Sunday, August 11, 2019

Energy (and Other) Events - August 11, 2019

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Monday, August 12
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11:30am  The Quest for a Bionic Hand: Recent Achievements and Future Perspectives

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Tuesday, August 13
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4:30pm  Happy Hour with Cass Sunstein: How Change Happens
6pm  Transportation and Climate Community Engagement Workshop - Chelsea
6pm  Mass Innovation Nights 125:  Boston Scientific
6:30pm  Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation Meeting
7pm  Sudden Courage:  Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
7pm  JP Solar Professionals - August Happy Hour

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Wednesday, August 14
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6pm  Make Our Voices Heard "Our Fight For Healthcare”
7pm  XR [Extinction Rebellion] Sharing Circle
7pm  Science for the People

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Thursday, August 15
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9am  Life Cycle Assessment: What You Want to Know
3pm  Food Forest
5:30pm  Tour and Tasting at UFI's Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
6pm  StartHub Founders Series: Laura Carpenter, CEO of Abridge News
6pm  Opening Night: The Atrocity of US
7pm  White Flights:  Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination

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Friday, August 16 - Sunday, August 18
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12th Annual Boston GreenFest 

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Saturday, August 17
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10am  Sunrise Boston Orientation Training
10:30am  Freedom Forum: Stranger Fruit

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Sunday August 18
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10am  Sunrise Boston Orientation Training
12pm  Fort Point Festival 2019
1pm  Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Justice
2pm  6th Annual Monarch Butterfly Release
7:30  Capturing the Flag – A Firsthand Account of Voter Suppression in North Carolina

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Monday, August 19
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4pm  HubWeek Open Doors: East Boston
6:30pm  Conflict Resolution in the Workplace

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Tuesday, August 20 
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10:30am  Tour of Boston Organics
6pm  Authors@MIT | Nolen Gertz: Nihilism @ The MIT Press Bookstore

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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:

Parkland:  When the Targets Talk Back

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Monday, August 12
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The Quest for a Bionic Hand: Recent Achievements and Future Perspectives
WHEN  Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE  Wyss Institute, 3rd Floor, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Wyss Institute at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Silvestro Micera, Bertarelli Foundation Chair, Translational NeuroEngineering
Professor, Institute of Bioengineering & Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland;
Professor, Translational Neural Engineering, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
DETAILS  Replacing a missing upper limb with a functional one is an ancient need and desire. Historically, humans have replaced a missing limb with a prosthesis for many reasons, be it cosmetic, vocational, or for personal autonomy. The hand is a powerful tool and its loss causes severe physical and often mental debilitation. The need for a versatile prosthetic limb with intuitive motor control and realistic sensory feedback is huge and its development is absolutely necessary for the near future.

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Tuesday, August 13
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Happy Hour with Cass Sunstein: How Change Happens
Tuesday, August 13
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

A special "happy hour" event with author and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein! Join us to mingle over light refreshments, hear from the author, and get your copy of How Change Happens signed. Please note the 4:30 pm event time, and feel free to stop by throughout the hour!

"Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."--David Brooks, The New York Times

How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outlets for them. In this book, with the help of behavioral economics, psychology, and other fields, Cass Sunstein casts a bright new light on how change happens.

Sunstein focuses on the crucial role of social norms--and on their frequent collapse. When norms lead people to silence themselves, even an unpopular status quo can persist. Then one day, someone challenges the norm--a child who exclaims that the emperor has no clothes; a woman who says "me too." Sometimes suppressed outrage is unleashed, and long-standing practices fall.

Sometimes change is more gradual, as "nudges" help produce new and different decisions--apps that count calories; texted reminders of deadlines; automatic enrollment in green energy or pension plans. Sunstein explores what kinds of nudges are effective and shows why nudges sometimes give way to bans and mandates. Finally, he considers social divisions, social cascades, and "partyism," when identification with a political party creates a strong bias against all members of an opposing party--which can both fuel and block social change.

Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He was the recipient of the 2018 Holberg Prize, one of the largest annual international research prizes awarded to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social science, law, or theology. He is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution (MIT Press), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.

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Transportation and Climate Community Engagement Workshop - Chelsea
Tuesday, August 13
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Mary C. Burke Elementary Complex, Kelly School Cafeteria, 300 Crescent Avenue, Chelsea

We have an opportunity to address two of our greatest challenges together -- transportation and climate change.

Opportunity - Equity - Investment
At this workshop we will talk about how states across the northeast are working together to develop a regional policy to fight climate change and improve transportation. The goal is to deliver a better, cleaner transportation system that benefits all our communities, while reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution across the region. And, in particular, to make improvements in communities who are underserved by current transportation options and disproportionately burdened by pollution.
Massachusetts state agencies are looking for your input on how to accomplish these goals through a program that would cap and reduce transportation emissions and invest proceeds from the program into low-carbon, more resilient transportation infrastructure.

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Mass Innovation Nights 125:  Boston Scientific
Tuesday, August 13
6:00pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston

So excited to be back at District Hall with second time sponsor Boston Scientific. Thanks to Boston Scientific, Mass Innovation Nights #125 will feature more than 10 innovations focusing on medical and tech solutions for aging in place, pediatrics and the disabled population. Join us on TUESDAY,  August 13th at 6pm for #MIN125 --  an evening of innovation in the Seaport District!

Don't miss it -- TUESDAY, August 13th 6pm-8:30pm for Mass Innovation Nights #125 
(617) 982-3213 

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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation Meeting
Tuesday, August 13
6:30 p.m.
First Church Cambridge, Harter Room, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge

If you are new to XR or would just like to learn more about how it works, please come to our next new member orientation session. We will cover the following:
Where did XR come from? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What is the extinction rebellion about? What do we want?
What are our principles and values? What brings us together?
How are we organized? What are working groups & affinity groups?
Come out and meet some of our local XRebels and learn how you can get involved!

