[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun May 22 18:01:24 PDT 2011
Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most
Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston
area that catch the editor's eye.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events
email gmoke at world.std.com
My notes from three recent presentations on the Arab Spring are at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975618/-Notes-on-the-Arab-Spring
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Mayor Menino's Inauguration of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at
City Hall Plaza & Announcement of “EVboston” Initiative
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM (ET)
City Hall Plaza
One City Hall Sq
Boston, MA 02201
Please join Mayor Thomas M. Menino at City Hall for the Inauguration
of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at & an Announcement of
"EVboston" Initiative!
Three parking spaces on Cambridge Street in front of City Hall Plaza
have been outfitted with charging stations and have been set aside for
the exclusive use of electric car owners who need to recharge the
battery of their vehicle. Parking at these metered spaces will be
limited to four hours at Boston’s standard meter rate of $1.25 per
hour. The project is a year-long pilot to monitor the use and
durability of the charging units.
The project is a year-long pilot to monitor the use and durability of
the charging units. The three units were purchased from Coulomb
Technologies. The pilot will inform future implementation plans for
stations around the city. NStar has also installed a separate smart
grid pilot meter in the stations control box to inform the utility on
usage and load capacity. The additional NStar meter has remote access
to the power to the three charging stations and will be monitored
closely for future use in smart grid planning.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
The Changing Nature of Research and Innovation in the 21st Century
Speaker: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy
of Technology, Visiting Lecturer of Engineering Systems
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: Virtual -- http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_052311/webinar-wladawsky-berger.html
The MIT System Design and Management (SDM) Program Systems Thinking
Webinar Series
The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar
Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students,
and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate
information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering,
management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Over the past century, science and technology have been successfully
applied to innovation in the industrial sector of the economy, leading
to very high productivity and quality, and to the development of
highly sophisticated and complex objects like airplanes, skyscrapers
and microprocessors. The 21st century defines a new set of challenges,
especially in the complexity of the systems we are now developing in
all kinds of industries, including energy, health care, financial
services and urban systems.
It is critical to once more leverage technology, science and
innovation to address these challenges and make major improvements in
the productivity and quality of these highly complex systems,
including services, organizations and the very way the world works.
Continuing advances in digital technologies promise to be as pivotal
to the 21st century as steam power was to the industrial revolution,
leading to an information and services driven economy which is
changing the focus, design objectives and the methods by which the
world innovates to meet global challenges.
The presentation will explore the key differences between "classic"
industrial sector innovation and innovation in this emerging
information and services economy, as well as the growing technical
capabilities and business opportunities for organizations that embrace
these new modes of innovation.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_052311/webinar-wladawsky-berger.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: See url above
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and
Management Program
For more information, contact:
Lois Slavin
617-253-0812
lslavin at mit.edu
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States within States: The Social Contracts of Armed Groups
WHEN Mon., May 23, 2011, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Keister, research fellow, International Security
Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch at harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5536/states_within_states.html
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Environmental Health Colloquium
May 23, 2011 - 12:30pm
Contact Name: Alissa Wilcox
AWILCOX at hsph.harvard.edu
Building 1, Room 1302 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
“Human health impacts of anthropogenic changes to Earth’s natural
systems: Why destroying Nature may be bad for us." Dr. Samuel Myers,
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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Sustainability in the Square
May 23, 6:00 to 7:00 pm, Cambridge Brewing Company, One Kendall Square
Cambridge Energy Alliance along with Sustainable Business Network and
Cambridge Local First are hosting a business workshop during Cambridge
Go Green Month focusing on energy efficiency and sustainability. I've
attached our flier and a description is below.
Please join us for an informative workshop on how you can make your
small business more environmentally friendly while saving valuable
natural resources and money!
This workshop will feature a presentation by Phil “Brewdaddy”
Bannatyne, owner of Cambridge Brewing Company, who will highlight the
steps that his business took to “go green” and share insights into the
challenges and benefits of doing so. You will also have the
opportunity to meet and hear from various organizations in the
Cambridge area about the many programs and incentives that are
available to you to make your own journey of
sustainability and energy efficiency easy, rewarding and fun!
