[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Jun 19 18:26:38 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.
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My notes from the FuturICT presentation at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/15/985424/-Global-Scale-Systems-Simulations:FuturICT
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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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Monday, June 20, 2011
MIT Webinar -- Designing Systems for People
Speaker: Todd Reily, Human Factors Engineer, MITRE, and SDM Fellow
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: Virtual -- see link below
Designing Systems for People
MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series
Todd Reily, Lead Human Factors Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
About the Presentation
Today's consumer technology market has evolved in complexity and
interconnectedness at an ever-increasing rate. As these products and
services become increasingly intertwined, the opportunity for
overwhelming the people that use them has heightened tremendously. As
a result of this situation, the importance of "user experience" design
has risen in the eyes of most organizations. However, many of these
same organizations continue to produce poorly designed products or
complicated service experiences because they fail to understand that
great experience design does not come from an isolated design stage,
but from a fully integrated design and engineering process that
elevates user experience. The difference is subtle but significant.
The difference is systems thinking. This webinar presents a systems-
based, design-centric framework for producing great product or service
experiences. It will demonstrate the importance of this type of
approach for understanding markets, developing concepts, providing
vision, managing uncertainty, crafting requirements, creating
prototypes, and testing new markets.
Web site:http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_062011/webinar-reily-systems-people.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
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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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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Boston Society of Architects/AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE)
Sustainability Education Committee
Webinar screening: Climate adaptation and the built environment
June 21, NOON
The Architects Building
52 Broad Street, Boston
COTE AND THE SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION COMMITTEE , with the
Massachusetts chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), co-
host a webinar screening on climate adaptation and the built
environment on June 21 at noon at The Architects Building. The
webinar, developed by the USGBC research department and expert
panelists, addresses the application of practical green building and
urban design strategies to prepare for changing climate conditions.
Meetings are free and open to all. Lunch will be provided to those who
RSVP to rsvp at architects.org by June 20 with “Webinar 6/21” in the
subject line.
Continuing-education credit is offered at many BSA programs.
Visit architects.org/calendar for details.
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Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers / Top Secret, XXX,
Private, All Rights ReservedGlenn Otis Brown
Tuesday, June 21, 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 (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast
) live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
1) Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers
Are we be ruled by robots? The mob? Technocrats? Yes, yes, and yes.
The question is not if, but how -- and how we should prevent any one
of the three from taking over.
2) Top Secret, XXX, Private, All Rights Reserved
Confidentiality, content regulation, privacy, and copyright are all
asking the same question: Who should have access to what kind of
expression, and when? Why, then, do we continue talk about them as
separate subjects? And what would happen if we approached them as part
of a single, unified set of rules? Should organizations like Creative
Commons move into offering "privacy licenses"? What can the music
industry teach governments about Wikileaks? What can the CIA learn
from YouTube?
About Glenn
Glenn is Director of Business Development for Twitter in New York.
Before that, he was Head of Music Partnerships at YouTube. Glenn has
worked as a products counsel at Google, where he worked on YouTube,
Google Image Search, Blogger, Google Talk, the Google WiFi initiative,
and Google Sitemaps, among many other projects. He was Executive
Director of Creative Commons from summer 2002 through spring 2005 and
currently serves on the Creative Commons Board of Directors. In
2003-2004, Glenn was a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he co-
taught a class on copyright licensing with Lawrence Lessig. He clerked
for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th
Circuit, in Miami, where he worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright
appeal and Bush v. Gore, among other cases. Glenn has also worked
stints at The Economist’s Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on general
U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at “Digital Age,” a New York
public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant
producer for a season. Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at
Austin (B.A.) and Harvard Law School (JD). Glenn was a member of the
Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, where he organized the first Signal or Noise conference and
concert in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Panel Discussion
swissnex Boston
420 Broadway
Cambridge
Tuesday,
June 21, 2011
6 - 9 pm
If you would like to attend this event, we kindly ask you to
RSVP here<http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1077550-h1swFJFpXs>.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to friends and colleagues
who are interested in this topic.
One of the major challenges of the 21st century will be to create an
economy that can at the same time provide livelihoods for an
increasing number of people and not degrade natural resources or spur
climate change. This is also one of the major challenges that the
Biovision<http://www.biovision.ch> Foundation<http://www.biovision.ch>
encounters in its pilot projects in East Africa and its political work
within the Rio+20 process.
