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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Since almost all events are online now, Energy (and Other) Events is now virtual and can happen anywhere in the world. If you know of online events that are happening which may be of interest to the editor of this publication, please let me know. People are connecting all across the world and I’d be more than happy to help facilitate more of that.
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Mutual Aid Networks
National
Spreadsheet of mutual aid networks
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1HEdNpLB5p-sieHVK-CtS8_N7SIUhlMpY6q1e8Je0ToY/htmlview
Mutual Aid Networks to Combat Coronavirus
https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/
Local
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GYuPYEzBk9KIyH3C3419aYxIMVAsa7BL7nBl9434Mg/edit?usp=sharing
Boston + MA COVID19 Resources
(This is a different Google Doc with a similar name, compiled by the Asian
American Resource Workshop)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-x6vOZKVsla5H363mtdgcyivvLmcx7-f2s6l-O_ba8A/edit?usp=sharing
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
https://sites.google.com/view/cambridge-nan/home
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) network
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1RtYZ1wc8jxcSKDl555WszWhQWlOlSkNnfjIOYV0wXRA/mobilebasic
Food for Free (for Cambridge and Somerville) volunteers to provide lunches for schoolchildren, elderly, and hungry
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed0cSIoOc7-Fvoms3VHR1Lc44fjql-vTNknz_a-7T_sKDnrw/viewform
My notes to Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, about how people faced with emergency and disaster usually move towards providing mutual aid, at least until elite panic, a term in disaster studies, kicks in, are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/notes-on-rebecca-solnits-paradise-built.html
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Monday, July 20 – Thursday, July 23
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Green Recovery Wales virtual Festival
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Monday, July 20
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11am Meet Unilever: Climate Leadership from a Household Name
1pm Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting
1pm Imagining a World Post-Covid with Rob Hopkins
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
6:30pm Creative Climate Conversations
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Tuesday, July 21
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9am The Future Earth
10am Fast-tracking Innovation: How Formula 1 is Navigating the Pandemic
11am How Social Norms and Behavioural Economics Drive Tech for Sustainability
11am USGBC Big South Presents: Measuring Resilience with RELi
12pm Personal and Political Power: Citizens’ Assemblies on Climate
12:30pm Author Talk: Is the future human? by Edward Ashford Lee
1pm Technology, Markets and Bipartisanship: The Future of Climate Action
2:30pm Carbon Negative Food Systems (Swansea [UK] Extinction Rebellion [XR] Talks)
6pm National Geographic Presents Community Archaeology and Historical Ecology
7pm Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
7pm Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Elizabeth Kolbert
7pm Languages of Nature
7pm Disaster Preparedness
8pm How We Show Up: Challenging Racism
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Wednesday, July 22
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10am The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development post-Covid 19: Building back better
11am Global Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education
12pm Climate change Discovery Episodes | Brainstorming
12:30pm Digital Health Apps: Evidence, Reimbursement and Outcomes
2pm John McKnight and Gar Alperovitz in conversation
2pm Hydrogen Technologies and Outlook
2:30pm The opioid crisis in America: Vulnerable groups, law enforcement, and international supply
6pm Fast Forum with Tom Steyer
6:30pm Urban Heat Island and COVID-19 - A Perfect Storm?
7pm A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right
7pm Extinction Rebelllion Community Meeting
7pm Wearables in Art & Concert - Virtual in FrameVR.io
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Thursday, July 23
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9am EBC Water Resources Webinar: Challenges Facing our Water Resources under a Changing Climate
10am A nation at a demographic crossroad: Rising diversity, youthful activism, and the 2020 election
11am The Vital Role of Extension Service
12pm Voices in Leadership During Crises: Governor Deval Patrick
12pm CRES Forum Event: How do conservatives plan to tackle climate change?
2pm Children’s Cabinets: An Essential Community Infrastructure in Times of Crisis
2:30pm How to stop funding fossil fuels?
3pm Women in Cleantech: It’s Time to Talk About Climate Change
5pm Harvard Science Book Talk: Hope Jahren, in conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, "The Story of More”
6pm Putting Principles First: Climate Change & Environmental Policy
7pm Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
7:30pm Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Book Club
8pm The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Sona Mohnot
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Friday, July 24 - Sunday, July 26
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Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss
15th Annual Green Economics Institute's Green Economics Conference
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Friday, July 24
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2am COVID-19 and Climate Change: Health implications
9am One-on-one with Bertrand Piccard
10am City Life After Coronavirus: India
12pm Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force Virtual Summit Series
1pm Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
2pm EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan
3pm Extinction Rebelllion [XR] SF Friday Online Activism
3:30pm Pollution Across Communities and Places
6:30pm What Can We Adapt Now from Cuba’s Health System: House by House, Barrio by Barrio
8pm In Their Voices: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories
8pm Screening of Lumumba (2001)
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Saturday, July 25, 11:00 PM – Sunday, July 26, 12:00 AM
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Comics for climate change: A comics workshop
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Sunday, July 26
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1pm Sharing Our Climate Liberation Stories in an Era of Transformation
2pm The Climate Crisis: Learning from Covid-19
5pm P&P Live! Cli-fi, Literature, and Activism with Jenny Offill
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Monday, July 27
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11am Environmental Report: Energy
11:30am A day in the life of….a theoretical ecologist with Dr Samraat Pawar
5:30pm Extinction Rebellion [XR] Emergency Everywhere Campaign Kickoff!
6pm Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change Zoom Event
7pm Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
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Tuesday, July 28
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9am EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment Webinar: Climate Change and the MCP – Resilient
10am NASA Scientists present “Why Our Future Depends on the Arctic”
12pm Flooding in America’s Heartland
1pm Talking Tuesdays - Climate Change
2pm Disinformation, social media, and foreign interference: What can go wrong in the 2020 elections?
4pm Book Talk: Michael Pollan
7pm Nuclear Weapons abolition, racism, and gender
7pm Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Margaret Sullivan
7pm Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Biden’s Energy Plan Is Less Ambitious than Jimmy Carter’s 1979 Energy Plan
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/17/1961478/-Biden-s-Energy-Plan-Is-Less-Ambitious-than-Jimmy-Carter-s-1979-Energy-Plan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2020/07/zen-and-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.html
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Monday, July 20 – Thursday, July 23
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Green Recovery Wales virtual Festival
Monday, July 20, 5:00am – Thursday, July 23, 12:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-recovery-wales-virtual-festival-tickets-113769615984
Join Green Recovery Wales from July 20th – 23rd for 4 days of free activities, ideas and discussions focused on farming and land management, sustainable food systems, restoring wildlife and working together towards a greener future for Wales.
During this festival, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the role that rural Wales can play in ensuring the well-being of this and future generations in Wales, tackling the climate and ecological crisis we face, talking to politicians, decision makers and innovators across the environment and farming sectors.
With 15 Live discussions and over 50 bilingual sessions over 4 days, we'll have something for everyone interested in the rural environment, including discussion with Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford, a youth panel talk with Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe, cookery demo from BBC chefs Sam and Shauna, live zoom craft, meditation and yoga sessions and a bedtime story from S4C's Cyw .
No need to register for most sessions. Live discussions are streamed via youtube. Links will go live on the website on the day.
We hope you can join us!
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Monday, July 20
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Meet Unilever: Climate Leadership from a Household Name
Monday, July 20
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-unilever-climate-leadership-from-a-household-name-tickets-113127828380
Unilever is excited to work with entrepreneurs to advance its sustainability leadership — discuss how you and your technologies fit in.
About this Event
You've probably heard of Unilever, and chances are you've enjoyed many of their products over the years. (Eaten Ben & Jerry's, used Dove soap, or had a Lipton iced tea recently?) But did you know they recently announced ambitious climate and sustainability goals, including Net Zero by 2039? One of our newest partners, Unilever has joined the Greentown community to tap into the innovation ecosystem and work with startups like you to achieve their climate targets.
Join EVP of Supply Chain, Biswaranjan Sen, to:
Learn more about Unilever's sustainability commitments
Hear an introduction of the company's journey to become the household name they are today
Discuss how climatetech innovators can get involved.
About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. It has 155,000 employees and generated sales of €52 billion in 2019. Over half of the company's footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has around 400 brands found in homes all over the world, including Dove, Knorr, Dirt Is Good, Rexona, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall's, Lux, Magnum, Axe, Sunsilk and Surf.
Editorial Comment: Unilever has announced that they will be net zero emissions by 2039.
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Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting
Monday, July 20
1 – 2 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-lift-every-voice-universal-civic-voting
SPEAKER(S) Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School
Brenda Wright, Demos
María Teresa Kumar, Voto Latino
Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Moderator: Miles Rapoport, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-Moderator: E.J. Dionne, Jr., Brookings Institution
DETAILS Our current crisis of governance has focused unprecedented public attention on intolerable inequities and demands that Americans think boldly and consider reforms that until now seemed beyond our reach. A new report from The Brookings Institution and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School explores the idea of requiring every eligible citizen to participate in our elections.
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Imagining a World Post-Covid with Rob Hopkins
Monday, July 20
1:00 – 2:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-a-world-post-covid-with-rob-hopkins-tickets-109450058070
Rob Hopkins joins us for our fifth in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics.
We are excited to have Rob Hopkins join us for our fifth in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics in light of the global pandemic. Rob will be discussing how we can unleash the power of imagination to create the future we want post-Covid.
The format will be an introductory talk by a Rob, followed by a Q&A and finishing off in breakout rooms to have more interactive discussions in smaller groups.
Title: Imagining a World Post-Covid
Joining the Meeting
Book your place through EventBrite. At the bottom of your confirmation email, you will find a link to the Zoom room. Make sure to check your Junk / Spam folder. Please email contact@cambridge.greenparty.org.uk if you have any questions.
About the Speaker
Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. In 2012, he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer’s list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought and A Good Read, in the French film phenomenon Demain and its sequel Apres Demain, and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events.
An Ashoka Fellow, Hopkins also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and has received two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. He is a keen gardener, a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project.
Find out more through his blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net and tweets at @robintransition.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, July 20
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
On Mondays, longtime journalist, author and educator Andy Revkin hosts an open workshop testing paths to impact and sanity in an online information environment that is more overheated, and more important, than ever.
This week we will focus on tools and tactics for withstanding online harassment, and also on how to be a productive bystander in the social media environment, which remains full of both promise and peril.
The main guest is Viktorya Vilk, the director of digital safety and free expression programs at PEN America.
https://pen.org/user/viktorya-vilk/
Revkin is the founding director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, which works to boost the capacity of scientists, journalists, educators, students and citizens to communicate in ways that can speed progress toward a more sustainable relationship between our species, our planet and each other. Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
Watch these sessions on the Earth Institute's Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
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Creative Climate Conversations
Monday, July 20
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-climate-conversations-tickets-113056579272
Are you a young person between the ages of 18-30? Are you interested in art and climate change?
Join us for an evening conversation and creative session to connect with youth in the Greater Toronto Area about climate change!
Event schedule:
Opening introduction 6:30 - 6:45 PM
Workshop 1: Envisioning a new environmental reality post-COVID: Sketching as a medium 6:45 - 7:15 PM
Live Performances (Spoken Word) 7:15 - 7:30 PM
Workshop 2: Art as Activism: Graphic design for social media activism 7:30 - 8:00 PM
Closing performances (Music)/ Climate discussion 8:00 - 8:30 PM
All levels of experiences are welcome. Spaces are limited so reserve your spot today and join us on July 20th for a fantastic evening of arts and climate conversations!
WHO ARE WE?
We are the Amplify Toronto chapter, working in partnership with Apathy is Boring. Co-funded by the European Union, Amplify is a 2-year project where European and Canadian youth organizations, networks, and associations are building sustainable alliances and innovating together in order to find solutions to gender inequality, violent extremism, and climate change. As part of the Amplify Toronto youth team working with Apathy is Boring, a non-partisan and non-profit Canadian youth organization, we’ve been working together over the past year to explore how climate change impacts youth in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
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Tuesday, July 21
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The Future Earth
Tuesday, July 21
9:00 am
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/future-earth-eric-holthaus-and-katharine-wilkinson
Eric Holthaus, Author, The Future Earth
Katharine Wilkinson, Vice President, Project Drawdown
Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look like with unmitigated climate change: increased extreme weather events, crippled economies, and a world where those with the least are the hardest hit. What would a radically re-envisioned future look like? What solutions do we need to replace tomorrow’s doom-and-gloom projections with thriving cities, renewed political consciousness, equitable societies and carbon-free economies?
Join us with climate journalist and The Future Earth author Eric Holthaus and Project Drawdown Vice President Katharine Wilkinson for a conversation on reimagining our role in creating climate solutions.
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Fast-tracking Innovation: How Formula 1 is Navigating the Pandemic
Tuesday, July 21
10:00 AM
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/6515943929442/WN_k8XhFWhTS66Pz0Vkd3wqbw
Join us for a complimentary, live webinar with Ben Shields, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Yath Gangakumaran, Director of Strategy and Business Development at Formula 1.
This webinar will examine how one global business, Formula 1, has innovated at speed during the pandemic. Ben Shields will be joined by Yath Gangakumaran, Head of Strategy and Business Development at Formula 1, to discuss how F1 have not only accelerated ideas already in the pipeline but also created and implemented new ideas to respond to the crisis. They will discuss key innovations on both the sporting and commercial side of the organization as well as in its social impact efforts. Participants will leave with a better understanding of F1’s distinctive approach to innovation and several principles to apply in their own organizations.
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How Social Norms and Behavioural Economics Drive Tech for Sustainability
Tuesday, July 21
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-social-norms-and-behavioural-economics-drive-tech-for-sustainability-tickets-111179966272
Behaviour and tech got us into this ecological mess, behaviour and tech will get us out. Behavioural Economics in tech for sustainability.
Behaviour and technology got us into this environmental and ecological mess, behaviour and technology will get us out.
Behavioural economist Yolanda Berry will share how technologies coupled with human behavioural habits will help get us out of this environmental mess.
Yolanda will share how behavioural economics and social norms are more impactful than mindful decisions, and how technology can be harnessed to influence sustainable behaviour in human beings.
She will touch on:
How the latest technologies have changed human behaviour
How behavioural trends have been evolving.
How social norms impact our independent economic decisions
How technology price points have influenced what we choose to recycle, repair or replace.
Yolanda will discuss, in as much depth as a 30 minute talk allows, how the combination of some key technologies are affected by human actions and social trends, most notably
Low earth satellite observation
Trusted distributed ledger/blockchains
Pyrolysis (decomposition brought about by high temperatures)
Trusted blue carbon sequestration
Coupled with a radical change in behaviour, how these technologies can help not only deviate the course of climate change but directly help meet many of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Yolanda will briefly outline the historical groundwork that has lead us, in the last 120 years to so radically change the way humans live. She will discuss the change in social norms that were required to make the changes that lead to our current way of life, that is so different from how humans have lived for millennia.
Yolanda Berry is Behavioural Economist for Blok Solutions and Director for Earth Sentinel. Join Yolanda for a 60 min whirlwind tour of how social norms are more impactful than mindful decisions, and how technology can be harnessed to influence sustainable behaviour in human beings
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USGBC Big South Presents: Measuring Resilience with RELi
Tuesday, July 21
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usgbc-big-south-presents-measuring-resilience-with-reli-tickets-110719687566
Cost: $0 – $15
USGBC’s Big South communities present how RELi measures resilience in buildings, cities and communities.
Continuing Education: 1.0 GBCI CE hour (LEED-specific BD+C). Pending AIA approval for 1 AIA LU
USGBC’s Big South communities present how RELi measures resilience in buildings, cities and communities and expands upon LEED to embrace resilience strategies that are climate adaptive. RELi’s comprehensive approach lays the groundwork for resilient, regenerative and healthy outcomes that support quality of life.
Around the world, governments, businesses, private developers and city planners and officials are spearheading a growing movement to make structures and communities more resilient through improved preventative action. The increasing frequency of dramatic weather events has brought an even greater urgency to create buildings and communities that are better adapted to a changing climate and better able to bounce back from disturbances and interruptions.
RELi is a rating system and leadership standard that takes a holistic approach to resilient design. It is used by companies, developers, city planners, architects, bond insurers and more to assess and plan for all of the acute hazards that buildings and communities can face during unplanned events, prepare to mitigate against these hazards and design and construct buildings to maintain critical life-saving services in the event of extended loss of power, heating fuel or water
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify need for Resilience in the built environment
2. Describe the components of RELi
3. Recognize how RELI helps increase resilience in buildings and communities
4. Articulate the benefits of RELi certification
5. Summarize how to certify an RELi project with GBCI
6. Understand the overlap between LEED v4 BD&C credits in RELi, and the requirement for dual registration
Speaker: Katherine Hammack, Director of Special Projects, GBCI
Honorable Katherine Hammack serves as Director of Special Projects at the Green Business Certification Inc (GBCI). She reengages with the USGBC family after having worked as one of the founding members over 30 years ago. She has many years of experience in energy, sustainability, utility and infrastructure operations, and is delighted to come back to help advance tools to improve the built environment. A graduate from Oregon State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as a Masters in Business from University of Hartford, Hon Hammack couples a strong background in energy and engineering with her goal of building a better working world for future generations. Katherine serves on numerous boards and advisory committees, including ASHRAE Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Slipstream, a non-profit organization that creates, tests, delivers and scales the next generation of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs that move us farther, faster toward a clean energy economy. Learn more about Katherine here.
Registration:
General USGBC Member Attendee - Free registration
USGBC Member Attendee with CEU Reporting - $10
General Non-member Attendee - $10
General Non-member Attendee with CEU Reporting - $15
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Personal and Political Power: Citizens’ Assemblies on Climate
Tuesday July 21
12 pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-and-political-power-citizens-assemblies-on-climate-registration-112687722010
Join us to learn about Citizens' Assemblies on Climate from researchers and practitioners of deliberative democracy.
A legislative package to address climate change will require a mandate from the public. This event will introduce the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate, a direct democracy tool used by the governments of France, the UK, Ireland, and Poland to gather recommendations for political action on climate change.
Join us in hearing directly from researchers and practitioners of deliberative democracy. They will discuss:
How effective Citizens’ Assemblies can be in creating momentum for policy
How different political systems absorb the impact of Citizens’ Assemblies
The potential for using this method to break through the political deadlock on climate policy in the United States.
Speakers
Moderator: Rebecca Leber - Environmental Politics and Policy Reporter, Mother Jones
Panelists:
Graham Smith - Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam and Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
Rebecca Willis - Professor in Practice at Lancaster Environment Centre, and Expert Lead for Climate Assembly UK
Claire Mellier-Wilson - Accredited researcher observing the French Climate Change Convention and facilitator for Citizens’ Assemblies on the climate crisis and air quality in Camden and Kingston.
Linn Davis - Program Manager for Citizens’ Initiative Review program at Healthy Democracy
About Citizens’ Assemblies
Citizens’ Assemblies on Climate bring a representative group of their country’s residents together to learn about the issues, develop connections, deliberate on ways forward, and to pass on recommendations to their governments. Participants of a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate demographically reflect their country or region and undertake the work together regardless of age, race, income, education, citizenship, or political affiliation to provide their lawmakers with a public mandate for policy action to address climate change.
The Citizens’ Assembly starts with legislators requesting this input from the people, and in doing so they agree to listen to the assembly’s recommendations and consider them for concrete policy, bringing the informed will of the people directly to legislators who are listening.
Event Hosts
Citizens’ Climate Lobby - DC Chapter @ccl_dc
Citizens' Climate Lobby is an international grassroots environmental group that trains and supports volunteers to build relationships with their elected representatives in order to influence climate policy. The DC Chapter focuses on education events and advocacy that empowers people to unlock their personal and political power.
Climate Assembly US @ClimateAssembly
We are a group of advocates passionate about the opportunity to expand democratic methods to address the climate crisis. We advocate in our role as constituents who want real solutions as put forth by the people.
City Atlas @cityatlas
The mission of City Atlas is to help the public understand and prepare for the future of cities, as described in the reports of the IPCC and C40.org, and to strengthen the democratic process towards an equitable response to climate change.
Extinction Rebellion @XR_NYC
Extinction Rebellion is a global nonviolent movement to compel the world’s governments to address the climate and ecological emergency. Extinction Rebellion's third demand is for the government to move beyond politics by creating and being led by the decisions of a Citizens' Assembly on climate and ecological justice.
Need more details on CCL? Learn more here: CitizensClimateLobby.orgor sign up for our intro call cclusa.org/intro
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Author Talk: Is the future human? by Edward Ashford Lee
Tuesday, July 21
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-is-the-future-human-by-edward-ashford-lee-tickets-109336229606
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Edward Ashford Lee, author of The Coevolution.
Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design.
About the Author
Edward Ashford Lee is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he runs iCyPhy, a research center focused on industrial cyber-physical systems. He is the author of Plato and the Nerd (MIT Press) and other books.
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Technology, Markets and Bipartisanship: The Future of Climate Action
Tuesday, July 21
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-markets-and-bipartisanship-the-future-of-climate-action-tickets-113039279528
Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition.
We’re living in a partisan times, but climate change won’t wait for the next election cycle. More and more young people are looking beyond traditional political boundaries for solutions to the environmental challenges facing us all. These solutions must reach across industries, parties and ideological divides to achieve meaningful change.
Join us Tuesday, July 21, at noon CDT for a special lunchtime conversation with Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition. Benji will talk about his politically conservative approach to environmental activism and introduce the American Climate Contract, a nonpartisan, holistic set of commitments to solve the climate crisis.
Title: "American Climate Contract: Environmental Action Beyond Partisan Politics”
Location: Zoom link to be provided to registrants
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Carbon Negative Food Systems (Swansea [UK] Extinction Rebellion [XR] Talks)
Tuesday, July 21
2:30 –3 :30 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-negative-food-systems-swansea-xr-talks-registration-113672952862
Join us in the fourth of our series of online-talks celebrating environmental initiatives in Swansea and the immediate area.
Carbon Negative Food Systems with Climate and Community
Short term climate change impacts over the next 30 years, which will effect the UK population, are progressive challenges to food security and possible famine. We import 40% of our food but this cannot be relied upon in a globally changing climate. We need to grow more sustainable, locally grown food.
Climate and Community is setting up a Carbon negative food growing no-dig horticulture demonstration project which uses biochar and wood chippings from community coppices worked by a climate conservation corps. The first steps to creating an alternative economy based on locally grown food and materials. A climate no brainer.
www.climateandcommunity.org.uk
Jules Wagstaff will talk about the work of Climate and Community. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session.
All are welcome to this free event.
The talk will be held on Zoom (a free video conferencing platform). Once you register for the event on Eventbrite, an email containing the Zoom link will be sent out to you.
More information on Climate and Community and their projects on their website:
www.climateandcommunity.org.uk
(These talks will be recorded. Please get in touch with the organiser should this be a barrier to your attendance, and we'll see what we can do to help.)
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National Geographic Presents Community Archaeology and Historical Ecology
Tuesday, July 21
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-geographic-presents-community-archaeology-and-historical-ecology-tickets-112729346510
Lucy Gill is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her research sits at the intersection of anthropological archaeology and historical ecology, focusing on indigenous stewardship of aquatic ecosystems in Central America and relations with fish and shellfish communities. She also explores the effects that natural disasters, such as volcanic events, have had on these ecosystems and the humans who lived with them in order to contemplate more sustainable ways of being in the wake of anthropogenic climate change. Her research innovates transdisciplinary methods that hold archaeology accountable to local community partnerships and braid Western scientific methods with traditional knowledge. She currently directs Darién Profundo, which takes a deep history approach to the Darién Province of Panama, a region that is often problematically portrayed as a primeval ‘gap’. This project currently partners with community members in Yaviza, El Real, Metetí, Mogue, La Palma, Punta Alegre, Chepigana and Garachiné, as well as a team of ecologists from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, to document the archaeological and ecological history of the threatened wetland ecosystem of Matusaragatí and advocate for its protection. In her spare time, she enjoys scuba diving, caving, playing classical piano, and dance of all kinds.
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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
Tuesday, July 21
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_julian_e._zelizer/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes JULIAN E. ZELIZER—CNN Political Analyst and Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University—for a discussion of his latest book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party. He will be joined in conversation by RICK PERLSTEIN, author of the New York Times bestselling books The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.
Contribute to Support Harvard Book Store
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of Burning Down the House on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About Burning Down the House
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright and catapulted himself into the national spotlight. Perhaps more than any other politician, Gingrich introduced the rhetoric and tactics that have shaped Congress and the Republican Party for the last three decades. Elected to Congress in 1978, Gingrich quickly became one of the most powerful figures in America not through innovative ideas or charisma, but through a calculated campaign of attacks against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil. Taking office in the post-Watergate era, he weaponized the good government reforms newly introduced to fight corruption, wielding the rules in ways that shocked the legislators who had created them. His crusade against Democrats culminated in the plot to destroy the political career of Speaker Wright.
While some of Gingrich’s fellow Republicans were disturbed by the viciousness of his attacks, party leaders enjoyed his successes so much that they did little collectively to stand in his way. Democrats, for their part, were alarmed, but did not want to sink to his level and took no effective actions to stop him. It didn’t seem to matter that Gingrich’s moral conservatism was hypocritical or that his methods were brazen, his accusations of corruption permanently tarnished his opponents. This brand of warfare worked, not as a strategy for governance but as a path to power, and what Gingrich planted, his fellow Republicans reaped. He led them to their first majority in Congress in decades, and his legacy extends far beyond his tenure in office. From the Contract with America to the rise of the Tea Party and the Trump presidential campaign, his fingerprints can be seen throughout some of the most divisive episodes in contemporary American politics. Burning Down the House presents the alarming narrative of how Gingrich and his allies created a new normal in Washington.
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Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Elizabeth Kolbert
Tuesday, July 21
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporter-nights-science-journalism-in-the-time-of-covid-19-registration-112472177310
“I Don’t Believe This”: What Can the COVID-19 Crisis Teach Environmentalists About Communicating the Unimaginable?
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Staff Writer at The New Yorker, and the author of The Sixth Extinction, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe, will speak about the links between the current pandemic and the destruction of the natural world.
Ms. Kolbert, whose reports and books have tackled such difficult topics as mass extinctions of wildlife and the impact of global warming on cities, will share her thoughts on how writers can bring difficult subjects to an often disbelieving public. Are some stories too frightening or distant for readers to imagine or accept? To what degree did inadequate and inconsistent science reporting leave the world unprepared for the worst pandemic since 1918?
About this series:
Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters.
A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors.
Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia.
Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt.
For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at sostrowski@ei.columbia.edu.
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Languages of Nature
Tuesday, July 21
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216
Tiokasin Ghosthorse—a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota—is an international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. A survivor of the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Lakota Reservations in South Dakota and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man,” Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He is a guest faculty member at Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society.
Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the twenty-four-year-old “First Voices Radio” (formerly “First Voices Indigenous Radio”), a one-hour live program now syndicated to seventy radio stations in the US and Canada.
A master musician and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations, as well as at many universities and concert venues. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children. Tiokasin describes himself as “a perfectly flawed human being” who is a Sundancer in the tradition of the Lakota Nation.
Website: https://www.humansandnature.org/tiokasin-ghosthorse
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Disaster Preparedness
Tuesday, July 21
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disaster-preparedness-tickets-112836842032
Disaster Preparedness is a robust conversation about Climate Change and why we should be prepared for it.
Join the Authentic Caribbean Foundation, Cambridge City Councilor Quintion Zondervan, Sara Varela - Regional Preparedness Liaison Contractor for FEMA Region I, specializing in individual and community preparedness, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) for a robust conversation about Climate Change and why we should be prepared for it. We will discuss what individual preparedness looks like, what resources are available to be individually prepared, and much more. Join us on July 21st at 7pm
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How We Show Up: Challenging Racism
Tuesday, July 21 / Session #1
8:00p - 10:00p Eastern
or
Friday, July 24 / Session #1
3:00p - 5:00p Eastern
TIMING + LOGISTICS: You’ll attend one session each week. You can choose which of the two weekly offered sessions work best for you. This is flexible; just show up if you need a different day.
