These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
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Index
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Prep Your Climate Coverage: Spring Weather
Wednesday, February 26
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1217393889013/WN_riwJkVx3Q12VGP9NSURFrQ#/registration
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Civic Life Lunch: Lessons and Strategies from Community Organizing Around the World
Wednesday, February 26
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Barnum Hall 104, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/8JUoRw4XR8Gy_Qzl6OZ4jw#/registration
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Capacity to adapt development pathways to protect human well-being
Wednesday, February 26
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SvTdn7b9Ry66r2NisTVOuw
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Shaping Climate History: Planetary health and climate change
Wednesday, February 26
12:30 - 13:30 ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shaping-climate-history-planetary-health-and-climate-change-online-tickets-1044123189567
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Eliminating the Need for Mining EV Battery Minerals by 2050: Data-driven Insights on Enabling an Efficient, Responsible EV Battery Supply Chain
Wednesday, February 26
12:30-2:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://sei.info.yorku.ca/2025/01/eliminating-the-need-for-mining-ev-battery-minerals-by-2050-data-driven-insights-on-enabling-an-efficient-responsible-ev-battery-supply-chain/
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Driving the next mass solar technology (tandems) when "solar is done"
Wednesday, February 26
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-Colin-Bailie
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Sustainable Finance Panel: Unlocking Emerging Markets
Wednesday, February 26
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Uur7LqI6RCmT2qm8nR0g2A#/registration
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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Wednesday, February 26
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/carl-zimmer
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Learning from Zurich's Co-ops
Wednesday, February 26
6:30pm
MIT, Building 9, 9-255, 105 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
https://design.mit.edu/events/learning-from-zurich-s-coops #MITMAD
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Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sarah-jones
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The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm - 9:00pm
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-02-26/write-science-new-lunar-society-enlightenment-guide-next-industrial-revolution
Cost: $5
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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-26/anita-say-chan-predatory-data
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Democracy on the Brink Symposium
Thursday, February 27 – Saturday March 1
Thursday and Saturday: ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Friday: Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
RSVP at https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/democracy-brink-symposium
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How Soil Carbon Credits Drive Sustainability Across Industries
Thursday, February 27
11am-12pm ET (8am-9am PT)
Online
RSVP at https://trellis.net/webcast/how-soil-carbon-credits-drive-sustainability-across-industries/
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Biochar: Impacts on Climate Change, Plant Communities, and Collaboration
Thursday, February 27
11am - 12pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biochar-impacts-on-climate-change-plant-communities-and-collaboration-tickets-1200148830459
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Humanity in the age of AI: Understanding the future with sAIpien
Thursday, February 27
12pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PpRfPnnEQkiRpY0p6uJPig#/registration
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Unsettling Colonial Ecologies, Removal, and Ruin
Thursday, February 27
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o2OvWNalStSL0uUwX-Xk-A#/registration
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The future of journalism: How creators are changing the news
Thursday, February 27
1 – 2 p.m.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/2010057/1952913/
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Our Nation in Transition series: How Can We Ensure an Energy Transition Where Everyone Benefits
Thursday, February 27
1:00 PM EST — 2:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://cbey.yale.edu/event/our-nation-in-transition-series-how-can-we-ensure-an-energy-transition-where-everyone
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Potential Future(s) of Climate Modeling: Lessons from the Drivers of the AI Revolution
Thursday, February 27
3pm to 4pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/potential-futures-of-climate-modeling-lessons-from-the-drivers-of-the-ai-revolution
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Towards Sustainable Urban Systems with Human-Centered Big Data Mining
Thursday, February 27
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Princeton, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Maeder Hall, 86 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544
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The Peacemaking Machine
Thursday, February 27
4 - 5pm EST
Northeastern, EXP 610, 815 Columbus Avenue Boston, MA 02120
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peacemaking-machine-tickets-1223430336069
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Climatetech Intern Fair
Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
Greentown Boston, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/climatetech-intern-fair/
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Election Law for the New Electorate: The Culture and Politics of Elections in the US
Thursday, February 27
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS South, Room 153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/cultural-politics-seminar-interdisciplinary-perspectives-02-27-25
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"Necessity: Climate Justice & The Thin Green Line" Free Film Screening
Thursday, February 27
6pm to 8pm
MIT, Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Bldg, Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142
https://www.gcws.mit.edu/women-take-the-reel #WTTR25
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The Heat and the Fury: A Conversation With Peter Schwartzstein
Thursday, February 27
7 - 8:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-the-heat-and-the-fury-a-conversation-with-peter-schwartzstein-tickets-1107265654379
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Democracy and Its Critics Initiative Conference | Balancing Majority and Minority Rights – The Dilemma of Majority-Constraining Institutions in an Age of Democratic Backsliding
Friday, February 28
9:15am - 5:30pm
Harvard, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/02/conference-democracy-and-its-critics
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The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Immigration Law, 2025 Boston University Law Review Symposium
Boston University School of Law
Friday, February 28
Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, First Floor, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhZgx2oOt47gQQfmy7yZ8c4qNCu8iFcjX4QSpmiOyq-Eycwg/viewform
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From Gaza to Ukraine: The Future of Rule-Based International Law
Friday, February 28
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TYfFRKs0Q7mJTJmIp-E7dw#/registration
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Black and Green: A Conversation with Christopher “Soul” Eubanks on Social Justice and Animal Activism
Friday, February 28
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Harvard Law, WCC; 3016 Room, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
Friday, February 28
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sam-klug
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EVs and the Road Ahead: Will the Trump Administration Stall Adoption?
Monday, March 3
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 0238
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PgGPIA0&_gl=1*1u3zua2*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTg4MjYuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
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Peacemaking in Trouble
Monday, March 3
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM ET
Harvard, One Brattle Square 350, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/peacemaking-trouble
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The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
Monday, March 3
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/meg-stone
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The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
Tuesday, March 4
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Arizona Time
Online
RSVP at https://wrrc.arizona.edu/events/wrrc-water-webinar-three-ages-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-hope-future-dr
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The Missing Link in Spurring Climate Action? A Spotlight on National Climate Institutions
Tuesday, March 4
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_28ERdQxCQ-y4duroQ6tlrg#/
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A Sustainable Space Race? Haley's Comet, the Climate Crisis, and Retelling Space Exploration through Object Fabulation
Wednesday, March 5
9am - 10am EST [14:00 to 15:00 Exeter. UK time]
University of Exeter, Place Newman Green
And online
Please register attendance in person by emailing infogsi@exeter.ac.uk.
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Campus Climate Action Speaker Series: What Can MIT Learn from Smith College’s Geothermal Transition?
Wednesday, March 5
12pm to 1pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/M6bOBxXYTQ-J8noxp7aK3w#/registration
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Webinar 2: Nature-based Solutions to Tackle Urban Heat in Cities
Wednesday, March 5
4:30am - 5:45am EST [9:30-10:45 am Accra / 10:30-11:45 am Bonn / 12:30-1:45 pm Nairobi / 3:00-4:15 pm India / 4:30-5:45 pm Jakarta]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/3/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities-2#register
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Uncivil Society and Polarization in Eastern Europe
Wednesday, March 5
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/03/uncivil-society-and-polarization-in-eastern-europe
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African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field
Thursday, March 6 12:30pm - Friday, March 7, 5pm EST. Doors at 12:15pm
Harvard University Graduate School Of Design, 48 Quincy Street Piper Auditorium Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-landscape-architectures-alternative-futures-for-the-field-tickets-1217061938019
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Responsible Offshore Wind Development in the U.S. – Implementing the Mitigation Hierarchy
Thursday, March 6
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_059hzDZjQDCeUjbOG-itjQ#/registration
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The Progressive Movement in the Trump Era
Thursday, March 6
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
And online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/@HarvardIOP/streams
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ACCEL Year 3 Kickoff Event
Thursday, March 6
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET
Greentown Boston444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/accel-year-3-kickoff-event/
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“Net-Positive”: Reframing Climate Narratives to Promote Community & Action
Thursday, March 6
7pm to 8:30pm
MIT, Building 10, 105, 222 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKWXWoPDLhvkASdZjahGweFtjpZl0vJhC4Tn6TZYEHdCxMkQ/viewform
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MethaneSAT: Catalyzing Methane Emissions Reductions through Radical Transparency
Friday, March 7
12pm to 1pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/methanesat-catalyzing-methane-emissions-reductions-through-radical-transparency
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Feminist Security Studies: Collectively Building Theory and Practices about Security in the Americas
Friday, March 7
5:30pm to 7pm
MIT, Building 2, 105, 182 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://wgs.mit.edu/events-all/2025/3/7/feminist-security-studies
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Our Warming Planet, Visions of a Sustainable Future
Friday, March 7
6 - 8pm EST
350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-warming-planet-visions-of-a-sustainable-future-tickets-1221401006289
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Introduction to Nature Monitoring in the City
Saturday, March 8
2 - 3:30pm EST. Doors at 1:55pm
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-nature-monitoring-in-the-city-tickets-1040046957447
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Northeastern Sustainability Innovation Week
Monday, March 10 - Friday, March 14
More information at https://sustainability.northeastern.edu/innovationweek/
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Breaking the Cost Escalation Curse of Nuclear Power
Monday, March 10
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, 02138
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PqxJIAS&_gl=1*1v7vm58*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTkyMTEuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
Monday, March 10
12:30pm to 2pm
MIT, Building 9, 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Driving Change, Delivering Solutions: Transforming Transportation 2025
Tuesday, March 11- Wednesday, March 12
World Bank HQ, Washington, DC
And online
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/95d0e2c2-4b36-40d2-89e1-73159d366290/summary?RefId=Google%20ads
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Re-inventing The Attention Machine
Tuesday, March 11
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Harvard, Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), LL2.224, 150 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/re-inventing-the-attention-machine
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The New Famines of the Middle East and Horn of Africa: War economies and the normalization of starvation
Tuesday, March 11
4:30pm to 6pm
I'm Interested
MIT, Building E51, 145 70 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at https://cis.mit.edu/events-seminars/bustani-middle-east-seminar/spring-2025
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Vulnerabilities and Resilience of Electrical Grids in Wartime: Lessons from Ukraine
Tuesday, March 11
5pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing), 230, 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vulnerabilities-and-resilience-of-electrical-grids-in-wartime-tickets-1249629217629
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Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
Tuesday, March 11
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/joshua-s-weitz
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America’s Military After Two Decades of War
Wednesday, March 12
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNE
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Teaching equitably about climate change: Linking Higher Education research
Wednesday, March 12
2 - 3:15pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-equitably-about-climate-change-linking-higher-education-research-tickets-1254547498339
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Why the media is failing on climate change
Wednesday, March 12
3:30 - 4:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-the-media-is-failing-on-climate-change-tickets-1253555812179
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The Importance of Sediment to Northeast Salt Marshes and Threats Posed by Regional Decline in Coastal Sediment Supply
Wednesday, March 12
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://necasc.umass.edu/webinars/importance-sediment-northeast-salt-marshes-and-threats-posed-regional-decline-coastal
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Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
Wednesday, March 12
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-03-12/katherine-stewart-money-lies-and-god
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When the Earth Was Green
Thursday, March 13
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/riley-black-author-when-earth-was-green-conversation-evan-urquhart
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Climate Stories: Empowerment in Times of Despair An Evening Talk with Bill McKibben
Sunday, March 16
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
RSVP at https://www.simpletix.com/e/climate-stories-empowerment-in-times-of-de-tickets-205912
Cost: $25-$50
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Making Weather Forecasts Work for Adaptation to Climate Change
Monday, March 17
12:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Drawdown Roadmap
Monday, March 17
7 - 8pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drawdown-roadmap-tickets-1230822365829
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Conflict Resilience with Bob Bordone
Tuesday, March 18
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
More Than Words, 242 East Berkeley Street, Boston MA 02118
RSVP at https://shop.mtwyouth.org/pages/upcoming-events#?event-id=46170
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Paul Hawken: Carbon, Climate, and Humanity
Wednesday, March 19
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-03-19/paul-hawken-carbon-climate-and-humanity
Cost: $10 - $53
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Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech
Wednesday, March 19
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Princeton, Chancellor Green, Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
RSVP at https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/form/register-for-novel-ecologies-nat
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2025 Hanson Lecture Featuring Alison Bechdel
Wednesday, March 19
5pm to 6:30pm
Northeastern, ISEC Auditorium, 805 Columbus Avenue, Boston
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U.S. Changing Leadership in the World’s Economy
Wednesday, March 19
6:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4CVBmxIUSaK7HPmZKRH73g#/registration
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Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: The Keys to Our Resilient Future
Wednesday, March 19
7:00 pm
Museum of Science, Blue Wing, Museum of Science Way, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://tickets.mos.org/events/4a63edd8-4ef2-1f95-3a25-c58071115127
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The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border
Wednesday, March 19
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-03-19/cristina-rathbone-leah-hager-cohen-asylum-seekers
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Building Energy Boston 2025
8:00 am to 6:00 pm, March 20-21
The Westin, Boston Seaport District
RSVP at https://www.nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-boston-2025
Cost: $? (I couldn’t find one except for the 50th anniversary cocktail party $30-$40)
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The Real "Adaptation Gap": Adapting Development in a Climate Changing World
Thursday, March 20
9:00 - 10:00 GMT-4
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-real-adaptation-gap-adapting-development-in-a-climate-changing-world-tickets-1095374668119
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Photocatalytic and electrocatalytic pathways to sustainable fuels and chemicals: insights into reaction kinetics from optical spectroscopy
Monday, March 20
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Princeton, Maeder Hall Auditorium, 86 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544
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Green Muslims: Living the Environmental Spirit of Islam
Thursday, March 20
5:00-6:15pm
Online
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96756264899?pwd=Fh6fxpzMmPER9on8d9tPxuUQuBZa7K.1
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Key Strategies for Meeting Clean Energy & Climate Goals (More) Affordably
Friday, March 21
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Blvd 17th Floor Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3-21-2025-new-england-electricity-restructuring-roundtable-tickets-1222972546809
Cost: $25 - $110
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Our Oceans, Our Coasts and Us
Grounded in rigorous science, TNC takes innovative conservation approaches from ideas into impactful action, scaling them to drive change.
Friday, March 21
6 - 7pm EDT
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-oceans-our-coasts-and-us-tickets-1246102679659
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49th Annual Gardeners’ Gathering
Saturday, March 22
10am - 5pm EDT. Doors at 9am
Northeastern, Shillman Hall, 115 Forsyth Street Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/49th-annual-gardeners-gathering-tickets-1253253247199
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The Green Opportunity for Cooperative Businesses in the Clean Energy Sector
Saturday, March 22
12:30 - 2pm EDT. Doors at 12pm
Boston Building Resources, 100 Terrace Street Boston, MA 02120
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-green-opportunity-for-cooperative-businesses-in-the-clean-energy-sector-tickets-1102565195179
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AI and water: Striking a balance between challenge and opportunity
Monday, March 24
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pka9jYFVRg25KgksrNlygA#/registration
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Biodiversity on the Move: The Ecology and Conservation of Migratory Birds
Monday, March 24
12:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Are We Smart Enough to Curb AI’s Environmental Impacts?
Monday, March 24
3pm ET [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-03-24/are-we-smart-enough-curb-ais-environmental-impacts
Cost: $5 - $20
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A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear Plant Reopenings/Relicensing
Monday, March 24
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/Oxy34MpDxka2m-ePuyY5Ig2
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Tipping points webinar series: The AMOC tipping point: Impacts on climate and extreme events
Thursday, March 25
8am -9:30am EST [14:00-15:30 CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://the-amoc-tipping-point-impacts-on-climate-and-extreme-events.confetti.events/signup
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Webinar 3: Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Flooding and Stormwater Risks in Cities
Wednesday, March 26
4:30am - 5:45am EDT [9:30-10:45 am Accra / 10:30-11:45 am Bonn / 12:30-1:45 pm Nairobi / 3:00-4:15 pm India / 4:30-5:45 pm Jakarta]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/3/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities-3#register
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My Home, Our Planet: Venezuelan Migrant Children in Brazil and the Role of Education of Climate Change
Wednesday, March 26
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mgS9HnHtTXmFG8Ocq1C3mw
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Collaborative Initiatives to Reduce Chemical Hazards: A Path Forward
Wednesday, March 26
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM ET
Harvard, Malkin Penthouse, Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PwRdIAK&_gl=1*1fftsh*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTkzOTUuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
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End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity
Wednesday, March 26
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chile-eboe-osuji-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-1133435479029
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Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick
Wednesday, March 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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2025 Practice Forum: Sustainability Driven Value Creation: Research, Results & Real-world Applications
Thursday, March 27
9:00am to 5:00pm
NYU Stern School of Business
And online
RSVP at https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business/news-events/events/upcoming-events/2025-practice-forum-sustainability-driven-value-creation-research-results-real-world-applications
Cost: $49 - $129
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Investing for Climate? How Financial Institutions Incorporate Climate Change Into Their Decision-Making
Thursday, March 27
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Yq7n5g-ZSMOwtZxh1u2_3A#/registration
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After COP29: The Energy Transition Challenge
Thursday, March 27
3pm ET [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-03-27/after-cop29-energy-transition-challenge
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
Thursday, March 27
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/athena-aktipis-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-1251802227159
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Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
Thursday, March 27
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Media in Motion: Creatively transforming cities, play, and communities
Friday, March 28
9am - 6pm EDT
Northeastern, Snell Library, 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-in-motion-creatively-transforming-cities-play-and-communities-tickets-1217968629959
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King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South
Friday, March 28
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Renewable Resilience: Solar Energy as a Climate Solution
Monday, March 31,
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Monday, March 31
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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A Perfect Turmoil
Tuesday, April 1
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/alex-green-author-perfect-turmoil
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The Coming Strategic Revolution of Artificial Intelligence: The U.S.-China Contest and the Sources of Competitive Advantage
Wednesday, April 2
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
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The Early Ethics of Planetary Health
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rescheduled-the-early-ethics-of-planetary-health-registration-1236639675559
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Food as Conversation with Nature: Indigenous Insights Into Ecological Stewardship and Sustainability
Thursday, April 3
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZW_a8YqbRAmzRtVDSD7P2A#/registration
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Resisting Authoritarian Populism: What is to be Done?
