Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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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
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1HEdNpLB5p-sieHVK-CtS8_N7SIUhlMpY6q1e8Je0ToY/htmlview
Mutual Aid Networks to Combat Coronavirus
https://itsgoingdown.org/c19-mutual-aid/
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)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-x6vOZKVsla5H363mtdgcyivvLmcx7-f2s6l-O_ba8A/edit?usp=sharing
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
https://sites.google.com/view/cambridge-nan/home
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) network
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1RtYZ1wc8jxcSKDl555WszWhQWlOlSkNnfjIOYV0wXRA/mobilebasic
Food for Free (for Cambridge and Somerville) volunteers to provide lunches for schoolchildren, elderly, and hungry
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed0cSIoOc7-Fvoms3VHR1Lc44fjql-vTNknz_a-7T_sKDnrw/viewform
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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Monday, August 31 - Friday, September 11
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Net Zero after Covid 19 - finding a pathway to the new normal
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Monday, August 31
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9am Covering Crisis and Conflicts
12pm SimPlanet 2020
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
3pm Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression in the Climate Movement webinar on SPBF
4pm Climate Change Town Hall w/Chairwoman Kathy Castor & Congressman Joe Neguse
6pm Managing for Economic and Social Justice
7pm Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
7pm Finding Peace in Chaotic Times
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Tuesday, September 1 - Friday, September 4
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Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19 in Africa: A Virtual Symposium
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Tuesdays, September 1 – October 6
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Revelation in a Time of Survival: A Zoom Series on Climate and the Pandemic
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Tuesday, September 1
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9am Covid 19: What went wrong and how to fix it with AI and Big data
12pm Siting Wind Energy: How Do We Do It Better?
12pm Town Hall: Is it okay to send my child to school during Covid-19?
12:30pm Author Talk: Visual Culture by Alexis Boylan
2pm Public Works: Planning and Designing Public Spaces for Spatial Justice
3pm Ask a Scientist: Climate Change- #LiveStream
6:30pm Mettler and Lieberman: Four Threats to Our Democracy
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Wednesday, September 2
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12pm A Framework for Digital Transformation in Health Care
12:30pm Live panel: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
1:30pm Europe and California: How are they advancing a green vision amid COVID-19?
2:15pm Climate Mayors Dialogue on Green and Equitable Recovery: Texas Cities
7pm Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
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Thursday, September 3 - Sunday, September 13
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Online Gathering for Climate & Social Justice
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Thursday, September 3
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6am Extinction Rebelllion Cambridge + Somerville Spray Chalk Run
7:30am Science Breaks: Re-inventing capitalism
8am The Long Time Sessions: Existential Risk & The Future of Humanity
9am RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans: A Book Talk with Stanley Greenberg
12:30pm CASS SUNSTEIN: HOW MUCH INFORMATION IS TOO MUCH?
2pm The violence inside us: A book conversation with Senator Chris Murphy
4pm Enterprise, Psychology, and Ecosystems: Missteps and Wise Moves
4pm George and Jesus: Policing an Insurrection of Hope
6pm Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
7pm My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist
8pm The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Melissa Jones
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Friday, September 4
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9:30am Coffee With an FLP Alum: Theresa McCulla, Curator, American History, Smithsonian Institution
12pm Community Conversation with Clean Energy Expert Katherine Hamilton
12pm Cape Cod Climate Emergency Spectacular
4:30pm WHDH Tell the Truth Media Action
7pm Harvard Science Book Talk: Rita Colwell, 'A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science’
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Saturday, September 5
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10am Arlington Emergency Everywhere Kickoff Shoe Strike
2pm Envisioning Circular Food Systems
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Monday, September 7
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10am A Green Recovery: Accelerating innovation towards a sustainable future
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Tuesday, September 8
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9am Why We Need More Than a Carbon Price
9:30am POPULISM’S TOXIC EMBRACE OF NATIONALISM
12pm Tuesday Seminar Series: How COVID has Changed Latin American Politics
12:30pm ERIN BROCKOVICH: SUPERMAN'S NOT COMING
5:30pm Memory, Social Justice, and Mindfulness
6pm Staying Strong While Everything Falls Apart: Navigating Grief and Hope About the Environment
6pm Losing Native Nation’s Cultural Heritage due to Climate Change: More than Material Damage
7pm Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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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
Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2020/08/dreaming-future-reimagining.html
Toward Net Zero Energy: Tiny Houses on Up
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2020/08/toward-net-zero-energy-tiny-houses-on-up.html
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Monday, August 31 - Friday, September 11
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Net Zero after Covid 19 - finding a pathway to the new normal
Monday, August 31 - Friday, September 11
2pm – 5pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/net-zero-after-covid-19-finding-a-pathway-to-the-new-normal-tickets-117252777213
We help organisations navigate the Covid and climate challenge.
Organisations face a number of challenges as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis:
Responding to the immediate financial ramifications of Covid-19
Considering how climate change policies and impacts will impact businesses.
This online workshop helps organisations plot a path to the new normal and create business value.
Find out more about Net Zero on our webpage.
Please note this is aimed at organisations (private and public sector) so please sign up with your orgnisation details.
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Monday, August 31
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Covering Crisis and Conflicts
Monday, August 31
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covering-crisis-and-conflicts-tickets-118565880741
This session will look at drivers of climate induced environmental conflict and how to report them
Many scientific studies have found correlations between climate change and conflict, which as a result often impose climate induced migration. Most of the environmental conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa can be connected to climate change either as a result of natural resource scarcity like water, deforestation/desertification or biodiversity loss, or natural disasters like flooding, or more extreme events like cyclones and hurricane.
This session will examine the drivers of climate induced environmental conflicts, and how to identify these trends and report on them. We will look at linkages between climate-conflict-migration, and how to report on it. Tips on reporting environmental conflicts and how to write compelling stories.
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SimPlanet 2020
Monday, August 31
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/simplanet-2020-tickets-116927989765
Dive into the world’s most advanced real-time climate change simulator. MIT Sloan’s Professor John Sterman presents SimPlanet, the climate solutions game that hands you the controls to the world’s energy and economic policies. But national and industrial interests stand in the way. Can you rally the planet and hold global warming to no more than 2 degrees?
SimPlanet 2020 is backed by the Climate Interactive EnROADS Simulator, which runs thousands of calculations in real time to determine how the policies the world sets now will affect global temperatures decades into the future. Choose new policies and watch the warming curve bend as your ideas take effect. If you've ever wondered what kind of mobilization we truly need to confront the climate crisis, SimPlanet will open your eyes to a new world that brings all its ingenuity to bear on the challenge of climate change.
This event is being held as part of MIT's 2020 orientation week. It is presented by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and the Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
You must log in from an MIT email address to participate. Register online here or just show up on the day!
Editorial Comment: The MIT email requirement doesn’t show up in Eventbrite so non-MIT people may be able to sneak in.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 31
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
Watch at https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
On Mondays, longtime journalist, author and educator Andy Revkin hosts an open workshop testing paths to impact and sanity in an online information environment that is more overheated, and more important, than ever.
Revkin is the founding director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, which works to boost the capacity of scientists, journalists, educators, students and citizens to communicate in ways that can speed progress toward a more sustainable relationship between our species, our planet and each other. Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
Watch these sessions on the Earth Institute's Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
Event Contact Information: EI Events
events@ei.columbia.edu
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Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression in the Climate Movement webinar on SPBF
Monday, August 31
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/anti-racism-and-anti-oppression-in-the-climate-movement-webinar-on-spbf-tickets-117493132121
The climate movement calls for more than just eating local, composting or recycling - it demands climate justice.
We are tremendously glad to have Tesicca join us on Monday to lead the conversation on anti racism and anti oppression in the climate movement! Through this conversation we hope to define environmental racism and explore personal privilege! The climate movement calls for more than just eating local, composting or recycling - it demands climate justice. Understanding the anti-racism and anti-oppression in this vital movement means understanding how we need to build a just, clean future.
Tesicca Truong is a climate justice activist, a community organizer, facilitator, and a serial changemaker. She co-founded CityHive, a non-profit on a mission to transform the way that young people are involved in decision-making in their cities and co-chaired the inaugural Vancouver School Board Sustainability Conference, now in its eighth year. She has served on Vancouver Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force, SFU Senate, and now advises BC’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change on the Climate Advisory Council. For her work, Tesicca was awarded SFU President’s Leadership in Sustainability Award and Vancouver’s Greenest City Leadership Award. She was also named Top 30 under 30 by Corporate Knights and the North American Association for Environmental Education.
For inquiries contact:
Email: pmgreenteam@hotmail.com
Instagram:@pmgreenteam
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Climate Change Town Hall w/Chairwoman Kathy Castor & Congressman Joe Neguse
Monday, August 31
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-town-hall-wchairwoman-kathy-castor-congressman-joe-neguse-tickets-117312722511
Join Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Kathy Castor and Congressman Joe Neguse for a town hall on climate change.
Join Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) and member of the Select Committee & Vice Chair of the Progressive Caucus Congressman Joe Neguse (D-Lafayette) for a town hall on climate change. Bring your questions for a discussion on the work the Select Committee is doing, what the rest of Congress is working on, and what needs to be done to solve the climate crisis.
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Managing for Economic and Social Justice
Monday, August 31
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Online
RSVP via SloanGroups at https://bit.ly/31jEegu
What is the role of managers in promoting economic and social justice?
How can we, as future business leaders, manage towards a more equitable society?
Join us for a webinar featuring a lively discussion of these questions with three inspiring executives who work in contexts that range from an entrepreneurial packaging business to one of the world's largest employers.
The panelists include:
Gayatri Agnew (Sr. Director, Walmart Giving)
Al Fuller (CEO, Integrated Packaging Corp.)
Julie Bertani-Kiser (Senior VP and Chief HR Officer, Recology)
This event is part of a series titled Redefining Management: Leadership for Social Progress in Troubled Times, brought to you by MIT Sloan's People & Organizations Club; the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan, and the MIT Sloan Student Life Office.
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
Monday, August 31
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_debora_l._spar/
Cost: Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes DEBORA L. SPAR—the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—for a discussion of her latest book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny.
Contribute to Support Harvard Book Store
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of Work Mate Marry Love on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About Work Mate Marry Love
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created?
In Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex. Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve?
In the past, the prevailing modes of production produced a world dominated by heterosexual, mostly-monogamous, two-parent families. In the future, however, these patterns are almost certain to be reshaped, creating entirely new norms for sex and romance, and for the construction of families and the raising of children. Steering clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.
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Finding Peace in Chaotic Times
Monday, August 31
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-online-event-finding-peace-in-chaotic-times-tickets-117553544817
Get a ticket to receive information for accessing the online video meeting!
