchner, Harvard University professor, discussing his latest book, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization.
About The Written World
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature and reveals how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. Indeed, literature has touched the lives of generations and changed the course of history.
At the heart of this book are works, some long-lost and rediscovered, that have shaped civilization: the first written masterpiece, the Epic of Gilgamesh; Ezra’s Hebrew Bible, created as scripture; the teachings of Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus; and the first great novel in world literature, The Tale of Genji, written by a Japanese woman known as Murasaki. Visiting Baghdad, Puchner tells of Scheherazade and the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, and in the Americas we watch the astonishing survival of the Maya epic Popol Vuh. Cervantes, who invented the modern novel, battles pirates both real (when he is taken prisoner) and literary (when a fake sequel to Don Quixote is published). We learn of Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering work as a media entrepreneur, watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. We visit Troy, Pergamum, and China, and we speak with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, as well as the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa.
Throughout The Written World, Puchner’s delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped religion, politics, commerce, people, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as “unique and spellbinding,” Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world.
Alewife Corridor Resilience Symposium
Friday, January 19
Women's Solidarity March 2018 Boston - Cambridge
Saturday, January 20
1 PM - 4 PM
Cambridge Common Historic District, Cambridge
On January 20th 2018, We the People of New England will take to the streets again to show that Women's Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Women's Rights.
ALL ARE WELCOME. We encourage anybody and everybody who accepts the fact that women are people to join us.
Statement of Values:
As a still unnamed coalition of Massachusetts organizations, we would like to hold a rally on January 20th as equal partners, which means that every group has an equal voice at the table. Together, we will agree on a set of common values and vision for this event; these values include equality, inclusivity, and diversity. We will plan, advertise, and execute this event with a shared and consistent message reflecting those values. We welcome into this coalition all groups who share our values, and we aim to proactively invite groups and individuals from marginalized communities.
List of groups in the event:
New England Independence Campaign
Massachusetts Peace Action
Boston Persists
Indivisible Somerville
List of speakers:
Aleksandra Burger-Roy, NEIC
Michelle Cunha, Massachusetts Peace Action
If you would like to volunteer, please contact us.
PLEASE NOTE: As there has been some confusion on this point, we want to clarify that we are not the same group who organized the 2017 Boston Women's March. That event was organized by March Forward Massachusetts. We are not affiliated with them. We have contacted them but have not received a reply as of this time.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/862995990536253/
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Meet & Greet with author and former CIA informant Prof. Williams
Saturday, January 20
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
242 E Berkeley Street, 2nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-greet-with-author-and-former-cia-informant-prof-williams-tickets-40947863161
Meet Professor Brian Glyn Williams on January 20th from 2pm-4pm at More Than Words in Boston for an author event with former CIA field analyst in Afghanistan and UMass Professor of Islamic History, Brian Glyn Williams, as he talks readers into the souring Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan to join a small team of Green Berets who mount horses and fight alongside an anti-Taliban warlord featured in his recent biography The Last Warlord. The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior who Led U.S. Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime.
Williams, who lived for two summers in the plains and mountains of northern Afghanistan with the larger than life Mongol warlord, General Dostum, sheds a rare light on a covert CIA-Special Forces operation to leverage local anti-Taliban tribesman as a proxy "hooves on the ground" force to overthrow the entrenched Taliban regime in the "Afghan Graveyard of Empire" in the fall of 2001. Dr. Williams has interviewed the CIA Special Activities Division Operatives, Uzbek Mongol tribesmen, Green Beret Special Forces, and even Taliban Prisoners of War to recreate this classified story that few Americans are aware of.
The Last Warlord, is a story of fighting men from worlds as far apart as Alma Kansas and Khoja Doku Afghanistan who unite to fight the common Taliban and Al Qaeda enemy. There was no mass Operation Iraqi Freedom-style invasion of Afghanistan in , and just 300 American ground troops provided local anti-Taliban militias with the 'air artillery' precision guided bombings needed to overthrow the Taliban regime.
Most recently, Professor Williams has advised on the New Mexico set for the forthcoming Hollywood movie by Producer Jerry Bruckheimer 12 Strong, The Declassified Story of the Horse Soldiers which features the characters from his book. These include Chris Hemsworth playing the Green Beret Captain Mark Nutsch who led the American special forces.
Buy on Amazon or reserve your copy of the Last Warlord by calling More Than Words in Boston at 781-788-0035
https://www.mtwyouth.org/
Additive manufacturing, fusion technology, wolves and places I like to hike
Monday, January 22
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
A talk by Richard Nygren, Sandia National Laboratory
Richard Nygren has spent four decades developing advanced materials and components for fusion in R&D at four national labs, the Dept. of Energy and UCLA. Currently at Sandia’s Advanced Materials Laboratory on the University of New Mexico’s south campus, he is exploring the use of Advanced Manufacturing (AM+) processes as a transformative technology for manufacturing robust plasma facing components (PFCs) for future fusion reactors. The PFCs must survive in a fierce environment that includes very high heat loads, bombardment with energetic ions and damage from fusion neutrons. Additive Manufacturing, already widely used, is transforming the world’s products and introducing new materials, such as rigid lightweight parts for aerospace, bio-active interfaces for applications in medicine, and novel complex multi-material structures. The transformative capability of AM+ seems like the best approach to make some novel materials architectures for the high performance heat sinks in fusion systems. In this seminar, Richard offers ideas about future fusion reactors, explains the various technologies needed, and the potential for AM+ to enable innovations.*
In this talk, Richard mixes his own humor and slides of his treks in the wilderness. Students and faculty who visit the institutions where he has worked may appreciate his recommendations for side trips. As an avid outdoor adventurer, he sought wilderness accessible from his work sites and travels. He has hiked in the Sierra, Cascades, southwest canyons and once took a month-long solo arctic journey 400 miles down the Noatak River.
RE Nygren et al. 2016, A new vision of plasma facing components, Fus. Eng. & Des. 109–111 A 1, 192-202, invited oral presentation, Int. Symp, Fusion Nuclear Tech., Korea, October 2015
RE Nygren et al, 2017, Advanced Manufacturing – A Transformative Enabling Capability for Fusion, invited oral presentation, Int. Symp, Fusion Nuclear Tech., Kyoto Sept 2017 (in review)
RE Nygren et al. 2017, Development of Fusion Sub-components with Additive Manufacturing, https://www.burningplasma.org/activities/?article=FESAC TEC White Papers
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Awareness and Action: Conversations with Joi Ito and Tenzin Priyadarshi
Monday, January 22
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, E14 6th Floor Lecture Hall, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
What is awareness? Is self-awareness a “default” state or is it cultivated? Can it improve performance and wellbeing? What role does technology play in promoting or hindering awareness? Is there an ethical framework for our capacity to be aware? Can self-awareness be linked to happiness?
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Mellon Seminar- Digitizing Human Rights, Archiving Activism
Monday, January 22
4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
BU, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
A discussion of several projects promoting ethics and activism with technology. Speakers include Alexa Koenig (UC Berkeley Human Rights Center), Anat Biletzki (B’Tselem), Peter Manning (Northeastern) and members of the Charlie Hebdo Archives at Harvard University.
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How Democracies Die
Monday, January 22
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
A bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world–and a road map for rescuing our own. Harvard professors Levitsky and Ziblatt draw on decades of historical and global research to show how democracies perish and how ours can be saved.
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Starr Forum: The Uncondemned
Tuesday, January 23
2:00pm to 3:30pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 182 Memorial Drive (REAR), Cambridge
About the film: "The Uncondemned" tells the gripping and world-changing story of a group of young international lawyers and activists who fought to make rape a crime of war, and the Rwandan women who came forward to testify and win justice where there had been none. Up until this point, rape had not been prosecuted as a war crime and was committed with impunity. A courtroom thriller and personal human drama, "The Uncondemned" beautifully interweaves the stories of the characters in this odyssey, leading to the trial at an international criminal court--and the results that changed the world of criminal justice forever.
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served
For more information or accessibility accommodations please contact starrforum@mit.edu
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Please join us for a presentation by Carie Hersh, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, for the first Spring semester event in the Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience Studies speaker series
The "Woman Inventor" as a Political Tool of Female Suffragists: Patents, Invention, and Civil Rights in 19th-Century United States
Tuesday, January 23
5:30 pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street,Boston
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender
Kara W. Swanson, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
After the Patent Act of 1790, patents played an important social and political role in the formation of American nationhood and citizenship. Part of a larger book project, this paper demonstrates how 19th-century American women mobilized patents granted to women as justification for civil rights claims. It identifies the creation of the “woman inventor” as a cultural trope and political weapon of resistance.
The Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality—cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—offers scholars and students an opportunity to discuss new research on any aspect of the history of women and gender in the United States, without chronological limitation.
Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The seminar series includes four meetings that will take place during the 2016–2017 academic year, each revolving around the discussion of a precirculated paper.
Registration for the series is required.
Registered participants may access the papers online at the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
For more information, please call 617-495-8647 or e-mail seminars@masshist.org
Join us for a special screening of Ocean Frontiers III. This hopeful film explores the challenges at the heart of ocean conservation and development, presenting solutions from a range of people who are leading the way to a healthy and sustainable ocean future. Participate in the post-film conversation and learn how you can get involved.
FREE and open to the public!
This special film screening is in partnership with Boston Harbor Now, Green Fire Productions and the New England Aquarium and is part of Boston Harbor Now's "Working Port": A 21st-century Harbor: A two-day idea exchange on Boston’s working port.
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The interactive panel discussion with regional experts includes:
Bud Ris - Senior Advisor, Green Ribbon Commission, former CEO New England Aquarium
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Monday, January 8
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3pm Quick & Dirty Data Management: The 5 Things You Should Absolutely Be Doing with Your Data Now
6pm Sustainability 2018
6:30pm General Meeting of Eastern Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign
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Wednesday, January 10
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10:30am The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
1pm Movie Screening, Fail State: A documentary on higher education
4pm EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
7pm The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life
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Thursday, January 11
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1pm Using Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
1pm New Models for Science Communication
4pm EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
5:30pm Greentown Labs EnergyBar: Global Center Preview!
7pm Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
7pm Judith Schwartz: Solutions in Plain Sight ~ Climate & Beyond
7pm 100% Renewable Energy Campaign
8pm What Unites Us: Dan Rather Reflects on Patriotism
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Friday, January 12
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7:30am Risk Management Choices: Adaptation Strategies by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Insurance Industry
10am Carbon Pricing & Transportation Emissions
2pm The oceans in a warming world
6pm Judy Schwartz: The Future Is Regenerative, Glimpses of a Growing Global Movement
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Tuesday, January 16
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9am IACS Symposium: "The Digital Doctor: Health Care in an Age of AI and Big Data"
9am Leadership in a Time of Innovation - Free Webinar
10:30am Research Opportunities at the Intersection of Economics, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies
1pm Using Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
1:30pm Panel on Careers in Science Policy
5:15pm The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate Over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927
6pm Public Meeting on National Grid's Fracked Gas Pipeline
7pm How Healing Works
7pm Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Monday, January 8
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3pm Quick & Dirty Data Management: The 5 Things You Should Absolutely Be Doing with Your Data Now
6pm Sustainability 2018
6:30pm General Meeting of Eastern Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign
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Wednesday, January 10
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10:30am The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
1pm Movie Screening, Fail State: A documentary on higher education
4pm EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
7pm The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life
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Thursday, January 11
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1pm Using Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
1pm New Models for Science Communication
4pm EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
5:30pm Greentown Labs EnergyBar: Global Center Preview!