Come and enjoy this informative and relaxed night of conversation,
food, and free beer and leave with a clear understanding of how and
why to green your small business.
Please RSVP to: Info at CambridgeEnergyAlliance.org
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Egypt: Towards a Vibrant Civil Society (A Panel featuring Wael Ghonim)
Time: 6:00p–7:30p
Location: MIT 34-101
Join us for an engaging conversation on the role that the civil
society can play in transforming Egypt post-revolution with speakers:
Wael Ghonim:
Wael is an activist, former Google Middle East Marketing Executive,
and creator of the facebook page that helped spark the Egyptian
revolution. Wael was a central figure in the pro-democracy movement in
Egypt and was a subject of secret incarceration by Egyptian police
during the revolution. He is among the TIME magazine's list of 100
most influential people of 2011 and is the 2011 recipient of the John
F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award (in the name of the people of
Egypt).
Mona Mowafi: Dr. Mowafi is a postdoctoral research fellow in Social
Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Moderator: Aly El Tayeb: PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering and an
MBA at MIT.
The panel will discuss:
* The role of civil society and grass roots organizing in Egypt Post-
revolution
* The role of the Egyptian diaspora in Egypt post-revolution
* Using IT as a tool for development and social change
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Egyptian Association, GSC Funding Board
For more information, contact:
Tamer Elkholy
clubegypt-board at mit.edu
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Lunch Line: A Documentary on the National School Lunch Program
You are invited to a free screening of the film in Boston on Monday,
May 23 at 7:30 pm
AMC Loews Boston Common 19
175 Tremont Street, Boston MA
Admission is free plus a post-film discussion with experts and
activists in childhood nutrition and healthy eating.
RSVP to lunchline at crowdstarter.com
http://www.lunchlinefilm.com
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berkman luncheon series >
may 24, 2011
12:30pm
Netflix for Voting
Seth Flaxman & Paul Schreiber
Tuesday, May 24, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar at cyber.law.harvard.edu
)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our
site (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast) shortly after.
TurboVote is a service that makes voting by mail and voter
registration as simple as renting a DVD with Netflix. Come hear how
TurboVote built in two months for spare change what the government
couldn't do for any price. The founders (one a former Berktern!) and
developer will discuss the project's legal, technical and
philosophical issues and how TurboVote will bring democracy into the
21st century.
About Seth
Seth Flaxman is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Democracy
Works, the nonprofit behind TurboVote. While recruiting and managing
the team that brought TurboVote to life, Seth received a Master's in
Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He previously worked as a
research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, program
administrator at the Institute for International Education and
berktern at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. While
receiving a B.A. in economics from Columbia University, Seth founded
the Activist Council, a group that annually organizes hundreds of
students for campaign trips and demonstrations, and served as student
body president, leading the council in successfully lobbying Columbia
to reform its financial aid policies.
About Paul
Paul Schreiber spent a decade as a software engineer, including eight
years on Apple’s Mac OS X team. In 2008, he volunteered for Barack
Obama’s presidential campaign. In addition to knocking on doors and
making phone calls, Schreiber co-developed Vote For Change,
registering over 500,000 voters and helping a million people find
their voting location. He can often be found at your local hockey
rink, on his bicycle or behind the lens of his Nikon D70s. Before
building TurboVote, he cofounded a nonprofit student news
organization, a music classifieds web site and a health care video
storytelling project.
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Harvard/Cambridge Walk for Peace
WHEN Wed., May 25, 2011, 12 – 12:20 p.m.
WHERE John Harvard Statue
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Social Sciences, Special Events,
Support/Social, Working at Harvard
NOTE Nearly 10 years of war. Thousands of American lives, hundreds of
thousands of Iraqi and Afghani lives, trillions of dollars. Come
remember, mourn, and protest.