The session will run for around 90 minutes.

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Sudden Courage:  Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
Tuesday, August 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed writer and educator RONALD C. ROSBOTTOM—Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Amherst College—for a discussion of his new book, Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945.

About Sudden Courage
The author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance—many only teenagers—who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators in Paris and across France.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Most citizens adapted and many even allied themselves with the new fascist leadership. Yet others refused to capitulate; in answer to the ruthless violence, shortages, and curfews imposed by the Nazis, a resistance arose. Among this shadow army were Jews, immigrants, communists, workers, writers, police officers, shop owners, including many young people in their teens and twenties.

Ronald Rosbottom tells the riveting story of how those brave and untested youth went from learning about literature to learning the art of sabotage, from figuring out how to solve an equation to how to stealthily avoid patrols, from passing notes to stealing secrets—and even learning how to kill. The standard challenges of adolescence were amplified and distorted.

Sudden Courage brilliantly evokes this dark and uncertain period, from the beginning of the occupation until the last German left French soil. A chronicle of youthful sacrifice and courage in the face of evil, it is a story that holds relevance for our own time, when democratic nations are once again under threat from rising nativism and authoritarianism. Beyond that, it is a riveting investigation about what it means for a young person to come of age under unpredictable and violent circumstances.

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JP Solar Professionals - August Happy Hour
Tuesday, August 13
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Bella Luna & The Milky Way, 284 Amory Street, Boston

Join friends, neighbors and solar professionals - this month we meet at Bella Luna in the Brewery Complex.

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Wednesday, August 14
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Make Our Voices Heard "Our Fight For Healthcare"
Wednesday, August 14
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

This event is open to all. This event is designed to discuss solutions to the disparities that Black Women, the Elderly, and other underserved demographics in America face during their experiences with the American healthcare system. 

Unfortunately, in the United States, Black women experience significant issues with healthcare. Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related deaths than any other race. An American Cancer Society study showed the rate that black American women are dying from cervical cancer is comparable to that of women in many poor developing nations.

Dr. Sanithia L. Williams stated in the New York Times, “Actual institutional and structural racism has a big bearing on our patients’ lives, and it’s our responsibility to talk about that more than just saying that it’s a problem,”. 

The baby boomers are entering old age, resulting in the biggest elderly population in United States history. Researchers have concluded that ageism directly affects the longevity of older adults. In a study published by the American Psychological Association, concluded that old people with positive perceptions of aging lived an average of 7.5 years longer than those with negative images of growing older.
Immigrants are facing extreme threats due to current political administration policies, therefore affecting their access to healthcare.

Therefore, how can these demographics protect themselves? How can they make their voices heard? How can we change this narrative? What technology or policies could assist? Join us for a group discussion and educational health presentations!

This event is hosted by The Mary J. Harris Foundation, Inc a 501c(3) non-profit in partnership with the Cambridge Innovation Center
Sponsored by Young Professionals Network of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (YPN-ULEM)

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XR [Extinction Rebellion] Sharing Circle
Wednesday, August 14
7 p.m.
Online through Zoom

All are welcome as we sit with each other's feelings on the ecological crisis and this huge adventure we're on together. On Zoom from 7:00-8:00pm. 

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Science for the People
Wednesday, August 14
7-9pm 
BU Metcalf Science Center, room SCI 328, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 
It's the Condensed Matter Theory Lounge. If you have issues finding the room, call or text at 617-821-1821.  

As our political discussion, we'll talk about nuclear energy and weapons. These two articles were suggested, but if anyone has additional material that is relevant, send it to this list.

We will also need to take some decisions on the magazine launch party, including venue, food & drink and events (and collecting funds for all of that). If anyone has suggestions for these, send them to me. Right now the plan is to have the party on a weeknight in the second or third week of September. That way students and faculty will be back and we can try to use the event to grow the organization.

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Thursday, August 15
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Life Cycle Assessment: What You Want to Know
Thursday, August 15
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Room Anchor, 1st Floor, 50 Milk Street, Boston
Cost:  $98

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool for understanding the environmental impacts associated with a material, a product, a building, or an activity. Assessment factors include the material extraction and processing, manufacturing, distribution, use or installation, and repair/maintenance, up to and possibly including the disposal and recycling of it. An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a document that communicates LCA information. Both the LCA process and EPDs work towards implementing transparency in the built environment. This course will look closely at the nuances of LCAs and EPDs, and their relations with the Living Building Challenge, Living Product Challenge, LEED, and Green Globes standards. You will learn how to get the information you need to make product decisions, as well as related advocacy opportunities, political debate, and emerging trends and impacts. This course will use the lens of building transparency curated through LCA and EPDs and supplemented with related sustainability initiatives, ratings, and standards, to look at building material impact.

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Food Forest
Thursday, August 15
3 PM – 8 PM
Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center, 500 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan

Mark your calendars for Third Thursdays! Come and enjoy good company and good food with your fellow permaculture enthusiasts at the Third Thursday Boston Food Forest Potlucks!

Third Thursdays will be held all season on May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, and October 17. We welcome to come to both the Workday and the Potluck, or either if you can attend one!
The Workdays are from 3-6. We meet at the Gazebo to start, but come any time and find us in the food forest!
The Potlucks are from 6-8. Bring a dish or drink of your own choice, and your own tableware (we will set up a dishwashing station). We will be at the Gazebo next to the Community Gardens.

