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
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Index
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Planning the Mid-transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization
Monday, April 1
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
R-414ab David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab
And online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TtOizKkuTca5mRZA9-gJwA#/registration
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Designs to Help Climate Refugees
Tuesday, April 2
12:30 - 1:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inttalk-designs-to-help-climate-refugees-with-tetsu-ohara-tickets-858316757527
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Lessons Learned for Nature Conservation: A Perspective from 15 Years of Research and Practice at a Global Conservation Organization
Monday, April 1
2pm EST [11:00am - 12:00pm PT]
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/lessons-learned-nature-conservation-perspective-15-years-research-and-practice-global
Dr. Reddy will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online using this link and passcode nature
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Realizing the Potential of Nature-based Solutions for Biodiversity and Carbon Conservation
Monday, April 1
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C1bzbYxESFeBbLcb41aNGw#/registration
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When youth sue to protect the planet and their health: Inside a bold legal strategy to fight climate change
Monday, April 1
6 – 6:50 p.m.
The Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a2HvW19jrxHq5pQ
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Reproductive Justice: Global Movements and Wins
Tuesday, April 2
11:00am to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_COW6cARQKTofBJt0cmyg#/registration
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Climate Populism: The anti-elite backlash against the green transition
Tuesday, April 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard, Rubenstein 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/event-registration?c=701Pp00000G8RRdIAN
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European Politics Seminar — Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change
Tuesday, April 2
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Goldman Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Bush Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024/04/energy-and-power-germany-in-the-age-of-oil-atoms-and-climate-change-2
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A Renegades’ History of the Revolutionary Frontier: Contesting Race & Nation on the Borderlands of the New United States
Tuesday, April 2
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/A-Renegades-History-of-the-Revolutionary-Frontier
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Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Princeton, McCosh Hall, Room 50, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/events/2024/dr-robin-wall-kimmerer-honorable-harvest-indigenous-knowledge-sustainability
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Innovation for strong sustainability trajectories
Wednesday, April 3
8:30 to 10 a.m. EST [2:30 to 4 p.m. CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/agenda/innovation-strong-sustainability-trajectories
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Decarbonize Existing Buildings Alliance
Wednesday, April 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://builtenvironmentplus.org/event/decarbonize-existing-buildings-alliance-4-3/
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The Environment Forum with Hiʻilei Hobart | What Returns, What Remains: A Story about Hawaiian Landscape and Dis/Possession
Wednesday, April 3
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard, Emerson Hall, Room 105, 29 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environment-forum-hi%E2%80%99ilei-hobart-what-returns-what-remains-story-about-hawaiian
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Forest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global Trends
Thursday, April 4
9 - 10am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317111325303/WN_6d4vqS1QQRCljVzgTLs0Ew#/registration
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Experiments in Utopia: Community Composting and Alternatives to Neoliberal Sustainability
Thursday, April 4
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zKCwxFFxQZWJDy_j7Rvv1A#/registration
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Next in Science: James Webb Space Telescope
Thursday, April 4
2 – 4 p.m.
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-next-in-science-program
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Jonathan Vigliotti: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-town America
Thursday, April 4
3pm EST [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUr9TUAS
Cost: $10
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MC Escher: Amazing Images
Sunday, April 7
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT Museum , 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
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The New Era of Transparency: A Briefing on the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule
Monday, April 8
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SKyEzlTWSVmtQ6MlgAKmfQ#/registration
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Energy Policy Seminar: "Reflections on Global Climate Change Policy"
Monday, April 8
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-reflections-global-climate-change-policy
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Developing a Climate Vulnerability Index for Advancing Community Level Climate Resilience
Monday, April 8
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Creative Climate Action: Can Art Protect Us from Rising Seas?
Monday, April 8
4 – 5 p.m.
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-xavier-cortada-lecture
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The Environment Forum | A Conversation with Margaret Renkl
Monday, April 8
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environment-forum-conversation-margaret-renkl
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The Stanford Energy Seminar: "Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Are We There Yet?"
Monday, April 8
4:30pm to 5:20pm PT
Stanford, Skilling Building, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_1976
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Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated
Tuesday, April 9
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/yr2p2vp/lp/efe421ce-ef85-4e76-8dad-24582f4f479f
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Book Talk with Jason De Léon "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling"
Tuesday, April 9
4:00pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
Tuesday, April 9
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-norton-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-859760485757
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Lesley Lokko
Tuesday, April 9
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174134
And streamed on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
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Electric Transmission and the Energy Transition: Perspectives from Africa, Europe, and North America
Wednesday, April 10
11am - 12:30pm EST [4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://fsr.eui.eu/event/electric-transmission-and-the-energy-transition-perspectives-from-africa-europe-and-north-america/
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The Theory of the Nuclear Revolution Revisited
Wednesday, April 10
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, E40-496, in-person limited to the MIT Community
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_COW6cARQKTofBJt0cmyg#/registration
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Beyond Content: Teaching for Civic Participation and Engagement
Wednesday, April 10
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuce6pqTgjE9G4i62rbXSTxM13YZJdjAIg#/registration
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How Can Businesses Secure a More Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Future for the Food Sector?
Thursday, April 11
10 - 11:15am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/2817110478556/WN_LVyJXccsRvuLvThjj88yVw#/registration
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Webinar – Local Strategies to Curb Waste Sector Methane Emissions & Benefit Communities
Thursday, April 11
1-2:15 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-how-local-governments-can-reduce-landfill-pollution/
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Water and climate change: Adaptation at the margins
Thursday, April 11
2pm - 3pm EST [18:00 BST -19:00 BST]
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PW
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.se/e/hybrid-event-water-and-climate-change-adaptation-at-the-margins-tickets-868253548737
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: How to reduce carbon emission in construction and operation of buildings?
Thursday, April 11
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Long Lounge, 7-429 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174135
Livestream on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
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Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
Thursday, April 11
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/ismar_volic/
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Climate Emergency Preparedness: Developing a Response Capability for Polar Tipping Points
Monday, April 15
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And Online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-wake-smith-climate-emergency-preparedness
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2024 PHIUS [Passive House] Policy Summit
Tuesday, April 16 - Thursday, April17
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Virtual
RSVP at https://phius1.zohobackstage.com/PhiusPolicySummit2024
Cost: $30 -$60
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2024 Columbia Global Energy Summit
Tuesday, April 16
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-columbia-global-energy-summit-tickets-794502547507?discount=CGEPcolumbia24Contact Information
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Mindful Actions for Climate Change
Tuesday, April 16
8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aVFvFF9gcKkDr6K
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Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
Tuesday, April 16
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/ieva_jusionyte1/
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Green Builder Media's 8th annual Sustainability Symposium: Existential Solutions
Wednesday, April 17 - Thursday, April 18
12:00-3:00 Eastern each day
Online
RSVP at https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/sustainability-symposium-2024-existential-solutions
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Limitations of autonomous vehicles
Wednesday, April 17
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rPyp-nU8Quehg8MvK-Ov3w#/registration
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The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
Wednesday, April 17
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leslie-valiant-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-862048258547
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What We Can’t Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future
Thursday, April 18
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r2WJfIU5SQ2UvKYGav4yiw#/registration
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USGBC[Green Building Council]-LA Extreme Heat for Construction Professionals
Thursday, April 18
12 - 3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usgbc-la-extreme-heat-for-construction-professionals-tickets-852412999227
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Unbottling the Environmental & Health Impacts of Nanoplastics
Thrusday, April 18
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j6V2WSCnTCSPzjLkA6H_dg#/registration
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Thursday, April 18
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eddie-s-glaude-jr-at-the-brattle-theatre-tickets-862072200157
Cost: $34.00 (book included)
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Thursday, April 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174136
Livestream at Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
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A Gardener at the End of the World!
Thursday, April 18
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-margot-anne-kelley
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Post-Katrina Housing Resilience in Greater New Orleans
Friday, April 19
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O0t1XB9CQKqiruKS0dftag#/registration
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Swapfest -- The Flea at MIT -- Tech, tools, and gadgets flea market
Sunday, April 21
9:00am to 2:00pm
MIT, Building N4, 32 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Earth Day 2024
More information at https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
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Energy Policy Seminar: "Carbon Abatement Costs of Green Hydrogen Across End-Use Sectors”
Monday, April 22
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-carbon-abatement-costs-green-hydrogen-across-end-use-sectors
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Markets Won’t Save Us, and the State Probably Won’t Either
Monday, April 22
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Exploring Climate TRACE: an Open Science workshop on greenhouse gas emissions tracking
Monday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building 7-238 GIS & Data Lab, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/climate-trace-ghg-202
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SF Climate Week at Climate One: California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Suing Big Oil
Monday, April 22
2pm EST [11:00 AM 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/2024-04-22/sf-climate-week-climate-one-california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-suing-big-oil
Cost: $5 - $30
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Who Are the Real Energy (and Carbon) Hogs?
Tuesday, April 23
12 - 1:30pm EDT
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.220 S. 34th St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-are-the-real-energy-and-carbon-hogs-registration-781053149997
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Is Globalization Over? (2024 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture)
Tuesday, April 23
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
BU School of Law, Barristers Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/02/15/2024-janetos-distinguished-lecture-is-globalization-over-by-ernesto-zedillo/#RSVP
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The Challenge of Net Zero at IRA +1 – An EBC Energy Resources Webinar
Wednesday, April 24
9:00 am - 11:30 am EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/the-challenge-of-net-zero-at-ira-1-an-ebc-energy-resources-webinar/#registration-details
Cost: $30 -$150
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Singers as Sentinels: How Whales Can Warn of Changing Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 24
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oiaChSGAQ7OebHQGeIlDlA#/registration
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The Impact of AI In Driving Sustainability and Addressing Climate Change !
Wednesday April 24
6 - 9pm EDT
CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-of-ai-in-driving-sustainability-and-addressing-climate-change-tickets-871733778197
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Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action!
