These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
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Full-depth Reconstruction of Long-Term Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability from Satellite-Measurable Quantities via Machine Learning
Friday, January 3
12:00 - 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, Cambridge, MA [the tallest building on campus]
And online
RSVP at https://eaps.mit.edu/events/sls-huaiyu-wei-ucla/
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The Many Benefits of Retiring Cranberry Bogs: Cleaner Water, Restored Habitat, Climate Resiliency
Tuesday, January 7th
6-8pm
Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA
RSVP at https://newbedfordsciencecafe.weebly.com/
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Communication Activism Research for Social Justice
Tuesday, January 7
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Boston Public Library, 419 Faneuil Street, Brighton MA 02135
RSVP at https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/673f6a4f28050a2f0035738d
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Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Can They Meet 2050 Climate Goals?
Wednesday, January 8
7:00 PM (Eastern)
Online
RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00000YzS0gIAF&mapLinkHref=
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Attribution Science and Climate Law
January 9 - January 10
Columbia, William and June Warren Hall, 1125 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/attribution-science-and-climate-law
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A Global Take: What Happened at COP29
Thursday, January 9
2 - 3pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-global-take-what-happened-at-cop29-tickets-1089039078199
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AI and Trust
Thursday, January 9
7:00 PM
MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva), 32 VASSAR ST, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7817341052674/WN_CYgexNC-Ssmbzi0gRF234Q
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Profit and purpose: Aligning business for a sustainable future
Friday, January 10
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/profit-and-purpose-aligning-business-for-a-sustainable-future/
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Introduction to Nature Monitoring in the City
Saturday, January 11
2 - 3:30pm EST. Doors at 1:55pm
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-nature-monitoring-in-the-city-tickets-1040045914327
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The Effects of Agroecology on Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation According to the Scientific Literature
Monday, January 13
4:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcOihrDkqGdD9A_uVhZVHjlP8gtn0sBvv#/registration
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American Oasis : Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Tuesday, January 14
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/kyle-paoletta
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Climate Change and the Future of Public Health for Urban Informal Settlements in the Global South
Wednesday, January 15
12 – 1PM
Boston Health Sciences campus
Location Details Posner Auditorium (200 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D1v2S9KNRimWKDnd85oA6Q#/registration
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The Early Ethics of Planetary Health
Wednesday, January 15
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-early-ethics-of-planetary-health-registration-1102506028209
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The Miraculous from the Material
Wednesday, January 15
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-alan-lightman
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A Year In Review: Climate Hope Exists!
Wednesday, January 15
7 - 8pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-year-in-review-climate-hope-exists-tickets-1115962216029
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Navigating Nature-related Regulations for Banks: Mapping the Policy Landscape
Thursday, January 16
3am EST [8am GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.unepfi.org/industries/banking/nature-related-regulations-webinar/
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Climate entrepreneurship: lessons from founders with scientific backgrounds
Thursday, January 16
12:30 - 1:10pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-entrepreneurship-lessons-from-founders-with-scientific-backgrounds-tickets-1095269363149
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The Hidden Cost of Plastic to Human Health - Brookline Responds
Thursday, January 16
6:30 - 8:30pm EST
The Public Library of Brookline -- Brookline Village Library, 361 Washington Street Brookline, MA 02445
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hidden-cost-of-plastic-to-human-health-brookline-responds-tickets-1080369838269
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
Friday, January 17
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/colette-shade
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Stockholm Environmental Institute Currents 2025 launch event
The world is in transition. New trends are emerging. Which of these will shape 2025?
Tuesday, January 21
9am EST [15:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.sei.org/events/sei-currents-2025-launch-event/
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No Climate Action Without Us – Disability and Climate Change
Tuesday, January 21
11am - 12:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-climate-action-without-us-disability-and-climate-change-tickets-1115667424299
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Aligning Innovation and Equity in the Digital Economy
Tuesday, January 21
2:00 - 6:00 PM EST
MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbFShZrQV9j_vy_iewjE_BbZ2z8mKzNCikBmg6kkdKDUaJNA/viewform
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Tuesday, January 21
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/pagan-kennedy
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Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
Wednesday, January 22
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/erik-baker
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Digital Economy and the Environment Series: An overview of research on the relationship between digital technologies and the environment
Friday, January 24
12 PM – 1 PM EST (GMT-5)
Online
RSVP at https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/cie/rsvp_boot?id=2286911
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Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC): Design Workshop for the Trina Persad Landscaped Playground (In-Person)
Saturday, January 25
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 550 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
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Unlocking CO₂ Storage Opportunities Outside the EU – Policy Challenges and Business Prospects
Tuesday, January 28
9am EST [15:00 - 16:30 CET]
ERCST Rue Archimède 61, 1000 Bruxelles
And online
RSVP at https://ercst.org/event/paper-launch-unlocking-co%e2%82%82-storage-opportunities-outside-the-eu-policy-challenges-and-business-prospects/
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Broadband and Climate Action: Why digital policy is climate policy
Tuesday, January 28
9:30 - 10:30am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadband-and-climate-action-why-digital-policy-is-climate-policy-tickets-1083312389519
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Serving the Public – The good food revolution in schools, hospitals, and prisons
Tuesday, January 28
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Online
RSVP at https://sph.cuny.edu/event/book-talk-serving-the-public-the-good-food-revolution-in-schools-hospitals-and-prisons/
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Transatlantic White Supremacy from the 1970s to Charlottesville
Tuesday, January 28
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
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The Hyde Park of America: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Forum
Tuesday, January 28
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
And Online
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/events/hyde-park-of-america
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Methane Pipelines, Climate Change, & What Comes Next
Tuesday, January 28
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Eastern)
Online
RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00000VmxbuIAB&_gl=1*iajeud*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MzE3MDc4NzQuQ2owS0NRaUFfOXU1QmhDVUFSSXNBQmJNU1B2TUt3c0hEOExxT1RSTUJaU3JFVWxsbmhHLXhVYnc4OXR4ZkVsV0RyeUVDTkJlYlVtbGd5QWFBaUF0RUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE3MzE3MDc4NzQuQ2owS0NRaUFfOXU1QmhDVUFSSXNBQmJNU1B2TUt3c0hEOExxT1RSTUJaU3JFVWxsbmhHLXhVYnc4OXR4ZkVsV0RyeUVDTkJlYlVtbGd5QWFBaUF0RUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MjA1NTEzNTAwNy4xNzMxNDMzNzk1LjE0NTExOTk5OTguMTczMjcyNDA3My4xNzMyNzI0MDc0*_ga*MTc5MjA2NDE2Ny4xNzMxNDMzNzk1*_ga_41DQ5KQCWV*MTczMjcyNDA2Ny4zMy4xLjE3MzI3MjQwODYuNDEuMC4w&emci=6178aa44-0fb8-ef11-88d0-000d3a9d5840&emdi=d899d558-89b8-ef11-88d0-000d3a9d5840&ceid=2943387
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Beyond Batteries: Exploring Long-Duration Electricity Storage Solutions
Wednesday, January 29
Online
RSVP at https://rekk.org/event/342/beyond-batteries:-exploring-long-duration-electricity-storage-solutions
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Ed Yong: “What Pandemics Teach Us”
Wednesday, January 29
7 - 8pm EST. Doors at 6pm
Boston College, Gasson Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Newton, MA 02467
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ed-yong-what-pandemics-teach-us-tickets-1116942347629
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Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results
Wednesday, January 29
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/iris-bohnet-siri-chilazi
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Restoring Wetlands for Climate Resilience
Wednesday, January 29
10 - 11:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-wetlands-for-climate-resilience-tickets-1117939470049
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World Resources Institute: Stories to Watch 2025
Thursday, January 30
9:00 - 10:30am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/1/stories-watch-2025
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Negotiation: The Game Has Changed
Thursday, January 30
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vhge8_X9TwaS7iG04dibUA#/registration
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U.S. C3E Women in clean energy seminar series: Insights from the 2024 Award Winners
Thursday, January 30
1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UgCozfbjRgKNCLct-bbwnQ#/registration
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Friday, January 31
7:00pm (Doors at 6:15)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-hayes-at-first-parish-church-tickets-1089181584439
Cost: $42.00 (book included)
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Source Code: My Beginnings
Monday, February 3
7:00pm (Doors at 6:00)
Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.emersoncolonialtheatre.com/events/bill-gates/calendar/
Cost: $70.00 plus service fee (book included)
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Our Climate Future: Fact + Fiction
Tuesday, February 4
1:30pm–2:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.woodwellclimate.org/?event=our-climate-future-fact-fiction
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Tackle Heat and Flooding in Cities: A Three-Part Capacity Building Training Webinar Series
Wednesday, February 5
4:30am EST [9:30 - 10:45am GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/2/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities#register
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Small Actions Big Difference: Business Through the Sustainability Lens
Wednesday, February 5
12pm to 1:15pm
Northeastern, 450 Dodge, 324 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/npu8t9g
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Responding to Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health and Well-Being
Wednesday, February 5
1 – 2 p.m.
