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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
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Since almost all events are online now, Energy (and Other) Events is now virtual and can happen anywhere in the world. If you know of online events that are happening which may be of interest to the editor of this publication, please let me know. People are connecting all across the world and I’d be more than happy to help facilitate more of that.
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Mutual Aid Networks
National
Spreadsheet of mutual aid networks
Mutual Aid Networks to Combat Coronavirus
Local
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GYuPYEzBk9KIyH3C3419aYxIMVAsa7BL7nBl9434Mg/edit?usp=sharing
Boston + MA COVID19 Resources
(This is a different Google Doc with a similar name, compiled by the Asian
American Resource Workshop)
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) network
Food for Free (for Cambridge and Somerville) volunteers to provide lunches for schoolchildren, elderly, and hungry
My notes to Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, about how people faced with emergency and disaster usually move towards providing mutual aid, at least until elite panic, a term in disaster studies, kicks in, are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/notes-on-rebecca-solnits-paradise-built.html
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Details of these events are available when you scroll past the index
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Daily Events
Entertainment!!!
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Monday, March 30
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5pm Virtual: How to Freak Out Skillfully, and Other Pandemic Survival Skills
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Tuesday, March 31
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12:30pm Coloring Workshop: Beautiful Symmetry (Suitable for all ages)
4pm MMEC Seminar - Probing Wind Energy Flows via Numerical Simulation: From Novel Wake Physics and Physics-Informed Models to Control Co-Design of Large Wind Farms
6pm Learning Circle: COVID-19, Tackling the Novel Coronavirus (Week 1)
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Wednesday, April 1
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10am Prospects for a New Nuclear Policy
12pm Virtual event: Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War
12:30pm VIRTUAL ONLY: Climate ******* Design | CDD Forum 2020
1pm Inclusive Telework for Persons with Disabilities during COVID-19 with Debra Ruh
2pm Coronavirus and the Future of Infectious Disease
3pm NRDC Webinar: An Executive Briefing and Discussion: NRDC & Our Work During the Evolving COVID-19 Crisis
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Thursday, April 2 - Friday, April 3
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2020 MIT Energy Conference: DECISION 2020: CREATING THE LANDSCAPE FOR OUR ENERGY FUTURE
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Thursday, April 2
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1pm How to Run a Virtual Offers and Needs Market
7:30pm Training: How To Give the Extinction Rebellion [XR] Talk
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Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4
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oiConference: Developments in Finance and Sustainability
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Friday, April 3 - Sunday, April 5
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MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic
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Saturday, April 4
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Sunday, April 5
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12pm Sunrise Boston’s Women’s Caucus
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Monday, April 6
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5pm Virtual: How to Freak Out Skillfully, and Other Pandemic Survival Skills
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Tuesday, April 7
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Solve Climate By 2030 - check website for local actions
12:30pm Essential Knowledge for a Time of Crisis: Critical Thinking by Jonathan Haber (Suitable for Ages 14+)
6pm BostonSunrise Men's Caucus Call
6pm Sustainable Lifestyles: Addressing Climate Change & Social Inequity
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
Hacking COVID19: Open Source Global Brainstorms and Mutual Aid
Report from Taiwan: Friends Return to the USA to Compare and Contrast
Robert Heinlein on Ecology: Farmer in the Sky
Geometry Links - March 29, 2020
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Sunrise Boston Daily Breakfast Boogie! (Until April 3)
8:30am
Online - Zoom link: http://zoom.us/my/brian.sunrise
Covid-19 got you feeling isolated? Lonely? Wanting to start your day off with some connection, laughs, meditation or poetry? Join us for a daily “Breakfast Boogie” hosted by the Member Support Team.
It is so important that we remember and hold onto our connections with one another at a moment in time when we are still going all-out to build a powerful movement to stop climate change. We will be having this gathering on Zoom EVERY WEEK DAY from 8:30-9 am! We may offer different rituals, grounding practices, pair-shares, songs or poetry. Suggestions welcome! Let’s stay grounded and present in community even when we increasingly are apart physically.
