Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.
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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 17
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11am Back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Balancing students’ right to education against public health
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
2pm Emergency? What climate emergency?
3pm Protecting our climate, water, and soil through local to global solutions
6:30pm For a Sustainable Future: The Centrality of Public Goods
7pm The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy
8pm Revolutionize the Vote
8:30pm Policy and Pints: Biden's climate plan + BYOB
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Tuesday, August 18
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9am Keeping the Spotlight on Belarus: The Election, Protests, and What Comes Next
9:30am Indigenious tourism - how it is hurting indigenous communities
10:30am Future Flow: The People, Politics, and Policies of Rising Tides
1pm Communicating Uncertainty: COVID & Climate Change
2pm What is Spatial Justice? Principles of Planning for Welcoming Public Spaces
2pm Stories of loss: The Promontory Fort and climate change
3pm The Heat is On: The Climate Imperative
3pm Climate: Our other crisis - Professor Myles Allen
5pm 21st Century Environmentalism: Session 1. History, Challenges, and Myths
5:30pm The Perils and Pitfalls of Smart Technology
5:30pm Environmental Justice and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
6pm Headed for Extinction and What to Do About It
7pm COVID-19 AND CLIMATE: TECHNOLOGY TO THE RESCUE?
7pm Final MA Democratic Senate Primary Debate
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Wednesday, August 19
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6am Current challenges of renewable energy: integration in China
9am Using the Pandemic Recovery to Spur the Clean Transition — Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls
9:30am MIT GSC Sustainability Solveathon
1pm Being Well & Staying Safe: Daily Life in a COVID-19 World
3pm Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair
3:30pm Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
3:30pm Community Table: An Open Conversation on Racism in the Food Industry
4pm Boston New Technology FinTech & Blockchain Startup Showcase #BNT115
5:30pm Webinar for Educators: Exploring Climate Migration in the Classroom
5:30pm Introduction to Extinction Rebellion’s [XR] Strategic Theories
6pm CITIES AND DATA
6pm Freedom Farmers - Live Book Talk with Dr. Monica White
7pm Our Planet Is In Crisis
7pm True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump
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Thursday, August 20 - Sunday, August 23
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Boston GreenFest
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Thursday, August 20 - Thursday, August 27
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American Climate Leadership Summit 2020 LIVE ONLINE
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Thursday, August 20
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9:30am Climate Change: Yeah, But How Does This Impact ME
10am Innovations in Diagnostics and Detection on the Road to Re-Densification
11am The Role of Concrete in Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions of the U.S.’s Buildings and Pavements
11am Introduction to Climate Justice
12:30pm MIT IDEAS: "What's Next?" Info Session Series - Impact Hub Boston
1pm Farming, Food and Soil Health
2pm Extinction Rebellion [XR] Youth Boston Meeting
2pm Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
2pm Nwamaka Agbo and Stacy Mitchell
2pm Carbon 613 Virtual Speaker Series with Jake Miller from Project Neutral
3pm Carbon Neutrality Amidst COVID-19: Perspectives of Sustainable Food Brands
6pm Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
7pm Climate Emergency and Nuclear War: What are the Connections?
7:30pm Multiverse: Your Brain on Sleep
7:30pm Watertown Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
8pm Racial Health Disparities and COVID-19
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Friday, August 21
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10am Saving the oceans with law and science
12pm EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Suffolk Downs Resiliency and Adaptation Study
7pm Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Red Rebel Brigade Orientation
8pm Online Film Premiere: From Controversy to Cure
TBD USM West Regional Webinar LIVE BROADCAST (topic TBD)
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Saturday, August 22 - Saturday, August 29
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What is Mine, and Ours, to Do about the Ecological Crisis?
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Saturday, August 22
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8:15am 2020 Citizens’ Climate Southeast/Appalachia Conference
11am Climate Solutions Symposium (virtual)
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Sunday August 23
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MIT COVID19 Challenge!
1:30pm How to stay alive in heat waves by Dr. Brett Perkison
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Monday, August 24 – Tuesday, August 25
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2020 Big Data Conference
10am Two-Day Course: "COVID-19 From Virus to Vaccine: Biological, Clinical, and Public Health Dimensions”
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Monday, August 24
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4am Accelerating Water and Climate Action at COP26
7am Achieving Water, Climate & Energy Goals While Maintaining Freshwater System
10am Jonghyun Yoo's Dissertation Defense, Climate Decision Making under Uncertainty and Future Learning
12pm Social Medicine: Physicians as Agents of Change
12pm Clean Energy and the Post-COVID Workforce
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
2pm Feminism and climate change
3pm Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair
7pm The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
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Tuesday, August 25 - Thursday, August 27
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Circularity20: Accelerating the Circle Economy
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Tuesday, August 25
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1:30am Freedom Challenge-Intro to Indigenous & Disability Rights 4 Climate Justice
7:30am The Future of Energy
9:30am Sustainable software engineering: building carbon-efficient applications
12:30am Author Talk: Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
1pm Perspectives from Global Experts on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
2pm TRANSPORTATION: Taking the Car Out of Carbon Emissions
2pm Making it Public: Activating Public Spaces for Creativity, Connection, and Celebration
3pm Cleantech Live #4: Today's Buildings, Tomorrow's Grid
6:30pm Newburyport Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
7pm LSU Science Café: Tracking Extreme Weather & Hurricanes
7pm Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
8pm From Controversy to Cure: Virtual Q&A with the scientists behind Kendall Square's biotech boom
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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
Zero Net Energy
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/11/1968465/-Zero-Net-Energy-August-11-2020
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Monday, August 17
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Back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Balancing students’ right to education against public health
Monday, Aug 17
11:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-back-to-school
As the spread of the coronavirus persists throughout the U.S., educators, parents, and students have received inconsistent and sometimes conflicting information about plans for continuing education for the upcoming school year. Pressure from the federal government to reopen schools for in-person learning amid the continuing pandemic has sparked conflict as it potentially threatens the physical health of students, teachers and staff, in addition to undermining public health efforts. Do students’ rights to public education require in-person instruction? How does remote instruction compare against live instruction and what are the expected impacts on student equity? How long can public health mandates trump students’ (and parents’) needs? How are school districts approaching reopening for the fall and beyond, and how are they attempting to balance these conflicting priorities?
On August 17, the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings will host a webinar examining the implications of reopening schools for both in-person and online instruction. As local government officials and school districts prepare for the upcoming school year, speakers will discuss federal and state-level responses of support in education amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events@brookings.edu or via Twitter @BrookingsEd by using #COVIDReopening.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 17
1:00 PM - 2:30 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
Event Contact Information: EI Events
events@ei.columbia.edu
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Emergency? What climate emergency?
Monday, August 17
2pm – 5pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-what-climate-emergency-tickets-115174157004
Cost: £5
By the end of 2019, it seemed we had finally started to come to terms with the scale and urgency of climate change.
Between Extinction Rebellion protests, the rise of Green parties in Europe and the work of Greta Thunberg, the climate emergency was the issue on everyone's lips.
This all came to a halt when COVID-19 struck, but as we start talking about the sort of society we want to build post-pandemic, sustainability and radical changes to our way of lives must come back to the top of our agenda. How do we ensure this happens? What world should we seek to build?
To discuss this and more, we are delighted to be joined by Melanie Onn, former Labour MP and deputy chief exec of RenewableUK and former adviser to Zac Goldsmith Isabella Gornall from the Conservative Environmental Network and UK100.
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Protecting our climate, water, and soil through local to global solutions
Monday, August 17
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/protecting-our-climate-water-and-soil-through-local-to-global-solutions-tickets-115137336874
Greenleaf Communities’ Mission is to advance a Healthy and Sustainable World by bridging sound science and research with policy and practice solutions. The August 17th presentation will focus on sustainable solutions being advanced in Illinois that cross the globe, involving industries like agriculture and planning . Materials are available at http://greenleafcommunities.org/augustwebinar
Topics to be discussed include:
Policy report released- Addressing Climate Change Using A Carbon Tax & Dividend Plan Within A Global Compact
Heat mitigation project planned to benefit Greater Chicagoland - led by Metropolitan Mayors Caucus with University of Illinois; lessons drawn from four international cities
Illinois’ ‘one water’ infrastructure considered to protect water supplies for northern Illinois - economically efficient multi-jurisdictional collaboration can save $ billions
Healthy Soils sequester carbon and save water - measurement tools are being aligned with markets to support practices from Illinois to California
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For a Sustainable Future: The Centrality of Public Goods
Monday, August 17
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/for-a-sustainable-future-the-centrality-of-public-goods-tickets-115570571691
Cost: $7 – $11
For a sustainable future we have to transform many ways of thinking of the world and our place in it.
In the 2020 Socialist Register “a number of the essays interrogate central dimensions of how we live and how we might live in terms of educating our children, housing and urbanism, accommodation of refugees and the displaced, and (to lean on that all too common phrase) the competitive time pressures for ‘work-life balance’. These are all key questions, of course, of ‘social reproduction,’ a theme that has cut across many volumes of the Register. They are the counterpoint to ‘economic reproduction’ and ‘how we work’ at the heart of several essays here. Today, this involves exploring and exposing all the hype and contradictions of the so-called ‘gig economy,’ where automation’s potential for increased time apart from work is subordinated to surveillance, hazardous waste, speed-up, and much else that makes for contingent work and precarious living. Finding new ways of living cannot but confront both these obstacles.”
The UN’s report on climate change makes clear that ways of living in the 21st century must be premised on the existential threat to our existence posed by multiple ecological threats. The current pandemic underlines this fact. For a sustainable future we have to transform some basic ways of thinking about the world and our place in it, starting with broadened and more inclusive notions of security, property and rationality. Instead of private property being the default as it is in capitalism, public goods/‘the commons’, should be the priority. And rationality must be understood principally in social terms, since on the dominant individualistic model fully rational behavior can lead to the destruction of the species. Thus the central focus of socialist strategy in the 21st century should be protecting and radically expanding public goods/the commons.
We should use every means we can to raise people’s understanding that they are 1) the only basis of real security; 2) should be accessible to all as a right, like universal health care, and hence no one should be excluded by the alleged rights of private property; and 3) are foundational to the most rational way to organize society. The paper considers some examples of strategies that fit this approach, such as the Green New Deal, and explores the crucial role of democratic planning both on a societal and a global level.
Nancy Holmstrom is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
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The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy
Monday, August 17
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_victoria_de_grazia/
Cost: $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes historian VICTORIA DE GRAZIA—Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University and author of How Fascism Ruled Women—for a discussion of her latest book, The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy. She will be joined in conversation by RUTH BEN-GHIAT, professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and author of the forthcoming Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present, available for pre-order here.
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 The Perfect Fascist on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About The Perfect Fascist
When Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini’s handsome political enforcer, married a rising young American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding was a carefully stage-managed affair, capped with a blessing by Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later, after being promoted to commander of the Black Shirts, Teruzzi renounced his wife. In fascist Italy, a Catholic country with no divorce law, he could only dissolve the marriage by filing for an annulment through the medieval procedures of the Church Court. The proceedings took an ominous turn when Mussolini joined Hitler: Lilliana Teruzzi was Jewish, and fascist Italy would soon introduce its first race laws.
The Perfect Fascist pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage—brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records—to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall. It invites us to see in the vain, loyal, lecherous, and impetuous Attilio Teruzzi, a decorated military officer, an exemplar of fascism’s New Man. Why did he abruptly discard the woman he had so eagerly courted? And why, when the time came to find another partner, did he choose another Jewish woman as his would-be wife? In Victoria de Grazia’s engrossing account, we see him vacillating between the will of his Duce and the dictates of his heart.
De Grazia’s landmark history captures the seductive appeal of fascism and shows us how, in his moral pieties and intimate betrayals, his violence and opportunism, Teruzzi is a forefather of the illiberal politicians of today.
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Revolutionize the Vote
Monday, August 17
8pm
Online
RSVP at https://futurelive.us/revolutionize-the-vote/
Protecting our communities from systemic racism and violence, and the climate emergency go hand in hand.
That is why your vote is critical to turning the tide in the November presidential election.
On August 17th we’re elevating stories of Indigenous wisdom and Black liberation during a 2 hour livestream starting at 5pm PST / 8pm EST.
Hear the perspectives of frontliners, movement builders and artists.
Learn how and why young people vote (or don’t), what’s at stake this election and how you can influence change and give voice to your communities in November and beyond.
Full agenda at https://futurelive.us/revolutionize-the-vote/agenda/
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Policy and Pints: Biden's climate plan + BYOB
Monday, August 17
8:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. PT?
Online
RSVP at
Think of Policy + Pints as a virtual BYOB2 happy hour with me, Leah Stokes, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and climate activists from all over the country. Leah and Julian are two of Evergreen's advisory board members, and they know more about climate policy and activism than just about anyone. (In fact, you've probably seen their names in your inbox. See, it's like you're already friends!)
Join us Monday, August 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. PT as we crack open a beer (or whatever's your beverage of choice!), look under the hood of the Biden-Harris climate plan (from policy experts who advised on it), and share our hopes for the convention.
We'll wrap up by 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT so we can all catch the convention's opening speeches, including remarks from Former First Lady Michelle Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders.
Monday's event won't be the only Policy + Pints night, but it will be the first -- and (it might get a little weird) it will definitely go off without a hitch.
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Tuesday, August 18
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Keeping the Spotlight on Belarus: The Election, Protests, and What Comes Next
Tuesday, August 18
9:00AM to 10:15AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://gmfus.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tD3cluHuT2iu6eQt9hZZng
Anna Maria Dyner, Analyst, Belarus and security policy of the Russian Federation, International Security Programme, PISM
Joerg Forbrig, Senior Fellow and Director for Central and Eastern Europe, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jonathan Katz, Senior Fellow and Director Democracy Initiatives, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Veranika Laputska, Co-founder, EAST Center and Rethink.CEE Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Alyaksey Znatkevich, Journalist, Belarus Service, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
The August 9 presidential election in Belarus has led to extensive protests throughout the nation, with the Belarusian population opposing the fraudulent election of the incumbent and longstanding authoritarian Aliaksandr Lukashenka. Mass demonstrations following the marred election, including increasing calls for political change, have been met by a brutal crackdown on Belarusians ordered by Lukashenka and his government and carried out by the security forces, resulting in several thousand detentions, dozens of injuries, and at least one death as of August 12. While Lukashenka’s repression continues unabated, impacting Belarus and protesting Belarusians, the main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was forced to flee Belarus under duress to Lithuania for refuge. Meanwhile, the international response to the election has been mixed with China and Russia quickly congratulating Lukashenka and the EU, United States, and transatlantic partners calling the elections fraudulent, condemning and urging an end to Lukashenka’s unconscionable violent crackdown of Belarusians.
