Sunday, August 02, 2020

Energy (and Other) Events - August 2, 2020

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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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/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/

Local
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GYuPYEzBk9KIyH3C3419aYxIMVAsa7BL7nBl9434Mg/edit?usp=sharing

Boston + MA COVID19 Resources
(This is a different Google Doc with a similar name, compiled by the Asian
American Resource Workshop)
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 3 - Friday, August 7
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Enhancing Federal Clean Energy Innovation

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Monday August 3
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1pm  Our Last Chance to Save a World that Won't Be Saved
1pm  Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop

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Tuesday, August 4 - Monday, August 17 
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Jewish Climate Action Network (MA)'s Soil and Land Management Film Series

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Tuesday, August 4
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10am  Extratropical Storm Tracks and the Mean State of the Atmosphere
11am  Overwhelmed as an Antiracist and Activist?
12pm  Summer Skillshare: Two Masks in 30 minutes, with Julie Parker
12:30pm  Past, Present and Future: Nuclear Energy Cooperation between the U.S. and Its Allies
2pm  Fish farming - can it be sustainable?
2pm  A Conversation on Environmental Alarmism with Michael Shellenberger
4pm  Book Talk: Gish Jen
4pm  Breaking up Big Tech: Should Congress do it?
5pm  That Artistry of Black Organizing in the 21st Century
5pm  John Lewis and Nonviolent Actions
7pm  Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber and Elon Musk
7pm  Environmental Justice, racism, activism, artivism
7pm  Extinction Rebellion Orientation

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Wednesday, August 5
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11am  Residual Overturning Circulation and Its Connection to Southern Ocean Dynamics
12pm  Cybersecurity and Data Trustworthiness in Connected and Automated Vehicles
12pm  The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change:  Climate Justice and COVID-19
1pm  AR/VR in Construction: Safety Training, BIM Workflows, and Site Design
1:30pm  Preventing the next pandemic
3pm  Climate Reality with Neil Jennings; Behavioural Change and its Co-Benefits
3pm  Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers and the Fight Against Covid
3pm  Summer Webinar Series: COP 25: Who tells the climate justice story?
6pm  THE CHANGING FACE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION
7pm  EAPS Explores - Our Solar System
7pm  From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century!
7pm  Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
8:30pm  Climate Change, COVID, and Health Disparities

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Thursday, August 6 - Thursday, August 27
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2pm  American Climate Leadership Summit 2020 LIVE ONLINE

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Thursday, August 6
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5am  Climate information for adapting agriculture for the future
1pm  Investigating Mexican Paleoclimate with Precisely Dated Speleothems
2pm  Greg Watson and John Todd
2pm  Addressing another COVID-19 crisis: Corruption
6:30pm  A discussion on Ocean Acidification & Climate Change Impact on Coral Reefs
7pm  CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH THE ARTIST’S EYES WITH ALONZO KING
7pm  Charles Renfro: The Future of Cities
8pm  The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Radhika Fox
8pm  DearBiden Climate Policy Series - Unity Task Force

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Friday, August 7
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2am  COVID-19 and Climate Change - International relations
2am  New paradigms for a new world: Futurists Gerd Leonhard and John Eyles
12pm  EBC Climate Change Webinar Series: Refurbishment of Langone Park & Puopolo Playground
1pm  Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
3pm  Extinction Rebellion [XR} SF Friday Online Activism
6pm  People and Planet: Creating Change
7pm  Life of a Klansman:  A Family History in White Supremacy
8pm  Defund the Police and Pay Reparations to the African Community

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Saturday, August 8
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11am  American Humanist Association Annual Conference
1pm  Climate Speaker Series - Dr. Kim Cobb, climate scientist at Georgia Tech
1pm  The Post-Covid Economy
3pm  Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) Training
5pm  The Future We Dare to Create: Rally with Angela Davis

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Sunday, August 9
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6am  Cli-Fi for beginners: Imagination for climate solutions
6pm  The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
6:30pm  350 Contra Costa Presents: Climate Stakes in the 2020 Election

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Monday, August 10
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12pm  Online: Let's Talk About The Future
1pm  Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
1:30pm  How To Academy presents...Our Future on a Hot Earth with Jelmer Mommers In Conversation With Matthew Stadlen
9pm  How to add climate resilient features to city centres

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Tuesday, August 11
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4:30am  A renewables-led recovery: towards a zero-emissions future
7:30am  The Future of Energy
11:30am  China’s BRI & tackling climate change are they mutually exclusive?
12pm  Women on the Move: Climate-Driven Migration
12:30pm  POLLUTING AND PROVIDING: THE DIRTY ENERGY DILEMMA
4pm  Book Talk: A’Lelia Bundles
5:30pm  Exploring Environmental Justice
6pm  Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Mother of All Innovation
8pm  Extinction Rebellion [XR]US Anti-Racism Training

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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

The Life Cycle Competed
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-life-cycle-completed.html

Geometry Links
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2020/07/geometry-links-july-23-2020.html

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Monday, August 3 - Friday, August 7
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Enhancing Federal Clean Energy Innovation
Monday, August 3 - Friday, August 7
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enhancing-federal-clean-energy-innovation-registration-106246841162

Join the National Academies for a series of virtual workshops on Enhancing Federal Clean Energy Innovation from July 27 - August 7.

Stream sessions at http://www.nationalacademies.org/innovationworkshop
A widespread and rapid transition to low-carbon energy by 2050 is essential to keep pace with ambitious policy goals and avoid the worst consequences of climate change. Historically, energy transitions have taken 50-100 years from initial breakthrough to widespread adoption, which means this transition must be implemented on a much shorter time scale.

The National Academies is convening a workshop series to examine barriers and highlight successful strategies for accelerating clean energy innovation across the federal government. These webcast events will feature timely, action-oriented assessments of how to strengthen demand for new clean energy technologies and facilitate cross-agency and cross-sector collaboration to solve today’s energy challenges. Sessions featuring clean energy innovation experts will be broadcast online from July 27 through August 7, with opportunities for audience Q&A participation. 
The opening session will feature remarks and discussion from Paul Dabbar, Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science. The workshop series' closing session will feature former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. 

For the convenience of our online participants, we have spread out the workshop panels over multiple days in order to keep session lengths under two hours.  Download full agenda from a link at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enhancing-federal-clean-energy-innovation-registration-106246841162

Panel Dates, Topics, and Speakers:
Monday, August 3 from 1pm-3pm ET: Expert Roundtable
Tuesday, August 4 from 1pm-2:30pm ET: Advanced Manufacturing and the Climate Crisis: Changes and Opportunities
Thursday, August 6 from 1pm-2:30pm ET: Thinking Globally
Friday, August 7 from 1pm-2:30pm ET: Next Steps

For more information about this workshop series, visit the project website. 

Login Instructions
If you register for the event on this page, you'll receive login instructions via email as the event approaches.

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Monday August 3
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Our Last Chance to Save a World that Won't Be Saved
Monday August 3
1pm to 2pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-last-chance-to-save-a-world-that-wont-be-saved-with-rupert-read-tickets-112666996018

Rupert Read
We are excited to have Rupert Read join us for our sixth in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics in light of the global pandemic. Rupert will be discussing the urgency with which we need to act despite living in a system unwilling to respond. 
The format will be an introductory talk by a Rupert, followed by a Q&A and finishing off in breakout rooms to have more interactive discussions in smaller groups.

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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 3
1:00 PM - 2:30 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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Tuesday, August 4 - Monday, August 17 
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Jewish Climate Action Network (MA)'s Soil and Land Management Film Series
Tuesday, August 4 - Monday, August 17 
6pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2MA7XJD0jBH-bTD7xgbx8odtJhB1hn4UeWJRcsIocXnOl-w/viewform

Join Jewish Climate Action Network (MA)'s Soil and Land Management team for our film series in August! We’ll be viewing Hometown Habitat from and Intelligent Trees from August 10 through August 16, then coming together for a moderated discussion on August 17 at 6 PM to explore the importance of native plants, communication among plants and trees, and steps we can take right now to help fight climate change. 

This program is made possible by a generous grant from New England Grassroots Environment Fund and is limited to 50 participants. First come, first served! Please sign up here ASAP to reserve your space! Please email deborahnamkrane@gmail.com with any questions.

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Tuesday, August 4
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Extratropical Storm Tracks and the Mean State of the Atmosphere
Tuesday, August 4
10:00am to 11:00am
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/j/93624788555

Thesis Defense: Charles Garrison Gertler
A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate.

CHAIR OF DEFENSE:
Prof. David McGee, MIT, EAPS
THESIS COMMITTEE:
Prof. Ronald G. Prinn, MIT, EAPS, Advisor
Prof. Paul A. O’Gorman, MIT, EAPS, Co-Advisor
Prof. Stephan Pfahl, Freie Universität, Institute of Meteorology

Contact Brandon Milardo: bmilardo@mit.edu for the password
Copies of the thesis may be obtained from the EAPS Education Office.
All interested faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

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Overwhelmed as an Antiracist and Activist?
Monday, August 3
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Antiracists/events/272184943/

We will meet (again) to discuss how we are dealing with our feelings of OVERWHELM due to the many issues with racism and our efforts as antiracists. We know we can't do it all. How do we decide what to do? How do we manage and be the most effective instead of giving up and doing nothing?

Hopefully by sharing what we are struggling with, we can get some tools to better manage and balance our days, to feel less overwhelmed.

ZOOM:
The Zoom link will be posted in the comments before the meeting. A password will be included and a "waiting room." Deb will only let in folks that RSVP here. Put a note in the comments if you are having problems getting in. (Please check in and download Zoom in advance if you haven't used it before.)

Please let us know your needs so we can help make the event accessible for you.

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Summer Skillshare: Two Masks in 30 minutes, with Julie Parker
Tuesday, August 4
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-two-masks-in-30-minutes-tickets-111154179142

Craft maven and FX manager Julie Parker, along with a crew of other women at MIT, sewed hundreds of masks during the peak of the pandemic in MA. Julie will show us how to make two different styles of mask (one that takes only a matter of minutes!) and answer any questions you might have.

If you enjoy this event, please consider a $2 donation (or whatever you can afford!) to Women's Lunch Place, a local charity dear to Julie's heart.

