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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Corporate Climate Integrity: What Role for the EU?
Monday, October 2
5am - 6:30am [11:00-12:30 CEST]
RSVP at https://carbonmarketwatch.org/events/corporate-climate-integrity-what-role-for-the-eu/
Addressing the Carbon Loophole
Monday, October 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
and online via Zoom
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-catrina-rorke-addressing-carbon-loophole
Energy Seminar: Carbon Dioxide Removal to Solve the Climate Crisis
Monday, October 2
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Jen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering), NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Center, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/energy_seminar_carbon_dioxide_removal_to_solve_the_climate_crisis_eli_yablonovitch_university_of_california_berkeley
Women Who Inspire on Food and Farming
Monday October 2
6:30-9:00 PM
Taberna de Haro, 999 Beacon St. Brookline, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-who-inspire-networking-event-fall-2023-tickets-696153904067
Cost: $45
Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change Opening Event
Monday, October 2
7 – 8 p.m.
Radcliffe Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
and Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-feeding-the-future-symposium-opening-event
Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Tuesday, October 3
9 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Radcliffe Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-feeding-the-future-symposium
Local Action: Connecting Climate Tech and Cities
Tuesday, October 3
9:30 - 11:30am EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-action-connecting-climate-tech-and-cities-tickets-710621868137
Cost: $0 – $50
Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India
Tuesday, October 3
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tufts, Rabb Room, Barnum Hall, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://forms.monday.com/forms/5661be782344e193326bdd0be8987b81
Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere
Tuesday, October 3
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g5av0CSiR6ama4FenFcNkg#/registration
Lightning Talks on the Longer-Range Future
Tuesday, October 3
4:00 to 5:30 pm
BU, The Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2023/08/08/2023-lightning-talks/#RSVP
Reporting for a Livable Earth: Communicating Science, Facts and Action
Tuesday, October 4 - Wednesday, October 5
13:00–14:30 (UTC+2 / CEST)
Online
RSVP at https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/nairobi-2023/media-seminar/
Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Sustainable Seafood with Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO, Becca Millstein
Wednesday, October 4
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cxy9ApuYS-mQtPDSML8uOA#/registration
Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)
Wednesday, October 4
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/special-event-peter-sheridan-10-04-2023?delta=0
The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome
Wednesday, October 4
6:00 PM ET
Harvard Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/j-craig-venter-at-harvard-science-center-tickets-716880598167
Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Evan Gordon Greenfield and Rajesh Swaminathan on Impact Investing and Deep Tech Start-Ups
Wednesday, October 4
6 – 8 p.m.
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/careers-in-climate-action-speaker-series/
Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
Wednesday, October 4
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Creating an Equitable Clean Energy Future: Engaging Local Communities in Project Planning and Development
Thursday, October 5
11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5mIZqLyFS9CIrfjwZOS_sg#/registration
Thursday, October 5
11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5mIZqLyFS9CIrfjwZOS_sg#/registration
Pachamama Alliance’s Climate Convergence 2023
Thursday, October 5
12pm - 7pm [9 A.M. - 4 P.M. PDT (UTC-8)]
Online
RSVP at https://pachamama.org/climate-convergence-2023
The Critical Role of States in the Energy Transition
Thursday, October 5
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_5K44KCseTxGUbYWY_AGt0Q#/registration
Unlocking the Climate Impasse: Reimagining the Economy Book Talk
Thursday, October 5
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Harvard, Taubman Nye ABC, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge MA
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N7rnXz5Tv0mF3U
Thursday, October 5
12pm - 7pm [9 A.M. - 4 P.M. PDT (UTC-8)]
Online
RSVP at https://pachamama.org/climate-convergence-2023
The Critical Role of States in the Energy Transition
Thursday, October 5
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_5K44KCseTxGUbYWY_AGt0Q#/registration
Unlocking the Climate Impasse: Reimagining the Economy Book Talk
Thursday, October 5
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Harvard, Taubman Nye ABC, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge MA
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N7rnXz5Tv0mF3U
Building for Heat Resilience in Urban Areas
2pm - 3pm ET [11am to 12pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8X8djUacQ--mO625Da8HkQ#/registration
Tom Regan Memorial Lecture - The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?
Thursday, October 5
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Harvard Law, Wasserstein 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://animal.law.harvard.edu/event/tom-regan-memorial-lecture/
Thursday, October 5
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Harvard Law, Wasserstein 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://animal.law.harvard.edu/event/tom-regan-memorial-lecture/
Thursday, October 5
2pm - 3pm ET [11am to 12pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8X8djUacQ--mO625Da8HkQ#/registration
CommonWealth Kitchen Food Show: Public Food Festival
Thursday, October 5
3 - 7pm ED
SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commonwealth-kitchen-food-show-public-food-festival-tickets-680183054827
Thursday, October 5
3 - 7pm ED
SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commonwealth-kitchen-food-show-public-food-festival-tickets-680183054827
American Politics in Crisis? Charting a New Path
Thursday, October 5
6pm
Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Columbia Point, 210 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at https://emkinstitute.org/special-events/american-politics-in-crisis-charting-a-new-path/
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands
Friday, October 6 - Sunday, October 8
Somerville, MA
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/schedule-2023/
Who Gets to Have an Environmental History, and What Kind? Energy, Property, and the Making of Legible Landscapes in the American South
Friday, October 6
2:30PM
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-urrTssHtDKLLfed_BGZ9VPJYg_WAGX#/registration
Scaling & commercializing innovation for climate action
Tuesday, October 10
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/scaling-commercializing-innovation-climate-action
One year later: The Inflation Reduction Act and climate progress
Wednesday, October 11
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/one-year-later-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-climate-progress/
The 1973 Energy Crisis: The Oil Embargo and the New Age of Energy
Wednesday, October 11
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/1973-energy-crisis-oil-embargo-and-new-age-energy
Lessons Learned: How We Adapt on the Road to Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/lessons-learned-how-we-adapt-on-the-road-to-climate-adaptation/
Cost: $15 - 45
Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Wampanoag Ecological Perspective, Historical Resilience, and Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudu2vrzIoG9wEHZc4wvfRr5IUMv76ROSV#/registration
The Sustainable Future of Computing: Companies at the Forefront
Thursday, October 12
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building E19-202, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Gastronativism: The Politics of Food and Sustainability
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Har7jKToSw2MPy-U2CB6ow#/registration
Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition? Equity, Efficiency, and Electricity Price Regulation
Thursday, October 12
2:30-4pm
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Climate Collider Pitch Night
Thursday, October 12
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://events.swissnexboston.org/ClimateColliderPitchNight#/tickets?lang=en
Responding to Disasters and Attacks at Mass Crowds
Thursday, October 12
6pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/polisci/events/srs-speaker-series-fall-2023/
Is Activism Futile?: The Case of Israel
Friday, October 13
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard Faculty Club, Library, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/activism-futile-case-israel
Transitioning to a Green Economy: What will it take?
Saturday, October 14
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/YHt05NuyC0aYxjJ-tXwmdQ2
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Presents a film Premiere: Regenerating Life
Saturday, October 14
12:30pm. Asean Auditorium, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/film-premiere-registration/
Cost: $5 - $200
Greater Boston Humanists
Tiptoeing Toward Theocracy: Religion and The Thomas Court
Sunday, October 15
Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University
And online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/greaterbostonhumanists/events/296371942
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Monday, October 16
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/veronica-o-davis-on-inclusive-transportation-tickets-694948428457
Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization
Tuesday, October 17
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets
Climate Fiction: the Intersection of Climate Science, Literature, and Activism
Thursday, October 19
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_bkBOkzAlQbum8_Mf67rk-g#/registration
Deepening Trust, Accelerating Resilience: Partnerships for People and Planet
Thursday, October 19
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://givebutter.com/c/deepeningtrustacceleratingresilience
Thursday, October 5
6pm
Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Columbia Point, 210 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at https://emkinstitute.org/special-events/american-politics-in-crisis-charting-a-new-path/
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands
Friday, October 6 - Sunday, October 8
Somerville, MA
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/schedule-2023/
Who Gets to Have an Environmental History, and What Kind? Energy, Property, and the Making of Legible Landscapes in the American South
Friday, October 6
2:30PM
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-urrTssHtDKLLfed_BGZ9VPJYg_WAGX#/registration
Scaling & commercializing innovation for climate action
Tuesday, October 10
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/scaling-commercializing-innovation-climate-action
One year later: The Inflation Reduction Act and climate progress
Wednesday, October 11
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/one-year-later-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-climate-progress/
The 1973 Energy Crisis: The Oil Embargo and the New Age of Energy
Wednesday, October 11
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/1973-energy-crisis-oil-embargo-and-new-age-energy
Lessons Learned: How We Adapt on the Road to Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/lessons-learned-how-we-adapt-on-the-road-to-climate-adaptation/
Cost: $15 - 45
Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Wampanoag Ecological Perspective, Historical Resilience, and Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudu2vrzIoG9wEHZc4wvfRr5IUMv76ROSV#/registration
The Sustainable Future of Computing: Companies at the Forefront
Thursday, October 12
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building E19-202, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Gastronativism: The Politics of Food and Sustainability
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Har7jKToSw2MPy-U2CB6ow#/registration
Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition? Equity, Efficiency, and Electricity Price Regulation
Thursday, October 12
2:30-4pm
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Climate Collider Pitch Night
Thursday, October 12
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://events.swissnexboston.org/ClimateColliderPitchNight#/tickets?lang=en
Responding to Disasters and Attacks at Mass Crowds
Thursday, October 12
6pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/polisci/events/srs-speaker-series-fall-2023/
Is Activism Futile?: The Case of Israel
Friday, October 13
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard Faculty Club, Library, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/activism-futile-case-israel
Transitioning to a Green Economy: What will it take?
Saturday, October 14
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/YHt05NuyC0aYxjJ-tXwmdQ2
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Presents a film Premiere: Regenerating Life
Saturday, October 14
12:30pm. Asean Auditorium, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/film-premiere-registration/
Cost: $5 - $200
Greater Boston Humanists
Tiptoeing Toward Theocracy: Religion and The Thomas Court
Sunday, October 15
Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University
And online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/greaterbostonhumanists/events/296371942
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Monday, October 16
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/veronica-o-davis-on-inclusive-transportation-tickets-694948428457
Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization
Tuesday, October 17
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets
Climate Fiction: the Intersection of Climate Science, Literature, and Activism
Thursday, October 19
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_bkBOkzAlQbum8_Mf67rk-g#/registration
Deepening Trust, Accelerating Resilience: Partnerships for People and Planet
Thursday, October 19
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://givebutter.com/c/deepeningtrustacceleratingresilience
Artificial Intelligence for Energy: AI & Energy Technology Discovery
Monday, October 23
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/artificial-intelligence-energy-ai-energy-technology-discovery
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Friday, October 20
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/deb_chachra/
Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late
Tuesday, October 24
3PM EDT [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-10-24/rebecca-solnit-why-its-not-too-late
Cost: $5 - $37
Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn
Tuesday, October 24
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/omkari_williams/
What’s for Dinner? Reconnecting Our Food with Our Climate
Tuesday, October 24
7 - 8:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-for-dinner-reconnecting-our-food-with-our-climate-tickets-707824019697
How to Get Dirty and Dark Money Out of Democracy
Wednesday, October 25
3PM EDT [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-10-25/how-get-dirty-and-dark-money-out-democracy-drew-sullivan-and-paul-radu
Cost: $5 - $20
Charting Progress: Regulator Actions on Climate Financial Risks
Thursday, October 26
11:00 AM in Eastern Time
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiD6G1gcQvK8esnofihhXw#/registration
Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Restoring Indigenous Foodways for Climate Resilience
Thursday, October 26
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcemorD8oG9RTlAEltBezasdYqm3SPW5c#/registration
Subsistence and Persistence: Constructing Pasture in Koobi Fora, Kenya
Thursday, October 26
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_piJsqCbwRRmfJe8xjiWDSg#/registration
Climate Leadership - What Now? What Next?