7pm Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
7pm Judith Schwartz: Solutions in Plain Sight ~ Climate & Beyond
7pm 100% Renewable Energy Campaign
8pm What Unites Us: Dan Rather Reflects on Patriotism
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Friday, January 12
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7:30am Risk Management Choices: Adaptation Strategies by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Insurance Industry
10am Carbon Pricing & Transportation Emissions
2pm The oceans in a warming world
6pm Judy Schwartz: The Future Is Regenerative, Glimpses of a Growing Global Movement
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Tuesday, January 16
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9am IACS Symposium: "The Digital Doctor: Health Care in an Age of AI and Big Data"
9am Leadership in a Time of Innovation - Free Webinar
10:30am Research Opportunities at the Intersection of Economics, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies
1pm Using Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
1:30pm Panel on Careers in Science Policy
5:15pm The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate Over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927
6pm Public Meeting on National Grid's Fracked Gas Pipeline
7pm How Healing Works
7pm Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
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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
Checking in with the World’s Winds
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Monday, January 8
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Quick & Dirty Data Management: The 5 Things You Should Absolutely Be Doing with Your Data Now
Monday, January 8
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 14N-132 (DIRC), 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3760733
Do you have data? (Who doesn't?!?) Learn about the five basic things you can do now to manage your data for future happiness. These tools and techniques support practical data management and you can start using them immediately. Work with your personal data or research data, but start working now to ensure a future you who is secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data!
Contact: Christine Malinowski, cmalin@mit.edu
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Sustainability 2018
Tuesday, January 9
6:00-8:30 PM
CIC Venture Cafe, One Broadway, Fith Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-2018-tickets-40075873015
Cost: $8 - $12
About the Event
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is kicking off 2018 with a unique double feature on January 9th to engage youth and adults alike. Let’s activate what we know about sustainability and elevate our game in how we channel our passion and energy into impact!
Our guest facilitators leading the January 9th sessions will be Lauren and Patrick Belmonte, Haven Hatch, and several of the educators from Change is Simple, an environmental science education non-profit. As certified sustainability managers, environmental scientists, and learning design experts, they will provide tips, tools, and strategies for using words and actions in service of achieving our sustainability goals.
Programming will start with an afternoon workshop at the CIC for 3rd to 5th graders and teachers from the greater Boston area led by the Change is Simple team. Using giant maps, bunches of fruit, a mathematical approach, and personal experience, students will learn about sustainability from an interactive Global Food System perspective. Workshop space is limited and will be by invitation-only from a pool of teacher nominations.
From 6pm to 8:30pm in the Venture Cafe, Change is Simple will run a workshop open to all and particularly for anyone eager to improve how they practice and share the many messages of sustainability at home, at work, in our communities, and elsewhere. Regardless of our place in the world, each of us plays a role in communicating the importance of sustainability as we mentor others, lead teams, and go about our business and daily lives, even as we continue to learn ourselves.
Let’s make it a great start for 2018! Hope you join us on January 9th. – Carol, Holly, and Tilly
Our Event Facilitators
Lauren Belmonte – Co-Founder / Co- Director, Master Level CiS Certified Educator
Lauren wears many hats at Change is Simple, including those of environmental scientist, certified sustainability manager, grant writer, development director, and educator. Her work before committing her passion to Change is Simple included environmental permitting, wetland delineations and rare species habitat surveys, renewable energy projects including Cape Wind, LEED construction projects, as well as environmental compliance activities for the MA Military Division. Lauren has 11+ years of environmental and sustainability experience and 8 years working with youth. She is a graduate of Merrimack College with a BS in Environmental Science.
Patrick Belmonte – Co-Founder / Co-Director – Master Level CiS Certified Educator
Patrick leads the design of the Change is Simple curriculum, learning tools and strategy which he has taught in over 700 classrooms at nearly 100 different schools over the past 6+ years. After earning his degree in Marketing/Communications from Western New England University, Patrick spent several years running his own business. Other experiences prior to founding Change is Simple include roles in marketing at LEGO Corp., Mullen Advertising and Westport Communications. Patrick is an avid surfer and mountain biker, and is passionate about sustainable technology and design, recently building a solar powered hydroponic growing system and an electric motorcycle.
Haven Hatch – Program Director & Lead Educator Master Level CiS Certified Educator
Haven graduated from Endicott College with B.S. in Environmental Science. She feels passionately that education is one of the greatest avenues to reach and inspire others about climate change and sustainability. Her understanding of how children learn and her experience in the environmental and outdoor learning world are at the heart of what gets kids excited about Change is Simple’s lessons. In September, Haven trained with former Vice President Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader. She is currently working towards her Master’s degree in education, with a concentration on learning design.
Our “Global Food Systems” Workshop Co-Sponsor
The “Global Food Systems” workshop is co-sponsored by Cambridge Energy Advisors principal Eric Grunebaum, a long-time BASG collaborator who focuses on catalyzing solar and efficiency projects for commercial and institutional buildings using impact investor funding. Prior business development engagements have been with Greentown Labs and a European green chemistry startup. In his spare time, he is helping transform a 9-acre brown-fields site adjacent to affordable housing in Cambridge into a new park.
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General Meeting of Eastern Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign
Monday, January 8
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 14 Cushing Avenue, Dorchester
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/134120977269038/
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Wednesday, January 10
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The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
Wednesday, January 10
10:30AM-12:00PM
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Ames Street, Cambridge
Peter Temin, Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics
Desription and discussion of the recent book of that name, based on the Lewis model, with an epilogue on the first year of President Trump to be published when the paper edition comes out next spring.
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Movie Screening, Fail State: A documentary on higher education
Wednesday, January 10
1:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
In an expansive documentary exposé, Fail State reveals the dark story behind the rise of predatory for-profit colleges and why our higher education system, once the envy of the world, is leaving millions of Americans in financial ruin. Please join the Office of Open Learning and the Director and Producer of Fail State for a screening of this powerful documentary and a brief post-screening discussion. Runtime: 88 minutes
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EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 10
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54- 915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Our Origin of Life Seminars are a series of hosted lectures from leaders in the Origin of Life community, focusing on various dimensions of one of the most challenging problems in the biological and planetary sciences. Topics include the origin of cells, metabolism, replication and proteins, as well as the geochemical conditions on the Early Earth that led to prebiotic and early biotic systems. Enrolled students will attend 4 seminars during IAP, actively engage in Q & A sessions with invited speakers in a panel format, and collaborate on creating an Origins of Life online blog resource highlighting the work of invited speakers.
Instructor: Greg Fournier
More info: http://bit.ly/EAPS_IAP2018
JANUARY 10 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"RNA and Protein: Molecules in Mutualism"
Loren Williams | Georgia Institute of Technology
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-loren-williams
JANUARY 11 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"The RNA World: Emergence and Evolution of Functional RNA"
Irene A. Chen | University of California, Santa Barbara
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-irene-chen
JANUARY 29 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"What is “I”: The Role of Compartmentalisation in the Origins of Life"
Anna Wang | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-anna-wang
FEBRUARY 2 | ROOM E25-605 | 4PM
"The Planetary Battery for the Origins of Life: The Example of Mars"
Vlada Stamenkovic | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-vlada-stamenkovic
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The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life
Wednesday, January 10
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine SANJIV CHOPRA and Harvard Medical School Associate Dean and Chief Communications Officer GINA VILD for a discussion of their book, The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life.
About The Two Most Important Days
What are the two most important days in your life? "The day you are born and the day you find out why" Mark Twain famously wrote.
The search for happiness is hardwired in our DNA. It transcends age, gender, geography, vocation, and personal circumstances. But how do you achieve it?
Through inspirational storytelling, scientific evidence, practical advice, captivating exercises, and poetry, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild present a powerful message that shows you how to achieve happiness no matter the challenges and stumbling blocks you face along the way. They also reveal the best way to be happy: Discover and live your life’s purpose. It’s a sure path to human flourishing. In fact, you may be surprised to learn that living with purpose can even add years to your life.
Do you know your life’s purpose? This book offers a path to discovering it by illuminating the value of gratitude, forgiveness, meditation, music, friendship and so much more. It will set you on the right path and spark sustained happiness, joy, and bliss.
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Thursday, January 11
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Using Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
Thursday, January 11
1-2pm ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.cesa.org/webinars/using-wap-funds-for-low-income-solar/?date=2018-01-11
Traditionally, the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) focused on increasing energy efficiency for low-income households. As solar costs have declined, interest in using WAP funds for low-income solar deployment has increased. On this webinar, Joshua Olsen from the U.S. Department of Energy will discuss the federal approval process for a state to integrate solar into WAP. This approval process includes demonstrating the effectiveness of solar in generating savings. Monisha Shah, an Energy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will present a state-specific tool NREL developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of solar in generating savings.
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Let’s make it a great start for 2018! Hope you join us on January 9th. – Carol, Holly, and Tilly
Our Event Facilitators
Lauren Belmonte – Co-Founder / Co- Director, Master Level CiS Certified Educator
Lauren wears many hats at Change is Simple, including those of environmental scientist, certified sustainability manager, grant writer, development director, and educator. Her work before committing her passion to Change is Simple included environmental permitting, wetland delineations and rare species habitat surveys, renewable energy projects including Cape Wind, LEED construction projects, as well as environmental compliance activities for the MA Military Division. Lauren has 11+ years of environmental and sustainability experience and 8 years working with youth. She is a graduate of Merrimack College with a BS in Environmental Science.
Patrick Belmonte – Co-Founder / Co-Director – Master Level CiS Certified Educator
Patrick leads the design of the Change is Simple curriculum, learning tools and strategy which he has taught in over 700 classrooms at nearly 100 different schools over the past 6+ years. After earning his degree in Marketing/Communications from Western New England University, Patrick spent several years running his own business. Other experiences prior to founding Change is Simple include roles in marketing at LEGO Corp., Mullen Advertising and Westport Communications. Patrick is an avid surfer and mountain biker, and is passionate about sustainable technology and design, recently building a solar powered hydroponic growing system and an electric motorcycle.
Haven Hatch – Program Director & Lead Educator Master Level CiS Certified Educator
Haven graduated from Endicott College with B.S. in Environmental Science. She feels passionately that education is one of the greatest avenues to reach and inspire others about climate change and sustainability. Her understanding of how children learn and her experience in the environmental and outdoor learning world are at the heart of what gets kids excited about Change is Simple’s lessons. In September, Haven trained with former Vice President Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader. She is currently working towards her Master’s degree in education, with a concentration on learning design.
Our “Global Food Systems” Workshop Co-Sponsor
The “Global Food Systems” workshop is co-sponsored by Cambridge Energy Advisors principal Eric Grunebaum, a long-time BASG collaborator who focuses on catalyzing solar and efficiency projects for commercial and institutional buildings using impact investor funding. Prior business development engagements have been with Greentown Labs and a European green chemistry startup. In his spare time, he is helping transform a 9-acre brown-fields site adjacent to affordable housing in Cambridge into a new park.
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General Meeting of Eastern Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign
Monday, January 8
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 14 Cushing Avenue, Dorchester
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/134120977269038/
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Wednesday, January 10
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The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
Wednesday, January 10
10:30AM-12:00PM
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Ames Street, Cambridge
Peter Temin, Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics
Desription and discussion of the recent book of that name, based on the Lewis model, with an epilogue on the first year of President Trump to be published when the paper edition comes out next spring.