We hope that you can join the German Marshall Fund of the United State's (GMF) Frontlines of Democracy Initiative and GMF’s Warsaw Office for a critical and timely discussion focused on the outcome of August 9 presidential election, the current situation on the ground in Belarus, and what comes next for Belarusians and Lukashenka as the protests continue.
If you have any questions, please contact John Alexander at jalexander@gmfus.org.
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Indigenious tourism - how it is hurting indigenous communities
Tuesday, August 18
9:30am – 11am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenious-tourism-how-it-is-hurting-indigenous-communities-tickets-110894693012
Cost: $15.65 – $68.97
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89989253402?pwd=QlU4YXdRMmZXOXFsNm9lbXdCczZ4dz09
Meeting ID: 899 8925 3402
Password to be given upon signing up.
Indigenous tourism is increasingly popular amongst travellers. However, is this form of travelling creating inconveniences to the host communities?
An online sharing session; Join Kevin as he takes you through different places to see how this form of tourism has brought about both positive and negative impacts.
How can local indigenous communities be impacted by the presence of tourists?
Discussion objectives:
Understand what indigenous tourism is and examples of such forms of tourism
To better understand how tourism can be better balanced with the needs of the local indigenous communities.
Premium ticket comes with Free access to THREE online courses.
Invest 90 mins of your time and come prepared to learn.
Contact: admin@crts.asia for more details.
About the trainers/speakers:
Kevin Phun is a specialist in responsible touruism, and one of no more than a few who truly knows the subject well. He is a practitioner in responsible tourism, having written rather extensively and did projects in Southeast Asia in ecotourism and community based tourism.
Below are a few of the writings he has penned:
http://www.ttgasia.com/2019/09/11/how-tourism-can-lend-a-hand-in-preserving-intangible-cultural-heritage/
http://www.ttgmice.com/2019/09/05/let-corporate-travel-and-events-have-a-hand-in-reducing-poverty/
https://www.pata.org/the-effects-on-intangible-cultural-heritage-arising-from-climate-change-adaptation/
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Future Flow: The People, Politics, and Policies of Rising Tides
Tuesday, August 18
10:30AM-11:15AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-flow-the-people-politics-and-policies-of-rising-tides-tickets-116169595387
The magnitude of climate change is forcing us to rethink our traditional approach to migrants and those seeking refuge, how we center people of color in creating solutions to address the impacts of climate change; and how we build a new movement that demands more from our elected officials in solving the climate crisis in 2020 and beyond. This conversation will highlight how Black/Indigenous/people of color are being displaced across the globe by climate change and how they are springing into action.
Poet: Jordan
Panelists:
Mustafa Santiago Ali
Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar
Nate Mook’
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Communicating Uncertainty: COVID & Climate Change
Tue, August 18
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ferment-tv-12-communicating-uncertainty-covid-climate-change-tickets-114956660466
Parallels between communicating COVID-19 and climate change with data and uncertainty
The final broadcast in this season of Ferment TV will explore strategies for communicating uncertainty. The climate campaigner and writer Alice Bell, co-director at the climate action charity Possible and author of Can We Save the Planet? will be speaking with Maggie Koerth, award-winning senior science reporter for FiveThirtyEight.com. In a conversation moderated by Ginkgo Creative Director Christina Agapakis, they will explore how data and uncertainty are used and misused in communicating about COVID-19 and climate change, and how we need new ways of thinking about the politics of science.
Alice Bell
Alice Bell is a climate campaigner and writer based in London. She co-runs Possible, a UK charity specialising in public participation with action on climate change. She has a PhD in science communication from Imperial College, and lectured on their science communication MSc and undergraduate humanities programme. She’s also worked at Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit, City Journalism School, the Science Museum and as a freelance writer and editor. Alice is currently writing a book on the history of the climate crisis. Her first book, Can We Save the Planet? was published earlier this year.
Maggie Koerth
Maggie Koerth is the award-winning senior science reporter for FiveThirtyEight.com. Previously, she has been a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, the science editor at BoingBoing.net, and an assistant editor at mental_floss magazine. Maggie is a Harvard Nieman Fellow ('15) and a member of the board for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
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What is Spatial Justice? Principles of Planning for Welcoming Public Spaces
Tuesday, August 18
2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pc-CrqT4vGtBatazH0bMUYFs_6RWs4j1-
What is spatial justice, and how can cities and towns use this framework to rethink how their built environment supports people’s rights to be, thrive, express and connect? What role can artists and public art play in helping us imagine and shape more inclusive, thriving public spaces throughout Greater Boston? Join a lively discussion among artists, activists, and urbanists who are leading the conversation about spatial justice in our region today.
Speakers:
Kenneth Bailey, urban designer and co-founder, Design Studio for Social Intervention (ds4si.org)
Molly Rose Kaufman, Provost & Program Director, University of Orange (universityoforange.org)
Anthony Romero, Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer; 2019-2020 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anthony-romero)
Questions? Contact MAPC Event Planner, Sasha Parodi: sparodi@mapc.org
“What is Spatial Justice?” is part one 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.
Part II: Making it Public: Activating Public Spaces for Creativity, Connection, and Celebration (August 25): https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvceqqpj8qHNIS_YdsfMSpElKh98B7Jseg
Part III: Public Works: Planning and Designing Public Spaces for Spatial Justice (Sept. 1): https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sd-qsqjwiG9E_nZouwMctcXt_ARPV3JwJ
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Stories of loss: The Promontory Fort and climate change
Tuesday, August 18
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/stories-of-loss-the-promontory-fort-and-climate-change-tickets-114279280404
Online lecture from CHERISH Project archaeologists. Stories of loss: The Promontory Fort and climate change
This online lecture will be presented by CHERISH Project archaeologist from the Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation, Ireland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
The joint nation CHERISH project investigates climate change impacts on cultural heritage. Promontory Forts, typically understood as an Iron Age phenomenon occur in high concentrations along the Irish and Welsh coastlines. This site type is one of the major archaeological sites most at threat from coastal erosion, as sea levels begin to rise again at an unprecedented rate and accelerated rates of climatic change occur, the CHERISH project is working hard to record and understand the nature and functionality of these sites before climate impacts remove sites and evidence from the archaeological record forever. Mapping and archaeological investigations range from collection of measured 3d datasets to walkover surveys and excavation. This talks discusses the insights gained from the CHERISH project about Promontory Forts and the different rates of loss occurring along Irish Sea coastlines.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session and it will be hosted on Zoom. You have to register to receive the zoom link which will be sent to you via email on the evening of the lecture.
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The Heat is On: The Climate Imperative
Tuesday, August 18
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-heat-is-on-the-climate-imperative-tickets-115511711639
The world will soon face warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius, perhaps as soon as 2024. Join us for a conversation about what a hotter planet will mean for people, ecosystems, and the international community.
The Speakers:
Ama R. Francis is the 2018-2020 Climate Law Fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Her work focuses on developing legal solutions to disaster displacement and climate migration. She also analyzes and supports the implementation of adaptive measures in small islands and least developed countries. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2018 where she was an active member of Yale’s Environmental Justice Clinic, a student director of Immigration Legal Services, founder of Clarity & Community, and led New Directions in Environmental Law 2018. Ama also represented Dominica at COP22.
Radley Horton is a Lamont Associate Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. His research focuses on climate extremes, tail risks, climate impacts, and adaptation. Radley was a Convening Lead Author for the Third National Climate Assessment. He currently Co-Chairs Columbia’s Adaptation Initiative, and is Principal Investigator for the Columbia University-WWF ADVANCE partnership, and the NOAA-Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments-funded Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast. Radley is also the Columbia University lead for the Northeast Climate Science Center, and is a principal investigator on the Climate Change Education Partnership Project. Radley teaches in Columbia University’s Sustainable Development department.
Event Contact Information: EI Events
events@ei.columbia.edu
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Climate: Our other crisis - Professor Myles Allen
Tuesday, 18 August
3pm – 4pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-our-other-crisis-professor-myles-allen-tickets-116462645909
Scientists for Labour in conversation with Myles Allen - Climate: Our other crisis
Myles Allen is the professor of Geosystem Science and Head of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was a co-author on their 2018 1.5 degree special report.
He will be joining SfL to talk about sustainable development, the decarbonisation of our energy supply, and our plans for a Green New Deal.
Please join us for this event - sign up for a free ticket to receive a link to the Zoom call!
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21st Century Environmentalism: Session 1. History, Challenges, and Myths
Tuesday, August 18
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/21st-century-environmentalism-session-1-history-challenges-and-myths-tickets-117066066757
FREE COURSE: includes one online, live, and instructor-led session with Instructor, Darina Regio.
The 21st Century Environmentalism: What? Why? And What’s Next? is a seminar series intended to introduce students to the main aspects of environmental movements, policies, and solutions. For a deeper understanding, it is recommended that students attend all six seminars, however, students can choose to sign up for individual seminars within this series. Each seminar will cover a separate topic within the environmentalism realm.
Session 1: History, Challenges, and Myths will cover the history of environmental movements worldwide, introduce terminology, main environmental issues the world is facing right now, such as climate change, global deforestation, increasing lack of access to clean water, industrial toxins, etc., as well as main myths of environmentalism.
Course is a free, online, live, and instructor-led session by Darina Regio via Zoom Meetings. Zoom meeting link will be provided upon registration.
Instructor, Darina Regio is an international security and development professional based in Washington, DC. Darina has over seven years’ experience on issues of global strategic threats, authoritarian states, and private sector leadership in advancing democracy. Darina holds a Master of Arts in International Policy Studies, Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Studies, and an International Development Certificate from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a Bachelor of Asian and African Studies from the State St. Petersburg University.
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The Perils and Pitfalls of Smart Technology
Tuesday, August 18
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-the-perils-and-pitfalls-of-smart-technology-tickets-115918093137?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Jathan Sadowski & Meredith Broussard
In Too Smart, Jathan Sadowski looks at the proliferation of smart technologies in our lives and asks whether the tradeoff—exchanging our personal data for convenience and connectivity—is worth it. Who benefits from smart technology?
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally—hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners—that we have stopped demanding that our technology actually work.
Learn more about Too Smart:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/too-smart
Learn more about Artificial Unintelligence:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-unintelligence
About the Authors
Jathan Sadowski is a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University.
Meredith Broussard is an Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. A former features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab, she has written articles and essays for the Atlantic, Harper's, Slate, the Washington Post, and other publications
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Environmental Justice and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Tuesday, August 18
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-justice-and-the-chesapeake-bay-watershed-tickets-115524632285
As a part of our Hack the Bay initiative, Booz Allen is hosting a panel discussion on Environmental Justice to explore the intersection of social inequality, economics, and the environment. Understanding the unequal societal burdens of pollution, climate change, and land development is integral to designing solutions that restore ecosystems while improving the lives of all people. This panel will discuss how to evaluate data, environmental stewardship, and Bay restoration through the lenses of equity and justice.
About the Panelists
Kari Fulton, Environmental and Climate Justice Advocate
Kari is an award winning Environmental and Climate Justice Advocate, organizer, writer, cultural historian and professional tour guide. Fulton has traveled across the United States, Europe, Latin America and South Africa attending and reporting on International Environmental Conferences. Over the past decade she has worked with various domestic and global coalitions to coordinate campaigns and conferences.
Rozina Kanchwala, Eco.Logic Founder
Rozina is an energy and environmental professional with global academic and work experience in the environmental sector. Rozina founded Eco.Logic to help people get engaged and find solutions to the climate crisis.
Albert Arevalo, Brookside Gardens & Latino Outdoors
Albert is the volunteer coordinator at Brookside Gardens. He also serves as the DMV program coordinator for Latino Outdoors, a non-profit that connects Latino communities and leadership with nature and outdoor experiences. Albert is committed to increasing access to the Latino community to public lands and educating students about opportunities for careers in the environmental field. Additionally, Albert is a Senior Chesapeake Region Fellow for the Environmental Leadership Program.
Jessie Hillman, Blue Water Baltimore
Jessie is the Senior Manager for Stormwater Programs at Blue Water Baltimore and works with community groups, congregations, schools and other property owners to collaboratively plan and construct green stormwater infrastructure projects that restore and protect Baltimore’s waterways. As part of this work, Jessie co-leads a cross-sector collaborative called the Baltimore Environmental Equity Partnership, which seeks to improve environmental health in Baltimore City neighborhoods through a lens of race equity and asset-based community development.
This environmental justice panel is part of a series of events for Hack the Bay: a Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Hackathon. To learn more and join the hack: http://hack-the-bay.devpost.com
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Headed for Extinction and What to Do About It
Tuesday, August 18
6 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckde6vrz4tHtSRNzlA8Nk1jqN2EmPsLOj2
The planet is in ecological crisis: we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event this planet has experienced. Scientists believe we may have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown. This is an emergency.
In this online talk, climate speakers from Extinction Rebellion will share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading, discuss some of the current psychology around climate change, and offer solutions through the study of social movements.
Everyone is welcome and there will be time to ask questions and discuss afterward. This talk is free. Run time: 6:00 PM 7:30 PM
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COVID-19 AND CLIMATE: TECHNOLOGY TO THE RESCUE?
Tuesday, August 18
7:00pm
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/covid-19-and-climate-technology-rescue
Technology has helped the world survive, thrive and stay connected through the COVID-19 lockdown. As countries look toward re-opening in a post-pandemic world, does tech hold the same promise in the fight to solve climate change? From mapping weather patterns with pinpoint accuracy using artificial intelligence, to engineering algae that gobbles up carbon dioxide, climate tech is ripe with breakthroughs.
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Final MA Democratic Senate Primary Debate
Tuesday, August 18
Debate: 7-8PM EDT
Post-Debate Zoom Discussion: 8-9PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://umassboston.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtcuuhrTgtGtEjULXYK1OK_RIMNDigReoO
UMass Boston's John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, WBUR, The Boston Globe and WCVB Channel 5 invite you to watch the final primary debate between the two Democratic candidates for the United States Senate.