Harvard School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at https://hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/events/responding-to-climate-change-challenges-and-opportunities-for-mental-health-and-well-being/
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Against Haste: On the Heuristic Affordances of ‘Fascism’
Thursday, February 6
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
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Winds of Change – EBC 12th Annual New England Regional Offshore Wind Conference
Friday, February 7
8:30 am - 3:00 pm EST
WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
And online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-12th-annual-new-england-regional-offshore-wind-conference/#registration-details
Cost: $50 - $290
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Full-depth Reconstruction of Long-Term Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability from Satellite-Measurable Quantities via Machine Learning
Friday, January 3
12:00 - 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, Cambridge, MA [the tallest building on campus]
And online
RSVP at https://eaps.mit.edu/events/sls-huaiyu-wei-ucla/
Huaiyu Wei (UCLA)
The meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is a key ocean circulation system that moves heat, carbon, and other important tracers throughout the globe. Changes in the MOC, especially over decades or longer, greatly influence global climate. It is important to track these changes to better understand climate variability, but direct MOC measurements are logistically challenging and resource-intensive. A possible solution is using satellite data, like sea surface height, to monitor the MOC remotely. Previous research has managed to track monthly-to-yearly changes of MOC using this indirect method, but it remains unclear if this can be done over multi-year or multi-decadal periods. In this study, we demonstrate the capability of neural networks to achieve long-term MOC monitoring from quantities that satellites can measure, using simulations of hundreds to thousands of years of climate evolution as a test bed. Our approach also performs well near the equator, where traditional methods often fail. We additionally applied a neural network interpretation technique, which reveals that its prediction of the MOC primarily utilizes local and non-local information about east-to-west pressure changes, consistent with physical expectations. Our results thus provide a pathway toward accurate monitoring of the MOC using satellite data over climate-relevant timescales.
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The Many Benefits of Retiring Cranberry Bogs: Cleaner Water, Restored Habitat, Climate Resiliency
Tuesday, January 7th
6-8pm
Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA
RSVP at https://newbedfordsciencecafe.weebly.com/
Our next guest, Sara Quintal, Senior Restoration Ecologist for the Buzzards Bay Coalition, will discuss "The Many Benefits of Retiring Cranberry Bogs: Cleaner Water, Restored Habitat, Climate Resiliency." While this region has long been a famous producer of cranberries, more cranberries are now being produced elsewhere and some growers here are retiring and selling their land. Putting that land into conservation can be a win for those farmers looking for an exit plan, and also a win for land and water, eliminating a source of fertilizers and pesticides that can pollute groundwater and add to the Bay’s
nitrogen load. For years, Sara has managed the restoration of Mattapoisett Bogs, which opened in November to the public, one of several such projects in the area. Hers is a fascinating story about bringing 55 acres of formerly farmed bogs back to what nature intended, which is Sara's specialty. After the filling of ditches and removal of sand, culverts, dikes and underground piping, the property's restored wetlands now absorb more stormwater and invite the return of nesting wildlife. The Bogs' 2 miles of trails connect to an 8-mile trail network and invite humans to go out & watch this resplendent reversal take place.
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Communication Activism Research for Social Justice
Tuesday, January 7
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Boston Public Library, 419 Faneuil Street, Brighton MA 02135
RSVP at https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/673f6a4f28050a2f0035738d
Join Brighton author Kevin M. Carragee as he discusses his latest book, Communication Activism Research for Social Justice: Engaged Research, Collective Action, and Political Change.
The book explores communication activism scholarship in which researchers assist community groups and social movements, including Black Lives Matter and the feminist movement, in securing political change. It also documents community mobilizations in Allston-Brighton, in particular the campaign by Presentation School Foundation activists to protect a community anchor and mobilizations directed against actions by local universities. This link provides more information on the book: https://routledge.pub/Communication-Activism-Research-for-Social-Justice
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Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Can They Meet 2050 Climate Goals?
Wednesday, January 8
7:00 PM (Eastern)
Online
RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00000YzS0gIAF&mapLinkHref=
Much of the research and policy conversation about the future of “sustainable aviation fuels” has been funded by the aviation industry.
This webinar features independent researchers who receive no aviation industry support.
Topics & Panelists:
The Science of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs): Types of SAFs, their stages of development, their promise and limitations
Neil Rasmussen, MIT
Crop-based biofuels and their implications for land use and resources
Dan Lashof, World Resources Institute
Sustainable Aviation Fuel as a Policy Question: What are the trade-offs?
Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies
Event Organizers: Celeste Venolia celeste.venolia@sierraclub.org
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Attribution Science and Climate Law
January 9 - January 10
Columbia, William and June Warren Hall, 1125 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/attribution-science-and-climate-law
Attribution science provides critical insights on both the impacts attributable to anthropogenic climate change and the relative contributions of different sources for those impacts. This research plays an important role in climate litigation as well as policy-making and regulatory decision-making. For example, courts refer to attribution research when assessing legal obligations with regards to the mitigation of climate change and its harmful impacts. Attribution research is also used to support policy decisions and administrative actions, such as greenhouse gas regulations, adaptation measures, and protections for climate-imperiled species. This conference will further advance collaboration between the scientific, legal and policy-making communities by bringing together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners to share insights on the status of attribution research and its relevance to climate law and policy.
Contact Information Kemi Adetayo aa3547@columbia.edu
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A Global Take: What Happened at COP29
Thursday, January 9
2 - 3pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-global-take-what-happened-at-cop29-tickets-1089039078199
Join experts who attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan to investigate its results and what will come next.
After weeks of agonizing negotiations that rivalled those of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the 2024 United Nations climate conference (COP29) concluded with a deal that left most diplomats bitterly disappointed. As global temperatures continue to break new records, many of the world’s developing countries say that a new agreement doesn’t provide them with enough money to either fight climate change or adapt to its disastrous effects.
Join Grist reporters and experts who attended COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to learn more about the conference results, the global impacts of what many view as failed negotiations, and what comes next for the world.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Jake Bittle is a reporter who covers climate change and energy. He is a staff writer at Grist, where he primarily covers disasters and climate adaptation. He is currently working on a book about the energy transition in Kern County, California. The Great Displacement, his book about climate migration, was published in 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
Dr. Sandra Guzmán Luna is a Mexican / British international specialist based in Zimbabwe. She has 18 years of experience in sustainable development, climate policy, climate finance and climate negotiations and is the Founder and General Director of the Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean and the former General Director of Climate Change Policies at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico. She holds a PhD in Politics by the University of York in the United Kingdom, a master’s degree on Environment Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, a Diploma on Sustainable Finance at the University of Oxford and a Degree on International Relations by the National University of Mexico.
Robert N. Stavins is the A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Program in Public Policy, and Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future. He was Founding Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Chairman of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and Lead Author or Coordinating Lead Author of the Second, Third, and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, and appeared in hundreds of articles in scholarly journals plus more than a dozen books. He has been a consultant to U.S. Administrations, Members of Congress, environmental organizations, the World Bank, the United Nations, state and national governments, and private foundations and firms. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.