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Past, Present and Future: Nuclear Energy Cooperation between the U.S. and Its Allies
Tuesday, August 4
12:30-2:00 p.m. EDT
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prdaztGQSfauxLtZNiqkqw

The U.S. nuclear industry is being challenged by multiple factors: cheap natural gas, cost overruns in the first AP1000 pressurized water reactor construction projects, competition from Russia and (increasingly) China on foreign reactor bids, and more. One element of a U.S. nuclear energy strategy could be to pursue deepened cooperation with key U.S. allies, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and South Korea, in order to both preserve the existing reactor fleet and demonstrate the potential of advanced reactors as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions and address climate change.
The Center on Global Energy Policy will host a discussion on the past, present and future of nuclear energy cooperation between the U.S. and its allies, especially in response to the urgency and challenge of climate change. Topics will include:
Historical nuclear energy cooperation between the U.S. and its allies
The foreign ownership, control, or domination regulations and how they have been problematic for cooperation with allies on reactor projects in the U.S. in the past
As a case study, the costs involved in developing and demonstrating the NuScale Power small modular reactor, as well as the international partnerships that NuScale has assembled with British, Korean, and French entities
The U.S. Department of Energy’s international nuclear energy programs and how they could be re-oriented to facilitate cooperation on advanced reactor demonstration

Panelists:
Dr. Matt Bowen, Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA
Chris Colbert, Chief Strategy Officer, NuScale Power, LLC
Joyce Connery, Board Member, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Amy Roma, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP

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Fish farming - can it be sustainable?
Tuesday, August 4
2:00 – 4:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fish-farming-can-it-be-sustainable-tickets-114273485070

This event will focus on the impacts of fish farming and its systems to answer the question: 'Can fish farming really be sustainable?'

The Climate Cafes are a monthly event organised by Aberdeen Climate Action. Each month focuses on a different topic related to climate action and solutions. 

The speakers for this month's session, focused on fish farming, are:
Prof. Sam Martin (University of Aberdeen): Fish Health and Fish Farming.
John Macdonald (Lecturer and programme manager in Environmental Resource Management, SRUC): Fish Farming: the Overview.
David McGrath: 'On-shore' Fish Farming Systems
This online version of our Climate Cafe will follow the same structure as our face to face cafes: three 20 minutes presentations will be followed by an opportunity for you to ask the speaker questions and participate in the discussion.

The event space will be open from 6:30, talks begin at 7pm. 
You can find more information about our Climate Cafes and about Aberdeen Climate Action at : https://www.aberdeenclimateaction.org/

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A Conversation on Environmental Alarmism with Michael Shellenberger
Thursday, August 6
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-on-environmental-alarmism-with-michael-shellenberger-tickets-113723102862
Cost:  $10 – $30

Please join IPI for a Zoom discussion with Michael Shellenberger, author of “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All."

Please join the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) on August 6 for a special Zoom policy discussion with Michael Shellenberger, author of the national bestseller “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.”

Shellenberger has been an environmental activist for decades but eventually concluded he needed to separate climate change facts from the hyperbole, misinformation and counterproductive measures being espoused by many environmental groups.

Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks in part to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.

While climate change is real, it’s not our most serious environmental problem.

What’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? You’ll have to join us to hear Shellenberger’s conclusions. And you’ll also have a chance to order a copy of his book when you register for the event. We hope you can join us!

Editorial Comment:  This is by no means an endorsement of Schellenberger, whom I’ve met and found somewhat arrogantly obtuse (at least that night), and his views. Think of it as opposition research, the next iteration of predatory delay in doing anything about climate.

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Book Talk: Gish Jen
Tuesday, August 4
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-book-talk-gish-jen-virtual

Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02, author of The Resisters (Knopf, 2020)

Reading will be followed by discussion with Margot Livesey RI ’13, a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of eight novels, including, most recently, Mercury (Harper, 2016). The event will also feature an audience Q and A.

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Breaking up Big Tech: Should Congress do it?
Tuesday, August 4
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-breaking-up-big-tech

Join the conversation on Twitter using #Antitrust
The July tech antitrust hearing in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee stands to be historic. With the CEOs of Silicon Valley’s four most important firms — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Google’s Sundar Pichai — all testifying, this may be the moment Americans finally get answers about what makes Big Tech tick and the implications the industry holds for competition in an increasingly digital world. Many — including Senators Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren — have suggested that tremendous monopoly power in the hands of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon has serious ramifications for the national economy and our democratic future. Are these companies monopolies? Have they caused harm? And if so, what steps are necessary to protect the public interest?

On August 4, Dipayan Ghosh, author of the new and highly acclaimed “Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design” (2020), will address these and more questions with colleagues. Ghosh, a former Facebook executive and White House economic adviser who now leads the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, will be joined by Kara Swisher, tech columnist with the New York Times and founder/editor of Recode, Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Oliver Darcy, senior media reporter with CNN.

Viewers can submit questions for panelists by emailing events@brookings.edu or tweeting to @BrookingsPress using the hashtag #Antitrust.

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That Artistry of Black Organizing in the 21st Century
Wednesday, August 4
5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-artistry-of-black-organizing-in-the-21st-century-tickets-113932747916
Cost:  $0 - $25

People often think that protests and marches define organizing.

However, so much of what Black organizers do involves more mundane and less sexy work like: mutual aid, transformative justice, fundraising for bail, working to fight evictions, healing and carework. This work helps lay the groundwork for getting people to imagine the abolition of policing and other violent systems in order to build support networks (and worlds) that don’t rely on the logics of anti-Blackness.

This behind the scenes work is also gendered, racialized and classed labor that many Black queer, trans, non-binary and disabled femmes perform.

Join us for a conversation with leading Atlanta-based organizers about the deep, intersectional, and transformative struggle for Black liberation.

Speakers:
Mary Hooks is the co-director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). SONG is a political home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. We build, sustain, and connect a southern regional base of LGBTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in our communities. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, coalition and alliance building, intersectional analysis, and organizing. Mary’s commitment to Black liberation, which encompasses the liberation of LGBTQ folks, is rooted in her experiences growing up under the impacts of the War on Drugs. Her people are migrants of the Great Migration, factory workers, church folks, Black women, hustlers and addicts, dykes, studs, femmes, queens and all people fighting for the liberation of oppressed people. 

Monica Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to activism by calling her artistic and healing practices into the implementation of SisterSong’s mission. Based in the historic West End in Atlanta, GA and founded in 1997, SisterSong amplifies and strengthens the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color and ensures reproductive justice through securing human rights. SisterSong’s headquarters is known as the “MotherHouse” and is a national organizing center for feminists of color. 

Toni-Michelle Williams is an auto-theorist, performance artist, and executive director of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNAPCO). As a native of Atlanta, Georgia, she is a celebrated community organizer in prison abolition/prison reform issues. She was instrumental in the campaign to calling for the Closure the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC), marijuana decriminalization, sex worker rights & protections, and ending the criminalization Black transgender and queer people in Atlanta. In addition, she is regarded for her innovation in framework development for Black transgender feminism and peer-led- community-based leadership development for Black transgender women. In 2019, William’s served as a member of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' Taskforce to Repurpose ACDC and currently serves on Atlanta’s Police Use of Force Taskforce. Williams is a 2019 OUT100 Magazine Honoree, She is adorned for her infectious smile, golden personality and undeniable light. 

Tiffany Lethabo King is an associate professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019) and a co-editor of the book Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press, 2020).

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John Lewis and Nonviolent Actions
Tuesday, August 4
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Antiracists/events/272044441/

In honor of John Lewis's life (Feb. 21, 1940-July 17, 2020) and his many years of activism that led to racial justice progress, we are having an open conversation sharing our knowledge of his life and work, nonviolent actions in general, and our own experiences doing nonviolent actions.

Here are some (optional) resources to help to educate yourself about John Lewis's life and work (you can share any suggested resources you recommend for us about John Lewis (or this topic) in the comments):

John Lewis - Get in the Way (PBS Special, 53m):
"Follow the journey of civil rights hero, congressman and human rights champion John Lewis. At the Selma March, Lewis came face-to-face with club-wielding troopers and exemplified non-violence."
https://www.pbs.org/show/john-lewis-get-in-the-way/

The Life and Legacy of John Lewis on The Daily:
https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-d2yev-99afabb

ZOOM:
The Zoom link will be posted in the comments before the meeting. A password will be included and a "waiting room." We will only let in folks that RSVP here. Put a note in the comments if you are having problems getting in, and do your best to be on time or a little early. (Please check in and download Zoom in advance if you haven't used it before.)

Please let us know your needs so we can help make the event accessible for you.

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Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber and Elon Musk
Tuesday, August 4
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-transit-in-the-age-of-google-uber-and-elon-musk-tickets-114353753154
Cost:  $0 – $15

WOTS Toronto presents The City Imagines, a series of discussions about books that shape cities, ft. authors Cory Doctorow and James Wilt

For our fourth City Imagines panel, Radicalized author Cory Doctorows peaks with James Wilt, author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk.

For North American cities built around cars, public transportation was already in crisis. So what happens when a tech giant enters the transit ecosystem? Join us for this wide-ranging discussion about how transportation affects climate change, inequality, accessibility, safety, labour issues, and information privacy. What should public transit look like in a green and equitable city? And what's needed for citizens to exert power over how cities are built and for whom?
Presented by The Word On The Street, City Imagines explores books that shape cities. Join us online for a wide ranging series of discussions about cities and the people who shape them. The full City Imagines schedule can be found here.

Streaming details for this session will be emailed to attendees 24-hours before the event.

PANELISTS
CORY DOCTOROW (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults, In Real Life, a graphic novel; Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, a book about earning a living in the Internet age, and Homeland, a YA sequel to Little Brother. His latest book is Poesy The Monster Slayer, a picture book for young readers. His next book is Attack Surface, an adult sequel to Little Brother.

JAMES WILT is a freelance journalist and graduate student based in Winnipeg. He frequently contributes to Canadian publications including Canadian Dimension, Briarpatch, and Passage.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transport in the age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk
Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current work of committed people advocating for a different way forward, James Wilt imagines what public transit should look like in order to be green and equitable. Wilt considers environment and climate change, economic and racial inequality, urban density, accessibility and safety, work and labour unions, privacy and control of personal data, as well as the importance of public and democratic decision-making.
Based on interviews with more than forty experts, including community activists, academics, transit planners, authors, and journalists, Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? explores our ability to exert power over how cities are built and for whom.

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Environmental Justice, racism, activism, artivism
Tuesday, August 4
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216

Lyla June Johnston and J. Drew Lanham
Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization.
Website: www.lylajunejohnston.com

Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author, poet and wildlife biologist. Raised in Edgefield, South Carolina, Lanham studied zoology and ecology at Clemson University, where he earned a PhD in 1997 and where he currently holds an endowed chair as an Alumni Distinguished Professor. He is a board member of several conservation organizations, including the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, Audubon South Carolina, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, BirdNote, and the American Birding Association, and an advisory board member for the North American Association of Environmental Education. In 2019 he was awarded the National Audubon Society's Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, recognizing "individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to the environment”.