Online
RSVP at https://forms.gle/eMq5aQaPrC78EnUa8
We invited everyone here to help one another grow, to learn about where racism shows up in our society and in our actions / thoughts and commit to taking action to undo racism. This is about learning, reflection and practice; you are welcome here. We are building from many existing practices -- and will share the resources and sources as we go along so you can connect directly with these resources and their creators.
This is a space for white people, with European heritage. We see this as a space of practice that can help us shape, and/or deepen our action and engagement outside of this practice. If you are looking to move directly to action, there are many resources.
Please note: we are thoughtful of our position in this space -- know that we are several white people, with various heritages. We too are on our own anti-racist journey towards a shared goal of collective liberation. We facilitate How We Show Up in our own time to deepen our collective anti-racism practice through community.
STRUCTURE:
Below is a summary of topics for a series of conversations. This pulls from pre-existing curriculum on racial equity and is a mix of conversation, exercises and sharing of resources.
Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Power Analysis
Session 3: Systemic Racist Structures
Session 4: Tools for Communicating Racism
Session 5: Reflection + Ongoing Application
It is a five-week journey. if you want to continue to be involved, great!
More information at https://bit.ly/HWSU2
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Wednesday, July 22
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development post-Covid 19: Building back better
Wednesday, July 22
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development-post-covid-19-building-back-better-for-a-greener-and-tickets-109952831880
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals is a Plan of Action to end poverty and create shared prosperity on a healthy and peaceful planet.
At this stage, the world is not on track to reach the goals. While progress has been made in some areas, particularly with regards to ending extreme poverty and reducing child mortality, huge challenges remain, with climate change as the biggest overarching threat facing humanity.
As the United Nations turn 75 in 2020, multiple challenges require global action, while multilateralism is questioned at many levels.
As if to make matters worse, Covid-19 has taken the world by surprise, exposing weaknesses and dangers inherent in our current way of life.
As the world begins planning for a post pandemic recovery, it is crucial to seize the opportunity to “build back better” by creating more sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies. In fact, the virus also exposed vulnerabilities, highlighting the plague of structural racism and discrimination in many countries, which is part of the challenges we need to address if we want to build a sustainable and just future for all.
The Master Class will revisit core notions of sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda and explore the role of the UN, as the world community addresses the challenges toward a sustainable future.
Simona Costanzo Sow is Learning Portfolio Manager at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development. Simona focuses on integrating social inclusion, environmental sustainability and economic development in policy discourse and development practice. Previously she served as Manager of two corporate priority initiatives of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, focusing on strengthening civic engagement in support of the 2030 Agenda. Simona has also served for eight years as Director of CCIVS, a global coordinating body for international voluntary service based at UNESCO Headquarters. Over the past years she has worked on issues related to policy advice and advocacy. Simona has extensive experience in partnership building and networking in the intergovernmental sphere, as well as with civil society, academia and the private sector and a track record in capacity-building, non-formal education, learning and training with different institutions including the British Council and the Council of Europe. Simona holds a PhD in Human Geography from the Technical University of Munich, focusing on international migration as well as a Master in International Cultural and Business Studies.
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Global Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education
Wednesday, July 22
11:00am to 12:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3sN8-UmcQ_GamV-A2XsMnw
Please join MISTI for a conversation around higher education’s response to the pandemic, and what the next 12-24 months hold for the sector globally. This panel includes leaders in higher education from various regions of the world.
Panelists:
Kirsty Williams, Welsh Minister for Education
Ravi Kumar, President and Chief Operating Officer of Infosys
Soledad Arellano, Vice President of Academics at Universidad Alfonso Ibáñez, Chile
Zeblon Vilakazi, Vice Chancellor, Wits University, South Africa
Moderated by: Christine Ortiz, MIT Professor and Former Dean, Founder of Station1
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Climate change Discovery Episodes | Brainstorming
Wednesday, July 22
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-discovery-episodes-brainstorming-tickets-111961239080
Let's find solutions to solve climate change issues by using Brainstorming! We'll teach you how to use for a cause that matters <3 span="">
Our workshop
We are passionate about two things, fighting climate change and design thinking. You have probably already heard about brainstorming, but you never tried or it never really worked efficiently. In our workshop we want to teach you easy-to-use brainstorming techniques and how to apply them to a cause that matters.
We will ideate together to find possible solutions to solve climate change issues through a practical case. The objective is to have actionable outputs after the session for you to be able to put some of them in motion.
The event will be in English.
Our program:
Who can attend: Anyone can participate, no need for any technical knowledge. Just come as you are!
How to connect:It is an online event, so make sure you have a good internet connection. We will send you the link the day before.
The schedule:
Welcome
Icebreaker
Challenge presentation
Brainstorming
Wrap up
Feedback and presentation of Disruptive Bananas
Who are we?
We are DISRUPTIVE BANANAS, a non-profit organization using design thinking methodology to support entrepreneurs and startups interested in saving the world from climate change!
You can check our community in Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/disruptivebananas
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Digital Health Apps: Evidence, Reimbursement and Outcomes
Wednesday, July 22
12:30 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/digital-health-apps-evidence-reimbursement-outcomes
SPEAKER Megan Jones Bell, Chief Science Officer, Headspace
DETAILS Apps for health, wellness and disease management are increasingly common across the healthcare ecosystem. Health systems, biotech and pharma, payers and pharmacy benefits managers are just a few of the industry sectors actively using digital tools to try to improve care delivery and outcomes.
This webinar will discuss emerging lessons and concepts from this space. What is the practical significance of the designation “digital therapeutic?” What are the current regulatory pathways? How does reimbursement actually work? Megan Jones Bell, MD, Chief Science Officer for Headspace, will discuss examples of how these interventions are being integrated into health care and some of the developments on the horizon for this industry.
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John McKnight and Gar Alperovitz in conversation
Wednesday, July 22
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
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Hydrogen Technologies and Outlook
Wednesday, July 22
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hydrogen-technologies-and-outlook-tickets-113701895430
Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) are pleased to announce a presentation on hydrogen tech.
Hydrogen has the potential to play a significant role in the decarbonization of the industrial world. This webinar will provide insight into why the transition to a hydrogen economy has increasing potential and how Alberta can leverage its existing expertise to be a significant global player in the low carbon economy. Our speakers will highlight the potential production and use cases for hydrogen, where the industry is at today.
Grant Strem
Chairman and CEO, Proton Technologies
Mr. Strem spent a number of years working within the upstream oil and gas sector before moving into reserves evaluation and banking. His general interest in science and space propulsion systems led him toward a physics heavy understanding of extreme oxidation processes.
During his engineering Master’s degree, he was a former student of Dr. Ian Gates and has remained close friends for the last 12 years or so, and they together recognize that a hydrogen economy is the eventual zenith of the world’s energy continuum. They also firmly believe that Proton Technologies has a quickly scalable non-CO2 solution that leverages existing infrastructure, with the lowest negative environmental impact. From space shuttle main engines, to high-tech manufacturing, hydrogen is a key feedstock for blooming energy and materials in a healthy direction.
David Layzell, PhD, FRSC
Research Director, The Transition Accelerator
Professor and Director, Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research (CESAR) Initiative
David Layzell works with innovative industry, governments and other academics to identify and deploy credible, compelling transition pathways that are capable of transforming Canada to a vibrant, low-carbon economy.
His research program uses analytical and modeling tools to explore how existing or new technology, business model, policy or social innovations could transform or disrupt the systems that Canadians use for societal provisioning. Based on this work and through engagement with key stakeholders, he identifies strategies to direct the disruptive forces to achieve societal goals, including, but not limited to, climate change mitigation. This approach has led to the launch of the Transition Accelerator, a pan-Canadian initiative that is currently focused on directing disruptive forces impacting the personal and freight transportation sectors.
Before launching CESAR in 2013, Layzell was Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy (ISEEE), at the University of Calgary (2008-12), and the Executive Director of BIOCAP Canada, a research foundation focused on biological solutions to climate change (1998-2008). As a Professor at Queen’s University between 1981 and 2008, he also founded a scientific instrumentation company called Qubit Systems Inc. and was elected ‘Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’ (FRSC) for his research contributions.
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The opioid crisis in America: Vulnerable groups, law enforcement, and international supply
Wednesday, July 22
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-opioids-2
Join the conversation on Twitter using #OpioidCrisis
As the United States and the world reel from COVID-19, another epidemic, opioid addiction, continues to ravage the U.S. The opioid epidemic has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, generated vast national economic and social costs, and exposed the critical weaknesses and limitations of U.S. drug policy.
In a new series of papers, “The opioid crisis in America: Domestic and international dimensions,” experts from Brookings and beyond have undertaken a multidisciplinary effort to develop new insights and best practices for policy stakeholders working at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as members of the public who are on the front lines of the opioid crisis.
On July 22, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings will host the second of two webinars, which will explore the project’s findings on vulnerable groups, domestic law enforcement of the opioid crisis, and international supply control measures. Brookings President John R. Allen will introduce the project and event. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) will provide keynote remarks and join Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown in a conversation. Subsequently, Associated Press reporter Claire Galofaro will moderate a panel of authors from the Brookings Opioid series: John Hudak, Peter Reuter, and Vanda Felbab-Brown. The panel will then take questions from the audience.
Viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or on Twitter using #OpioidCrisis.
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Fast Forum with Tom Steyer
Wednesday, July 22
6 – 6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQzs915GZpxRKRp07zJrBodSbNXk6zAf3QIXydHyJ9TBSckA/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Tom Steyer
DETAILS Climate activist, NextGen America Founder, and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer joins the IOP to reflect on his experiences in the presidential primary, work to combat climate change, and commitment to philanthropic causes.
LINK http://iop.harvard.edu
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Urban Heat Island and COVID-19 - A Perfect Storm?
Wednesday, July 22
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monthly-forum-urban-heat-island-and-covid-19-a-perfect-storm-tickets-111864495718
What policies are being devised to assist people who are confined to small apartments when temperatures top 90°F?
Temperatures this summer are rising to uncomfortable levels. But what policies are in place to assist people who are confined to small, crowded apartments, with inadequate ventilation and no air conditioning —or unaffordable air conditioning—in the case of a heat wave? What are the environmental justice issues that should be considered, since traditional practices like opening community centers and shelters may be contraindicated in the era of Covid? What populations are being disproportionately affected by urban heat and climate change?
Please join Adriana Espinoza, Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate Policy and Programs, who will speak about environmental justice from a macro level, and how systemic inequality and environmental racism has created the disparities that exists in the City today. She will also discuss how the City plans to better incorporate equity and EJ into the city climate decision-making.
To dive deeper into the conversation, Mike Harrington, Assistant Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, will speak about the historical inequalities of urban heat island impacts on communities and some possible solutions from a policy and design perspective. He will also share some of the lessons learned from personal experience and the recently released "Turning the Heat" report that he co-authored as part of the Urban Design Forum's Forefront Fellowship.
Sonal Jessel, Policy & Advocacy Coordinator at WE ACT for Environmental Justice, will discuss what makes extreme heat a public health issue, why there are inequities in impact, and how communities cope. She will also highlight particular challenges that exist for vulnerable populations this summer due to COVID-19.
In addition to the forum, our monthly volunteer orientation will take place right before the event, starting at 6pm. If you're interested in joining GreenHomeNYC as a volunteer, please review opportunities on our website, and register for a monthly orientation on Eventbrite.
If you have any questions, please contact the GreenHomeNYC Forums group at forums@greenhomenyc.org.
Since 2003, GreenHomeNYC has been promoting an energy efficient and sustainable built environment, and supporting green professional development in NYC.
Visit www.greenhomenyc.org to learn more!
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A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right
Wednesday, July 22
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_molly_howes/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and GrubStreet welcome clinical psychologist and award-winning writer MOLLY HOWES for a discussion of her book A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right. She will be joined in conversation by MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, author of the beloved Boston Globe advice column Love Letters.
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of A Good Apology on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About A Good Apology
We've all done something wrong or made a mistake or insulted someone—even if by accident. We've all been hurt and wanted the other person to help us heal. It may be surprising, but the breaches themselves aren't the real problem; our inability to fix them is what causes us trouble.
In A Good Apology, Dr. Molly Howes uses her experiences with patients in her practice, research findings, and news stories to illustrate the power and importance of a thorough apology. She teaches how we can all learn to craft an effective apology with four straightforward steps.
An apology is a small-scale event between people, but it's enormously powerful. This comprehensive book gives readers the tools to fix their relationships, make amends, and move forward. With it, you'll fully understand the meaning and importance of this universal and timeless endeavor: a good apology.
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Extinction Rebelllion Community Meeting
Wednesday, July 22
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/community-meeting-2020-07-22/
Let's check in with each other, debrief from our big Tax Day action, and have a little fun!
This meeting will be online via Zoom. We will aim to end by 8:30 pm.
Zoom info will be shared closer to the event -- please sign up below so we can keep you posted!
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Wearables in Art & Concert - Virtual in FrameVR.io
Wednesday, July 22
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/events/271771546/
Presentation of the Next Generation of Wearables for Real & Virutal Events by the Inventors of the Wearable Technologies used in Major Concerts and Events such as the MOMA Gala to Taylor Swift. Link emailed to RSVP list.
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Thursday, July 23
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EBC Water Resources Webinar: Challenges Facing our Water Resources under a Changing Climate
Thursday, July 23
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-water-resources-webinar-challenges-facing-our-water-resources-under-a-changing-climate/
Cost: $25 - $120
This EBC Water Resources program will explore how our drinking water and coastal water resources are being affected by climate change and some of the adaptation and resiliency measures local states and municipalities are doing to combat these challenges. We will also discuss the challenges associated with managing stormwater and wastewater under a changing climate and the unique measures being undertaken by local utilities to protect our current civil infrastructure and future planned investments.
This program will touch on the following topics:
Drinking Water Resources – drought and extreme event impacts on drinking water resources, the challenges of ensuring communities have adequate access to drinking water
Coastal Water Resources – rising tides and storm surge and the issues with losing our critical green infrastructure (e.g., marshes, beaches) and the protection it provides to inland communities
Wastewater – how to protect critical wastewater infrastructure from coastal and riverine flooding
Stormwater – how to get the water out (and keep our feet dry) under increasingly challenging storm event conditions and rising tides
Program Chairs:
Andrea Braga, PE, CPESC, Principal Water Resources Engineer, Jacobs
Michael Scipione, CEO, Weston & Sampson
Speakers:
Charlie Jewell, Director of Planning and Sustainability, Boston Water & Sewer Commission
Alexander Train, AICP, Assistant Director of Planning & Development with the City of Chelsea
Additional information to be announced shortly.
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A nation at a demographic crossroad: Rising diversity, youthful activism, and the 2020 election
Thursday, July 23
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/a-nation-at-a-demographic-crossroad-rising-diversity-youthful-activism-and-the-2020-election/
Join the conversation on Twitter using #DiversityExplosion
Amid a global pandemic that is robbing the nation’s younger generations of career-defining education and employment opportunities, the millennial and Gen Z generations are also making their voices heard in leading protests throughout the country, demonstrating their commitment to fundamental civil rights for Black Americans. As the 2020 election concurrently approaches, the deep-seated political and cultural divide between a rising, racially diverse America and the whiter, older generation that was most responsible for Trump’s election, looms large.
On Thursday, July 23, the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program will convene a conversation examining this historic convergence of events. Demographer William H. Frey will kick off the discussion with a presentation drawing on his highly regarded book, “Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America,” examining the realities of America’s changing racial demography and what that means for the nation’s future. A panel will follow, discussing the nation’s new demographic make-up and highlighting the activism of the country’s diverse younger generations and what it means for the 2020 election and beyond.
Viewers can submit questions for panelists by emailing events@brookings.edu or tweeting to @BrookingsMetro using the hashtag #DiversityExplosion.
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The Vital Role of Extension Service
Thursday, June 23
11:00-12:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://elti.yale.edu/events/capacity-development-webinars-2020-2021
Dr. Alicia Calle, Postdoctoral Associate, ELTI, YSE.
Part of the Capacity Development for Forest Landscape Restoration series
Featuring diverse perspectives and experiences of our global team and alumni
June 2020 - February 2021
The series is free and open to the public. We welcome you to share the details with your contacts and networks.
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Voices in Leadership During Crises: Governor Deval Patrick
Thursday, July 23
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/deval-l-patrick-71st-governor-of-massachusetts/
SPEAKER(S) Deval L. Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
Sara Bleich, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management
DETAILS Governor Deval Patrick joins the program to discuss issues related to leadership during the pandemic. He will address the problems of COVID-19 and systemic racism for Black and Brown populations and offer possible solutions for these major public health problems. Join us on Thursday, July 23 from 12-12:30 PM ET to hear this dynamic talk. Moderated by Sara Bleich, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
For questions contact Shaina Martis (smartis@hsph.harvard.edu). Watch the conversation live at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/deval-l-patrick-71st-governor-of-massachusetts/ or on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/VoicesHSPH
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CRES Forum Event: How do conservatives plan to tackle climate change?
Thursday, July 23
Noon – 1.00 PM (EDT)
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cres-forum-event-how-do-conservatives-plan-to-tackle-climate-change-tickets-113112173556
Join CRES Forum for a discussion of immediate opportunities and actionable policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It has been a busy year for climate policy. At the start of 2020 the first batch of Republican climate bills were introduced in the House. We have seen growing support for energy innovation, energy infrastructure and clean energy jobs as critical to America’s economic recovery. Last month, we saw the introduction of the bipartisan bicameral Growing Climate Solutions Act. But, most recently, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released the Democratic Majority’s staff report, which drew criticism for a lack of bipartisanship.
Join CRES Forum for a discussion of immediate opportunities and actionable policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Opening Remarks:
Dave Banks | Chief Strategist for the Minority, House Select Committee on Climate Change
Panel:
Christopher Guith | Senior Vice President, US Chamber of Commerce Global Energy Institute
Devin Hartman | Director of Energy and Environmental Policy, R Street Institute
Mary Beth Tung | Director, Maryland Energy Administration
MODERATOR: Charles Hernick | Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, CRES Forum
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Children’s Cabinets: An Essential Community Infrastructure in Times of Crisis
Thursday, July 23
2 – 3 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O51y5zIxSTSOFUwScNGJmA
SPEAKER(S) Molly Blankenship, Executive Director, Chattanooga 2.0
Ann DeGroot, Executive Director, Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board
DETAILS Our country is facing multiple crises that affect the lives of all Americans, particularly children and youth. We need active infrastructure that can rapidly respond to challenges, bring together diverse decision-makers, and be accountable for enacting effective solutions. Children’s cabinets are these key pieces of community infrastructure. The Forum for Youth Investment, Children’s Funding Project, and Education Redesign Lab will be hosting this webinar as part of the summer series for the Local Children’s Cabinet Network. Join us as we hear from one of the oldest children’s cabinets, Minneapolis, MN, and one of the newest children’s cabinets, Chattanooga, TN, and how they have addressed COVID-19, racial equity, and more.
LINK https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O51y5zIxSTSOFUwScNGJmA
CONTACT INFO Marina I. Jokic, marina_jokic@gse.harvard.edu
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How to stop funding fossil fuels?
Thursday, July 23
2:30 – 4:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuels-tickets-111932802024
This webinar with Ben Caldecott and Anna Olerinyova will look at fossil fuel divestment - how do we stop funding the fossil fuel industry?
Forest fires, floods, hurricanes – extreme climate events are taking their toll around the world. To avert a growing climate crisis, we know that the vast majority of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground.
If “money is the oxygen on which the climate crisis burns”, how do we stop funding fossil fuels?
We are delighted to welcome Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme and leading expert in Sustainable Finance, together with student campaigner Anna Olerinyova, for a webinar on fossil fuel divestment. Ben and Anna will discuss the fossil fuel industry’s central role in the climate crisis, what can be done to stop funding it, and how we can all play our part.
The event is open to all. Further details and joining instructions (through Zoom) will be emailed to participants nearer the time.
Ben is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme. He is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Senior Advisor to the Chair and CEO of the UK Green Finance Institute (GFI) and the COP26 Strategy Advisor for Finance based out of the Cabinet Office. Ben founded and co-chairs the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), an alliance of global research universities promoting rigorous and impactful academic research on sustainable finance. He also chairs the International Green Finance Coordination Group on behalf of the UK Green Finance Institute and the UK Government. This brings together twenty central government departments, public bodies, regulators, and organisations close to the public sector all working on green finance and has been established to enhance coordination on UK priorities for green finance internationally.
Anna, a Dphil Student at Oxford University in Biophysics and molecular biology, is an active member and organiser of the student-led Oxford Climate Justice Campaign, which successfully campaigned for Oxford University to divest from fossil fuels and follow a net-zero investment strategy. She was also one of the leaders of the high - profile St John's College occupation protests earlier this year, demanding fossil fuel divestment and ethical investment from the college. She is a keen activist with Extinction Rebellion, both locally and nationally as a member of XR Scientists group, working on a number of educational and outreach projects.
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Women in Cleantech: It’s Time to Talk About Climate Change
Thursday, July 23
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-cleantech-its-time-to-talk-about-climate-change-tickets-106584960486
Cost: $15
Join Women in Cleantech and Sustainability and Lisa Ann Pinkerton on Thursday, 23 July at 12 pm PT
Thankfully, 2019 was the year of the Climate Strike, with the courageous Greta Thunberg igniting a movement that prompted roughly 10 million global citizens to march. Now, 2020 seems to be revealing how quickly the world can take action within the face of an imminent threat and just how clean our air could be if we prioritized zero-emission vehicles and more sustainable manufacturing.
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 led to dramatic shutdown of economic activity and dramatically reduced the use of fossil fuels. It’s also demonstrated that while a hit to the economy was a reason not to adopt widespread climate mitigation on a global scale, it is possible when there is political will. In order to be meaningful for the future of climate change, the drops in greenhouse gas emissions and consumer consumption need to extend beyond individuals to the larger structures that shape our lives. As the economy recovers, regulations and stipulations that require governments and businesses to adopt more sustainable practices is paramount.
To ensure the planet recovers from the coronavirus in a greener and more sustainable way, we as industry professionals and voters have a responsibility to win the hearts and minds of those in power to use their influence towards taking serious, urgent, and targeted action to mitigate climate change.
Climate change is not only about what’s happening to the planet. It is also about the personal and universal emotions humans feel surrounding the scale of the problem. When we take the time to connect climate conversations to personal motivations, people out of action or in denial are known to change their viewpoints. While such conversations could be challenging to have and may need to be repeated over time, done thoughtfully and responsibly, they can sway people into taking action in their spheres of influence.
In this virtual workshop, founder and CEO of Technica Communications, and chairwoman of Women in Cleantech and Sustainability, Lisa Ann Pinkerton will cover:
An eight-step process on how to discuss the climate crisis with friends, family, and community leaders in denial and inactive
Spotlight effective tactics for opening one’s mind to thinking differently about climate change
Outline case studies of famous deniers who have shifted to climate action
Highlight the cascading effect such conversations can have on the power structures of industry and politics
After the short TED-style presentation, attendees will be given the opportunity to practice the techniques outlined in two Zoom breakout room sessions. Between each session, the group will share insights and experiences with the larger group.
“Without addressing climate change on the personal, human level, one cannot hope to change it at a global scale.” - Lisa Ann Pinkerton
About Women in Cleantech & Sustainability Founded in 2011, Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) fosters an influential network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment. The nonprofit leads a community of over 2,500 professional women and men working to drive sustainable change. Members range from the students and entry level professionals, to founders, C-suite executives and investors.
This event is limited to 100 attendees and is open to people of all genders. Refunds provided up to 24 hours in advance.
About Lisa Ann Pinkerton
Lisa Ann Pinkerton is founder of Women In Cleantech & Sustainability, a San Francisco Bay Area group dedicated to the advancement of women in various environmental and technology sectors. She is also Founder and President of Technica Communications, where she handles marketing, social media, content production and public relations for cleantech and biotech startups. Additionally, Lisa Ann is Co-Founder and Marketing Chair for the Global Cleantech Cluster Association, an international speaker and moderator and documentary filmmaker. Lisa Ann is a former award-winning broadcast journalist who reported for National Public Radio, PBS Television, WPXI-NBC, American Public Media, and Free Speech TV.
Event Agenda
12:00 pm PT
First 5 mins Arrival and Intro
Zoom etiquette and housekeeping
12:10-12:25 pm PT : Presentation by Lisa Ann
12:25 -12:45 pm : Break out session 1
12:45 -1:10 pm : Regroup and share
1:10- 1:30 pm : Break out session 2
1:30 - 2:00 pm : Regroup and share and End of event
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Harvard Science Book Talk: Hope Jahren, in conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, "The Story of More"
Thursday, July 23
5 – 6 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_hope_jahren/
SPEAKER(S) Hope Jahren, University of Oslo
Barbara Kingsolver
DETAILS Hope Jahren, a multiple-award winning geobiologist and author of the beloved “Lab Girl,” will talk with the acclaimed novelist Barbard Kingsolver about Jahren’s new book, “The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here.” The book illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back.
LINK https://science.fas.harvard.edu/book-talks
CONTACT INFO science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu
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Putting Principles First: Climate Change & Environmental Policy
Thursday, July 23
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/putting-principles-first-climate-change-environmental-policy-tickets-113589152212
Join us for a discussion with former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) of republicEn about a principled approach to climate change.
We are delighted to welcome former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) of republicEn for a Principles First discussion about new approaches to combating climate change and protecting our environment. We will hear from Mr. Inglis, engage in an open dialogue, and then reserve 30 minutes at the end of the meeting for other Principles First updates and topics.
The gathering will be hosted over Zoom and video conference details will be sent to all registrants prior to the event.
As always, all are welcome to join us.
About Bob Inglis
Bob Inglis launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”) at George Mason University in July 2012 and serves as executive director, where he promotes free enterprise action on climate change.
For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt and in the Showtime series YEARS of Living Dangerously, and he's spoken at TEDxBeacon Street and at TEDxJacksonville.
Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and a Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014.
Bob was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998. In 2004, he was re-elected to Congress and served until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010.
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Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
Thursday, July 23
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_muhammad_h._zaman/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes MUHAMMAD H. ZAMAN—the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University—for a discussion of his book Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens. He will be joined in conversation by fellow Boston University professor and co-director of the Health Law Program, KEVIN OUTTERSON.
Contribute to Support Harvard Book Store
About Biography of Resistance
In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her death is the worst nightmare of infectious disease doctors and public health professionals. While bacteria live within us and are essential for our health, some strains can kill us. As bacteria continue to mutate, becoming increasingly resistant to known antibiotics, we are likely to face a public health crisis of unimaginable proportions. “It will be like the great plague of the middle ages, the influenza pandemic of 1918, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 all combined into a single threat,” Muhammad H. Zaman warns.
Biography of Resistance is Zaman’s riveting and timely look at why and how microbes are becoming superbugs. It is a story of science and evolution that looks to history, culture, attitudes and our own individual choices and collective human behavior. Following the trail of resistant bacteria from previously uncontacted tribes in the Amazon to the isolated islands in the Arctic, from the urban slums of Karachi to the wilderness of the Australian outback, Zaman examines the myriad factors contributing to this unfolding health crisis—including war, greed, natural disasters, and germophobia—to the culprits driving it: pharmaceutical companies, farmers, industrialists, doctors, governments, and ordinary people, all whose choices are pushing us closer to catastrophe.
Joining the ranks of acclaimed works like Microbe Hunters, The Emperor of All Maladies, and Spillover, Biography of Resistance is a riveting and chilling tale from a natural storyteller on the front lines, and a clarion call to address the biggest public health threat of our time.
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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Book Club
Thursday, July 23
7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-boston-book-club-jul23/
Join XR Boston's book club and learn about the intersection of climate and social justice. We are reading the first two chapters (until page 85) of "Frontlines: Stories of Global Environmental Justice" by Nick Meynen: "Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth.”
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The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Sona Mohnot
Thursday, July 23
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-climate-conversation-with-climate-leader-sona-mohnot-tickets-113409075598
Join us for a candid conversation with climate leader Sona Mohnot of The Greenlining Institute.
