[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events

[George Mokray]

MIT

Tuesday, August 03, 2010
"Low carbon electricity = Integrate Resource Strategic Planning(IRSP)  
+ Smart grid" - Professor HU Zhao Guang.
Speaker: Professor HU Zhao Guang. Vice President and Chief Energy  
Specialist. China's State Grid Energy Research Institute.
Time: 11:00a–12:30p
Location: E19-319
Title: Low carbon electricity = Integrate Resource Strategic  
Planning(IRSP) + Smart grid
Abstract: Integrate Resource Strategic Planning(IRSP) balances the  
power supply side and demand side, making the optimal electricity  
savings on the demand side and optimal power generation on the supply  
side. It can be used as a tool for policy makers to evaluate the  
effectiveness of targeted incentive policies, such as price rebate for  
energy efficiency equipment, in creating energy saving and mitigating  
GHG. IRSP can also improve the targeting of Smart Grid investments for  
energy savings and clean energy generation. So, it can be put as:

Low carbon electricity = IRSP + Smart grid

Speaker Bio: Dr. Zhaoguang Hu is the vice president and chief energy  
specialist at the State Grid Energy Research Institute (former State  
Power Economic Research Institute) as well as the head of the Power  
Supply and Demand Research Laboratory. He is the director of Power  
Economic Committee of CSEE (Chinese Society of Electric Engineering).  
He is an honorary professor at North-China Electric University and  
Beijing Jiaotong University. He is a chief editor of Energy Technology  
and Economics (Chinese).His main areas of interest are: low-carbon  
energy, energy economy, energy efficiency and demand side management  
(DSM), smart grid, and policy study on the above areas.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, MIT  
Energy Initiative, MIT, Future of the Electric Grid Study

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Other

First Corvid College Lecture Series in collaboration with the Global  
Economic Alternatives Network (GEAN) Present:
Marie Trigona
NEU - Snell Library
Tuesday, August 3rd, 4:00 to 7:00 PM

Please forward to interested contacts and friends

Title: Report from Buenos Aires: How ordinary Argentinians have been  
coping with the ravages of political and corporate irresponsibility.
Guest Speaker: Marie Trigona
Date: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Venue: Snell Library, Room 090, Northeastern University Main Campus,  
Boston, Mass.
Time: From 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Program:
4:00 - Video
5:00 - Lecture
6:00 - Discussion

"Marie Trigona has reported from Argentina for numerous media outlets  
around the world. A writer, radio producer, and film maker, her work  
focuses on labor struggles, social movements and human rights in Latin  
America. Her writing has appeared in publications including Z Magazine  
and ZNet, NACLA, Monthly Review, Canadian Dimension, The Buenos Aires  
Herald, Left Turn, Americas Program, Clamor, Venezuela Analysis,  
Upsidedown World, Dollars and Sense and many others. She collaborates  
with video and direct action collective Grupo Alavío and their project  
Ágora TV. She reports for Free Speech Radio News, a daily syndicated  
radio news program broadcast in the U.S."
http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/marietrigona
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Andrew Rimas, Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of  
Civilization
Start: Tue, 08/03/2010 - 7:00pm
"With a flavor of Jared Diamond, Empires of Foodthoughtfully weaves  
the religion, military history, and science into a historical arc of  
how food undergirds civilization's rise and fall. Sprinkling  
discussions of monks and bird guano in with the Roman Empire and  
colonization, the book elucidates the inherent instability of how our  
current food infrastructure has evolved and will make you rethink how  
you eat."
Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookies Chronicles

"Empires of Food deals with a subject of grave importance and profound  
implications for the political economy of the world. Although the  
subject is serious, it is written in a compelling and readable style.  
While not pedantic or ponderous in any way, it is of impressive  
academic rigor. This book needs to be read and thoughtfully considered  
by policy-makers and citizens everywhere. And if you enjoy lunch,  
don't fail to read it!"
John Maley, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Andrew Rimas is a journlist and the managing editor at theImproper  
Bostonian magazine; previously he was an associate editor and staff  
writer at Boston Magazine. His work has frequently appeared in those  
publications and in The Boston Globe Magazine and The Boston Globe.
Location:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413

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Mary Roach, Packing for Mars
Start: Fri, 08/06/2010 - 7:00pm
"Popular science writer Roach entertainingly addresses ... life in  
outer space. There is much good fun with - and a respectful amount of  
awe at - the often crazy ingenuity brought to the mundane matters of  
surviving in a place not meant for humans. .... A delightful,  
illuminating grab bag of spaceflight curiosities."
Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"An impish and adventurous writer with a gleefully inquisitive mind  
and a stand-up comic's timing, Roach celebrates human ingenuity (the  
odder the better), and calls for us to marshal our resources, unchain  
our imaginations, and start packing for Mars."
Donna Seaman, Booklist Review

Mary Roach is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human  
Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious  
Coupling of Science and Sex, andPacking for Mars: The Curious Science  
of Life in the Void. She lives in Oakland, California.
Location:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413

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