Finding a moment to truly disconnect from the pressures around us and focus our minds seems more and more out of reach in today’s society. So how can we find the quiet in the midst of the chaos surrounding us and learn to reconnect with our spiritual selves? And why do we need to?
Practices in faith traditions of prayer and meditation to the rising trend of mindfulness confirm that the sea of chaos we are immersed in only increases the desire for our souls to find peace. So what are we limiting when we don’t create the conditions to allow for that peace? What would society look like if we were able to connect spiritually with ourselves and with those around us?
Come join a different kind of conversation – one that welcomes every perspective in a search for the truths that unite us all – as we discuss the spiritual perspective offered by the Bahá’i Teachings on how we can find true, inner peace. Join us for a lively discussion as we explore how spiritually reconnecting refreshes us as individuals and allows us to better serve those around us as we work with each other to bring together a unified global community.
“My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart...” – Bahá’i Teachings
*** This event is free and open to all regardless of background or belief. Donations will not be accepted.
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Tuesday, September 1 - Friday, September 4
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Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19 in Africa: A Virtual Symposium
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 9:00 AM - Friday, September 4, 2020 11:00 AM
Online
RSVP at http://iserp.columbia.edu/article/meeting-challenge-covid-19-africa
The purpose of the symposium is to focus on the key challenges of dealing with a delayed but explosive unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic in parts of Africa and to identify best practice solutions in respect of (1) gaining of public trust in adhering to the health imperatives of social distancing and the use of approved therapies and vaccines to manage and contain outbreaks; (2) the dynamic and most-effective use of testing, tracing and isolation as public health tools during a pandemic; and (3) the scaling up of SARS_COV2 vaccine acquisition and distribution platforms that will serve all African countries for mass immunization. A pre-meeting on the biosafety and biosecurity aspects of the SARS_COV2 pathogen will be held on 1 September.
September 1: Pre-meeting on the Biosafety and Biosecurity Aspects of SARS-COV2
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratory (research and diagnostic) capacity has increased globally, as have the risks related to biosafety and biosecurity, those especially related to what is known as dual-use research and development. That dual use research may result in misuse is a long-standing science concern. Issues include not only research and public health, but also security, scientific publishing, public communications, biotechnology, ethics and wider societal issues. In this session, we will discuss some of the dual-use concerns as related to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
September 2: The Challenge of Social Distancing in Africa and the Developing World
Reducing the rate of infection (R0) in a population is central to health systems coping with surges in patients requiring care in infectious pandemics. The most tried and tested method of doing this is to secure adherence to social distancing. Achieving effective social distancing however requires that communities have the resources that make this possible.
September 3: The Limits of Testing, Tracing and Treatment
The use of frequent testing, followed by active contact tracing and early treatment of infected patients is an effective form of limiting the spread of an infectious agent. Making this strategy work requires that all aspects of this strategy function effectively. The current experience in the SARS-COV-2 pandemic suggests that achieving this can be very difficult.
September 4: Public Trust and the Delivery of COVID19 Vaccines
The value in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic is not only dependent on the efficacy of a vaccine. It also requires that the majority of people are prepared to be vaccinated. Achieving this means that communities trust this intervention.
This event will be capped at 200 participants to ensure robust interaction between panelists and attendees.
This event is being organized by the Center for Pandemic Research, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, New York City, and the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Co-sponsored by the Programs in Global Health, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, the Stanley and Marion Bergman Family Charitable Fund and the Sanlam Foundation
Registration is required for this symposium. Registration is open now for Columbia and WITS affiliates, and will be opened to the public the week of August 24. For more information and to register: http://iserp.columbia.edu/article/meeting-challenge-covid-19-africa
Please reach out to iserp-events@columbia.edu with any questions.
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Tuesdays, September 1 – October 6
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Revelation in a Time of Survival: A Zoom Series on Climate and the Pandemic
Tuesdays, September 1 – October 6
6 Tuesdays
5:30 - 6:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revelation-in-a-time-of-survival-a-zoom-series-on-climate-and-the-pandemic-tickets-117145185403
Sept 1 being an introduction to the series:
“The Care of Creation - What we know and what we don’t know” featuring Demie Stathoplos (MBA, MSW)
The damage we have done and allowed to be done to our earth is now being recorded in damage to the bodies of people all over the globe. The pandemic, a new reckoning with systemic racism and the effects of climate change are combining to create a new “normal” that we have never faced before. There are things we know to do, and at the same time we are in a profound moment of “not knowing”. Communities of faith are well positioned to lead us in this difficult time. Presentation est. 20 - 22 minutes, followed by a Q&A.
Demie Stathoplos (MBA, MSW) is a retired, full time volunteer climate activist. Her previous paid work ranged from finance and marketing management in the telecommunications industry, to non-profit housing, clinical social work and integrative health management. She leads a climate working group at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, and is a member of the Newton node of 350MASS, Sustaining All Life, and United to End Racism.
RSVP to receive Zoom link
Suggested donation $10
This is a proposal for a 6-week program that brings together congregations from the three Abrahamic traditions (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) and other religious leadership and interested persons. We envision 15 faith community leaders (a representative three at each of 5 gatherings after the introductory session), each to offer 7-10 minutes of reflection to the community regarding some of the questions below (or others as they see fit), and then to open it for the participants/congregants to reflect, ask questions, etc. The questions might be the following:
What is the role of God in…?
What is the role of spirituality and religion?
What is the role of people of faith?
How can we connect more with our spiritual being and God so that we can help the world overcome this crisis?
What do we tell our children when they ask why is God doing this?
and many others
We envision this program beginning on Tuesday, September 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. The series will end Tuesday, October 6, through St. Francis Day (10/4) running for an hour each consecutive Tuesday from 5:30-6:30 in the evenings.
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Tuesday, September 1
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Covid 19: What went wrong and how to fix it with AI and Big data
Tuesday, September 1
10 AM
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3515979457144/WN_XoypusrWQpKoTx9qZskWDA
Asia Times Editor Uwe Parpart will host a free webinar on failures in the approach to Covid-19 with Stanford Univerity's Dr. John Ioannidis, a leading scholar on data and the study of scientific research with a focus on clinical medicine.
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Siting Wind Energy: How Do We Do It Better?
Tuesday, September 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/siting-wind-energy-how-do-we-do-it-better-registration-118181015599
How do we "Right-Site" Wind Power to respect conservation goals?
As we accelerate our deployment of wind energy to meet our climate change goals, we will need a heightened focus on where these industrial scale projects a sited. Wind energy has a much larger footprint than traditional sources of energy; the impacts to habitats and sensitive species can be an issue if precautions aren't taken.
The Nature Conservancy has developed a tool and associated analysis designed to steer these developments to places that will have little or no impact to wildlife and their habitats. The results of this project are quite promising.
Mike Fuhr has been with The Nature Conservancy for 22 years serving in a variety of roles. He became the Director of TNC's Oklahoma Chapter in January of 2005. He manages the Conservancy's work in Oklahoma, including conservation, operations, and fundraising. The Oklahoma chapter, which includes 27 staff, owns or manages almost 100,000 acres of land as a way to develop science-based, innovative approaches to collaborative conservation. He also leads the Great Plains Division's Renewable Energy Strategy that focuses on deployment of wind and solar while minimizing the impacts on our important landscapes.
This is an ONLINE Meeting on the Zoom platform. Zoom details are not published on this site for security. Thanks for understanding.
Complete the Eventbrite Registration and you will receive dial in details, including password, in your email confirmation.
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Town Hall: Is it okay to send my child to school during Covid-19?
Tuesday, September 1
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
The most agonizing decision to be made since the Covid-19 pandemic began: Is it okay to send my child to school? Or, if your child started school, what questions should you be asking?
Join the National Center for Disaster Preparedness for a Town Hall led by Covid-19 experts, addressing the safety of children returning to school. Our panel will have an interactive question and answer discussion with abundant time for questions.
Speakers:
Irwin Redlener, MD - Senior Research Scholar; Director, Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (PRRI); Co-Founder and President Emeritus, Children’s Health Fund
Jeff Schlegelmilch – Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Research Scholar
Cynthia Cross, MD, FAAP - Division Chief Pediatric Hospital Medicine LeBonheur Children’s Hospital Memphis, TN, Medical Director LeBonheur on the Move, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University of Tennessee
Paula Madrid, Psy.D. – Clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in trauma and disaster response; Adjunct faculty at Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness
Michael Mulgrew - President of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City
Lisa Sachs - Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, and parent of three daughters
Relevant NCDP resources:
Is it OK to Send My Child to School?:
https://ncdp.columbia.edu/custom-content/uploads/2020/08/Covid-19_Back-To-School_Final.pdf
Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic:
https://rcrctoolbox.org/toolbox/reopening-k-12-schools-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Children and Coronavirus: A Guide for Families and Providers:
https://rcrctoolbox.org/toolbox/children-coronavirus-a-guide-for-families-providers/
Zoom Webinar joining information will be sent upon registration.
*Note, this event will be recorded if you are unable to attend this event. Please register, so we can send you a follow-up email with the recording link.
Event Contact Information:
EI Events
events@ei.columbia.edu
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Author Talk: Visual Culture by Alexis Boylan
Tuesday, September 1
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-visual-culture-by-alexis-boylan-tickets-115915120245?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Alexis Boylan, author of Visual Culture
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see—color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West—somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see—and what is at stake in doing so.
Alexis L. Boylan is Director of Academic Affairs at the Humanities Institute of the University of Connecticut, where she is also Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department and Africana Studies Institute. She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man.
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Public Works: Planning and Designing Public Spaces for Spatial Justice
Tuesday, September 1
2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sd-qsqjwiG9E_nZouwMctcXt_ARPV3JwJ
Not all public spaces are created equal. Transformative planning and urban design begins with addressing historic and current experiences of racism and exclusion. But what does that mean in practice? Join the conversation with creative community leaders about what it means to design for spatial justice. We’ll explore how skate parks, sidewalk kitchens, and “dance courts” can change how public space is used, who feels welcome in it, and how inclusive creative placemaking can help lead the way toward lasting spatial justice.
Speakers TBA
Questions? Contact MAPC Event Planner, Sasha Parodi: sparodi@mapc.org
“Public Works,” is part three of “Whose Public? Planning and Placemaking for Welcoming Public Spaces.” This three-part discussion series explores the role that planners, artists, and government staff can play in shaping just, joyful, and inclusive public spaces.
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Ask a Scientist: Climate Change- #LiveStream
Tuesday, September 1
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-a-scientist-climate-change-livestream-tickets-118164572417
Come hear from our Museum educators as we answer YOUR questions about a variety of STEM topics. Tune in daily to continue the learning!
