These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
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Index
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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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Stanford Energy Seminar: Tim Dixon | CCS in the Global Climate Scene
Monday, March 31
1:30pm EDT [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Jen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering), NVIDIA, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-march-31
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Organized Labor in Today's Economy
Monday, March 31
6 – 7 p.m.
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://iop.harvard.edu/events/organized-labor-todays-economy
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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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Planting for Impact: San Francisco’s Street Tree Planting Strategy
Tuesday, April 1
10:30 - 11:30 am U.S. ET
Online
RSVP at https://hixon.yale.edu/event/planting-impact-san-franciscos-street-tree-planting-strategy
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The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Security
Tuesday, April 1
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Bay State Room, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/european/2025/02/26/the-war-in-ukraine-and-the-future-of-european-security-04-01-25/
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Beyond Climate Silence: Transforming Eco-Anxiety Workshop
Tuesday, April 1
2 - 3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-climate-silence-transforming-eco-anxiety-workshop-tickets-1291780723919
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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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Hot on Stage: Climate Justice and the Future of Theater
Tuesday, April 1
7:30 pm
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114
RSVP at https://artsemerson.org/events/the-point-climate-justice-the-future/
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Annalee Newitz, Journalist, editor, and author, presents "Avoiding Dystopia, in Theory and Practice"
Wednesday, April 2
12 PM – 1 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Yale, Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
And online
RSVP at https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/biomes/rsvp_boot?id=2288443
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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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Global Commons and New Ecologies: The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab
Wednesday, April 2
4:15pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 648, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inaugural-convening-of-the-mit-luma-lab-tickets-1281179615719
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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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Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET
Tufts, The Fung House, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA
More at https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/stupid-little-fish-extraction-conservation-and-politics-environmental-decline-caleb-scoville
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“The Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History”
Wednesday, April 2
7 - 8pm EDT. Doors at 6pm
Boston College, Gasson Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Newton, MA 02467
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-mcneill-the-industrial-revolution-as-global-environmental-history-tickets-1119827386859
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AI for Climate Science seminar series: AI applications for Climate Science
Thursday, April 3
9am EDT (02:00-03:00 PM CEST)
Online and in Gvishiani room at IIASA (Laxenburg, Austria)
RSVP at https://iiasa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eih6-qQHT8uVBaQgAX2B3Q#/registration
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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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American Oversight: the Nonprofit Watchdog suing DOGE
Thursday, April 3
12:15pm to 1:15pm
Boston College, East Wing, 115A, Boston College Law School, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459
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Change and climate change
Thursday, April 3
1:30 - 2:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-flagship-lecture-change-and-climate-change-tickets-1227926012759
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Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China
Thursday, April 3
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 301, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
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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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Why and how to use carbon dioxide to make products
Friday, April 4
11am to 12pm
BU, PHO 203, 8 St Mary's Street, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://butodayevents.bu.edu/event/meche-seminar-series-month-of-energy-and-sustainability-volker-sick-seminar
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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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Kyiv Connection: The Strategic Use of Violence Against Civilians
Monday, April 7
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J5XuO88AR5amh1uVXljodA#/registration
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Breaking the Matrix: The U.S. Economy
Monday, April 7
6:45 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GXr118GESGW17V6on40lbA#/registration
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Player Europe: Regional Crises, Strategic Stability, and Prospects for Arms Control
Tuesday, April 8
5:30pm to 6:45pm
Boston College, Higgins Hall, 310, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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A Changing Planet Seminar: Climate Change, Gender, Power & Overlapping Systemic Crises
Wednesday, April 9
11am EDT [15.00 - 16.00 BST]
Imperial Grantham Institue, 140, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus
And online
RSVP at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/192075/a-changing-planet-seminar-climate-gender-power-crises/
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Sustainably Powering AI: The latest Stanford research
Wednesday, April 9
11am EDT [2pm to 3pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/sustaining-AI-kickoff
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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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Can we design AI to support human flourishing?
Thursday, April 10
8:30am — 5:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.media.mit.edu/events/aha-symposium/
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Climate Storytellers’ Summit
Thursday, April 10
4–6PM Eastern
Online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V2sJHJwbShO2sLMAOLGMpg#/registration
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Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich on Bees, Sustainability, and Environmental Impact
Thursday, April 10
5:30 - 6:30pm EDT
Tufts, Chase Center, Carmichael Hall, 200 Packard Avenue Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-noah-wilson-rich-on-bees-sustainability-and-environmental-impact-tickets-1225584067939
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Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges
Friday, April 11
8:30am to 5pm
Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing), 801, 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
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2025 Autonomous Vehicles & the City Symposium
Friday, April 11
10am EDT [1:00 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/2025-04-11/2025-autonomous-vehicles-city-symposium
Cost: $10
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Harvard Climate Connect: Community-Driven Solutions to Heat-Based Climate Inequity
Saturday, April 12
12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Harvard Law School (specific location to be announced)
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEvu2Pz35QemsucnqpxUpFoHrHE8HdNpVmCuY6DVAS2D_I8g/viewform
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Managing Forced Migration: 18th Annual STAR-TIDES Capabilities Demonstration
Sunday, April 13 - Thursday, April 17
George Mason University's Arlington campus (Mason Square) 3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22201
https://secure.touchnet.com/C20788_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=68&SINGLESTORE=true
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Trump, the Transatlantic Rift, and the Future of European Security
Monday, April 14
12 - 1:15pm EDT
Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street room 909 Boston, MA 02120
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Green Industrial Policy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Monday, April 14
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/green-industrial-policy-good-bad-and-ugly
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Financial Strategies: Climate Change, Decarbonization & Cost of Inaction
Monday, April 14
1 - 2pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/financial-strategies-climate-change-decarbonization-cost-of-inaction-
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Heat pumps as pillars of resilient energy future
Tuesday, April 15
11am EDT (16:00 – 17:30 Berlin Time)
Online
RSVP at https://agora-thinktanks-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hYdE0xQ7Rp6-ROxIlQ3SIw#/registration
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Post-Disaster Ecological Restoration Strategies for Samandağ Coastline in Hatay, Türkiye
Wednesday, April 16
12:30 – 2 p.m.
Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/post-disaster-ecological-restoration-strategies-samandag-coastline-hatay-t%C3%BCrkiye
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Starr Forum: The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days
Wednesday, April 16
5:30pm to 7pm
Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing), 230, 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzD4UoQEwJG3lvk-eNyn1W27zPxlTjj4xK66VWUxlhOvoIAA/viewform
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TEDx MIT: Cultivating Innovation at MIT
Thursday, April 17
6pm-9pm
RSVP at https://tedx.mit.edu/register-tedxmit
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The Evolving Landscape of Social Housing in New England
Friday, April 18
1 – 5 p.m.