Thursday, April 3
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/resisting-authoritarian-populism-what-is-to-be-done
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Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments
Thursday, April 3
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenneth-roth-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-1133471466669
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Reimagining Social Housing
Thursday, April 3
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-barber-reimagining-social-housing-tickets-1206068365949
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Translational Science Day 2025: "Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Translating Gun Policy Science into Action to Reduce Firearm Violence”
Friday, April 4
10AM – 5PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.tuftsctsi.org/events/tsd2025/
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Towards Next Generation Greenhouse Gas Information Services - A Case for 4-Dimensional Atmospheric State Optimization
Friday, April 4
12pm to 1pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/towards-next-generation-greenhouse-gas-information-services-a-case-for-4-dimensional-atmospheric-state-optimization
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Friday, April 4
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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How Implementation Makes Environmental Policy Cheaper and Easier Than Expected
Monday, April 7
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, 02138
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PrADIA0&_gl=1*17067yx*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTk2MjQuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
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Accelerating AI Sustainability and Innovation at the Department of Energy
Monday, April 7
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Animals as Healers: A Conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore on How Humans and Animals Can Heal Their Traumas Together
Monday, April 7
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Harvard Law, WCC; 1019 Classroom, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Wednesday, April 9
7:00pm
United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-beinart-being-jewish-after-the-destruction-of-gaza-tickets-1218225107089
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Events
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Prep Your Climate Coverage: Spring Weather
Wednesday, February 26
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1217393889013/WN_riwJkVx3Q12VGP9NSURFrQ#/registration
Don’t wait until an extreme weather event strikes to learn how climate change is fueling changes to our weather systems. From severe storms in the spring to record heat in the summer, each season brings with it a host of extreme weather events that are becoming more frequent and severe as a result of climate change. With research unequivocally showing that these trends will continue, join Covering Climate Now and Climate Central for the first in a series of seasonal webinars that will prepare North American journalists ahead of each season’s climate impacts. This Prep Your Climate Coverage session will highlight emerging climate research on spring severe weather, including tornadoes, hail, and flooding, explore how journalists have reported on the human impacts of these events, and offer vetted language to make the climate connection in your own reporting.
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Civic Life Lunch: Lessons and Strategies from Community Organizing Around the World
Wednesday, February 26
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Barnum Hall 104, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/8JUoRw4XR8Gy_Qzl6OZ4jw#/registration
How does an Indigenous community on South Africa’s Wild Coast take on Shell Oil... and win? How have urban poor communities in the Philippines organized thousands of members to address the front-line impacts of climate change? Why do Barcelona residents build ‘democracy schools’ for poetry, debate, and the circus in neighborhoods across the city? Dive into these questions with Tufts Visiting Fellow Cameron Conner, a dynamic community organizer who has dedicated his life to empowering voices and driving social change. Explore the legacies of people-power around the world and examine the innovations they offer for the rich tradition of community organizing in the United States.
Online Location
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Capacity to adapt development pathways to protect human well-being
Wednesday, February 26
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SvTdn7b9Ry66r2NisTVOuw
This virtual seminar will feature: Carolyn Kousky (Associate Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund) who has extensive experience in both scholarship and practice working to support governments and communities in their efforts to enhance adaptative capacity, manage climate risk, and build community resilience; Aditi Mukherji (Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform at the Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC) whose research and practice focus on just and equitable actions that contribute to water and food security, livelihoods, and resilience for smallholder producers in the Global South; and Claudia Thyme, Senior Adviser Strategy, Engagement & Programmes, Insurance Development Forum (IDF). The seminar will be moderated by Alicia Harley (Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School).
Working paper at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustsci/files/Adaptation%20Capacity_SSP%20Working%20Paper_FINAL.pdf
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Shaping Climate History: Planetary health and climate change
Wednesday, February 26
12:30 - 13:30 ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shaping-climate-history-planetary-health-and-climate-change-online-tickets-1044123189567
An online talk on the history of planetary health.
Today, it is widely recognised that human health is intimately connected to the health of the planet. But how has this understanding come about? Join historian Deborah Coen and nursing professor Teddie Potter (Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice) to explore the past, present and future of global climate change and planetary health.
This event is open to all and takes place online only.
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Eliminating the Need for Mining EV Battery Minerals by 2050: Data-driven Insights on Enabling an Efficient, Responsible EV Battery Supply Chain
Wednesday, February 26
12:30-2:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://sei.info.yorku.ca/2025/01/eliminating-the-need-for-mining-ev-battery-minerals-by-2050-data-driven-insights-on-enabling-an-efficient-responsible-ev-battery-supply-chain/
More InfoYork University is featuring RMI research in their upcoming webinar Eliminating the Need for Mining EV Battery Minerals by 2050: Data-driven Insights on Enabling an Efficient, Responsible EV Battery Supply Chain. New analysis from RMI examines the potential for significant reductions in the levels and intensity of critical mineral extraction needed to support widespread EV adoption and wider energy systems transitions.
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Driving the next mass solar technology (tandems) when "solar is done"
Wednesday, February 26
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-Colin-Bailie
The Stanford Energy Seminar has been a mainstay of energy engagement at Stanford for nearly 20 years and is one of the flagship programs of the Precourt Institute for Energy. We aim to bring a wide variety of perspectives to the Stanford community – academics, entrepreneurs, utilities, non-profits, and more. Join us!
Talk abstract: Tandem PV is a startup commercializing a new solar technology (perovskite-silicon tandem panels). In this seminar, CTO and co-founder Colin Bailie will discuss his journey to date from technology to startup and hopefully soon to product. Starting from a graduate student at Stanford working on the seminal demonstrations of the technology, to transitioning to a startup. Navigating a world in which solar technology is difficult to fund (in the US). Why the world still needs better solar and why perovskite+silicon tandems are that next leap forward. And where the future of solar might go in the short- and medium- terms
Speaker Bio: As a doctoral candidate at Stanford University, Bailie performed seminal research on a then-new class of solar technology—perovskite-based tandem panels—which have the potential to substantially improve the power output of conventional solar modules. Bailie co-founded Tandem PV with Chris Eberspacher, our managing director, while an Activate fellow at Cyclotron Road, the U.S. Department of Energy startup accelerator based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Bailie holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. He was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 30 leaders in the world under 30.
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Sustainable Finance Panel: Unlocking Emerging Markets
Wednesday, February 26
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Uur7LqI6RCmT2qm8nR0g2A#/registration
Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the evolving role of sustainable finance in addressing critical challenges and opportunities in emerging markets. Panelists will explore innovative financing strategies, industry trends, and the future of sustainable investment. The conversation will highlight approaches to closing financing gaps and leveraging synergies between private and concessional financing in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (EMDCs).
This event is public and will be recorded.
Moderator: Lisa Sachs, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Climate, Columbia Climate School, Faculty Director of the MS in Climate Finance Program
Panel
Denisse Becerra | ESG Integration for Active and Engagement Lead, Americas at DWS Group
Abhisheik Dhawan | Sustainable Finance & Partnerships Specialist at the UN Capital Development Fund
Johan Lopez | Amazon Finance Network - External Consultant at IDB Invest
Guly Sabahi | Senior Advisor, Climate Finance at the NDC Partnership
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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Wednesday, February 26
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/carl-zimmer
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Carl Zimmer—award-winning science journalist, writer of the "Origins" column for The New York Times, and professor adjunct in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University—for a discussion of his new book Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down.
Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus.
In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments. We meet the long-forgotten pioneers of aerobiology including William and Mildred Wells, who tried for decades to warn the world about airborne infections, only to die in obscurity.
Air-Borne chronicles the dark side of aerobiology with gripping accounts of how the United States and the Soviet Union clandestinely built arsenals of airborne biological weapons designed to spread anthrax, smallpox, and an array of other pathogens. Air-Borne also leaves readers looking at the world with new eyes—as a place where the oceans and forests loft trillions of cells into the air, where microbes eat clouds, and where life soars thousands of miles on the wind.
Weaving together gripping history with the latest reporting on Covid and other threats to global health, Air-Borne surprises us on every page as it reveals the hidden world of the air.
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Learning from Zurich's Co-ops
Wednesday, February 26
6:30pm
MIT, Building 9, 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
https://design.mit.edu/events/learning-from-zurich-s-coops #MITMAD
While Zurich is a center of global finance, it also has a century-old commitment to public benefit and nonprofit housing, implemented through a cooperative model of resource-sharing. Moreover, these cooperatives have been at the forefront of innovations in architecture and urban design. While the Zurich model cannot be fully transferred to cities in the United States, there are lessons to be learned from its long-standing commitment to nonspeculation within a for-profit real estate market and for the role of design in that work. At this event, Susanne Schindler, an architect and urban historian who co-authored Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich, will describe key aspects of Zurich’s cooperative housing system.
A panel of leading local officials and practitioners will then discuss whether and how the Zurich approach could be applied or adapted for use in Boston and other communities in eastern Massachusetts. This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design, the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Speakers
Susanne Schindler, Research Fellow, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Sheila A. Dillon, Chief of Housing, City of Boston
Kathleen Evans, Senior Director of Capital Deployment, MassHousing
Nia K. Evans, Executive Director, and Joshua Croom, Fund Management Fellow, Boston Ujima Project
Declan Keefe, CoFounder, CoEverything
Moderator: Justin Steil, Associate Professor of Law and Urban Planning at MIT.
Books
Schindler's book Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich will be available for sale at the event in collaboration with the MIT COOP at a 20% discount.
In addition, the MIT Press Bookstore will be offering the book at a 20% discount for one week, Feb 24–March 2.
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Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sarah-jones
Harvard Book Store welcomes Sarah Jones—senior writer for New York magazine and former staff writer for The New Republic—for a discussion of her new book Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass, where Jones' exposes the harsh reality of America’s racial and income inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation’s most vulnerable people. She will be joined in conversation by Lynn Jolicoeur—the field producer for WBUR's All Things Considered and winner of numerous journalism awards, including a Boston/New England regional Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in News Reporting.
About Disposable
In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Andrea Elliot’s Invisible Child, Disposable is a poignant exploration of America’s underclass, left vulnerable by systemic racism and capitalism. Here, Sarah Jones delves into the lives of the essential workers, seniors, and people with disabilities who were disproportionately affected by COVID-19—not due to their age or profession, but because of the systemic inequality and poverty that left them exposed.
osperity is a distant mirage for millions. Jones argues that the pandemic didn’t create these dynamics, but rather revealed the existing social mobility issues and wealth gap that have long plagued the nation. Behind the staggering death toll are stories of lives lost, injustices suffered, and institutions that failed to protect their people.
Jones brings these stories to the forefront, transforming the abstract concept of the pandemic into a deeply personal and political phenomenon. She argues that America has abandoned a sacrificial underclass of millions but insists that another future is possible. By addressing the pervasive issues of racial justice and public policy, Jones calls for a future where no one is seen as disposable again.
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The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm - 9:00pm
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-02-26/write-science-new-lunar-society-enlightenment-guide-next-industrial-revolution
Cost: $5
Join MIT Professors David Mindell, Suzanne Berger, and 2024 Nobel Prize winner Simon Johnson to discuss Mindell's new book, The New Lunar Society, on how we can create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution.
Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The New Lunar Society, David Mindell envisions this new industrialism from the fundamentals, drawing on the eighteenth century when first principles were formed at the founding of the Industrial Revolution. While outlining the new industrialism, he tells the story of the Lunar Society, a group of engineers, scientists, and industrialists who came together to apply the principles of the Enlightenment to industrial processes. Those principles were collaboration, the marriage of practice and scientific knowledge, and the belief that the world could progress through making things.
Copies of The New Lunar Society will be available for purchase onsite from the MIT Press Bookstore.
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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-26/anita-say-chan-predatory-data
The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive "big data" regimes.
Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data.
While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice.
Anita Say Chan, PhD (she/her) is a scholar and educator dedicated to feminist and decolonial approaches to technology. She is an Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Media, and founder of the Community Data Clinic at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Democracy on the Brink Symposium
Thursday, February 27 – Saturday March 1
Thursday and Saturday: ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Friday: Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
RSVP at https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/democracy-brink-symposium
A special three-day symposium, "Democracy on the Brink" will bring together scholars, practitioners, and students to grapple with the challenges and opportunities that democracy faces with the global expansion of authoritarianism, populism, and extremism. Discussions will focus on critical issues like modern threats to democracy, global comparisons, justice movements under authoritarian rule, criminal justice, capitalism, and more.
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How Soil Carbon Credits Drive Sustainability Across Industries
Thursday, February 27
11am-12pm ET (8am-9am PT)
Online
RSVP at https://trellis.net/webcast/how-soil-carbon-credits-drive-sustainability-across-industries/
In 2025, companies are bracing for a seismic shift in sustainability reporting. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is set to redefine how businesses approach and communicate their environmental impact, with soil carbon programmes emerging as a powerful tool in the corporate sustainability arsenal.
The AgreenaCarbon Project has become the first large-scale arable agriculture project registered under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) VM0042 methodology, marking a significant milestone for regenerative agriculture and the Voluntary Carbon Market.
This webcast delves into the intersection of CSRD requirements and the transformative potential of soil carbon initiatives. We’ll explore how these programmes offer tangible benefits to corporate strategies, regardless of industry, and examine the rigorous processes ensuring the integrity of carbon reduction and removal calculations. From direct supply chain impacts in the food and beverage sector to the broader implications for tech companies, we’ll uncover how soil carbon programmes are reshaping sustainability strategies across the board. Additionally, we’ll showcase Agreena’s innovative approach to bridging the gap between farmers and corporations, demonstrating how collaborative efforts are driving meaningful change in agricultural practices and corporate sustainability. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
The key CSRD requirements enforced by the EU from 2025 onwards and their implications for corporate reporting
How soil carbon programs provide incremental and net positive benefits to corporate sustainability strategies
The methods used to ensure integrity in calculating and reporting carbon reductions and removals
The impact of soil carbon initiatives on both direct and non-direct supply chain companies
Agreena’s role in facilitating partnerships between farmers and corporations to advance sustainability goals
Moderator:
Alex Novarro, Director, Nature, Trellis Group
Speakers:
Michael Bertelsen, Head of Agreena Carbon Markets, Agreena
Frederick Leuschner, CEO & Founder, GreenTrade Impact
If you can’t tune in live, please register and we will email you a link to access the webcast recording, available to you on-demand after the live webcast.
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Biochar: Impacts on Climate Change, Plant Communities, and Collaboration
Thursday, February 27
11am - 12pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biochar-impacts-on-climate-change-plant-communities-and-collaboration-tickets-1200148830459
Speaker: Dr. Ramesh Laungani, Marist College
The rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations from human activity is projected to lead to a 2-4°C increase globally by the end of the 21st century. This increase has far-reaching consequences for plant community structure and soil carbon storage.
This has led to a focus on long-term carbon storage in soils through nature-based solutions and management strategies such as biochar additions to soil. Biochar additions to soil can impact both soil carbon stocks and plant community structure. However, it remains unclear whether biochar impacts on plant communities will remain consistent under future, warmer climates.
Through greenhouse experimentation, our results suggest that the addition of biochar may increase the persistence of certain species under future climates, where they may have been eliminated under warmer temperatures without biochar. It also suggests that, under future climates, biochar may directly influence soil carbon storage, and indirectly by altering plant community structure. Taken together, biochar impacts on plant community structure and functioning is an area of research that is ripe for collaboration given the multifaceted impacts this climate change mitigation tool can have on both plants and soils.
Free and open to all. Registration required via Eventbrite.
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Humanity in the Age of AI: Understanding the future with sAIpien
Thursday, February 27
12pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PpRfPnnEQkiRpY0p6uJPig#/registration
AArtificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way computers and humans interact. Hossein Rahnama from MIT Media Lab will announce a groundbreaking program, known as sAIpien, that aims to develop a framework for the future of AI that encompasses trust, inclusiveness, data governance and other factors affecting AI’s impact on society. He will also introduce the AI Readiness Score, a tool for assessing our collective preparedness for this transformative technology.
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Unsettling Colonial Ecologies, Removal, and Ruin
Thursday, February 27
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o2OvWNalStSL0uUwX-Xk-A#/registration
Join us for a conversation between Matt Hooley (Dartmouth College) and Mary Amanda McNeil (Tufts University) as they discuss critical ecologies that emerge from Indigenous lives and claims to land. Moving comparatively across sites including Minneapolis and St. Paul, New England, and Palestine, Hooley and McNeil will share how their respective works unsettle colonial ecologies, settler removal, and its forms of ruin. This conversation will be facilitated by AB Huber (Tufts University).
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The future of journalism: How creators are changing the news
Thursday, February 27
1 – 2 p.m.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/2010057/1952913/
SPEAKER(S) Ryan Kellett
Join the Center for Health Communication for a discussion about how content creators are shifting the news landscape with Ryan Kellett, Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow and former VP of Audience at Axios Media. Lunch will be served.
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Our Nation in Transition series: How Can We Ensure an Energy Transition Where Everyone Benefits
Thursday, February 27
1:00 PM EST — 2:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://cbey.yale.edu/event/our-nation-in-transition-series-how-can-we-ensure-an-energy-transition-where-everyone
The "Our Nation in Transition" series spotlights how a just clean energy transition can continue to bring advanced technology, investment and jobs to local communities across the United States. With the commercialization, industrialization and deployment of climate technologies poised to be the greatest driver of economic transformation this century, this series will explore how this trend will continue under the new US administration.