Friday, October 27
4:00 - 5:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-leadership-what-now-what-next-tickets-707686287737
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
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
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
Deep Live Gathering
October 30 - November 5
https://futuref.org/deeplivegathering
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
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, Fossil Fuel Phaseout, and Reimagining the Role of Higher Education
Wednesday, November 1
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e7uCpGrbSoq7lUv2-6ZRCg#/registration
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
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
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
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
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Corporate Climate Integrity: What Role for the EU?
Monday, October 2
5am - 6:30am [11:00-12:30 CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://carbonmarketwatch.org/events/corporate-climate-integrity-what-role-for-the-eu/
Carbon markets have grown in popularity amongst businesses to provide economic incentives to invest in sustainable practices and technologies, creating the possibility of a positive impact on the environment. Businesses can leverage carbon markets as a means to finance and scale their decarbonisation efforts, but there is also an underlying risk that companies use carbon offsetting to make unsubstantiated claims and hide corporate inaction.
Therefore, the rise of greenwashing poses a significant challenge in a way that upholding integrity within carbon markets becomes essential to ensure transparency, accurate reporting, and credible verification processes.
This is where the seventh ETS (Emissions Trading Schemes) Talk titled "Corporate Climate Integrity: What Role for the EU?" picks up: On 2 October 2023 from 10.00 to 11.15 am, speakers delve into the synergies between carbon markets and private sector decarbonisation and explore the EU’s role in promoting the integrity of corporate climate action through activities within as well as outside the EU and partially making use of the Article 6 infrastructure.
Nicolas Kreibich, Senior Researcher in the Global Climate Governance Research Unit at the Wuppertal Institut, speaks on the subject of "The EU as a Normative Power" at 10:25 am, followed by a Q&A and discussion session.
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Addressing the Carbon Loophole
Monday, October 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
and online via Zoom
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-catrina-rorke-addressing-carbon-loophole
SPEAKER: Catrina Rorke, Senior Vice President for Policy and Research, Climate Leadership Council and Executive Director, Center for Climate and Trade
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Catrina Rorke, Senior Vice President for Policy and Research at the Climate Leadership Council and Executive Director of the Center for Climate and Trade.
Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
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Energy Seminar: Carbon Dioxide Removal to Solve the Climate Crisis,
Monday, October 2
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Jen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering), NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Center, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/energy_seminar_carbon_dioxide_removal_to_solve_the_climate_crisis_eli_yablonovitch_university_of_california_berkeley
Eli Yablonovitch, University of California
In 1977, the physicist Freeman Dyson1 proposed the burial of biomass, as a scalable, economical solution to the CO2 problem. Today we know2 that the harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry Environmental Chamber. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with sufficiently low thermodynamic “Water Activity”, which is the relative humidity in equilibrium with the biomass. A “Water Activity” <60% will not support life, suppressing anaerobic organisms, thus preserving the biomass for millenia. Current agriculture costs, and burial costs indicate US$60/tonne of sequestered CO2 which corresponds to $0.53/gallon of gasoline. If scaled to the level of a major crop, existing CO2 can be extracted from the atmosphere and sequester a significant fraction of prior historical CO2emissions.
1. F. J. Dyson, “Can we control the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?” Energy 2, 217-291 (1977).
2. E. Yablonovitch, & H.W. Deckman, “Scalable, Economical, and Stable Sequestration of Agricultural Fixed Carbon”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(16), e2217695120 (April 11, 2023)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2217695120
Biography: Prof. Yablonovitch introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers could have superior performance due to reduced valence band (hole) effective mass. With almost every human interaction with the internet, optical telecommunication occurs by strained semiconductor lasers. He is regarded as a Father of the Photonic BandGap concept, and he coined the term "Photonic Crystal". The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized Photonic bandgap, is sometimes called “Yablonovite”.
In his photovoltaic research, Yablonovitch introduced the 4(n squared) (“Yablonovitch Limit”) light-trapping factor that is in worldwide use, for almost all commercial solar panels. He was elected to NAE, NAS, NAI, AmAcArSci, and as Foreign Member, UK Royal Society.
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Women Who Inspire on Food and Farming
Monday October 2
6:30-9:00 PM
Taberna de Haro, 999 Beacon St. Brookline, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-who-inspire-networking-event-fall-2023-tickets-696153904067
Cost: $45
The Women Who Inspire Fall Networking Event bringing together women in the fields of food and farming is registering now!
Our featured speaker will be Deborah Hansen, Chef-Owner and Sommeliere, Taberna de Haro
We'll have a speaker, a short networking activity, and plenty of time to meet, exchange ideas and enjoy a light dinner.
Our featured speaker will be Deborah Hansen. Deborah is the highly-regarded chef-owner & sommeliere of Taberna de Haro, now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
She is an accomplished leader in the areas of Spanish food and wine and is exemplary in her commitment to local agriculture.
Space is very limited so please register now!
** The inability to pay is not a barrier to attending. Please contact Rachel at womenwhoinspirema@gmail.com or 781-789-6191 for discount and full sponsorship codes. **
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Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change Opening Event
Monday, October 2
7 – 8 p.m.
Radcliffe Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
and Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-feeding-the-future-symposium-opening-event
SPEAKER Irene Li, Boston restauranteur, cofounder and co-owner of Mei Mei Dumplings
A keynote discussion with Boston restauranteur Irene Li, cofounder and co-owner of Mei Mei Dumplings, will open Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023 science symposium, “Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change.” Li is the winner of a 2022 James Beard Leadership Award, which recognizes “the visionaries responsible for creating a healthier, safer, and more equitable, and sustainable food system.” She will discuss her efforts to offer healthy, sustainable food through equitable partnerships and business models. Li is coauthor, with her sister Margaret, of the new cookbook "Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking" (W. W. Norton, 2023).
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Tuesday, October 3
9 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Radcliffe Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-feeding-the-future-symposium
SPEAKER(S) David Abel, Contributing reporter, Boston Globe; documentary filmmaker; professor of the practice, journalism, College of Communication, Boston University
Edo Berger, Codirector of the science program, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of astronomy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Immaculata De Vivo, Codirector of the science program, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Christina Hicks, Professor, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
Frank B. Hu, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
David P. Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
M. Jahi Johnson-Chappell, Director, Center for Regional Food Systems; professor and W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair, Michigan State University
Mengyu Li, Postdoctoral research fellow, Integrated Sustainability Analysis, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney (Australia)
Meredith T. Niles, Associate professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences and associate director, Food Systems Research Center, University of Vermont
Duangporn “Bo” Songvisava, Chef and owner, Bo.lan restaurant (Thailand)
Do we eat to live, or do we live to eat? With food production responsible for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, eating and living on a healthy planet can be at odds.
This symposium will explore the dilemma of addressing the global climate crisis while feeding the world’s population healthfully and equitably. How we produce, transport, prepare, and consume our food has direct implications for food access and security as well as for the future of the planet.
Advances in plant genomics, innovative uses of ingredients and preparation, equitable methods of distribution, and even applications of artificial intelligence are carving out pathways for adaptive solutions, especially for resource-poor environments. Policies keyed to sustainable farming and diets in the United States and abroad will enable the agricultural sector, the restaurant industry, and individual consumers to help balance their food practices with a healthier environment. Register online.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Local Action: Connecting Climate Tech and Cities
Tuesday, October 3
9:30 - 11:30am EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-action-connecting-climate-tech-and-cities-tickets-710621868137
Cost: $0 – $50
Municipal leaders and cutting edge climate tech companies will come together to demonstrate how to take climate action at the local level.
Local climate action will play a critical role in decarbonizing our society, and municipal projects present an ideal way for growing climate tech companies to deploy their technology. Because of that, the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) has developed new guides to help local leaders and climate tech startups come together to blaze the trail to Net Zero. For the official launch of these guides, NECEC will join Greentown Labs in bringing those groups together to demonstrate strategies for how startups and municipalities can collaborate.
Attendees will hear from cities/towns and companies that have delivered real projects with demonstrable impact. The event also will provide the opportunity for both groups to network with one another and forge connections that turn into the next round of groundbreaking local decarbonization projects.
Agenda
9:30 - Welcome from Joe Curtatone, President, NECEC
9:35 - Keynote from Mayor Paul Brodeur, Mayor of Melrose, MA
9:45 - Launch Municipal & Startup Guides, Kristen Stelljes, Chief Operating Officer, NECEC
9:55 - “How we met” stories from municipalities and startups, moderated by Maya Nitzberg, Vice President of Community, Greentown Labs
10:35 - Q&A
10:55 - Closing remarks from Greentown Labs
11:00 - Networking
11:30 - End
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Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India
Tuesday, October 3
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tufts, Rabb Room, Barnum Hall, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://forms.monday.com/forms/5661be782344e193326bdd0be8987b81
Maulik Jagnani, Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Given the enormous scale of environmental decline and political gridlock in legislatures around the world, committed action by local leaders may be one of the most effective tools to address environmental health problems like air pollution. However, despite prior evidence that there exists a causal relationship between policy and identity, survey evidence that women have a greater concern for the environment, and the existence of quotas for women in legislative assemblies in many countries, we know extremely little about the impact of women leaders on local environmental outcomes. In a new study (Jagnani and Mahadevan, 2023), we use (crop) fire data from India and a close-election regression discontinuity design to provide the first causal evidence that local women leaders improve environmental outcomes. We show that the election of a female legislator over a male legislator in a close election decreases the number of fires by 13% and monthly biomass-related particulate emissions by 40%. To shed light on mechanisms, we surveyed 424 male and female village council leaders between December 22-March 23 in Punjab, the state with the highest per capita incidence of crop fires in India. We find female leaders are more likely to consider crop fires a serious issue, weigh their impacts on child health, support regulation to decrease crop fire incidence, and implement specific crop residue management policies like private residue collection or encouraging crop residue use as fodder.
Lunch will be provided.
Please contact Max Zandi at maxwell.zandi@tufts.edu if you have any questions.
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Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere
Tuesday, October 3
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g5av0CSiR6ama4FenFcNkg#/registration
High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) Mark Zondlo, professor of civil and environmental engineering, will present “Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Zondlo is the second speaker in the fall 2023 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Agriculture is one of the largest sectors contributing greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions to the atmosphere, but it receives relatively little attention compared to its outsized influences on climate, human health, and ecosystem degradation. Emissions from agriculture are extremely heterogeneous in space and time within a large number of individual source locations, so traditional methods of quantifying emissions from sectors with tailpipes or smokestack emissions simply cannot be used. This talk will feature the integration of new measurement approaches and sensor technologies to constrain methane, nitrous oxide, and ammonia emission inventories from agricultural activities.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
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Lightning Talks on the Longer-Range Future
Tuesday, October 3
4:00 to 5:30 pm
BU, The Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2023/08/08/2023-lightning-talks/#RSVP
Join the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future for its fall reception on Tuesday, October 3 from 4:00-5:30 pm at the Pardee Center (67 Bay State Road).
At the beginning of the reception, the Pardee Center’s 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows will give a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their summer research. The reception is open to the public. Please RSVP here.
The 16th annual session of the Pardee Center’s Graduate Summer Fellows program included eight outstanding Boston University graduate students representing four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Over the course of the 10-week program, Fellows participate in a series of activities and events designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning, while developing substantive research papers on a wide range of future-oriented topics.
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Reporting for a Livable Earth: Communicating Science, Facts and Action
Tuesday, October 4 - Wednesday, October 5
13:00–14:30 (UTC+2 / CEST)
Online
RSVP at https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/nairobi-2023/media-seminar/
The Earth is in crisis. How can journalists and news content creators best inform decision makers across all spheres and audiences at large? Join fellow journalists, scientists and changemakers to discover hot topics, key contacts and tools to cover the climate and biodiversity crises, and highlight the sovereign solutions needed for a prosperous and sustainable future. Ask experts anything and share your experiences to make the most of the largest GLF global conference of the year as well as the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference 2023 (COP28).