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Movie Screening, Fail State: A documentary on higher education
Wednesday, January 10
1:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
In an expansive documentary exposé, Fail State reveals the dark story behind the rise of predatory for-profit colleges and why our higher education system, once the envy of the world, is leaving millions of Americans in financial ruin. Please join the Office of Open Learning and the Director and Producer of Fail State for a screening of this powerful documentary and a brief post-screening discussion. Runtime: 88 minutes
————————————————
EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 10
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54- 915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Our Origin of Life Seminars are a series of hosted lectures from leaders in the Origin of Life community, focusing on various dimensions of one of the most challenging problems in the biological and planetary sciences. Topics include the origin of cells, metabolism, replication and proteins, as well as the geochemical conditions on the Early Earth that led to prebiotic and early biotic systems. Enrolled students will attend 4 seminars during IAP, actively engage in Q & A sessions with invited speakers in a panel format, and collaborate on creating an Origins of Life online blog resource highlighting the work of invited speakers.
Instructor: Greg Fournier
More info: http://bit.ly/EAPS_IAP2018
JANUARY 10 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"RNA and Protein: Molecules in Mutualism"
Loren Williams | Georgia Institute of Technology
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-loren-williams
JANUARY 11 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"The RNA World: Emergence and Evolution of Functional RNA"
Irene A. Chen | University of California, Santa Barbara
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-irene-chen
JANUARY 29 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"What is “I”: The Role of Compartmentalisation in the Origins of Life"
Anna Wang | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-anna-wang
FEBRUARY 2 | ROOM E25-605 | 4PM
"The Planetary Battery for the Origins of Life: The Example of Mars"
Vlada Stamenkovic | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-vlada-stamenkovic
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The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life
Wednesday, January 10
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine SANJIV CHOPRA and Harvard Medical School Associate Dean and Chief Communications Officer GINA VILD for a discussion of their book, The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life.
About The Two Most Important Days
What are the two most important days in your life? "The day you are born and the day you find out why" Mark Twain famously wrote.
The search for happiness is hardwired in our DNA. It transcends age, gender, geography, vocation, and personal circumstances. But how do you achieve it?
Through inspirational storytelling, scientific evidence, practical advice, captivating exercises, and poetry, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild present a powerful message that shows you how to achieve happiness no matter the challenges and stumbling blocks you face along the way. They also reveal the best way to be happy: Discover and live your life’s purpose. It’s a sure path to human flourishing. In fact, you may be surprised to learn that living with purpose can even add years to your life.
Do you know your life’s purpose? This book offers a path to discovering it by illuminating the value of gratitude, forgiveness, meditation, music, friendship and so much more. It will set you on the right path and spark sustained happiness, joy, and bliss.
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Thursday, January 11
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Using Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
Thursday, January 11
1-2pm ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.cesa.org/webinars/using-wap-funds-for-low-income-solar/?date=2018-01-11
Traditionally, the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) focused on increasing energy efficiency for low-income households. As solar costs have declined, interest in using WAP funds for low-income solar deployment has increased. On this webinar, Joshua Olsen from the U.S. Department of Energy will discuss the federal approval process for a state to integrate solar into WAP. This approval process includes demonstrating the effectiveness of solar in generating savings. Monisha Shah, an Energy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will present a state-specific tool NREL developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of solar in generating savings.
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New Models for Science Communication
Thursday, January 11
Thursday, January 11
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building 68-181, 31 Ames Street, Cambridge
Richard Sever, Co-founder, BioRxiv
Eric Boodman, Reporter, STAT News
Megan Talkington, Senior Science Writer, Broad Institute
Vivian Siegel, Director of Communications, MIT Biology
Yarden Katz, Fellow, Departmental Fellow in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Innovative science needs innovative communication. Come join the discussion on how science communication shapes the way scientists find and share new discoveries, the ways that new platforms are broadening audiences of your research, and the responsibilities that come with spreading “world-changing” discoveries.
MIT, Building 68-181, 31 Ames Street, Cambridge
Richard Sever, Co-founder, BioRxiv
Eric Boodman, Reporter, STAT News
Megan Talkington, Senior Science Writer, Broad Institute
Vivian Siegel, Director of Communications, MIT Biology
Yarden Katz, Fellow, Departmental Fellow in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Innovative science needs innovative communication. Come join the discussion on how science communication shapes the way scientists find and share new discoveries, the ways that new platforms are broadening audiences of your research, and the responsibilities that come with spreading “world-changing” discoveries.
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EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
Thursday, January 11
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54- 915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Our Origin of Life Seminars are a series of hosted lectures from leaders in the Origin of Life community, focusing on various dimensions of one of the most challenging problems in the biological and planetary sciences. Topics include the origin of cells, metabolism, replication and proteins, as well as the geochemical conditions on the Early Earth that led to prebiotic and early biotic systems. Enrolled students will attend 4 seminars during IAP, actively engage in Q & A sessions with invited speakers in a panel format, and collaborate on creating an Origins of Life online blog resource highlighting the work of invited speakers.
Instructor: Greg Fournier
More info: http://bit.ly/EAPS_IAP2018
JANUARY 11 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"The RNA World: Emergence and Evolution of Functional RNA"
Irene A. Chen | University of California, Santa Barbara
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-irene-chen
JANUARY 29 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"What is “I”: The Role of Compartmentalisation in the Origins of Life"
Anna Wang | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-anna-wang
FEBRUARY 2 | ROOM E25-605 | 4PM
"The Planetary Battery for the Origins of Life: The Example of Mars"
Vlada Stamenkovic | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-vlada-stamenkovic
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Greentown Labs EnergyBar: Global Center Preview!
Thursday, January 11
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentown-labs-energybar-global-center-preview-tickets-41472777193
OUR GLOBAL CENTER FOR CLEANTECH INNOVATION IS NOW OPEN!
...and we're inviting our closest partners, friends, and cleantech champions to come check it out! Please join us for our first EnergyBar in our new facility which will offer a preview (and tour) of the space, remarks from the Greentown Labs team, and networking among your cleantech industry peers.
We have a fun lineup planned for the evening:
5:30pm — Sign-in/Registration
6:00pm — Welcoming Remarks from Greentown Labs + our members whose technology is in use in the new facility!
6:30-7:30pm — Celebration & Networking
7:30pm — Guided tours of the Global Center + networking continues...
8:30pm — Event wraps up
ENERGYBAR DETAILS:
As a reminder, EnergyBar is Greentown Labs' bi-monthly networking event devoted to helping folks in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in the industry. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Our attendees typically span a variety of disciplines within energy, efficiency, and renewables. In general, if you're looking for a job in cleantech or energy, trying to expand your network, or perhaps thinking about starting your own energy-related company this is the event for you. Expect to have conversations about issues facing advanced and renewable energy technologies and ways to solve our most pressing energy problems.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual. Parking is incredibly limited at Greentown Labs and we encourage attendees to consider taking advantage of public transportation.
Hope to see you on January 11!
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Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
Thursday, January 11
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes neuroscientist, teacher, and author RACHEL HERZ for a discussion of her latest book, Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food.
About Why You Eat What You Eat
In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Herz, who’s been praised for her “ability to cite and explain academic studies in a conversational manner” (Washington Post), uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that influence food consumption―such as why bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats, how our beliefs can affect how many calories we burn, why TV influences how much we eat, and how what we see and hear changes how food tastes―and reveals useful techniques for improving our experience of food, such as how aromas can help curb cravings and tips on how to resist repeated trips to the buffet table.
Why You Eat What You Eat presents our relationship to food as a complicated recipe, whose ingredients―taste, personality, and emotions―combine to make eating a potent and pleasurable experience. Herz weaves curious findings and compelling facts into a narrative that tackles important questions, revealing how psychology, neurology, and physiology shape our relationship with food, and how food alters the relationship we have with ourselves and each other.
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Judith Schwartz: Solutions in Plain Sight ~ Climate & Beyond
Thursday, January 11
7 PM - 9 PM
First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/541109912892466/
Judith D. Schwartz, author of Cows Save The Planet has published a new book called Water In Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World. Judith’s writing brings such insights to environmental challenges and climate change that challenge us to look at problems as solutions. Tony Eprille, a writer and photographer, uses Creative Seeing, to find environmental solutions that we might otherwise miss by assuming the future is craved in stone. Together they will share how to see the promise of restoring soil and enhancing our ecosystem’s health.
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EAPS IAP 2018: Origin of Life Seminar Series
Thursday, January 11
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54- 915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Our Origin of Life Seminars are a series of hosted lectures from leaders in the Origin of Life community, focusing on various dimensions of one of the most challenging problems in the biological and planetary sciences. Topics include the origin of cells, metabolism, replication and proteins, as well as the geochemical conditions on the Early Earth that led to prebiotic and early biotic systems. Enrolled students will attend 4 seminars during IAP, actively engage in Q & A sessions with invited speakers in a panel format, and collaborate on creating an Origins of Life online blog resource highlighting the work of invited speakers.
Instructor: Greg Fournier
More info: http://bit.ly/EAPS_IAP2018
JANUARY 11 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"The RNA World: Emergence and Evolution of Functional RNA"
Irene A. Chen | University of California, Santa Barbara
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-irene-chen
JANUARY 29 | ROOM 54-915 | 4PM
"What is “I”: The Role of Compartmentalisation in the Origins of Life"
Anna Wang | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-anna-wang
FEBRUARY 2 | ROOM E25-605 | 4PM
"The Planetary Battery for the Origins of Life: The Example of Mars"
Vlada Stamenkovic | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
More info: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/iap-2018-vlada-stamenkovic
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Greentown Labs EnergyBar: Global Center Preview!
Thursday, January 11
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentown-labs-energybar-global-center-preview-tickets-41472777193
OUR GLOBAL CENTER FOR CLEANTECH INNOVATION IS NOW OPEN!
...and we're inviting our closest partners, friends, and cleantech champions to come check it out! Please join us for our first EnergyBar in our new facility which will offer a preview (and tour) of the space, remarks from the Greentown Labs team, and networking among your cleantech industry peers.
We have a fun lineup planned for the evening:
5:30pm — Sign-in/Registration
6:00pm — Welcoming Remarks from Greentown Labs + our members whose technology is in use in the new facility!
6:30-7:30pm — Celebration & Networking
7:30pm — Guided tours of the Global Center + networking continues...
8:30pm — Event wraps up
ENERGYBAR DETAILS:
As a reminder, EnergyBar is Greentown Labs' bi-monthly networking event devoted to helping folks in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in the industry. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Our attendees typically span a variety of disciplines within energy, efficiency, and renewables. In general, if you're looking for a job in cleantech or energy, trying to expand your network, or perhaps thinking about starting your own energy-related company this is the event for you. Expect to have conversations about issues facing advanced and renewable energy technologies and ways to solve our most pressing energy problems.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual. Parking is incredibly limited at Greentown Labs and we encourage attendees to consider taking advantage of public transportation.
Hope to see you on January 11!
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Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
Thursday, January 11
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes neuroscientist, teacher, and author RACHEL HERZ for a discussion of her latest book, Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food.
About Why You Eat What You Eat
In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Herz, who’s been praised for her “ability to cite and explain academic studies in a conversational manner” (Washington Post), uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that influence food consumption―such as why bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats, how our beliefs can affect how many calories we burn, why TV influences how much we eat, and how what we see and hear changes how food tastes―and reveals useful techniques for improving our experience of food, such as how aromas can help curb cravings and tips on how to resist repeated trips to the buffet table.
Why You Eat What You Eat presents our relationship to food as a complicated recipe, whose ingredients―taste, personality, and emotions―combine to make eating a potent and pleasurable experience. Herz weaves curious findings and compelling facts into a narrative that tackles important questions, revealing how psychology, neurology, and physiology shape our relationship with food, and how food alters the relationship we have with ourselves and each other.
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Judith Schwartz: Solutions in Plain Sight ~ Climate & Beyond
Thursday, January 11
7 PM - 9 PM
First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/541109912892466/
Judith D. Schwartz, author of Cows Save The Planet has published a new book called Water In Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World. Judith’s writing brings such insights to environmental challenges and climate change that challenge us to look at problems as solutions. Tony Eprille, a writer and photographer, uses Creative Seeing, to find environmental solutions that we might otherwise miss by assuming the future is craved in stone. Together they will share how to see the promise of restoring soil and enhancing our ecosystem’s health.