Questions: Rosie at rosiemcinnes@gmail.com
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Swing Left Boston Virtual Activism Calendar
Daily electoral activist events with social distancing kept in mind.
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Entertainment!!!!
Stay At Home Fest - online music and performance events
Here Are All the Live Streams & Virtual Concerts to Watch During Coronavirus Crisis
A List Of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown
Watch These Livestreamed Concerts During Your Social Distancing
Virtual Art Project (VAP-IT!)
Free virtual music, museums, and art round-up
300,000 ebooks to download for free from the NY Public Library
Free streaming services
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Monday, March 30
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Virtual: How to Freak Out Skillfully, and Other Pandemic Survival Skills
Monday, March 30 (More dates through May 25, 2020)
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Online
Even a few weeks ago, who could have imagined that the MIT community would be so abruptly disrupted and dispersed?! The new reality of physical social distancing is necessary for our society, but our need for social connection is as acute as ever—and all the more so as we confront the grief and uncertainty provoked by this pandemic. Fear, excitement, frustration, anxiety, dread, anger, despondency—these are all normal reactions to the situation, but they can be QUITE hard to manage with everything else on our plates! Join us for informal, online chats about managing these and other challenges of this new reality, with strategies to not only survive, but maybe even thrive, in the midst of the chaos.
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Tuesday, March 31
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Coloring Workshop: Beautiful Symmetry (Suitable for all ages)
Tuesday, March 31
12:30 pm EST
Online
Alex Berke
Calm yourself with coloring and learn math in the meantime! Join Alex Berke, a creative computer scientist, civic hacker, and MIT Media Lab researcher, to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and puzzles.
Come ready to color with us!
Don't forget to bring your favorite coloring tools—your fine point colored pens, crayons, or a pencil you just found.
To participate, download and print out these coloring sheets: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qd7eIuPo5uR3UMDHVUineM5dwzAgld2t/view
About the Book: Beautiful Symmetry by Alex Berke
Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts.
Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them.
Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.
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MMEC Seminar - Probing Wind Energy Flows via Numerical Simulation: From Novel Wake Physics and Physics-Informed Models to Control Co-Design of Large Wind Farms
Tuesday, March 31
4:00pm
MIT, Building 3-370, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Fotis Sotiropoulos, Distinguished Professor and Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University
The fundamental structure of coherent vortices in the wake of a N-bladed axial-flow wind turbine rotor has largely been shaped by the basic N+1 vortex model by Jukowski: N spiral tip vortices of circulation Γ and a counter-rotating hub vortex of strength -NΓ. Recent high-fidelity large-eddy simulations (LES) coupled with laboratory and field scale experiments, however, have dramatically expanded this basic understanding and yielded new insights into the rich dynamics of wind turbine wakes and the impact of near-wake phenomena to far wake meandering. The hub vortex has been shown to undergo spiral vortex breakdown undergoing low frequency oscillations and lateral expansion ultimately interacting with the turbine tip shear layer and energizing the intensity of wake meandering several rotor diameters downwind (Kang et al., J. Fluid Mech. 2014). Large-scale snow PIV and LES of utility scale turbines have further uncovered a previously unknown centrifugal instability mode of the turbine tip shear layer, which manifests itself in the form of a second set of spiral vortices with vorticity of opposite sign relative to the spiral tip vortices (Yang et al., J. Fluid Mech. 2016). Standard actuator disk or line models widely used today to parameterize wind turbines in wind farm simulations are not able to capture such phenomena and especially the instability of the hub vortex. To mitigate this major shortcoming, we have developed a new class of actuator surface models that incorporate the turbine nacelle and are able to capture the correct coherent dynamics of the near wake and their impact on far wake meandering (Yang and Sotiropoulos, Wind Energy, 2018). I will present this new class of models, demonstrate their improved predictive capabilities, and discuss implications for large scale simulations of utility-scale wind farms (Foti et al., J. Fluid Mech. 2019). I will also present a new computational framework that paves the way for control co-design of bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind farms coupling turbine blade pitch control with atmospheric turbulence, broadband ocean waves and 6 degree-of-freedom structural dynamics (Calderer et al., J. Comp. Physics,2018).