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Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Sustainable Seafood with Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO, Becca Millstein
Wednesday, October 4
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cxy9ApuYS-mQtPDSML8uOA#/registration
SPEAKER Becca Millstein, Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO
Recently featured in Forbes “30 Under 30, North America 2023,” in the Food and Drink category for “redefining the way we eat, drink and think about consumption,” is Becca Millstein, the CEO/Co-founder of tinned seafood company, Fishwife. Fishwife is a female-founded and led food company aiming to make ethically-sourced, premium, and delicious tinned seafood a staple in every cupboard.
The company has been proclaimed the leader of “America’s tinned fish Renaissance” by INSIDER, and has been featured in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Refinery29, New York Magazine, Epicurious, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications. Learn about the sustainable seafood industry and Becca’s own career path to founding a tinned fish company. And get inspired to use tinned fish at home during a brief cooking demo following Becca’s presentation!
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Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)
Wednesday, October 4
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/special-event-peter-sheridan-10-04-2023?delta=0
SPEAKERS Peter Sheridan, Chief Executive, Co-operation Ireland.
Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Peter Sheridan joined the peacebuilding charity Co-operation Ireland, an all-island community organization, in 2008 as chief executive. The organization was established in 1979, its aim to build mutual respect and understanding between the peoples of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland through practical cooperation.
Peter Sheridan is a former assistant chief constable with the PSNI (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary). He retired from the police service in late 2008 having spent thirty-two years policing in Northern Ireland. Before retiring, he was responsible for the Crime Operations Department, which included serious and organized crime investigation including terrorist investigations. Sheridan is an Honorary Professor of Practice at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast.
CONTACT INFO Sarah Banse sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
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The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome
Wednesday, October 4
6:00 PM ET
Harvard Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/j-craig-venter-at-harvard-science-center-tickets-716880598167
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome J. CRAIG VENTER—founder of the Institute for Genomic Research—for a discussion of his latest book The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome. He will be joined in conversation by Founder and Director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative,
Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world’s oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter traveled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within.
Corporate Climate Integrity: What Role for the EU?
Monday, October 2
5am - 6:30am [11:00-12:30 CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://carbonmarketwatch.org/events/corporate-climate-integrity-what-role-for-the-eu/
Carbon markets have grown in popularity amongst businesses to provide economic incentives to invest in sustainable practices and technologies, creating the possibility of a positive impact on the environment. Businesses can leverage carbon markets as a means to finance and scale their decarbonisation efforts, but there is also an underlying risk that companies use carbon offsetting to make unsubstantiated claims and hide corporate inaction.
Therefore, the rise of greenwashing poses a significant challenge in a way that upholding integrity within carbon markets becomes essential to ensure transparency, accurate reporting, and credible verification processes.
This is where the seventh ETS (Emissions Trading Schemes) Talk titled "Corporate Climate Integrity: What Role for the EU?" picks up: On 2 October 2023 from 10.00 to 11.15 am, speakers delve into the synergies between carbon markets and private sector decarbonisation and explore the EU’s role in promoting the integrity of corporate climate action through activities within as well as outside the EU and partially making use of the Article 6 infrastructure.
Nicolas Kreibich, Senior Researcher in the Global Climate Governance Research Unit at the Wuppertal Institut, speaks on the subject of "The EU as a Normative Power" at 10:25 am, followed by a Q&A and discussion session.
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Addressing the Carbon Loophole
Monday, October 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
and online via Zoom
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-catrina-rorke-addressing-carbon-loophole
SPEAKER: Catrina Rorke, Senior Vice President for Policy and Research, Climate Leadership Council and Executive Director, Center for Climate and Trade
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Catrina Rorke, Senior Vice President for Policy and Research at the Climate Leadership Council and Executive Director of the Center for Climate and Trade.
Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
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Energy Seminar: Carbon Dioxide Removal to Solve the Climate Crisis,
Monday, October 2
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Jen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering), NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Center, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/energy_seminar_carbon_dioxide_removal_to_solve_the_climate_crisis_eli_yablonovitch_university_of_california_berkeley
Eli Yablonovitch, University of California
In 1977, the physicist Freeman Dyson1 proposed the burial of biomass, as a scalable, economical solution to the CO2 problem. Today we know2 that the harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry Environmental Chamber. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with sufficiently low thermodynamic “Water Activity”, which is the relative humidity in equilibrium with the biomass. A “Water Activity” <60% will not support life, suppressing anaerobic organisms, thus preserving the biomass for millenia. Current agriculture costs, and burial costs indicate US$60/tonne of sequestered CO2 which corresponds to $0.53/gallon of gasoline. If scaled to the level of a major crop, existing CO2 can be extracted from the atmosphere and sequester a significant fraction of prior historical CO2emissions.
1. F. J. Dyson, “Can we control the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?” Energy 2, 217-291 (1977).
2. E. Yablonovitch, & H.W. Deckman, “Scalable, Economical, and Stable Sequestration of Agricultural Fixed Carbon”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(16), e2217695120 (April 11, 2023)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2217695120
Biography: Prof. Yablonovitch introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers could have superior performance due to reduced valence band (hole) effective mass. With almost every human interaction with the internet, optical telecommunication occurs by strained semiconductor lasers. He is regarded as a Father of the Photonic BandGap concept, and he coined the term "Photonic Crystal". The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized Photonic bandgap, is sometimes called “Yablonovite”.
In his photovoltaic research, Yablonovitch introduced the 4(n squared) (“Yablonovitch Limit”) light-trapping factor that is in worldwide use, for almost all commercial solar panels. He was elected to NAE, NAS, NAI, AmAcArSci, and as Foreign Member, UK Royal Society.
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Women Who Inspire on Food and Farming
Monday October 2
6:30-9:00 PM
Taberna de Haro, 999 Beacon St. Brookline, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-who-inspire-networking-event-fall-2023-tickets-696153904067
Cost: $45
The Women Who Inspire Fall Networking Event bringing together women in the fields of food and farming is registering now!
Our featured speaker will be Deborah Hansen, Chef-Owner and Sommeliere, Taberna de Haro
We'll have a speaker, a short networking activity, and plenty of time to meet, exchange ideas and enjoy a light dinner.
Our featured speaker will be Deborah Hansen. Deborah is the highly-regarded chef-owner & sommeliere of Taberna de Haro, now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
She is an accomplished leader in the areas of Spanish food and wine and is exemplary in her commitment to local agriculture.
Space is very limited so please register now!
** The inability to pay is not a barrier to attending. Please contact Rachel at womenwhoinspirema@gmail.com or 781-789-6191 for discount and full sponsorship codes. **
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Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change Opening Event
Monday, October 2
7 – 8 p.m.
Radcliffe Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
and Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-feeding-the-future-symposium-opening-event
SPEAKER Irene Li, Boston restauranteur, cofounder and co-owner of Mei Mei Dumplings
A keynote discussion with Boston restauranteur Irene Li, cofounder and co-owner of Mei Mei Dumplings, will open Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023 science symposium, “Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change.” Li is the winner of a 2022 James Beard Leadership Award, which recognizes “the visionaries responsible for creating a healthier, safer, and more equitable, and sustainable food system.” She will discuss her efforts to offer healthy, sustainable food through equitable partnerships and business models. Li is coauthor, with her sister Margaret, of the new cookbook "Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking" (W. W. Norton, 2023).
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Tuesday, October 3
9 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Radcliffe Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-feeding-the-future-symposium
SPEAKER(S) David Abel, Contributing reporter, Boston Globe; documentary filmmaker; professor of the practice, journalism, College of Communication, Boston University
Edo Berger, Codirector of the science program, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of astronomy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Immaculata De Vivo, Codirector of the science program, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Christina Hicks, Professor, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
Frank B. Hu, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
David P. Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
M. Jahi Johnson-Chappell, Director, Center for Regional Food Systems; professor and W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair, Michigan State University
Mengyu Li, Postdoctoral research fellow, Integrated Sustainability Analysis, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney (Australia)
Meredith T. Niles, Associate professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences and associate director, Food Systems Research Center, University of Vermont
Duangporn “Bo” Songvisava, Chef and owner, Bo.lan restaurant (Thailand)
Do we eat to live, or do we live to eat? With food production responsible for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, eating and living on a healthy planet can be at odds.
This symposium will explore the dilemma of addressing the global climate crisis while feeding the world’s population healthfully and equitably. How we produce, transport, prepare, and consume our food has direct implications for food access and security as well as for the future of the planet.
Advances in plant genomics, innovative uses of ingredients and preparation, equitable methods of distribution, and even applications of artificial intelligence are carving out pathways for adaptive solutions, especially for resource-poor environments. Policies keyed to sustainable farming and diets in the United States and abroad will enable the agricultural sector, the restaurant industry, and individual consumers to help balance their food practices with a healthier environment. Register online.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Local Action: Connecting Climate Tech and Cities
Tuesday, October 3
9:30 - 11:30am EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-action-connecting-climate-tech-and-cities-tickets-710621868137
Cost: $0 – $50
Municipal leaders and cutting edge climate tech companies will come together to demonstrate how to take climate action at the local level.
Local climate action will play a critical role in decarbonizing our society, and municipal projects present an ideal way for growing climate tech companies to deploy their technology. Because of that, the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) has developed new guides to help local leaders and climate tech startups come together to blaze the trail to Net Zero. For the official launch of these guides, NECEC will join Greentown Labs in bringing those groups together to demonstrate strategies for how startups and municipalities can collaborate.
Attendees will hear from cities/towns and companies that have delivered real projects with demonstrable impact. The event also will provide the opportunity for both groups to network with one another and forge connections that turn into the next round of groundbreaking local decarbonization projects.
Agenda
9:30 - Welcome from Joe Curtatone, President, NECEC
9:35 - Keynote from Mayor Paul Brodeur, Mayor of Melrose, MA
9:45 - Launch Municipal & Startup Guides, Kristen Stelljes, Chief Operating Officer, NECEC
9:55 - “How we met” stories from municipalities and startups, moderated by Maya Nitzberg, Vice President of Community, Greentown Labs
10:35 - Q&A
10:55 - Closing remarks from Greentown Labs
11:00 - Networking
11:30 - End
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Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India
Tuesday, October 3
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tufts, Rabb Room, Barnum Hall, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://forms.monday.com/forms/5661be782344e193326bdd0be8987b81
Maulik Jagnani, Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Given the enormous scale of environmental decline and political gridlock in legislatures around the world, committed action by local leaders may be one of the most effective tools to address environmental health problems like air pollution. However, despite prior evidence that there exists a causal relationship between policy and identity, survey evidence that women have a greater concern for the environment, and the existence of quotas for women in legislative assemblies in many countries, we know extremely little about the impact of women leaders on local environmental outcomes. In a new study (Jagnani and Mahadevan, 2023), we use (crop) fire data from India and a close-election regression discontinuity design to provide the first causal evidence that local women leaders improve environmental outcomes. We show that the election of a female legislator over a male legislator in a close election decreases the number of fires by 13% and monthly biomass-related particulate emissions by 40%. To shed light on mechanisms, we surveyed 424 male and female village council leaders between December 22-March 23 in Punjab, the state with the highest per capita incidence of crop fires in India. We find female leaders are more likely to consider crop fires a serious issue, weigh their impacts on child health, support regulation to decrease crop fire incidence, and implement specific crop residue management policies like private residue collection or encouraging crop residue use as fodder.
Lunch will be provided.
Please contact Max Zandi at maxwell.zandi@tufts.edu if you have any questions.
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Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere
Tuesday, October 3
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g5av0CSiR6ama4FenFcNkg#/registration
High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) Mark Zondlo, professor of civil and environmental engineering, will present “Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Zondlo is the second speaker in the fall 2023 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Agriculture is one of the largest sectors contributing greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions to the atmosphere, but it receives relatively little attention compared to its outsized influences on climate, human health, and ecosystem degradation. Emissions from agriculture are extremely heterogeneous in space and time within a large number of individual source locations, so traditional methods of quantifying emissions from sectors with tailpipes or smokestack emissions simply cannot be used. This talk will feature the integration of new measurement approaches and sensor technologies to constrain methane, nitrous oxide, and ammonia emission inventories from agricultural activities.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
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Lightning Talks on the Longer-Range Future
Tuesday, October 3
4:00 to 5:30 pm
BU, The Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2023/08/08/2023-lightning-talks/#RSVP
Join the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future for its fall reception on Tuesday, October 3 from 4:00-5:30 pm at the Pardee Center (67 Bay State Road).