A “Green Economy” in the context of sustainable development and
poverty eradication is one of the main themes of the upcoming 2012
UNCSD Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro. Within the preparatory process
the question what green economy actually is and what it should look
like is a heatedly debated issue. UNEP’s roadmap to Rio + 20, the
Green Economy Report (published February 2011) sees the challenge of
agriculture in feeding the world’s growing population without damaging
ecosystems and human health and without undermining the sector’s
natural resource base. Drawing upon UNEP’s Green Economy Report,
experts will debate on what sustainable agriculture could look like
and how it could fit within the new Green Economy framework.
Speakers and panelists:
Hans Herren<http://www.millenniuminstitute.net/about/hans.html>,
President Millenium Institute and Biovision Foundation, Author of the
Agriculture chapter of the UNEP's Green Economy Report
Katherine Di Matteo<http://www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/inside_ifoam/boards.html
>, President of the Board of IFOAM (International Federation of
Organic Agriculture Movements)
Eric Chivian<http://chge.med.harvard.edu/about/faculty/chivian.html>,
Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global
Environment at Harvard Medical School.
Moderator:
Samuel Fromartz<http://fromartz.com/main.php?sn=sn1&pc=oi2>,
Journalist, Washington D.C.
TECHNOLOGY AND MICRO FINANCE
• Date: 6/23/2011
• Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02142
• Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
• Audience: general public
• Description: This event hosted by the MFC (Micro Finance Club) of
Boston will focus on the influence technology has recently had on
micro finance organizations including Grameen, KIVA, WOKAI, and
ACCION. Technology has played an important role in shaping micro
finance in developing countries in a variety of ways. Technology has
allowed farmers in rural areas better access to information about
agriculture and through technology pregnant women have been able to
receive medical updates without leaving their villages. This
informative presentation will aim to bring together people in the
community to discuss the future of technology and ways in which
individuals can help locally, whether that be donating old cellphones
or volunteering their time.
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/TechnologyandMicroFinance/tabid/754/Default.aspx
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Boston Startup Event: Social Entrepreneurs Doing Good Business
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
6:00 PM
WorkBar
711 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
Check out these inspiring startups and how they make a profitable
business by creating a positive environment through the web. Meet CEOs
and successful entrepreneurs.
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/22580931/?a=mc1_grp&eventId=22580931&action=detail&rv=mc1&rv=mc1
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CLOUDSWITCH
Date: 6/21/2011
Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02142
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Description: The cloud computing space (IAAS, PAAS and SAAS) has been
growing at a frenetic pace over the course of the last few years. It
has been estimated that Amazon's IAAS cloud will generate anywhere
from $500-700M in 2011 and will eventually outgrow their retail
business.
Large companies and small startups are using the cloud to address the
challenges facing IT and realize significant benefits of cloud
computing. Our panelists will describe a multi-year vision for the
cloud, provide insights into relevant standards and trends in the space.
Join us to network and learn more about the future of cloud computing
from a group of visionary panelists in the cloud computing space. The
event will also include a panel moderated by Simeon Simeonov, CEO Fast
Ignite and Executive in Residence at General Catalyst.
RSVP at https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFNpWUJqZXJjR082OTJtbV9SZDJFQkE6MA
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GreenPort Forum
Film and Discussion: The Economics of Happiness
Tuesday, June 21 at 7:00pm
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, 459 Putnam Ave
A powerful new film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page
'Going local' is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured
world – our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. Far from the old
institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different
future. The thinkers and activists interviewed for the film come from
every continent, and represent the interests of the great majority of
people on the planet today. Their message is unambiguous: in order to
respect and revitalize diversity, both cultural and biological, we
need to localize economic activity.
Featuring voices from six continents, including: Vandana Shiva, Bill
McKibben, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard
Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Andrew Simms, Zac Goldsmith, Samdhong Rinpoche
http://www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org
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Tuesday, June 21 at 7pm
Cambridgeport Baptist Church
459 Putnam Av, Cambridge
(corner of Magazine St. and Putnam Ave)
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable
Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at swineman at gis.net
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Food Literacy Project Film Series: Kings of Pastry
WHEN Fri., June 24, 2011, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Dana Palmer House, Room 102, 16 Quincy Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HUHDS Food Literacy Project
NOTE Bring your lunch. Drinks and snacks provided.
LINK http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/calendar.html
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LET'S TALK ABOUT FOOD FESTIVAL
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Let's Talk About Food Festival Website: http://www.letstalkaboutfood.com/
Experience an outdoor celebration of food, health, cooking, and
science. Demonstrations, tastings, Q&A with experts, and a varied menu
of activities spark conversations about some of the hottest topics in
the world of food.