What have you always wanted to know about the science of climate change but have never had a chance to ask? We’ve assembled a team of educators to take those questions LIVE. Join us for this informative Q&A!
Register on Eventbrite to let us know you plan to attend. Once you register you should receive a confirmation notice. Later on you’ll receive an email with a link to the live stream (link looks like a video player). The link will take you to Zoom which can be used online or via an app.
To be able to access the presentation, you will need to create a Zoom account if you do not already have one.
No time to plan ahead?
We will be hosting these live streams on YoutTube and Facebook. You can find upcoming live streams and past presentation recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/BostonMOS/videos
https://www.facebook.com/museumofscience/live_videos/
Learn more about MOSatHOME and see all of our virtual content here: http://mos.org/MOSatHome
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Mettler and Lieberman: Four Threats to Our Democracy
Tuesday, September 1
6:30 P.M. EDT
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/?_ga=2.102839104.1315268484.1598132755-1220969728.1595336747#/instances/a0F3j00001BP8idEAD
Join us virtually for a conversation with Professors Mettler and Lieberman about the social trends that have often threatened our democracy.
They have identified four major threats: political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power. And they have drawn lessons from five serious crises: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. Each of these crises could have profoundly―even fatally―damaged the American democratic experiment. But what is most alarming now is that all four threats exist simultaneously―in the midst of a viral pandemic. This convergence could be cause for despair, but history provides valuable lessons about how democracy was eventually strengthened―or weakened―in the past.
By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced similar threats to our constitutional principles, we can see more clearly what led us to today, and then chart a path toward repairing our civic fabric and renewing our democracy.
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Wednesday, September 2
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A Framework for Digital Transformation in Health Care
Wednesday, September 2
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/framework-digital-transformation-health-care
SPEAKER(S) John Glaser
DETAILS John Glaser has led efforts to use digital platforms to improve health care delivery in many different contexts: as a senior advisor to the federal government, CIO of a large academic health system, CEO of Siemens Health Services, and SVP and executive senior advisor at Cerner. In this webinar, he will discuss lessons learned from these experiences, from data and digital platforms to organizational processes and business models.
LINK executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu…
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Live panel: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Wednesday, September 2
12:30 – 1pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-panel-un-decade-on-ecosystem-restoration-tickets-118286348653
A live panel discussion where experts on conservation will highlight challenges and necessary action to help forest landscape restoration
On Wednesday 2nd September 2020, a global digital event will celebrate the first major milestone of the Bonn Challenge and the enormous impact of the forest landscape restoration (FLR) movement.
LIVE PANEL: 17:30 BST WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
Forest landscape restoration (FLR), the approach that underpins the Bonn Challenge, is the world’s first purpose-built nature-based solution (NBS) with compelling proof of concept. It will play a key role in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
In this live panel discussion streamed on Youtube, panelists will discuss the upcoming 10 years for the Bonn Challenge and the goal of bringing 350m hectares into restoration.
Participants:
Host: Chris Buss - Director of the IUCN Global Forest Conservation Programme
Panellists:
Salvador Nieto - Executive Secretary, CCAD (Central American Commission on Environment and Development)
Adriana Vidal - Senior Forest Policy Officer and Decade Coordinator, IUCN
Malik Amin Aslam - Federal Minister and Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan for Climate Change
Lina Pohl - Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Mexico
You can join this event on the day here.
RSVP now to save the date.
This is a free event open to everybody. Watch the live panel on Youtube and engage with the online conversation #RestoreOurFuture.
You can also follow @IUCN_Forests on Twitter or IUCN Forest on Facebook for more news and updates.
We’re really looking forward to you joining us
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Europe and California: How are they advancing a green vision amid COVID-19?
Wednesday, September 2
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/europe-and-california-how-are-they-advancing-a-green-vision-amid-covid-19-registration-116154781077
Come join us for a lively webinar.
As leaders in California and the European Commission chart their separate paths toward a greener planet, they share many of the same goals and challenges. A small panel of experts and high-level policy makers are coming together to discuss their efforts and explore possible ways to work together to find new ways to grow economies in a sustainable and equitable manner.
The new European Commission, which was installed at the end of last year, adopted its Communication on the European Green Deal on 11 December 2019 stating the intend to enshrine its climate goals in legislation, the ‘European Climate Law’. On July 21, 2020, the EU governments approved the most ambitious climate change plan to date, agreeing to pour a record setting 500 billion euros ($572 billion) into everything from electric cars to renewable energy and agriculture.
This past April, Governor Gavin Newsom formed the Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery, bringing together leaders across California’s diverse, innovative economic and social sectors to chart a path forward on recovery in the wake of COVID-19. The goal is to present tangible actions to rebuild California, emphasizing smart, green technologies and providing a model for just economic development for the US.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges , we must focus on the opportunities to improve and adapt our plans to drive a green recovery. Join us for a lively discussion with Jared Blumenfeld, California’s Secretary for Environmental Protection and John Bell, Directorate General Research & Innovation at the European Commission, joined by a panel of experts.
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Climate Mayors Dialogue on Green and Equitable Recovery: Texas Cities
Wednesday, September 2
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-mayors-dialogue-on-green-and-equitable-recovery-texas-cities-registration-116737062697
Climate Leadership in Texas in the Age of COVID-19: Discussion with Texas Climate Mayors Sylvester Turner, Ron Nirenberg and Steve Adler
Please join us for the second event in the Climate Mayors National Dialogue on Green and Equitable Recovery series on Wednesday, September 2 from 1:15-2:00pm CT to hear about the current state of local climate action in three of Texas' largest cities. The discussion will feature:
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, Climate Mayors Co-Chair
Austin Mayor Steve Adler, member of the Climate Mayors Steering Committee
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, member of the Climate Mayors Steering Committee
The dialogue will be moderated by Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO of The Texas Tribune
Event link will be provided upon registration.
The first Climate Mayors National Dialogue on Green and Equitable Recovery event featured a discussion with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Columbia Mayor Stephen Benjamin, and US Representative Kathy Castor about successful climate initiatives in the Southeastern U.S., as well as lessons on keys areas of collaboration across levels of government to advance efforts to solve the climate crisis. You can watch the event here.
For more information on Climate Mayors, please visit climatemayors.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
Wednesday, September 2
7:00pm
Online
RSVP on Crowdcast at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/veritas
Join Porter Square Books for a virtual talk with Ariel Sabar, the author of Veritas! From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, Veritas is the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. This event takes place on Crowdcast, and is free and open to all.
In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The tattered manuscript made international headlines. If early Christians believed Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the world’s predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex and women’s leadership. Biblical scholars were in an uproar, but King had impeccable credentials as a world-renowned authority on female figures in the lost Christian texts from Egypt known as the Gnostic gospels. “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”–as she provocatively titled her discovery–was both a crowning career achievement and powerful proof for her arguments that Christianity from its start embraced alternative, and far more inclusive, voices.
As debates over the manuscript’s authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His search for answers is an international detective story–leading from the factory districts of Berlin to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before winding up in rural Florida, where he discovered an internet pornographer with a prophetess wife, a fascination with the Pharaohs and a tortured relationship with the Catholic Church.
VERITAS is a tale of fierce intellectual rivalries at the highest levels of academia, a piercing psychological portrait of a disillusioned college dropout whose life had reached a breaking point, and a tragedy about a brilliant scholar handed a piece of scripture that embodied her greatest hopes for Christianity–but forced a reckoning with fundamental questions about the nature of truth and the line between reason and faith.
ARIEL SABAR is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is the author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Thursday, September 3 - Sunday, September 13
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Online Gathering for Climate & Social Justice
Thursday, September 3 - Sunday, September 13
11:00 – 13:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-gathering-for-climate-social-justice-tickets-117763270111?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
1st Online Youth Gathering for Climate Justice and Social Justice around intersectionality, Commons, Green Deal, etc.
Online Youth Gathering
The 1st Online Europe-wide gathering of youth for Climate Justice and Social Justice will take place between 3rd and 13th September!
Co-organisers: Young Friends of the Earth Europe, Gastivists, Ulex Project and European Youth For Action
We will discuss about many topics: intersectionality, Commons, European Green Deal and the injustices behind the pandemic of Covid-19 in more than 30 different sessions with hand-picked inspirational trainers and speakers.
Attend one, several or all sessions! It's FREE and open to all. Only one requirement: register here!
Also, we are aiming to collect young people's visions for what European Green New Deal should look like, including concrete demands and goals for European and national governments.
In all our events, we follow Safer Spaces policies. Before joinig the sessions, please, get familiar with the concept at: shorturl.at/uwKZ9
This event is organised with the financial support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Note:
If you plan to attend the skill-share session: Building a strong communication strategy, please, fill in this short anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/GJ5DD6PPSwmjFaKt7
If you would like to attend the skill-share session: Communications in times of pandemic, please complete this short anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/sFNGYz9v3FPzYWCE8
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Thursday, September 3
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Extinction Rebelllion Cambridge + Somerville Spray Chalk Run
Thursday, September 3
6 a.m.
Cambridge and Somerville
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/camberville_chalk_run/
It's time to tell the truth about the climate end ecological emergency. It's time to act on climate justice.
If you won't tell the public the truth about the crisis - we'll do it for you. We are going to spray chalk calls to action on the climate emergency in high traffic areas. Note - we will not be damaging property and spray chalk will wash off
We will definitely have a team starting at 6:00 AM - so there is less foot traffic. If you would like to do a later time that evening, sign up and we will pair you with a night run team. Please sign up and we will reach out to you with our meet location and will coordinate on a list of targets. It is encouraged but not required that you have access to a bike - we'll be in touch to coordinate.
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Science Breaks: Re-inventing capitalism
Thursday,September 3
7.30am - 8.30am
Online
RSVP at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/119913/science-breaks-professor-maurizio-zollo/
Join Professor Maurizio Zollo for Science Breaks: Re-inventing capitalism as he lays out a case for a new form of capitalism and social economic system that realigns corporate objectives from creating value for shareholders to creating it for everybody.
Abstract
There is little doubt that business is a core contributor to the multiple interconnected crises plaguing the world today. Whether we focus on environmental pollution and climate change emergencies, or on income inequality and related social unrest; whether we worry about psychophysical and emotional well-being or about persistent discrimination and social exclusion from opportunities to grow, the role played by enterprises and the socio-economic system that we developed is paramount.
