These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
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http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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Power to the People
Sunday, October 29
10am - 2pm EDT
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-to-the-people-tickets-698548987827
2023 Wicked High Tide
Sunday, October 29
11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-wicked-high-tide-tickets-717177355777
Home Energy Efficiency Team [HEET] Fundraiser
Sunday, October 29
4:30-7:00
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraiser-envision-the-future-tickets-717391225467
Deep Live Gathering
October 30 - November 5
Online
RSVP at https://futuref.org/deeplivegathering
Taking Stock of the International Climate Effort
Monday, October 30
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h98ypA4HQ9WPLlgY85ygQg#/registration
Should we re-freeze the Arctic? Exploring climate repair with Professor Sir David King
Tuesday, October 31
1 - 3pm EST [18:00 – 20:00 BST]
RSVP at https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/tRegisterEmailNew.csp?pageID=49160&eventID=183&tempPersonID=71159
Climate Change Solutions to Protect Health and Promote Equity
Tuesday, October 31
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4116974789503/WN_AH3MuXBNRVGX4o3UpMgGUg#/registration
The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit 2023
Wednesday, November 1 (AT Greentown Houston) - Thursday, November 2 (AT Greentown Boston)
And online
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/climatetech-summit-2023
Cost: $100 - 150
Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible
Wednesday, November 1
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e7uCpGrbSoq7lUv2-6ZRCg#/registration
MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium: Gearing up for winter: A European perspective on the energy trilemma
Wednesday, November 1
5:15pm to 6:15pm
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-initiative-fall-colloquium-tickets-711185664467
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Wednesday, November 1
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america-tickets-722780304347
SYGD Masterclass: Designing Indoor Climates for a Future Climate
Thursday, November 2
9:00 - 10:00 EDT
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sygd-masterclass-designing-indoor-climates-for-a-future-climate-tickets-740086477577
A net zero emissions future: how to make it a reality
Thursday, November 2
9:30 - 11 am EST [14:30 - 16:00 BST]
Livestream at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/166815/a-net-zero-emissions-future-how-to-make-it-a-reality/
Smart Reforestation: Advancing Tropical Forest Restoration for a Sustainable Future
Thursday, November 2
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-hFJO-X9S4uskWkgjjqACg#/registration
Building the Energy-Gender-Climate Nexus: The Role of Decentralized Renewable Energy Access
Thursday, November 2
2:00-3:00pm ET
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__R3_8rHBRz60YSDNhK8kcQ#/registration
Bringing Democracy Back from the Brink: A Strategic Vision and Call to Action
Friday, November 3
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
RSVP at https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gmps04gjh3a2vdgmenw2wh9wffr09j0d72ex54ha3axzexnw821t
Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Climate Change from the Indigenous Perspective
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpceirrD0pEtDAiahzjw2UjBr860D5HOG4#/registration
Green Resilience Hubs: A Conversation with the Report Authors
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4S0NhiM6SDOV5de9UO8OAw#/registration
Charting the Path to Net Zero: A Panel Discussion with four houses of worship
Sunday, November 5
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/ba8fcb8
Research Symposium: Energy and Climate Change
Monday, November 6
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, 501, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?
Monday, November 6
4:00pm to 6:00pm
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gtwgqAyoRA-KDJYfcDY3wA#/registration
Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
Monday, November 6
6 – 7 p.m.
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DKkhUNuxRKWeWqb5IN6Baw#/registration
From Climate Risk to Resilience: Unpacking the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
November 7
8:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x3dK0Dt2TniVViPzQ_2rKQ#/registration
“Why won’t you listen to me?”: How to Engage in Productive Disagreements
Tuesday, November 7
12 – 1 p.m.
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrceivpzIoGtCkgH0ElHQVcXJeWuzt9fdm#/registration
Ending Homelessness in America
Tuesday, November 7
2:30pm EST [5:30 PM PST]
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-11-07/kevin-adler-ending-homelessness-america
Cost: $10 - $30
Building Just Ecosystems: How the Social Sector Can Advance Climate Justice
Wednesday, November 8
9:00am - 11:00am
RSVP at https://www.tfaforms.com/5089359
Our Future Energy Economy: Shell’s Scenario Analyses
Wednesday, November 8
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/our-future-energy-economy-shells-scenario-analyses
Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City
Wednesday, November 8
6pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-ethan-carr-on-bostons-franklin-park-tickets-638269289627
MIT Energy & Climate Hack Research Symposium
Wednesday, November 8
6 - 7:30pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-climate-hack-research-symposium-tickets-740163999447
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Wednesday, November 8
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Responding to the Climate Crisis in Times of Uncertainty: A Clarion Call for Climate Leadership
Thursday, November 9
8:30 in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/8916978297359/WN_tJlxDcmHTsSh1RpmY82JvA#/registration
Black Lives, Green Spaces: How Environmental and Food Justice Can be Used to Promote Racial Equity
Thursday, November 9
12-1:15pm EST (Virtual)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-lives-green-spaces-tickets-717845895397
Climate Intelligence for Investments: Comparing Methane's Risk Factor in Coal vs. Natural Gas
Thursday, November 9
1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZrF8LbdSRrSBKBwZi68L5w#/registration
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change – A Virtual Book Talk with Stephen Gross
Thursday, November 9
2 to 3:15 PM
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oF0Xy48iS1-mNJCO3m2OPQ
Ideas in Action - TEDxBoston : Planetary Stewardship 2023 @ MIT
Saturday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-in-action-tedxboston-planetary-stewardship-2023-mit-registration-739535399287
Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties
Monday, November 13
12 – 1:15 p.m.
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-synthesis-evidence-yields-higher-social-cost-carbon-due-model
Planning the Mid-Transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization
Monday, November 13
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Livestream: https://environment.princeton.edu/event/just-and-sustainable-decarbonization/
The Peril and Promise of AI in World Politics
Monday, November 13
5 - 6:30pm EST
And live stream at https://packnetwork.com/ai-panel
Webinar: Committed to Reducing Embodied Carbon Emissions? Join the Launch of HomebuildersCAN, an RMI Initiative
Tuesday, November 14
11:00 a.m. ET
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-committed-to-reducing-embodied-carbon-emissions-join-the-launch-of-homebuilderscan-an-rmi-initiative/
Metro Boston Climate Action Plan Listening Session
Tuesday, November 14
1:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-qopjgiG9bWB6cB1_m8XNSdbvdcvUQv#/registration
Can Mental Health Save the World?
Tuesday, November 14
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=Tw7lWzqeK-qAC9nLDAvYONPnJAjlJooAFXOiGH97.calprdapp06
The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures
Wednesday, November 15
3:30 - 8pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-design-designing-climate-futures-tickets-726747931627
Updates on the New Climate Finance Goal: What Can Be Decided at COP28?
Thursday, November 16
10:00–11:30 a.m. ET
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-updates-on-the-new-climate-finance-goal-what-can-be-decided-at-cop28/
Why should the military care about climate change?
Thursday, November 16
12:00 - 13:00 EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-should-the-military-care-about-climate-change-tickets-719218861977
The Future of Offshore Wind: Innovation + Startup Showcase
Thursday, November 16
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/the-future-of-offshore-wind-innovation-startup-showcase/
Post-pandemic transformations and the re-casting of development
Friday, November 17
7:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://sei-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2kjlrjMbSHGJhXpHXQRB-Q#/registration
The State of Housing Design 2023
Friday, November 17
2 – 6 p.m.
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1PmZvh56XxnM3vDA1O2vhVkZpy_qPSZCCHnj0Po6YrkHYxw/viewform
Urban Growers Gathering
Friday November 17, 2023
4:00pm - 8:30pm
Eastie Urban Farm: 6 Chelsea Terrace, 02128 East Boston (Eastie Farm's Geothermal Greenhouse)
Harvard Business School Climate Symposium 2023
Saturday, November 18 - Sunday, November 19
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-symposium-2023-tickets-726441615427
Cost: $10 - $65
Bridging the Divide on Climate Solutions
Saturday, November 18
12 - 5pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bridging-the-divide-on-climate-solutions-tickets-738193726307
What is the Single Most Effective Solution to Climate Change?
Monday, November 20
9:30 - 10:30pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-is-the-single-most-effective-solution-to-climate-change-tickets-730925226027
Climate Change and Development
Monday, November 20
2 - 3pm EST [11:00am to 12:00pm PT]
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/bren-seminar-mark-new-climate-change-and-development
Evolving organisms to grow new nanomaterials for energy, the environment, and medicine
Monday, November 20
4:00pm to 6:00pm
RSVP at https://mitnano.mit.edu/events/dresselhaus-lecture-2023
Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions
Monday, November 27
12 – 1:15 p.m.
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-economic-challenges-rapid-energy-and-deforestation-transitions
Conversations about an Abundant Future
Tuesday, November 28
6 - 8pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-about-an-abundant-future-tickets-742498913237
Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments
Thursday, November 30
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/crisis-as-catalyst-meeting-the-moment-with-transformational-investment/
Cost $15 - $45
Learning from Indigenous Voices: Adaptation Futures 2023 Conference
Thursday, November 30
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/99038829904?pwd=bnk5VU0zQVdwRUxWYTE2czAvNEd2UT09&from=addon
Arctic Methane Emissions: Uncertainty and the Value of Better Information; Plus: COP28 preview
Thursday, November 30
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/8c2f4383-ea75-4153-a9ac-a88dede9d1bd/regProcessStep1?RefId=Gazette&rp=2174ca8b-9157-48d8-b0d2-7ce64606e847
Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector
Thursday, November 30
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/circular-economy-buildings-sector/
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Events
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Power to the People
Sunday, October 29
10am - 2pm EDT
Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 500 Walk Hill Street Boston, MA 02126
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-to-the-people-tickets-698548987827
Energy Allies has big dreams for local energy!
We envision a future of local energy led by the communities most impacted by climate change. We have big dreams for local energy! Join us at our Local Energy Justice event co-hosted by Energy Allies and our partners. Experience a world of energy justice resources and experts, with local food and activities for the whole family to enjoy! On Sunday, October 29th, 2023 at 10 am you’re invited to explore the world of energy, housing, and solar justice to achieve an equitable energy transition.
Agenda
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Event Kick-Off
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Local Energy Fair
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Solar Garden Tour
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Public Q&A Session with Local Energy Experts
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Solar Garden Tour 2
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Raffle and Event Closing
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2023 Wicked High Tide
Sunday, October 29
11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Long Wharf, Long Wharf Boston, MA 02110
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-wicked-high-tide-tickets-717177355777
Join us at Long Wharf to experience this spectacular event and what it can tell us about climate change.
Wicked High Tides are back! These annual tides are 2-4 feet higher than normal and give us a window into how sea level rise will soon affect our daily lives.