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May 25th at 12:00PM EDT
Lessons from the Smart Grid Cyber Security No FUD Zone
Andy Bochman
Energy Security Lead
IBM Software Group/Rational
About the Event
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Attend this free online event to learn what utilities, regulators, and
vendors are doing to ensure the successful roll out of a safe and
secure Smart Grid.
Presentation Abstract
The mainstream media gives us daily reminders of the risks anticipated
from the emerging Smart Grid: Smart Meter related health concerns, new
privacy issues, perceived exposure to higher monthly electric bills,
and new threats to critical infrastructure from solar flares, EMP, and
Stuxnet. This presentation will give attendees the other side of the
story. We'll cover what utilities, regulators, and vendors including
IBM are doing to ensure the successful roll out of a safe and secure
Smart Grid, essential for enabling the Smarter Planet and our
collective energy future.
Contact: newsletters at virtualenergyforum.com
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We Shall Not Be Moved: Building Relationships
a community discussion with artist Kelly Creedon, City Life Executive
Director Curdina Hill, Organizing Director Steve Meacham and members
of the Bank Tenant Association
Wednesday, May 25th
7:00 p.m.
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
(downstairs)
We Shall Not Be Moved is an ongoing multimedia documentary project by
Kelly Creedon, in partnership with City Life/Vida Urbana and the Bank
Tenant Association. The project tells the story of a growing
grassroots movement that is using the power of bringing people
together to help keep families in their homes after foreclosure. Since
2008, City Life/Vida Urbana has focused on preventing the eviction of
both former owners and renters resulting from a rise in foreclosures.
The Bank Tenant Association was created to stop evictions through a
combination of legal defense, collective action, and political protest.
This discussion will be moderated by Susie Husted and will focus on
the relationships that were built during the documentary project's
development and exhibition.
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2011 GoGreen Awards
Thursday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00 am, Swissnex Boston/Consulate of
Switzerland, 420 Broadway
The City of Cambridge will present the 2011 GoGreen Awards to
businesses and organizations who are advancing sustainability in the
city. Join us for a breakfast event hosted by Swissnex Boston.
Please RSVP to Rosalie Anders at randers at cambridgema.gov or
617-349-4604.
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Energy Bar at the Venture Cafe: Who is Cleantech?
Thursday, May 26, 2011 from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Venture Cafe @ CIC
One Broadway, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
Event Details
Join Greenlight Distrikt and the Venture Cafe for an event generating
ideas and action in Clean Technology! As the inaugural event of a new
bimonthly gathering, Energy Bar is asking: Who is Cleantech? If you
are a student, entrepreneur or investor with a passion for cleantech,
join us for a gathering of people innovating across this growing
industry. This event is about connecting people interested in
becoming active players in the diverse range of cleantech companies
emerging from Cambridge and Boston.
We will be hosting a mix of technology experts, entrepreneurs on the
forefront of new developments in cleantech and "friends of cleantech"
who are interrested in learning how they can get involved! This event
is being organized by Greenlight Distrikt and is being hosted by the
Venture Cafe, located in the Cambridge Innovation Center. Beer, wine
and light refreshments will be served.
This event will occur on a bimonthly basis - make sure to mark your
calendars for our next event on July 28th, 2011!
Organized By:
Green Light Distrikt (GLD) is a community of young, passionate
professionals and entrepreneurs that are building friendships, sharing
insights, and helping each other to change the world with clean
technologies. We started in Boston, but now we’re spreading to every
major US and international cleantech hub starting with NYC, DC, and
Boulder.
RSVP at http://energybar.eventbrite.com/
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Guest Street Session: Exploring Media's Role in the "Arab Spring"
Thursday, May 26, 7pm program, 8pm dessert reception, WGBH Studios,
One Guest Street, Brighton
Join us as WGBH's award-winning Frontline and The World team up with a
panel of experts to explore how changes in the media and
communications environment — social media, the Internet, satellite
television — have affected the "Arab Spring," a term used to define
the pro-democratic uprisings across the Arab world.