Wednesday, April 24
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-dana-s-fisher
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Supporting Indigenous-Led Sustainable Wildlife Management
Thursday, April 25
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4iuPW-xwStWI_UkThrteTg#/registration
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2024 MIT Sustainability Summit: Systems Change: Systems Change: Accelerating Solutions and Collaborations for Planetary Wellbeing
Friday, April 26
8:30am - 5pm EDT
Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-mit-sustainability-summit-systems-change-tickets-814646839627
Cost: $30 - $225
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The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Friday, April 26
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/dana_mattioli/
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Embracing Our Emergency: "Thriving In Climate Crisis"
Sunday, April 28
1-4pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.liminal.news/embracing-our-emergency
Cost: $300, scholarships available
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Managing Water for Combined Mitigation and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
April 29
11:00am - 12:00pm
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/managing-water-combined-mitigation-and-adaptation-agricultural-systems
Dr. McDermid will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online (link TBA)
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ESG 201 Series Part 1: The Business Case for Sustainability – EBC Climate Change and Air & Ascending Professionals Webinar Series
Tuesday, April 30
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/esg-201-series-part-1-the-business-case-for-sustainability/
Cost: $75
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'True False, Hot Cold': Film Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, April 30
4:30pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 55, Atrium 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
Wednesday, May 1
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sabrina_sholts/
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Meeting Investor Expectations: Introducing the Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark
Thursday, May 2
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTxpuCB7Qi2AM_1YXsuR3w#/registration
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Farming the Future: Livestock's Leap to Net Zero
Monday, May 6
4 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-ermias-kebreab-lecture-virtual
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Climate LIVE K12: Disasters and Climate Change in the Caribbean
May 8, 2024
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=/public/cals/MainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb7c-8b1dcd5f-018b-200ea6a9-00005636events%40columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
Friday, May 10
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/isaac_arnsdorf/
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Events
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Planning the Mid-transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization
Monday, April 1
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
R-414ab David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab
And online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TtOizKkuTca5mRZA9-gJwA#/registration
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Emily Grubert, Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy and of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Grubert will give a talk on "Planning the Mid-transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the Belfer Center's YouTube channel (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.
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Lessons Learned for Nature Conservation: A Perspective from 15 Years of Research and Practice at a Global Conservation Organization
Monday, April 1
2pm EDT [11:00am - 12:00pm PT]
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/lessons-learned-nature-conservation-perspective-15-years-research-and-practice-global
Dr. Reddy will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online using this link and passcode nature
Sheila Reddy, Global Director and Lead Scientist, Conservation Impact, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Reddy has led the conservation community towards greater impact through a focus on evaluation and learning. In this talk, she will draw upon her extensive experience bridging conservation science and practice, to highlight how conservation organizations can better design their programs.
There is a broad agreement around the need to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. While there are successes to celebrate, there is much more work to do. That is why the conservation sector needs to embrace learning, especially as we seek to achieve large-scale, durable, and equitable benefits for nature and people through systems change. We need to learn from previous work and set-up new work to generate learning. Further, we need to hold ourselves accountable for contributions to global goals for biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development. In this talk, I aim to support managers and researchers who are playing a critical role in transforming conservation into a sector that is fueled by learning and accountability to impact. I do this by drawing on lessons learned from The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit environmental organization operating in over 70 countries around the world. First, I present generalizable lessons learned from 15 years of evaluation research. Second, I present process-oriented lessons learned about how to set-up conservation programs for learning so that they can have a greater impact. I illustrate these lessons learned with examples drawn primarily from work on protected areas, habitat restoration and management, sustainable agriculture and fisheries, and community-based conservation. Translating these lessons learned into actions should result in far more conservation science focused on supporting implementation and more management decisions based on evidence, including scientific, community, and traditional knowledge.
Sheila leads TNC’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Program, which accelerates solutions to the biodiversity and climate crises through better use of evidence. Sheila's team does this through organizational reporting, capacity building, and strategic science. Sheila’s work in conservation science, applied economics, and corporate sustainability has received awards for innovation, academic and social impact. She serves as an Associate Editor for Conservation Science and Practice. She is the host of the Society for Conservation Biology's Impact Evaluation and Implementation Science seminar series. Sheila previously served as Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives and as a Senior Scientist and Strategy Advisor at TNC. Prior to TNC, Sheila was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University in Economics and Ecology. She earned her Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography through a program with the Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego. She has B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.
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Realizing the Potential of Nature-based Solutions for Biodiversity and Carbon Conservation
Monday, April 1
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ
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Koh Lian Pin, associate vice president and chief sustainability scientist at National University of Singapore, will present “Realizing the Potential of Nature-based Solutions for Biodiversity and Carbon Conservation.” Nature-based solutions have the potential to address climate change and biodiversity challenges. However, successful outcomes may require careful consideration of implementation approaches, stakeholder interests and local contexts. In this talk, Lian Pin will discuss the promises of nature-based climate solutions, while acknowledging their inherent limitations in practice. He will also share how socially-engaged research may better inform and support decision-making for biodiversity and carbon conservation.
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When youth sue to protect the planet and their health: Inside a bold legal strategy to fight climate change
Monday, April 1
6 – 6:50 p.m.
The Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
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RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a2HvW19jrxHq5pQ
SPEAKER(S) SPEAKERS
Kari Nadeau, Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children’s Trust
Alicia Ely Yamin, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MODERATOR
Chris Golden, Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Nutrition and Planetary Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Last summer, 16 young plaintiffs won a pioneering lawsuit against the state of Montana. Their claim: By failing to consider the climate impact of fossil fuel projects, the state had violated children’s rights to a clean and healthful environment. The lawsuit is represented and supported by the public interest, nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has filed a similar case in Hawaii, as well as federal lawsuits. Our panelists, including Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel at Our Children’s Trust, will discuss the novel legal strategy and share insights on new tactics for protecting the planet and our collective health and wellbeing from climate change, drawing on examples from the U.S. and Latin America.
Register for free to submit your questions.
An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
CONTACT INFO studio@hsph.harvard.edu
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Reproductive Justice: Global Movements and Wins
Tuesday, April 2
11:00am to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_COW6cARQKTofBJt0cmyg#/registration
In the past decade, there has been increased organization, movements, and wins for reproductive justice and body sovereignty around the globe. These achievements have been particularly significant in countering a global agenda of conservative actors. With panelists: Giselle Carino, Hawon Jung, and Chantal Umuhoza- please join us in learning from experts on reproductive justice movements, research, and action in various regions around the world including Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
ASL translation and live closed captioning will be provided.
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Climate Populism: The anti-elite backlash against the green transition
Tuesday, April 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard, Rubenstein 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
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SPEAKER(S) Robert Z. Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at Harvard Kennedy School
Dustin Tingley, Professor of Government at Harvard; and Elaine Buckberg, Senior Fellow at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard and former chief economist at GM
Edoardo Campanella, M-RCBG Research Fellow, will moderate
Public discontent against the green transition is rising and populist movements are catalyzing it. The panel will discuss the implications of the phenomenon globally.
Copies of Prof Tingley's book, "Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impass" will be raffled off to those attending in person.
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Designs to Help Climate Refugees
Tuesday, April 2
12:30 - 1:30pm EDT
Online
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By exploring topics of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, this INTtalk will cover the pedagogical approaches & results of Biomimicry.
By exploring topics of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, this INTtalk will cover the pedagogical approaches of Biomimicry class and its results from the FA23 UN SDGs design competition organized by United Nations Academic Impact. All design proposals revolve around the element of water. Impact and implication of shortage or excess thereof by climate change.
Around the world, we find numerous environmental situations that challenge us to provide design solutions for those in need. The student projects were generated to mitigate the human environmental stresses, and reduce human impact on the ecosystem.
First, aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), students researched global cultural issues involving children. Each student identifies a topic, its geographical surroundings and studies its cultural/societal/migratory condition.
Second, each student proposed “design ideas” that are suitable for the region, methods, materials, economy and climate.
Third, students learned Biomimicry design approach & process and apply those knowledge to their design ideas. Those “design ideas” will transform into “design proposals''. We asked “How would nature do ____?” By taking these steps, Biomimicry lessons get calibrated into the design proposals more effectively. And also, this approach allowed us to develop a more harmonious understanding of the symbiotic relationships between nature and society.
Tetsu Ohara has been teaching studios, options studios/labs and elective courses to students from School of Architecture, School and Continuing & Professional Studies at Pratt since 2007. Launched in 2019, the Faculty-led Japan Study Abroad Program, the summer course, has received the 2023 IES Global Pillar Award for having students work with social/environmental causes in order to contribute to our society. The root for a passion towards sustainability has stemmed from his architectural degree from U.C. Berkeley at College of Environmental Design.
Professional experience design projects include in both the East & West spanning from product design, exhibition design, interior design, to architectural services. He is a principal designer at SpatialDesignStudio in NYC. Some highlights for international cultural work include the Japan Brand “Unfolding” exhibition with the Japanese Ministry of Trade with Felissimo Design House.
Before it, several notable professional experiences list Gabellini Sheppard & Associates for Salvatore Ferragamo store and HLW/UNCMP for United Nations Headquarters renovations.
“A good design reflects a successful combination of collaborating imaginations from diverse disciplines and challenging the constraints of physical/financial limitations while providing environmentally suitable solutions.”
Featuring:
Heyan Cheng, BFA Interior Design Senior
Marcela Alvarez, BArch Architecture Senior
This event will be held in Steuben 311 and streamed live via Zoom. Join us in-person for pizza.
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European Politics Seminar — Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change
Tuesday, April 2
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Goldman Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Bush Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024/04/energy-and-power-germany-in-the-age-of-oil-atoms-and-climate-change-2
SPEAKER(S) Stephen Gross, Associate Professor of History & European Studies, New York University; Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University
Jamie Martin, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Moderated by Herrick Chapman, Professor Emeritus of History, New York University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Since the 1970s, Germany has experienced five energy transitions. In 2018, the country started to rethink its dependence on fossil fuels and initiated a plan to a low-carbon, nuclear free economy. This policy, known as Energiewende, has met significant challenges. This seminar will explore the difficulties, political battles, and unintended consequences that the country has had to face.
CONTACT INFO Albana Shehaj albana.shehaj@fas.harvard.edu
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A Renegades’ History of the Revolutionary Frontier: Contesting Race & Nation on the Borderlands of the New United States
Tuesday, April 2
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
Online
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Author: John William Nelson, Texas Tech University
Comment: Colin Calloway, Dartmouth CollegeThis is an online event.
This paper will explore the so-called “white renegades” who cast their lot with Native peoples amid the Revolutionary War on the frontier. By following the personal histories of some of these individuals to Fallen Timbers—where many found themselves in 1794—we can trace how these people continued to subvert cultural boundaries, even as racial divisions became more entrenched through policy and practice during the early republic. In reconstructing their lives, we can begin to conceptualize the multifaceted motivations that led men and women to challenge the hardening divisions developing between white Americans and Indigenous communities during the Revolutionary era.
Join the conversation at the Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar. Seminars bring together a diverse group of scholars and interested members of the public to workshop a pre-circulated paper. Learn more.
Purchasing the $25 seminar subscription gives you advance access to the seminar papers of all seven seminar series for the current academic year. Subscribe at www.masshist.org/research/seminars. Subscribers for the current year may login to view currently available essays. Register to attend online
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Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Princeton, McCosh Hall, Room 50, Princeton, NJ
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RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/events/2024/dr-robin-wall-kimmerer-honorable-harvest-indigenous-knowledge-sustainability
Robin Wall Kimmerer, scientist and best-selling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, will talk on “Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability.” Kimmerer (enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation) will engage Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and practices that contribute to sustainability, conservation and a transformed relationship with the Earth.
