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 until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.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
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
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Index
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Launch webinar of policy brief on protecting mental health from extreme heat: Recommendations for policy and action
Wednesday, July 29
8:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P50hQ4mETIu6w38G7jstgw#/registration
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Our Transformative Power: Built With Youth, Led by Youth
Wednesday, July 29
10:00am – 2:00pm EDT
More than Words Boston, 242 East. Berkeley Street Boston, MA
RSVP at https://shop.mtwyouth.org/pages/upcoming-events#?event-id=85030
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Massachusetts DCR’s Priority Actions – Part Two of the Webinar Series on Climate Resiliency in Massachusetts
Wednesday, July 29
11:45 am - 1:00 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/massachusetts-dcrs-priority-actions-part-two-of-the-webinar-series-on-climate-resiliency-in-massachusetts/
Cost: $30 - 125
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Chornobyl Cinema: From Atomohrad Utopia to Contaminated Ruin
Wednesday, July 29
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS-Knafel Building, Room K-262, 2nd Floor, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
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Sustainable Fashion Consumption Symposium
Thursday, July 30
10:00 AM EDT — 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://cbey.yale.edu/event/sustainable-fashion-consumption-symposium-0
We are pleased to invite you to our next webinar Digital Product Passports in Fashion: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategic Implications where Dr. Rosy Boardman will give an online presentation of her research on Digital Product Passports.
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Boston Urban Wilds Reception
Thursday, July 30
5 PM - 7 PM
Boston City Hall, 1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA 02201
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-urban-wilds-reception-tickets-1989839810438
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Step into the Revolution: a Colonial Dance Night for Everyone
Saturday, August 1
6 - 9pm
Kennedy Library, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/step-into-the-revolution-a-colonial-dance-night-for-everyone-tickets-1992768032830
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Biological War
Monday, August 3
9am ET [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-08-03/annie-jacobsen-biological-war
Cost: $10 -$43 [book included]
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Climate Blueprint: Don’t Underestimate the Impact of Climate Stories
Tuesday, August 4
12pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/climate-blueprint-dont-underestimate-the-impact-of-climate-stories/
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Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Tuesday, August 4
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-book-talk-with-martha-ackmann-virtual
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Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
Tuesday, August 4
6:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-santenello-book-signing-at-harvard-book-store-tickets-1988568440737
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Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
Tuesday, August 4
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116
RSVP at https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6a4fb029c7e02e3d0067e3aa
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Virtual Film Screening: Vs. Goliath: Appalachia
Tuesday, August 4
8:00-9:15 p.m. ET / 5:00-6:15 p.m. PT
Online
RSVP at https://secure.ucs.org/a/2026-8-4-virtual-screening-vs-goliath-appalachia
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People's Emergency Briefing | Exclusive Screening & Live Q&A
Wednesday, August 5
5:30 AM - 7 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peoples-emergency-briefing-exclusive-screening-live-qa-tickets-1992766185304
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Supercharging the US Battery Industry: A Policy Roadmap to Accelerate Growth
Wednesday, August 5
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (EST)
Online
RSVP at https://www.c2es.org/event/supercharging-the-us-battery-industry/
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A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
Wednesday, August 5
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sarah-j-jackson
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Fierce Country
Wednesday, August 5
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-08-05/heather-hansman-julia-sklar-fierce-country
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Boston Engineering, Energy & Transportation Networking Event
Wednesday, August 5
7 PM - 9 PM
Bar Moxy, 240 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/boston-engineering-energy-transportation-networking-event-tickets-1992781052773
Cost: from $9.85
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Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee
Thursday, August 6
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/rhonda-roorda
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Special Report Launch: Good Citizen Robots
Friday, August 7
9:00pm — 10:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.media.mit.edu/events/city-science-mit-hong-kong/
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The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Monday, August 10
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/dave-zirin
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Waves of Change: Overcoming Barriers to Unlocking Ocean Solutions for Africa
Tuesday, August 11
9:00 - 10:00am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://hub.wri.org/events/2026/8/waves-change-overcoming-barriers-unlocking-ocean-solutions-africa
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From a Research Agenda to Federal Action on Methane Removal
Tuesday, August 11
1 PM - 2 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-a-research-agenda-to-federal-action-on-methane-removal-tickets-1994632140426
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Hope, Science, and Solutions: Charting the Future of U.S. Climate Policy
Tuesday, August 11
5:00pm–7:00pm ET
149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA
And online
RSVP at https://join-us.woodwellclimate.org/wcc-hope-science-and-solutions
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Balancing Public Safety & Civil Liberties in the Age of Innovation
Wednesday, August 12
9am EST [12:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, Taube Family Auditorium, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-08-12/balancing-public-safety-civil-liberties-age-innovation
Cost: $5 - $22
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Massport: Reflections from the Chief Climate & Resilience OfficerClimate Resiliency in Massachusetts – Turning Insights into Action
Wednesday, August 12
11:45 am - 1:00 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/massport-reflections-from-the-chief-climate-resilience-officer-part-three-of-the-webinar-series-on-climate-resiliency-in-massachusetts/
Cost: $30 - $125
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Monthly Dose of Climate Hope! with Bill McKibben
Wednesday, August 12
4 PM - 5 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monthly-dose-of-climate-hope-with-bill-mckibben-tickets-1991389377234
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What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity
Wednesday, August 12
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/2026-08-12/daron-acemoglu-brattle-theatre
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After Dark: Gardens at the MIT Museum
Thursday, August 13
6:00pm to 9:00pm EDT
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
RSVP at https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark
Cost: $20 (non-refundable) | Day-of General Admission: $25 | MIT ID Holders: $10 | Group Rate (10 or more tickets): $15 (non-refundable)
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Climate School Final Capstone Briefings
Friday, August 14
10:00 AM - 4:15 PM
The Forum at Columbia University, Auditorium, 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=/public/cals/MainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb70-9f5fa7db-019f-6275d039-00005a3eevents%40columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
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Paradox City: A Critical History of Dallas as Told Through Its Architecture
Monday, August 17
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/mark-lamster
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Nature-based Coastal Restoration and Blue Carbon
Tuesday, August 18-Wednesday, August 19
10 AM-6 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nature-based-coastal-restoration-and-blue-carbon-tickets-1992163559835
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Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
Tuesday, August 18
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/david-n-hackney
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Green Hushing to Green Shouting
Wednesday, August 19
12 PM - 1 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-sustainability-sizzle-webinar-green-hushing-to-green-shouting-tickets-1993932251038
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Indigenous Agroforestry Network Quarterly Webinar
Wednesday, August 19
2 PM - 3 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-agroforestry-network-quarterly-webinar-tickets-1993875358872
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The Age of Migration
Wednesday, August 19
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, Cambridge Edition, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140-1413
RSVP at https://portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-08-19/kai-maristed-author-age-migration-conversation-steve-yarbrough
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Keeping Up: Maintenance and Management of Ecologically Vibrant Landscapes
Thursday, August 20
8:30 PM - 10 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/keeping-up-maintenance-and-management-of-ecologically-vibrant-landscapes-tickets-1994370414597
Cost: $0 -$25
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Beyond the Bulk: Shifting Paradigms to Fundamentally Understand SCM [Supplementary Cementitious Materials] Reactivity
Monday, August 24
1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m Eastern US Time
Online
RSVP at Register here: https://myacers.ceramics.org/NC__Event?id=a0lUe00000RuG2XIAV
Cost: $0 - $30
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The Rise of “The Nerd Reich”
Monday, August 24
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-08-24/gil-duran-and-wajahat-ali-rise-nerd-reich
Cost: $10 - $55 [book included]
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Massachusetts DOER – Climate Priorities & Actions – Part Four of the Webinar Series on Climate Resiliency in Massachusetts
Wednesday, August 26
11:45 am - 1:00 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/massachusetts-doer-climate-priorities-actions-part-four-of-the-webinar-series-on-climate-resiliency-in-massachusetts/
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Life on the Octopus Farm: The Ethics and Future of Growing the World's Most Intelligent Invertebrate
Wednesday, August 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/richard-schweid
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No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism
Thursday, August 27
6:30pm - 7:30pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-08-27/wbur-cityspace-jared-huffman
Cost: $10 -$30
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A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival
Monday, August 31
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virginia-eubanks
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Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity
Wednesday, September 2
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/david-conrad-perez
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The Carbon Wave
Friday, September 4
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-09-04/leah-c-stokes-gina-mccarthy-varshini-prakash-and-david-abel-carbon-wave
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Launch webinar of policy brief on protecting mental health from extreme heat: Recommendations for policy and action
Wednesday, July 29
8:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P50hQ4mETIu6w38G7jstgw#/registration
The world is warming at a rapid pace. In 2024, the global surface temperature was 1.5°C warmer than it was during the latter half of the 19th century. Extreme heat can impact our mental health, from worsening our sleep to making people living with pre-existing mental health conditions more vulnerable. Given these rising impacts, how can policies protect the mental health of people and communities around the world from the impacts of extreme heat? United for Global Mental Health, together with Climate Cares (at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London) and SPARK Lab NYC (at Columbia University) is launching a policy brief that aims to: (i) provide a snapshot of the extent to which and how mental health is covered within heat action plans. (ii) use concrete case studies to show how mental health has been successfully integrated into heat action plans. (iii) offer practical recommendations developed by global experts for policymakers working on heat action plans to better consider mental health and vice-versa. The current webinar will introduce the policy brief and highlight examples of successful integration of mental health into heat action plans.
