[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events

George Mokray gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Sep 9 14:37:10 PDT 2012


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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Eating the City and Town:  Todmorden and Beyond
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/05/1125342/-Eating-the-City-and-Town-Todmorden-and-Beyond

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Monday, September 10
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Coupling between Tropical Tropospheric and Polar Stratospheric  
Variability
Monday, September 10, 2012
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge (the tallest  
building on campus)

Title: Coupling between Tropical Tropospheric and Polar Stratospheric  
Variability
Speaker: Chaim Garfinkel
Speaker's Website: http://www.eps.jhu.edu/~cig4/
Abstract: Tropical tropospheric variability can influence the  
wintertime extratropical stratosphere. Specifically, certain phases of  
the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and El Nino leads to a weakened  
stratospheric polar vortex. The mechanism linking tropical  
tropospheric variability to polar stratospheric appears to be common  
to both El Nino and the MJO. The deepening of the wintertime Aleutian  
low, as occurs e.g. during El Nino events, leads to an intensification  
of the tropospheric climatological planetary wave pattern. This  
increase in tropospheric planetary waves leads to increased wave  
driving of the wintertime polar vortex, so that the net effect is a  
weakened vortex. Once the vortex is weakened, the anomalies propagate  
downwards into the troposphere and lead to the negative phase of the  
Northern Annular Mode.
MASS Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly  
seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research  
concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g.  
societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take  
place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate  
students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors,  
post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by  
graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with  
individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs  
certainly participate.

Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Program  
in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), MIT Atmospheric Science  
Seminars

For more information, contact:  MASS organizing committee
mass at mit.edu

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Fixing the National Security State: Commissions and the Politics of  
Disaster and Reform
Monday, September 10, 2012
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Christopher Kirchhoff (Department of Defense)

Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by  
Thursday noon the week before.

http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name:  Shana Rabinowich
sts at hks.harvard.edu

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Joint w/ Public Finance and International - Trade, Oil and the  
Environment
Monday, September 10, 2012
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-151, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Joseph Shapiro (MIT)
Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): IO Workshop

For more information, contact:  Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu

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On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology
Sep 10, 2012
4:15p - 5:15p
Harvard, Jefferson 250, 17 A Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tea served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm

Professor L. Mahadevan, Harvard University

The diversity of form in plants led Darwin to state that it is "enough  
to drive the sanest man mad" , begging the questions of how to  
describe this variety and  how to predict it?  Motivated by  
observations of geometrical forms  in plants and animals ranging from  
leaves and flowers to vertebrate guts,  I will show how a combination  
of biological and physical experiments,  mathematical models and  
simple computations allow us to begin unraveling the physical basis  
for morphogenesis
Web site: http//www.physics.harvard.edu
Contact name: Dayle Maynard
Contact e-mail: maynard at physics.harvard.edu
Contact phone: 617.495.2872

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Energy Club Fall Kickoff
Monday, September 10, 2012
5:00p
MIT, Building 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Energy Club Execom Members

Interested in Energy? Please join us for the Energy Club's Fall  
Kickoff to hear about the club's 2012-2013 lineup of actvities ??? 
discussions, lectures, tours, Energy Night, the MIT Energy Conference,  
and much more.

Web site: http://mitenergyclub.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, MIT Energy Campus Events
For more information, contact:  MIT Energy Club
energyclub at mit.edu

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"Look Who's Talking: Non-Profit Newsmakers in the New Media Age"
Monday, September 10, 2012
5:00pm - 7:00pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E-14, Third-Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street,  
Cambridge

Speaker:  Carroll Bogert
Changes in the media world have been hard on journalists and  
unsettling for news consumers, but they have also had significant  
implications for international non-governmental organizations. At  
Human Rights Watch, the research and advocacy organization based in  
New York, foreign correspondents have always been an important partner  
in exposing human rights abuses, and the decline in international news  
in the mainstream media threatens the basic human rights methodology  
of “naming and shaming.” But the changing media landscape also  
constitutes an important opportunity to reach new audiences, interact  
with the public more directly, and disseminate information quickly and  
effectively. Carroll Bogert, the Deputy Executive Director for  
External Relations at Human Rights Watch and a former foreign  
correspondent for Newsweek magazine, will discuss how Human Rights  
Watch is filling the gaps in foreign news reporting and becoming a  
media producer in its own right.

Biography:
Carroll Bogert is Deputy Executive Director for External Relations at  
Human Rights Watch. She oversees the organization's external relations  
and works with the executive director on advocacy and fundraising.  
Bogert previously served as Human Rights Watch's communications  
director, publicizing the organization's work and drawing attention to  
human rights issues in more than 90 countries worldwide. Before  
joining Human Rights Watch, she spent more than a decade in  
international news reporting for Newsweek magazine, beginning as a  
stringer in China, then moving to the Southeast Asia bureau as  
correspondent, becoming bureau chief in Moscow, and finally working as  
an editor and international correspondent in the magazine's New York  
office. Bogert holds an MA in East Asian studies and a BA magna cum  
laude from Harvard University. She speaks Russian, French, and Mandarin.

All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the  
public.
Join us on Twitter: #MLTalks

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HONK! Parade Meeting
Monday, September 10
  6:30-8:45 pm
Somerville Public Library West Branch 40 College Avenue, Somerville

We invite you to attend a meeting to hear about ways you can get  
involved in the upcoming HONK! Festival-October 5, 6 and 7 in Davis  
Square. The festival needs help of all kinds!!! Individuals and groups  
interested in participating in the HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets  
for Horns, Bikes and Feet on Sunday of HONK! weekend are also  
encouraged to attend.

For more information, contact volunteers at honkfest.org sign up at www.facebook.com/events/409405155775317

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FUTURE ENERGY - INVESTOR FEEDBACK FORUM
9/10/2012
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA  
02142
	
Description: Future Energy is a brand new conference where you can see  
the most revolutionary energy technology of the future before it hits  
mainstream. At each Future Energy event, 8 startups present to a panel  
of energy and cleantech venture capital investors for feedback,  
advice, and networking. The audience votes on the best presenters who  
win prizes and media attention to help launch their business.

Applications to pitch can be submitted at http://ultralightstartups.com/future-energy/application-form/
The platinum sponsor for this event is the Shell International Game  
Changer program.
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Investors, Media, all are welcome
Twitter: @crisdeluca
Register at http://futureenergyboston.eventbrite.com/
Editorial Comment:  Early bird tickets are sold out and general  
admission is $20.  Not free but still relatively inexpensive access.