Join Stone Living Lab staff and partners at Long Wharf to learn about this natural phenomenon, try out our Climate Cart activities, and learn how climate change is affecting our communities. High tide will peak at 12:00PM. Waterproof shoes and a camera are highly encouraged!
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Home Energy Efficiency Team [HEET] Fundraiser
Sunday, October 29
4:30-7:00
HEET, 100 Goddard Avenue Brookline, MA 02445
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraiser-envision-the-future-tickets-717391225467
We hope you'll join HEET for our fall fundraiser—we have so much great progress to share!
We look forward to sharing some of this year’s remarkable stories and giving you a sneak peek at our ambitious plans for 2024 and beyond. We’ll also show you a virtual tour of Eversource’s Framingham installation, which is going in the ground now—the nation’s FIRST utility networked geothermal system. Drinks, appetizers and dessert will be served. We hope you’ll come!
Kindly respond by October 15. If you are unable to attend, please consider a one-time or monthly donation. Unrestricted funding from individuals is critical to our success. Your generous support helps HEET continue to advance equitable, affordable, decarbonization nationwide. Together we can make this bright future a reality.
Editorial Comment: HEET started by doing weatherization barnraisings then began mapping natural gas leaks and now is leading development in geothermal microgrids as an alternative to natural gas altogether. They do exemplary work.
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Deep Live Gathering
October 30 - November 5
Online
RSVP at https://futuref.org/deeplivegathering
Deep Live Gathering is a multi-local non-commercial event which combine offline and online processes.
In October 30 - November 5 we invite you to gather in different places around the globe in order to meet each other in physical, virtual and spiritual spaces.
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Taking Stock of the International Climate Effort
Monday, October 30
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, R-414ab David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h98ypA4HQ9WPLlgY85ygQg#/registration
Speaker Elliot Diringer, Senior Policy Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Elliot Diringer, Senionternational Climate Effort." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using this link; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link.
Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.Accessibility: To request accommodations or for questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.Sponsors: The Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Contact Elizabeth Hanlon
617-495-5964
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Should we re-freeze the Arctic? Exploring climate repair with Professor Sir David King
Tuesday, October 31
1 - 3pm EST [18:00 – 20:00 BST]
Online and in person
RSVP at https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/tRegisterEmailNew.csp?pageID=49160&eventID=183&tempPersonID=71159
Exploring climate repair with Professor Sir David King
Share As the planet edges closer to a climate change tipping point, UK policymakers need bold solutions to prevent catastrophe. And while work to transition to net zero remains essential, some argue it’s time to turn to radical climate repair to buy much-needed time: from removing CO2 from the atmosphere to solar geoengineering to deflect the sun’s rays.
In his Minister for the Future piece, Professor Sir David King, founder of the Centre for Climate Repair, chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government urges us to consider a unique climate repair technique: refreezing the arctic through temperature stabilisation technology.
He joins us live in conversation on 31 October 18:00-20:00 with Alan Rusbridger, Editor of Prospect Magazine, to dive deeper into the role of geoengineering technology in the fight against climate change. Alongside an expert panel from the world of climate science, we’ll explore the technologies on the table, the controversies of using climate repair and how far geoengineering can really be used as an effective part of our toolkit.
This live event will take place online and in person (London).
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Climate Change Solutions to Protect Health and Promote Equity
Tuesday, October 31
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4116974789503/WN_AH3MuXBNRVGX4o3UpMgGUg#/registration
Climate change is considered by many health experts to be the greatest determinant of health for a child born today. However, the harms of climate change will not be borne equally, with certain populations more vulnerable due to structural forces such as racism and poverty or physiological factors such as age. To mitigate the threat of climate change for all populations, we must both dismantle upstream factors like our reliance on fossil fuels and reimagine our schools, cities, and homes as places of climate resilience to best protect health and promote equity. Join us for a webinar to learn how we can equitably tackle climate change and improve health. Attendees will hear from expert speakers on why climate change is both our greatest health threat and our greatest health opportunity to build a better world.
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The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit 2023
Wednesday, November 1 (AT Greentown Houston) - Thursday, November 2 (AT Greentown Boston)
And online
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/climatetech-summit-2023
Cost: $100 - 150
The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit is a deep dive into accelerating deployment through collaboration. Climatetech entrepreneurs are developing the solutions that are the core of global decarbonization, yet they need support and partnership from investors, policymakers, and the growing climatetech workforce in order to scale their critical technologies. The energy transition is here, and the climatetech ecosystem needs your involvement to propel climatetech out into the world.
On Nov. 1 and 2, we’re inviting you, your colleagues, and all the climate champions in your life into our Houston, TX and Boston, MA incubators for a day of hands-on exploration with our 200+ startups and their climatetech solutions; keynotes and sessions featuring leaders across climatetech, finance, policy, and justice; and networking with key climate action pioneers.
We’ll highlight the momentum our startups, corporate partners, and ecosystem champions have been building together, how these collaborations will chart the course for climatetech deployment, and how everyone can play a role in commercializing climate technologies.
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Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible
Wednesday, November 1
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e7uCpGrbSoq7lUv2-6ZRCg#/registration
A presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow Jennie C. Stephens
At Radcliffe, Stephens is completing her book manuscript, provisionally titled Climate Justice University: Another Education Is Possible (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), which reimagines how higher education could accelerate transformative social innovation toward a more just, healthy, and stable fossil fuel–free future. The book proposes a paradigm shift to leverage the untapped potential of institutions of higher education to advance systemic social change to reduce growing health inequities, economic injustices, and climate vulnerabilities. This project of hope and possibility challenges complacency about how current university systems concentrate wealth and power, sustain fossil fuel reliance, and reinforce inequities and injustices.
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MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium: Gearing up for winter: A European perspective on the energy trilemma
Wednesday, November 1
5:15pm to 6:15pm
MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 6th floor, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-initiative-fall-colloquium-tickets-711185664467
Current and future energy needs must be met while simultaneously addressing decarbonization and sustainability challenges. At MITEI’s Fall Colloquium, Shell’s Chief Technology Officer Yuri Sebregts will address the energy challenge from a European perspective. He will highlight the importance of energy security and affordability, as well as the need for a balanced energy transition strategy—including the impact of geopolitical frictions and supply disruptions triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He will discuss Shell’s energy scenarios and CO2 capture technologies, while emphasizing the importance of electrification, low-carbon fuels, and CO2 capture technologies in achieving a sustainable energy future.
Yuri Sebregts is the Executive Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at Shell. For the past nine years, he has been leading the global technology organization of more than 3,000 people, combining technical, scientific, and commercial expertise.
Sebregts has 30 years of experience in Europe and the United States in technical and commercial positions, including in Shell’s chemicals, lubricants, and refining businesses. He is a member of the external advisory board of the MIT Energy Initiative, of the Stanford Global Energy Council, and of the Dutch ECN/TNO Strategic Advisory Board. He has previously been invited to address such forums and industry conferences as the Web Summit and CERAWeek.
Sebregts is responsible for Shell’s technology strategy and new technology development for all segments of Shell’s businesses, including digital innovation and technology commercialization activities. These activities range from research and development programs delivered both in-house and through collaborations with partners, to deployment of technologies across Shell’s operations, as well as catalyst manufacturing and sales, and technology licensing and technical services to third parties. The teams in the technology division are based at Shell’s major technology centers in Amsterdam, Houston, and Bangalore, and at smaller technical centers located close to Shell’s customers and partners. Sebregts was born in the Netherlands and completed his MSc in chemistry at Leiden University before joining Shell in 1991.
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Wednesday, November 1
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Smith Hall, Columbia Point, Boston MA 02125
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america-tickets-722780304347
Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College professor of history, discusses her new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America with Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic.
Please note: While this in-person Forum will not include a book signing, copies with signed bookplates will be available for purchase onsite in our Museum Store.
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SYGD Masterclass: Designing Indoor Climates for a Future Climate
Thursday, November 2
9:00 - 10:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sygd-masterclass-designing-indoor-climates-for-a-future-climate-tickets-740086477577
Indoor environment for vulnerable groups: homes, care facilities, schools. Evaluating solutions for climate resilience and sustainability.
This Masterclass by Anna Mavrogianni, will present evidence on current indoor environmental performance of buildings occupied by vulnerable people: homes, care homes and schools, and discuss the relative effectiveness of potential solutions towards their improvement, under the current and future climate. Synergies and conflicts between environmental sustainability and health, comfort and wellbeing targets, in the context of Net Zero, will be discussed.
This event is open and free to professionals at al levels. To join the masterclass, simply use the provided links, connecting you to the platforms hosting the event.
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A net zero emissions future: how to make it a reality
Thursday, November 2
9:30 - 11 am EST [14:30 - 16:00 BST]
Online
Livestream at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/166815/a-net-zero-emissions-future-how-to-make-it-a-reality/
As the impacts of climate change become more widespread and severe around the world, governments, companies and communities are increasingly recognising the need to stop as soon as possible the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving it.
However, ambition has so far failed to translate into action at scale and decarbonisation efforts must be significantly accelerated if the world is to have a reasonable chance of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goal of holding global warming to well below 2°C and preferably 1.5°C.
This special event will examine the ever more urgent case for a rapid and just transition to net zero emissions globally, while promoting sustainable development, prosperity and well-being within and across lower and higher income countries. Leading experts will lay out their latest findings from across the natural and social sciences, against a backdrop of heightened geopolitical tensions, an ongoing energy crisis in Europe, and concerns about progress ahead the next United Nations climate change summit due to take place in the United Arab Emirates later this year.
This is a special event to mark the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the two Grantham Institutes at Imperial College London and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The speakers will include:
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair, CH, FRS, FBA, FAcSS , Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Chair, CBE FRS, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
Dr Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
Professor Joeri Rogelj, Professor of Climate Science and Policy, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
Professor Nick Robins, Professor in Practice – Sustainable Finance, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Kate Higham, Policy Fellow (Climate Change Laws of the World), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
This event will be jointly chaired by Professor Ralf Toumi, Director, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, and Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Smart Reforestation: Advancing Tropical Forest Restoration for a Sustainable Future
Thursday, November 2
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-hFJO-X9S4uskWkgjjqACg#/registration
Tropical reforestation has been recognized as an important tool in combating climate change as young forests can potentially take copious amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Yet restoring forests on infertile or degraded soils, the soils most likely targeted for restoration, can be particularly challenging. Smart Reforestation® is about planting the right trees in the right place, at the right time, and for the right reason. This talk will discuss how results from research on ecosystem services at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Agua Salud Project have helped to advance Smart Reforestation and sustainable land management.