John Thomason is the Features Editor at Grist, a nonprofit newsroom that has covered climate change since its founding in 1999. Prior to joining Grist in 2020, John was the Research Editor at The Intercept. He has edited stories that have won awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Hillman Foundation, the Online News Association, and the Radio Television Digital News Association.
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AI and Trust
Thursday, January 9
7:00 PM
MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva), 32 VASSAR ST, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7817341052674/WN_CYgexNC-Ssmbzi0gRF234Q
Bruce Schneier
Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7817341052674/WN_CYgexNC-Ssmbzi0gRF234Q
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend in person. This will help us determine whether the room is close to reaching capacity. We plan to serve light refreshments (probably pizza) before the talk startimng at around 6:30 pm. Letting us know you will come in person will help us determine how much pizza to order.
We may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available after the seminar to people who have registered.
Abstract:
AI and Trust: Trusting a friend and trusting a service are fundamentally different. The former is personal and intimate, while the latter is impersonal and can scale to all of human society. The companies behind the current generative AI systems are poised to exploit that difference. Their intimate conversational nature will cause us to think of them as friends when they are actually services, and trusted confidents when they will actually be working against us. Like much of the internet, these systems will collect our personal data behind our backs and try to manipulate our behavior. Enabling trust in AI systems will require two things. The first are foundation models that are not controlled by corporations and the profit motive. The second is government regulation of the industry. Democratic governance is how we create social trust in our society.
Bio:
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including A Hacker's Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a faculty affiliate at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at HKS, a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
Editorial Comment: Bruce Schneier has been working in the security computing space for decades, knows what he is talking about, and talks about it clearly and well.
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Profit and purpose: Aligning business for a sustainable future
Friday, January 10
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/profit-and-purpose-aligning-business-for-a-sustainable-future/
As global challenges intensify, the relationship between capitalism and sustainable development has reached a critical juncture. Private enterprises have long driven societal progress, yet market forces have also deepened societal challenges and environmental stresses. Amid this pivotal moment, scholars at the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings and the Japan International Cooperation Agency Ogata Sadako Research Institute have edited a new volume to be published by Brookings Institution Press. “For the World’s Profit” brings together a cross section of distinguished contributors to explore how business leaders, financial actors, policymakers, and other actors can align the pursuit of firm-level profitability with sustainable development to address humanity’s most pressing challenges. On January 10, the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings will launch the book’s publication with an overview and panel discussion of key themes. The event will discuss actionable strategies for aligning business goals with global priorities, notably the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), against the backdrop of a rapidly shifting landscape of sustainability standards and policies. It will share insights on how business leaders, financial actors, policymakers, and regulators can contribute to an ecosystem where the targeted pursuit of business profits can better add up to the world’s profit, broadly defined.
The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions in person or virtually through #WorldsProfit or events@brookings.edu.Media inquiries for the editors or volume contributors can be arranged through GlobalMedia@brookings.edu. RELATED BOOK
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Introduction to Nature Monitoring in the City
Saturday, January 11
2 - 3:30pm EST. Doors at 1:55pm
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-nature-monitoring-in-the-city-tickets-1040045914327
The EwA naturalist team introduces how to document and help the Growing Center's plant and insect communities. Join us!
Join Earthwise Aware (EwA)'s participatory scientists. We'll guide you through monitoring phenology and biodiversity, including insect activity at our sites. These observation events contribute to biodiversity and climate science while enjoying the outdoors in our beautiful garden. No expertise required – beginners are welcome!
[Prepare] To prepare for the session, here's a short read & a few apps to install
The Growing Center will be our gracious host, and we look forward to spending quality time together exploring its habitats and inhabitants. In preparation for such a wonderful opportunity, we invite you to read our short Acknowledgement of Biodiversity, Land, and People. Thanks!
To record with us, install a few free apps to get started. We use smartphones as data recording tools. If you don't have a smart device, don't worry – we'll pair you with someone who does. Here are the apps: EwA Survey projects » Instructions– install our app platform, then search for and join EwA Pheno Lite and EwA Buggy.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE DO NOT BE A NO-SHOW!!! Our offerings are free and frequently waitlisted, so if you cannot attend, please tell us a few days before the events so we can give your spot to another person who wants to participate. Thanks for your understanding and courtesy!
Rendezvous Location: The Somerville Community Growing Center.
For any questions, you can contact EwA at participatoryscience@earthwiseaware.org
EwA Participatory Science Programs » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science/
Part of the EwA Urban Nature Participatory Science collection
Editorial Comment: Earthwise Aware is doing a series of these citizen scientist training around the Boston area
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The Effects of Agroecology on Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation According to the Scientific Literature
Monday, January 13
4:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcOihrDkqGdD9A_uVhZVHjlP8gtn0sBvv#/registration
We know that the agricultural sector has an often detrimental impact on biodiversity and the environment, and that alternative systems are needed. So how do we continue producing food whilst also focussing on the public goods that agriculture can provide? Agroecology is based on a set of principles associated with sustainable food production. Following some of these principles should in theory lead to more environmentally-friendly practices, improving and increasing benefits to the landscape. A meta-analysis was conducted using data from 172 studies across Europe to test if adopting agroecological systems or practices (or 'interventions') results in an increase in biodiversity and climate change mitigation, compared to conventional interventions.
Our research found that:
there is a positive effect on biodiversity and climate change mitigation in general;
positive impacts on biodiversity were found across all groups of organisms studied;
there is a positive effect for carbon storage and for the reduction of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) emissions;
transitions to either input substitution or system redesign provides benefits to both biodiversity and climate change mitigation.
By the end of the webinar, you will know more about:
the effects of agroecology on climate change mitigation and biodiversity
examples of agroecological interventions that contribute to climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
identifying gaps in the literature about effects of agroecology on biodiversity and climate change mitigation.
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American Oasis : Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Tuesday, January 14
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/kyle-paoletta
Harvard Book Store and the Long Now Boston Foundation welcome Kyle Paoletta—local author whose reporting and criticism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, and New York Magazine—for a discussion on his new book American Oasis : Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest. He will be joined in conversation by Julia Sklar—award-winning science journalist, educator, public speaker, and story editor for Sierra Magazine.
About American Oasis
An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United States is going in the era of mass migration and climate crisis we must understand where the Southwest has already been
Albuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist independently of the seemingly inhospitable and arid landscape that surrounds them, belying the rich insight they offer into American stories of migration, industry, bloodshed, and rebirth
Charting a geographic path through America's largest and hottest deserts, acclaimed journalist Kyle Paoletta maps the past and future of these cities, and the many other settlements from rural town to urban sprawl that make up the region that has come to be called “the American Southwest.” Weaving together the stories of immigrants and indigenous populations, American Oasis pulls back the layers of settlement, sediment, habit, and effect that successive empires have left on the region, from the Athapascan, Diné, Tewa, Apache, and Comanche, to the Spanish, Mexican, and, finally, American.
As Paoletta’s journey into the Southwest’s history becomes inextricably linked to an exploration of its dependency on water, he begins to ask: where, ultimately, will cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix find themselves once the Colorado River and its branches dry up? Richly reported and sweeping in its history, American Oasis is the story of what one iconic region’s past can tell us about our shared environmental and cultural future.
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Climate Change and the Future of Public Health for Urban Informal Settlements in the Global South
Wednesday, January 15
12 – 1PM
Boston Health Sciences campus
Location Details Posner Auditorium (200 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D1v2S9KNRimWKDnd85oA6Q#/registration
As climate change accelerates, the global development and climate change communities continue to ignore the plight of the urban poor, who face the brunt of challenges caused by rising global temperatures. Over the last five decades, the urban poor in the Global South have been failed by initiatives aimed at improving the human condition, including the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, WHO guidelines on social determinants of health, and the United Nations COP meetings on climate change. Alarmingly, despite all calls for action, the realities experienced by people living in urban informal settlements continue to be invisible to global stakeholders.