Fotis Sotiropoulos serves as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University. Before joining Stony Brook University, he was the James L. Record Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory; and Director of the EOLOS wind energy research consortium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2006-2015). Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in the G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (1995-2005). His research focuses on simulation-based engineering science for tackling complex, societally relevant fluid mechanics problems in renewable energy, environmental and human health applications. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed journal papers and book chapters and his research results have been featured on the cover of several prestigious journals. He is the 2019 recipient of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Borland Lecture award, the 2017 recipient of the Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a recipient of a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. He has twice won the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion (2009, 2011), is a 2014 distinguished lecturer of the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University and is serving or has served on the editorial boards of several journals.
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Mike Davis Teach-in
Tuesday, March 31
5pm
Online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXu5dcswjbA0zpXLIBn5NmQ
Mike Davis is the author of such books as City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and Planet of Slums.
More information at https://www.haymarketbooks.org/events/
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Learning Circle: COVID-19, Tackling the Novel Coronavirus (Week 1)
Tuesday, March 31
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Every week on Tuesday until April 14, 2020
Online Meeting
THIS MEETING WILL HAPPEN ONLINE AT https://meet.jit.si/covid19-learning-circle
Learning circles are free, facilitated study groups for learners who want to take online courses. More information about learning circles can be found on the P2PU website: https://www.p2pu.org/en/.
Starting on March 31st and for 3 weeks, BosLab will host a learning circle to help participants study the FutureLearn course "COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus" from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/covid19-novel-coronavirus/).
Editorial Comment: More of this will be happening. A lot of people stuck at home have plenty of time to study this virus and crowd-source solutions to our current health crisis.
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Wednesday, April 1
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Prospects for a New Nuclear Policy
Wednesday, April 1
10 – 11:30 a.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Joseph Cirincione, President of Ploughshares Fund
DETAILS What sort of nuclear policy might we see in a second Trump Administration or a future Democratic administration? In this seminar, Joe Cirincione will detail the politics and policies of a new U.S. nuclear strategy. He will discuss the efforts now underway to craft such a strategy, the areas enjoying the most expert and political support, the role of non-government organizations (including universities) in these efforts, and how the coronavirus crisis may impact the willingness of the government to consider dramatic changes to current nuclear weapons programs and doctrines.
Joseph Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He is also the host of Press The Button, a weekly podcast from Ploughshares Fund dedicated to nuclear policy and national security. A new episode is available every Tuesday.
Cirincione is the author of the books Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats. He has worked on nuclear weapons policy in Washington for over 35 years and is considered one of the top experts in the field. He served previously as vice president for national security at the Center for American Progress, director for non-proliferation at Carnegie Endowment, and senior associate at the Stimson Center. He worked for nine years as professional staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Committees on Armed Services and Government Operations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the International Security Advisory Board for Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. He also teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service.
CONTACT INFO Jacob Carozza
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Virtual event: Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War
Wednesday, April 1
12:00pm to 1:30am
Online
SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.
Annette Idler will discuss the findings of her timely new book, Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near borders in unstable regions especially. Applying a "borderland lens" to security dynamics, in Borderland Battles, Annette Idler examines the micro-dynamics among violent non-state groups and finds striking patterns: borderland spaces consistently intensify the security impacts of how these groups compete for territorial control, cooperate in illicit cross-border activities, and replace the state in exerting governance functions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with more than 600 interviews in and on the shared borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, where conflict is ripe and crime thriving, Idler reveals how dynamic interactions among violent non-state groups produce a complex security landscape with ramifications for order and governance, both locally and beyond.