Moderator: Ed Harding, WCVB Anchor
Panelists: Bob Oakes, host of WBUR's Morning Edition
Adrian Walker, columnist for the Boston Globe
Janet Wu, anchor of WCVB's On the Record
JOIN THE CONVERSATION: #MAPOLI
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event on the 18th of August!
For more information, contact the McCormack Graduate School Dean's Office at mccormack.gradschool@umb.edu.
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Wednesday, August 19
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Current challenges of renewable energy: integration in China
Wednesday, August 19
6am – 7am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/current-challenges-of-renewable-energy-integration-in-china-registration-109609974384
This webinar will give an insight into the current practices and policies in China with regard to the integration of renewable energy in the electricity system.
Jose Maria will introduce the current position of China within the international transformation of electricity systems. He will zoom into the institutional context and focus on the different players active in promoting regulatory innovation for renewable energy.
Hao Zhang will speak on the legal and regulation context of China, and issues arising from these. He will speak on the very recent developments in Chinese law and policy with regard to renewable energy incentives and measures to tackle curtailment, as well as the trend of increasing investment in offshore wind.
Helen Gavin will host the webinar.
José Maria Valenzuela
José is a doctoral student in the Blavatnik School of Government, at the University of Oxford. He is working on the challenges of energy systems transformation in response to social and environmental concerns, in particular climate change. In particular, Jose is exploring the role of knowledge brokers, regulatory capacity and the decarbonisation of electricity systems, using empirical evidence from four countries: China, Chile, Mexico and the UK. He’s an active member of the China Health, Environment and Welfare (CHEW) research group in China.
Previously, Jose has worked for Mexico’s Department of Energy on climate change and renewable energy policy, and for international (UNIDO), transnational (WWF), and national organizations in Mexico (FDS) and the United States (NREL). He holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations from El Colegio de México, an MPA degree from Tsinghua University, and a MA on International Relations from the University of Chicago.
Hao Zhang
Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained law degrees in China before completing his PhD at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne in Australia.
Hao teaches energy law and Chinese law and his research interests are primarily in the fields of Chinese energy law, climate law and comparative environmental law. He is currently working on the legal issues surrounding the green economic transition in China (i.e. renewable energy, electrification and emissions trading), as well as China’s energy sector reform. He serves as an associate editor for the journal, Climate Law.
Helen Gavin
Helen is based in the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, working on the Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy. She is a sustainability professional, passionate about renewable energy and water resources, with expertise in a range of quantitative environmental issues. She has covered a range of roles including technical specialist, water and energy auditor, programme manager and knowledge exchange, in consultancy and in academia.
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Using the Pandemic Recovery to Spur the Clean Transition — Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls
Wednesday, August 19
9:00am - 10:00am
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_waKLhC3GSsGSvsWTmcqsOA
Registration is required.
Speaker: Rachel Kyte, Dean, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Rachel Kyte will discuss a potential green recovery from the pandemic — how recovery efforts might be leveraged to accelerate the transition to a clean and sustainable energy system — in the United States and globally. She has held senior positions in the World Bank and United Nations dealing with climate change and sustainability.
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MIT GSC Sustainability Solveathon
Wednesday, August 19
9:30am to 12:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw_Pk6OvhBRLFmhHuMjLRIJSuXr1t7lpwgWSxtIw2JlDLnVw/viewform
The GSC Sustainability Subcommittee is organizing a solveathon to brainstorm sustainability projects that MIT grad students are most excited about and create a stronger sustainability community of sustainability enthusiasts to realize those solutions in the upcoming year.
The solveathon invites anyone who is enthusiastic about sustainability to work in small groups with facilitators. There will be two separate sessions compatible with different time zones to develop projects that make MIT campus more sustainable. No previous experience is required, and you can RSVP here! Projects developed in the Solveathon have the chance to be realized with support by the GSC Sustainability Fund. Additionally, experts from the MIT Office of Sustainability will participate in this session.
Editorial Comment: Requires an MIT email address but you can always ask.
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Being Well & Staying Safe: Daily Life in a COVID-19 World
Wednesday, August 19
1:00 - 2:00 pm EDT.
Online
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2020/07/30/upcoming-webinar-being-well-staying-safe-daily-life-in-a-covid-19-world/
The webinar will feature a panel of experts including Nahid Bhadelia (Associate Professor, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, BU School of Medicine), Davidson Hamer (Professor, Global Health & Medicine, BU School of Public Health & BU School of Medicine), and Gerald T. Keusch (Professor, Medicine & International Health, BU School of Medicine & BU School of Public Health). The discussion will be hosted by Pardee School Dean Adil Najam.
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Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair
Wednesday, August 19
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/summer-webinar-series-action-is-the-antidote-to-despair-tickets-115123459366
Join us for the Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair: Fossil Fuels, Climate change and the Struggle for Hope
Every day new horrifying data is released on the impacts of climate change and we are flooded with images of climate disaster - floods, droughts, fires and this year even swarms of locusts in the horn of Africa. Despite the data and our elected officials declaring a climate emergency, new fossil fuel projects like LNG Canada, oilsands expansion and the Trans Mountain pipeline are being pushed forward. Using examples from her own journey over the past 30 years in running environmental campaigns Tzeporah Berman will explore this ‘great disconnect’, propose some new bold solutions and discuss how we can all can engage to ensure a safer, cleaner future and make sense of this historic moment for change.
About Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman, BA, MES LLD (honoris causa) is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, the International Program Director at Stand.Earth, The Co-founder of the Global Gas and Oil Network and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She lives on Canada’s west coast with her husband and two boys and is known for her award winning apple pie.
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Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
Wednesday, August 19
3:30PM to 4:30PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://gmfus.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RtGavsdGRESHRe876xv_og
A Book Talk with Suzanne Nossel
Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America
Derek Chollet, Executive Vice President, GMF
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is pleased to invite you to a virtual book conversation with CEO of PEN America Suzanne Nossel to discuss her latest book Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Set against the backdrop of partisan debates, disinformation, and increasingly polarized societies, the book explores how we can preserve democratic debate and free expression, while battling bigotry. It not only demonstrates the hazards of censorship, but offers a practical guide on speaking your mind without marginalizing others.
Please consider supporting independent book sellers by buying a copy at bookshop.org if you are based in the United States.
If you have any questions, please contact Itai Barsade at ibarsade@gmfus.org.
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Community Table: An Open Conversation on Racism in the Food Industry
Wednesday, August 19
3:30-5:00pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://bit.ly/CTOpenConvo
What you should know: This event is free to attend. Branchfood is partnering with Irene Nakabonge-Lugude, founder of MANYI Juices, Melissa Martinelli, co-founder and CEO of Superfrau, Evy Chen, founder and CEO of Evy Tea, and Lena Tan Wu, co-founder of Feed Your Hospital, to host the discussion.
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Boston New Technology FinTech & Blockchain Startup Showcase #BNT115
Wednesday, August 19
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-new-technology-fintech-blockchain-startup-showcase-bnt115-registration-103050075550
Join members of BNT's 50k network to:
See 6 innovative and exciting local FinTech & Blockchain demos, presented by startup founders
Network virtually with attendees from Boston, Austin and beyond
Ask the founders your questions
Please register with a valid email address and you will immediately receive an email with the link you need to join this webcast and our online group!
Please click here to share/tweet this event.
Please follow @BostonNewTech and support our presenters by posting on social media using our #BNT115 hashtag. We'll retweet you!
Agenda (EDT):
4:00 - Welcome & BNT Introductions
4:05 - Startup Presentations (5 minutes each), Q&A (5 minutes each)
5:30 - Wrap Up
How to Join:
Please register with a valid email address and you will immediately receive an email with the link you need to join this webcast. We will also email you our online group for this event, where you can network with the presenters and other attendees.
Attendance Terms: Boston New Technology (BNT) is dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive event experience for all members/participants. To attend, event registrants agree to these Attendance Terms, which are summarized on the registration page for this event and in the confirmation email sent to registrants. By registering for this event, you agree to share the information you submit with BNT. You and any guests you register agree to be contacted directly by BNT and subscribed to BNT's weekly email newsletter and event announcements, but you can unsubscribe at any time.
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Webinar for Educators: Exploring Climate Migration in the Classroom
Wednesday, August 19
5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT (GMT -0400)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-ngJNN9SNePNIkIldKejw
Scientists project that with every degree of temperature increase the Earth experiences, approximately one billion people will be displaced.
Educators are invited to join senior environmental reporter Abrahm Lustgarten and Pulitzer Center education staff for a professional development webinar on migration and its relationship to climate change. By engaging with "Refugees from the Earth," a pathbreaking new reporting project in The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, participants will be able to...
explore new models for understanding how migration will change as the world warms,
hear the stories of today's climate refugees from Central America,
evaluate action steps to keep the planet habitable for human life,
and identify interactive methods for sharing under-reported stories on migration with students.
Webinar attendees will receive a 1-hour certificate of attendance upon completion of a short survey.
Abrahm Lustgarten is a senior environmental reporter, with a focus at the intersection of business, climate, and energy. He is currently covering changes at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and working on a project about pollution at U.S. Defense sites. His 2015 series examining the causes of water scarcity in the American West, “Killing the Colorado,” was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and received the 2016 Keck Futures Initiative Communication Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Wired, Salon, and Esquire, among other publications. He is the author of two books; Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, and also China’s Great Train: Beijing’s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet, a project that was funded in part by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Introduction to Extinction Rebellion’s [XR] Strategic Theories
Wednesday, August 19
5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcumqqTwjGNDqe1pSNTt33SCWBWwp2ZdF
Join us for a discussion about the movement theory behind XR's disruptive climate justice activism. We will talk about the political system breakdowns and how to solve them, the strategic context behind our demands, the broader ecosystem of the climate movement, and more. 30 min overview followed by 30 min discussion.
If you're starting to learn about XR, you may also want to check out 1) a "Headed for Extinction" talk which covers the scientific urgency of the climate crisis and how we can act and 2) our orientations which explain how you can act in the name of XR if you follow our principles and how to plug in. Both can be found on our calendar: https://xrmass.org/action/ There is an online version of the "Headed for Extinction" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VkC4SnwY0
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CITIES AND DATA
Wednesday, August 19
6:00-7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cities-and-data-tickets-114479220430
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, PhD, Assistant Professor
Webinar followed by Q+A
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Freedom Farmers - Live Book Talk with Dr. Monica White
Wednesday, August 19
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freedom-farmers-live-book-talk-with-dr-monica-white-tickets-115293092744
Cost: $0 – $250
Dr. White will share book highlights, discuss Black farming through the lens of current national issues of racism, equity, and diversity.
Join educator, author, and sociologist Monica M. White, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice, Urban Agriculture and Community Food Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a virtual discussion of her book, “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement,” on Wednesday, August 19 from 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Freedom Farmers provides a historical foundation adding meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban areas.
Dr. White referred to as the Black Farmers’ Historian, will share book highlights, discuss Black farming through the lens of current national issues of racism, equity, and diversity, followed by a Q & A. You can purchase Dr. White's book in advance here.
All ticket proceeds will benefit the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, whose mission is to develop and promote urban farming to engage individuals in growing food and building a healthy community.
If you require financial assistance please contact Linda Palmer at ldpalm4@gmail.com or call 617-989-9920.
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Our Planet Is In Crisis
Wednesday, August 19
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/were-heading-for-extinction-and-what-to-do-about-it
Zoom coordinates will be emailed on the day of the talk.
Join members of the Extinction Rebellion Northeast Regional Support Team as they share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading, discuss some of the current psychology around climate change and ecological breakdown, and explain why disruptive mass action is our best hope to avert catastrophe.
The talk is intense, but we feel it is crucial to tell the truth about our situation. Everyone is welcome and there will be time to ask questions and discuss afterwards. Whether your on the fence about climate action or civil disobedience, a new rebel looking to learn more, want to get plugged into XR Northeast, or just curious about XR this talk is the perfect event for you!
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True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump
Wednesday, August 19
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_jeffrey_toobin/
Cost: $5 suggested - pay what you can - On Sale Now
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes JEFFREY TOOBIN—CNN's chief legal analyst and author of the celebrated, bestselling books The Run of His Life and A Vast Conspiracy—for a discussion of his latest book, True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump. He will be joined in conversation by NOAH FELDMAN, celebrated author and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
In lieu of our traditional ticketing at this time, we ask that you pay what you can to support our virtual event series and this indie bookstore. We recommend a $5 contribution, or you can support Harvard Book Store by purchasing a copy of True Crimes and Misdemeanors on harvard.com.
We are so excited to be able to continue bringing authors and their books to our community, particularly during such challenging times, and your patronage and enthusiasm are what make that possible.
About True Crimes and Misdemeanors
Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Several Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by the president's actions that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process.
Yet despite all this, a years-long inquiry led by special counsel Robert Mueller, and the third impeachment of a president in American history, Donald Trump survived to run for re-election. Why?
Jeffrey Toobin's highly entertaining definitive account of the Mueller investigation and the impeachment of the president takes readers behind the scenes of the epic legal and political struggle to call Trump to account for his misdeeds. With his superb storytelling and analytic skills Toobin recounts all the mind-boggling twists and turns in the case—Trump's son met with a Russian operative promising Kremlin support! Trump paid a porn star $130,000 to hush up an affair! Rudy Giuliani and a pair of shady Ukrainian-American businessmen got the Justice Department to look at Russian-created conspiracy theories! Toobin shows how Trump's canny lawyers used Mueller's famous integrity against him, and how Trump's bullying and bluster cowed Republican legislators into ignoring the clear evidence of the impeachment hearings.
Based on dozens of interviews with prosecutors in Mueller's office, Trump's legal team, Congressional investigators, White House staffers, and several of the key players, including some who are now in prison, True Crimes and Misdemeanors is a revelatory narrative that makes sense of the seemingly endless chaos of the Trump years. Filled with never-before-reported details of the high-stakes legal battles and political machinations, the book weaves a tale of a rogue president guilty of historic misconduct, and how he got away with it.
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Thursday, August 20 - Sunday, August 23
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Boston GreenFest
Thursday, August 20 - Sunday, August 23
Online
RSVP at https://www.bostongreenfest.org
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Thursday, August 20 - Thursday, August 27
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American Climate Leadership Summit 2020 LIVE ONLINE
Thursday, August 20 - Thursday, August 27
2-5pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-climate-leadership-summit-2020-live-online-tickets-106264140906
Cost: $0 – $1,000
Join us at ACLS 2020 LIVE ONLINE every Thursday in August from 2:00 - 5:00 pm ET. You only need to register once for all four events.