However, people living in urban informal settlements in the Global South comprise more than one billion people, and their social and environmental determinants of health can no longer be ignored. This seminar will discuss how residents of urban informal settlements are using transnational movements to advance their living conditions and make challenges to their health and well-being visible to the global community.
Speaker: Sheela Patel is the director of the SPARC, an organization she founded in 1984 that works in alliance with community-based organizations of the urban poor—the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan—in several Indian cities. She is a founder of Slum Dwellers International, a transnational social movement of the urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She was a commissioner on the Commission for Adaptation to climate change from 2018–2020 and is a trustee of the International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED), a global ambassador for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience, a member of the Club of Rome, and a board member of Climate-KIC. Since 2022, she spearheaded the campaign for Roof Over Our Heads (ROOH), which is part of the United Nations Race to Resilience campaign. She was awarded the 2023 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize by the Penn Institute for Urban Research and has received the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honor.
Contact: kimberly.burke@tufts.edu
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The Early Ethics of Planetary Health
Wednesday, January 15
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST
Online
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This lecture is co-presented by Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), and is part of the JCB Bioethics Seminar Series.
Abstract: Proponents of the concept of planetary health constitute one branch of a wider movement which seeks to reorganize, and perhaps revolutionize, public health in response to global environmental problems, especially climate change. Ethics is at the center of this push for transformation. This paper explores the concept of planetary health, interrogates its central values, identifies key tensions, and articulates an agenda for future research. It proposes (first) that the planetary health movement should embrace a wide, normative vision of planetary health as opposed to a narrower, more technocratic one, and (second) that it should reorient itself so as to make its overarching normative concept “planetary flourishing”, while regarding “planetary health” as an essential, but subsidiary component.
Speaker: Dr. Stephen M. Gardiner, Ph.D., Philosophy, Cornell University, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed, Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment/Director, Program on Ethics
4:00 - Introduction and History of the Philippa Harris Lecture Series
4:10 - Introduction of the Speaker
4:15 - Speaker Presentation
5:00 - Question and Answer Period
This event is free and is open to the general public. The YouTube live stream link to the lecture will be sent out to registered participants two hours before the event.
Questions? Please email Terry Yuen, jcb.ea@utoronto.ca
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The Miraculous from the Material
Wednesday, January 15
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-alan-lightman
A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena—from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and more
Nature is capable of extraordinary phenomena. Standing in awe of those phenomena, we experience a feeling of connection to the cosmos. For acclaimed physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, just as remarkable is that all of what we see around us—soap bubbles, scarlet ibises, shooting stars—are made out of the same material stuff and obey the same rules and laws. This is what Lightman calls “spiritual materialism,” the belief that we can embrace spiritual experiences without letting go of our scientific worldview.
Pairing 36 beautiful, full-color photos evoking some of nature’s most awe-inspiring phenomena with accessible and lyrical personal essays, The Miraculous from the Material explores the fascinating science underlying the natural world. Why do rainbows make an arc? Why does a particular waterfall at Yosemite National Park sometimes glow like it’s on fire? How does a hummingbird fly? The world has so many things to marvel at—and the science is just as fascinating.
Lightman’s imagination travels from the world of atoms and molecules to the animal kingdom, from places like Ha Long Bay, Vietnam and the Grand Canyon out to the solar system and beyond, illuminating the majesty of the cosmos and the remarkable science behind it. The Miraculous from the Material is a stunning, soaring ode to the beauty and wonder around us, and the perfect holiday gift for photography aficionados, life-long learners, and admirers of the natural world.
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A Year In Review: Climate Hope Exists!
Wednesday, January 15
7 - 8pm EST
Online
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There's a LOT of good news about the climate–most people just don’t hear enough about it!
The world's leading climate denier will return to the Oval Office in January, and in a doom-driven media environment, it can be hard to feel anything but dread for the climate in 2025.
Fortunately, there is a LOT of good news about the climate–most people just don’t hear enough about it. Throughout 2024, Climate Action Now has tracked hopeful, positive trends in humanity’s civilization-wide effort to build a better Anthropocene. We’re seeing unprecedented world-changing growth in solar and battery technology deployment, an international surge in rewilding, an imminent peak in global carbon emissions, and rapid innovations to sustain agriculture - among many other positive developments!
Register now for a review of the most hopeful climate trends from 2024 and a sneak peek at expected 2025 trends, straight from Sam Matey, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Dose of Climate Hope newsletter.
The times may be trying, but that’s even more reason to lean on hope!
About Our Speaker
Sam Matey is Editor-In-Chief at Climate Action Now and authors Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope, a Substack newsletter. Sam wears many hats as a climate journalist, environmental scientist, data scientist, and GIS analyst. Sam is also the author of The Weekly Anthropocene, a weekly Substack newsletter on progress towards a better relationship between humanity and our biosphere (for example, climate change solutions, wildlife conservation, and the clean energy revolution).
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Navigating Nature-related Regulations for Banks: Mapping the Policy Landscape
Thursday, January 16
3am EST [8am GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.unepfi.org/industries/banking/nature-related-regulations-webinar/
Hosted by UNEP FI and WWF Greening Financial Regulation Initiative, this webinar presents a new joint publication: Navigating Nature-related Regulations for Banks: Mapping the Policy Landscape. As nature-related regulatory initiatives are picking up globally, this webinar helps attendees make sense of these developments around the world, and how broader policy frameworks interact. This public webinar is open to all who are interested, with a focus on representatives of banks, central banks and supervisors, and government policymakers.
Central banks and supervisors are starting to acknowledge the necessity of tackling nature-related risks as part of their prudential mandate. This includes financial risks arising from ecosystem degradation (physical risk) as well as from economic activities that don’t align with protecting and restoring nature (transition risk). Already, at least 29 jurisdictions around the world—totaling more than EUR 75 trillion of banking assets—have started reflecting nature-related considerations in their prudential frameworks. However, prudential regulation does not act in isolation, as it is part of a wider system of rules—such as corporate disclosures, taxonomies, and due diligence obligations—that depend on and inform each other. This creates a complex interplay of linkages that interact locally within jurisdictions but also globally across jurisdictions.
The first part of the webinar presents the main findings of the report. It provides a state of play of relevant nature-related banking regulations and identifies ways to promote coherence and synergies between prudential regulation and its policy-enabling environment. The second part of the webinar features case studies on nature-related policy initiatives by central banks.
Speakers
The following speakers are confirmed:
Marc Reinke, Co-chair of Taskforce on Nature-related Risk, NGFS / Head of Sustainable Finance Office, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
Guan Schellekens, Team Lead of the Climate Risk Project Management Office, European Central Bank (ECB)
Katie Lee Sheah Tsan, Manager Sustainability Unit, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)
Sem Houben, Nature Risk & Policy Specialist, UNEP FI
Pina Saphira, Nature Economy Lead, WWF Greening Financial Regulation Initiative
Maud Abdelli, Lead, WWF Greening Financial ReguIation Initiative
Laura Canas da Costa, Global Policy Co-Lead, UNEP FI
Romie Goedicke den Hertog, Nature Co-Lead, UNEP FI
Agenda
Part 1 – The global state of play of nature-related regulations for banks
Part 2 – Case studies on nature-related policy initiatives by central banks
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Climate entrepreneurship: lessons from founders with scientific backgrounds
Thursday, January 16
12:30 - 1:10pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-entrepreneurship-lessons-from-founders-with-scientific-backgrounds-tickets-1095269363149
Discover how Carbon13 supports scientific founders to build climate startups to reduce carbon emissions by millions of tonnes.
Welcome to Carbon13’s webinar for founders with scientific backgrounds who are passionate about climate innovation and want to use their research and knowledge to build a startup to reduce GHG emissions.
Together with Cambridge Cohort 6 founder Tara Love.
Our Why:
Carbon13 is a response to the climate emergency. We recognise that despite the increasing number of commitments to net zero emissions, there is still uncertainty on how to deliver. There are existing technologies to deploy but we also require innovation to reinvent the rules and therefore reimagine what is possible.