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Our Transformative Power: Built With Youth, Led by Youth
Wednesday, July 29
10:00am – 2:00pm EDT
More than Words Boston, 242 East. Berkeley Street Boston, MA
RSVP at https://shop.mtwyouth.org/pages/upcoming-events#?event-id=85030
Youth leadership is not a future state — it’s happening now. Join YW Boston and the FYRE youth program for a half-day convening centering young people as the architects of community change.
Hear from a FYRE alum on what it means to lead at any age, engage with an intergenerational panel on youth advocacy beyond the classroom, and choose from three workshops designed for distinct audiences: young people building their own voice and power, educators and youth workers supporting student engagement, and leaders shaping the future of intersectional youth advocacy.
Whether you’re a student, parent, educator, organizer, or funder — this is a space to listen, learn, and commit to resourcing the leaders already in the room.
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Massachusetts DCR’s Priority Actions – Part Two of the Webinar Series on Climate Resiliency in Massachusetts
Wednesday, July 29
11:45 am - 1:00 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/massachusetts-dcrs-priority-actions-part-two-of-the-webinar-series-on-climate-resiliency-in-massachusetts/
Cost: $30 - 125
Massachusetts DCR’s Priority Actions
Climate Resiliency in Massachusetts – Turning Insights into Action
A Webinar Series with the EBC Climate Change Committee
Join the EBC Climate Change Committee for a webinar series exploring how Massachusetts state agencies are turning key insights from their past work into action in 2026 and beyond.
Through this series, leadership from MBTA, Massport, MassDCR, MEMA, and MassDOER will present their key achievements in advancing climate resiliency over the past year, showcasing impactful projects, partnerships, and measurable outcomes from 2025. Agency leadership will also provide a forward-looking perspective on upcoming initiatives, programs, and policy developments planned for 2026 and beyond, offering insight into how each agency is preparing for evolving climate challenges.
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is charged with protecting, promoting, and enhancing Massachusetts’ natural, cultural and recreational resources. As the largest landowner in the Commonwealth, DCR is working to strengthen the resources under its care so that these sites can better face the impacts of climate change. Sarah White, DCR’s Director of Climate Resilience, will share updates on the Department’s latest efforts, highlighting both completed projects and future programs and priorities.
The webinar will conclude with a moderated Q&A session for attendee questions.General Continuing Education Certificates are awarded by the EBC for this program (1.0 training contact hours). Certificates are automatically provided via email link for registered attendees at the conclusion of the webinar.
Speaker & Moderator
Program Speaker: Sarah White, Director of Climate Resilience, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR)
Program Moderator: Nasser Brahim, Vice Chair, EBC Climate Change Committee; Director of Climate Resilience, Mystic River Watershed Association
Climate Resiliency in Massachusetts Webinar Series
July 15, 2026 – Featuring the MBTA: Resilience Roadmap
July 29, 2026 – Featuring the Massachusetts DCR: Priority Actions
August 12, 2026 – Featuring Massport: Reflections from the Chief Climate & Resilience Officer
September 9, 2026 – Featuring MEMA: Building Hazard Preparedness into Climate Resiliency
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Chornobyl Cinema: From Atomohrad Utopia to Contaminated Ruin
Wednesday, July 29
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS-Knafel Building, Room K-262, 2nd Floor, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
SPEAKER(S) Stanislav Menzelevskyi, PhD candidate at Indiana University and former Head of the Research and Programming Department at the Ukrainian State Film State Archive (Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center)
On 26 April 1986, the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl NPP, approximately 100 km north of Kyiv, exploded, marking one of the largest man-made disasters of the twentieth century and reshaping understandings of humanity’s impact on the environment. In the European context, Chornobyl was comparable in significance to the fall of the Berlin Wall, symbolizing the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the promise of socialist internationalism. In Soviet Ukraine, Chornobyl evolved into a major sociopolitical crisis, contributing to the rise of anti-imperial and anti-Soviet movements and, as some scholars argue, paving the way for Ukrainian independence in 1991.
Focusing on films produced between 1972 and 1996, this presentation will examine how Chornobyl cinema navigated ideological constraints, perestroika transformations, and the post-Soviet transition. It analyzes how nuclear modernity was represented in Soviet cinema before 1986 and reworked in its aftermath.
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Sustainable Fashion Consumption Symposium
Thursday, July 30
10:00 AM EDT — 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://cbey.yale.edu/event/sustainable-fashion-consumption-symposium-0
We are pleased to invite you to our next webinar Digital Product Passports in Fashion: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategic Implications where Dr. Rosy Boardman will give an online presentation of her research on Digital Product Passports.
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Boston Urban Wilds Reception
Thursday, July 30
5 PM - 7 PM
Boston City Hall, 1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA 02201
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-urban-wilds-reception-tickets-1989839810438
Join us to celebrate Lisa McCarty's solo exhibition at Boston City Hall!
Boston Urban Wilds: Celebrating 50 Years of Conservation and Community is now on view at the Mayor's Neighborhood Gallery (2nd floor) in Boston City Hall. Through photographs by Lisa McCarty, this exhibition highlights unique environments that have been protected by the Boston Urban Wilds program, as well as the people who care for and commune with these wilds.
Don't miss your chance to discover these spaces and connect with the artist!This exhibtion is organized in partnership with the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the City of Boston Environment Department.
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Step into the Revolution: a Colonial Dance Night for Everyone
Saturday, August 1
6 - 9pm
Kennedy Library, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/step-into-the-revolution-a-colonial-dance-night-for-everyone-tickets-1992768032830
Ever wondered what people did for fun in 1776? Come find out — on your feet! The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum welcomes you to a free, beginner-friendly evening of 18th-century country dancing with the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers, who will teach you everything you need to know from the very first step. Solo, paired, young, old — everyone is welcome, and no partner is required.
This special evening celebrates our exhibit Declaring the Revolution: America's Printed Path to Independence, showcasing rare items from the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection, and the exhibit itself will be open free of charge from 5:30–7:00 PM, so come early and soak in the history before you hit the dance floor! Feel free to dress the part — vintage and period attire are encouraged — but come however you like. Food and drinks will be on sale, and the Museum Store will be open throughout the night.
Please note that Smith Hall has carpeted floors rather than a traditional wooden dance floor. Comfortable, flat-soled shoes are recommended.
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Biological War
Monday, August 3
9am ET [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-08-03/annie-jacobsen-biological-war
Cost: $10 -$43 [book included]
SPEAKERS
Annie Jacobsen, Author, Biological War
In Conversation with DJ Patil, Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors
A bio attack. A lab accident. A global pandemic. The collapse of human society.
Who else would want to explore the possibilities of biological warfare than Annie Jacobsen, investigative journalist and the best-selling author of Nuclear War? For her latest book, Biological War, Jacobsen interviewed dozens of experts in politics, governments, medicine, and the military to explore a scenario of bio warfare. She says it would only take days from the beginning of a global bio infection before we’d be in a battle for human existence. Is the infrastructure that was built to handle this very scenario up to the task?
How would people deal with a dystopic world with mass death, societal breakdown, violent insurrections, anarchy, and a plague-ravaged wasteland in place of modern civilization? Jacobsen lays out what would happen, providing a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as startling, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.
Join us for special online-only program as Annie Jacobsen explores the unthinkable.
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Climate Blueprint: Don’t Underestimate the Impact of Climate Stories
Tuesday, August 4
12pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/climate-blueprint-dont-underestimate-the-impact-of-climate-stories/
Join Covering Climate Now and the Solutions Journalism Network to discuss what qualifies as impact, how to set goals, and develop processes for capturing impact. Moderated by Breanna Draxler.
At this critical juncture in the climate crisis, and as climate journalism itself is being challenged, it’s important for outlets to have clear evidence of the impact of their reporting — to know what’s working for their audiences, what’s not, and where to improve. Impact extends far beyond big policy changes to include things like the realization of one’s power, hope, a sense of connection, and civic engagement, all of which are essential to society’s ability to address the climate crisis. Designing processes to stay in touch with our audiences and solicit feedback helps to paint a fuller picture of what makes the most effective journalism.
Inspired by “The Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation,” published in summer 2024 by the Solutions Journalism Network and Covering Climate Now, this ongoing discussion series covers pressing topics, like this one, related to climate journalism. In our fourth roundtable discussion in the series, called “Don’t Underestimate the Impact of Climate Stories,” we’ll discuss the importance of understanding your journalism’s impact, how to track impact and report it back to audiences, and why this work is so critical for ensuring that climate journalism becomes more of a priority within newsrooms.
Panelists
Nina Ignaczak; Founder, Publisher, and Editor; Planet Detroit
Heather May, Director, Great Salt Lake Collaborative
Breanna Draxler, the Climate Blueprint’s editor, will moderate.
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Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Tuesday, August 4
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-book-talk-with-martha-ackmann-virtual
Join us for our Summer 2026 series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks, which explore recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
The fourth installment in our series features Martha Ackmann RI ’09, author of Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton (St. Martin's Press, 2025), a chronicle of the life and impact of the country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton.
Ackmann is the award-winning author of Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Penguin Random House, 2003); Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone: First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League (Chicago Review Press, 2010); and These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020). A theatrical adaptation of Curveball, titled Toni Stone and written by the former Radcliffe fellow Lydia Diamond, premiered Off Broadway in 2019. Ackmann’s essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Paris Review, and The Washington Post. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amelia Earhart Medal for aviation research, and the Special Media Prize from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New England Section, among others. A former faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Ackmann received her BA from Lindenwood College, MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, and PhD from the University of Massachusetts.