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Innovation for strong sustainability trajectories
Wednesday, April 3
8:30 to 10 a.m. EST [2:30 to 4 p.m. CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/agenda/innovation-strong-sustainability-trajectories
Join us for this 3 April webinar, hosted by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), which will explore the role of innovation in achieving strong sustainability. SEI’s Eric Kemp-Benedict and Emily Ghosh will discuss their research as part of the expert panel.
This webinar will present the results of studies conducted by researchers at SEI and AFD which identifies potential relationships between macroeconomic variables in the context of innovation in developing and emerging economies. The findings also introduce indicators to help evaluate strong sustainability while prioritizing conserving ecosystems and human well-being in sustainable development efforts.
The speakers will share strategies for how to leverage innovation in the pursuit of strong sustainability and a more resilient future.
Emily and Eric will join AFD’s Antoine Godin in sharing their insights.
Event contact
Emily Ghosh / emily.ghosh@sei.org
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Decarbonize Existing Buildings Alliance
Wednesday, April 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://builtenvironmentplus.org/event/decarbonize-existing-buildings-alliance-4-3/
Join the BE+ Decarbonize Existing Buildings Alliance hosted monthly roundtable, a venue for architects, designers, construction managers, and sustainability professionals to discuss issues related to decarbonizing existing buildings.
Reach out to communications@builtenvironmentplus.org with any inquiries, questions, or concerns.
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The Environment Forum with Hiʻilei Hobart | What Returns, What Remains: A Story about Hawaiian Landscape and Dis/Possession
Wednesday, April 3
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard, Emerson Hall, Room 105, 29 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environment-forum-hi%E2%80%99ilei-hobart-what-returns-what-remains-story-about-hawaiian
SPEAKER(S) Hiʻilei Hobart, Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University
Sarah Dimick, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University
Rebecca Hogue, 2023-24 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center
This talk explores the possession, return, and interpretation of these remains, specifically 14 iwi poʻo (human skulls) originating from the Pali, an important historic battle site in the Koʻolau mountain range of Oʻahu. In telling the story of their possession and dispossession, Professor Hobart engages with theories of haunting from Indigenous studies and Black studies in order to challenge the way that settler colonial structures work to limit and potentially foreclose Hawaiian relationships to spiritual presence and placemaking.
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
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Forest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global Trends
Thursday, April 4
9 - 10am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317111325303/WN_6d4vqS1QQRCljVzgTLs0Ew#/registration
What were the trends in forest loss in 2023, and what factors are impacting these trends at the country and regional levels? Where are the bright spots of forest loss decline, and where are the areas of concern?
Join World Resource Institute’s Global Forest Watch for an analysis of the latest annual tree cover loss data from the University of Maryland’s GLAD lab on Thursday, April 4, from 9-10 am EDT.
Following a presentation of the 2023 tree cover loss data, we will host a discussion around the specific contexts, implications and impacts of these findings at country and regional levels.
Register now to join the virtual discussion live or to receive a link to the webinar recording following the live event.
We also invite you to explore the tree cover loss data, in-depth analysis and expert insights on the state of the world’s forests, which will be released on the Global Forest Review prior to the webinar on Thursday, April 4.
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Experiments in Utopia: Community Composting and Alternatives to Neoliberal Sustainability
Thursday, April 4
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zKCwxFFxQZWJDy_j7Rvv1A#/registration
In New York City, hundreds of community composters and microhaulers manage the city’s waste while centering sustainability, community space, and neighborhood values. Recent budget cuts leave many of these community-driven projects in jeopardy. This talk makes a call for radical hope in the face of sustainability challenges through exploring the limitations of neoliberal waste management and the power of experimental infrastructures to change the landscapes of urban sustainability.
Contact Sinet.Kroch@tufts.edu
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Next in Science: James Webb Space Telescope
Thursday, April 4
2 – 4 p.m.
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-next-in-science-program
SPEAKER(S) Sierra Grant, Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Germany)
Caroline Morley, Assistant professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas
Erica Nelson, Assistant professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most ambitious project in the history of astronomical investigations. Within the short period of time since it became operational, JWST has been revolutionizing our understanding of the earliest stages of cosmic evolution and the atmospheres of extrasolar planets while producing stunning images that have captured the public's imagination. In this Next in Science program, we will focus on these exciting early results in understanding the universe and the importance of JWST in engaging the public with astronomy.
The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary, and cutting-edge research is thematically linked to introduce their work to non-specialists, fellow scientists, and one another.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Jonathan Vigliotti: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-town America
Thursday, April 4
3pm EDT [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUr9TUAS
Cost: $10
From massive forest fires in California to hurricanes in Louisiana, receding coastlines in Massachusetts and devastated fisheries in Alaska, the climate catastrophe is already here.
Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive and unnecessary. Many politicians, focused always on their next election, do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run, so they don’t take any action at all. But climate change, and its devastating consequences, has kept apace whether we want to pay attention or not.
CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has seen that crisis unfold for himself, spending nearly two decades reporting across the United States (and the world) documenting the people, communities, landmarks, and traditions we’ve already surrendered. Vigliotti shares with urgency and personal touch the story of an America on the brink.
In his new book, Before It’s Gone, Vigliotti traces his travels across the country, taking him to the frontlines of climate disaster and revealing the genuine impacts of climate change that countless Americans have already been forced to confront. This is the story of America, and Americans, on the edge, and a powerful argument that radical action on climate change with a respect for its people and traditions is not only possible, but also the only way to preserve what we love.
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The New Era of Transparency: A Briefing on the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule
Monday, April 8
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SKyEzlTWSVmtQ6MlgAKmfQ#/registration
After decades of investor demand, the United States is now more closely aligned with its global peers through the adoption of a mandatory climate disclosure framework for public companies. On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted the rule, “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors”. The rule responds to investors’ need for clear, consistent, and comparable climate reporting from public companies. Standardized disclosures in financial filings will bring significant improvements to the current patchwork of voluntary disclosures and help investors make more informed capital allocation and investment stewardship decisions. So what should companies and investors know about these new requirements? For twenty years Ceres has championed climate disclosure regulations.
Join us for this webinar with
Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber,
SEC Division of Corporation Finance Director Erik Gerding,
SEC Chief Accountant Paul Munter, and others.
In this session, participants will:
Acquire detailed insights on the new rule’s requirements directly from SEC staff
Compare elements of the rule that have changed from the proposal to final
Explore perspectives on implementation and how investors will use the data
Get answers to critical questions about the context of the rule within the evolving disclosure landscape
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Energy Policy Seminar: "Reflections on Global Climate Change Policy"
Monday, April 8
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-reflections-global-climate-change-policy
SPEAKER(S) Todd Stern, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Todd Stern, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In a fireside chat with Professor Joseph Aldy, Stern will give a talk on "Reflections on Global Climate Change Policy." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Hanlon - ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu
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Developing a Climate Vulnerability Index for Advancing Community Level Climate Resilience
Monday, April 8
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Grace Lewis, environmental epidemiologist at Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF), will present “Developing a Climate Vulnerability Index for Advancing Community Level Climate Resilience.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Lewis is a senior health scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Tee Lewis has expertise in environmental epidemiology, community air monitoring, and geospatial screening and mapping tools to address environmental, climate and health equity. Her research interests include health impacts of criteria and hazardous air pollutants, particularly to environmental justice communities. She also focuses on community exposures from petrochemical facilities and transportation sectors, and strategies to improve regional air quality and public health. Dr. Tee Lewis leads the Environmental Defense Fund’s Data to Action work in Houston. She provides scientific expertise and guidance to community-based organizations and leaders to build climate/ environmental justice capacity and to implement community science efforts. Furthermore, Dr. Tee Lewis led multi-disciplinary teams in development of regional and national scale environmental justice screening and mapping tools to identify disadvantaged communities and understand drivers leading to neighborhood level cumulative vulnerability.
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Creative Climate Action: Can Art Protect Us from Rising Seas?
Monday, April 8
4 – 5 p.m.
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-xavier-cortada-lecture
SPEAKER(S) Xavier Cortada, Award-winning Cuban American eco-artist
Xavier Cortada's art serves as a bridge between science and community, transforming public spaces into platforms for climate storytelling and experiential learning. His interdisciplinary practice demonstrates how socially engaged art can cultivate a broad base of people who champion environmental justice and help build the political will necessary for systemic change. A Miami-based artist, Cortada will discuss his innovative approach to stimulating public discourse and ultimately galvanizing action around sea level rise.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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MC Escher: Amazing Images
Sunday, April 7
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT Museum , 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
How did MC Escher come to produce images that continue to amaze and delight both artists and scientists over a century later? And what can his work teach us today?
Enjoy an exploration of the interface between art, mathematics, and vision science through the lens of Escher's life and career by Escher scholar Jeffrey Price, joined in conversation by Professor Pawan Sinha of MIT's Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences.
The event will feature a display of original Escher prints from Price's collection, and a guided looking activity led by Seth Riskin, Director of the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery, and Kartik Chandra, PhD student at MIT CSAIL.
Free with Museum admission
More information at https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mc-escher-amazing-images
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The Environment Forum | A Conversation with Margaret Renkl
Monday, April 8
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environment-forum-conversation-margaret-renkl
SPEAKER(S) Margaret Renkl, Author
Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard University
Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South (Milkweed Editions, 2021). Her new book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, was released in October 2023. Renkl is contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear each Monday. A graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
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The Stanford Energy Seminar: "Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Are We There Yet?"
Monday, April 8
4:30pm to 5:20pm PT
Stanford, Skilling Building, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_1976
Abstract: Geothermal energy has undergone a renaissance over the past 15 years, as many new technologies and new countries have joined the industry. Climate change concerns have focused attention on renewable energy, supported by a global ambition to address greenhouse gas reduction. Geothermal developments have accelerated in many parts of the world, both in countries (such as Turkey, Indonesia, Kenya, New Zealand, and the US) that have a traditional interest in "conventional" geothermal resources, as well as countries without a historical community in geothermal energy (such as France and Germany). Some new developments have followed well-worn paths using conventional hydrothermal resources in volcanic regions, while others have struck out in new directions in Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) projects in nonvolcanic regions. Technology has allowed for developments of conventional resources with lower temperature, restricted water access, and constrained surface utilization. EGS projects have launched in a variety of different directions and places. The use of innovative hybrid plants, lower resource temperatures and enhanced reservoir stimulation has made geothermal energy accessible in a much wider variety of places.
Speaker Bio: Roland N. Horne is the Thomas Davis Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Geothermal Program. He was the Chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford from 1995 to 2006. He served on the International Geothermal Association (IGA) Board and was the 2010-2013 President of IGA. He was Technical Program Chairman of the World Geothermal Congress 2005 in Turkey, 2010 in Bali, Melbourne in 2015, and in Iceland in 2020-2021. Roland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is also a Fellow of the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo and an Honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum – East China.