At the beginning of the reception, the Pardee Center’s 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows will give a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their summer research. The reception is open to the public. Please RSVP here.
The 16th annual session of the Pardee Center’s Graduate Summer Fellows program included eight outstanding Boston University graduate students representing four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Over the course of the 10-week program, Fellows participate in a series of activities and events designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning, while developing substantive research papers on a wide range of future-oriented topics.
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Reporting for a Livable Earth: Communicating Science, Facts and Action
Tuesday, October 4 - Wednesday, October 5
13:00–14:30 (UTC+2 / CEST)
Online
RSVP at https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/nairobi-2023/media-seminar/
The Earth is in crisis. How can journalists and news content creators best inform decision makers across all spheres and audiences at large? Join fellow journalists, scientists and changemakers to discover hot topics, key contacts and tools to cover the climate and biodiversity crises, and highlight the sovereign solutions needed for a prosperous and sustainable future. Ask experts anything and share your experiences to make the most of the largest GLF global conference of the year as well as the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference 2023 (COP28).
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Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Sustainable Seafood with Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO, Becca Millstein
Wednesday, October 4
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cxy9ApuYS-mQtPDSML8uOA#/registration
SPEAKER Becca Millstein, Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO
Recently featured in Forbes “30 Under 30, North America 2023,” in the Food and Drink category for “redefining the way we eat, drink and think about consumption,” is Becca Millstein, the CEO/Co-founder of tinned seafood company, Fishwife. Fishwife is a female-founded and led food company aiming to make ethically-sourced, premium, and delicious tinned seafood a staple in every cupboard.
The company has been proclaimed the leader of “America’s tinned fish Renaissance” by INSIDER, and has been featured in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Refinery29, New York Magazine, Epicurious, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications. Learn about the sustainable seafood industry and Becca’s own career path to founding a tinned fish company. And get inspired to use tinned fish at home during a brief cooking demo following Becca’s presentation!
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Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)
Wednesday, October 4
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/special-event-peter-sheridan-10-04-2023?delta=0
SPEAKERS Peter Sheridan, Chief Executive, Co-operation Ireland.
Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Peter Sheridan joined the peacebuilding charity Co-operation Ireland, an all-island community organization, in 2008 as chief executive. The organization was established in 1979, its aim to build mutual respect and understanding between the peoples of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland through practical cooperation.
Peter Sheridan is a former assistant chief constable with the PSNI (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary). He retired from the police service in late 2008 having spent thirty-two years policing in Northern Ireland. Before retiring, he was responsible for the Crime Operations Department, which included serious and organized crime investigation including terrorist investigations. Sheridan is an Honorary Professor of Practice at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast.
CONTACT INFO Sarah Banse sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
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The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome
Wednesday, October 4
6:00 PM ET
Harvard Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/j-craig-venter-at-harvard-science-center-tickets-716880598167
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome J. CRAIG VENTER—founder of the Institute for Genomic Research—for a discussion of his latest book The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean's Microbiome. He will be joined in conversation by Founder and Director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative,
Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world’s oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter traveled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within.
In The Voyage of Sorcerer II, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued―of plant-like bacteria that get their energy from the sun, proteins that metabolize vast amounts of hydrogen, and microbes whose genes shield them from ultraviolet light. The result was a massive library of millions of unknown genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on earth. Yet despite this exquisite diversity, Venter encountered sobering reminders of how human activity is disturbing the delicate microbial ecosystem that nurtures life on earth. In the face of unprecedented climate change, Venter and Duncan show how we can harness the microbial genome to develop alternative sources of energy, food, and medicine that might ultimately avert our destruction.
A captivating story of exploration and discovery, The Voyage of Sorcerer II restores microbes to their rightful place as crucial partners in our evolutionary past and guides to our future.
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Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Evan Gordon Greenfield and Rajesh Swaminathan on Impact Investing and Deep Tech Start-Ups
Wednesday, October 4
6 – 8 p.m.
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/careers-in-climate-action-speaker-series/
SPEAKER(S) Evan Gordon Greensfield, Managing Director, Head of ESG, Private Equity at British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
Rajesh Swaminathan, Partner at Khosla Ventures
Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? This Fall semester, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability is launching the Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series, featuring leading climate and sustainability practitioners — many of them Harvard alumni — from a broad range of industries and sectors.
Speakers will reflect on their work and career path, providing students from across Harvard with valuable insights needed to launch a climate career. Each event will include a one hour Q&A with the speaker followed by a dinner reception.
CONTACT INFO Leslie Hubbard leslie_hubbard@harvard.edu
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Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
Wednesday, October 4
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes historian BEN WURGAFT and anthropologist MERRY WHITE for a discussion of their new book Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture.
From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.
Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nớc chấm, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.
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Pachamama Alliance’s Climate Convergence 2023
Thursday, October 5
12pm - 7pm [9 A.M. - 4 P.M. PDT (UTC-8)]
Online
Together for tomorrow
Change for a better tomorrow is attainable. We're coming together to address the climate crisis, safeguard frontline communities, and bring about fundamental transformation.
Change for a better tomorrow is attainable. We're coming together to address the climate crisis, safeguard frontline communities, and bring about fundamental transformation.
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Creating an Equitable Clean Energy Future: Engaging Local Communities in Project Planning and Development
Thursday, October 5
11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5mIZqLyFS9CIrfjwZOS_sg#/registration
Join WRI and Data for Progress for a discussion about the importance of community benefits agreements and community benefits plans in facilitating an equitable clean energy development. The webinar will feature a conversation with Betony Jones, Director of the Office of Energy Jobs at DOE, about the federal government’s role in facilitating the process between stakeholders in the development of community benefits plans. That will be followed by a panel discussion with experts and practitioners to discuss the fundamentals, barriers and opportunities to expand the best practices of community benefits agreements and the role of different stakeholders in working together across clean energy projects.
More event information and speakers can be found on the WRI event page: https://www.wri.org/events/2023/10/creating-equitable-clean-energy-future-engaging-local-communities-project-planning
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The Critical Role of States in the Energy Transition
Thursday, October 5
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_5K44KCseTxGUbYWY_AGt0Q#/registration
The urgent need for an energy transition is upon us as recently demonstrated by global climate events, and many US states are on the front lines of implementing policy changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This lecture will provide an overview of some challenges that the states are facing and the policy levers available to them to implement meaningful changes. There is a growing recognition about the important role that states can play in accessing renewable energy, implementing demand reduction, and addressing energy inequities. Many states have promulgated aggressive climate goals that under current conditions will be difficult to achieve. Framing the opportunities and complexities of implementing this transition will be critical for developing successful policy outcomes and dealing with the trade-offs along the way. This lecture is part of the Environmental Studies Program Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series.
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Unlocking the Climate Impasse: Reimagining the Economy Book Talk
Thursday, October 5
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Harvard, Taubman Nye ABC, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge MA
RSVP https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N7rnXz5Tv0mF3U
Creating an Equitable Clean Energy Future: Engaging Local Communities in Project Planning and Development
Thursday, October 5
11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5mIZqLyFS9CIrfjwZOS_sg#/registration
Join WRI and Data for Progress for a discussion about the importance of community benefits agreements and community benefits plans in facilitating an equitable clean energy development. The webinar will feature a conversation with Betony Jones, Director of the Office of Energy Jobs at DOE, about the federal government’s role in facilitating the process between stakeholders in the development of community benefits plans. That will be followed by a panel discussion with experts and practitioners to discuss the fundamentals, barriers and opportunities to expand the best practices of community benefits agreements and the role of different stakeholders in working together across clean energy projects.
More event information and speakers can be found on the WRI event page: https://www.wri.org/events/2023/10/creating-equitable-clean-energy-future-engaging-local-communities-project-planning
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The Critical Role of States in the Energy Transition
Thursday, October 5
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_5K44KCseTxGUbYWY_AGt0Q#/registration
The urgent need for an energy transition is upon us as recently demonstrated by global climate events, and many US states are on the front lines of implementing policy changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This lecture will provide an overview of some challenges that the states are facing and the policy levers available to them to implement meaningful changes. There is a growing recognition about the important role that states can play in accessing renewable energy, implementing demand reduction, and addressing energy inequities. Many states have promulgated aggressive climate goals that under current conditions will be difficult to achieve. Framing the opportunities and complexities of implementing this transition will be critical for developing successful policy outcomes and dealing with the trade-offs along the way. This lecture is part of the Environmental Studies Program Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series.
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Unlocking the Climate Impasse: Reimagining the Economy Book Talk
Thursday, October 5
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Harvard, Taubman Nye ABC, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge MA
RSVP https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N7rnXz5Tv0mF3U
Speakers and Presenters
Alexander Gazmararian, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Dustin Tingley, Government Department, Harvard University
The Reimagining the Economy Project invites you to a conversation with Alexander Gazmararian and Dustin Tingley, authors of the new book Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate ImpasseWhy is the world not moving fast enough to solve the climate crisis? Politics stand in the way, but experts hope that green investments, compensation, and retraining could unlock the impasse. However, these measures often lack credibility. Not only do communities fear these policies could be reversed, but they have seen promises broken before. Uncertain Futures proposes solutions to make more credible promises that build support for the energy transition. It examines the perspectives of workers, communities, and companies, arguing that the climate impasse is best understood by viewing the problem from the ground up. Featuring voices on the front lines such as a commissioner in Carbon County deciding whether to welcome wind, executives at energy companies searching for solutions, mayors and unions in Minnesota battling for local jobs, and fairgoers in coal country navigating their uncertain future, this book contends that making economic transitions work means making promises credible.
Reimagining the Economy Project
617-495-0868
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Tom Regan Memorial Lecture - The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?
Thursday, October 5
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Harvard Law, Wasserstein 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://animal.law.harvard.edu/event/tom-regan-memorial-lecture/
SPEAKER Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; co-director, Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals; founder, Animal Ethics from the Margins Project
The Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture celebrates the life and thought of philosopher, animal advocate, and Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) co-founder Tom Regan. This year's lecture is delivered Cheryl Abbate, who will present: The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?
CONTACT INFO alpp@law.harvard.edu
More details at bit.ly/3PiD5P3
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Building for Heat Resilience in Urban Areas
Thursday, October 5
2pm - 3pm ET [11am to 12pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8X8djUacQ--mO625Da8HkQ#/registration
A majority of the population around the world, including nearly 80% of the U.S. population, reside in urban areas. As average temperatures rise and extreme heat events become more common due to climate change, the built environment and lack of vegetation in cities combine to make that heat even more intense for city residents. With heat being the number one natural disaster killer, mitigating its impact for city residents, especially children and the elderly who are most vulnerable, is critical.
Stanford scientists and urban experts will discuss a range of options for addressing heat challenges in cities that address cooling needs while also considering energy demand and pricing, including: new building materials and practices, tree canopy and increasing nature, and planning and land use.
Speakers
Opening Remarks from Marta Segura, Chief Heat Officer & Climate Emergency Mobilization Director for the City of Los Angeles
Shanhui Fan, Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor of the School of Engineering and, Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford University
Anne Guerry, Senior Research Scientist at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Chief Strategy Officer at Stanford Natural Capital Project
Dian Grueneich, Member, George P. Shultz Energy & Climate Task Force, Hoover Institution; Affiliated Scholar, Stanford Bill Lane Center for the American West
Moderated by Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Thursday, October 5
2pm - 3pm ET [11am to 12pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8X8djUacQ--mO625Da8HkQ#/registration
A majority of the population around the world, including nearly 80% of the U.S. population, reside in urban areas. As average temperatures rise and extreme heat events become more common due to climate change, the built environment and lack of vegetation in cities combine to make that heat even more intense for city residents. With heat being the number one natural disaster killer, mitigating its impact for city residents, especially children and the elderly who are most vulnerable, is critical.