The COVID–19 pandemic is the latest example of the dramatic tensions built in the form of capitalism that has come to dominate the global economy. At the origin of this (and other) pandemics lies the destructions of the natural environment, which facilitates spillovers of viruses across species. Worse still, some of the fiercest obstacles to the health authorities’ timely and effective crackdown on the diffusion of the virus were the powerful economic interests of companies, organized in national and local pressure groups,
However, it might not have to be this way. Environmental destruction and socio-economic inequality are not an inevitable consequence of economic growth. It all depends on how we design the rules of behaviour within which companies act and interact with each other. It all depends on what type of capitalist system we want to develop, so that companies can thrive by eradicating the social and environmental maladies present in our communities, rather than by contributing to creating them.
In his Science Breaks, Professor Maurizio Zollo will lay out a case for a new form of capitalism based on innovative, in part still experimental, logics of enterprise. These logics of enterprise are characterised by governance rules, performance metrics, incentive and control systems, as well as leadership and cultural values, centred on enhancing the well-being of everyone who invests different forms of capital (human, social, natural and financial) in the creation, growth and success of the enterprise. He will also look at the role of policy in shaping the new system of capitalism, and of the necessary co-operation among all societal actors in the continual innovation, experimentation and diffusion of this new way to do business.
Biography
Maurizio Zollo is Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Imperial College London, Head of the Business School’s Department of Management and Scientific Director of the Leonardo Centre, a cross-disciplinary hub dedicated to the exploration and experimentation of innovative logics of enterprise.
Maurizio’s research looks at how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence, and how managers use strategic growth initiatives and organisational change, innovation and learning processes to guide this evolution. He focuses on the management of complex strategic initiatives, from M&A and partnerships to sustainability-oriented innovation, learning and change. Maurizio directs also two research programmes on the application of neuroscience to innovation and sustainability decisions. He is also the founder of a non-profit foundation (GOLDEN for Impact), dedicated to the global collaboration between business, academia and institutions in the transition towards sustainable and equitable forms of socio-economic systems.
Before joining Imperial College in 2019, Maurizio taught at Bocconi University and INSEAD. He is a Visiting Professor at the Sloan School of Management of MIT, with a similar position at Bocconi University. He holds a PhD in management from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and a laurea degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University. Before his academic career, he was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. and investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York.
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The Long Time Sessions: Existential Risk & The Future of Humanity
Thursday, September 3
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-long-time-sessions-existential-risk-the-future-of-humanity-tickets-114506534126
In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves - without developing the moral framework to ensure we won't.
Toby Ord in conversation with Matthew Taylor:
In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves - without developing the moral framework to ensure we won't. This is what moral philosopher Toby Ord calls the Precipice, and how we respond to it will be the most crucial decision of our time.
In this session, Toby Ord will be in conversation with Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA. They will explore the risks to humanity's future, from the familiar human-created threats of climate change and nuclear war, to more unfamiliar threats from engineered pandemics and advanced artificial intelligence.
The Long Time Sessions
With all its crises, 2020 is a poignant reminder that we need longer-term thinking now to tackle the existential risks we face and create a better world for future generations.
The Long Time Sessions is a fortnightly Zoom talk series on cultivating care for the world beyond our lifetimes. It will bring together leading thinkers and doers from art, culture, philosophy, science, technology, law, finance and politics, to take a longer view. Speakers will explore how engaging with the long-term can change the way we act in the short term.
Biographies
Toby Ord
Toby Ord is a moral philosopher based at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. He focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity. His earlier work explored the ethics of global health and global poverty, which led him to create an international society called Giving What We Can and the wider Effective Altruism movement. His current research is on avoiding the threat of human extinction which he considers to be among the most pressing and neglected issues we face. He has advised the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Office, and Government Office for Science.
Matthew Taylor
Matthew Taylor has been Chief Executive of the RSA since 2006. Prior to becoming Chief Executive of the RSA, Matthew was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister. He was the Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research between 1999 and 2003, has written numerous articles, and is a regular panellist on Radio 4’s Moral Maze.
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RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans: A Book Talk with Stanley Greenberg
Thursday, September 3
9:00AM to 9:45AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.gmfus.org/events/rip-gop-how-new-america-dooming-republicans
Speaker
Stanley Greenberg, CEO, Greenberg Research and Co-Founder, Democracy Corps
Moderator
Sudha David-Wilp, Senior Transatlantic Fellow and Deputy Director Berlin Office. The German Marshall Fund of the United States
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is pleased to invite you to a book talk with renown political strategist and pollster Stanley Greenberg who will present his latest book RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans. Painting a dark and gloomy picture of the Republican Party’s future, Greenberg will discuss the reasons for the GOP’s presumed demise and what this means for the United States’ political landscape in the years to come.
We look forward to your participation! If you have any questions, please contact Franka Ellman at fellman@gmfus.org.
This book talk is part of GMF’s Understanding America series which sheds light on the nuances in American politics by presenting U.S. speakers from across the political spectrum. With a mixture of presentations and conversations, this series provides inside analyses from the United States’ most prominent voices.
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CASS SUNSTEIN: HOW MUCH INFORMATION IS TOO MUCH?
Thursday, September 3
12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-03/cass-sunstein-how-much-information-too-much
The world is projected to generate 90 zettabytes of data this year and the next. That’s more than all the data produced since the arrival of computers, and if we still used DVD’s, we’d need 19 trillion to store it all. Swimming in this massive sea of information, humans are easily overwhelmed; studies suggest we avoid important information because it might make us miserable, while seeking out information of dubious value to make ourselves happy.
What information do we need to know? What role should policymakers play in helping us find data that improves our well-being and filter out information—from calorie counts to credit card fees—that wastes our time or even endangers us?
Cass Sunstein explains how we can make information work for us.
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The violence inside us: A book conversation with Senator Chris Murphy
Thursday, September 3
2:00 PM-3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-violence-inside-us/
Join the conversation on Twitter using #TheViolenceInsideUs
In many ways, the United States sets the pace for other nations to follow. Yet on the most important human concern—the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from physical harm—America isn’t a leader. In his new book, “The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) explores the origins of our violent impulses, the roots of our obsession with firearms, and the mythologies that prevent us from confronting our national crisis. Senator Murphy comes to the conclusion that while America’s relationship to violence is indeed unique, America is not inescapably violent. Even as he details the reasons we’ve tolerated so much bloodshed for so long, he explains that we have the power to change.
On September 3, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a webinar with David M. Rubenstein Fellow Rashawn Ray and Senator Murphy on his new book. The pair will discuss the history of violence in America and its long-term impacts, as well as the concrete steps that must be taken to change the nation’s narrative.
Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events@brookings.edu or via Twitter at @BrookingsGov or by using #TheViolenceInsideUs.
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Enterprise, Psychology, and Ecosystems: Missteps and Wise Moves
Thursday, September 3
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enterprise-psychology-and-ecosystems-missteps-and-wise-moves-tickets-117688209603
Cost: $0 – $20
Ariel Phillips will explore happenings at the intersection of entrepreneurship, biodiversity, poverty, and climate change for NorCal.
This talk will explore happenings at the intersection of entrepreneurship, biodiversity, poverty, and climate change. We’ll discuss some tools--such as design thinking, monetization, and planetary boundaries--for decision-making in complex contexts. And we’ll discuss ways to take advantage of our remarkable human brains to make sense and make progress, with examples of current projects and strategies.
Ariel co-developed and co-taught MIT’s D-Lab: Earth. She has spoken to many groups, including at MIT (D-Lab: Development), Caltech (Sustainability Science), and UC Davis (D-Lab: A Path to Zero Net Energy). Ariel is a high school dropout and proud graduate of a California community college. She also has a masters’ degree in Education from UC Davis and a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University, where she subsequently worked for 22 years. Of the many things she developed and worked on at Harvard, one of her favorites was a program to support conversation on the nature and meaning of failure, success, and resilience, topics she continues to work on. She also enjoys thinking of ways to navigate life by bicycle.
Ariel is excited to share some broad ideas and also some concrete strategies for effective action at the intersection of biodiversity, sustainability, climate change, commerce, and economic poverty.
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George and Jesus: Policing an Insurrection of Hope
Thursday, September 3
4 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/08/27/convocation-2020-george-and-jesus-policing-insurrection-hope
https://www.facebook.com/HarvardDivinitySchool/
DETAILS Delivering Harvard Divinity School's 205th Convocation address will be Cornell William Brooks, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership at HDS and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at Harvard Kennedy School. Brooks's address is entitled "George and Jesus: Policing an Insurrection of Hope." The entire HDS community, students and colleagues from the Committee on the Study of Religion, and other Harvard schools, friends, alumni, and guests are invited to the virtual ceremony, which will be available online on September 3, at 4 pm EDT. The ceremony will be available on the HDS website and the HDS Facebook page where it will remain posted, so those who are unable to tune in at 4 pm can watch at their convenience. The digital program can be viewed online at https://hds.harvard.edu/files/hds/files/convocation_program_2020.pdf?m=1598538306
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Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Thursday, September 3
6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://emerson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-qtrTkpGdHmO52V14eDSbamXbk003TH
Panelists: NYC Planner & Boston City Councilor -TBA
Is Boston prepared to take on the heat of this moment?
Join us for 3-a day convening, which includes a link to preview the timely film, Cooked: Survival by Zip Code.
The highlights about the upcoming “Summer of Extreme: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Boston/Brookline/Cambridge Part 2”:
Webinar Participants-Pre-viewing of Cooked: Survival by Zip Code –(free access to view full digital version, and 21-minute version..
Watch clips, trailers, or the entire documentary of ‘Cooked Survival by Zip Code’
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/cooked-survival-by-zip-code/#.Xw6cBrqx4vg.email
Featured Partner Event for Boston Greenfest 2020- August 20th @ 6pm. https://www.bostongreenfest.org/
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My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist
Thursday, September 3
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_megan_margulies/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes writer MEGAN MARGULIES for a discussion of her debut memoir, My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist. She will be joined in conversation by author and comics expert HILLARY CHUTE, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere.
About My Captain America
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies’s Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the “Wild Man of 96th Street,” who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents’ tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five—including some loud personalities—eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space.
Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance.
Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and ’90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and ’40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan’s story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American.
My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan’s life with Daddy Joe—and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.
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The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Melissa Jones
Thursday, September 3
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-climate-conversation-with-climate-leader-melissa-jones-tickets-116511465931
Join us for a candid conversation with climate leader Melissa Jones of Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII).
As part of Greenbelt Alliance's Future Climate Webinar Series we invite you to join us as we sit down with notable Bay Area climate leaders. In each 30 minute session you will have the opportunity to connect with these inspiring professionals, hear their stories, and get an inside look into the amazing work that they do on issues relating to climate adaptation planning, equity, community engagement, and more.