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Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated
Tuesday, April 9
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/yr2p2vp/lp/efe421ce-ef85-4e76-8dad-24582f4f479f
Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated will be a critical examination of how climate change impacts people who are incarcerated. Many jails and prisons are inadequately equipped to handle extreme weather, exposing people who are confined within them to unique health vulnerabilities.
This event will highlight how the effects of climate-related events on prisons impact not only people confined in them but also people who work in them. It will describe challenges like inadequate cooling systems in the face of rising temperatures and the risks posed by natural disasters to these facilities. Addressing jail/prison infrastructure law and policy in the era of climate change, speakers will consider what policy changes at the intersection of environmental justice and prison reform would help mitigate risks and increase awareness.
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Book Talk with Jason De Léon "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling"
Tuesday, April 9
4:00pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
In this talk Jason De León will discuss his new book "Soldiers and Kings", a long-term ethnographic study focused on understanding the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting migrants across the length of Mexico. Using the stories of several smugglers, he examines the relationship between transnational gangs and the clandestine migration industry, as well as the difficulties of doing ethnography in this violent and ethically challenging context.
More information at https://anthropology.mit.edu/events/2024/jason-de-l-on-book-talk-soldiers-and-kings-survival-and-hope-in-the-world-of-human
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The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
Tuesday, April 9
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-norton-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-859760485757
Harvard Book Store welcomes MICHAEL NORTON—Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the co-author of Happy Money—for a discussion of his new book The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions. He will be joined in conversation by JIM BRAUDE—co-host of Boston Public Radio on GBH 89.7 and former host of GBH's Greater Boston.
RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a copy of The Ritual Effect and pick it up at the event. Michael will sign copies of his new book after the presentation.
About The Ritual Effect
Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about these actions—when we focus on the precise way they are performed—they can instead become rituals. Shifting from a “habitual” mindset to a “ritual” mindset can convert ordinary acts from black and white to technicolor.
Think of the way you savor a certain beverage, the care you take with a particular outfit that gets worn only on special occasions, the unique way that your family gathers around the table during holidays, or the secret language you enjoy with your significant other. To some, these behaviors may seem quirky, but because rituals matter so deeply to us on a personal level, they imbue our lives with purpose and meaning. Drawing on a decade of original research, Norton shows that rituals play a role in healing communities experiencing a great loss, marking life’s major transitions, driving a stadium of sports fans to ecstasy, and helping us rise to challenges and realize opportunities.
Compelling, insightful, and practical, The Ritual Effect reminds us of the intention-filled acts that drive human behavior and create surprising satisfaction and enjoyment
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Lesley Lokko
Tuesday, April 9
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174134
And streamed on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
Lesley Lokko
Soft
The 29th Pietro Belluschi Lecture
In the hard-nosed realm of international politics, soft power is often referred to as the ability to co-opt rather than coerce, shaping preferences through appeal and attraction, not force. In 2010, the media company Monocle combined a range of statistical metrics to measure the soft power of 26 countries, using approximately 50 factors including the number of language schools, Olympic medals, the quality of architecture and business brands, the latter two encapsulated beautifully in the International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, indeed in all international exhibitions. The Laboratory of the Future tried to address hard-edged concerns such as decolonisation and decarbonisation within soft-power frameworks of narrative, aesthetics, and atmosphere, positioning imagination and creative enquiry as tools of liberation. To what extent is this a useful or effective strategy for confronting the extremes of social, racial, and environmental inequity that characterise our times?
Professor Lesley Lokko OBE is the founder and director of the African Futures Institute (AFI) in Accra, Ghana. She holds a BSc(Arch), MArch and PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She was the founder and director of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg (2014—2019) and the Dean of Architecture at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (2019—2020). She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and the editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture.
She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College Dublin and has held visiting professorships at The Cooper Union, NYC and University of Virginia. She was appointed Curator of the 18th International Architecture Biennale at La Biennale di Venezia, which opened on 20 May 2023. In January 2023, she was awarded an OBE ‘for services to architecture and education’ in King Charles’ New Year’s Honours List. In the same month, she was awarded the UK’s highest architecture award, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
This lecture will be held in person in Huntington Hall (10-250) and streamed online.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures will be held Thursdays at 6 PM ET in 7-429 (Long Lounge) and streamed online unless otherwise noted. Registration required to attend in-person.
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Electric Transmission and the Energy Transition: Perspectives from Africa, Europe, and North America
Wednesday, April 10
11am - 12:30pm EST [4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://fsr.eui.eu/event/electric-transmission-and-the-energy-transition-perspectives-from-africa-europe-and-north-america/
In this joint FSR-NYU episode of #FSRDebates, we explore the challenges, strategies, and evolving dynamics associated with electric transmission infrastructure in the context of the global energy transition. We analyze three distinct regions, shedding light on the varied approaches each takes to address imperatives such as sustainability, reliability, resilience, accessibility, and affordability within their energy systems.
Historically, electric grids have been co-planned with generation. However, the ongoing energy transition and ambitious decarbonization goals necessitate streamlining existing transmission infrastructure. In various parts of the U.S. and Europe, transmission bottlenecks are already severe and may impede the progress of the energy transition. Our discussion will encompass both regions’ strategies for elevating transmission as a priority on the political agenda.
The power grid in Africa is less integrated compared to Europe and the U.S. Nevertheless, the continent is rich in renewable resources for electricity generation. We will explore the region’s plans to unlock these resources, enhance energy access, and promote socio-economic development.
Additionally, we will examine alternatives to traditional transmission methods and elaborate on the role of modern grid technologies. We will scrutinize the advantages of planning a future energy system from scratch as opposed to remodeling existing suboptimal infrastructure. A significant portion of our discourse will focus on how climate change, extreme weather phenomena, a more weather-dependent generation resource mix, and potential demand growth due to electrification trends impact the necessity for transmission.
By presenting a tri-continental perspective, the debate will provide a nuanced understanding of regional intricacies, offering valuable insights for policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers alike.
Program
Moderators: 16.00 – 16.05
Marzia Sesini, FSR
Christoph Graf, NYU
Keynote Presentations 16.05-16.50
Maria Robinson – Director, US Department of Energy Grid Deployment Office
Raphael Sauter – DG Energy, European Commission
AUDA NEPAD
Debate 16.50 – 17.20
Rob Gramlich – President, Grid Strategies LLC
Federico Pontoni – Technologies for Energy Transition Director, FEEM
Jan Kostevc – Team leader Energy Infrastructure, ACER
Conclusions 17.20-17.30
Andris Piebalgs, FSR
Christopher Jones, FSR
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The Theory of the Nuclear Revolution Revisited
Wednesday, April 10
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, E40-496, in-person limited to the MIT Community
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_COW6cARQKTofBJt0cmyg#/registration
SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Charles Glaser, Senior Fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program. The talk will be broadcast live on the MIT Security Studies Program Youtube channel.
Summary/abstract: The Theory of the Nuclear Revolution (TNR) was developed during the Cold War and become something of a conventional wisdom among academics. Over the past decade, TNR has be criticized from multiple directions. What is its current status?
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Beyond Content: Teaching for Civic Participation and Engagement
Wednesday, April 10
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuce6pqTgjE9G4i62rbXSTxM13YZJdjAIg#/registration
Dr. Bryan Dewsbury, Florida International University
Dr. Bryan Dewsbury will explore the ways in which we can reconnect our classroom practice with the values, behaviors and mindsets needed for a socially just society.
All are welcome!
About the Speaker
Bryan Dewsbury is Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Director of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. He is the Principal Investigator of the Science Education and Society (SEAS) research program, a team blending research on the social context of teaching and learning, faculty development of inclusive practices, and programming to cultivate equity in education. Previously, he was at the University of Rhode Island. Bryan is a Fellow with the John N. Gardner Institute, where he assists institutions of higher education cultivate best practices in inclusive education.
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How Can Businesses Secure a More Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Future for the Food Sector?
Thursday, April 11
10 - 11:15am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/2817110478556/WN_LVyJXccsRvuLvThjj88yVw#/registration
Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the role companies should play in making the global food system fit for the future.
Co-hosted by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and We Mean Business Coalition, the event will delve into key insights from a recently published report series: ‘Future Fit Food and Agriculture’ revealing that US $205 billion per year is needed from the food sector to mitigate half of global food system emissions. While significant, these costs are manageable for the sector as a whole as they represent less than 2% of total food sector revenues.
Industry leaders will convene to discuss the critical role companies play in addressing emissions resulting from agricultural production and land-use changes within their value chains. Speakers will spotlight the costs and benefits of this transition, as well as the influence of existing and emerging voluntary standards on climate and nature legislation.
A critical challenge is that these costs are currently projected to land most heavily on farmers, who are the least able to pay despite being central to the food sector’s shift to net-zero.
Speakers will discuss how overcoming this inequity requires companies to reassess how they partner with actors in the value chain, particularly farmers, and how they engage with policymakers to incentivize and accelerate action.
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Webinar – Local Strategies to Curb Waste Sector Methane Emissions & Benefit Communities
Thursday, April 11
1-2:15 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-how-local-governments-can-reduce-landfill-pollution/
Local governments play a pivotal role in waste management. From food recovery and composting programs to stronger landfill methane controls, there are exciting opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while delivering local benefits. In this webinar, representatives from across the United States share key strategies and lessons learned as they work to reduce methane pollution in their communities. The webinar highlights resources and funding opportunities to support local governments with opportunity for live Q&A.
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Water and climate change: Adaptation at the margins
Thursday, April 11
2pm - 3pm EST [18:00 BST -19:00 BST]
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PW
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.se/e/hybrid-event-water-and-climate-change-adaptation-at-the-margins-tickets-868253548737
This hybrid event will explore the social and political barriers to producing, sharing and using climate information and how it should be interpreted, accessed and applied to support marginalised and vulnerable groups.
The impacts of climate change will largely be felt through water. Droughts, floods, storms and extreme events are becoming more frequent and more intense. The entire water cycle is becoming more unpredictable, impacting people’s daily lives and livelihoods, especially those of poor and marginalised communities.
What is the role of climate science in supporting adaptation to climate change for poor, vulnerable and marginalised communities? Leading researchers and practitioners at the forefront of climate adaptation will reflect on the social and political barriers to producing, sharing and using climate information and on how it should be interpreted, accessed and applied. They will discuss the needs and challenges faced by marginalised communities and how to ensure these communities have a say in adaptation decision making.
Speakers:
Introductions from Dr Ellen Dyer (University of Oxford) and Dr Sukaina Bharwani (SEI)
Chair: Alice Chautard, SEI
Panelists:
Dr. Alice Odingo, Associate Professor, University of Nairobi
Bettina Koelle, Associate Director, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Dr. Dorice Agol, Visiting Fellow, LSE
Event contact
Alice Chautard / Alice.chautard@sei.org
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: How to reduce carbon emission in construction and operation of buildings?