Stanford scientists and urban experts will discuss a range of options for addressing heat challenges in cities that address cooling needs while also considering energy demand and pricing, including: new building materials and practices, tree canopy and increasing nature, and planning and land use.
Speakers
Opening Remarks from Marta Segura, Chief Heat Officer & Climate Emergency Mobilization Director for the City of Los Angeles
Shanhui Fan, Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor of the School of Engineering and, Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford University
Anne Guerry, Senior Research Scientist at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Chief Strategy Officer at Stanford Natural Capital Project
Dian Grueneich, Member, George P. Shultz Energy & Climate Task Force, Hoover Institution; Affiliated Scholar, Stanford Bill Lane Center for the American West
Moderated by Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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CommonWealth Kitchen Food Show: Public Food Festival
Thursday, October 5
Thursday, October 5
3 - 7pm ED
SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118
SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118
Cost: $10-$50
Experience the mouth-watering creations of Greater Boston’s most innovative, exciting, and diverse food entrepreneurs!
An evening of sipping, dining, and shopping at the CommonWealth Kitchen Food Show! Your ticket supports CommonWealth Kitchen's mission to create a more equitable sustainable, and inclusive food economy. Thank you!Why you don't want to miss this event:
An evening of sipping, dining, and shopping at the CommonWealth Kitchen Food Show! Your ticket supports CommonWealth Kitchen's mission to create a more equitable sustainable, and inclusive food economy. Thank you!Why you don't want to miss this event:
Local vendors serving up everything from arepas and vegan burgers to Jamaican sauces, Middle Eastern sweets, and gourmet chili sauce.
A fleet of food trucks to satisfy any palate.
The opportunity to purchase unique, handcrafted food products including small-batch hot sauces, artisanal fair-trade chocolate, all-natural energy bites, gourmet cocktail mixers, and so much more!
The chance to support locally-owned businesses founded by women, immigrants, and people of color.
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American Politics in Crisis? Charting a New Path
Thursday, October 5
6pm
Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Columbia Point, 210 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at https://emkinstitute.org/special-events/american-politics-in-crisis-charting-a-new-path/
Join the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate and the Pew Research Center for a candid conversation about Americans’ deepening dissatisfaction with their elected officials and government and what that means for the future of American politics. Since leaving office Senator Tom Daschle, Governor Christine Todd Whitman (NJ), and Massachusetts State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry have been at the forefront of efforts to strengthen American democracy and rebuild Americans’ trust in each other and our institutions. Veteran columnist and “Morning Joe” senior contributor Mike Barnicle will lead panelists in a candid discussion of what comes next, leaning on his first-hand knowledge of Senator Ted Kennedy’s commitment to bipartisan collaboration. The program will begin with a presentation of brand-new national survey results from the Pew Research Center that chronicle Americans’ deep-seated frustration with the political system—including the three branches of government, both political parties, political leaders and candidates for office—and their mixed attitudes toward potential solutions. Is there a path forward, and what will it take to get there?
Panel
Moderated by Mike Barnicle, Veteran Columnist and Morning Joe Sr. Contributor
The Honorable Tom Daschle, former South Dakota Senator
The Honorable Linda Dorcena Forry, former Massachusetts State Senator
The Honorable Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey Governor
Presentation of “Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics,” Pew Research Center (Sept. 2023)
Jocelyn Kiley, Associate Director of Research, Pew Research Center
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Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands
Friday, October 6 - Sunday, October 8
Somerville, MA
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/schedule-2023/
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Who Gets to Have an Environmental History, and What Kind? Energy, Property, and the Making of Legible Landscapes in the American South
Friday, October 6
2:30PM
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-urrTssHtDKLLfed_BGZ9VPJYg_WAGX#/registration
Abby Spinak, Harvard
Part of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History which has a series of lectures on this topic.
For more information, contact history-info@mit.edu
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Scaling & commercializing innovation for climate action
Tuesday, October 10
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/scaling-commercializing-innovation-climate-action
Discover how youth leadership and innovation can contribute to addressing global climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by joining our upcoming webinar series titled "Fostering Youth-Led Innovation for the SDGs." Delivered jointly by Entrepreneurship @ Environment at the University of Waterloo and Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, this series will explore ‘how’ and ‘why’ transformative approaches to education can be used as a vehicle for empowering young people to drive the type of innovations and entrepreneurial ventures that are necessary to drive progress on the 2030 agenda.
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One year later: The Inflation Reduction Act and climate progress
Wednesday, October 11
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/one-year-later-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-climate-progress/
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is widely regarded as the most significant climate legislation passed by Congress. One year after it was signed into law, the Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action (BICRA) will assess its impact and progress towards its objectives of spurring investment in clean energy to reduce carbon emissions. How can we ensure the benefits of the IRA get to the people and communities that need them most? Do markets believe the incentives are here to stay? What does the IRA do for U.S. standing in the world with respect to climate change? How can the U.S. leverage the IRA to encourage action elsewhere?
On October 11, BICRA will host a public event to dig into these questions and more. John Podesta, senior White House advisor for clean energy innovation and implementation, will speak and then engage in a conversation with Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow David Victor about the impact of the IRA on U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Following their conversation, New York Times Climate Change Reporter Lisa Friedman will moderate discussions with BICRA experts to unpack the multi-faceted impact of the IRA on U.S climate policy, as well as America’s role in addressing climate change on the global stage.
The first panel will focus on the domestic implications of the IRA for the U.S. economy, clean energy, employment, and equity. The second panel will cover the global implications of the IRA, including its impact on global trade, markets, and climate ambition.
This event will be open to attend in person or to watch online. Online viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or on Twitter using #IRAatOne.
Registration is required to attend this event in person. Please register no later than October 10. Same-day registrants and walk-ins will not be permitted.
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The 1973 Energy Crisis: The Oil Embargo and the New Age of Energy
Wednesday, October 11
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/1973-energy-crisis-oil-embargo-and-new-age-energy
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Arab Oil Embargo.
SIPA Dean Keren Yahri-Milo will provide welcome remarks, followed by a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Daniel Yergin that will examine the historical significance of the Embargo.
We will then move to a panel discussion focusing on the details of the Arab Oil Embargo—what happened, and how did it shake up geopolitics and the global economy? The panel will then examine the lasting effects—how it has guided policymakers in the decades since, and what lessons does it hold for the current precarious geopolitical situation? This event will provide an excellent opportunity to re-examine a pivotal moment in energy history, and one that continues to shape policymaking, in manners both subtle and obvious.
Keynote Remarks: Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, S&P Global
Moderator: Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist
Speakers: Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School
Ed Morse, Global Head, Commodities Research, Citibank
Meghan O’Sullivan, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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Lessons Learned: How We Adapt on the Road to Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/lessons-learned-how-we-adapt-on-the-road-to-climate-adaptation/
Cost: $15 - 45
Climate change adaptation is characterized by flexibility—our ability to adapt to an unprecedented crisis. Across geographies, scales, and focus areas, we’ve seen many successful examples of climate adaptation projects, many of which we’ve featured in our forums. But these successes would not have been possible without the ability to pivot in the face of obstacles. Learn from our expert panel as they reflect on the limitations and challenges they’ve encountered in a wide variety of climate change adaptation projects, and how those challenges can inform our next steps as a community of practice.
Forum Speakers
Robyn DeYoung, Lead of Green Infrastructure Program, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hannah Lyons-Galante, Manager of Climate Change Resiliency, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Mia G. Mansfield, Assistant Secretary of Climate Resilience, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Oleander Stone, Deputy Director of Climate Equity and Environmental Justice, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Scott Struck, Principal Scientist/Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
This forum will be organized in a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in-person OR virtually.
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Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Wampanoag Ecological Perspective, Historical Resilience, and Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudu2vrzIoG9wEHZc4wvfRr5IUMv76ROSV#/registration
Speakers: Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Bret Stearns (Director, Natural Resources Dept - Aquinnah Tribe)
This presentation will delve into the intricate connection between traditional ecological knowledge and the Wampanoag perspective. It will trace the evolution and expression of their worldview up until the time of initial contact. The discussion will cover how the Wampanoag people managed to preserve certain traditions despite colonization's challenges. Moreover, it will emphasize the critical contemporary implications of these dynamics, particularly underscoring the pivotal role of the Wampanoag perspective in strengthening climate resiliency efforts in the present day.
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The Sustainable Future of Computing: Companies at the Forefront
Thursday, October 12
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building E19-202, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Are you struggling to reconcile the impact of computing on the climate with your future career in the field of computing? These companies are adapting their business practices and strategy here and now. Come network with reps from leading tech companies to learn how industry is meeting the climate crisis head on by changing their business practices and committing to a sustainable future.
Refreshments will be served. Registration required via Handshake.
Please indicate any accommodation needs by completing the following survey. https://airtable.com/shrfsjcovcoDIN0da
Note: Accommodation requests should be submitted one week in advance of an event. If accommodations are not possible due to the late timing of the request a team member will reach out to you to discuss alternative resources and/or solutions.
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Gastronativism: The Politics of Food and Sustainability
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Har7jKToSw2MPy-U2CB6ow#/registration
The table unites and divides: it connects those who get to sit around it and excludes those who have not been invited. In recent decades we have witnessed the rise of gastronativism, the ideological use of food to determine who belongs and who doesn’t in a community. Diverging approaches to sustainability in the food system are also leveraged for political goals. In connection with the specific form of globalization we have been experiencing since the 1980s, gastronativism also focuses on the impact of the environment on food and vice versa.
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Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition? Equity, Efficiency, and Electricity Price Regulation
Thursday, October 12
2:30-4pm
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Jim Sallee (UC-Berkeley)
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Climate Collider Pitch Night
Thursday, October 12
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://events.swissnexboston.org/ClimateColliderPitchNight#/tickets?lang=en
Join Swissnex for the flagship event of the startup exchange program Climate Collider, and meet Swiss and US innovators developing global solutions to climate change.
It’s a transatlantic climatetech showdown! Join us for the culmination of Climate Collider, the startup exchange program powered by Swissnex and Innosuisse. The members of the inaugural Climate Collider cohort will go head to head in an evening of friendly competition, pitting the founders of five Swiss climatetech startups against their American counterparts. Meet the founders, hear them pitch their next-gen climate solutions, and vote for your favorite! When the dust settles, two winners will be declared – one by audience vote, and one by our expert jury.
Program
5:30pm – Doors open
6:00pm – Opening remarks
6:10pm – Pitch Competition
7:30pm – Networking
9:00pm – End
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Responding to Disasters and Attacks at Mass Crowds
Thursday, October 12
6pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/polisci/events/srs-speaker-series-fall-2023/
Kjell Brataas is an experienced crisis communication consultant and author from Norway who has handled large crises such as the tsunami in Asia and the terror attacks in Oslo and on Utoya. Brataas has published two books about crisis communication.
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Is Activism Futile?: The Case of Israel
Friday, October 13
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard Faculty Club, Library, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/activism-futile-case-israel
Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories where she has lived for thirty years as the only Jewish Israeli journalist. In 2019-2020, she was a Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School.
Her book Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege is an account of her three-year period living in Gaza. This book tells the history, plight, and struggles of Gazans since 1948, especially after the beginning of Israel’s occupation in 1967.
Amira Hass has been the recipient of several awards, including the World Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award, Reporters Without Borders Prize for Press Freedom, and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
CONTACT elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
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Transitioning to a Green Economy: What will it take?
Saturday, October 14
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/YHt05NuyC0aYxjJ-tXwmdQ2
Following a webinar on May 7th which brought together leading organizations and activists working on the two crucially important issues of climate change and nuclear war, this forum will allow for more in depth discussion on how we the climate and nuclear weapons movements can work together to save the planet from these existential threats before it is too late. Merging these into an inclusive mass movement in the transition to a greener economy is essential! An online forum with speakers highlighting how to take action on climate solutions and nuclear solutions, a panel on how we can help each other build a strong and inclusive movement, followed by breakout rooms to share ideas on action.