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Science and Cooking
Monday, September 10, 2012
7 p.m.
Harvard, Science Center Hall C, One Oxford Street, Cambridge

Joan Roca and Jordi Roca, El Celler de Can Roca
Salvador Brugués, Sous-Vide Cuisine

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Tuesday, September 11
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"The Cost of Secrecy: What the Post–9/11 Decade Teaches Us About the  
Media and Government."
Tuesday, September 11
12 p.m.
Harvard, Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Speaker Series with Dana Priest, national security reporter, The  
Washington Post.

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Chiefs: Development and the Capture of Civil Society in Sierra Leone
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
2:40p–4:00p
Harvard, Harvard Hall Room 104, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Speaker: James Robinson (Harvard)

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop

For more information, contact:  Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu

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The Future of Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
3:45p–5:15p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Michael Gallagher, Chairman Natural Gas Group of the NPC FTF  
Study, Senior Adviser and Former President/COO Westport Innovations
The just completed two-year National Petroleum Council's Future  
Transportation Fuels Study engaged more than 300 organizations and  
examined the future demand in the United States over the next 40 years  
for all modes of transportation, from passenger cars, trucks, air,  
rail and marine. It included a comprehensive assessment of the  
potential technology contribution for a variety of fuel types and  
vehicle technologies. This presentation will review the findings of  
the FTF study with respect to the challenges and opportunities in  
introducing alternative fuels, specifically natural gas, into the  
transportation sector and evaluate their potential for successful  
adoption on the basis of cost effectiveness, fuel efficiency, GHG  
reductions and market penetration potential. This discussion of the  
findings will review the advantages and challenges of displacing  
liquid-fuel-based internal combustion engine (ICE) technologies, and  
the additional barriers and factors that must be considered in the  
adoption and integration of new natural gas systems into the future  
energy transportation mix. Implications for global energy  
transportation systems will be articulated.

MITEI Seminar Series
A year-long series of seminars given by leaders in the energy field  
sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/mitei

Open to: the general public

Cost: Free

Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative

For more information, contact:  Jameson Twomey
617-324-2408
jtwomey at mit.edu

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"Challenges in Power Plants"
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building 31-161, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
4:15 PM Refreshments, 4:30 PM Lecture

Speaker: Mr. Metodi Zlatinov, Mechanical Engineer, Altran Solutions

GAS TURBINE LABORATORY SEMINAR
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): AeroAstro
For more information, contact:  Robin Courchesne-Sato
617-253-2481
rsato at mit.edu

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Starr Forum: Showdown in the Sonoran Desert (Book Talk with Ananda Rose)
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
How can we preserve the integrity of sovereign borders while also  
respecting the dignity of human beings? How should a border -that  
imaginary line in the sand- be humanely and effectively maintained?  
And how should we regard "the stranger" in our midst?

Starr Forum:  Book Talk with Ananda Rose

Showdown in the Sonoran Desert
Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy

Ananda Rose holds a doctorate from Harvard University. She is a  
published poet, journalist, and theologian. Her book, Showdown in the  
Sonoran Desert, Oxford University Press, was published in June 2012.

Rose traveled to the Sonoran desert, a border region where the remains  
of some 2,000 migrants have been recovered over the past decade. There  
she interviewed Minutemen, Border Patrol agents, Catholic nuns,  
humanitarian aid workers, left-wing protestors, ranchers, and many  
other ordinary citizens of southern Arizona.

She discovers two starkly opposed ideological perspectives: that of  
religious activists who embrace a biblically inspired hospitality that  
stresses love of strangers and a "borderless" compassion; and that of  
law enforcement, which insists on safety, security, and strict respect  
for international borders.

Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_091112_ananda.html

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies

For more information, contact:  starrforum at mit.edu

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George Lakoff, "The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why"
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street,  
Cambridge

Speaker: George Lakoff
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical ??? a matter of  
brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how  
politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives  
and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more  
problems framing messages than conservatives do ??? and what they can  
do about it.

George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of  
Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at  
Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. He previously taught at  
Harvard (1965-69) and the University of Michigan (1969-1972).

He graduated from MIT in 1962 (in Mathematics and Literature) and  
received his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1966.
Read more at georgelakoff.com
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Cognitive Dimensions of Media Series
Web site: http://cms.mit.edu/events/talks.php#091112
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, Communications Forum,  
Comparative Media Studies Program Distinguished Speaker Talk
For more information, contact:  Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cms at mit.edu

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Open Access Book Launch
Tuesday, September 11, 6:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A Room, 1585  
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/09/openaccess#RSVP
This event will be archived on our site shortly after.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication and the  
Harvard Law School Library.
Special guests include: Stuart Shieber (School of Engineering and  
Applied Sciences), Robert Darnton (Harvard University Library),June  
Casey (Harvard Law School Library), David Weinberger(Berkman Center /  
Harvard Library Innovation Lab) and more.

The internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide  
audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary  
opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free  
of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open  
access is made possible by the internet and copyright-holder consent,  
and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend  
on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But  
for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles  
for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access  
without losing revenue.

In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is  
and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay  
for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the  
periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling  
a decade of Suber’s influential writing and thinking about open  
access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers,  
librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

About Peter
Peter Suber's work consists of research, writing, organizing,  
advocacy, and pro bono consulting for open access to research. He is  
the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Special Advisor to  
the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Faculty Fellow at the  
Berkman Center, Senior Researcher at SPARC, Research Professor of  
Philosophy at Earlham College, Open Access Project Director at Public  
Knowledge, and author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. He blogs at  
Google Plus.

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Sustainable Agriculture Panel Discussion
Tuesday, September 11th
6pm
Boston University’s Sargent College Room 101, 635 Commonwealth Avenue,  
Boston

  We are hosting a lively discussion about our food system and the  
landscape of sustainable and organic agriculture today with local  
experts:
  Nathan Phillips, BU Professor of Earth and the Environment
Rachel Black, BU Professor of Gastronomy
Kate Stillman, Farm Proprietor at Stillman’s at the Turkey Farm
Britt Lundgren, Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture for  
Stonyfield Farms

What will the tomato of the future look like?  The landscape of modern  
agriculture and our food system is constantly evolving.  The Farm  
Bill, the organic food industry, and small-scale local farms all play  
a role in what ends up on our plate every day.  Come listen to local  
experts and industry leaders discuss the state of agriculture today  
and where we're headed.