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100% Renewable Energy Campaign
Thursday, January 11
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
Thursday, January 11
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
with Ben Hellerstein of Environment Mass
The BASEA Forum Series resumes on January 11th. We are pleased to welcome back Ben Hellerstein of Environment Mass. Ben has been traveling throughout the state for 100% Renewable Energy Summits, engaging with local officials, business leaders, and grassroots activists who are working hard to move their communities to 100% renewable energy. Ben will bring us stories from these well attended events, organized by a broad coalition of groups, of how renewable energy progress is spreading across the Commonwealth. If you resolve to be involved this coming new year, this BASEAForum will link you up with good company and lots to do.
As State Director for Environment Massachusetts, Ben Hellerstein works with a team of advocates and organizers, alongside thousands of citizen members, to protect Massachusetts' air, water, and open spaces. Prior to assuming his current role, Ben led the organization's efforts to get 20% of Massachusetts' electricity from solar power by 2025, and worked on campaigns to protect Massachusetts' rivers, streams, and parks from pollution, overdevelopment, and underfunding.
with Ben Hellerstein of Environment Mass
The BASEA Forum Series resumes on January 11th. We are pleased to welcome back Ben Hellerstein of Environment Mass. Ben has been traveling throughout the state for 100% Renewable Energy Summits, engaging with local officials, business leaders, and grassroots activists who are working hard to move their communities to 100% renewable energy. Ben will bring us stories from these well attended events, organized by a broad coalition of groups, of how renewable energy progress is spreading across the Commonwealth. If you resolve to be involved this coming new year, this BASEAForum will link you up with good company and lots to do.
As State Director for Environment Massachusetts, Ben Hellerstein works with a team of advocates and organizers, alongside thousands of citizen members, to protect Massachusetts' air, water, and open spaces. Prior to assuming his current role, Ben led the organization's efforts to get 20% of Massachusetts' electricity from solar power by 2025, and worked on campaigns to protect Massachusetts' rivers, streams, and parks from pollution, overdevelopment, and underfunding.
Boston Area Solar Energy Association at http://www.basea.org
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What Unites Us: Dan Rather Reflects on Patriotism
Thursday, January 11
8:00 PM
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSale.do;jsessionid=92922E57C013C5199BF841D6B23FB187?method=switchSelectionMethod&selection_method=byPriceLevel
Cost: $32
As a reporter and anchor for the CBS Evening News, venerable journalist Dan Rather interviewed every living President since Eisenhower and was on the ground for every major news event, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to Watergate to 9/11.
Now, at a moment of crisis regarding our national identity, he has been reflecting—and writing passionately almost every day on social media—about the world in which we live. Hear Rather live in conversation, discussing what our core ideals have been, what they should be, and what it means to be an American.
Each ticket includes a copy of Rather's new book, What Unites Us.
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Friday, January 12
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What Unites Us: Dan Rather Reflects on Patriotism
Thursday, January 11
8:00 PM
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSale.do;jsessionid=92922E57C013C5199BF841D6B23FB187?method=switchSelectionMethod&selection_method=byPriceLevel
Cost: $32
As a reporter and anchor for the CBS Evening News, venerable journalist Dan Rather interviewed every living President since Eisenhower and was on the ground for every major news event, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to Watergate to 9/11.
Now, at a moment of crisis regarding our national identity, he has been reflecting—and writing passionately almost every day on social media—about the world in which we live. Hear Rather live in conversation, discussing what our core ideals have been, what they should be, and what it means to be an American.
Each ticket includes a copy of Rather's new book, What Unites Us.
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Friday, January 12
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Risk Management Choices: Adaptation Strategies by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Insurance Industry
Friday, January 12
Registration: 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Includes continental breakfast.
Forum: 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Includes networking break.
Forum: 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Includes networking break.
UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston
Cost: $15 - $45
Models of future climate change drive international and local efforts to adapt to increased temperatures, precipitation and drought, and sea level rise. Using the models for making practical decisions, however, requires planners to make risk management decisions that balance risk reduction goals with practicability.
At this Forum attendees will hear from the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, two University of Massachusetts Professors, and from the Director of a major insurer’s research center about how they think about making the necessary risk management decisions as they advise and implement resiliency and adaptation measures in the public and private sectors.
Agenda
Welcome: David W. Cash, Dean, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Program Introduction & Overview: Daniel K. Moon, President & Executive Director, Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.
Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Models of future climate change drive international and local efforts to adapt to increased temperatures, precipitation and drought, and sea level rise. Using the models for making practical decisions, however, requires planners to make risk management decisions that balance risk reduction goals with practicability.
At this Forum attendees will hear from the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, two University of Massachusetts Professors, and from the Director of a major insurer’s research center about how they think about making the necessary risk management decisions as they advise and implement resiliency and adaptation measures in the public and private sectors.
Agenda
Welcome: David W. Cash, Dean, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Program Introduction & Overview: Daniel K. Moon, President & Executive Director, Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.
Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Report from the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Matthew Beaton, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Katie Theoharides, Assistant Secretary of Climate Change, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Resilience in Massachusetts Emergency Management
Sarah J. White, State Hazard Mitigation Officer, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
Moving from Science to Action: UMass’ role in MA Climate Adaptation Efforts
Richard Palmer, Ph.D., University Director, Northeast Climate Science Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Modeling the Vulnerability of Transportation Infrastructure to Coastal Flooding Along the Massachusetts Coastline: The good, the bad, and the wicked difficult
Ellen Douglas, P.E., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Hydrology, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston
Natural Hazards Resiliency – An Insurer’s Perspective
Brion Callori, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Research, FM Global
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Ralph A. Child, Member, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
Fine Print: Cancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 5 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 11.
Email: ebc@ebcne.org
Phone: 617-505-1818
Phone: 617-505-1818
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Carbon Pricing & Transportation Emissions
Friday, January 12
Friday, January 12
10:00-11:30am
Webinar
RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/kKH3ssMrywzOgR4V2
In Massachusetts, transportation is responsible for 39% of all greenhouse gas emissions, the highest of any sector in the state. Join Michael Green and Jordan Stutt of the Acadia Center for a BLCA webinar discussion on how we can use carbon pricing to reduce emissions in New England’s transportation sector. There will be a panel discussion followed by a chance for webinar callers to ask questions.
Hosted by Business Leaders for Climate Action (BLCAma.org) in partnership with the Climate Action Business Association (CABAus.org).
Questions:
email Tim Cronin at tim.cronin@cabaus.org
Webinar
RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/kKH3ssMrywzOgR4V2
In Massachusetts, transportation is responsible for 39% of all greenhouse gas emissions, the highest of any sector in the state. Join Michael Green and Jordan Stutt of the Acadia Center for a BLCA webinar discussion on how we can use carbon pricing to reduce emissions in New England’s transportation sector. There will be a panel discussion followed by a chance for webinar callers to ask questions.
Hosted by Business Leaders for Climate Action (BLCAma.org) in partnership with the Climate Action Business Association (CABAus.org).
Questions:
email Tim Cronin at tim.cronin@cabaus.org
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The oceans in a warming world
Friday, January 12
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
A talk by John Marshall, MIT
Due to its enormous heat capacity and ability to move heat around the globe, the ocean plays an out-sized role in climate and climate change. The ocean is at the center of contemporary questions such as: why have global-mean surface temperatures not warmed in the last decade despite CO2 continuing to rise in the atmosphere?; why is the Arctic losing sea-ice but not the Antarctic?; will ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream change?; how much might sea-level rise this century?; how might life respond to the ocean becoming ever more acidic as CO2 dissolves in to it.
In this lecture we will touch on some of the above questions and review how scientists observe patterns of warming propagating down in to the ocean's interior, how the ocean is responding to that warming and what we think the future holds and why.
The oceans in a warming world
Friday, January 12
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
A talk by John Marshall, MIT
Due to its enormous heat capacity and ability to move heat around the globe, the ocean plays an out-sized role in climate and climate change. The ocean is at the center of contemporary questions such as: why have global-mean surface temperatures not warmed in the last decade despite CO2 continuing to rise in the atmosphere?; why is the Arctic losing sea-ice but not the Antarctic?; will ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream change?; how much might sea-level rise this century?; how might life respond to the ocean becoming ever more acidic as CO2 dissolves in to it.
In this lecture we will touch on some of the above questions and review how scientists observe patterns of warming propagating down in to the ocean's interior, how the ocean is responding to that warming and what we think the future holds and why.
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Judy Schwartz: The Future Is Regenerative, Glimpses of a Growing Global Movement
Friday, January 12
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, January 12
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
One Fayette Park, Cambridge
Details
What we'll do
Potluck starts at 6, discussion at 7. Judy Schwartz, journalist and author of two recent books - Cows Save the Planet, and Water in Plain Sight - has been traveling the world to report on the accelerating momentum of Regenerative Agriculture. Scientists and activists are increasingly finding ecological approaches to producing food and fiber. Major NGOs and the business world are now taking note. In the past few years, Judy has encountered numerous innovative efforts to restore land and ecosystem function while addressing climate change and enhancing opportunities for local communities: from “Climate Beneficial Wool” and “regenerative wine” in the U.S. to reviving culinary plants like mesquite (for baking) and agave in Mexico, to promoting mulberry enterprises in war-torn Afghanistan. She’ll offer a global overview of this rapidly growing movement.
What to bring
An item of food or drink to share, tending to the healthy and organic.
Important to know
Biodiversity for a LIvable Climate is a small non-profit so a $10 donation is requested.
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Tuesday, January 16
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IACS Symposium: "The Digital Doctor: Health Care in an Age of AI and Big Data"
WHEN Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
WHERE Harvard, Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Education, Ethics, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) & The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI)
COST Free and open to the public; registration required.
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eet0oetvbc0f1143&oseq=&c=&ch=
CONTACT INFO computefest@seas.harvard.edu or nrbaker@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Medicine and health care, like other aspects of life in the 21st century, are being reshaped by computational science, big data, and information technology. As these innovations promise to improve health and prolong lives, however, they also raise sticky economic and ethical questions. This symposium will explore these questions and more.
LINK computefest.seas.harvard.edu
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Leadership in a Time of Innovation - Free Webinar
Tuesday, January 16
9:00am to 10:00am
Webinar at https://www.cahootlearning.com/MIT_Digital_Plus_ILI_webinar_landing.html
Join us on January 16, 2018, at 9 am EST for the exclusive free webinar, Leadership in a Time of Innovation. In this webinar, you'll learn three practical strategies to help you become a more effective leader who inspires innovation and creates an innovative culture within your organization.
This one-hour session will be hosted by MIT's Dr. David Niño, Senior Lecturer in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program and faculty instructor for the MIT Professional Education Digital Plus Programs course, The Intersection of Leadership and Innovation.
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What we'll do
Potluck starts at 6, discussion at 7. Judy Schwartz, journalist and author of two recent books - Cows Save the Planet, and Water in Plain Sight - has been traveling the world to report on the accelerating momentum of Regenerative Agriculture. Scientists and activists are increasingly finding ecological approaches to producing food and fiber. Major NGOs and the business world are now taking note. In the past few years, Judy has encountered numerous innovative efforts to restore land and ecosystem function while addressing climate change and enhancing opportunities for local communities: from “Climate Beneficial Wool” and “regenerative wine” in the U.S. to reviving culinary plants like mesquite (for baking) and agave in Mexico, to promoting mulberry enterprises in war-torn Afghanistan. She’ll offer a global overview of this rapidly growing movement.