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Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Presents a film Premiere: Regenerating Life
Saturday, October 14
12:30pm. Asean Auditorium, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/film-premiere-registration/
Cost: $5 - $200
Panel Discussion with filmmaker John Feldman, atmospheric physicist Anastassia Makarieva, marine biologist Tom Goreau, journalist Judith Schwartz, educator & soil sponge strategist Didi Pershouse, farmer & Bionutrient Assoc. founder Dan Kittredge.
More information at https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/
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Greater Boston Humanists
Tiptoeing Toward Theocracy: Religion and The Thomas Court
Sunday, October 15
Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University
And online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/greaterbostonhumanists/events/296371942
SpeakerProf. Jay Wexler
The Supreme Court has not taken the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment particularly seriously for over two decades. Prior to the recent ascendancy of the Thomas Court, however, it had at least allowed all religions, as well as non-religion, equal access to public life in the form of government funding, property, and institutions.
In the past two terms, however, even this concession to equality has come under threat. In this talk, Jay Wexler of Boston University School of Law will explain how recent developments in the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have brought us closer to Christian Nationalism than any other time in our recent history.
Jay Wexler is professor at Boston University School of Law and author of seven books, including "Our Non-Christian Nation". His work focuses on church-state issues, constitutional law, and environmental law. Before coming to BU Law, Professor Wexler worked as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court. He is also known for being the first to study laughter at the Supreme Court. He has written for secular rights and other issues in media as diverse as Newsweek, Vox, Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Georgetown Law Journal, and Freedom From Religion podcasts.
We look forward to seeing you for a discussion of important issues and convivial community building! Join us for discussion and snacks for this live event.
If you cannot attend in person but wish to join our hybrid Zoom attempt, please request the Zoom link by sending a message on the MeetUp page here and provide your email address.
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Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Monday, October 16
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/veronica-o-davis-on-inclusive-transportation-tickets-694948428457
How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? Join us on Monday, October 16 at 12:00 pm EDT with Veronica O. Davis for a virtual talk on her book, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. She calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other.
About the author
Veronica O. Davis, PE, is a civil engineer, planner, transportation nerd, public speaker, community activist, guest lecturer, poet, blogger, lover of art, yogi, foodie, world explorer, wife, and mom. When she was twenty-two years old, she wrote a life strategic plan declaring that she would be a world-renowned transportation expert and an author with an eclectic collection of books across multiple genres. The clarity of that vision allows her to achieve her goals.
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Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization
Tuesday, October 17
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets
Harvard Book Store welcomes applied mathematician COCO KRUMME for a discussion of her new book Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization. She will be joined in conversation by JONATHAN ZITTRAIN—professor of law and professor of computer science at Harvard University.
Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underlie everything from airline schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsize cultural shape? And what is lost when efficiency is gained?
Optimal Illusions traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America’s founding principles to its modern manifestations, found in colorful stories of oil tycoons, wildlife ecologists, Silicon Valley technologists, lifestyle gurus, sugar beet farmers, and poker players. Optimization is now deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality but what we make of it.
Coco Krumme’s work in mathematical modeling has made her acutely aware of optimization’s overreach. Streamlined systems are less resilient and more at risk of failure. They limit our options and narrow our perspectives. The malaise of living in an optimized society can feel profoundly inhumane. Optimal Illusions exposes the sizable bargains we have made in the name of optimization and asks us to consider what comes next.
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Climate Fiction: the Intersection of Climate Science, Literature, and Activism
Thursday, October 19
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_bkBOkzAlQbum8_Mf67rk-g#/registration
Fiction has the power to stir empathy, broaden a reader's worldview, and move readers toward action. Author Julie Carrick Dalton will discuss her latest novel, The Last Beekeeper, a near-future story about a beekeeper and his daughter as the world's pollinator population dies off. Dalton will share examples from the growing canon of Climate Fiction to illustrate how storytelling can broaden the ways we engage with climate science, hope, and activism. Those who attend the lecture will have the opportunity to purchase the book and enter a raffle to win a copy of it.
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Deepening Trust, Accelerating Resilience: Partnerships for People and Planet
Thursday, October 19
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://givebutter.com/c/deepeningtrustacceleratingresilience
Keynote Speech. Presented by Jamison Ervin, Manager of UNDP's Global Nature for Development Program.
Hear Jamison Ervin speak to the importance of cross-sector collaboration and how exponential impact can be achieved when we come together for a shared vision of sustainability.
Panel. Moderated by Jessica Brown, Executive Director of the New England Biolabs Foundation.
Engage with thought leaders, environmentalists, and community champions as they discuss sustainability and community resilience in Latin America.
Join Us in Celebrating 30 Years of EcoLogic!
For three incredible decades, EcoLogic Development Fund has been at the forefront of sustainable change, protecting precious ecosystems and empowering communities in Mexico and Central America. Now, it's time to honor this milestone and ignite the next chapter of environmental impact together!
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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Friday, October 20
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/deb_chachra/
Harvard Book Store welcomes DEB CHACHRA—professor at Olin College of Engineering—for a discussion of her new book How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World. She will be joined in conversation by artist, design researcher, and writer SARA HENDREN.
About How Infrastructure Works
Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.
A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.
Across the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.
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Artificial Intelligence for Energy: AI & Energy Technology Discovery
Monday, October 23
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/artificial-intelligence-energy-ai-energy-technology-discovery
Moderator: Paul M. Dabbar, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Former Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; Former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy (2017-21)
Speaker: Rick L. Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs for a series of discussions on how the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the energy sector can advance the discovery of new technologies, aid in the prediction of successful energy-related systems, and optimize operations.
The first AI forum will feature a global expert leading the development of AI for scientific discovery, including for energy.
Historically, researchers have developed technologies by estimating which materials and designs were potentially the most promising from previous laboratory testing and advancing those to the laboratory experimentation stage. Thomas Edison, for example, tested over one thousand types of filaments in his lab before he found one that worked effectively for the first light bulb.
Today, scientific discovery of new technologies can be significantly accelerated by the use of AI and high-performance computers. AI can process data to guide researchers to higher likelihood options before taking efforts to the lab experimentation stage, significantly reducing the cost and time to discovery for a new technology. This methodology was successfully used by the U.S. National Laboratories in the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, which significantly reduced the time and risk of developing those drugs.
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Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late
Tuesday, October 24
3PM EDT [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-10-24/rebecca-solnit-why-its-not-too-late
Cost: $5 - $37
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining the concept of hope and the unpredictability of change through her work for more than 20 years. Her 2014 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” is credited with inspiring the term “mansplaining,” and she was named the “Voice of the Resistance'' by The New York Times in 2017. The 2023 anthology she co-edited, It’s Not Too Late, serves as a guidebook for changing the climate narrative from despair to possibility.
Join Climate One’s Ariana Brocious for a live conversation with one of the leading thinkers on feminism, popular power, insurrection, and environmental and social change as we discuss why new climate narratives are important, how change happens, and how she finds hope for the future in the midst of the escalating climate crisis.
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Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn
Tuesday, October 24
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/omkari_williams/
Harvard Book Store welcomes OMKARI WILLIAMS—host of the podcast Stepping into Truth—for a discussion on her new book Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn. She will be joined in conversation by PRECIOUS CHIKA MUSA—Program Administrator for the Africana Center at Tufts University.
About Micro Activism
In this age of social justice, those who don't necessarily want to lead a movement or join a protest march are left wondering, "How can I make an impact?" In Micro Activism, former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise in empowering introverts and highly sensitive people to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find our most satisfying and effective activist role. Using Williams's Activist Archetype tool, readers discover their unique strengths and use this to develop a personal strategy. To ensure sustainable involvement, Williams encourages starting small, working collaboratively, and beginning locally. Advice on self-care practices, burn-out prevention, and profiles of activists engaged in a range of activities and causes (from voter registration to craftivism, literacy programs, community gardens, and more), provide readers with the inspiration and practical know-how needed to engage in small, doable actions that make a lasting impact.
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What’s for Dinner? Reconnecting Our Food with Our Climate
Tuesday, October 24
7 - 8:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-for-dinner-reconnecting-our-food-with-our-climate-tickets-707824019697
Part of the Smithsonian Earth Optimism Webinars collection
How can we keep future food sustainable? Discover how fixing our meals can help fix the planet, at our last Earth Optimism webinar of 2023.
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Columbia Climate School
Our food systems have become increasingly fragile in the face of climate change, ongoing conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic. More frequent—and more intense—extreme events challenge food production, storage and transportation. At the same time, how we grow, process, package and transport our food often harms the environment, further accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss. Fixing this requires bridging the gap between food policies and climate policies. Join Dr. Jessica Fanzo for a look at sustainable food practices for a hotter, more turbulent world. Fanzo directs the Food for Humanity Initiative at the Columbia Climate School. In this talk, she’ll reveal the must-do actions to nourish 9.7 billion people by 2050.
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How to Get Dirty and Dark Money Out of Democracy
Wednesday, October 25
3PM EDT [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-10-25/how-get-dirty-and-dark-money-out-democracy-drew-sullivan-and-paul-radu
Cost: $5 - $20
The last five decades have seen the dramatic globalization of organized crime and corruption, now totaling trillions of dollars every year. Using the latest technology and the help of a “criminal services industry” — corrupt bankers, lawyers, accountants—criminal networks and the world’s most corrupt officials easily loot, launder, and hide stolen money for future use. This stolen, hidden money pours into the political process in the United States and countries around the world to advance agendas that do not serve voters, betraying the very premise of democracy.
To fight this, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project co-founders Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu built a global network of investigative journalists that work just like the criminals do—collaborating across borders and using innovative technology.
Pulling from their two decades of follow-the-money investigative reporting, Sullivan and Radu will share how they’ve uncovered global dark money flows and how to institute effective solutions that track, expose, and curb this illicit finance that is so damaging to society.
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Charting Progress: Regulator Actions on Climate Financial Risks
Thursday, October 26
11:00 AM in Eastern Time
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiD6G1gcQvK8esnofihhXw#/registration
Climate change poses a significant and growing threat to the stability of financial institutions and markets of all sizes. Ceres’ annual Climate Risk Scorecard assesses the actions that U.S. federal financial regulators have taken within their existing authority to address the systemic impacts of climate-related financial risk. How have these 10 agencies already integrated climate risk into their regulatory activities? And what could they be doing to better protect the U.S. financial system from the impacts of the climate crisis? In this webinar participants will: - Interpret the assessments in the 2023 Climate Risk Scorecard - Identify the actions financial regulators have taken in the past 18 months to manage climate risk - Define what else is needed from regulators to keep the U.S. competitive, in step with global peers, and our financial institutions safe and sound
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Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Restoring Indigenous Foodways for Climate Resilience
Thursday, October 26
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcemorD8oG9RTlAEltBezasdYqm3SPW5c#/registration
Speaker: Kristen Wyman (Nipmuc) This discussion will lead us beyond land acknowledgments to a more collaborative and rights-based approach to climate resilience. Learn how indigenous land back efforts in both private and public lands are benefiting municipal efforts to restore and manage forests and waterways for increased biodiversity, greater productivity and resilience to shock and disturbance. Specifically, we will explore the historical characteristics of local indigenous foodways and consider how a transition to an alternative food system grounded in indigenous knowledge and leadership can support a more robust and resilient ecosystem in the context of our rapidly changing climate.
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Subsistence and Persistence: Constructing Pasture in Koobi Fora, Kenya
Thursday, October 26
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_piJsqCbwRRmfJe8xjiWDSg#/registration
Mobile pastoralism – in which communities raise livestock herds by moving between shared grazing areas – is a common subsistence livelihood in arid and semi-arid lands. Recent studies have emphasized the disruptive and creative role of mobile pastoralism in the maintenance of grassy ecosystems and their biodiversity. This talk will introduce an interdisciplinary study investigating these effects among Daasanach pastoralist communities in northern Kenya. In particular, it will consider how Daasanach herding shapes the character of the ecosystems used for pasture and contributes to the long-term persistence of pastoralism in this environment.