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-evolving-landscape-of-social-housing-in-new-england-tickets-1206107051659
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The 2030 vision for clean energy technologies in India and beyond
Monday, April 21
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/2030-vision-clean-energy-technologies-india-and-beyond
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Webinar – Reforming Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs to Increase Heat Pump Adoption
Tuesday, April 22
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/reforming-energy-efficiency-incentive-programs-to-increase-heat-pump-adoption/
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Carbon Border Adjustments and Pathways to International Cooperation: Insights from Steel Decarbonization in India
Wednesday, April 23
4 PM – 5 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Yale, Burke Auditorium (Kroon Hall) & Zoom New Haven, CT 06520, United States
And online
RSVP at https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/ycelp/rsvp_boot?id=2295802
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The 2nd U.S.-Asia Sustainable Development Summit
Thursday, April 24
9am - 7pm EDT
Harvard, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-us-asia-sustainable-development-summit-tickets-1026003362677
Cost: $0 - $95.21
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Nature-Based Infrastructure in Post-Industrial Coastlines and Neighborhoods
Thursday, April 24
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP only needed for virtual attendants at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rqxgr1glRUudRegzk1sVrw
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Book Release: “Thinking Through Soil”
Thursday, April 24
12:30 - 2pm EDT. Doors at 6:15pm
Harvard University Graduate School Of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Frances Loeb Library Lobby, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-release-thinking-through-soil-tickets-1206112367559
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Advances in Global Disease Surveillance: An Introduction to BEACON
Thursday, April 24
2:00 pm to 6:30 pm
BU, 665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advances-in-global-disease-surveillance-an-introduction-to-beacon-tickets-1237688021189
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Sustaining the Urban Future: Climate and Community Resiliency in Cities
Friday, April 25
1 - 2pm EDT
BU, 730 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustaining-the-urban-future-climate-and-community-resiliency-in-cities-tickets-1247546698759
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Human Ingenuity vs Climate Change
Friday, April 25
6 - 8pm EDT. Doors at 5:30pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/human-ingenuity-vs-climate-change-tickets-1270737984519
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The Problem of Climate Change and the Analogy of Development: Insights from the Auto Sector in Brazil and South Africa
Monday, April 28
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/problem-climate-change-and-analogy-development
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More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Monday, April 28
6pm EDT
Harvard, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-becker-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-1258689156149
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A Bay State Without Beaches: Stories of the Shoreline
Tuesday, April 29
6 - 8pm EDT
105 South Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02130
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bay-state-without-beaches-stories-of-the-shoreline-tickets-1291243135979
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Sustainability Symposium 2025
Wednesday, April 30 - Thursday, May 1
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-symposium-2025-tickets-1251652539439
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Climate Tech in the City
Wednesday, April 30
10am - 7pm EDT
City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Square Boston, MA 02203
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-tech-in-the-city-tickets-1286665133049
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Dollar Dominance, Deterrence, and Denial
Wednesday, April 30
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at https://ssp.mit.edu/events/2025/dollar-dominance-deterrence-and-denial
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Microbial Food as a Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Source of Nutrients for the UK
Thursday, 1 May 2025
16.15 - 20.00 BST
Imperial College, City and Guilds Building, Lecture Theatre 200, Main Entrance, South Kensington Campus, London
And online
RSVP at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/192029/briefing-paper-launch-microbial-food-as-a-sustainable-healthy-and-resilient-source-of-nutrients-for-the-uk/
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My Home, Our Planet: Venezuelan Migrant Children in Brazil and the Role of Education of Climate Change
Monday, May 5
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-gabrielle-oliveira-fellow-presentation-virtual
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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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Stanford Energy Seminar: Tim Dixon | CCS in the Global Climate Scene
Monday, March 31
1:30pm EDT [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Jen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering), NVIDIA, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-march-31
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. Speaker Abstract: CCS is a much needed CO2 mitigation technology and it also has an interesting history in global climate and environmental policy and law. Now with engineered-CDR, it is still an active topic. Tim will provide an up-to-date summary of CCS in the global climate scene and in international environmental law, including the outputs from the latest UNFCCC COP meetings and carbon markets.
Speaker Bio: Tim Dixon is the Director and General Manager of IEAGHG, an international research organisation focussing on carbon capture and storage (CCS). He is responsible for IEAGHG delivering the evidence base on CCS to members and wider stakeholders, and for international knowledge sharing through the largest CCS conference series, GHGT conferences, and numerous workshops. Tim has extensive experience representing CCS in UNFCCC and other international agreements since 2004. Outside IEAGHG, Tim is a Director on the Board for The International CCS Knowledge Centre (Canada), an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas in Austin (USA), an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (UK), an original Board Member of the UK CCS Research Centre, and chairs or sits on advisory committees on CCS projects and programmes around the world. Prior to IEAGHG, Tim worked on CCS, clean energy technologies and carbon markets for the UK government and for AEA Technology (UK). Tim has been active in UNFCCC meetings since 1999, representing CCS since 2005. He was the EU’s Lead Negotiator getting CCS adopted by the UNFCCC into the Clean Development Mechanism at COP-17, and a UK advisor for getting CCS allowed in the London Convention (2004-7), in OSPAR (2006-7), the EU CCS Directive (2006-8), and the EU ETS (2006-9). Tim has also worked for the Global CCS Institute in Canberra and Curtin University in Perth (Australia). Tim has a BSc in Applied Physics and an MBA, is a Fellow of the Energy Institute (UK), and a member of the Institute of Physics and the UK Environmental Law Association.
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Organized Labor in Today's Economy
Monday, March 31
6 – 7 p.m.
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://iop.harvard.edu/events/organized-labor-todays-economy
SPEAKER(S) Shawn Fain, President, United Automobile Workers
Marshall Ganz (Moderator), Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at Harvard Kennedy School
What is the role of organized labor in today's economy? UAW President Shawn Fain will delve into this timely topic, and discuss lessons learned from leading one of the nations largest unions, representing more than 400,000 active members and 580,000 retirees.
Please register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. All JFK Jr. Forums are publicly livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
CONTACT INFO iop_info@hks.harvard.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
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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Planting for Impact: San Francisco’s Street Tree Planting Strategy
Tuesday, April 1
10:30 - 11:30 am U.S. ET
Online
RSVP at https://hixon.yale.edu/event/planting-impact-san-franciscos-street-tree-planting-strategy
In her lecture, Carla Short will provide a brief overview of San Francisco's Public Works Street Tree program, and she will discuss in more detail how the department prioritizes street tree planting for the greatest impact. With constrained resources, cities must make difficult decisions about where to focus their urban forestry efforts. Short's department uses data to maintain 124,000 street trees and to determine where future tree planting can have the greatest impact.
To learn more about the Hixon Center, visit: hixon,yale.edu
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The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Security
Tuesday, April 1
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Bay State Room, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/european/2025/02/26/the-war-in-ukraine-and-the-future-of-european-security-04-01-25/
Join us for a lecture by CSE Visiting Researcher Hans Kundnani. Kundnani was previously the director of the Europe programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, a senior Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of three books including, most recently, Eurowhiteness. Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (2023).
Moderated by Kaija Schilde, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. Lunch provided.
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Beyond Climate Silence: Transforming Eco-Anxiety Workshop
Tuesday, April 1
2 - 3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-climate-silence-transforming-eco-anxiety-workshop-tickets-1291780723919
This workshop is about transforming eco-anxiety by examining how you think, feel, and act with regard to our rapidly changing climate.
The last two hottest historic years on Earth have negatively affected the majority of 16-to-25 year olds, with 81% of them worried about climate change.* Two huge hurricanes in two weeks (one 600 miles wide) emerged from the Caribbean in September and a month later twenty inches of rain fell on a Spanish city in just eight hours. 2025 began with $250 billion of fire damage to Los Angeles. The hot-ocean cycle has just ended and the planet will probably cool off for a few years, but by 2030 it is likely that the floods (along with droughts and wildfires) will be back and be worse.
How can people (especially youth with the future before them) be happy and enjoy their mid-21st-century lives?
"Eco-anxiety" is a mental distress and is not classified as a "diagnosis" but can have severe effects on your well-being, especially if you witness or learn about extreme climatic events. There is a way to step out of your negativity and see a positive way to enjoy your life experiences. It has to do with the lifestyle you choose and the way you think, feel, and act each day.