As part of Greenbelt Alliance's Future Climate Webinar Series we invite you to join us as we sit down with notable Bay Area climate leaders. In each 30 minute session you will have the opportunity to connect with these inspiring professionals, hear their stories, and get an inside look into the amazing work that they do on issues relating to climate adaptation planning, equity, community engagement and more.
This week our featured expert is Sona Mohnot, Environmental Equity Program Manager and Policy Analyst for The Greenlining Institute, a racial and economic justice public policy organization. Growing up in New Orleans, Sona became interested in environmental equity after witnessing the disproportionate environmental burdens that communities of color face in New Orleans, especially after Hurricane Katrina and the B.P. oil spill. Sona completed her J.D. from Tulane School of Law and her LL.M in Natural Resources and Environmental Law from Lewis and Clark Law School. At Greenlining, Sona is part of the Environmental Equity team where she focuses on creating equitable climate adaptation and resilience strategies to help ensure that communities hit first and worst by climate disasters have the resources and support needed to adapt to a changing climate and thrive in spite of it. Greenlining recently published a report on this issue that Sona led the development of, titled Making Equity Real in Climate Adaptation and Community Resilience Policies and Programs. She also serves as a council member on the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP) out of the Governor's Office of Planning and Research.
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Friday, July 24 - Sunday, July 26
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Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss
15th Annual Green Economics Institute's Green Economics Conference
Friday, July 24 - Sunday, July 26
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/survival-solutions-for-the-crises-climate-economy-and-biodiversity-loss-tickets-112114928770
The three-day Green Economics Conference will host a wide range of speakers from across the world, delivering presentations on a variety of topics from wherever they are, including on responses to the latest challenges.
The Green Economic Recovery, No More Business As Usual, Global Reset, Build Back Better. A Just Transition: Diversity, Holism, Sustainability, SDGs, We explore how to change economics, investment and finance to provide a future for humanity, other species, the climate and the Earth. The circular economy, Basic Income, The Green New Deal - no more business as usual. The future is in our hands! Reclaiming Economics from its small group of narrow interests in profit, growth, greed and destruction - and turning it into something beneficial where all the World flourishes.
Can we ever own the Earth? If we have destroyed one planet - do we have the right to go and muck up another one? Hurting nature - the cause of future pandemics? 143 Million people being climate migrants by 2020 - is not a change - It's a climate emergency! Species and people are all on the move towards cooler climates. The Arctic heatwaves signal warming unseen since before human civilisation began. We explore the climate science and facts and ask what does it take to convince people - that its finally time to act?
Debates, experts, workshops, campaigns, research. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet. Do we want Factory Farmed Humans? Or do we want well-being and a work life balance exploring the cultural impacts in shaping a new human beyond homo economicus. Smart Cities, smart women, smart lives? Young peoples futures, older people care, indigenous peoples, we are all one humanity. Our future is their future. We must work together.
We are all in this together, if we hurt one person and keep them in poverty and injustice, they are far more likely to become ill and we can catch it - so never has it been so important to look after every person and every living being properly. We exploit anyone and we hurt ourselves. Everyone needs the same opportunities as everyone else - we cant have just 8 men to own half the world's wealth - its time to share properly.
Virtual visits to forests and trees. Exploring the Primal Forests of Europe, the cultural respect for Trees, the secret life of Trees and how they nurture us. Understanding the power processes which have sought to destroy trees and how we need trees for our survival and how to protect them and how to change the legal system so it supports life on earth, rather than endorses and reinforces its destruction in the name of law and order and the economy. Trees are life givers, oxygen creators, important habitats and climate regulators. We need them.
Global Reset, Grow your own! Ending Pollution, The New Normal, Reclaiming our own food, Fresh, Healthy, Life Giving Food, Locally Grown - the links between healthy food, avoiding pandemics, keeping safe and ending the power of corporations to skew our health, make us ill and then mend us all for a profit.We can grow our own food - all we need is light and a window sill, nature provides well for us. Lets not allow her to be destroyed in the name of profit and greed and economics. Virtual visits to farms, gardens and kitchens around the world.
For more information, speakers and program please visit our website: http://www.greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk
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Friday, July 24
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COVID-19 and Climate Change: Health implications
Friday, July 24
2am
Online
RSVP at https://anu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PuMmyLeJTXGsvNj8KXgfTA
Speakers: Dr Aparna Lal and Dr Arnagretta Hunter
Environmental health researcher Dr Aparna Lal, and cardiologist Dr Arnagretta Hunter will discuss the health implications of COVID-19 and climate change. They’ll cover public health responses and any learnings we can apply to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
Recent months have seen the COVID-19 pandemic emerge as a global crisis requiring immediate, wide-spread and evidence-based action.
As countries have taken drastic measures to curb the spread of the virus, comparisons have arisen between the global response to COVID-19 and climate change. Despite their fundamental differences, they are both significant global challenges that require immediate action based upon scientific evidence.
So how and why have our responses differed, and what can we learn from the handling of COVID-19 to apply to our response to climate change?
Join us for this new online event series, COVID-19 and Climate Change, to discuss these questions and more with leading researchers in the area.
Environmental health researcher, Dr Aparna Lal and cardiologist Dr Arnagretta Hunter will discuss the health implications of COVID-19 and climate change. They’ll cover public health responses and any learnings we can apply to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
These events will be recorded. The recording will be made available after the event through the ANU Climate Change Institute YouTube channel.
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One-on-one with Bertrand Piccard
Friday, July 24
9am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.wedonthavetime.org/climate-action-news/one-on-one-with-bertrand-piccard
On this episode the medical doctor and explorer Bertrand Piccard - famous for his solar flight around the world - talks about his firm believe in technology to save the environment. He explains why he will travel around the world and present 1000 solutions that protect the environment in a profitable way to decision-makers.
Climate Action News is our broadcast about action and sustainable solutions. We invite our community, climate advocacy groups, leaders, and businesses to share their knowledge and insights. You can participate actively by commenting live during and after the broadcast. Get instructions or download our app to join the discussion. Welcome!
Hosts and guests
Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, Host, We Don't Have Time
Hosting this global broadcast is Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop-leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She lectures based on the UN Sustainable Global Development Goals internationally and has TV-skills from her background as a television program host at SVT, Swedish Public Television. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow.
Bertrand Piccard, Explorer, medical doctor and global influencer
Bertrand Piccard is the initiator and visionary behind Solar Impulse, the very first airplane capable of flying perpetually without fuel. It is in his DNA to go beyond the obvious and achieve the impossible. As part of a legendary dynasty of explorers and scientists who conquered the heights and depths of our planet, he made history by accomplishing two firsts in aviation, circumnavigating the globe in a solar-powered airplane and before that non-stop in a balloon. The ocean depths and the stratosphere attracted his father and grandfather; the challenges of our time fascinate him. With his dual identities as medical doctor and explorer, Bertrand has become an influential voice as a forward- thinking leader for progress and sustainability and a renowned inspirational speaker. Following his pioneering spirit in favour of the cause of renewable energies and clean technologies, he has now set off to select and label 1000 solutions that protect the environment in a profitable way and will then embark on a third round-the-world journey to deliver those solutions to decision-makers, encouraging them to adopt more ambitious environmental targets and energy policies.
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City Life After Coronavirus: India
Friday, July 24
10:00am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-life-after-coronavirus-india-tickets-113695323774
On July 24, join us for a discussion with the Mayor of Kochi and local design leaders from Delhi and Bangalore on tailoring containment strategies and recovery initiatives to India’s urban challenges.
As the pandemic spreads across India, municipal leaders are partnering with designers to study how localized housing and workplace typologies can inform social distancing protocols and policy. Particular challenges like crowded housing conditions, poor sanitation, and high levels of informal commercial and industrial activity require creative design solutions and communications tools to reach marginalized populations.
In partnership with the National Institute for Urban Affairs, we will welcome Soumini Jain, Mayor of Kochi, whose “Kerala model” for tacking the outbreak has been praised across the country for its proactive approach. Following presentations by Mriganka Saxena, Puneet Khanna and Guru Prasanna, Mayor Jain will join to discuss: How can cities develop containment strategies that respond to the social and spatial realities of low-income communities?
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Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force Virtual Summit Series
Friday, July 24
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-emergency-mobilization-task-force-virtual-summit-series-tickets-111898174452
Virtual Summit Series: For an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future
Sustainable & Healthy Cities
Summit Schedule:
12:00 - 1:00 am Doors Open / Meet & Greet Attendee Mixer
1:00 - 1:45 am Keynote and panel for all attendees
1:45 - 2:30 am Workshops with Breakout Groups
2:30 - 3:00 pm Report Back from Workshops
3:00 - 3:30 pm Visit sponsor tables and network
Summit Topic Areas:
City & Regional Planning
Increase trips by foot, bike, public transit, carpools, micro-mobility
Support affordable transit oriented development/ housing without displacement and with good pedestrian, bike, and livable neighborhood design; stop building single family homes; end R1 zoning; end homelessness
Ecological Protection & Regeneration
Protecting wetlands, open space, opposing sprawl, access to parks; preserve plant & wildlife corridors
Defend the rights of nature
Urban greening
Community gardens and food security, regenerative agriculture
Social Justice and Climate
An end to poverty, i.e. 100% of residents living above the poverty line
Significantly reduce disparate standard of living indices for historically impacted communities of color, including income inequality, educational achievement gap, health care access gap, and environmental burdens
Immigrant and refugee rights; defend the rights of those displaced by climate disruption
The right to free public education, including college
Healthcare as a right for all; pandemic response
Resiliency
Measures to assist those impacted by climate change, including, but not limited to floods, fires, heatwaves, sea level rise, droughts, and disease; local resiliency
Funding/Financing
Corporations and those who accumulate extraordinary wealth provide a significantly greater contribution
This is the first in the CEMTF Summit Series. Please plan to join us on the following too:
1) Sustainable & Healthy Cities – July 24, 2020
2) Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area – August 28, 2020
3) Green Infrastructure – September 25, 2020
4) Sustainable Production and Consumption of Resources – October 23, 2020
5) Summation and Next Steps – November 20, 2020
Website: https://cemtf.org/event/virtual-summit-for-an-environmentally-just-and-regenerative-future
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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, July 24
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
Another week has passed in the first pandemic of the 21st century, with thousands of new stories posted and printed, yet questions still often outnumbering answers.
Each Friday, the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability hosts a lunchtime review of COVID-19 headlines and next steps featuring Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett, NBC’s Robert Bazell, Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and Wendy Wertheimer, formerly of WHO & NIH.
Explore more Sustain What episodes on YouTube at j.mp/sustainwhatlive or subscribe on Periscope at pscp.tv/revkin.
Solutions Journalism Network: solutionsjournalism.org
The Earth Institute Initiative: sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Contact Andy Revkin with questions or ideas for future segments: @revkin on Twitter or andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
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EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan
Friday, July 24
2:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-leadership-webinar-series-climate-change-and-the-cambridge-urban-forest-master-plan/
Cost: $15 - $25
EBC is excited to present this series of webinars featuring projects and organizations leading the way in climate change adaptation and mitigation in New England. Featuring the nominated projects for the 2020 EBC Annual EBEE Awards Program, this series will focus on the forward-thinking and innovative projects being planned and implemented throughout New England.
An urban forest is an essential part of a city’s infrastructure, and as a living, dynamic system, it requires constant care, investment, and replanting. With warmer temperatures, climate change brings new challenges to maintaining a healthy urban forest. This data-driven, climate-forward plan models future scenarios looking out over a 50-year time horizon and estimates risks to the urban forests. The goal is an equitable, resilient, and healthy urban forest where all city constituents are invested in and participate in its care. The plan sets priorities for where to direct investment and how to increase canopy cover where it is currently lacking, with attention particularly to areas with high concentrations of populations at risk. Another focus area is enhancing canopy cover to reduce heat island in the public realm where it is most impactful to people. The plan defines a range of interventions, spanning policy, practice, design, and outreach, to reorient current trends toward a better future.
Join us for this EBC webinar to learn about Climate Change and the Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan.
Program Chair: Nasser Brahim, Senior Climate Resiliency Planner, Kleinfelder
Speakers:
Eric Kramer, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand
Alex Silveri, Civil/Environmental Engineer, Kleinfelder
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Extinction Rebelllion [XR] SF Friday Online Activism
Friday, July 24
3 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/j/727108084?pwd=YVhTOTk1TFlodzMwc3ZqWkg2ckNoZz09 Meeting ID: 727 108 084 Password: 082166 One tap mobile +16699006833,,727108084# US (San Jose)
XRSF has been holding weekly online activism with a regenerative atmosphere.
We are in extraordinary times, but this is still a good time to spread messages of hope, empowerment, support, compassion, empathy and ACTION. Join us on Fridays for some connection and activism.
CALL AGENDA (HIGH LEVEL): 10m check-in & land acknowledgement 10m calm the limbic system (Guided meditation, poems, qigong, laughter yoga) 15-20m digital activism in breakout rooms 15-20m mutual aid (Sharing what you need with the group, in breakout rooms & sheet) 10m calm the limbic system (Exercise, meditation, gratitudes)
The call will run from 3-4pm EST.
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Pollution Across Communities and Places
Friday, July 24
3:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smart-equitable-commonwealth-co-creating-the-society-we-want-tickets-97157333199
Presentations and Panel
“Using Data from the Massachusetts Vehicle Census (MAVC) to Estimate Municipal Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation”
Conor Gately, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
“Mapping Environmental Conditions Experienced by Riders of the T at High Resolution”
Edgar Castro, Northeastern University
“Quantifying the Health Impacts of Eliminating Air Pollution Emissions in the City of Boston”
Matthew Raifman, Boston University
“A Co-Simulated Energy and Indoor Air Quality Housing Model to Inform Decisions for Retrofits and Health”
Catherine L. Connolly, Boston University
Moderator: Paulina Muratore, Union of Concerned Scientists
More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/bari/events/2020-bari-conference/
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What Can We Adapt Now from Cuba’s Health System: House by House, Barrio by Barrio
Friday, July 24
6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldOqppzIoE9L2KT0j15-VfLVnODZXq5YF
The People’s Response Presents- Live from Jamaica
As COVID continues to Spiral out of Control in the U.S. “What Can We Adapt Now from Cuba’s Health System: House by House, Barrio by Barrio”
Dr. Jose Armando Arronte Villamarin, National Coordinator of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Jamaica, 2017 Chicago Cuban Health Team Leader
Dr. Luis Antonio Gonzalez Corro, Born in Panama, Cuba’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) Graduate, Primary Care & Social Medicine Physician, Montefiore, New York
Jerome Montgomery, Director, Project Vida
Lucky Camargo, Mi Villita Neighbors
Dr. Howard Ehrman, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine & People’s Response
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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In Their Voices: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Friday, July 24
8pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tls-in-their-voices-korean-adoptees-tell-their-stories/register
The Transnational Literature Series welcomes Korean adoptees Nicole Chung and Jenny Heijun Wills in Conversation with Mee-ok to discuss identity, belonging, adoption—and writing their stories.
Books featured in this conversation:
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun Wills
With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
Nicole Chung was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in the Washington, DC area. Her nationally bestselling debut memoir All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, TIME, Newsday, Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, and Chicago Public Library, among many others. She is the editor in chief of Catapult magazine, co-editor of the immigration anthology A Map Is Only One Story, and the former managing editor of The Toast. Her next book is forthcoming from Ecco Books/HarperCollins.
In her beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related Jenny Heijun Wills recounts the story of reconnecting with her first family in Korea while living at a guesthouse for transnational adoptees. Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women—sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces—Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child’s removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir, which has received much acclaim, including being one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019, one of the Winnipeg Free Press’s 10 best books of the last decade, and winning the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust award for Non-Fiction in 2019 and the 2020 Best First Book by the Manitoba Book Awards. She has lived, studied, and worked in Montreal, Boston, Toronto, and Seoul. She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.
About the moderator: Mee-ok is the winner of the 2019 Construction Literary Magazine Contest for Nonfiction and was selected as a finalist for the 2019 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. She has also been featured in the LA Times, Boston Globe Magazine, American Journal of Poetry, Korean Quarterly, and Michael Pollan’s anthology for Medium, where her piece was named Editor’s Pick. She is currently a contributing editor at Passengers Journal and the recipient of the 2021 Voices of Color Fellowship at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing as well as a visiting lecturer at the Frank Lloyd Wright estate, Taliesin, where she is a former Writer in Residence. More at Mee-ok.com
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Screening of Lumumba (2001)
Friday July 24
8-10pm
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Based on the true story of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo. An anti-colonial leader of African people to liberate Congo from the clutches of imperialist Belgium. On January 17, 1961 he was assassinated by a firing squad in execution-style by the Belgian and US military, which was covered up for decades. Directed by Raoul Peck, in French with English subtitles.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston@riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Saturday, July 25, 11:00 PM – Sunday, July 26, 12:00 AM
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Comics for climate change: A comics workshop
Saturday, July 25, 11:00 PM – Sunday, July 26, 12:00 AM
Online
RVP at https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/comics-for-climate-change-a-comics-workshop-tickets-113854014422
This event is part of our Digital Launch Events for The Makers Club: Game On!
Find out how animals in Southeast Asia are affected by global warming and climate change in this guided workshop by ecologist-journalist Debby Ng and illustrator Darel Seow. The duo will unearth lesser-known animals in the region that have had their habitats and lifestyles affected by global warming, and show participants how to draw simple characters based on native Southeast Asian animals. At the end of the workshop, participants will also conceptualize and create a simple comic story about climate change!
About the Speakers
Debby Ng is a disease ecologist, photojournalist, and educator. Her study fields span seas and summits – from the tropical reefs of Singapore, to the Himalaya in Nepal – and comprises the diverse social, political, and physical landscapes that are novel to these systems. She is the founder of two volunteer organisations – one based in her home country of Singapore where her focus is on coral reef conservation, and the other based in Nepal that works with Himalayan communities to manage dog-wildlife conflict.
Darel Seow is a visual storyteller who illustrates the tales of the natural world through his unique brand of wry wit and whimsy. An illustration graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UK), he believes in the draw of storytelling as a means of engagement, creating experiences that simultaneously excite and educate. Particularly interested in museums and culture, he has worked with cultural institutions to encourage learning through the power of imagination and play.
For children aged 7-12. Parents/guardians are welcome to join in.
This talk may be recorded and published online. By registering, you agree that your image or voice may appear in our publicity materials. Read our commitment to PDPA at bit.ly/DE-tnc.
See the full line up of online talks and workshops at http://bit.ly/TMC1-DigitalLaunch. Please contact Difference Engine at readcomics@differenceengine.sg if you have any questions.
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Sunday, July 26
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Sharing Our Climate Liberation Stories in an Era of Transformation
Sunday, July 26
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-our-climate-liberation-stories-in-an-era-of-transformation-tickets-104994128264
Cost: $0 – $10
Join OCV team members in a guided and interactive workshop designed to help all of us process our climate stories amidst concurrent crises.
Storytelling allows us to track multiple unfolding crises by providing a way for us to share and record our experiences, while serving as a tool to check-in with each other about the effects of related traumas. It also generates collective hope and empathy as we pay attention to the brave acts of resistance and resilience happening everyday. COVID-19 raises new questions about our relationship to land and community, illuminating the reality that sustainability and public health are deeply intertwined. Recent activism surrounding the fights for racial justice — most recently exhibited in the mass uprising after the murder of George Floyd — highlights the disproportionately harmful and intersectional ways that BIPOC are impacted by the climate crisis. At OCV, the process we use for telling our climate stories can help guide our reflections and understandings of the way public health and the fight for racial justice impact our work on climate change. We invite you to join us as we begin to sit with the changes catalyzed by the pandemic and the recent uprising for Black lives and examine the impacts on our personal climate stories. This workshop is open to people who have attended our storytelling workshops in the past or those who are new to our workshop process.
*This event is intended to be accessible to a wide audience and therefore half of our tickets are priced at no cost. Please choose the ticket price that reflects what you are best able to contribute.*
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The Climate Crisis: Learning from Covid-19
Sunday, July 26
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climate-crisis-learning-from-covid-19-tickets-112037378816
The Climate Crisis: Learning from Covid-19
A call for systemic and individual change
With Irina Feygina, Susan Hatch and Bill Say
Is Covid-19 revealing structural vulnerabilities and systemic inequalities that contribute to the climate crisis and our inability to respond to it?
Step out with us for a couple of hours to look at the big picture. The aim of the forum is to listen to what Covid-19 is revealing about our deepest needs and challenges, and emerging ways of relating and being a society. What is this ‘new normal’? How do we transform our internal and external systems? How do we tap into a larger “mind” and gain a deeper perspective and insight that we can bring into our understanding and response to climate change?
We will explore the intersection of Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis from a systems and a dreamwork perspective, using inner and small-group work, and a group process with a debrief. Our goal is connection and exploration - in community.
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P&P Live! Cli-fi, Literature, and Activism with Jenny Offill
Sunday, July 26
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-cli-fi-literature-and-activism-with-jenny-offill-tickets-110839221094
Jenny Offill discusses climate change, literature, and activism in times of crisis with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.
This event is presented in partnership with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.
New York Times-bestselling author Jenny Offill will discuss her novel Weather with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, an anxious and funny novel that follows a librarian who is gradually awakened to the climate crisis and tries to balance that with her daily life. As a Guardianreporter put it, “At its core, the story asks: what happens after we start to pay attention?”
The event will include a reading of Weather followed by a discussion and Q&A session. Attendees are encouraged to donate to the Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute to promote voter rights and racial justice.
Offill will discuss how literature and activism are connected with Denise Robbins, Communications Director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, including how this story resonates in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Monday, July 27
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Environmental Report: Energy
Monday, July 27
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-report-energy-tickets-113559551676
Advocacy Journalism training on energy reporting
Energy growth is directly linked to well-being and prosperity across the globe. Meeting the growing demand for energy in a safe and environmentally responsible manner is a key challenge.
In this time of global climate crisis, we understand the need for countries to transition their energy consumption to clean and renewable energy. The world needs energy — and in increasing quantities — to support economic and social progress and build a better quality of life, in particular in developing countries. But providing this energy around the globe comes with a responsibility and commitment to developing and using our resources responsibly.
A transparent media that’s committed to protecting both people and the environment to provide positive and unbiased information is critical to development and how people react to the expected changes.
This advocacy journalism session will look at energy systems and how to develop stories that address energy access, transition and energy
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A day in the life of….a theoretical ecologist with Dr Samraat Pawar
Monday, 27 July 2020
1:00 - 1:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-lates-online-back-to-nature-registration-111982994150
Dr Samraat Pawar
Inland lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs, wetlands, and estuaries cover less than 4% of Earth’s surface. And yet these bodies of freshwater bury more carbon in sediments each year than the vast ocean floor. How these inland aquatic environments respond to future stresses and influence our climate crisis is not well appreciated or even understood.
Dr Samraat Pawar is leading efforts to address this gap in our understanding through field data analysis, complex modelling and even computer games. Growing up in a military family that moved around rural India far from the city lights, his innate love of nature was allowed to flourish from an early age. Today Samraat is helping predict the future of some of the most important and yet complex ecosystems on Earth.
For this Day in the Life event, Samraat will fill us or career, hopes and fears for our environment with his responses to the following statements:
When friends ask me what I do for a living, I say…..
I realised this is what I wanted to do when….
A typical day at work involves……
I wish more people knew….
The best piece of advice I have even been given is…
Join us on the the 27th of July at 18:00 when you can challenge Dr Pawar with your own statements for him to complete. Feel free to submit these in advance using the email address Lates@imperial.ac.uk, or you can post them live during the event via the YouTube chat function.
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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Emergency Everywhere Campaign Kickoff!
Monday, July 27
5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86786978430?pwd=YWJqdjEvRU5LZ3BBMzU2SkIxRUZHdz09
XR is kicking off our new Emergency Everywhere campaign!
We are going to be spreading out from the City of Boston - which declared a climate health emergency earlier this year to surrounding cities and towns. We want them all to both declare climate emergency and to start proactively telling the truth about the state of the crisis.
The Action WG will be creating a sequence of ~4 actions that can be replicated in each city/town. We are calling for 'City Captains' to coordinate the execution of these actions in their towns with the support of our working groups. A goal of this campaign is to build up rebel membership outside of Boston and build affinity groups and the seeds of new chapters.
Here's an overview of the campaign: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/AQcOEstwDyEdtGaH9YY+M+sr4v7270cAAESVmwlQ4A8/
If you are interested in learning more about this campaign, are interested in building membership in your town, or want to pick up some action organizing skills with the support of XR's working groups - come join us for a short presentation, Q&A, and discussion.
Run time 5:30 to 6:30 pm EST.
Love and rage y'all.
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Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change Zoom Event
Monday, July 27
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disposable-city-miamis-future-on-the-shores-of-climate-change-zoom-event-registration-111183561024
A Zoom webinar with journalist Mario Alejandro Ariza discussing his new book Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change
A Zoom webinar with journalist Mario Alejandro Ariza discussing his new book Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change.
Purchase of a ticket is required for participation. The $30 ticket includes the book which you can pick up curbside (We will send you an email when the book is ready for pickup) or have shipped to you via USMail, tax, and the Zoom meeting. The book's publication date is July, 14th. Complete the ticket purchase and we will get you the book when it is available. The Zoom link will be sent one day prior to the event.
About Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change:
Miami is a crossroads—a subtropical enclave of immigrants—at a crossroads. In this city, your Venezuelan Uber driver is an asylum seeker who used to work as a civil engineer. Your nurse left Haiti after the earthquake. Your new neighbor fled the US Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria. Your best friend is the child of Cuban exiles. And when you tell them about Miami and climate change, they all want to know how much time the city has left before it floods. Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by journalist Mario Alejandro Ariza is a deeply-reported personal investigation into the present and future effects of climate change in the city affectionately known as “The Magic City”.
Few major cities in the United States stand to lose as much, as soon, as Miami. Likely to be partially underwater by the end of the century, its residents are already experiencing tidal flooding, failing septic systems, and climate driven displacement. In Disposable City Ariza not only shows these examples of what climate change already looks like in the place he calls home, he also paints a picture of what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and details how that future has been shaped by the city's uneven socioeconomic landscape.
Miami may currently be on the front lines of climate change, but Ariza warns that the battle it's fighting today is coming for the rest of the U.S.—and the rest of the world—far sooner than we could have imagined even a decade ago. Disposable City is a thoughtful and vibrant portrait of a city whose unique culture might soon succumb to a watery death—and ultimately a call to save it.
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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
Monday, July 27
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_francine_hirsch/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Center welcome FRANCINE HIRSCH—acclaimed historian and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—for a discussion of her latest book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. She will be joined in conversation by JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN, associate, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and author of The Last Days of Stalin.
About Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and ground-breaking book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been omitted from standard accounts: the part the Soviet Union played in making the trials happen in the first place.
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers the first complete picture of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), including the many ironies brought to bear as the Soviets took their place among the countries of the prosecution in late 1945. Everyone knew that Stalin had allied with Hitler before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact hung heavy over the courtroom, as did the suspicion that the Soviets had falsified evidence in an attempt to pin one of their own war crimes, the mass killing of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, on the Nazis. Moreover, key members of the Soviet delegation, including the Soviet judge and chief prosecutor, had played critical roles in Stalin's infamous show trials of the 1930s. For the American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and his colleagues in the British and French delegations, Soviet participation in the IMT undermined the credibility of the trials and indeed the moral righteousness of the Allied victory.
Yet without the Soviets Nuremberg would never have taken place. Soviet jurists conceived of the legal framework that treated war as an international crime, giving the trials a legal basis. The Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting against Germany, and their almost unimaginable suffering gave them moral authority. They would not be denied a place on the tribunal and moreover were determined to make the most of it. However, little went as the Soviets had planned. Stalin's efforts to steer the trials from afar backfired. Soviet war crimes were exposed in open court. As relations among the four countries of the prosecution foundered, Nuremberg turned from a court of justice to an early front of the Cold War.