On most Thursdays we will be joined by Ben Crouch, tree expert, permaculture teacher, and proprietor of Land of Plenty LLC, to walk us through the plans for our work. Ben is amazingly knowledgeable and so the workdays will also be a great learning experience for all.

Come learn about how to take care of a food forest, help us build our flagship site, meet like-minded folks, and enjoy the fruits of your labor!
Last year, we planted scores of new fruit and nut trees, and started building polycultures around them. This year, we are going to add new plants, but we will also be improving soil, pruning, maintaining plant health, and removing some of the competing invasive plants.

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Tour and Tasting at UFI's Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
Thursday, August 15
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, 487 Norfolk Street, Mattapan

Join SBN as we tour the Urban Farming Institute (UFI)'s newly restored historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm!

Historic Boston, along with its partners, the Urban Farming Institute, The Trust for Public Land, and North Bennet Street School, recently restored the 1786 Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, transforming the property into UFI's new urban farming headquarters and education center, including classrooms, demonstration kitchen, planting beds, and a farm stand.

Come learn how UFI is using Fowler Clark Epstein Farm to create healthy places and healthy people through training, education, research, and development. After the tour, you will be able to taste produce grown fresh from the farm!
Date: August 15th

Time: Join us at 5:30pm for casual networking with UFI, SBN members, and others engaged in the local food system. The farm tour will begin at 6:00pm, and a tasting selection will follow of produce grown directly from the farm!
Location: 487 Norfolk St, Mattapan, MA 02126

About UFI:  The Urban Farming Institute was founded in 2011 out of a global vision for a better food system and the local experience of neighborhood residents in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. They foresaw the challenges to a thriving urban agriculture industry in Boston: farmer training, land access, public education and policy.

The Urban Farming Institute brings its vision of a just food system into neighborhoods where it creates partnerships between residents and farmers to create healthy places and healthy people. And UFI continues to honor its local roots in the leaders, staff and participants of the program.

For more information contact Elena Klonoski, elena@SBNMass.org or (617) 395-0250

Everyone who registers for an Eat Local Month event on Eventbrite will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a Cabot Creamery $75 Gift Box, which includes an assortment of award-winning cheese, plaid burlap bag, and a wooden cutting board. Our other Eat Local Month events include a screening of Lobster War and a tour of Boston Organics.

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StartHub Founders Series: Laura Carpenter, CEO of Abridge News
Thursday, August 15
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston

StartHub Founders Series are monthly gatherings at various Venture Café sites. This program features guest startup speakers to share their startup stories (best practices, hurdles, etc) in a conversational setting.
This month StartHub Founders Series is coming to District Hall, and it will feature Laura Carpenter, CEO of Abridge News which is a political news platform that makes it easy to engage with the best opinions on different sides of a debate.
This series is a great opportunity for you to get engaged, ask questions, & learn more about what it takes to start a company! Registration required.

Agenda:
6:00-7:00PM Conversation & Q&A
7:00-7:30PM Open Networking
7:30PM Event concludes

About the Founder:
Laura Carpenter is the co-founder and CEO of Abridge News, a political news platform that makes it easy to engage with the best opinions on different sides of a debate. Abridge News reaches readers through an iOS app, website, and daily email newsletter, and has received coverage from outlets including Nieman Reports, the Atlantic, Editor & Publisher, and NBC Boston. Laura’s also a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, and has held multiple national leadership positions at the firm. Laura graduated with highest honors from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Nuclear Engineering. She recently graduated from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.

Questions? Contact StartHub Editor, Melissa Yee (melissa.yee@vencaf.org)

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Opening Night: The Atrocity of US
Thursday, August 15
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Fort Points Community Art Gallery, 300 Summer Street, Boston

Five artists join a shared empathy for the problems encountered within 21st century American culture. 
The Atrocity of US demands an open dialog between artist and viewer. It will directly challenge us all to consider where our morality resides within an increasingly diverse but equally divisive social dichotomy. 
Please join us on August 15th to continue the discussion.

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White Flights:  Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
Thursday, August 15
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed writer JESS ROW—author of Your Face in Mine—for a discussion of his new book, White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination. He will be joined in conversation by award-winning local writer GISH JEN. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities.

About White Flights
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties “white flight”―the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns―to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race.

White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean, he asks, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin, Dorothy Allison, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music, film, and literature in its arguments, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.

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Friday, August 16 - Sunday, August 18
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12th Annual Boston GreenFest 
Friday, August 16 - Sunday, August 18
12pm - 6pm with some performances until 9pm
296 State Street, Boston, MA - T-Stop Aquarium
Rose Kennedy Greenway: from the Carousel to the Rings Fountain
Long Wharf: Christopher Columbus Park (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and Marriott Long Wharf Grand Ballroom (GreenTech Expo - Saturday only)
Central Wharf: EcoRide & Drive - try out an electric vehicle on Central Street. See exhibits near the Aquarium's iMax. Learn how to build a vertical garden!
Hennessy's Upstairs: Boston Green FilmFest at 25 Union Street, near Faneuil Hall

We're moving from City Hall Plaza to the Greenway and Long Wharf!  Also, a new feature of the festival:  on Sat. Aug.17th we will host the first Massachusetts GreenTech Expo!

More information at https://www.bostongreenfest.org

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Saturday, August 17
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Sunrise Boston Orientation Training
Saturday, August 17
10am

Join Sunrise Boston for a Youth Climate Organizing Training. Sunrise is working to build a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. 

During the training, we will discuss strategies to ending corruption in politics and learn why we have gotten to this point in society, specifically calling out the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy for disenfranchising many in the name of profit and hate. We will then dive into workshops on mastering the tools necessary to make our plan happen, including bird-dogging, storytelling, and action design.