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Climate Leadership - What Now? What Next?
Friday, October 27
4:00 - 5:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-leadership-what-now-what-next-tickets-707686287737
Climate Leadership - What Now? What Next?
Join us for an engaging webinar event as we dive into the pressing issue of climate change and discuss the actions needed to address it.
Discussion points:
What are the 8 burning platforms the scientists say we are leading?
How do we lead successfully given this reality?
Principles for climate leadership
Speakers:
Anders Nolting Magelund - Chief Consultant on Climate Policy Lederne, Copenhagen
Deborah Fleming - Organisational Development Consultant, Chameleon Works Ltd, Oxford, Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, share ideas, and be part of the leadership discussion.
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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, Senior Policy Advisor in the office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Diringer will give a talk entitled "Taking Stock of the International 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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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, Fossil Fuel Phaseout, and Reimagining the Role of Higher Education
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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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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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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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.
American Politics in Crisis? Charting a New Path
Thursday, October 5
6pm
Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Columbia Point, 210 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at https://emkinstitute.org/special-events/american-politics-in-crisis-charting-a-new-path/
Join the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate and the Pew Research Center for a candid conversation about Americans’ deepening dissatisfaction with their elected officials and government and what that means for the future of American politics. Since leaving office Senator Tom Daschle, Governor Christine Todd Whitman (NJ), and Massachusetts State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry have been at the forefront of efforts to strengthen American democracy and rebuild Americans’ trust in each other and our institutions. Veteran columnist and “Morning Joe” senior contributor Mike Barnicle will lead panelists in a candid discussion of what comes next, leaning on his first-hand knowledge of Senator Ted Kennedy’s commitment to bipartisan collaboration. The program will begin with a presentation of brand-new national survey results from the Pew Research Center that chronicle Americans’ deep-seated frustration with the political system—including the three branches of government, both political parties, political leaders and candidates for office—and their mixed attitudes toward potential solutions. Is there a path forward, and what will it take to get there?
Panel
Moderated by Mike Barnicle, Veteran Columnist and Morning Joe Sr. Contributor
The Honorable Tom Daschle, former South Dakota Senator
The Honorable Linda Dorcena Forry, former Massachusetts State Senator
The Honorable Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey Governor
Presentation of “Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics,” Pew Research Center (Sept. 2023)
Jocelyn Kiley, Associate Director of Research, Pew Research Center
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Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands
Friday, October 6 - Sunday, October 8
Somerville, MA
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/
https://honkfest.org/2023-festival/schedule-2023/
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Who Gets to Have an Environmental History, and What Kind? Energy, Property, and the Making of Legible Landscapes in the American South
Friday, October 6
2:30PM
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-urrTssHtDKLLfed_BGZ9VPJYg_WAGX#/registration
Abby Spinak, Harvard
Part of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History which has a series of lectures on this topic.
For more information, contact history-info@mit.edu
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Scaling & commercializing innovation for climate action
Tuesday, October 10
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/scaling-commercializing-innovation-climate-action
Discover how youth leadership and innovation can contribute to addressing global climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by joining our upcoming webinar series titled "Fostering Youth-Led Innovation for the SDGs." Delivered jointly by Entrepreneurship @ Environment at the University of Waterloo and Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, this series will explore ‘how’ and ‘why’ transformative approaches to education can be used as a vehicle for empowering young people to drive the type of innovations and entrepreneurial ventures that are necessary to drive progress on the 2030 agenda.
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One year later: The Inflation Reduction Act and climate progress
Wednesday, October 11
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/one-year-later-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-climate-progress/
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is widely regarded as the most significant climate legislation passed by Congress. One year after it was signed into law, the Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action (BICRA) will assess its impact and progress towards its objectives of spurring investment in clean energy to reduce carbon emissions. How can we ensure the benefits of the IRA get to the people and communities that need them most? Do markets believe the incentives are here to stay? What does the IRA do for U.S. standing in the world with respect to climate change? How can the U.S. leverage the IRA to encourage action elsewhere?
On October 11, BICRA will host a public event to dig into these questions and more. John Podesta, senior White House advisor for clean energy innovation and implementation, will speak and then engage in a conversation with Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow David Victor about the impact of the IRA on U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Following their conversation, New York Times Climate Change Reporter Lisa Friedman will moderate discussions with BICRA experts to unpack the multi-faceted impact of the IRA on U.S climate policy, as well as America’s role in addressing climate change on the global stage.
The first panel will focus on the domestic implications of the IRA for the U.S. economy, clean energy, employment, and equity. The second panel will cover the global implications of the IRA, including its impact on global trade, markets, and climate ambition.
This event will be open to attend in person or to watch online. Online viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or on Twitter using #IRAatOne.
Registration is required to attend this event in person. Please register no later than October 10. Same-day registrants and walk-ins will not be permitted.
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The 1973 Energy Crisis: The Oil Embargo and the New Age of Energy
Wednesday, October 11
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/1973-energy-crisis-oil-embargo-and-new-age-energy
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Arab Oil Embargo.
SIPA Dean Keren Yahri-Milo will provide welcome remarks, followed by a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Daniel Yergin that will examine the historical significance of the Embargo.
We will then move to a panel discussion focusing on the details of the Arab Oil Embargo—what happened, and how did it shake up geopolitics and the global economy? The panel will then examine the lasting effects—how it has guided policymakers in the decades since, and what lessons does it hold for the current precarious geopolitical situation? This event will provide an excellent opportunity to re-examine a pivotal moment in energy history, and one that continues to shape policymaking, in manners both subtle and obvious.
Keynote Remarks: Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, S&P Global
Moderator: Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist
Speakers: Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School
Ed Morse, Global Head, Commodities Research, Citibank
Meghan O’Sullivan, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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Lessons Learned: How We Adapt on the Road to Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/lessons-learned-how-we-adapt-on-the-road-to-climate-adaptation/
Cost: $15 - 45
Climate change adaptation is characterized by flexibility—our ability to adapt to an unprecedented crisis. Across geographies, scales, and focus areas, we’ve seen many successful examples of climate adaptation projects, many of which we’ve featured in our forums. But these successes would not have been possible without the ability to pivot in the face of obstacles. Learn from our expert panel as they reflect on the limitations and challenges they’ve encountered in a wide variety of climate change adaptation projects, and how those challenges can inform our next steps as a community of practice.
Forum Speakers
Robyn DeYoung, Lead of Green Infrastructure Program, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hannah Lyons-Galante, Manager of Climate Change Resiliency, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Mia G. Mansfield, Assistant Secretary of Climate Resilience, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Oleander Stone, Deputy Director of Climate Equity and Environmental Justice, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Scott Struck, Principal Scientist/Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
This forum will be organized in a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in-person OR virtually.
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Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Wampanoag Ecological Perspective, Historical Resilience, and Climate Adaptation
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudu2vrzIoG9wEHZc4wvfRr5IUMv76ROSV#/registration
Speakers: Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Bret Stearns (Director, Natural Resources Dept - Aquinnah Tribe)
This presentation will delve into the intricate connection between traditional ecological knowledge and the Wampanoag perspective. It will trace the evolution and expression of their worldview up until the time of initial contact. The discussion will cover how the Wampanoag people managed to preserve certain traditions despite colonization's challenges. Moreover, it will emphasize the critical contemporary implications of these dynamics, particularly underscoring the pivotal role of the Wampanoag perspective in strengthening climate resiliency efforts in the present day.
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The Sustainable Future of Computing: Companies at the Forefront
Thursday, October 12
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building E19-202, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Are you struggling to reconcile the impact of computing on the climate with your future career in the field of computing? These companies are adapting their business practices and strategy here and now. Come network with reps from leading tech companies to learn how industry is meeting the climate crisis head on by changing their business practices and committing to a sustainable future.
Refreshments will be served. Registration required via Handshake.
Please indicate any accommodation needs by completing the following survey. https://airtable.com/shrfsjcovcoDIN0da
Note: Accommodation requests should be submitted one week in advance of an event. If accommodations are not possible due to the late timing of the request a team member will reach out to you to discuss alternative resources and/or solutions.
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Gastronativism: The Politics of Food and Sustainability
Thursday, October 12
12:00 PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Har7jKToSw2MPy-U2CB6ow#/registration
The table unites and divides: it connects those who get to sit around it and excludes those who have not been invited. In recent decades we have witnessed the rise of gastronativism, the ideological use of food to determine who belongs and who doesn’t in a community. Diverging approaches to sustainability in the food system are also leveraged for political goals. In connection with the specific form of globalization we have been experiencing since the 1980s, gastronativism also focuses on the impact of the environment on food and vice versa.
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Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition? Equity, Efficiency, and Electricity Price Regulation
Thursday, October 12
2:30-4pm
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Jim Sallee (UC-Berkeley)
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Climate Collider Pitch Night
Thursday, October 12
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://events.swissnexboston.org/ClimateColliderPitchNight#/tickets?lang=en
Join Swissnex for the flagship event of the startup exchange program Climate Collider, and meet Swiss and US innovators developing global solutions to climate change.
It’s a transatlantic climatetech showdown! Join us for the culmination of Climate Collider, the startup exchange program powered by Swissnex and Innosuisse. The members of the inaugural Climate Collider cohort will go head to head in an evening of friendly competition, pitting the founders of five Swiss climatetech startups against their American counterparts. Meet the founders, hear them pitch their next-gen climate solutions, and vote for your favorite! When the dust settles, two winners will be declared – one by audience vote, and one by our expert jury.
Program
5:30pm – Doors open
6:00pm – Opening remarks
6:10pm – Pitch Competition
7:30pm – Networking
9:00pm – End
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Responding to Disasters and Attacks at Mass Crowds
Thursday, October 12
6pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/polisci/events/srs-speaker-series-fall-2023/
Kjell Brataas is an experienced crisis communication consultant and author from Norway who has handled large crises such as the tsunami in Asia and the terror attacks in Oslo and on Utoya. Brataas has published two books about crisis communication.
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Is Activism Futile?: The Case of Israel
Friday, October 13
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard Faculty Club, Library, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/activism-futile-case-israel
Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories where she has lived for thirty years as the only Jewish Israeli journalist. In 2019-2020, she was a Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School.
Her book Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege is an account of her three-year period living in Gaza. This book tells the history, plight, and struggles of Gazans since 1948, especially after the beginning of Israel’s occupation in 1967.
Amira Hass has been the recipient of several awards, including the World Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award, Reporters Without Borders Prize for Press Freedom, and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
CONTACT elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
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Transitioning to a Green Economy: What will it take?
Saturday, October 14
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/YHt05NuyC0aYxjJ-tXwmdQ2
Following a webinar on May 7th which brought together leading organizations and activists working on the two crucially important issues of climate change and nuclear war, this forum will allow for more in depth discussion on how we the climate and nuclear weapons movements can work together to save the planet from these existential threats before it is too late. Merging these into an inclusive mass movement in the transition to a greener economy is essential! An online forum with speakers highlighting how to take action on climate solutions and nuclear solutions, a panel on how we can help each other build a strong and inclusive movement, followed by breakout rooms to share ideas on action.
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Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Presents a film Premiere: Regenerating Life
Saturday, October 14
12:30pm. Asean Auditorium, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/film-premiere-registration/
Cost: $5 - $200
Panel Discussion with filmmaker John Feldman, atmospheric physicist Anastassia Makarieva, marine biologist Tom Goreau, journalist Judith Schwartz, educator & soil sponge strategist Didi Pershouse, farmer & Bionutrient Assoc. founder Dan Kittredge.
More information at https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/
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Greater Boston Humanists
Tiptoeing Toward Theocracy: Religion and The Thomas Court
Sunday, October 15
Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University
And online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/greaterbostonhumanists/events/296371942
SpeakerProf. Jay Wexler
The Supreme Court has not taken the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment particularly seriously for over two decades. Prior to the recent ascendancy of the Thomas Court, however, it had at least allowed all religions, as well as non-religion, equal access to public life in the form of government funding, property, and institutions.