Thursday, April 11
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Long Lounge, 7-429 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174135
Livestream on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
Matthias Schuler
How to reduce carbon emission in construction and operation of buildings? Designed and realized project examples of low to zero carbon footprint projects
Part of the MIT Spring 2024 Architecture Lecture Series. Presented with the Building Technology group.
Matthias Schuler is one of the managing directors of TRANSSOLAR Energietechnik in Stuttgart. Born 1958 he is educated as a mechanical engineer at University Stuttgart. In 1992 he founded the company TRANSSOLAR Climate Engineering in Stuttgart. TRANSSOLAR’S focus is on new energy saving and comfort optimizing strategies by an integral approach for buildings and urban design.
Nowadays - with 85 employees in Stuttgart, Munich, Paris and New York – Matthias Schuler works on national and international projects with architects like Kazuyo Sejima, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor and Renzo Piano. Since 2001 teaching as a visiting professor at the Graduated School of Design, Harvard University, he was there Professor in Practice on Environmental Technologies 2008 till 2014.
Aside of building projects Matthias Schuler has realized different “cloud” installations applying the knowledge on physics to realize indoor experiencable clouds, like the “Cloudscapes” at the 2010 Venice Biennale, which was realized with a sky ramp in close collaboration with the architect Tetsuo Kondo. In 2016 Transsolar was again invited to join the Biennale in Venice and realized in collaboration with the architect Anja Thierfelder with “Lightscapes” a strong statement for the strength and beauty of local identity.
Key projects of Matthias at Transsolar are the Posttower in Bonn with Helmut Jahn, Zollverein School in Essen with SANAA, Linked Hybrid in Beijing with Steven Holl, Masdar City with Foster Partners, Fondation Louis Vuitton with Frank Gehry and the Kripalu Yoga Hotel with Peter Rose.
Further projects are the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with Steven Holl, the Louvre Abu Dhabi with Jean Nouvel, Grace Farm in New Canaan with SANAA, the Academy of Motion Pictures in LA with Renzo Piano, Fondation Louis Vuitton with Frank Gehry and the Elb Philharmony with Herzog de Meuron.
Actual projects are the Art Mill Museum in Doha with Alejandro Aravena, the extension of the extension of Schaulager Museum in Basel with Herzog de Meuron, The Cloud building in South Korea with Anton Garcia Avril and Debora Mesa from Ensamble, O’Hare new terminal building with Jeanne Gang and an artist residence in Dijon with Yun’ja Ishigami.
This lecture will be held in person in Long Lounge, 7-429 and streamed online.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures will be held Thursdays at 6 PM ET in 7-429 (Long Lounge) and streamed online unless otherwise noted. Registration required to attend in-person.
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Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
Thursday, April 11
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/ismar_volic/
Harvard Book Store welcomes ISMAR VOLIĆ—director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College—for a discussion of his new book Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation. He will be joined in conversation by ANDREW SCHULTZ—professor of mathematics at Wellesley College.
About Making Democracy Count
What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical grab bag of the shortsighted, the cynical, the innumerate, and the outright discriminatory. Making Democracy Count sheds new light on our electoral systems, revealing how a deeper understanding of their mathematics is the key to creating civic infrastructure that works for everyone.
In this timely guide, Ismar Volić empowers us to use mathematical thinking as an objective, nonpartisan framework that rises above the noise and rancor of today’s divided public square. Examining our representative democracy using powerful clarifying concepts, Volić shows why our current voting system stifles political diversity, why the size of the House of Representatives contributes to its paralysis, why gerrymandering is a sinister instrument that entrenches partisanship and disenfranchisement, why the Electoral College must be rethought, and what can work better and why. Volić also discusses the legal and constitutional practicalities involved and proposes a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government.
Making Democracy Count gives us the concrete knowledge and the confidence to advocate for a more just, equitable, and inclusive democracy.
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Climate Emergency Preparedness: Developing a Response Capability for Polar Tipping Points
Monday, April 15
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And Online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-wake-smith-climate-emergency-preparedness
SPEAKER(S) Wake Smith, Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Wake Smith, Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment. Smith will give a talk on "Climate Emergency Preparedness: Developing a Response Capability for Polar Tipping Points." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Hanlon - ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu
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2024 PHIUS [Passive House] Policy Summit
Tuesday, April 16 - Thursday, April17
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://phius1.zohobackstage.com/PhiusPolicySummit2024
Cost: $30 -$60
This two-day event (April 16-17) will explore the impact of policies on the adoption of Phius projects and provide attendees with the knowledge and tools to take action. Policy is a critical catalyst for the advancement of passive building practices, and the 2024 Phius Policy Summit will explore the topic from all angles.
Expert panelists from across the country will offer their firsthand experience in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Illinois and more. Join the conversation and find out how you can make an impact.
"Phius is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to fostering a net zero built environment that supports the health of people and planet by making high-performance passive building the mainstream market standard."
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2024 Columbia Global Energy Summit
Tuesday, April 16
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-columbia-global-energy-summit-tickets-794502547507?discount=CGEPcolumbia24Contact Information
This event will be hosted in-person, by invitation and for Columbia University affiliates including students, faculty, and staff. If you would like to attend in person and you hold a valid Columbia University ID, please register here and use the following promo code: CGEPcolumbia24. You must register using your Columbia University email address and present valid Columbia University ID at event check-in. The event will also be streamed live for the general public.
The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's SIPA is hosting its annual Columbia Global Energy Summit on April 16, 2024. This year’s day-long Summit will address myriad issues at the heart of today’s complex geopolitical, environmental, and economic landscape, including the impact of climate change and the energy transition on geopolitics and security; the outlook for clean energy deployment; pathways to mobilize finance for clean energy in emerging and developing economies; energy justice imperatives; and the impact for energy and climate policy in key elections around the world in 2024.
Leaders in climate and energy speaking include:
Brendan Bechtel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bechtel
Thomas E. Donilon, Chairman, BlackRock Investment Institute; Former U.S. National Security Advisor (2010–13)
Amos Hochstein, Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment
Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy
For a full list of speakers and latest agenda: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/events/2024-columbia-global-energy-summit/
Center on Global Energy Policy
energypolicyevents@columbia.edu
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Mindful Actions for Climate Change
Tuesday, April 16
8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aVFvFF9gcKkDr6K
SPEAKER(S) Presenters:
Momi Afelin, MPH, Environment and Natural Resources Program Manager, Sustainable Molokai
Nieisha Deed, Founder and CEO of PureSpark, Boston
Brother Phap Dung, Monastic Disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh
Smitha Haneef, MS, Managing Director for Harvard University Dining Services
Rebecca Henderson, PhD, John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard University Co-Director, Business & Environment Initiative, Harvard Business School
Melissa Hoffer, MEd, JD, Massachusetts’ First Climate Chief
Leslie Jonas, MS, Indigenous Land and Water Conservationist and Elder Eel Clan member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Brother Phap Luu, Monastic Disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh
Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies
Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, Monastic Disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh
Sister The Nghiem, Monastic Disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh
Afreen Siddiqi, SM, PhD, Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James H. Stock, MS, PhD, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University, and the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
K. “Vish” Viswanath, PhD, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication and Director of the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Center for Translational Health Communication Science, and Harvard Chan India Research Center
Walter C. Willett, MD, MPH, PhD, Director of the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
David R Williams, MA, MPH, PhD., Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speakers & Moderators:
Lilian Cheung, ScD, Lecturer, Director of Health Promotion & Communication, and Director of Mindfulness Research and Practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition
Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
In an era where the impact of human activities on the planet has reached critical levels, we come together to explore and promote mindful actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This symposium aims to bridge the gap between research, policy, and public awareness, fostering collaboration and inspiring actionable steps toward a sustainable future. As the urgency to address climate change intensifies, this symposium serves as a platform for interdisciplinary discussions, innovative solutions, and collective mindfulness towards sustainable practices and individual behavior change.
The day-long symposium will bring together leading academics, community leaders and activists, practitioners of mindfulness, and monastics who studied under Thich Nhat Hanh.
Join us for an inspiring and informative day of discussion, networking, and mindfulness.
CONTACT INFO mindfulpublichealth@hsph.harvard.edu
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Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
Tuesday, April 16
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/ieva_jusionyte1/
Harvard Book Store welcomes IEVA JUSIONYTE—associate professor at Brown University and award-winning author of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border—for a discussion of her latest book Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border. She will be joined in conversation by award-winning journalist OSCAR LOPEZ.
About Exit Wounds
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.
An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.
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Green Builder Media's 8th annual Sustainability Symposium: Existential Solutions
Wednesday, April 17 - Thursday, April 18
12:00-3:00 Eastern each day
Online
RSVP at https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/sustainability-symposium-2024-existential-solutions
Jon Creyts: Positive Tipping Points—Reasons for Hope and Action on an Overheating Planet Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Jon Creyts will outline how the latest climate insights show rapid, transformational change is not only possible, but already happening faster than we realize . Growth in solar, wind, electric vehicle, and battery technology is outperforming analysts’ predictions, and tipping points are being crossed faster than we imagined. And, yet, while aspects of the energy system are moving from linear to exponential, we are simultaneously seeing a rapid increase in global temperatures and climate catastrophes. It is not too late to change our course. This discussion will offer a fresh perspective on the state of the energy transition and explore what we can do to accelerate action.
Michael Barnard: Innovating our Way to Decarbonization Esteemed futurist Michael Barnard will outline projection scenarios for the decarbonization of our global economy as it unfolds for decades into the future, including the reimagining of buildings, distributed energy, concrete and steel, renewables, vehicle-to-grid technologies, and hydrogen based on the fundamentals of physics, economics and human nature.
Jeremy Rifkin: From Progress to Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth Celebrated economic and social theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin will explain how the Age of Progress, which took our species to the commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth, but at the expense of the wholesale destruction of life on the planet, is on a death spiral and a nascent Age of Resilience is quickly trending with a new meta-narrative that fundamentally transforms the way our species will live and flourish on a rewilding Earth.
Thursday, April 18, 2024 12-3 ET
Xiye Bastida: Climate Activism in Action Climate activist Xiye Bastida will spotlight how younger generations—Gen Zs in particular—are using their voices to combat climate change, calling out a broken status quo and demanding an urgent reckoning in the quest for a radically better future. Bastida will illustrate how activism is being utilized to implement endemic structural change, highlighting what’s working and how younger generations are flipping the script on our national dialogue in politics, business, and society.
Ashlee Piper: From Distrust to Delight Sustainability expert and cultural influencer Ashlee Piper will explore how we’ve reached unprecedented levels of consumer distrust and skepticism, offering solutions for remedying confusion, apathy, and eco-anxiety. Piper will discuss how to build trusting relationships and establish hope through authentic action and enhanced transparency.