Carbon13 is not just about investing in a few startups, it is about harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit. That means engaging with academia, business, policy makers, NGOs, consumers, new standards and finance. We need pioneers across the spectrum and that is where our community is critical to the success of our ventures and the transformation we need to see.
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The Hidden Cost of Plastic to Human Health - Brookline Responds
Thursday, January 16
6:30 - 8:30pm EST
The Public Library of Brookline -- Brookline Village Library, 361 Washington Street Brookline, MA 02445
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hidden-cost-of-plastic-to-human-health-brookline-responds-tickets-1080369838269
Join us in Brookline to uncover the harmful effects of plastics on our health and learn how we can take action to protect ourselves.
Poster Session & Light Refreshments
A poster session offering opportunities to speak with experts and activists. Light refreshments will be served.
Presentation & PanelA presentation by Dr. Landrigan followed by a moderated panel
Come join us at The Public Library of Brookline -- Brookline Village Library Hunneman Hall for an eye-opening event on the impact of plastics on human health. Learn about the dangers lurking in everyday plastics and how they affect our well-being. Discover what steps Brookline is taking to address this issue. Don't miss out on this important discussion!
The event offers an interactive experience, including a poster session where attendees can engage with experts and activists, followed by a presentation by Dr. Philip Landrigan, a renowned pediatrician, epidemiologist, and Director of Global Public Health and the Common Good. Light refreshments will be served. This is a valuable opportunity to connect, learn, and act together to address the health impacts of plastics.
This event is sponsored by Mothers Out Front, Department of Public Works, Department of Public Health & Human Services, Public Libraries of Brookline, Climate Action Brookline, Friends of Brookline Public Health, Rotary Club of Brookline, and Elders Climate Action - MA Chapter.
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
Friday, January 17
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/colette-shade
Harvard Book Store welcomes debut author Colette Shade for a discussion of her new book Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was), a d nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.
About Y2K
Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.
The early 2000s conjures images of inflatable furniture, flip phones, and low-rise jeans. It was a new millennium and the future looked bright, promising prosperity for all. The internet had arrived, and technology was shiny and fun. For many, it felt like the end of history: no more wars, racism, or sexism. But then history kept happening. Twenty-five years after the ball dropped on December 31st, 1999, we are still living in the shadows of the Y2K Era.
In Y2K, one of our most brilliant young critics Colette Shade offers a darkly funny meditation on everything from the pop culture to the political economy of the period. By close reading Y2K artifacts like the Hummer H2, Smash Mouth’s “All Star,” body glitter, AOL chatrooms, Total Request Live, and early internet porn, Shade produces an affectionate yet searing critique of a decade that started with a boom and ended with a crash.
In one essay Colette unpacks how hearing Ludacris’s hit song “What’s Your Fantasy” shaped a generation’s sexual awakening; in another she interrogates how her eating disorder developed as rail-thin models from the collapsed USSR flooded the pages of Vogue; in another she reveals how the McMansion became an ominous symbol of the housing collapse.
Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is the first book to fully reckon with the mixed legacy of the Y2K Era—a perfectly timed collection that holds a startling mirror to our past, present, and future.
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Stockholm Environmental Institute Currents 2025 launch event
The world is in transition. New trends are emerging. Which of these will shape 2025?
Tuesday, January 21
9am EST [15:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.sei.org/events/sei-currents-2025-launch-event/
What risks and opportunities lie ahead? Which issues deserve our focus? On 21 January 2025, SEI will outline the key trends shaping global agendas in 2025 and beyond. The insights leverage the expertise of SEI, its centres on five continents, and its longstanding work on issues affecting climate, societies, sustainable development, and the environment.
Join us on the day for an opening discussion of key issues featuring SEI experts:
Måns Nilsson, Executive Director, SEI Headquarters
Åsa Persson, Research Director and Deputy Director, SEI Headquarters
Robert Watt, Engagement Director, SEI Headquarters
Karen Brandon, Senior Communications Officer and Editor, Communications, SEI Oxford
Lynsi Burton, Communications Officer, Communications, SEI US
Following the event, we will be publishing a new podcast series with SEI researchers and external guests to examine these issues in greater depth and discuss how they may unfold in the year ahead.
Event contact
Olesia Polishchuk / olesia.polishchuk@sei.orgP
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No Climate Action Without Us – Disability and Climate Change
Tuesday, January 21
11am - 12:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-climate-action-without-us-disability-and-climate-change-tickets-1115667424299
AiE's founder, Suzanne Bull MBE, gives a Talk and Q&A on how to include disabled people in live event sustainability.
Our January Beyond The Stage event will be presented by Attitude Is Everything's founder, Suzanne Bull MBE.
Can climate change solutions at live events also be accessible for disabled people? Suzanne will be presenting the findings of the last two years of our environmental programme. She will be explaining how she brought disabled people, the live event industry, and environmental organisations together to create some new ways and thinking to make sure that disabled people are at the heart of climate action.
This session will cover:
Why creating accessible sustainability tools and resources is essential.
Key challenges and solutions in including disabled people in climate action.
Insights from conversations with disabled artists, professionals and fans.
We'll end with a Q&A, offering practical advice based on our ‘No Climate Action Without Us’ toolkit.
Bio:
Suzanne Bull MBE is the Founder of Attitude is Everything, a charity that connects disabled people to the music and live event industries to improve access together. A disabled person who lives with a cancer diagnosis, she has both a personal and a professional interest in improving access to gigs and festivals. Recognised for her contributions, amongst other awards, Suzanne was awarded an MBE in 2013 for services to music, arts and disabled people. Part of her current work is to be the organisation’s Environmental Champion, and she makes sure that disabled people’s voices are heard within the climate change conversation.
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Aligning Innovation and Equity in the Digital Economy
Tuesday, January 21
2:00 - 6:00 PM EST
MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbFShZrQV9j_vy_iewjE_BbZ2z8mKzNCikBmg6kkdKDUaJNA/viewform
Panels:
Industrial Relations at a Technological Crossroad
Speakers: Amanda Ballantyne (AFL-CIO), Erin Kelly (MIT), Molly Kinder (Brookings), Frida Polli (MIT)
AI and Opportunity
Speakers: John Horton (MIT), Sendhil Mullainathan (MIT), Lindsey Raymond (Microsoft Research)
Finance and Competition
Speakers: Randall Kroszner (University of Chicago), Thomas Philippon (NYU), Antoinette Schoar (MIT)
Additional event details will be provided via email.
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Tuesday, January 21
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/pagan-kennedy
Harvard Book Store welcomes Pagan Kennedy—author of eleven books and whose journalism has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe Magazine—for a discussion of her new book The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story. She will be joined in conversation by Alysia Abbott—author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner.
About The Secret History of the Rape Kit
Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool—a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.
In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested by their fathers, their teachers, their uncles. Soon, Marty was on a mission to answer a question: Why were so many sexual predators getting away with these crimes? By the end of the decade, she had launched a campaign pushing hospitals and police departments to collect evidence of sexual assault and treat survivors with dignity. She designed a new kind of forensics tool—the rape kit—and new practices around evidence collection that spread across the country. Yet even as Marty fought for women's rights, she allowed a man to take credit for her work.
When journalist Pagan Kennedy went looking for this forgotten pioneer, she discovered that even Marty Goddard's closest friends had lost track of her. As Pagan followed a trail of clues to solve the mystery of Marty, she also delved into the problematic history of forensics in America. The Secret History of the Rape Kit chronicles one journalist's mission to understand a crucial innovation in forensics and the woman who championed it. As Pagan Kennedy hunts for answers, she reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault and her own desire for justice.
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Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
Wednesday, January 22
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/erik-baker
Harvard Book Store welcomes Erik Baker—Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University—for a discussion of his new book Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, a sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States. He will be joined in conversation by Walter Johnson—Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and a contributing editor at Boston Review.
About Make Your Own Job
How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to do their jobs reliably but to create new opportunities for themselves and for others. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven't seen commensurate rewards.