Highlights include:
> Main Stage and Sub-Zero and Wolf Demo KitchenJoin Boston's top
chefs and food experts for presentations and cooking demonstrations.
> The Endless Table Break bread, discuss our food system, and find
out how what we eat affects our bodies, our planet, our economy, and
our future.
Food Truck Food Court Grab a gourmet bite! A pop-up food court offers
a selection of cuisines.
Activity Booths and Exhibitor Tents Participate in hands-on activities
and explore new products and tastes.
The event takes place at the Cambridge Parkway (on the Cambridge-side
banks of the Charles River behind the Royal Sonesta and adjacent to
the Museum of Science.) Rain date is Sunday, June 26.
Fee: Free
Supporting partners include Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the City of
Boston, the City of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Department of
Conservation and Recreation, and Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston.
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Saturday, Jun 25th
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Solar Cooker Picnic
at The Somerville Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue, Somerville, MA,
just outside of Union Square
Learn about clean energy options for solar for home, school, or
business; share information on your solar projects. Demonstrations of
renewable solar technology, including The Growing Center’s PVC system,
sculpture, solar cookers demonstrate sumptuous dishes. Sponsored by
Boston Area Solar Energy Association and Somerville Climate Action.
Contact: Henry (617) 354-6952 or Maureen at lucyneptune at hotmail dot
com or www.basea.org
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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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Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET)
June 25 Barnraising
1000 watt light bulbs!?!
Join us Saturday, June 25th from 12:30 to 5 pm at St. Bartholomew's
Church, 239 Harvard St.
There will be lots of great skills to learn including caulking,
replacing bulbs, lowering water bills with faucet aerators and toilet
banks, correctly program a thermostat and more.
It is also a great opportunity to see something you may never have
witnessed before: 1,000 watt light bulbs. That's not a decimal error,
these bulbs use 1,000 watts.
Find out how adding insulation helped this church reduce its heating
bill by $8,000 per year.
RSVP by signing up here: http://bit.ly/je1BCw
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NO NUKES PARTY
JUNE 25, 1-8PM
WENDELL, MA, TOWN HALL, Common
POTLUCK***CELEBRATE***RE-CONNECT*** SINGING
(And discuss non-violent action plans 3-5:30pm)
Sponsored by: Wendell Conservation Commission
Co-sponsors: Clamshell Legacy and Antinuclear Mobilization (info at clamshellalliance.org
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Citizens Awareness Network (nukebusters.org), Safe & Green
(safeandgreencampaign.org)
Green Mtn. Post Films (gmpfilms.com); W. MA AFSC (westernmassafsc.org);
Traprock Center for Peace and Justice (traprock.info); Solar Rollers
More information, contact info at clamshellalliance.org
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Fundraiser for Water for Niger, Africa
When: Sunday, June 25 from 8 pm to 11 pm
Where: 239 Arlington Street, Acton MA 01720
What: African drummers will perform and afterwards a dance party.
Why: To raise funds to help build wells for villages that have been
put at risk by the many droughts in the region.
Donation: We are asking people to make reservations with a $25
donation.
Make checks payable to Bokai Inc, 239 Arlington Street, Acton. MA 01720
Bokai Inc: Established by a former Peace Corps volnteer with a direct
relationship with town officials in Guidan Roumji. It is a 501 C-3
charitable organization. The towns of Action and Guidan Roumji have
become Sister Cities. High School students have exchanged letters.
Money has been sent for business micro-loans, farming and tree
planting. All money will go towards the well building project.
For more details, contact Michael Klinger #978 263-7925, mklinger at anzuglobal.com
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Patterns of Energy Demand are Shifting: What will Happen to the
World's Energy System?
June 28, 2011 - 4:30am
http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/global-energy-conversation/speakers
Contact Name: Tom Blackwood
tomblackwood at economist.com
Virtual - use your own computer to connect!
The economic and political circumstances surrounding energy use are in
flux. What implications does this have for the world's energy system?
JOIN THE GLOBAL ENERGY CONVERSATION: TRANSITIONS FROM WEST TO EAST
In the first event of its kind, on June 28th 2011 at 09.30 BST (GMT+1)
the world can join us to debate the future of energy in a live online
discussion.
15 Energy experts will meet simultaneously in London, Shanghai and
Singapore in a virtual roundtable using the latest telepresence
technology. They will be joined in discussion by global experts,
academics, corporates, media - anyone with an interest in the future
of energy. We hope you can join the conversation...