Hirsch's book provides a front-row seat in the Nuremberg courtroom, while also guiding readers behind the scenes to the meetings in which secrets were shared, strategies mapped, and alliances forged. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers a startlingly new view of the IMT and a fresh perspective on the movement for international human rights that it helped launch.
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Tuesday, July 28
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EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment Webinar: Climate Change and the MCP – Resilient
Tuesday, July 28
9:00 am – 11:30 am
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-site-remediation-and-redevelopment-webinar-climate-change-and-the-mcp-resilient-cleanups-in-a-changing-world/
Cost: $25 - $120
The effects of climate change in Massachusetts will take different forms including changes in precipitation, sea level rise, rising temperatures and extreme weather. Upcoming amendments to the Massachusetts Contingency Plan include provisions intended to emphasize that these anticipated effects of climate change are relevant to site assessment, and the selection and maintenance of Permanent Solutions under Chapter 21E.
For this EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment program, a representative of DEP’s Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup will discuss implementation of the amendments to the MCP relating to climate change, and an LSP will examine how some more commonly-recognized climate change impacts might affect decision-making under the MCP. Finally, we will be introduced to the use of models for predicting the nature and extent of climate-change impacts.
Program Chair:
Thomas G. Fiore, Of Counsel, PretiFlaherty
Speakers:
Joseph Famely, Senior Environmental Scientist, Woods Hole Group
Ken Marra, Program & Policy Development, Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Additional information to be provided shortly.
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NASA Scientists present “Why Our Future Depends on the Arctic”
Tuesday, July 28
10:00 PM – 11:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nasa-scientists-present-why-our-future-depends-on-the-arctic-registration-112682690962
An educational and inspirational discussion about the Arctic and why it's key to the survival of every living thing on our planet.
Gather your family for a lively discussion about the state of Arctic ice, why the region is crucial to our future, and innovative ways we can help to save it.
Dr. Steve Zornetzer and Dr. Tony Strawa will provide cutting-edge insight into the importance of Arctic ice preservation and how the Earth's heat shield can help stabilize the global climate.
We're planning for a lively Q+A discussion -- submit questions when you register! Zoom link will be sent on the day of the event.
Registration is FREE. If you're able, a donation is welcome. Despite the urgency of our work for all of humanity, our progress is in jeopardy due to COVID-19. Please help secure our stability from this extremely turbulent year: Donate now.
This event is sponsored by Ice911 Research, a donor-supported nonprofit dedicated to safely restoring Arctic ice.
MODERATOR
Dr. Leslie Field is the Founder and CTO of Ice911 Research. Dr. Field earned degrees in two engineering disciplines from MIT and UC Berkeley, worked in R&D at Hewlett-Packard Labs, and has 58 issued patents. In addition to her work at Ice911, she teaches a popular climate-focused annual class at Stanford University.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Steven Zornetzer is a former Associate Director of Research and Technology at NASA Ames Research Center. He also served as Director of Research and prior to that as Director of Information Sciences and Technology at Ames. He was the lead author of the influential book, Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks. Steve has been recognized for his leadership in revolutionary information technology-based approaches to aerospace and space exploration missions. In 2008, he received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award and in 2010 NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal. Over the past several years he has focused his efforts on climate change.
Dr. Tony Strawa is a former Chief of the New Pursuits Office and former Director of the New Opportunity Center at NASA Ames Research. Dr. Strawa has been involved in experimental measurement, analysis, and instrumentation development for aerospace and environmental applications for 30 years. He was Group Lead for the Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics Group that studied the effects of aerosols on air pollution and climate. That group developed a technique that discriminates types of polar stratospheric clouds using satellite observation and developed an instrument capable of measuring aerosol optical properties in situ using cavity ring-down technology. Dr. Strawa holds the patent for the Advanced Sunphotometer concept.
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Flooding in America’s Heartland
Tuesday, July 28
12:00 pm
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/flooding-america’s-heartland
Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO and Founder, ISeeChange
Ed Kearns, Chief Data Officer, First Street Foundation
Martha Shulski, Director, Nebraska State Climate Office; Nebraska State Climatologist
Miami may be the poster child of rising waters in the U.S., but further inland, states are grappling with torrential flooding that is becoming the new norm. Last year, flooding in the southeast killed 12 people and caused $20 billion in damages. This year’s rains have already driven Mississippi into a state emergency, and Missouri is bracing itself with a levee system still in disrepair from last year’s storms.
Can infrastructure like floodplains, wetlands, and engineered barriers save riverside states from their new, saturated norm? How are communities adapting to a changing, wetter climate in some of the most conservative parts of the country? Join us for a conversation on flooding in America with Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO and founder of ISeeChange, Ed Kearns, chief data officer at First Street Foundation and Martha Shulski, director of the Nebraska state climate office.
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Talking Tuesdays - Climate Change
Tuesday, July 28
1:00 – 2:15pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-tuesdays-climate-change-tickets-111954976348
Information technology leadership in addressing climate change
An underpinning philosophy of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists is that the IT skills of its members can magnify its charitable contributions many times. This philosophy is very much behind the launch of the WCIT’s ‘IT and Climate Change’ working group, because IT can deliver huge benefits in tackling climate change, as a magnifier of human and machine capability.
In the 21st century, leaders in information technology are fundamentally charged with the productivity of their organisations. Now the survival of those organisations depends on the transition to net zero. There is much to be done and most has to be done in the next 10 years – the ‘decade of delivery’.
To start the conversation our first event is an expert panel conversation focusing on leadership and why small changes matter:
The role of Livery companies in Climate Change: Professor Averil MacDonald OBE (Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of Fuellers, campaigner for decarbonisation using hydrogen).
The impact of IT on climate change: Dr Ariel Edesess (Researcher in Low Carbon technologies, Liverpool John Moores University).
Leadership in IT and climate change: Phil Wharton (Interim CIO Bank of Ireland).
'Many shavings make a pile’: Adam Philpott (Senior Vice President at McAfee).
The speakers will cover their personal and business perspectives and look forward to a good discussion with the audience.
Guests welcome!
Tickets: £10 voluntary donation to the WCIT Charity
ZOOM details will be provided nearer the date.
For more information contact:
Martin Hawley (martin@winsland.me) or Isla Kennedy (ikennedy@hotmail.co.uk)
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Disinformation, social media, and foreign interference: What can go wrong in the 2020 elections?
Tuesday, July 28
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-disinformation-social-media-foreign-interference-election
Join the conversation on Twitter using #Election2020
Campaigns across the country are now entering their final push before the general election. If the events of the last few years are any indication, there are many things that can go wrong. Disinformation, social media manipulation, and foreign interference all affected the 2016 elections and will likely continue to threaten elections moving forward. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated voting procedures and led to long lines in some polling places. How should government officials and local leaders confront these challenges? How can we avoid the myriad of problems that could afflict the elections?
On July 28, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a webinar examining the potential problems in the 2020 elections. Panelists will discuss the use and impact of social media manipulation, election interference, voting obstacles, and the spread of disinformation.
Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events@brookings.edu or via Twitter @BrookingsGov or with #Election2020.
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Book Talk: Michael Pollan
Tuesday, July 28
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-book-talk-michael-pollan-virtual
Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
Michael Pollan RI ’16, author of Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World (Audible Originals, 2020)
Reading will be followed by a discussion with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and an audience Q and A.
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Nuclear Weapons abolition, racism, and gender
Tuesday, July 28
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216
Gina Belafonte and Beatrice Fihn
Born and raised in New York City, Gina Belafonte has spent her life in the arenas of entertainment and activism where her professional work thrives today. As the youngest child of Julie and Harry Belafonte, whose impact in these fields is among the most influential and progressive in the world, Gina’s passions come as no surprise. Gina was the lead producer on the internationally acclaimed documentary film, SING YOUR SONG, exploring the extraordinary life and legacy of Harry Belafonte that was selected as the opening film for the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
After many years working as an actress in NYC, with several off-broadway and touring companies like The National Shakespeare Company and The Mirror Reparatory Company in NYC, under the Artistic Direction of John Strasberg, alongside greats such as Geraldine Page, F. Murray Abraham, Anne Jackson and Elisabeth Franz, a series of opportunities to work in film and television moved her to Hollywood, where she appeared in several guest-starring roles, and landed a television series called THE COMMISH. After two formative years on screen with the series, her lifelong passion for stage production ultimately led her to produce theater in Los Angeles. Gina’s technical expertise and insight into the world of film and television production were developed while working with Paula Weinstein and Barry Levinson at Baltimore Spring Creek/Warner Brothers.
After becoming a mother, Gina followed her early childhood environment by immersing herself in activism. Collaborating with leading gang interventionist, Bo Taylor, Gina developed a deeper understanding of gang culture by working in the California prison system, and co-founded a non-profit organization called The Gathering For Justice. This multi-cultural, multi-generational organization focuses on youth incarceration and the criminalization of poverty. She currently sits on the Board of 2nd Call a community based organization designed to save lives, by reducing violence and assisting in the personal development of high risk individuals, proven offenders, ex-felons, parolees and others who society disregards and the internationally acclaimed Actors Gang Theatre founded by Tim Robbins.
After dedicating over a decade to addressing gang intervention and incarceration, Gina traveled around the world with her father to bring together two inspiring generations of art and activism with the critically acclaimed HBO film SING YOUR SONG.
Today, Gina lives in LA and New York, and is working with diverse artists, activists and organizations worldwide to promote cultural and civic engagement in the 21st century. Ms. Belafonte is currently involved in many artistic ventures, such as producing a documentary film titled Another Night In The Free World that explores the lives of three young women activists, their struggles and challenges and the difference they are making in the world, developing along side her father with Martin Scorsese on a television mini series about the colonization of the Congo by King Leopold the 2nd, and the staged version of the Grammy nominated 6 CD box set anthology of black music The Long Road To Freedom. She and her father are the executive producers of Lyrics from Lockdown - a hip-hop theater, multimedia production addressing the impact of wrongful imprisonment and mass incarceration. Driven by her passion for the arts and activism, Gina reflects: "After we finished Sing Your Song, I knew then as long as my dad had an idea, I would do whatever I could to help bring those ideas to fruition, continue the best of my elders’ traditions, and preserve our family’s legacy."
Website: https://www.sankofa.org/
Beatrice Fihn
Beatrice Fihn is the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. She accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and delivered the Nobel Lecture in Oslo on behalf of the campaign.
Read the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize lecture on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons here.
Ms. Fihn has lead the campaign since 2013 and has worked to mobilize civil society throughout the development of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This includes developing and executing ICAN’s political strategy and fundraising efforts as well as representing the campaign in relation to media and key stakeholders such as governments, the United Nations and other international organizations.
Ms. Fihn has over a decade of experience in disarmament diplomacy and civil society mobilization, through her work with ICAN, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She has written extensively on weapons law, humanitarian law, civil society engagement in diplomacy and multilateral institutions, and gender perspective on disarmament work.
Born in Sweden, Ms. Fihn has a Masters in Law from the University of London and a Bachelors degree in International Relations from Stockholm University.
Website: https://www.icanw.org/
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Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Margaret Sullivan
Tuesday, July 28
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporter-nights-science-journalism-in-the-time-of-covid-19-registration-112692913538
Pandemic Coverage in the International Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Margaret Sullivan, Media Columnist for The Washington Post, former Editor of The Buffalo News, and Public Editor at The New York Times from 2012 to 2016, will analyze how the media has covered the biggest science story of the century. In what ways did journalists serve the public good in their pandemic coverage? Where did they fail? What are the lessons for the next pandemic?
About this series:
Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters.
A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors.
Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia.
Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt.
For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at sostrowski@ei.columbia.edu.
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Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Tuesday, July 28
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_michelle_bowdler/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Pushcart Prize–nominated essayist and public health advocate MICHELLE BOWDLER for a discussion of her book Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto. She will be joined in conversation by ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH, author of the acclaimed book The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.
About Is Rape a Crime?
The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone.
Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's memoir indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for decades in our society, asking whether rape is a crime given that it is the least reported major felony, least successfully prosecuted, and fewer than 3% of reported rapes result in conviction. Cases are closed before they are investigated and DNA evidence sits for years untested and disregarded.
Rape in this country is not treated as a crime of brutal violence but as a parlor game of he said / she said. It might be laughable if it didn’t work so much of the time.
Given all this, it seems fair to ask whether rape is actually a crime.
In 1984, the Boston Sexual Assault Unit was formed as a result of a series of break-ins and rapes that terrorized the city, of which Michelle’s own horrific rape was the last. Twenty years later, after a career of working with victims like herself, Michelle decides to find out what happened to her case and why she never heard from the police again after one brief interview.
Is Rape a Crime? is an expert blend of memoir and cultural investigation, and Michelle's story is a rallying cry to reclaim our power and right our world.
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Wednesday, July 29
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Power After Carbon: Transitioning to Low-Carbon Power in the United States
Wednesday, July 29
12:00-1:30 p.m. EDT
Online
RSVP at https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/events-calendar/power-after-carbon-transitioning-low-carbon-power-united-states
The U.S. power sector is in the midst of a rapid transformation driven by several broad and interlinked trends: electrification of existing sectors such as transport and heat, and connection of new customers; decentralization of production and storage of electricity; and modernization of physical and digital grid infrastructure. Central to each of these themes is the need for continued and accelerated decarbonization of electricity in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change and protect human health.
In this webinar, panelists will discuss how the U.S. power sector can deliver abundant, affordable, secure, and flexible power as we transition to a low-carbon and increasingly electrified economy.
Panelists:
Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, Founder and Director of Boston University’s Institute of Sustainable Energy and Professor of Practice in the Questrom School of Business. Author of Power After Carbon(2020) and Smart Power (2010)
Cheryl LaFleur, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University and Member of the Board of Directors of the Independent System Operator of New England (ISO-NE)
Richard Kauffman, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, Chairman of the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and Chair, Generate Capital
David R. Hill, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University and Director on the Board of Directors of the New York Independent System Operator Inc (NYISO)
Moderated by Dr. Melissa Lott, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details.
This event is open to press. Media should register for this event. Media inquiries or requests for interviews should be directed to Artealia Gilliard (ag4144@columbia.edu) or Genna Morton (gam2164@columbia.edu).
For more information contact Caitlin Norfleet (energypolicyevents@sipa.columbia.edu).
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Does the public’s Covid-response provide hope for our natural world?
Wednesday, July 29
1:30 - 2:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-lates-online-back-to-nature-registration-111982994150
Through lockdown many have claimed the public might be experiencing a renewed connection with nature and the environment. At the same time people’s efforts to flatten the Covid infection curve inadvertently saw the widescale adoption of many greener more sustainable approaches to daily life – whether by working from home or shopping locally. Any associated environmental benefits, such as reduced carbon emission and reduced air pollution, are likely to be short term as normal life slowly returns. However perhaps lessons can be learnt in the battles against the other global crises of our age – climate change and man-made destruction of the natural world?
In this Imperial Lates Online discussion we bring together a climate researcher, a behavioural scientist and an environmental campaigner to ask if the public’s reaction to Covid-19 has given them hope. Or do second spikes, and condemnation of mass public gathering as restriction were eased show awareness and public goodwill alone can only get you so far. Our panel will feature:
Joeri Rogelj, Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
Morena Mills, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Social Science, Imperial
Judy Ling Wong, Director of the Black Environment Network
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What Makes a Marriage Last with Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas
Wednesday July 29
5:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/marlo-thomas-phil-donahue-live-tickets-113393085772
Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue join Brookline Booksmith in conversation surrounding their life togetther and their new book, What Makes a Marriage Last, for this one of a kind virtual event!
What makes a marriage last? Who doesn’t want to know the answer to that question? To unlock this mystery, iconic couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue crisscrossed the country and conducted intimate conversations with forty celebrated couples whose long marriages they’ve admired—from award-winning actors, athletes, and newsmakers to writers, comedians, musicians, and a former U.S. president and First Lady. Through these conversations, Marlo and Phil also revealed the rich journey of their own marriage.
Marlo Thomas is an award-winning actress, author, and activist whose body of work has earned her four Emmy Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Golden Globe, a Grammy, and induction into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a civilian can receive. Marlo is also the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This is her eighth book.
Phil Donahue is a writer, producer, journalist, and media pioneer who revolutionized the talk-show format. The Donahue show was honored with twenty Daytime Emmys (ten for the show, ten for Outstanding Host), and in 1996, Phil was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to television journalism. He has been inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award.
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Tom Friedman: The “Trump Effect” on Foreign and Climate Policy
Wednesday, July 29
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tom-friedman-the-trump-effect-on-foreign-and-climate-policy-tickets-109832377598
Tom Friedman will share his thoughts and engage in dialogue on Trump and how they have impacted the world politic and climate change.
Tom Friedman is an American political commentator and best-selling author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.
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Thursday, July 30
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Alumni Panel (webinar), “U.S.-Japan Relations in the COVID19 Era”
Thursday, July 30
8 – 9:15 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/alumni-panel-webinar-7-30-20?delta=0
SPEAKER(S) Hiroyuki Akita, Foreign Affairs and National Security Commentator, Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Mireya Solís, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Phillip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution
Yoshihisa Masaki, Director, Social Communications Bureau, Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)
Noriyuki Shikata, Deputy Director General, Consular Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Moderator: Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO Emma Duncan (eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu)
LINK https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/alumni-panel-webinar-7-30-20?delta=0
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Delivering Breakthrough CX in a Changing World
Thursday, July 30
10:00am to 10:30am
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/8615943946195/WN_J0jSQY7YRg21R-Y5QYUldg
Digital technology has become essential to delivering to value to customers amidst a pandemic, revolutionizing the way that humans behave and make decisions. Moreover, we are undergoing a pivotal shift in race relations and greater expectations from customers on inclusivity. What do these seismic shifts mean for customer experience (CX) and competitive strategy? In this webinar, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist Renee Richardson Gosline will discuss the application of behavioral science “nudges” in the customer journey to help you adapt breakthrough digital CX.
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COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Our Food Systems
Thursday, July 30
1:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001Bv1CbEAJ
Lisa Held, Senior Policy Reporter, Civil Eats
Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
Will COVID-19 change our food system for good? Increased coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Farmers are hurting as supply chains for fresh, perishable foods shrivel. Meanwhile, food banks have seen a surge in demand that has required distribution support from the National Guard.
What does COVID-19 mean for agriculture, our food supply systems — and our diets? Join us for a conversation with Lisa Held, senior reporter at Civil Eats and Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, on feeding a nation under quarantine.
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Mary Berry and Bill McKibben
Thursday, July 30
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
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Black Boston: Building Healthy Communities
Thursday, July 30
5pm–6pm
Online
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh6i1y486c5ce83d&oseq=&c=&ch=
Boston is home to some of the country’s leading community health centers and partners devoted to tackling health inequities. Yet even here race, ethnicity, and racism continue to adversely impact health, and COVID-19 has further revealed racial inequities. Where has Boston been successful? And what are the next steps to improve health outcomes, close persistent gaps, save lives, and transform the fields leading this work?
Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities, the Boston University Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and WBUR CitySpace for Black Boston: Building Healthy Communities, the first in a recurring discussion series featuring transformative Black leaders from across Greater Boston.
Speakers:
Vivien Morris, Founder and Chairperson, Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition
Sandra Cotterell, CEO, Codman Square Health Center
Dr. Thea James, Vice President of Mission, Boston Medical Center
Moderated by:
Yvette Cozier, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.
More information regarding additional events in the Black Boston Series is coming soon! Keep an eye on future newsletters and bu.edu/ioc/blackboston for updates.
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Fast Forum with Governor Hogan
Thursday, July 30
6 – 6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflmPtykSED5ANPyak07SyU4R7xbtd-lY8cdfh_G1GhLv2B_w/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Governor Larry Hogan
DETAILS Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is the 62nd governor of Maryland, chairman of the National Governors Association and author of “Still Standing: Surviving Cancer, Riots, a Global Pandemic and the Toxic Politics that Divide America.” Hogan joins the IOP in conversation with IOP Resident Fellow F'15 Doug Heye, CNN Political Commentator and former communications director for the Republican National Committee.
LINK iop.harvard.edu
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Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19
Thursday, July 30
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporter-nights-science-journalism-in-the-time-of-covid-19-registration-112711300534
On the Ground Truthtelling: Editing and Reporting in the Midst of a Pandemic
Professor Dreifus and students in her class interview a panel of top science editors and reporters on their career paths, as well as the highlights and challenges of their day-to-day work. Panelists include The New York Times Science Correspondent, Apoorva Mandavilli, Jeffery DelViscio, Senior Multimedia Editor at Scientific American, John Timmer, Senior Science Editor at Ars Technica and Katherine Bagley, Managing Editor of YaleEnvironment360.
A live stream link will be provided 24 hours in advance.
About this series:
Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters.
A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors.
Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia.
Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt.
For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at sostrowski@ei.columbia.edu.
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Friday July 31
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EBC Second Annual New England Climate Change Summit: Part One – State Leadership
Friday, July 31
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-new-england-climate-change-resilence-adaptation-summit-part-one-state-leadership/
Cost: $50 - $185
Information for viewing the webinar will be emailed to all registered attendees.
BC New England Climate Change Summit, which will be a two-part series, will provide an opportunity to learn from and participate with a range of speakers about the important issues of climate change in New England. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, long a strong voice in responding to climate change, will give the keynote address.
For Part One, the Climate Leaders from the six New England states will provide updates on their specific climate change plans, program priorities, and implementation strategies. For Part Two, developments from key city climate-related programs will be presented including specific case studies of successful approaches to address various climate change-related issues.
Moderated panel discussions with the speakers will provide further opportunities for insight into approaches that address the climate crisis.
Speaker Agenda:
Keynote Presentation: Economic Impacts of Climate Change in New England
The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator, State of Rhode Island
New Hampshire State Climate Program
Christopher Skoglund, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate and Energy Program Manager, Air Resources Division, Department of Environmental Services, State of New Hampshire
Sherry Godlewski, Resilience and Adaptation Manager, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Department of Environmental Services, State of New Hampshire
Vermont State Climate Program
Peter Walke, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation, State of Vermont
Rhode Island State Climate Program
Shaun O’Rourke, Chief Resiliency Officer, State of Rhode Island
Maine State Climate Program
Hannah Pingree, Director, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & the Future, State of Maine
Connecticut State Climate Program
Rebecca French, Office of Climate Change Planning, Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, State of Connecticut
Massachusetts State Climate Program
Mia Mansfield, Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Panel Moderator:
Tom Burack, Esq., Shareholder, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA
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Decolonizing Ourselves Co-Learning
Friday, July 31
10 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96536836889
Please join us for an Extinction Rebellion International Support Team event about how we can learn to decolonize ourselves. This will be a co-learning session rather than a formal training or seminar. Given the vivid reminders about how pervasive racism still is in the US, this is important work for us all to do.
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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, July 31
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
Another week has passed in the first pandemic of the 21st century, with thousands of new stories posted and printed, yet questions still often outnumbering answers.
Each Friday, the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability hosts a lunchtime review of COVID-19 headlines and next steps featuring Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett, NBC’s Robert Bazell, Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and Wendy Wertheimer, formerly of WHO & NIH.
Explore more Sustain What episodes on YouTube at j.mp/sustainwhatlive or subscribe on Periscope at pscp.tv/revkin.
Solutions Journalism Network: solutionsjournalism.org
The Earth Institute Initiative: sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Contact Andy Revkin with questions or ideas for future segments: @revkin on Twitter or andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
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What Cities and Towns Need Now
Friday, July 31
3:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smart-equitable-commonwealth-co-creating-the-society-we-want-tickets-97157333199
The 2020 BARI conference concludes on Friday, July 31st, 2020, with a special closing keynote: “What Cities and Towns Need Now,” a conversation with the chief executives of four Massachusetts towns. The panel will be moderated by Sid Espinosa, Director of Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at Microsoft and the former Mayor of Palo Alto, California.
Town Manager Steve Bartha, Town of Danvers, MA
Mayor Dan Rivera, City of Lawrence, MA
Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer, City of Framingham, MA
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston, MA
Respondent: Marc Draisen, Executive Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/bari/events/2020-bari-conference/
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Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Friday, July 31
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_alexander_keyssar/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes ALEXANDER KEYSSAR—the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and author of the The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States—for a discussion of his latest book, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? He will be joined in conversation by MILES RAPOPORT, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
About Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains.
Alexander Keyssar explains its persistence. After tracing the Electoral College’s tangled origins at the Constitutional Convention, he explores the efforts from 1800 to 2020 to abolish or significantly reform it, showing why each has failed. Reasons include the complexity of the electoral system’s design, the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values, the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments, and, importantly, the South’s prolonged backing of the Electoral College, grounded in its desire to preserve white supremacy in the region. The commonly voiced explanation that small states have blocked reform for fear of losing influence proves to have been true only occasionally.
Keyssar examines why reform of the Electoral College has received so little attention from Congress for the last forty years, and considers alternatives to congressional action such as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and state efforts to eliminate winner-take-all. In analyzing the reasons for past failures while showing how close the nation has come to abolishing the institution, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? offers encouragement to those hoping to produce change in the twenty-first century.
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USM South Regional Webinar LIVE BROADCAST
Friday July 31
TBD
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Live presentations on zoom featuring members of the African People's Socialist Party and African People's Solidarity Committee. Check registration link for updates on topic, speakers and time.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston@riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Tuesday, August 4
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Book Talk: Gish Jen
Tuesday, August 4
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-book-talk-gish-jen-virtual
Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02, author of The Resisters (Knopf, 2020)
Reading will be followed by discussion with Margot Livesey RI ’13, a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of eight novels, including, most recently, Mercury (Harper, 2016). The event will also feature an audience Q and A.
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Environmental Justice, racism, activism, artivism
Tuesday, August 4
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216
Lyla June Johnston and J. Drew Lanham
Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization.
Website: www.lylajunejohnston.com
Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author, poet and wildlife biologist. Raised in Edgefield, South Carolina, Lanham studied zoology and ecology at Clemson University, where he earned a PhD in 1997 and where he currently holds an endowed chair as an Alumni Distinguished Professor. He is a board member of several conservation organizations, including the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, Audubon South Carolina, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, BirdNote, and the American Birding Association, and an advisory board member for the North American Association of Environmental Education. In 2019 he was awarded the National Audubon Society's Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, recognizing "individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to the environment".
In 2013, Lanham wrote a piece for Orion Magazine titled "9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher", drawing attention to the lack of black birders and diversity in general among naturalists. The short piece inspired producer Ari Daniel and videographer Amanda Kowalski to create a short film with the same title for BirdNote which quickly went viral on social media.[1] In 2016 he wrote "Birding While Black." In 2017 he published an award-winning memoir titled "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature". Lanham features in episode 7 of the 2019 TV series Birds of North America, produced by Topic and hosted by Jason Ward.
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Extinction Rebellion Orientation
Tuesday, August 4
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/orientation-2020-08-04/
If you are new to Extinction Rebellion or would just like to learn more about how it works, please join us a conversation about who we are and how we do our work.
We will cover the following:
What is XR? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What are we trying to achieve?
What are our principles and values?
How are we organized?
Learn how you can get involved!
The session will run for around 90 minutes. Please sign up above. You will receive an invite to the Zoom meeting closer to the date of the event.
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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
https://boston.uli.org/about/impact/
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cs87v-b6dbac
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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/News/2019/5/~/media/A0547DC0640E4ABD86B519CA6FEEFF38.ashx
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Climate Resilience Workbook
https://sustainablebuildingsinitiative.org/toolkits/climate-resilience-guidelines/climate-resilience-workbook
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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.
To subscribe to the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
To be removed / unsubscribe from the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/signoff/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
MIT Events: http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Boston Science Lectures: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
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/
Extinction Rebellion: https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement: https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/
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
mbm-SUBSCRIBE@missionbasedmassachusetts.net
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Since almost all events are online now, Energy (and Other) Events is now virtual and can happen anywhere in the world. If you know of online events that are happening which may be of interest to the editor of this publication, please let me know. People are connecting all across the world and I’d be more than happy to help facilitate more of that.