The event will also include an audience Q and A.
Editorial Comment: Dolly Parton is the real deal. Give her the Gershwin Prize for Songwriting as it is one award she would really enjly as she identifies as a “songteller” and has earned it several times over with her work.
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Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
Tuesday, August 4
6:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-santenello-book-signing-at-harvard-book-store-tickets-1988568440737
Harvard Book Store welcomes Peter Santenello—independent journalist and filmmaker with over four million subscribers on YouTube—for a signing of his new book, Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home, a heartening journey through the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we've got to love this place--and one another. The signing will take place beginning at 6:00pm on Tuesday, August 4. Ticket holders should arrive between 5:45pm, when doors to the signing line open, and 6:30pm to ensure their spot in line. Please read the following ticket and signing guidelines below.Image
About Your Fellow Americans
Join an adventurous and charismatic independent journalist (perhaps you know him from YouTube) on a journey through some of the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we’ve got to love this place and one another.
Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a houseboat deep in the Louisiana bayou?
Peter Santenello hadn’t either, until after years spent traveling through eighty-five countries and living abroad, he realized the most unfamiliar territory was often his own American backyard. And so, with a camera in hand and an open mind, he began visiting communities across the country that most media overlooks or misrepresents, from tiny towns in Appalachia to the streets of East LA.
What began as curiosity became—one story at a time—an intimate, revealing portrait of America today. From road trips and chance encounters to dinners shared in locals’ homes, Your Fellow Americans captures what makes this country so dynamic, so resilient, and most of all, so very human. Because what Peter discovered on his travels wasn’t a nation torn in two. He found something more complex and more powerful: people who want to be seen, who are willing to listen, and who still believe we’re more alike than we are different.
With humor, exuberance, and reverence for the human spirit, Your Fellow Americans is a celebration of the United States that exists far beyond the headlines—and an invitation to sit down, open up, and rediscover the soul of this place that we call home.
Bio
Peter Santenello is an independent journalist and filmmaker with over four million subscribers on YouTube. He’s traveled to eighty-five countries and lived in five, building a global audience by letting people tell their stories in their own words. These days, Peter’s lens is focused squarely on the United States, where he explores the diverse, complex, and often misrepresented communities that make up the fabric of America.
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Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
Tuesday, August 4
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116
RSVP at https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6a4fb029c7e02e3d0067e3aa
Dr. Tiffany Joseph
Join sociologist Tiffany Joseph for a talk exposing a troubling paradox at the heart of Massachusetts' celebrated health care system. Even in a state long held up as a model of reform, immigrants' race, ethnicity, and legal status still shape who gets real access to coverage and care. Drawing on nearly a decade of research in Boston's Brazilian, Dominican, and Salvadoran communities, Joseph traces how the promise of the Massachusetts and Affordable Care Act health reforms collided with the lived realities of immigrant patients. As new federal cuts to health coverage and the social safety net take hold, Joseph's research offers a lens for understanding an exclusion that once targeted immigrants and now reaches citizens too.
Dr. Tiffany Joseph is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Her research and teaching interests explore race, ethnicity, and migration in the Americas and healthcare access in the United States. Her most recent book, Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), explores how documentation status, race, and ethnicity influence the healthcare access of immigrants after comprehensive health reform. She has received grants and awards from the Ford Foundation, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Institute for International Education Fulbright Program, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is also the author of Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants andthe Global Reconstruction of Race (Stanford University Press, 2015) and her work has been published in various peer reviewed journals and national media outlets.
The main talk will be followed at 7 pm by a book signing with our local independent bookstore partner, Trident Booksellers.
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Virtual Film Screening: Vs. Goliath: Appalachia
Tuesday, August 4
8:00-9:15 p.m. ET / 5:00-6:15 p.m. PT
Online
RSVP at https://secure.ucs.org/a/2026-8-4-virtual-screening-vs-goliath-appalachia
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to watch the second installment in a free, monthly virtual screening series of Vs. Goliath—a powerful, award-winning new documentary series following everyday people across the United States as they stand up to the fossil fuel industry and fight for the future of their communities.
This online screening of Vs. Goliath: Appalachia will be followed by a Q&A featuring activists from the episode who organized against construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Vs. Goliath tells stories of courage and resistance from the frontlines of the climate crisis. Each month, we'll screen one episode and hear directly from the people living these stories.
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People's Emergency Briefing | Exclusive Screening & Live Q&A
Wednesday, August 5
5:30 AM - 7 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peoples-emergency-briefing-exclusive-screening-live-qa-tickets-1992766185304
Exclusive online screening of the People's Emergency Briefing, plus a live Q&A with a member of the National Emergency Briefing team.
The People's Emergency Briefing brings together leading scientists, economists, business leaders and environmental experts to present the latest evidence on the climate and nature emergency.
Why not bring your team together for a shared screening? Use the live Q&A as a starting point for discussions about what the climate and nature emergency means for your organisation.
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Supercharging the US Battery Industry: A Policy Roadmap to Accelerate Growth
Wednesday, August 5
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (EST)
Online
RSVP at https://www.c2es.org/event/supercharging-the-us-battery-industry/
Batteries will be an increasingly important component of our rapidly expanding energy systems. They can bolster the grid, help to meet energy demand, power vehicles and data centers, and more. With demand for batteries projected to skyrocket in the coming years, the growing market presents a tremendous opportunity for the burgeoning U.S. battery industry. With supportive policies, the industry can scale the technology and production necessary to meet domestic and global demand.
However, the domestic battery supply chain faces challenges to securing finance, developing infrastructure, preparing the workforce, and procuring critical materials. Policy support at all levels of government is necessary to charge up the industry to compete on the global stage.
Please join the C2ES Regional Economies Initiative for a webinar exploring why developing a secure, resilient, domestic battery supply chain is a boon for local economies. The event will include a panel conversation with industry leaders and experts, as well as a discussion on our recently released Southeast Regional Policy Roadmap, developed in collaboration with more than 250 stakeholders across the Southeast United States.
Speakers
Stephanie Gagnon-Rodriguez is Director of Regional Clean Economies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She leads the Regional Roundtable program and supports C2ES’s low-carbon economic development work. Through this program, she has convened leaders of business, state and local government, and communities in 18 states to explore…
Peter Trousdale is the Associate Policy Fellow for Regional Programs at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Prior to joining C2ES, Mr. Trousdale worked for the Green Finance Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). His work focused on researching and advocating for the expansion of green…
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A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
Wednesday, August 5
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sarah-j-jackson
Harvard Book Store welcomes Sarah J. Jackson—Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania—for a discussion of her new book, A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom. She will be joined in conversation by Caleb Gayle—award-winning journalist and the author of We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power.
About A Second Sight
Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation to itself. As renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson charts in this bold and daring masterwork, at the center of this effort has been an extraordinary cast of Black journalists, photographers, filmmakers, radio hosts, podcasters and other mediamakers who have drawn on the visionary tradition of second sight to advance democracy and broaden our most fundamental American values.
When Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak uncomfortable truths about America, they shape memories of the nation and push us toward a future more closely aligned with our espoused values. For two centuries, this “second sight” has been an overlooked engine of American democracy.
Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois’s philosophical work, along with deep historical analysis and dozens of interviews with today’s most active Black mediamakers, A Second Sight shows these visionaries positioned at the margins of their industries and navigating fraught relationships to power. They’ve warned of the greatest dangers to democracy—from slavery to Nazism, and mass incarceration to misinformation. Their work is central to our culture and politics. Yet it is devalued, met with violent censure, or achieved only via ingenious work-arounds. This tension has sharpened their commitments to truth.
Now one of our nation’s foremost scholars of American media, Sarah J. Jackson, presents an appraisal that situates Black mediamakers at the vanguard of telling the American story. Brilliant, urgent and illuminating, A Second Sight is an authentic and candid grappling with a discordant thread in the American fabric and, in tracing a bolder vision for the nation, presents a way forward.
Bios
Sarah J. Jackson is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous books, Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Pressand #HashtagActivism, examine the relationship between media, race and social change. She was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and New America Fellowship to support research on A Second Sight.
Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist and the author of We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. A professor at Northeastern University, he is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, and his work also has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, The Guardian, Guernica, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe. He lives near Boston. Photo Credit: Jeremy Castro
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Fierce Country
Wednesday, August 5
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-08-05/heather-hansman-julia-sklar-fierce-country
Join us at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of Fierce Country with author Heather Hansman, in conversation with Julia Sklar.
The inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who spearheaded recreation, conservation and resilience in America’s most beloved landscapes, for readers of Pam Houston and David Grann
Throughout the 20th century Georgie White, Anne LaBastille, and Dolores LaChapelle did more to inspire our love of the great outdoors than just about anyone.
Georgie devoted her life to the Grand Canyon, kickstarting the river running craze in the 40s and igniting the recreation industry
Anne, a wilderness guide and bestselling author, protected endangered species and predicted the impacts of climate change from her isolated, off-grid cabin in the Adirondacks.
And deep powder skier Dolores developed an environmental philosophy that shaped everything from the radical environmental movement of the ‘70s to modern conservation ethics.
Now, for the first time, outdoor journalist and bestselling author of Powder Days Heather Hansman goes deep into multiple rugged American landscapes to bring three fascinating lives to the forefront of the outdoor movement, affirming their rightful place in the larger story of an evolving American wild.
Heather Hansman is the award-winning, best-selling author of POWDER DAYS, DOWNRIVER, and the new book FIERCE COUNTRY. She's from Cambridge.