In 2013, Lanham wrote a piece for Orion Magazine titled "9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher", drawing attention to the lack of black birders and diversity in general among naturalists. The short piece inspired producer Ari Daniel and videographer Amanda Kowalski to create a short film with the same title for BirdNote which quickly went viral on social media.[1] In 2016 he wrote "Birding While Black." In 2017 he published an award-winning memoir titled "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature". Lanham features in episode 7 of the 2019 TV series Birds of North America, produced by Topic and hosted by Jason Ward.

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Extinction Rebellion Orientation
Tuesday, August 4
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/orientation-2020-08-04/

If you are new to Extinction Rebellion or would just like to learn more about how it works, please join us a conversation about who we are and how we do our work.

We will cover the following:
What is XR? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What are we trying to achieve?
What are our principles and values?
How are we organized?
Learn how you can get involved!

The session will run for around 90 minutes. Please sign up above. You will receive an invite to the Zoom meeting closer to the date of the event.

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Wednesday, August 5
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Residual Overturning Circulation and Its Connection to Southern Ocean Dynamics
Wednesday, August 5
11:00am to 12:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEofuyrqjsrGt3Tc_ZDDFZ1DbFdFNJzMrH4

Thesis Defense: Madeleine K. Youngs (MIT/WHOI Joint Program)
A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

CHAIR OF DEFENSE:
Dr. Irina Rypina, WHOI
THESIS COMMITTEE:      
Prof. Glenn Flierl, Advisor, MIT, EAPS
Dr. Michael Spall, WHOI
Prof. David Marshall, University of Oxford
Prof. Nicole Lovenduski, University of Colorado, Boulder

Copies of the thesis may be obtained from the WHOI Academic Programs Office and department headquarters at MIT.
All interested faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

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Cybersecurity and Data Trustworthiness in Connected and Automated Vehicles
Wednesday, August 5
12:00pm to 12:45pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/j/92703463004

The large amount of data generated by sensor-rich vehicles is not only useful for their control and planning but can also be shared to support traffic control and emergency responses as vehicles are connected to infrastructure units in future transportation systems. However, security issues arise if these data are inaccurate due to sensor vulnerabilities in extreme environment conditions or intentionally spoofed by adversaries. In this talk, I will first review security issues regarding data trustworthiness in connected and automated vehicles. A case study on the trust evaluation of the data sent through Vehicles-to-Infrastructure (V2I) channels will then be presented. In particular, I will introduce a novel security V2I protocol-Proof-of-Travel-that verifies the authenticity and correctness of vehicle-reported events and is built upon the physical law of vehicle movement and cryptography mechanisms.

Bio:   Dajiang Suo is a PhD candidate at Prof. Sanjay Sarma’s Auto-ID lab and conducts research in the cybersecurity of connected and automated vehicles. He holds a B.S. degree in mechatronics engineering, and a S.M. degree in Computer Science. Before returning to school to pursue PhD degree, Suo was with the vehicle control and autonomous driving team at Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI), working on sensing technologies and the safety of autonomous vehicles. His research interests include non-invasive sensing, contextual-based authentication, and consensus algorithms for establishing trust on IoT devices.

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The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change:  Climate Justice and COVID-19
Wednesday, August 5
12-1:30pm Eastern time
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gendered-impacts-of-climate-change-series-tickets-114686359990

Join us for a panel discussion with Adrienne Hollis, the Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and Jacqueline Patterson, the Senior Director of the Environmental Climate Justice Program at the NAACP. We will discuss the movement for climate justice and the impact of COVID-19 on the movement. 

The panel will take place on Zoom, August 5, 12-1:30pm Eastern time. Meeting details will be emailed once participants register.

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AR/VR in Construction: Safety Training, BIM Workflows, and Site Design
Wednesday, August 5
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/AR-VR-for-Training-Education-BOS/events/271847095/

How do leading construction teams use virtual reality for on-site safety training? How do leading designers use BIM data in their AR visualization projects? What are other leading use cases for XR in construction?

Join us for an hour of (virtual) presentations and speed networking! The first half of the event will cover how immersive technology is being used to improve worker safety and project planning in the construction industry. The second half will revolve around networking so you can meet other folks interested in XR!

Sign up for the meeting link
Password: 723218

Already have some questions you'd like us to answer? Fill out our survey and we'll get to them ASAP!
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Note: this event’s presentations will be recorded, but all personal information will be edited out.

How does online networking work?
1. We'll kick off with a presentation on how immersive technology is impacting the Construction industry
2. Then we’ll dive into a round of lightning virtual meetings (in breakout rooms) so you can get to know other training and education professionals and enthusiasts in the group.

Why join us:
You will meet developers, designers, instructional professionals, and other training and education professionals.
You will learn the basics of AR/VR; technologies enabling remote learning globally.
(Most importantly) you will make new friends!

Logistics & Agenda:
10:00am - Welcome & Event Kickoff
10:10am - Presentation on XR and Construction
10:35am - Speed Networking
11:00am - Wrap Up

Event Overview:
In this meetup you will learn about how AR and VR are being used to enhance construction safety training and visualization. You will get a glimpse into how industry leaders are adopting the technology and how it is improving their workflows.

About KairosXR:
KairosXR(www.kairosxr.com) is an augmented and virtual reality design and development agency based in San Francisco. KXR works with teams around the world, developing custom immersive 3D training and education solutions, building XR integration and business strategies, and advising individuals and teams on development, design, and XR management best practices.

Contact:
Any questions? Email hello@kairosxr.com.

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Preventing the next pandemic
Wednesday, August 5
1:30 – 2:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preventing-the-next-pandemic-tickets-113083818746
Cost:  £5

What can we do to avoid another global pandemic?

Coronavirus, many scientists believe, was most likely transmitted to humans from a horseshoe bat via another host species, possibly an illegally-traded pangolin. In recent years Ebola, SARS and avian influenza were all the result of a similar process of zoonotic transfer. The illegal wildlife trade has not only been emboldened by COVID-19; it also may have helped create it. The pandemic has not only resulted in loss of life worldwide and a global economic crisis, it is the cause of a new conservation emergency. With the eyes of the world focused elsewhere, those who prey on endangered wildlife for profit have used the disruption caused by the virus to exploit the challenges faced by those protecting wildlife as their funding collapses, movement is limited, and national governments see their economies contract rapidly.

The impact is already visible. Several African states report a sharp increase in carcasses, raising fears of a return to poaching levels of a decade ago. In India, lockdown is feared to have brought a similar surge, with new trade routes reported emerging faster than the authorities can respond to them. With tourism having collapsed, revenues that funded protection have disappeared and poachers been encouraged by the absence of visitors. Local communities, facing starvation, have resorted to killing wild animals to survive.

In response The Independent and the London Evening Standard, led by ESI Media’s largest shareholder Evegeny Lebedev and supported by partners including the conservation charity Space for Giants, has launched the Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade campaign, urging the world act to stop traffickers, prevent illegal wildlife sales, and unite to save endangered species from becoming another victim of COVID-19.
Join assistant editor Lucie McInerney and senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle as they discuss the need for greater global collaboration in reducing this threat to public health around the world and the vital importance of shutting down the illegal wildlife trade in order to prevent the next case of zoonotic spillover from animals to humans.

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Climate Reality with Neil Jennings; Behavioural Change and its Co-Benefits
Wednesday, August 5
3:00 – 4:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-reality-with-neil-jennings-behavioural-change-and-its-co-benefits-tickets-114009439302

The first in a series of events exploring the solutions to the climate emergency organised by UK based Volunteer Climate Leaders.

Dr Neil Jennings is Partnership Development Manager at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, at Imperial College London. 

Neil will be discussing the challenge of behaviour change in the context of achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. 
The presentation will look at the progress of emission reductions in different sectors to date (e.g. energy, transport, agriculture), discuss why bringing about pro-environmental behaviour change can be difficult and share a tool called the Individual – Social – Material (ISM) model that can help in the planning of behaviour change interventions. 

The presentation will also discuss how the co-benefits of climate action (e.g. improving air quality, warmer homes) can be used to communicate climate change in a way which resonates with the other key concerns faced by society.
Zoom registration details will be issued the day before the event.

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Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers and the Fight Against Covid
Wednesday, August 5
3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-from-the-front-line-health-care-workers-and-the-fight-against-covid-tickets-114698514344
Cost:  $0 -$25

With states reopening around the country despite record levels of Covi-19 cases and a growing death toll as well as a national debate about whether public schools are safe to resume in-person classes this fall, it is clear that government officials don’t care about the human cost of this pandemic. Health care workers on the front lines of the crisis have been in the trenches, seen the devastation first hand and continue to organize against the inactions and callousness of the policy-makers.

Hear from front line nurses and health care workers about their battles in hospitals and the nursing homes against Covid-19 and why the fight against this pandemic is intricately linked to the struggle for Black lives and for dignity and respect in the workplace.

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Summer Webinar Series: COP 25: Who tells the climate justice story?
Wednesday, August 5
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/summer-webinar-series-cop-25-who-tells-the-climate-justice-story-tickets-113501132944

Are you interested in learning about inclusion, exclusion, and what it means to be part of the global "climate justice" movement? In this webinar, you will have the opportunity to hear about the first-hand experiences of six UofT delegates, nominated for their involvement with environmental and sustainability issues, who attended the most recent UN climate negotiations. These delegates observed the COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid as a part of a pilot project by the University of Toronto Environmental Action (UTEA). 

This webinar will focus on how the erasure of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized bodies, particularly from the global South, is pervasive at all levels of climate governance — from local activism to the international stage. Participants will critique mainstream media coverage of the youth climate justice movement, reflect on the colonial institutions of climate governance, and consider the role of protests and civil disobedience in local and global climate action. This will also involve discussions asking participants to reflect on their identity and privilege in the movement, and brainstorm what accessible and inclusive climate justice looks like.

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THE CHANGING FACE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION
Wednesday, August 5
6:00-7:00pm 
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-changing-face-of-urban-transportation-tickets-114477958656

Joshua Hassol, PhD, Technology Policy Analyst, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center; Adjunct Professor
Terrance J. Regan, MPA, Principal Technical Advisor for Innovative Transportation and Financing, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center; Adjunct Professor
Webinar followed by Q+A

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EAPS Explores - Our Solar System
Wednesday, August 5
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://encompass.alum.mit.edu/s/1314/17form/interior.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=53402&cid=86793 

Bring your curiosity and tour our solar system, from the Sun to Pluto, scaled to actual sizes and distances along the Infinite Corridor, and learn about MIT’s contributions to advancing planetary exploration. Experience what it’s like to be a planetary explorer as you arrive and examine each world in fine detail with the help of guest experts from MIT’s Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).