In our first session, we will discuss the current state of innovative strategies across policy, technology, workforce development, and finance that are driving change in the clean energy field. Featuring Yale faculty and experts teaching from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, we will also highlight how rapidly growing networks of talented individuals and organizations are accelerating clean energy investment and implementation. Together, we will consider whether and how every state, city and town can benefit from these transformative changes, even within an uncertain and challenging political landscape.
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Potential Future(s) of Climate Modeling: Lessons from the Drivers of the AI Revolution
Thursday, February 27
3pm to 4pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/potential-futures-of-climate-modeling-lessons-from-the-drivers-of-the-ai-revolution
Pierre Gentine (Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel professor of geophysics at Columbia University)
AI has been revolutionizing many areas of science from protein unfolding to tumor detection. Over the last five years, fluid dynamics and weather forecasting have witnessed such a revolution and AI-based models are starting to outperform physics-based simulations. Even though several groups have made important steps towards the applications of AI for long-term climate projections, a revolution is not yet within reach but is crucial so that our societies can adapt to climate change. I will present some of the roadblocks in climate modeling and the opportunities that could be imported from the AI revolution. With these developments that require innovations on the algorithmic side, an AI revolution for climate modeling might be within reach.
Pierre Gentine is the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel professor of geophysics in the departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He studies the terrestrial water and carbon cycles and their changes with climate change. Pierre Gentine is the recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and Department of energy (DOE) early career awards, as well as the American Geophysical Union Global Environmental Changes Early Career, Macelwane medal and American Meteorological Society Meisinger award. He is the director of the new NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) for Learning the Earth with Artificial intelligence and Physics (LEAP), the largest funding mechanism of the NSF.
Contact Ester Ramirez eramirez@seas.harvard.edu
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Towards Sustainable Urban Systems with Human-Centered Big Data Mining
Thursday, February 27
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Princeton, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Maeder Hall, 86 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544
Songhua Hu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Abstract: Climate change and population growth pose unprecedented challenges to the urban and human systems. Meanwhile, the proliferation of crowdsensing techniques, such as mobile phones, vehicles, and cameras, has generated vast spatiotemporal data for understanding human activities and their interaction with the urban environment. Effectively managing such massive, multi-structured spatiotemporal data, extracting valuable information, and tailoring solutions to various urban challenges are more crucial than ever. In this talk, I will first delve into my research on using raw location data collected from millions of mobile phones to estimate and forecast individual human mobility patterns. Building on this foundation, I will demonstrate how it can support mobility decarbonization. Specifically, I will introduce a scalable framework that integrates ubiquitous, multi-structured mobility data to estimate citywide on-road vehicle emissions with high spatiotemporal resolution, followed by an evaluation of various city-scale decarbonization strategies, including vehicle electrification and sustainable travel demand management. Lastly, I will highlight opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration in areas such as energy demand estimating, event response, and environmental exposure to drive broader and more lasting impacts.
Bio: Dr. Songhua Hu is a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Senseable City Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on modeling human mobility and human-environment interactions using crowdsourced digital footprints collected from mobile phones, vehicles, social media, and cameras. His work has contributed to projects funded by the NSF, NIH, USDOT, and USDOE, resulting in 28 journal papers published in PNAS, Transportation Research Part A/C/D, and over 30 conference presentations. He is the recipient of the 2023 University of Maryland Best Doctoral Research Award and the 2023 COTA Best Dissertation Award.
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The Peacemaking Machine
Thursday, February 27
4 - 5pm EST
Northeastern, EXP 610, 815 Columbus Avenue Boston, MA 02120
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peacemaking-machine-tickets-1223430336069
Join MIT and Deepmind's Michael Henry Tessler and Michiel A. Bakker for The Peacemaking Machine to discuss how AI can transform democratic deliberation. They will unveil their groundbreaking "Habermas Machine," tested with over 5,700 UK participants. They will explain how they constructed their experiments to test the role of AI in supporting greater consensus-building, and how the AI-enabled moderation system outperformed human mediators, helping groups reach consensus on controversial issues while safeguarding minority viewpoints. With profound implications for bridging divides in our hyper-partisan era, the research highlights AI's potential to streamline community engagement, enhance fairness, and foster more effective public dialogue. We’ll dive into the broader impact of this groundbreaking work and discuss what our future research agenda on AI and deliberation should look like. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and the Internet and Democracy Initiative.
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Climatetech Intern Fair
Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
Greentown Boston, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/climatetech-intern-fair/
There’s a place for everyone in climatetech! Join us to connect with cutting edge startups looking for bright and eager talent.REGISTER HERECalling all students and soon-to-be graduates! Please join us for our annual Intern Fair, which focuses on connecting rockstar interns directly with Greentown Labs’ network of cutting-edge climatetech startups looking for bright and eager talent.
At this internship fair, students from Boston and beyond can connect with Greentown startups and learn more about opportunities at their companies. Attendees will be able to connect in person with the startups that are not only developing climatetech solutions but building a climate workforce that is ready to harness the massive economic opportunities of the energy transition.
There’s a place for everyone in climatetech, whether they’ve previously worked in traditional energy, have experience tackling climate change, or are new to the climate and energy fields. The jobs are here. We just need you!
THE TYPES OF ROLES YOU’LL FIND AT THE FAIR:
Business Administration
Data
Engineering
Marketing
Operations
Sales
Software
And more!
Greentown Labs will be partnering with College to Climate (C2C) to help facilitate the Climatetech Intern Fair! C2C is an organization dedicated to helping college students find jobs and internships in climate.
To better prepare students and job-searchers for the event, C2C will be hosting a virtual ‘Climatetech Intern Fair Prep Session’ on Monday, Feb 24th at 7 pm ET. The session will cover:
What to expect at the fair
A background on the various sectors within climate
How to stand out when speaking with employers
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Election Law for the New Electorate: The Culture and Politics of Elections in the US
Thursday, February 27
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS South, Room 153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/cultural-politics-seminar-interdisciplinary-perspectives-02-27-25
Speaker:
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
The American electorate is transforming—undergoing its most sweeping changes in half a century. These changes include the disappearance of income as a voting cleavage, the rise of a new diploma divide, racial depolarization, and major shifts in voters’ spatial patterns. This talk will explore the implications of the new electorate for election policy and law. These implications are dramatic for fields such as voting, minority representation, redistricting, and campaign finance. Yet, to date, there has been little appreciation of the new world that’s emerging thanks to voters’ novel behavior.
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"Necessity: Climate Justice & The Thin Green Line" Free Film Screening
Thursday, February 27
6pm to 8pm
MIT, Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Bldg, Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142
https://www.gcws.mit.edu/women-take-the-reel #WTTR25
Join us in the 14th Women Take The Reel Film Festival!
Film Screening followed by Q&A with Dir. Jan Haaken and Hessann Farooqi (BCAN)
Facillitated by Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio
The film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying these highly inflammable products through treaty lands. In following the path of oil-by-rail and oil resistance along the Columbia, we revisit lessons of the New Deal era of building massive dams and what climate activists take from that era in thinking about a Green New Deal.
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The Heat and the Fury: A Conversation With Peter Schwartzstein
Thursday, February 27
7 - 8:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-the-heat-and-the-fury-a-conversation-with-peter-schwartzstein-tickets-1107265654379
Join Peter Schwartzstein as he presents key findings of his new book, “The Heat and the Fury On the Frontlines of Climate Violence.”
Agenda
6:00 AM
Introduction
6:05 PM
Remarks by Peter Schwarzstein
6:30 PM
Discussion
6:55 PM
Audience Q & A
Climate change is increasingly driving conflicts and exacerbating tensions worldwide. From water scarcity to food insecurity, the environmental impacts of climate change often contribute to underlying frustrations, pushing communities and nations toward violence. Efforts to address these challenges, however, may also open opportunities for cooperation and conflict resolution.
At this event, journalist and researcher Peter Schwartzstein will present key findings from his new book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence” (Island Press, 2024). In his book, Schwartzstein examines how climate change often serves as a catalyst for longstanding tensions, escalating frustration into conflict and, in some cases, violence. He explores whether cooperation on climate issues can reduce geopolitical frictions and help mend divisions. Drawing on more than a decade of reporting and field research from dozens of countries, including Iraq, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other countries, Schwartzstein provides insights into the complex relationship between environmental challenges and societal stability.
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Democracy and Its Critics Initiative Conference | Balancing Majority and Minority Rights – The Dilemma of Majority-Constraining Institutions in an Age of Democratic Backsliding
Friday, February 28
9:15am - 5:30pm
Harvard, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/02/conference-democracy-and-its-critics
SPEAKERS
Rahel Freiburghaus, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bern
Claudia Landwehr, Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, University of Mainz
Gretchen Helmke, Thomas H. Jackson Distinguished University Professor, and Faculty Director of the Democracy Center, University of Rochester
Philip Manow, Professor of International Political Economy, University of Siegen
Christoph Möllers, Professor of Public Law and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-University Berlin; Permanent Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
Andrew O’Donohue. Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Melissa Schwartzberg, Professor of Politics, New York University
Sir Paul Tucker, Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013)
Fabio Wolkenstein, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
Daniel Ziblatt, Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Michael Zürn, Director of the Global Governance Research Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Professor of International Relations, Freie Universität Berlin
When are constraints on majorities justifiable from a democratic point of view? Which institutions are, and which, not? And what are the consequences of different types of constraints on majorities for the stability and resilience of democracy? This conference brings together European and American political scientists, legal scholars, and political theorists in a series of panels to discuss the consequences of majority-constraining institutions on democracy. For a full agenda, see below.
** Please note: The first panel discussion will begin at 9:15 am. **
About
9:15 am - 9:30 am Welcome Remarks by Daniel Ziblatt and Michael Zürn
9:30 am - 11:00 am Panel 1 | Frameworks for Analysis: Conceptualizing Constraints on Majorities
Introduction: Daniel Ziblatt and Michael Zürn – Two Types of Constraints of Majorities
Christoph Moellers – Where is the Majority in the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty? Some Reflections on a dubious Category
Melissa Schwartzberg – Protecting Interests Under Majority Rule
11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Panel 2 | Limits on Democracy to Protect Individual and Minority Rights
Philip Manow – Why We Should Not Use V-Dem’s Liberal Democracy Index Any Longer
Gretchen Helmke – When Strong Institutions Undermine Strong Democracies
1:00pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00pm – 3:30pm Panel 3 | Limits on Majorities to Assure a Role for Expertise
Andrew O’Donohue – Limiting Majority Control over Law and Courts
Sir Paul Tucker – Majority Rule and Conditions for Legitimate Independent Agencies
Michael Zürn – The Epistemization of the Political and the Politization of the Epistemical
3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45 pm – 5:15pm Panel 4 | Are Constraints on Democracy Good or Bad?
Claudia Landwehr – Insulating and Changing the Rules of the Game. To What Extent Should Democratic Procedures Be Protected by Supermajority Requirements?
Fabio Wolkenstein – Remedying the Anti-Liberal Capture of Constitutional Courts
Daniel Ziblatt – Where the Majority Should Rule
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The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Immigration Law, 2025 Boston University Law Review Symposium
Boston University School of Law
Friday, February 28
Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, First Floor, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhZgx2oOt47gQQfmy7yZ8c4qNCu8iFcjX4QSpmiOyq-Eycwg/viewform
We are currently at a critical inflection point in US immigration law. We are contending with oppressive and inhumane immigration policies—policies that magnify the racism and xenophobia that have been weaponized against immigrant communities for years. Boston University Law Review’s Spring 2025 Symposium seeks to ground the historical legacy of US immigration law, understand its manifestation in the present, and embrace a liberatory vision for the future. We hope to draw from a wide range of knowledge bases and lived experiences—including legal scholars, activists, organizers, and more. In doing so, we want to spark imagination, renew our commitment to justice, and, in community with one another, organize for action in the face of fear, uncertainty, and injustice.
AGENDA
9:30 A.M - 10:00 A.M
Symposium Registration and Breakfast
10:00 A.M. - 10:10 A.M.
Opening Remarks and Welcome, Barristers Hall
Sarah Sherman-Stokes (Boston University School of Law)
10:10 A.M. - 11:10 A.M.
Panel I: Past
César Cuauhtémoc GarcÃa Hernández (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law)
Tania Valdez (The George Washington University Law School)
Mary Holper (Boston College Law School)
Moderator: Julie Dahlstrom (Boston University School of Law)
11:10 A.M. - 11:20 A.M.
Break
11:20 A.M. - 12:20 A.M.
Panel II: Present
Laila Hlass (Tulane University Law School)
Lisa Washington (University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School)
Linus Chan (University of Minnesota Law School)
Moderator: Karen Pita Loor (Boston University School of Law)
12:20 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch
1:30 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Panel III: Future
Andrea “Vivi” Manrique (Alagape Organization)
Silky Shah (Detention Watch Network)
Sarah Sherman-Stokes (Boston University School of Law)
Moderator: Angelo Petrigh (Boston University School of Law)
2:30 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
Closing Remarks
Crystal Hsu (Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review)
Karen Yao (Senior Managing Editor, Boston University Law Review) Alejandro Perez (Executive Editor, Boston University Law Review)
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From Gaza to Ukraine: The Future of Rule-Based International Law
Friday, February 28
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TYfFRKs0Q7mJTJmIp-E7dw#/registration
Event Description: Join us for a conversation with distinguished diplomat H.E. Josep Borrell, who served as the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (2019–2024) and President of the European Parliament (2004–2007). The conversion will focus on the future of the rules-based international order and the multilateral system amidst global conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Ukraine. The event will also explore the challenges facing the European Union and its role in defending a strong multilateral order and EU–US transatlantic relations.
Moderated by Carr Center Faculty Director, Mathias Risse, and Carr Center Middle East Programming Associate, Khaled Emam.
Preregistration for this event is required.
Speaker:
An economist, Stanford-trained mathematician, and aeronautical engineer with a degree awarded the year Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Josep Borrell has extensive political experience and is considered one of the most influential figures in foreign relations worldwide. He was part of the first González governments, served as a Spanish MP (1986–2004), then as President of the European Parliament (2004–2007), and as Spain’s Foreign Minister (2018–2019).
Emma Costa
617-495-8629
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Black and Green: A Conversation with Christopher “Soul” Eubanks on Social Justice and Animal Activism
Friday, February 28
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Harvard Law, WCC; 3016 Room, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the Harvard Animal Law Society as we welcome Christopher “Soul” Eubanks. Mr. Eubanks is the founder of Apex Advocacy, an animal rights’ nonprofit focused on the intersections between animal rights and BIPOC-related social activism. Mr. Eubanks will be presenting on both subjects, and a Q&A will be held afterward. Lunch will be provided!
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The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
Friday, February 28
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sam-klug
Harvard Book Store and the Boston Review welcome Sam Klug—assistant teaching professor of history at Loyola University Maryland whose writing has appeared in Politico Magazine, Vox, Boston Review, and Dissent—for a discussion of his new book The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization, an explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice. He will be joined in conversation by Chad Williams—the Tomorrow Foundation Chair of American Intellectual History and Professor of African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University.
About The Internal Colony
In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global decolonization to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the Black freedom movement in postwar America. Klug reconsiders what has long been seen as a matter of primarily domestic policy in light of a series of debates concerning self-determination, postcolonial economic development, and the meanings of colonialism and decolonization. These debates deeply influenced the discord between Black activists and state policymakers and formed a crucial dividing line in national politics in the 1960s and 1970s.
The result is a history that broadens our understanding of ideological formation—particularly how Americans conceptualized racial power and political economy—by revealing a much wider and more dynamic network of influences. Linking intellectual, political, and social movement history, The Internal Colony illuminates how global decolonization transformed the terms of debate over race and social class in the twentieth-century United States.
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EVs and the Road Ahead: Will the Trump Administration Stall Adoption?
Monday, March 3
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 0238
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PgGPIA0&_gl=1*1u3zua2*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTg4MjYuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
President Trump has vowed to cut off federal and state support for electric vehicles, but can his administration really put the brakes on EV adoption? Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Elaine Buckberg, Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.
Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
Registration: RSVP required. A Harvard University ID is required for in-person attendance; all are welcome to attend via Zoom.
Contact Liz Hanlon 617-495-5964
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Peacemaking in Trouble
Monday, March 3
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM ET
Harvard, One Brattle Square 350, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/peacemaking-trouble
What if the world's peacemaking system is flawed in fundamental ways? There are more armed conflicts today than at any point since the end of World War II. Civil wars, especially, have proliferated since 2011. In so many regions of the world, peacemaking initiatives are not succeeding.
New research conducted by the speaker suggests that mediation efforts are failing not just because conflicts are so difficult to resolve and the international environment is so challenging—but also due to flaws and deficiencies in the field’s systems, structures, policies, and practices.
The research, conducted through Oxford University, involved in-depth interviews with 86 of the world's leading mediators and ten colloquia with dozens of other experts and practitioners. It amounts to one of the largest consultations of its kind.
The speaker, a leading mediation specialist, will share and explore wide-ranging critiques of the field. He will argue that the expert testimonies constitute a powerful case for a major, collective process to enhance the effectiveness of international mediation.
Admittance is on a first come–first served basis. Tea, Coffee, and Dessert Provided.
Speakers and Presenters
Matt Waldman, Associate, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University; Senior Adviser, European Institute of Peace
Contact Susan Lynch 617-496-1981
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The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
Monday, March 3
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/meg-stone
Harvard Book Store welcomes Meg Stone—Executive Director of IMPACT Boston, an abuse prevention and empowerment self-defense organization—for a discussion of her new book The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence, where Stone shows us how we can make safety choices that expand our worlds and contribute to the fight for social justice.
About The Cost of Fear
Personal safety shouldn’t mean living in fear, nor should it come at the expense of political progress.
Questionable advice to avoid violence, like “don’t go shopping alone,” comes mostly from the police or other men in authority. But gender-based violence is often enacted in the most intimate spheres of our lives, not when we’re out grocery shopping. To stop this violence, we need strategies that are just as intimate.