Julia Sklar is an editor and award-winning science journalist based in Boston. She has been the story editor at Sierra Magazine, multimedia editor at MIT Technology Review, and an independent reporter for The Boston Globe, National Geographic, Undark, and others. She is also the author of two themed print issues of National Geographic, one on emerging neuroscience and the other on the science of stress.
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Boston Engineering, Energy & Transportation Networking Event
Wednesday, August 5
7 PM - 9 PM
Bar Moxy, 240 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/boston-engineering-energy-transportation-networking-event-tickets-1992781052773
Cost: from $9.85
SUM OF FIVE Professional Networking Events stand as the pinnacle of stylish gatherings for professionals in Engineering, Energy and Transportation. We hope to empower our attendees by facilitating meaningful connections. We have an unwavering commitment that lies in fostering genuine relationships among peers, cultivating an environment where professionals can seamlessly connect and engage in a purposeful manner. We aspire to aid participants in their journey of expanding their businesses and advancing their careers by providing a platform to engage with individuals who share similar aspirations.
Our networking events bring together professionals from the engineering, energy, environment and transportation industries in a forward-thinking and collaborative space. These gatherings are exclusively for individuals of legal drinking age, as they take place at venues that include a bar. The average age range of attendees is typically 24–38, with most being established professionals or rising innovators in technical and infrastructure-related fields.
Here are some of the individuals you may meet at our events:
Engineers & Technical Experts – Civil, mechanical, electrical, and environmental engineers working across infrastructure, utilities, and innovation projects.
Energy Professionals – Specialists in renewable energy, oil & gas, nuclear, and emerging clean technologies leading the global energy transition.
Environmental Specialists – Sustainability consultants, climate scientists, and ESG professionals promoting decarbonization, conservation, and responsible development.
Transportation & Infrastructure Leaders – Planners, transit operators, logistics professionals, and policymakers shaping the future of urban mobility.
Project Managers & Developers – Industry professionals overseeing large-scale energy, infrastructure, and construction projects.
Innovators & Entrepreneurs – Start-ups developing technologies in green energy, electric vehicles, recycling, and smart infrastructure.
Technology & Sustainability Innovators – Entrepreneurs and researchers developing smart city, EV, and green energy solutions.
Government & Policy Representatives – Officials and advisors from ministries, municipalities, and regulatory agencies focused on energy, transit, and infrastructure development.
Investors & Corporate Partners – Venture capitalists, institutional investors, and strategic partners funding the next generation of energy and engineering ventures.
Academics & Researchers – University professors, graduate students, and think-tank members focused on sustainable design and transportation innovation.
Students & Emerging Talent – Recent graduates and young professionals (Diploma, Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctorate) eager to contribute to global engineering and energy solutions.
This event offers an unparalleled opportunity to connect, collaborate, and exchange ideas with leaders and innovators driving the future of engineering, energy, and transportation.
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Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee
Thursday, August 6
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/rhonda-roorda
Harvard Book Store welcomes Rhonda M. Roorda—acclaimed speaker, author, and consultant on transracial adoption—for a discussion of her new memoir, Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao—Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
About Torn from the Root
A powerful journey of identity and belonging.
As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my skin was too dark” and if she “acted too white.” She recalls being haunted by feelings of shame and not being enough. Torn from the Root is her illuminating story of identity, belonging, and purpose and lays bare the deep pain she felt navigating life as a vulnerable Black girl and how she healed herself.
Roorda suffered trauma and abuse in her youth, but she also developed resilience. Eventually, she resolves to find her birth family and takes readers on her exciting and agonizing journey.
Torn from the Root thinks critically about the child welfare system and the long-term impacts of transracial adoption. Roorda helps readers understand her experience, posing necessary questions about the challenges of transracial adoption. Her emotional story, full of wisdom and reflection, recounts how she accepted the truth of her adoption and found balance, not discomfort, in her own skin.
Bios
Rhonda M. Roorda, M.A., is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and consultant on transracial adoption whose insights have been featured on Good Morning America and ABC News, in People magazine, and in the Emmy Award–winning television series This Is Us. A transracial adoptee, she is the author of the acclaimed In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption, recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and the coauthor of a groundbreaking trilogy on transracial adoption. Through her writing, research, and speaking, Roorda has become a leading voice exploring identity, belonging, and the lifelong impact of adoption across racial and cultural boundaries. She lives in Michigan with her family.
Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ed.D., LCSW, LMFT, was the Founder and CEO of Center For Family Connections, Inc. (CFFC - est.
1995-2012) in Cambridge, MA and New York. Pavao Consulting and Coaching, and Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (1982-present). Dr. Pavao has done extensive training, both nationally and internationally. She is an adjunct faculty member in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and has consulted to various public and private agencies, schools, and the court system. Additionally, she has worked closely with individuals, and families created by adoption, foster care and other complex blended family constructions. She has been Principal Investigator on federal grants around Youth At Risk, Homelessness, Transracial Adoption, and LGBT issues in the community of Aging Out Adolescents/Young Adults. She has developed models for treatment and for training using her systemic, intergenerational, and developmental framework The Normative Crises in the Development of the Adoptive Family and her book The Family of Adoption has received high acclaim.
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Special Report Launch: Good Citizen Robots
Friday, August 7
9:00pm — 10:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.media.mit.edu/events/city-science-mit-hong-kong/
Join us for an exclusive webinar exploring how delivery robots communicate with people in dense urban environments.
Led by Kent Larson, Naroa Coretti, and Jonny Cohen at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, this session unveils groundbreaking research from the MIT Media Lab City Science Group—a collaborative white paper initiative with APAS.
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The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Monday, August 10
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/dave-zirin
Harvard Book Store welcomes Dave Zirin—author of eleven books on the politics of sport and sports editor at The Nation Magazine—for a discussion of his new book, The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn. He will be joined in conversation by Howard Bryant—author of eleven books and winner of a 2025 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series as an executive producer for Netflix's The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox.
About The People's Historian
A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.
From The Nation magazine columnist and New York Timesbestselling author Dave Zirin, The People's Historian is a deeply researched biography of Howard Zinn, the beloved author of the classic national bestseller with more than four million copies sold, A People's History of the United States.
The People’s Historian shows Zinn’s presence on the great canvases of the 20th century: from the Depression to World War II to the Civil Rights Movement to the war in Vietnam all the way until his death in 2010. With intimately researched stories from Zinn’s life and career, such as the way Atlanta's small Spelman College, where Zinn taught as a young professor, helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, Zinn's work traveling to Hanoi to engineer the release of POWs, and his continuing influence in the emerging Democratic Socialist movement, The People’s Historian explores Zinn’s past while also demonstrating how his 75 years of political engagement with the social struggles of his time informs our perilous present.
With input from family and access to Zinn's personal papers, The People's Historian paints a picture of the man behind A People's History, examining his work and legacy in the broader context of the United States.
Bios
Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation Magazine, their first sports editor in 160 years of existence. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sport, including most recently The Kaepernick Effect. He is the co-producer, writer and narrator of the new documentary, Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL. Zirin has also worked as an advisor for filmmakers and documentarians such as Ang Lee and Ken Burns. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin has been a frequent guest on ESPN, MSNBC, and CNN. He also hosts The Nation’s Edge of Sports podcast and cohosts The Collison on WPFW. His new book is a biography of the historian Howard Zinn called The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.
Howard Bryant is the author of 11 books, including Rickey, The Heritage, Full Dissidence, and The Last Hero, a biography of Hank Aaron, which was named “One of the Ten Best Books of the Year” by Dwight Garner of The New York Times. Bryant served as guest editor of The Best American Sports Writing in 2017, and has been the sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition since 2006. He is a four-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, an Emmy Award winner, and is twice the winner of the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. He lives in Western Massachusetts. Photo Credit: Kyle Djavan Johnson
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Waves of Change: Overcoming Barriers to Unlocking Ocean Solutions for Africa
Tuesday, August 11
9:00 - 10:00am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://hub.wri.org/events/2026/8/waves-change-overcoming-barriers-unlocking-ocean-solutions-africa
With 2030 on the horizon, the world faces several critical ocean milestones – including achieving 30% protected area and the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Under Water. Realizing these ambitious goals will require accelerated implementation of solutions and enabling conditions that are already well known: sustained financed, action across geographic and governance scales, robust on-the-ground capacity building, and political will.
The Our Ocean Conference is a proven global mechanism for generating and delivering ambitious ocean solutions and commitments. Since 2014, 80% of the voluntary commitments made through the Our Ocean Conference platform have been completed or are in progress. Yet the stresses facing the ocean– climate change, habitat degradation and loss, pollution, and overharvesting – remain global challenges that require continued global ambition.
The 2026 Our Ocean Conference, hosted in Africa for the first time, placed the needs, priorities, and innovative solutions already being implemented across the continent at the center of global ocean policy. To support conference outcomes, the World Resources Institute launched “A Regional Assessment of Our Ocean Conference Commitment Implementation in Africa”. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the voluntary commitments made through the Our Ocean Conference in Africa over the past twelve years, their progress towards delivery, and the enabling conditions and barriers that face organizations and governments implementing ocean solutions on the ground.
Join the report authors and subject matter experts for a deep dive into the report findings, discussion about how African leadership is driving global ocean solutions, and the next steps needed to transition the continent’s ocean and blue economy ambitions into reality.