What to bring
An item of food or drink to share, tending to the healthy and organic.
Important to know
Biodiversity for a LIvable Climate is a small non-profit so a $10 donation is requested.
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Tuesday, January 16
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IACS Symposium: "The Digital Doctor: Health Care in an Age of AI and Big Data"
WHEN Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
WHERE Harvard, Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Education, Ethics, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) & The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI)
COST Free and open to the public; registration required.
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eet0oetvbc0f1143&oseq=&c=&ch=
CONTACT INFO computefest@seas.harvard.edu or nrbaker@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Medicine and health care, like other aspects of life in the 21st century, are being reshaped by computational science, big data, and information technology. As these innovations promise to improve health and prolong lives, however, they also raise sticky economic and ethical questions. This symposium will explore these questions and more.
LINK computefest.seas.harvard.edu
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Leadership in a Time of Innovation - Free Webinar
Tuesday, January 16
9:00am to 10:00am
Webinar at https://www.cahootlearning.com/MIT_Digital_Plus_ILI_webinar_landing.html
Join us on January 16, 2018, at 9 am EST for the exclusive free webinar, Leadership in a Time of Innovation. In this webinar, you'll learn three practical strategies to help you become a more effective leader who inspires innovation and creates an innovative culture within your organization.
This one-hour session will be hosted by MIT's Dr. David Niño, Senior Lecturer in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program and faculty instructor for the MIT Professional Education Digital Plus Programs course, The Intersection of Leadership and Innovation.
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Research Opportunities at the Intersection of Economics, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies
Tuesday, January 16
Tuesday, January 16
10:30AM-11:30AM
MIT, Building E51-372, 2 Ames Street, Cambridge
Christian Catalini, Theodore T. Miller Career Development Professor
The talk will provide an overview of how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies may affect the rate and direction of innovation, market structure and competition between digital platforms, reputation systems and auctions, the provision of public goods and software protocols, data ownership, privacy and licensing.
It will also give an overview of the recently launched MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, and of potential research projects at the intersection of economics, innovation and computer science.
The talk will provide an overview of how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies may affect the rate and direction of innovation, market structure and competition between digital platforms, reputation systems and auctions, the provision of public goods and software protocols, data ownership, privacy and licensing.
It will also give an overview of the recently launched MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, and of potential research projects at the intersection of economics, innovation and computer science.
Contact: Christian Catalini, Catalini@mit.edu
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Using Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
Tuesday, January 16
1-2pm ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.cesa.org/webinars/using-liheap-funds-for-low-income-solar/?date=2018-01-16
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) assists low-income families with their home energy bills. LIHEAP serves as an emergency bill assistance service, but state LIHEAP administrators have flexibility to use some program funds to reduce long-term dependence on energy assistance. Some argue that these LIHEAP funds should be used for low-income solar. This webinar will feature Jason Edens, the Director of the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance, which is exploring models for using LIHEAP funds for low-income participation in community solar projects. It will also feature the Maryland Office of Home Energy Programs Director Bill Freeman, who has extensive experience with solar and energy assistance programs.
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Panel on Careers in Science Policy
Tuesday, January 16
1:30pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building 68-181, 31 Ames Street, Cambridge
Dan Pomeroy, PhD, Managing Director and Senior Policy Advisor, MIT
Hannah Lewis-Rosenblum, MS, Entomological Identifier/Plant Health Safeguarding Specialist, USDA
Larisa Rudenko, PhD, DABT, Senior Advisor for Biotechnology, FDA
Sheldon Krimsky, PhD, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts
We have a diverse set of panelists spanning a range of careers in science policy to illustrate the challenges that arise at the intersection of areas such as research, biotechnology, and ethics with policy. Join us to hear about what a career in science policy entails, and to learn about how our panelists made the transition from the bench to where they are today.
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The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate Over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927
Tuesday, January 16
5:15PM
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts Jeffrey Egan, University of Connecticut, with comment by Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Light supper dinner will follow. Free and open to the public.
Boston Environmental History Seminar
http://www.masshist.org/research/seminars
Contact Name: seminars@masshist.org
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Using Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funds for Low-Income Solar
Tuesday, January 16
1-2pm ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.cesa.org/webinars/using-liheap-funds-for-low-income-solar/?date=2018-01-16
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) assists low-income families with their home energy bills. LIHEAP serves as an emergency bill assistance service, but state LIHEAP administrators have flexibility to use some program funds to reduce long-term dependence on energy assistance. Some argue that these LIHEAP funds should be used for low-income solar. This webinar will feature Jason Edens, the Director of the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance, which is exploring models for using LIHEAP funds for low-income participation in community solar projects. It will also feature the Maryland Office of Home Energy Programs Director Bill Freeman, who has extensive experience with solar and energy assistance programs.
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Panel on Careers in Science Policy
Tuesday, January 16
1:30pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building 68-181, 31 Ames Street, Cambridge
Dan Pomeroy, PhD, Managing Director and Senior Policy Advisor, MIT
Hannah Lewis-Rosenblum, MS, Entomological Identifier/Plant Health Safeguarding Specialist, USDA
Larisa Rudenko, PhD, DABT, Senior Advisor for Biotechnology, FDA
Sheldon Krimsky, PhD, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts
We have a diverse set of panelists spanning a range of careers in science policy to illustrate the challenges that arise at the intersection of areas such as research, biotechnology, and ethics with policy. Join us to hear about what a career in science policy entails, and to learn about how our panelists made the transition from the bench to where they are today.
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The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate Over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927
Tuesday, January 16
5:15PM
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts Jeffrey Egan, University of Connecticut, with comment by Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Light supper dinner will follow. Free and open to the public.
Boston Environmental History Seminar
http://www.masshist.org/research/seminars
Contact Name: seminars@masshist.org
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Public Meeting on National Grid's Fracked Gas Pipeline
We want a big turnout. Come learn more about this pipeline project.
National Grid plans to build a one-mile intermediate-pressure pipeline in the Back Bay/South End to provide gas to new buildings that are currently under construction. The pipeline will start at Berkeley Street in the South End and end on Belvidere Street in the Back Bay. To date there has been limited public input regarding this pipeline, in spite of multiple requests by BCEC for a more robust public process before the City approved this new fossil-fuel infrastructure. In response to growing opposition to this pipeline, this public meeting is being held by the City's Office of Neighborhood Services and co-sponsored by the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay (NABB) in order to have National Grid answer questions from NABB, BCEC, and interested residents. Sought are further details about the project, facts about the pipeline's necessity and worthiness, and information as to how the City reconciles the effect more gas infrastructure will have on climate change and our carbon footprint with the City's efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Tuesday, January 16
6 PM - 7:30 PM
Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library
National Grid plans to build a one-mile intermediate-pressure pipeline in the Back Bay/South End to provide gas to new buildings that are currently under construction. The pipeline will start at Berkeley Street in the South End and end on Belvidere Street in the Back Bay. To date there has been limited public input regarding this pipeline, in spite of multiple requests by BCEC for a more robust public process before the City approved this new fossil-fuel infrastructure. In response to growing opposition to this pipeline, this public meeting is being held by the City's Office of Neighborhood Services and co-sponsored by the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay (NABB) in order to have National Grid answer questions from NABB, BCEC, and interested residents. Sought are further details about the project, facts about the pipeline's necessity and worthiness, and information as to how the City reconciles the effect more gas infrastructure will have on climate change and our carbon footprint with the City's efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/869817903191344/
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How Healing Works
Tuesday, January 16
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
In How Healing Works, Dr. Wayne Jonas lays out a revolutionary new way to approach injury, illness, and wellness. Dr. Jonas explains the biology of healing and the science behind the discovery that 80 percent of healing can be attributed to the mind-body connection and other naturally occurring processes. Jonas details how the healing process works and what we can do to facilitate our own innate ability to heal. Dr. Jonas's advice will change how we consume health care, enabling us to be more in control of our recovery and lasting wellness. Simple line illustrations communicate statistics and take-aways in a memorable way. Stories from Dr. Jonas's practice and studies further illustrate his method for helping people get well and stay well after minor and major medical events.
About the Author
WAYNE JONAS, MD, is a widely published investigator, practicing family physician, and professor of medicine at Georgetown University and at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. Jonas was the director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 1999 and led the World Health Organization's Collaborative Center for Traditional Medicine. Prior to that, he served as the director of medical research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He now advises national and international organizations on ways to implement evidence-based healing practices in their medical systems.
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Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
Tuesday, January 16
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
A no-holds-barred call to action for America’s broken mental health system, by a prize-winning investigative journalist. This is a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices, pointing toward a system for effective and compassionate care.
How Healing Works
Tuesday, January 16
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
In How Healing Works, Dr. Wayne Jonas lays out a revolutionary new way to approach injury, illness, and wellness. Dr. Jonas explains the biology of healing and the science behind the discovery that 80 percent of healing can be attributed to the mind-body connection and other naturally occurring processes. Jonas details how the healing process works and what we can do to facilitate our own innate ability to heal. Dr. Jonas's advice will change how we consume health care, enabling us to be more in control of our recovery and lasting wellness. Simple line illustrations communicate statistics and take-aways in a memorable way. Stories from Dr. Jonas's practice and studies further illustrate his method for helping people get well and stay well after minor and major medical events.
About the Author
WAYNE JONAS, MD, is a widely published investigator, practicing family physician, and professor of medicine at Georgetown University and at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. Jonas was the director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 1999 and led the World Health Organization's Collaborative Center for Traditional Medicine. Prior to that, he served as the director of medical research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He now advises national and international organizations on ways to implement evidence-based healing practices in their medical systems.
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Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
Tuesday, January 16
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
A no-holds-barred call to action for America’s broken mental health system, by a prize-winning investigative journalist. This is a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices, pointing toward a system for effective and compassionate care.
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Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, January 17
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM EST
Pret A Manger, 101 Arch Street, Boston
Wednesday, January 17
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM EST
Pret A Manger, 101 Arch Street, Boston
Join us every month for Net Impact Boston's informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion, and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good! Feel free to drop by any time between 7:30 and 9:00 am.
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Gonson Daytime Lecture Series: Winter 2018: Elephants and Sustainable Agriculture in Kenya
Wednesday, January 17
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, January 17
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gonson-daytime-lecture-series-winter-2018-tickets-39091899925
Cost: $5
Enliven your Wednesday mornings with stimulating presentations at the Cambridge Center in Harvard Square! Presenters will focus on a wide range of topics, from the environment, to personal finance, to wellness.
Cost: $5
Enliven your Wednesday mornings with stimulating presentations at the Cambridge Center in Harvard Square! Presenters will focus on a wide range of topics, from the environment, to personal finance, to wellness.
Mary Rowe | Expedition Advisor, Earthwatch Institute
In sub-Saharan Africa, elephants frequently raid and damage crops. By partnering with local farmers in southeast Kenya, researchers will help to mitigate human-wildlife conflict while conserving the land and its resources using the latest methods in sustainable agriculture and forestry. Join us to discover how volunteers work to survey elephants’ behaviors, animal biodiversity, and the socio-economic status of local households in order to better create climate-smart agriculture.
In sub-Saharan Africa, elephants frequently raid and damage crops. By partnering with local farmers in southeast Kenya, researchers will help to mitigate human-wildlife conflict while conserving the land and its resources using the latest methods in sustainable agriculture and forestry. Join us to discover how volunteers work to survey elephants’ behaviors, animal biodiversity, and the socio-economic status of local households in order to better create climate-smart agriculture.