Sara Gutterman: Sustainability Revolution Unveiled: ESG, Climate Disclosure, and Carbon Solutions Unleashed! Prepare to embark on an electrifying journey as Green Builder Media's dynamic CEO, Sara Gutterman, unveils the hottest sustainability trends revolutionizing the landscape for building professionals, homeowners, and businesses alike. Brace yourself for the seismic surge in demand for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategies, the groundbreaking emergence of climate disclosure regulations, and the imperative quest for top-tier carbon offsets to forge a trailblazing path towards a net-zero, carbon-free built environment. Get ready to be swept away by the pulse-pounding momentum of sustainability's unstoppable ascent!
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Limitations of autonomous vehicles
Wednesday, April 17
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rPyp-nU8Quehg8MvK-Ov3w#/registration
Autonomous vehicles of all kinds are rapidly improving and becoming more popular. However, they still face serious limitations preventing widespread deployment. In this talk, MIT Horizon writer Ben Tolkin will discuss some of the limitations of modern autonomous vehicles, on land, air, and sea.
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The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
Wednesday, April 17
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leslie-valiant-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-862048258547
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome LESLIE VALIANT—T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University and author of Probably Approximately Correct—for a discussion of his new book The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness.
About The Importance of Being Educable
We are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading. The Importance of Being Educable puts forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge. The remarkable “educability” of the human brain can be understood as an information processing ability. It sets our species apart, enables the civilization we have, and gives us the power and potential to set our planet on a steady course. Yet it comes hand in hand with an insidious weakness. While we can readily absorb entire systems of thought about worlds of experience beyond our own, we struggle to judge correctly what information we should trust.
In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind’s central preoccupation.
Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities? If we want to play to our species’ great strength and protect our collective future, we must better understand and prioritize the vital importance of being educable. This book provides a road map.
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What We Can’t Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future
Thursday, April 18
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r2WJfIU5SQ2UvKYGav4yiw#/registration
Often, the energy transition is discussed in one of two ways: As a technological problem for engineers, financiers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to solve through innovation, or a symptom of a far deeper brokenness within our systems of capitalism and colonialism— one that requires us to radically reimagine our relationships to each other and to the “more than human world” (to borrow a phrase from eco-philosopher David Abram). Think Bill Gates vs. Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Contact Sinet.Kroch@tufts.ed
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USGBC[Green Building Council]-LA Extreme Heat for Construction Professionals
Thursday, April 18
12 - 3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usgbc-la-extreme-heat-for-construction-professionals-tickets-852412999227
California faces extreme heat challenges. Build climate-resilient communities with the Extreme Heat for Construction Professionals training!
Extreme Heat for Landscape and Construction Professionals As one of the most climate-stressed places in the world, California experiences profound and varied impacts across its vast expanse. Preparing for climate change requires learning how to adapt in the face of this change in order to increase the resilience of communities, natural systems, and our built environment to withstand and recover from climate-related disruptions. Climate adaptation and resilience are related, but distinct concepts. Generally, climate adaptation is an action or set of actions that reduce physical climate risk which builds climate resilient communities.
This training will provide climate benefits by teaching those who work directly with residents, homeowners, property managers and building owners to understand climate resilient options to make buildings more resilient to the increasing costly effects of climate change. This will help California achieve a carbon-neutral economy and workers will be at the center of this effort.
The foundation of this content will be based on communicating to industry professionals what the short and long-term impacts of extreme heat are on worker and community health, with strategic solutions on how to mitigate those impacts. Lastly, it will address climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience by training contractors to adopt best practices for home improvements to reduce the impacts of extreme heat.
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Unbottling the Environmental & Health Impacts of Nanoplastics
Thrusday, April 18
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j6V2WSCnTCSPzjLkA6H_dg#/registration
Moderator
Jeffrey Shaman, Interim Dean, Columbia Climate School; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and of Climate
with Beizhan Yan, Lamont Associate Research Professor, Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
and Julie Herbstman, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University; Director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
As concerns about plastic pollution reach a crescendo, recent research has uncovered a hidden threat in one of our most common commodities: bottled water. This groundbreaking study, conducted by researchers at Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), has revealed the presence of hundreds of thousands of previously uncounted tiny plastic particles in bottled water samples.
We invite you to explore what we have learned about the distribution and concentration of microplastics and nanoplastics in various environments, including our living spaces. We will discuss the major exposure pathways, penetration through biological barriers, and the potential health impacts, including developmental and neurological effects. We will also discuss the limitations of previous exposure assessment methods and the solutions our researchers have developed for quantifying nanoplastics.
Contact Information
Michelle Mischler
212-853-8861
mdm2271@columbia.edu
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Thursday, April 18
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eddie-s-glaude-jr-at-the-brattle-theatre-tickets-862072200157
Cost: $34.00 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR.—James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own—for a discussion of his new book We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For. He will be joined in conversation by IMANI PERRY—Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and National Book Award winning author of South to America and Looking for Lorraine.
Leaders We Have Been Looking For
We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how ordinary people have the capacity to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires, rather than outsourcing their needs to leaders who purportedly represent them.
Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard University, the book begins with Glaude’s unease with the Obama years. He felt then, and does even more urgently now, that the excitement around the Obama presidency had become a disciplining tool to narrow legitimate forms of Black political dissent. This narrowing continues to undermine the well-being of Black communities. In response, Glaude guides us away from the Scylla of enthusiastic reliance on elected leaders and the Charybdis of full surrender to a belief in unchanging political structures. Glaude weaves anecdotes about his own evolving views on Black politics together with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Sheldon Wolin, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
Narrated with passion and philosophical intensity, this book is a powerful reminder that if American democracy is to survive, we must build a better society that derives its strength from the pew, not the pulpit.
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Thursday, April 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174136
Livestream at Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Part of the MIT Spring 2024 Architecture Lecture Series. In collaboration with the Architecture and Urbanism Group and the Morningside Academy for Design (MAD).
For decades Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman have argued that architects and urban designers can to do more, must do more, than design buildings and physical systems. In their two new books Spatializing Justice and Socializing Architecture (MIT Press) and Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up (Hatje Cantz), they call for, and demonstrate, a new kind of architecture that confronts urban inequality, racialized violence and ecosocial catastrophe. In their lecture, they will discuss their work on “citizenship culture” at the US-Mexico border, and share the network of civic spaces and social housing projects that they have co-developed with migrant communities to address the challenges of accelerating migration, and cultivate regional and global solidarities.
Teddy Cruz (MDes Harvard University) is a Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
Fonna Forman (PhD University of Chicago) is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, San Diego and Founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice.
Together they are principals in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman is a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego investigating borders, informal urbanization, climate resilience, civic infrastructure and public culture. They lead variety of urban research agendas and civic / public interventions in the San Diego-Tijuana border region and beyond. Their work has been exhibited widely in cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; M+ Hong Kong, and representing the United States in the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale. They have two new monographs: Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks and Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up (MIT Press and Hatje Cantz) and one forthcoming: Unwalling Citizenship (Verso).
This lecture will be held in person in Long Lounge, 7-429 and streamed online.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures will be held Thursdays at 6 PM ET in 7-429 (Long Lounge) and streamed online unless otherwise noted. Registration required to attend in-person.
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A Gardener at the End of the World!
Thursday, April 18
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-margot-anne-kelley
Margot Anne Kelley
About a Gardener at the End of the World
A gardener's pandemic journal that combines memoir with an exploration of the natural world both inside and outside the garden.
In March 2020, Margot Anne Kelley was watching seeds germinate in her greenhouse. At high risk from illness, the planning, planting, and tending to seedlings took on extra significance. She set out to make her pandemic garden thrive but also to better understand the very nature of seeds and viruses.
As seeds became seedlings, became plants, became food, Kelley looks back over the last few millennia as successions of pandemics altered human beings and global culture. Seeds and viruses serve as springboards for wide-ranging reflections, such as their shared need for someone to transport them, the centrality of movement to being alive, and the domestication of plants as an act of becoming co-dependent.
Pandemic viruses only occurred through humankind's settling down, taking up agriculture, and giving up a nomadic life. And yet it's the garden that now provides a refuge and a source of life, inspiration, and hope. A Gardener at the End of the World explores questions of what we can preserve--of history, genetic biodiversity, culture, language--and what we cannot. It is for any reader curious about the overlap of nature, science, and history.ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Margot Anne Kelley is a writer and photographer whose work focuses on the natural world. Her new book, A Gardener at the End of the World, explores some of the complex relationships connecting people, seeds, and viruses, and traces strands of our collective co-evolution. Kelley has been growing vegetables and herbs for over twenty years; currently, she does so in Midcoast Maine, where long summer days and strategic plant choices help make up for the shortness of the season.
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Post-Katrina Housing Resilience in Greater New Orleans
Friday, April 19
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O0t1XB9CQKqiruKS0dftag#/registration
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath exposed stark socioeconomic inequities in greater New Orleans. It also spurred historic public spending for post-disaster aid and protective infrastructure. But little is known about whether this spending improved the ability of households to withstand and recover from future natural disasters. Carlos Martín and Claudia Solari, co-authors of a new report about housing resilience in post-Katrina Louisiana, will discuss the effects of both community-level interventions (such as new infrastructure) and homeowner behavior (home modifications, etc.).
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Swapfest -- The Flea at MIT -- Tech, tools, and gadgets flea market
Sunday, April 21
9:00am to 2:00pm
MIT, Building N4, 32 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Swapfest is a huge electronics, tools, technology, amateur radio, and gadget flea market held on the third Sunday of every month from April to October in the Albany St. parking garage at MIT. Come buy, sell, or just look at objects as diverse as WWII Enigma machines, motors, power tools, computers, space capsules, and more. Early bird buyer admission starts at 7:00 AM for $15. Normal buyer admission starts at 9 AM (MIT students are free, general public admits are $6 or $5 with printed flyer, MIT affiliates are $5). Vendors can preregister by the 5th of the month by mailing in our flyer with a check.
Events ends officially at 2 PM, but come earlier in the day for the best deals. Bring cash.
Proceeds fund the following MIT student groups: MIT Radio Society W1MX, MIT Electronic Research Society, and MIT UHF Repeater Association W1XM
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Earth Day 2024
More information at https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
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Energy Policy Seminar: "Carbon Abatement Costs of Green Hydrogen Across End-Use Sectors”
Monday, April 22
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-carbon-abatement-costs-green-hydrogen-across-end-use-sectors
SPEAKER(S) Roxana Shafiee, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Hanlon - ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu
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Markets Won’t Save Us, and the State Probably Won’t Either
Monday, April 22
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Geoff Mann, distinguished SFU professor of Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, will present “Markets Won’t Save Us, and the State Probably Won’t Either.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Mann is Distinguished Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His writing appears in the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Dissent and The New Statesman and more; his most recent books are In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution and Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (with Joel Wainwright).