In The Cost of Fear, nationally recognized violence prevention expert Meg Stone helps readers separate fact from fiction. It’s full of practical, research-based strategies that readers can use to keep themselves and their communities safer. Increased safety comes from developing the skills to resist coercive control, especially from people we know or people in authority, not from complying with rigid rules or avoiding homeless people on the street.
This deeply researched book draws timely connections between personal safety and political change—from Latina organizers in California working to stop sexual violence against night shift janitorial workers to teenage girls who call out double standards.
Work to change laws and change people’s minds is essential, but without practical strategies, the change is incomplete. The Cost of Fear will show us how we can make safety choices that expand our worlds and contribute to the fight for social justice.
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The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
Tuesday, March 4
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Arizona Time
Online
RSVP at https://wrrc.arizona.edu/events/wrrc-water-webinar-three-ages-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-hope-future-dr
This WRRC Water Webinar will cover the role of water from the very creation of the universe and our solar system to the evolution of Homo sapiens and modern civilization. Scientist Peter Gleick will discuss the current state of the world of water and the many water challenges and crises facing us—from water poverty to ecosystem degradation to climate change to growing violence over water resources. He will also address the need and real possibility of transitioning to a new age of water where these crises are addressed and successfully overcome, offering examples of innovative strategies to move to a sustainable future for water.
Peter Gleick is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on water and climate issues. He co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California in 1987, one of the most innovative, independent non-governmental research centers, creating and advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing water challenges, including work on the human right to water, water and climate, and water, peace, and security issues. He is currently President-emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute. Dr. Gleick is a MacArthur Fellow and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, he was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. Gleick's most recent book, The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future, was published in 2023 by Public Affairs/Hachette.
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The Missing Link in Spurring Climate Action? A Spotlight on National Climate Institutions
Tuesday, March 4
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_28ERdQxCQ-y4duroQ6tlrg#/
Navroz Dubash, professor of public and international affairs and the High Meadow Environmental Institute, is the final speaker in the spring 2025 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
How do countries organize themselves internally to address climate change? To what extent can internal governance arrangements help create a more favorable national politics for climate action? While a lot of thinking has gone into mechanisms for global collaboration on climate change, national climate governance is under-studied. This talk argues that seemingly prosaic national and sub-national climate governance arrangements may be the missing link in accelerating transitions to low-carbon, climate resilient futures.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
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A Sustainable Space Race? Haley's Comet, the Climate Crisis, and Retelling Space Exploration through Object Fabulation
Wednesday, March 5
9am - 10am EST [14:00 to 15:00 Exeter. UK time]
University of Exeter, Place Newman Green
And online
Please register attendance in person by emailing infogsi@exeter.ac.uk.
A new space race is on: as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon and private sector actors speculate about colonising Mars, astrophysicists are discovering thousands of small, rocky planets (Kopparapu et al., 2018).For the public, these exoplanets hold promise of alien life or an escape from Earth beset by the climate crisis. However, this is a dangerous narrative: astrophysicists agree that colonising other planets or terraforming Mars are not viable options to ensure our survival - there really is no Planet B.
In an unprecedent and unique collaboration, Christine Lehnen and Raphaëlle Haywood are bringing together the disciplines of creative writing and astrophysics to combat this dangerous narrative and develop a better, sustainable narrative for space exploration. Christine Lehnen will draw on the creative research method of object fabulation to explore the motivations of astronomers working in humanity's distant past and compare them with motivations of astronomers working on cutting-edge experiments today to develop a new narrative for why we are looking at the stars: to better understand, sustain, and nurture our own planet rather than colonise others.
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Campus Climate Action Speaker Series: What Can MIT Learn from Smith College’s Geothermal Transition?
Wednesday, March 5
12pm to 1pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/M6bOBxXYTQ-J8noxp7aK3w#/registration
As MIT continues work on its campus decarbonization plan, we’re bringing the community together to explore the technologies and strategies that could shape our path forward. This webinar is the next installment in our speaker series, designed to engage the MIT community and examine key solutions for reducing campus carbon emissions.
This session will focus on Central District Geothermal systems, a large-scale approach that uses a single, centralized heat pump to serve multiple buildings via an underground pipe network. Our featured speaker, Denise McKahn, Associate Provost and Associate Professor of Engineering at Smith College, will share insights from Smith’s ambitious $210 million geothermal transition, which is replacing their college’s fossil-fuel-fired steam system with an electrically powered, central district geothermal network.
Key Topics:
Why Central District Geothermal? Understanding the efficiency, scalability, and infrastructure needs of centralized vs. decentralized geothermal systems.
Lessons from Smith’s Experience: The financial and business case, governance and decision-making processes, and technical details of Smith’s new energy districts.
The Role of the Campus as a Testbed: How large-scale energy transitions can support research, education, and hands-on learning, and vice-a-versa.
Join us for an in-depth discussion on this technology, lessons we can learn from Smith’s experience and the continuing conversation shaping MIT’s sustainable energy future.
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Webinar 2: Nature-based Solutions to Tackle Urban Heat in Cities
Wednesday, March 5
4:30am - 5:45am EST [9:30-10:45 am Accra / 10:30-11:45 am Bonn / 12:30-1:45 pm Nairobi / 3:00-4:15 pm India / 4:30-5:45 pm Jakarta]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/3/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities-2#register
Co-organized by WRI India, UrbanShift, and Cities4Forests, this three-part capacity building training webinar series is designed to build capacity of city officials to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement nature-based approaches to enhance climate resilience in cities. The three webinars will focus on (1) an introduction to the Climate Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (CHVA) framework to prioritize resilience actions in cities, (2) nature-based solutions to tackle extreme heat in cities, and (3) nature-based solutions to mitigate urban flooding. City government officials from global South cities, national government officials with urban development mandates and other urban practitioners are encouraged to attend and advised to participate in all three webinars for a comprehensive learning experience. The webinars will be conducted in English and simultaneous interpretation will be offered in French and Bahasa Indonesia.
Contact / Kontak: John-Rob Pool (john-rob.pool@wri.org)
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Uncivil Society and Polarization in Eastern Europe
Wednesday, March 5
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/03/uncivil-society-and-polarization-in-eastern-europe
SPEAKER(S) Lenka Bustikova, Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
This event is organized by the Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series led by CES Resident Faculties Peter E. Gordon and CES Director Daniel Ziblatt. It is also co-sponsored by the Democracy and Its Critics Initiative at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).
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African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field
Thursday, March 6 12:30pm - Friday, March 7, 5pm EST. Doors at 12:15pm
Harvard University Graduate School Of Design, 48 Quincy Street Piper Auditorium Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-landscape-architectures-alternative-futures-for-the-field-tickets-1217061938019
Part of the GSD Spring 2025 Public Programs collection
The African Landscape Architectures conference brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. This two-day hybrid event highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will explore innovative strategies through frameworks such as ecology, adaptation, and materiality that offer alternative futures for African landscapes.
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Responsible Offshore Wind Development in the U.S. – Implementing the Mitigation Hierarchy
Thursday, March 6
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_059hzDZjQDCeUjbOG-itjQ#/registration
Global climate change is a key driver of biodiversity loss, and the clean-energy transition is crucial to reducing carbon emissions and subsequent impacts on global biodiversity. Offshore wind energy has emerged as a pivotal player in the transition toward clean energy, and this is particularly true for dense urban coastal cities such as those found on the East Coast of the U.S. where access to other sources of renewable energy are more constrained. As the American leader in offshore wind and recognizing that no large-scale energy project is without potential impacts to wildlife, Ørsted is shaping an industry that can successfully coexist with marine wildlife. Ørsted's principal avian and bat biologist will discuss how Ørsted and other developers are using the mitigation hierarchy approach to strive towards “no net loss” and, in Ørsted's case, towards meeting its ambition to have a net-positive impact on biodiversity for all renewable energy projects commissioned by 2030 or later.
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The Progressive Movement in the Trump Era
Thursday, March 6
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
And online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/@HarvardIOP/streams
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) will discuss the state of the Democratic Party, and where the progressive movement goes from here. Jayapal currently serves as Chair-Emerita of the Progressive Caucus, having previously served both as Chair and Co-Chair. In addition to the priorities, goals and vision of the Progressive Caucus, she will discuss important policy issues and legislation within the committees she serves on, including House Judiciary and House Foreign Affairs.
Please register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. All JFK Jr. Forums are publicly livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
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ACCEL Year 3 Kickoff Event
Thursday, March 6
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET
Greentown Boston444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/accel-year-3-kickoff-event/
Kick off Year 3 of our accelerator program for BIPOC-led startups!
Join us to celebrate the kickoff of Year 3 of ACCEL, an accelerator program from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) designed to support BIPOC-led climatetech startups. At this event, hear from innovative startups that are developing climate solutions for sectors including agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, resilience and adaptation, and transportation.
The third iteration of ACCEL follows two successful program years. The Year 2 cohort featured seven startups working on innovations as diverse as yeast-centered water treatment, vertical-axis offshore wind turbines, and algae- and cellulose-based fashion beads. Their accomplishments during the accelerator included conducting successful pilots, earning acceptances into additional accelerators, securing capital, winning awards, and more.
Take this opportunity to network, celebrate, and build community around this incredible program and meet the Year 3 cohort!
ACCEL is a year-long program that combines acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation through a Greentown membership, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGS’s networks of industry experts. The program is designed to bolster BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach. Learn more about ACCEL here.
Browning the Green Space is a coalition of leaders and organizations, primarily in the New England region, that share the passion to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) in clean energy. Their goal is to increase the participation and leadership of Black and Brown people and of women (collectively, “underrepresented groups”) in the clean energy space and beyond (e.g., wasted food, water, agtech) in the Northeast. Learn more about Browning the Green Space here.
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“Net-Positive”: Reframing Climate Narratives to Promote Community & Action
Thursday, March 6
7pm to 8:30pm
MIT, Building 10, 105, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKWXWoPDLhvkASdZjahGweFtjpZl0vJhC4Tn6TZYEHdCxMkQ/viewform
The “doom-and-gloom” of dominant climate change narratives contributes to climate despair and passivity. Is there a better way to face our very real climate challenges?
Join us as we discuss how centering cherished places and values offers a path to reframe climate discourse and promote a positive vision that lays the groundwork for sustained and targeted action.
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MethaneSAT: Catalyzing Methane Emissions Reductions through Radical Transparency
Friday, March 7
12pm to 1pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/methanesat-catalyzing-methane-emissions-reductions-through-radical-transparency
Contact Ester Ramirez eramirez@seas.harvard.edu
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Feminist Security Studies: Collectively Building Theory and Practices about Security in the Americas
Friday, March 7
5:30pm to 7pm
MIT, Building 2, 105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://wgs.mit.edu/events-all/2025/3/7/feminist-security-studies
“Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: Pushing the Fronteras,” edited by Priscyll Anctil convenes voices from across the Americas, creating space for decolonial, anti-racist, and class-based perspectives within feminist security discussions. This led to the formation of the Feminicides and Feminist Security Studies reading group. The reading group’s critical discussions evolved into essays by activists, government workers, and academics featured in the second book, “Feminist Security Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean”, edited by Alessandra Jungs de Almeida. Together, these books represent a collective transnational feminist effort to address security issues from perspectives often marginalized in traditional security studies. Please join us in this panel, where the authors and editors, Priscyll Anctil, Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, and J.C.D. Calderónm, will discuss the two volumes and explore the main theoretical, epistemological, and methodological contributions, including how they contest andro-anglo-centered knowledge production and expand the concept of feminist security.
Food will be provided
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Our Warming Planet, Visions of a Sustainable Future
Friday, March 7
6 - 8pm EST
350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-warming-planet-visions-of-a-sustainable-future-tickets-1221401006289
ART EXHIBITION & RECEPTION
Creative Malden, Coffee Shop Artists, and the City of Malden are proud to present “Our Warming Planet: Visions of a Sustainable Future,” an art exhibition inspired by Malden’s Climate Action Plan. Featuring over 30 local artists, the exhibition will run from March 5 to March 28, 2025 at 350 MAIN, 350 Main Street, Malden.
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 7
6:00–8:00 PM
Meet the artists, view their work (available for purchase), and enjoy a special program on the connection between art and climate change. Santon will perform original and contemporary music inspired by this theme.
The exhibition will be open to the public Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM–6:00 PM,
Don’t miss this inspiring exploration of art and climate action!
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Introduction to Nature Monitoring in the City
Saturday, March 8
2 - 3:30pm EST. Doors at 1:55pm
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-nature-monitoring-in-the-city-tickets-1040046957447
Part of the EwA Urban Nature Participatory Science collection
Join Earthwise Aware (EwA)'s participatory scientists. We'll guide you through monitoring phenology and biodiversity, including insect activity at our sites. These observation events contribute to biodiversity and climate science while enjoying the outdoors in our beautiful garden. No expertise required – beginners are welcome!
[Prepare] To prepare for the session, here's a short read & a few apps to install
The Growing Center will be our gracious host, and we look forward to spending quality time together exploring its habitats and inhabitants. In preparation for such a wonderful opportunity, we invite you to read our short Acknowledgement of Biodiversity, Land, and People. Thanks!
To record with us, install a few free apps to get started. We use smartphones as data recording tools. If you don't have a smart device, don't worry – we'll pair you with someone who does. Here are the apps: EwA Survey projects » Instructions– install our app platform, then search for and join EwA Pheno Lite and EwA Buggy.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE DO NOT BE A NO-SHOW!!! Our offerings are free and frequently waitlisted, so if you cannot attend, please tell us a few days before the events so we can give your spot to another person who wants to participate. Thanks for your understanding and courtesy!
Rendezvous Location: The Somerville Community Growing Center.
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Northeastern Sustainability Innovation Week
Monday, March 10 - Friday, March 14
More information at https://sustainability.northeastern.edu/innovationweek/
Add to calendar https://sustainability.northeastern.edu/innovationweek/Join us for Northeastern’s inaugural Sustainability Innovation Week, March 10–14! This network-wide event unites students, faculty, staff, and industry partners to drive sustainable innovation and explore impactful solutions for our campuses and beyond.
Want to get involved?
Compete in the Sustainable Campus Innovation Competition. (Students)
Present sustainability-focused research, projects, posters, and exhibits. (All NU)
Mark your calendar to attend, explore innovative ideas, and learn from sustainability leaders at this inaugural event!
Sustainability Innovation Week | March 10–14
Sustainability Innovation Week Expo | March 11, 10 A.M.–4 P.M.
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Breaking the Cost Escalation Curse of Nuclear Power
Monday, March 10
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, 02138
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PqxJIAS&_gl=1*1v7vm58*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTkyMTEuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
The success of nuclear power renaissance hinges on addressing one critical challenge: cost. Historically, nuclear power has been plagued by a “cost escalation curse,” with overnight construction costs rising dramatically in countries like the United States and France from the 1970s to the 1990s. In contrast, China’s nuclear sector presents a striking counterexample, achieving declining costs alongside substantially capacity expansion.
In this Energy Policy Seminar, Shangwei Liu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, will share findings from a forthcoming paper to explain how China has been able to reduce its construction costs - and what other countries can learn.
Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch provided.
Registration: RSVP required. A Harvard University ID is required for in-person attendance; all are welcome to attend via Zoom.
Recording: The seminar will NOT be recorded.
Contact Liz Hanlon 617-495-5964
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
Monday, March 10
12:30pm to 2pm
MIT, Building 9, 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
In Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons, Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to two social housing co-ops in New York City where residents are pondering significant changes. Should they maintain the rules that have kept units affordable for decades but limit the financial returns they can get for their units? Or should they change those rules in ways that would allow them to reap significant financial windfalls but will make the units—and the communities in the building—inaccessible to new residents of modest means? In exploring these debates, Tarleton lays bare competing visions of what ownership means, what homes are for, and what neighbors owe each other.
Lunch will be provided.
Registration is not required for this event.
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Driving Change, Delivering Solutions: Transforming Transportation 2025
Tuesday, March 11- Wednesday, March 12
World Bank HQ, Washington, DC
And online
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/95d0e2c2-4b36-40d2-89e1-73159d366290/summary?RefId=Google%20ads
Global challenges like climate change, conflict, and fragility put immense pressure on transportation systems, especially in developing economies. To ensure future growth, stability, and poverty reduction, these economies must deliver effective transport solutions at scale.
Transforming Transportation 2025 will focus on the skills, policies, and resources needed to move from planning and policy to the implementation of equitable, sustainable, and resilient transportation systems.
This comprehensive, week-long program includes two core forum days and many more technical sessions. Key themes include building local capacity and strengthening institutional frameworks. Participants will explore resilience, road safety, financing, innovation, electric mobility, logistics, improving access for vulnerable groups, and more.
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Re-inventing The Attention Machine
Tuesday, March 11
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Harvard, Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), LL2.224, 150 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/re-inventing-the-attention-machine
Please join us before the talk at 2pm outside of LL2.224 for refreshments
Speaker Bio: Ziv Epstein, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Abstract: Today, social media feeds exert influence on us and our societies by directing our attention toward a small subset of the available content. Both the algorithms underlying these feeds and the user experience are optimized primarily for engagement. But whose values do they amplify? At what cost? In this talk, I will discuss two projects. The first explores the role of attention and distraction in browsing patterns online and how to design mitigations to fight misinformation at scale by shifting attention to accuracy. The second explores how to measure which human values are being algorithmically amplified by social media algorithms, and if those align with people's own values. Together, this work underscores the promise of re-designing social media to empower users by aligning systems with their values.
Speker Bio: Ziv Epstein is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. In his research, he focuses on translating insights from design and the social sciences into the development of sociotechnical systems such as generative AI and social media platforms. Ziv has published papers in venues such as the general interest journals Nature, Science and PNAS, as well as top-tier computer science proceedings such as CHI and CSCW. His work has also received widespread media attention in outlets like the New York Times, Scientific American, and NPR.