In the past two terms, however, even this concession to equality has come under threat. In this talk, Jay Wexler of Boston University School of Law will explain how recent developments in the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have brought us closer to Christian Nationalism than any other time in our recent history.
Jay Wexler is professor at Boston University School of Law and author of seven books, including "Our Non-Christian Nation". His work focuses on church-state issues, constitutional law, and environmental law. Before coming to BU Law, Professor Wexler worked as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court. He is also known for being the first to study laughter at the Supreme Court. He has written for secular rights and other issues in media as diverse as Newsweek, Vox, Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Georgetown Law Journal, and Freedom From Religion podcasts.
We look forward to seeing you for a discussion of important issues and convivial community building! Join us for discussion and snacks for this live event.
If you cannot attend in person but wish to join our hybrid Zoom attempt, please request the Zoom link by sending a message on the MeetUp page here and provide your email address.
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Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Monday, October 16
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/veronica-o-davis-on-inclusive-transportation-tickets-694948428457
How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? Join us on Monday, October 16 at 12:00 pm EDT with Veronica O. Davis for a virtual talk on her book, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. She calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other.
About the author
Veronica O. Davis, PE, is a civil engineer, planner, transportation nerd, public speaker, community activist, guest lecturer, poet, blogger, lover of art, yogi, foodie, world explorer, wife, and mom. When she was twenty-two years old, she wrote a life strategic plan declaring that she would be a world-renowned transportation expert and an author with an eclectic collection of books across multiple genres. The clarity of that vision allows her to achieve her goals.
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Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization
Tuesday, October 17
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets
Harvard Book Store welcomes applied mathematician COCO KRUMME for a discussion of her new book Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization. She will be joined in conversation by JONATHAN ZITTRAIN—professor of law and professor of computer science at Harvard University.
Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underlie everything from airline schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsize cultural shape? And what is lost when efficiency is gained?
Optimal Illusions traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America’s founding principles to its modern manifestations, found in colorful stories of oil tycoons, wildlife ecologists, Silicon Valley technologists, lifestyle gurus, sugar beet farmers, and poker players. Optimization is now deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality but what we make of it.
Coco Krumme’s work in mathematical modeling has made her acutely aware of optimization’s overreach. Streamlined systems are less resilient and more at risk of failure. They limit our options and narrow our perspectives. The malaise of living in an optimized society can feel profoundly inhumane. Optimal Illusions exposes the sizable bargains we have made in the name of optimization and asks us to consider what comes next.
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Climate Fiction: the Intersection of Climate Science, Literature, and Activism
Thursday, October 19
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_bkBOkzAlQbum8_Mf67rk-g#/registration
Fiction has the power to stir empathy, broaden a reader's worldview, and move readers toward action. Author Julie Carrick Dalton will discuss her latest novel, The Last Beekeeper, a near-future story about a beekeeper and his daughter as the world's pollinator population dies off. Dalton will share examples from the growing canon of Climate Fiction to illustrate how storytelling can broaden the ways we engage with climate science, hope, and activism. Those who attend the lecture will have the opportunity to purchase the book and enter a raffle to win a copy of it.
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Deepening Trust, Accelerating Resilience: Partnerships for People and Planet
Thursday, October 19
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://givebutter.com/c/deepeningtrustacceleratingresilience
Keynote Speech. Presented by Jamison Ervin, Manager of UNDP's Global Nature for Development Program.
Hear Jamison Ervin speak to the importance of cross-sector collaboration and how exponential impact can be achieved when we come together for a shared vision of sustainability.
Panel. Moderated by Jessica Brown, Executive Director of the New England Biolabs Foundation.
Engage with thought leaders, environmentalists, and community champions as they discuss sustainability and community resilience in Latin America.
Join Us in Celebrating 30 Years of EcoLogic!
For three incredible decades, EcoLogic Development Fund has been at the forefront of sustainable change, protecting precious ecosystems and empowering communities in Mexico and Central America. Now, it's time to honor this milestone and ignite the next chapter of environmental impact together!
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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Friday, October 20
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/deb_chachra/
Harvard Book Store welcomes DEB CHACHRA—professor at Olin College of Engineering—for a discussion of her new book How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World. She will be joined in conversation by artist, design researcher, and writer SARA HENDREN.
About How Infrastructure Works
Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.
A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.
Across the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.
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Artificial Intelligence for Energy: AI & Energy Technology Discovery
Monday, October 23
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/artificial-intelligence-energy-ai-energy-technology-discovery
Moderator: Paul M. Dabbar, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Former Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; Former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy (2017-21)
Speaker: Rick L. Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs for a series of discussions on how the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the energy sector can advance the discovery of new technologies, aid in the prediction of successful energy-related systems, and optimize operations.
The first AI forum will feature a global expert leading the development of AI for scientific discovery, including for energy.
Historically, researchers have developed technologies by estimating which materials and designs were potentially the most promising from previous laboratory testing and advancing those to the laboratory experimentation stage. Thomas Edison, for example, tested over one thousand types of filaments in his lab before he found one that worked effectively for the first light bulb.
Today, scientific discovery of new technologies can be significantly accelerated by the use of AI and high-performance computers. AI can process data to guide researchers to higher likelihood options before taking efforts to the lab experimentation stage, significantly reducing the cost and time to discovery for a new technology. This methodology was successfully used by the U.S. National Laboratories in the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, which significantly reduced the time and risk of developing those drugs.
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Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late
Tuesday, October 24
3PM EDT [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-10-24/rebecca-solnit-why-its-not-too-late
Cost: $5 - $37
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining the concept of hope and the unpredictability of change through her work for more than 20 years. Her 2014 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” is credited with inspiring the term “mansplaining,” and she was named the “Voice of the Resistance'' by The New York Times in 2017. The 2023 anthology she co-edited, It’s Not Too Late, serves as a guidebook for changing the climate narrative from despair to possibility.
Join Climate One’s Ariana Brocious for a live conversation with one of the leading thinkers on feminism, popular power, insurrection, and environmental and social change as we discuss why new climate narratives are important, how change happens, and how she finds hope for the future in the midst of the escalating climate crisis.
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Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn
Tuesday, October 24
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/omkari_williams/
Harvard Book Store welcomes OMKARI WILLIAMS—host of the podcast Stepping into Truth—for a discussion on her new book Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn. She will be joined in conversation by PRECIOUS CHIKA MUSA—Program Administrator for the Africana Center at Tufts University.
About Micro Activism
In this age of social justice, those who don't necessarily want to lead a movement or join a protest march are left wondering, "How can I make an impact?" In Micro Activism, former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise in empowering introverts and highly sensitive people to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find our most satisfying and effective activist role. Using Williams's Activist Archetype tool, readers discover their unique strengths and use this to develop a personal strategy. To ensure sustainable involvement, Williams encourages starting small, working collaboratively, and beginning locally. Advice on self-care practices, burn-out prevention, and profiles of activists engaged in a range of activities and causes (from voter registration to craftivism, literacy programs, community gardens, and more), provide readers with the inspiration and practical know-how needed to engage in small, doable actions that make a lasting impact.
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What’s for Dinner? Reconnecting Our Food with Our Climate
Tuesday, October 24
7 - 8:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-for-dinner-reconnecting-our-food-with-our-climate-tickets-707824019697
Part of the Smithsonian Earth Optimism Webinars collection
How can we keep future food sustainable? Discover how fixing our meals can help fix the planet, at our last Earth Optimism webinar of 2023.
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Columbia Climate School
Our food systems have become increasingly fragile in the face of climate change, ongoing conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic. More frequent—and more intense—extreme events challenge food production, storage and transportation. At the same time, how we grow, process, package and transport our food often harms the environment, further accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss. Fixing this requires bridging the gap between food policies and climate policies. Join Dr. Jessica Fanzo for a look at sustainable food practices for a hotter, more turbulent world. Fanzo directs the Food for Humanity Initiative at the Columbia Climate School. In this talk, she’ll reveal the must-do actions to nourish 9.7 billion people by 2050.
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How to Get Dirty and Dark Money Out of Democracy
Wednesday, October 25
3PM EDT [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-10-25/how-get-dirty-and-dark-money-out-democracy-drew-sullivan-and-paul-radu
Cost: $5 - $20
The last five decades have seen the dramatic globalization of organized crime and corruption, now totaling trillions of dollars every year. Using the latest technology and the help of a “criminal services industry” — corrupt bankers, lawyers, accountants—criminal networks and the world’s most corrupt officials easily loot, launder, and hide stolen money for future use. This stolen, hidden money pours into the political process in the United States and countries around the world to advance agendas that do not serve voters, betraying the very premise of democracy.
To fight this, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project co-founders Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu built a global network of investigative journalists that work just like the criminals do—collaborating across borders and using innovative technology.
Pulling from their two decades of follow-the-money investigative reporting, Sullivan and Radu will share how they’ve uncovered global dark money flows and how to institute effective solutions that track, expose, and curb this illicit finance that is so damaging to society.
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Charting Progress: Regulator Actions on Climate Financial Risks
Thursday, October 26
11:00 AM in Eastern Time
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiD6G1gcQvK8esnofihhXw#/registration
Climate change poses a significant and growing threat to the stability of financial institutions and markets of all sizes. Ceres’ annual Climate Risk Scorecard assesses the actions that U.S. federal financial regulators have taken within their existing authority to address the systemic impacts of climate-related financial risk. How have these 10 agencies already integrated climate risk into their regulatory activities? And what could they be doing to better protect the U.S. financial system from the impacts of the climate crisis? In this webinar participants will: - Interpret the assessments in the 2023 Climate Risk Scorecard - Identify the actions financial regulators have taken in the past 18 months to manage climate risk - Define what else is needed from regulators to keep the U.S. competitive, in step with global peers, and our financial institutions safe and sound
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Rooted in Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resiliency: Restoring Indigenous Foodways for Climate Resilience
Thursday, October 26
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcemorD8oG9RTlAEltBezasdYqm3SPW5c#/registration
Speaker: Kristen Wyman (Nipmuc) This discussion will lead us beyond land acknowledgments to a more collaborative and rights-based approach to climate resilience. Learn how indigenous land back efforts in both private and public lands are benefiting municipal efforts to restore and manage forests and waterways for increased biodiversity, greater productivity and resilience to shock and disturbance. Specifically, we will explore the historical characteristics of local indigenous foodways and consider how a transition to an alternative food system grounded in indigenous knowledge and leadership can support a more robust and resilient ecosystem in the context of our rapidly changing climate.
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Subsistence and Persistence: Constructing Pasture in Koobi Fora, Kenya
Thursday, October 26
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_piJsqCbwRRmfJe8xjiWDSg#/registration
Mobile pastoralism – in which communities raise livestock herds by moving between shared grazing areas – is a common subsistence livelihood in arid and semi-arid lands. Recent studies have emphasized the disruptive and creative role of mobile pastoralism in the maintenance of grassy ecosystems and their biodiversity. This talk will introduce an interdisciplinary study investigating these effects among Daasanach pastoralist communities in northern Kenya. In particular, it will consider how Daasanach herding shapes the character of the ecosystems used for pasture and contributes to the long-term persistence of pastoralism in this environment.
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Climate Leadership - What Now? What Next?
Friday, October 27
4:00 - 5:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-leadership-what-now-what-next-tickets-707686287737
Climate Leadership - What Now? What Next?
Join us for an engaging webinar event as we dive into the pressing issue of climate change and discuss the actions needed to address it.
Discussion points:
What are the 8 burning platforms the scientists say we are leading?
How do we lead successfully given this reality?
Principles for climate leadership
Speakers:
Anders Nolting Magelund - Chief Consultant on Climate Policy Lederne, Copenhagen
Deborah Fleming - Organisational Development Consultant, Chameleon Works Ltd, Oxford, Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, share ideas, and be part of the leadership discussion.
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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, Senior Policy Advisor in the office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Diringer will give a talk entitled "Taking Stock of the International 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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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, Fossil Fuel Phaseout, and Reimagining the Role of Higher Education
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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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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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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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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