The World's Aaron Schachter moderates the discussion of how online
cultural connections buoyed successful revolutions in Tunisia and
Egypt with Frontline’s Charlie Sennott, Al Jazeera's Gregg Carlstrom,
Berkman Center at Harvard University’s John Palfrey, and the American
Islamic Congress’s Nasser Weddady. Admission is free to News Club
members, but RSVP is required: http://support.wgbh.org/site/Calendar?id=106102&view=Detail
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RISING COST OF FOOD AND FUEL: ARE WE READY?
Thursday 26 May 2011 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
(Note Location: First Church in Jamaica Plain UU, 6 Eliot St. Jamaica
Plain, MA 02130)
RSVP and Invite your friends of Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100816590010225
$6.50 a gallon for gas? How will that impact you? How will it impact
our community? What can we do about it? Whole Foods pricing isn’t the
only thing making healthy food expensive these days. Globally analysts
are concerned that food prices will continue to rise for years to
come. What can we do to prepare?
There are many factors driving the increase in the cost of food and
fuel, and most of them are expected to continue and worsen in the
coming decades. Working together there is a lot we can do to
strengthen community resilience in the face of potential economic and
ecological shocks to the system — it is time to share our ideas for
action.
Come join the conversation with your neighbors. Let’s get to know each
other and how these deepening challenges impact all of us, and let’s
brainstorm actions we can take today to be more resilient tomorrow.
A community conversation hosted by JP New Economy Transition: http://jptransition.org/state-of-our-neighborhood-a-community-conversation/
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May 27 - 30
"The Future of Biological Prototyping" - a diybio hackathon
http://futurelabcamp.com/
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Upcoming
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Coming to Boston....
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time
Join us at the Stuart Street Playhouse!
See the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made
about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental
legacy at the Stuart Street Playhouse in Boston! Green Fire shares
highlights from his extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped
conservation and the modern environmental movement.
The film also illustrates Leopold's continuing influence, exploring
current projects that connect people and land at the local level. Meet
urban children in Chicago learning about local foods and ecological
restoration. Meet ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico who maintain
healthy landscapes by working on their own properties, and with their
neighbors, in cooperative community conservation efforts. Meet
wildlife biologists who are bringing threatened and endangered
species, from cranes to Mexican wolves, back to the landscapes where
they once thrived. Viewers will learn how Leopold's vision of a
community that cares about both people and land ties all of these
modern conservation stories together, and offers inspiration and
insight for the future.
Learn more...
DATE: Thursday, June 2, 2011
TIME: Doors open at 6:00pm; remarks and film begin at 6:30pm
LOCATION: Stuart Street Playhouse
ADDRESS: 200 Stuart Street, Boston, MA 02116
TICKETS: Available through Brown Paper Tickets, $8 advance/$10 door
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.greenfiremovie.com
In a special Green Innovators in Business Network "Growing GIBN"
webinar on June 2 at 12pm ET, Farron Levy, founder and president of
True Impact, will join us to talk about his efforts to define measures
and develop tools to track the "Triple Bottom Line."
Farron will talk about how True Impact approaches the problem of
motivating and measuring beyond-compliance activities and demonstrate
an online tool they have developed. Together, we'll discuss
experiences with these issues and how these types of tools are helpful
for sharingbest practices and develop benchmarks.
Date: June 2, 2011
Time: 12pm ET
Register for the webinar online at:
http://www.anymeeting.com/AccountManager/RegEx.aspx?PIID=EF59D78787
Dial-in at (760) 569-9000, code: 160031#
About True Impact
True Impact (www.trueimpact.com) provides web-based tools and
consulting services to help organizations quantify the social,
financial, and environmental return on investment (ROI) of their
corporate citizenship activities. True Impact's "triple bottom line"
evaluations have been adopted by Allstate, Deloitte, GE, Home Depot,
PNC Bank, and Verizon among others.