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Mutual Aid Networks
National
Spreadsheet of mutual aid networks
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1HEdNpLB5p-sieHVK-CtS8_N7SIUhlMpY6q1e8Je0ToY/htmlview
Mutual Aid Networks to Combat Coronavirus
https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/
Local
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GYuPYEzBk9KIyH3C3419aYxIMVAsa7BL7nBl9434Mg/edit?usp=sharing
Boston + MA COVID19 Resources
(This is a different Google Doc with a similar name, compiled by the Asian
American Resource Workshop)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-x6vOZKVsla5H363mtdgcyivvLmcx7-f2s6l-O_ba8A/edit?usp=sharing
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
https://sites.google.com/view/cambridge-nan/home
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) network
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1RtYZ1wc8jxcSKDl555WszWhQWlOlSkNnfjIOYV0wXRA/mobilebasic
Food for Free (for Cambridge and Somerville) volunteers to provide lunches for schoolchildren, elderly, and hungry
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed0cSIoOc7-Fvoms3VHR1Lc44fjql-vTNknz_a-7T_sKDnrw/viewform
My notes to Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, about how people faced with emergency and disaster usually move towards providing mutual aid, at least until elite panic, a term in disaster studies, kicks in, are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/notes-on-rebecca-solnits-paradise-built.html
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Monday, July 20 – Thursday, July 23
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Green Recovery Wales virtual Festival
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Monday, July 20
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11am Meet Unilever: Climate Leadership from a Household Name
1pm Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting
1pm Imagining a World Post-Covid with Rob Hopkins
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
6:30pm Creative Climate Conversations
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Tuesday, July 21
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9am The Future Earth
10am Fast-tracking Innovation: How Formula 1 is Navigating the Pandemic
11am How Social Norms and Behavioural Economics Drive Tech for Sustainability
11am USGBC Big South Presents: Measuring Resilience with RELi
12pm Personal and Political Power: Citizens’ Assemblies on Climate
12:30pm Author Talk: Is the future human? by Edward Ashford Lee
1pm Technology, Markets and Bipartisanship: The Future of Climate Action
2:30pm Carbon Negative Food Systems (Swansea [UK] Extinction Rebellion [XR] Talks)
6pm National Geographic Presents Community Archaeology and Historical Ecology
7pm Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
7pm Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Elizabeth Kolbert
7pm Languages of Nature
7pm Disaster Preparedness
8pm How We Show Up: Challenging Racism
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Wednesday, July 22
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10am The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development post-Covid 19: Building back better
11am Global Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education
12pm Climate change Discovery Episodes | Brainstorming
12:30pm Digital Health Apps: Evidence, Reimbursement and Outcomes
2pm John McKnight and Gar Alperovitz in conversation
2pm Hydrogen Technologies and Outlook
2:30pm The opioid crisis in America: Vulnerable groups, law enforcement, and international supply
6pm Fast Forum with Tom Steyer
6:30pm Urban Heat Island and COVID-19 - A Perfect Storm?
7pm A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right
7pm Extinction Rebelllion Community Meeting
7pm Wearables in Art & Concert - Virtual in FrameVR.io
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Thursday, July 23
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9am EBC Water Resources Webinar: Challenges Facing our Water Resources under a Changing Climate
10am A nation at a demographic crossroad: Rising diversity, youthful activism, and the 2020 election
11am The Vital Role of Extension Service
12pm Voices in Leadership During Crises: Governor Deval Patrick
12pm CRES Forum Event: How do conservatives plan to tackle climate change?
2pm Children’s Cabinets: An Essential Community Infrastructure in Times of Crisis
2:30pm How to stop funding fossil fuels?
3pm Women in Cleantech: It’s Time to Talk About Climate Change
5pm Harvard Science Book Talk: Hope Jahren, in conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, "The Story of More”
6pm Putting Principles First: Climate Change & Environmental Policy
7pm Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
7:30pm Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Book Club
8pm The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Sona Mohnot
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Friday, July 24 - Sunday, July 26
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Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss
15th Annual Green Economics Institute's Green Economics Conference
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Friday, July 24
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2am COVID-19 and Climate Change: Health implications
9am One-on-one with Bertrand Piccard
10am City Life After Coronavirus: India
12pm Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force Virtual Summit Series
1pm Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
2pm EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan
3pm Extinction Rebelllion [XR] SF Friday Online Activism
3:30pm Pollution Across Communities and Places
6:30pm What Can We Adapt Now from Cuba’s Health System: House by House, Barrio by Barrio
8pm In Their Voices: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories
8pm Screening of Lumumba (2001)
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Saturday, July 25, 11:00 PM – Sunday, July 26, 12:00 AM
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Comics for climate change: A comics workshop
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Sunday, July 26
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1pm Sharing Our Climate Liberation Stories in an Era of Transformation
2pm The Climate Crisis: Learning from Covid-19
5pm P&P Live! Cli-fi, Literature, and Activism with Jenny Offill
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Monday, July 27
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11am Environmental Report: Energy
11:30am A day in the life of….a theoretical ecologist with Dr Samraat Pawar
5:30pm Extinction Rebellion [XR] Emergency Everywhere Campaign Kickoff!
6pm Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change Zoom Event
7pm Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
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Tuesday, July 28
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9am EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment Webinar: Climate Change and the MCP – Resilient
10am NASA Scientists present “Why Our Future Depends on the Arctic”
12pm Flooding in America’s Heartland
1pm Talking Tuesdays - Climate Change
2pm Disinformation, social media, and foreign interference: What can go wrong in the 2020 elections?
4pm Book Talk: Michael Pollan
7pm Nuclear Weapons abolition, racism, and gender
7pm Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Margaret Sullivan
7pm Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Biden’s Energy Plan Is Less Ambitious than Jimmy Carter’s 1979 Energy Plan
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/17/1961478/-Biden-s-Energy-Plan-Is-Less-Ambitious-than-Jimmy-Carter-s-1979-Energy-Plan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2020/07/zen-and-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.html
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Monday, July 20 – Thursday, July 23
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Green Recovery Wales virtual Festival
Monday, July 20, 5:00am – Thursday, July 23, 12:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-recovery-wales-virtual-festival-tickets-113769615984
Join Green Recovery Wales from July 20th – 23rd for 4 days of free activities, ideas and discussions focused on farming and land management, sustainable food systems, restoring wildlife and working together towards a greener future for Wales.
During this festival, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the role that rural Wales can play in ensuring the well-being of this and future generations in Wales, tackling the climate and ecological crisis we face, talking to politicians, decision makers and innovators across the environment and farming sectors.
With 15 Live discussions and over 50 bilingual sessions over 4 days, we'll have something for everyone interested in the rural environment, including discussion with Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford, a youth panel talk with Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe, cookery demo from BBC chefs Sam and Shauna, live zoom craft, meditation and yoga sessions and a bedtime story from S4C's Cyw .
No need to register for most sessions. Live discussions are streamed via youtube. Links will go live on the website on the day.
We hope you can join us!
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Monday, July 20
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Meet Unilever: Climate Leadership from a Household Name
Monday, July 20
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-unilever-climate-leadership-from-a-household-name-tickets-113127828380
Unilever is excited to work with entrepreneurs to advance its sustainability leadership — discuss how you and your technologies fit in.
About this Event
You've probably heard of Unilever, and chances are you've enjoyed many of their products over the years. (Eaten Ben & Jerry's, used Dove soap, or had a Lipton iced tea recently?) But did you know they recently announced ambitious climate and sustainability goals, including Net Zero by 2039? One of our newest partners, Unilever has joined the Greentown community to tap into the innovation ecosystem and work with startups like you to achieve their climate targets.
Join EVP of Supply Chain, Biswaranjan Sen, to:
Learn more about Unilever's sustainability commitments
Hear an introduction of the company's journey to become the household name they are today
Discuss how climatetech innovators can get involved.
About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. It has 155,000 employees and generated sales of €52 billion in 2019. Over half of the company's footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has around 400 brands found in homes all over the world, including Dove, Knorr, Dirt Is Good, Rexona, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall's, Lux, Magnum, Axe, Sunsilk and Surf.
Editorial Comment: Unilever has announced that they will be net zero emissions by 2039.
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Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting
Monday, July 20
1 – 2 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-lift-every-voice-universal-civic-voting
SPEAKER(S) Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School
Brenda Wright, Demos
María Teresa Kumar, Voto Latino
Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Moderator: Miles Rapoport, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-Moderator: E.J. Dionne, Jr., Brookings Institution
DETAILS Our current crisis of governance has focused unprecedented public attention on intolerable inequities and demands that Americans think boldly and consider reforms that until now seemed beyond our reach. A new report from The Brookings Institution and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School explores the idea of requiring every eligible citizen to participate in our elections.
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Imagining a World Post-Covid with Rob Hopkins
Monday, July 20
1:00 – 2:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-a-world-post-covid-with-rob-hopkins-tickets-109450058070
Rob Hopkins joins us for our fifth in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics.
We are excited to have Rob Hopkins join us for our fifth in a series of interactive talks on the climate emergency, environmentalism and Green politics in light of the global pandemic. Rob will be discussing how we can unleash the power of imagination to create the future we want post-Covid.
The format will be an introductory talk by a Rob, followed by a Q&A and finishing off in breakout rooms to have more interactive discussions in smaller groups.
Title: Imagining a World Post-Covid
Joining the Meeting
Book your place through EventBrite. At the bottom of your confirmation email, you will find a link to the Zoom room. Make sure to check your Junk / Spam folder. Please email contact@cambridge.greenparty.org.uk if you have any questions.
About the Speaker
Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. In 2012, he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer’s list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought and A Good Read, in the French film phenomenon Demain and its sequel Apres Demain, and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events.
An Ashoka Fellow, Hopkins also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and has received two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. He is a keen gardener, a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project.
Find out more through his blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net and tweets at @robintransition.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, July 20
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
On Mondays, longtime journalist, author and educator Andy Revkin hosts an open workshop testing paths to impact and sanity in an online information environment that is more overheated, and more important, than ever.
This week we will focus on tools and tactics for withstanding online harassment, and also on how to be a productive bystander in the social media environment, which remains full of both promise and peril.
The main guest is Viktorya Vilk, the director of digital safety and free expression programs at PEN America.
https://pen.org/user/viktorya-vilk/
Revkin is the founding director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, which works to boost the capacity of scientists, journalists, educators, students and citizens to communicate in ways that can speed progress toward a more sustainable relationship between our species, our planet and each other. Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
Watch these sessions on the Earth Institute's Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
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Creative Climate Conversations
Monday, July 20
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-climate-conversations-tickets-113056579272
Are you a young person between the ages of 18-30? Are you interested in art and climate change?
Join us for an evening conversation and creative session to connect with youth in the Greater Toronto Area about climate change!
Event schedule:
Opening introduction 6:30 - 6:45 PM
Workshop 1: Envisioning a new environmental reality post-COVID: Sketching as a medium 6:45 - 7:15 PM
Live Performances (Spoken Word) 7:15 - 7:30 PM
Workshop 2: Art as Activism: Graphic design for social media activism 7:30 - 8:00 PM
Closing performances (Music)/ Climate discussion 8:00 - 8:30 PM
All levels of experiences are welcome. Spaces are limited so reserve your spot today and join us on July 20th for a fantastic evening of arts and climate conversations!
WHO ARE WE?
We are the Amplify Toronto chapter, working in partnership with Apathy is Boring. Co-funded by the European Union, Amplify is a 2-year project where European and Canadian youth organizations, networks, and associations are building sustainable alliances and innovating together in order to find solutions to gender inequality, violent extremism, and climate change. As part of the Amplify Toronto youth team working with Apathy is Boring, a non-partisan and non-profit Canadian youth organization, we’ve been working together over the past year to explore how climate change impacts youth in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
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Tuesday, July 21
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The Future Earth
Tuesday, July 21
9:00 am
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/future-earth-eric-holthaus-and-katharine-wilkinson
Eric Holthaus, Author, The Future Earth
Katharine Wilkinson, Vice President, Project Drawdown
Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look like with unmitigated climate change: increased extreme weather events, crippled economies, and a world where those with the least are the hardest hit. What would a radically re-envisioned future look like? What solutions do we need to replace tomorrow’s doom-and-gloom projections with thriving cities, renewed political consciousness, equitable societies and carbon-free economies?
Join us with climate journalist and The Future Earth author Eric Holthaus and Project Drawdown Vice President Katharine Wilkinson for a conversation on reimagining our role in creating climate solutions.
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Fast-tracking Innovation: How Formula 1 is Navigating the Pandemic
Tuesday, July 21
10:00 AM
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/6515943929442/WN_k8XhFWhTS66Pz0Vkd3wqbw
Join us for a complimentary, live webinar with Ben Shields, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Yath Gangakumaran, Director of Strategy and Business Development at Formula 1.
This webinar will examine how one global business, Formula 1, has innovated at speed during the pandemic. Ben Shields will be joined by Yath Gangakumaran, Head of Strategy and Business Development at Formula 1, to discuss how F1 have not only accelerated ideas already in the pipeline but also created and implemented new ideas to respond to the crisis. They will discuss key innovations on both the sporting and commercial side of the organization as well as in its social impact efforts. Participants will leave with a better understanding of F1’s distinctive approach to innovation and several principles to apply in their own organizations.
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How Social Norms and Behavioural Economics Drive Tech for Sustainability
Tuesday, July 21
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-social-norms-and-behavioural-economics-drive-tech-for-sustainability-tickets-111179966272
Behaviour and tech got us into this ecological mess, behaviour and tech will get us out. Behavioural Economics in tech for sustainability.
Behaviour and technology got us into this environmental and ecological mess, behaviour and technology will get us out.
Behavioural economist Yolanda Berry will share how technologies coupled with human behavioural habits will help get us out of this environmental mess.
Yolanda will share how behavioural economics and social norms are more impactful than mindful decisions, and how technology can be harnessed to influence sustainable behaviour in human beings.
She will touch on:
How the latest technologies have changed human behaviour
How behavioural trends have been evolving.
How social norms impact our independent economic decisions
How technology price points have influenced what we choose to recycle, repair or replace.
Yolanda will discuss, in as much depth as a 30 minute talk allows, how the combination of some key technologies are affected by human actions and social trends, most notably
Low earth satellite observation
Trusted distributed ledger/blockchains
Pyrolysis (decomposition brought about by high temperatures)
Trusted blue carbon sequestration
Coupled with a radical change in behaviour, how these technologies can help not only deviate the course of climate change but directly help meet many of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Yolanda will briefly outline the historical groundwork that has lead us, in the last 120 years to so radically change the way humans live. She will discuss the change in social norms that were required to make the changes that lead to our current way of life, that is so different from how humans have lived for millennia.
Yolanda Berry is Behavioural Economist for Blok Solutions and Director for Earth Sentinel. Join Yolanda for a 60 min whirlwind tour of how social norms are more impactful than mindful decisions, and how technology can be harnessed to influence sustainable behaviour in human beings
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USGBC Big South Presents: Measuring Resilience with RELi
Tuesday, July 21
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usgbc-big-south-presents-measuring-resilience-with-reli-tickets-110719687566
Cost: $0 – $15
USGBC’s Big South communities present how RELi measures resilience in buildings, cities and communities.
Continuing Education: 1.0 GBCI CE hour (LEED-specific BD+C). Pending AIA approval for 1 AIA LU
USGBC’s Big South communities present how RELi measures resilience in buildings, cities and communities and expands upon LEED to embrace resilience strategies that are climate adaptive. RELi’s comprehensive approach lays the groundwork for resilient, regenerative and healthy outcomes that support quality of life.
Around the world, governments, businesses, private developers and city planners and officials are spearheading a growing movement to make structures and communities more resilient through improved preventative action. The increasing frequency of dramatic weather events has brought an even greater urgency to create buildings and communities that are better adapted to a changing climate and better able to bounce back from disturbances and interruptions.
RELi is a rating system and leadership standard that takes a holistic approach to resilient design. It is used by companies, developers, city planners, architects, bond insurers and more to assess and plan for all of the acute hazards that buildings and communities can face during unplanned events, prepare to mitigate against these hazards and design and construct buildings to maintain critical life-saving services in the event of extended loss of power, heating fuel or water
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify need for Resilience in the built environment
2. Describe the components of RELi
3. Recognize how RELI helps increase resilience in buildings and communities
4. Articulate the benefits of RELi certification
5. Summarize how to certify an RELi project with GBCI
6. Understand the overlap between LEED v4 BD&C credits in RELi, and the requirement for dual registration
Speaker: Katherine Hammack, Director of Special Projects, GBCI
Honorable Katherine Hammack serves as Director of Special Projects at the Green Business Certification Inc (GBCI). She reengages with the USGBC family after having worked as one of the founding members over 30 years ago. She has many years of experience in energy, sustainability, utility and infrastructure operations, and is delighted to come back to help advance tools to improve the built environment. A graduate from Oregon State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as a Masters in Business from University of Hartford, Hon Hammack couples a strong background in energy and engineering with her goal of building a better working world for future generations. Katherine serves on numerous boards and advisory committees, including ASHRAE Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Slipstream, a non-profit organization that creates, tests, delivers and scales the next generation of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs that move us farther, faster toward a clean energy economy. Learn more about Katherine here.
Registration:
General USGBC Member Attendee - Free registration
USGBC Member Attendee with CEU Reporting - $10
General Non-member Attendee - $10
General Non-member Attendee with CEU Reporting - $15
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Personal and Political Power: Citizens’ Assemblies on Climate
Tuesday July 21
12 pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-and-political-power-citizens-assemblies-on-climate-registration-112687722010
Join us to learn about Citizens' Assemblies on Climate from researchers and practitioners of deliberative democracy.
A legislative package to address climate change will require a mandate from the public. This event will introduce the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate, a direct democracy tool used by the governments of France, the UK, Ireland, and Poland to gather recommendations for political action on climate change.
Join us in hearing directly from researchers and practitioners of deliberative democracy. They will discuss:
How effective Citizens’ Assemblies can be in creating momentum for policy
How different political systems absorb the impact of Citizens’ Assemblies
The potential for using this method to break through the political deadlock on climate policy in the United States.
Speakers
Moderator: Rebecca Leber - Environmental Politics and Policy Reporter, Mother Jones
Panelists:
Graham Smith - Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam and Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
Rebecca Willis - Professor in Practice at Lancaster Environment Centre, and Expert Lead for Climate Assembly UK
Claire Mellier-Wilson - Accredited researcher observing the French Climate Change Convention and facilitator for Citizens’ Assemblies on the climate crisis and air quality in Camden and Kingston.
Linn Davis - Program Manager for Citizens’ Initiative Review program at Healthy Democracy
About Citizens’ Assemblies
Citizens’ Assemblies on Climate bring a representative group of their country’s residents together to learn about the issues, develop connections, deliberate on ways forward, and to pass on recommendations to their governments. Participants of a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate demographically reflect their country or region and undertake the work together regardless of age, race, income, education, citizenship, or political affiliation to provide their lawmakers with a public mandate for policy action to address climate change.
The Citizens’ Assembly starts with legislators requesting this input from the people, and in doing so they agree to listen to the assembly’s recommendations and consider them for concrete policy, bringing the informed will of the people directly to legislators who are listening.
Event Hosts
Citizens’ Climate Lobby - DC Chapter @ccl_dc
Citizens' Climate Lobby is an international grassroots environmental group that trains and supports volunteers to build relationships with their elected representatives in order to influence climate policy. The DC Chapter focuses on education events and advocacy that empowers people to unlock their personal and political power.
Climate Assembly US @ClimateAssembly
We are a group of advocates passionate about the opportunity to expand democratic methods to address the climate crisis. We advocate in our role as constituents who want real solutions as put forth by the people.
City Atlas @cityatlas
The mission of City Atlas is to help the public understand and prepare for the future of cities, as described in the reports of the IPCC and C40.org, and to strengthen the democratic process towards an equitable response to climate change.
Extinction Rebellion @XR_NYC
Extinction Rebellion is a global nonviolent movement to compel the world’s governments to address the climate and ecological emergency. Extinction Rebellion's third demand is for the government to move beyond politics by creating and being led by the decisions of a Citizens' Assembly on climate and ecological justice.
Need more details on CCL? Learn more here: CitizensClimateLobby.orgor sign up for our intro call cclusa.org/intro
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Author Talk: Is the future human? by Edward Ashford Lee
Tuesday, July 21
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-is-the-future-human-by-edward-ashford-lee-tickets-109336229606
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Edward Ashford Lee, author of The Coevolution.
Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design.
About the Author
Edward Ashford Lee is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he runs iCyPhy, a research center focused on industrial cyber-physical systems. He is the author of Plato and the Nerd (MIT Press) and other books.
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Technology, Markets and Bipartisanship: The Future of Climate Action
Tuesday, July 21
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-markets-and-bipartisanship-the-future-of-climate-action-tickets-113039279528
Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition.
We’re living in a partisan times, but climate change won’t wait for the next election cycle. More and more young people are looking beyond traditional political boundaries for solutions to the environmental challenges facing us all. These solutions must reach across industries, parties and ideological divides to achieve meaningful change.
Join us Tuesday, July 21, at noon CDT for a special lunchtime conversation with Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition. Benji will talk about his politically conservative approach to environmental activism and introduce the American Climate Contract, a nonpartisan, holistic set of commitments to solve the climate crisis.
Title: "American Climate Contract: Environmental Action Beyond Partisan Politics”
Location: Zoom link to be provided to registrants
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Carbon Negative Food Systems (Swansea [UK] Extinction Rebellion [XR] Talks)
Tuesday, July 21
2:30 –3 :30 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-negative-food-systems-swansea-xr-talks-registration-113672952862
Join us in the fourth of our series of online-talks celebrating environmental initiatives in Swansea and the immediate area.
Carbon Negative Food Systems with Climate and Community
Short term climate change impacts over the next 30 years, which will effect the UK population, are progressive challenges to food security and possible famine. We import 40% of our food but this cannot be relied upon in a globally changing climate. We need to grow more sustainable, locally grown food.
Climate and Community is setting up a Carbon negative food growing no-dig horticulture demonstration project which uses biochar and wood chippings from community coppices worked by a climate conservation corps. The first steps to creating an alternative economy based on locally grown food and materials. A climate no brainer.
www.climateandcommunity.org.uk
Jules Wagstaff will talk about the work of Climate and Community. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session.
All are welcome to this free event.
The talk will be held on Zoom (a free video conferencing platform). Once you register for the event on Eventbrite, an email containing the Zoom link will be sent out to you.
More information on Climate and Community and their projects on their website:
www.climateandcommunity.org.uk
(These talks will be recorded. Please get in touch with the organiser should this be a barrier to your attendance, and we'll see what we can do to help.)
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National Geographic Presents Community Archaeology and Historical Ecology
Tuesday, July 21
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-geographic-presents-community-archaeology-and-historical-ecology-tickets-112729346510
Lucy Gill is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her research sits at the intersection of anthropological archaeology and historical ecology, focusing on indigenous stewardship of aquatic ecosystems in Central America and relations with fish and shellfish communities. She also explores the effects that natural disasters, such as volcanic events, have had on these ecosystems and the humans who lived with them in order to contemplate more sustainable ways of being in the wake of anthropogenic climate change. Her research innovates transdisciplinary methods that hold archaeology accountable to local community partnerships and braid Western scientific methods with traditional knowledge. She currently directs Darién Profundo, which takes a deep history approach to the Darién Province of Panama, a region that is often problematically portrayed as a primeval ‘gap’. This project currently partners with community members in Yaviza, El Real, Metetí, Mogue, La Palma, Punta Alegre, Chepigana and Garachiné, as well as a team of ecologists from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, to document the archaeological and ecological history of the threatened wetland ecosystem of Matusaragatí and advocate for its protection. In her spare time, she enjoys scuba diving, caving, playing classical piano, and dance of all kinds.
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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
Tuesday, July 21
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_julian_e._zelizer/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes JULIAN E. ZELIZER—CNN Political Analyst and Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University—for a discussion of his latest book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party. He will be joined in conversation by RICK PERLSTEIN, author of the New York Times bestselling books The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.
Contribute to Support Harvard Book Store
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of Burning Down the House on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About Burning Down the House
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright and catapulted himself into the national spotlight. Perhaps more than any other politician, Gingrich introduced the rhetoric and tactics that have shaped Congress and the Republican Party for the last three decades. Elected to Congress in 1978, Gingrich quickly became one of the most powerful figures in America not through innovative ideas or charisma, but through a calculated campaign of attacks against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil. Taking office in the post-Watergate era, he weaponized the good government reforms newly introduced to fight corruption, wielding the rules in ways that shocked the legislators who had created them. His crusade against Democrats culminated in the plot to destroy the political career of Speaker Wright.
While some of Gingrich’s fellow Republicans were disturbed by the viciousness of his attacks, party leaders enjoyed his successes so much that they did little collectively to stand in his way. Democrats, for their part, were alarmed, but did not want to sink to his level and took no effective actions to stop him. It didn’t seem to matter that Gingrich’s moral conservatism was hypocritical or that his methods were brazen, his accusations of corruption permanently tarnished his opponents. This brand of warfare worked, not as a strategy for governance but as a path to power, and what Gingrich planted, his fellow Republicans reaped. He led them to their first majority in Congress in decades, and his legacy extends far beyond his tenure in office. From the Contract with America to the rise of the Tea Party and the Trump presidential campaign, his fingerprints can be seen throughout some of the most divisive episodes in contemporary American politics. Burning Down the House presents the alarming narrative of how Gingrich and his allies created a new normal in Washington.
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Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Elizabeth Kolbert
Tuesday, July 21
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporter-nights-science-journalism-in-the-time-of-covid-19-registration-112472177310
“I Don’t Believe This”: What Can the COVID-19 Crisis Teach Environmentalists About Communicating the Unimaginable?
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Staff Writer at The New Yorker, and the author of The Sixth Extinction, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe, will speak about the links between the current pandemic and the destruction of the natural world.
Ms. Kolbert, whose reports and books have tackled such difficult topics as mass extinctions of wildlife and the impact of global warming on cities, will share her thoughts on how writers can bring difficult subjects to an often disbelieving public. Are some stories too frightening or distant for readers to imagine or accept? To what degree did inadequate and inconsistent science reporting leave the world unprepared for the worst pandemic since 1918?
About this series:
Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters.
A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors.
Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia.
Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt.
For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at sostrowski@ei.columbia.edu.
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Languages of Nature
Tuesday, July 21
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216
Tiokasin Ghosthorse—a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota—is an international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. A survivor of the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Lakota Reservations in South Dakota and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man,” Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He is a guest faculty member at Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society.
Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the twenty-four-year-old “First Voices Radio” (formerly “First Voices Indigenous Radio”), a one-hour live program now syndicated to seventy radio stations in the US and Canada.
A master musician and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations, as well as at many universities and concert venues. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children. Tiokasin describes himself as “a perfectly flawed human being” who is a Sundancer in the tradition of the Lakota Nation.
Website: https://www.humansandnature.org/tiokasin-ghosthorse
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Disaster Preparedness
Tuesday, July 21
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disaster-preparedness-tickets-112836842032
Disaster Preparedness is a robust conversation about Climate Change and why we should be prepared for it.
Join the Authentic Caribbean Foundation, Cambridge City Councilor Quintion Zondervan, Sara Varela - Regional Preparedness Liaison Contractor for FEMA Region I, specializing in individual and community preparedness, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) for a robust conversation about Climate Change and why we should be prepared for it. We will discuss what individual preparedness looks like, what resources are available to be individually prepared, and much more. Join us on July 21st at 7pm
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How We Show Up: Challenging Racism
Tuesday, July 21 / Session #1
8:00p - 10:00p Eastern
or
Friday, July 24 / Session #1
3:00p - 5:00p Eastern
TIMING + LOGISTICS: You’ll attend one session each week. You can choose which of the two weekly offered sessions work best for you. This is flexible; just show up if you need a different day.