Make Your Own Job explains how this entrepreneurial work ethic took hold, from its origins in late nineteenth-century success literature to the gig economy of today, sweeping in strange bedfellows: Marcus Garvey and Henry Ford, Avon ladies and New Age hippies. Business schools and consultants exhorted managers to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit in their subordinates, while an industry of self-help authors synthesized new ideas from psychology into a vision of work as “self-realization.” Policy experts embraced the new ethic as a remedy for urban and Third World poverty. Every social group and political tendency, it seems, has had its own exemplary entrepreneurs.
Historian Erik Baker argues that the entrepreneurial work ethic has given meaning to work in a world where employment is ever more precarious––and in doing so, has helped legitimize a society of mounting economic insecurity and inequality. From the advent of corporate capitalism in the Gilded Age to the economic stagnation of recent decades, Americans have become accustomed to the reality that today’s job may be gone tomorrow. Where work is hard to find and older nostrums about diligent effort fall flat, the advice to “make your own job” keeps hope alive.
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Digital Economy and the Environment Series: An overview of research on the relationship between digital technologies and the environment
Friday, January 24
12 PM – 1 PM EST (GMT-5)
Online
RSVP at https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/cie/rsvp_boot?id=2286911
While analysis of the opportunities and risks of digital technologies for the environment may seem novel to some, this topic has been researched and assessed for decades, under labels such as "Green IT/ICT," “Environmental Informatics," "ICT for Sustainability," and, more recently, the “digital economy and the environment.” In this talk, Lorenz Hilty, a leader in this field, will provide an overview of the development of this application-oriented research and structure it along the main research questions.
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Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC): Design Workshop for the Trina Persad Landscaped Playground (In-Person)
Saturday, January 25
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 550 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
Join the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) Knowledge Community for an inspiring day of collaborative design! We are hosting an all-day community engagement design charrette to envision the future of the Trina Persad Playground and green space, in partnership with Dudley Neighbors Inc. (DNI) and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI).
This event will take place on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the DSNI offices (550 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119) It will bring together DSNI families and youths, the GDIRC team, and members of the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) and Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) to brainstorm and co-create design ideas for this exciting initiative.
Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to a project that will provide a vibrant and inclusive play and green space for the community. Whether you’re a design professional, a community member, or simply passionate about creating spaces that foster connection and growth, your ideas and insights are welcome!
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Unlocking CO₂ Storage Opportunities Outside the EU – Policy Challenges and Business Prospects
Tuesday, January 28
9am EST [15:00 - 16:30 CET]
ERCST Rue Archimède 61, 1000 Bruxelles
And online
RSVP at https://ercst.org/event/paper-launch-unlocking-co%e2%82%82-storage-opportunities-outside-the-eu-policy-challenges-and-business-prospects/
As the European Union intensifies its efforts to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the pursuit of innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions becomes ever more crucial. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies are vital components of this strategy. Despite significant advancements within the EU and EEA in developing CO₂ storage capabilities, technical limitations and capacity constraints make it imperative to consider storage options beyond EU borders.
This event marks the official launch of a comprehensive paper that explores the regulatory challenges and business potential of storing EU-generated CO₂ in non-EU countries. The paper delves into existing EU and international regulations affecting cross-border CO₂ storage, highlighting the limitations of the Carbon Capture and Storage Directive and the constraints imposed by the London Protocol and the Helsinki Convention. The discussion will identify policy gaps within EU legislation impacting international CO₂ storage projects and propose potential solutions to overcome these hurdles. This includes advocating for the ratification of the 2009 amendment to the London Protocol and suggesting updates to the CCS Directive to explicitly address cross-border CO₂ storage.
A critical segment of the event will focus on the challenges of establishing a robust business case for CO₂ storage outside the EU. This encompasses the complexities of attributing value to CO₂ reductions achieved through storage in non-EU jurisdictions. The intricacies of accounting for and crediting CO₂ sequestration abroad present significant obstacles, such as regulatory uncertainties, potential conflicts with the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) accounting mechanisms, and ensuring alignment with EU regulatory standards. Addressing these challenges is essential for companies to unlock the economic potential of international CO₂ storage and to effectively contribute to the EU’s climate goals.
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Broadband and Climate Action: Why digital policy is climate policy
Tuesday, January 28
9:30 - 10:30am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadband-and-climate-action-why-digital-policy-is-climate-policy-tickets-1083312389519
Broadband technology has emerged as a powerful, untapped resource for driving down carbon emissions across industries and communities.
As the climate changes, broadband technology has emerged as a powerful, untapped resource for driving down carbon emissions across industries and communities. Yet, despite its vast potential to transform our approach to energy use and efficiency, the climate benefits of broadband are often overlooked. By enabling everything from remote work to smarter industrial processes and sustainable government services, broadband could be a cornerstone of global efforts to reduce carbon footprints. However, a critical gap in awareness threatens to limit broadband's impact.
This unique session brings together leading academics and industry representatives including Professor Dr. Monika Köppl-Turyna (EcoAustria), Dr. Wolfgang Briglauer (EcoAustria) and Joe Rowsell (TELUS) to explore how telecom can drive climate action. Drawing from a Special Issue of Telecommunications Policy on the topic, these experts will discuss the intersection of broadband technology and sustainability, translating academic insights into actionable strategies and urging stakeholders to recognize that digital policy is climate policy.
There will be an interactive 30-minute Q&A session following the talk for additional audience questions.
Join us to see how aligning telecom policy with climate action can transform broadband into a positive force for environmental change.
Hosted by EcoAustria and TELUS Communications.
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Serving the Public – The good food revolution in schools, hospitals, and prisons
Tuesday, January 28
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Online
RSVP at https://sph.cuny.edu/event/book-talk-serving-the-public-the-good-food-revolution-in-schools-hospitals-and-prisons/
Join CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute for a virtual book talk and presentation of “Serving the Public: The good food revolution in schools, hospitals, and prisons” (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Professor Kevin Morgan. Access to good food is the litmus test of a society’s commitment to social justice and sustainable development. Drawing on evidence from the UK, US, and Sweden, “Serving the Public” highlights how public institutions are harnessing the power of purchase to secure public health, social justice and ecological integrity. The quest for good food in these institutions is an important part of the struggle to redeem the public sphere and repair the damage wrought by forty years of neoliberalism.
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Transatlantic White Supremacy from the 1970s to Charlottesville
Tuesday, January 28
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
SPEAKER(S) Michelle Lynn Kahn, Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Richmond
Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Join us for a discussion on how far-right extremists have strategically conspired across borders to stoke the fires of fascism in liberal democratic societies. Michelle Khan will focus on the entangled web of German and American white supremacy that gained steam from the 1970s through 1990s—and remains prominent today.
More at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/01/transatlantic-white-spuremacy-from-the-1970s-to-charlotseville
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The Hyde Park of America: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Forum
Tuesday, January 28
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
And Online
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/events/hyde-park-of-america
Author: Marilynn Johnson, Boston College
Comment: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.
For more than sixty years, the Boston Common hosted one of the nation’s largest soapboxing districts, where speakers from all walks of life—religious, political, and otherwise—practiced the art of public speaking and preaching along the Charles Street mall. Originating around a conflict over religious freedom in the late 1880s, city authorities established the so-called People’s Forum in the early 1890s, modeled after the famed Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park. This paper examines the rise and fall of the People’s Forum and the Common’s legacy as a terrain of free speech—one that was both treasured and contested.
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Methane Pipelines, Climate Change, & What Comes Next
Tuesday, January 28
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Eastern)
Online
RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00000VmxbuIAB&_gl=1*iajeud*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MzE3MDc4NzQuQ2owS0NRaUFfOXU1QmhDVUFSSXNBQmJNU1B2TUt3c0hEOExxT1RSTUJaU3JFVWxsbmhHLXhVYnc4OXR4ZkVsV0RyeUVDTkJlYlVtbGd5QWFBaUF0RUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE3MzE3MDc4NzQuQ2owS0NRaUFfOXU1QmhDVUFSSXNBQmJNU1B2TUt3c0hEOExxT1RSTUJaU3JFVWxsbmhHLXhVYnc4OXR4ZkVsV0RyeUVDTkJlYlVtbGd5QWFBaUF0RUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MjA1NTEzNTAwNy4xNzMxNDMzNzk1LjE0NTExOTk5OTguMTczMjcyNDA3My4xNzMyNzI0MDc0*_ga*MTc5MjA2NDE2Ny4xNzMxNDMzNzk1*_ga_41DQ5KQCWV*MTczMjcyNDA2Ny4zMy4xLjE3MzI3MjQwODYuNDEuMC4w&emci=6178aa44-0fb8-ef11-88d0-000d3a9d5840&emdi=d899d558-89b8-ef11-88d0-000d3a9d5840&ceid=2943387
Across New England and the United States, the extraction, transportation, and burning of fossil fuels continues to increase even as it destroys our climate.