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VIRTUAL ONLY: Climate ******* Design | CDD Forum 2020
Wednesday, April 1 (More dates through April 15, 2020)
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Online
UPDATES available on the DUSP Facebook Page, including methods for joining/accessing this series online at https://www.facebook.com/pg/mit.dusp/events/
Urban design tools and methods can contribute meaningfully to climate action, both in promoting decarbonization and in adapting cities to shifting landscape hazards. However, climate change is also challenging some underlying assumptions and practices of urban design and raising crucial questions, including:
How can design interventions accommodate the deep uncertainty of climate change?
How can designers address the enormously uneven impacts of climate change when dominant models of practice are limited by their dependence on state actors and private clients?
How can urban designers simultaneously respond to demands for urgent action and enable the pluralistic deliberations necessary for equitable climate action?
The CDD Forum will address these and other questions through five public lectures by contemporary practitioners and scholars. Except where otherwise noted, the sessions will take place 12:30-2pm in the City Arena (9-255).
*This series is linked to this semester's Urban Design Seminar (11.333/4.244). If you are interested in enrolling in the seminar, please email zlamb@mit.eduand/or come to the first meeting Wednesday, 9am-11am in 10-401.
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Inclusive Telework for Persons with Disabilities during COVID-19 with Debra Ruh
Wednesday, April 1
1-2pm EST
Online
RSVP at
In order to be responsive to the current moment, PYD is hosting a webinar next week on inclusive remote work best practices. Join us to learn more
about how to make telework more inclusive for people with disabilities!
Join us for a webinar on the benefits and challenges of working from home. How can you create a telework set-up and policies at your organization to support people with disabilities? How can individuals remain productive and maintain their work-life balance while remote?
As more companies send employees home during the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, it is important to learn ways to stay productive, have a work-life
balance, and be inclusive of people with disabilities.
In this interactive webinar, we will discuss tips, tricks, tools, and best practices. Join us!
About the presenter: *Debra Ruh is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, market influencer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur, and an exceptional mother. Debra’s company, Ruh Global IMPACT, focuses on global disability inclusion strategies, digital marketing, and branding among many other services.
Debra was inducted into the the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame in the Class of 2019.
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Coronavirus and the Future of Infectious Disease
Wednesday, April 1
2:00 - 3:00 pm.
Online
The seminar will feature a panel discussion including Nahid Bhadelia (Medical Director, Special Pathogens Unit, Boston Medical Center), Davidson Hamer(Professor, Global Health & Medicine, BU School of Public Health & BU School of Medicine), and Gerald T. Keusch (Professor, Medicine & International Health, BU School of Medicine & BU School of Public Health). The discussion will be moderated by Pardee School Dean Adil Najam.
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NRDC Webinar: An Executive Briefing and Discussion: NRDC & Our Work During the Evolving COVID-19 Crisis
Wednesday, April 1
3 p.m. E.T/ 2 p.m. CT/ 1 p.m. MT/ 12 p.m. PT
Online
On this webinar — the first in a new quarterly series — you'll hear from NRDC President Gina McCarthy and Executive Director Mitch Bernard as they discuss how NRDC is tackling the critical environmental, science, and public health issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the pandemic is shaping the organization's priorities in the months ahead.
This webinar is designed as a conversation, so there will be plenty of time for discussion and questions after the briefing.
During this difficult time, it's more important than ever that NRDC finds ways to stay connected with our supporters. That's why we hope you'll be able to join us and other dedicated NRDC members, supporters, and activists for a very special webinar on Wednesday, April 1.
We hope you can join us for this exclusive member event!
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Thursday, April 2 - Friday, April 3
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2020 MIT Energy Conference: DECISION 2020: CREATING THE LANDSCAPE FOR OUR ENERGY FUTURE
Thursday, April 2, 9:00 AM - Friday, April 3, 2020 5:00 PM
Online
Explore the energy decisions being made today that are set to deliver the greatest impact in the next five to ten years. Industry experts will come and discuss the critical determining factors behind our energy future - including policies, investments, existing infrastructure, oil and gas, transportation, and more.