In an effort to prioritize peoples’ health, safety and wellbeing theAmerican Climate Leadership Summit 2020 (ACLS 2020) will now be a 100% virtual live event! Join us each Thursday during the month of August for a three-hour webcast series featuring thought provoking topics and speakers in an engaging and interactive online experience. This shift gives us an opportunity to greatly expand the diversity of topics, speakers and participants while reducing our carbon footprint.
If there was ever a time to make a difference on climate change, that time is now. Join to hear from the audience and leaders to help raise awareness, understanding and action on climate change in America.
DAY 1: August 6 - Our Future is Now
Grounding Ourselves: Our Times, Our Call to Action
Session I: Setting the Stage: Where We’re At, Where We Need to Go on Climate
Session II: Start with People: Americans and Climate Culture, Ambition, Politics, Ethics
Session III: Uncharted Waters: Climate Justice Amidst Compound Crises
Session IV: Climate Scholars: Reporting From The Front Lines
DAY 2: August 13 - Driving Change
Session V: Multi-Solving: Pandemic, Economy, Racism, Climate Change
Session VI: Driving Change: Health
Session VII: Driving Change: Our Resilience and Faith
Session VIII: Driving Change: Communities
Session IX: Driving Change: Youth
DAY 3: August 20 - Getting to The Future We Want
Session X: Getting to Global Restoration, Challenging the Assumptions
Session XI: Manifesting Ambitious Vision
Session XII: Restoring Our Urban, Oceans, Forests, Farms
Session XIII: Getting to a Just Future: Addressing Climate Disparities
DAY 4: August 27 - Catalyzing Climate Action
Session XIV: The Politics of Climate Change
Session XV: Climate as a Voting Issue (Polls, Motivations)
Session XVI: Advocacy in Action: ACLA Celebration
Session XVII: The Next 60 days
To see full agenda details including session descriptions and confirmed speakers visit http://ecoamerica.cvent.com
In consideration of the hardships of the pandemic and economic contraction, attendance at ACLS 2020 will now be on a pay-what-you-can basis. However, ecoAmerica still needs financial support to offset the costs of hosting the event, so we are asking attendees to voluntarily contribute at any of the following suggested levels:
Custom pay-what-you-can option
$0 – Our no-judgement, current-state-of-the-world option
$50 – Our student-rate
$125 – Covering 50% of the cost of your attendance
$250 – Fully covering your attendance
$1,000 – Covering the full cost of you +3 others to attend
Note: Recordings from each week’s ACLS Live Online will be posted each Monday in August starting on August 10th. Please be sure to like and subscribe to ecoAmerica’s YouTube channel if you haven't done so already.
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Thursday, August 20
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Climate Change: Yeah, But How Does This Impact ME
Thursday, August 20
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-yeah-but-how-does-this-impact-me-tickets-115530459715
Climate change has become a flash point for political, economic, scientific, and even medical debate. This session intends to review the evidence that the climate of earth is changing, but more importantly raise awareness of how these changes may impact daily life in the Wisconsin area in the present and future.
Outcomes: Answer three questions:
Is the climate changing?
Is this impacting our lives now?
How might our lives change in Wisconsin if climate change continues as predicted?
Please Note - this session is intended for a broad audience; science background is not needed. The primary focus of this session will be on health and disease as this is Dr. Petersen’s primary focus. Other focus topics will include weather, economic, and agricultural aspects.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Matthew Petersen earned his B.S. in Exercise Science from Truman State University and then completed a Ph.D. in Human Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Since 2007, he has worked at NWTC in a number of roles, including as an instructor in the Anatomy and Physiology, General Biology, and Microbiology areas. He continues to lead students in course-based research aimed at discovering new antibiotic-producing microbes in the soil through the Tiny Earth initiative.
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Innovations in Diagnostics and Detection on the Road to Re-Densification
Thursday, August 20
10:00am to 11:15am
Online
RSVP at http://www.cvent.com/events/innovations-in-diagnostics-and-detection-on-the-road-to-re-densification/event-summary-fcdf605dfe834f1bb9c3ac3cf847bb71.aspx
As people around the world gradually return to regular activity, join this live, virtual discussion with leading researchers about currently available diagnostics and developing innovations for early detection of viral spread. The panel will unpack tests that are available today – from molecular PCR, to rapid antigen, to serological antibody – and shine a light on what is required to successfully bring tests to market including determining accuracy, sensitivity, cost, and ease of adoption.
Panelists will also cover innovations that offer early warning signs for disease diagnosis and detection, such as research on voice changes that occur when disease impacts respiratory functions. Discussions will also cover how sewer systems’ genomic content can be used as an indicator of disease spread in broader populations, and how methods for analyzing sewage could rapidly signal the need for community testing, tracing and preparedness.
This live, virtual event will include audience Q&A. Register here: http://www.cvent.com/events/innovations-in-diagnostics-and-detection-on-the-road-to-re-densification/event-summary-fcdf605dfe834f1bb9c3ac3cf847bb71.aspx.
This talk is part of the Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversation Series. Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations is a six-part series hosted by global life science leader MilliporeSigma in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence and MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative.
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The Role of Concrete in Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions of the U.S.’s Buildings and Pavements
Thursday, August 20
11:00am to 12:00pm
Online
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Concrete is critical to achieving societal sustainability goals. Its unique attributes make it the most used building material and because of this its environmental footprint is subject to significant scrutiny. Thus, the challenge of sustainable development is manifested in the use of concrete: accomplishing societal goals while minimizing environmental impacts. Concrete is a critical component of deep decarbonization efforts because it impacts the building, transportation, and industrial sectors.
This presentation will show results from an effort at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub to contextualize the role of concrete in life cycle greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reductions of the United States’ buildings and pavements. We use a bottom-up model of current and future building and pavement stocks and construction in the US to analyze GHG reduction strategies under projected and ambitious scenarios, including embodied and use phases of the structures’ life cycle. We show that projected improvements in the building sector result in a reduction of 47% of GHG emissions in 2050 relative to 2016 levels, whereas ambitious improvements result in a 56% reduction in 2050, which is approximately 1 Gt. The pavements sector shows a larger difference between the two scenarios with a 13% reduction of GHG emissions for projected improvements and a 50% reduction under the ambitious scenario, which is approximately 70 Mt. Over 70% of future emissions from new building and pavement construction are from the use phase.
This webinar will be presented by CSHub Executive Director Jeremy Gregory.
The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) webinar series offers information of general interest to members of the building, paving, and construction communities, as well as to educators, students, journalists, and law and policy-makers interested in the environmental and economic impacts of decision-making concerning infrastructure. Videos of past webinars are archived to the CSHub YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/CSHubMIT
Webinars are free and open to the public. Presentations are geared toward a lay audience.
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Introduction to Climate Justice
Thursday, August 20
11am – 1pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-climate-justice-tickets-116865097653
‘Climate justice’ has become a buzzword in the climate movement. But what does it really mean?
Join Our Future Now and Global Justice Rebellion for this Zoom call where we learn about climate justice in an interactive workshop.
In this workshop we will be exploring this question while looking at why the climate movement must take into account how our economic system created and perpetuates climate change. We will understand why those who are least responsible for climate change are suffering the gravest consequences.
But we will also look at how people are fighting back by demanding social and economic justice and how we can all stand together to fight for climate justice for everyone.
The coronavirus has put a strain on healthcare and food systems. The pandemic has shown us that in moments of real crisis, we can marshal extraordinary resources to solve problems facing society. It has also shown that if we aren’t careful, the costs of fighting a crisis may fall on the least prepared or responsible, whilst the wealthy get bailouts. When this crisis subsides, we will still have another to deal with – the climate crisis. We need climate justice now more than ever.
Accessibility is very important to us. If you have any accessibility needs please don't hesitate to get in touch by emailing us at rebellion.globaljustice@gmail.com
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MIT IDEAS: "What's Next?" Info Session Series - Impact Hub Boston
Thursday, August 20
12:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpd-Gppz8iHdziInTD0olLyjZXsNlbHSsI
Impact Hub Boston supports innovators across the Boston region who are working to solve the world's important problems by creating and stewarding a powerful community that improves and sustains their work.
Geoff Mamlet has been Managing Director of CIC since 2000. In 2013, he founded Impact Hub Boston, a community of businesses addressing social challenges both locally and globally. Impact Hub Boston is a member of the global Impact Hub network, with over 16,000 social innovator members across more than 100 Impact Hub communities worldwide. In 2019, Geoff co-founded Startup Mentors with Anuradha Yadav to address the needs of women of color entrepreneurs in the Boston area who wanted help to scale their existing businesses. From 2003 through 2015, Geoff was Principal with New Atlantic Ventures and Technology Partner with its predecessor firm, DFJ New England Fund. He was responsible for deal sourcing and validation, as well as for helping portfolio companies succeed. Prior to CIC, Geoff worked with a variety of technology startups, including E-Travel, which he co-founded in 1994. E-Travel, still one of the premier brands for corporate travel management worldwide, was sold in 1999 to Oracle. Geoff currently sits on the Board of Directors of Impact Hub Boston and Startup Mentors, and was formerly on the Board of City Awake, a civic innovation lab for Greater Boston.
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Farming, Food and Soil Health
Thursday, August 20
1pm – 2pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/farming-food-and-soil-health-tickets-115592092059
Natalie Bennett joins us for our seventh in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics.
We are excited to have Natalie Bennett join us for our seventh in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics in light of the global pandemic. Natalie will be discussing agricultural practices, soil health and the (mis-)management of our land.
The format will be an introductory talk by a Natalie, followed by a Q&A. We will then finish off in breakout rooms to have more interactive discussions in smaller groups.
Title: Farming, Food and Soil Health with Natalie Bennett
Book your place through EventBrite. At the bottom of your confirmation email, you will find a link to the Zoom room. Make sure to check your Junk / Spam folder. Please email contact@cambridge.greenparty.org.uk if you have any questions.
About the Speaker
Many Cambridge Green Party members will know Natalie as one of two Green members of the House of Lords and a former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Natalie began her career studying agriculture at the University of Sydney, before becoming a journalist and editor in various roles and finally moving into politics and the Green Party. Natalie currently sits in the House of Lords as one of the Green Party's three parliamentary representatives and, of course, continues to be a dedicated climate and environmental campaigner.
On the state of agriculture and land use in the UK, Natalie says:"no one should be able to use their land in ways that harms others. Whether that is caring for soils that future generations need for food security, management that minimises flooding in a world where climate change means its threat is increasing, or enhancing the state of nature on our island, management must be for the common good."
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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Youth Boston Meeting
Thursday, August 20
2 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-youth-boston-meeting/
We are starting an XR Youth Boston group for young people 18 and younger. This will be our first meeting. If you are 19 to 25 and want to start an XR group for college aged students feel free to come to the meeting and we can talk about it.
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Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
Thursday, August 20
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=%2Fpublic%2Fcals%2FMainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdcc7-628567d1-0162-8720efc9-0000118cevents@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=20200820T180000Z
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (part of the Earth Institute) presents its monthly climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal climate forecasts and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this briefing by IRI's chief forecaster, Tony Barnston.
In addition, the IRI climate group will present results of its experimental sub seasonal forecasts.
Event Contact Information: IRI Seminar
Seminar@iri.columbia.edu
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Nwamaka Agbo and Stacy Mitchell
Thursday, August 20
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
Nwamaka Agbo is a nationally respected voice for impacted communities, working to ensure they are not left behind with the growing New Economy movement. Her approach, which she names Restorative Economics, is strategically focused on community-owned and community-governed projects to bring residents together to create shared prosperity and self-determination and in turn build collective political power. In her words:
When communities come together to collectively own and manage assets, they can leverage their joint economic power to collectively assert their rights and exercise cultural and political power in a more impactful way than they would on their own. And, when neighbors build community wealth together they create safe and sovereign spaces that foster self-determination and build shared prosperity.
Stacy Mitchell has for decades been the go-to person to help craft city, state, and federal legislation that protects the small and the local. Her formidable research has laid bare the stranglehold large corporations have on commerce creating an unfair playing field for independent businesses. She is a sought-after commentator by national media, trusted to have evidence at her fingertips. While a sharp critic of big corporations, she is at the same time an eloquent spokesperson for small businesses and the local economies and communities they help shape.
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Carbon 613 Virtual Speaker Series with Jake Miller from Project Neutral
Thursday, August 20
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/carbon-613-virtual-speaker-series-with-jake-miller-from-project-neutral-tickets-114420005316
Join us for a presentation by Jake Miller, Acting Director of Project Neutral!
On August 20th, we will be joined by Jake Miller, Acting Director of Project Neutral! Jake will be talking with us about why carbon dioxide emissions are invisible for most Canadian households and what green workplaces can do to help change that!
Jake sees opportunity in using technology to help serve the common good. His work as a product manager on BikeSpace, a digital platform to engage citizens in improving urban cycling infrastructure, allows him to convene individuals and stakeholders from different backgrounds. Ranging from volunteers to city representatives, they work together towards a common goal. Jake's background as a Personal Service Worker gives him a desire to ameliorate the many physical and social barriers in our society. He manages innovative, technical products that reach beyond the digital realm to make a positive impact on the world. Jake holds a Master's of Information in Critical Information Policy from the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto.
Project Neutral’s mission is to transform Canadians’ climate concern into action and mobilize a new community of climate leaders. Through our innovative carbon-benchmarking platform, we help people measure their household climate impact and inspire them to take action – both by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and becoming climate role models in their communities.
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Carbon Neutrality Amidst COVID-19: Perspectives of Sustainable Food Brands
Thursday, August 20
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carbon-neutrality-amidst-covid-19-perspectives-of-sustainable-food-brands-tickets-115098809638
A webinar panel by Kuli Kuli featuring industry leaders who will lead a discussion on carbon neutrality within sustainable food brands.