This workshop will examine simple ideas about your internal locus of control and how you relate to those around you. It will offer you mental tools to help you shift your thinking to accept and positively deal with the coming environmental changes and challenges. These ideas are very practical and have more to do with "expectation" than with "hope".
Join us for an engaging learning experience.
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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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Hot on Stage: Climate Justice and the Future of Theater
Tuesday, April 1
7:30 pm
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114
RSVP at https://artsemerson.org/events/the-point-climate-justice-the-future/
In the age of warming seas and fires that destroy entire ecosystems, we want to explore how the arts are crucial to our building a more just world. How can we move away from stories of world-ending and cautionary tales, to stories that imagine the more just world we want to live in? How do we engage with climate justice in our storytelling spaces – in artistic content, designed impact and in powering our buildings themselves? What are the themes the next generation will explore if the situation continues, or changes?
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Annalee Newitz, Journalist, editor, and author, presents "Avoiding Dystopia, in Theory and Practice"
Wednesday, April 2
12 PM – 1 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Yale, Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
And online
RSVP at https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/biomes/rsvp_boot?id=2288443
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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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Global Commons and New Ecologies: The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab
Wednesday, April 2
4:15pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 648, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inaugural-convening-of-the-mit-luma-lab-tickets-1281179615719
Come join us as we celebrate the opening of the MIT-LUMA Lab! Full agenda can be found on the Eventbrite page linked above.
A landmark collaboration between the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the LUMA Foundation, the MIT-LUMA Lab will champion research, creative practice, and pedagogy that address regional and global climate challenges. The lab will operate at the nexus of climate science, technology, art, ecology, and design.
The MIT-LUMA Lab’s inaugural convening, Global Commons and New Ecologies, will feature public presentations, film screenings, and celebrations. Speakers from MIT, LUMA, and beyond will elaborate on the Lab’s mission to design for climate resilience and forge new paths for collaboration through research, practice, and innovation.
Please note: This is a multi-day event. The first day of this event will be held on April 2, from 4:15 pm to 7:30 pm at the MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor (75 Amherst Street, Building E14-648). The second day will take place on April 3, from 10:15 am to 5:15 pm at the MIT ACT Cube (20 Ames Street, Building E15-001).
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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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Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET
Tufts, The Fung House, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA
Join us April 2 for a conversation with Caleb Scoville from the Department of Sociology about the Delta Smelt, and the controversies surrounding this small fish.
The Delta Smelt is an endangered fish found only in the heart of California’s water distribution system. Legal protections of the species have contributed to the curtailment of water delivered to farms and cities. Rocketing onto the national political stage, it was dubbed a “stupid little fish” on the floor of the United States House and was falsely blamed for Los Angeles’ disastrous wildfires by President Trump. Following the fish from California’s water wars to America’s culture wars and back again, this project considers how thorny environmental problems emerge when attempts to control and define nature overflow into other domains of social life, and why they often only seem to multiply with every attempt to resolve them.
Caleb Scoville is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University and a recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship. His research centers on the politics of environmental knowledge and the dynamics of environmental controversies. Caleb’s published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Science, and Theory and Society, among other venues. His book project on the case of the Delta Smelt is under advance contract with Columbia University Press.
This event is open to the entire Tufts Community. For questions contact humanities@tufts.edu.
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“The Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History”
Wednesday, April 2
7 - 8pm EDT. Doors at 6pm
Boston College, Gasson Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Newton, MA 02467
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-mcneill-the-industrial-revolution-as-global-environmental-history-tickets-1119827386859
Since 1985, John McNeill has taught history at Georgetown University. He has received two Fulbright awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, a MacArthur grant, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has had visiting appointments at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Universities of Oslo, Bologna, Canterbury, Otago, and was a Guest Professor at Peking University. Since 2011, he has served as a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. He has served as President of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association.
He has authored or co-authored eight books including The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World, which was the co-winner of book prizes from the World History Association and the Forest History Society and runner-up for the BP Natural World Book Prize. It was listed by The Timesamong the best science books ever written and translated into nine languages. His book Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association. His most recent books are The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene, 1945–2015, The Webs of Humankind, and Sea & Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean. He has edited or co-edited 17 other books. He is co-editor of the Cambridge book series Studies in Environment and History.
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AI for Climate Science seminar series: AI applications for Climate Science
Thursday, April 3
9am EDT (02:00-03:00 PM CEST)
Online and in Gvishiani room at IIASA (Laxenburg, Austria)
RSVP at https://iiasa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eih6-qQHT8uVBaQgAX2B3Q#/registration
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.
In this first seminar, Yi-Ling Hwong and Sandeep Chowdhary will present insights into AI applications for Climate Science and share their professional experiences in the field.
Kai Kornhuber will introduce the seminar and moderate the session.
For online participation, a registration is necessary.
1st presentation: From Clouds to Clicks: Machine Learning for Convective Parameterisation and Climate Science Communication by Yi-Ling Hwong
This talk will present two applications of ML in distinct but similarly complex domains: cloud modelling and science communication. The first part introduces how ML can be used to represent subgrid-scale convective processes in general circulation models. High resolution cloud-resolving models capture these processes accurately but are computationally expensive. ML methods such as deep neural network and random forest, trained on a multiscale model, can replace traditional parameterisations in a climate model, preserving key atmospheric dynamics at a fraction of the cost.
The second part presents a ML-driven analysis of public engagement and trust in climate science on social media. Using supervised and unsupervised methods, the factors driving audience engagement and trust in science are analyzed. Audience engagement (clicks) is driven by visual elements, while trust in science is shaped by similarity. Authenticity is the only factor that influences both engagement and trust, suggesting that audiences value personal, honest, and genuine messages.
2nd presenation: Integrating AI tools at IIASA by Sandeep Chowdhary
This talk will begin by categorizing AI tools for writing, reading, summarization, podcast-style paper reviews, and more. It will examine how these tools accelerate research by making information retrieval (and writing) more seamless.
Next, the need for high-accuracy, domain-specific models instead of broad generalized Large Language Models (LLMs) will be discussed. Another focus will be how LLMs, as a soft technology, enhance query ability and significantly speed up research by bridging the gap between fuzzy human commands (natural language) and the precise language machines require. As a result, interactions become smoother and faster, increasing the bitrate of human input. Finally, Cursor AI will be showcased, in particular, how it improves efficiency in coding and research.
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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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American Oversight: the Nonprofit Watchdog suing DOGE
Thursday, April 3
12:15pm to 1:15pm
Boston College, East Wing, 115A, Boston College Law School, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459
Join us for a talk and Q&A session with Ron Fein, Chief Counsel at American Oversight. Learn about AO's litigation against the Trump Administration and DOGE, and their mission of transparency and accountability in government. Lunch will be provided.
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Change and climate change
Thursday, April 3
1:30 - 2:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-flagship-lecture-change-and-climate-change-tickets-1227926012759
Join us for a new flagship lecture delivered by Lord Browne of Madingley FREng FRS, Chairman of BeyondNetZero, a former Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering as well as a past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Lord Browne will assess the options available to us in the face of a changing climate and the radical shifts taking place in international politics.
The lecture will be introduced by Sir John Lazar CBE FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and followed by a Q&A session.
Do not miss this opportunity to hear his insights and contribute to the discussion on the future of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
For any questions, please email events@raeng.org.uk. This is the registration page to attend online.
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Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China
Thursday, April 3
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 301, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
SPEAKER(S) Dr. Rong Ma , Associate Professor at China Agricultural University, College of Economics and Management. He is also a former Visiting Fellow and Collaborator with the Harvard-China Project. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University. His research focuses on environmental economics and energy economics.