This training is for any young person (millennials and younger) looking for a meaningful way to protect our climate, our homes, and our values during this critical election year. The training has been designed to be engaging for all levels of background or experience, so whether you're brand new to taking action or a veteran organizer, you'll get a lot out of this experience. 

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Freedom Forum: Stranger Fruit
Saturday, August 17
10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Parker Hill Branch of the Boston Public Library, 1497 Tremont Street, Boston

Come watch and discuss film Stranger Fruit, the definitive documentary about the police murder of Michael Brown, Jr on  August 9, 2014 -now 5 years ago- which led to a new rise in the struggle for Black Liberation.

Also hear from Mass Action Delegation to Ferguson participant Hope Coleman, mother of Terrence Coleman killed by Boston police Kevin Finn and Garrett Boyle on October 30, 2016 who will be joining the Brown family to commemorate the anniversary. 

Hosted by Mass Action Against Police Brutality

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Sunday August 18
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Sunrise Boston Orientation Training
Sunday, August 18
10am

Join Sunrise Boston for a Youth Climate Organizing Training. Sunrise is working to build a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. 

During the training, we will discuss strategies to ending corruption in politics and learn why we have gotten to this point in society, specifically calling out the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy for disenfranchising many in the name of profit and hate. We will then dive into workshops on mastering the tools necessary to make our plan happen, including bird-dogging, storytelling, and action design.

This training is for any young person (millennials and younger) looking for a meaningful way to protect our climate, our homes, and our values during this critical election year. The training has been designed to be engaging for all levels of background or experience, so whether you're brand new to taking action or a veteran organizer, you'll get a lot out of this experience. 

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Fort Point Festival 2019
Sunday, August 18
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
25 Channel Center Street, Boston
Cost:  $0 – $50

Join us in celebrating Fort Point Channel- a day filled with music, art, food, beer and activities for all!

Join us in celebrating our incredible community and a day filled of enjoying the summer sun. Fort Point Festival is back! This year we will celebrate in a multitude of way: a beer garden, the Taste of Fort Point (15 restaurants offering samples of their food), our Artists Village, a Children's Activity Garden* and live-out door music all day long. We will party rain or shine!
Tickets are $5 for general entry and $10 day of event. Children under 10 and Senior Citizens are FREE!

Want to attend the Taste of Fort Point? Tickets are $25 ahead of time including your general entry and $30 day of.***
Gates open at 12PM and we will enjoy the day till 5PM. Main entrance is Iron Street off of Channel Center Street in Fort Point.
Looking for away to give back? Email Samantha at samantha@friendsfpc.org to volunteer!

Children's Programming Includes*:
Art Creation with Artists for Humanity
Touch-Tanks and Sea Shanties with Save the Harbor Save the Bay
Children's Museum Build-A-Block
A performance by the Tea Party Museum
Art Activity and Big Book Corner with Susan Miller
Boston Fire Museum Touch-A-Truck
Animal Craze Petting Zoo
Musical Performance By:
Squeeze Box Stompers: 12PM to 2PM
John Cremona 2PM to 3PM
The Savtones 3PM to 5PM
It's going to be a fun-filled day!
***The Taste of Fort Point will conclude between 3:30PM and 4PM. Please plan accordingly.

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Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Sunday, August 18
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Joe Moakley Park, 1005 Columbia Road, Boston

This unique intertribal event features Massachusetts-based Native American leaders in their communities.

Through intentional partnerships with Native American members of the Nipmuc, Massachusett, and Mashpee Wampanoag communities, multidisciplinary dance theater artist Marsha Parrilla will facilitate the creation of Harbor Islands: Past, Present, Future. The residency will: shed light on the historic accounts of Harbor Islands as expressed through the voices of the people whose ancestors were part of the islands; illuminate their contemporary history (and the ongoing presence of Native peoples on the islands), and serve as a platform to collectively create a fresh vision for Indigenous people from Boston. This project creates spaces to heal these collective wounds to our land, our minds, and our spirits- and to dream a better future for generations to come.

This unique intertribal event features Massachusetts-based Native American leaders in their communities: 
A dynamic panel, moderated by Cedric Woods (Lumbee), will focus on Indigenous perspectives on Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in the Harbor Islands. Panelists include: Elizabeth Solomon (Massachusett), Faries Sagamore Gray (Massachusett), Robert Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag), Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag), and Michelle Cook (Navajo). 
Fun, interactive, and educational family activities will include: the creation of a model of the Harbor Islands' transition through time with climate change, led by Andre Strongbearheart Gaines Jr. (Nipmuc), Miles Bernadett-Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag); a Healing Salve-Making Workshop, led by Nia Holley (Nipmuc); and a songwriting workshop dedicated to Mother Earth's healing- and recognition of her sacredness, led by Jasmine Rochelle Goodspeed (Nipmuc).

This Indigenous-led event will be the first of a series! Save the date for the second one on September 14th, featuring the history of the Harbor Islands, with a focus on Deer Island.