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The New Famines of the Middle East and Horn of Africa: War economies and the normalization of starvation
Tuesday, March 11
4:30pm to 6pm
I'm Interested
MIT, Building E51, 145 70 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at https://cis.mit.edu/events-seminars/bustani-middle-east-seminar/spring-2025
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Tufts University
This lecture locates the return of famines in geo-strategic, economic and normative changes that have their sharpest manifestation in a cluster of countries in the Middle East and Horn of Africa. The most severe and widespread starvation in the contemporary world has struck Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and most recently Gaza, with neighboring countries also afflicted. All these countries are located in the “Red Sea Arena,” a zone of contestation consisting of the littoral countries of the Red Sea and their immediate neighbors. The lecture posits that this cluster of calamities have a common explanatory thread, namely the lens of “new war economies”. The demise of the liberal Pax Americana and the rise of Middle Eastern middle powers and the BRICS has led to new rivalries, organized around access to dollar reserves and alternative currency arrangements backed by resources including gold, oil, land, and strategic real estate. The Gulf monarchies and Israel have strategies and instruments designed to finance current and anticipated conflicts. They seek key resources in Africa and control of strategic locations at the crossroads of maritime commerce. They wage economic warfare that render their adversaries ungovernable. Most damagingly, the new war economies are associated with illiberal norms, including reviving sovereign privileges, undermining liberal multilateral institutions, and adopting a permissive ethos of tolerating mass starvation.
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Vulnerabilities and Resilience of Electrical Grids in Wartime: Lessons from Ukraine
Tuesday, March 11
5pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing), 230, 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vulnerabilities-and-resilience-of-electrical-grids-in-wartime-tickets-1249629217629
A Conversation with Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, former CEO of Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s electric grid operator
The Russian assault on Ukraine’s electrical generating capacity and transmission grid as part of its full-scale war against Ukraine, is unprecedented in the history of warfare. Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the former CEO of Ukraine’s electric grid operator Ukrenergo, will discuss the challenges of securing Ukraine’s energy system throughout the war, lessons for mitigating grid vulnerabilities, and prospects for rebuilding a more resilient energy system in Ukraine and Europe. The event will be moderated by Dr. Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Volodymyr Kudrytskyi served as the CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of the Ukrainian Transmission System Operator Ukrenergo from February 2020 until September 2024. Under his leadership, Ukraine’s electrical grid has undergone preparations for synchronization with the power system of Continental Europe ENTSO-E and emergency synchronization with ENTSO-E in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. From February 24, 2022, Mr. Kudrytskyi and his team at Ukrenergo managed the Ukrainian power grid through unprecedented Russian attacks against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Previously, Mr. Kudrytskyi held leadership roles in key Ukrainian energy sector companies, including Naftogaz and Ukrtransnafta. Mr. Kudrytskyi holds a degree in international finance from Kyiv National Economic University.
Mariana Budjeryn is the author of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) and a winner of the 2024 William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award, the first female in the award’s 25-year history. Dr. Budjeryn is a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
Tuesday, March 11
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/joshua-s-weitz
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Joshua S. Weitz—a professor of biology and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics at the University of Maryland—for a discussion of his new book Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics. He will be joined in conversation by Dr. Bill Hanage—Professor of Epidemiology and Associate-Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
The riveting account of how asymptomatic transmission drove COVID-19's global spread and catalyzed interventions to control it.
Why was COVID-19 so difficult to contain and so devastating to people and economies worldwide? In Asymptomatic, author Joshua S. Weitz explains how silent transmission enabled COVID-19's massive and tragic global impact.
Weaving the science of viral infections together with an insider's look at response efforts, Weitz guides readers through the shockwaves of successive epidemic waves as public health officials and academic research teams confronted the rise and risk of what was then a burgeoning global pandemic. The discovery of asymptomatic spread also fueled competing narratives: either COVID-19 was about to dissipate as quickly as it had emerged or completely disrupt life as we knew it.
Weitz, a physicist-turned-biologist who directs a quantitative viral dynamics research group and has been immersed in COVID-19 response efforts, explains both why and how scientists tried to wade through competing narratives and warn the public of COVID-19's profound risk. As explored through a careful analysis of local outbreaks, accessible descriptions of virus dynamics, and the use of predictive models to guide response efforts, Asymptomatic provides readers a unique look into the secret ingredient that allowed COVID-19 to spread across borders and the high-impact interventions needed to fight it and future pandemics.
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America’s Military After Two Decades of War
Wednesday, March 12
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
Dr. Mara Karlin from Johns Hopkins University will speak at the MIT Security Studies Program's Wednesday Seminar.
In this seminar, Dr. Karlin will explore the legacies of the post-9/11 wars for the U.S. armed forces and discuss the implications of the changing character of military conflict.
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Teaching equitably about climate change: Linking Higher Education research
Wednesday, March 12
2 - 3:15pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-equitably-about-climate-change-linking-higher-education-research-tickets-1254547498339
How do we teach equitably about climate change? This is the challenge that the ESRC IAA grant Global Inequalities and Climate Change aimed to address. Parvati Raghuram (Open University), Melis Cin (Lancaster University), and Manu Lekunze (University of Aberdeen), in collaboration with Chris Winter (Geography Association) and Dan Whittall (Geography Association), developed new teaching materials for Key Stage 3 (ages 11–14) to address the climate crisis through a decolonial lens, focusing on a case study from Cameroon. These materials aim to bridge gaps in geography education by highlighting the intersections of climate change, human influence, and global inequalities rooted in colonial legacies. This presentation explores how higher education research can feed directly into school teaching materials and what can be gained, some elements of how to teach equitably about global South countries through embedded research and some of the challenges of working on such projects. It will also showcase the teaching materials.
The need for such resources is evidenced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Africa report (2022), which highlights a key challenge for UK teachers: addressing misconceptions about how Africa is taught in schools. Also, the IPCC Reports (2019–2022) emphasize the significant role of human activities in driving climate change. Despite this, many school curricula lack accessible and engaging case studies that connect these human impacts to broader issues of global inequality. In response, these resources are designed to align directly with Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) objectives by diversifying curriculum content and providing teachers with decolonial pedagogies that are more reflective of the UK’s diverse society.
These innovative materials directly address these gaps, drawing on qualitative data and visual materials from the Cameroon case study of the AHRC GCRF Network+ Decolonising Peace Education in Africa (DEPA) project. By drawing on in-depth research we showcase the lived experiences of people in Cameroon affected by climate change, thus not only deepening students' understanding of the climate crisis but also encouraging critical thinking about global interconnections and justice.
Accompanied by teacher Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training and an online rollout, these materials aim to leave a lasting legacy by fostering more inclusive and impactful geography teaching in the UK and beyond. By integrating these resources into classrooms, we aspire to inspire young learners to critically engage with the pressing challenges of the climate crisis and its global implications.
The materials are currently being widely disseminated among geography teachers in the UK and Cameroon, and we will host online sessions and public interviews to expand their reach further.
To access and download the materials: https://geography.org.uk/resources/global-inequalities-and-the-climate-crisis/
Speakers:
Professor Parvati Raghuram
Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. Her research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility, of individuals, goods and of ideas is reshaping the world. In one of her recent AHRC funded project Decolonising Peace Education in Africa she looked at how creativity can be used as a resource to create peace, to earn an income and to learn in equitable ways. The DEPA project covered 14 countries and has brought about lasting change in many communities.
Dr Melis Cin
Melis Cin is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University. Her research sits at the intersection of education, gender, and international development. She was a Co-Investigator on the AHRC project Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa, which spanned over 14 countries and engaged in the production of inclusive teaching materials focused on creative economies, peace pedagogies, and the climate crisis.
Dr Manu Lekunze
Manu Lekunze is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. He studies the security of states in the continually changing domestic, regional, and international environments. His research has covered questions on several aspects of national security, like maritime strategy, intelligence, insurgency, political economy, and the role of education in national security. Dr Lekunze’s research on the role of education in national security has informed innovative policies on how developing states can use formal education systems and content to contribute to peace, security, and prosperity.
Dr Dan Whittall
Dan is Research Engagement Lead for the Geographical Association, and teaches Geography at a sixth form college in West Yorkshire. He has over ten years’ experience in classrooms and has written for Teaching Geography as well as other publications. He is on the editorial board of Routes: The Student Geography Journal and is also a member of the Decolonising Geography collective.
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Why the media is failing on climate change
Wednesday, March 12
3:30 - 4:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-the-media-is-failing-on-climate-change-tickets-1253555812179
Join us to discuss how, despite clear scientific evidence around climate change, the media continues to enable deniers and delayers.
Continuing the debates and discussions started at Dorset COP, our first webinar of 2025 features the postponed session on climate and the media.
At this event we’ll be discussing with Tom Chivers of the Media Reform Coalition how the media has set and misled the narrative on climate change, despite clear scientific evidence of the issues we face.
We’ll also discuss how his research, in line with the aims of the Media Reform Coalition, outlines the need for a more democratic, diverse and independent media, ending the abuses and concentration of media power which have failed, not just the climate emergency, but the very fabric of our democracy.
Questions can be pre-submitted via email to zerocarbondorset@gmail.com using the subject header "Question".
You can find out more about Zero Carbon Dorset and ensure you receive details of future events here.
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The Importance of Sediment to Northeast Salt Marshes and Threats Posed by Regional Decline in Coastal Sediment Supply
Wednesday, March 12
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://necasc.umass.edu/webinars/importance-sediment-northeast-salt-marshes-and-threats-posed-regional-decline-coastal
Brian Yellen UMass Amherst
Dylan Roy UMass Amherst
Wenxiu Teng UMass Amherst
Jon Woodruff UMass Amherst
Coastal environments such as salt marshes, shellfish flats, and beaches depend on a continuous supply of sediment to adjust to rising sea levels. For several years, an NE CASC-supported team has been focusing on assessing (1) the dominant sources of sediment to the New England coast, (2) how sediment contributes to salt marsh health, and (3) how humans may be reducing coastal sediment supplies in the Northeast US. In this webinar, team members will first illustrate the relationship between sediment supply and the ability of salt marshes to build vertically, a process that is essential to maintaining a platform elevation above rising sea levels. Second, the team will compare the sediment delivery to the coast from rivers to that derived from coastal bluff slumping using lidar differencing to quantify the amount of sediment being added directly from bluff erosion. Finally, team members will conclude by making use of a newly developed satellite remote sensing tool to demonstrate that coastal suspended sediment has been declining in the Northeast US. They hypothesize that extensive coastal armoring is partly to blame for observed decreases in coastal suspended sediment, potentially posing added adaptation challenges to threatened coastal habitats like salt marshes.
About the Speakers
Brian Yellen is the Massachusetts State Geologist and a faculty member at UMass Amherst.
Dylan Roy is a graduate student in the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst.
Wenxiu Teng is a graduate student in the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst. J
on Woodruff is the NE CASC University Codirector and a faculty member in the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst.
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Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
Wednesday, March 12
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-03-12/katherine-stewart-money-lies-and-god
The acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers exposes the inner workings of the “engine of unreason” roiling American culture and politics.
Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. She introduces us to reactionary Catholic activists, atheist billionaires, pseudo-Platonist intellectuals, self-appointed apostles of Jesus, disciples of Ayn Rand, women-hating opponents of “the gynocracy,” pronatalists preoccupied with the dearth of white babies, Covid truthers, militia members masquerading as “concerned moms” and battalions of spirit warriors who appear to be inventing a new style of religion even as they set about attacking democracy at its foundations.
Along the way, she provides a compelling analysis of the authoritarian reaction in the United States. She demonstrates that the movement relies on several distinct constituencies, with very different and often conflicting agendas. Stewart's reporting and comprehensive political analysis helps reframe the conversation about the moral collapse of conservatism in America and points the way forward toward a democratic future.
Katherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, the award-winning book upon which the documentary feature, God & Country, produced by Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, is based. She has covered the intersection of faith and politics for over 15 years; her work appears in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the New Republic, the Guardian, and Religion News Service and she has been featured on broadcast media outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, and NPR. Her 2012 book, The Good News Club, covered the religious right’s effort to infiltrate and undermine public education. Find her at @kathsstewart and katherinestewart.me.
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When the Earth Was Green
Thursday, March 13
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/riley-black-author-when-earth-was-green-conversation-evan-urquhart
ABOUT WHEN THE EARTH WAS GREEN
Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024
A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth
Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, and even humans would not exist without the evolutionary efforts of their leafy counterparts. It has been the constant growth of plants that have allowed so many of our favorite, fascinating prehistoric creatures to evolve, oxygenating the atmosphere, coaxing animals onto land, and forming the forests that shaped our ancestors’ anatomy. It is impossible to understand our history without them. Or, our future.
Using the same scientifically-informed narrative technique that readers loved in the award-winning The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, in When the Earth Was Green, Riley Black brings readers back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests, and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Each chapter stars plants and animals alike, underscoring how the interactions between species have helped shape the world we call home. As the chapters move upwards in time, Black guides readers along the burgeoning trunk of the Tree of Life, stopping to appreciate branches of an evolutionary story that links the world we know with one we can only just perceive now through the silent stone, from ancient roots to the present.
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Climate Stories: Empowerment in Times of Despair An Evening Talk with Bill McKibben
Sunday, March 16
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
RSVP at https://www.simpletix.com/e/climate-stories-empowerment-in-times-of-de-tickets-205912
Cost: $25-$50
PLUS! A debrief with Storytellers/Climate Activists
Judith Black and Elisa Pearmain
Join us for an inspiring talk by author, and environmental educator, and Ghandi Peace Prize winner Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and now Third Act, which organizes people over sixty for climate action and justice.
Following Bill’s talk of approximately 40 minutes, Judith and Elisa will lead a 45-minute debrief sharing their short climate action stories and inviting participants to cull from our broad and collective experience stories (folk, historical and contemporary) that address some of the issues we have just heard about! These will be shared with the large group as time allows.
It matters who is telling the stories, and what stories are getting out into the world. Help us be a
force for truth and active hope!
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Making Weather Forecasts Work for Adaptation to Climate Change
Monday, March 17
12:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Dr. Manuel Linsenmeier is an environmental economist and works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Most of Manuel's research studies adaptation to climate change and sustainable development. His work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and has been published in leading…
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu; Livestream on MediaCentral
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Drawdown Roadmap
Monday, March 17
7 - 8pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drawdown-roadmap-tickets-1230822365829
Given the many possible solutions to combat climate change, how do we focus our efforts, create the most effective plan & make a difference?
You may know that there are many possible solutions to combat climate change. But, how do we focus our efforts, create the most effective plan and really make a difference on climate before it’s too late? The Drawdown Roadmap is a science-based strategy for accelerating climate solutions, pointing to which climate actions governments, businesses, investors, philanthropists, community organizations, and others should prioritize to make the most of our efforts to stop climate change. Attend this 4-week course to understand the roadmap, and consider how to actualize it in your business, community organization, investments and more. Contact Lisa Brenskelle at gcs.lrc@gmail.com for more information.
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Conflict Resilience with Bob Bordone
Tuesday, March 18
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
More Than Words, 242 East Berkeley Street, Boston MA 02118
RSVP at https://shop.mtwyouth.org/pages/upcoming-events#?event-id=46170
Join us for an exciting evening as we celebrate the launch of Conflict Reslience and a Q&A with one of the authors!
Youth Introduction: A warm welcome from our youth representatives.
Bob's Reading and Remarks: Hear Robert Bordone read excerpts from "Conflict Resilience," share insights, and lead a brief exercise. Discover practical solutions and groundbreaking techniques from the book that empower us to navigate conflict constructively.
Interactive Session with Youth: Engage in a prepared Q&A or dialogue with the youth, exploring themes from the book such as understanding conflict, cultivating curiosity, and engaging constructively.
Audience Q&A: Have your questions answered by Robert Bordone. Learn more about the neuroscience behind conflict and how to develop resilience in the face of disagreement.
Book Signing: Get your copy of "Conflict Resilience" signed by Robert Bordone.
About the Book: In "Conflict Resilience," Robert Bordone and Joel Salinas, M.D., show us how to turn conflict into an opportunity for growth and stronger relationships. Drawing on powerful neuroscience and advanced conflict management techniques, they introduce a three-step framework to navigate conflict: NAME (and dig deep), EXPLORE (and be brave), and COMMIT (and own the conflict). This book is essential for anyone looking to improve their ability to handle disagreements constructively.
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Paul Hawken: Carbon, Climate, and Humanity
Wednesday, March 19
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-03-19/paul-hawken-carbon-climate-and-humanity
Cost: $10 - $53
Join us live for a journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet. Your tour guide is New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken.
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth’s composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization.
In his new book Carbon, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbon’s omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life. Hawken charts a course across our planetary history, guiding us into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food and farms to offer a new narrative for embracing carbon’s life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor.
Hawken will illuminate the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and ask us to see nature, carbon and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined—inseparably connected.
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Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech
Wednesday, March 19
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Princeton, Chancellor Green, Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
RSVP at https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/form/register-for-novel-ecologies-nat
Join us to hear Professor Allison Carruth speak about her new book, Novel Ecologies, in conversation with Vinson Cunningham.
Novel Ecologies investigates a distinctly California paradigm shaped by the tech industry—what Allison Carruth terms Nature Remade. Through three case studies—synthetic wildlife, the digital cloud and space colonization—the book challenges the conviction that climate change and other environmental crises must be met with planetary-scale technological intervention. Against the world-building gambits of Google, Open AI, SpaceX and a host of start-ups, Carruth marshals the work of writers and artists who imagine provisionally hopeful futures while refusing to forget histories of power and exploitation that have made the world what it is.
This event is free and open to the public. Please register here.
Speakers
Allison Carruth is professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies and leads the environmental media and climate storytelling studio Blue Lab. From 2016-2020, she was the founding director of UCLA’s Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), While leading LENS, she was an executive producer of an environmental media collaboration featuring essays and documentary films developed in partnership with and distributed by KCET/PBS SoCal. She is the previous author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food.
Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2024 and was awarded the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2021-2022. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his Profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. He teaches at the Yale School of Art and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and is a co-host of Critics at Large, The New Yorker’s weekly podcast about culture and the arts. His début novel, “Great Expectations,” came out in 2024. He is currently a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton.
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2025 Hanson Lecture Featuring Alison Bechdel
Wednesday, March 19
5pm to 6:30pm
Northeastern, ISEC Auditorium, 805 Columbus Avenue, Boston
Join the English department and sponsoring co-departments for our 2025 Hanson Lecture, featuring Alison Bechdel, Macarthur Genuis Fellow and best-selling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength.
The Hanson Fund Lecture Series is an annual event that honors the memory of English alumnus Peter Burton Hanson, CSSH '91, who tragically passed away with his family on United flight 175 during the September 11th attacks.
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U.S. Changing Leadership in the World’s Economy
Wednesday, March 19
6:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4CVBmxIUSaK7HPmZKRH73g#/registration
Under President Biden, the U.S. has advanced new ideas about trade, technology, industrial policy, competition with China, and the organization of the world economy. For most of the postwar era, the U.S. has tied its global leadership to cooperative agendas aimed at creating a more open-world trading system, but that has apparently come to an end. What are America’s options and opportunities as a leader of the world economy? How will America’s “foreign policy for the middle class” and strategic competition with China impact its leadership role? How can the postwar rules and institutions of the world economy be made safe for economic nationalism and great power competition?
Join us for a timely discussion of this topic with Dr. Daniel Drezner, Distinguished Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean of Research at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. This program will feature an expert presentation, live audience Q&A, and time for networking and discussion with other globally-oriented participants in the Newsfeed Café.
This program is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
The program will be live-streamed to Zoom from 6:00-7:00 PM. To attend virtually, please register here.
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Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: The Keys to Our Resilient Future
Wednesday, March 19
7:00 pm
Museum of Science, Blue Wing, Museum of Science Way, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://tickets.mos.org/events/4a63edd8-4ef2-1f95-3a25-c58071115127
This spring the Museum of Science, with support from the City of Boston and Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag), launches a new seasonal speaker series that will highlight the work Indigenous communities are doing to combat climate change across the United States.
The City of Boston and other coastal cities are facing major impacts of climate change. What can we learn from Indigenous communities? Could Traditional Ecological Knowledge be one of the many tools to help us become more resilient? Indigenous communities are heavily impacted by climate change and have remained resilient despite loss of land, food insecurity, and many other issues.
Join us for our first convening celebrating the work that Indigenous communities locally and nationally are leading to combat water issues such as rising sea levels, flooding, drought, and more.
This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
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The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border
Wednesday, March 19
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-03-19/cristina-rathbone-leah-hager-cohen-asylum-seekers
A remarkable, decimating work of reporting by award-winning journalist and priest Cristina Rathbone about asylum seekers trapped at a port of entry to the US: the trauma they carry, the community they create, and the faith they maintain.
The Asylum Seekers offers a rare narrative account of the horror of the US-Mexico border. Borders run through author Cristina Rathbone too, whose mother was a Cuban refugee. So in 2019 she travels to Juarez, unsure what to do but determined to learn.
Weaving intimate portraits of individuals with broader stories about the community, reporting from the border as a whole, and reflections on the meaning of faith in a place of suffering, Rathbone tells the story of Mexican asylum seekers living in a makeshift tent camp at the foot of a bridge. Life in the camp is both hectic and harrowing. Families arrive. Families leave. Families get through to the US. Families are returned from the US. Women weep, children squabble, and grown men sob over photographs of their murdered sons' mutilated bodies.
Here too, however, are beauty, and empathy, and hope. Over time, a leadership team emerges. The community begins to convene daily meetings, establish systems of distribution for donations, and start classes for the kids. Serving as an unofficial chaplain, Rathbone is there through it all: listening, receiving, assisting, and most of all learning about what authentic faith looks like under conditions such as these.
Written in the tradition of My Fourth Time, We Drowned and Rivermouth, The Asylum Seekers renders in startling, intimate detail the day-to-day lives of people who are determined to enter the US legally and who often suffer for it. The result is a fierce, poignant inquiry into the dignity of those who seek asylum--and into what we owe each other.
Cristina Rathbone is an award-winning journalist, Episcopal priest, and spiritual director. She is the author of On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School and A World Apart: Women, Prisons, and Life Behind Bars.
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Building Energy Boston 2025
8:00 am to 6:00 pm, March 20-21
The Westin, Boston Seaport District
RSVP at https://www.nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-boston-2025
Cost: $? (I couldn’t find one except for the 50th anniversary cocktail party $30-$40)
As NESEA celebrates its 50 year anniversary, this year’s BuildingEnergy Boston conference is all about working together to Build the Movement. The call for session proposals is currently open. You can read more about submitting a session proposal here.
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The Real "Adaptation Gap": Adapting Development in a Climate Changing World
Thursday, March 20
9:00 - 10:00 GMT-4
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-real-adaptation-gap-adapting-development-in-a-climate-changing-world-tickets-1095374668119
This seminar explores why climate adaptation efforts fail and offers hope through interdisciplinarity and decolonising knowledge.
Join us on Thursday, 20 March, as Professor Tom Tanner and the Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD) host a seminar on one of humanity's most pressing challenges: the ongoing failures to prevent the causes of global heating and the urgent need to tackle climate-related impacts. This seminar will critically examine why our current approaches to adapting human society to climate change are falling short, while offering hope through the growing evidence of interdisciplinary solutions and decolonising knowledge.
Speaker: Professor Tom Tanner is a leading authority on climate change and society, serving as Director of the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at SOAS University of London.
With deep expertise in building climate resilience, Tom has worked as a technical expert with UNDP and UK FCDO. His research covers a wide range of critical issues, including climate policy and planning, urban resilience, anticipatory decision-making, and child-led approaches to resilience. He is also Associate Editor of Climate and Development and advises the UN’s Race to Resilience initiative. Tom has authored the influential textbook Climate Change and Development and, most recently, Resilience Reset, which provides a fresh roadmap for tackling climate change and other shocks in urban areas.
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Photocatalytic and electrocatalytic pathways to sustainable fuels and chemicals: insights into reaction kinetics from optical spectroscopy
Monday, March 20
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Princeton, Maeder Hall Auditorium, 86 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544
James Durrant, Professor of Photochemistry, Imperial College
Starting with the challenge of sustainably synthesizing fuels and chemicals in transitioning to a more sustainable energy system, Durrant will introduce photo- and electrocatalytic approaches to the problem and discuss mechanistic insights gained from transient optical spectroscopy studies of key reactions, such as water splitting water to hydrogen and organic oxidations (e.g., photoreforming). The kinetic challenge for photocatalysis arises from the mismatch between the picosecond-to-nanosecond lifetimes of photoexcitations in most light-absorbing materials and the microsecond-to-second reaction timescales in chemical fuel synthesis, which is different from the challenges arising in photovoltaic solar cells. Applications of transient spectroscopy to study photocatalysis involving both organic and inorganic materials (including metal oxides and conjugated polymers) will be presented, as well as insights gained from operando spectroscopy about the function of metal oxide catalysts in water oxidation, the key kinetic and thermodynamic bottleneck for water splitting. This latter topic will be explored further to examine materials design and function, comparing water oxidation kinetics on heterogeneous and molecular iridium electrocatalysts, as well as on hematite photoelectrodes.
James Durrant is a British photochemist and professor of photochemistry at Imperial College London and Sêr Cymru Solar Professor at Swansea University. He serves as director of the center for plastic electronics. Durrant was educated at Gresham’s School in Norfolk, the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1991 for research on photosystem II using spectroscopy. Durrant’s research focuses on a range of photochemical applications including solar cells, solar fuel production and photocatalysis, nanomaterials and plastic electronics.
Visit acee.princeton.edu/highlight-seminar-series for more info.
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Green Muslims: Living the Environmental Spirit of Islam
Thursday, March 20
5:00-6:15pm
Online
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96756264899?pwd=Fh6fxpzMmPER9on8d9tPxuUQuBZa7K.1
with Executive Director, Sevim Kalyoncu
She will share share some key Islamic teachings in regards to the environment and describe the work Green Muslims does to encourage the understanding and practice of these teachings within the American Muslim community.
Sevim Kalyoncu is an environmental educator who serves as the executive director of Green Muslims, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization working to help connect the American Muslim community with nature and climate action. She speaks at local mosques, leads educational nature hikes, and puts together Meaningful Watershed Education Experiences (MWEEs) through Green Muslims’ Our Deen (Faith) is Green! youth education program and From the Ground Up! adult environmental education classes. Through this work, she strives to encourage a spiritual connection with nature as well as environmental and climate awareness that is rooted in an Islamic understanding of environmental stewardship.
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Key Strategies for Meeting Clean Energy & Climate Goals (More) Affordably
Friday, March 21
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Blvd 17th Floor Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3-21-2025-new-england-electricity-restructuring-roundtable-tickets-1222972546809
Cost: $25 - $110
This Roundtable will include panels on Reducing the Costs of the Electricity System and Enabling Customer Energy Cost Management.
Moderator: Janet Gail Besser
Reducing the Costs of the Electricity System
Commissioner Katie Dykes, Connecticut Dept of Energy & Environmental Protection Chair Philip Bartlett, Maine Public Utilities Commission
Melissa Lavinson, Executive Director, Office of Energy Transformation, MA EEA
Electricity rates have been rising regionally and nationally as load growth from electrification and electricity-intensive end uses like data centers increases, thus precipitating the need for greater investment in energy resources, transmission, and distribution to ensure reliability, resilience, and resource adequacy. In the Northeast, state goals and mandates to decarbonize the economy, which depends on transitioning to carbon free electricity resources, create additional upward pressure on rates that are already higher than the national average.
Policymakers and regulators are grappling with this tension, pursuing a range of approaches to reduce the costs of the electricity system on multiple fronts. Many of these efforts are aimed at reducing and managing peak loads to make better use of existing generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure - and to defer or eliminate the need for new investment. Other approaches include reforms to improve the efficiency of regional and interregional electricity markets and operations, enhanced oversight of transmission and distribution asset condition investments, deployment of innovations in grid enhancing technologies (GETS), and distribution grid modernization. Finally, policymakers are looking beyond ratepayer funding for innovative ways to finance the clean, reliable, and resilient energy system necessary to power the region’s future.
This panel will focus on a variety of approaches to reducing the underlying costs of the electricity system:
Katie Dykes, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, will discuss regional efforts to improve capacity markets, enhance transmission planning and operations, and improve the effectiveness of regulation to mitigate costs at both federal and state levels. She will also discuss ways Connecticut is working to reduce electricity costs to consumers as it pursues grid modernization and energy affordability.
Philip Bartlett, Chair of the Maine Public Utilities Commission, will address the New England States Committee on Energy’s (NESCOE) efforts to collaborate on identifying and meeting transmission needs, and to increase oversight of transmission and distribution asset condition investments that often escape scrutiny under current regulatory frameworks. He will also discuss the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners’ (NECPUC) work on peak demand reduction.
Melissa Lavinson, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office of Energy Transformation, will describe the Commonwealth’s focus on energy transformation, including transitioning away from reliance on the Everett Marine Terminal LNG Facility, decarbonizing how we meet peak electric demand, and establishing alternative mechanisms to finance the future grid transition.
Enabling Customer Energy Cost Management
Maggie Downey, Chief Administrative Officer, Cape Light Compact
Rachel Gold, Senior Principal, Carbon Free Electricity, RMI
Kate Daniel, Northeast Regional Director, Coalition for Community Solar Access
Erika Diamond, Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions, EnergyHub
While policymakers, regulators, market participants and stake-holders are working on reducing the underlying costs of the electricity system, they are also implementing programs and providing tools to enable customers to better manage their own electricity and energy use. By taking advantage of these tools, customers can not only lower their own bills, but can also contribute to reducing overall electricity system costs.
These programs and tools include:
Regulatory policies and rules that protect customers, such as tiered discount rates by income level;
Community aggregation that makes the most of retail customer choice by enhancing rate stability and offering options for higher renewable energy content;
Energy efficiency tools and programs, focusing on both savings and, more recently, electrification;
Peak load reduction technologies that can be dispatched to reduce system and participating customer costs; and
Community solar and storage, including opportunities for low-income customers.
This panel will discuss the range of actions, approaches and programs to protect and empower customers to manage their energy use and costs.
Maggie Downey, Chief Administrative Officer of the Cape Light Compact (CLC), a community aggregator on the leading edge of electricity industry restructuring since its inception, will describe how CLC is providing 21 towns on Cape Cod with commodity, renewable energy, and energy efficiency services to manage energy costs.
Rachel Gold, Senior Principal at RMI, will speak to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities Energy Burden Proceeding (which they are supporting), as well as work they are doing nationally to advance electricity and energy affordability.
Kate Daniel, Northeast Regional Director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access, will describe the role of community solar in providing clean energy and savings to participants, and its increasing deployment to reduce costs for low-income customers.
Erika Diamond, Senior Vice President at EnergyHub, the platform provider for the nation-leading ConnectedSolutions, will discuss how this, and other programs they manage, lower costs for customers and dispatch load reduction (mainly from thermostats and energy storage) to reduce costs for the electricity system.
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Our Oceans, Our Coasts and Us
Grounded in rigorous science, TNC takes innovative conservation approaches from ideas into impactful action, scaling them to drive change.
Friday, March 21
6 - 7pm EDT
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-oceans-our-coasts-and-us-tickets-1246102679659
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is dedicated to creating a world where both people and nature thrive. Grounded in rigorous science, TNC takes innovative conservation approaches from ideas into impactful action, scaling them to drive systemic change. As we confront the planetary crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, TNC works to protect and sustainably manage our ocean, lands and fresh water in partnership with communities, with the hope of putting us on the path to a prosperous future.
Artist Rebecca McGee Tuck also explores the intersection of humans and nature, collecting debris along the Massachusetts coastline. Each piece carries a clear reminder of our impact on ocean and coastal ecosystems. Together, McGee Tuck, TNC in Massachusetts Climate Adaptation Scientist Emma Gildesgame and Marine Ecologist Jessica Griffin, Ph.D will discuss what is at stake in this moment and share their work, passion and hope for our world and us.
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Artist Rebecca McGee Tuck has taken on the task of cleaning part of the coastline of debris from human activity, among other sources, and turning it into sculpture. The act is a way of re-using that debris, as well as calling attention to the dilemma of the plastic waste in our water. She says: “I am rooted in the reuse of discarded materials, creating found object fiber sculptures that resonate with sustainability and environmental consciousness. Through my work, I urge a reconsideration of our relationship with the environment. My ongoing series, Along the Wrack-Line, explores the balance between humans and nature. Collecting debris along the Massachusetts coastline, each piece carries a stark reminder of our impact on the ocean's ecosystem. Cleaned and transformed, they shed light on man-made materials polluting our waters and tangling wildlife.”
Emma Gildesgame is the Climate Adaptation Scientist for TNC in Massachusetts. She collaborates with communities and stakeholders to co-develop and implement equitable, nature-based solutions that benefit both people and nature at a pace and scale that match the urgency of climate change. Emma is passionate about elevating and empowering communities most often impacted by climate change. She takes a holistic, people-centered approach when working with partners to secure funding and implement solutions that align with the communities’ needs and priorities.
Emma holds a Master of Environmental Management in Water Resources Science and Management from the Yale School of the Environment and a B.A. in Environmental Science from Colby College.
Jessica Griffin, Ph.D. is the Coastal Sustainability Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Northeastern University and The Nature Conservancy. Jessica graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2017 with a B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Science and from the Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology at University of California, Davis and San Diego State University with a PhD in ecology. Jessica’s dissertation research focused on how climate change, eutrophication and invasive species alter interactions between eelgrass and bivalves. In her current position, she applies her research on eelgrass-bivalve interactions to improve outcomes for eelgrass restoration and understand effects of oyster aquaculture on eelgrass.
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49th Annual Gardeners’ Gathering
Saturday, March 22
10am - 5pm EDT. Doors at 9am
Northeastern, Shillman Hall, 115 Forsyth Street Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/49th-annual-gardeners-gathering-tickets-1253253247199
Celebrate the start of the new gardening season! The 49th annual Gardeners Gathering brings Boston area growers of all kinds together!
Celebrate the start of the new gardening season! The 49th annual Gardeners Gathering brings Boston area growers of all kinds together for a free day full of informative workshops, engaging exhibitors, networking, and inspiration. The event is open and free for all! Food trucks will be avalible on site to grab lunch between workshops. Parking is avalible at LAZ Parking Garage directly next to the Orange Line Ruggles stop on Northeastern Campus
Learn more at https://thetrustees.org/program/gardeners-gathering/
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The Green Opportunity for Cooperative Businesses in the Clean Energy Sector
Saturday, March 22
12:30 - 2pm EDT. Doors at 12pm
Boston Building Resources, 100 Terrace Street Boston, MA 02120
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-green-opportunity-for-cooperative-businesses-in-the-clean-energy-sector-tickets-1102565195179
Learn about how new and existing Minority and Women Business Enterprises (MWBEs) are a crucial part of Massachusetts' climate goals for 2030
By Boston Center for Community Ownership
Agenda
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Introductions between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Developers Boston Building Resources 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
What is the Green Opportunity in the Clean Energy Sector of Massachusetts ?
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
How are Cooperative Businesses Advantageous within this Sector ?
Boston Center for Community Ownership
Overcome the Barriers and Challenges Impacting MWBEs in the Clean Energy Sector
The clean energy workforce is projected to grow by 38%, or more than 38,000 workers by 2030 to meet the state’s climate goals. New and exisiting Minority and Women Business Enterprises (MWBEs) are crucial to ensuring that the Commonwealth reaches its climate goals. These businesses put climate solutions into practice, foster environments that attract and support a diversified workforce, and pave the way to an equitable energy transition for environmental justice communities. Unfortunately, most MWBEs face barriers to entry and growth. Regardless of sector, MWBEs are denied access to capital at a much higher rate, face selection bias for projects, and often start with less personal wealth and social capital—all of which exacerbate the challenges that all businesses face during their start-up and early growth phases.