This paper examines a solar subsidy program in China designed to alleviate poverty among rural households in the country’s most impoverished regions through solar resource development. The empirical findings indicate a substantial increase in firm entry in treated villages, accompanied by a marked structural transformation characterized by a reduction in self-employment and a shift in land use from farmland to built-up areas. This surge in firm entry appears to be driven primarily by improvements in local electricity availability and reliability, as well as upgrades in local transportation infrastructure. Correspondingly, the analysis identifies a notable rise in local nightlight intensity and a reduction in regional nightlight disparities. Moreover, treated villages experience significant improvements in air quality, largely attributable to decreased pollutant emissions from nearby thermal power plants. By elucidating the impacts of place-based renewable energy policies, this study underscores their potential to foster a more equitable energy transition.
CONTACT INFO Kellie Nault, knault@fas.harvard.edu
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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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Why and how to use carbon dioxide to make products
Friday, April 4
11am to 12pm
BU, PHO 203, 8 St Mary's Street, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://butodayevents.bu.edu/event/meche-seminar-series-month-of-energy-and-sustainability-volker-sick-seminar
Abstract:Taking carbon dioxide as a resource, a feedstock for essential products is a game changer for sustainable economies. CO2-based products will become key elements of growing local and global economies. Growing demands for food, household and industrial chemicals, energy carriers, construction materials, and much more cannot be met with biomass and traditional recycling alone. The carbon from CO2 becomes the third leg of the carbon sources stool and technology readiness of suitable conversion technologies has reached critical levels for deployments. This talk will examine the global opportunities for CO2 utilization and provides projections for new $trillion industries.
About the Speaker: Volker Sick, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering; DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research; Director of the Global CO2 Initiative; Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. He works on CO2-utilization for carbon management and fossil-free carbon products. Additionally, he develops optical diagnosis methods for diseases of the human eye. He earned his Doctorate in Chemistry (1992) and Habilitation in Physical Chemistry (1997) from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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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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Kyiv Connection: The Strategic Use of Violence Against Civilians
Monday, April 7
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J5XuO88AR5amh1uVXljodA#/registration
SPEAKER(S) Eugene Finkel, Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University
Ivan Gomza, Professor of Political Science, Kyiv School of Economics
Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center (On Leave 2024-2025); Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics
This spring, the Davis Center, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard (HURI), and the Kyiv School of Economics are collaborating on an online series, "Kyiv Connection: Disciplinary Dialogues on Ukraine." The series will feature compelling and contemporary conversations across various disciplines, all from a Ukrainian perspective. Each session will feature a Ukrainian scholar in dialogue with an international counterpart, offering diverse viewpoints and rich insights.
This third discussion, "The Strategic Use of Violence Against Civilians," will feature Ivan Gomza, professor of Political Science at the Kyiv School of Economics, in conversation with Eugene Finkel, the Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
Three years ago, Russian soldiers had massacred civilians in Bucha, a Kyiv suburb they occupied in February 2022. Eugene Finkel and Ivan Gomza will discuss how the strategic use of violence against civilians can be squared with Russian rhetoric about Slavic brotherhood, historical unity, and liberation. They will also explore features of the Russian army that are put forth to explain the violence, from its social composition to operational features and a “metropole-colony” mindset.
CONTACT INFO laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
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Breaking the Matrix: The U.S. Economy
Monday, April 7
6:45 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GXr118GESGW17V6on40lbA#/registration
We are embedded in systems that we take for granted as the way things should be. These are the invisible matrices that discipline us because of the fascination of U.S. politics with carcerality. We have an opportunity for expansive imagination and recreation. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, this decade will see the seismic reshaping of our global labor market. As a result of rapid technological development, climate change and its industrial impact, and massive demographic and geographic shifts, WEF predicts the creation of 170 million new jobs and the displacement of 92 million. This emphasizes the need for rigorous and foundational enhancements to economic infrastructures, many of which only work for segments of the workforce while leaving behind countless others. In this conversation, speakers will consider possibilities and challenges in reimagining our economic institutions and realizing opportunities for shared prosperity.
Featuring Vishal Reddy, Executive Director, WorkFour
Lauren Paul, Senior Director of Strategic Advancement, Institute on Race, Power, & Political Economy
Nati Linares, Co-Founder & Artist Organizer, Art.coop
Moderated by Becca Leviss, MTS '25, CRPL ’25
This is the third event of a five-part series of online public conversations with academics, advocates, and activists to imagine the systems that liberatory thought can create and how we can invest in visions of more equitable social structures.
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Player Europe: Regional Crises, Strategic Stability, and Prospects for Arms Control
Tuesday, April 8
5:30pm to 6:45pm
Boston College, Higgins Hall, 310, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
One of the biggest strategic shifts resulting from the war in Ukraine has been Europe’s increased role on the international stage, particularly in security and defense issues. As the United States shifts focus to the Indo-Pacific, the war in Ukraine winds down, and the future of Trans-Atlantic relations face uncertainty, Europe is poised to take on a greater deterrence role in the region. Europe's evolving role in deterrence has numerous implications for defense policy and security studies. First, it demonstrates the increasingly multi-player nature of strategic stability, traditionally conceptualized as a two-party great power nuclear balance. Second, it shows the importance of regional issues on the wider geopolitical landscape. Regional stabilities have implications for strategic stability. And finally, European actors could play a significant role in post-war efforts at arms control, given their increased defense spending, expansion of conventional capabilities, and ability to influence decision-making in Moscow. In short, Europe could make or break future strategic arms control efforts.
This talk will present findings from a year-long study commissioned by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office into prospects for arms control after the war in Ukraine. The study set out to understand what interest Russia might have in arms control, sources of leverage to incentivize Russia to participate in arms control, and options for strategic arms control after the war. It used an alternative futures methodology with four potential scenarios and two black swans through 2027, and included government, non-government, and next generation experts in the scenario discussions. The presentation will conclude with a series of recommendations for U.S.-Russia, U.S.-Russia-China, and multilateral arms control, to include France and the United Kingdom. Ultimately, it concludes that the best options for incentivizing arms control with Russia are nuclear and conventional buildups on both sides of the Atlantic, leveraging third parties to incentivize Moscow to participate in arms control, and linking arms control to wider security issues in the region.
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A Changing Planet Seminar: Climate Change, Gender, Power & Overlapping Systemic Crises
Wednesday, April 9
11am EDT [15.00 - 16.00 BST]
Imperial Grantham Institue, 140, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus
And online
RSVP at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/192075/a-changing-planet-seminar-climate-gender-power-crises/
Dr Amiera Sawas, Head of Policy, Organisation: Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Climate change, gender, power and overlapping systemic crises: what next for women’s leadership in addressing the biggest challenge of our time?
Join Dr. Amiera Sawas at the next Changing Planet Seminar where she’ll discuss the increasingly studied interconnections between gender justice and climate change; some cutting edge work to address them, including new international mechanisms to govern the phase out of fossil fuels; and what it’s like to be a woman, working on intersectional gender justice in the climate sector.
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Sustainably Powering AI: The latest Stanford research
Wednesday, April 9
11am EDT [2pm to 3pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/sustaining-AI-kickoff
AI offers enormous potential for a sustainable future, leveraging the vast amount of data in the energy system to optimize everything from battery management to changing energy markets to grid operation and planning. But this intellectual power comes at the cost of electrical power, and lots of it. The rapid growth of AI is straining the existing power grid. In response to the challenges presented by AI, the Bits & Watts Initiative is launching a new flagship program on Sustainably Powering AI. The new flagship program is focused on monitoring and reducing AI’s GHG emissions, as well as affordability, grid reliability, and grid interconnections.