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Building the Energy-Gender-Climate Nexus: The Role of Decentralized Renewable Energy Access
Thursday, November 2
2:00-3:00pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__R3_8rHBRz60YSDNhK8kcQ#/registration
CHRISTINE EIBS SINGER, Program Director, The Shine Campaign
ALLISON ARCHAMBAULT, President, EarthSpark International
SARAH BIEBER, Head of Energy Partnerships, Acumen
KATHERINE LUCEY, Chief Executive Officer, Solar Sister
RADHIKA THAKKAR, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Sun King
Energy poverty, gender inequality, and climate change are three of the gravest threats that face people and planet alike. Decentralized renewable energy access is precisely the kind of solution that will deliver a Just Energy Transition and bring power to the people in the Global South as well as communities in the Global North. Yet, big energy and infrastructure are dominating the Energy Transition agenda. With a focus on rapidly reducing carbon emissions, large-scale renewable systems—many centrally controlled—are being prioritized, leaving hundreds of millions of people—especially women—in rural and marginalized communities without access to energy, increasing their climate vulnerability. Join four C3E Award winners to hear their experience in accelerating energy access in the Global South, followed by a discussion on how delivering energy access through decentralized renewable energy enables climate, gender, and development benefits and upcoming opportunities for further innovation and scale in Africa, Asia, and the United States.
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Bringing Democracy Back from the Brink: A Strategic Vision and Call to Action
Friday, November 3
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Harvard, Paine Hall, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gmps04gjh3a2vdgmenw2wh9wffr09j0d72ex54ha3axzexnw821t
SPEAKER(S) Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor
Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She is the author of "Justice by Means of Democracy" and "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality," among others. Running for governor of Massachusetts during 2020—22, she made history as the first Black woman ever to run for statewide office in Massachusetts.
CONTACT INFO HILR@extension.harvard.edu
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Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Climate Change from the Indigenous Perspective
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpceirrD0pEtDAiahzjw2UjBr860D5HOG4#/registration
Speaker: Leslie Jonas (Mashpee Wampanoag) Our world is changing and it’s evidently clear that our Earth Mother is screaming for help. Centuries of impact and extraction, fossil fuels and pollution have caused a dire situation called Climate Change. Indigenous people have lived very closely to the land and have witnessed Climate’s impact for over 50 years now. This presentation will examine more recent evidence, and effects of Climate-related environmental destruction and how it is impacting the lives of Indigenous ppl who have lived off of the land and water for millenia.
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Green Resilience Hubs: A Conversation with the Report Authors
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4S0NhiM6SDOV5de9UO8OAw#/registration
Green Resilience Hubs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital services to local communities before, during, and after emergencies such as natural disasters. Using the Connecticut Green Bank as a case study, a team of recent graduates from the Yale School of the Environment have written a report offering insights to developers and investors interested in potentially constructing Green Resilience Hubs. An array of incentives is examined – including federal tax credits made possible through the Inflation Reduction Act – which can allow communities across the country to harness the power of financial mechanisms to drive resiliency. The authors of this report will talk about their research, give an overview of the report as well as the financial model they have constructed and how they can be to be adapted to analyze other projects across the United States.
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Charting the Path to Net Zero: A Panel Discussion with four houses of worship
Sunday, November 5
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Winchester Unitarian Society, 478 Main Street, Winchester MA
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/ba8fcb8
This past summer's wildfires, floods, and extreme weather demonstrate why we need to get on the path to net zero -- balancing our energy consumption with sources of renewable energy.
Join MassIPL virtually or in-person as we delve into what it takes to pursue this goal with four houses of worship who have taken the first steps:
Winchester Unitarian Society, Chuck Khuen
First Congregational Church of Winchester, Bruce Alexander
West Concord Union Church, Dave Sedlock
Needham Congregational Church, Anne Hayek
Congregation members involved in environmental stewardship, finance, property care, and other leadership positions will hear practical advice on the technical issues involved, financial decisions, and building support in the community.
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Research Symposium: Energy and Climate Change
Monday, November 6
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, 501, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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Power to the People
Sunday, October 29
10am - 2pm EDT
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-to-the-people-tickets-698548987827
2023 Wicked High Tide
Sunday, October 29
11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-wicked-high-tide-tickets-717177355777
Home Energy Efficiency Team [HEET] Fundraiser
Sunday, October 29
4:30-7:00
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraiser-envision-the-future-tickets-717391225467
Deep Live Gathering
October 30 - November 5
Online
RSVP at https://futuref.org/deeplivegathering
Taking Stock of the International Climate Effort
Monday, October 30
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h98ypA4HQ9WPLlgY85ygQg#/registration
Should we re-freeze the Arctic? Exploring climate repair with Professor Sir David King
Tuesday, October 31
1 - 3pm EST [18:00 – 20:00 BST]
RSVP at https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/tRegisterEmailNew.csp?pageID=49160&eventID=183&tempPersonID=71159
Climate Change Solutions to Protect Health and Promote Equity
Tuesday, October 31
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4116974789503/WN_AH3MuXBNRVGX4o3UpMgGUg#/registration
The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit 2023
Wednesday, November 1 (AT Greentown Houston) - Thursday, November 2 (AT Greentown Boston)
And online
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/climatetech-summit-2023
Cost: $100 - 150
Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible
Wednesday, November 1
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e7uCpGrbSoq7lUv2-6ZRCg#/registration
MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium: Gearing up for winter: A European perspective on the energy trilemma
Wednesday, November 1
5:15pm to 6:15pm
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-initiative-fall-colloquium-tickets-711185664467
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Wednesday, November 1
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america-tickets-722780304347
SYGD Masterclass: Designing Indoor Climates for a Future Climate
Thursday, November 2
9:00 - 10:00 EDT
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sygd-masterclass-designing-indoor-climates-for-a-future-climate-tickets-740086477577
A net zero emissions future: how to make it a reality
Thursday, November 2
9:30 - 11 am EST [14:30 - 16:00 BST]
Livestream at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/166815/a-net-zero-emissions-future-how-to-make-it-a-reality/
Smart Reforestation: Advancing Tropical Forest Restoration for a Sustainable Future
Thursday, November 2
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-hFJO-X9S4uskWkgjjqACg#/registration
Building the Energy-Gender-Climate Nexus: The Role of Decentralized Renewable Energy Access
Thursday, November 2
2:00-3:00pm ET
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__R3_8rHBRz60YSDNhK8kcQ#/registration
Bringing Democracy Back from the Brink: A Strategic Vision and Call to Action
Friday, November 3
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
RSVP at https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gmps04gjh3a2vdgmenw2wh9wffr09j0d72ex54ha3axzexnw821t
Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Climate Change from the Indigenous Perspective
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpceirrD0pEtDAiahzjw2UjBr860D5HOG4#/registration
Green Resilience Hubs: A Conversation with the Report Authors
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4S0NhiM6SDOV5de9UO8OAw#/registration
Charting the Path to Net Zero: A Panel Discussion with four houses of worship
Sunday, November 5
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/ba8fcb8
Research Symposium: Energy and Climate Change
Monday, November 6
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, 501, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?
Monday, November 6
4:00pm to 6:00pm
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gtwgqAyoRA-KDJYfcDY3wA#/registration
Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
Monday, November 6
6 – 7 p.m.
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DKkhUNuxRKWeWqb5IN6Baw#/registration
From Climate Risk to Resilience: Unpacking the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
November 7
8:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x3dK0Dt2TniVViPzQ_2rKQ#/registration
“Why won’t you listen to me?”: How to Engage in Productive Disagreements
Tuesday, November 7
12 – 1 p.m.
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrceivpzIoGtCkgH0ElHQVcXJeWuzt9fdm#/registration
Ending Homelessness in America
Tuesday, November 7
2:30pm EST [5:30 PM PST]
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-11-07/kevin-adler-ending-homelessness-america
Cost: $10 - $30
Building Just Ecosystems: How the Social Sector Can Advance Climate Justice
Wednesday, November 8
9:00am - 11:00am
RSVP at https://www.tfaforms.com/5089359
Our Future Energy Economy: Shell’s Scenario Analyses
Wednesday, November 8
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/our-future-energy-economy-shells-scenario-analyses
Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City
Wednesday, November 8
6pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-ethan-carr-on-bostons-franklin-park-tickets-638269289627
MIT Energy & Climate Hack Research Symposium
Wednesday, November 8
6 - 7:30pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-climate-hack-research-symposium-tickets-740163999447
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Wednesday, November 8
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Responding to the Climate Crisis in Times of Uncertainty: A Clarion Call for Climate Leadership
Thursday, November 9
8:30 in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/8916978297359/WN_tJlxDcmHTsSh1RpmY82JvA#/registration
Black Lives, Green Spaces: How Environmental and Food Justice Can be Used to Promote Racial Equity
Thursday, November 9
12-1:15pm EST (Virtual)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-lives-green-spaces-tickets-717845895397
Climate Intelligence for Investments: Comparing Methane's Risk Factor in Coal vs. Natural Gas
Thursday, November 9
1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZrF8LbdSRrSBKBwZi68L5w#/registration
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change – A Virtual Book Talk with Stephen Gross
Thursday, November 9
2 to 3:15 PM
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oF0Xy48iS1-mNJCO3m2OPQ
Ideas in Action - TEDxBoston : Planetary Stewardship 2023 @ MIT
Saturday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-in-action-tedxboston-planetary-stewardship-2023-mit-registration-739535399287
Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties
Monday, November 13
12 – 1:15 p.m.
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-synthesis-evidence-yields-higher-social-cost-carbon-due-model
Planning the Mid-Transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization
Monday, November 13
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Livestream: https://environment.princeton.edu/event/just-and-sustainable-decarbonization/
The Peril and Promise of AI in World Politics
Monday, November 13
5 - 6:30pm EST
And live stream at https://packnetwork.com/ai-panel
Webinar: Committed to Reducing Embodied Carbon Emissions? Join the Launch of HomebuildersCAN, an RMI Initiative
Tuesday, November 14
11:00 a.m. ET
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-committed-to-reducing-embodied-carbon-emissions-join-the-launch-of-homebuilderscan-an-rmi-initiative/
Metro Boston Climate Action Plan Listening Session
Tuesday, November 14
1:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-qopjgiG9bWB6cB1_m8XNSdbvdcvUQv#/registration
Can Mental Health Save the World?
Tuesday, November 14
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=Tw7lWzqeK-qAC9nLDAvYONPnJAjlJooAFXOiGH97.calprdapp06
The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures
Wednesday, November 15
3:30 - 8pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-design-designing-climate-futures-tickets-726747931627
Updates on the New Climate Finance Goal: What Can Be Decided at COP28?
Thursday, November 16
10:00–11:30 a.m. ET
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-updates-on-the-new-climate-finance-goal-what-can-be-decided-at-cop28/
Why should the military care about climate change?