Lead Artist Bio
Afro Taíno choreographer Marsha Parrilla is the founding Artistic Director of Danza Orgánica. After obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, Marsha moved to New York, where she completed a Master's Degree in Dance Education at New York University. Now a resident of Boston, Parrilla is a recipient of several awards from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Boston Foundation, among others. Parrilla is also a Luminary artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she has been commissioned to create artistic work - and is a dance ambassador for the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2017, Parrilla received the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award from the Boston Foundation. Recently, Parrilla received a Creative Development Residency at Jacob's Pillow, and performed at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Inside/Out Festival. She is also the producer and founder of the Boston-based acclaimed annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts. In 2018, Marsha was selected for the Boston AIR program (artist in residence), with a focus on environmental justice. Currently, she is developing the program: Daka Yanuna (I am Mother Earth, in Taíno), with a focus on best practices towards decolonization and environmental justice. http://www.danzaorganica.org

About Harbor Islands: Past, Present, Future
Through intentional partnerships with Native American members of the Nipmuc, Massachusett, and Mashpee Wampanoag communities, multidisciplinary dance theater artist Marsha Parrilla will facilitate the creation of Harbor Islands: Past, Present, Future. The residency will: shed light on the historic accounts of Harbor Islands as expressed through the voices of the people whose ancestors were part of the islands; illuminate their contemporary history (and the ongoing presence of Native peoples on the islands), and serve as a platform to collectively create a fresh vision for Indigenous people from Boston. This project creates spaces to heal these collective wounds to our land, our minds, and our spirits- and to dream a better future for generations to come.

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6th Annual Monarch Butterfly Release
Sunday August 18
2 to 3:30pm
Fresh Pond,Cambridge

Lovely kid-friendly event. View the 50+ Monarchs raised by volunteers and rangers, then join the parade to release them. And enjoy the plantings of milkweed and other wildflowers for butterflies!  https://www.facebook.com/events/485325068939702/

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Activist Afternoons: Activism Without the Hassle
Sunday, August 18
4 PM – 6 PM
Workbar (Workbar Cambridge), 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge

Activist Afternoons (ActA) creates a space for members of the community to gather and take action on the issues and elections we care about every Sunday from 4pm to 6pm in Central Square. 

Each week we provide a menu of causes and actions to help move our politics forward on all levels, from your neighborhood to the White House.

*Might phonebank? Please bring a cellphone, laptop, and charger. A headset or pair of earphones is also helpful when calling voters or potential volunteers!*

To see this week's menu, go to http://activistafternoons.com

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Capturing the Flag – A Firsthand Account of Voter Suppression in North Carolina
Sunday, August 18
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Workbar, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge

As the 2016 National Election unfolds around them, a diverse team of charismatic voter protection volunteers travel from New York City to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where they learn that their skills at the polls - years in the making - are no match for the insidious game of modern-day voter suppression. NEW! Laverne Berry, the executive producer, will be on hand to answer questions about the film.

You’ll also have a chance to meet Aisha Dew, an organizer working on voter turnout for the September 10th special election in North Carolina’s 9th District. Voter suppression is personal for Aisha Dew. She is looking forward to meeting everyone and to watch this important film about her home state.

Please RSVP as soon as possible as space is limited. There is no admission fee. Donations to defray event costs are gratefully accepted.


Host Contact Info:  slabandibar@swingleft.org

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Monday, August 19
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HubWeek Open Doors: East Boston
Monday, August 19
4:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
East Boston Shipyard, Marginal Street, East Boston

Open Doors, presented by BNY Mellon, is a monthly event series that allows you to experience the innovation happening in different corners of Boston. It’s an opportunity for you to learn and find inspiration in neighborhoods across this vibrant, buzzing city that can sometimes be tricky to navigate.
What do you get when you mix one part working marina, one part cider house, two parts arts incubator and one part historic site? The East Boston Shipyard. 
On August 19, we're inviting entrepreneurs, artists, foodies, and more to share what makes East Boston one of the most unique, innovative, and seriously creative areas of our city. There aren't many places where you can you brew cider, create a collaborative art project, tour a 100-year old ship, watch a neon sign maker in action, and learn about cutting-edge scientific research all in one afternoon — and we want you to experience it all.

Whether you live in Eastie or will be crossing the harbor for the first time, August's Open Doors will provide a look inside and onramp to this neighborhood's multifaceted creative ecosystem.

*Please note: No vehicles will be permitted on shipyard property. Please take public transportation or arrange to be dropped off outside of the shipyard gate.

Fermentation Flavors 101
4:00 - 6:00 PM | Tour + Tasting | Downeast Cider, 256 Marginal Street #32, East Boston, MA 02128
Join Downeast Cider’s cider makers in a learning and tasting session at their cider house. Did you know that Downeast is unique in it’s unfiltered cider? Come find out what that means, how to make cider, and how different ingredients affect the taste in surprising ways. Four 30-minute sessions, beginning at 4:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:00pm, and 5:30pm. Please register for one session only.

Windy Content Studio
4:00 - 6:00 PM | Interactive | Windy Films, 256 Marginal Street, 16C, East Boston, MA 02128
The Windy Content Studio is a space made for creatives to produce and curate content. Over the past year, Windy Films has opened their doors to Boston's creative community, sharing their space with emerging artists, producers, and change makers. And they want you to join this community! For Open Doors, the Studio has been activated to prompt you to be creative, draw, paint, take photos, and brainstorm with other creatives. Participants are invited to take the reigns, create, and celebrate production in the curated Windy Content Studio. Four 30-minute sessions, beginning at 4:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:00pm, and 5:30pm. Please register for one session only.

Lightship Tour
5:00 - 6:00 PM | Tour | Lightship Nantucket, 256 Marginal Street, Boston, MA 02128
If Open Doors is all about innovation, why are talking about a hundred-year-old ship? But the Lightship Nantucket isn't your average ship: It's actually a lighthouse, and a hub for innovative technologies used to collect observations for scientific research, communicate with sea-faring vessels, and welcome travelers to the shores of Massachusetts safely. 1-hour tour from 5:00pm to 6:00pm. 