Featuring: Richard P. Binzel, EAPS professor of planetary sciences and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow

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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century! 
Wednesday, August 5
7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fromheretoequality

Today’s black-white wealth gap originated with the unfulfilled promise of 40 acres in 1865. The payment of this debt in the 21st century is feasible—and at least 155 years overdue. In From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen advance a general definition of reparations as a program of acknowledgment, redress, and closure. Acknowledgment constitutes the culpable party’s admission of responsibility for the atrocity; admission should include recognition of the damages inflicted upon the enslaved and their descendants and the advantages gained by the culpable party. Redress constitutes the acts of restitution; the steps taken to “heal the wound.” In this context, it means erasure of the black-white wealth gap. Closure constitutes an agreement by both the victims and the perpetrators that the account is settled. 

A. Kirsten Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts-consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. She was a member of the Freelon Adjaye Bond concept development team that was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s commission to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Under the auspices of the North Carolina Arts Council she worked to expand the Coastal Folklife Survey. As a faculty member with the Community Folklife Documentation Institute, she trained students to research and document the state’s African American music heritage. Kirsten was a consultant on the North Carolina Museum of History’s “North Carolina Legends” and “Civil Rights” exhibition projects. Her writing in museum catalogs, journals, and in commercial media includes “Black Culture and History Matter” (The American Prospect), which examines the politics of funding black cultural institutions.

She is author, with William Darity, of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). 

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.

His most recent book, authored with A. Kirsten Mullen, is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (2020).

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Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Wednesday, August 5
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_nicholson_baker/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes acclaimed novelist and essayist NICHOLSON BAKER—author of the novels The Mezzanine and The Anthologist and the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning work of non-fiction, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper—for a discussion of his latest book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act. He will be joined in conversation by CHRISTOPHER LYDON, host of WBUR's Open Source.

About Baseless
Eight years ago, while investigating the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker requested a series of Air Force documents from the early 1950s under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Years went by, and he got no response. Rather than wait forever, Baker set out to keep a personal journal of what it feels like to try to write about major historical events in a world of pervasive redactions, witheld records, and glacially slow governmental responses. The result is one of the most original and daring works of nonfiction in recent memory, a singular and mesmerizing narrative that tunnels into the history of some of the darkest and most shameful plans and projects of the CIA, the Air Force, and the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.

In his lucid and unassuming style, Baker assembles what he learns, piece by piece, about Project Baseless, a crash Pentagon program begun in the early fifties that aimed to achieve "an Air Force-wide combat capability in biological and chemical warfare at the earliest possible date." Along the way, he unearths stories of balloons carrying crop disease, leaflet bombs filled with feathers, suicidal scientists, leaky centrifuges, paranoid political-warfare tacticians, insane experiments on animals and humans, weaponized ticks, ferocious propaganda battles with China, and cover and deception plans meant to trick the Kremlin into ramping up its germ-warfare program. At the same time, Baker tells the stories of the heroic journalists and lawyers who have devoted their energies to wresting documentary evidence from goverment repositories, and he shares anecdotes from his daily life in Maine feeding his dogs and watching the morning light gather on the horizon. The result is an astonishing and utterly disarming story about waiting, bureaucracy, the horrors of war, and, above all, the cruel secrets that the United States government seems determined to keep forever from its citizens.

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Climate Change, COVID, and Health Disparities
Wednesday, August 5
8:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-covid-and-health-disparities-tickets-111734649344

How lessons we are learning from the pandemic can help us protect health from climate change and decrease health disparities.

This online webinar directed toward physicians and medical students will focus on climate change as both a rural and urban health threat and opportunity, and how health professionals can use lessons learned from this pandemic to address both climate change and racial and class-based injustice, thereby building a healthier future for all. The talk will highlight a number of promising efforts underway among health professionals in Wisconsin. 
This talk is sponsored by Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, a fast-growing group of health professionals committed to communicating that the global climate crisis is a public health emergency, and advocating for equitable solutions that decrease the impact of climate change on human health. The presenter, Joel Charles, MD, is a rural full-spectrum family doc who got his MPH focusing on climate change and health. He has spent the last 10 years in his (limited) free time organizing health professionals to advocate for climate policy.

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Thursday, August 6 - Thursday, August 27
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American Climate Leadership Summit 2020 LIVE ONLINE
Thursday, August 6 - Thursday, August 27
2pm - 5pm
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 the American 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

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Thursday, August 6
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Climate information for adapting agriculture for the future
Thursday, August 6
5:00 AM – 6:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/climate-information-for-adapting-agriculture-for-the-future-tickets-113312635142

Dr Harris and her team developed an app to help the wine industry forecast and adapt to climate change. Can agriculture use this tool?

Dr Harris will give an overview of the climate information that can inform adaptation planning for climate change, using the wine sector as an example. She will present the recently released Australia’s wine Future. A Climate Atlas, which showcases the most up-to-date climate information at the finest resolution available in Australia.Observed changes in climate in recent decades are described, and the long-term trends explained for many regions around Australia. We will discuss how, by identifying climate analogues, we can transfer knowledge from regions that currently experience the climate conditions projected for the future in another region. The climate is changing, and many farmers are already responding. Adaptation needs to be informed by the most up-to-date climate science, to reduce the impacts of climate change and plan for the future.
Online at zoom.us/j/7868786878

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Investigating Mexican Paleoclimate with Precisely Dated Speleothems
Thursday, August 6
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrf-2rrTopH9An6tdqLC5O_cNzYxUB67n7
Register in advance at the link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Thesis Defense: Gabriela Serrato Marks (MIT/WHOI Joint Program)
A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate.

CHAIR OF DEFENSE:
Prof. Kristin Bergmann, MIT, EAPS

THESIS COMMITTEE:
Prof. David McGee, MIT, EAPS, Advisor
Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer, WHOI
Prof. Tripti Bhattacharya, Syracuse University
Prof. Kathleen Johnson, University of California, Irvine

Electronic copies of the thesis may be obtained from the WHOI Academic Programs Office (lfraser@whoi.edu) and EAPS department headquarters (bmilardo@mit.edu) at MIT.

All interested faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

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Greg Watson and John Todd
Thursday, August 6
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform

Greg Watson is the former Agriculture Commissioner for MA and John Todd is one of the premier ecological designers in the world, a creator of the field.  John was one of the founders of New Alchemy Institute and Greg worked there as an educational coordinator and a director of the Institute.

They will be discussing the history of New Alchemy Institute.

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Addressing another COVID-19 crisis: Corruption
Thursday, August 6
2:00 PM-3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/addressing-another-covid-19-crisis-corruption/

Join the conversation on Twitter using #COVIDoversight
The need for oversight of Trump administration coronavirus spending has reached an inflection point, with numerous reports in recent weeks of coronavirus-related spending flowing to Trump administration allies causing corruption concerns. As aid from the CARES Act quickly runs out, Democratic and Republican congressional leadership and Trump administration officials are negotiating another stimulus bill in response to the devastating economic effects of the pandemic.

Through the CARES Act and the House of Representatives’ independent efforts, four new federal oversight authorities have been created to monitor coronavirus relief, in addition to other oversight activities that are ongoing. Without timely, transparent, and strict guidelines, past oversight failures — including those during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis — could be repeated, and money spent ineffectively, corruptly, and in ways that do not benefit their intended recipients: the American people. The House has been particularly active in its attempts to hold the Trump administration accountable, but it cannot operate alone given the volume and nature of the relief packages. With the challenges effective oversight has faced to date, the issue of what it should look like in the two current proposed bills — HEROES Act and Heals Act — is one of paramount importance.

On August 6, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a webinar examining congressional oversight of COVID-19 relief funds to date and what oversight ought to look like going forward. Panelists will discuss what Congress and other oversight actors need to do to implement vigorous oversight to ensure that the money disbursed by the relief packages gets to the people who need it the most.

Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events@brookings.edu or via Twitter @BrookingsGov by using #COVIDoversight.

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A discussion on Ocean Acidification & Climate Change Impact on Coral Reefs
Thursday, August 6
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-discussion-on-ocean-acidification-climate-change-impact-on-coral-reefs-registration-115494191235

Join us for a free virtual discussion with Maria Lewis of the NAUI Green Diver Initiative and CCL's Ocean & Seafood Action Team

CCL's Ocean & Seafood Action Team will be joined by Maria Lewis, CNP, CFRE the Executive Director of the NAUI Green Diver Initiative. We'll discuss the work of the NAUI Green Diver Initiative and the impact of ocean acidification and global warming has on the coral reefs which scuba divers (there are 3 million active scuba divers in the U.S.!) and countless creatures rely upon.

The Green Diver Initiative is a community of individuals dedicated to conserving and preserving our ocean planet fueled by NAUI Worldwide members and friends.
Maria Lewis has served with nonprofits and fundraising all her life and as a full-time staff member for over 25 years in Central & West Central Florida. Most recently, Maria has joined NAUI Green Diver Initiative as the Executive Director.

NAUI Green Diver Initiative Mission: To promote conservation through education, partnerships and activities focused on environmental stewardship. Their Vision: A world with clean, healthy and sustainable aquatic environments.

Please RSVP to obtain the Zoom meeting information. 

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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 CHANGE THROUGH THE ARTIST’S EYES WITH ALONZO KING
Thursday, August 6
7:00pm
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/climate-change-through-artist’s-eyes-alonzo-king

Images of dancers or sculptures don’t leap to mind with the mention of climate change. But artists are increasingly using the carbon conundrum as a creative lens, using their mediums to design cultural moments that bring people together. As storytellers, artists are reaching people on a deeper and more emotional level than the cerebral facts and charts often used to shape the climate narrative.

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Charles Renfro: The Future of Cities
Thursday, August 6
7 pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.92y.org/event/brad-grossmany
Cost:  $20

Covid-19 is profoundly changing cities worldwide. Globally-renowned architect Charles Renfro has some ideas for how we can make them better for everyone.

Join Charles Renfro, partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, for a discussion with Zeitguide founder Brad Grossman about how public and private spaces are changing in 2020—and where they might go next. Renfro shares his innovative ideas for making our cities safer, more equitable, and culturally richer in the wake of the pandemic—including breaking down walls to create more outdoor public gathering spaces, dismantling zoning practices and other forms of systemic racism, finding new routes to home ownership, letting the arts guide our national rebuilding process, and more. Celebrated for his work on New York’s High Line and The Shed, don't miss this visionary thinker on the future of New York City.

92Y needs your help. We are facing tremendous financial losses due to COVID-19. Your ticket purchase helps sustain our beloved institution and supports the creation of new, online programming that will bring comfort and inspiration to our community. Please consider donating today at 92Y.org/HelpNow. Thank you.

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The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Radhika Fox
Thursday, August 6
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-climate-conversation-with-climate-leader-radhika-fox-tickets-113533132656

Join us for a candid conversation with climate leader Radhika Fox of US Water Alliance.