For more information about this event and the upcoming Sustainability  
Festival, visit
http://www.bu.edu/sustainability

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Mass Innovation Nights #MIN42
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Intrepid Labs, 222 Third Street, 4th floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/september-12-2012-mass-innovation-nights-min42
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Fundraising for Early Stage Social Impact Startups
Tuesday, September 11 @ 6:30
6:30 PM
MassChallenge HQ, 55 Northern Avenue (One Marina Drive, 14th Floor),  
Boston

Fundraising for Early Stage Social Impact Startups

Social enterprises, both for profits or nonprofits, face many  
challenges in raising money to support themselves. This is a terrific  
panel of startups that will share how they went about raising that  
early money from grants, competitions, kickstarter and bootstrapping.

Panelists include
Miguel Granier, Invested Development http://investeddevelopment.com/
Miguel is the Founder and Managing Director of Invested Development   
which launched in July 2009. Before founding Invested Development, he  
was the founding Investment Manager for First Light Ventures, a seed- 
stage social impact investment fund affiliated with Gray Ghost  
Ventures in Atlanta, Georgia. Miguel began his career in social  
enterprise as a loan officer for ACCION New York in 2009 and continued  
that work as an independent consultant specializing in economic  
development and microfinance. In addition to his work in microfinance  
and social enterprise, Miguel has worked for the insurance giant  
Fidelity National Financial in New York and Delter Business Institute  
in Beijing, China.He holds a Master’s Degree in City and Regional  
Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a  
specialization in Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.
Anu Chitrapu, Vision Aid http://www.visionaid.org/
Anu is an executive at Bank of America and has won awards at the bank  
for exceptional performance, named to the high potential women leaders  
group and nominated to the Diversity & Inclusion council. The same  
passion shows in her work with Vision Aid, an organization that  
teaches technology skills to the visually challenged in economically  
deprived areas. As President of Vision Aid, she has grown the  
organization to serve multiple regions in India and increased the  
footprint and number of people served. Her passion for causes related  
to women and her efforts around women empowerment are evident through  
the work she does with Ubuntu-at-work, an organization aimed at  
teaching women skills that help them escape poverty.
Nathan Rothstein, Project Repat www.projectrepat.org/
Nathan Rothstein is the President at Project Repat. Repat turns excess  
t-shirts into more functional and fashionable clothing accessories  
while creating fair wage employment opportunities in the US. Repat is  
a member of the HUB Ventures 2012 co-hort, which is a social  
entrepreneurship accelerator program in San Francisco. He spent four  
years working in New Orleans, Lousiana launching social enterprises  
and helping progressive candidates run for political office. Nathan  
has been featured in The Boston Globe, USA Today, NECN, and The New  
Orleans Times-Picayune for his work. He has presented workshops on the  
subject of how young people can make a social impact at Yale, UMass- 
Amherst, Howard, MIT, Harvard, and Tulane University.

This is a joint TiE Social Entrepreneurs Group/MassChallenge event.

Please register using this link: https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=15219721911425150500&PG=1521972182300
Light refreshments will be served.

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Hacks and Hackers:  Let's plan meetups for this year!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
7:00 PM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/79335262/?a=ea1_grp&eventId=79335262&action=detail&rv=ea1&rv=ea1

It's that time again -- time to plan meetups for this coming year's  
Hacks/Hackers Boston group. (Our third year!)
If you have some fun, interesting ideas that you think will attract  
media people interested in digital or technologists interested in  
media, this is your chance to make your voice heard.
Our members like meetups around ideas, cool people in the industry, or  
neat products/companies.
This is an informal, low-key meetup. Drink coffee, eat some Globe  
cookies, chat with friends, and bring some ideas.
See you there!

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23andMe and Consumer Powered Research
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building NE-30, Broad Institute Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center,  
Cambridge (Kendall Square)

Speaker: Anne Wojcicki, CEO & Co-Founder, 23andMe
Advances in the price performance of DNA sequencing (currently  
improving by about 8X per year) are making more extensive analysis of  
the genome (whole exome and even whole genome sequencing) and even  
exploration of other omes (such as the microbiome and its relation to  
disease) economically feasible. Anne will discuss the potential for  
expanding consumer DNA testing in new directions and partnering with  
the research community to interpret what this plethora of new data  
means.

Anee Wojcicki cofounded 23andMe with Linda Avey in 2007 to provide a  
platform to help individuals understand their own genetic information  
using recent advances in DNA analysis technologies and web-based  
interactive tools. In 2008, Time magazine named the ompany's
saliva-based DNA-testing service "Invention of the Year". The company  
now has over 100,000 subscribers and is partnering with research  
groups to try to better interpret the relationship between genetic  
markers and physical traits and susceptibility to disease.

This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society  
and GBC/ACM will be held in the Broad Institute Auditorium (MIT  
building NE-30). The Broad Institute is on Main St between Vassar and  
Ames streets. You can see it on a map at this location.The auditorium  
is on the ground floor near the entrance.

Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online  
at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/.

Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/wojcickitalk.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact:  Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis at mit.edu

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Wednesday, September 13
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Growing a Company from Scratch: The Fresh Diet Story
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E51-315, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Zalmi Duchman, CEO

The Fresh Diet began operations on January 1, 2006, with three  
clients. Today, the business has grown to become the largest US food  
producer in the freshly-prepared, daily delivery category - which now  
delivers meal plans to thousands of clients nationwide.

Distinguished Speaker Series
This speaker series brings at least three speakers to MIT's campus in  
Cambridge each semester from fields that are studied by members of the  
Transportation Students Group, including transit, airlines, high speed  
rail, and intelligent transportation systems.
Web site: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/dss_zalmi_duchman
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Transportation & Logistics
For more information, contact:  Eric Greimann
617-253-5321

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Iwariwe, Yanomami art and traditions relating to the origin of Fire

Wednesday September 12th

4:00pm:  Roundtable discussion

Center for Library Instruction, Healey Library, 4-015
5:00pm:  Reception Healey Library, 5th floor,
UMASS Boston, 100 William T Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
Yanomami artist Sheronawe Hakihiiwe in attendance.

Exhibit open until September 28

Whether in the lands of the Yanomami, or the indigenous peoples of  
what is now Boston, the arrival of fire is an epic and mythic event,  
linked to the origins of human innovation and creativity. Iwariwë: The  
Origin of Fire Amongst Men, recounts this seminal event through  
community art, producing a book designed to both preserve and educate  
others about customary Yanomami life ways. The Yanomami are a group of  
indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest along the border  
between Venezuela and Brazil.