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SPH PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM—Crises, Calamities, and Chaos: How Public Health Can Improve Response to Emerging Threats Wherever They Arise
Wednesday, January 17
Wednesday, January 17
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
BU, 72 East Concord Street, Hiebert Lounge, Boston
Live streaming available
Speakers Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Rear Admiral, US Public Health Service
From Ebola to Zika, from hurricanes to opioids, threats to health make headlines and challenge our public health response. Lessons learned from CDC’s engagements around the world, and in our backyard, suggest a role for everyone in mitigating risk and building resilience.
Contact Email eventsph@bu.edu
From Ebola to Zika, from hurricanes to opioids, threats to health make headlines and challenge our public health response. Lessons learned from CDC’s engagements around the world, and in our backyard, suggest a role for everyone in mitigating risk and building resilience.
Contact Email eventsph@bu.edu
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Data Science for Social Good and Public Policy (in Boston)
Wednesday, January 17
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Smith & Wollensky @ Boston's Castle, 101 Arlington Street, Chef's Room, Boston
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Smith & Wollensky @ Boston's Castle, 101 Arlington Street, Chef's Room, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-for-social-good-and-public-policy-in-boston-registration-41575440261
Join us in Boston for a special lecture by Rayid Ghani, Director of the Center for Data Science & Public Policy and a Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policyand the Computation Institute.
Can data science help reduce police violence and misconduct? Can it help prevent children from getting lead poisoning? Can it help cities better target limited resources to improve lives of citizens? We're all aware of the hype around data science and related buzzwords right now but turning this hype into social impact takes cross-disciplinary training, teams, and methods. In this talk, I'll discuss lessons learned from our work at University of Chicago while working on dozens of data science projects over the past few years with non-profits and governments on high-impact public policy and social challenges in criminal justice, public health, education, economic development, public safety, workforce training, and urban infrastructure.
The evening will conclude with a reception where attendees can continue the conversation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rayid Ghani is the Director of the Center for Data Science & Public Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Rayid is a reformed computer scientist and wanna-be social scientist, but mostly just wants to increase the use of data-driven approaches in solving large public policy and social challenges. Among other areas, Rayid works with governments and non-profits in policy areas such as health, criminal justice, education, public safety, economic development, and urban infrastructure. Rayid is also passionate about teaching practical data science and started the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship at UChicago that trains computer scientists, statisticians, and social scientists from around the world to work on data science problems with social impact. Rayid also teaches data science and machine learning class at Harris and is actively involved in the joint Computer Science and Public Policy Masters program at the University of Chicago.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Doors Open: 5:30 pm
Program: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Reception: 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Join us in Boston for a special lecture by Rayid Ghani, Director of the Center for Data Science & Public Policy and a Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policyand the Computation Institute.
Can data science help reduce police violence and misconduct? Can it help prevent children from getting lead poisoning? Can it help cities better target limited resources to improve lives of citizens? We're all aware of the hype around data science and related buzzwords right now but turning this hype into social impact takes cross-disciplinary training, teams, and methods. In this talk, I'll discuss lessons learned from our work at University of Chicago while working on dozens of data science projects over the past few years with non-profits and governments on high-impact public policy and social challenges in criminal justice, public health, education, economic development, public safety, workforce training, and urban infrastructure.
The evening will conclude with a reception where attendees can continue the conversation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rayid Ghani is the Director of the Center for Data Science & Public Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Rayid is a reformed computer scientist and wanna-be social scientist, but mostly just wants to increase the use of data-driven approaches in solving large public policy and social challenges. Among other areas, Rayid works with governments and non-profits in policy areas such as health, criminal justice, education, public safety, economic development, and urban infrastructure. Rayid is also passionate about teaching practical data science and started the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship at UChicago that trains computer scientists, statisticians, and social scientists from around the world to work on data science problems with social impact. Rayid also teaches data science and machine learning class at Harris and is actively involved in the joint Computer Science and Public Policy Masters program at the University of Chicago.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Doors Open: 5:30 pm
Program: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Reception: 7:00 – 8:00 pm
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Google Brain: Neural Networks with Tangent
Wednesday, January 17
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
CIC Cambridge, 5th floor, Havana, One Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
Wednesday, January 17
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
CIC Cambridge, 5th floor, Havana, One Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
Join Boston Data Science & Data Women on Wednesday, January 17 in Kendall, to hear Alex Wiltschko talk about Tangent, a new open-source Python library developed by the Google Brain team.
This talk is being hosted by Edlitera in Kendall Square.
About the talk
Tangent is a new, free, and open-source Python library for automatic differentiation. In contrast to existing machine learning libraries, Tangent is a source-to-source system, consuming a Python function f and emitting a new Python function that computes the gradient of f. This allows the user to write plain Python code, with native loops and conditionals (like in PyTorch), but benefit from ahead-of-time optimizations (like in TensorFlow). Because Tangent returns pure Python code, this allows much better user visibility into gradient computations, as well as easy user-level editing and debugging of gradients.
About the speaker
Alex Wiltschko is a research scientist at Google Brain, focusing on building more flexible machine learning software systems, and also applications of machine learning to biology. He has helped build the machine learning libraries torch-autograd and Tangent, which are used in both research and production in industry and academia. He completed his PhD in Neurobiology at Harvard, focusing on quantifying behavior and body language using depth cameras and nonparametric time-series modeling.
About the sponsor
Edlitera is a technology company on a mission to help people future-proof themselves by learning the most in-demand and up-to-date skills in programming and data science. We bring Ivy League standards and quality to professional education, and we are the only bootcamp whose courses are being taught in Harvard's lecture halls.
Edlitera is a technology company on a mission to help people future-proof themselves by learning the most in-demand and up-to-date skills in programming and data science. We bring Ivy League standards and quality to professional education, and we are the only bootcamp whose courses are being taught in Harvard's lecture halls.
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Wednesday, January 17
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned psychiatrist and author MARK EPSTEIN for a discussion of his latest book, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself.
About Advice Not Given
Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And, while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego-free reign, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free.
With great insight, and in a deeply personal style, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix, grounded in two traditions devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better life. Using the Eightfold Path, eight areas of self-reflection that Buddhists believe necessary for enlightenment, as his scaffolding, Epstein looks back productively on his own experience and that of his patients. While the ideas of the Eightfold Path are as old as Buddhism itself, when informed by the sensibility of Western psychotherapy, they become something more: a roadmap for spiritual and psychological growth, a way of dealing with the intractable problem of the ego. Breaking down the wall between East and West, Epstein brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapist's practicality to Buddhism. Speaking clearly and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that encourages people to be more watchful of their ego, an idea with a strong foothold in Buddhism but now for the first time applied in the context of psychotherapy.
Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it. Completely unique and practical, Epstein's advice can be used by all—each in his or her own way—and will provide wise counsel in a confusing world. After all, as he says, "Our egos can use all the help they can get."
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You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side
Wednesday, January 17
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/orly-lobel-you-dont-own-me-how-mattel-v-mga-entertainment-exposed-barbies-dark-side-tickets-40922652756
When Carter Bryant began designing what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel, where he designed outfits for Barbie. Later, back at Mattel, he sold his concept for Bratz to rival company MGA. Law professor Orly Lobel reveals the colorful story behind the ensuing decade-long court battle.This entertaining and provocative work pits audacious MGA against behemoth Mattel, shows how an idea turns into a product, and explores the two different versions of womanhood, represented by traditional all-American Barbie and her defiant, anti-establishment rival―the only doll to come close to outselling her. In an era when workers may be asked to sign contracts granting their employers the rights to and income resulting from their ideas―whether conceived during work hours or on their own time―Lobel’s deeply researched story is a riveting and thought-provoking contribution to the contentious debate over creativity and intellectual property.
About the Author
Orly Lobel is an award-winning author and a renowned legal scholar. A graduate of Harvard University, she was recently named one of the top minds in research by The Market Magazine. Her books and research are critically acclaimed and have been featured in top media including the New York Times. the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, NPR and TED. A dynamic speaker and thought leader, Lobel is a world traveler. She lives and teaches in La Jolla, California.
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The State of Our Union Is Wrong
Wednesday, January 17
7:30 PM - 9 PM
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
In the weeks leading up to the State of the Union, join us for "The State of the Union Is Wrong: A Climate Prebuttal with Bill McKibben." Author and professor Juliet Schor will moderate a conversation with author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben about the climate movement and what we can do in the face of backward climate and energy policy at the federal level. Ticket sales support Better Future Project and 350 Mass!
We will be holding a space-limited reception with Bill prior to this event. If you are interested in learning more or attending this event, please visit http://www.betterfutureproject.org/evening_with_mckibben or email Beth@betterfutureproject.org
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Thursday, January 18
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ETS: Grid Resiliency & Reliability - The Clean Energy Solution
Thursday, January 18
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
Brown Rudnick, 1 Financial Center, Boston
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
Brown Rudnick, 1 Financial Center, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ets-grid-resiliency-reliability-the-clean-energy-solution-tickets-41114281924
Cash: $0 – $50
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) is expected to rule on the US Department of Energy’s proposed rulemaking on grid resiliency (focused on whether steps need to be taken to support the continued operation of coal and nuclear plants to ensure grid reliability and resiliency) in early January 2018. This ruling will determine the next steps in the debate about whether and what kind of additional resources are needed to keep the lights on across the US.
Cash: $0 – $50
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) is expected to rule on the US Department of Energy’s proposed rulemaking on grid resiliency (focused on whether steps need to be taken to support the continued operation of coal and nuclear plants to ensure grid reliability and resiliency) in early January 2018. This ruling will determine the next steps in the debate about whether and what kind of additional resources are needed to keep the lights on across the US.
NECEC’s Emerging Trends Series event will highlight how clean energy has been providing customers with resilient and reliable electricity service and how it can do more, and do it better and more cost-effectively than traditional solutions.
Please join the NECEC team, and speakers from the industry, regulatory community and more to discuss how microgrids, energy storage, distributed generation, demand response and energy efficiency are proven solutions to the challenge of improving grid resiliency and reliability.
Confirmed speakers include:
Janet Gail Besser, Executive Vice President, NECEC (Moderator)
Greg Geller, Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, EnerNOC
Maria Duaime Robinson, Director, Wholesale Markets, Advanced Energy Economy, The business voice of advanced energy
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Inspired by Antiquity: The Future of Durable, Sustainable Infrastructure
Thursday, January 18
11:00am to 12:00pm
Webinar at
The Masic Lab at MIT is working to unlock the secrets of ancient materials including Roman concrete and pigments such as Mayan and Egyptian blues. In this webinar, Admir Masic, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), will discuss what engineers could learn from his lab’s “antiqua-inspired methodology”-- where ancient technologies, practices, and techniques guide the development of future materials -- about constructing longer-lasting modern infrastructure with lowered environmental impacts.
The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) webinar series offers information of general interest to members of the building, paving, and construction communities, as well as to educators, students, journalists, and law and policy-makers interested in the environmental and economic impacts of decision-making concerning infrastructure. Videos of past webinars are archived to the CSHub YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/CSHubMIT
Webinars are free and open to the public. Presentations are geared toward a lay audience.
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Get Up. Stand Up! History of Activism at MIT via a Glance at the Institute Archives
Thursday, January 18
2:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 2-139,, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3784575
MIT students have been involved with activism for decades. While the most well-recorded protests are those of the 1960s and 1970s against the Vietnam War, MIT students have stood up for what they believe in throughout the Institute's history. In addition, students of color, LGBTQ students, Black students, and international students have all had to establish their claims to equal space in the Institute. The Institute Archives and Special Collections preserves documentation of the history of the Institute, including many activist efforts by students, faculty and staff. Join us to learn about the struggle for equity and inclusion inside and outside of MIT.