Thursday, November 16
12:00 - 13:00 EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-should-the-military-care-about-climate-change-tickets-719218861977
The Future of Offshore Wind: Innovation + Startup Showcase
Thursday, November 16
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/the-future-of-offshore-wind-innovation-startup-showcase/
Post-pandemic transformations and the re-casting of development
Friday, November 17
7:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
RSVP at https://sei-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2kjlrjMbSHGJhXpHXQRB-Q#/registration
The State of Housing Design 2023
Friday, November 17
2 – 6 p.m.
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1PmZvh56XxnM3vDA1O2vhVkZpy_qPSZCCHnj0Po6YrkHYxw/viewform
Urban Growers Gathering
Friday November 17, 2023
4:00pm - 8:30pm
Eastie Urban Farm: 6 Chelsea Terrace, 02128 East Boston (Eastie Farm's Geothermal Greenhouse)
Harvard Business School Climate Symposium 2023
Saturday, November 18 - Sunday, November 19
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-symposium-2023-tickets-726441615427
Cost: $10 - $65
Bridging the Divide on Climate Solutions
Saturday, November 18
12 - 5pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bridging-the-divide-on-climate-solutions-tickets-738193726307
What is the Single Most Effective Solution to Climate Change?
Monday, November 20
9:30 - 10:30pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-is-the-single-most-effective-solution-to-climate-change-tickets-730925226027
Climate Change and Development
Monday, November 20
2 - 3pm EST [11:00am to 12:00pm PT]
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/bren-seminar-mark-new-climate-change-and-development
Evolving organisms to grow new nanomaterials for energy, the environment, and medicine
Monday, November 20
4:00pm to 6:00pm
RSVP at https://mitnano.mit.edu/events/dresselhaus-lecture-2023
Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions
Monday, November 27
12 – 1:15 p.m.
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-economic-challenges-rapid-energy-and-deforestation-transitions
Conversations about an Abundant Future
Tuesday, November 28
6 - 8pm EST
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-about-an-abundant-future-tickets-742498913237
Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments
Thursday, November 30
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/crisis-as-catalyst-meeting-the-moment-with-transformational-investment/
Cost $15 - $45
Learning from Indigenous Voices: Adaptation Futures 2023 Conference
Thursday, November 30
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/99038829904?pwd=bnk5VU0zQVdwRUxWYTE2czAvNEd2UT09&from=addon
Arctic Methane Emissions: Uncertainty and the Value of Better Information; Plus: COP28 preview
Thursday, November 30
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/8c2f4383-ea75-4153-a9ac-a88dede9d1bd/regProcessStep1?RefId=Gazette&rp=2174ca8b-9157-48d8-b0d2-7ce64606e847
Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector
Thursday, November 30
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/circular-economy-buildings-sector/
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Events
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Power to the People
Sunday, October 29
10am - 2pm EDT
Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 500 Walk Hill Street Boston, MA 02126
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-to-the-people-tickets-698548987827
Energy Allies has big dreams for local energy!
We envision a future of local energy led by the communities most impacted by climate change. We have big dreams for local energy! Join us at our Local Energy Justice event co-hosted by Energy Allies and our partners. Experience a world of energy justice resources and experts, with local food and activities for the whole family to enjoy! On Sunday, October 29th, 2023 at 10 am you’re invited to explore the world of energy, housing, and solar justice to achieve an equitable energy transition.
Agenda
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Event Kick-Off
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Local Energy Fair
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Solar Garden Tour
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Public Q&A Session with Local Energy Experts
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Solar Garden Tour 2
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Raffle and Event Closing
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2023 Wicked High Tide
Sunday, October 29
11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Long Wharf, Long Wharf Boston, MA 02110
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-wicked-high-tide-tickets-717177355777
Join us at Long Wharf to experience this spectacular event and what it can tell us about climate change.
Wicked High Tides are back! These annual tides are 2-4 feet higher than normal and give us a window into how sea level rise will soon affect our daily lives.
Join Stone Living Lab staff and partners at Long Wharf to learn about this natural phenomenon, try out our Climate Cart activities, and learn how climate change is affecting our communities. High tide will peak at 12:00PM. Waterproof shoes and a camera are highly encouraged!
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Home Energy Efficiency Team [HEET] Fundraiser
Sunday, October 29
4:30-7:00
HEET, 100 Goddard Avenue Brookline, MA 02445
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraiser-envision-the-future-tickets-717391225467
We hope you'll join HEET for our fall fundraiser—we have so much great progress to share!
We look forward to sharing some of this year’s remarkable stories and giving you a sneak peek at our ambitious plans for 2024 and beyond. We’ll also show you a virtual tour of Eversource’s Framingham installation, which is going in the ground now—the nation’s FIRST utility networked geothermal system. Drinks, appetizers and dessert will be served. We hope you’ll come!
Kindly respond by October 15. If you are unable to attend, please consider a one-time or monthly donation. Unrestricted funding from individuals is critical to our success. Your generous support helps HEET continue to advance equitable, affordable, decarbonization nationwide. Together we can make this bright future a reality.
Editorial Comment: HEET started by doing weatherization barnraisings then began mapping natural gas leaks and now is leading development in geothermal microgrids as an alternative to natural gas altogether. They do exemplary work.
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Deep Live Gathering
October 30 - November 5
Online
RSVP at https://futuref.org/deeplivegathering
Deep Live Gathering is a multi-local non-commercial event which combine offline and online processes.
In October 30 - November 5 we invite you to gather in different places around the globe in order to meet each other in physical, virtual and spiritual spaces.
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Taking Stock of the International Climate Effort
Monday, October 30
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, R-414ab David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h98ypA4HQ9WPLlgY85ygQg#/registration
Speaker Elliot Diringer, Senior Policy Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Elliot Diringer, Senionternational Climate Effort." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using this link; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link.
Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.Accessibility: To request accommodations or for questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.Sponsors: The Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Contact Elizabeth Hanlon
617-495-5964
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Should we re-freeze the Arctic? Exploring climate repair with Professor Sir David King
Tuesday, October 31
1 - 3pm EST [18:00 – 20:00 BST]
Online and in person
RSVP at https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/tRegisterEmailNew.csp?pageID=49160&eventID=183&tempPersonID=71159
Exploring climate repair with Professor Sir David King
Share As the planet edges closer to a climate change tipping point, UK policymakers need bold solutions to prevent catastrophe. And while work to transition to net zero remains essential, some argue it’s time to turn to radical climate repair to buy much-needed time: from removing CO2 from the atmosphere to solar geoengineering to deflect the sun’s rays.
In his Minister for the Future piece, Professor Sir David King, founder of the Centre for Climate Repair, chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government urges us to consider a unique climate repair technique: refreezing the arctic through temperature stabilisation technology.
He joins us live in conversation on 31 October 18:00-20:00 with Alan Rusbridger, Editor of Prospect Magazine, to dive deeper into the role of geoengineering technology in the fight against climate change. Alongside an expert panel from the world of climate science, we’ll explore the technologies on the table, the controversies of using climate repair and how far geoengineering can really be used as an effective part of our toolkit.
This live event will take place online and in person (London).
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Climate Change Solutions to Protect Health and Promote Equity
Tuesday, October 31
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4116974789503/WN_AH3MuXBNRVGX4o3UpMgGUg#/registration
Climate change is considered by many health experts to be the greatest determinant of health for a child born today. However, the harms of climate change will not be borne equally, with certain populations more vulnerable due to structural forces such as racism and poverty or physiological factors such as age. To mitigate the threat of climate change for all populations, we must both dismantle upstream factors like our reliance on fossil fuels and reimagine our schools, cities, and homes as places of climate resilience to best protect health and promote equity. Join us for a webinar to learn how we can equitably tackle climate change and improve health. Attendees will hear from expert speakers on why climate change is both our greatest health threat and our greatest health opportunity to build a better world.
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The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit 2023
Wednesday, November 1 (AT Greentown Houston) - Thursday, November 2 (AT Greentown Boston)
And online
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/climatetech-summit-2023
Cost: $100 - 150
The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit is a deep dive into accelerating deployment through collaboration. Climatetech entrepreneurs are developing the solutions that are the core of global decarbonization, yet they need support and partnership from investors, policymakers, and the growing climatetech workforce in order to scale their critical technologies. The energy transition is here, and the climatetech ecosystem needs your involvement to propel climatetech out into the world.
On Nov. 1 and 2, we’re inviting you, your colleagues, and all the climate champions in your life into our Houston, TX and Boston, MA incubators for a day of hands-on exploration with our 200+ startups and their climatetech solutions; keynotes and sessions featuring leaders across climatetech, finance, policy, and justice; and networking with key climate action pioneers.
We’ll highlight the momentum our startups, corporate partners, and ecosystem champions have been building together, how these collaborations will chart the course for climatetech deployment, and how everyone can play a role in commercializing climate technologies.
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Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible
Wednesday, November 1
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e7uCpGrbSoq7lUv2-6ZRCg#/registration
A presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow Jennie C. Stephens
At Radcliffe, Stephens is completing her book manuscript, provisionally titled Climate Justice University: Another Education Is Possible (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), which reimagines how higher education could accelerate transformative social innovation toward a more just, healthy, and stable fossil fuel–free future. The book proposes a paradigm shift to leverage the untapped potential of institutions of higher education to advance systemic social change to reduce growing health inequities, economic injustices, and climate vulnerabilities. This project of hope and possibility challenges complacency about how current university systems concentrate wealth and power, sustain fossil fuel reliance, and reinforce inequities and injustices.
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MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium: Gearing up for winter: A European perspective on the energy trilemma
Wednesday, November 1
5:15pm to 6:15pm
MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 6th floor, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-initiative-fall-colloquium-tickets-711185664467
Current and future energy needs must be met while simultaneously addressing decarbonization and sustainability challenges. At MITEI’s Fall Colloquium, Shell’s Chief Technology Officer Yuri Sebregts will address the energy challenge from a European perspective. He will highlight the importance of energy security and affordability, as well as the need for a balanced energy transition strategy—including the impact of geopolitical frictions and supply disruptions triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He will discuss Shell’s energy scenarios and CO2 capture technologies, while emphasizing the importance of electrification, low-carbon fuels, and CO2 capture technologies in achieving a sustainable energy future.
Yuri Sebregts is the Executive Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at Shell. For the past nine years, he has been leading the global technology organization of more than 3,000 people, combining technical, scientific, and commercial expertise.
Sebregts has 30 years of experience in Europe and the United States in technical and commercial positions, including in Shell’s chemicals, lubricants, and refining businesses. He is a member of the external advisory board of the MIT Energy Initiative, of the Stanford Global Energy Council, and of the Dutch ECN/TNO Strategic Advisory Board. He has previously been invited to address such forums and industry conferences as the Web Summit and CERAWeek.