As part of Greenbelt Alliance's Future Climate Webinar Series we invite you to join us as we sit down with notable Bay Area climate leaders. In each 30 minute session you will have the opportunity to connect with these inspiring professionals, hear their stories, and get an inside look into the amazing work that they do on issues relating to climate adaptation planning, equity, community engagement and more. 

This week our featured expert is Radhika Fox. Radhika is the Chief Executive Officer of the US Water Alliance, a national nonprofit organization advancing policies and programs that build a sustainable water future for all. The Alliance educates the nation on the value of water, accelerates the adoption of One Water policies and programs, and celebrates innovation in water management. 

Radhika is a widely-recognized thought leader on complex water issues, from equity in water to investing in our nation’s water infrastructure. With more than 20 years of experience in developing policies, programs, and issue-based advocacy campaigns, Radhika is a sought-after public speaker and has been interviewed by local, regional, and national media outlets on a wide range of water issues. Previously, Radhika directed the policy and government affairs agenda for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which is responsible for providing 24/7 water, wastewater, and municipal power services to 2.6 million Bay Area residents. She also served as the Federal Policy Director at PolicyLink, where she coordinated the organization’s policy agenda on a wide range of issues, including infrastructure investment, transportation, sustainable communities, economic inclusion, and workforce development.

Radhika serves on the boards of PolicyLink and Jobs to Move America. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley where she was a HUD Community Development Fellow.

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DearBiden Climate Policy Series - Unity Task Force
Thursday, August 6
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dearbiden-climate-policy-series-unity-task-force-tickets-114995302044

Join co-hosts Mihir Desu and Liz Finnegan as they invite climate and clean energy policy luminaries to a fun and nerdy happy hour Q&A.

The DearBiden Climate Policy Series is a weekly happy hour event on Joe Biden’s Clean Energy and Climate Platform. We invite experts to join us, pour a glass of wine, and take your questions as we get to the heart of a particular topic/section of Biden’s platform. 

This week we tackle the recent recommendations and new policies from the Biden-Sanders Unity Climate Change Task Force!

Join us with a cocktail, a beer, or a decaf coffee as we talk to Unity Task Force member, Kerry Duggan! Join us for a fun and nerdy time to hear about what the Unity Task Force was like, what Joe Biden will do about the recommendations, and how high the stakes are for us to get it right on climate and clean energy in November and beyond.

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Friday, August 7
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COVID-19 and Climate Change - International relations
Friday, August 7
2am
Online
RSVP at https://anu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_icUAK1mmSz-dXkFncOjUUw

Recent months have seen the COVID-19 pandemic emerge as a global crisis requiring immediate, wide-spread and evidence-based action.

As countries have taken drastic measures to curb the spread of the virus, comparisons have arisen between the global response to COVID-19 and climate change. Despite their fundamental differences, they are both significant global challenges that require immediate action based upon scientific evidence.

So how and why have our responses differed, and what can we learn from the handling of COVID-19 to apply to our response to climate change?

Join us for this online event series, COVID-19 and Climate Change, to discuss these questions and more with leading researchers in the area.

In this event, international relations experts Hon. Prof Howard Bamsey and Prof Meg Keen, will discuss learnings from and implications of COVID-19 for global climate negotiations, and climate action and responses in the Pacific.

These events will be recorded. The recording will be made available after the event through the ANU Climate Change Institute YouTube channel.

By registering for this event you are also subscribing to the ANU Energy Change Institute/ Climate Change Institute mailing list. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any correspondence.

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New paradigms for a new world: Futurists Gerd Leonhard and John Eyles
Friday, August 7
2am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-paradigms-for-a-new-world-futurists-gerd-leonhard-and-john-eyles-tickets-114734702584 

Welcome to the Great Transformation, accelerated by Covid19: Big Tech, Big State, Big Health, Big Green. What new paradigms are emerging?

This is a free event, live-streaming on YouTube and LinkedIn (registration is required), presented by
Gerd Leonhard, Futurist & Humanist, Author of “Technology vs Humanity”, Keynote Speaker, Host of TheFutureShow, CEO TheFuturesAgency, Zürich / Switzerland
John Eyles, Creator, Educator, Futureneer. Based in Waiheke / Auckland, New Zealand, John heads up multiple consulting initiatives in the areas of strategic planning, innovation, futurism, education, and healthcare. 

Some of us are riding the 'CoronaCoaster' of utter uncertainty, worries and anxiety, yet others are also experiencing moments of hope and glimpses of a newly emerging world, accelerated by the pandemic. 

Covid19 feels like a giant accelerator - both for the things that were 'good' before (working from home, ehealth, elearning, and online conferencing) as well as those that were not so good before (such as rising inequality and healthcare shortcomings). 

Gerd and John believe that this crisis presents a very unique opportunity to tackle tough issues that seemed like ‘impossible missions’ before, such as climate change, inequality and the future of capitalism. After all, many of us are already getting used to emergency rules and regulations - maybe this is a good lesson for the future?

One thing is certain: We are entering an era of big tech, big media, big state & big debt, big health, and big green - and we are never 'going back to normal’ (whatever that was).

This is truly a unique pivot point in human history, where deep paradigm changes can occur and our future can be re-designed. Can we seize this moment and ensure that these humble beginnings become the new normal, so that we can build a better future together..? 
Taking a wider view, Gerd and John will explore a wide range of near-future issues such as climate change, inequality, the future of capitalism and how to harness the current momentum for solidarity and collaboration across our societies. In addition, Gerd and John will comment on technology regulation, data security, surveillance and digital ethics.

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EBC Climate Change Webinar Series: Refurbishment of Langone Park & Puopolo Playground
Friday, August 7
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-webinar-series-refurbishment-of-langone-park-puopolo-playground/
Cost:  $15 - $25

EBC is excited to present this series of webinars featuring projects and organizations leading the way in climate change adaptation and mitigation in New England. Featuring the nominated projects for the 2020 EBC Annual EBEE Awards Program, this series will focus on the forward-thinking and innovative projects being planned and implemented throughout New England.

This seventh webinar in the series will discuss the refurbishment of Langone Park & Puopolo Playground which used the BH-FRM (BH-FRM is an advanced model that simulates the effects of tides, storm surge, wind, waves, wave setup, river discharge, sea level rise, and future climate change scenarios) and the recently completed BPWD “Climate Resilient Design Standards & Guidelines for Protection of Public Rights-of-Way” to effectively design the site. Working with representatives from BPWD and Climate Ready Boston, a series of coastal resiliency strategies were implemented as part of the park reconstruction. The design reflects an innovative combination of climate mitigation and flood protection considerations with high design value for recreational facilities in the reconstructed seawall to shore up protection from damaging water and provide seating; the new raised footprint of certain park amenities; the timber boardwalk Harborwalk path extension/connection cantilevered over the water; and the use of micropiles to stabilize the Harborwalk path.

Program Chair:
Julie Eaton Ernst, P.E., Lead Resiliency Engineer, Weston & Sampson
Speakers:
Cathy Baker-Eclipse, Project Manager, City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Brandon Kunkel, Team Leader, Weston & Sampson
Moderator:
Eugene Bolinger, Vice President and Discipline Leader, Landscape Architecture, Weston & Sampson

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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, August 7
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
Watch at 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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Extinction Rebellion [XR} SF Friday Online Activism
Friday, August 7
3 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/j/727108084?pwd=YVhTOTk1TFlodzMwc3ZqWkg2ckNoZz09 Meeting ID: 727 108 084 Password: 082166 One tap mobile +16699006833,,727108084# US (San Jose)

XRSF has been holding weekly online activism with a regenerative atmosphere.

We are in extraordinary times, but this is still a good time to spread messages of hope, empowerment, support, compassion, empathy and ACTION. Join us on Fridays for some connection and activism.

CALL AGENDA (HIGH LEVEL): 10m check-in & land acknowledgement 10m calm the limbic system (Guided meditation, poems, qigong, laughter yoga) 15-20m digital activism in breakout rooms 15-20m mutual aid (Sharing what you need with the group, in breakout rooms & sheet) 10m calm the limbic system (Exercise, meditation, gratitudes)

The call will run from 3-4pm EST.

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People and Planet: Creating Change
Friday, August 7
6:00 – 7:00am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/people-and-planet-creating-change-tickets-114663429404

How can we change 'business as usual'?

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the need for individuals and businesses alike to adapt, innovate and interrogate their usual practices, providing an opportunity to rebuild in a more sustainable way and with an increased awareness of our impact on the planet. Meet students from the UAL Class of 2020 whose work explores these issues across areas as diverse as sustainable design, consumer behaviour, activism and performance, as we ask the question: how can we change ‘business as usual’?

Participants:
Opening remarks: Professor Becky Earley, Co-Director of UAL Centre for Circular Design
Becky is a design researcher and award-winning research team leader based at UAL’s Centre for Circular Design. She trained as a printed textile designer and fashion print designer, before setting up her B.Earley London-based studio in 1995. Her creative fashion textile work has been widely exhibited over the last twenty years and her prints and garments are collected by museums across the globe. Becky's practice research encompasses making materials and prototypes, exhibition curation and writing. She is also a highly skilled workshop facilitator and communicator, specialising in the translation of cross disciplinary design-led research into commercial contexts for sustainable fashion textiles and other fields. 

Moderator: Cathryn Anneka Hall: PhD student, Centre for Circular Design, and Associate Lecturer, Chelsea College of Arts
Cathryn’s practice-based PhD is exploring the potential for design to drive a more circular materials economy, focusing on design for mechanical textile recycling. Specialising in wool and acrylic recycling from knitwear, Cathryn’s background as a knitwear designer in the fact-fashion industry has heavily influenced her research and includes testing recycled materials on an industrial scale. Cathryn currently works as an associate lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts, teaching across BA, MA and Graduate Diploma Textile Design courses.

SILVICIOUS: MA Fashion Futures, London College of Fashion
Silvia Martínez Cerezo is a multidisciplinary artist interested in creating space for conversation and critical reflection around fashion. Silvia likes to tell stories by creating ‘things’ that are visually disruptive while having minimal environmental impact. Silvia’s goal is to raise awareness on fashion sustainability and conscious consumption, looking for innovative and engaging ways of making people think forward. @_silvicious

Sara Howard: BA Ceramic Design, Central Saint Martins
Sara Howard is a ceramic designer and materials researcher whose practice is focussed on reducing the environmental impacts of industrial mass production. In Sara's final project 'Circular Ceramics' which includes a tableware collection and book, Sara has designed an industrial symbiosis around the ceramics industry, whereby the waste by-products from one manufacturer becomes the raw material in another minimising the consumption of finite raw materials and diverting waste away from landfill. @sara__howard

Ellie Wintour: MA Theatre Design, Wimbledon College of Arts
Ellie Wintour is an emerging Theatre Designer, who is currently undertaking an MA at Wimbledon College of Art. She is particularly interested in the role of theatre in understanding the climate crisis, and how theatre might be able to trouble dominant narratives around ecology through new methods such as eco-scenography. She studied her BA in English Literature at the University in York. @elliewintour

Bridget Johnson: BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts
Bridget Johnson has just finished a Fine Art BA at Chelsea College of Art. She has a research-based practice that focuses on institutions role within the climate crisis. Her work culminates in conversations and performed texts based upon her research. @unabridged_

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Life of a Klansman:  A Family History in White Supremacy
Friday, August 7
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_edward_ball/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes acclaimed writer EDWARD BALL—author of the National Book Award–winning biography Slaves in the Family—for a discussion of his latest book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy. He will be joined in conversation by KENNETH W. MACK, the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.