Come be informed, inspired, and invigorated to make meaningful decisions in 2020 and shape the world as we know it. Decision 2020: Creating the Landscape for Our Energy Future is more than a conference, it's a driving force for change.
More information at https://www.mitenergyconference.org
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Thursday, April 2
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How to Run a Virtual Offers and Needs Market
Thursday, April 2
1pm EDT
Online
As a strategy for building community resilience, the Post Growth Institute has spent the last 10 years developing the Offers and Needs Market process. During this time we've also learned how to successfully run the marketplace online.
This 1 hour webinar training will be relevant to everyone, whether you are a skilled facilitator or just looking to share resources with your neighbors during times of quarantine.
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Training: How To Give the Extinction Rebellion [XR] Talk
Thursday, April 2, 2020
7:30 PM 9:00 PM
Online
The Heading for Extinction and What To Do About It talk is one of the main recruiting tools used by Extinction Rebellion chapters across the globe. Join this call to get the basic information on how to give the Heading for Extinction Talk so you can help us spread the truth about the climate emergency far and wide!
The XR Talk Training will cover the science and movement theory included in the talk, as well as basic public speaking and presentation skills. There will be ample opportunity for people to ask questions about the content of the talk as well.
This training is part of our social distancing online training series. You can register by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Aqd-igpjItTFUNIVmx7fi5FYknoVSi9g
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Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4
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oiConference: Developments in Finance and Sustainability
Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4
Webinar
This webinar is the second online conference on Sustainability and Finance organized and supported by oikos International and the Harvard Extension School's Student Environmental Club. It brings together researchers, students, activists, and professionals to discuss recent developments in finance and sustainability.
Attend 1 or all 9 sessions.
Each session will run about 45mins long with plenty of time for Q&A. Bring your expertise and your questions to the table, and learn from experts in the field, your fellow students, and professors/researchers.
Please Sign up on this page to participate in the whole two-day conference. If you want to participate in only individual sessions, you can sign up for them individually below.
For more detailed descriptions of the individual events, please take a look at the agenda here. And you will find the bios of the presenters, session moderators, and organizers here.
Day 1 一 Friday, April 3rd 2020
1.1) Climate Grief and Personal Change
1.2) Sustainable Finance 101: What does it all really mean?
1.3) Planning for a Sustainable Life
1.4) World Cafe and Breakouts: Reflection and Networking
Possibly Cancelled: 1.5) Drinks and Networking, Harvard
Day 2 一 Saturday, April 4th 2020
2.1) Sustainability Perspectives from Asia
2.2) Society, Race, and the Environment
2.3) The Language of Sustainability
2.4) The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
2.5) World Cafe and Breakouts: Reflection and Networking
Possibly Cancelled: 2.6) Drinks and Networking, Harvard
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Friday, April 3 - Sunday, April 5
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MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic
Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5
Online
RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu
We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual hackathons. The next event is April 3-5, 2020. In this 48-hour virtual event, we will help tackle the most critical unmet needs caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Participants will form teams on Friday, April 3rd to hone down on the problems, generate solutions, including proof of concepts, prototypes, and preliminary vision for execution. On Sunday, April 5th, teams will reconvene to present their work. After the weekend, the best ideas and teams will have the opportunity to co-develop and implement their solution with the support of our partners.
For more information and to apply as a participant, please check out our website: https://covid19challenge.mit.edu
The MIT COVID-19 Challenge is proud to be supported by organizations including the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, MIT Hacking Medicine, MIT Innovation Initiative, MIT Sloan Healthcare Club, Digital Medicine Society, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Netherlands Innovation Network, MassBio, and many more.
We hope to see you (virtually) at the event!