This week our featured expert is Melissa Jones, MPA, the Executive Director of BARHII. Her work focuses on the intersection of social determinants of health, social inequity, and well-being.
Before joining BARHII, Melissa served as Senior Program Officer at Boston Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), where she launched and ran Boston LISC’s Resilient Communities Resilient Families Initiative. During her tenure, RCRF engaged several thousand residents and non-profits in neighborhood planning. The program has invested millions of dollars to fund affordable housing, leadership development, Family Financial Opportunity Center programs, and a local entrepreneurship pipeline program to ensure residents’ financial lives are improving. She was awarded the LISC’s President’s award in 2014 for her work on comprehensive community development.
Melissa has additional experience funding and implementing programs focused on community economic development, family financial stability, education, and civic empowerment. Specifically, she has served in youth empowerment organizations, as Program Specialist for the City of Alameda, and as Program Analyst for the City of Oakland’s Oakland Fund for Children and Youth.
Melissa is an active community member in Oakland and also serves on the Association of Bay Area Government’s Regional Planning Committee, which advises on regional planning issues.
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Friday, September 4
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Coffee With an FLP Alum: Theresa McCulla, Curator, American History, Smithsonian Institution
Friday, September 4
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=916&SINGLESTORE=true
DETAILS Every month, hear from a Harvard Food Literacy Project alum who is working in the food industry today!
This month, we’re thrilled to welcome Theresa McCulla, who is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. Theresa is a historian of the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. Her scholarship investigates how Americans have used material and visual culture to define race, ethnicity, and gender, especially in the realm of food and drink.
As the curator of the American Brewing History Initiative, Theresa collects objects, documents, and oral histories from the talented women and men who make the American brewing industry the most creative in the world.
The Initiative is the first national-scale, scholarly effort to collect the histories of homebrewing and craft beer in the 20th- and 21st-century United States.
*This virtual event is open to all Harvard students. Sign up with your Harvard email address to receive an email closer to the event date inviting you to access the event online.
LINK https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true
CONTACT INFO foodliteracy@harvard.edu
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Community Conversation with Clean Energy Expert Katherine Hamilton
Friday, September 4
12:00pm — 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://environment.yale.edu/calendar/listing/93541
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Cape Cod Climate Emergency Spectacular
Friday, September 4
noon
Bourne Bridge near 343 Scenic Hwy, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/cape_cod_bourne_bridge/
Extinction Rebellion [XR] is organizing a Climate Emergency Action next to Cape Cod’s Bourne Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal. It will be on the Friday afternoon of Labor Day weekend, Sept 4. As the traditional slow parade of cars - backed up for miles - makes its way across the bridge for the holiday weekend, we'll be there with puppets, banners, and handouts reminding passengers of how environmentally fragile the Cape that they love is. We hope to have an appearance from our esteemed Red Rebel Brigade!
We will not be blocking or disrupting traffic (it's already backed up forever!) and the goal of this action is about raising awareness and connecting with people.
This will be in the afternoon. Specific time TBA - please register for updates.
If you would like to join the Red Rebel Brigade to participate in this action please attend the RRB orientation on 8/21: https://xrmass.org/action/xr-boston-red-rebel-brigade-orientation/ or email marrb@protonmail.com.
Please register if you are coming so we can send you more details about logistics and planning! If you're interested in having another role for this action (puppet holder, costume, police liason, marshall, etc), we will send out a follow up email to people registered.
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WHDH Tell the Truth Media Action
Friday, September 4
4:30 p.m.
7 Bullfinch Place, Government Center, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/whdh-tell-truth-media-action/
WHDH NEWS, and most of the other local TV news programs, have not made a sustained effort to inform, educate and report on climate science, both the short-term and long-term impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas. (The one local exception is NBC10 and weather reporter Chris Gloniger’s “Adjusting to Climate Change” reporting.) Like the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis is an emergency!
Join Extinction Rebellion-Boston for the launch of the Tell the Truth Media campaign! We will meet outside of the WHDH News station, Friday Sept 4, 4:30pm at 7 Bullfinch Place in Boston’s Government Center.
WHDH News needs to end its climate silence and tell the truth about global heating’s impacts on the Boston area happening now: more coastline flooding and beach erosion, higher summer and winter temperatures, warmer ocean waters, changes in fishing and lobster populations, and more extreme weather events.
This action is part of an international Extinction Rebellion initiative demanding truth from local news media. XR chapters from the UK, Australia and US all have activities planned for September 4 and beyond.
Join us! This will be an in person action. Masks are required to participate. Please sign up. And we have theatrical roles available!
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Harvard Science Book Talk: Rita Colwell, 'A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science’
Friday, September 4
7 – 8 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_rita_colwell/
SPEAKER(S) Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, the University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
DETAILS Rita Colwell, a pioneering microbiologist and the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation, will talk about her new book, "A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science." The book is a memoir-manifesto about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
LINK https://science.fas.harvard.edu/book-talks
CONTACT INFO science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu
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Saturday, September 5
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Arlington Emergency Everywhere Kickoff Shoe Strike
Saturday, September 5
10 a.m.
Meet where the MINUTEMAN BIKEWAY intersects with MASS AVE and Rte 60/Pleasant St/Mystic St near the Uncle Sam Memorial Statue (4 Mystic Street) Arlington, Massachusetts
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/arlington-emergency-everywhere-sept5-shoe-strike/
LOGISTICS: Our goal is to get 100 pairs of shoes! Please wear your face mask, respect the need for physical distancing, bring a cell phone (to take photos), lots of pairs of shoes, and your sign/message. https://twitter.com/ActivAlewife
Join us to declare: GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY EVERYWHERE !!
We are holding a shoes strike in Arlington in collaboration with Arlington Fridays for Future (FFF) to launch our Emerency Everywhere campaign to pressure the Town of Arlington to start actively telling the truth about the crisis. The shoes symbolize our presence in large numbers to call for climate action, including even people who cannot attend in person for reasons of COVID safety. #ShoeStrike29AUG
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
1: Drop off as many pairs of shoes as you wish at 9:45 AM on Saturday, SEPT 5th... and pick them back up at 10:45 AM
2: Set up your sign and your shoes, take a photo of your individual action, post it to your social media platform of choice with #ShoeStrike5SEPT tag, and please send the photo to: ActivAlewife@gmail.com
3: DONATE YOUR SHOES. We’ll use them and then take them to a clothing donation box. Drop off as many pairs of shoes as you wish before Saturday, SEPT 5th. Contact ActivAlewife@gmail.com for drop-off locations near you.
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Envisioning Circular Food Systems
Saturday, September 5
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/envisioning-circular-food-systems-tickets-117356768253
Join SPORE to discuss the current issues in modern food systems and plausible solutions!
Food systems of the modern world have complex pathways. Often times, we do not even know the source of the of the foods we consume. This leads to a plethora of issues such as excessive food waste, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and health disorders. Nearly 50% of our current habitable land is used for agricultural purposes and this will increase with population growth if we continue business as usual. Furthermore, nearly 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change comes from unsustainable food production and food waste. We need to change this.
Join SPORE for a discussion on the environmental and health issues surrounding food production and consumption followed by ideas on how we can solve them on local scales. We will discuss the difference in issues affecting the developed and developing worlds along with multiple solutions that are applicable to each. The goal is to think in systems for developing holistic solutions to the food issues we face today.
The video below is an example of a food system vision created by Mycelium for a mid-size city such as Huntsville, Alabama.
https://youtu.be/-3qGu4JPhmk
Our guest for this workshop is Ankur Shah. He is an Earth System scientist and is extremely passionate about sustainability, food systems, and environmental education. He has taught multiple classes on environmental issues during his college career and frequently produces short videos on environmental topics.
We invite you to join our free workshop with curiosity and a desire to learn! We will discuss how to think about food system issues and solutions. Join us to learn how to envision regenerative and circular food systems for a healthier planet!
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Monday, September 7
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A Green Recovery: Accelerating innovation towards a sustainable future
Monday, September 7
10:00 – 11:00am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-green-recovery-accelerating-innovation-towards-a-sustainable-future-tickets-116613864207
An innovation-led recovery will be key to re-designing a hopeful and sustainable future for our cities, communities and people.
After a short summer break, our iKEN event series returns!
iKEN’s extensive, existing network of European cities of innovation offer the opportunity to learn first-hand from the inspiring innovation happening across Europe in response to COVID-19.
On September 7th, we'll explore how cities can repair, rebuild and re-design a hopeful post-lockdown future for our cities, communities and people.
COVID-19 resulted in previously unthinkable carbon emission cuts. Going forward, experts have been calling on governments to implement a green recovery to ensure that decisions made to rebuild the economy simultaneously work towards our climate change goals.
But what is a Green Recovery and how can we achieve it? Chaired by Alison McRae, Senior Director at Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, we’ll hear from experts from two European cities who sit at the forefront of sustainable innovation; Milan and Vienna.
Speakers:
Lucia Scopelliti is Head of Unit, Economic development, Municipality of Milan Expert at UIA (Urban Innovative Actions). Lucia will speak about the Milan of the future, which is sustainable, inclusive and digitally advanced. She will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated progress towards these goals during each stage of the management of the crisis: resilience, response, and renewal.
Milan has expanded its vision of a sustainable future to incorporate elements that are now critical components of the City’s long-term recovery including public health, digital transformation,economic prosperity, transportation, education and social services; and have accelerated progress towards these goals. The City of Milan remained committed to innovation and its goal for a sustainable and equitable future before, during, and coming out of the crisis.
Michaela Kauer represents Vienna in the Executive Committee of EUROCITIES and works closely with the Committee of the Regions. She served as coordinator of the EU Urban Partnership on Affordable Housing from 2015-2018.
A link to the event will be emailed to confirmed attendees prior to the date-
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Tuesday, September 8
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Why We Need More Than a Carbon Price
Tuesday, September 8
9 – 10 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rRt3i_I9Sh2KT4dVQnpmIw
SPEAKER(S) Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University
LINK https://www.belfercenter.org/event/why-we-need-more-carbon-price
CONTACT INFO casey_billings@hks.harvard.edu
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POPULISM’S TOXIC EMBRACE OF NATIONALISM
Tuesday, September 8
9:30am
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-08/populisms-toxic-embrace-nationalism
As America enters the final stretch of the 2020 election, many of the debates and issues that continue to dominate the campaign at the national and local levels stem from a resurgent global right-wing populism that led to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years later, this aggressive form of right-wing populism, infused with xenophobic nationalism, remains a powerful influence in the United States and around the world. Perhaps no one knows these issues better than Lawrence Rosenthal, the founder of the University of California Berkley’s Center for Right-Wing Studies. In his new book Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism, Rosenthal paints a vivid sociological, political and psychological picture of the transnational quality of this movement, which is now in power in at least a dozen countries. In America and abroad, the current mobilization of right-wing populism has given life to long marginalized threats like white supremacy and anti-immigration fervor.