About Life of a Klansman
Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family’s anti-black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail.
Sifting through family lore about “our Klansman” as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages—all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. To offer a non-white view of the Ku-klux, Ball seeks out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by “our Klansman” and his comrades, and shares their stories.

For whites, to have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. That is, one-half of white Americans could write a Klan family memoir, if they wished.
In an era when racist ideology and violence are again loose in the public square, Life of a Klansman offers a personal origin story of white supremacy. Ball’s family memoir traces the vines that have grown from militant roots in the Old South into the bitter fruit of the present, when whiteness is again a cause that can veer into hate and domestic terror.

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Defund the Police and Pay Reparations to the African Community
Friday, August 7
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.

Why white people must support the black-led campaign Black Community Control of the Police. USM webinar from 6/14/20 featuring Director Akil Anai (APSP), Chairwoman Penny Hess (APSC), and Chair Jesse Nevel (USM). Discussion on how it is the banks which fund the police, and USM's campaign Make Wall Street Pay Reparations to dismantle the colonial police, the occupying military force in the black community.

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 8
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American Humanist Association Annual Conference
Saturday, August 8
11:00 AM to 6:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://conference.americanhumanist.org

The American Humanist Association will hold their annual conference, which was to be in Miami this year, as "A Virtual Celebration of Humanism" on Saturday, August 8, 2020 from 11 am to 6:30 pm ET. Mark your calendars and register now for this compact but inspiring virtual gathering. Community is important!

The conference title and theme is 'DISTANT BUT TOGETHER'. Register for free on your computer and watch the many exciting speakers and awardees from home, including 2020 AHA Humanist of the Year US Representative Jared Huffman! Other speakers and awardees include: Anjan Chakravartty, Je Hooper, Rachel Laser, Krista Cox, Debbie Goddard and Hemant Mehta.

There will also be other speakers and events available for viewing (see schedule at links below for more info).

Many members of Greater Boston Humanists were looking forward to going to an in-person conference after last year's trial of a virtual conference, but we'll have to wait for a future year to meet in person (as will Humanists International, which had planned their World Congress in association with this year's AHA conference). GBH won't be able to have an official viewing party, but you are encouraged share this information about this 79th national Humanist conference and its free streaming option. We may see each other in certain Zoom Rooms!

Get more information on speakers and schedule at Americanhumanist.org, clicking the REGISTER button on the 2020 Conference page:
https://conference.americanhumanist.org
Don't forget to mention your regional affiliation is with Greater Boston Humanists!

Livestreaming will begin at 11 am ET and run 6:30 pm ET Check the schedule to take part in this important and innovative conference, free!

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Climate Speaker Series - Dr. Kim Cobb, climate scientist at Georgia Tech
Saturday, August 8
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-speaker-series-dr-kim-cobb-climate-scientist-at-georgia-tech-registration-114894494526

Citizens' Climate Lobby invites you to a webinar with Dr. Kim Cobb, climate scientist at Georgia Tech.
CCL holds a webinar with a climate expert to provide new insights every month. Join this virtual watch-party with the DC chapter to expand your climate outlook!
What: CCL Speaker Series with Climate Expert (every month on the second Saturday) 

Alarmed by what their research on climate change is showing them, a growing number of scientists are stepping out of the lab to advocate for solutions. Dr. Kim Cobb, a professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, is among those speaking out. A leading expert in the study of corals and how climate change is affecting them, Dr. Cobb was devastated when, during a 2016 research trip to the South Pacific, she saw that most of the coral reef she had been studying was obliterated. "For me, it was a bellwether event... I decided to go 'all in' on climate solutions, personally and professionally."

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The Post-Covid Economy
Saturday, August 8
1:00 – 2:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-post-covid-economy-tickets-114642472722

What could a Post-Covid Economy look like? Join GIMMS and our speaker Philip Armstrong to find out.

Covid-19 pandemic began as a public health crisis with devastating consequences in terms of lives lost but has quickly developed along with the climate crisis into the biggest economic and social challenges facing our country. Over the last few months, the government has spent vast sums to lessen the worst effects of lockdown, by providing financial support to corporations and a furlough scheme to millions of workers in an attempt to stabilise the economy; an attempt to put the economy onto life support while avoiding the worst-case scenario of a deep and protracted recession with its mass unemployment. 

But the pandemic has laid bare the consequences of 10 years of cuts to public sector spending, widening wealth and income inequality, combined with extended political uncertainty over Brexit to highlight the real human cost to society of government policies.  For years we have witnessed daily, an NHS and social care system which has been overwhelmed, public services stretched to their limit and local government leaving us unable to respond effectively due to years of cuts to its budgets by central government. 

Can we rise to the challenges posed by climate change and the current pandemic? Do we have time to correct our path and save our planet and provide for a more sustainable future? 

Politicians, journalists and institutions are claiming that, like a household or firm, the government has maxed out its credit card in an emergency and will need to pay that back by or increasing taxes or making cuts to public expenditure. So, it is ever more vital to be able to confront the economic orthodoxy which has informed the political agendas of governments on the right and left for decades and for policymakers to take a new approach.  If nothing else, this calamity has exposed the lie of austerity and demonstrated quite clearly what is achievable in spending terms for a government with both sovereign currency-issuing powers and the political will to act. 

Now is the time to lay bare the false narratives about how governments spend and explore what makes for a balanced economy and a fully functioning society which works for everyone. 

GIMMS' Associate Member Phil Armstrong, author of ‘Can economics make a difference?’ to be published later in the year, will be exposing the sham narrative of how governments spend and how it is paid for and will explore in the context of modern monetary realities how we can move towards a sustainable green economy, provide jobs and essential universal basic services, and tackle poverty and inequality. 

You will be sent a Zoom meeting link after registering on Eventbrite. Please click the link on the email and sign up for the meeting there***

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Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) Training
Saturday, August 8
3 p.m.
Online
RSVP at RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/non-violent-direct-action-training-online-august-8-29
ALSO - please RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/XRChicago_NVDA_202008/ so that XR Boston can properly place you in an affinity group within our Boston chapter.

XR Boston hasn't 't had an XR non-violent direct action training (to join an affinity group and be prepared to participate in civil disobedience) since covid. But our training team has qualified the XR Chicago online trainings coming up as a training that would qualify you to participate in these things for XR Boston. If you do choose to go to this training, please Kebyase message @alice02138 or email noteaparty@gmail.com so we can help connect you with a Boston XR affinity group 

How do rebels respond to a pandemic and lockdown? Resiliently, of course!

In light of COVID, Extinction Rebellion Chicago has put its Non-Violent Direct Action training online. The training will take place on Zoom on four consecutive Saturdays— August 8, 15, 22, and 29 from 3–5 p.m. EST—as well as in asynchronous small-group discussions in Keybase. The goal of the training is to prepare participants to plan and carry out a COVID-appropriate non-violent direct action during the last week of August. 

Learn about Extinction Rebellion and other local activist groups, as well as about the use of affinity groups to mass mobilize climate-related activism.
Explore NVDA possibilities in the categories of social media messaging, real-world messaging (e.g., postering, pop-up art), digital pranks (think the Yes Men), vehicle actions (e.g. kayaktivism), and resistance/resilience actions such as planting trees and creating mini-gardens--as well as other categories that you come up with!
Work with a provisional affinity group to plan an action, propose it to the larger group, revise it in accord with feedback, and possibly figure out how to collaborate or coordinate with other affinity groups.
Participate in an action planned by XR Chicago or other environmental or social justice group, as a form of hands-on learning, team-building, and solidarity.
Consult with XR Working Groups, National Lawyers Guild lawyers, and other experts about the kinds of support your action might require.

RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/non-violent-direct-action-training-online-august-8-29

If you have any questions for XR Boston about this training, please connect with us by emailing noteaparty@gmail.com or messaging us on Keybase at @alice02138.

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The Future We Dare to Create: Rally with Angela Davis
Saturday, August 8
5 p.m.
Online 
RSVP at https://www.aclum.org/en/daretocreate
Tickets for #ACLUrally are now available, starting at $20. Your purchase will directly fuel the movement for racial justice, immigrants' rights, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ equality, and free speech.

A nationwide movement for justice is growing, and we ask you to stand with the ACLU in the fight for equality, liberty, and freedom for all.

On Saturday, August 8, at 5 p.m., the ACLU of Massachusetts is hosting an online rally to raise funds for our critical work, with a keynote address from iconic scholar and activist Angela Davis, and a special appearance from the co-founder of Pussy Riot, Nadya Tolokonnikova.

This virtual rally replaces our annual dinner, which is our only fundraising event of the year, and which has historically raised over $1 million for the ACLU's crucial work nationwide.

In what is almost certainly the greatest social upheaval since the 1960s, it is more important than ever to celebrate the work of visionary activists who dared to create a future for themselves and others. We hope you'll join the ACLU to mark this pivotal moment. 

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Sunday, August 9
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Cli-Fi for beginners: Imagination for climate solutions
Sunday, August 9
6:00 AM – 7:30 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cli-fi-for-beginners-imagination-for-climate-solutions-tickets-113465406084

You can’t change the future without imagining it first. Join us for a climate fiction workshop and imagination exercise

Climate Fiction and its positive sub-genre Solar Punk are emerging… And as we find ourselves in a unique moment in time, can we re-write the story?
Join a flash fiction workshop to build confidence in writing and flex your imagination. We'll be doing a warm-up exercise then have a go at writing fiction based on some climate science.

We’ll practice writing, we’ll also practice reading our words aloud in a safe and supportive group.