This exhibit represents far more than just a display of ethnographic  
items produced by indigenous peoples from another hemisphere. It is a  
combination of traditional knowledge and modern methodologies for  
education, as well as a collaboration between the first peoples of a  
place and contemporary scholars from Venezuela's  IDEA Foundation who  
appreciate a deep connection to their shared home. As such, it is  
fitting that the Institute for New England Native American Studies and  
the Native American and Indigenous Studies program provide a warm  
welcome for Iwariwë to UMass Boston, where we also seek to connect  
indigenous peoples with university research, innovation, and education.

For more information, please contact Dr. Cedric Woods, Director for  
INENAS, Cedric.Woods at umb.edu or

Dr. Josh Reid, Director for NAIS, Josh.Reid at umb.edu.

Sponsors:
CITGO Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela  
S.A., Fundación Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), Consulate  
General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Boston, Venezuelan  
Sounds Foundation.

UMass Boston: Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community  
Development and Public Policy, Institute for New England Native  
American Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies Program, Latino  
Studies program, and Office of International and Transnational Affairs.

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Environmental Ethics - ENVR E120
Wednesday, 12 September
5:30 class, 4:30 discussion session
Rm. 306, 1 Story Street, Cambridge

http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/about/
The Syllabus for the course is at:  http://ecoethics.net/2012-ENVRE120/Index.htm

Editorial Comment:  Tim Weiskel teaches this course at Harvard  
Extension and invites anybody interested in these issues to attend  
this session or participate in the pre-class discussion.

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Switch, a screening of the new energy documentary, hosted by BASEA
Wednesday, September 12
7pm.
AMC Boston Commons, 175 Tremont Street, Boston

Audiences are calling it "the most important energy film since An  
Inconvenient Truth" and "the first truly balanced film on energy." The  
film has played, opened and won environmental film festivals while, in  
more than 80 preview screenings, being embraced by energy companies -  
both fossil and renewable - government agencies, NGOs, environmental  
groups and leading universities. It's part of the Switch Energy  
Project, a film, web and education effort to build a balanced national  
understanding of energy and promote efficiency.

See more about the film in the attached flyer, and view the trailer  
here: http://www.switchenergyproject.com/aboutfilm.php
The film's director will be at our screening, to introduce the film  
and do a Q&A afterward.
Please join us for this great event! You can buy your tickets here: http://www.switchenergyproject.com/screenings.php 
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For our members, we've got a 50% off discount code. Just enter  
SWITCH101A during checkout.

Please note: The film will play across the US this fall. If you know  
someone who would like to go to a screening, please forward this  
email. They can find one in their area on the Switch website.

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you at Switch.

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Thursday, September 13
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The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand  
Experiment in Market-Based Environmental Policy
WHEN  Thu., Sep. 13, 2012, 11:45 a.m.
WHERE  Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School,  
79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION  Business, Environmental Sciences, Lecture,  
Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S)  Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business &  
Government and director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program  
at the Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO  mrcbg at ksg.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg

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Tips, Tools and Telling the Story: Evaluating Community Food Initiatives
September 13, 2012
12-1pm EDT
Webinar:  register at https://cfccanada.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=cfccanada
Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) is hosting a webinar on  
evaluating community food initiatives. The webinar is geared at  
program managers, funders and other practitioners who are already  
engaged in evaluation or have a basic understanding of evaluation and  
are looking to explore evaluation topics in greater depth. Meredith  
Davis, CFCC’s Research and Evaluation Manager, will describe the  
process that CFCC went through to create its own national evaluation  
strategy, including successes, challenges and lessons learned along  
the way. Topics to be explored include: creating a theory of change,  
building an evaluative culture, developing indicators, developmental  
evaluation (DE), social return on investment analysis (SROI),  
evaluating in a respectful and dignified manner, designing effective  
evaluation tools and common pitfalls of evaluation. The last 15  
minutes of the webinar will be set aside for group exploration.

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The World's Chemistry In Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges  
Past and Future
Thursday, September 13, 2012
3:45p–5:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Community Reception - 3:45pm
Colloquium and Q&A - 4:15pm
Speaker: Professor Susan Solomon

On behalf of Dean Marc Kastner and the MIT School of Science, please  
join us on Thursday, September 13, 2012, from 3:45-5:30 p.m., for the  
Dean's Colloquium. Our speaker will be Susan Solomon, Ellen Swallow  
Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science, who  
will discuss "The World's Chemistry In Our Hands: Global Environmental  
Challenges Past and Future."

Susan Solomon is a recognized world expert in atmospheric science.  
Since receiving her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of  
California at Berkeley in 1981, she has been employed by the National  
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a research scientist. Her  
research has provided key measurements and critical theoretical  
understanding of stratospheric ozone destruction. In 1986 and 1987,  
she served as the Head Project Scientist of the National Ozone  
Expedition at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and made some of the first  
measurements that pointed toward chlorofluorocarbons as the cause of  
the ozone hole. In 1994, an Antarctic glacier was named in recognition  
of her contributions to polar science.
School of Science Dean's Colloquium
The Dean's Colloquium Series was established to recognize and  
celebrate scientists who have chosen innovative, non-traditional  
career paths and have been unusually successful.

Open to: the general public

Cost: FREE

Sponsor(s): MIT School of Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary  
Sciences (EAPS)

For more information, contact:  Shira Wieder
617-253-8055
swieder at mit.edu

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Is Transparency a Force for Peace?
Thursday, September 13, 2012
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Millikan Room, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alexandre Debs (Yale)

Web site: http://events.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/819

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Seminar on Positive Political Economy

For more information, contact:  Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu

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"Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media"
Thursday, September 13, 2012
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New  
England

CMS Colloquium Series

Social media have transformed relationships between those who create  
artistic work and those who enjoy it. Culture industries such as the  
music recording business have been left reeling as fans have gained  
the ability to distribute amongst themselves and artists have gained  
the ability to bypass traditional gatekeepers such as labels. The  
dominant rhetoric has been of 'piracy,' yet there are other tales to  
tell. How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an  
artist? What rewards are there that weren't before? How are relational  
lines between fans and friends blurred and with what consequences?  
What new challenges other than making a living do artists face?

Nancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New  
England. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age  
(Polity), Internet Inquiry (co-edited with Annette Markham, Sage) and  
Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community (Sage). For the  
last two years she has been interviewing musicians about their  
relationships with audiences.