About Farron Levy
Farron Levy, founder and president of True Impact, was previously a
consultant with social auditing firm SmithOBrien and economic
consultancy Industrial Economics, Inc; and has served as an advisor to
City Year, New Profit, and CitySoft. He is on the faculty of Boston
College's Center for Corporate Citizenship, where he teaches
coursework on ROI evaluation. Farron earned an MPP from Harvard
University, and a BS with university honors from Carnegie Mellon
University.
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*Skillshare: Time Banking in the Time Trade Circle****
Monday, June 6
6-8:30PM*
The NonProfit Center by South Station
Looking for an alternative economy? Need a ride to the airport, help
with your garden or a massage? This workshop will talk about time
banking - exchanging services based on time - and tell you all about
the Time Trade Circle (TTC), a local time bank with 800+ members all
over the greater metro-Boston and Eastern-Mass area. The workshop will
explain how to join if you are interested, and forms will be
available. I'll explain how time banking is different from bartering,
how our local Time Trade Circle time bank works, what kinds of
services people trade, and how members participate through their
online account.
www.TimeTradeCircle.org<http://www.timetradecircle.org/>
*Learn more and RSVP:** *http://www.sojust.org/events/17664391/*
*(bring your own dinner)
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June 10, 2011
New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable:
Better Integrating Policy, Planning, and Electricity Markets in New
England
Raab Associates presents:
The 123rd NE Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
Date: Friday, June 10, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP
155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
June 10, 2011
New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
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Better Integrating Policy, Planning,
and Electricity Markets in New England
New England has spent nearly two decades restructuring its electric
utility industry, and developing more competitive market structures,
ostensibly to bring enhanced benefits to customers. During the same
time period, federal, state, and even local governments have developed
a multitude of energy policies to encourage the development of
particular resources, such as energy efficiency, demand response, and
renewable energy (think RPS, energy efficiency and renewable energy
system benefit charges, demand response initiatives), while
discouraging other resources (think RGGI, various environmental
regulations, etc.). Other types of policies and planning frameworks
impact the choice between building more wires or more resources. Some
states are even putting out RFPs to develop very specific types of
resources. This Roundtable will explore the tensions between the
desire for both workable markets and a variety of public policy
objectives, and will consider how we can move forward to forge a more
workable system here in New England.
Our first panel takes a step back from the specific struggles within
New England to explore how these issues are playing out on the ground
nationally, providing some bold ideas for New Englanders to consider.
Former FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell will kick off the panel by
discussing how markets can successfully accommodate a wide range of
policy/planning objectives. Rich Sedano, Principal at the Regulatory
Assistance Project, will share work RAP is currently undertaking to
redefine the way markets and policy/planning should be integrated in
pursuit of "Responsive Resources." Finally, Mauricio del Valle, Vice
President, Global Power and Utility Group, Morgan Stanley, will
provide some reality-testing from Wall Street about what's actually
needed from markets and policy to get energy projects funded and built.
Our second panel focuses specifically on the current situation in New
England, and offers some thoughts on what we should do over the next
five to ten years to better integrate electricity markets and policy/
planning. Leading off the panel will be Gordon van Welie, President/
CEO of ISO New England, which is responsible for keeping the lights on
and operating the markets in the face of increasing complexity.
Massachusetts DPU Chair Ann Berwick will provide a state regulatory
perspective, followed by Daniel Weekley, Vice President of Government
Affairs at Dominion Resources, who will provide a generator
perspective (and reflect on Dominion's just-announced decision to
close Salem Harbor). Rounding out the panel will be Mary Healey,
Consumer Counsel for the State of Connecticut and immediate past
president of the National Association of State Utility Consumer
Advocates.
The Restructuring Roundtables are free and open to the public.
Advanced registration is not required.
The Restructuring Roundtable has been meeting bimonthly since 1995, to
discuss current topics related to revolutionary changes in the
electric power industry in Massachusetts and throughout New England.