Project Maple is the proposed expansion of a methane pipeline in NY, CT, RI, and MA. If allowed to move forward, it would continue to tie our region to dirty fossil fuels, raise energy ratepayer rates, pollute the air of our communities, and prevent our states from meeting their climate goals. We will not let this project move forward. Instead, we call on the leadership of our states to stop approving the enlargement of methane infrastructure, end methane subsidies, and support clean energy technologies.
Join our webinar on January 28th at 7pm to hear from Bill McKibben, who is a renowned author and the founder of Third Act, an organization focused on organizing people over the age of 60 for climate action. In addition, learn more about Project Maple and hear from Dr. Sandra Steingraber, New York biologist and author.
Event Organizers: Sena Wazer sena.wazer@sierraclub.org
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Beyond Batteries: Exploring Long-Duration Electricity Storage Solutions
Wednesday, January 29
Online
RSVP at https://rekk.org/event/342/beyond-batteries:-exploring-long-duration-electricity-storage-solutions
As the energy transition accelerates and variable renewable energy sources like wind and solar power expand rapidly, long-duration energy storage (LDES) is emerging as a critical solution. Technologies such as liquid air storage, compressed air storage, flow batteries, and thermal energy storage can store excess renewable energy for extended periods, even across seasons, enhancing energy security and independence. The UK has been at the forefront of LDES innovation, with researchers, innovators, and technology providers already piloting these technologies.
The online workshop - which we organise together with the British Embassy Budapest - will delve into the most promising LDES technologies and their applications. UK experts will present innovative pilot projects showcasing three different technologies, highlighting technological and economic advancements and their potential for wider deployment. A panel discussion featuring UK and Hungarian stakeholders, including regulators, project owners, and potential end-users, will explore regulatory and market barriers that need to be addressed.
Confirmed speakers:
Opening speach by Mr. Andrew Davidson, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Budapest
Lukáš Adámek, Project Development Manager EU at Gravitricity Ltd.
Professor Yulong Ding, Founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering, Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage
Sarah Keay-Bright, Market Strategy and Investment Manager at National Energy System Operator
David Jones, Senior Policy Manager at OFGEM
Balázs Gyepes, CEO at STS Group
Viktor Rácz, Senior Research Associate at REKK
Participation is free
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Ed Yong: “What Pandemics Teach Us”
Wednesday, January 29
7 - 8pm EST. Doors at 6pm
Boston College, Gasson Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Newton, MA 02467
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ed-yong-what-pandemics-teach-us-tickets-1116942347629
Named “the most important and impactful journalist" of 2020 by Poynter, Ed Yong was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his crucial coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. He anticipated the course of the virus, the complex challenges that the U.S. faced, and the government’s disastrous failure in its response. An accomplished speaker, Yong brings his vast scientific knowledge and engages his audiences through his insightful conversations about the pandemic, the animal kingdom, and the challenges of science journalism.
He is the best-selling author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us, a groundbreaking and entertaining examination of the relationship between animals and microbes. His second book An Immense World takes a comprehensive look at the fascinating sensory worlds of animals. A New York Times bestseller, An Immense World was longlisted for the PEN America 2023 Literary Award and has made many Best Books of the Year lists. A longtime science reporter for The Atlantic, Yong’s work has also appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, and Scientific American.
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Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results
Wednesday, January 29
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/iris-bohnet-siri-chilazi
Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Kennedy School behavioral economist and award-winning author of What Works Iris Bohnet and Harvard Kennedy School senior researcher Siri Chilazi for a discussion of their new book Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results, an evidence-based guide for ways to create and sustain equity in their everyday business practices.
About Make Work Fair To make their organizations more equitable, many well-meaning individuals and companies invest their time and resources in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. But because inequity is built into the structures, processes, and environments of our workplaces, adding these programs has been ineffective and often becomes a burden passed off to the individuals they are meant to help.
In Make Work Fair, Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi offer data-backed, actionable solutions that build fairness into the very fabric of the workplace. Their methods—tested at many organizations, and grounded in data proven to work in the real world—help us make fairer—and simply better–decisions. Using their three-part framework, employees at all levels can execute and embed equity into their everyday practices.
Believing in equal opportunity is essential—but it isn’t enough. Offering an evidence-based blueprint, Make Work Fair shows you how to make it a reality, no matter your role, seniority, responsibilities, or where you are in the world.
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Restoring Wetlands for Climate Resilience
Wednesday, January 29
10 - 11:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-wetlands-for-climate-resilience-tickets-1117939470049
Join a Sustainability Speaker Series event! Christina Toms and Judy Nam discuss how restoring wetlands promotes climate resilience.
Beyond the Shoreline is our theme for fiscal year 2024/25. This series includes talks on how our shoreline plays a large role in mitigating climate change. Learn what you can do for a more resilient future.
Restoring Wetlands for Climate Resilience
Join us for an exciting online event. Did you know that tidal wetland restoration helps the region's built and natural communities adapt to climate change? Learn the many ways restoring wetlands helps communities and promotes climate resilience. Find out how you can make a difference.
So mark your calendars and get ready to learn!
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World Resources Institute: Stories to Watch 2025
Thursday, January 30
9:00 - 10:30am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/1/stories-watch-2025
Join our President and CEO, Ani Dasgupta, on Thursday, January 30 as WRI looks at a vitally important story we believe the world should be watching in 2025.
At COP29 in November, the world’s leaders came together to focus their attention on a bold new climate finance goal: How do we help countries make the critical transition to clean energy that the climate needs, while also building the resilient communities and infrastructure to deal with the climate change impacts that we're already seeing across the globe? At COP29 in Baku they agreed to a goal to reach at least 300 Billion annually by 2035—though much more is needed than that.
WRI's annual Stories To Watch presentation will present four stories that break down the key challenges—and potential solutions—to this global effort: What is the money for? Where will the money come from? And what can be done to unlock more money with innovation and efficiency?
This event will be presented in English with simultaneous interpretation in French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Register, tune in and find out which stories will be critical to watch in 2025.
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Negotiation: The Game Has Changed
Thursday, January 30
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vhge8_X9TwaS7iG04dibUA#/registration
SPEAKER(S)Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Executive Committee Member, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law SchoolCOSTFree and open to the public
Bazerman's talk will offer new ways of thinking about the importance of the unique context of any negotiation. He will share details from his book, providing a concise and expert overview of essential negotiating techniques for anyone new to the subject or who wants a refresher. The result is a powerful toolkit for successfully negotiating in a world where the negotiation game has changed.
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U.S. C3E Women in clean energy seminar series: Insights from the 2024 Award Winners
Thursday, January 30
1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UgCozfbjRgKNCLct-bbwnQ#/registration
Hear from the 2024 C3E Award winners in business, international, and finance & investment about their work and their own energy career paths. These Awardees are leaders in finding sustainable solutions for energy-intensive industries, creating significant public-private energy partnerships, and investing in early-stage technology companies with transformative impact.
The C3E webinar series provides a forum to hear the latest on clean energy topics from women who are making a difference. The goal of the quarterly webinars is to highlight the outstanding work of clean energy professionals in various fields and to foster discussion around clean energy opportunities and solutions.
Get to know the work of today’s leaders, including C3E Ambassadors and recent Awardees, by participating in an upcoming webinar, followed by a discussion session, allowing participants to ask the speakers questions, share their own ideas and experiences, engage in conversation, and network with other clean energy professionals.