Online
RSVP at https://forms.gle/eMq5aQaPrC78EnUa8
We invited everyone here to help one another grow, to learn about where racism shows up in our society and in our actions / thoughts and commit to taking action to undo racism. This is about learning, reflection and practice; you are welcome here. We are building from many existing practices -- and will share the resources and sources as we go along so you can connect directly with these resources and their creators.
This is a space for white people, with European heritage. We see this as a space of practice that can help us shape, and/or deepen our action and engagement outside of this practice. If you are looking to move directly to action, there are many resources.
Please note: we are thoughtful of our position in this space -- know that we are several white people, with various heritages. We too are on our own anti-racist journey towards a shared goal of collective liberation. We facilitate How We Show Up in our own time to deepen our collective anti-racism practice through community.
STRUCTURE:
Below is a summary of topics for a series of conversations. This pulls from pre-existing curriculum on racial equity and is a mix of conversation, exercises and sharing of resources.
Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Power Analysis
Session 3: Systemic Racist Structures
Session 4: Tools for Communicating Racism
Session 5: Reflection + Ongoing Application
It is a five-week journey. if you want to continue to be involved, great!
More information at https://bit.ly/HWSU2
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Wednesday, July 22
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development post-Covid 19: Building back better
Wednesday, July 22
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development-post-covid-19-building-back-better-for-a-greener-and-tickets-109952831880
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals is a Plan of Action to end poverty and create shared prosperity on a healthy and peaceful planet.
At this stage, the world is not on track to reach the goals. While progress has been made in some areas, particularly with regards to ending extreme poverty and reducing child mortality, huge challenges remain, with climate change as the biggest overarching threat facing humanity.
As the United Nations turn 75 in 2020, multiple challenges require global action, while multilateralism is questioned at many levels.
As if to make matters worse, Covid-19 has taken the world by surprise, exposing weaknesses and dangers inherent in our current way of life.
As the world begins planning for a post pandemic recovery, it is crucial to seize the opportunity to “build back better” by creating more sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies. In fact, the virus also exposed vulnerabilities, highlighting the plague of structural racism and discrimination in many countries, which is part of the challenges we need to address if we want to build a sustainable and just future for all.
The Master Class will revisit core notions of sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda and explore the role of the UN, as the world community addresses the challenges toward a sustainable future.
Simona Costanzo Sow is Learning Portfolio Manager at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development. Simona focuses on integrating social inclusion, environmental sustainability and economic development in policy discourse and development practice. Previously she served as Manager of two corporate priority initiatives of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, focusing on strengthening civic engagement in support of the 2030 Agenda. Simona has also served for eight years as Director of CCIVS, a global coordinating body for international voluntary service based at UNESCO Headquarters. Over the past years she has worked on issues related to policy advice and advocacy. Simona has extensive experience in partnership building and networking in the intergovernmental sphere, as well as with civil society, academia and the private sector and a track record in capacity-building, non-formal education, learning and training with different institutions including the British Council and the Council of Europe. Simona holds a PhD in Human Geography from the Technical University of Munich, focusing on international migration as well as a Master in International Cultural and Business Studies.
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Global Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education
Wednesday, July 22
11:00am to 12:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3sN8-UmcQ_GamV-A2XsMnw
Please join MISTI for a conversation around higher education’s response to the pandemic, and what the next 12-24 months hold for the sector globally. This panel includes leaders in higher education from various regions of the world.
Panelists:
Kirsty Williams, Welsh Minister for Education
Ravi Kumar, President and Chief Operating Officer of Infosys
Soledad Arellano, Vice President of Academics at Universidad Alfonso Ibáñez, Chile
Zeblon Vilakazi, Vice Chancellor, Wits University, South Africa
Moderated by: Christine Ortiz, MIT Professor and Former Dean, Founder of Station1
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Climate change Discovery Episodes | Brainstorming
Wednesday, July 22
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-discovery-episodes-brainstorming-tickets-111961239080
Let's find solutions to solve climate change issues by using Brainstorming! We'll teach you how to use for a cause that matters <3 span="">
Our workshop
We are passionate about two things, fighting climate change and design thinking. You have probably already heard about brainstorming, but you never tried or it never really worked efficiently. In our workshop we want to teach you easy-to-use brainstorming techniques and how to apply them to a cause that matters.
We will ideate together to find possible solutions to solve climate change issues through a practical case. The objective is to have actionable outputs after the session for you to be able to put some of them in motion.
The event will be in English.
Our program:
Who can attend: Anyone can participate, no need for any technical knowledge. Just come as you are!
How to connect:It is an online event, so make sure you have a good internet connection. We will send you the link the day before.
The schedule:
Welcome
Icebreaker
Challenge presentation
Brainstorming
Wrap up
Feedback and presentation of Disruptive Bananas
Who are we?
We are DISRUPTIVE BANANAS, a non-profit organization using design thinking methodology to support entrepreneurs and startups interested in saving the world from climate change!
You can check our community in Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/disruptivebananas
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Digital Health Apps: Evidence, Reimbursement and Outcomes
Wednesday, July 22
12:30 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/digital-health-apps-evidence-reimbursement-outcomes
SPEAKER Megan Jones Bell, Chief Science Officer, Headspace
DETAILS Apps for health, wellness and disease management are increasingly common across the healthcare ecosystem. Health systems, biotech and pharma, payers and pharmacy benefits managers are just a few of the industry sectors actively using digital tools to try to improve care delivery and outcomes.
This webinar will discuss emerging lessons and concepts from this space. What is the practical significance of the designation “digital therapeutic?” What are the current regulatory pathways? How does reimbursement actually work? Megan Jones Bell, MD, Chief Science Officer for Headspace, will discuss examples of how these interventions are being integrated into health care and some of the developments on the horizon for this industry.
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John McKnight and Gar Alperovitz in conversation
Wednesday, July 22
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
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Hydrogen Technologies and Outlook
Wednesday, July 22
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hydrogen-technologies-and-outlook-tickets-113701895430
Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) are pleased to announce a presentation on hydrogen tech.
Hydrogen has the potential to play a significant role in the decarbonization of the industrial world. This webinar will provide insight into why the transition to a hydrogen economy has increasing potential and how Alberta can leverage its existing expertise to be a significant global player in the low carbon economy. Our speakers will highlight the potential production and use cases for hydrogen, where the industry is at today.
Grant Strem
Chairman and CEO, Proton Technologies
Mr. Strem spent a number of years working within the upstream oil and gas sector before moving into reserves evaluation and banking. His general interest in science and space propulsion systems led him toward a physics heavy understanding of extreme oxidation processes.
During his engineering Master’s degree, he was a former student of Dr. Ian Gates and has remained close friends for the last 12 years or so, and they together recognize that a hydrogen economy is the eventual zenith of the world’s energy continuum. They also firmly believe that Proton Technologies has a quickly scalable non-CO2 solution that leverages existing infrastructure, with the lowest negative environmental impact. From space shuttle main engines, to high-tech manufacturing, hydrogen is a key feedstock for blooming energy and materials in a healthy direction.
David Layzell, PhD, FRSC
Research Director, The Transition Accelerator
Professor and Director, Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research (CESAR) Initiative
David Layzell works with innovative industry, governments and other academics to identify and deploy credible, compelling transition pathways that are capable of transforming Canada to a vibrant, low-carbon economy.
His research program uses analytical and modeling tools to explore how existing or new technology, business model, policy or social innovations could transform or disrupt the systems that Canadians use for societal provisioning. Based on this work and through engagement with key stakeholders, he identifies strategies to direct the disruptive forces to achieve societal goals, including, but not limited to, climate change mitigation. This approach has led to the launch of the Transition Accelerator, a pan-Canadian initiative that is currently focused on directing disruptive forces impacting the personal and freight transportation sectors.
Before launching CESAR in 2013, Layzell was Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy (ISEEE), at the University of Calgary (2008-12), and the Executive Director of BIOCAP Canada, a research foundation focused on biological solutions to climate change (1998-2008). As a Professor at Queen’s University between 1981 and 2008, he also founded a scientific instrumentation company called Qubit Systems Inc. and was elected ‘Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’ (FRSC) for his research contributions.
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The opioid crisis in America: Vulnerable groups, law enforcement, and international supply
Wednesday, July 22
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-opioids-2
Join the conversation on Twitter using #OpioidCrisis
As the United States and the world reel from COVID-19, another epidemic, opioid addiction, continues to ravage the U.S. The opioid epidemic has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, generated vast national economic and social costs, and exposed the critical weaknesses and limitations of U.S. drug policy.
In a new series of papers, “The opioid crisis in America: Domestic and international dimensions,” experts from Brookings and beyond have undertaken a multidisciplinary effort to develop new insights and best practices for policy stakeholders working at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as members of the public who are on the front lines of the opioid crisis.
On July 22, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings will host the second of two webinars, which will explore the project’s findings on vulnerable groups, domestic law enforcement of the opioid crisis, and international supply control measures. Brookings President John R. Allen will introduce the project and event. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) will provide keynote remarks and join Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown in a conversation. Subsequently, Associated Press reporter Claire Galofaro will moderate a panel of authors from the Brookings Opioid series: John Hudak, Peter Reuter, and Vanda Felbab-Brown. The panel will then take questions from the audience.
Viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or on Twitter using #OpioidCrisis.
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Fast Forum with Tom Steyer
Wednesday, July 22
6 – 6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQzs915GZpxRKRp07zJrBodSbNXk6zAf3QIXydHyJ9TBSckA/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Tom Steyer
DETAILS Climate activist, NextGen America Founder, and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer joins the IOP to reflect on his experiences in the presidential primary, work to combat climate change, and commitment to philanthropic causes.
LINK http://iop.harvard.edu
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Urban Heat Island and COVID-19 - A Perfect Storm?
Wednesday, July 22
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monthly-forum-urban-heat-island-and-covid-19-a-perfect-storm-tickets-111864495718
What policies are being devised to assist people who are confined to small apartments when temperatures top 90°F?
Temperatures this summer are rising to uncomfortable levels. But what policies are in place to assist people who are confined to small, crowded apartments, with inadequate ventilation and no air conditioning —or unaffordable air conditioning—in the case of a heat wave? What are the environmental justice issues that should be considered, since traditional practices like opening community centers and shelters may be contraindicated in the era of Covid? What populations are being disproportionately affected by urban heat and climate change?
Please join Adriana Espinoza, Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate Policy and Programs, who will speak about environmental justice from a macro level, and how systemic inequality and environmental racism has created the disparities that exists in the City today. She will also discuss how the City plans to better incorporate equity and EJ into the city climate decision-making.
To dive deeper into the conversation, Mike Harrington, Assistant Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, will speak about the historical inequalities of urban heat island impacts on communities and some possible solutions from a policy and design perspective. He will also share some of the lessons learned from personal experience and the recently released "Turning the Heat" report that he co-authored as part of the Urban Design Forum's Forefront Fellowship.
Sonal Jessel, Policy & Advocacy Coordinator at WE ACT for Environmental Justice, will discuss what makes extreme heat a public health issue, why there are inequities in impact, and how communities cope. She will also highlight particular challenges that exist for vulnerable populations this summer due to COVID-19.
In addition to the forum, our monthly volunteer orientation will take place right before the event, starting at 6pm. If you're interested in joining GreenHomeNYC as a volunteer, please review opportunities on our website, and register for a monthly orientation on Eventbrite.
If you have any questions, please contact the GreenHomeNYC Forums group at forums@greenhomenyc.org.
Since 2003, GreenHomeNYC has been promoting an energy efficient and sustainable built environment, and supporting green professional development in NYC.
Visit www.greenhomenyc.org to learn more!
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A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right
Wednesday, July 22
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_molly_howes/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and GrubStreet welcome clinical psychologist and award-winning writer MOLLY HOWES for a discussion of her book A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right. She will be joined in conversation by MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN, author of the beloved Boston Globe advice column Love Letters.
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of A Good Apology on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About A Good Apology
We've all done something wrong or made a mistake or insulted someone—even if by accident. We've all been hurt and wanted the other person to help us heal. It may be surprising, but the breaches themselves aren't the real problem; our inability to fix them is what causes us trouble.
In A Good Apology, Dr. Molly Howes uses her experiences with patients in her practice, research findings, and news stories to illustrate the power and importance of a thorough apology. She teaches how we can all learn to craft an effective apology with four straightforward steps.
An apology is a small-scale event between people, but it's enormously powerful. This comprehensive book gives readers the tools to fix their relationships, make amends, and move forward. With it, you'll fully understand the meaning and importance of this universal and timeless endeavor: a good apology.
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Extinction Rebelllion Community Meeting
Wednesday, July 22
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/community-meeting-2020-07-22/
Let's check in with each other, debrief from our big Tax Day action, and have a little fun!
This meeting will be online via Zoom. We will aim to end by 8:30 pm.
Zoom info will be shared closer to the event -- please sign up below so we can keep you posted!
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Wearables in Art & Concert - Virtual in FrameVR.io
Wednesday, July 22
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/events/271771546/
Presentation of the Next Generation of Wearables for Real & Virutal Events by the Inventors of the Wearable Technologies used in Major Concerts and Events such as the MOMA Gala to Taylor Swift. Link emailed to RSVP list.
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Thursday, July 23
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EBC Water Resources Webinar: Challenges Facing our Water Resources under a Changing Climate
Thursday, July 23
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-water-resources-webinar-challenges-facing-our-water-resources-under-a-changing-climate/
Cost: $25 - $120
This EBC Water Resources program will explore how our drinking water and coastal water resources are being affected by climate change and some of the adaptation and resiliency measures local states and municipalities are doing to combat these challenges. We will also discuss the challenges associated with managing stormwater and wastewater under a changing climate and the unique measures being undertaken by local utilities to protect our current civil infrastructure and future planned investments.
This program will touch on the following topics:
Drinking Water Resources – drought and extreme event impacts on drinking water resources, the challenges of ensuring communities have adequate access to drinking water
Coastal Water Resources – rising tides and storm surge and the issues with losing our critical green infrastructure (e.g., marshes, beaches) and the protection it provides to inland communities
Wastewater – how to protect critical wastewater infrastructure from coastal and riverine flooding
Stormwater – how to get the water out (and keep our feet dry) under increasingly challenging storm event conditions and rising tides
Program Chairs:
Andrea Braga, PE, CPESC, Principal Water Resources Engineer, Jacobs
Michael Scipione, CEO, Weston & Sampson
Speakers:
Charlie Jewell, Director of Planning and Sustainability, Boston Water & Sewer Commission
Alexander Train, AICP, Assistant Director of Planning & Development with the City of Chelsea
Additional information to be announced shortly.
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A nation at a demographic crossroad: Rising diversity, youthful activism, and the 2020 election
Thursday, July 23
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/a-nation-at-a-demographic-crossroad-rising-diversity-youthful-activism-and-the-2020-election/
Join the conversation on Twitter using #DiversityExplosion
Amid a global pandemic that is robbing the nation’s younger generations of career-defining education and employment opportunities, the millennial and Gen Z generations are also making their voices heard in leading protests throughout the country, demonstrating their commitment to fundamental civil rights for Black Americans. As the 2020 election concurrently approaches, the deep-seated political and cultural divide between a rising, racially diverse America and the whiter, older generation that was most responsible for Trump’s election, looms large.
On Thursday, July 23, the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program will convene a conversation examining this historic convergence of events. Demographer William H. Frey will kick off the discussion with a presentation drawing on his highly regarded book, “Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America,” examining the realities of America’s changing racial demography and what that means for the nation’s future. A panel will follow, discussing the nation’s new demographic make-up and highlighting the activism of the country’s diverse younger generations and what it means for the 2020 election and beyond.
Viewers can submit questions for panelists by emailing events@brookings.edu or tweeting to @BrookingsMetro using the hashtag #DiversityExplosion.
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The Vital Role of Extension Service
Thursday, June 23
11:00-12:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://elti.yale.edu/events/capacity-development-webinars-2020-2021
Dr. Alicia Calle, Postdoctoral Associate, ELTI, YSE.
Part of the Capacity Development for Forest Landscape Restoration series
Featuring diverse perspectives and experiences of our global team and alumni
June 2020 - February 2021
The series is free and open to the public. We welcome you to share the details with your contacts and networks.
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Voices in Leadership During Crises: Governor Deval Patrick
Thursday, July 23
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/deval-l-patrick-71st-governor-of-massachusetts/
SPEAKER(S) Deval L. Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
Sara Bleich, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management
DETAILS Governor Deval Patrick joins the program to discuss issues related to leadership during the pandemic. He will address the problems of COVID-19 and systemic racism for Black and Brown populations and offer possible solutions for these major public health problems. Join us on Thursday, July 23 from 12-12:30 PM ET to hear this dynamic talk. Moderated by Sara Bleich, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
For questions contact Shaina Martis (smartis@hsph.harvard.edu). Watch the conversation live at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/deval-l-patrick-71st-governor-of-massachusetts/ or on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/VoicesHSPH
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CRES Forum Event: How do conservatives plan to tackle climate change?
Thursday, July 23
Noon – 1.00 PM (EDT)
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cres-forum-event-how-do-conservatives-plan-to-tackle-climate-change-tickets-113112173556
Join CRES Forum for a discussion of immediate opportunities and actionable policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It has been a busy year for climate policy. At the start of 2020 the first batch of Republican climate bills were introduced in the House. We have seen growing support for energy innovation, energy infrastructure and clean energy jobs as critical to America’s economic recovery. Last month, we saw the introduction of the bipartisan bicameral Growing Climate Solutions Act. But, most recently, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released the Democratic Majority’s staff report, which drew criticism for a lack of bipartisanship.
Join CRES Forum for a discussion of immediate opportunities and actionable policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Opening Remarks:
Dave Banks | Chief Strategist for the Minority, House Select Committee on Climate Change
Panel:
Christopher Guith | Senior Vice President, US Chamber of Commerce Global Energy Institute
Devin Hartman | Director of Energy and Environmental Policy, R Street Institute
Mary Beth Tung | Director, Maryland Energy Administration
MODERATOR: Charles Hernick | Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, CRES Forum
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Children’s Cabinets: An Essential Community Infrastructure in Times of Crisis
Thursday, July 23
2 – 3 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O51y5zIxSTSOFUwScNGJmA
SPEAKER(S) Molly Blankenship, Executive Director, Chattanooga 2.0
Ann DeGroot, Executive Director, Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board
DETAILS Our country is facing multiple crises that affect the lives of all Americans, particularly children and youth. We need active infrastructure that can rapidly respond to challenges, bring together diverse decision-makers, and be accountable for enacting effective solutions. Children’s cabinets are these key pieces of community infrastructure. The Forum for Youth Investment, Children’s Funding Project, and Education Redesign Lab will be hosting this webinar as part of the summer series for the Local Children’s Cabinet Network. Join us as we hear from one of the oldest children’s cabinets, Minneapolis, MN, and one of the newest children’s cabinets, Chattanooga, TN, and how they have addressed COVID-19, racial equity, and more.
LINK https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O51y5zIxSTSOFUwScNGJmA
CONTACT INFO Marina I. Jokic, marina_jokic@gse.harvard.edu
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How to stop funding fossil fuels?
Thursday, July 23
2:30 – 4:00pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuels-tickets-111932802024
This webinar with Ben Caldecott and Anna Olerinyova will look at fossil fuel divestment - how do we stop funding the fossil fuel industry?
Forest fires, floods, hurricanes – extreme climate events are taking their toll around the world. To avert a growing climate crisis, we know that the vast majority of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground.
If “money is the oxygen on which the climate crisis burns”, how do we stop funding fossil fuels?
We are delighted to welcome Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme and leading expert in Sustainable Finance, together with student campaigner Anna Olerinyova, for a webinar on fossil fuel divestment. Ben and Anna will discuss the fossil fuel industry’s central role in the climate crisis, what can be done to stop funding it, and how we can all play our part.
The event is open to all. Further details and joining instructions (through Zoom) will be emailed to participants nearer the time.
Ben is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme. He is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Senior Advisor to the Chair and CEO of the UK Green Finance Institute (GFI) and the COP26 Strategy Advisor for Finance based out of the Cabinet Office. Ben founded and co-chairs the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), an alliance of global research universities promoting rigorous and impactful academic research on sustainable finance. He also chairs the International Green Finance Coordination Group on behalf of the UK Green Finance Institute and the UK Government. This brings together twenty central government departments, public bodies, regulators, and organisations close to the public sector all working on green finance and has been established to enhance coordination on UK priorities for green finance internationally.
Anna, a Dphil Student at Oxford University in Biophysics and molecular biology, is an active member and organiser of the student-led Oxford Climate Justice Campaign, which successfully campaigned for Oxford University to divest from fossil fuels and follow a net-zero investment strategy. She was also one of the leaders of the high - profile St John's College occupation protests earlier this year, demanding fossil fuel divestment and ethical investment from the college. She is a keen activist with Extinction Rebellion, both locally and nationally as a member of XR Scientists group, working on a number of educational and outreach projects.
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Women in Cleantech: It’s Time to Talk About Climate Change
Thursday, July 23
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-cleantech-its-time-to-talk-about-climate-change-tickets-106584960486
Cost: $15
Join Women in Cleantech and Sustainability and Lisa Ann Pinkerton on Thursday, 23 July at 12 pm PT
Thankfully, 2019 was the year of the Climate Strike, with the courageous Greta Thunberg igniting a movement that prompted roughly 10 million global citizens to march. Now, 2020 seems to be revealing how quickly the world can take action within the face of an imminent threat and just how clean our air could be if we prioritized zero-emission vehicles and more sustainable manufacturing.
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 led to dramatic shutdown of economic activity and dramatically reduced the use of fossil fuels. It’s also demonstrated that while a hit to the economy was a reason not to adopt widespread climate mitigation on a global scale, it is possible when there is political will. In order to be meaningful for the future of climate change, the drops in greenhouse gas emissions and consumer consumption need to extend beyond individuals to the larger structures that shape our lives. As the economy recovers, regulations and stipulations that require governments and businesses to adopt more sustainable practices is paramount.
To ensure the planet recovers from the coronavirus in a greener and more sustainable way, we as industry professionals and voters have a responsibility to win the hearts and minds of those in power to use their influence towards taking serious, urgent, and targeted action to mitigate climate change.
Climate change is not only about what’s happening to the planet. It is also about the personal and universal emotions humans feel surrounding the scale of the problem. When we take the time to connect climate conversations to personal motivations, people out of action or in denial are known to change their viewpoints. While such conversations could be challenging to have and may need to be repeated over time, done thoughtfully and responsibly, they can sway people into taking action in their spheres of influence.
In this virtual workshop, founder and CEO of Technica Communications, and chairwoman of Women in Cleantech and Sustainability, Lisa Ann Pinkerton will cover:
An eight-step process on how to discuss the climate crisis with friends, family, and community leaders in denial and inactive
Spotlight effective tactics for opening one’s mind to thinking differently about climate change
Outline case studies of famous deniers who have shifted to climate action
Highlight the cascading effect such conversations can have on the power structures of industry and politics
After the short TED-style presentation, attendees will be given the opportunity to practice the techniques outlined in two Zoom breakout room sessions. Between each session, the group will share insights and experiences with the larger group.
“Without addressing climate change on the personal, human level, one cannot hope to change it at a global scale.” - Lisa Ann Pinkerton
About Women in Cleantech & Sustainability Founded in 2011, Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) fosters an influential network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment. The nonprofit leads a community of over 2,500 professional women and men working to drive sustainable change. Members range from the students and entry level professionals, to founders, C-suite executives and investors.
This event is limited to 100 attendees and is open to people of all genders. Refunds provided up to 24 hours in advance.
About Lisa Ann Pinkerton
Lisa Ann Pinkerton is founder of Women In Cleantech & Sustainability, a San Francisco Bay Area group dedicated to the advancement of women in various environmental and technology sectors. She is also Founder and President of Technica Communications, where she handles marketing, social media, content production and public relations for cleantech and biotech startups. Additionally, Lisa Ann is Co-Founder and Marketing Chair for the Global Cleantech Cluster Association, an international speaker and moderator and documentary filmmaker. Lisa Ann is a former award-winning broadcast journalist who reported for National Public Radio, PBS Television, WPXI-NBC, American Public Media, and Free Speech TV.
Event Agenda
12:00 pm PT
First 5 mins Arrival and Intro
Zoom etiquette and housekeeping
12:10-12:25 pm PT : Presentation by Lisa Ann
12:25 -12:45 pm : Break out session 1
12:45 -1:10 pm : Regroup and share
1:10- 1:30 pm : Break out session 2
1:30 - 2:00 pm : Regroup and share and End of event
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Harvard Science Book Talk: Hope Jahren, in conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, "The Story of More"
Thursday, July 23
5 – 6 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_hope_jahren/
SPEAKER(S) Hope Jahren, University of Oslo
Barbara Kingsolver
DETAILS Hope Jahren, a multiple-award winning geobiologist and author of the beloved “Lab Girl,” will talk with the acclaimed novelist Barbard Kingsolver about Jahren’s new book, “The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here.” The book illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back.
LINK https://science.fas.harvard.edu/book-talks
CONTACT INFO science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu
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Putting Principles First: Climate Change & Environmental Policy
Thursday, July 23
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/putting-principles-first-climate-change-environmental-policy-tickets-113589152212
Join us for a discussion with former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) of republicEn about a principled approach to climate change.
We are delighted to welcome former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) of republicEn for a Principles First discussion about new approaches to combating climate change and protecting our environment. We will hear from Mr. Inglis, engage in an open dialogue, and then reserve 30 minutes at the end of the meeting for other Principles First updates and topics.
The gathering will be hosted over Zoom and video conference details will be sent to all registrants prior to the event.
As always, all are welcome to join us.
About Bob Inglis
Bob Inglis launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”) at George Mason University in July 2012 and serves as executive director, where he promotes free enterprise action on climate change.
For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt and in the Showtime series YEARS of Living Dangerously, and he's spoken at TEDxBeacon Street and at TEDxJacksonville.
Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and a Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014.
Bob was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998. In 2004, he was re-elected to Congress and served until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010.
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Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
Thursday, July 23
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_muhammad_h._zaman/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes MUHAMMAD H. ZAMAN—the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University—for a discussion of his book Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens. He will be joined in conversation by fellow Boston University professor and co-director of the Health Law Program, KEVIN OUTTERSON.
Contribute to Support Harvard Book Store
About Biography of Resistance
In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her death is the worst nightmare of infectious disease doctors and public health professionals. While bacteria live within us and are essential for our health, some strains can kill us. As bacteria continue to mutate, becoming increasingly resistant to known antibiotics, we are likely to face a public health crisis of unimaginable proportions. “It will be like the great plague of the middle ages, the influenza pandemic of 1918, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 all combined into a single threat,” Muhammad H. Zaman warns.
Biography of Resistance is Zaman’s riveting and timely look at why and how microbes are becoming superbugs. It is a story of science and evolution that looks to history, culture, attitudes and our own individual choices and collective human behavior. Following the trail of resistant bacteria from previously uncontacted tribes in the Amazon to the isolated islands in the Arctic, from the urban slums of Karachi to the wilderness of the Australian outback, Zaman examines the myriad factors contributing to this unfolding health crisis—including war, greed, natural disasters, and germophobia—to the culprits driving it: pharmaceutical companies, farmers, industrialists, doctors, governments, and ordinary people, all whose choices are pushing us closer to catastrophe.
Joining the ranks of acclaimed works like Microbe Hunters, The Emperor of All Maladies, and Spillover, Biography of Resistance is a riveting and chilling tale from a natural storyteller on the front lines, and a clarion call to address the biggest public health threat of our time.
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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Book Club
Thursday, July 23
7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-boston-book-club-jul23/
Join XR Boston's book club and learn about the intersection of climate and social justice. We are reading the first two chapters (until page 85) of "Frontlines: Stories of Global Environmental Justice" by Nick Meynen: "Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth.”
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The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Sona Mohnot
Thursday, July 23
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-climate-conversation-with-climate-leader-sona-mohnot-tickets-113409075598
Join us for a candid conversation with climate leader Sona Mohnot of The Greenlining Institute.