View the event through a live video feed
Help shape the debate by asking questions directly to the panel or to
the entire online audience
Join in an online conversation through an integrated social media feed
that links to your facebook and twitter accounts (or you can create
your own account)
Filter the feeds to only see views from certain groups of experts, or
audience group
Express your opinion through 'on the fly' polls.
Interested? Join the Global Energy Conversation as our guest. Visit
the Global Energy Conversationsite to learn more.
To follow news from The Global Energy Conversation on Twitter, find us
athttp://twitter.com/EC_Enviro or join the conversation at http://twitter.com/#!/
search/global_energy.
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We cordially invite you and your family to our annual Strawberry Fete!
A fundraiser to benefit Boston Area Gleaners at historic Gore Place in
Waltham, MA
Thursday, June 30, 201, 6-9 pm Rain or Shine
Where: Gore Place, Carriage House
52 Gore Street
Waltham, MA 02453
Please join us for a relaxed summer evening of faun at the Gore Place
Carriage House for Local Treats
Local Strawberries
Shortcake and Refreshments
Cheese Tasting
Shelburne Farms (VT) Cheddat
And short film "Sun to Cheese"
with the producer, Catie Camp
Historic Gore Garden Tour
with Estate Manager Scott Clarke
Live music
Old Time Country with the Whitford Franzosa Trio
Art Show
Sculpture and Paintings by local artist Dave Tree
Open Space
Enjoy the evening, throw a frisbee, wall the grounds
Please register at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=o5o4pudab&oeidk=a07e3zfpc824605a661&oseq=a001g9ln9kkn
Please consider making a donation at http://www.communityroom.net/
even if you are unable to attend.
Tickets are $25 per adult, $10 students, under 13 free
This fundraiser will effectively kick-off the 2011 gleaning season and
your contribution will help us get the extras to those who need it most.
You may reply directly to this e-mail for questions, and additional
contact info is below.
Laurie "Duck" Caldwell
Oakes Plimpton
Boston Area Gleaners
duck at bostonareagleaners.org
781-894-3212
Editorial Comment: Oakes Plimpton has been a developing local
agriculture systems for over thirty years. Boston Area Gleaners is
only one recent project among many.
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Every year, the International Co-operative Alliance, based in Geneva,
and the United Nations co-sponsor the International Day for Co-
operatives on the first Saturday in July, which is July 2nd in 2011.
This year, Harvest Cooperatives has agreed to sponsor a Co-op Faire,
featuring Boston-area cooperatives and their supporters. We will come
together in the parking lot adjacent to Harvest from 10 AM to 2 PM and
set up tables / canopies / booths with banners and signs, to pass out
flyers to the public, talk with interested potential members, share an
afternoon with coop-minded people, and celebrate the joy of building
the co-op movement. Add a bit of food for the gatherers to share,
maybe some acoustical music, possibly a skit or other performance and
a demonstration project or two and we will have a marvelous time
supporting co-ops and connecting with co-ops around the world.
History shows that the periods of greatest co-op growth are when the
economy is coming out of a recession. As people get back on their
feet, they work to organize different ways of building economic
organizations that will not replicate the previous business
disasters. That time is now. As we come out of the "Great
Recession", we are already seeing a boom in co-op organizing and now
is the time to point the way to a better future -- co-operatively.
If your co-op or supporting organization would be interested in
reserving a table space for the Faire, please contact Wayne Clark at rwayneclark at irg.org
or 603-512-8015 (cell) or 617-467-4113 (home). You can complete the
registration form and prepare to participate.
Hopefully, the 2011 International Day for Co-operatives, Mass Bay Co-
op Faire will begin an annual event where co-ops in our area can
promote the benefits of co-operatives and develop our organizations
and their members.
Come share the wisdom in the nearly 200 years of the co-op movement.