The program kicked off by selecting six new projects in this area to support with seed grants. This webinar will introduce these projects at the cutting edge of Stanford research on the intersection of AI and sustainability.
Faculty Speakers
Sara Achour, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Hunt Allcott, Environmental Social Sciences
Juan Rivas-Davila, Electrical Engineering
Meagan S. Mauter, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Khalid Osman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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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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Can we design AI to support human flourishing?
Thursday, April 10
8:30am — 5:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.media.mit.edu/events/aha-symposium/
A 1-day symposium to launch the AHA research program AI is here to stay, but how do we ensure that people flourish in a world of pervasive AI use? The MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program is excited to announce its inaugural symposium with a goal of discussing what is arguably one of the most important questions of our time: What future with AI do we want to live in and how can we design and deploy AI that improves the human experience?
In person attendance at the MIT Media Lab is upon invitation only, but the symposium will be streamed online. For more information: contact aha@media.mit.edu.
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Climate Storytellers’ Summit
Thursday, April 10
4–6PM Eastern
Online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V2sJHJwbShO2sLMAOLGMpg#/registration
Join My Climate Story project, the Yale Program on Climate Communication, the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, & the Media, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute for a free, live, online, two-hour storytellers’ summit. Conceived by Professor Bethany Wiggin and moderated by UPenn scientist Michael Mann, this event and its companion documentation offer a high-profile platform to present climate storytelling work and to learn and connect with others working in this important space.
A decade ago, the term “climate storytelling” was new. Today, it’s proliferating, used by practitioners and theorists to describe stories that connect global climate change with local people and places. Climate stories can disrupt stories of business as usual. They can grapple with history and inspire hope. They can imagine flourishing futures, even as they also deal in dystopian presents. They can present agentic pathways, sharing examples of individuals and communities working for and realizing the climate they want. Good climate storytellers work with climate science, and they also work across sectors: in the media and the arts and humanities, in Hollywood and elementary school classrooms, in the climate movement and in climate science.
As climate storytelling gains steam—fueled by the urgent need to advance climate solutions that cut carbon and methane pollution and protect communities from extreme weather—we’ll gather climate storytellers across sectors to learn from one another and spark generative, collaborative conversations.
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Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich on Bees, Sustainability, and Environmental Impact
Thursday, April 10
5:30 - 6:30pm EDT
Tufts, Chase Center, Carmichael Hall, 200 Packard Avenue Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-noah-wilson-rich-on-bees-sustainability-and-environmental-impact-tickets-1225584067939
Join a conversation and special reception with Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich about his journey from Tufts student to environmental innovator, the vital role bees play in sustaining ecosystems, and how his work bridges science, business, and civic engagement. Dr. Wilson-Rich, AG11 is the founder and chief scientific officer of The Best Bees Company and the Urban Beekeeping Laboratory and Bee Sanctuary, a 501(c)3 nonprofit entity. What began at Tufts during his graduate studies investigating the collapse of honeybee populations eventually grew into The Best Bees Company, a pioneering organization dedicated to supporting pollinator health through research-informed practice and promoting urban beekeeping as a critical tool in environmental conservation. His book The Bee: A Natural History was published in 2014.
Dr. Wilson-Rich is the 2025 recipient of the Lyon & Bendheim Citizenship Award for his remarkable contributions to environmental sustainability and social impact. Celebrate this extraordinary Tufts alumnus and be inspired by his vision for a more sustainable world.
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Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges
Friday, April 11
8:30am to 5pm
Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing), 801, 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
The workshop explores the evolving landscape of climate adaptation in the context of recent COP outcomes, financial challenges, and shifting geopolitical dynamics. How can adaptation efforts progress amid these complexities? What bold strategies can drive equitable financing and policy innovation? Designed as a highly interactive forum, the workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and generate new research directions, culminating in a report that outlines a forward-looking research agenda to drive impactful scholarship and policy engagement.
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2025 Autonomous Vehicles & the City Symposium
Friday, April 11
10am EDT [1:00 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/2025-04-11/2025-autonomous-vehicles-city-symposium
Cost: $10
As cities strive for safer streets and greener mobility, they face mounting challenges to navigating an increasingly complex global landscape. Political shifts are reshaping climate policies, market access, and the very definition of autonomy, as industry and government become more entwined. What does this mean for the future of urban transportation? The 2025 Autonomous Vehicles & the City Symposium brings together top innovators, policymakers, and urban planners to unpack these pressing issues. This year’s symposium will focus on vision zero and data – going beyond the technical aspects of AVs—to examine how they intersect with climate goals and public transit to create greener, more connected communities.
Opening Keynote by Kristin White, Google Transportation Industry Executive, ex-USDOT FHWA Administrator
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Harvard Climate Connect: Community-Driven Solutions to Heat-Based Climate Inequity
Saturday, April 12
12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Harvard Law School (specific location to be announced)
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEvu2Pz35QemsucnqpxUpFoHrHE8HdNpVmCuY6DVAS2D_I8g/viewform
Join us for a symposium hosted by the Environmental Law Society at the Harvard Law School and the Environmental Justice Student Organization at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Deadline for RSVP: April 4th, 2025
Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 31st, 2025
We are accepting abstracts on all topics pertaining to environmental justice. If you would like an extension for submitting an abstract, please email us at ejstudent.harvardchan@gmail.com!
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Managing Forced Migration: 18th Annual STAR-TIDES Capabilities Demonstration
Sunday, April 13 - Thursday, April 17
George Mason University's Arlington campus (Mason Square) 3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22201
https://secure.touchnet.com/C20788_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=68&SINGLESTORE=true
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Trump, the Transatlantic Rift, and the Future of European Security
Monday, April 14
12 - 1:15pm EDT
Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street room 909 Boston, MA 02120
How political shifts in the US are impacting European security dynamics
The discussion will be led by Marianne Riddervold the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo and University of California Berkeley, with Mai’a Cross from Northeastern University moderating the conversation. The conversation will address how political shifts in the US are impacting European security dynamics.
Seating is first come, first served.
Pizza will be provided.
RSVP is for in person only.
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Green Industrial Policy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Monday, April 14
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/green-industrial-policy-good-bad-and-ugly
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu; Livestream on MediaCentral
Amir Lebdioui is the director of the Technology and Industrialisation for Development (TIDE) Centre at the University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the Oxford Department of International Development. Before joining Oxford, Amir was based at SOAS, University of London, and the London School of Economics (LSE).
His research has focused on industrial policy, export diversification, natural resource management, green economic transformation and biodiversity-based innovation models. He is the author of Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Latin American trade in the age of climate change: impact, opportunities, and policy options(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) (LSE, 2022)
Amir also regularly advises governments, international institutions (including the IEA, IRENA, World Bank, UNDP, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Latin American development Bank-CAF) and think tanks on green industrial policy. He was appointed by the Brazilian presidency to the independent group of experts of the G20 climate task force, serves on the advisory council of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), and is non-resident fellow at the Climate and Community Project and at the Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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Financial Strategies: Climate Change, Decarbonization & Cost of Inaction
Monday, April 14
1 - 2pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/financial-strategies-climate-change-decarbonization-cost-of-inaction-tickets-1295736144689
This webinar will explore financial strategies for leadership to address climate-related risks, including the cost of inaction.
The NAM Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector (Climate Collaborative), through its Health Care Delivery and Policy, Financing, and Metrics Working Groups, is hosting a Building Momentum to Act on Health Care Decarbonization webinar series this winter and spring 2025, focusing on sharing resources and building the momentum to act on health care decarbonization.