As part of Greenbelt Alliance's Future Climate Webinar Series we invite you to join us as we sit down with notable Bay Area climate leaders. In each 30 minute session you will have the opportunity to connect with these inspiring professionals, hear their stories, and get an inside look into the amazing work that they do on issues relating to climate adaptation planning, equity, community engagement and more.
This week our featured expert is Sona Mohnot, Environmental Equity Program Manager and Policy Analyst for The Greenlining Institute, a racial and economic justice public policy organization. Growing up in New Orleans, Sona became interested in environmental equity after witnessing the disproportionate environmental burdens that communities of color face in New Orleans, especially after Hurricane Katrina and the B.P. oil spill. Sona completed her J.D. from Tulane School of Law and her LL.M in Natural Resources and Environmental Law from Lewis and Clark Law School. At Greenlining, Sona is part of the Environmental Equity team where she focuses on creating equitable climate adaptation and resilience strategies to help ensure that communities hit first and worst by climate disasters have the resources and support needed to adapt to a changing climate and thrive in spite of it. Greenlining recently published a report on this issue that Sona led the development of, titled Making Equity Real in Climate Adaptation and Community Resilience Policies and Programs. She also serves as a council member on the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP) out of the Governor's Office of Planning and Research.
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Friday, July 24 - Sunday, July 26
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Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss
15th Annual Green Economics Institute's Green Economics Conference
Friday, July 24 - Sunday, July 26
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/survival-solutions-for-the-crises-climate-economy-and-biodiversity-loss-tickets-112114928770
The three-day Green Economics Conference will host a wide range of speakers from across the world, delivering presentations on a variety of topics from wherever they are, including on responses to the latest challenges.
The Green Economic Recovery, No More Business As Usual, Global Reset, Build Back Better. A Just Transition: Diversity, Holism, Sustainability, SDGs, We explore how to change economics, investment and finance to provide a future for humanity, other species, the climate and the Earth. The circular economy, Basic Income, The Green New Deal - no more business as usual. The future is in our hands! Reclaiming Economics from its small group of narrow interests in profit, growth, greed and destruction - and turning it into something beneficial where all the World flourishes.
Can we ever own the Earth? If we have destroyed one planet - do we have the right to go and muck up another one? Hurting nature - the cause of future pandemics? 143 Million people being climate migrants by 2020 - is not a change - It's a climate emergency! Species and people are all on the move towards cooler climates. The Arctic heatwaves signal warming unseen since before human civilisation began. We explore the climate science and facts and ask what does it take to convince people - that its finally time to act?
Debates, experts, workshops, campaigns, research. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet. Do we want Factory Farmed Humans? Or do we want well-being and a work life balance exploring the cultural impacts in shaping a new human beyond homo economicus. Smart Cities, smart women, smart lives? Young peoples futures, older people care, indigenous peoples, we are all one humanity. Our future is their future. We must work together.
We are all in this together, if we hurt one person and keep them in poverty and injustice, they are far more likely to become ill and we can catch it - so never has it been so important to look after every person and every living being properly. We exploit anyone and we hurt ourselves. Everyone needs the same opportunities as everyone else - we cant have just 8 men to own half the world's wealth - its time to share properly.
Virtual visits to forests and trees. Exploring the Primal Forests of Europe, the cultural respect for Trees, the secret life of Trees and how they nurture us. Understanding the power processes which have sought to destroy trees and how we need trees for our survival and how to protect them and how to change the legal system so it supports life on earth, rather than endorses and reinforces its destruction in the name of law and order and the economy. Trees are life givers, oxygen creators, important habitats and climate regulators. We need them.
Global Reset, Grow your own! Ending Pollution, The New Normal, Reclaiming our own food, Fresh, Healthy, Life Giving Food, Locally Grown - the links between healthy food, avoiding pandemics, keeping safe and ending the power of corporations to skew our health, make us ill and then mend us all for a profit.We can grow our own food - all we need is light and a window sill, nature provides well for us. Lets not allow her to be destroyed in the name of profit and greed and economics. Virtual visits to farms, gardens and kitchens around the world.
For more information, speakers and program please visit our website: http://www.greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk
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Friday, July 24
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COVID-19 and Climate Change: Health implications
Friday, July 24
2am
Online
RSVP at https://anu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PuMmyLeJTXGsvNj8KXgfTA
Speakers: Dr Aparna Lal and Dr Arnagretta Hunter
Environmental health researcher Dr Aparna Lal, and cardiologist Dr Arnagretta Hunter will discuss the health implications of COVID-19 and climate change. They’ll cover public health responses and any learnings we can apply to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
Recent months have seen the COVID-19 pandemic emerge as a global crisis requiring immediate, wide-spread and evidence-based action.
As countries have taken drastic measures to curb the spread of the virus, comparisons have arisen between the global response to COVID-19 and climate change. Despite their fundamental differences, they are both significant global challenges that require immediate action based upon scientific evidence.
So how and why have our responses differed, and what can we learn from the handling of COVID-19 to apply to our response to climate change?
Join us for this new online event series, COVID-19 and Climate Change, to discuss these questions and more with leading researchers in the area.
Environmental health researcher, Dr Aparna Lal and cardiologist Dr Arnagretta Hunter will discuss the health implications of COVID-19 and climate change. They’ll cover public health responses and any learnings we can apply to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
These events will be recorded. The recording will be made available after the event through the ANU Climate Change Institute YouTube channel.
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One-on-one with Bertrand Piccard
Friday, July 24
9am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.wedonthavetime.org/climate-action-news/one-on-one-with-bertrand-piccard
On this episode the medical doctor and explorer Bertrand Piccard - famous for his solar flight around the world - talks about his firm believe in technology to save the environment. He explains why he will travel around the world and present 1000 solutions that protect the environment in a profitable way to decision-makers.
Climate Action News is our broadcast about action and sustainable solutions. We invite our community, climate advocacy groups, leaders, and businesses to share their knowledge and insights. You can participate actively by commenting live during and after the broadcast. Get instructions or download our app to join the discussion. Welcome!
Hosts and guests
Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, Host, We Don't Have Time
Hosting this global broadcast is Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop-leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She lectures based on the UN Sustainable Global Development Goals internationally and has TV-skills from her background as a television program host at SVT, Swedish Public Television. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow.
Bertrand Piccard, Explorer, medical doctor and global influencer
Bertrand Piccard is the initiator and visionary behind Solar Impulse, the very first airplane capable of flying perpetually without fuel. It is in his DNA to go beyond the obvious and achieve the impossible. As part of a legendary dynasty of explorers and scientists who conquered the heights and depths of our planet, he made history by accomplishing two firsts in aviation, circumnavigating the globe in a solar-powered airplane and before that non-stop in a balloon. The ocean depths and the stratosphere attracted his father and grandfather; the challenges of our time fascinate him. With his dual identities as medical doctor and explorer, Bertrand has become an influential voice as a forward- thinking leader for progress and sustainability and a renowned inspirational speaker. Following his pioneering spirit in favour of the cause of renewable energies and clean technologies, he has now set off to select and label 1000 solutions that protect the environment in a profitable way and will then embark on a third round-the-world journey to deliver those solutions to decision-makers, encouraging them to adopt more ambitious environmental targets and energy policies.
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City Life After Coronavirus: India
Friday, July 24
10:00am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-life-after-coronavirus-india-tickets-113695323774
On July 24, join us for a discussion with the Mayor of Kochi and local design leaders from Delhi and Bangalore on tailoring containment strategies and recovery initiatives to India’s urban challenges.
As the pandemic spreads across India, municipal leaders are partnering with designers to study how localized housing and workplace typologies can inform social distancing protocols and policy. Particular challenges like crowded housing conditions, poor sanitation, and high levels of informal commercial and industrial activity require creative design solutions and communications tools to reach marginalized populations.
In partnership with the National Institute for Urban Affairs, we will welcome Soumini Jain, Mayor of Kochi, whose “Kerala model” for tacking the outbreak has been praised across the country for its proactive approach. Following presentations by Mriganka Saxena, Puneet Khanna and Guru Prasanna, Mayor Jain will join to discuss: How can cities develop containment strategies that respond to the social and spatial realities of low-income communities?
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Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force Virtual Summit Series
Friday, July 24
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-emergency-mobilization-task-force-virtual-summit-series-tickets-111898174452
Virtual Summit Series: For an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future
Sustainable & Healthy Cities
Summit Schedule:
12:00 - 1:00 am Doors Open / Meet & Greet Attendee Mixer
1:00 - 1:45 am Keynote and panel for all attendees
1:45 - 2:30 am Workshops with Breakout Groups
2:30 - 3:00 pm Report Back from Workshops
3:00 - 3:30 pm Visit sponsor tables and network
Summit Topic Areas:
City & Regional Planning
Increase trips by foot, bike, public transit, carpools, micro-mobility
Support affordable transit oriented development/ housing without displacement and with good pedestrian, bike, and livable neighborhood design; stop building single family homes; end R1 zoning; end homelessness
Ecological Protection & Regeneration
Protecting wetlands, open space, opposing sprawl, access to parks; preserve plant & wildlife corridors
Defend the rights of nature
Urban greening
Community gardens and food security, regenerative agriculture
Social Justice and Climate
An end to poverty, i.e. 100% of residents living above the poverty line
Significantly reduce disparate standard of living indices for historically impacted communities of color, including income inequality, educational achievement gap, health care access gap, and environmental burdens
Immigrant and refugee rights; defend the rights of those displaced by climate disruption
The right to free public education, including college
Healthcare as a right for all; pandemic response
Resiliency
Measures to assist those impacted by climate change, including, but not limited to floods, fires, heatwaves, sea level rise, droughts, and disease; local resiliency
Funding/Financing
Corporations and those who accumulate extraordinary wealth provide a significantly greater contribution
This is the first in the CEMTF Summit Series. Please plan to join us on the following too:
1) Sustainable & Healthy Cities – July 24, 2020
2) Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area – August 28, 2020
3) Green Infrastructure – September 25, 2020
4) Sustainable Production and Consumption of Resources – October 23, 2020
5) Summation and Next Steps – November 20, 2020
Website: https://cemtf.org/event/virtual-summit-for-an-environmentally-just-and-regenerative-future
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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, July 24
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
Another week has passed in the first pandemic of the 21st century, with thousands of new stories posted and printed, yet questions still often outnumbering answers.
Each Friday, the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability hosts a lunchtime review of COVID-19 headlines and next steps featuring Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett, NBC’s Robert Bazell, Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and Wendy Wertheimer, formerly of WHO & NIH.
Explore more Sustain What episodes on YouTube at j.mp/sustainwhatlive or subscribe on Periscope at pscp.tv/revkin.
Solutions Journalism Network: solutionsjournalism.org
The Earth Institute Initiative: sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Contact Andy Revkin with questions or ideas for future segments: @revkin on Twitter or andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
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EBC Climate Change Leadership Webinar Series: Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan
Friday, July 24
2:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-leadership-webinar-series-climate-change-and-the-cambridge-urban-forest-master-plan/
Cost: $15 - $25
EBC is excited to present this series of webinars featuring projects and organizations leading the way in climate change adaptation and mitigation in New England. Featuring the nominated projects for the 2020 EBC Annual EBEE Awards Program, this series will focus on the forward-thinking and innovative projects being planned and implemented throughout New England.
An urban forest is an essential part of a city’s infrastructure, and as a living, dynamic system, it requires constant care, investment, and replanting. With warmer temperatures, climate change brings new challenges to maintaining a healthy urban forest. This data-driven, climate-forward plan models future scenarios looking out over a 50-year time horizon and estimates risks to the urban forests. The goal is an equitable, resilient, and healthy urban forest where all city constituents are invested in and participate in its care. The plan sets priorities for where to direct investment and how to increase canopy cover where it is currently lacking, with attention particularly to areas with high concentrations of populations at risk. Another focus area is enhancing canopy cover to reduce heat island in the public realm where it is most impactful to people. The plan defines a range of interventions, spanning policy, practice, design, and outreach, to reorient current trends toward a better future.
Join us for this EBC webinar to learn about Climate Change and the Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan.
Program Chair: Nasser Brahim, Senior Climate Resiliency Planner, Kleinfelder
Speakers:
Eric Kramer, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand
Alex Silveri, Civil/Environmental Engineer, Kleinfelder
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Extinction Rebelllion [XR] SF Friday Online Activism
Friday, July 24
3 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/j/727108084?pwd=YVhTOTk1TFlodzMwc3ZqWkg2ckNoZz09 Meeting ID: 727 108 084 Password: 082166 One tap mobile +16699006833,,727108084# US (San Jose)
XRSF has been holding weekly online activism with a regenerative atmosphere.
We are in extraordinary times, but this is still a good time to spread messages of hope, empowerment, support, compassion, empathy and ACTION. Join us on Fridays for some connection and activism.
CALL AGENDA (HIGH LEVEL): 10m check-in & land acknowledgement 10m calm the limbic system (Guided meditation, poems, qigong, laughter yoga) 15-20m digital activism in breakout rooms 15-20m mutual aid (Sharing what you need with the group, in breakout rooms & sheet) 10m calm the limbic system (Exercise, meditation, gratitudes)
The call will run from 3-4pm EST.
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Pollution Across Communities and Places
Friday, July 24
3:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smart-equitable-commonwealth-co-creating-the-society-we-want-tickets-97157333199
Presentations and Panel
“Using Data from the Massachusetts Vehicle Census (MAVC) to Estimate Municipal Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation”
Conor Gately, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
“Mapping Environmental Conditions Experienced by Riders of the T at High Resolution”
Edgar Castro, Northeastern University
“Quantifying the Health Impacts of Eliminating Air Pollution Emissions in the City of Boston”
Matthew Raifman, Boston University
“A Co-Simulated Energy and Indoor Air Quality Housing Model to Inform Decisions for Retrofits and Health”
Catherine L. Connolly, Boston University
Moderator: Paulina Muratore, Union of Concerned Scientists
More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/bari/events/2020-bari-conference/
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What Can We Adapt Now from Cuba’s Health System: House by House, Barrio by Barrio
Friday, July 24
6:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldOqppzIoE9L2KT0j15-VfLVnODZXq5YF
The People’s Response Presents- Live from Jamaica
As COVID continues to Spiral out of Control in the U.S. “What Can We Adapt Now from Cuba’s Health System: House by House, Barrio by Barrio”
Dr. Jose Armando Arronte Villamarin, National Coordinator of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Jamaica, 2017 Chicago Cuban Health Team Leader
Dr. Luis Antonio Gonzalez Corro, Born in Panama, Cuba’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) Graduate, Primary Care & Social Medicine Physician, Montefiore, New York
Jerome Montgomery, Director, Project Vida
Lucky Camargo, Mi Villita Neighbors
Dr. Howard Ehrman, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine & People’s Response
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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In Their Voices: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Friday, July 24
8pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tls-in-their-voices-korean-adoptees-tell-their-stories/register
The Transnational Literature Series welcomes Korean adoptees Nicole Chung and Jenny Heijun Wills in Conversation with Mee-ok to discuss identity, belonging, adoption—and writing their stories.
Books featured in this conversation:
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun Wills
With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
Nicole Chung was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in the Washington, DC area. Her nationally bestselling debut memoir All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, TIME, Newsday, Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, and Chicago Public Library, among many others. She is the editor in chief of Catapult magazine, co-editor of the immigration anthology A Map Is Only One Story, and the former managing editor of The Toast. Her next book is forthcoming from Ecco Books/HarperCollins.
In her beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related Jenny Heijun Wills recounts the story of reconnecting with her first family in Korea while living at a guesthouse for transnational adoptees. Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women—sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces—Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child’s removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir, which has received much acclaim, including being one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019, one of the Winnipeg Free Press’s 10 best books of the last decade, and winning the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust award for Non-Fiction in 2019 and the 2020 Best First Book by the Manitoba Book Awards. She has lived, studied, and worked in Montreal, Boston, Toronto, and Seoul. She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.
About the moderator: Mee-ok is the winner of the 2019 Construction Literary Magazine Contest for Nonfiction and was selected as a finalist for the 2019 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. She has also been featured in the LA Times, Boston Globe Magazine, American Journal of Poetry, Korean Quarterly, and Michael Pollan’s anthology for Medium, where her piece was named Editor’s Pick. She is currently a contributing editor at Passengers Journal and the recipient of the 2021 Voices of Color Fellowship at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing as well as a visiting lecturer at the Frank Lloyd Wright estate, Taliesin, where she is a former Writer in Residence. More at Mee-ok.com
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Screening of Lumumba (2001)
Friday July 24
8-10pm
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Based on the true story of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo. An anti-colonial leader of African people to liberate Congo from the clutches of imperialist Belgium. On January 17, 1961 he was assassinated by a firing squad in execution-style by the Belgian and US military, which was covered up for decades. Directed by Raoul Peck, in French with English subtitles.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston@riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Saturday, July 25, 11:00 PM – Sunday, July 26, 12:00 AM
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Comics for climate change: A comics workshop
Saturday, July 25, 11:00 PM – Sunday, July 26, 12:00 AM
Online
RVP at https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/comics-for-climate-change-a-comics-workshop-tickets-113854014422
This event is part of our Digital Launch Events for The Makers Club: Game On!
Find out how animals in Southeast Asia are affected by global warming and climate change in this guided workshop by ecologist-journalist Debby Ng and illustrator Darel Seow. The duo will unearth lesser-known animals in the region that have had their habitats and lifestyles affected by global warming, and show participants how to draw simple characters based on native Southeast Asian animals. At the end of the workshop, participants will also conceptualize and create a simple comic story about climate change!
About the Speakers
Debby Ng is a disease ecologist, photojournalist, and educator. Her study fields span seas and summits – from the tropical reefs of Singapore, to the Himalaya in Nepal – and comprises the diverse social, political, and physical landscapes that are novel to these systems. She is the founder of two volunteer organisations – one based in her home country of Singapore where her focus is on coral reef conservation, and the other based in Nepal that works with Himalayan communities to manage dog-wildlife conflict.
Darel Seow is a visual storyteller who illustrates the tales of the natural world through his unique brand of wry wit and whimsy. An illustration graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UK), he believes in the draw of storytelling as a means of engagement, creating experiences that simultaneously excite and educate. Particularly interested in museums and culture, he has worked with cultural institutions to encourage learning through the power of imagination and play.
For children aged 7-12. Parents/guardians are welcome to join in.
This talk may be recorded and published online. By registering, you agree that your image or voice may appear in our publicity materials. Read our commitment to PDPA at bit.ly/DE-tnc.
See the full line up of online talks and workshops at http://bit.ly/TMC1-DigitalLaunch. Please contact Difference Engine at readcomics@differenceengine.sg if you have any questions.
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Sunday, July 26
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Sharing Our Climate Liberation Stories in an Era of Transformation
Sunday, July 26
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-our-climate-liberation-stories-in-an-era-of-transformation-tickets-104994128264
Cost: $0 – $10
Join OCV team members in a guided and interactive workshop designed to help all of us process our climate stories amidst concurrent crises.
Storytelling allows us to track multiple unfolding crises by providing a way for us to share and record our experiences, while serving as a tool to check-in with each other about the effects of related traumas. It also generates collective hope and empathy as we pay attention to the brave acts of resistance and resilience happening everyday. COVID-19 raises new questions about our relationship to land and community, illuminating the reality that sustainability and public health are deeply intertwined. Recent activism surrounding the fights for racial justice — most recently exhibited in the mass uprising after the murder of George Floyd — highlights the disproportionately harmful and intersectional ways that BIPOC are impacted by the climate crisis. At OCV, the process we use for telling our climate stories can help guide our reflections and understandings of the way public health and the fight for racial justice impact our work on climate change. We invite you to join us as we begin to sit with the changes catalyzed by the pandemic and the recent uprising for Black lives and examine the impacts on our personal climate stories. This workshop is open to people who have attended our storytelling workshops in the past or those who are new to our workshop process.
*This event is intended to be accessible to a wide audience and therefore half of our tickets are priced at no cost. Please choose the ticket price that reflects what you are best able to contribute.*
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The Climate Crisis: Learning from Covid-19
Sunday, July 26
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climate-crisis-learning-from-covid-19-tickets-112037378816
The Climate Crisis: Learning from Covid-19
A call for systemic and individual change
With Irina Feygina, Susan Hatch and Bill Say
Is Covid-19 revealing structural vulnerabilities and systemic inequalities that contribute to the climate crisis and our inability to respond to it?
Step out with us for a couple of hours to look at the big picture. The aim of the forum is to listen to what Covid-19 is revealing about our deepest needs and challenges, and emerging ways of relating and being a society. What is this ‘new normal’? How do we transform our internal and external systems? How do we tap into a larger “mind” and gain a deeper perspective and insight that we can bring into our understanding and response to climate change?
We will explore the intersection of Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis from a systems and a dreamwork perspective, using inner and small-group work, and a group process with a debrief. Our goal is connection and exploration - in community.
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P&P Live! Cli-fi, Literature, and Activism with Jenny Offill
Sunday, July 26
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-cli-fi-literature-and-activism-with-jenny-offill-tickets-110839221094
Jenny Offill discusses climate change, literature, and activism in times of crisis with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.
This event is presented in partnership with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.
New York Times-bestselling author Jenny Offill will discuss her novel Weather with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, an anxious and funny novel that follows a librarian who is gradually awakened to the climate crisis and tries to balance that with her daily life. As a Guardianreporter put it, “At its core, the story asks: what happens after we start to pay attention?”
The event will include a reading of Weather followed by a discussion and Q&A session. Attendees are encouraged to donate to the Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute to promote voter rights and racial justice.
Offill will discuss how literature and activism are connected with Denise Robbins, Communications Director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, including how this story resonates in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Monday, July 27
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Environmental Report: Energy
Monday, July 27
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-report-energy-tickets-113559551676
Advocacy Journalism training on energy reporting
Energy growth is directly linked to well-being and prosperity across the globe. Meeting the growing demand for energy in a safe and environmentally responsible manner is a key challenge.
In this time of global climate crisis, we understand the need for countries to transition their energy consumption to clean and renewable energy. The world needs energy — and in increasing quantities — to support economic and social progress and build a better quality of life, in particular in developing countries. But providing this energy around the globe comes with a responsibility and commitment to developing and using our resources responsibly.
A transparent media that’s committed to protecting both people and the environment to provide positive and unbiased information is critical to development and how people react to the expected changes.
This advocacy journalism session will look at energy systems and how to develop stories that address energy access, transition and energy
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A day in the life of….a theoretical ecologist with Dr Samraat Pawar
Monday, 27 July 2020
1:00 - 1:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-lates-online-back-to-nature-registration-111982994150
Dr Samraat Pawar
Inland lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs, wetlands, and estuaries cover less than 4% of Earth’s surface. And yet these bodies of freshwater bury more carbon in sediments each year than the vast ocean floor. How these inland aquatic environments respond to future stresses and influence our climate crisis is not well appreciated or even understood.
Dr Samraat Pawar is leading efforts to address this gap in our understanding through field data analysis, complex modelling and even computer games. Growing up in a military family that moved around rural India far from the city lights, his innate love of nature was allowed to flourish from an early age. Today Samraat is helping predict the future of some of the most important and yet complex ecosystems on Earth.
For this Day in the Life event, Samraat will fill us or career, hopes and fears for our environment with his responses to the following statements:
When friends ask me what I do for a living, I say…..
I realised this is what I wanted to do when….
A typical day at work involves……
I wish more people knew….
The best piece of advice I have even been given is…
Join us on the the 27th of July at 18:00 when you can challenge Dr Pawar with your own statements for him to complete. Feel free to submit these in advance using the email address Lates@imperial.ac.uk, or you can post them live during the event via the YouTube chat function.
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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Emergency Everywhere Campaign Kickoff!
Monday, July 27
5:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86786978430?pwd=YWJqdjEvRU5LZ3BBMzU2SkIxRUZHdz09
XR is kicking off our new Emergency Everywhere campaign!
We are going to be spreading out from the City of Boston - which declared a climate health emergency earlier this year to surrounding cities and towns. We want them all to both declare climate emergency and to start proactively telling the truth about the state of the crisis.
The Action WG will be creating a sequence of ~4 actions that can be replicated in each city/town. We are calling for 'City Captains' to coordinate the execution of these actions in their towns with the support of our working groups. A goal of this campaign is to build up rebel membership outside of Boston and build affinity groups and the seeds of new chapters.
Here's an overview of the campaign: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/AQcOEstwDyEdtGaH9YY+M+sr4v7270cAAESVmwlQ4A8/
If you are interested in learning more about this campaign, are interested in building membership in your town, or want to pick up some action organizing skills with the support of XR's working groups - come join us for a short presentation, Q&A, and discussion.
Run time 5:30 to 6:30 pm EST.
Love and rage y'all.
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Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change Zoom Event
Monday, July 27
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disposable-city-miamis-future-on-the-shores-of-climate-change-zoom-event-registration-111183561024
A Zoom webinar with journalist Mario Alejandro Ariza discussing his new book Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change
A Zoom webinar with journalist Mario Alejandro Ariza discussing his new book Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change.
Purchase of a ticket is required for participation. The $30 ticket includes the book which you can pick up curbside (We will send you an email when the book is ready for pickup) or have shipped to you via USMail, tax, and the Zoom meeting. The book's publication date is July, 14th. Complete the ticket purchase and we will get you the book when it is available. The Zoom link will be sent one day prior to the event.
About Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Change:
Miami is a crossroads—a subtropical enclave of immigrants—at a crossroads. In this city, your Venezuelan Uber driver is an asylum seeker who used to work as a civil engineer. Your nurse left Haiti after the earthquake. Your new neighbor fled the US Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria. Your best friend is the child of Cuban exiles. And when you tell them about Miami and climate change, they all want to know how much time the city has left before it floods. Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by journalist Mario Alejandro Ariza is a deeply-reported personal investigation into the present and future effects of climate change in the city affectionately known as “The Magic City”.
Few major cities in the United States stand to lose as much, as soon, as Miami. Likely to be partially underwater by the end of the century, its residents are already experiencing tidal flooding, failing septic systems, and climate driven displacement. In Disposable City Ariza not only shows these examples of what climate change already looks like in the place he calls home, he also paints a picture of what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and details how that future has been shaped by the city's uneven socioeconomic landscape.
Miami may currently be on the front lines of climate change, but Ariza warns that the battle it's fighting today is coming for the rest of the U.S.—and the rest of the world—far sooner than we could have imagined even a decade ago. Disposable City is a thoughtful and vibrant portrait of a city whose unique culture might soon succumb to a watery death—and ultimately a call to save it.
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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
Monday, July 27
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_francine_hirsch/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Center welcome FRANCINE HIRSCH—acclaimed historian and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—for a discussion of her latest book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. She will be joined in conversation by JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN, associate, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and author of The Last Days of Stalin.
About Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and ground-breaking book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been omitted from standard accounts: the part the Soviet Union played in making the trials happen in the first place.
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers the first complete picture of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), including the many ironies brought to bear as the Soviets took their place among the countries of the prosecution in late 1945. Everyone knew that Stalin had allied with Hitler before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact hung heavy over the courtroom, as did the suspicion that the Soviets had falsified evidence in an attempt to pin one of their own war crimes, the mass killing of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, on the Nazis. Moreover, key members of the Soviet delegation, including the Soviet judge and chief prosecutor, had played critical roles in Stalin's infamous show trials of the 1930s. For the American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and his colleagues in the British and French delegations, Soviet participation in the IMT undermined the credibility of the trials and indeed the moral righteousness of the Allied victory.
Yet without the Soviets Nuremberg would never have taken place. Soviet jurists conceived of the legal framework that treated war as an international crime, giving the trials a legal basis. The Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting against Germany, and their almost unimaginable suffering gave them moral authority. They would not be denied a place on the tribunal and moreover were determined to make the most of it. However, little went as the Soviets had planned. Stalin's efforts to steer the trials from afar backfired. Soviet war crimes were exposed in open court. As relations among the four countries of the prosecution foundered, Nuremberg turned from a court of justice to an early front of the Cold War.