Contact: Alena McNamara, amcnamar@mit.edu
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Finding Gene Info & More: A Tour of the NCBI "Omics" Network
Thursday, January 18
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 14N-132 (DIRC), 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) family of databases are filled with information for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several NCBI specific databases. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to or curious about bioinformatics research tools.
Contact: Courtney Crummett, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
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The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT Economy
Thursday, January 18
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
MIT Stata Center, Room 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Pre-registration is required at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/the-inversion-factor-iot-economy-sanjay-sarma-linda-bernardi/
Cost: $25 Members; $45 Non-Members: $10 Students; $5 Student Members
(In-Auditorium or Live Stream)
The First 50 Registrants will Receive a Copy of the Book!The Inversion Factor Book Cover
This event will be live streamed - select the live stream ticket option @ checkout if you would like to watch the event online.
If you registered for the live stream, you'll be emailed a link & password between 5:30PM & 6:00PM on 1/18.
A Fireside Chat with Authors Linda Bernardi and Sanjay Sarma
The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT EconomyIn the past, companies found success with a product-first orientation; they made a thing that did a thing. The Inversion Factor explains why the companies of today and tomorrow will have to abandon the product-first orientation. Rather than asking “How do the products we make meet customer needs?” companies should ask “How can technology help us reimagine and fill a need?” Zipcar, for example, instead of developing another vehicle for moving people from point A to point B, reimagined how people interacted with vehicles. Zipcar inverted the traditional car company mission.
The authors, Linda Bernardi, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Element AI, and Prof. Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning and Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Managing Partner IoTask LLC, will talk about how the introduction of “smart” objects connected by the Internet of Things signals fundamental changes for business.
The IoT, where real and digital coexist, is powering new ways to meet human needs. Companies that know this include giants like Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, Google, Tesla, and Apple, as well as less famous companies like Tile, Visenti, and Augury. The Inversion Factor offers a roadmap for businesses that want to follow in their footsteps.
Event Schedule
5:30 - 6:00pm - Registration and Networking
6:00 - 8:00pm - Welcome & Fireside Chat
8:00 - 9:00pm - Networking
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GeNES Konsultations: "The Future of E-Mobility"
Thursday, January 18
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
German Consulate General Boston, 3 Copley Place, Suite 500, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/genes-konsultations-the-future-of-e-mobility-tickets-40903658945
The first installment of our Konsultations series in the New Year will take place on Thursday, January 18, 2018. Consul General Ralf Horlemann will host a panel discussion with Philipp Robbel (Head of Safety and Validation at nuTonomy) and one other panelist TBA on the future of autonomous driving and electromobility. To join the lively conversation, reserve your spot now! Guests are invited to stay for German beer and wine after the panel discussion.
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Community Choice Energy Celebration
Thursday, January 18
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-choice-energy-celebration-tickets-41643055500
In 2017, Boston City Council passed Community Choice Energy and Mayor Walsh signed it!
We're throwing an event to celebrate this victory with our fellow green justice and climate activist coalition groups. All are welcome!
There will be food and good company, and we'll talk about what's next for us to get the City to follow through on its implementation of CCE.
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Cambridge Forum: How Storytelling Shaped the History of the World
Thursday, January 18, 2018
7:00 PM
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cambridge Forum is pleased to present "How Storytelling Shaped the History of the World" featuring Martin Puchner, Harvard University professor, discussing his latest book, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization.
About The Written World
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature and reveals how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. Indeed, literature has touched the lives of generations and changed the course of history.
At the heart of this book are works, some long-lost and rediscovered, that have shaped civilization: the first written masterpiece, the Epic of Gilgamesh; Ezra’s Hebrew Bible, created as scripture; the teachings of Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus; and the first great novel in world literature, The Tale of Genji, written by a Japanese woman known as Murasaki. Visiting Baghdad, Puchner tells of Scheherazade and the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, and in the Americas we watch the astonishing survival of the Maya epic Popol Vuh. Cervantes, who invented the modern novel, battles pirates both real (when he is taken prisoner) and literary (when a fake sequel to Don Quixote is published). We learn of Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering work as a media entrepreneur, watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. We visit Troy, Pergamum, and China, and we speak with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, as well as the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa.
Throughout The Written World, Puchner’s delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped religion, politics, commerce, people, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as “unique and spellbinding,” Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world.
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Friday, January 19 and Saturday, January 20
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Alewife Corridor Resilience Symposium
Friday, January 19
6PM-9PM
Arlington Town Hall Auditorium
Keynote by Dr. Robert France* with reception
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Saturday, January 20
Keynote by Dr. Robert France* with reception
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Saturday, January 20
8:00AM-4:30PM
Tufts University
Symposium w/ Panels, Roundtables, and Discussion
Symposium w/ Panels, Roundtables, and Discussion
Cost: $0 - $15
*Dr. France's work focuses on integrating watershed planning & management, with environmental restoration and the renewal of urban and cultural sites. Edited and authored books include: Water Sensitive Planning and Design, Handbook of Regenerative Design, Integrated Urban Agriculture
Earthos Institute and Tufts University cordially invite you to the Alewife Corridor Collaborative Resilience Symposium. We hope you'll join us January 19th and 20th to help build resilience in the Boston area. We're interested in creating a more resilient Boston region, starting with the one of its most vulnerable corridors, the Alewife. LEARN MORE on the conference website.
When it comes to natural disasters, 2017 was one for the record books," as one weather station put it. From the recent national arctic freeze, to record breaking hurricane season, to the droughts and devastating wildfires in California? What about the Boston area? What are the vulnerabilities of this city (and region) and what we can do about them? Do you live in the Boston area and want to improve resilience here? Join us!
This extreme weather affects us all and touches on every aspect of our lives. It affects our health and safety, our ability to move around the city, our capacity to meet basic needs such as housing and food, our collective ability to respond to emergencies such as blizzards and hurricanes, our ability to build healthy and inclusive communities and optimize open space, as well as our relationships with ecosystems and other animals and plants.
In other words, it takes a large village to build adaptive resilience. It takes all of us! And while we build resilience, we need to engage and integrate economic development, housing, social justice and inclusion, open space, arts and culture, health biodiversity, community development, and infrastructure development, and water dynamics, all with unknown changing weather patterns.
This symposium will bring together the Alewife corridor communities of Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and Winchester to look at the Alewife flood plain in its entirety, to explore collaborative scenarios for tackling issues of resiliency and climate adaptation. Together, we will engage systems-based analysis with inclusive, multi-community and cross-disciplinaryapproaches.
We have limited space, and we are filling up fast, so please register now!
*Dr. France's work focuses on integrating watershed planning & management, with environmental restoration and the renewal of urban and cultural sites. Edited and authored books include: Water Sensitive Planning and Design, Handbook of Regenerative Design, Integrated Urban Agriculture
Earthos Institute and Tufts University cordially invite you to the Alewife Corridor Collaborative Resilience Symposium. We hope you'll join us January 19th and 20th to help build resilience in the Boston area. We're interested in creating a more resilient Boston region, starting with the one of its most vulnerable corridors, the Alewife. LEARN MORE on the conference website.
When it comes to natural disasters, 2017 was one for the record books," as one weather station put it. From the recent national arctic freeze, to record breaking hurricane season, to the droughts and devastating wildfires in California? What about the Boston area? What are the vulnerabilities of this city (and region) and what we can do about them? Do you live in the Boston area and want to improve resilience here? Join us!
This extreme weather affects us all and touches on every aspect of our lives. It affects our health and safety, our ability to move around the city, our capacity to meet basic needs such as housing and food, our collective ability to respond to emergencies such as blizzards and hurricanes, our ability to build healthy and inclusive communities and optimize open space, as well as our relationships with ecosystems and other animals and plants.
In other words, it takes a large village to build adaptive resilience. It takes all of us! And while we build resilience, we need to engage and integrate economic development, housing, social justice and inclusion, open space, arts and culture, health biodiversity, community development, and infrastructure development, and water dynamics, all with unknown changing weather patterns.
This symposium will bring together the Alewife corridor communities of Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and Winchester to look at the Alewife flood plain in its entirety, to explore collaborative scenarios for tackling issues of resiliency and climate adaptation. Together, we will engage systems-based analysis with inclusive, multi-community and cross-disciplinaryapproaches.
We have limited space, and we are filling up fast, so please register now!
Organized by Earthos Institute and Tufts University in partnership with Sustainable Arlington
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Saturday, January 20
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Women's Solidarity March 2018 Boston - Cambridge
Saturday, January 20
1 PM - 4 PM
Cambridge Common Historic District, Cambridge
On January 20th 2018, We the People of New England will take to the streets again to show that Women's Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Women's Rights.
ALL ARE WELCOME. We encourage anybody and everybody who accepts the fact that women are people to join us.
Statement of Values:
As a still unnamed coalition of Massachusetts organizations, we would like to hold a rally on January 20th as equal partners, which means that every group has an equal voice at the table. Together, we will agree on a set of common values and vision for this event; these values include equality, inclusivity, and diversity. We will plan, advertise, and execute this event with a shared and consistent message reflecting those values. We welcome into this coalition all groups who share our values, and we aim to proactively invite groups and individuals from marginalized communities.
List of groups in the event:
New England Independence Campaign
Massachusetts Peace Action
Boston Persists
Indivisible Somerville
List of speakers:
Aleksandra Burger-Roy, NEIC
Michelle Cunha, Massachusetts Peace Action
If you would like to volunteer, please contact us.
PLEASE NOTE: As there has been some confusion on this point, we want to clarify that we are not the same group who organized the 2017 Boston Women's March. That event was organized by March Forward Massachusetts. We are not affiliated with them. We have contacted them but have not received a reply as of this time.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/862995990536253/
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Meet & Greet with author and former CIA informant Prof. Williams
Saturday, January 20
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
242 E Berkeley Street, 2nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-greet-with-author-and-former-cia-informant-prof-williams-tickets-40947863161
Meet Professor Brian Glyn Williams on January 20th from 2pm-4pm at More Than Words in Boston for an author event with former CIA field analyst in Afghanistan and UMass Professor of Islamic History, Brian Glyn Williams, as he talks readers into the souring Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan to join a small team of Green Berets who mount horses and fight alongside an anti-Taliban warlord featured in his recent biography The Last Warlord. The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior who Led U.S. Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime.
Williams, who lived for two summers in the plains and mountains of northern Afghanistan with the larger than life Mongol warlord, General Dostum, sheds a rare light on a covert CIA-Special Forces operation to leverage local anti-Taliban tribesman as a proxy "hooves on the ground" force to overthrow the entrenched Taliban regime in the "Afghan Graveyard of Empire" in the fall of 2001. Dr. Williams has interviewed the CIA Special Activities Division Operatives, Uzbek Mongol tribesmen, Green Beret Special Forces, and even Taliban Prisoners of War to recreate this classified story that few Americans are aware of.
The Last Warlord, is a story of fighting men from worlds as far apart as Alma Kansas and Khoja Doku Afghanistan who unite to fight the common Taliban and Al Qaeda enemy. There was no mass Operation Iraqi Freedom-style invasion of Afghanistan in , and just 300 American ground troops provided local anti-Taliban militias with the 'air artillery' precision guided bombings needed to overthrow the Taliban regime.
Most recently, Professor Williams has advised on the New Mexico set for the forthcoming Hollywood movie by Producer Jerry Bruckheimer 12 Strong, The Declassified Story of the Horse Soldiers which features the characters from his book. These include Chris Hemsworth playing the Green Beret Captain Mark Nutsch who led the American special forces.