Neon Build-Out Demonstration
4:00 - 6:00 PM | Demonstration | Warehouse 17, 256 Marginal Street, East Boston, MA 02128
The shipyard’s empty warehouse walls are ripe for displaying the very large, including a vintage neon sign of Paul Revere riding his mare “Brown Beauty". The sign originally towered over the vast Paul Revere Copper Mill in New Bedford, founded by Paul himself in 1801. The sign’s owner and caretaker, aficionado Dave Waller, teaming up with Neon Williams, will be assembling this 40 foot spectacular and sharing its history with you outside his warehouse. Come learn about neon and check out Paul Revere on his wild ride. 

Building a Creative Ecosystem Panel Discussion
4:00 - 5:00 PM | Panel | ICA Watershed, 256 Marginal St, East Boston, MA 02128
What does it mean to have a creative ecosystem? Why do so many creatives set up shop in Eastie and the shipyard? Learn about East Boston’s history of arts and creativity and where the future of the arts ecosystem lies in this innovative neighborhood. Seating will be available on a first come, first serve basis – after seating is full, there will be standing room.
Panelists include:
Veronica Robles, Artist
Matthew Pollock, HarborArts Gallery
Corey DePena, Youth Development and Performance Manager, Zumix
June Krinsky-Rudder. Co-Founder, East Boston Artist Group
Moderator: Justin Pasquariello, East Boston Social Centers

Explore ICA Watershed Galleries
5:00 - 7:30 PM | Galleries Exhibition | ICA Watershed, 256 Marginal St, East Boston, MA 02128
A proud supporter of the East Boston arts scene, the ICA’s satellite Watershed location will open exclusively to HubWeek attendees for a special Monday appearance. The ICA Watershed, opened in the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina in summer 2018, transformed a 15,000-square-foot, formerly condemned space into a vast and welcoming venue to see and experience large-scale art in East Boston. Explore the galleries for free.

Eat, Drink, & Get Connected
6:00 - 7:30 PM | Gathering | Windy Films, 256 Marginal Street, 16C, East Boston, MA 02128
Celebrate East Boston and its creative ecosystem with friends new and old at the Windy Films studio. Food and drink will be provided.

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Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
Monday, August 19
6:30-9pm
45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Cost:  $30 – $80

AORTA leads a training on conflict resolution through an anti oppression lens.

As part of our ongoing professional development series, The Democracy Center is excited to present AORTA's training on Conflict Resolution in the Workplace

individual-supported rate: $30
organization-supported rate: $80
Use the code "subsidized" for 50% off if you use mobility aids, are low income, and/or your organization cannot afford the $80 rate. 
Be sure to click "enter promotional code" to open the access code box
Email info@democracy center with subject line "AORTA Training Cost" if these rates don't work

As in all communities, conflict in organizations is unavoidable. It is also uncomfortable. In working through conflict, the question shouldn’t be, “How do we prevent conflict?” but rather “How do we address conflict in ways that are healthy and build a stronger organization?” This workshop will help participants identify conflict, even when its just a slow burning tension, and help us all distinguish between what healthy and unhealthy conflict look like. In the process we’ll share AORTA’s conflict resolution practices and methods in order to get a jump start in developing processes tailored to your own organization.

Please do not wear or apply strong smelling lotions, perfumes, etc. before or during the training to make this space more accessible to people with sensitivities.

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Tuesday, August 20 
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Tour of Boston Organics
Tuesday, August 20
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
Boston Organics, 50 Terminal St #105, Charlestown

What does "eating local" really mean?
Join the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts for a tour of the Boston Organics facility and warehouse, and let's talk about what "eating local" really means and how Boston Organics is working to build a healthy local food system.
Boston Organics has been an active player in the local agricultural infrastructure in New England since 2002, providing customers the opportunity to support local, organic farms in a meaningful way.

Everyone who registers for an Eat Local Month event on Eventbrite will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a Cabot Creamery $75 Gift Box, which includes an assortment of award-winning cheese, plaid burlap bag, and a wooden cutting board. Our other Eat Local Month events include a screening of Lobster War and a tour and tasting of the Urban Farming Institute's new headquarters.

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Authors@MIT | Nolen Gertz: Nihilism @ The MIT Press Bookstore
Tuesday, August 20 
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming scholar Nolen Gertz to discuss his book, Nihilism, part of the MIT Press’ Essential Knowledge Series.

When someone is labeled a nihilist, it’s not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, “an ideology of nothing.” Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to distinguish what is meaningful from what is meaningless. In this addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Gertz traces the history of nihilism in Western philosophy from Socrates through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Although the term “nihilism” was first used by Friedrich Jacobi to criticize the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Gertz shows that the concept can illuminate the thinking of Socrates, Descartes, and others. It is Nietzsche, however, who is most associated with nihilism, and Gertz focuses on Nietzsche’s thought. Gertz goes on to consider what is not nihilism—pessimism, cynicism, and apathy—and why; he explores theories of nihilism, including those associated with Existentialism and Postmodernism; he considers nihilism as a way of understanding aspects of everyday life, calling on Adorno, Arendt, Marx, and prestige television, among other sources; and he reflects on the future of nihilism. We need to understand nihilism not only from an individual perspective, Gertz tells us, but also from a political one.

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

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Wednesday, August 21
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Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, August 21
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM EDT
Pret a Manger, 101 Arch Street, Boston

Join us every month for Net Impact Boston's informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion, and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good! Feel free to drop by Pret a Manger any time between 7:30 and 8:30 AM.

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Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
Wednesday, August 21
6 PM – 8 PM
Old South Church in Boston, 645 Boylston Street, Boston,

All are welcome! Come join us, get to know the Boston Hub, and hear what's next for Sunrise Boston! 

The meeting will take place in Mary Norton Hall on the 2nd floor of Old South Church, which is a wheelchair accessible space.

After the meeting we will be hanging out at Clery's Pub for food and fun. All ages welcome!

Questions? Email: SunriseMovementBoston@gmail.com or message our facebook page.