Hirsch's book provides a front-row seat in the Nuremberg courtroom, while also guiding readers behind the scenes to the meetings in which secrets were shared, strategies mapped, and alliances forged. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers a startlingly new view of the IMT and a fresh perspective on the movement for international human rights that it helped launch.
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Tuesday, July 28
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EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment Webinar: Climate Change and the MCP – Resilient
Tuesday, July 28
9:00 am – 11:30 am
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-site-remediation-and-redevelopment-webinar-climate-change-and-the-mcp-resilient-cleanups-in-a-changing-world/
Cost: $25 - $120
The effects of climate change in Massachusetts will take different forms including changes in precipitation, sea level rise, rising temperatures and extreme weather. Upcoming amendments to the Massachusetts Contingency Plan include provisions intended to emphasize that these anticipated effects of climate change are relevant to site assessment, and the selection and maintenance of Permanent Solutions under Chapter 21E.
For this EBC Site Remediation and Redevelopment program, a representative of DEP’s Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup will discuss implementation of the amendments to the MCP relating to climate change, and an LSP will examine how some more commonly-recognized climate change impacts might affect decision-making under the MCP. Finally, we will be introduced to the use of models for predicting the nature and extent of climate-change impacts.
Program Chair:
Thomas G. Fiore, Of Counsel, PretiFlaherty
Speakers:
Joseph Famely, Senior Environmental Scientist, Woods Hole Group
Ken Marra, Program & Policy Development, Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Additional information to be provided shortly.
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NASA Scientists present “Why Our Future Depends on the Arctic”
Tuesday, July 28
10:00 PM – 11:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nasa-scientists-present-why-our-future-depends-on-the-arctic-registration-112682690962
An educational and inspirational discussion about the Arctic and why it's key to the survival of every living thing on our planet.
Gather your family for a lively discussion about the state of Arctic ice, why the region is crucial to our future, and innovative ways we can help to save it.
Dr. Steve Zornetzer and Dr. Tony Strawa will provide cutting-edge insight into the importance of Arctic ice preservation and how the Earth's heat shield can help stabilize the global climate.
We're planning for a lively Q+A discussion -- submit questions when you register! Zoom link will be sent on the day of the event.
Registration is FREE. If you're able, a donation is welcome. Despite the urgency of our work for all of humanity, our progress is in jeopardy due to COVID-19. Please help secure our stability from this extremely turbulent year: Donate now.
This event is sponsored by Ice911 Research, a donor-supported nonprofit dedicated to safely restoring Arctic ice.
MODERATOR
Dr. Leslie Field is the Founder and CTO of Ice911 Research. Dr. Field earned degrees in two engineering disciplines from MIT and UC Berkeley, worked in R&D at Hewlett-Packard Labs, and has 58 issued patents. In addition to her work at Ice911, she teaches a popular climate-focused annual class at Stanford University.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Steven Zornetzer is a former Associate Director of Research and Technology at NASA Ames Research Center. He also served as Director of Research and prior to that as Director of Information Sciences and Technology at Ames. He was the lead author of the influential book, Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks. Steve has been recognized for his leadership in revolutionary information technology-based approaches to aerospace and space exploration missions. In 2008, he received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award and in 2010 NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal. Over the past several years he has focused his efforts on climate change.
Dr. Tony Strawa is a former Chief of the New Pursuits Office and former Director of the New Opportunity Center at NASA Ames Research. Dr. Strawa has been involved in experimental measurement, analysis, and instrumentation development for aerospace and environmental applications for 30 years. He was Group Lead for the Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics Group that studied the effects of aerosols on air pollution and climate. That group developed a technique that discriminates types of polar stratospheric clouds using satellite observation and developed an instrument capable of measuring aerosol optical properties in situ using cavity ring-down technology. Dr. Strawa holds the patent for the Advanced Sunphotometer concept.
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Flooding in America’s Heartland
Tuesday, July 28
12:00 pm
Online
RSVP at http://www.climateone.org/events/flooding-america’s-heartland
Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO and Founder, ISeeChange
Ed Kearns, Chief Data Officer, First Street Foundation
Martha Shulski, Director, Nebraska State Climate Office; Nebraska State Climatologist
Miami may be the poster child of rising waters in the U.S., but further inland, states are grappling with torrential flooding that is becoming the new norm. Last year, flooding in the southeast killed 12 people and caused $20 billion in damages. This year’s rains have already driven Mississippi into a state emergency, and Missouri is bracing itself with a levee system still in disrepair from last year’s storms.
Can infrastructure like floodplains, wetlands, and engineered barriers save riverside states from their new, saturated norm? How are communities adapting to a changing, wetter climate in some of the most conservative parts of the country? Join us for a conversation on flooding in America with Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO and founder of ISeeChange, Ed Kearns, chief data officer at First Street Foundation and Martha Shulski, director of the Nebraska state climate office.
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Talking Tuesdays - Climate Change
Tuesday, July 28
1:00 – 2:15pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-tuesdays-climate-change-tickets-111954976348
Information technology leadership in addressing climate change
An underpinning philosophy of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists is that the IT skills of its members can magnify its charitable contributions many times. This philosophy is very much behind the launch of the WCIT’s ‘IT and Climate Change’ working group, because IT can deliver huge benefits in tackling climate change, as a magnifier of human and machine capability.
In the 21st century, leaders in information technology are fundamentally charged with the productivity of their organisations. Now the survival of those organisations depends on the transition to net zero. There is much to be done and most has to be done in the next 10 years – the ‘decade of delivery’.
To start the conversation our first event is an expert panel conversation focusing on leadership and why small changes matter:
The role of Livery companies in Climate Change: Professor Averil MacDonald OBE (Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of Fuellers, campaigner for decarbonisation using hydrogen).
The impact of IT on climate change: Dr Ariel Edesess (Researcher in Low Carbon technologies, Liverpool John Moores University).
Leadership in IT and climate change: Phil Wharton (Interim CIO Bank of Ireland).
'Many shavings make a pile’: Adam Philpott (Senior Vice President at McAfee).
The speakers will cover their personal and business perspectives and look forward to a good discussion with the audience.
Guests welcome!
Tickets: £10 voluntary donation to the WCIT Charity
ZOOM details will be provided nearer the date.
For more information contact:
Martin Hawley (martin@winsland.me) or Isla Kennedy (ikennedy@hotmail.co.uk)
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Disinformation, social media, and foreign interference: What can go wrong in the 2020 elections?
Tuesday, July 28
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-disinformation-social-media-foreign-interference-election
Join the conversation on Twitter using #Election2020
Campaigns across the country are now entering their final push before the general election. If the events of the last few years are any indication, there are many things that can go wrong. Disinformation, social media manipulation, and foreign interference all affected the 2016 elections and will likely continue to threaten elections moving forward. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated voting procedures and led to long lines in some polling places. How should government officials and local leaders confront these challenges? How can we avoid the myriad of problems that could afflict the elections?
On July 28, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a webinar examining the potential problems in the 2020 elections. Panelists will discuss the use and impact of social media manipulation, election interference, voting obstacles, and the spread of disinformation.
Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events@brookings.edu or via Twitter @BrookingsGov or with #Election2020.
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Book Talk: Michael Pollan
Tuesday, July 28
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-book-talk-michael-pollan-virtual
Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
Michael Pollan RI ’16, author of Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World (Audible Originals, 2020)
Reading will be followed by a discussion with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and an audience Q and A.
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Nuclear Weapons abolition, racism, and gender
Tuesday, July 28
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216
Gina Belafonte and Beatrice Fihn
Born and raised in New York City, Gina Belafonte has spent her life in the arenas of entertainment and activism where her professional work thrives today. As the youngest child of Julie and Harry Belafonte, whose impact in these fields is among the most influential and progressive in the world, Gina’s passions come as no surprise. Gina was the lead producer on the internationally acclaimed documentary film, SING YOUR SONG, exploring the extraordinary life and legacy of Harry Belafonte that was selected as the opening film for the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
After many years working as an actress in NYC, with several off-broadway and touring companies like The National Shakespeare Company and The Mirror Reparatory Company in NYC, under the Artistic Direction of John Strasberg, alongside greats such as Geraldine Page, F. Murray Abraham, Anne Jackson and Elisabeth Franz, a series of opportunities to work in film and television moved her to Hollywood, where she appeared in several guest-starring roles, and landed a television series called THE COMMISH. After two formative years on screen with the series, her lifelong passion for stage production ultimately led her to produce theater in Los Angeles. Gina’s technical expertise and insight into the world of film and television production were developed while working with Paula Weinstein and Barry Levinson at Baltimore Spring Creek/Warner Brothers.
After becoming a mother, Gina followed her early childhood environment by immersing herself in activism. Collaborating with leading gang interventionist, Bo Taylor, Gina developed a deeper understanding of gang culture by working in the California prison system, and co-founded a non-profit organization called The Gathering For Justice. This multi-cultural, multi-generational organization focuses on youth incarceration and the criminalization of poverty. She currently sits on the Board of 2nd Call a community based organization designed to save lives, by reducing violence and assisting in the personal development of high risk individuals, proven offenders, ex-felons, parolees and others who society disregards and the internationally acclaimed Actors Gang Theatre founded by Tim Robbins.
After dedicating over a decade to addressing gang intervention and incarceration, Gina traveled around the world with her father to bring together two inspiring generations of art and activism with the critically acclaimed HBO film SING YOUR SONG.
Today, Gina lives in LA and New York, and is working with diverse artists, activists and organizations worldwide to promote cultural and civic engagement in the 21st century. Ms. Belafonte is currently involved in many artistic ventures, such as producing a documentary film titled Another Night In The Free World that explores the lives of three young women activists, their struggles and challenges and the difference they are making in the world, developing along side her father with Martin Scorsese on a television mini series about the colonization of the Congo by King Leopold the 2nd, and the staged version of the Grammy nominated 6 CD box set anthology of black music The Long Road To Freedom. She and her father are the executive producers of Lyrics from Lockdown - a hip-hop theater, multimedia production addressing the impact of wrongful imprisonment and mass incarceration. Driven by her passion for the arts and activism, Gina reflects: "After we finished Sing Your Song, I knew then as long as my dad had an idea, I would do whatever I could to help bring those ideas to fruition, continue the best of my elders’ traditions, and preserve our family’s legacy."
Website: https://www.sankofa.org/
Beatrice Fihn
Beatrice Fihn is the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. She accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and delivered the Nobel Lecture in Oslo on behalf of the campaign.
Read the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize lecture on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons here.
Ms. Fihn has lead the campaign since 2013 and has worked to mobilize civil society throughout the development of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This includes developing and executing ICAN’s political strategy and fundraising efforts as well as representing the campaign in relation to media and key stakeholders such as governments, the United Nations and other international organizations.
Ms. Fihn has over a decade of experience in disarmament diplomacy and civil society mobilization, through her work with ICAN, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She has written extensively on weapons law, humanitarian law, civil society engagement in diplomacy and multilateral institutions, and gender perspective on disarmament work.
Born in Sweden, Ms. Fihn has a Masters in Law from the University of London and a Bachelors degree in International Relations from Stockholm University.
Website: https://www.icanw.org/
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Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19 with Margaret Sullivan
Tuesday, July 28
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporter-nights-science-journalism-in-the-time-of-covid-19-registration-112692913538
Pandemic Coverage in the International Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Margaret Sullivan, Media Columnist for The Washington Post, former Editor of The Buffalo News, and Public Editor at The New York Times from 2012 to 2016, will analyze how the media has covered the biggest science story of the century. In what ways did journalists serve the public good in their pandemic coverage? Where did they fail? What are the lessons for the next pandemic?
About this series:
Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters.
A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors.
Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia.
Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt.
For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at sostrowski@ei.columbia.edu.
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Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Tuesday, July 28
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_michelle_bowdler/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Pushcart Prize–nominated essayist and public health advocate MICHELLE BOWDLER for a discussion of her book Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto. She will be joined in conversation by ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH, author of the acclaimed book The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.
About Is Rape a Crime?
The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone.
Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's memoir indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for decades in our society, asking whether rape is a crime given that it is the least reported major felony, least successfully prosecuted, and fewer than 3% of reported rapes result in conviction. Cases are closed before they are investigated and DNA evidence sits for years untested and disregarded.
Rape in this country is not treated as a crime of brutal violence but as a parlor game of he said / she said. It might be laughable if it didn’t work so much of the time.
Given all this, it seems fair to ask whether rape is actually a crime.
In 1984, the Boston Sexual Assault Unit was formed as a result of a series of break-ins and rapes that terrorized the city, of which Michelle’s own horrific rape was the last. Twenty years later, after a career of working with victims like herself, Michelle decides to find out what happened to her case and why she never heard from the police again after one brief interview.
Is Rape a Crime? is an expert blend of memoir and cultural investigation, and Michelle's story is a rallying cry to reclaim our power and right our world.
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Wednesday, July 29
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Power After Carbon: Transitioning to Low-Carbon Power in the United States
Wednesday, July 29
12:00-1:30 p.m. EDT
Online
RSVP at https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/events-calendar/power-after-carbon-transitioning-low-carbon-power-united-states
The U.S. power sector is in the midst of a rapid transformation driven by several broad and interlinked trends: electrification of existing sectors such as transport and heat, and connection of new customers; decentralization of production and storage of electricity; and modernization of physical and digital grid infrastructure. Central to each of these themes is the need for continued and accelerated decarbonization of electricity in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change and protect human health.
In this webinar, panelists will discuss how the U.S. power sector can deliver abundant, affordable, secure, and flexible power as we transition to a low-carbon and increasingly electrified economy.
Panelists:
Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, Founder and Director of Boston University’s Institute of Sustainable Energy and Professor of Practice in the Questrom School of Business. Author of Power After Carbon(2020) and Smart Power (2010)
Cheryl LaFleur, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University and Member of the Board of Directors of the Independent System Operator of New England (ISO-NE)
Richard Kauffman, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, Chairman of the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and Chair, Generate Capital
David R. Hill, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University and Director on the Board of Directors of the New York Independent System Operator Inc (NYISO)
Moderated by Dr. Melissa Lott, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details.
This event is open to press. Media should register for this event. Media inquiries or requests for interviews should be directed to Artealia Gilliard (ag4144@columbia.edu) or Genna Morton (gam2164@columbia.edu).
For more information contact Caitlin Norfleet (energypolicyevents@sipa.columbia.edu).
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Does the public’s Covid-response provide hope for our natural world?
Wednesday, July 29
1:30 - 2:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-lates-online-back-to-nature-registration-111982994150
Through lockdown many have claimed the public might be experiencing a renewed connection with nature and the environment. At the same time people’s efforts to flatten the Covid infection curve inadvertently saw the widescale adoption of many greener more sustainable approaches to daily life – whether by working from home or shopping locally. Any associated environmental benefits, such as reduced carbon emission and reduced air pollution, are likely to be short term as normal life slowly returns. However perhaps lessons can be learnt in the battles against the other global crises of our age – climate change and man-made destruction of the natural world?
In this Imperial Lates Online discussion we bring together a climate researcher, a behavioural scientist and an environmental campaigner to ask if the public’s reaction to Covid-19 has given them hope. Or do second spikes, and condemnation of mass public gathering as restriction were eased show awareness and public goodwill alone can only get you so far. Our panel will feature:
Joeri Rogelj, Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
Morena Mills, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Social Science, Imperial
Judy Ling Wong, Director of the Black Environment Network
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What Makes a Marriage Last with Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas
Wednesday July 29
5:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/marlo-thomas-phil-donahue-live-tickets-113393085772
Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue join Brookline Booksmith in conversation surrounding their life togetther and their new book, What Makes a Marriage Last, for this one of a kind virtual event!
What makes a marriage last? Who doesn’t want to know the answer to that question? To unlock this mystery, iconic couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue crisscrossed the country and conducted intimate conversations with forty celebrated couples whose long marriages they’ve admired—from award-winning actors, athletes, and newsmakers to writers, comedians, musicians, and a former U.S. president and First Lady. Through these conversations, Marlo and Phil also revealed the rich journey of their own marriage.
Marlo Thomas is an award-winning actress, author, and activist whose body of work has earned her four Emmy Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Golden Globe, a Grammy, and induction into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a civilian can receive. Marlo is also the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This is her eighth book.
Phil Donahue is a writer, producer, journalist, and media pioneer who revolutionized the talk-show format. The Donahue show was honored with twenty Daytime Emmys (ten for the show, ten for Outstanding Host), and in 1996, Phil was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to television journalism. He has been inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award.
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Tom Friedman: The “Trump Effect” on Foreign and Climate Policy
Wednesday, July 29
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tom-friedman-the-trump-effect-on-foreign-and-climate-policy-tickets-109832377598
Tom Friedman will share his thoughts and engage in dialogue on Trump and how they have impacted the world politic and climate change.
Tom Friedman is an American political commentator and best-selling author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.
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Thursday, July 30
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Alumni Panel (webinar), “U.S.-Japan Relations in the COVID19 Era”
Thursday, July 30
8 – 9:15 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/alumni-panel-webinar-7-30-20?delta=0
SPEAKER(S) Hiroyuki Akita, Foreign Affairs and National Security Commentator, Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Mireya Solís, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Phillip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution
Yoshihisa Masaki, Director, Social Communications Bureau, Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)
Noriyuki Shikata, Deputy Director General, Consular Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Moderator: Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO Emma Duncan (eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu)
LINK https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/alumni-panel-webinar-7-30-20?delta=0
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Delivering Breakthrough CX in a Changing World
Thursday, July 30
10:00am to 10:30am
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/8615943946195/WN_J0jSQY7YRg21R-Y5QYUldg
Digital technology has become essential to delivering to value to customers amidst a pandemic, revolutionizing the way that humans behave and make decisions. Moreover, we are undergoing a pivotal shift in race relations and greater expectations from customers on inclusivity. What do these seismic shifts mean for customer experience (CX) and competitive strategy? In this webinar, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist Renee Richardson Gosline will discuss the application of behavioral science “nudges” in the customer journey to help you adapt breakthrough digital CX.
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COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Our Food Systems
Thursday, July 30
1:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001Bv1CbEAJ
Lisa Held, Senior Policy Reporter, Civil Eats
Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
Will COVID-19 change our food system for good? Increased coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Farmers are hurting as supply chains for fresh, perishable foods shrivel. Meanwhile, food banks have seen a surge in demand that has required distribution support from the National Guard.
What does COVID-19 mean for agriculture, our food supply systems — and our diets? Join us for a conversation with Lisa Held, senior reporter at Civil Eats and Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, on feeding a nation under quarantine.
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Mary Berry and Bill McKibben
Thursday, July 30
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
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Black Boston: Building Healthy Communities
Thursday, July 30
5pm–6pm
Online
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh6i1y486c5ce83d&oseq=&c=&ch=
Boston is home to some of the country’s leading community health centers and partners devoted to tackling health inequities. Yet even here race, ethnicity, and racism continue to adversely impact health, and COVID-19 has further revealed racial inequities. Where has Boston been successful? And what are the next steps to improve health outcomes, close persistent gaps, save lives, and transform the fields leading this work?
Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities, the Boston University Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and WBUR CitySpace for Black Boston: Building Healthy Communities, the first in a recurring discussion series featuring transformative Black leaders from across Greater Boston.
Speakers:
Vivien Morris, Founder and Chairperson, Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition
Sandra Cotterell, CEO, Codman Square Health Center
Dr. Thea James, Vice President of Mission, Boston Medical Center
Moderated by:
Yvette Cozier, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.
More information regarding additional events in the Black Boston Series is coming soon! Keep an eye on future newsletters and bu.edu/ioc/blackboston for updates.
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Fast Forum with Governor Hogan
Thursday, July 30
6 – 6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflmPtykSED5ANPyak07SyU4R7xbtd-lY8cdfh_G1GhLv2B_w/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Governor Larry Hogan
DETAILS Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is the 62nd governor of Maryland, chairman of the National Governors Association and author of “Still Standing: Surviving Cancer, Riots, a Global Pandemic and the Toxic Politics that Divide America.” Hogan joins the IOP in conversation with IOP Resident Fellow F'15 Doug Heye, CNN Political Commentator and former communications director for the Republican National Committee.
LINK iop.harvard.edu
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Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19
Thursday, July 30
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporter-nights-science-journalism-in-the-time-of-covid-19-registration-112711300534
On the Ground Truthtelling: Editing and Reporting in the Midst of a Pandemic
Professor Dreifus and students in her class interview a panel of top science editors and reporters on their career paths, as well as the highlights and challenges of their day-to-day work. Panelists include The New York Times Science Correspondent, Apoorva Mandavilli, Jeffery DelViscio, Senior Multimedia Editor at Scientific American, John Timmer, Senior Science Editor at Ars Technica and Katherine Bagley, Managing Editor of YaleEnvironment360.
A live stream link will be provided 24 hours in advance.
About this series:
Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters.
A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors.
Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia.
Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt.
For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at sostrowski@ei.columbia.edu.
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EBC Second Annual New England Climate Change Summit: Part One – State Leadership
Friday, July 31
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-new-england-climate-change-resilence-adaptation-summit-part-one-state-leadership/
Cost: $50 - $185
Information for viewing the webinar will be emailed to all registered attendees.
BC New England Climate Change Summit, which will be a two-part series, will provide an opportunity to learn from and participate with a range of speakers about the important issues of climate change in New England. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, long a strong voice in responding to climate change, will give the keynote address.
For Part One, the Climate Leaders from the six New England states will provide updates on their specific climate change plans, program priorities, and implementation strategies. For Part Two, developments from key city climate-related programs will be presented including specific case studies of successful approaches to address various climate change-related issues.
Moderated panel discussions with the speakers will provide further opportunities for insight into approaches that address the climate crisis.
Speaker Agenda:
Keynote Presentation: Economic Impacts of Climate Change in New England
The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator, State of Rhode Island
New Hampshire State Climate Program
Christopher Skoglund, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate and Energy Program Manager, Air Resources Division, Department of Environmental Services, State of New Hampshire
Sherry Godlewski, Resilience and Adaptation Manager, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Department of Environmental Services, State of New Hampshire
Vermont State Climate Program
Peter Walke, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation, State of Vermont
Rhode Island State Climate Program
Shaun O’Rourke, Chief Resiliency Officer, State of Rhode Island
Maine State Climate Program
Hannah Pingree, Director, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & the Future, State of Maine
Connecticut State Climate Program
Rebecca French, Office of Climate Change Planning, Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, State of Connecticut
Massachusetts State Climate Program
Mia Mansfield, Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Panel Moderator:
Tom Burack, Esq., Shareholder, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA
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Decolonizing Ourselves Co-Learning
Friday, July 31
10 a.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96536836889
Please join us for an Extinction Rebellion International Support Team event about how we can learn to decolonize ourselves. This will be a co-learning session rather than a formal training or seminar. Given the vivid reminders about how pervasive racism still is in the US, this is important work for us all to do.
From 10 to 12pm.
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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, July 31
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
Another week has passed in the first pandemic of the 21st century, with thousands of new stories posted and printed, yet questions still often outnumbering answers.
Each Friday, the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability hosts a lunchtime review of COVID-19 headlines and next steps featuring Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett, NBC’s Robert Bazell, Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and Wendy Wertheimer, formerly of WHO & NIH.
Explore more Sustain What episodes on YouTube at j.mp/sustainwhatlive or subscribe on Periscope at pscp.tv/revkin.
Solutions Journalism Network: solutionsjournalism.org
The Earth Institute Initiative: sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Contact Andy Revkin with questions or ideas for future segments: @revkin on Twitter or andrew.revkin@columbia.edu
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What Cities and Towns Need Now
Friday, July 31
3:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smart-equitable-commonwealth-co-creating-the-society-we-want-tickets-97157333199
The 2020 BARI conference concludes on Friday, July 31st, 2020, with a special closing keynote: “What Cities and Towns Need Now,” a conversation with the chief executives of four Massachusetts towns. The panel will be moderated by Sid Espinosa, Director of Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at Microsoft and the former Mayor of Palo Alto, California.
Town Manager Steve Bartha, Town of Danvers, MA
Mayor Dan Rivera, City of Lawrence, MA
Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer, City of Framingham, MA
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston, MA
Respondent: Marc Draisen, Executive Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/bari/events/2020-bari-conference/
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Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Friday, July 31
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_alexander_keyssar/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes ALEXANDER KEYSSAR—the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and author of the The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States—for a discussion of his latest book, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? He will be joined in conversation by MILES RAPOPORT, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
About Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains.
Alexander Keyssar explains its persistence. After tracing the Electoral College’s tangled origins at the Constitutional Convention, he explores the efforts from 1800 to 2020 to abolish or significantly reform it, showing why each has failed. Reasons include the complexity of the electoral system’s design, the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values, the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments, and, importantly, the South’s prolonged backing of the Electoral College, grounded in its desire to preserve white supremacy in the region. The commonly voiced explanation that small states have blocked reform for fear of losing influence proves to have been true only occasionally.
Keyssar examines why reform of the Electoral College has received so little attention from Congress for the last forty years, and considers alternatives to congressional action such as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and state efforts to eliminate winner-take-all. In analyzing the reasons for past failures while showing how close the nation has come to abolishing the institution, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? offers encouragement to those hoping to produce change in the twenty-first century.
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USM South Regional Webinar LIVE BROADCAST
Friday July 31
TBD
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Live presentations on zoom featuring members of the African People's Socialist Party and African People's Solidarity Committee. Check registration link for updates on topic, speakers and time.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston@riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Tuesday, August 4
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Book Talk: Gish Jen
Tuesday, August 4
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-book-talk-gish-jen-virtual
Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02, author of The Resisters (Knopf, 2020)
Reading will be followed by discussion with Margot Livesey RI ’13, a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of eight novels, including, most recently, Mercury (Harper, 2016). The event will also feature an audience Q and A.
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Environmental Justice, racism, activism, artivism
Tuesday, August 4
7-8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-green-future-race-gender-environment-tickets-109902794216
Lyla June Johnston and J. Drew Lanham
Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization.
Website: www.lylajunejohnston.com
Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author, poet and wildlife biologist. Raised in Edgefield, South Carolina, Lanham studied zoology and ecology at Clemson University, where he earned a PhD in 1997 and where he currently holds an endowed chair as an Alumni Distinguished Professor. He is a board member of several conservation organizations, including the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, Audubon South Carolina, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, BirdNote, and the American Birding Association, and an advisory board member for the North American Association of Environmental Education. In 2019 he was awarded the National Audubon Society's Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, recognizing "individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to the environment".
In 2013, Lanham wrote a piece for Orion Magazine titled "9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher", drawing attention to the lack of black birders and diversity in general among naturalists. The short piece inspired producer Ari Daniel and videographer Amanda Kowalski to create a short film with the same title for BirdNote which quickly went viral on social media.[1] In 2016 he wrote "Birding While Black." In 2017 he published an award-winning memoir titled "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature". Lanham features in episode 7 of the 2019 TV series Birds of North America, produced by Topic and hosted by Jason Ward.
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Extinction Rebellion Orientation
Tuesday, August 4
7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/orientation-2020-08-04/
If you are new to Extinction Rebellion or would just like to learn more about how it works, please join us a conversation about who we are and how we do our work.
We will cover the following:
What is XR? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What are we trying to achieve?
What are our principles and values?
How are we organized?
Learn how you can get involved!
The session will run for around 90 minutes. Please sign up above. You will receive an invite to the Zoom meeting closer to the date of the event.
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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
https://boston.uli.org/about/impact/
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cs87v-b6dbac
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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/News/2019/5/~/media/A0547DC0640E4ABD86B519CA6FEEFF38.ashx
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Climate Resilience Workbook
https://sustainablebuildingsinitiative.org/toolkits/climate-resilience-guidelines/climate-resilience-workbook
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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.
To subscribe to the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
To be removed / unsubscribe from the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/signoff/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
MIT Events: http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Boston Science Lectures: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
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/
Extinction Rebellion: https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement: https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/
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
mbm-SUBSCRIBE@missionbasedmassachusetts.net
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
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