Buy on Amazon or reserve your copy of the Last Warlord by calling More Than Words in Boston at 781-788-0035
https://www.mtwyouth.org/
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Monday, January 22 & Tuesday, January 23
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NorthEast Water Innovation Network & NEWEA Innovation Pavillion
Monday, January 22 & Tuesday, January 23 – 8:00AM – 4:00PM
Monday, January 22 & Tuesday, January 23 – 8:00AM – 4:00PM
NEWEA Annual Conference - Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/newin-newea-innovation-pavillion-tickets-41524485855
The Water Innovation Pavilion highlights a selection of the most promising technology businesses in the industry while championing an important dialogue about innovation. NEWEA & NEWIN and its Innovation Partners, create a unique program for entrepreneurs, investors, customers, and regulators.
The Pavilion features a selection of early and growth stage companies. Some of these companies are investor-backed and working with high profile customers in the industrial and municipal markets. We will also highlight new technologies from our more established companies.
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The Water Innovation Pavilion highlights a selection of the most promising technology businesses in the industry while championing an important dialogue about innovation. NEWEA & NEWIN and its Innovation Partners, create a unique program for entrepreneurs, investors, customers, and regulators.
The Pavilion features a selection of early and growth stage companies. Some of these companies are investor-backed and working with high profile customers in the industrial and municipal markets. We will also highlight new technologies from our more established companies.
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Monday, January 22
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Additive manufacturing, fusion technology, wolves and places I like to hike
Monday, January 22
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
A talk by Richard Nygren, Sandia National Laboratory
Richard Nygren has spent four decades developing advanced materials and components for fusion in R&D at four national labs, the Dept. of Energy and UCLA. Currently at Sandia’s Advanced Materials Laboratory on the University of New Mexico’s south campus, he is exploring the use of Advanced Manufacturing (AM+) processes as a transformative technology for manufacturing robust plasma facing components (PFCs) for future fusion reactors. The PFCs must survive in a fierce environment that includes very high heat loads, bombardment with energetic ions and damage from fusion neutrons. Additive Manufacturing, already widely used, is transforming the world’s products and introducing new materials, such as rigid lightweight parts for aerospace, bio-active interfaces for applications in medicine, and novel complex multi-material structures. The transformative capability of AM+ seems like the best approach to make some novel materials architectures for the high performance heat sinks in fusion systems. In this seminar, Richard offers ideas about future fusion reactors, explains the various technologies needed, and the potential for AM+ to enable innovations.*
In this talk, Richard mixes his own humor and slides of his treks in the wilderness. Students and faculty who visit the institutions where he has worked may appreciate his recommendations for side trips. As an avid outdoor adventurer, he sought wilderness accessible from his work sites and travels. He has hiked in the Sierra, Cascades, southwest canyons and once took a month-long solo arctic journey 400 miles down the Noatak River.
RE Nygren et al. 2016, A new vision of plasma facing components, Fus. Eng. & Des. 109–111 A 1, 192-202, invited oral presentation, Int. Symp, Fusion Nuclear Tech., Korea, October 2015
RE Nygren et al, 2017, Advanced Manufacturing – A Transformative Enabling Capability for Fusion, invited oral presentation, Int. Symp, Fusion Nuclear Tech., Kyoto Sept 2017 (in review)
RE Nygren et al. 2017, Development of Fusion Sub-components with Additive Manufacturing, https://www.burningplasma.org/activities/?article=FESAC TEC White Papers
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Awareness and Action: Conversations with Joi Ito and Tenzin Priyadarshi
Monday, January 22
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, E14 6th Floor Lecture Hall, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
What is awareness? Is self-awareness a “default” state or is it cultivated? Can it improve performance and wellbeing? What role does technology play in promoting or hindering awareness? Is there an ethical framework for our capacity to be aware? Can self-awareness be linked to happiness?
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Mellon Seminar- Digitizing Human Rights, Archiving Activism
Monday, January 22
4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
BU, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
A discussion of several projects promoting ethics and activism with technology. Speakers include Alexa Koenig (UC Berkeley Human Rights Center), Anat Biletzki (B’Tselem), Peter Manning (Northeastern) and members of the Charlie Hebdo Archives at Harvard University.
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How Democracies Die
Monday, January 22
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
A bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world–and a road map for rescuing our own. Harvard professors Levitsky and Ziblatt draw on decades of historical and global research to show how democracies perish and how ours can be saved.
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Tuesday, January 23
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Starr Forum: The Uncondemned
Tuesday, January 23
2:00pm to 3:30pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 182 Memorial Drive (REAR), Cambridge
About the film: "The Uncondemned" tells the gripping and world-changing story of a group of young international lawyers and activists who fought to make rape a crime of war, and the Rwandan women who came forward to testify and win justice where there had been none. Up until this point, rape had not been prosecuted as a war crime and was committed with impunity. A courtroom thriller and personal human drama, "The Uncondemned" beautifully interweaves the stories of the characters in this odyssey, leading to the trial at an international criminal court--and the results that changed the world of criminal justice forever.
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served
For more information or accessibility accommodations please contact starrforum@mit.edu
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Rituals of Resilience
Tuesday, January 23
Tuesday, January 23
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Northeastern, Renaissance Park 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Northeastern, Renaissance Park 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Please join us for a presentation by Carie Hersh, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, for the first Spring semester event in the Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience Studies speaker series
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The "Woman Inventor" as a Political Tool of Female Suffragists: Patents, Invention, and Civil Rights in 19th-Century United States
Tuesday, January 23
5:30 pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street,Boston
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender
Kara W. Swanson, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
After the Patent Act of 1790, patents played an important social and political role in the formation of American nationhood and citizenship. Part of a larger book project, this paper demonstrates how 19th-century American women mobilized patents granted to women as justification for civil rights claims. It identifies the creation of the “woman inventor” as a cultural trope and political weapon of resistance.
The Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality—cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—offers scholars and students an opportunity to discuss new research on any aspect of the history of women and gender in the United States, without chronological limitation.
Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The seminar series includes four meetings that will take place during the 2016–2017 academic year, each revolving around the discussion of a precirculated paper.
Registration for the series is required.
Registered participants may access the papers online at the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
For more information, please call 617-495-8647 or e-mail seminars@masshist.org
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Special Screening of "Ocean Frontiers III" at New England Aquariums
Tuesday, January 23
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
New England Aquarium, IMAX Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
New England Aquarium, IMAX Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/special-screening-of-ocean-frontiers-iii-at-new-england-aquarium-tickets-40163223282
Our ocean use is growing rapidly, with massive new ships, soaring demand for offshore sand mining, and proposed wind energy development offshore. Our busy waters are also home to endangered whales and sea turtles, and support thriving fishing and recreation industries. It’s more important than ever that we plan ahead for responsible ocean growth.
Our ocean use is growing rapidly, with massive new ships, soaring demand for offshore sand mining, and proposed wind energy development offshore. Our busy waters are also home to endangered whales and sea turtles, and support thriving fishing and recreation industries. It’s more important than ever that we plan ahead for responsible ocean growth.
Join us for a special screening of Ocean Frontiers III. This hopeful film explores the challenges at the heart of ocean conservation and development, presenting solutions from a range of people who are leading the way to a healthy and sustainable ocean future. Participate in the post-film conversation and learn how you can get involved.
FREE and open to the public!
This special film screening is in partnership with Boston Harbor Now, Green Fire Productions and the New England Aquarium and is part of Boston Harbor Now's "Working Port": A 21st-century Harbor: A two-day idea exchange on Boston’s working port.
TIMELINE
6:00pm – Light reception
6:30pm – Introduction & Ocean Frontiers III film
7:30pm – Panel discussion and audience Q&A on the new Northeast Ocean Plan
PANELISTS
The interactive panel discussion with regional experts includes:
Mark Cutter – Asst. Branch Chief, Waterways Management, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston
Bruce Carlisle – Director, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management
Emily Shumchenia, PhD – Marine Scientist, Northeast Ocean Data Portal Working Group
Randall Lyons, CMM – Executive Director, Massachusetts Marine Trades Association
Moderated by:Bud Ris - Senior Advisor, Green Ribbon Commission, former CEO New England Aquarium
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Libertarians on the Prairie
Tuesday, January 23
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Christine Woodside,
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process becoming icons of our national identity. Yet few realize that this cherished bestselling series wandered far from the actual history of the Ingalls family and from what Laura herself understood to be central truths about pioneer life.
In this groundbreaking narrative of literary detection, Christine Woodside reveals the full extent of the collaboration between Laura and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who shared the political values of Ayn Rand and became a mentor to Roger Lea MacBride, the second Libertarian presidential candidate. Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. A fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed, trail-blazing women, Libertarians on the Prairie is also the deconstruction of an American myth.
Christine Woodside is a writer and the editor of the journal Appalachia. She writes about the history of ordinary Americans and their clashes with nature. She has nourished a fascination with the Little House books since she was a girl. As a teenager, she applied for a summer job at the Laura Ingalls Wilder farmhouse in Mansfield, Missouri--but, residing in New Jersey, failed to impress the curator. She now lives in Deep River, Connecticut, with her husband.
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Opportunity
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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. 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://somervilleyogurtmakingcoop.wordpress.com
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
Solar map of Cambridge, MA
http://www.mapdwell.com/en/cambridge
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Sunny Cambridge has just launched! Sunny Cambridge is the city-wide initiative that makes it easy for all types of residents to get solar power for their homes. Cambridge has lined up local solar installers through the EnergySage Solar Marketplace, which helps you request, receive, and compare solar quotes 100% online with support available every step of the way.
The City of Cambridge is working on many levels to reduce energy use and GHG emissions to make the city more sustainable. As a semifinalist in the nationwide competition for the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize, Cambridge Energy Alliance is encouraging residents to take actions to save energy, save money, and protect the environment. Get involved by signing up for a no-cost home energy assessment at the Cambridge Energy Alliance home page (www.cambridgeenergyalliance.org/winit)
and going solar at http://www.sunnycambridge.org
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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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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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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy: https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston: http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at over 50 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://calendar.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
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
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process becoming icons of our national identity. Yet few realize that this cherished bestselling series wandered far from the actual history of the Ingalls family and from what Laura herself understood to be central truths about pioneer life.
In this groundbreaking narrative of literary detection, Christine Woodside reveals the full extent of the collaboration between Laura and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who shared the political values of Ayn Rand and became a mentor to Roger Lea MacBride, the second Libertarian presidential candidate. Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. A fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed, trail-blazing women, Libertarians on the Prairie is also the deconstruction of an American myth.
Christine Woodside is a writer and the editor of the journal Appalachia. She writes about the history of ordinary Americans and their clashes with nature. She has nourished a fascination with the Little House books since she was a girl. As a teenager, she applied for a summer job at the Laura Ingalls Wilder farmhouse in Mansfield, Missouri--but, residing in New Jersey, failed to impress the curator. She now lives in Deep River, Connecticut, with her husband.
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Opportunity
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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. 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://somervilleyogurtmakingcoop.wordpress.com
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
Solar map of Cambridge, MA
http://www.mapdwell.com/en/cambridge
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Sunny Cambridge has just launched! Sunny Cambridge is the city-wide initiative that makes it easy for all types of residents to get solar power for their homes. Cambridge has lined up local solar installers through the EnergySage Solar Marketplace, which helps you request, receive, and compare solar quotes 100% online with support available every step of the way.
The City of Cambridge is working on many levels to reduce energy use and GHG emissions to make the city more sustainable. As a semifinalist in the nationwide competition for the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize, Cambridge Energy Alliance is encouraging residents to take actions to save energy, save money, and protect the environment. Get involved by signing up for a no-cost home energy assessment at the Cambridge Energy Alliance home page (www.cambridgeenergyalliance.org/winit)
and going solar at http://www.sunnycambridge.org
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Resource
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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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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
———————————
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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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy: https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston: http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at over 50 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://calendar.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
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
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
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