Sebregts is responsible for Shell’s technology strategy and new technology development for all segments of Shell’s businesses, including digital innovation and technology commercialization activities. These activities range from research and development programs delivered both in-house and through collaborations with partners, to deployment of technologies across Shell’s operations, as well as catalyst manufacturing and sales, and technology licensing and technical services to third parties. The teams in the technology division are based at Shell’s major technology centers in Amsterdam, Houston, and Bangalore, and at smaller technical centers located close to Shell’s customers and partners. Sebregts was born in the Netherlands and completed his MSc in chemistry at Leiden University before joining Shell in 1991.
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Wednesday, November 1
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Smith Hall, Columbia Point, Boston MA 02125
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america-tickets-722780304347
Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College professor of history, discusses her new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America with Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic.
Please note: While this in-person Forum will not include a book signing, copies with signed bookplates will be available for purchase onsite in our Museum Store.
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SYGD Masterclass: Designing Indoor Climates for a Future Climate
Thursday, November 2
9:00 - 10:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sygd-masterclass-designing-indoor-climates-for-a-future-climate-tickets-740086477577
Indoor environment for vulnerable groups: homes, care facilities, schools. Evaluating solutions for climate resilience and sustainability.
This Masterclass by Anna Mavrogianni, will present evidence on current indoor environmental performance of buildings occupied by vulnerable people: homes, care homes and schools, and discuss the relative effectiveness of potential solutions towards their improvement, under the current and future climate. Synergies and conflicts between environmental sustainability and health, comfort and wellbeing targets, in the context of Net Zero, will be discussed.
This event is open and free to professionals at al levels. To join the masterclass, simply use the provided links, connecting you to the platforms hosting the event.
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A net zero emissions future: how to make it a reality
Thursday, November 2
9:30 - 11 am EST [14:30 - 16:00 BST]
Online
Livestream at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/166815/a-net-zero-emissions-future-how-to-make-it-a-reality/
As the impacts of climate change become more widespread and severe around the world, governments, companies and communities are increasingly recognising the need to stop as soon as possible the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving it.
However, ambition has so far failed to translate into action at scale and decarbonisation efforts must be significantly accelerated if the world is to have a reasonable chance of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goal of holding global warming to well below 2°C and preferably 1.5°C.
This special event will examine the ever more urgent case for a rapid and just transition to net zero emissions globally, while promoting sustainable development, prosperity and well-being within and across lower and higher income countries. Leading experts will lay out their latest findings from across the natural and social sciences, against a backdrop of heightened geopolitical tensions, an ongoing energy crisis in Europe, and concerns about progress ahead the next United Nations climate change summit due to take place in the United Arab Emirates later this year.
This is a special event to mark the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the two Grantham Institutes at Imperial College London and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The speakers will include:
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair, CH, FRS, FBA, FAcSS , Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Chair, CBE FRS, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
Dr Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
Professor Joeri Rogelj, Professor of Climate Science and Policy, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
Professor Nick Robins, Professor in Practice – Sustainable Finance, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Kate Higham, Policy Fellow (Climate Change Laws of the World), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
This event will be jointly chaired by Professor Ralf Toumi, Director, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, and Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Smart Reforestation: Advancing Tropical Forest Restoration for a Sustainable Future
Thursday, November 2
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-hFJO-X9S4uskWkgjjqACg#/registration
Tropical reforestation has been recognized as an important tool in combating climate change as young forests can potentially take copious amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Yet restoring forests on infertile or degraded soils, the soils most likely targeted for restoration, can be particularly challenging. Smart Reforestation® is about planting the right trees in the right place, at the right time, and for the right reason. This talk will discuss how results from research on ecosystem services at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Agua Salud Project have helped to advance Smart Reforestation and sustainable land management.
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Building the Energy-Gender-Climate Nexus: The Role of Decentralized Renewable Energy Access
Thursday, November 2
2:00-3:00pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__R3_8rHBRz60YSDNhK8kcQ#/registration
CHRISTINE EIBS SINGER, Program Director, The Shine Campaign
ALLISON ARCHAMBAULT, President, EarthSpark International
SARAH BIEBER, Head of Energy Partnerships, Acumen
KATHERINE LUCEY, Chief Executive Officer, Solar Sister
RADHIKA THAKKAR, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Sun King
Energy poverty, gender inequality, and climate change are three of the gravest threats that face people and planet alike. Decentralized renewable energy access is precisely the kind of solution that will deliver a Just Energy Transition and bring power to the people in the Global South as well as communities in the Global North. Yet, big energy and infrastructure are dominating the Energy Transition agenda. With a focus on rapidly reducing carbon emissions, large-scale renewable systems—many centrally controlled—are being prioritized, leaving hundreds of millions of people—especially women—in rural and marginalized communities without access to energy, increasing their climate vulnerability. Join four C3E Award winners to hear their experience in accelerating energy access in the Global South, followed by a discussion on how delivering energy access through decentralized renewable energy enables climate, gender, and development benefits and upcoming opportunities for further innovation and scale in Africa, Asia, and the United States.
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Bringing Democracy Back from the Brink: A Strategic Vision and Call to Action
Friday, November 3
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Harvard, Paine Hall, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gmps04gjh3a2vdgmenw2wh9wffr09j0d72ex54ha3axzexnw821t
SPEAKER(S) Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor
Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She is the author of "Justice by Means of Democracy" and "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality," among others. Running for governor of Massachusetts during 2020—22, she made history as the first Black woman ever to run for statewide office in Massachusetts.
CONTACT INFO HILR@extension.harvard.edu
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Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Climate Change from the Indigenous Perspective
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpceirrD0pEtDAiahzjw2UjBr860D5HOG4#/registration
Speaker: Leslie Jonas (Mashpee Wampanoag) Our world is changing and it’s evidently clear that our Earth Mother is screaming for help. Centuries of impact and extraction, fossil fuels and pollution have caused a dire situation called Climate Change. Indigenous people have lived very closely to the land and have witnessed Climate’s impact for over 50 years now. This presentation will examine more recent evidence, and effects of Climate-related environmental destruction and how it is impacting the lives of Indigenous ppl who have lived off of the land and water for millenia.
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Green Resilience Hubs: A Conversation with the Report Authors
Friday, November 3
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4S0NhiM6SDOV5de9UO8OAw#/registration
Green Resilience Hubs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital services to local communities before, during, and after emergencies such as natural disasters. Using the Connecticut Green Bank as a case study, a team of recent graduates from the Yale School of the Environment have written a report offering insights to developers and investors interested in potentially constructing Green Resilience Hubs. An array of incentives is examined – including federal tax credits made possible through the Inflation Reduction Act – which can allow communities across the country to harness the power of financial mechanisms to drive resiliency. The authors of this report will talk about their research, give an overview of the report as well as the financial model they have constructed and how they can be to be adapted to analyze other projects across the United States.
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Charting the Path to Net Zero: A Panel Discussion with four houses of worship
Sunday, November 5
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Winchester Unitarian Society, 478 Main Street, Winchester MA
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/ba8fcb8
This past summer's wildfires, floods, and extreme weather demonstrate why we need to get on the path to net zero -- balancing our energy consumption with sources of renewable energy.
Join MassIPL virtually or in-person as we delve into what it takes to pursue this goal with four houses of worship who have taken the first steps:
Winchester Unitarian Society, Chuck Khuen
First Congregational Church of Winchester, Bruce Alexander
West Concord Union Church, Dave Sedlock
Needham Congregational Church, Anne Hayek
Congregation members involved in environmental stewardship, finance, property care, and other leadership positions will hear practical advice on the technical issues involved, financial decisions, and building support in the community.
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Research Symposium: Energy and Climate Change
Monday, November 6
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, 501, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Please join us for a research symposium: "Energy and Climate Change." This event will feature SI-GECS award-winning faculty and their research teams. Each presentation will be followed by Q&A. Lunch will be provided.
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Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?
Monday, November 6
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gtwgqAyoRA-KDJYfcDY3wA#/registration
“Humanity is at a turning point with AI,” says Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google for 10 years recently quit over concerns about deep learning and AI's potential impact on the future of humanity. AI is reshaping everything from how we write to how we engage with the world. While computers were first designed for humans to tell them what to do, they’re now learning to “think” for themselves. Join Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and co-founder of deep learning, November 6th at 4 pm for a webinar, “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” a discussion of AI and humanity’s future.
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Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
Monday, November 6
6 – 7 p.m.
Harvard, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
And Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DKkhUNuxRKWeWqb5IN6Baw#/registration
SPEAKER(S) Saleem H. Ali
Chair, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences; Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of
Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust. It is also ubiquitous in the modern world, from aircraft to soda cans. Today, the efficiency with which we use—and reuse—aluminum is vital to addressing key environmental challenges and understanding humanity’s fraught relationship with the earth. In Soil to Foil (Columbia University Press, 2023), Saleem Ali tells the extraordinary story of aluminum. He reveals its pivotal role in the histories of scientific inquiry and technological innovation as well as its importance to sustainability. He highlights scientists and innovators who discovered new uses for this remarkable element, ranging from chemistry and geoscience to engineering and industrial design. Ali argues that aluminum use exemplifies broader lessons about stewardship of nonrenewable resources: its seeming abundance has given rise to wasteful and destructive practices.
CONTACT INFO hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu
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From Climate Risk to Resilience: Unpacking the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
November 7
8:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x3dK0Dt2TniVViPzQ_2rKQ#/registration
Join us for a virtual launch event for our ‘From Climate Risk to Resilience’ country report series, covering Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. The reports are a collaboration between the African Climate Foundation (ACF) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), with additional support from the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight. This webinar will provide an opportunity to discuss the findings of the reports, including how climate change is projected to affect key economic sectors in each country. Furthermore, attendees will learn about the ACF and IFPRI’s work on supporting climate adaptation and resilience in Africa, explore together how to further advance efforts to address climate change-related risks, and unpack whether a programme approach to funding can advance adaptation and resilience in Africa. All four reports will be made available prior to the webinar in the report section of our website.
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“Why won’t you listen to me?”: How to Engage in Productive Disagreements
Tuesday, November 7
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrceivpzIoGtCkgH0ElHQVcXJeWuzt9fdm#/registration
SPEAKER(S) Julia Minson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
How do people engage with opinions, judgments, and decisions that are different from their own? Does disagreement have to be divisive? In this Keynote, Professor Julia Minson will discuss the dynamics and psychology of interpersonal disagreement and propose practical strategies for navigating conversations that are often difficult, avoided, and feared.
CONTACT INFO Alice Swan, aswan@gsd.harvard.edu
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Ending Homelessness in America
Tuesday, November 7
2:30pm EST [5:30 PM PST]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-11-07/kevin-adler-ending-homelessness-america
Cost: $10 - $30
As cities across the country grapple with a persistent homelessness crisis, a leading advocate offers a compassionate look at the problem, the people, and the possible solutions—including what you can do to help.