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Thursday, August 22 
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BUCKY A Fuller Future
Thursday, August 22 
4 pm EST

Freecast-Online World Premiere of BUCKY A Fuller Future featuring Marianne Williamson and Jeff Bridges! (written and directed by yours truly.) The date will be August 22 at 7 pm PST- happy birthday Bucky, thank you for permanently disturbing a slumbering life...

The link will be at BuckyFuller.net after that BUCKY will be for rent or sale but I at least want everyone to have a chance to see it for free! Love to all the support that got us this far, I bow.

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Authors@MIT | David Weinberger: Everyday Chaos @ The MIT Press Bookstore  Tickets 
Thursday, August 22 
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming philosopher, technologist and local author David Weinberger, to talk about his latest book, Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility.

“If you want to better understand the possibilities that machine learning and other forms of AI are creating—and harness the power of these breakthroughs—read this lively and illuminating book!” — Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we’ve allowed ourselves to see.

Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it’s revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing–and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our world. This affects everything, from how we approach our everyday lives to how we make moral decisions and how we run our businesses.

Take machine learning, which makes better predictions about weather, medical diagnoses, and product performance than we do–but often does so at the expense of our understanding of how it arrived at those predictions. While this can be dangerous, accepting it is also liberating, for it enables us to harness the complexity of an immense amount of data around us. We are also turning to strategies that avoid anticipating the future altogether, such as A/B testing, Minimum Viable Products, open platforms, and user-modifiable video games. We even take for granted that a simple hashtag can organize unplanned, leaderless movements such as #MeToo.

Through stories from history, business, and technology, David Weinberger finds the unifying truths lying below the surface of the tools we take for granted–and a future in which our best strategy often requires holding back from anticipating and instead creating as many possibilities as we can. The book’s imperative for business and beyond is simple: Make. More. Future.

From the earliest days of the web, David Weinberger has been a pioneering thought leader about the internet’s effect on our lives, on our businesses, and most of all on our ideas. He has contributed to areas ranging from marketing and libraries to politics and journalism as a strategic marketing VP and consultant, an internet adviser to presidential campaigns, an early social-networking entrepreneur, a writer-in-residence at Google, a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department, and a philosophy professor. His writing has appeared in publications from Wired to Harvard Business Review, and his books include the bestselling The Cluetrain Manifesto.

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Homeboy: Book Talk with Jawara Griffin
Thursday, August 22
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
More Than Words Warehouse Bookstore, 242 East Berkley Street, Boston
Cost:  Donation

Join Jawara Griffin as he shares his story and discusses his memoir, Homeboy.

At the age of eight, Jawara Griffin was left alone with three of his brothers and one sister in their dilapidated home in North Philadelphia. He struggled, stole and somehow made it through with just a few shared pieces of clothing and torn up pair of sneakers. Later, wrenched away from his siblings due to his mother’s drug addiction, Jawara was moved from group home to group home and was dubbed a “home boy” by his cruel classmates in school. Throughout all this he persevered and followed the advice of a teacher to keep a smile on his face at all times and fight for what he wanted. His positive mindset paid off, and today Jawara is a successful Attorney.

By sharing his story, Jawara hopes to inspire others by reassuring them that “No matter what you are going through today, I promise you, you will all be winners in life.” He also seeks to reach those working with and providing services to youth in the child welfare system, motivating them to provide the best care and mentorship possible.

Ticketing – Receive a copy of Homeboy when you spend over $20 on your ticket. All proceeds support More Than Words, a non-profit social enterprise empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis, and are not tax deductible donations.

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AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY EXPO
Thursday, August 22
6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston

Join us at GA to see innovative and exciting local AR & VR technology demos, presented by startup founders and industry experts. Network with 100+ attendees from the Boston-area startup/tech community.

If you would like to showcase your products or company at this event, please contact http://bospartnerships@generalassemb.ly

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Saturday, August 24
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Makerfest at More Than Words
Saturday, August 24
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
More Than Words Warehouse Bookstore, 242 East Berkley Street, Boston

Introducing Makerfest, a local market with a mission to empower young people and support small businesses. Shop a curated selection of local artisans and food makers alongside our selection of books. Get 50% off books when you make a purchase from a Makerfest artisan.

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Sunday August 25
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In Season Harvest Fair at Bow Market
Sunday, August 25
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Bow Market, 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville

Want to buy local food AND meet the people behind your favorite local food brands?
Buy local, eat local, and meet the people who produce your food at this interactive local food market!
As part of August's Eat Local Month, the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) and In Season Food Shop are partnering to host a one-day interactive local food market that showcases and celebrates the diverse array of local food in Bow Market and greater Massachusetts.

Small food businesses that sell their product out of In Season Food Shop will have their locally-produced specialty food items and fresh vegetables for sale. They will also be having demonstrations and conversations with shoppers about the food they make! After you've checked out the vendors, grab lunch at your favorite locally-owned food business in Bow Market. 
Shop for locally-produced speciaity food items and fresh farm food
Get to know the story behind your favorite local brands
Learn about new local foods through demonstrations
Eat lunch and get treats at Hooked Fish Shop, Jaju Pierogi, In Season Food Shop, Saus, Remnant, Maca, Gate Comme Des Filles, Rebel Rebel, Buenas, Hot Box, and more!
Support Massachusetts food producers and locally-owned Bow Market businesses!
Please bring your own shopping bag for your local purchases.

Everyone who registers for an Eat Local Month event on Eventbrite will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a Cabot Creamery $75 Gift Box, which includes an assortment of award-winning cheese, plaid burlap bag, and a wooden cutting board. Our other Eat Local Month events include food tours, and a free screening of the award-winning film Lobster War.