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From a Research Agenda to Federal Action on Methane Removal
Tuesday, August 11
1 PM - 2 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-a-research-agenda-to-federal-action-on-methane-removal-tickets-1994632140426
Scrubbing the Skies hosts Rep. Kevin Mullin, Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus, and Dr. Jeremy Semrau to discuss the MRRIA.
The Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal and Spark Climate Solutions host Rep. Kevin Mullin, Dr. Gabby Dreyfus, and Dr. Jeremy Semrau to discuss the Methane Removal Research and Innovation Act (MRRIA) and the case for a coordinated federal research effort on atmospheric methane removal in the latest episode of Scrubbing the Skies.
Issue Overview
Methane is responsible for roughly 30% of current warming. It also drives ground-level ozone pollution, harming human health and crops. While cutting methane emissions remains the top priority, a growing body of science suggests emissions reductions alone may not be enough: some sources, like global agriculture, are likely to persist for decades, and climate change itself may be increasing natural methane emissions while weakening the atmosphere's own capacity to break methane down. In 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report — A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal — laying out a research agenda and recommending significant new public investment to determine whether atmospheric methane removal could be a viable tool.
This episode explores how that research agenda is beginning to translate into federal action. Rep. Kevin Mullin will share remarks on the bipartisan Methane Removal Research and Innovation Act, newly introduced legislation that would direct the Department of Energy to establish a coordinated research initiative implementing many of the National Academies' recommendations. Dr. Gabby Dreyfus, who chaired the National Academies committee, will unpack the report's findings and research priorities, and Dr. Jeremy Semrau will offer a scientist's perspective on biological methane removal methods and why DOE's Office of Science is well positioned to lead this work. Together, the panel will discuss why this research matters now — and why Congress should act to support methane removal research.
Guests:
Congressman Kevin Mullin, U.S. Representative, California's 15th Congressional District
Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus, Chief Scientist, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development; Chair, National Academies Committee on Atmospheric Methane Removal
Dr. Jeremy Semrau, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Moderator:
Dr. Wil Burns, Co-Director, Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, American University
Hosts:
Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal and Spark Climate Solutions.
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Hope, Science, and Solutions: Charting the Future of U.S. Climate Policy
Tuesday, August 11
5:00pm–7:00pm ET
149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA
And online
RSVP at https://join-us.woodwellclimate.org/wcc-hope-science-and-solutions
Join Joseph P. Kennedy III and Max Holmes for a forward-looking discussion about the opportunities emerging from the climate transition—from clean energy and technological innovation to stronger communities and healthier ecosystems. The conversation will examine how U.S. climate policy can continue to evolve to meet the challenges and opportunities of the coming decades.
This event will be offered both in-person and virtually.
As part of our Summer Series, the reception and discussion for our in-person guests will take place on our front lawn. Woodwell Climate Conversations is a monthly event series designed to engage our community and foster meaningful discussion about climate change and its impacts.
This series provides a platform for both in-person and virtual discussions, workshops, and presentations.
Join us each month as we bring together experts, thought leaders, and community members to explore the latest climate science, the work being done at Woodwell Climate Research Center, and the steps we can all take toward a sustainable future.
Doors open at 5:00pm, events start at 6:00pm in the Harbourton Auditorium.
Select lectures will be available both in-person and virtually, with recordings available on the Woodwell Climate website at a later date.
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Balancing Public Safety & Civil Liberties in the Age of Innovation
Wednesday, August 12
9am EST [12:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, Taube Family Auditorium, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-08-12/balancing-public-safety-civil-liberties-age-innovation
Cost: $5 - $22
Since the passage of Proposition E in 2024, San Francisco has expanded its use of technology in public safety, including drones, automated license plate readers, and the city’s new Real Time Investigations Center. As these tools become part of everyday policing, they’ve prompted conversations about how the city can pursue safer streets while protecting privacy and civil liberties.
How should new technologies be evaluated and overseen? What transparency and accountability measures make sense? And what can San Francisco’s experience teach other cities considering similar approaches?
Join us for a thoughtful conversation about technology, public safety and civil liberties—and what responsible innovation looks like in practice.
Featuring:
Chief Derrick Lew, SFPD
Barry Friedman, professor, NYU School of Law; founding director, Policing Project
Marisa Rodriguez, CEO, Union Square Alliance
Moderated by Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle
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Massport: Reflections from the Chief Climate & Resilience OfficerClimate Resiliency in Massachusetts – Turning Insights into Action
Wednesday, August 12
11:45 am - 1:00 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/massport-reflections-from-the-chief-climate-resilience-officer-part-three-of-the-webinar-series-on-climate-resiliency-in-massachusetts/
Cost: $30 - $125
Join the EBC Climate Change Committee for a webinar series exploring how Massachusetts state agencies are turning key insights from their past work into action in 2026 and beyond.
Program Speaker:
Jill Valdés Horwood, Chief Climate and Resilience Officer, Massport
Program Moderator:
Donny Goris-Kolb, AICP, LEED AP O+M, Envision SP, Senior Sustainability and Climate Planner – New England Lead, VHB
Through this series, leadership from MBTA, Massport, MassDCR, MEMA, and MassDOER will present their key achievements in advancing climate resiliency over the past year, showcasing impactful projects, partnerships, and measurable outcomes from 2025. Agency leadership will also provide a forward-looking perspective on upcoming initiatives, programs, and policy developments planned for 2026 and beyond, offering insight into how each agency is preparing for evolving climate challenges. Together, these presentations highlight how agencies are implementing the Commonwealth’s ResilientMass Plan through coordinated investments, policies, and on-the-ground resilience actions.
Massport, third in this series, will share insights from its newly formed Office of Climate Innovation & Resilience. Hear about the priorities developed over the last year driving the implementation and next phases of its Net Zero Roadmap, and learn how they’re approaching climate action and resilience across their facilities and operations.
The webinar will conclude with a moderated Q&A session for attendee questions.
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Monthly Dose of Climate Hope! with Bill McKibben
Wednesday, August 12
4 PM - 5 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monthly-dose-of-climate-hope-with-bill-mckibben-tickets-1991389377234
Get your monthly dose of climate hope with Bill McKibben — one of the world's most inspiring voices for a fossil-free future!
Come learn from Bill McKibben, the legendary author and activist who has spent decades sounding the alarm on climate change and building the movements to do something about it!
When it comes to climate change, doom-and-gloom stories are everywhere. But there’s another story unfolding, too. A story driven by grassroots movements, historic victories against big oil, and a growing generation of experienced, energized citizens who refuse to sit on the sidelines.
For this August's Dose of Climate Hope, you'll learn from Bill McKibben, founder of Third Act, an organization mobilizing people over 60 for bold action on climate and justice. A Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, winner of the Right Livelihood Award, and author of more than 20 books — including The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience about climate change — Bill has spent over three decades organizing, writing, and fighting for a livable planet. He co-founded 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, and helped launch the fossil fuel divestment movement, now the largest anti-corporate campaign in history.
In conversation with Sam Matey-Coste, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Action Now, Bill will share what decades of climate activism have taught him about hope, power, and progress — and why the movement is both stronger and more urgent than ever before.
Come learn from Bill, bring your questions, and leave with renewed optimism — because the climate movement has never been more alive!
About Our Featured Expert
Bill McKibben is an author, educator, and environmentalist widely regarded as one of the most influential climate voices of the past four decades. He is the founder of Third Act, an organization that mobilizes people over 60 for action on climate and justice, and a co-founder of 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, which has organized actions on every continent. His 1989 book The End of Nature is considered the first book on climate change written for a general audience and has been translated into 24 languages; he has since authored more than 20 books, with his latest, Here Comes the Sun, published in 2025. McKibben serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Right Livelihood Award, honorary degrees from 20 universities, and was named to Foreign Policy's inaugural list of the world's 100 most important global thinkers.
About Our Interviewer
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.
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What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity
Wednesday, August 12
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/2026-08-12/daron-acemoglu-brattle-theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes Daron Acemoglu—recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics and coauthor of the New York Times-bestseller Why Nations Fail—for a discussion of his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. He will be joined in conversation by Michael Sandel—Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, and acclaimed author of The Tyranny of Merit.
About What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
From Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and coauthor of the runaway bestseller Why Nations Fail, an ambitious and expansive take on the biggest story in global politics over the last hundred years: the rise and fall of liberal democracy.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was supposed to herald the "end of history.” The post-World War II era had seen a battle between liberal democracy (a political philosophy centered on individual freedoms, protection of the most vulnerable, and commitment to self-government) and more autocratic, largely communist regimes—and liberal democracy had won. Soon, it seemed, we would all be living in functional democracies, with sustained economic growth benefiting all segments of society, and war would be a relic of the past. A generation later, one can only ask: What happened?
Liberalism, Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu argues in this powerful and persuasive new book, was a philosophy built to challenge power—yet it still has not adjusted to being in power. Acemoglu, using the wide interdisciplinary lens that has won him acclaim, traces the history of liberal political thought from the Roman Republic to the Renaissance to the present day. He shows the extraordinary progress, unparalleled in human history, that this system of government has created—and explains why it has gone off the rails in recent years.
Looking at rapid advances in technology, shifts in regulatory environments, global political history, and economics, Acemoglu lucidly lays out the successes and failures of the most important political system human beings have conceived of—and what we must do now to rescue it.