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Exploring Climate TRACE: an Open Science workshop on greenhouse gas emissions tracking
Monday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building 7-238 GIS & Data Lab, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/climate-trace-ghg-202
Interested in efforts to monitor and inventory greenhouse gas emissions? Want to learn more about applying your knowledge and skills to increase access to Climate Change-relevant data? Join MIT Libraries for an exploration of the independent Climate TRACE project and other efforts to track global emissions. We will learn about the history and infrastructural underpinnings of Climate TRACE, how such Open Science efforts are essential in the fight against Climate Change and environmental injustice, and how to investigate and verify self-reported greenhouse gas emissions.
For more questions, reach out to Alejandro Paz, Energy and Environment Librarian, at apaz@mit.edu.
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SF Climate Week at climate One: California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Suing Big Oil
Monday, April 22
2pm EDT [11:00 AM 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/2024-04-22/sf-climate-week-climate-one-california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-suing-big-oil
Cost: $5 - $30
On behalf of the people of the State of California, Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, along with the lobbying organization American Petroleum Institute, for willfully misleading the public about climate change. How big a deal could this be?
Join Climate One Host Greg Dalton in a live conversation with Bonta about holding polluters accountable in the courts.
Climate One will be celebrating SF Climate Week (April 22–26) with a series of programs featuring California and the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading voices in policy, climate justice and business. The week will showcase interviews with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, State Senators Nancy Skinner and Scott Wiener, California Environmental Justice Association’s Energy Justice Director Mari Rose Taruc, and environmental justice activist Nalleli Cobo, among others, about the challenges and opportunities facing the nation’s innovation capital when it comes to addressing climate change.
Climate One will also be hosting an Action Lounge, where attendees will be able to join local climate and environmental organizations, apply for green jobs, and receive guidance from climate career coaches.
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Who Are the Real Energy (and Carbon) Hogs?
Tuesday, April 23
12 - 1:30pm EDT
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, 220 S. 34th St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-are-the-real-energy-and-carbon-hogs-registration-781053149997
This is a hybrid event. For those attending virtually, a Zoom link will be sent out the day of the event.Boxed lunches will be available to go following the talk!
For many decades, utility pricing policies have been aimed at encouraging more efficient use of electricity and placing more of the cost burden on those who are "less prudent" in their use. This goal has justified electricity pricing that penalizes households that consume higher quantities, so-called "energy hogs.”
In reality, greater household consumption is primarily associated with such benign characteristics as more household occupants, elderly and very young occupants, hotter locations, and failure or inability to install rooftop solar.
Electricity consumption constitutes a small share of energy usage and carbon emissions for which an individual is responsible. The vast majority is due to activities for which no such penalty pricing exists, including air travel, personal vehicle transportation, and consumption of goods and services.
Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar Severin Borenstein explores how such penalty pricing disproportionately harms low-income and low-mobility individuals while allowing wealthy individuals to keep on consuming.
Speaker
Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and faculty director of the Energy Institute at Haas. He is also Director emeritus of the University of California Energy Institute (1994-2014). He received his AB from UC Berkeley and PhD in Economics from MIT. His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation. He has published extensively on the airline industry, the oil and gasoline industries, and electricity markets. His current research projects include the economics of renewable energy, economic policies for reducing greenhouse gases, and alternative models of retail electricity pricing. Borenstein is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
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Is Globalization Over? (2024 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture)
Tuesday, April 23
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
BU School of Law, Barristers Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/02/15/2024-janetos-distinguished-lecture-is-globalization-over-by-ernesto-zedillo/#RSVP
Is globalization over? If not, is it under fatal threat? Who should care about its possible demise? Ultimately, what’s at stake?
A reception will follow from 5:30-6:00 pm.
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The Challenge of Net Zero at IRA +1 – An EBC Energy Resources Webinar
Wednesday, April 24
9:00 am - 11:30 am EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/the-challenge-of-net-zero-at-ira-1-an-ebc-energy-resources-webinar/#registration-details
Cost: $30 -$150
Net Zero by 2050. Milestone targets. Reduced use of fossil fuels. How will we meet aggressive climate goals? By changing how we generate, transmit, distribute, and use electricity. And one year out, has the rollout of IRA funding made a difference?
Join us for an EBC Energy Resources webinar that will bring together experts and industry leaders to discuss the changes needed to accomplish the clean energy transition. Topics will include clean transmission, electric vehicles, legislative updates, and the clean energy job market. Additionally, speakers will address what they have observed over the course of the past year with the utilization of the influx of funding from the Inflation Reduction Act – detailing what has actually happened, and what are they forecasting.
A robust panel discussion with the audience will conclude the webinar.
General Continuing Education Certificates are awarded by the EBC for this program (2.5 training contact hours). Certificates are automatically provided via email link for registered attendees at the conclusion of the webinar.
Contact
Phone: (617) 505-1818
Email: ebc@ebcne.org
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Singers as Sentinels: How Whales Can Warn of Changing Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 24
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oiaChSGAQ7OebHQGeIlDlA#/registration
SPEAKER(S) Eduardo Mercado III, Behavioral neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bioacoustician at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
Eduardo Mercado III is a behavioral neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bioacoustician at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (UB). His research focuses on understanding how brain plasticity contributes to learning, perception, and mental capacity.
At Radcliffe, Mercado is building on his discoveries about the nature, functions, and plasticity of whale songs. The Singers as Sentinels project combines sophisticated analyses of humpback whales recorded singing near Hawaiʻi and Colombia—geared toward identifying the ways that singers modify their songs in different contexts—with a broader effort to raise public awareness of how human activities are increasingly affecting the lives of whales.
Mercado’s research has been supported by National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation and featured in Animal Cognition, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Journal of Comparative Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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The Impact of AI In Driving Sustainability and Addressing Climate Change !
Wednesday April 24
6 - 9pm EDT
CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-of-ai-in-driving-sustainability-and-addressing-climate-change-tickets-871733778197
Welcome to the AI and Sustainability Event!
Join us for an exciting day of discussions and insights !
We will have the honor of featuring our Head of Data from ACENSI - Damien Darrigade , who will deliver an enlightening solo talk on how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of sustainability. From innovative solutions to pressing environmental challenges to the role of AI in creating a greener world, this event will explore it all.
This session will explore AI application that can help regarding environmental changes monitoring, optimizing resource use, and fostering green technologies. We'll share Business Cases showcasing AI's contributions to renewable energy optimization, waste reduction, or the enhancement of biodiversity through habitat protection and restoration.
Furthermore, we'll also consider the environmental impact of AI technologies themselves. The presentation aims to illuminate the multifaceted potential of AI as a tool for environmental stewardship, inviting a reflective dialogue on how these technologies can be harnessed responsibly and effectively to secure a sustainable future for our planet.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with industry experts, network with like-minded individuals, and learn about the latest trends in AI and sustainability
Event Details:
Date: 24 April 2024
Time Solo Talk : 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Drink and Networking : until 8:30 pm
Come be a part of the conversation and help drive positive change through the power of AI and sustainability. See you there!
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Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action!
Wednesday, April 24
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-dana-s-fisher
Dana R. Fisher for her book Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action! Nathaniel Stinnett will join Fisher in conversation.
We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet even modest goals. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. All the while, the climate crisis worsens. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need?
Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action--but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective. Spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational. Fisher examines the radical flank of the climate movement: its emergence and growth, its use of direct action, and how it might evolve as the climate crisis worsens. She considers when and how activism is most successful, identifying the importance of creating community, capitalizing on shocking moments, and cultivating resilience. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Saving Ourselves offers timely insights on how social movements can take power back from deeply entrenched interests and open windows of opportunity for transformative climate action
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dana R. Fisher is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. Her research focuses on questions related to democracy, civic engagement, activism, and climate politics. Professor Fisher has authored over seventy-five research papers and book chapters and has written six books. Her seventh book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, will be published by Columbia University Press in early 2024. Her media appearances include ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS Newshour, and various programs on NPR, BBC, and CBC. Her words have appeared in the popular media, including in the Washington Post, Slate, TIME Magazine, Politico, the Nation, and the American Prospect. Fisher holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science degree from the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her undergraduate degree is in East Asian Studies and Environmental Studies from Princeton University.
Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015 after over a decade of experience as a senior advisor, consultant, and trainer for political campaigns and issue-advocacy nonprofits. Hailed as a "visionary" by The New York Times, and dubbed "The Voting Guru" by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, Congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns, and he sits on the Board of Advisors for MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. Formerly an attorney at the international law firm DLA Piper LLP, Stinnett holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two children.
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Supporting Indigenous-Led Sustainable Wildlife Management
Thursday, April 25
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4iuPW-xwStWI_UkThrteTg#/registration
This presentation will provide a quick tour of what WCS has learned over the last 50 years and how it might help others in offering respectful and useful support to Indigenous peoples keen to maintain the natural systems that are central to their wellbeing and cultural sense of self.
Contact Sinet.Kroch@tufts.edu
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2024 MIT Sustainability Summit: Systems Change: Systems Change: Accelerating Solutions and Collaborations for Planetary Wellbeing
Friday, April 26
8:30am - 5pm EDT
Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-mit-sustainability-summit-systems-change-tickets-814646839627
Cost: $30 - $225
The summit's central theme is the urgent need for systemic change to address climate challenges, emphasizing collaborative, cross-sectoral action for sustainability. It focuses on creating positive tipping points in key sectors like agriculture, construction, and transportation, leveraging system dynamics and innovation to transition towards a sustainable, net-zero future by 2040.
An (un)conference, an actor's-first Summit: during the afternoon's breakout sessions, participants will join one of three critical structural themes essential for our planet's sustainability:
Biodiversity and Agriculture Challenge: Achieving climate-resilient, sustainable agriculture as the norm by 2040.
Build Environment Challenge: Establishing near-zero emissions cement and concrete production as the global standard by 2040.
Transportation Challenge: Decarbonizing long-haul trucking to be accessible, affordable, and sustainable by 2040.
We want this conference to be open and accessible for everyone. Please use these promo-codes if you are a student; a professional in academia, activism, and/or the non-profit sector; an MIT alum; or an early bird ticket purchaser.
Student promo code: STUDENT2024
Professional in academia, activism, and/or the non-profit sector: ADVOCATE2024
MIT alum: MITALUM2024
More information at https://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu/
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The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Friday, April 26
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/dana_mattioli/
Harvard Book Store welcomes DANA MATTIOLI—award-winning journalist for The Wall Street Journal—for a discussion of her new book The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.
About The Everything War
In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller’s empire, however, Bezos’s company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and its “customer obsession” approach made it indelibly attractive to consumers across the globe. But the company was not benevolent; it operated in ways that ensured it stayed on top. Lina Khan’s paper would light a fire in Washington, and in a matter of years, she would become the head of the FTC. In 2023, the FTC filed a monopoly lawsuit against Amazon in what may become one of the largest antitrust cases in the 21st century.