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Saturday, April 4
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Sunday, April 5
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Sunrise Boston’s Women’s Caucus
Sunday, April 5
12pm - 2pm
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/my/brian.sunrise
This is the first gathering of the Sunrise Boston Women's Caucus! This gathering is open to Sunrise and members of the greater community that either identify as a woman or have experienced sexism or gender-based oppression at some point in their lives. This is a space for women to connect, celebrate our power and brilliance and support each other in our work and lives!
There are other gender-based caucuses being launched as well so if this is not for you there will be other options!
We will be meeting over Zoom at the following link: https://zoom.us/my/brian.sunrise
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Monday, April 6
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Virtual: How to Freak Out Skillfully, and Other Pandemic Survival Skills
Monday, April 6 (More dates through May 25, 2020)
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/j/953792615
Even a few weeks ago, who could have imagined that the MIT community would be so abruptly disrupted and dispersed?! The new reality of physical social distancing is necessary for our society, but our need for social connection is as acute as ever—and all the more so as we confront the grief and uncertainty provoked by this pandemic. Fear, excitement, frustration, anxiety, dread, anger, despondency—these are all normal reactions to the situation, but they can be QUITE hard to manage with everything else on our plates! Join us for informal, online chats about managing these and other challenges of this new reality, with strategies to not only survive, but maybe even thrive, in the midst of the chaos.
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Tuesday, April 7
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Solve Climate By 2030
Tuesday, April 7
Webinar
http://SolveClimateBy2030.org, @SolveBy2030, #ClimateAction #ClimateChange
Nationwide, State-Level Power Dialogs
It’s time to enact climate solutions in the US. Students are calling on all educators to #MakeClimateAClass on April 7th by assigning solution oriented webinars led by universities in each state.
Check the website at http://SolveClimateBy2030.org to find the Power Dialog webinar in your state.
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Essential Knowledge for a Time of Crisis: Critical Thinking by Jonathan Haber (Suitable for Ages 14+)
Tuesday, April 7
12:30 pm - 3:30pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-critical-thinking-by-jonathan-haber-tickets-101386706368
With so much noise and news all around us, how can we decipher what is accurate and useful to us at this confusing and chaotic time? Educational researcher Jonathan Haber explores how critical thinking techniques can help us outside of the classroom, and keep us calm and considered in the face of conflicting information and voices.
Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what, exactly, is critical thinking? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed.
Haber describes the term's origins in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and science. He examines the components of critical thinking, including structured thinking, language skills, background knowledge, and information literacy, along with such necessary intellectual traits as intellectual humility, empathy, and open-mindedness. He discusses how research has defined critical thinking, how elements of critical thinking have been taught for centuries, and how educators can teach critical thinking skills now.
Haber argues that the most important critical thinking issue today is that not enough people are doing enough of it. Fortunately, critical thinking can be taught, practiced, and evaluated. This book offers a guide for teachers, students, and aspiring critical thinkers everywhere, including advice for educational leaders and policy makers on how to make the teaching and learning of critical thinking an educational priority and practical reality.
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BostonSunrise Men's Caucus Call
Tuesday, April 7
6 PM – 7:30 PM
Online
This will be the second meeting of the Sunrise Boston Men's Caucus and we are going virtual! Come hang out and discuss things related to masculinity and society. Some specific topics we plan on touching on include isolation (way too real for some of us right now, and all the time?) and control.
We will be sending a zoom link to this facebook event to join before the call. Hope to see you there and feel free to message us with any questions!
This call is open to anybody that identifies as a man or has been socialized as masculine at some point in their life.
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Sustainable Lifestyles: Addressing Climate Change & Social Inequity
Tuesday, April 7
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
A deep dive into a HUGE TOPIC. Meet the folks making it real.
Note: This event will now be held virtually. Details of how to connect will be sent to registered participants.
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To address climate change, we need to get at people’s seemingly insatiable desire for more stuff and our economy’s relentless demands for growth. Real carbon reductions, while maintaining our well-being, will only happen when we make deep changes -- attitudinal, behavioral, and institutional -- towards less material and energy-intensive lifestyles. Yes, it’s a big topic, and we’re excited to tackle it in partnership with SCORAI and co-sponsor SERC at U Mass Boston.