Every second and fourth Sunday on Zoom.
Session 1: Deep dive.
This one follows the format of our first 3 sessions. We'll spend some time getting to know the climate solution of the week, have a quick warm-up exercise then write for 20 mins. Then we'll head into breakout groups to share an excerpt of our writing with 1 or 2 other people. (Optional extra to stay on at the end and read yours out to everybody).
Session 2: Honing your skills - details on MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Cli-Fi-for-beginners/
The fiction exercises will be led by Clare Diston, short story writer, book lover and total space nerd. Find out more about Clare: https://clarediston.com/
The group will be facilitated by Sophia Cheng, who has reorientated her life around the climate crisis, she helps people find their place in the movement through workshops, mentoring and words. Find out more about Sophia: http://www.withmanyroots.com/#words
Katie is supporting with communications and logistics. Katie is a copywriter and activist. Find out more about Katie here: https://www.katherinemjones.com/ )

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The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
Sunday, August 9
6:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bomb-understanding-its-history-and-the-hope-for-a-nuclear-free-future-tickets-110908436118

A commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

City Lights in conjunction with San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility present
A discussion with Fred Kaplan, James L Nolan Jr., Dr. Tova Fuller & Dr. Robert Gould (of S.F. Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility) 
City Lights Booksellers join with the San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility to present a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the bombings that killed over 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti has a special connection to these events. He was a naval commander serving during World War II, and one of few American soldiers to walk on Nagasaki shortly after the bombs were dropped. His experience changed his life and inspired him to start a bookstore with the motto, "Books Not Bombs." During this afternoon of discussion, our panelists hope to assess the events of that time, their impact on the world, and where we stand now, facing the dawn of a new global nuclear arms race that compounds the climate and pandemic threats to human survival. At a time when the Nuclear Weapons States possess more than 13,000 nuclear weapons, we will focus on the manifold threats posed by new global programs to expand and modernize nuclear weapons arsenals, the rejection of arms control treaties, as well as the heightened great-power confrontation now accelerating in the Pacific region. While we face our unfolding planetary emergencies, the profound "opportunity costs" of our government planning to spend more than $4 million an hour over the next 30 years to potentially annihilate countless millions of people is unfathomable. Our speakers will also present alternative visions offered by the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons epitomized by the 2017 United Nations' Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons, and the prospects for connecting this with wider popular movements seeking to transform our global priorities in the direction of climate, environmental, and social justice necessary for global survival.

Celebrating two new books
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
by James L Nolan Jr. - published by Belknap/Harvard Press
A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times. Atomic Doctors follows physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy.
and
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear Wa
by Fred Kaplan - published by Simon & Schuster
From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump.

About the participants:
Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of five previous books, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller), 1959, Daydream Believers, and The Wizards of Armageddon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.

James L. Nolan, Jr., is Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at William's College. His previous books include What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb and Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement.

Tova Fuller MD, PhD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Fuller serves as Vice President of the San Francisco Bay chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and has served on the national, Los Angeles chapter, and Washington PSR chapter boards. She was a member of PSR-LA's nuclear ambassadors program and WPSR’s nuclear activism committee. Her primary area of interest is the interface between public health and militarism as it relates to nuclear weapons. She is the recipient of the Lown-Alexander-Sidel Award for Medical Advocacy.

Robert Gould, MD, is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine where he is a Collaborator with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). Until 2012, Dr. Gould worked as a pathologist at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose, California. He has been President of San Francisco Bay PSR since 1989, and has been on the Board of National PSR since 1993, serving as President in 2003 and 2014. Dr. Gould is Chairperson of the American Public Health Association’s Peace Caucus, and also a leading member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA). Dr. Gould has authored numerous book chapters on the health impacts of nuclear weapons, including War and Public Health (2007, Oxford University Press) and Terrorism and Public Health (2011, Oxford University Press), and was the co-author (with Thomas Bodenheimer) of Rollback! Right-wing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (1989, South End Press).

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350 Contra Costa Presents: Climate Stakes in the 2020 Election
Sunday, August 9
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/350-contra-costa-presents-climate-stakes-in-the-2020-election-registration-113731365576

RL Miller, co-founder and political director of Climate Hawks Vote, discusses the stakes for our climate and future in the 2020 elections.

The Paris Climate Agreement. Green New Deal. Fracking in California. Oil drilling and refining in Contra Costa County. These are just a few of the critical climate issues at stake in the November 3rd election.Will this election be the tipping point for politicians and policies to urgently address the climate crisis? And what role will COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter play?

For an experts view, 350 Contra Costa invites you to a special webinar, “Climate Stakes in the 2020 Election,” with guest speaker RL Miller, co-founder and political director of Climate Hawks Vote, a federal Super PAC that identifies, trains and supports candidates and elected officials who commit to fierce climate action in Congress—“climate hawks” if you will. As chair of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus, RL brings both a state and national perspective to climate issues.

Please join us for this special opportunity to hear from a climate activist who proudly notes on her Twitter account that ex-California Gov. Jerry Brown once dubbed her a “political terrorist.” Laughs RL, “I apparently have a reputation for being…a pain in the ass.”
Sign up today and you will be sent the Zoom call details before the event.

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Monday, August 10
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Online: Let's Talk About The Future
Monday, August 10
12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lets-talk-about-the-future-tickets-104531219692

This is an open group and all are welcome to join, with the hope that it will eventually lead to a regular, closed group meeting.

Please register for each meeting you would like to attend, and you will be emailed a link to the Zoom meeting prior to the day.

Before the coronavirus threw us into lockdown, Pam Candea, Joan Herrmann and Cathie Wright led a group at the Salisbury Centre called A Time to Grieve; a Time to Hope, which was starting to attract people who wanted room to be able to talk about how they felt about climate emergency, and the loss of biodiversity. The advent of the coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown have thrown these issues into high relief. Suddenly, we can hear birds, our air is less polluted, and there is a general slowing down. This is not without cost, which will become all to clear as time moves on. This is also an opportunity which is why we want to 'Talk about the Future’.

The group will be facilitated by the three of us, who bring a range of skills from our different professional backgrounds.
Cathie Wright, has worked with many groups over her professional life in mental health work and as a psychotherapist. She trusts that groups can allow a range of feelings and ideas to be expressed that bring hope and energy into topics that can seem really difficult.

Pam Candea has been working with communities to tackle climate change for the last 12 years and facilitates groups taking action on climate change, climate justice, and environmental improvement in general. Key to her group work is that change starts with being able to express emotions in a safe space, and with the support of the group.

Joan Herrmann trained as an ethologist and ornithologist before retraining and qualifying as a child psychotherapist. She is retired from the Glasgow CAMHS and from her role as head of the Scottish (ACP) training in child psychotherapy. She is experienced in working with individuals and groups in the difficult task of finding ways to articulate our deepest, often unconscious feelings. 

If you have any questions, please contact Cathie carw46@yahoo.co.uk

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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 10
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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How To Academy presents...Our Future on a Hot Earth with Jelmer Mommers In Conversation With Matthew Stadlen
Monday, August 10
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-future-on-a-hot-earth-jelmer-mommers-in-conversation-tickets-111708258408
Cost:  £0 – £15

If climate change is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced, then why are we doing so little? Will the corona pandemic make it worse or better? And where do we go from here?

The story of the climate is the story of the 21st century: the single most important battle that our generation faces. But faced with the scale of the crisis, most people would prefer not to talk or even think about climate change. Most of us cannot help but feel helpless.
Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers believes that denial and despair are not the only possible responses to the crisis. There is another story, where the consequences of our actions add up – and every contribution is meaningful. 

In this free, livestreamed talk, Jelmer will draw on the latest climate science to help us find hope in the midst of the climate crisis. He will explore the impact of COVID-19 and our responses to it on climate change. And he will describe how we got here, what possible futures await us, and how you can help to truly make a difference. 

Praise for Jelmer Mommers:
'As a journalist, Jelmer Mommers has broken important stories about how we got in our current climate mess; as a thinker, he shows us there may still be some ways out, if we move with grace and speed. A fine account of where we stand, and where we could go if we wanted to!' Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, activist and founder of 350.org

'I'm not exaggerating when I say this is one of the most important books I've read this year.' Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists
Jelmer Mommers is a climate journalist based in Amsterdam. Five years in the making, his book How Are We Going To Explain This? became a bestseller in The Netherlands.

Matthew Stadlen is an LBC presenter. Previously he wrote The Matthew Stadlen Interview for the Telegraph and presented the TV series Five Minutes With and On The Road With for the BBC. His book How To See Birds is out now from all good bookshops.

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How to add climate resilient features to city centres
Monday, August 10
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-add-climate-resilient-features-to-city-centres-tickets-107764925794

A free, public talk on how major urban centres are key contributors to global climate change and how to change this

A free, public talk on how major urban centres are key contributors to global climate change and how to change this.
Hear how supporting a flexible “development points system” can incorporate climate resilient features while balancing mitigation and adaptation measures, with continued economic development.

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Tuesday, August 11
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A renewables-led recovery: towards a zero-emissions future
Tuesday, August 11
4:30 AM – 6:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-renewables-led-recovery-towards-a-zero-emissions-future-registration-111899869522

Expert speakers discuss the opportunity we have right now to recover from the pandemic and create a safe, healthy, zero-emissions future.

Yarra Council and Yarra Libraries is pleased to present this special event on the need for a renewables-led economic recovery featuring – Amanda McKenzie, CEO of The Climate Council; Zoe Whitton, Board member of the Investor Group on Climate Change and Head of ESG Research at Citi ; and John Iser, retired physician and former chair of the Victorian chapter of Doctors for the Environment.

The speakers will discuss the unique opportunity we have as a nation [Australia] to recover from the pandemic and create a safe, healthy, zero-emissions future. This session will make clear that our planet, health and economy cannot afford a gas-led recovery and that we have a one-time only opportunity to seriously respond to the climate crisis by shifting to renewable energy, creating new jobs and improving public health.

Please note that registered participants will be sent a link to this online panel discussion in the week prior to the event.

This panel discussion is being presented as part of a three part series on a renewables-led recovery as a path towards a safe, healthy, zero emissions future.
Session two will include speakers from Environment Victoria and Australian Conservation Foundation discussing how you can get involved in their campaigns to drive a recovery from the pandemic that responds to the climate and ecological crises. 

Session three will include an expert from Renew with information about the how, why and when to transition from gas to an efficient electric home.

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The Future of Energy
Tuesday, August 11
7:30 – 8:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/the-future-of-energy-tickets-115458213625

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, Investor, 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 defining sustainability post-Covid19, and the impending climate change crisis, as well as ways to build products and services to address climate change.

Max 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.

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.

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.

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China’s BRI & tackling climate change are they mutually exclusive?
Tuesday, August 11
11:30 – 12:30 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinas-bri-tackling-climate-change-are-they-mutually-exclusive-tickets-115329216792

A webinar to combine two of the most pressing current global issues; boosting the global economy, and tackling climate change.

Prior to the spread of the pandemic China's Belt & Road Initiative ('BRI') was offering a welcome opportunity for the global economy but how can these BRI projects support rather than negate global efforts to tackle climate change? Is it realistic or just ‘green wash’ to hope that BRI projects can be made environmentally sustainable? Will profits be placed before global warming? How has Covid19 impacted the BRI ?