Web site: http://cms.mit.edu/events/talks.php#091312
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies
For more information, contact:  Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cms at mit.edu

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"What's at Stake? Economic Issues in the 2012 Presidential Election"
Thursday, September 13, 2012
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building NW86, 70 Pacific Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Christina Romer

The MIT Sidney Pacific / Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series

Please join us for our first lecture of the year with Christina Romer  
(PhD '85), former chair of President Barack Obama's Council of  
Economic Advisers, and currently Professor of Economics at the  
University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-director of the  
Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic  
Research (NBER). She will speak on the current state of the American  
economy, and the important economic policy issues facing the country  
in the upcoming election.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEF4Y0V3cGt0SkczS2VSaVlXZU9raFE6MA 
#gid=0

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Sidney-Pacific Graduate Community

For more information, contact:
sp-cosi-chair at mit.edu

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Urban Films: The Parking Lot Movie
Thursday, September 13, 2012
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Introduction by Professor Eran Ben-Joseph, author of  
"ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking."

Often described as the documentary version of Clerks, The Parking Lot  
Movie follows a select group of parking lot attendants who work at The  
Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. The eccentric  
brotherhood of attendants consist of grad students, overeducated  
philosophers, surly artists, middle-age slackers and more.

Urban Planning Film Series
A mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics  
related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology,  
and other planning issues. Free.
Web site: http://www.urbanfilm.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:  Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn at mit.edu

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Tour of International Markets
Thur, September 13th
6pm-7:30pm
Union Square, Somerville

As part of our ArtsUnion project, the Somerville Arts Council gives  
tours of Union Square international food markets. Join us and learn  
where to find ingredients like Nepalese timur (a fragrant spice used  
in pickles), squid ink pasta and Haitian akasan (a cornmeal drink).  
Beyond discovering the culinary exotica available in Union Square,  
we’ll learn about the history of these stores and how their clientele  
represents the cultural community of Somerville. Each tour visits  
three markets and we’ll point out others along the way. Featured  
markets include: Casa de Carne, Well Foods Plus Halal Market, La  
Internacional, Little India, New Bombay Market, Pao de Acucar &  
Brazilian Buffet and the Reliable Market. Without leaving Union  
Square, we’ll visit Brazil, Korea, India, Nepal, Guatemala and Haiti!  
Dates: Thur, September 13th, 6pm-7:30pm Cost: free How to sign up:  
send an email to artsuniontour at gmail.com

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Protecting the Vote: Suppression, Fraud and the Future of Voter ID Laws
WHEN  Thu., Sep. 13, 2012, 6 p.m.
WHERE  JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION  Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  A panel conversation with:
Jennie Bowser, senior fellow, National Conference of State Legislatures
John Fund, senior editor, The American Spectator
Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social  
Policy, HKS
Tova Wang, senior democracy fellow, Demos; fellow, The Century  
Foundation
Trey Grayson (moderator), director, Institute of Politics
LINK  http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/protecting-vote-suppression-fraud-and-future-voter-id-laws

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Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents  RADIO SILENCE
Thursday, September 13, 6:30-8 pm
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street, Boston

with
Charles Laquidara (WBCN) [live via Skype],
Billy Costa (KISS 108),
Julie Kramer (WFNX, Radio BDC) &
Henry Santoro (WFNX, Radio BDC);
moderator John Laurenti (WODS)
(Boston, MA 02114) Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents  
“Radio Silence” Charles Laquidara [live via Skype], Billy Costa, Julie  
Kramer, and Henry Santoro; moderated by John Laurenti. Thursday,  
September 13, 6:30-8 pm. Admission is free and open to all. C. Walsh  
Theatre at Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston, MA.  
Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the Park St. MBTA  
Station. For more information, call the Ford Hall Forum at  
617-557-2007 or visitwww.fordhallforum.org.

WBCN was the original, superstar-establishing, DJ-controlled rock  
station that showed how excellent rock radio could be when you let the  
DJs curate the offerings. As independent radio station WFNX is sold to  
Clear Channel this year, Bostonians wonder how rock radio has become a  
corporation-controlled industry and whether internet and digital radio  
can avoid the same fate. DJs Charles Laquidara (WBCN), Billy Costa  
(KISS 108), Julie Kramer (WFNX, Radio BDC), and Henry Santoro(WFNX,  
Radio BDC) tell moderator John Laurenti, a New England radio mainstay  
for over 25 years, about the changes they are adapting to in the new  
world of music business. We’ll hear how WBCN’s rise and fall foretold  
industry changes, the story behind the end of WFNX, and what the  
rebirth of independent rock radio might look like.

Further background information on participants:

Billy Costa
Raised in Cambridge, Costa began DJing at a local nightclub before  
joining the Emerson College radio station. In 1980, Costa approached  
KISS 108 with the idea of reporting on lifestyle and entertainment  
news. Having proven the audience appeal for Hollywood information,  
Costa has been at KISS ever since. Costa hosts the daily Entertainment  
Updates, provides live broadcasts from major events like the Grammys,  
and hosts the "KISS Top 30 Countdown." He also hosts TV Diner, a  
restaurant review program on NECN. Costa secured an Emmy nomination  
for an Evening Magazine Special on WBZ-TV and won a Children's  
Television Award for Rap Around.

Julie Kramer
Julie Kramer had been a part of the WFNX team for over a decade. The  
highlight of the Karma Queen’s morning show was the “Leftover Lunch”  
with music from the1980s and 1990s. Kramer is now a DJ on Boston.com’s  
new Radio BDC blog.

Charles Laquidara
Charles Laquidara began his DJing career in the 1960s as a classical  
music announcer at KPPC-FM in California. During that time, a  
columnist for the local newspaper called attention to Laquidara's  
unusual “freeform” style, including his dramatic pauses and repetition  
of music he liked. In 1969, he was offered a shift at WBCN, and in  
1972, Laquidara took over the morning shift, which he dubbed "The Big  
Mattress." He was there for almost 25 years and pioneered a new kind  
of FM broadcasting: a shifting cast of on-air personnel that created a  
show of music, news, discussion, and humor. >From 1996 to 2000,  
Laquidara hosted The Charles Laquidara Radio Houron WFNX. He retired  
to Hawaii and continues the legacy of “The Big Mattress” through  
blogging. Laquidara is a member of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall  
of Fame.