*Please note this webinar has changed it's date from August 6th to August 20th at 12:00 pm PT*
As the world learns to travel less and Zoom more, are there additional opportunities for businesses and individuals to lower their carbon footprint? Join us as for an online virtual panel featuring Mike Forbes, Erin Callahan, and Lisa Curtis where we'll engage in a conversation around the attainability of carbon neutrality amidst COVID-19. Joel Makower, our moderator, will guide the panel and talk through process, benefits, and setbacks of becoming carbon neutral.
Featured Guests:
Mike Forbes: CEO, Alter Eco
Mike Forbes is currently CEO of Alter Eco. Alter Eco was founded in San Francisco, CA, in 2005 with a mission to bring great-tasting products that are better for people and planet to consumers across the country. Alter Eco is best known for its line of chocolates and truffles, which are available coast-to-coast at retailers including Whole Foods, Sprouts, Wegmans, Publix, and Kroger.
Alter Eco has been a visionary in full circle sustainability efforts since its inception. It has been a leader in the fair trade movement and has pioneered several compostable packaging innovations, including zero waste truffle wrappers that divert 12.5 million wrappers annually from landfills. All products are Certified Organic, Fair Trade and carbon neutral. Most importantly, Alter Eco chocolate is next level delicious and is crafted using whole ingredients with no compromises.
Prior to Alter Eco, Mike held many positions at California Olive Ranch. Mike built the team responsible for building the California Olive Ranch brand and delivering superior operational excellence. Under his stewardship, California Olive Ranch grew from less than $10 million to over $100 million in sales. It is now one of the top selling brands of olive oil in the United States.
Prior to California Olive Ranch, Mike held Marketing roles at General Mills, Procter & Gamble, and Fortune Brands and was also a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Mike holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA with Honors from the University of Wisconsin. He lives in Oakland, California, where Mike enjoys cooking, hiking in the hills around the Bay Area, and spending time with his wife & seven-year-old daughter.
Lisa Curtis: Founder & CEO, Kuli Kuli
Lisa began working on Kuli Kuli while serving in the Peace Corps and, alongside her amazing team, has grown it into a multi-million dollar social enterprise. Kuli Kuli’s moringa powders, bars, and wellness shots are sustainably sourced from small farmers and women's cooperatives around the world and sold in 11,000 U.S. stores. Lisa was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2018 list and she has appeared in numerous outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Erin Callahan: Director, The Climate Collaborative
Erin is the Director of the Climate Collaborative, responsible for management and execution of the Collaborative’s work, including all programming, communications, and outreach. Erin has a range of corporate campaigning and sustainability experience. She previously worked for CDP, managing corporate engagement for the We Mean Business coalition’s commitments campaign. In that role, Erin worked with hundreds of the world’s largest companies, industry groups and investors, supporting them in making leadership commitments on climate change. She has also worked in public relations and international development and earned a master’s degree in international relations and economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She is based in Oakland, CA.
Moderator: Joel Makower: Co-Founder, Chairman, & Executive Editor, Greenbiz Group
Joel Makower is co-founder, chairman and executive editor of GreenBiz Group Inc., producer of GreenBiz.com. For more than 30 years, Joel has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. Among his many duties at GreenBiz, Joel hosts the annual GreenBiz forums and is author of the annual State of Green Business report.
In 2012, he was awarded the Hutchens Medal by the American Society for Quality, which cited “his ability to tell compelling stories that both inform and inspire business leaders toward profitable action.” In 2014, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.
A former nationally syndicated columnist, Joel is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including The New Grand Strategy, published in 2016. Previous books include Strategies for the Green Economy, Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World, The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business, and The Green Consumer.He also writes Two Steps Forward, a popular blog on sustainable business, clean technology and green marketing.
Joel has been a commentator on environmental topics for public radio's "Marketplace" and appears frequently in both broadcast and print media. He serves as a board member or adviser to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations and speaks regularly to companies, industry groups and business schools around the world.
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Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Thursday, August 20
6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://emerson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-qtrTkpGdHmO52V14eDSbamXbk003TH
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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Climate Emergency and Nuclear War: What are the Connections?
Thursday, August 20
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-emergency-and-nuclear-war-what-are-the-connections-tickets-114316912964
Engaged experts speak on connections between the climate emergency and nuclear war and what we can do in response.
Featuring:
Ira Helfand, MD, Member International Steering Group, ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, co-founder and Past President, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Marty Nathan, MD, Family physician at Brightwood Health Center, Springfield, Co-founder of Climate Action Now and Springfield Climate Justice Coalition
Michael Klare, PhD, Senior Visiting Fellow, Arms Control Association, Washington, D.C. Professor Emeritus, Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies
Laura Reed, PhD, Professor, University of Massachusetts—researching and organizing on the threat of weapons of mass destruction and disarmament
The event will be moderated by Mehlaqa Samdani , the executive director of Critical Connections, which she founded in 2013. She also serves as a peacebuilding associate at the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding.
Why this conversation?
Climate change and the continued existence of nuclear weapons represent two of the most pressing and existential threats to humanity and the planet. While each are grave threats in it of themselves, these two issues are also interlinked and require global processes to confront.
National and international conflicts generated by climate crises could lead to escalations in the use of military weapons. Droughts, floods, fires, storms, rising seas and other climate disasters may generate millions of climate refugees who will struggle in their search for safe homes and resources. As nations confront and amplify these struggles, will they turn to nuclear weapons in the ultimate effort to “win” resource battles?What can we do to anticipate and contain conflicts that could lead to the collapse of civilizations and the destruction of the planet?
How can social movements, Nations and concerned citizens respond to these twin threats?
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Multiverse: Your Brain on Sleep
Thursday, August 20
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multiverse-your-brain-on-sleep-tickets-112503019560
Multiverse is an interdisciplinary concert and event series combining music and science in live performance.
Capacity Notes: Space in the Zoom Webinar is limited. Attendees are advised to register only for as many tickets as devices they will be using. (e.g. a household of 3 people using 1 computer for the event need only reserve 1 ticket.)
This program is recommended for ages 18+.
Multiverse is an interdisciplinary concert and event series combining music and science in live performance. After a sold-out smash performance of Hidden Worlds at the Charles Hayden Planetarium last fall, and a groundbreaking digital concert of Unfolding Life this summer, the Museum of Science teams up with Multiverse once again for a new virtual event this August!
Have you ever wondered why we sleep? The role of sleep may be more complex than we think. Join neuroscientist Dr. Gina Poe of UCLA to discover how sleep is critical for remembering and forgetting memories, cementing and healing trauma, and influencing and responding to hormones. Explore the science with us through evocative discussion, immersive music and live dance.
Experience Multiverse in your homes for one night only.
Scientist: Gina Poe
Performers: Matt Sharrock, Marimba; Megan Anderson & Haley Day, Dance; The Table Manners, DJs
Music by: Errollyn Wallen, David Ibbett, I Monster
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Watertown Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
Thursday, August 20
7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83693052148?pwd=U3lhaW81YlR1WWFlMW5KYmsvSnU5dz09
Extinction Rebellion [XR] is kicking off our new Watertown Emergency Everywhere campaign!
The town of Watertown has passed legislation to require solar panels in new construction. So why don't they tell the truth about the state of the crisis? Why in Jan 2019 did they say they needed an 'energy inventory' before they could start to work on a climate plan - but we are still waiting for one (https://www.watertown-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/26388/2018-12-4--10-16-Economic-Development-and-Planning--Public-Works---Energy-Master-Plan).
We need to create pressure and show them that this is an urgent issue that cannot be delayed. Watertown will be one of ~7 towns in Massachusetts where we are planning direct actions in the Emergency Everywhere campaign. Each town will follow a sequence of ~4 actions that escalate if our demands are not met.
Come learn more about the Watertown campaign and plug in to helping us organize it. We need your help in: planning actions, establishing local partnerships, building art, holding support roles during actions, etc.
Run time 7:30 to 8:30 pm EST. Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83693052148?pwd=U3lhaW81YlR1WWFlMW5KYmsvSnU5dz09
Campaign resources - https://xrmass.org/wiki/emergency-everywhere/
Love and rage y’all.
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Racial Health Disparities and COVID-19
Thursday, August 20
8pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://act.medicare4all.org/signup/covid-webinars-ads
Join National Nurses United for a five-part webinar series that will break down the challenges caused by the pandemic, the underlying problems that have helped make these challenges worse, and what we can do to solve these problems. You can join all five webinars, some, or just one, depending on your interests.
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Friday, August 21
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Saving the oceans with law and science
Friday, August 21
10:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/saving-the-oceans-with-law-and-science-tickets-113361112138
Come and discuss how law and science can work together to save ocean biodiversity.
Biodiversity in 40% of the earth’s surface is not protected – the oceans are beyond national jurisdiction. The UN is developing a treaty to conserve marine biodiversity in these areas and to allow some of these resources to be used to develop new products such as medicines which can stop resistant bacterial infections. Key goals are to permit freedom of marine scientific research and allow the sharing of any benefits that arise from commercial use of marine biodiversity.
Come and discuss ways to ensure that marine science can advance whilst at the same time biodiversity is protected.
Tea & Talk Series
The Tea & Talk series invites everyone to enjoy a cup of tea while engaging with experts in a friendly, relaxed discussion. There won't be any powerpoints, notes or formality here - just the chance to ask questions and to listen to some of Scotland's leading authorities on a variety of subjects.
All Tea & Talk events will take place using Zoom Meetings so attendees can take part using audio and video. To encourage discussion and allow for everyone an opportunity to ask questions we have limited the number of spaces available.
Please note that the audio of these sessions will be recorded for marketing purposes - only the Speaker's audio will be used. Recordings will be deleted once the necessary audio has been edited.
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EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Suffolk Downs Resiliency and Adaptation Study
Friday, August 21
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-leadership-webinar-series-suffolk-downs-resiliency-and-adaptation-study/
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.
A first of its kind in Massachusetts, the Suffolk Downs Resiliency and Adaptation Study was performed to better understand and prepare for climate change impacts to the proposed 161-acre Suffolk Downs Redevelopment Project and surrounding neighborhoods in Boston and Revere. Through innovative hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, the Study showed how the built environment affects the movement of floodwaters on and off the site by analyzing current and future climate conditions for rainfall, coastal flooding, and a combination of the two for various return periods and years. The Study was used to determine if the proposed project provided a resilient design, evaluate if proposed fill (to raise proposed structures above the future floodplain) resulted in displacement of floodwaters onto abutting properties, and provide mitigation as appropriate. The Study resulted in over $5M in mitigation and flood protection measures, including upgrading a pump station, protective berms, and tide gates.
Join us for this EBC webinar to learn Climate Change Impacts of the Suffolk Downs Redevelopment Project.
Program Chair:
Mark Costa, Associate, VHB
Speakers:
Mark Costa, Associate, VHB
Douglas Manz, Partner, Director of Development, The HYM Investment Group, LLC
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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Red Rebel Brigade Orientation
Friday, August 21
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP to MARRB@protonmail.com
Have you ever wondered about those silent, mysterious figures draped in red moving so very slowly through XR Boston actions? Would you like to learn more? Would you like to join us?
The Red Rebel Brigade is an international performance troupe dedicated to illuminating the global environmental crisis and supporting those fighting to save humanity and all species from mass extinction. Many groups take part in Extinction Rebellion actions. There is an ensemble here that is part of XR Boston.
Please join us for a gathering on ZOOM where we explore the what, why and how of this group. We are looking to have people join us for actions in Arlington and Bourne at the end of August/early September.
We will meet on Friday August 21st from 7 to 8pm. There will be time for Q+A.
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Online Film Premiere: From Controversy to Cure
Friday, August 21
8:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://coolidge.org/films/controversy-cure
Greater Boston’s beloved Coolidge Corner Theater is hosting a virtual premiere of From Controversy to Cure, a documentary film from MIT Video Productions (MVP) chronicling the biotech boom in Cambridge, as part of its Science on Screen series.
From Controversy to Cure offers an insider’s look at the contentious debate about genetic engineering that erupted in the city of Cambridge in the summer of 1976, bitterly dividing both the science community and local residents. Learn how an unlikely mix of science and engineering, politics, the space race, and urban renewal transformed Kendall Square into one of the world’s most extraordinary innovation clusters—a community now on the front lines of the battle against Covid-19. Learn more on the film’s website.
Following the screening, there will be a special virtual Q&A panel moderated by Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine at MIT Technology Review, on Tuesday, August 25 at 8pm ET. The panel will include director and MVP Senior Producer Joe McMaster, alongside some of the notable Kendall Square scientists featured in the film, including:
David Baltimore—Founding Director, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Former MIT Professor of Biology
Sangeeta Bhatia—MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nancy Hopkins—MIT Professor of Biology, Emerita
Harvey Lodish—Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, MIT Professor of Biology, Co-Founder of Genzyme
Phillip Sharp—MIT Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate, Cofounder of Biogen
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USM West Regional Webinar LIVE BROADCAST (topic TBD)
Friday, August 21
TBD
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Live presentations on zoom featuring members of the African People's Socialist Party and African People?s Solidarity Committee. Check registration link for updates on topic, speakers and time.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston@riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Saturday, August 22 - Saturday, August 29
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What is Mine, and Ours, to Do about the Ecological Crisis?
Saturday, August 22 - Saturday, August 29
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-is-mine-and-ours-to-do-about-the-ecological-crisis-tickets-114191858924
Cost: $0 – $33
A Three-Part Series Hosted by the Kinship Activity Saturdays, August 15, 22 & 29, 3:00 - 4:30 pm EDT
In these 90 minute sessions, we will explore the ecological crisis with diverse co-presenters, breakout groups, full-group discussion, and tie-in with environmental justice. Hosted by Shams Kairys, long-time student of global ecology, and former vice president for Kinship.
Registration required, with the fee for the three sessions $11-33, sliding scale. All are welcome and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Some of the funds raised from this event will support the Prison Book Project. If possible, participants are encouraged to attend all three programs.
Session 1: Global Warming and Climate Disruption - August 15
Climate Change 101 features a presentation by Isfandarmuz Maggie Hanna, a geologist with expertise on reducing our environmental footprint and developing a post-carbon future. She will provide a simple, accurate understanding of the basic science of climate change, along with a glimpse of energy systems of the future.
Session 2: What impedes, and supports, our ability to make personal changes to address the crisis, and to engage others? - August 22
This exploration will include a presentation by Helena Doku, co-founder of Haywanat, a new Inayatiyya network that brings young adults together to seek ways to address the ecological crisis using earthly healing practices and engaging in sacred activism.