To discuss these issues we have three expert speakers:
Jinny Yan is Managing Director & Chief China Economist for ICBC Standard Bank. Jinny is an experienced China Economist and China product specialist with a demonstrated history of working across client-facing roles of the banking industry. Her work focuses on China macro, fixed income markets, and she initiated the BRI Indices at the Bank in 2017. Jinny is an experienced speaker in the media and at large conferences. 

Alex Clark - Alex is a DPhil candidate in the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, where his research focuses on the identification and transmission of fossil-fuel related stranded asset risks in the public sector, and how governments and their agents should respond to these risks. Alex is a Consultant to the Climate Policy Initiative and the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University

Brian O’Callaghan - Brian is a DPhil (PhD) student at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, the University of Oxford. He is also a Consultant for the Robertson Foundation and on a leave of absence from the Boston Consulting Group. Brian is an Australian Rhodes Scholar.

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Women on the Move: Climate-Driven Migration
Tuesday, August 11
12-1:30pm Eastern time
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gendered-impacts-of-climate-change-series-tickets-114686359990

Joins us for a panel discussion with Devon Cone, Senior Advocate for the Women and Girls program at Refugees International, Kayly Ober, Senior Advocate and Program Manager at Refugees International, and Amali Tower, Founder and Executive Director at Climate Refugees. We will discuss migration and the impact of climate change and what we can expect if climate change continues to go unaddressed.

The panel will take place on Zoom, August 11, 12-1:30pm Eastern time. Meeting details will be emailed once participants register.

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POLLUTING AND PROVIDING: THE DIRTY ENERGY DILEMMA
Tuesday, August 11
12:30 am
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/polluting-and-providing-dirty-energy-dilemma

The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But when it comes to public engagement and trust, the oil and gas industry is often ahead of its clean energy competitors, presenting a friendly face to the same areas it supplies with jobs, tax dollars, and cheap energy. Is the industry an example of community leadership, manipulative greenwashing — or something in between?

Is the fossil fuel industry producing economic benefits for local communities at the same rate as they produce pollution? How can the renewable industry transform their model into one of diversity, equity, and affordable energy for all? Join us for a conversation with Derrick Hollie, president of Reaching America, on hard truths about the energy industry next door.

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Book Talk: A’Lelia Bundles
Tuesday, August 11
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-book-talk-alelia-bundles-virtual

Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
A’Lelia Bundles ’74, author of Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (originally titled On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker [Scribner, 2001])
Reading will be followed by discussion with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and an audience Q and A.

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Exploring Environmental Justice
Tuesday, August 11 
5:30 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-environmental-justice-tickets-114686977838

How are Boston area leaders advancing healthy, equitable communities? Join BU Sustainability for a panel on environmental justice.

Boston University Sustainability, in partnership with BU Student Government and the BUMC Climate Action Group, is hosting a virtual panel on environmental justice featuring local practitioners and organizers who can share their expertise and experience in fighting environmental racism. 

Speakers Hajar Logan, Maria Belen Power, and Kalila Barnett will share the campaigns they are working on, their career journeys, and what called them to environmental justice work. Tune in via Zoom to learn about their work and how you can best support it. 
Zoom details and link to join the webinar will be available closer to the event.

Speakers:
Hajar Logan is the Climate and Transit-Oriented Development Director at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) in Roxbury. As a community organizer, Hajar’s work focused on real estate development and civic design that is transforming neighborhoods and displacing families. Hajar builds programs for transit and neighborhood design in Roxbury. Her programs place environmental and climate justice at the forefront, as well as the health and safety of the community. 
Maria Belen Power is the Associate Executive Director at GreenRoots in Chelsea. Maria Belen brings over 15 years of experience in organizing with undocumented immigrants, day laborers, and public housing tenants. She represents GreenRoots in the Green Justice Coalition and other national organizations for environmental and climate justice. Maria Belen oversees GreenRoots’ environmental justice campaigns and works with organizers to help support their work. 

Kalila Barnett is the Program Officer of Climate Resilience at the Barr Foundation. Climate Resilience focuses on preparing for the impacts of climate change by accelerating resilience in policies, plans, and designs. Kalila has over a decade of experience in community organizing around affordable housing, land development, and environmental justice. She served as the Executive Director at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) for eight years. Before joining ACE in 2009, she worked as a Senior Organizer at Community Labor United.

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Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Mother of All Innovation
Tuesday, August 11
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/coronavirus-catastrophe-the-mother-of-all-innovation/
Cost:  $5 - $10

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and drastically changed our modern way of living. Due to the speed and nature of the pandemic, economic disruption occurred overnight. However, some of the darkest economic times during our nation’s history have given rise to noteworthy innovation that has revolutionized civilization.

Our panel will discuss innovations that have been brought to life by the COVID-19 pandemic. We will explore new and unconventional approaches to solve virus testing capacity problems, ventilator shortages, and lack of personal protective equipment. We will discuss ways in which companies pivoted to change their business objectives and create a culture of innovation and discovery. Finally, we will delve into possible vaccine options that exist on the horizon

Moderator
Katherine Ann Rubino, Patent Attorney and Chair, Life Sciences Practice Group,Caldwell IP Law
Speakers
Volkmar Frinken, Researcher, Onu Technologies
Ozman Mohiuddin, CEO, SDI Labs
Mitra Mosharraf, CEO, Engimata, Inc

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Extinction Rebellion [XR]US Anti-Racism Training
Tuesday, August 11
8 p.m.
Online
RSVP at
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcemvqD8tHt1KMzUURUcz6kNBs2cRPqBF 

"We Need Each Other: Dismantling Oppression and Building Climate and Ecological Justice"

DESCRIPTION “If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

We need each other. Strategically and as human beings, we either all get free or we won’t make it.

We see unlearning the ways in which the powerful have trained us to be divided and learning the ways some of us are systematically valued and supported more as human beings than others - white, cis, heterosexual, able bodied, global north etc - as a lifelong process. Movements and communities survive and thrive when they care for each other through mutual aid and solidarity. But we can't effectively care for each other if we don't learn about the systematic harms that are hurting communities and how those systems operate and are interlinked. We welcome any XR US local group member to this training who is willing to walk the path of unlearning/learning in good faith and to take action to stop this systematic harm. We welcome you into a space of vulnerability and support as we work for our common goals. 

This training is for all XR US local group members. It will be recorded. Run time 8:00 - 10:30 pm EST.

TRAINERS: 1) Dylan Cooke from Catalyst Project https://collectiveliberation.org/our-organization/staff/
2) Peter Dakota Spencer-McElhatton from AORTA http://aorta.coop/peter-dakota/

REQUIRED READING: - Please read pages 4 - 8 before the training. Some of the training content relies on everyone having read these 4 pages before the training. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDsJuRLksm_PkUrl4tt1TZUnE6r1fNRU/view?usp=sharing
Strategic Need for Social Justice: Short Video https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/v8J8JOyspm43Tt3G4wSDUPN6W9W6fKyshHAWr6AKnhu0BnAEY1D1M7NANOBXa-xRneJoNxfAaiChMTqf?autoplay=true&startTime=1593198622000 Password: 4y$Gc805
Heading for Eco Fascism and What to Do About It - Video https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=647379799436948&ref=watch_permalink
Eyes on the Prize episode #12 https://vimeo.com/49981380
https://jamestracybooks.org/2016/01/28/revolutionary-hillbilly-an-interview-with-hy-thurman-of-the-young-patriots-organization/
Racial Capitalism http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/racial-capitalism/#_ftn4
Reverse Racism - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M

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Wednesday, August 12 – Friday, August 14
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BuildingEnergy Boston 2020 
Wednesday, August 12 – Friday, August 14
Online
RSVP at https://nesea.org/civicrm/event/register
Cost:  $25 - $500

Take a deep dive into this year's conference theme of Transforming Existing Buildings.

While we can’t shake hands online, we can shake up our brains and spirits with new learning (40 accredited sessions & 8 types of CEUs), inspiration (a galvanizing keynote address), and personal connections (one-on-one and group networking opportunities, an interactive trade show floor, community events, and more).

Trade show on Wednesday, August 12

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Thursday, August 13
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What Early Stage Startups Need to Know About Funding
Thursday, August 13
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/what-early-stage-startups-need-to-know-about-funding/

You have a great idea and a team. As you take the next steps toward building your amazing company, you're thinking about raising capital. Learn more about the fundraising process, including what funders will be looking for, and how to prepare for your initial pitch.

Attendees will learn key considerations for raising funds for their startup. Including:
Highlighting your business model
Protecting your Intellectual Property considerations at each stage of fundraising
Presenting your startup’s technology innovation to potential funders
Attracting angel investors and venture capital
Applying for grants and other science/technology funding
Reviewing a term sheet and evaluating whether a deal is right for you

Moderator
James Coe, Counsel, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds
Speakers
Vicky Wu Davis, Executive Director and Founder, Youth CITIES
Stephen Doyle, Partner, TFC Law Group
Vinit Nijhawan, Interim Executive Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center

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Climate Change and Sustainable Food Futures
Thursday, August 13
1:00 – 2:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-change-and-sustainable-food-futures-tickets-112703242432

Join Impactorum's Amy Hall in conversation with Rebekah Moses, head of Impact Strategy at Impossible Foods.

Rebekah Moses leads Impact Strategy at Impossible Foods, a company addressing climate change and sustainable food futures through plant-based meat. Her work focuses on how product innovation and consumer behavior can maximize environmental outcomes through business growth. Rebekah’s research contributions can be found in journals like the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Journal of Applied Ecology, as well as via the USAID Water and Livelihoods Initiative online. Join Rebekah in conversation with Amy Hall to learn how Rebekah and Impossible Foods think about impact and a future reliant on plant-based nutrition.

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Wes Jackson and David Orr
Thursday, August 13
2pm 
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform

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Friday, August 14
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GLOBALIZATION: PANDEMICS AND PLANNING 
Friday, August 14
11:30am-12:30pm 
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/globalization-pandemics-and-planning-tickets-114478068986

William Koehler, PhD, Dean, School of Business and Communication, Regis College; Adjunct Professor
Jim O’Connell, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Webinar followed by Q+A

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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, August 14
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
Watch at 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 Concerning Violence (2001)
Friday, August 14
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 book Wretched of the Earth written by Frantz Fanon. Narrated by Ms. Lauryn Hill. Documentary directed by Gran Hugo Olsson

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 15 - Saturday, August 29
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What is Mine, and Ours, to Do about the Ecological Crisis?
Saturday, August 15 - 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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Monday, August 17
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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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Tuesday, August 18
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COVID-19 AND CLIMATE: TECHNOLOGY TO THE RESCUE?
Tuesday, August 18
4:00pm
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 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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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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