John Laurenti
Born in Dorchester, John Laurenti has been part of the New England  
radio scene for 25 years. In the mid 1980s, John attended radio school  
and worked as an announcer at an AM station in Framingham. He later  
moved to the FM dial, spending much of his career on air in Providence  
and in Boston as the Afternoon Drive Host. Laurenti joined WUMB as the  
Music Director in June 2008.

Henry Santoro
Award-winning radio presenter Henry Santoro was News Director and  
Morning Show co-host for WFNX from 1983 to earlier this year. Santoro  
has reported breaking news stories ranging from the AIDS crisis to the  
tragedy of 9/11 to the election of America’s first African-American  
president. Santoro also hosted regular features on everything from  
cooking (Henry’s Hotplate) to community events (Henry in the Hub).  
Santoro is now a DJ on Boston.com’s new Radio BDC blog.

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Switch - the Movie with Director Harry Lynch in person
Thursday, September 13
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist;  3 Church Street,  
Harvard Square

Welcome to a new season of BASEA Forums! To begin, we will focus on a  
film, 'Switch', currently on its premiere national tour. Director  
Harry Lynch will show solar-specific clips from the film, respond to  
our questions, and discuss the educational Switch Energy Project (http://www.switchenergyproject.com/ 
). We are offering a 50% discount to the BASEA-hosted screening of the  
film at the AMC Loews Boston Common on Wed., September 12th, the night  
before our Forum, so you can see the entire film and be prepared to  
discuss it (details below).

'An Inconvenient Truth' (2006) was a box office success and won 2  
Academy Awards, while raising public awareness of climate change.  
'Switch' (2012), a feature-length documentary, has a similarly  
ambitious agenda. 'Switch' attempts to make "energy fascinating and  
engaging to encourage a balanced national understanding of our energy  
future" and to "show how it all fits together to form our energy  
transition, and exactly how and when that could happen".

The film follows Dr. Richard Tinker, surveying 26 rarely seen world- 
leading energy sites in 11 countries and interviewing 53 international  
energy experts. From government, industry and acedemia, Dr. Tinker  
gets answers and synthesizes a vision of how all the pieces, though  
some must necessarily change, might fit together. What do you think of  
this vision? What questions are you left with? Come to the BASEA Forum  
and be heard!

Discounted screening, one night before the BASEA Forum
Where:  AMC-Loews Boston Common, 175 Tremont St, Boston
When:   7:00 pm, Wednesday, September 12th
How:   Reserve tickets online at http://www.switchenergyproject.com/screenings.php 
  ,
enter Promo Code "SWITCH101A" (using capital letters) for a half-price  
($5.00) ticket. Present the theater with a printed copy or show the  
PDF on your phone.

Harry Lynch is the Director of 'Switch' and 5 other documentary films  
in the past 16 years.

Dr. Scott Tinker is the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and  
the State Geologist of Texas. He is also the acting Associate Dean for  
Research, and a Professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair in the  
Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He  
is an internationally known energy expert, giving invited lectures  
more than 40 times a year to industry, government and academic groups,  
striving to bring them together in a common understanding of energy.

Please Join Us!  And remember, your donations and membership support  
BASEA.
The Boston Area Solar Energy Association,  www.BASEA.org

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Switch: The Movie
Thursday, September 13
7pm
The AMC Boston Commons, 175 Tremont Street, Boston

The film has played, opened and won environmental film festivals  
while, in more than 80 preview screenings, being embraced by energy  
companies - both fossil and renewable - government agencies, NGOs,  
environmental groups and leading universities. It's part of the  
SwitchEnergy Project, a film, web and education effort to build a  
balanced national understanding of energy and promote efficiency.

Here's the trailer:  http://www.switchenergyproject.com/aboutfilm.php

To get free tickets, go to our solar page and then click on the Switch  
Free Tickets at the bottom:  http://www.heetma.com/content/do-you-have-good-solar

Or you can buy your tickets for 50% off through HEET at http://www.switchenergyproject.com/screenings.php
To get the HEET 50% off discount code, just enter SWITCH101B (has to  
be all caps) during checkout. Probably it's best to write that code  
down now before you go to the page to buy your ticket.

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Friday, September 14
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Directed evolution strategies for cellular and metabolic engineering
Friday, September 14, 2012
3:00p–4:15p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Prof. Hal Alper, University of Texas - Austin
The field of Metabolic Engineering has recently undergone a  
transformation that has led to a rapid expansion of the chemical  
palate of cells. Now, it is conceivable to produce nearly any organic  
molecule of interest using a cellular host???from biofuels to  
biopolymers to pharmaceuticals. However, these feats require the  
ability to ???hijack??? native cellular machinery and metabolism and  
navigate the complexity inherent in cellular regulation. One  
particularly useful and broadly applicable approach for reconfiguring  
and modulating cellular system is protein directed evolution. This  
talk will focus on illustrating the power of merging metabolic  
engineering approaches with protein engineering principles and  
synthetic biology for common metabolic engineering targets such as  
pathway enzymes, genetic control elements, transporter proteins, and  
both regulatory and epigenetic elements. Several case studies will be  
used to demonstrate these concepts. Finally, this talk will conclude  
with prospects for the future of cellular engineering.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/seminar.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering Department
For more information, contact:  Melanie Miller
617-253-6500
melmils at mit.edu

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Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges

September 14, 2012

Friday, September 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Boston University, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 901, Boston

Refreshments served at 2:45.

Lucy Pao
University of Colorado
Wind energy is recognized worldwide as cost-effective and  
environmentally friendly and is among the world’s fastest-growing  
sources of electrical energy. Despite the amazing growth in global  
wind power installations in recent years, science and engineering  
challenges still exist.  Megawatt wind turbines are large, flexible  
structures that operate in uncertain, time-varying wind and weather  
conditions and lend themselves nicely to advanced control solutions.  
Advanced controllers can help achieve the overall goal of decreasing  
the cost of wind energy by increasing the efficiency, and thus the  
energy capture, or by reducing structural loading and increasing the  
lifetimes of the components and turbine structures.

In this talk, we will first provide an overview of wind energy  
systems. We will describe the main components of wind turbines, the  
sensors and actuators, the different operating regions, and we will  
outline the current state of the art in wind turbine modeling and  
control.  We will then discuss our recent work in developing combined  
feedforward and feedback controllers for wind turbines using novel  
wind inflow sensing technologies.