It is supported by over 25 generous sponsors.
Jonathan Raab, Ph.D, moderator of the Roundtable, is president of Raab
Associates, Ltd, a Boston-based mediation and facilitation firm
specializing in energy and environmental issues. He also teaches the
sustainable energy policy class at MIT.
Raab Associates, 118 South St. 3A, Boston, MA 02111
tel. 617-350-5544 fax 617-350-6655
http://www.RaabAssociates.org
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Greater Boston Connected and Consequential Conference: June 10, 11 and
12
June 10 & 11 Egan Center, Northeastern University
June 12 Design Studio for Social Intervention?
A place for artists and other creative thinkers and practitioners to
gather and explore the intersection of art and other fields, including
Health, Nature, Consumption and Justice. Through case studies and
moderated discussions, conference participants will?learn how artists
and their collaborators are using their creativity and finely honed
skills to intervene in the major issues of our time to produce
positive social outcomes.? The proceedings will focus on the best ways
to develop successful?"integrated or hybrid?practices", including the
role of collaboration, research, technology and sustainability.
The conference is free, but please pre-register online at
http://www.artistsincontext.org/index.php/connected-a-consequential/greater-boston/greater-boston-conference.html
Friday, June 10 at Northeastern University, Egan Center,120 Forsyth
Street,
Boston, MA 02115
6:30-8:30 p.m. Stories from the Field, with artists and community
practitioners Gail Burton, New Freedwoman Project; Michael Dowling,
Medicine Wheel Productions; Mariama White-Hammond, Project Hip Hop;
Andi Sutton, National Bitter Melon Council; John Osorio-Buck;
moderated by Kenneth Bailey, Design
Studio for Social Intervention
Saturday, June 11 at Northeastern University, Egan Center,120 Forsyth
Street, Boston, MA 02115
8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks and Video, Marie Cieri and Louisa
McCall, Artists in Context
9:15 a.m. Jeremy Nobel, Art and Healing
Jeremy Nobel is an Adjuncy Lecturer on Health Policy and Management
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public
Health and President and Founder, Foundation for Art and Healing
9:30-10:30 a.m. Case Study: SUGAR and Story Circles with artist Robbie
McCauley
Moderated by Jeremy Nobel, the discussion of story circles and their
impact on diabetics, attitude, care-taking and healing will include
Sharon Jackson, Mattapan Community Health Center, and Kathryn, a story
circle participant. The case study will also examine how community
interest and desire for this type of engagement are determined.
10:35-11:35 a.m. Case Study: Ideas Team with Artistic Director of
Artlink, Edinburgh, Alison Stirling, and artists Kelly Dobson, Steve
Hollingsworth and Wendy Jacob
How can people with profound developmental disabilities inform an
artistic process? How do you bring people together to further inform
and realize these ideas? In February, a group of artists, engineers,
arts administrators and case workers met in Edinburgh to discuss the
creation of a center part ideas laboratory, part university and part
day center where individuals from across a range of abilities and
disciplines could collaborate on creative projects that challenge
normative ways of communication and being in the world. The aim of
the center is to use the most cutting edge ideas for the most
disadvantaged people.
11:45-12:30 p.m. Open Time networking and resource tables
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch, Judy Meredith, Institute for Public Policy
Negotiating Change with Power
1:30-2:30 p.m. Case Study: Crossing the Rubicon: On Contamination,
Tragedy and the Possibility of New Cultures with Dan Borelli, artist;
Gavin Kroeber, producer; moderated by Marie Cieri, Artists in Context
Environmental contamination may be perpetrated by specific individuals
and corporations, but the cultural conditions that permit such
disregard are
collectively produced.? Starting from the environmental and social
histories of Ashland, MA and the Nyanza EPA Superfund site that it is
home to, this talk explores the possibility of an artwork that can
trace a society?s failure to address its own excesses, honor the
victims and heroes of this history, and finally lay the ground for a
fundamentally more complex relationship within our community.