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Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT. Among his previous books is the New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. He is the recipient of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books—on justice, democracy, ethics, and markets—have been translated into more than 30 languages. He has been described as a “rock star moralist” (Newsweek) and “the world’s most influential living philosopher.” (New Statesman) In 2025, he was named the recipient of the Berggruen Prize, the most prestigious global award for philosophy. Sandel’s book The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good? seeks a way beyond the polarized politics of our time. A new edition of his classic book Democracy’s Discontenthas been described as “essential—and ultimately hopeful—reading for all those who wonder if our democratic experiment will survive in the twenty-first century.” His previous books include Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?; What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets; and The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Sandel’s free online course “Justice” has been viewed by tens of millions of people. His BBC series “The Global Philosopher” explores the ethical issues lying behind the headlines with participants from around the world. Sandel has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford, served on the President’s Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His lectures have packed such venues as St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), the Sydney Opera House (Australia), the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park, and an outdoor stadium in Seoul (S. Korea), where 14,000 came to hear him speak.
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After Dark: Gardens at the MIT Museum
Thursday, August 13
6:00pm to 9:00pm EDT
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
RSVP at https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark
Cost: $20 (non-refundable) | Day-of General Admission: $25 | MIT ID Holders: $10 | Group Rate (10 or more tickets): $15 (non-refundable)
Join us for an evening celebrating gardens, green spaces, and all things locally grown! After Dark is a monthly adults-only, after-hours event at the museum. Full of science and surprises, expect demonstrations, tastings, conversation and more.
Featured activities:
At 7 pm, hear from MIT Professor Kate Brown, as she shares surprising stories of gardeners who turned vacant lots, scraps, and overlooked spaces into thriving places of beauty, nourishment, and community.
Explore local ecosystems and growing challenges through demonstrations and hands-on activities by Massachusetts Horticultural Society and Green Cambridge.
Discover how waste can fuel your garden with Maria Hottelet and We Capture Carbon.
Get your hands dirty (in a good way!) in our Maker Hub and make your own seed bomb with native wildflower seeds.
Check out a pop-up shop by Riffhaus, a fashion lab founded by artist, technologist, and MIT Media Lab alum Sandra Ferguson.
Wine and specialty beverages from Nashoba Valley Winery and Distillery and small bites from Viet Citron will be available for purchase.
Sets all night long with DJ Philip Tan.
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Climate School Final Capstone Briefings
Friday, August 14
10:00 AM - 4:15 PM
The Forum at Columbia University, Auditorium, 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
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The Capstone Workshop serves as the culminating educational experience for students in the MA in Climate & Society and MS in Climate Finance programs. Students apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge they have gained through coursework to real-world climate-related challenges for a client.
10:00 AM - Start
Orogenyx Capital: Investing in Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Jennison Associates: Integrating Climate Value at Risk into Valuation
rrreefs: Building Blue Capital - Financial Mechanisms for Reef Regeneration
Climate Analytics: Solving the Financial Puzzle for 1.5°C Aligned Transition
MSCI: Investing in Climate Adaptation and Resilience
11:25 AM – BREAK
Nasdaq: Benchmarking Climate Transition Strategy
Climate Central: User-Based How-To Guides for Coastal Risk Finder
Public Citizen: Climate Attribution & Criminal Liability for Extreme Heat Deaths
Earth Law Center: Advancing Rights of Nature in NY - Seneca Lake Case Study
Ambition Loop: Global Plastics Treaty - Advocating Against Plastic PLU Stickers
12:50 PM – LUNCH
NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM): Integrating Equity in Response & Recovery Planning
Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC): MCURC Protein Mix
Blue Peace Middle East: Dignity in Numbers: A WEFE Multidimensional Deprivation Index for the Middle East
GIAR (Bioversity/CIAT): Climate Services Participatory Assessment Tool
Community and College Partners Program (C2P2): Planning Today for Tomorrow - Roadmap for Vulnerable Coastal Communities
2:50 PM – BREAK
CGIAR-WorldFish: Climate Service Value Chain for Aquaculture in Bangladesh
Mudder AI: AI powered flood prediction tools
Climate Imaginarium & Cafe NYC: Integrated Growth Strategy
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Impact of State-Level Organic Waste Diversion Policies
Princess Polly: Logistics Network Resilience & Sustainable Growth
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This agenda is edited for length - More information at https://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/climate-school-final-capstone-briefings
Event Contact Information: Caitlin Sarro cjs2293@columbia.edu
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Paradox City: A Critical History of Dallas as Told Through Its Architecture
Monday, August 17
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/mark-lamster
Harvard Book Store welcomes Mark Lamster—architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and author of the acclaimed book The Man in the Glass House—for a discussion of his new book Welcome to Paradox City: A Critical History of Dallas as Told Through Its Architecture. He will be joined in conversation by Garnette Cadogan—Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and editor-at-large for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas.
About Welcome to Paradox City
A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the city’s most significant buildings.
With an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city's development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today. Welcome to Paradox City is an illuminating, illustrated look at the often-invisible ways that architecture shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future.
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Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 2021, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism, and in 2017 a Loeb fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the author of several books, including The Man in the Glass House, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
Garnette Cadogan is the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. His work explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the beauty and challenges of the public realm. The editor-at-large for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he writes about urbanism, culture, and the arts for various publications, and is currently at work on a book on walking and the everyday life of cities.
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Nature-based Coastal Restoration and Blue Carbon
Tuesday, August 18-Wednesday, August 19
10 AM-6 PM EDT
Online
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Learn to design, evaluate, and advance coastal restoration and blue carbon initiatives.
Coastal ecosystems such as salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and other marine habitats play a critical role in protecting shorelines, supporting biodiversity, and storing carbon. As climate change, habitat degradation, and increasing coastal pressures threaten these ecosystems, communities are seeking practical, nature-based solutions that strengthen resilience while delivering environmental, social, and economic benefits.
This two-day micro-credential equips participants with the knowledge and tools needed to design, evaluate, and advance coastal restoration and blue carbon initiatives. Through expert-led instruction, participants will explore Canadian restoration practices, blue carbon accounting and monitoring approaches, carbon markets, project finance, and community-led implementation models. The course emphasizes practical decision-making and helps participants build the capacity to develop restoration projects that support climate action, ecosystem health, and long-term community sustainability.
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Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
Tuesday, August 18
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/david-n-hackney
Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. David N. Hackney—Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University and Division Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine, as well as District Legislative Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—for a discussion of his new book, Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe. He will be joined in conversation by Dr. Chloe Zera—Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School.
About Impossible Choices
How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies—and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future. From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision.
Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions. But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible. As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality.
Impossible Choices focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy—including conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defects—especially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle with, for instance, kidney disease, lupus, diabetes, and cancer, the book also addresses a wide array of medical questions and complications.
How do we make decisions when thrown into extreme and uncertain circumstances? The author answers this question and more by painting a nuanced and clear-eyed picture of obstetrics after Dobbs, illustrating his reflections with stories from his own practice, as well as those of his wife, in pediatric oncology. Without being partisan or polemical, the book offers the informed compassion and way forward that this fraught moment in maternal medicine calls for.
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David N. Hackney, MD, MS is Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University and Division Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine. He is currently District Legislative Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and was the Section Chair for Ohio at the time of the Dobbs decision.
Chloe Zera, MD, MPH is the Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Zera attended medical school at the University of Minnesota and completed her OB/GYN residency and MFM fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, during which she completed a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is board certified in OB/GYN, MFM, and obesity medicine, and provides comprehensive preconception and prenatal care for birthing people with complex pregnancies. In particular, she is a recognized expert in the care for people with obesity and diabetes in pregnancy and has contributed to national and international clinical guidelines. Dr. Zera’s research focus is on optimizing health care delivery, and she leads several ongoing projects aimed at developing better systems of care to improve pregnancy outcomes. In addition to her clinical and academic work, Dr. Zera is an advocate for comprehensive and equitable reproductive health care policy. She currently serves as the Chair of the Massachusetts Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as well as the Chair of the Health Policy and Advocacy Committee for the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.
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Green Hushing to Green Shouting
Wednesday, August 19
12 PM - 1 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-sustainability-sizzle-webinar-green-hushing-to-green-shouting-tickets-1993932251038
How to Talk about Climate Action & Sustainability in a Divided World: From Green Hushing to Green Shouting?
Research shows that customers, especially Gen Z, care deeply about climate action, and that businesses are still acting, investing, and innovating on sustainability. At the same time more and more companies are choosing silence, paralyzed by fear of backlash, legal scrutiny, or saying the wrong thing at the wrong moment. How do we move from so-called “greenhushing” and how can your business continue to speak up on climate action and sustainability, responsibly? Hear from communication experts on why silence can be a strategic risk, how to maintain your brand’s visibility and communicate your company’s sustainability initiatives accurately without overclaiming.
Speaker: Jenna Klein Jonsson is the Principal and Managing Director of Blaze Partners, a 100% employee owned and B Corp Certified advertising agency based in Falmouth, Maine. Prior to co-founding Blaze, Jenna spent 15 years at L.L.Bean where she held a variety of executive-level roles including Director of Communications Strategy and Creative Director and Managing Editor. She began her career at Ski and Skiing Magazine in Boulder Colorado. In her spare time, you will find her skiing and biking with her family in Maine.
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Indigenous Agroforestry Network Quarterly Webinar
Wednesday, August 19
2 PM - 3 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-agroforestry-network-quarterly-webinar-tickets-1993875358872
Join us August 19, 2026 at 11am PT to explore how Indigenous-led agroforestry sustains climate resilience, food systems, and culture.
Join us for the Indigenous Agroforestry Network's third webinar of the year! Our quarterly webinars are designed to foster connection among agroforestry practitioners and partners, build relationships, and increase awareness of programs and services available to Tribes and Indigenous land stewards.