Session 3: What can the Inayatiyya community do to help remedy the ecological crisis, and how can I help bring that about? - August 29
This session features a presentation on Agriculture and Climate Change by Firos Holterman ten Hove, an agricultural engineer specializing in organic methods, and vice president for Ziraat in Europe.
Registration limited to 200 people.
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Saturday, August 22
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2020 Citizens’ Climate Southeast/Appalachia Conference
Saturday, August 22
8:15 AM – 3:35 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-citizens-climate-southeastappalachia-conference-registration-107763906746
Everyone is invited to the online Citizens' Climate Southeast / Appalachia Conference. Citizens' Climate Education (CCE) and Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL) provide education about the climate crisis that helps build political will for our elected officials to take effective action on climate change. Optimism and volunteer support has allowed us to achieve the impossible: gaining support for bi-partisan climate legislation in the 116th Congress.
Engage on a broad range of topics. Sign up for sessions and review exhibitors' websites at: Program and Exhibitors for Citizens' Climate Conference
This conference, which covers two regions, is an opportunity for newcomers and experienced members to actively get involved in moving our country toward climate solutions. You will be able to participate in sessions on several topics regarding sustainable communities, acting on climate, and science and engineering. Come join us to create the political will for a livable world while being empowered to have breakthroughs in your personal and political power.
For more information, contact Jon Clark (jon.clark@citizensclimatelobby.org).
Experts will cover topics that include:
Plenary: The Politics of Climate Change Policy - Elected Officials Discussion
Keynote: Victor Dover, Dover, Kohl & Partners - Car Optional Communities
Keynote: Diversity, talking honestly about climate, challenges and opportunities
Keynote: What the Science Tells Us - Projection Models From ORNL
Creating Sustainable Cities: Minimizing the Urban Carbon Footprint
Environmental Justice
Economics of Pricing CO₂ Emissions - The Social Cost of Carbon
Creation Care - The Faith Based Perspective
Universities for Sustainability - University of Tennessee Goes Green
How the Youth are Taking Action
The Media's Role to Inform about Climate Change
Climate change continues unabated while we focus on the crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism. We are learning from these world-wide crises to treat each other with humanity and adopt prevention measures, based on scientific evidence. These lessons apply to averting climate change as well. "Going from climate crisis to climate opportunity" is organized in panels and sessions in three tracks:
Sustainable Cities
Acting on Climate Change
Science and Engineering
By registering for this event, you are giving Citizens' Climate Lobby and Citizens' Climate Education permission to send you emails including information about CCL/CCE and how you can volunteer and support our work. You can unsubscribe at any time by emailing unsubscribe@citizensclimatelobby.org
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Climate Solutions Symposium (virtual)
Saturday, August 22
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-solutions-symposium-virtual-tickets-112217567766
Cost: $0 -$10
Solutions to global warming and its climate change effects must result in viable national economies globally. Are we on the right path?
Max renewables using nuclear and storage
Nuclear energy: zero emissions and safe
The paramount importance of a price on carbon
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Sunday August 23
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MIT COVID19 Challenge!
DEADLINE TO APPLY: AUGUST 23
For more information and to apply as a participant, please check out our website (https://covid19challenge.mit.edu/)
We hope you’re doing well and would like to invite you to attend our next event, India: Turning the Tide, the seventh virtual hackathon in the MIT COVID19 Challenge series. It is scheduled for August 28-30, 2020. In this 48-hour virtual event, we will focus on addressing some of the most pressing issues being faced by India due to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic. We welcome all diverse backgrounds to apply from clinicians to scientists to engineers to programmers to coders to user designers to patients, and all age groups from high school to undergraduate students to graduate/professional students to those out in the workforce! Everyone has a valuable perspective and experience to add to the event!
The overall themes will focus on: Helping the Underserved Populations, Reviving the Informal Economy, Strengthening Healthcare Systems , and Combating Misinformation & Fraud
The MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, India: Turning the Tide is proud to be supported by organizations including the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, MIT Hacking Medicine, MIT Innovation Initiative, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, MIT-India, Flipkart, Zomato-Feeding India, Parexel, Sterlite Power, IDFC Institute, American Indian Foundation and many more.
We hope to see you (virtually) at the event! Please forward this email to your friends and colleagues!
Best,
The MIT COVID-19 Challenge Organizing Team
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How to stay alive in heat waves by Dr. Brett Perkison
Sunday August 23
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-stay-alive-in-heat-waves-by-dr-brett-perkison-tickets-109701774962
Dr. Perkison, professor at UT School of Public Health, will explain how to prevent illness from heat stress in a warming world.
While Houston has had 10 days a year of dangerous heat, in 2010, 113 are expected every year unless we limit warming to 2 degrees. That's nearly four months of dangerous heat.
If you are in the sun, add up to 14 degrees F to the heat index. Also, exercise generates heat and so adds to heat stress.
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Monday, August 24 – Tuesday, August 25
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2020 Big Data Conference
Monday, August 24 – Tuesday, August 25
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3hb9b6EH3WqNLkQvigHC11XzDFzhYpXuHB6wi4y6cutB1EQ/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Joseph Dexter, Dartmouth University
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft
Amin Saberi, Stanford University
Vira Semenova, University of California, Berkeley
Varda Shalev, Tel Aviv University
Elizabeth Sibert, Harvard University
DETAILS On August 24-25, 2020 the CMSA will be hosting our sixth annual Conference on Big Data. The Conference will feature many speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from across the globe, with talks focusing on computer science, statistics, math and physics, and economics. Registration for this event is required, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants before the event.
LINK https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/2020-big-data-conference/
CONTACT INFO Alaina Fernandes, afernandes@math.harvard.edu
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Two-Day Course: "COVID-19 From Virus to Vaccine: Biological, Clinical, and Public Health Dimensions"
Monday, August 24 _ Tuesday, August 25
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=8340F479E7FDA223825B52E39CFD3DC8
Registration is free for anyone with a Columbia UNI. For external participants, the registration fee is $125.
Led by world-class scientific experts and leaders, the two-day Columbia Public Health COVID-19 course will integrate seminars, virtual labs, and discussions to introduce participants to a variety of topics about the novel coronavirus, ranging from genetic aspects to public health system vulnerabilities. (Please note this course is not a self-paced, pre-recorded online training.)
Event Contact Information: Anne Foulke Toner
212-342-5312
af2231@cumc.columbia.edu
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Monday, August 24
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Accelerating Water and Climate Action at COP26
Monday, August 24
4:00am – 04:45am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accelerating-water-and-climate-action-at-cop26-tickets-114348750190
To tackle the climate crisis, we have to tackle the water crisis. Join our panel event to hear more about the UK's vision ahead of COP26.
UK Government Minister Zac Goldsmith heads up a panel chaired by Dr John Matthews from the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation.
The climate crisis is a water crisis. This event will highlight the global water crisis and the UK's response in the context of climate change and Covid-19, as well as some of the actions and commitments needed before and at the climate negotiations during COP26.
Broad partnerships are needed to tackle the water and climate crisis. A panel of experts from civil society, private sector and government will discuss water and climate from the perspectives of accountability, finance and business.
Our panel includes:
Minister Goldsmith, the UK's Minister of State for the Pacific and the Environment. The Minister's responsibilities include climate change, environment and conservation, and biodiversity.
Dr John Matthews, the Executive director and co-founder of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation. John led the first-ever global water-climate dialogue at a COP and recent projects included leading a team of experts to develop green and climate bond resilience criteria for water infrastructure.
Sareen Malik, Executive Secretary of the African Civil Society Network for Water and Sanitation. Sareen is also the Vice Chair of the Steering Committee, SWA Partnership. Her work focuses on working with NGOs to meaningfully engage in the water sector, mobilising around the call to action that good water governance is the key to improved sector performance.
Sasja Beslik, Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance at Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd. Sasja is a Swedish and international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been with J. Safra Sarasin since 2019.
The programme includes a moderated Q&A, with attendees able to post questions to panelists live during the event.
Joining instructions will be sent via email on Sunday 23rd August to everyone who has registered for this event.
Relevant water and climate resources including research reports and graphics can be accessed here.
We look forward to welcoming to you to this event as we begin to accelerate action on water and climate.
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Achieving Water, Climate & Energy Goals While Maintaining Freshwater System
Monday, August 24
7:00-7:45am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/achieving-water-climate-energy-goals-while-maintaining-freshwater-system-tickets-116784279925
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 972 9141 2814
Find your local number: https://wwfus.zoom.us/u/abGOf2Ch2q
Accomplishing our climate and energy goals will require a rapid decarbonization of electric power systems and badly planned hydropower could lead to high impact on people and nature. The event will spur discussion on how to secure a climate and nature resilient energy transition.
Programme
Introductions & Quiz
Overview: Renewables, Hydropower, and Rivers in a Changing Climate
Lightning Round of Speed Talks [5 minutes each]:
Assessment of impacts of Climate Change on hydropower & associated risks
Influencing Energy Planning in Zambia for better Environmental and Social outcomes
Multi-sector Energy Planning for Mekong River Conservation
Discussion & Interactive Activity
Facilitated Q&A/Discussion
Convenors:
The Stimson Center
The University of California at Berkeley
World Wide Fund for Nature
Facilitators:
Rafael Camargo, WWF-Germany
Jeff Opperman, WWF-US
Diilwe Syamuntu, WWF - Zambia
Michel Thieme, WWF-US
Courtney Weatherby, The Stimson Center
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Jonghyun Yoo's Dissertation Defense, Climate Decision Making under Uncertainty and Future Learning
Monday, August 24
10:00am — 10:30am
Online
RSVP at contact email: elisabeth.barsa@yale.edu
Mr. Jonghyun Yoo will defend his dissertation entitled, “Climate Decision Making under Uncertainty and Future Learning” on Monday, August 24 at 10:00 AM, via Zoom. The first 30 minutes of his defense will be open to the entire Yale community. All interested persons are invited to attend. To obtain the Zoom link or an electronic copy of Jonghyun’s dissertation please contact the Doctoral Program Office (contact email: elisabeth.barsa@yale.edu).
Committee members:
Prof. Robert Mendelsohn, Chair
Prof. Ken Gillingham
Prof. William Nordhaus
Prof. Thomas Rutherford (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
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Social Medicine: Physicians as Agents of Change
Monday, August 24
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/social-medicine-health-care-technology-innovation
SPEAKER(S) Ted James, MD, MHCM, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Co-Director, BreastCare Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief, Breast Surgical Oncology and Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
DETAILS In this Harvard Medical School webinar, Dr. James will discuss the need for change given the inequalities and disparities in health care. He will also discuss the rationale for extending care beyond the walls of the hospital and into communities, the powerful influence of social determinants of health on patient outcomes, and how physicians can be effective agents of social change.
LINK https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/social-medicine-health-care-technology-innovation
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Clean Energy and the Post-COVID Workforce
Monday, August 24
12PM - 1PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pisA8PH5RZiLzSNVCPe-OA
Explore the impact of COVID-19 on clean energy, as seen through the lenses of workforce development and job opportunities/losses, supplier diversity and state regulation, supply and distribution channels, including solar panels and installations.
We will hear from:
Melanie Kenderdine, Principal at Energy Futures Initiative
Commissioner Sadzi Oliva, Chair at NARUC Subcommittee on Supplier and Workforce Diversity
Nicole Sitaraman (YC '00), Senior Manager, Public Policy at Sunrun
Our discussion will be moderated by Barbara Tyran (SOM '79), President at Women's Council on Energy & the Environment.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 24
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
RSVP 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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Feminism and climate change
Monday, August 24
2pm – 4pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-and-climate-change-tickets-113805974734
Three feminist activists lead our discussion on how the fights for climate justice and gender equality go together
The fight for climate justice and the fight for gender equality go hand in hand.
Women, especially in the global south, are being hit hardest by climate change, as rising temperatures make it harder to care for families and do other types of domestic labour. As we move away from fossil fuels, to avert dangerous climate change, that will change the way that work is done in the home – most of which is done by women. And in the movement for climate justice, women are very often on the front lines.
Our discussion on how these issues go together will be opened by
Orthalia Kunene (XR South Africa),
Laura Schwartz (historian of feminism and labour movements, University of Warwick),
Silvia Semenzin (PhD researcher at the University of Milan, and organiser of a campaign to make “revenge porn” illegal in Italy) and another international speaker.
This will be followed by a discussion with audience participants. No previous experience necessary, just an interest.
This event is free. But we welcome donations to help us continueClimate Breakdown Shakedown. Donate here or you can make a donation when you purchase your ticket.
We normally broadcast the presentations to our Youtube channel for public interest, and stop so no members of the audience is recorded publicly without consent. You are of course welcome to switch your video off if you have any concerns.
All information, links to presentations and resources about this and previous Climate Breakdown Shakedown events can be found on http://xrgreenwich.com
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Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair
Wednesday, August 19
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/summer-webinar-series-action-is-the-antidote-to-despair-tickets-115123459366
Join us for the Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair: Fossil Fuels, Climate change and the Struggle for Hope
Every day new horrifying data is released on the impacts of climate change and we are flooded with images of climate disaster - floods, droughts, fires and this year even swarms of locusts in the horn of Africa. Despite the data and our elected officials declaring a climate emergency, new fossil fuel projects like LNG Canada, oilsands expansion and the Trans Mountain pipeline are being pushed forward. Using examples from her own journey over the past 30 years in running environmental campaigns Tzeporah Berman will explore this ‘great disconnect’, propose some new bold solutions and discuss how we can all can engage to ensure a safer, cleaner future and make sense of this historic moment for change.
About Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman, BA, MES LLD (honoris causa) is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, the International Program Director at Stand.Earth, The Co-founder of the Global Gas and Oil Network and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She lives on Canada’s west coast with her husband and two boys and is known for her award winning apple pie.
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Monday, August 24
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_emily_anthes/
Cost: Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes EMILY ANTHES—award-winning science journalist and author of Frankenstein's Cat—for a discussion of her latest book, The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated science writer CARL ZIMMER, author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.
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 The Great Indoors on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About The Great Indoors
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships?
In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what—and how much—we eat.
Along the way, Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students’ physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates’ psychological needs. And she previews the homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon.
The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world—one room at a time.