Kevin Adler returns to The Commonwealth Club to provide an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets.
Adler is the co-author of When We Walk By, which argues that we have sacrificed our humanity by ignoring, downplaying, and refusing to address the homelessness problem. The authors offer an evidence-based people-first approach and community-driven solutions, and they lay out some practical steps that individuals can take to address homelessness.
Kevin Adler is an award-winning social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and author. Since 2014, he has served as the founder and CEO of Miracle Messages, a nonprofit organization that helps people experiencing homelessness rebuild their social support systems and financial security, primarily through family reunifications, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots.
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Building Just Ecosystems: How the Social Sector Can Advance Climate Justice
November 8
9:00am - 11:00am
Barr Foundation, 2 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA, 02110
RSVP at https://www.tfaforms.com/5089359
With climate change on everyone’s mind, it’s important to prioritize equity. This means being intentional about how our environmental work, and the burden of doing that work, impacts communities. Join us for an interactive panel discussion for nonprofits and funders who are either involved in climate justice work already, or are interested in learning more about it. We will discuss challenges and emergent opportunities to advance climate justice work, as well as how to center grassroots nonprofits and the communities they serve. The event will consist of an interactive panel conversation, table discussions, and time for networking.
Panelists
Kalila Barnett, Senior Program Officer for Climate Resilience, Barr Foundation
Kate Grundy, Executive Director, Devonshire Foundation
Eddie Rosa, Director of Community Programs, Groundwork Lawrence
Marissa Zampino, Community Organizer, Mystic River Watershed Association
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Our Future Energy Economy: Shell’s Scenario Analyses
Wednesday, November 8
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Columbia, 4 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
And online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/our-future-energy-economy-shells-scenario-analyses
The world is engaged in a race to decarbonize global energy systems, watching from one year to the next, as mean global temperatures rise, severe weather events proliferate, precipitation patterns change, and other manifestations of a changing climate impact all of humanity, and especially the world’s poor. As the last two years have highlighted, however, the world needs a decarbonized energy future and, simultaneously, steady and improving energy security.
How can global decision-makers, companies, civil society leaders, and other stakeholders think about the array of choices that lie ahead as we try to pursue these intertwined outcomes?
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs for a discussion with our featured presenter László Varró, Vice President for the Global Business Environment at Shell plc, who will also discuss key findings from Shell’s energy security scenarios.
Moderator:
Jonathan Elkind, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA
Speakers:
László Varró, Vice President, Global Business Environment, Shell plc
Kaushik Deb, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA
Amy Myers Jaffe, Co-Chair, Women in Energy Program, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; Director, Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab, New York University
Andrew Kamau, Managing Director, International Programs, Energy Opportunity Lab, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA
László Varró is vice president, global business environment at Shell plc, which he joined in 2021, and leads the company’s analyses of macroeconomics, energy scenarios, climate policy, and geopolitics. He studied economics at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Cambridge, UK. He has worked as a regulator in Hungary’s electricity and gas markets and as strategy director for MOL Group, an independent oil and gas company. In 2011 he joined the International Energy Agency (IEA) as head of gas and electricity markets and led the IEA’s work on liquefied natural gas, gas supply security, and electricity market design and regulation. He was appointed chief economist of the IEA in 2016, where he built a new team for energy investment analysis and was responsible for methodological support for all IEA policy work.
This event will be hosted in person in New York City and live-streamed via Zoom. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.
This event is open to the press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk (nv2388@columbia.edu). For more information about the event, please contact energypolicyevents@columbia.edu.Event Contact Information:
Center on Global Energy Policy
energypolicyevents@columbia.edu
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Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City
Wednesday, November 8
6pm EST
Boston Public Library, Central Branch (Rabb Hall), 700 Boylston St Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-ethan-carr-on-bostons-franklin-park-tickets-638269289627
Join us on Wednesday, November 8 at 6:00PM EST with Dr. Ethan Carr for a talk on his forthcoming book, Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City (LALH 2023), which details the history of Franklin Park from the time of peak popularity to the current era of park revival.
This talk will be held in person in Rabb Hall at the Central Library in Copley Square. Following the talk, there will be time for audience Q&A, and the program will conclude at 7PM with a book signing.
Dr. Carr’s forthcoming book, Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City (LALH 2023), documents the design and history of Frederick Law Olmsted’s most mature expression of urban park design. In this comprehensive study, Carr affirms Franklin Park as one of great works of nineteenth-century American art. Since the 1980s, historians have described Franklin Park as unfinished, obsolete, or a casualty of changing trends in public recreation. Carr disagrees, offering a persuasive argument that the park’s decline was not a consequence of its design but of a lack of stewardship on the part of the city, an example of institutionalized racism.
About the author
Ethan Carr, FASLA, is professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An international authority on America’s public landscapes and the author of many books, he is lead editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years and coauthor of Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea (LALH 2022).
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MIT Energy & Climate Hack Research Symposium
Wednesday, November 8
6 - 7:30pm EST
MIT Building 3, RM 3-270, 77 Massachusetts Ave Building 3, RM 3-270 Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-climate-hack-research-symposium-tickets-740163999447
MIT's brightest researchers showcase their work on how artificial intelligence can be used to combat climate change
By MIT Energy Club
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Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Wednesday, November 8
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes JOE ROMAN—conservation biologist and marine ecologist—for a discussion his new book Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World.
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains—eating, pooping, and dying along the way—are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look very different.
The dynamics that shape our physical world—atmospheric chemistry, geothermal forces, plate tectonics, and erosion through wind and rain—have been explored for decades. But the effects on local ecosystems of less glamorous forces—rotting carcasses and deposited feces—as well as their impact on the global climate cycle, have been largely overlooked. The simple truth is that pooping and peeing are daily rituals for almost all animals, the ellipses of ecology that flow through life. We eat, we poop, and we die.
From the volcanoes of Iceland to the tropical waters of Hawaii, the great plains of the American heartland, and beyond, Eat, Poop, Die takes readers on an exhilarating and enlightening global adventure, revealing the remarkable ways in which the most basic biological activities of animals make and remake the world—and how a deeper understanding of these cycles provides us with opportunities to undo the environmental damage humanity has wrought on the planet we call home.
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Responding to the Climate Crisis in Times of Uncertainty: A Clarion Call for Climate Leadership
Thursday, November 9
8:30 in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/8916978297359/WN_tJlxDcmHTsSh1RpmY82JvA#/registration
The Global Stocktake at COP28 will evaluate how much progress has been made in the fight against the climate crisis and what more is needed. But global climate efforts are currently way off track, and no one is at more risk than the vulnerable communities who are facing a mounting debt crisis and have few resources to respond to escalating impacts. What climate-vulnerable countries need at the COP28 climate summit in the UAE is a major course correction driven by a political response that will that rapidly decarbonize all sectors, promote adaptation, scale up climate finance and increase resources to address loss and damage. Join the Allied for Climate Transformation by 2025 (ACT2025) consortium for a high-level webinar, where policymakers and advocates will set clear expectations for a positive outcome at COP28 that meets the needs of climate-vulnerable countries. During the event speakers from all over the world will underscore why a renewed sense of commitment to the Paris Agreement is needed to drive breakthrough solutions across mitigation ambition, adaption, loss and damage and finance.
Speakers:
Ana Toni, National Secretary for Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil
Tina Stege, Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands
Carlos Lopes, Professor, Nelson Mandela School, University of Cape Town; Chair of the African Climate Foundation Board; Former Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa
Ani Dasgupta, President and CEO, World Resources Institute (introductory remarks)
Moderator: Sharanjit Leyl, International broadcaster
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Black Lives, Green Spaces: How Environmental and Food Justice Can be Used to Promote Racial Equity
Thursday, November 9
12-1:15pm EST (Virtual)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-lives-green-spaces-tickets-717845895397
There’s a long history of Black activism in the green space. Come learn how a Boston community is using food and environmental justice measures to build a healthier thriving Black community and how these models can bereplicated across the country.
A Black led food and environmental justice movement is blooming in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. “Black Lives, Green Spaces” is a virtual conversation led by Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition [MFFC] (https://www.mattapanfoodandfit.org/) and featuring the Urban Farming Institute [UFI] (https://urbanfarminginstitute.org/) that will engage community members around how we can advance racial equity through green and sustainable measures. This conversation will cover the historic policies that have negatively impacted Black neighborhoods like Mattapan and the work of community organizations like MFFC and UFI to implement reparative solutions focused on farming, community gardens, a food forest, walking path, and community organizing to build healthier thriving communities.
Panelists: Vivien Morris, Founder & Board Chair, Mattapan Food and Fitness
Coalition (MFFC)
Patricia E. Spence, President & CEO, Urban Farming Institute (UFI)
Questions? Contact development@mattapanfoodandfit.org
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Climate Intelligence for Investments: Comparing Methane's Risk Factor in Coal vs. Natural Gas
Thursday, November 9
1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZrF8LbdSRrSBKBwZi68L5w#/registration
Join us for an engaging online panel discussion featuring RMI's esteemed expert, Deborah Gordon, along with other distinguished guest speakers. Together, they will delve into RMI's groundbreaking report that analyzes the critical issue of methane emissions within coal and natural gas operations. During this event, RMI will also unveil an innovative online calculator tool designed to empower key stakeholders, including investors, with the ability to directly compare methane emission profiles between coal and natural gas operations.
Attendees will:
Learn about RMI's recent online coal vs. natural gas calculator tool, including how to use it and where to access it.
Hear unique perspectives from both members of civil society organizations and representatives of the oil and gas industry.
Understand the nuances of emissions, leakage rates, and other factors that impact the coal and natural gas sectors.
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Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change – A Virtual Book Talk with Stephen Gross
Thursday, November 9
2 to 3:15 PM
Online
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oF0Xy48iS1-mNJCO3m2OPQ
Energy and Power offers the first comprehensive history of German energy and climate policy after World War II. It follows the Federal Republic as it passed through five energy transitions, beginning with the dramatic shift to oil that nearly wiped out the nation’s hard coal sector, moving through the oil shocks and the rise of the Green movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and ending with the transition to wind and solar power today. It shows how debates over energy profoundly shaped the course of German history and influenced the landmark developments that define modern Europe, from the Economic Miracle to the Cold War and the drive for European integration. The intense and early politicization of energy led the Federal Republic to diverge from the United States and rethink its fossil economy well before global warming became a public issue, building a green energy system in the name of many social goals, not only to protect our climate. But Germany’s experience also illustrates the difficulty, the political battles, and the unintended consequences that surround energy transitions.
Stephen G. Gross is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. After working at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (Department of Commerce) in Washington DC, he received his PhD in history from UC Berkeley in 2010. His first book—Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945—explored the political economy of the Nazi Empire in Europe.