Philip Vergragt, Halina Brown and Vesela Veleva of SCORAI will lead us through their insights and discuss what it takes to live a sustainable lifestyle and enjoy sustainable well-being. They will remind us about the various “actors” in our system, what role they play, and what they can do to contribute to this transformation. Most importantly, they have brought along Box Save, Lime, Fix-It Clinic Newton, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA to demonstrate how they are doing it through new business models, grassroots innovations, policy initiatives, or other actions. They will tell us how they wrestle with making changes in people’s lifestyles while keeping an eye on the bigger picture – a systemic transformation to a post-consumerist economy and culture.
Here are more details about our presenters from SCORAI:
Philip Vergragt, PhD. Philip is one of the founders of SCORAI. He is an Associate Fellow at Tellus Institute, Cambridge, MA, and a Research Professor at Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester, MA. Before his retirement, he was a Professor of Technology Assessment at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is also a local climate activist in Newton, MA. His main research interests are visioning and backcasting; sustainable technological and social innovations in transportation, energy, and housing; grassroots innovations; socio-technical transitions; sustainable consumption and production; sustainable cities; and technology assessment of emerging technologies. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific publications and four books. Philip holds a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1976.
Halina Brown, PhD. Halina is Professor Emerita of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University. Her recent academic research has focused on the interface between culture, technology and policy in facilitating a transition beyond the current consumer society. Prior to joining Clark University Brown was the chief scientist at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection where she was responsible for the agency’s public health policy. She is a co-founder and board member of SCORAI and chairs the Citizens Commission on Energy in Newton. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the International Society for Risk Analysis. Halina holds a doctoral degree in chemistry from New York University and has authored 80+ articles and four books, most recently “Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society (2017, with Maurie Cohen and Philip Vergragt).
Vesela Veleva, ScD. Vesela is senior lecturer in management, MBA Program Director, and co-director of SERC at UMass Boston. Her research focuses on sustainable production and consumption, the role of entrepreneurs in advancing the circular economy, green chemistry, environmental health and safety, and clean energy. Vesela has published over 25 peer reviewed articles and business cases as well as a book entitled: “Business, Environment and Society: Themes and Cases”. Vesela has a doctorate in Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention from UMass Lowell, M.S. in Pollution and Environmental Control from the University of Manchester, UK, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria.
SCORAI's guest presenters include:
Doran Donovan (Box Save)
Susan Legere, PhD. (Fix-It Clinic, Newton)
Anna Wyner (Lime)
Monica Nakielski (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts)
ABOUT SCORAI: SCORAI, founded in 2009, is an international knowledge network of 1200+ researchers and practitioners committed to building a flourishing and ecologically-sound society by changing the way we consume. It advances research, disseminates knowledge, impacts policies and supports campaigns. From June 10-12, 2020, SCORAI is organizing its 4th Bi-annual Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative Conference together with, and hosted by, Northeastern University at its campus. A limited number of sponsorships is available for partners in the businesses sector and other institutions whose work aligns with SCORAI’s values.
ABOUT SERC at UMass Boston: The mission of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) at UMass Boston is to foster a transition to a clean, sustainable, and prosperous economy. It leverages interdisciplinary expertise and engages in collaborations among businesses, universities, and policymakers to advance research, education, and innovative solutions for business sustainability and regional competitiveness.
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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
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Climate Resilience Workbook
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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
MIT Events: http://calendar.mit.edu
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
Boston Science Lectures: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
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
Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub: https://www.universalhub.com/
Extinction Rebellion: https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement: https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/
Mission-Based Massachusetts is an online discussion group for people who are interested in nonprofit, philanthropic, educational, community-based, grassroots, and other mission-based organizations in the Bay State. This is a moderated, flame-free email list that is open to anyone who is interested in the topic and willing to adhere to the principles of civil discourse. To subscribe email
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.