In the first webinar of the Health Care's Path to Decarbonization: Addressing Key Risks and Fostering Resilience Pathway, Financial Strategies for Addressing Climate Change Impacts, Decarbonization, and the Cost of Inaction, Niyum Gandhi (Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Mass General Brigham), Brandon Seibold (Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Adventist Health), and Rob Roy, Ph.D. (Chief Investment Officer, AdventHealth), joined by Marc Scher (Chair, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)), will discuss financial strategies for leadership particularly in the health sector to address climate-related risks, including the cost of inaction, financial impacts of mandates, reputation risks, and the importance of hardening facilities, among other related topics.
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Heat pumps as pillars of resilient energy future
Tuesday, April 15
11am EDT (16:00 – 17:30 Berlin Time)
Online
RSVP at https://agora-thinktanks-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hYdE0xQ7Rp6-ROxIlQ3SIw#/registration
This webinar will explore innovative policy options and approaches to drive a sustainable, consumer friendly heat pump market.
What this event is about
Widely used in cooling, refrigeration and in heating buildings and water, heat pumps are a proven technology. But to replace the fossil fuels that currently meet most global heating demand, the deployment of clean technologies like heat pumps must accelerate significantly. This is essential to meet global climate and energy goals.
Join us to hear from international experts offering technical guidance to policymakers on how to scale up heat pump markets to deliver the greatest climate and consumer benefits. The session will feature an updated “heat pump toolkit” for policymakers and insights into policies which could support EU-wide efforts to accelerate the transition to clean heating.
The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session with the audience.
We usually publish the slides shown during our events afterwards.
We plan to record the event. The recording will be published shortly after the event.
We look forward to your participation and an interesting discussion!
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Post-Disaster Ecological Restoration Strategies for Samandağ Coastline in Hatay, Türkiye
Wednesday, April 16
12:30 – 2 p.m.
Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/post-disaster-ecological-restoration-strategies-samandag-coastline-hatay-t%C3%BCrkiye
SPEAKER(S) Banu Tomruk, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Istanbul Bilgi University; Visiting Scholar at CMES, Harvard University
Banu Tomruk is an architect specializing in ecological urbanism and circular architecture. Her current research focuses on the ecological restoration of post-earthquake regions in Samandağ, Hatay, Turkey, developing resilient recovery strategies and regenerative design solutions for coastal areas. Since 2012, she has contributed to architectural education as an assistant professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her teaching portfolio spans undergraduate and graduate courses, including "Mapping: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City"; "Critical Urban Representation"; "Architectural Design Studio"; and the "Graduate Design Research Lab". From 2020 to 2024, she directed the Graduate Program in Architectural Design and the Graduate Program in History, Theory, and Criticism in Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University.
She holds a Bachelor and Master of Architecture from Yıldız Technical University, completed a postgraduate program at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, and earned her doctoral degree from Istanbul Technical University. Her research, published in academic journals and conference proceedings, explores contemporary challenges at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, landscape, and environmental resilience.
CONTACT INFO eaf073@fas.harvard.edu
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Starr Forum: The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days
Wednesday, April 16
5:30pm to 7pm
Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing), 230, 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzD4UoQEwJG3lvk-eNyn1W27zPxlTjj4xK66VWUxlhOvoIAA/viewform
Juliette Kayyem and Kori Schake provide in-depth analysis on President Trump’s first 100 days in office and what this portends for our nation and the world.
Speakers:
Juliette Kayyem is the faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She also serves as a senior national security analyst for CNN where she has been described as CNN’s “go to” for disasters. A contributing writer to The Atlantic, Professor Kayyem has a weekly security segment on NPR’s Boston station WGBH. Her most recent book, "The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters," was described in a New Yorker profile as an “engagingly urgent blueprint for rethinking our approach to disaster preparedness and response.” She served as President Obama’s assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Homeland Security.
Kori Schake leads the foreign and defense policy team at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of "Safe Passage: the Transition from British to American Hegemony," and a contributing writer at the Atlantic, War on the Rocks, and Bloomberg. Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland. She has written additional books, including "America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?" and is coeditor, along with former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, of “Warriors & Citizens: American Views of Our Military.”
Moderator: Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa and the director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He conducts research on the political-economy of development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. He studies the democratic politics of governing ethnically and racially diverse societies, including the challenges of public health, climate adaptation, and ensuring respect for human dignity. Lieberman is the author, most recently, of "Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid.”
Free & open to the public.
A recording will be posted on YouTube following the event.
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TEDx MIT: Cultivating Innovation at MIT
Thursday, April 17
6pm-9pm
RSVP at https://tedx.mit.edu/register-tedxmit
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The Evolving Landscape of Social Housing in New England
Friday, April 18
1 – 5 p.m.
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-evolving-landscape-of-social-housing-in-new-england-tickets-1206107051659
In response to the worsening housing affordability crisis, the idea of “social housing” has been gaining momentum across the US. While this movement represents a push for new ways to supply affordable homes, it will inevitably draw on existing institutions and current legal, policy, and financial frameworks, particularly in New England, which has a well-established affordable housing ecosystem. “The Evolving Landscape of Social Housing in New England” brings together practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and researchers to describe existing models of social housing in New England and new efforts to design, fund, build, and manage accessible, diverse, and sustainable housing.
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
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The 2030 vision for clean energy technologies in India and beyond
Monday, April 21
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/2030-vision-clean-energy-technologies-india-and-beyond
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu; Livestream on MediaCentral
Speaker, Ajay Mathur, Director General, International Solar Alliance, Haryana , India
Dr. Ajay Mathur is the Director General of the International Solar Alliance (ISA).
The ISA is a treaty –based inter-governmental organization with 120 member countries, which aims to make solar as the energy-of-choice in its member countries. Dr. Mathur has spearheaded the implementation of solar energy projects and capacity building projects in many developing countries, and of the publication of annual progress reports on solar technology, markets and investments. Recently, the ISA has embarked on the creation of a Solar Facility to mitigate the risks associated with solar investments in African Countries, and launched a programme to identify and strengthen solar startups in that continent.
Prior to joining ISA, Dr. Mathur was Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and a member of the Prime Minister of India’s Council on Climate Change. He was co-chair of the global Energy Transitions Commission and the Clean Cooling Initiatives of the One Planet Summit. He earlier headed the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency and was responsible for its foundational programmes, which mainstreamed energy efficiency through initiatives such as the Star Labeling program for appliances, the Energy Conservation Building Code, and the Perform, Achieve & Trade program for energy-intensive industries. He was a leading climate change negotiator and was the Indian spokesperson at the Paris climate negotiations. He served as the interim Director of the Green Climate Fund during its foundational period.
Dr Mathur was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Merite by the President of France in recognition of his outstanding commitment to preserving the environment and coping with energy- related challenges.
Dr Mathur received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the (then) University of Roorkee and a Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois. He has also received the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both his alma maters.
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Webinar – Reforming Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs to Increase Heat Pump Adoption
Tuesday, April 22
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/reforming-energy-efficiency-incentive-programs-to-increase-heat-pump-adoption/
Billions of dollars are spent each year to provide impactful energy efficiency upgrades for US households. However, incentive programs are not reaching their full potential, burdened by complex and ever-changing rules.
This webinar presents new findings from RMI’s report Reforming Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs to Increase Heat Pump Adoption, featuring real-world perspectives from experts in incentive programs and heat pump equipment sales and installation. A moderated panel discussion and Q&A illuminate best practices in program design to improve delivery of incentives.