In 2016, renowned UC Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild was among the first major sociologists to help explain Trump’s election. Her award-winning book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, helped readers understand why so many American voters were attracted to Trump’s populist message and its negative undertones.
Please join us for a special conversation between two UC Berkeley stars—Rosenthal and Hochschild—as they discuss the how the transformation of the American far right made the Trump presidency possible—and what it portends for the future just two months out from the 2020 election.
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Tuesday Seminar Series: How COVID has Changed Latin American Politics
Tuesday, September 8
12 – 1:20 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-A3OpVdDTDeoa5qHAkSpsA
SPEAKER(S) John Polga-Hecimovich, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, U.S. Naval Academy
Maria Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Kurt Weyland, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government, Harvard University
LINK https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/how-covid-has-changed-latin-american-politics
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ERIN BROCKOVICH: SUPERMAN'S NOT COMING
Tuesday, September 8
12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001CnSVFEA3
Erin Brockovich was vaulted into national recognition in 2000, after the eponymous movie starring Julia Roberts made her a water activism icon. Famous for her focus on contamination, Brockovich says there is a larger threat facing water’s very existence: climate change, and the impact it has on dwindling freshwater supplies, longer droughts, and hotter weather.
Superman isn’t coming to protect our water or environment, writes Brockovich in her latest book — and neither are corporations, politicians or the “gutted” EPA. How can individuals and communities take collective action to safeguard our environment and our resources? What are today’s leading activists doing to create change that lasts?
Join us for a conversation on speaking truth to power with Erin Brockovich, author of Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It.
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Memory, Social Justice, and Mindfulness
Tuesday, September 8
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at
DETAILS This 4-week series from the Harvard Ed Portal builds off of Dr. Angel Acosta's 400 Years Project, which centers contemplative practice around the history of inequality in the US.
The goal of this workshop is to engage with, acknowledge, and awaken ourselves to the dynamics of racism and oppression at all levels. Each session will have a mix of practices, including:
Mindfulness and compassion practices
Walking through the 400 Years Timeline
Guided storytelling and reflection
By understanding how history lives in each of us and the systems which surround us, we can begin to heal the wounds of historical trauma, both individually and collectively.
Please note: As this is a cumulative workshop, attendance is strongly encouraged at all four sessions, to help build a safe space for discussion and trust.
LINK https://edportal.harvard.edu/event/memory-social-justice-and-mindfulness
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Staying Strong While Everything Falls Apart: Navigating Grief and Hope About the Environment
Tuesday, September 8
6:00PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/staying-strong-while-everything-falls-apart-navigating-environmental-grief-tickets-107731311252ns
COVID has taught us in a hurry – and brought to widely publicized attention – the importance of self-care and psycho-social resilience during a crisis, even while being physically distant from our support networks. Can we distill those lessons and transfer them to other crisis situations, such as arise from climate change and other environmental crises? Can we break the taboo around the mental health challenges for those of us working to improve and save the environment?
What are some of the chronic stresses and shocks associated with sustainability challenges, such as climate change that demand our attention from a psychological perspective? What emotional experiences and mental health stresses can we expect? Which can we already observe? And to what extent is this growing problem already being recognized and addressed?
On a spectrum from healthy to pathological, people will need different kinds of support. What might that look like? Can we build up our “adaptive mind”, our capacity for psycho-social resilience even as the work gets harder?
Our Sept 8 BASG will feature Suzanne Moser, a nationally and internationally recognized independent scholar and consultant. Her work with government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and other researchers and consultants focuses on adaptation to climate change, science-policy interactions, effective climate change communication, and psycho-social resilience in the face of the traumatic and transformative challenges before us. She is a prolific writer, an inspiring speaker and has served on scientific advisory boards for Future Earth, the International Science Council, the US National Research Council and has contributed to the IPCC and US national climate assessments.
Suzanne will be joined by additional speakers, to be announced, whose work looks at building personal resilience to grief about the environment in various realms of our life so that we can keep up the good fight!
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Susanne C. Moser is a geographer (Ph.D. 1997, Clark University) who works nationally and internationally as an independent scholar and consultant from a base in western Massachusetts. Her work with government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and other researchers and consultants focuses on adaptation to climate change, science-policy interactions, effective climate change communication, and psycho-social resilience in the face of the traumatic and transformative challenges before us. She is a prolific writer, an inspiring speaker and has served on scientific advisory boards for Future Earth, the International Science Council, the US National Research Council and has contributed to the IPCC and US national climate assessments.
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Losing Native Nation’s Cultural Heritage due to Climate Change: More than Material Damage
Tuesday, September 8
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-science-by-the-glass-april-taylor-tickets-118288041717
Speaker: April Taylor, Tribal Liaison, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Topic: How is climate change is impacting cultural heritage and why the tribes are concerned?
Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3b6USEr
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Tuesday, September 8
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_martha_s._jones/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes MARTHA S. JONES—Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University—for a discussion of her latest book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.
About Vanguard
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own.
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women—Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more—who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
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Wednesday, September 9
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ACTIVIST CHARLES MUNGER, JR.: POLITICAL REFORMS THAT WORK
Wednesday, September 9
9:30am
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-09/activist-charles-munger-jr-political-reforms-work
Dr. Charles Munger advocates good government, representative politics and a strong, responsible two-party system for California and the nation. Viewed by many as a moderate Republican, Dr. Munger campaigned in 2012 for California's current open "top two" primary and was the co-author of 2010's Proposition 20 to keep elected representatives separate from the process of creating congressional districts. He believes both have worked to encourage true representative government.
Dr. Munger served as chairman of the Santa Clara County Republican Party from 2012 to 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in atomic physics from U.C. Berkeley and is one of 8 children of Charles Munger, the vice chairman of financial holding company Berkshire Hathaway. As we head toward the election, come hear his unique thoughts on the power of political reform in an era where gridlock and cynicism abound .
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The Opportunity for Climate Progress with a Green Stimulus
Wednesday, September 9
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LowegtWISZOo7UFt4j1Q9g
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unemployment to reach levels last experienced in the United States during the Great Depression. Given the depth and breadth of the COVID-19 recession, economic stimulus and recovery packages will be key to bringing the unemployed back into the workforce and deploying capital throughout the economy. The prospect that at least a portion of an economic stimulus plan can simultaneously accomplish climate policy priorities (a “green stimulus”) has drawn considerable interest.
Join the Center on Global Energy Policy, in partnership with the Breakthrough Institute and Data for Progress, as we discuss the opportunity for climate progress with a green stimulus in the United States following the 2020 election.
Moderator:
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Gimlet
Panelists:
Dr. Noah Kaufman, Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vice President of Policy & Strategy, Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum
Ted Nordhaus, Founder and Executive Director, The Breakthrough Institute
Dr. Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.
This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend.
For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Artealia Gilliard (ag4144@columbia.edu) or Genna Morton (gam2164@columbia.edu).
For more information about the event, please contact Caitlin Norfleet or Nicolina DueMogensen (energypolicyevents@columbia.edu).
Event Contact Information:
Center on Global Energy Policy
energypolicy@columbia.edu
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BRIAN STELTER: FOX NEWS, TRUMP AND THE DISTORTION OF TRUTH
Wednesday, September 9
12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-09/brian-stelter-fox-news-trump-and-distortion-truth
In a world of “fake news,” President Donald Trump has labeled one network as telling his “truth”—Fox News. The president has developed a symbiotic relationship with Fox. Since the day Trump announced his candidacy, its pundits have consistently slandered Trump’s enemies and promoted his vision of America.
The president himself has also admitted to watching 6 hours of Fox News a day, even in the face of a disastrous pandemic and national economic crisis. He gets his brash personal and political actions legitimized by the network, and the network makes money off Trump-supporting viewers who willfully follow the network.
In Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, CNN anchor and Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter tells the twisted story of the mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Fox News and dives into a relationship that he argues comes at the expense of the American people.
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Revenue at Risk in Coal-Reliant Counties
Wednesday, September 9
4:30PM TO 5:45PM
Online
RSVP Jason Chapman, jason_chapman@hks.harvard.edu, 616-496-8054
Adele Morris and Siddhi Doshi, Brookings Institution, and Noah Kaufman, Columbia University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/74265
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
jason_chapman@hks.harvard.edu
616-496-8054
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Standing Up, Stepping Forward, and Speaking Out: The Political Courage to take a Principled Stand
Wednesay, September 9
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Online
RSVP at https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/Standing-Up-Stepping-Forward-and-Speaking-Out-The-Political-Courage-to-take-a-Principled-Stand
John Dean, William Weld, and Edward Widmer
Watergate was a sea change in American politics. But even as a presidential scandal gripped the nation, there were remarkable displays of political courage, as Republicans and Democrats found ways to work together for the good of the nation, and wrote new rules to ensure transparency and integrity. What can we learn from Watergate? Specifically, what can we learn from the people who stood up, stepped forward and spoke out against wrongs that they saw within their own party and among their friends? How can this help us understand the role of collaborationists in the past and today and the need for political courage. Join us for a conversation between John Dean, former White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon who was implicated in the Watergate scandal but later testified against Nixon; William Weld, former Massachusetts Governor and US presidential candidate, who began his legal career as a counsel on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry staff for the impeachment process against Richard Nixon in 1974; and historian Edward Widmer.
Please note, this is an online event held on the video conference platform, Zoom. Registrants will receive an email with links to join the program.
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Thursday, September 10
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Smart Food Online Conference & Exhibition
Thursday, September 10
5am – 11am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/smart-food-online-conference-exhibition-tickets-104430315886
Smart Food Conference will explore the demand for complex data channels through the entire supply chain. The introduction of Blockchain, and Industry 4.0 in the food industry will certainly accelerate accurate information supply, and businesses will need to adapt communication, and review compliances and their stricter adherence to environmental law.
Big challenges face the food industry of the future with world population forecast to reach nine-billion by 2050. Couple this with knowledge that Global warming will add pressure on world food production.
To add further pressure to food manufacturers, many people are likely to be wealthier than they are today, creating further demand for specialised foods which will need to come from closer to home, that will require new and inventive ways for producers to churn out quality food in a much shorter period of time.
Arguably however, it's the issues facing production that threaten to be the most challenging for the global food system. The effects of climate change are likely to accelerate, and competition for land and water also likely to intensify.