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Ideas in Action - TEDxBoston : Planetary Stewardship 2023 @ MIT
Saturday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13
MIT, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-in-action-tedxboston-planetary-stewardship-2023-mit-registration-739535399287
A platform that connects big ideas and solutions for planetary health with a community of the world’s leading doers at our in-person events and via worldwide media distribution to help ensure our planet and species will thrive long into the future.
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Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties
Monday, November 13
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building Room 414AB, 1 Eliot Street, Cambridge
and online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-synthesis-evidence-yields-higher-social-cost-carbon-due-model
SPEAKER(S) Frances Moore, Associate Professor and the Hurlstone Presidential Chair in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California Davis
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Frances Moore, Associate Professor and the Hurlstone Presidential Chair in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California Davis. In a talk entitled "Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties," Moore will present her recent research on the social cost of carbon in the context of U.S. government estimates and the recent proposed update from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Planning the Mid-Transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization
Monday, November 13
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Online
Livestream: https://environment.princeton.edu/event/just-and-sustainable-decarbonization/
Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy, University of Notre Dame, will present “Planning the Mid-Transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Dr. Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist whose research focuses on justice-oriented deep decarbonization and decision support tools related to large infrastructure systems, with emphasis on evaluation of dynamic life cycle socioenvironmental impacts and the effects of different value systems on decision pathways. Grubert is Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, and, concurrently, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from Stanford.
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The Peril and Promise of AI in World Politics
Monday, November 13
5 - 6:30pm EST
Northeastern, Egan Research Center, 120 Forsyth Street 440 Boston, MA 02115
And live stream at https://packnetwork.com/ai-panel
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peril-and-promise-of-ai-in-world-politics-tickets-726971680867
Expert panelists will discuss the impact of AI on world politics and global governance and more!
By Northeastern of Political Science Dept., International Affairs Dept.
Our first panel on Artificial Intelligence, impact on world politics and global governance, algorithmic bias, ethics, ML, LLM, disinformation, and related themes. The event will be hybrid. Please tune into the live stream here:
ASL interpretation services requested.
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Committed to Reducing Embodied Carbon Emissions? Join the Launch of HomebuildersCAN, an RMI Initiative
Tuesday, November 14
11:00 a.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-committed-to-reducing-embodied-carbon-emissions-join-the-launch-of-homebuilderscan-an-rmi-initiative/
Join us as homebuilder and embodied carbon expert Chris Magwood introduces HomebuildersCAN: a supportive Carbon Action Network initiative. Developed by RMI with an industry stakeholder group, HomebuildersCAN will support builders as they learn about embodied carbon and provide the industry with a consistent approach to incorporate embodied carbon into decarbonization strategies. The program will assist members in three key areas: 1) increasing performance on embodied emissions from new homes, 2) advocate for alignment across the sector, and 3) adopt and scale profitable climate-smart building practices. Meeting climate targets requires that the building construction industry addresses embodied carbon emissions for holistic sector decarbonization, in line with RMI’s mission to secure a clean, prosperous, and zero-carbon future for all.
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Metro Boston Climate Action Plan Listening Session
Tuesday, November 14
1:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-qopjgiG9bWB6cB1_m8XNSdbvdcvUQv#/registration
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and partners are developing a region-wide Climate Action Plan (CAP) under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program. The regional plan encompasses 167 communities within Metro Boston, including parts of southern New Hampshire, and will center the priorities and ideas of Massachusetts’ Environmental Justice communities and federally designated Justice 40 communities.
Throughout this project, we will develop: - a region-wide Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory and emissions reduction scenarios; - a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) with a focus on energy systems, buildings, and transportation (by March 1, 2024); and - a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) across all sectors (by August 2025). This fall, we are developing the region-wide GHG inventory and the Priority Climate Action Plan, and we want to hear from you. We will host our first listening session virtually on November 14, 2023 from 1:30-3:00 p.m.
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Can Mental Health Save the World?
Tuesday, November 14
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Columbia, Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=Tw7lWzqeK-qAC9nLDAvYONPnJAjlJooAFXOiGH97.calprdapp06
Just as climate change strains the health of ecosystems, it also strains human health—including mental health. What changes if we consider the climate crisis a mental health crisis? What lessons can we draw from bioethics to address that crisis? And can a mental health lens help us better understand and combat other pernicious and persistent social problems of our time?
On November 14, 2023 The Greenwall Foundation and Columbia University’s Division of Ethics will host this year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture in person in New York City and online. Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, Director of the Billion Minds Project and Chair of COP2, will discuss: Can Mental Health Save the World? Dr. Belkin will be joined by NPR's Michel Martin, the award-winning co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition and contributor to PBS's Amanpour & Company, in a discussion on issues at the intersection of mental health, climate change, and bioethics. Please submit your questions to our speakers ahead of the event.
The event will begin with a reception at 5pm, followed by the Lecture beginning at 6pm in the same space. This is a hybrid event. You can attend in person by registering for a ticket using the button below, or register to attend virtually via Zoom.
By registering for this event, attendees agree to abide by the Columbia Ethics Code of Conduct (found at the bottom of the page).
Contact Information
David Lamb
dl3580@cumc.columbia.edu
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The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures
Wednesday, November 15
3:30 - 8pm EST
MIT Welcome Center, 292 Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-design-designing-climate-futures-tickets-726747931627
The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures is an opportunity to discover design responses to the current climate and ecological crisis
Join us for an exciting event that explores the power of design in shaping our future in the face of climate change. This in-person event at the MIT Welcome Center, located at 292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA, will bring together experts, designers, and enthusiasts to exchange knowledge, inspire creativity, and foster collaboration. Our aim is to show how design addresses the climate emergency by helping to produce new ecological, spatial, and social conditions rather than mere technical fixes. The Forum brings together a group of designers who are proposing diverse and highly transformative approaches to the climate crisis, spanning from the local to the planetary scale, and offers a platform to know their work and learn, through workshops, with them.
Speakers
Alphabetically ordered
Benjamin Bratton is the director of the Antikythera Program at the Berggruen Institute and former director of the Terra-Forming program at Strelka Institute. Bratton’s current work focuses on the potential of planetary computation to tackle planetary scale problems.
Paula J. Ehrlich is the President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. She is the co-founder of the Half-Earth Project and has led the development of the Half-Earth Project Map.
Ayr Muir is the founder of Clover Food Lab, a vegetarian restaurant chain that works with local providers to reduce the CO2 footprint of the food industry.
Céline Semaan is a designer focusing on climate and environmental activism. She founded Slow Factory and the Slow Factory Labs, two initiatives addressing climate justice and human rights through cultural change, science, and design.
Format & Registration
The event will offer three concurrent workshops, a forum including presentations and a dialogue between our design guests, and a reception. Participants may join any individual part of the event (such as a workshop or the forum), or all. If you wish to attend a workshop, we ask you to register for your preferred sessions. Please note that we may have to reassign participants to a different workshop based on capacity. You may indicate a second choice as part of registration.
Registration is strongly recommended. It will be available online until November 12, after which you will have to register onsite for in-person attendance, or directly on the webcast page available on https://design.mit.edu/ for online participation.
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Updates on the New Climate Finance Goal: What Can Be Decided at COP28?
Thursday, November 16
10:00–11:30 a.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-updates-on-the-new-climate-finance-goal-what-can-be-decided-at-cop28/
The new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG) is set to be determined in 2024 —which means global leaders now have limited time to discuss, consider options, and make informed decisions on the different elements of the goal and how to ensure it’s effective, equitable, and based on developing countries’ needs. With just weeks to go before COP28 in Dubai, this event brings together thought leaders and changemakers from the world of international climate finance and policy to discuss how best to shape the deliberations going forward and achieve a successful outcome next year.
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Why should the military care about climate change?
Thursday, November 16
12:00 - 13:00 EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-should-the-military-care-about-climate-change-tickets-719218861977
The Livery Climate Action Group are pleased to welcome you to a fascinating seminar by Lt Gen Richard Nugee on the topic of whether climate change is a national security issue and why we and the military should care about climate.
After a full, operational career in the British Army, as his final role Richard wrote a Review of Defence's approach to Climate Change and Sustainability (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-defence-climate-change-and-sustainability-strategic-approach). He has since earned international recognition for bringing the implications of Climate Change and Sustainability to the Defence and National Security sectors. He is now the Non-Executive Director for Climate Change and Net Zero for the Ministry of Defence. He has expanded this policy interest into delivery, as the Chair, Director and Advisor of a number of renewable energy and environmental sustainability start-ups.
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The Future of Offshore Wind: Innovation + Startup Showcase
Thursday, November 16
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/the-future-of-offshore-wind-innovation-startup-showcase/
Join Greentown Labs in celebrating the culmination of Go Energize 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program focused on decarbonizing our energy system, in partnership with Vineyard Wind and MassCEC.
Vineyard Wind and MassCEC supported five innovative startups in accelerating the commercialization of solutions including offshore wind turbine monitoring, ecological data collection offshore, and more. Attendees will hear the Go Energize 2023 cohort speak about their technologies and how these innovations will enable a sustainable and economically feasible offshore wind industry.
A total of 40 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity is set to come online in the United States in the next decade. Cutting-edge technology is key for offshore wind energy projects to be developed in an environmentally responsible manner while also delivering electricity for consumers. Go Energize 2023 aims to reduce barriers to entry through industry education and relationship-building across relevant networks.
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Post-pandemic transformations and the re-casting of development
Friday, November 17
7:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://sei-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2kjlrjMbSHGJhXpHXQRB-Q#/registration
SEI’s Development Policy and Finance Team and the Swedish Development Research Network (SweDev) are happy to present Melissa Leach as the keynote speaker for the next SEI and SweDev dialogue on development research. Join Melissa Leach as she discusses the need for a re-casting of longstanding assumptions and approaches to mainstream development, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The State of Housing Design 2023
Friday, November 17
2 – 6 p.m.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1PmZvh56XxnM3vDA1O2vhVkZpy_qPSZCCHnj0Po6YrkHYxw/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Nate Berg, Staff Writer, Fast Company
Elizabeth Christoforetti, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, GSD; Founding Principal, Supernormal
Daniel D’Oca, Associate Professor in Practice of Urban Planning, GSD; Principal and Co-Founder, Interboro Partners
Roy Decker, FAIA, Principal, Duvall Decker
Jennifer French, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, GSD; Co-Founder, French 2D
Alexandra Gauzza, AIA, LEED AP BD + C, Principal/Studio Director, ISA
Chris Herbert, Managing Director, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Anna Kodé, Real Estate Reporter, The New York Times
Maija Kreishman, AIA, Managing Partner, Michael Hsu Office of Architecture
Tim Love, Lecturer in Real Estate, GSD; Founding Principal, Utile Architecture and Planning
Sam Naylor, Project Architect, Utile; Druker Fellow, GSD
Marc Norman, Associate Dean, NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate
Inga Saffron, Architecture Critic, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Timothy A. Schuler, Contributing Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine
Patrick Sisson, Journalist, Bloomberg CityLab, The New York Times, and others
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep LluÃs Sert Professor of Architecture, GSD; Design Principal and Co-Founder, WW Architecture
Stephen Zacks, Journalist and Critic, The New York Times, Architectural Review, and others
Mimi Zieger, Critic and Editor, The Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review
What is the state of housing design in the US? In particular, how are architects of new single- and multi-family housing responding to issues such as the warming climate, the affordability crisis, increasing regulations and construction costs, and the demand for new unit types that better reflect today's demographic realities? These questions will be the focus of a half-day event marking the release of The State of Housing Design 2023, a new book that examines themes in housing design, explored through over 100 recent buildings in the US. The event will feature panels withthe book's editors, authors, practitioners, journalists, academics, and others.