2:35-3:35 p.m. Case Study: The Story Behind with Mario E. Quiroz-
Servellon, artist; Franklin Soults, Communications Director,
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee and Advocacy Coalition; moderator
TBD
3:45-5:00 p.m. Wrap Up Community Discussion
5:00-6:00 p.m. Open Time networking and resource tables
Sunday, June 12 at the Design Studio for Social Intervention, 1946
Washington Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02118 (entrance on Thorndike
Street)
10:30-1:00 p.m. Conference reflections, discussion and networking
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Taking Risks: The Journey from Blackjack to Big Blue - a talk with
Yuchun Lee
Monday, June 20, 2011 from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
IBM Center for Social Software
1 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
http://yuchun-lee.eventbrite.com/?ref=enivte?
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*Recess for Justice - Saturday, June 25 - 11am-1pm*
Southwest Corridor across from Stony Brook T station in JP
Bring your favorite outdoor game or check out the assortment of fun
we'll have on hand: Frisbees, kickball & chalk (for 4-square!), jump
rope, basketball, softball (bring a glove) and whatever other
randomness we can think of. If it's hot we can run through the
fountain sprinkler to cool off. Around 1pm, we'll likely get out of
the heat by going to Ula Cafe for lunch. So look no further if you
want to cross-promote your events and campaigns while perfecting your
Frisbee forehand, you're seeking like-minded progressives to hang out
with in Boston, or are new to the area and looking for groups to get
involved in.
*RSVP:* http://www.sojust.org/events/17521346/ *Newcomers always
welcomed!*
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Climate Change Adaptation Workshop
Consensus Building Institute
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions
The Trustees of Reservations' Putnam Conservation Institute
present
Local Communities Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Risk in
Decision Making
Monday, June 20, 2011
9am-4:30pm
Leominster, MA
This one-day course will introduce municipal and community leaders,
and planning professionals to the tools they need to better assess and
manage the risks associated with climate change. Our approach helps
community leaders to consider how they can alter everyday decision
making to better prepare for the risks that may lie ahead. This course
is tailored specifically for the needs of suburban and rural
communities. The key concepts introduced will be "scenario planning"
and collaborative approaches to decision-making.
Presenters/Facilitators:
Patrick Field
is Managing Director of North American Programs at the Consensus
Building Institute and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public
Disputes Program. Patrick has helped thousands of stakeholders reach
agreement on natural resource, land use, water, and air issues across
the United States and Canada.
Steve Aldrich
is the founder and President of Bio Economic Research Associates LLC,
an independent research and consulting firm specializing in complex
issue analysis at the intersection of our emerging knowledge of
biology and the economy. Steve studied evolutionary biology and has
more than 25 years of experience working in various industries,
including energy planning.
Workshop Fee: $45*
For More Information or to Register:
Pre-register online
www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/central-ma/adapting-climate-change-jun20.html
Or contact
Miriam Scagnetti
978.840.4446 x1935
mscagnetti at ttor.org
* Members of The Trustees of Reservations or the MA Association of
Conservation Commissions may register for this workshop for $30 - New
members welcome!
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Resource
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The presentations from the recent Affordable Comfort National Home
Performance Conference are available online at
http://2011.acinational.org/downloadable_resources
Lots of good information from what some call the best energy
conference in the USA on Deep Energy Retrofits to Community Energy
Challenges with details on insulation, heat flow, energy metering,
ducting, hot water, and many, many other topics. If you are a
practical energy wonk, this should make your eyes light up.
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track
your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while
controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly
email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post
announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships,
programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles
or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's
food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take
place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food
system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food,
farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health,
environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of
organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on
week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let
everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of
subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and
other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/studios
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation,
contact jmatthaei at wellesley.edu
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the
Boston Area http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://sustainability.mit.edu/
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://pechakuchaboston.org/blog/
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
More information about the Act-MA
mailing list