This presentation explores how Indigenous-led agroforestry practices are implemented, preserved, and passed down through generations. Grounded in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), we will examine how collaboration, relationships, and storytelling transform and sustain regional Indigenous agroforestry efforts into powerful climate resilience tactics.
Featuring case studies from New Mexico, Oregon, and Hawaii, the session highlights shared successes, unique challenges, and emerging opportunities across diverse ecosystems. We will also review a synthesis document from the Southwestern Tribal Agroforestry Project, demonstrating how Indigenous agroforestry in the American Southwest is deeply embedded in climate resilience, sustainable food production, and cultural preservation.
This webinar is led by the Indigenous Agroforestry Network, a collection of partners across the Pacific Northwest including Ecotrust, USDA National Agroforestry Center, US Forest Service, Heritage University, Cal Poly Humboldt, Washington State University Extension, and Oregon State University.
Stay Connected: Visit our website to sign up for our monthly newsletter to receive updates on the upcoming report release, future webinars, and opportunities to connect: http://www.IndigneousAgroforestry.org
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The Age of Migration
Wednesday, August 19
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, Cambridge Edition, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140-1413
RSVP at https://portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-08-19/kai-maristed-author-age-migration-conversation-steve-yarbrough
Porter Square Books is excited to welcome Kai Maristed for the release of her new book The Age of Migration. Steve Yarborough will join Maristed in conversation.
This event will take place at our CAMBRIDGE store. We offer validated parking in the lot on Roseland St. behind Lesley's University Hall. See parking details below.
ABOUT THE AGE OF MIGRATION
Winner of the 2024 Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize, The Age of Migration follows people on the move— across borders, families, and inner lives— confronting what motion promises and what it costs.
Set in intimate, unsettled places around the globe, these stories trace journeys shaped by choice, necessity, and circumstance. Travelers venture into unfamiliar terrain; workers and families face sudden moral reckonings; acts meant as care ripple into unforeseen consequences. With clarity, restraint, and emotional precision, The Age of Migration illuminates quiet negotiations of belonging and responsibility, and asks what it means to carry oneself forward in a world defined by constant change.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kai Maristed is the author of three novels: Broken Ground, Fall and Out After Dark, and a previous collection of stories, Belong to Me (starred by Publishers Weekly). Her shorter work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, Zoetrope, The American Voice, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Iowa Review and elsewhere. She has taught writing at the MFA level at Harvard, Emerson College and the Warren Wilson Program. A frequent book reviewer for print and online, and an occasional translator from German and French, she lives in Paris, France and on Cape Cod, when not on the move.
Steve Yarbrough is the author of eight novels, three story collections and a memoir. His work has won the California Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the Robert Penn Warren Award. He has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is Professor Emeritus at Emerson College.
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Keeping Up: Maintenance and Management of Ecologically Vibrant Landscapes
Thursday, August 20
8:30 PM - 10 PM EDT
Online
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Cost: $0 -$25
This webinar explores how landscape designers can bridge the gap between design vision and long-term care, with real-world strategies.
Naturalistic and ecologically rich landscapes may be in high demand but designing them is only the beginning. For landscape designers, the ongoing challenge is ensuring that planting designs can be successfully maintained, evolve over time, and continue to deliver both ecological and aesthetic value.
This webinar explores the often-overlooked relationship between design intent and long-term landscape care. Drawing from national interviews and surveys with landscape professionals, the session examines common barriers to sustaining biodiverse plantings, including limited maintenance capacity, conventional horticultural practices, and gaps between design vision and on-the-ground management.
The session also highlights practical, real-world strategies that are helping bridge these divides, ranging from adaptive maintenance approaches and revised planting strategies to improved client education and stewardship models. Participants will gain actionable insights for designing with maintenance in mind and for creating resilient, naturalistic landscapes that are both ecologically vibrant and realistically maintainable over time.
Attendees will leave with a clearer framework for aligning design decisions with long-term care, supporting landscapes that thrive well beyond installation.
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Beyond the Bulk: Shifting Paradigms to Fundamentally Understand SCM [Supplementary Cementitious Materials] Reactivity
Monday, August 24
1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m Eastern US Time
Online
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Cost: $0 - $30
Beyond the Bulk: Shifting Paradigms to Fundamentally Understand SCM Reactivity Replacing a portion of Portland cement with locally sourced supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) is the most effective strategy to mitigate CO2 emissions and simultaneously reduce our reliance on imported minerals within the construction sector. However, predicting the chemical reactivity of these complex materials remains an elusive challenge. Traditional bulk and uniparameter metrics, such as metakaolin content or specific surface area, frequently fail to explain significant discrepancies in reactivity between seemingly identical materials.
This talk proposes a fundamental paradigm shift away from traditional bulk properties toward surface chemistry, lattice defects, and atomic configurations. By utilizing synthetic clay minerals and innovative 29Si isotopic labeling, our research group has achieved a 40x signal enhancement in solid-state NMR (ssNMR) experiments. This breakthrough enables precise, unprecedented tracking of metakaolin dissolution and early-age hydration kinetics in cementitious systems. Furthermore, we incorporate cutting-edge 4D-STEM (Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy) and zone axis orientation mapping to track the amorphization of aluminosilicate lattices upon calcination. Together, these advanced tools provide the detailed structural insights required to develop accurate models and robust predictive frameworks for next-generation cements.
FEATURED SPEAKER
Franco Zunino is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on addressing the global sustainability challenges of construction materials, with a primary focus on low-carbon cements, supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), and early-age cement hydration chemistry. His Science of Cementitious Materials (SCiM) Lab specializes in bridging fundamental material science with civil engineering applications by leveraging advanced, multi-scale characterization tools, including solid-state NMR (ssNMR) with isotopic labeling, thermodynamic modeling, and advanced electron microscopy techniques like 4D-STEM, to explore material characteristics from atomic surfaces to structural performance.
Zunino’s contributions to cement and concrete science have been recognized with several prestigious international honors, including the 2025 Le Chatelier Distinguished Paper Award, the 2023 RILEM Colonnetti Medal, the 2022 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Wason Medal for most meritorious paper, and the global Nanocem Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field. He is also actively engaged in professional service and standardization leadership. He currently serves as chair of the ACI 240.0A subcommittee on calcined clays, secretary of the ACI 231 committee on early-age properties of concrete, and chair of Workgroup 5 within the ASTM C09.24 subcommittee on reactivity. Additionally, he is a member of the RILEM Educational Activities Committee (EAC) and serves on the Editorial Boards of Construction and Building Materials, RILEM Technical Letters and as an associate editor in the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.
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The Rise of “The Nerd Reich”
Monday, August 24
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-08-24/gil-duran-and-wajahat-ali-rise-nerd-reich
Cost: $10 - $55 [book included]
SPEAKERS
Gil Durán, San Francisco Journalist; Author, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy
In Conversation With Wajahat Ali, Editor, “The Left Hook” on Substack; Co-host, "Democracy-ish" Podcast
When Silicon Valley says it is “moving fast and breaking things,” the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. In his new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, Gil Durán argues that something far more sinister is at work: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.
Durán chronicles what he calls the “tech-authoritarian movement” from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering his road map to resistance.
Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, he traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. He introduces its modern apostles—Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan and Elon Musk—and argues that the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the algorithmic propaganda of social media.
Durán explains the origins, strategies and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s “war on democracy.” Join us as Durán will be in conversation by acclaimed author and former Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali, editor of the “Left Hook” Substack.
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Massachusetts DOER – Climate Priorities & Actions – Part Four of the Webinar Series on Climate Resiliency in Massachusetts
Wednesday, August 26
11:45 am - 1:00 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/massachusetts-doer-climate-priorities-actions-part-four-of-the-webinar-series-on-climate-resiliency-in-massachusetts/
Speaker & Moderator DetailsP
rogram Speakers:
Joanne Bissetta, Green Communities Director, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER)
Paul Holloway, Senior Energy Security and Resilience Lead, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER)
Program Moderator:
Isabel Kaubisch, Member, EBC Board of Directors; Manager, Permitting and Siting, National Grid Ventures
Through this series, leadership from MBTA, Massport, MassDCR, MEMA, and MassDOER will present their key achievements in advancing climate resiliency over the past year, showcasing impactful projects, partnerships, and measurable outcomes from 2025. Agency leadership will also provide a forward-looking perspective on upcoming initiatives, programs, and policy developments planned for 2026 and beyond, offering insight into how each agency is preparing for evolving climate challenges. Together, these presentations highlight how agencies are implementing the Commonwealth’s ResilientMass Plan through coordinated investments, policies, and on-the-ground resilience actions.
Massport, third in this series, will share insights from its newly formed Office of Climate Innovation & Resilience. Hear about the priorities developed over the last year driving the implementation and next phases of its Net Zero Roadmap, and learn how they’re approaching climate action and resilience across their facilities and operations.
The webinar will conclude with a moderated Q&A session for attendee questions.
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Life on the Octopus Farm: The Ethics and Future of Growing the World's Most Intelligent Invertebrate
Wednesday, August 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/richard-schweid
Harvard Book Store welcomes Richard Schweid—veteran journalist with decades of experience writing on science, politics, natural history and culture, and author of a dozen books—for a discussion of his new book, Life on the Octopus Farm: The Ethics and Future of Growing the World's Most Intelligent Invertebrate. He will be joined in conversation by Steve Yarbrough—professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College, and author of twelve books, including the Massachusetts Book Award-winner The Unmade World.