This webinar is for program administrators, utility regulators, policymakers, and advocates interested in how to make programs simpler, market-friendly, durable, and equitable.
SPEAKERS
KEVIN DEMASTER, Senior Business Development Manager, LG Air Conditioning Technologies USA
MAGGIE MOLINA, Executive Director, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
SARAH MOSCATELLO, Owner and General Manager, The Heat Pump Store
MICHAEL STODDARD, Executive Director, Efficiency Maine Trust
JACK TEENER, RMI
LACEY TAN, RMI
RUSSELL UNGER, RMI (Moderator)
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Carbon Border Adjustments and Pathways to International Cooperation: Insights from Steel Decarbonization in India
Wednesday, April 23
4 PM – 5 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Yale, Burke Auditorium (Kroon Hall) & Zoom New Haven, CT 06520, United States
And online
RSVP at https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/ycelp/rsvp_boot?id=2295802
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The 2nd U.S.-Asia Sustainable Development Summit
Thursday, April 24
9am - 7pm EDT
Harvard, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-us-asia-sustainable-development-summit-tickets-1026003362677
Cost: $0 - $95.21
This Summit is an international event dedicated to Green AI, and fostering collaboration between the US and Asia on sustainability issues.
Agenda
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Opening Ceremony
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Panel 1: Innovations in Renewable Energy Technology
This panel will discuss recent technological advancements in renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and hydrogen, with insights into how these innovations are shaping both local and international markets
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel 2: Policy and Regulatory Challenges in Climate ChangeExploring the policy frameworks in the U.S. and Asia that address climate challenges, including carbon markets, emissions standards, and funding for sustainable projects.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Panel 3: Sustainable Finance and Investment in Climate SolutionsDiscussing sustainable finance trends and investment in climate solutions, such as green bonds, ESG funds, and public-private partnerships.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Panel 4: Fostering Global Partnerships for Climate ActionThis panel will focus on building cross-border partnerships between governments, businesses, and academic institutions to address global climate goals.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Panel 5: Sustainable Development and Responsibility in Global Supply ChainsThis panel will explore the low-carbon transformation of global supply chains, along with the challenges and opportunities companies face in fulfilling environmental responsibilities.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Closing Ceremony
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Nature-Based Infrastructure in Post-Industrial Coastlines and Neighborhoods
Thursday, April 24
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP only needed for virtual attendants at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rqxgr1glRUudRegzk1sVrw
Gabriel Cira will present a series of recent investigations in the material, technical, and social dimensions of nature-based infrastructure for urban coastlines—growing marsh grass in biomass substrates. The work presented will focus on The Emerald Tutu research group and their network of allied community collaborators in East Boston, demonstrating how this approach of weaving together academic and community partnerships has helped fill missing gaps and bring projects beyond the pilot scale.
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Book Release: “Thinking Through Soil”
Thursday, April 24
12:30 - 2pm EDT. Doors at 6:15pm
Harvard University Graduate School Of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Frances Loeb Library Lobby, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-release-thinking-through-soil-tickets-1206112367559
To think through soil is to engage with some of the most critical issues of our time. In addition to its agricultural role in feeding eight billion people, soil has become the primary agent of carbon storage in global climate models, and it is crucial for biodiversity, flood control, and freshwater resources. Perhaps no other material is asked to do so much for the human environment, and yet our basic conceptual model of what soil is and how it works remains surprisingly vague.
In cities, soil occupies a blurry category whose boundaries are both empirically uncertain and politically contested. Soil functions as a nexus for environmental processes through which the planet’s most fundamental material transformations occur, but conjuring what it actually is serves as a useful exercise in reframing environmental thought, design thinking, and city and regional planning toward a healthier, more ethical, and more sustainable future.
Through a sustained analysis of the world’s largest wastewater agricultural system, located in the Mexico City–Mezquital hydrological region, Thinking Through Soil imagines what a better environmental future might look like in central Mexico. More broadly, this case study offers a new image of soil that captures its shifting identity, explains its profound importance to rural and urban life, and argues for its capacity to save our planet.
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Advances in Global Disease Surveillance: An Introduction to BEACON
Thursday, April 24
2:00 pm to 6:30 pm
BU, 665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advances-in-global-disease-surveillance-an-introduction-to-beacon-tickets-1237688021189
This symposium celebrates the launch of the Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON). The event will feature a keynote address presented by Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Please see the Eventbrite registration page for a a full agenda and list of speakers. The event will conclude with a reception for all speakers and attendees.
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Sustaining the Urban Future: Climate and Community Resiliency in Cities
Friday, April 25
1 - 2pm EDT
BU, 730 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustaining-the-urban-future-climate-and-community-resiliency-in-cities-tickets-1247546698759
What sustainable urban future do you envision? Join us for an exciting event with BU Sustainability!
What sustainable urban future do you envision? How can all communities experience environmental protections in cities equally? In collaboration with BU Sustainability, join us to learn how sustainable urbanism can promote a resilient, lasting, and livable city. After learning about climate challenges that cities face, you will brainstorm how you - individually and collectively, can be part of a resilient and just urban future. Wondering how this can lead to a real impact? You will walk away with resources to kickstart your sustainable actions with local community organizations!
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Human Ingenuity vs Climate Change
Friday, April 25
6 - 8pm EDT. Doors at 5:30pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/human-ingenuity-vs-climate-change-tickets-1270737984519
Join our panel chat and learn how human ingenuity is combating climate change at our event on April 25, 2025 at 6PM. Free drinks & nibbles!
Agenda
6:00 PM
Introduction
Anita Gajdecki
A brief introduction to the AMS Speaker Series "Eye Towards the Sky" by its Founder and Director. S
Commercialization of Innovation Success Stories
Dr Vanessa Z Chan Formerly Chief Commercialization Officer at the Department of Energy, and voted Time 2024 top 100 leaders in Business and Climate
Climate Interventions/Solar Geo-Engineering
Dr Daniele Visioni An expert in global climate modeling explores the impact of stratospheric aerosols on atmospheric composition and climate.
Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone
Dr Heidi Roop Bridging science and action, turning climate data into decisions that shape cities, nations, and the world. From Antarctica to California, Dr Roop’s research spans the globe.
Q&A
Dr Matt Sitkowski Emmy award-winning Science Editor-in-Chief at the Weather Channel, Dr Sitkowski moderates the lively Q&A session from members of the audience, both in-person and on-line.
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The Problem of Climate Change and the Analogy of Development: Insights from the Auto Sector in Brazil and South Africa
Monday, April 28
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/problem-climate-change-and-analogy-development
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu; Livestream on MediaCentral
Speaker: Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University
Benjamin H. Bradlow is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Southern Center for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the research program on “Humanity's Urban Future.” Bradlow's research investigates connections between climate change, urbanization, technological change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. He is the author of Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton University Press 2024). His current book project is The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transitions in the Global South.
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More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Monday, April 28
6pm EDT
Harvard, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-becker-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-1258689156149
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Adam Becker—science journalist with a PhD in astrophysics and author of the New York Times Book ReviewEditor’s Choice What Is Real?—for a discussion of his new book More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. He will be joined in conversation by Jacob Barandes—Co-Director of Graduate Studies for Physics at Harvard University. This event will take place at the Harvard Science Center Hall D, located at 1 Oxford St, Cambridge.
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the future
Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs.
In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason—for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity—at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What’s more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience.
More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.
Bios
Adam Becker is a science journalist with a PhD in astrophysics. He has written for the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, New Scientist, Quanta, and other publications. His first book, What Is Real?, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and was long-listed for the PEN Literary Science Writing Award. He has been a science journalism fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and a science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He lives in California.