With unparalleled access, and having interviewed hundreds of people—from Amazon executives to competitors to small businesses who rely on its marketplace to survive—Mattioli exposes how Amazon was driven by a competitive edge to dominate every industry it entered, bulldozed all who stood in its way, reshaped the retail landscape, transformed how Wall Street evaluates companies, and altered the very nature of the global economy. It has come to control most of online retail, and uses its own sellers’ data to compete with them through Amazon’s own private label brands. Millions of companies and governmental agencies use AWS, paying hefty fees for the service. And, the company has purposefully avoided collecting taxes for years, exploited partners, and even copied competitors—leveraging its power to extract whatever it can, at any cost. It has continued to gain market share in disparate areas, from media to logistics and beyond. Most companies dominate one or two industries; Amazon now leads in several. And all of this was by design.
The Everything War is the definitive, inside story of how it grew into one of the most powerful and feared companies in the world—and why this lawsuit opens a window into the most consequential business story of our times.
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Embracing Our Emergency: "Thriving In Climate Crisis"
Sunday, April 28
1-4pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.liminal.news/embracing-our-emergency
Cost: $300, scholarships available
A 10-session live online course hosted by Josh Fox & Daniel Pinchbeck
Guest speakers include:
Jane Fonda
Marianne Williamson
Bill Mckibben
Michael E. Mann
Margaret Klein Salamon
and more…
Sessions will be held from 1-4pm EDT on Sundays and 2-4pm EDT on Wednesdays.
April 28 / May 1 / May 5 / May 8/ May 12 / May 15 / May 19 / May 22 / May 26 / May 29 - 2024
(Additional Sessions TBD)
All sessions will be conducted via Zoom, and will be recorded and made available for replay.
Partial and Full Scholarships available to those in need. Email your request to hello@liminal.news
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Managing Water for Combined Mitigation and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
April 29
2pm EDT [11:00am - 12:00pm PT]
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/managing-water-combined-mitigation-and-adaptation-agricultural-systems
Dr. McDermid will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online (link TBA)
Sonali McDermid, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies, New York University
Achieving sustainable food production demands reducing agricultural GHG emissions while simultaneously facilitating agricultural systems’ adaptation to climate change. Furthermore, on-farm efforts towards mitigation and adaptation may have a variety of biophysical and socioeconomic cobenefits and trade-offs that must be assessed in whole farming systems contexts. To these ends, I will introduce a recently-launched effort by the Agricultural Model Intercomparison Project to evaluate Mitigation and Adaptation Co-Benefits in agriculture. This effort advances integrated assessment protocols to link climate, crop and agricultural economic models with soil models that resolve GHG fluxes and soil carbon dynamics for regional climate change mitigation and adaptation assessments. We are currently applying this framework to rice systems in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and India. Early results suggest that specific combinations of management options, inclusive of alternate wetting and drying, earlier transplanting, and altered nutrient management, can provide important adaptation and mitigation benefits under current and future climate change. Nevertheless, scaling these solutions, both in their efficacy and adoption, requires further consideration of important co-benefits, trade-offs, and uncertainties, particularly related to water management, labor productivity, and soil biogeochemistry. I will reflect on these results’ implications for sustainability in agricultural production systems, as well as uncertainty and research needs for such assessments moving forward.
Sonali Shukla McDermid is a climate scientist, Associate Professor and Chair of the NYU Dept. of Environmental Studies. Her research investigates climate change impacts on agriculture and food security, and the impacts of land management on the environment. She is a climate co-lead for the Agricultural Intercomparison Project, evaluating regional climate change impacts on food security, and is also a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies affiliate, where she develops Earth system models to understand the impacts of land use and management on the climate system. McDermid is a Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2021) and Fulbright-Kalam Fellow awardee (2020), which supports her work on climate mitigation and adaptation in agriculture. She holds a B.A. in Physics from NYU, and masters and Ph.D. from the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Prior to NYU, she was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA GISS in NYC.
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ESG 201 Series Part 1: The Business Case for Sustainability – EBC Climate Change and Air & Ascending Professionals Webinar Series
Tuesday, April 30
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/esg-201-series-part-1-the-business-case-for-sustainability/
Cost: $75
Building on EBC’s 2023 Fall Sustainability 101 Series, the EBC Climate Change and Air & Ascending Professionals Committees bring you “ESG 201,” a three-part series that will look at the current state of the expanding and global-critical discipline of the Environmental, Social and Governance framework. ESG 201 will focus on the exploration of the regulations, risks and opportunities within corporate ESG and sustainability.
Part 1: The Business Case for Sustainability
In this first session of the ESG 201 series, businesses representing various sizes and sectors share the how and why of their sustainability and ESG actions, with a focus on the business case for sustainability and how it adds value to an organization.
A robust panel discussion with the audience will conclude the webinar.
General Continuing Education Certificates are awarded by the EBC for this series (5.0 training contact hours). Certificates are automatically provided via email link for registered attendees at the conclusion of the final webinar in this series.
Program Speakers:
Laney Brown, Vice President, Sustainability, AVANGRID
Danielle Ricketts, Sr. Manager, Sustainability and Community Investment, KinderCare Learning Companies
Jim Wolf, Director of Sustainability, Cape Air
Moderated Discussion
This one-time registration is for the full three-part series. Registration for just one session is not available.
Please reach out to Jessamyn Cox, EBC Operations and Programs Coordinator, at jcox@ebcne.org with any questions – or should you need to cancel your registration.
Can’t attend all three webinars in the series live?
Register today and receive the webinar recording within five business days of the conclusion of each webinar in this three part series.
Contact
Phone: (617) 505-1818
Email: ebc@ebcne.org
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'True False, Hot Cold': Film Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, April 30
4:30pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 55, Atrium 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139
Join the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) and the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences (EAPS) on Tuesday, April 30 from
4:30-6:30pm in the Building 55 atrium for a film screening and discussion about climate change, belief, and talking with people you don't agree with.
The award-winning documentary series, True False, Hot Cold was filmed over three months in a county of Utah that has some of the least belief in climate change in the United States. Each short episode features conversations with farmers, ranchers, cowboys, coal miners, and other county residents about climate change. But instead of focusing on divisions, the series weaves these interviews and vignettes of everyday life to offer ideas about how to build bridges between people who have very different identities and beliefs.
Episode screenings will be punctuated with open conversation with the audience, filmmaker, and MIT staff and faculty incorporating these values and approaches into their MIT work.
Light refreshments will be served.
Featuring
Laur Hesse Fisher, program director at MIT Climate and founder of the MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship
Ben Stillerman, filmmaker and founder of the Social Cohesion Lab
Prof. Deb Roy, faculty director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
Wednesday, May 1
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sabrina_sholts/
Harvard Book Store welcomes SABRINA SHOLTS—curator of biological anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History—for a discussion of her new book The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs. She will be joined in conversation by DR. LARRY MADOFF—Medical Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
About The Human Disease
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last—because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of The Human Disease, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in public education about pandemic risks, biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilities, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us.
Weaving together a wealth of personal experiences, scientific findings, and historical stories, Sholts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profound challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID-19 pandemic looms large in Sholts’s account, it is, in fact, just one of the many infectious disease events explored in The Human Disease. With its expansive, evolutionary perspective, the book explains how humanity will continue to face new pandemics because humans cause them, by the ways that we are and the things that we do. By recognizing our risks, Sholts suggests, we can take actions to reduce them. When the next pandemic happens, and how bad it becomes, are largely within our highly capable human hands—and will be determined by what we do with our extraordinary human brains.
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Meeting Investor Expectations: Introducing the Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark
Thursday, May 2
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTxpuCB7Qi2AM_1YXsuR3w#/registration
Nature Action 100 is a global investor engagement initiative focused on driving greater corporate ambition and action to reduce nature and biodiversity loss. More than 200 institutional investors—representing over $28 trillion in assets under management or advice—are participating in the initiative and engaging 100 focus companies in key sectors to take timely and necessary action to protect and restore nature and ecosystems.
Join us to explore how corporate progress will be assessed toward the Nature Action 100 Investor Expectations for Companies based on the newly released indicators of the initiative's forthcoming company benchmark.
In this webinar, participants will:
Gain insight into Nature Action 100 and its plans
Review the initiative's Investor Expectations for Companies
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Farming the Future: Livestock's Leap to Net Zero
Monday, May 6
4 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-ermias-kebreab-lecture-virtual
Contributing over four percent of global emissions, methane plays a significant role in warming our planet, with the livestock sector as a major source. How can animal productivity be increased while aiming for absolute methane reduction? And how can the forces of private industry be marshaled in the pursuit of sustainable agricultural practices and net-zero commitments?
Ermias Kebreab, world-renowned animal scientist and chair of the United Nations Technical Working Group on Feed Additives, will explore methane mitigation strategies that emphasize both global and region-specific targets for addressing the climate crisis. He will also discuss cutting-edge advances in livestock science, with a focus on genetic selection, microbial engineering, and early-life interventions.
Speaker
Ermias Kebreab, Sesnon Endowed Chair of Animal Science; director, World Food Center; and associate dean for global engagement, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis
Moderator
Edo Berger, codirector of the science program, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and professor of astronomy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Climate LIVE K12: Disasters and Climate Change in the Caribbean
May 8, 2024
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=/public/cals/MainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb7c-8b1dcd5f-018b-200ea6a9-00005636events%40columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
Disasters and climate have impacts all across the globe, but the type and severity of climatic disasters vary geographically. This session will examine the impact of disasters and climate change on small islands, placing a special emphasis on extreme events in the Caribbean region.
A link to join the session will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours in advance.
If you would like to submit any questions before the event, please send them to Laurel Zaima-Sheehy (lzaima@climate.columbia.edu)Contact Information
Laurel Zaima-Sheehy
212-854-0641
lnz2104@columbia.edu
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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
Friday, May 10
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/isaac_arnsdorf/
Harvard Book Store welcomes ISAAC ARNSDORF—award-winning national political reporter for The Washington Post—for a discussion of his new book Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy. He will be joined in conversation by STEVEN LEVITSKY—author of Tyranny of the Minority and Professor of Government at Harvard University.
About Finish What We Started
Inspired by Donald Trump’s election lies, a growing movement of grassroots activists mobilized around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Trump had failed to keep himself in power. But their own success in taking over and purging the Republican Party became their undoing as it drove away moderates and supplied the Democrats with a winning message in the 2022 midterms. Still, the MAGA Republicans proved uninterested in learning from that defeat, only becoming more extreme, divisive, and dead set on returning Trump to power.
Washington Post national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf has spent years at the forefront of reporting on this growing movement. Drawing on extensive, exclusive on-the-ground reporting around the country, and deepened by historical context, Arnsdorf has produced the defining journalistic account of the origins, evolution and future of the MAGA movement. Combining critical and rigorous reporting with the intimacy and complexity of a novel, this book is unlike any other in the decade since Donald Trump convulsed and transformed American politics.
Finish What We Started tells the story of the ordinary Americans driving this change, who they are and where they came from, what motivates them, and what their movement means for the survival of American democracy.