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Tuesday, August 25 - Thursday, August 27
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Circularity20: Accelerating the Circle Economy
Tuesday, August 25 - Thursday, August 27
Online
RSVP at https://events.greenbiz.com/events/circularity/online/2020
This time of unprecedented challenges requires systemic solutions and radical new ways of doing business. Circularity isn’t just another sustainability framework — it’s an emerging strategy that enables companies to navigate disruption, increase resilience, respond to shifting consumer demand and unlock new business opportunities.
Circularity 20 is a complimentary online event featuring inspirational plenaries, interactive breakouts, valuable networking opportunities and a virtual expo. Join industry-leading speakers and more than 10,000 professionals participating from around the world to learn, connect and accelerate the circular economy.
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Tuesday, August 25
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Freedom Challenge-Intro to Indigenous & Disability Rights 4 Climate Justice
Tuesday, August 25
1:30 AM – 3:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/freedom-challenge-intro-to-indigenous-disability-rights-4-climate-justice-tickets-113589537364
Join Freedom Challenge 2020 workshop: Introduction to Indigenous & Disability Rights for Climate Justice!
Human rights are as much under threat as the environment when it comes to climate change. It’s why within Freedom Challenge 2020 we’ll be “Shouting out for climate justice”
To make that action effective and powerful we are hosting on and offline workshops with some of New Zealand and the Pacific’s best youth climate justice advocates. They’ll be offering insights and knowledge on how together we can better stand up for the rights of this planet and the people on it. Workshops will include creative and practical ways to get involved, build support, and ignite action!
Join Kera Sherwood-O'Regan via zoom to discuss Introduction to Indigenous & Disability Rights for Climate Justice.
Indigenous and Disabled People are already on the frontlines of climate change, but they also have solutions to build a climate safe future for us all. Come to this 90 minute workshop to learn how your climate action can uphold indigenous and disability rights, and what you can do to make the climate movement more inclusive and accessible for frontline communities.
About the facilitator
Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (Kāi Tahu, Te Waipounamu) is an indigenous and disabled multidisciplinary storyteller and rights advocate based in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the Co-founder and Communications & Impact Director at Activate, an indigenous and disabled social impact agency specialising in campaigning and narratives for social change. Her work focuses on centering structurally oppressed communities in social change, exploring community-led collective storytelling, and seeks to raise the bar for free, prior, informed, and ongoing consent in the media. Kera’s work is grounded in kaupapa Māori practices and approaches, and is informed by 15 years of activism within the climate movement. In her spare time she runs Fibromyalgia Aotearoa NZ, and advocates for indigenous rights at the United Nations climate negotiations and within the wider climate movement.
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The Future of Energy
Tuesday, August 25
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/the-future-of-energy-tickets-115458213625
Panel with Averey Chan, Cameron Jones, Max Song, Lavine Hemlani & Tom Corbin
Scientists agree that human activity is causing serious changes to our climate and that we need to drastically lower our emissions in order to avoid a catastrophic climate breakdown. Getting there will require the world’s largest sector and biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions to make great changes, involving and affecting businesses and individuals at large.
Join us in an exploration of different approaches, from renewable energy to smart building and energy efficiency and a discussion of public policies, market mechanisms and where Hong Kong finds itself on the pathway towards a clean energy society.
About the speakers:
Max Song, Entrepreneur, Data Scientist, Schwarzman Scholar
Max loves problem solving and the thrill of thinking on his feet. A former data scientist and founder of the Global Solutions Festival, he now is a venture partner at PCG, where he conducts research into cutting edge fields and technology, interacts with companies, and looks for ways to build dynamic and valuable relationships. He has recently been focusing his attention on understanding sustainability post-Covid19, and the impending climate change crisis, as well as ways to build products and services to address climate change.
Max graduated from Brown University, and was selected as part of the first batch of Schwarzman Scholars, where he completed a masters at Tsinghua University, and wrote his thesis on US-China cross border investment opportunities for renewable energy.
Cameron Jones, Division Head, Innovation and Sustainability at BlocksEDU
Cameron is an experienced project manager with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental sphere and a passion for Corporate Social Responsibility. With BlocksEDU he is developing university courseware in Sustainable Energy Technology and Corporate Social Responsibility for the industries of tomorrow.
He has worked with the Government of Alberta where he was a Director of Project Management and successfully led multiple projects under the Government of Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan. He holds a Master’s of Science in Sustainable Energy Policy and has published on both Renewable Energy Markets and Carbon Mitigation Technologies. He was elected Vice President of the Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) in Alberta where he organized a number of sold-out events on climate change and emerging technologies. Prior to Alberta, Cameron worked with the UK Energy Research Centre and helped contributed to energy policy development for the Government of the United Kingdom. He serves as an advisor to Flash Forest Inc., YPE, and the Okanagan Zambia Health Initiative.
Averey Chan, Business Development, NEFIN Group
Mr. Averey Chan is a business development and engineering lead at NEFIN Group, a regional solar developer delivering carbon neutrality to multi-national corporations throughout Asia Pacific.
Founded by the core management team of DuPont Solar Business, legal experts and investment bankers, NEFIN Group has collectively delivered over 300MW of utility-scale, commercial and industrial rooftop solar systems regionally. NEFIN’s mission is to achieve carbon neutrality for companies. The group offers consulting services such as due diligence, feasibility studies and lender-technical advice on top of project development, system design, engineering and asset management. NEFIN Group also offers flexible financing options to partners who opt for zero investment. Please refer to NEFIN’s website www.nefinco.com for more information.
Averey graduated from Imperial College London with a Master’s Degree in Materials Science & Engineering. As a top student of his cohort, he was awarded the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence for his international studies. Averey was also awarded an exchange studentship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to research lithium-ion batteries.
Lavine Hemlani, Founder & CEO, Xccelerate
Passionate about pioneering advanced technology education to empower individuals, enterprises and workforces.
Founder and CEO of Xccelerate, a leading ed-tech and future of work start-up headquartered in HK with regional capabilities. Xccelerate is founded on the vision that the greatest opportunity for improving lives is education and aspires to reinvent education to address the colossal talent challenges in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Process Automation, Software Engineering, Blockchain and Design across Asia.
Xccelerate drives outcomes for individuals, enterprises and governments by leveraging expert instructors, proprietary curriculum and learning software. Prior to Xccelerate, Lavine co-founded FLYR and worked with deep learning startup Thread Genius (acquired by Sotheby’s). Lavine began his career in investment banking in NYC at Lazard’s Mergers & Acquisitions division (M&A) and held investment facing roles at the following funds: Atlas Capital, Marwar Capital and Union Park Capital.
Lavine also serves as Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence Society of HK and on the Board of Directors of the 24 Hour Race, a global non-profit that fights modern slavery.
Moderator: Tom Corbin
Founder of 6Degrees, Software Engineer, Architectural Designer
Tom has worked extensively on architectural projects in Singapore, where sustainability is ingrained into the culture. He has since transitioned to software engineering and has founded 6Degrees with the aim of using technology to bring a similar level of awareness and appreciation for the public consciousness in Hong Kong.
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Sustainable software engineering: building carbon-efficient applications
Tuesday, August 25
9:30am - 10:30am [12:30 PM to 1:30 PM GMT+1]
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/GreenTech-South-West/events/271843079/
GreenTech South West are delighted to welcome Asim Hussain, green cloud advocacy lead at Microsoft to talk to us about building carbon efficient applications.
Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is an emerging discipline at the intersection of climate science, software, hardware, electricity markets and data centre design. Through the synthesis of this knowledge, a Sustainable Software Engineer can have a meaningful impact on the climate crisis.
By grasping the eight first principles of Sustainable Software Engineering, you can learn how to build, deploy and manage sustainable applications in any application domain, industry, organisation, programming language or framework.
You can read more about these sustainable principles at https://principles.green
Asim is a developer, trainer, author and speaker with over 19 years experience working for organisations such as the European Space Agency, Google and now Microsoft, where he is the Green CLoud advocacy lead.
https://asim.dev
https://twitter.com/jawache
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawache/
This is a free online event on CrowdCast and you will see the link once you RSVP. We'll send an email to those that RSVP the evening before the event with more details about what to expect.
The event will be recorded and will be available along with Asim's slides to view shortly afterwards.
Sponsored by: ADLIB recruitment - www.adlib-recruitment.co.uk
Supported by:
Future Economy Network - www.thefutureeconomynetwork.co.uk
Climate Action Tech - www.climateaction.tech
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Author Talk: Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
Tuesday, August 25
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-mage-merlins-unsolved-mathematical-mysteries-tickets-115914028981
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Satyan Devadoss, author of Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with advanced calculus. But, as Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries shows, mathematics is filled with intriguing mysteries that take us to the edge of the unknown. This richly illustrated, story-driven volume presents sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles, all understandable by anyone with elementary math skills. These intriguing mysteries are presented to readers as puzzles that have time-traveled from Camelot, preserved in the notebook of Merlin, the wise magician in King Arthur's court.
About the Author
Satyan Linus Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Diego. A recipient of two national teaching awards, he has published on topics ranging from origami and cartography to phylogenetics and particle collisions.
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Perspectives from Global Experts on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
Tuesday, August 25
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perspectives-from-global-experts-on-climate-change-and-sustainable-energy-tickets-116941082927
The San Diego Diplomacy Council will convene global experts to discuss climate action and the latest developments on sustainable energy.
Sponsored by Sempra Energy, the San Diego Diplomacy Council invites you to our upcoming Global Leaders Online Forum, taking place on Tuesday, August 25 from 10-11 am PST. We will convene global experts to discuss climate action and the latest developments on sustainable energy. The event will be moderated by Erin Koch, Corporate Sustainability Manager at Sempra Energy. Featured speakers include alumni of the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and local subject matters experts.
Featured Speakers:
Douty Chibamba is an accomplished environmental scientist from Zambia. He teaches climate change and sustainable development at the University of Zambia, in addition to several other geography courses. In his role, Douty has led a team of scientists to explore the possibilities of using alternative renewable sources of energy, such as solar, geothermal and wind in Zambia. He has also negotiated for Zambia at several conference of parties (COPs), including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Douty visited the U.S. in October of 2018 as part of the IVLP delegation focused on “Renewable Energy and Sustainable Growth”.
Muhammad Leroy A. Gomez is a climate scientist and a specialist on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Human Security from The Gambia. He has over seven years’ experience in the National Environment Agency, and has led several education and communication programs to inform the public on environmental protection and conservation. Muhammad is an Adjunct Lecturer on Disaster Management and Natural Resource Policies, Laws and Conventions at the University of The Gambia. He is currently a PhD. Candidate at Université de Lomé in Togo focused on Climate Change and Disaster Risks Management. Muhammad visited the U.S. in October of 2018 as part of the IVLP delegation focused on “Renewable Energy and Sustainable Growth”.
Jeremy M. Martin is Vice President of Energy & Sustainability at the Institute of the Americas, an inter-American public policy think-tank located at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The Institute of the Americas Energy & Sustainability Program works to foster a deeper understanding of the most critical energy issues facing the Western Hemisphere. Jeremy has testified before the US Congress on energy issues in Latin America, teaches a graduate course in Latin American Energy Policy at UCSD and the University of San Diego (USD) and serves on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Diplomacy Council.
Nilmini Silva-Send is the assistant director and the C. Hugh Friedman Fellow in Energy Law and Policy at the Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) at USD School of Law. As Adjunct Professor at USD, she has developed and teaches a class in international energy law with a focus on international energy investment treaties, contracts and dispute resolution, World Trade Organization law related to national energy policies, and linkages with climate change law. Her latest research include energy requirements and GHG implications of water use in San Diego and California.
We are encouraging attendees to participate in the discussion! Have a question you would like to ask of our panelists? Feel free to send us your question in advance to dominique@sandiegodiplomacy.org.
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TRANSPORTATION: Taking the Car Out of Carbon Emissions
Tuesday, August 25
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportation-taking-the-car-out-of-carbon-emissions-registration-116058627479
Join us for a conversation about urban transportation and its relation to climate change, opportunity access, safety and quality of life.
Kimberly Williams, David Fields, Jonathan Brooks, and Kurt Barrow will explore pathways to a greener, safer, and more equitable mobility future for Houstonians. Find out how more reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, increasing mobility options and improving interconnectedness of pedestrian, cycling and transit networks can benefit all of us.
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Making it Public: Activating Public Spaces for Creativity, Connection, and Celebration
Tuesday, August 25
2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvceqqpj8qHNIS_YdsfMSpElKh98B7Jseg
How can public-making—the collective creation and activation of public spaces for interaction and belonging—be a radical, joyful tool for spatial justice? Join artists, activists, and community leaders to discuss how public-making can create opportunities for interaction, laughter, dialogue, and surprise, and explore real-life examples of public-making that you can bring to your community.
Speakers:
Roberto Bedoya, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Executive Director
Questions? Contact MAPC Event Planner, Sasha Parodi: sparodi@mapc.org
“Making it Public,” is part two 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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Cleantech Live #4: Today's Buildings, Tomorrow's Grid
Tuesday, August 25
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cleantech-live-4-todays-buildings-tomorrows-grid-registration-116262246509
How do today's commercial buildings need to adapt to work with tomorrow's grid?
Cleantech Live is a new series of virtual events designed specifically for people who believe solving climate change is both urgent andpossible and want to be a part of the solution.
Solving the climate crisis is going to require massive collaboration on a global scale. As "Climate Solutionists," we're motivated by the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to that effort.
The goal of Cleantech Live is to provide insight into promising new climate solutions, support the people and organizations behind them, and create a deeper connection with fellow Solutionists.
Cleantech Live is different than most online events because it's centered around interaction. Instead of staring idly at the screen for an hour, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions, share insights, and directly engage in a constructive conversation with the other bright minds who join us.
And every Cleantech Live we'll make time at the end for getting to know each other as individuals. Because we know that's when the magic of true and lasting connection happens — and who couldn't use a bit more connection these days?
If this type of thing appeals to you, grab a free ticket here and join us. We'd love to connect with you.
-Zoheb, Cameron & Kevin
Event Details
One of the oldest and most complex machines ever made, the grid is responsible for delivering reliant and resilient energy to power our lives. And buildings, including the highest performing ones, depend on it.
However, that energy comes with significant carbon emissions. And a decarbonized future depends not only on building the greenest buildings, but doing so on a greener grid.