Jacob Barandes founded and organized the Foundations of Physics @Harvard seminar and workshop series, as well as the New England Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Physics, which are both co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. He completed his PhD in the Department of Physics at Harvard University, where he currently serves as Lecturer and Co-Director of Graduate Studies. He is also an Associated Faculty Member with the Department of Philosophy, and a Faculty Affiliate with the Harvard Black Hole Initiative.
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A Bay State Without Beaches: Stories of the Shoreline
Tuesday, April 29
6 - 8pm EDT
105 South Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02130
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bay-state-without-beaches-stories-of-the-shoreline-tickets-1291243135979
Stories of the Shoreline is an event where the Boston community is invited to share and listen to stories about Bostons changing coast.
Join us for Stories of the Shoreline , a storytelling event where the Boston Metropolitan community is invited to share and listen to stories about the impacts of coastal climate change. Whether it’s about extreme weather events, rising sea levels, flooding, or the transformation of our beaches, we’re looking for personal stories that highlight how these changes have shaped our lives, our communities, and our coastal environment. Tell us stories about what the ocean means to you and why it needs to be protected.
Participants will sign up at the event to share stories on stage (5 - 7 minutes recommended no more than 10 minutes per storyteller)
Story Slam: The winners will have their stories showcased in an exhibition at the end of the summer (There will be 3 winning stories).
Everyone is welcome including first time story tellers. We will be holding a story telling workshop 2 weeks before the event for folks who would like assistance crafting/preparing their story.
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Sustainability Symposium 2025
Wednesday, April 30 - Thursday, May 1
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-symposium-2025-tickets-1251652539439
SS25 is a transformative two-day virtual event exploring groundbreaking innovation and actionable solutions for a sustainable future.
The clock isn’t just ticking—it’s racing. Climate change, resource depletion, and outdated systems are on a collision course with reality. The good news? The solutions we need are here, and sustainability is unstoppable.
Green Builder Media’s 9th annual Sustainability Symposium 2025: A Force of Nature, held virtually on April 30 and May 1, isn’t just another conference. It’s a call to arms. A revolution. A reckoning. It’s where industry leaders, radical innovators, and climate warriors partner to forge the future—because waiting for an invitation to act is no longer an option, and failure isn’t on the agenda.
Here's the schedule:
April 30: Unleashing Innovation
Kill the Carbon, Keep the Comfort: The Net Zero Revolution is Here!
Sara Gutterman, CEO, Green Builder Media
Burn the Rulebook: The Radical Future of Homebuilding
Allan Merrill, CEO, Beazer Homes
Power, Water & Survival: The Race to Keep the Lights On & Taps Flowing
Jacob Atalla, VP Sustainability, KB Homes; Will Sarni, Earth Finance
AI & Sustainability: Game-Changer or Apocalypse Machine?
Decarbonization Now: The Business Revolution We Can’t Afford to Ignore
Laura Kohler, VP Sustainability Kohler
May 1: Ready for Anything
Climate Capitalism: Saving the Planet is the Smartest Investment Yet
Akshat Rathi, Senior Climate Reporter, Bloomberg
ClimateTech Evolution: The Next Frontier
Resiliency Evolution: Building for a World That Won’t Play Nice
Matt Power, Green Builder Media; Marshall Gobuty, Pearl Homes; Cynthia Adams, Pearl Certification
Don’t Say the ‘D’ Word: Winning the Decarbonization Debate in Hostile Territory Reuven Carlyle, Founder, Earth Finance
The Sustainability Symposium 2025: A Force of Nature isn’t just about knowledge—it’s about action. It’s a launching pad for the future. Believe us, this is an event you don’t want to miss.
A heartfelt thank you to Trane Technologies and Whirlpool Corporation for their continued support of our annual Sustainability Symposium, as well as their total commitment to corporate sustainability.
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Climate Tech in the City
Wednesday, April 30
10am - 7pm EDT
City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Square Boston, MA 02203
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-tech-in-the-city-tickets-1286665133049
Join us for two outdoor events that will bring together Boston's climate tech community for a day of demonstrations and celebration.
Presented by the City of Boston, The Alliance for Climate Transition (ACT), the Downtown Boston Alliance, the Massachusetts Center for Clean Energy (MassCEC) and Schneider Electric, Climate Tech in the City is a day that consists of two free events that unite entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, policymakers, and the public to exchange ideas and explore partnerships that can drive real-world impact.
Climate Tech on the Plaza
Event Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA
Join us for Climate Tech on The Plaza on April 30th, a vibrant outdoor event showcasing why Boston possesses one of the country's most robust climate tech clusters. This rapidly growing industry is forming to solve the energy and environmental challenges of the future. Stay tuned for a full list of companies, community organizations, and startups that will be tabling!
You can expect the following activities on City Hall Plaza:
Technology Demonstrations: Experience cutting-edge climate technologies first-hand, from renewable energy solutions to advanced environmental monitoring systems.
Information Exchange: Talk with industry experts, policymakers, and thought leaders about the latest trends and innovations in climate tech.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with key players in the climate tech community, including startups, investors, researchers, and government representatives.
Climate Tech Block Party
Event Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Summer Street Plaza at Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
Celebrate Boston's climate tech sector's achievements and milestones with live entertainment, food, and networking.
These events are open to the public and welcome everyone interested in climate change and climate technology, including industry professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, students, and concerned citizens.
For more information, visit: https://www.boston.gov/climate-tech
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Dollar Dominance, Deterrence, and Denial
Wednesday, April 30
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at https://ssp.mit.edu/events/2025/dollar-dominance-deterrence-and-denial
Professor Carla Norrlöf from the University of Toronto will speak at the MIT Security Studies
This talk examines how the United States leverages the dollar’s global dominance as a national security tool. By employing strategies of deterrence and denial, the US uses its financial hegemony to influence other states and non-state actors. This financial dominance has prompted others to seek alternatives to mitigate their exposure to US monetary power presenting risks to the dollar’s primacy with significant security implications. Professor Norrlöf will explore what these emerging dynamics mean for the future of US hegemony and global order.
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Microbial Food as a Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Source of Nutrients for the UK
Thursday, 1 May 2025
16.15 - 20.00 BST
Imperial College, City and Guilds Building, Lecture Theatre 200, Main Entrance, South Kensington Campus, London
And online
RSVP at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/192029/briefing-paper-launch-microbial-food-as-a-sustainable-healthy-and-resilient-source-of-nutrients-for-the-uk/
Join us for the launch of the “Microbial Food as a Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Source of Nutrients for the UK” Briefing Paper, a key event that aligns with Imperial College London’s commitment to pioneering sustainable food technologies. This event will bring together policymakers, industry leaders, academics, and the general public to explore the potential of microbial food as a sustainable and resilient solution to food security challenges in the UK.
About the Briefing Paper
The paper covers the need for investment in alternative and sustainable food solutions to provide better choices for consumers. Microbial foods present an opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of our diets while, in parallel, meeting the nutritional needs of the wider population, and minimising the UK’s dependency on imports.
A cross sectoral panel will discuss the potential of microbial foods as an alternative to animal food products, as well as the current state of investment in research and infrastructure, and the regulations required to obtain market approval in the UK.
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My Home, Our Planet: Venezuelan Migrant Children in Brazil and the Role of Education of Climate Change
Monday, May 5
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-gabrielle-oliveira-fellow-presentation-virtual
SPEAKER(S) Gabrielle Oliveira, 2024–2025 Maury Green Fellow
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.
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