Model-inverse based controllers, H-infinity controllers, and model  
predictive controllers can be designed to take advantage of preview  
wind measurements to yield significant reductions in structural  
loading while maintaining the power capture levels of the wind  
turbine. We shall close by discussing a number of continuing  
challenges and highlighting topics of growing interest, including  
coordinated control of arrays of turbines on wind farms, modeling and  
control of floating offshore wind turbines, and the ability of wind  
turbines to provide active power control services to help stabilize  
the frequency of the utility grid.

Lucy Pao received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical  
Engineering from Stanford University, and she is currently the Richard  
and Joy Dorf Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy  
Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Boulder.  She has  
been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a Visiting Miller  
Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Visiting  
Researcher at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  She has  
interests in the areas of control systems (with applications to  
flexible structures, atomic force microscopes, disk drives, tape  
systems, power converters, and wind turbines), multisensor data fusion  
(with applications to unmanned autonomous vehicles, satellites, and  
automotive active safety systems), and haptic and multimodal visual/ 
haptic/audio interfaces (with applications to scientific visualization  
and spatial communication).

Professor Pao has received a number of awards and has been active in  
many professional society committees and positions.  Selected honors  
include a NSF CAREER Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, an IFAC  
World Congress Young Author Prize, and a World Haptics Conference Best  
Paper Award.  Selected current activities include being an IEEE  
Control Systems Society (CSS) Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the  
IEEE CSS Board of Governors, and General Chair for the 2013 American  
Control Conference.  She was recently (2012) elevated to IEEE Fellow  
and was a member of the 2010-2011 US Defense Science Study Group.  She  
was also the founding Scientific Director (2007-2011) for the Center  
for Research and Education in Wind (CREW), a multi-institutional wind  
energy center involving the University of Colorado Boulder, the US  
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, and  
Colorado State University, in partnership with the US National Center  
for Atmospheric Research and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric  
Administration.

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Saturday, September 15
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SOMERVILLE GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE
Sat., Sep. 15
9 to 1
Davis Square, at the intersection of College Avenue and Holland  
Street, Somerville

http://www.somervillegardenclub.org/

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Monday, September 17
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Berkman Center Open House
Monday, September 17
6:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East Rooms, Everett  
Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free and Open to the Public
Please tell us if you plan to attend via http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/09/openhouse#RSVP

Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Fall 2012 Open  
House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the  
many ways you can get involved in our dynamic, exciting environment.

As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our  
interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a  
diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in  
the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community  
of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations,  
research, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming  
academic year!

Paid part-time research positions will be available in the fall, and  
you can visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_academicyear 
  to see the current available openings.

People from all disciplines, universities, and backgrounds are  
encouraged to attend the Open House to familiarize yourself with the  
Berkman Center and explore opportunities to join us in our research.   
We look forward to seeing you there!

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Science and Cooking
Monday, September
7p.
Harvard Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A lecture in Harvard's Science and Cooking series by Bill Yosses,  
White House Pastry Chef

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Tuesday, September 18
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United Nations and Islamic Law: Using Islamic Strategies to Achieve  
Universal Development Goals?
WHEN  Tue., Sep. 18, 2012, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Austin Hall West, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION  Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  Islamic Legal Studies Program
SPEAKER(S)  Siraj Sait
CONTACT INFO  ilsp at law.harvard.edu
NOTE  Lecture and discussion by Mohammed Siraj Sait (SJD '89), reader  
and head of research, University of East London. He is a former human  
rights prosecutor in India and legal officer with UN-Habitat in Kenya,  
and recently led the evaluation of the UN Iraq development programs.  
Reception to follow.
LINK  ttp://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp/

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Harvard Thinks Green 2
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
7:00pm
Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Hear 6 all-star Harvard faculty presenting their big green ideas from  
business, government, science, energy, health, and planning  
perspectives.
Confirmed faculty speakers:

Professor Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Professor James Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric  
Chemistry, SEAS
Professor Amy Edmonson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and  
Management, HBS
Professor Joyce Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, GSD
Professor Daniel Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the  
Environment; Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of  
Environmental Science and Engineering, FAS

http://www.green.harvard.edu/thinksgreen
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Crowdfunding Innovation Launch Party - a Mass Innovation Nights event
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Register at http://crowdfundinginnovation.eventbrite.com/
Ticket before September 14th:  $35.00 +$2.92
Ticket after September 14th:  $40.00 +  $3.19

Event Details
You've heard of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the crowdfunding craze. Now  
MIN is getting involved! We're holding a special event on Wednesday  
September 19th, "Crowdfunding Innovation". Crowdfunding Innovation is  
designed to help you make sense of what's happening RIGHT NOW in the  
crowdfunding space. (Everything changes next year because of the JOBS  
Act.)
Three MIN alumni, Lifecycle, Memory on Hand and Ministry of Supply  
will tell their crowdfunding stories. The panel will feature:
Lessons learned - What works and what doesn't
How to take advantage of the "rewards" model while the space is at a  
fever pitch
The pros and cons of waiting for the new crowdfunding model in 2013
What's next for our crowdfunding veterans

Mass Innovation Nights' "Crowdfunding Innovation" Launch Party will  
feature Boston's best innovation-oriented networking, live music from  
Kingsley Flood, crowdfunding their second full-length album, and 12  
crowdfunders on display!
AltruHelp
Founders Less than Three
  Silo – From Board Game To Video Game
  DriveLine
  LittleBonsai Toothbrush
Stump Chunks "Raise The Barn"
Enterteenment
  MuckRock
TechSandBox
  Find Your Missing Child
  RaceMenu
  ZoomTilt: The TV Reset Project

This adds up to good fun, interaction with people who havecool ideas  
to back, and a showing of our unique brand of local support.

Everyone will receive a special-edition "Crowdfunding Innovation"  
Flashdrive Wristband fully loaded with a digital "Crowdfunding  
Innovation Starter Kit".
Who should attend? Everyone involved in a crowdfunding effort! Fans  
and Friends, Professional Services, Marketers, Backers, and Supporters.

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Food Systems Networks That Work: Accelerating Learning and Increasing  
Commerce NGFN Interactive Webinar
Sept. 20
3:30p EDT
Webinar at http://ngfn.org/resources/ngfn-cluster-calls/ngfn-cluster-calls#sept-20-2012-food

Learn how joining or fostering a food hub or food system network can  
improve your regional food economy and the strength of each member  
organization or business. This webinar will feature conveners of food  
systems networks at the local, state, regional, and even national  
level. The networks they’ve built have boosted triple bottom lines of  
member businesses and organizations.