I hope to see you there, R. Wayne Archer-Clark (rwayneclark at igc.org)
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Opportunity
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Free Solar Panels for Houses of Worship
From a recent Mass Interfaith Power & Light (http://mipandl.org/) email
"We've recently been talking with DCS Energy (http://
www.dcsenergy.com/) who has an unbeatable offer: if your site
qualifies, they design and install the panels at no cost, don't charge
you for any electricity, and donate the system to your house of
worship after five years. Your only costs will be for a building
permit, possibly a structural engineer to verify that your roof can
support their weight, and any preparatory work such as roof work or
tree removal. If solar panels are so expensive how can anyone give
them away for free? First, there is a federal grant program that is
only available until November that pays for 30% of the cost of the
system. Then there is an accelerated depreciation option that gives
certain kinds of investors another tax advantage. Finally, the state
awards a special allowance called a "Solar Renewal Energy
Credit" (SRECs) to owners of solar electricity systems which are sold
at auctions to utilities who buy them to meet their requirements under
the Massachusetts' renewable portfolio standard. DCS is betting that
the price of these SRECs will remain high. Jim Nail, president of MA
IP&L, has talked to DCS Energy and is currently having them prepare a
proposal for his church, St. Dunstan's Episcopal in Dover. Jim says,
"The references I've talked to have been quite positive about the
program and the company has been very responsive. "If you think your
site might qualify, contact Peter Carli, pete at dcsenergy.com, with the
address of your house of worship and your contact information. He'll
take a preliminary look at your site and advise you if it meets their
criteria."
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From John Bolduc, Environmental Planner, Community Development
Department, Cambridge, MA:
"Finally, I wanted to let folks on the list know, if you are
interested, that I will be going, on a personal basis, on a study tour
of cities in Germany and Holland taking a look at climate change
adaptation and mitigation initiatives. The tour is organized by ICLEI-
Local Governments for Sustainability. We will visit Freiburg,
Dresden, Bonn, and Rotterdam. We will also participate in the ICLEI
Climate Resilient Cities Conference in Bonn. I am leaving today for 2
weeks and I plan to blog along the way as a way to share information.
If you are interested, please visit the Energy 2.0 blog hosted by the
Cambridge Energy Alliance. You can visit the site athttp://energytwodotzero.org/
. You can also subscribe to the blog to be informed of updates. I
plan to post 4 or 5 times with photos. So join me for the trip."
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The Medford Farmers Market is looking for organizations, individuals,
chefs, nutritionists, educators, musicians, physical activity
specialists, gardeners, and other fun people who would like to do
educational activities on market days.
We are looking for activities that are interactive and enjoyed by all
ages. Demos, how-tos and games are encouraged. Should be somehow
related to sustainable living, health, nutrition, farming, gardening,
physical activity, sustainability, learning and development, music,
art, creativity. Most importantly it should be entertaining for people
at the market.
We are looking to fill 1, 2, 3 or 4 hour time slots. The Medford
Farmers Market is a great place for you to gain experience and
exposure - there are over 20 vendors signed up for the season
including local wine, meat, vegetables, honey, bread, art.....Your
activity/demo/gig will be well publicized via social media, as well as
local newspapers and newsletters sent to hundreds of people.
The market goes from June 16- Oct 13 at the Whole Foods Market Parking
Lot, 2151 Mystic Valley Parkway (Rt 16), Medford, MA 02155. Plenty of
parking and restrooms are available.
Please contact me if you are interested. Please feel free to forward
this e-mail to people who you think may be interested. Thanks so much,
have a great weekend!
For more info, please see the following:
website: www.medfordfarmersmarket.org
e-mail: medfordfarmersmarket at gmail.com
twitter: MedfordFarmMkt
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Medford-Farmers-Market/135452753138491
Address: Whole Foods Market Parking Lot, 2151 Mystic Valley Parkway
(Rt 16)
Editorial Comment: I have taken some of my solar displays to farmers'
markets from time to time and have advocated doing so as a way to
change US energy attitudes, policies, and realities as the people who
go to farmers' markets are a core constituency for renewable energy.
More at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/27/870257/-How-to-Change-US-Energy-in-One-Growing-Season
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Resource
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Massachusetts Attitudes About Climate Change – An opinion survey of
Massachusetts residents conducted by MassINC and sponsored by the Barr
Foundation found that 77% of respondents believe that global warming
has “probably been happening” and 59% of all respondents see see it as
being at least partially caused by human pollution. Only 42% of the
state’s residents say global warming will have very serious
consequences for Massachusetts if left unaddressed. The 18 to 29 age
group is more likely to believe global warming is appearing and caused
by humans compared to the 60+ age group. African-American (56%) and
Latino residents (69%) are more likely than white residents (40%) to
believe global warming will be a very serious problem if left
unaddressed. The MassINC report, titled The 80 Percent Challenge:
What Massachusetts must do to meet targets and make headway on climate
change (http://www.massinc.org/Research/The-80-percent-
challenge.aspx), contains many other findings. MassINC will hold a
forum about the report on May 19, 5:00 to 6:30 pm at the City Year
Headquarters, 287 Columbus Avenue, Boston. To register, click here.
[MetroWest Daily News, 4/14/11]
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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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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