About Life on the Octopus Farm
A provocative investigation of the race to farm octopus and the controversy it sparked worldwide.
In 2021, the London School of Economics found that octopuses are sentient beings, capable of experiencing pain, distress, and happiness, and that high-welfare farming of them would therefore be impossible. But the enormous international demand for octopus meat continues to grow even as wild octopus populations decline, prompting a race to bring the first farm-raised product to market. At the same time, firestorms of protest in Europe and the United States over the ethics of farming such an intelligent creature are pressuring lawmakers to ban the practice altogether.
After working at one of the world’s first octopus farms, on the Yucatán Peninsula, award-winning journalist Richard Schweid embarked on a global adventure to explore the ethics and future of octopus aquaculture. He traveled to octopus-farming sites in Mexico, Spain, and Japan where he met people on both sides of the ethical debate: marine biologists, businesspeople, restaurateurs, animal rights advocates, octopus farmers, and everyday fishermen whose livelihoods depend on wild octopus. In this vibrant account of his experiences, Schweid also engages pressing related issues: environmental impact; the need for sustainable farming opportunities in underresourced communities; and how global desires for specific foods place pressure on local populations. Ultimately, the appetite for octopus demonstrates the conundrums of our interconnected world—across countries, through oceans, and via the food we consume.
Bios
Richard Schweid is a veteran journalist with decades of experience writing on science, politics, natural history and culture for outlets including The Tennessean, Slate, Popular Science, and Politico. Based in Barcelona and Rhode Island, Schweid is the author of a dozen books including Consider the Eel, The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore, and Invisible Nation: Homeless Families in America.
Steve Yarbrough is the author of twelve books, including the nonfiction title Bookmarked: Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show and the novels The Unmade World, The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from the Neighbors, and most recently, Stay Gone Days (2022). His work has been published in several languages, including Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Polish, and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.K. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the Robert Penn Warren Award. He was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The Unmade World won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. The son of Mississippi Delta cotton farmers, Steve is currently a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and divides his time between Boston and Krakow.
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No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism
Thursday, August 27
6:30pm - 7:30pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-08-27/wbur-cityspace-jared-huffman
Cost: $10 -$30
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The separation of church and state has long been considered part of the foundation of American democracy. Rep. Jared Huffman of California's 2nd congressional district, argues in a newly penned book, No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism, that this bedrock principle and democracy itself is under threat by Christian nationalism. With 250th anniversary celebrations underway and President Donald Trump’s emphasis on a Christian founding narrative, No Prophets lands during a particularly prescient time for Christian nationalists trying to advance their agenda across the U.S. government.
Huffman will join environmental activist and author Bill McKibben to discuss the book. Copies will be available to purchase.
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A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival
Monday, August 31
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virginia-eubanks
Harvard Book Store welcomes Virginia Eubanks—investigative journalist, author of Automating Inequality, and an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, State University of New York—for a discussion of her new memoir, A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival.
About A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving
A spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us.
One night, Virginia Eubanks received the kind of news we all fear. Her beloved partner had been brutally beaten just steps from their house. In the weeks, then months and years that followed, they faced a cascade of setbacks: police disinterest, suspended health insurance, inadequate medical care, lost income, lost friends, endless paperwork, and a serious case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Then, a second case. Eubanks had developed what is known as “collateral” PTSD, common among caregivers but rarely discussed.
A reporter and an activist, Eubanks turned to reliable sources to figure out how to heal: scientists, therapists, trauma theorists, social movements. But it wasn’t until she happened on an old lifesaving manual that she found advice that actually helped. Inspired by its lessons, she took a series of classes: kayak self-rescue, winter survival, map and compass, bushwhacking, first aid, lifeguarding. In a memoir as disarmingly funny as it is quietly wise, Eubanks draws lessons from these experiences, her research, and interviews with everyone from neuroscientists to forest rangers. The result is a moving, hopeful, darkly funny story of two people caught in their own kind of wilderness, trying not just to survive but to truly care for each other. Built from cataclysmic loss and tenacious love, A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving challenges readers to reconsider the networks of care that sustain our lives, reminding us that no one survives the wilderness alone.
Bio
Virginia Eubanks is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Guardian, Nature, and Scientific American. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How HighTech Tools Profile, Police, Punish the Poor, and A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving. She is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. When not sleeping in her truck in the Adirondacks, she lives in Troy, New York. Photo Credit: William Gill
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Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity
Wednesday, September 2
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-3820
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/david-conrad-perez
Harvard Book Store welcomes David Conrad-Pérez—historian, former journalist, and research director for the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University—for a discussion of his new book, Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity.
About Fire in the Heart of the City
How New York's elite claimed authority over social welfare in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy.
In American history, few tragedies have been as consequential—and as enduringly misunderstood—as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Long remembered as a turning point in the struggle for labor protections, Fire in the Heart of the City shows how the fire also helped transform another cornerstone of modern American life: the rise of modern charity.
Set in early twentieth-century New York, the book tells the extraordinary story of what happened when a catastrophic fire in Greenwich Village threw Adolph Ochs, the ambitious new publisher of the New York Times, and Rose Schneiderman, a defiant young labor organizer, into a momentous struggle over who should organize the city’s response: a rising charity sector led by wealthy financiers and civic elites, or the reform-minded unions and activists of Lower Manhattan.
Drawing on newly released archival documents, interviews with the descendants of Times publisher Adolph Ochs and New York labor organizers, previously confidential reports, and long-overlooked private diaries and correspondence, historian and former journalist David Conrad-Pérez offers a striking new account of the disaster and its aftermath. He shows how a handful of charities on the brink of irrelevance were suddenly recast as New York’s best answer to the social and economic conditions the fire laid bare—a watershed moment in the rise of modern charity and elite authority over social welfare in the United States.
In the months after the fire, the Times and its philanthropic allies joined forces to popularize the idea that social crises should be managed not by immigrant reformers, labor advocates, or neighborhood coalitions, but by a select class of elite and supposedly “scientific” charitable institutions. In doing so, they elevated a new language of expertise around poverty and public welfare that would leave a lasting mark on American civic life.
A deeply researched and absorbing work of narrative history, Fire in the Heart of the City offers a major reinterpretation of one of the most important urban disasters in American history, revealing how a single catastrophe helped reshape not only the politics of labor, but also the moral and institutional foundations of modern American charity.
Bio
David Conrad-Pérez is a historian and former journalist whose work examines the forces that shape the media, philanthropy, and public life. He serves as research director for the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University. A former producer for On the Media and Public Radio International’s The World, he has also written for the New York Times, Reuters, and Columbia Journalism Review. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.
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The Carbon Wave
Friday, September 4
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-09-04/leah-c-stokes-gina-mccarthy-varshini-prakash-and-david-abel-carbon-wave
Join us at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of The Carbon Wave with author Leah C. Stokes, in a panel conversation with Gina McCarthy, Varshini Prakash, and moderator David Abel.
The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet
The true, inspiring story of the new parents who spearheaded an unlikely climate victory.
From the rising climate advocate named to the Time100 Next list, for political junkies and anyone who cares about the environment.
They were perhaps an unlikely trio: the professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together, they crafted the boldest climate legislation of our time. In The Carbon Wave, Stokes chronicles the turbulent path of their climate bill as it veered between breakthrough and collapse—from the hopeful beginnings of the Green New Deal in 2018, to the bill’s near-certain defeat by Senator Joe Manchin in the winter of 2021, to the surprise passage of the landmark legislation in August 2022. During this critical time, the author was pregnant or in the NICU with her premature twins, and Aggarwal and Deveny were new parents too.
Interlacing personal narratives with stories from Congress, the White House, and outside activists, Stokes shows how dogged perseverance and collective action can still bend the course of history. The book concludes with an update from the second Trump administration, explaining the parts of the bill that were—and were not—rolled back, and why we should remain hopeful that progress is still being made.
Everyone has been told to shrink their carbon footprint and lighten their load on our planet by changing their behavior. But what if instead of making ourselves smaller, we joined with others to maximize our impact? That’s the carbon wave. And this book shows us how to make it.
Leah C. Stokes is Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara. As a leading climate advocate, she has championed climate policy in the United States at all levels of government and was selected for Time Magazine’s Time100 Next list and Business Insider’s top 30 global climate leaders. A recipient of a Harvard University Radcliffe Fellowship, she is the author of the award-winning Short Circuiting Policy, which was listed as one of the top 5 climate books in 2020 by The New York Times.
Gina McCarthy: The first White House National Climate Advisor and former U.S. EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy is one of the nation’s most respected voices on climate change, the environment, and public health. As head of the Climate Policy Office under President Biden, McCarthy’s leadership led to the most aggressive action on climate in US history, creating new jobs and unprecedented clean energy innovation and investments across the country.
Varshini Prakash is the former Executive Director and co-founder of Sunrise, a movement of young people working to stop climate change. Prakash's work has been featured in the New Yorker, Democracy Now, TeenVogue, BBC, Washington Post and more. She was named to the Grist Top 50 Fixers for “people cooking up the boldest, most ambitious solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges.” Varshini currently lives in Boston, MA.
David Abel: An award-winning reporter, documentary filmmaker, and professor of journalism, David Abel has covered war in the Balkans, unrest in Latin America, national security issues in Washington D.C., terrorism in New York and Boston, and climate change and poverty throughout New England. A longtime reporter at The Boston Globe, Abel is also a professor of the practice in the journalism department at Boston University.
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