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Friday, January 31
7:00pm (Doors at 6:15)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-hayes-at-first-parish-church-tickets-1089181584439
Cost: $42.00 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes Chris Hayes―Emmy Award–winning host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and the New York Times bestselling author of A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites―for a discussion of his new book The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society.
About The Sirens' Call
From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society
We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.” Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens’ Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance.
Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes writes, “Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.” The Sirens’ Call is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.
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Source Code: My Beginnings
Monday, February 3
7:00pm (Doors at 6:00)
Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.emersoncolonialtheatre.com/events/bill-gates/calendar/
Cost: $70.00 plus service fee (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes Bill Gates—technologist, business leader, and philanthropist—for a discussion of his memoir Source Code: My Beginnings, where for the first time, Gates tells his own story, a fascinating portrait of an American life. He will be joined in conversation by Henry Louis Gates Jr.—award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Our Climate Future: Fact + Fiction
Tuesday, February 4
1:30pm–2:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.woodwellclimate.org/?event=our-climate-future-fact-fiction
How do we create a rich, nuanced vision of our climate future that can motivate and guide climate action today? This virtual event brings together a diverse panel of experts to explore the relative strengths of science and science fiction—and the potential synergies between the two—in understanding what the future might look like.
Dr. Christopher Schwalm is the Risk Program Director and a Senior Scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center. His research focuses on forward-looking climate projections and risk modeling. He leads the Risk team in work with multiple partners, from local communities to leading financial service firms, to assess climate risk to human and natural systems.
Dr. Vandana Singh is a Professor of Physics at Framingham State University, as well as a science fiction writer whose short stories have been widely published to critical acclaim. In recent years she has been working on transdisciplinary scholarship of climate change, focusing on innovative teaching and learning methods.
Joey Eschrich is Managing Editor for the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University and Assistant Director for Future Tense, a partnership of ASU and New America that explores emerging technologies, culture, policy, and society. He is also a writer and podcast host, and has contributed to many projects on science fiction and futures thinking.
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Tackle Heat and Flooding in Cities: A Three-Part Capacity Building Training Webinar Series
Wednesday, February 5
4:30am EST [9:30 - 10:45am GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/2/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities#register
5 February 2025 / 5 March 2025 / 26 March 2025
[FOR ALL THREE WEBINARS] 9:30-10:45 am Accra / 10:30-11:45 am Bonn / 12:30-1:45 pm Nairobi / 3:00-4:15 pm India / 4:30-5:45 pm Jakarta
Co-organized by WRI India, UrbanShift, and Cities4Forests, this three-part capacity building training webinar series is designed to build capacity of city officials to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement nature-based approaches to enhance climate resilience in cities. The three webinars will focus on (1) an introduction to the Climate Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (CHVA) framework to prioritize resilience actions in cities, (2) nature-based solutions to tackle extreme heat in cities, and (3) nature-based solutions to mitigate urban flooding. City government officials from global South cities, national government officials with urban development mandates and other urban practitioners are encouraged to attend and advised to participate in all three webinars for a comprehensive learning experience. The webinars will be conducted in English and simultaneous interpretation will be offered in French and Bahasa Indonesia.
Contact: John-Rob Pool (john-rob.pool@wri.org)
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Small Actions Big Difference: Business Through the Sustainability Lens
Wednesday, February 5
12pm to 1:15pm
Northeastern, 450 Dodge, 324 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/npu8t9g
In this talk, CB Bhattacharya, Professor of Marketing and Professor of Organizations and Entrepreneurship at the University of Pittsburgh, will unveil a purpose-driven pathway that will enable companies to integrate environmental and social concerns into all their business decisions. Using real world data, he will show that a transition to a more sustainable business model, via the “sustainability ownership experience,” is a surefire way to ignite a key stakeholder, our employees, and provide more meaning to their jobs thereby boosting employee engagement.
This event is open to all students, faculty members, staff, and members of the greater Boston community. Lunch provided, registration required.
This event is part of the Nardone Family Seminar Series at the Center for Emerging Markets.
About CB Bhattacharya
Dr. CB Bhattacharya is Professor of Marketing, Professor of Organizations and Entrepreneurship, and founder of the Center for Sustainable Business at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching focus specifically on how companies can use underleveraged “intangible assets” such as corporate identity, reputation, corporate social responsibility and sustainability to strengthen stakeholder relationships and drive business and societal value.
He has published over 100 articles and has over 48,000 citations per Google Scholar, putting him in the top 50 most cited scholars both in sustainability and marketing. His latest book entitled Small Actions Big Difference: Leveraging Corporate Sustainability to Drive Business and Societal Value was published by Routledge in 2019. He is co-author of the book Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route to Maximizing Business and Social Value and co-editor of the book Global Challenges in Responsible Business, both published by Cambridge University Press. He has served on the Editorial Review Boards and served as Editor of special issues of many leading publications. Prof. Bhattacharya is the founder of the Center for Sustainable Business at Pitt as well as the ESMT Sustainable Business Roundtable, a forum with more than 25 multinational members, aimed at discussing opportunities and challenges in mainstreaming sustainability practices within organizations. In 2007, he started the Stakeholder Marketing Consortium with support from the Aspen Institute. He has been named twice to Business Week's Outstanding Faculty list.
He received his PhD in Marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and his BA from St. Stephens College, Delhi.
He is often quoted in publications such as Business Week, BBC, Forbes, Financial Times, Newsweek, the New York Times, The Economist and on TV stations such as Times Now, CBS, and PBS.
More information at https://damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/cem/events/business-through-sustainability-lens/
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Responding to Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health and Well-Being
Wednesday, February 5
1 – 2 p.m.
Harvard School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at https://hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/events/responding-to-climate-change-challenges-and-opportunities-for-mental-health-and-well-being/
SPEAKER(S) Dr. Gaurab Basu, Director of Education and Policy at Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
On Wednesday, February 5th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the third installment in our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Gaurab Basu. In this event, titled “Responding to Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health and Well-Being”, Dr. Basu will explore the mechanisms by which climate change impacts the mental health and well-being of our communities, and challenge the audience to explore the ways in which climate solutions can enable the deeper work of creating well-being.
CONTACT INFO centerhealthhappiness@hsph.harvard.edu
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Against Haste: On the Heuristic Affordances of ‘Fascism’
Thursday, February 6
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
SPEAKER(S) Federico Marcon, Professor of East Asian Studies and History; Chair of the East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University
Chair Peter E. Gordon Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
This event is organized by the Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series led by CES Resident Faculties Peter E. Gordon and CES Director Daniel Ziblatt. It is also co-sponsored by the Democracy and Its Critics Initiative at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).
More information at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/02/against-haste-on-the-heuristic-affordances-of-fascism
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Winds of Change – EBC 12th Annual New England Regional Offshore Wind Conference
Friday, February 7
8:30 am - 3:00 pm EST
WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
And online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-12th-annual-new-england-regional-offshore-wind-conference/#registration-details
Cost: $50 - $290
The offshore wind industry experienced another year of milestones. The number of approved commercial scale offshore wind projects in the U.S. has doubled, bringing the number of approved projects up to twelve with a total approved capacity over halfway to the nation’s 30 gigawatts (GW) goal. As the nation steps up its advancement of offshore wind development, New England has kept pace and maintained a commitment to positioning the region to gain from the environmental, economic and social benefits of commercial-scale offshore wind energy.
Similarly to last year, this year’s EBC offshore wind conference is structured as a longer event to allow for a wider array of presentations, more audience engagement, and increased time for networking. The program will start with a review of milestones and a reflection of the New England offshore wind industry to date followed by an overview of how far the industry has come and a look towards the future and continued progress.
The conference will conclude with presentations on the nation’s energy outlook and the state of the supply chain followed by a newly introduced regulator roundtable formatted to generate collaborative discussion between states and attendees. We invite you to join us in-person or virtually for what promises to be an engaging and informative event!
Contact
Phone: (617) 505-1818
Email: ebc@ebcne.org
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