CONTACT INFO jchs@harvard.edu
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Urban Growers Gathering
Friday November 17, 2023
4:00pm - 8:30pm
Eastie Urban Farm: 6 Chelsea Terrace, 02128 East Boston (Eastie Farm's Geothermal Greenhouse)
As the growing season comes to an end, I welcome you to spend an evening at Eastie Urban Farm to connect with American Farmland Trust (AFT) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff along with folks working in Urban Agriculture!
We invite urban growers, producers, farms, organizations, and individuals that contribute local food to urban communities to unwind and check in as the growing season winds down. There will be locally sourced food, drinks and resources for all to enjoy. The event will include a brief presentation on AFT and NRCS resources followed by a professionally facilitated community check-in to discuss and understand access barriers, needs and solutions to better support urban producers and distributors. Please join us to celebrate urban growers after a very tough season and feel free to share with your local garden auntie, friends and farm-ily!
Contact: Charline - MA Urban Agriculture Outreach Specialist (AFT New England) - cxu@farmland.org
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Harvard Business School Climate Symposium 2023
Saturday, November 18 - Sunday, November 19
Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-symposium-2023-tickets-726441615427
Cost: $10 - $65
Students from the HBS Energy & Environment, the Sustainability, and the Food & Agriculture Clubs organize the annual Climate Symposium hosted at Harvard Business School.
The Climate Symposium is one of the largest student-run conferences on campus, and we intend to make this 2023 Symposium the most extensive, most interactive, and most international Symposium yet.
The theme for the 2023 Climate Symposium is "Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale." We will explore not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital and policy deployment required to accelerate their implementation on a global scale.
More information at https://www.climatesymposium.org/agenda
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Bridging the Divide on Climate Solutions
Saturday, November 18
12 - 5pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bridging-the-divide-on-climate-solutions-tickets-738193726307
Join us to learn powerful communication skills that will allow you to talk more constructively with others about solutions to climate change
Public opinion polling shows that more and more Americans are concerned about climate change. Montana is being affected by wildfires, flooding and drought. However, there remains strong disagreement about what we should do about it. Many climate advocates believe that aggressive government intervention is required. Others argue that radical climate policies will cause greater economic and social harm than will be caused by climate change.
Bridging the Divide on Climate Solutions, a Braver Angels workshop designed in collaboration with Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) and Civity, teaches communication skills that will allow people to talk more constructively with each other about solutions to climate change.
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What is the Single Most Effective Solution to Climate Change?
Monday, November 20
9:30 - 10:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-is-the-single-most-effective-solution-to-climate-change-tickets-730925226027
Learn strategies you can do (in less than 2 minutes a week) to help build political will for meaningful climate change legislation!
Join Citizens' Climate Lobby for a Zoom presentation about climate change action on the third Monday of every month at 6:30-7:30pm PT. During this presentation, we will compare climate change solutions using En-ROADS, a climate simulation model created by MIT Sloan. We will also discuss why certain solutions are more or less effective and share easy actions that all of us can do to help. The presentation is non-partisan and all are welcome.
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Climate Change and Development
Monday, November 20
2 - 3pm EST [11:00am to 12:00pm PT]
UCSB, Bren Hall 1414, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/bren-seminar-mark-new-climate-change-and-development
Mark New, Professor; Director, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Evolving organisms to grow new nanomaterials for energy, the environment, and medicine
Monday, November 20
4:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Huntington Hall (10-250), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://mitnano.mit.edu/events/dresselhaus-lecture-2023
Angela Belcher, PhD, James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering, Materials Science, and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmentally benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that could be potentially harnessed by researchers to make advanced technologies that are smarter, more adaptable, and that are synthesized to be compatible with the environment.
One approach to designing future technologies that have some of the properties that living organisms use so well is to evolve organisms to work with a more diverse set of building blocks. The goal is to have a DNA sequence that codes for the synthesis and assembly of any inorganic material or device.
We have been successful in using evolutionarily selected peptides to control physical properties of nanocrystals and subsequently use molecular recognition and self-assembly to design biological hybrid multidimensional materials. These materials could be designed to address many scientific and technological problems in electronics, environmental remediation, medicine, and energy applications. Currently we are using this technology to design new methods for building batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, carbon sequestration and storage, environmental remediation, catalysis, and medical diagnostics and imaging.
This talk will address conditions under which organisms first evolved to make materials and scientific approaches to move beyond naturally evolved materials to genetically imprint advanced technologies with examples in lithium and sodium ion batteries, lithium-air batteries, environmental clean-up, and ovarian cancer imaging and treatment.
BIOGRAPHY
Angela Belcher is a biological and materials engineer with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces, and solid-state chemistry and devices. Her primary research focus is evolving new materials for energy, electronics, the environment, and medicine.
Belcher received her B.S. in creative studies from The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at UCSB. Following with her postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at UCSB. She now holds the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Engineering at MIT. She is faculty in the Department of Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and the Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research. She teaches undergraduate subjects in material sciences and engineering and biological engineering.
In 2002, Belcher founded the company Cambrios Technologies, Inc., and in 2007 she founded Siluria Technologies, Inc. Some recent awards include the Lemelson-MIT Prize for her inventions, and Eni Prize for Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy. In 2009, Rolling Stone Magazine listed her as one of the top 100 people changing the country. In 2007, Time Magazine named her a “Hero” for her research related to climate change. She received the Four Star General Recognition Award (US Army) for significant contribution to army transformation. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE). She was named Research Leader of the Year by Scientific American, and is a MacArthur Fellow, a Packard Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Bose Fellow, a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Inventors, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions
Monday, November 27
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 1 Eliot Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-economic-challenges-rapid-energy-and-deforestation-transitions
SPEAKER(S) Leon Clarke, Director, Decarbonization Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Leon Clarke, Director of Decarbonization Pathways at the Bezos Earth Fund. In a talk entitled "Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions," Clarke will discuss the work necessary to analyze and implement large-scale decarbonization from a philanthropic perspective. Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Hanlon - ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu
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Conversations about an Abundant Future
Tuesday, November 28
6 - 8pm EST
MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society), 1 Chandler Street Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-about-an-abundant-future-tickets-742498913237
Join us for an inaugural convening exploring collective approaches to ensuring a climate positive future.
Our experience has taught us that it is possible to design for a flourishing people and planet. Join us for the launch of our Abundant Futures Design Lab with reflections on the past 15 years of our work and a panel discussion exploring collective approaches to ensuring a climate positive future, moderated by Sierra Bainbridge, Senior Principal of our Landscape Studio. Light refreshments will be served.
This event has limited capacity - please RSVP via Eventbrite by November 22. If you have questions, please contact hblanchette@mass-group.org.
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Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments
Thursday, November 30
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/crisis-as-catalyst-meeting-the-moment-with-transformational-investment/
Cost $15 - $45
In the wake of a crisis, be it an extreme weather event, a pandemic, or something else, political dynamics shift that catalyze innovation and usher in possibilities previously deemed unimaginable. Join the Climate Adaptation Forum on November 30th to learn about these critical junctures in history when opportunities to do the impossible became reality.
We’ll explore these moments to glean lessons that will help us prepare for our current climate crisis. What conditions allowed these changes to take place? Did planning happen beforehand? What pitfalls should we watch out for? During this discussion, we’ll have the opportunity to learn from speakers exploring big infrastructure investments, safety innovations, and re-designing the urban landscape.
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Learning from Indigenous Voices: Adaptation Futures 2023 Conference
Thursday, November 30
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/99038829904?pwd=bnk5VU0zQVdwRUxWYTE2czAvNEd2UT09&from=addon
Join us in discussion with Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action, who will share learnings, dilemmas, and opportunities from the recent Adaptation Futures Conference in Montreal (Oct). The conference brought together adaptation practitioners, academics, funders, and stakeholders from over 120 countries, including more than 2,000 members of the climate change adaptation community. Primary objectives of the conference were to learn from Indigenous, local knowledge and voices in climate change adaptation research, policies, practices as well as bring marginalized voices, especially those from the Global South, to the forefront in pursue of climate justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. Johanna will share some of the layered learnings from her time at the conference and offer space for discussion on the implications for the Climate School and Columbia particularly as they relate to indigenous practice both in North America and in island contexts. The discussion will also include intersection of gender and adaptation and sharing of the current state of international climate justice as it relates to adaptation and loss and damage.
Contact Information
Stacey Bellamy
347-325--0725
sk5163@columbia.edu
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Arctic Methane Emissions: Uncertainty and the Value of Better Information; Plus: COP28 preview
Thursday, November 30
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/8c2f4383-ea75-4153-a9ac-a88dede9d1bd/regProcessStep1?RefId=Gazette&rp=2174ca8b-9157-48d8-b0d2-7ce64606e847
SPEAKER(S) James Hammitt, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Robert Stavins, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
The Salata Institute’s Climate Research Workshops bring Harvard University faculty together to present and discuss recent climate-related research papers and scholarly publications. Faculty will learn about current research taking place across Harvard, engage in interdisciplinary dialogues, and forge connections and research collaborations. The Fall 2023 Workshops will primarily focus on methane emissions and mitigation, led by the Salata Institute’s Climate Research Cluster on Reducing Global Methane Emissions.
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Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector
Thursday, November 305:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/circular-economy-buildings-sector/
Join Greentown Labs to celebrate the kickoff of Go Build 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program focused on advancing circularity and decarbonization in the built environment, in partnership with Saint-Gobain.
At this event, attendees will hear lightning pitches from startup finalists in the buildings industry with innovations that extend product life cycles, further develop raw materials, revalorize waste, or act as other enabling technologies.
Innovation in the buildings sector is critical to achieving decarbonization. Buildings are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions globally, with a staggering 11 percent of global emissions coming from the construction of buildings and manufacturing of building materials. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed.