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Despair and Empowerment Practices for Climate Activists
Sunday, August 25
2-5pm
Old Cambridge Baptists Church, 1151 Mass Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge

Climate activists face fear, anger, sadness, and despair on a daily basis. We are often so busy taking action that we don’t give our hearts enough space. This afternoon gathering will be a place to bring our broken hearts, to hold them in compassion, and to source healing and energy to go forward. The workshop will include gratitude practices, a despair and empowerment ritual, and connection with each other. We will leave with tools to nourish ourselves and increase our resilience.

Led by Ian Mevorach and Anne Goodwin, activists and facilitators of the Work That Reconnects, a body of practices designed to restore the resilience of weary activists and build a regenerative culture. www.workthatreconnects.org

Free of charge (A donation for the use of the space will be requested.) Questions? Contact ian@commonstreet.org or annegoodwin@comcast.net

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Be the Change Community Action: Climate Change: What's Being Done, What You Can Do
Sunday, August 25
3 to 5pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Join us for a discussion on climate change. We will discuss how people around the world, in small and larger ways, are taking excess carbon out of the sky and putting it back in the soil - healing our pasture and farm lands, enhancing water storage, and growing healthy food. We will explain how water helps cool the earth and what is being done to restore local water cycles. We’ll end with a series of suggestions for actions you can take in your own yard or neighborhood. We are three educators fascinated by these possibilities. The more we read, the more we feel hopeful about these approaches and we believe you will too. 

McNamara Buck is a recently retired pre-school teacher who is working on educating others on ecological restoration and its relationship to carbon sequestration.

Claryce Evans, a retired teacher and director of school reform efforts, and a life-long political activist, is a founder of a small local climate change group and board chairperson of a school reform non-profit. 

Helen Snively has been composting and gardening all her life; thanks to 20+ years of running plant swaps and learning from neighbors, she has many tips to share on climate-friendly gardening.

20% of sales from 3-5PM will be donated to the Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter, Inc.

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Activist Afternoons
Sunday, August 25
4 PM – 6 PM
Workbar (Workbar Cambridge), 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge

Activist Afternoons (ActA) creates a space for members of the community to gather and take action on the issues and elections we care about every Sunday from 4pm to 6pm in Central Square. 

Each week we provide a menu of causes and actions to help move our politics forward on all levels, from your neighborhood to the White House.

*Might phonebank? Please bring a cellphone, laptop, and charger. A headset or pair of earphones is also helpful when calling voters or potential volunteers!*

To see this week's menu, go to http://activistafternoons.com

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Tuesday, August 27
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HRATG & Future of Work Speaker Panel
Tuesday, August 27
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
WeWork, 625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge


We will host this meetup to bring some of the HR Leaders who are actively leading and working in Advanced Technology Leadership capacity to share their journey, findings and help us into understanding the future of work.

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Cold Warriors:  Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
Tuesday, August 27
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning journalist and academic DUNCAN WHITE—Assistant Director of Studies in History & Literature at Harvard University—for a discussion of his latest book, Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities.

About Cold Warriors
During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to exile, imprisonment or execution if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union had secret agents and vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turning on each other, lovers cleaved by political fissures, artists undermined by inadvertent complicities.

In Cold Warriors, Harvard University’s Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book has at its heart five major writers—George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene and Andrei Sinyavsky—but the full cast includes a dazzling array of giants, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, Arthur Koestler, Vaclav Havel, Joan Didion, Isaac Babel, Howard Fast, Lillian Hellman, Mikhail Sholokhov —and scores more.

Spanning decades and continents and spectacularly meshing gripping narrative with perceptive literary detective work, Cold Warriors is a welcome reminder that, at a moment when ignorance is celebrated and reading seen as increasingly irrelevant, writers and books can change the world.

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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast

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"Hugs For the Planet" in support of the Green New Deal -- will take place late June or early July -- depending on when I can raise the money. I may be able to cover a small shortfall myself but, like many people, I struggle to cover my own needs for the most part.

I'm looking at a Saturday or Sunday, 1pm, one hour.

Our idea is to position ourselves at the Park Street T exit on Boston Common and give out free "Hugs for the Planet." The goal is to raise awareness of the climate change crisis and garner support for the Green New Deal -- the only blueprint to date that offers a comprehensive plan that reflects the urgency needed to, literally, save the planet for our kids and grandkids.

There is no party or group affiliation. I am a career journalist/writer/editor/activist of some standing, working independently, to contribute to building a critical mass of support for the Green New Deal.

I plan to hire (probably six) promotional/event models to give out free hugs and hand out leaflets with some basic info, a call to action, and Congressional phone numbers on them.

OUR SECONDARY GOAL IS TO GET SOME MEDIA COVERAGE. (I have worked in the media, as well as in the capacity of Press Officer and Communications Director.) I will also contact the mayor's office.


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Envision Cambridge citywide plan

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Climate Resilience Workbook

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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch.  No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.

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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org

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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas.   Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities.  Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers.  Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs

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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development - http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!

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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting:  https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy:  https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston:  http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/

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Links to events at over 50 colleges and universities at Hubevents:  http://hubevents.blogspot.com

Thanks to
Sustainability at Harvard:  http://green.harvard.edu/events
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events:  http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal:  http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings:   http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar:  https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub:  https://www.universalhub.com/

Mission-Based Massachusetts is an online discussion group for people who are interested in nonprofit, philanthropic, educational, community-based, grassroots, and other mission-based organizations in the Bay State. This is a moderated, flame-free email list that is open to anyone who is interested in the topic and willing to adhere to the principles of civil discourse.  To subscribe email 


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