In this month's Cleantech Live event, Frank Joseph Schwamborn of Verdical Group will be giving a talk examining today's grid and presenting a case for why buildings meant to last decades should be built or retrofitted today to meet tomorrow’s grid.
About the Speaker
Frank Joseph Schwamborn is passionate about nature and energy. He loves to go backpacking, experience different biomes around the world, and read about energy policy. This passion fuels his ambition to live and learn how to be better for the environment. His career started with a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Today he's a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer for the state of California and a LEED AP.
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Newburyport Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
Tuesday, August 25
6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/EE_Newburyport_Kickoff/
XR is kicking off our new Newburyport Emergency Everywhere campaign!
The town of Newburyport has a climate resilience plan. They know that some of their key infrastructure like their waste treatment plant are at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels. Yet they haven't taken any substantive steps towards raising public awareness or reducing their carbon emissions. We need to create pressure and show the mayor and city council that this is an urgent issue that cannot be delayed.
Newburyport will be one of ~7 towns in Massachusetts where we are planning direct actions in the Emergency Everywhere campaign. Each town will follow a sequence of actions that escalate if our demands are not met.
Come learn more about the Newburyport campaign and plug in to helping us organize it. We need your help in: planning actions, establishing local partnerships, building art, holding support roles during actions, etc.
Run time 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST. Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucequqj4jG91wFnrQYFsfjCcTNCQPp2sQ
Campaign resources - https://xrmass.org/wiki/emergency-everywhere/
Love and rage y'all.
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LSU Science Café: Tracking Extreme Weather & Hurricanes
Tuesday, August 25
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-science-cafe-tracking-extreme-weather-hurricanes-registration-114939081888
Join us for an online LSU Science Café to discuss the 2020 hurricane season with LSU faculty researchers.
LSU weather experts will share insights into their latest research regarding tracking extreme weather and hurricane events. Dr. Nan Walker, Dr. Jill Trepanier, and Dr. Barry Keim will each present their work, with a moderated Q&A to follow.
About the Speakers
Dr. Nan Walker is the director of the Earth Scan Laboratory, LSU’s on-campus satellite data receiving facility and image processing lab that captures, processes, and archives real-time data and animations of the current weather, hurricanes, and ocean currents from a variety of NOAA and NASA satellites. Dr. Walker uses satellite remote sensing to study how Gulf of Mexico currents and eddies impact tropical cyclone intensity. She is the James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Coastal Studies in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences in the LSU College of the Coast & Environment.
Dr. Jill Trepanier studies extreme climatic and weather phenomena, specifically tropical cyclones. She uses quantitative methods such as statistics to analyze these events. She is an associate professor in the LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. In 2016, Dr. Trepanier was named a fellow of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program for her work on the application of hurricane risk methods to oil system infrastructure. Her current research interests include understanding extreme weather events, tropical climatology, climate change, geographic information systems, risk assessment, and statistical methods.
Dr. Barry Keim is the Richard J. Russell Professor in the LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences and serves as the Louisiana State Climatologist. His research focuses on climatic extremes with particular emphasis on heavy rainfall, hurricanes, storm surge, and the interpretation of climate data. As state climatologist, Dr. Keim conducts climatic research on the state of Louisiana and the broader region and serves the community by providing climatic data to those in need, including researchers, government agencies, police departments, and the media. He also oversees the group at LSU that manages the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of global storm surges.
LSU Science Café is presented in partnership with WRKF.
Registration & Attendance Information
The event is open to the public and advance registration through Eventbrite is required.
Access to the webinar will be available through Eventbrite after 5:30 PM on the day of the event. A link to this page will be sent with your registration confirmation and in reminder emails that will be sent prior the event. Please check your "clutter" or "junk" folder if you do not receive your reminder emails.
The live event will be closed captioned, and a recording of the webinar will be made available on the LSU Research YouTube channel shortly after the event. A link to the recording will be distributed to all registrants.
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Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
Tuesday, August 25
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/margaret_kimberley/
Cost: Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome MARGARET KIMBERLEY—editor and senior columnist for Black Agenda Report—for a discussion of her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated writer, speaker, and theologian Reverend IRENE MONROE.
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 Prejudential on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About Prejudential
Prejudential is a concise, authoritative exploration of America’s relationship with race and black Americans through the lens of the presidents who have been elected to represent all of its people.
Throughout the history of the United States, numerous presidents have left their legacies as slaveholders, bigots, and inciters of racial violence, but were the ones generally regarded as more sympathetic to the plight and interests of black Americans—such as Lincoln, FDR, and Clinton—really much better? And what of all the presidents whose relationship with black America is not even considered in the pages of most history books? Over the course of 45 chapters—one for each president—Margaret Kimberley enlightens and informs readers about the attitudes and actions of the highest elected official in the country. By casting sunlight on an aspect of American history that is largely overlooked, Prejudential aims to increase awareness in a manner that will facilitate discussion and understanding.
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From Controversy to Cure: Virtual Q&A with the scientists behind Kendall Square's biotech boomTuesday, August 25
8:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://youtu.be/ZG2NRCHCECA
Following the August 21 screening of From Controversy to Cure, MIT Video Productions' new doumentary about the rise of Kendall Square as a global biotech hub, Coolidge Corner Theater will host a special virtual Q&A panel moderated by Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine at MIT Technology Review. The panel will include director and MVP Senior Producer Joe McMaster, alongside some of the notable Kendall Square scientists featured in the film, including:
David Baltimore—Founding Director, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Former MIT Professor of Biology
Sangeeta Bhatia—MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nancy Hopkins—MIT Professor of Biology, Emerita
Harvey Lodish—Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, MIT Professor of Biology, Co-Founder of Genzyme
Phillip Sharp—MIT Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate, Cofounder of Biogen
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30 innovations for a renewable-powered future
Wednesday, August 26
11am
Online
RSVP at https://www.enlit.world/europe/europe-calendar/new-energy-landscape-series-special-episode-irena-register
The joint session with Initiate and IRENA will discuss how the 30 innovations identified by IRENA in its “Innovation landscape for a renewable-powered future” project are accelerating the energy transition. The episode will stress the importance of a systemic innovation approach, meaning fostering innovation in four dimensions: enabling technologies, business models, market design and system operation. The role of those innovations will be discussed in the context of the ongoing disruptive trends in the power sector: 1) digitalisation, 2) decentralisation and 3) electrification. These trends are changing paradigms, unlocking system flexibility for a high share of VRE penetration. They are changing the roles and responsibilities of actors and opening doors to new entrants in the sector.
Expert presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, during which questions from the live audience will be answered.
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Building an Equitable Energy Future
Wednesday, August 26
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3845271846873188112
This webinar will address our Energy future from a critical lens. As we work towards a clean energy future, it’s up to us to actively ensure that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and other under-represented groups are equitably represented in the endeavor and share in its rewards.
You will learn:
What's being done and more importantly what needs to be done to address climate issues while ensuring BIPOC participation
Policy and regulatory shifts to enforce inclusion in clean energy
Strategies to reach minority communities
Our Webinar Series is brought to you with invaluable support from NYSERDA and CleanCapital. Can't make the live webinar? Check out our podcast series based on our webinars (anchor.fm/necec). For additional information about the Navigate Webinar Series, check out our playlists on YouTube (youtube.com/theNECEC).
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The 2020 State of Demand-Side Energy Management in New England Webinar
Wednesday, August 26
2 p.m. - 3 p.m ET
Online
RSVP at https://info.cpowerenergymanagement.com/WBN-NEStateoftheMarket_LP-Registration.html
Even before the onset of the Covid-19 lockdown, 2020 was expected to be a year of change in New England’s energy market. As the region works its way through the pandemic’s maze, organizations are reexamining their energy management strategies in search of optimization for an increasingly uncertain future.
Join CPower on August 26, 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 England.
How ISO-NE is working to address the region’s fuel security issues
Proposed energy market changes and redesigns
How renewables are affecting the market
Energy storage other distributed generation monetization opportunities
New and existing demand response programs
And more...
CPower’s New England experts Keith Black and Jobin Arthungal will host this live webinar that will include a question and answer session.
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A Discussion with Historian Martha S. Jones
Wednesday, August 26
4 – 5:10 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-origin-stories-1848-virtual
SPEAKER(S) Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history, Johns Hopkins University
Moderated by Lisa Tetrault, Associate professor of history, Carnegie Mellon University
DETAILS In this presentation, historian Martha S. Jones will root the generations-long movement for women’s suffrage in the activism of African American women from the 1830s. Jones will explore the tangled intersections of gender and race in the battle for the ballot while considering the evolution of birthright citizenship, more broadly, as itself a gendered origins story about constituting the American people. Register online.
This webinar is part of the Long 19th Amendment Project’s public program series, “Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th Amendment.” The Radcliffe Institute will offer an online conference—six sessions between August and December. “Voting Matters” brings together scholars, activists, and public intellectuals to consider the long history of gender and citizenship in the United States.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-origin-stories-1848-virtual
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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MEGA-URBANIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE CASE OF AFRICA
Wednesday, August 26
6:00-7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mega-urbanization-and-sustainability-the-case-of-africa-tickets-114479509294
Kwabena Kyei-Aboagye, MCP, JD, Urban Environmental Program Manager, USEPA Region I; Adjunct Professor
Madhu Dutta-Koehler, PhD, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director; President, Urbanability
Webinar followed by Q+A
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Thursday, August 27
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Demand Side Energy Management in the Texas Energy Market
Thursday, August 27
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://info.cpowerenergymanagement.com/WBN-ERCOTStateoftheMarket_LP-Registration.html
In recent years, Texas’s energy market has been put to the test with shrinking reserve margins, increased electrical demand, and grid-threatening heat waves. The ERCOT grid has held and the market has helped organizations in the Lone Star State earn significant revenue by monetizing distributed energy resources.
The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, however, has unleashed a Texas-sized helping of uncertainty across the state, causing organizations like yours to scramble for energy insights needed to optimize your energy use and spend.
Join CPower on August 27, 2020, at 1 pm CT for a one-hour webinar designed to give your organization the demand-side energy management insights you need to make the most of 2020 and beyond in Texas.
Topics to be covered include:
How ERCOT’s economic-driven market design differs from other US energy markets (and why that design may be better for your organization’s bottom line)
Why renewable energy is growing in Texas
How organizations with distributed generation resources can earn revenue
Lucrative demand response opportunities in Texas
And more...
CPower’s Texas experts Mike Hourihan and Joe Hayden will host this live webinar that will include a question and answer session.
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Mary Berry and Bill McKibben
Thursday, August 27
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
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Black Boston: Telling Our Stories
Thursday, August 27
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh8mi8z25d84bc2f&oseq=&c=&ch=
Join the BU Initiative on Cities, the BU Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and WBUR CitySpace for Black Boston: Telling Our Stories. How is Boston's media industry working on diversifying leadership, journalists, and the stories they tell? Where do gaps endure? How can Boston nurture and inspire a new generation of Black journalists?
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Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Thursday, August 27
6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://emerson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-qtrTkpGdHmO52V14eDSbamXbk003TH
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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Wellesley Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
Thursday, August 27
6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/EE_Wellesley_Kickoff/
XR is kicking off our new Wellesley Emergency Everywhere campaign!
The town of Wellesley has had the climate emergency on the Town Meeting agenda since early 2020 but has delayed talking about it until the next meeting in October. We need to create pressure and show the Town Meeting members that this is an urgent issue that cannot be delayed. Wellesley will be one of ~7 towns in Massachusetts where we are planning direct actions in the Emergency Everywhere campaign. Each town will follow a sequence of actions that escalate if our demands are not met.
Come learn more about the Wellesley campaign and plug in to helping us organize it. We need your help in: planning actions, establishing local partnerships, building art, holding support roles during actions, etc.
Run time 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST. Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83693052148?pwd=U3lhaW81YlR1WWFlMW5KYmsvSnU5dz09
Campaign resources - https://xrmass.org/wiki/emergency-everywhere/
Love and rage y'all.
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COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
Thursday, August 27
8pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://act.medicare4all.org/signup/covid-webinars-ads
Join National Nurses United for a five-part webinar series that will break down the challenges caused by the pandemic, the underlying problems that have helped make these challenges worse, and what we can do to solve these problems. You can join all five webinars, some, or just one, depending on your interests.
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Friday, August 28
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Decolonizing Ourselves Co-Learning
Friday, August 28
10am - 12pm
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96536836889
Please join us for an 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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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, August 28
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
Watch on the Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
Another week has passed in the first pandemic of the 21st century, with thousands of new stories posted and printed, yet questions still often outnumbering answers.
Each Friday, the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability hosts a lunchtime review of COVID-19 headlines and next steps featuring different journalists and researchers each week.
Explore more Sustain What episodes on YouTube at j.mp/sustainwhatlive or subscribe on Periscope at pscp.tv/revkin.
Solutions Journalism Network: solutionsjournalism.org
The Earth Institute Initiative: sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Contact Andy Revkin with questions or ideas for future segments: @revkin on Twitter or andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
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Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1978)
Friday, August 28
8 - 10pm
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Based on the fictional action crime/drama novel by Sam Greenlee. Black freedom fighter Dan Freeman receives military training in the CIA, and uses his new skills to lead an underground resistance in Chicago for his love of black people to be free. Directed by Ivan Dixon.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston@riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Saturday August 29
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Independent Bookstore Day!
Saturday August 29
Go to your local independent bookstore and BUY something!
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Charles River Watershed Association Clean-Up
Saturday, August 29
9 - 11 a.m.
North Point Park, Cambridge
We have space for 12 volunteers to work with us in North Point Park. Projects will focus on invasive plant management and litter removal.
We have worked closely with MassDCR to develop safety protocols, which include social distancing, mandatory face masks, and additional tool sanitation. Participants must register at least 3 days prior to the event by emailing Sasha at svallieres@thecharles.org. Onsite registration will not be available.
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Arlington Shoe Strike @ Uncle Sam
Saturday August 29
10 a.m.
4 Mystic Street, Arlington
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/arlington_shoes_strike_200829/
Shoe Strike! Please join us for a safe social distanced climate awareness action Saturday August 29 10am at the Uncle Sam Statue (4 Mystic Street, Arlington, MA).
If feasible, bring pairs of shoes, which we will set out as part of the global #FridaysForFuture ShoeStrike (inspired by Greta Thunberg) around the world that day. 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.
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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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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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Tuesday, September 1
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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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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.
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