So the food or beverage factory of the future will have to be smart, connected and collaborative
Taking all of these market dynamics into account, manufacturers predict increasing the use of automation and robotics to bring more flexible machinery in to efficiently run production lines. Four out of five companies have more than 100 product SKUs and over half predict SKUs will continue to increase, driving the need for faster changeover.
As part of this revolution, food manufacturing is undergoing a digital transformation. Significant advances in technology, including big data and analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and additive manufacturing, are changing manufacturing operations globally.
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Getting Out the BIPOC Vote: Digital Strategies to Build Power
Thursday, September 10
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/5415982920070/WN_hLt0cI9zR2mW8PbxKWaK6g
SPEAKER(S) Arianna Genis, North Carolina State Director, Mijente
Simone Smith, Development Manager, Wisconsin Voices
Vincent Pan, Executive Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action
Eskedar Getahun, Interim CEO, PushBlack
Moderator: Nick Carter, Technology and Democracy Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
DETAILS Activists and practitioners were already preparing for a tumultuous election year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit our shores. Now, the months ahead present immense challenges — and opportunities — for redefining how civic engagement is practiced for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Join us on September 10 for a timely discussion with leading practitioners who are effectively integrating digital strategies with authentic power-building while navigating a never-before-seen civic environment. All share a mission of giving real agency to vulnerable communities at the front lines of the fight against the virus.
LINK https://ash.harvard.edu/event/getting-out-bipoc-vote-digital-strategies-build-power
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When More is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
Thursday, September 10
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZeChn8cJSRC4fVl6fTdJRQ
SPEAKER(S) Myriam Sidibe, Author and M-RCBG research fellow
DETAILS Please join M-RCBG for a Business and Government seminar featuring Myriam Sidibe on her new book "Brands on a Mission: How to Achieve Social Impact and Business Growth Through Purpose." Registration is required.
LINK https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZeChn8cJSRC4fVl6fTdJRQ
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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John Adams and China: Globalizing Early America
Thursday, September 10
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Online
RSVP at https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/John-Adams-and-China-Globalizing-Early-America
Yiyun Huang, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
John Adams consumed a lot of Chinese tea. He especially appreciated the medical benefits associated with the hot beverage. In a 1757 diary entry, he wrote that "nothing but large potions of tea" could extinguish his heartburn. How did Adams know that Chinese tea cured heartburn? Why did he believe that nothing else was as effective? This talk examines the ways medical ideas transferred across the world during the eighteenth century.
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2020 State of Demand Side Energy Management: New York
Thursday, September 10
2 p.m. -3 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://info.cpowerenergymanagement.com/WBN-NY_SOTM_2020_LP-Registration.html
Join CPower on September 10, 2020, at 2 pm ET for a one-hour webinar designed to give organizations like yours the demand-side energy management insights you need to make the most of 2020 and beyond in New York.
Topics to be covered include:
Policy and regulatory changes in New York
An update of the REV and its renewable pursuits
Opportunities to monetize storage and other energy assets
Maximizing returns on demand response in NYISO and NY utility programs
And more...
CPower’s New York energy market experts Pat McChesney and Peter Dotson-Westphalen will host this live webinar that will include a question and answer session.
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Neva Goodwin and Stewart Wallis
Thursday, September 10
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
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Extinction Rebellion Orientation
Thursday, September 10
6 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/extinction-rebellion-orientation-2020-09-10/
If you are new to Extinction Rebellion or would just like to learn more about how it works, please join us! We will cover the following:
What is XR? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What do we want?
What are our principles and values?
How are we organized?
Learn how you can get involved!
The session will run for around 90 minutes.
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Friday, September 11
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Jihadism at a crossroads
Friday, September 11
9:00 AM-10:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/jihadism-at-a-crossroads/
Join the conversation on Twitter using #FutureOfJihadism
Almost 20 years after 9/11, jihadi groups are no longer in the spotlight. However, ISIS, al-Qaida, and al-Shabab remain active, and new groups have emerged. The movement as a whole is evolving, as is the threat it poses.
On September 11, the Center for Middle East Policy will host a virtual panel event to discuss the current status of jihadi groups. The panel will feature Thomas Hegghammer, senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and author of the new book, “The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad.”Other panelists will include Tricia Bacon, assistant professor at American University, and Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Brookings Senior Fellow Daniel Byman will moderate the discussion.
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Decolonizing Ourselves Co-Learning
Friday, September 11
10 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/decolonizing_ourselves_200911/
Please join us for an Extinction Rebellion International Support Team event about how we can learn to decolonize ourselves. Given the vivid reminders about how pervasive racism still is in the US, this is important work for us all to do.
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Black Faces, White Spaces - (Re)Claiming a Green World
Friday, September 11
11:00am — 12:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.nybg.org/event/black-faces-white-spaces-christian-cooper-john-muir-reclaiming-a-green-world/
Christian Cooper. George Floyd. Removal of Confederate statues. Renaming of institutions. Reparations. Systemic racism. What’s environment got to do with it? How do we meet this moment? Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field,” and her lived experience, Dr. Carolyn Finney will explore the complexities and contradictions of our past as it relates to green space, race, and the power to shape the places we live in our own image. By engaging in “green” conversations with Black people from around the country, she considers the power of resistance and resilience in the emergence of creative responses to environmental and social challenges in our cities and beyond.
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Virtual Book Talk with Max Bazerman: Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness
Friday, September 11
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aDSPzI5ZSnaDtTFfr9b5pA
SPEAKER(S) Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Executive Committee Member, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
DETAILS The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present a virtual book talk with Max Bazerman on his forthcoming book, Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness.
Every day, we make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. This book explores how we can better make principled choices. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make a real difference for ourselves and the world.
Please visit the PON website for more information about the book and the author: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/betternotperfect/
Registration is required for this event: harvard.zoom.us….
LINK https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/betternotperfect/
CONTACT INFO Anna Chang, anchang@law.harvard.edu
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TOO MUCH INFORMATION - or too little substance?
Friday, September 11
12 pm
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0OjUHEBFQVCPABkEseGHNg
Cass R. Sunstein's latest book "Too Much Information" examines the effects of excessive information in our lives. Policymakers emphasize the public "right to know" but Sunstein takes a different tack, arguing that the focus should be on human well-being and the information that contributes to it.
Sunstein, a Harvard professor of Law, previously served in the Obama Administration in the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs. He is author of several bestselling books including "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth & Happiness."
Professor Sunstein will be interviewed by Charlie Sennott, CEO and Editor of The GroundTruth Project, which launched Report for America in 2017. An award-winning foreign correspondent and a pioneering social entrepreneur, Sennott launched GroundTruth in 2012 to support a new generation of journalists to cover the most important stories of our time. Before GroundTruth, Sennott served as an award-winning journalist and best-selling author.
Many Americans believe that we are currently experiencing a crisis in journalism due to the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and opinion, masquerading as fact.
What do you think?
Please join us for a lively discussion! You are invited to a Zoom webinar on September 11, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this webinar
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0OjUHEBFQVCPABkEseGHNg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Boston University Climate Action Plan
Friday, September 11
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-leadership-webinar-series-boston-university-climate-action-plan/
Cost: $15 -$25
EBC is excited to present this series of webinars featuring projects and organizations leading the way in climate change adaptation and mitigation in New England. Featuring the nominated projects for the 2020 EBC Annual EBEE Awards Program, this series will focus on the forward-thinking and innovative projects being planned and implemented throughout New England.
This EBC Climate webinar will present the Boston University Climate Action Plan (CAP) and its bold goals to mitigate impact of climate change and plan for resilient campuses. The expert faculty-led CAP Task Force published a plan in 2017 to achieve net zero direct emissions by 2040, to reduce energy demand by 31% by 2032, meet 100% of its electricity needs with renewables, and address indirect emissions from transportation, waste, and sourcing. Moreover, the CAP recommends robust support for climate change education and research at BU and integrating these recommendations into the University’s Strategic Plan. BU recognizes that climate change is a global problem extending beyond its campuses and engaged the City in the CAP planning process and continues to engage the broader community to leverage what is learned. BU will continue to show leadership in addressing the challenges of climate change in its educational programs, research, and operations, and considers the CAP and its implementation a reflection of its core values of global citizenship and community.
Join us for this EBC webinar to learn more about the Boston University Climate Action Plan.
Program Chair:
Jamie Fay, AICP, CEP, President, Fort Point Associates, Inc.
Speakers:
Alison Brizius, Ph.D., Director of Climate and Environmental Planning, City of Boston
Dennis Carlberg, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Associate Vice President for Sustainability, Boston University
Madhu C. Dutta-Koehler, Ph.D., Director, Associate Professor of Practice, City Planning & Urban Affairs, Boston University
Lisa Tornatore, LEED Green Associate. Sustainability Director, Boston University
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Starr Forum: Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the 21st Century
Friday, September 11
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://bit.ly/MITBeyond911
Drawing on two decades of government efforts to “secure the homeland,” experts offer crucial strategic lessons and detailed recommendations for homeland security. This talk features the findings in the recently published book, Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the 21st Century.
Speakers:
Alan Bersin, the Inaugural Fellow of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer in the US Department of Homeland Security.
Stevan E Bunnell, Partner at O’Melveny’s (Washington, DC). He was a former General Counsel of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Juliette Kayyem, Senior Lecturer in International Security at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she is Faculty Chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects. She served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security.
Chappell Lawson, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Lawson was a political appointee in the Obama Administration, serving as Executive Director and Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection.
Admiral Peter Neffenger (USCG Ret), a distinguished Senior Fellow with the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. He served as the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from July 2015 to January 20, 2017. Prior to TSA, Neffenger was the 29th Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard, earning the rank of Vice Admiral. Previous positions include Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations and Deputy National Incident Commander.
Amy Pope, Senior Non-resident Fellow of the Atlantic Council. She was a former US Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President of the United States.
Seth Stodder, Partner at Holland & Knight LLP. He served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Border, Immigration & Trade Policy and, prior to that, as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Threat Prevention & Security Policy.
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COVID-19, Public Health Ethics, and Policy for Pandemics
Friday, September 11
12:30 – 2 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh5g9k17dcd65beb&oseq=&c=&ch=
SPEAKER(S) Marc Lipsitch & Matthew Wynia
Moderator: Leah Rand
DETAILS Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began, scientific recommendations about the best way to reduce its impact have met wide-ranging resistance in the U.S. With two experts in infectious disease epidemiology and ethics, we will review how scientific evidence is collected in a rapidly changing public health environment, and how to translate that evidence into actionable recommendations. We will also discuss the sources of controversy that have arisen as the pandemic has evolved, including balancing individual and public health interests and how to manage different types of uncertainty.