The Green Opportunity for Cooperative Businesses in the Clean Energy Sector
Are you interested in exploring the exciting possibilities that the clean energy sector offers for cooperative businesses? Join us for this introductory workshop to learn more about the PowerUP! co-op business incubator for climate-critical MWBE businesses. For startups and existing businesses that are accepted to the incubator, this program offers a structured training and technical assistance program, along with stipends for owners and employees to invest in newly created BIPOC and women-owned businesses. Discover how your cooperative business can thrive in the growing clean energy sector and make a positive impact on the environment. Don't miss out on this chance to learn, connect, and grow your business!
Stay Tuned for announcements about " POWERUP! The Coopertive Business Incubator "
This workshop is a great entryway into our Cooperative Business Incubator. The entrepreneurial program will launch in JULY 2025. Applications will open in April 2025 and sent to the emails submitted in this event registration form. By providing your email , you consent to recieve notifcations from our mialchimp newsletter about our program and our organization. Instructions for how to opt in or opt-out of the PowerUP! newsletter will be provided.
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AI and water: Striking a balance between challenge and opportunity
Monday, March 24
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pka9jYFVRg25KgksrNlygA#/registration
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a water-intensive technology, yet it also holds a key to helping technology companies curb their dependence on increasingly scarce water resources. This is exemplified by data center companies that are supporting the AI boom while employing the technology to help significantly reduce their water use in the process. This webinar will focus on how AI is helping these companies promote water circularity in their operations, and the case for using these strategies and others to reduce water risk in their business, as well as for their high-tech company clients and investors. In this webinar, participants will: - Gain insights into the potential for AI and other strategies to improve the tech industry’s resiliency to water-related challenges - Explore investors’ increasing interest in AI as part of tech companies’ water risk mitigation strategies - Identify unique collaborations and partnerships to advance water management strategies in the high-tech industry Speakers: - Kirsten James, Senior Program Director, Water, Ceres - Emilio Tenuta, Senior Vice President of Corporate Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer, Ecolab - Jonathan Bey, Senior Analyst, NEI Investments - Additional speakers to be announced
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Biodiversity on the Move: The Ecology and Conservation of Migratory Birds
Monday, March 24
12:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Dr. Tong Mu is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research focuses on the ecology and conservation of migratory species, pursuing ecological questions with direct conservation and policy implications. Combining field observation, satellite tracking, and…
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Are We Smart Enough to Curb AI’s Environmental Impacts?
Monday, March 24
3pm ET [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-03-24/are-we-smart-enough-curb-ais-environmental-impacts
Cost: $5 - $20
Proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) proclaim that its potential for solving thorny problems outweigh the risks. At the same time, the Department of Energy estimates that data center energy demands will double or even triple in just the next three years—though new players such as China’s DeepSeek could upend all predictions.
Still, AI’s share of energy consumption is already enormous. Demand on fresh water is at least as scary and isn’t talked about nearly enough. What can we do to reduce AI’s negative impacts? Plenty of researchers have ideas — from site selection to energy efficiency to using zero-carbon sources of energy. But even if such initiatives could outpace growing demand, what could incentivize the AI corporations to take necessary action?
Join Climate One’s Greg Dalton in a provocative conversation with Google’s Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt, along with Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University.
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A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear Plant Reopenings/Relicensing
Monday, March 24
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/Oxy34MpDxka2m-ePuyY5Ig2
Bring your questions to Professor M.V. Ramana, author of Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (2024) and Paul Gunter, spokesman on nuclear reactor hazards and security concerns for Beyond Nuclear. They will explore the industry and government’s arguments for nuclear power as reliable “green” energy while heavily subsidizing a nuclear power comeback at the taxpayers’ expense. Would the rebound of nuclear power be an environmental disaster at the expense of truly renewable sources of energy that are available to us today? Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear will moderate.
M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Ramana is the author of “The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India” (Penguin Books, 2012), co?editor of “Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream” (Orient Longman, 2003) and the author of “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change” (Verso books, 2024). He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group (INRAG), the Canadian Pugwash Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.
Paul Gunter is a longtime environmental activist, energy policy analyst and spokesperson with Beyond Nuclear on nuclear reactor hazards and security. He serves as Beyond Nuclear’s regulatory watchdog on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the commercial nuclear power industry. He is a 2008 recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award from the Tides Foundation for environmental activism on the nuclear power and climate change issue. He has widely appeared in print and electronic media including Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now.” He was a cofounder of the antinuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 to oppose the construction of the Seabrook (NH) nuclear power plant through public education, mobilization and non?violent direct action that helped launch the U.S. antinuclear movement. Prior to joining Beyond Nuclear he served for 16 years as the Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project for Nuclear Information and Resource Service in Washington, DC.
Sponsored by MAPA and Peace Action Maine. Cosponsored by Beyond Nuclear, Clamshell Alliance, Veterans for Peace national, VFP Golden Rule project, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Citizens Awareness Network, Cape Downwinders, Pax Christi MA, United American Indians of New England, North American Indian Center of Boston, Winona LaDuke, Tara Houska, Diné No Nukes, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safely, No TMI Restart, Dorchester People for Peace, New Hampshire Peace Action, New Jersey Peace Action, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Massachusetts State Warheads to Windmills .
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Tipping points webinar series: The AMOC tipping point: Impacts on climate and extreme events
Thursday, March 25
8am -9:30am EST [14:00-15:30 CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://the-amoc-tipping-point-impacts-on-climate-and-extreme-events.confetti.events/signup
Caroline Zimm, Senior Research Scholar (TISS, EQU)Event details
Join AIMES, the Earth Commission, Future Earth, and the WCRP's Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity for a webinar exploring the potential impacts of an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) tipping event on Europe’s climate. In this webinar, experts will explore the AMOC tipping mechanisms under an idealized freshwater flux forcing and different climate change scenarios.
The AMOC is a crucial part of Earth’s climate system, responsible for redistributing heat around the globe and influencing weather patterns. Recent studies suggest that this vital system of ocean currents could be approaching a tipping point, with potentially dramatic impacts on climate and extreme weather events worldwide.
The speakers will discuss future climate scenarios under various emissions pathways and examine how internal climate variability could accelerate the collapse of the AMOC. Tune in to gain valuable insights into the complex interplay between AMOC dynamics and climate change.
Presentations
Anastasia Romanou (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Columbia University) - AMOC bifurcation - tipping due to internal climate variability
René van Westen (The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) - AMOC Tipping Events under different Forcing Scenarios
Q&A/ Discussion
The session will be moderated by Beatriz Arellano Nava from the University of Exeter.
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Webinar 3: Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Flooding and Stormwater Risks in Cities
Wednesday, March 26
4:30am - 5:45am EDT [9:30-10:45 am Accra / 10:30-11:45 am Bonn / 12:30-1:45 pm Nairobi / 3:00-4:15 pm India / 4:30-5:45 pm Jakarta]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/3/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities-3#register
Co-organized by WRI India, UrbanShift, and Cities4Forests, this three-part capacity building training webinar series is designed to build capacity of city officials to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement nature-based approaches to enhance climate resilience in cities. The three webinars will focus on (1) an introduction to the Climate Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (CHVA) framework to prioritize resilience actions in cities, (2) nature-based solutions to tackle extreme heat in cities, and (3) nature-based solutions to mitigate urban flooding. City government officials from global South cities, national government officials with urban development mandates and other urban practitioners are encouraged to attend and advised to participate in all three webinars for a comprehensive learning experience. The webinars will be conducted in English and simultaneous interpretation will be offered in French and Bahasa Indonesia.
Contact / Kontak: John-Rob Pool (john-rob.pool@wri.org)
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My Home, Our Planet: Venezuelan Migrant Children in Brazil and the Role of Education of Climate Change
Wednesday, March 26
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mgS9HnHtTXmFG8Ocq1C3mw
A presentation from 2024–2025 Maury Green Fellow Gabrielle Oliveira
Trained in anthropology and education, Gabrielle Oliveira works at the intersections of migration, education, family, and childhood studies. At Radcliffe, she will write her third book, which will focus on how migrant children conceptualize climate change, land loss, and mobility in schools in Venezuela and Brazil.
Free and open to the public.
To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom.
For instructions on how to join online, see the How to Attend a Radcliffe Event on Zoom webpage.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a link and password for this meeting.
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Collaborative Initiatives to Reduce Chemical Hazards: A Path Forward
Wednesday, March 26
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM ET
Harvard, Malkin Penthouse, Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PwRdIAK&_gl=1*1fftsh*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTkzOTUuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
How can we reduce the impacts of the most toxic chemicals in today's supply chains?
Join the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program for a discussion panel on the role of information access in enhancing environmental initiatives to reduce pollution and chemical toxins. Panelists - including Harvard Kennedy School experts, industry leaders, and representatives from ChemFORWARD, the 2024 winner of the Roy Award for Environmental Partnership- will explore the challenges that the private sector faces in addressing toxic pollution, the upsides and downsides of regulatory approaches, and lessons learned from a cross-sectoral approach to chemical hazard mitigation.
Q&A to follow. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Recording: A recording of the seminar will be made available on the Belfer Center's YouTube channel.
Registration: RSVP required. A Harvard University ID is required for in-person attendance; all are welcome on Zoom.
Speakers and Presenters
Charles Taylor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School;
David Bourne, Lead Sustainability Strategist, Google;
Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity
Wednesday, March 26
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chile-eboe-osuji-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-1133435479029
Harvard Book Store, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji—fourth President of the International Criminal Court, Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at the Toronto Metropolitan University, and a Special Advisor to the President of the University—for a discussion of his latest book End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity. He will be joined in conversation by Mathias Risse—Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.
About End of Immunity
In End of Immunity, former President of the International Criminal Court Chile Eboe-Osuji probes the history and theory of the concept of immunity for heads of state, underscoring tribunal achievements, pointing out gaps in the existing framework of accountability and the hypocrisies that produced them, and offering workable solutions to the loopholes that government leaders still use to escape consequences today.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has shown the world the critical importance of whether and how to punish heads of state, heads of government, and sundry strong men when accused of crimes of aggression, genocide, war crimes, and other crimes against humanity. In End of Immunity, former President of the International Criminal Court, Chile Eboe-Osuji, probes the history and theory of the concept of immunity for heads of state, underscoring tribunal achievements, pointing out gaps in the existing framework of accountability and the hypocrisies that produced them, and offering workable solutions to the loopholes that government leaders still use to escape consequences today.
Eboe-Osuji traces the development of international law from the pre-World War I era that left wars of aggression as the prerogative of sovereigns able to wage them through the peacetime conferences of the Hague at the turn of the 20th century, the momentous Article 227 of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which communicated the resolve of the Allies and Associated Powers to prosecute German Emperor and King of Prussia Kaiser Wilhelm II before an international tribunal, how the legal norms applied in the post-WWII Nuremberg trial transformed the norms of modern international law, how 1990’s Africa breathed new life into arguments against immunity for heads of state, and how modern-day Russia flouts those laws with Putin’s war of aggression on Ukraine.
Going as far back as the Middle Ages and the ancient doctrine of the divine right of kings, and concluding with a fresh new proposal for the ways in which international law can be shored up to prosecute those leaders who wage wars of aggression, Eboe-Osuji investigates the journey of international law’s rejection of immunity for anyone – including heads of state in particular – when they are suspected or accused of atrocities that international law has proscribed as crimes. The result is the definitive account of a profoundly vital principle for international relations and global humanity.
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Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick
Wednesday, March 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes Murray Carpenter—author of Caffeinated, How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us—for a discussion of his new book Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick. He will be joined in conversation by Rachel Slade—former editor at Boston magazine and the Boston Globe and author of the national bestseller Raging Sea.
About Sweet and Deadly
How Coca-Cola makes Americans sick—and makes sure we don’t know it.
If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don’t find out, as this damning exposé makes patently clear. Marshaling the findings of extensive research and deep investigative reporting, Murray Carpenter describes in Sweet and Deadly the damage Coke does to America’s health—and the remarkable campaign of disinformation conducted by the company to keep consumers in the dark.
Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single item in the American diet that most contributes to the epidemic of chronic disease—in particular, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease—and Coca-Cola is America’s favorite sugar-sweetened beverage, by far. Carpenter details how the Coca-Cola corporation’s sophisticated shadow network has masterfully spread disinformation for decades to hide the health risks of its product from consumers—risks disproportionately borne by Black, brown, and low-income communities. Working from a playbook of obfuscation and pseudoscience that has worked well for other harmful products, from tobacco and trans fats to opioids, Coca-Cola has managed to maintain an aura of goodness and happiness. This eye-opening book finally and fully reveals the truth behind that aura.
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2025 Practice Forum: Sustainability Driven Value Creation: Research, Results & Real-world Applications
Thursday, March 27
9:00am to 5:00pm
NYU Stern School of Business
And online
RSVP at https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business/news-events/events/upcoming-events/2025-practice-forum-sustainability-driven-value-creation-research-results-real-world-applications
Cost: $49 - $129
Save the date for the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business Eighth Annual Practice Forum! This industry-leading event convenes investor and corporate sustainability professionals for an exchange of the latest research and insights on sustainability driving financial performance. The full-day program features new research findings, panel discussions on implementation, candid conversations with executives, and interactive sessions to apply learnings. Participants gain practical tools and frameworks to better understand and apply value creation levers in sustainability.
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Investing for Climate? How Financial Institutions Incorporate Climate Change Into Their Decision-Making
Thursday, March 27
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Yq7n5g-ZSMOwtZxh1u2_3A#/registration
"ESG," "net-zero," "Paris-aligned," "impact investing," "intensity-based targets," and "financial materiality" are just a few of many terms that are often mentioned in investment strategies that take into account environmental impacts and potential risks from the effects of climate change. Parsing through the nuance of these words is key to unlocking the private sector's full potential in financing climate change solutions. A good grasp of these terms is also necessary to navigate the multitude of sustainability claims companies make on the extent of their sustainability practices. After building some intuition on how the financial sector's interests are driven in terms of climate investing, attendees will be able to apply this to their own areas of interest in terms of how public and private sectors can best complement each other's climate-related efforts.
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After COP29: The Energy Transition Challenge
Thursday, March 27
3pm ET [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-03-27/after-cop29-energy-transition-challenge
The energy transition is a monumental task, still in its early stages, with only about 10 percent of the necessary low-emissions technologies deployed to meet 2050 targets, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.
As the world strives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, while meeting growing global energy demand, significant challenges lie ahead. Join us as we explore the complexities of transforming the global energy infrastructure, a system optimized over centuries but now needing a rapid decarbonization in just decades to minimize global warming and head off the most severe impacts.
As the dust settles on this year’s COP29, industry leaders will share insights on the progress being made and the critical steps needed to scale low-emission technologies while ensuring energy access and equity worldwide. Don’t miss this forward-looking discussion on the physical and technical hurdles that must be overcome to achieve a sustainable energy future.
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
Thursday, March 27
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/athena-aktipis-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-1251802227159
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, the Harvard Library, and the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology welcome Athena Aktipis—cooperation theorist, evolutionary biologist, cancer biologist, author of The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University—for a discussion of her new book A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times.
About A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises.
Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It’s always felt that way.
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate.
Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.
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Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
Thursday, March 27
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes Phil Tinline—British freelance writer, documentarian, and author of The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares—for a discussion of his new book Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today. He will be joined in conversation by John Summers—writer, historian, and Editor-in-Chief of Lingua Franca Media, Inc., an independent research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About Ghosts of Iron Mountain
A compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow. For readers curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump.
Delve into the labyrinth of America’s conspiracy culture with this investigative masterpiece that unearths the roots of our era’s most potent myths.
In 1966, amid unrest over the Vietnam War and the alarming growth of the military-industrial complex, little-known writer Leonard Lewin was approached by a group of ingenious satirists on the Left to concoct a document that would pretend to ratify everyone’s fears that the government was deceiving the public. Devoting more than a year to the project, Lewin constructed a fiction (passed off as the honest truth) that a government-run Study Group had been charged with examining the “cost of peace,” setting its first meetings in the very real Iron Mountain nuclear bunker in upstate New York (which lent the resulting book, Report from Iron Mountain, its name). In Lewin’s telling, this gathering of the nation’s academic elite concluded that suspending war would be disastrous, forcing all sorts of bizarre measures to compensate.
Lewin didn’t realize it at the time, but he’d created a narrative that fed the interests of both ends of the political spectrum—by promoting the idea that the government uses centralized power for evil.
What fascinates about Phil Tinline’s revelation-filled recreation of that ingenious hoax is seeing how it explodes into America’s consciousness, dominates media reports, and sends government officials scrambling. And then, subsequently, how Lewin’s fabrication is adopted by a seemingly endless string of extremist organizations which view it as supporting their ideology.
In this riveting—and, at times, chilling—tale of a deception that refuses to die is an unsettling warning about how, in contemporary times, a hoax may no longer be a hoax if it can be used to recruit followers to a cause.
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Media in Motion: Creatively transforming cities, play, and communities
Friday, March 28
9am - 6pm EDT
Northeastern, Snell Library, 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-in-motion-creatively-transforming-cities-play-and-communities-tickets-1217968629959
Join the CTM for a transformative launch event, with an interactive media art exhibition, a drum performance, and an original XR scavenger hunt-style game with an exciting prize for the winner.
Keynote Speakers:
Lindsay Grace (University of Miami)
Anthony Townsend (Cornell Tech)
Francisco Valdean (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
Guest Speakers:
Eric Gordon (Boston University)
Germaine Halegoua (University of Michigan)
David Nemer (University of Virginia)
Registration is free but required and spots are limited.