CONTACT INFO Center for Bioethics
bioethics@hms.harvard.edu
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IACS Seminar: What Are Useful Uncertainties in Deep Learning and How Do We Get Them?
Friday, September 11
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/event/what-are-useful-uncertainties-deep-learning-and-how-do-we-get-them
SPEAKER(S) Weiwei Pan, Research Associate and Lecturer on Computational Science, Institute for Applied Computational Science
DETAILS While deep learning has demonstrable success on many tasks, the point estimates provided by standard deep models can lead to overfitting and provide no uncertainty quantification on predictions. However, when models are applied to critical domains such as autonomous driving, precision health care, or criminal justice, reliable measurements of a model's predictive uncertainty may be as crucial as correctness of its predictions. At the same time, increasing attention in recent literature is being paid to separating sources of predictive uncertainty, with the goal of separating types of uncertainties reducible through additional data collection from those that represent stochasticity inherent in the data generation process. In this talk, Dr. Pan will examine a number of deep (Bayesian) models that promise to capture complex forms for predictive uncertainties. She will also examine metrics commonly used to such uncertainties. Her aim is to highlight strengths and limitations of the models as well as the metrics; she will discuss potential ways to improve both in meaningful ways for downstream tasks.
The IACS seminar series is a forum for thought leaders from academia, industry, and government to share their research on innovative computational and data science topics and methodologies. Past topics include smart city design, data science for social good, data privacy and security, socially assistive robotics, big data software, machine learning for small business lending, and AI technology development, and data-driven algorithmics.
CONTACT INFO Natasha Baker
Email: nrbaker@seas.harvard.edu
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Saturday September 12
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National Day of Civic Hacking
Saturday September 12
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3845271846873188112
Registration for National Day of Civic Hacking 2020 is now open. It will be on September 12th. This year's theme is focused on the social safety net and we will have a mix of programming from both Code for America and Code for Boston. Make sure you denote you are from Code for Boston when you register at the Code for America page so that you can get information about the Boston specific opportunities.
If you want to continue to keep updated on what we're planning you should also subscribe to our weekly e-mail newsletter at https://codeforboston.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a1147a673396b177fda395daf&id=7c62a461ac
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Monday, September 14
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Beyond reopening: A leapfrog moment to transform education?
Monday, September 14
9:00 AM-11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/beyond-reopening-a-leapfrog-moment-to-transform-education/
Join the conversation on Twitter using #TransformingEdu
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended education around the world, shuttering school doors and leaving millions of children without formal access to learning. The global closure of schools is shedding renewed light on inequities that existed prior to COVID-19 and that threaten to further widen the learning gaps within and between countries.
While much attention has focused on reopening schools, the COVID-19 crisis presents a leapfrog moment to transform key elements of education systems, putting schools at the heart of social and economic recovery. New approaches by educators, parents, and even entire school systems to use education technology and other innovations are spreading across communities and bringing learning opportunities to disadvantaged young people. Given that COVID-19 is unlikely to be the last large-scale school disruption, it is imperative to build a more resilient education ecosystem, so that learning can continue when in-person instruction might not be possible. At this critical moment, it is now more important than ever to invest in innovations such as education technology and leapfrog progress—both during COVID-19 and beyond.
On September 14, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) will host a webinar to discuss strategies, including around the effective use of education technology, for ensuring resilient schools in the long term and to launch a new education technology playbook “Realizing the promise: How can education technology improve learning for all?”
George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece, will provide opening remarks highlighting the important role of education in the recovery. Rebecca Winthrop, co-director of CUE, will moderate a panel discussion on strategies for building resilient education systems with the current Minister of Education of Sierra Leone David Sengeh, Save the Children CEO Kevin Watkins, and NGO leader from Rajasthan, India and CUE Nonresident Scholar Urvashi Sahni.
Emiliana Vegas will share CUE’s newest ed-tech playbook, an evidence-based tool to help ministries of education realize the potential of education technology, leading into a discussion with the playbook co-authors, Alejandro Ganimian and Frederick Hess,moderated by CBS journalist Jearlyn Steele.
Viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or via Twitter at #TransformingEdu.
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The Boston Red Sox and WWII
Monday, September 14
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Online
RSVP at https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/The-Boston-Red-Sox-and-WWII
A conversation led by Gorden Edes, Historian of the Boston Red Sox
In this 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, join Boston Red Sox historian Gordon Edes and a panel of distinguished authors to discuss the role of Major League Baseball players from Boston in the conduct of that historic conflict. The story touches upon Ted Williams, a Naval flight instructor who would later fly combat missions for the Marines in the Korean War, but also tells of compelling acts of sacrifice and bravery performed by other big-leaguers from Boston, including Si Rosenthal and Earl Johnson of the Red Sox and Warren Spahn of the Braves.
Please note, this is an online event held on the video conference platform, Zoom. Registrants will receive an email with links to join the program.
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Tuesday, September 15
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HOW RACISM ERODES MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT, AND HOW TO HEAL AND LEARN
Tuesday, September 15
6am
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-15/how-racism-erodes-mind-body-and-spirit-and-how-heal-and-learn
Mary-Frances Winters will discuss the ideas in her new book, Black Fatigue, How Racism Erodes Mind, Body and Spirit, which will be published by BK Publishing this fall. The book describes a phenomenon Black people know well: the multifaceted physical and psychological damage wrought by simply living, day by day in a racist society.
This is a vital resource for Black and non-Black people looking for ways to heal, learn and have productive and supportive conversations about racial injustice and trauma.
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COMPROMISED: PETER STRZOK AND THE INVESTIGATION OF DONALD TRUMP
Tuesday, September 15
9:30am
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-15/compromised-peter-strzok-and-investigation-donald-trump
On August 10, 2018, veteran FBI agent Peter Strzok was fired after personal text messages from 2016 disparaging then-candidate Donald Trump were released. President Trump celebrated, writing on Twitter “Fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok is a fraud, as is the rigged investigation he started. There was no Collusion or Obstruction with Russia, and everybody, including the Democrats, know it.”
But Strzok’s story is anything but straightforward. He led the FBI’s investigation into both Hillary Clinton’s private email server and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, drawing the ire of conservative allies of the president. When his text messages were released, they provided ammunition for the conspiracy theory of a “deep state” out to undermine Trump’s presidency.
Join Strzok as he tells his side of one of the 21st century’s most explosive stories. He’ll draw on lessons from a long career in law enforcement and explain why he’s convinced that the commander in chief has fallen under the sway of America’s adversary in the Kremlin.
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Yamiche Alcindor
Tuesday, September 15
11am EDT
Online
RSVP at
Yamiche Alcindor is an American journalist who is the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. In the past, she has worked as a reporter for USA Today and The New York Times. Alcindor writes mainly about politics and social issues.
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Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones: Radcliffe Institute 20th Anniversary Lecture
Tuesday, September 15
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-conversation-nikole-hannah-jones-virtual
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and creator of the 1619 Project, will engage in conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, about pressing issues of race, civil rights, injustice, desegregation, and resegregation.
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Conversation on Whistleblowing, Authority, and Subversion
Tuesday, September 15
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/humanities/a-conversation-on-whistleblowing-authority-and-subversion/
The 2019-2020 "Authority and Subversion" Fellowship will discuss whistleblowing with the following invited speakers:
Allison Stanger, Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College
David Sanger, New York Times correspondent and author
Lida Maxwell, Associate Professor of Political Science and WGSS at Boston University
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Designing for equity and engaging diverse communities
Tuesday, September 15
6 PM
Online
RSVP at https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/483/tickets?eventId=5f299477bc02c1568a9577b1&cdEventIds=5f299477bc02c1568a9577b1&date=2020-09-15T18:00:00-04:00
Hosted by The Trustees Boston Waterfront Initiative team (onewaterfront.org), this virtual panel discussion will examine real-world examples of practical, effective, and thoughtful community engagement during open space development and programming. This event is free for all, though advance registration is required (Zoom link provided upon registration). To register and to "meet" our panelists--renowned thought leaders in equity and social justice--visit: http://bit.ly/3a1htk0
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Planetary Health with Sam Myers and Living on Earth
Tuesday, September 15
7:00PM
Online
RSVP at https://umassboston.zoom.us/webinar/register/3315980251528/WN_48-ue-x6SWO_ZIBA0MICxA
or https://www.facebook.com/events/299743434461081
Join Living on Earth in conversation with Sam Myers, HSPH, as he discusses "Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves."
Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere.
Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more.
You can join the even via Facebook or register to get the Zoom link.
Contact Name: Jay Feinstein
jfeinstein@loe.org
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Survival of the Friendliest
Tuesday, September 15
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.mos.org/survival-of-the-friendliest
with Dr. Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Join us for a virtual celebration of the new book Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Dr. Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. In this new study, from the trailblazing scientists and bestselling authors behind The Genius of Dogs, a powerful new theory about the secret to our success as a species is introduced and explored: self-domestication.
For over a century in popular culture, “survival of the fittest” has been interpreted to mean that some human lives are more valuable than others. This misunderstanding of the central pillar of biology has been used to justify eugenics and colonialism, and today continues to shape authoritarian agendas, anti-immigration sentiment, and the slow response to COVID-19. In their revolutionary new book, Dr. Hare and Woods bring forth the theory of “survival of the friendliest” at a time the world needs it most, providing actionable solutions based on the knowledge that to survive and flourish, we must expand our definition of who belongs.
Don’t miss this special live digital conversation between Dr. Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, only with the Museum of Science!
After the conversation, stick around for a virtual book signing with the authors! If you would like an autographed copy of Survival of the Friendliest, you can purchase one directly at vanessawoods.net or brianhare.net in advance. During the online ordering process, you can submit any autograph requests (such as the name the inscription should be made out to) and let them know if you would like to see your book signed LIVE during the event.
“How can a top predator like the wolf have evolved to become ‘man’s best friend’? Finally a book that explains in the clearest of terms how friendliness and cooperation shaped dogs and humans. This book left me with a happy and optimistic view of nature.” — Isabella Rossellini, actress and activist
Please consider making a gift to support #MOSatHome and our SubSpace virtual fall season at donate.mos.org/mosathome and become a vital partner in helping us provide access to free STEM experiences online.
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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
https://boston.uli.org/about/impact/
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cs87v-b6dbac
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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/News/2019/5/~/media/A0547DC0640E4ABD86B519CA6FEEFF38.ashx
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Climate Resilience Workbook
https://sustainablebuildingsinitiative.org/toolkits/climate-resilience-guidelines/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.
To subscribe to the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
To be removed / unsubscribe from the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/signoff/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
mbm-SUBSCRIBE@missionbasedmassachusetts.net
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.