SCHEDULE:
8:30-9:00: ARRIVAL / BREAKFAST
9:00-9:30: WELCOME
Adriana de Souza e Silva (CTM Director)
Provost Madigan
Dean Hudson
9:30-10:00: KEYNOTE 1
Intelligence for Adaptation:
How AI Can Empower Communities Coping with Climate Change
Anthony Townsend, Senior Research Associate, Urban Tech Hub, Cornell Tech
The impacts of global heating in cities are growing. Adapting to climate change is a high and growing priority for city governments and urban communities. Yet our understanding of the goals of adaptation is changing. Reducing risk and building resilience is no longer enough. Ethical approaches to climate adaptation aim to transform the unfair systems that produce climate vulnerability in the first place. Key to that effort is expanding the role of marginalized stakeholders in urban climate adaptation. This talk will explore and examine the role that artificial intelligence innovations could play in empowering urban communities coping with climate change. From resilience planning chatbots to synthetic visualizations of flooded streets, we will map the possibilities and risks presented by these emerging technologies for the urgent and loaded work of responsible participatory climate adaptation.
10:00-11:15: PANEL 1
Networked Mobilities & Urban AI
Germaine Halegoua (University of Michigan)
Ryan Wang (Northeastern University)
Zorana Matic (Northeastern University)
Chris LeDantec (Northeastern University)
Moderator: Mimi Sheller (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
11:15-11:45: COFFEE BREAK
11:45-12:30: KEYNOTE 2
Social Impact Through Play: The Transformative Power of Games and Play Move US Toward a Better Future
Lindsay Grace, Knight Chair in Interactive Media and Graduate Program Director of the MFA in Interactive Media, School of Communication, University of Miami.
Drawing from his experience addressing complex problems in journalism, misinformation, education, and more, the lecture outlines the theories that underpin applying play to improve society and technological solutions. The idea is not merely the application of games to increase engagement or retention, but instead the integration of playful characteristics to improve problem solving and the competency of creative systems like generative AI. The lecture explains the human propensity for play as an essential element in the future of human-computer interaction, especially when focused on social impact.
12:30-1:30: LUNCH
1:30-2:45: PANEL 2
Engaged Play and Learning
Eric Gordon (BU)
Celia Pearce (Northeastern University)
Amy Lu (Northeastern University)
Eileen McGivney (Northeastern University)
Moderator: Ragan Glover (University of Michigan)
2:45-3:15: COFFEE BREAK
3:15-4:00: KEYNOTE 3
Contact Images: A Poetic Action
Francisco ValdeanPhotographer, Artist and Researcher. State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Contact Images is an immersive experience based on the project Itinerant Museum of Images from Maré (MIIM). MIIM is a mobile museum organized into cardboard boxes measuring 37 cm x 26 cm x 15 cm, containing a collection of photographs, stories, and memories from Maré, the largest complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In this poetic performance, I will guide the audience through a journey that reveals stories from the favelas and propose new ways of envisioning and understanding Maré. I focus on the community’s creative potential, a vision in sharp contrast with the stigmatized perspective that associates favelas with violence. MIIM’s images affirm Maré’s community rights to live, celebrate, enjoy life, and engage in various cultural activities.
4:00-5:15: PANEL 3
(Mis)information, AI & Data Storytelling
David Nemer (University of Virginia)
Derek Curry (Northeastern University)
John Wihbey (Northeastern University)
Sina Fazelpour (Northeastern University)
Moderator: Meg Heckman (Northeastern University)
5:15-5:45: PERFORMANCE
Data Drums:A Rhythmic Call to Climate Action
Rahul Bhargava, Marcus Santos, Lily Gabaree
Data Drums is a live data sonification performance that brings global CO₂ emissions to life through the dynamic beats of a Brazilian-style drum ensemble. Based on carbon emissions from India, Brazil, and the USA, this four-part piece translates the data into rhythmic patterns, with each drum and its beats representing different parts of the data. The movements build from individual rhythms into complex layers, highlighting contrasts and connections between countries and sectors. Culminating in an interactive finale, the audience is invited to join in with their bodies, echoing collective responsibility and potential for climate action. This powerful, data-driven performance offers a unique fusion of music, science, and community engagement, creating an unforgettable experience that resonates with both urgency and hope.
5:45-6:00: CLOSING REMARKS
6:00-8:00: COCKTAIL PARTY
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King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South
Friday, March 28
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes Jeanne Theoharis—Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of City University of New York and author of the New York Times bestseller The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks—for a discussion of her new book King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
About King of the North
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the media, and the federal government.
In this bold retelling, King emerges as a someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who—despite his flaws—depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.
King of the North speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today. Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands our understanding of King’s life and work—a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present.
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Renewable Resilience: Solar Energy as a Climate Solution
Monday, March 31,
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Speaker
Lindsey Guinther, Director of Environmental Affairs at Lightsource bp
Lindsey Guinther, Director of Environmental Affairs at Lightsource bp, is a trailblazer in the renewable energy sector with over 17 years of industry experience. Her expertise in project siting, spatial modeling, and climate resilience has been instrumental in advancing nearly 4 gigawatts of executed projects. Lindsey joined Lightsource bp, a leading developer, financier and operator of utility-scale renewable energy projects in 2020, where she spearheads the company's global climate and disaster resiliency initiative. Her role involves integrating robust mitigation strategies for natural hazard events across all stages of project development, construction, and operations. This comprehensive approach ensures the creation of a resilient portfolio of renewable energy projects, crucial in the fight against climate change. Her innovative use of GIS tools and natural hazard risk data has been pivotal in implementing avoidance and mitigation strategies, significantly improving project resilience and insurability. Lindsey received her BA in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado and her MS in Geography from the University of South Carolina. Her unique academic background and her extensive industry experience in renewable energy has established Lindsey as a leader in advancing sustainable and resilient renewable energy development.
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu; Livestream on MediaCentral
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Monday, March 31
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes Elie Mystal—New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, as well as The Nation’s legal analyst and justice correspondent, and the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab—for a discussion of his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. He will be joined in conversation by Kimberly Atkins Stohr—a senior opinion writer and columnist at The Boston Globe, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, a frequent panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press, and co-host of the popular Politicon legal news podcast #SistersInLaw.
About Bad Law
The New York Times bestselling author brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate snark to offer a brilliant takedown of ten incredibly bad pieces of legislation that are causing way too much misery to millions
“If it were up to me, I’d treat every law passed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as presumptively unconstitutional. The government of this country was illegitimate when it ruled over people who had no ability to choose the rules.” —from the introduction to Bad Law
In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate snark to a brilliant takedown of ten of what he considers the most egregiously awful laws on the books today. These are pieces of legislation that are making life worse rather than better for Americans, and that, he argues with trenchant wit and biting humor, should be repealed completely.
On topics ranging from abortion and immigration to voting rights and religious freedom, we have chosen rules to live by that do not reflect the will of most of the people. With respect to our decision to make a law that effectively grants immunity to gun manufacturers, for example, Mystal writes, “We live in the most violent, wealthy country on earth not in spite of the law; we live in a first-person-shooter video game because of the law.”
But, as the man Samantha Bee calls “irrepressible and righteously indignant” and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls “the funniest lawyer in America,” points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a marvelous and original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
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A Perfect Turmoil
Tuesday, April 1
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/alex-green-author-perfect-turmoil
The rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America's first public school for mentally disabled people
From the moment he became superintendent of the nation's oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr. Walter E. Fernald led a wholesale transformation of our understanding of disabilities in ways that continue to influence our views today. How did the man who designed the first special education class in America, shaped the laws of entire nations, and developed innovative medical treatments for the disabled slip from idealism into the throes of eugenics before emerging as an opponent of mass institutionalization? Based on a decade of research, A Perfect Turmoil is the story of a doctor, educator, and policymaker who was unafraid to reverse course when convinced by the evidence, even if it meant going up against some of the most powerful forces of his time.
In this landmark work, Alex Green has drawn upon extensive, unexamined archives to unearth the hidden story of one of America's largely forgotten, but most complex, conflicted, and significant figures.
Alex Green teaches political communications at Harvard Kennedy School and is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and a visiting scholar at Brandeis University Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. He has piloted a nationally recognized disability history curriculum for high school students, developed and taught the first graduate disability policy course offered at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Policy, and is the author of legislation to create a first-of-its-kind, disability-led human rights commission to investigate the history of state institutions for disabled people in Massachusetts. He lives outside of Boston. A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled is his first book.
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The Coming Strategic Revolution of Artificial Intelligence: The U.S.-China Contest and the Sources of Competitive Advantage
Wednesday, April 2
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
Dr. Michael Mazarr from the RAND will speak at the MIT Security Studies Program's Wednesday Seminar.
In this seminar, Dr. Mazarr will discuss the political and technical dimensions of the U.S.-China competition in the domain of artificial intelligence, based on recent research projects at RAND.
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The Early Ethics of Planetary Health
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rescheduled-the-early-ethics-of-planetary-health-registration-1236639675559
Part of the JCB Bioethics Seminar Series collection
Join this special JCB Seminar series in partnership with Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care in Collaboration
This lecture is co-presented by Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), and is part of the JCB Bioethics Seminar Series.
Abstract: Proponents of the concept of planetary health constitute one branch of a wider movement which seeks to reorganize, and perhaps revolutionize, public health in response to global environmental problems, especially climate change. Ethics is at the center of this push for transformation. This paper explores the concept of planetary health, interrogates its central values, identifies key tensions, and articulates an agenda for future research. It proposes (first) that the planetary health movement should embrace a wide, normative vision of planetary health as opposed to a narrower, more technocratic one, and (second) that it should reorient itself so as to make its overarching normative concept “planetary flourishing”, while regarding “planetary health” as an essential, but subsidiary component.
Speaker:
Dr. Stephen M. Gardiner
Ph.D., Philosophy, Cornell University
Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed
Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment/Director, Program on Ethics
4:00 - Introduction and History of the Philippa Harris Lecture Series
4:10 - Introduction of the Speaker
4:15 - Speaker Presentation
5:00 - Question and Answer Period
This event is free and is open to the general public. The YouTube live stream link to the lecture will be sent out to registered participants two hours before the event.
Questions? Please email Terry Yuen, jcb.ea@utoronto.ca
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Food as Conversation with Nature: Indigenous Insights Into Ecological Stewardship and Sustainability
Thursday, April 3
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZW_a8YqbRAmzRtVDSD7P2A#/registration
Adivasi (Indigenous) food systems in Eastern India exemplify this fragility, with climate change, market shifts, forest displacement, migration, and intergenerational disconnect contributing to the erosion of food culture, knowledge, and security. This talk explores the evolution of Adivasi food systems as a response to political, environmental, and economic changes. It centers on the voices of Adivasi people and their perspectives and reflections on food as culture, food as self-medication, food as sustenance, food as sustainability, and importantly, food as conversation with nature. The talk advocates for recognizing and valuing Indigenous knowledge to decolonize food systems and promote sustainability, cultural identity, and resilience amidst global challenges.
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Resisting Authoritarian Populism: What is to be Done?
Thursday, April 3
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/resisting-authoritarian-populism-what-is-to-be-done
SPEAKER(S) William E. Scheuerman, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
This event is organized by the Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series led by CES Resident Faculties Peter E. Gordon and CES Director Daniel Ziblatt. It is also co-sponsored by the Democracy and Its Critics Initiative at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).
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Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments
Thursday, April 3
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenneth-roth-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-1133471466669
Harvard Book Store, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Kenneth Roth—former executive director of Human Rights Watch—for a discussion of his new book Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments. He will be joined in conversation by Mathias Risse—Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.
About Righting Wrongs
From the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, the fascinating and inspiring story of taking on the biggest villains and toughest autocrats around the world.
In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff of more than 500, conducting investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses—and pressuring offending governments to stop them. Roth has grappled with the worst of humanity, taken on the biggest villains of our time, and persuaded leaders from around the globe to stand up to their repressive counterparts.
The son of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany just before the war began, Roth grew up knowing full well how inhumane governments could be. He has traveled the world to meet cruelty and injustice on its home turf: he arrived in Rwanda shortly after the Genocide; scrutinized the impact of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait; investigated and condemned Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians. He directed efforts to curtail the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims, to bring Myanmar’s officials to justice after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, to halt Russian war crimes in Ukraine, even to reign in the U.S. government. Roth’s many innovations and strategies included the deployment of a concept as old as mankind—the powerful tool of “shaming”—and here he illustrates its surprising effectiveness against evildoers.
This is a story of wins, losses, and ongoing battles in the ceaseless fight to rend the moral arc from the hands of injustice and bend it toward good.
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Reimagining Social Housing
Thursday, April 3
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-barber-reimagining-social-housing-tickets-1206068365949
Peter Barber is the founder of Peter Barber Architects, an award-winning practice based in London known for its radical approach to housing and urban planning. In this lecture, Barber will highlight some of his firm’s social housing projects, such as Donnybrook Quarter, a 40-unit, low-rise, high-density, mixed-use project near Victoria Park in London, and Edgewood Mews, a 97-unit urban block arranged around a pedestrianized street near North Circular Road in London’s Barnet borough. He will review the political and ideological contexts in which these and other projects were conceived and describe his firm’s analog design process, which makes extensive use of hand sketches and handmade models.
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Translational Science Day 2025: "Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Translating Gun Policy Science into Action to Reduce Firearm Violence”
Friday, April 4
10AM – 5PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.tuftsctsi.org/events/tsd2025/
Tufts CTSI is excited to announce that its virtual 2025 Translational Science Day symposium is scheduled for Friday, April 4. The theme of this year’s symposium is "Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Translating Gun Policy Science into Action to Reduce Firearm Violence." The symposium is free to attend, and registration is now open!
Gun policy is currently viewed as a highly polarized, highly contentious issue. It is characterized as a zero-sum, winner-take-all game, as opposed to one where everyone benefits. However, there is more common ground on gun policy than people are led to believe, as well as ways to build on existing consensus to reach actionable solutions to gun violence.
Featuring success stories at both the state and federal level, the symposium will explore how policymakers, academics, activists, and other stakeholders can help bridge the cultural and political divide to enact lasting and effective gun violence prevention policy. Together, we can change the contentious, overly simplistic way that gun policy is currently characterized in America.
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Towards Next Generation Greenhouse Gas Information Services - A Case for 4-Dimensional Atmospheric State Optimization
Friday, April 4
12pm to 1pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/towards-next-generation-greenhouse-gas-information-services-a-case-for-4-dimensional-atmospheric-state-optimization
Contact Ester Ramirez eramirez@seas.harvard.edu
DIAL-IN INFORMATION
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95742627830?pwd=8apnkWaHmIz8LBVEgKwU6a6WZBkk9o.1
Password: 589826
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Friday, April 4
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store Brian Goldstone—journalist whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine and other publications—for a discussion of his new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. He will be joined in conversation by Francesca Mari—contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine focused on housing and equity and an assistant professor of the practice at Brown University.
About There is No Place for Us
Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America.
The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.
In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.
Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.
By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.
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How Implementation Makes Environmental Policy Cheaper and Easier Than Expected
Monday, April 7
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, 02138
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PrADIA0&_gl=1*17067yx*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQyMjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTk2MjQuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
Passing environmental policy is difficult, because of the – reasonable – concern that it will increase costs. But implementation often leads to systemic changes that make environmental regulation cheaper and easier to implement than expected.
In this Energy Policy Seminar, Beth DeSombre will examine domestic and international regulations to protect the ozone layer, and aspects of the U.S. Clean Air Act regulating power plant and automobile emissions, identifying four specific pathways through which system changes contribute to decreasing costs: disruption of standard operating procedures, innovation, increased availability of alternatives, and creation of enabling mechanisms. Understanding how the implementation of regulations can decrease costs can suggest better or worse approaches to crafting and implementing policy.
Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
Registration: RSVP required. A Harvard University ID is required for in-person attendance; all are welcome to attend via Zoom.
Contact Liz Hanlon 617-495-5964
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Accelerating AI Sustainability and Innovation at the Department of Energy
Monday, April 7
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Speaker
Tanya Das
Dr. Tanya Das is the Director of AI and Energy Technology Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. She is an engineer who uses her problem-solving skills to strengthen federal initiatives at the intersection of energy and technology policy. With experience in academia and government, she influences policy on artificial intelligence and energy, tech commercialization, and manufacturing.
Previously, Dr. Das served the Biden Administration as Chief of Staff of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy where she led implementation of Presidential priorities to strengthen the federal research enterprise, support innovation ecosystems, and bolster U.S. competitiveness in emerging technology areas. She also worked as a Professional Staff Member on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and as a legislative fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Chris Coons.
A Michigan native, Dr. Das earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu; Livestream on MediaCentral
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Animals as Healers: A Conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore on How Humans and Animals Can Heal Their Traumas Together
Monday, April 7
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Harvard Law, WCC; 1019 Classroom, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the Harvard Animal Law Society as we welcome Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder of the first restorative community for traumatic grief, Selah Carefarm. Selah Carefarm is an animal sanctuary and restorative community located in northern Arizona where grievers from around the world come for counseling at an animal sanctuary housing more than 50 animals rescued from abuse, homelessness, and torture. Dr. Jo teaches a course on restorative spaces at the Carefarm, which was featured in Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s docuseries, “The Me You Can’t See.”
Food will be provided!
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Wednesday, April 9
7:00pm
United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-beinart-being-jewish-after-the-destruction-of-gaza-tickets-1218225107089
A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our time
In Peter Beinart’s view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew?
Beinart imagines an alternate narrative, which would draw on other nations’ efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish tradition. A story in which Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. One that recognizes the danger of venerating states at the expense of human life.
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza is a provocative argument that will expand and inform one of the defining conversations of our time. It is a book that only Peter Beinart could write: a passionate yet measured work that brings together his personal experience, his commanding grasp of history, his keen understanding of political and moral dilemmas, and a clear vision for the future.
Peter Beinart is professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is also editor at large of Jewish Currents, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC political commentator, and a nonresident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack.com. He lives in New York with his family.
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