Panelists:
- Rich Pirog, Senior Associate Director, C.S. Mott Group for  
Sustainable Systems, Michigan State University
- Marty Gerencer, Principal, Morse Marketing Connections
- Corry Bregendahl, Assistant Scientist, Leopold Center for  
Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University
- Karen Lehman, Director, Fresh Taste

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Simulation and Natural Ventilation
Thursday, Sept 20
6pm-8:30pm EST
MIT, Building 1 Room 390, corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Memorial  
Drive, Cambridge
Munchies provided.

Presentation Synopses:
Liam Buckley's presentation entitled “Simulating Natural Ventilation”  
will cover a brief introduction to naturally ventilated buildings; why  
to naturally ventilate, when to apply natural ventilation strategies  
and when not to. Liam will also investigate and challenge the  
recommended codes and standards for naturally ventilated buildings.  
This presentation will conclude with strategies to naturally ventilate  
buildings, examine some case studies and discuss the lessons learned.

Stephen Ray's presentation briefly surveys natural ventilation  
simulation techniques before focusing on CFD, airflow network models,  
and simple analytical calculations. Specific attention is given to  
relevant simplifications, complexities that deserve attention,  
practical modeling tips, and advice for effectively communicating  
results with clients. The presentation is interspersed with lessons  
learned from the design of two Japanese office buildings and various  
MIT experiments.

Speaker Bios:
Liam Buckley – M.Eng., C.Eng. MIEI, ASHRAE BEMP
Liam is a Business Development and Project Manager for IES Ltd.  His  
consulting work includes detailed HVAC energy analysis & optimization,  
mechanical & natural ventilation analysis, renewable energy systems,  
occupant thermal comfort, computational fluid dynamics, daylight  
analysis and artificial lighting design. Liam has experience with  
multiple natural ventilation design projects on buildings in Europe,  
Australia and North America.

Stephen Ray, Ph.D., is an MIT postdoctoral researcher whose research  
focuses on modeling natural ventilation (NV) and monitoring a recently  
completed NV building in Japan. He has used a variety of NV modeling  
techniques including CFD, airflow network models, small-scale models,  
and full-scale mockups to aid the design of two office buildings in  
Tokyo. Steve worked closely with Taisei, Nikken Sekkei, and Takenaka  
during these projects and offers a unique perspective on the use of NV  
simulation among Japan’s best design firms. As part of his Ph.D.  
research, he helped develop CoolVent, an MIT-designed airflow network  
model, and validated various CFD models using both full-scale and  
small-scale experiments.

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New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable

Friday, September 21, 2012
9:00am - 12:30pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
Better Aligning Capacity Markets with Policy/Planning Objectives

Perhaps no development in the history of electricity markets in New  
England and throughout the US has been more controversial than the  
emergence of capacity markets. With New England contemplating numerous  
changes to its capacity market design (partially in response to a FERC  
order, and partially due to the efforts of ISO and other stakeholders  
to better align capacity markets with planning and policy objectives),  
now is a perfect time for a dedicated Roundtable on capacity markets.

In our first panel we will explore evolving regional capacity markets  
in three ISOs: New England, New York, and PJM. To share both the  
lessons ISOs are learning and the improvements they are contemplating,  
we are very pleased to have joining us President and CEO of the New  
York ISO, Stephen Whitley; Vice President of Market Operations and  
Demand Response at PJM, Stu Bresler; and Vice President of Market  
Development at ISO New England, Robert Ethier. We have asked Johannes  
Pfeifenberger, Principal at the Brattle Group, who has worked with  
many ISOs in the U.S. and beyond, to lead off the panel with an  
overview of the role of capacity markets and an "apples-to-apples"  
comparison of the three ISOs' capacity market designs and performances  
to date.

For our second panel we have invited a cross-section of leading  
stakeholder group representatives to share their perspectives on how  
to better align capacity markets in New England to ensure resource  
adequacy, while also meeting other important regional policy/planning  
objectives. Our illustrious panel will include:

Chairman Thomas Welch, Maine Public Utilities Commission
Commissioner Elizabeth Miller, VT Deptartment of Public Service
Peter Fuller, Director of Regulatory Affairs, NRG Energy
James Daly, VP Energy Supply, Northeast Utilities

We have also asked Bob Ethier to join this 2nd panel for the Q & A and  
discussion among the panelists.

Contact Name:  Susan Rivo
susan at raabassociates.org

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BOSTON FESTIVAL OF INDIE GAMES
9/22/2012
10:00 am - 10:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA  
02142

Description: Co-presented by MIT Game Lab and Boston Indies, Boston  
Festival of Indie Games is a debut celebration of independent game  
development with emphasis on the New England region. Boston Festival  
of Indie Games seeks to support and showcase the efforts of  
independent game developers by providing a free public event that  
encourages attendees to share and interact with games in various  
media. Boston Festival of Indie Games is focused on creating an  
intersection between community, academic and independent interests in  
game play. At the Microsoft NERD Center, the public can view and play  
games in our Digital Games Showcase and vote for their favorites.

Register at http://bostonfig.com/registration/ (for presenters)

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SOCIAL INTEL: GAINING INSIGHTS FROM AN OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY  
PLATFORM
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
6:00 PM To 9:00 PM
Microsoft N.E.R.D. Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
	
Because social media is essentially 'real-time' information, it  
provides an efficiency mechanism to reduce intelligence time to action  
if it can be harvested effectively. Fusing social media with  
traditional intelligence information provides additional context and  
connections of entities and events, which increases quality, relevance  
and predictability.
Learn how with IKANOW's open source platform, Infinit.e, your  
organization can gain valuable intelligence by fusing social media  
data with traditional enterprise data.
Presentation will be given by one of IKANOW's Intelligence Analysts  
and food and drinks will be provided by IKANOW.

Register at http://www.meetup.com/Open-Analytics-Boston/events/67990392/

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Solidarity And Green Economy (SAGE) 2nd annual conference "Another  
World Is Possible"
9am-4pm Saturday, October 13th, 2012
in Worcester, MA
Much more: http://WorcesterSAGEalliance.org

A day of resource sharing, alliance building, and collective visioning  
to create and organize around equitable, democratic, and sustainable  
community economies.

The conference brings together activists, organizers, community  
leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, local government, non-profits, and  
other individuals and organizations committed to forging more  
equitable and sustainable ways of organizing our communities.

***Call for workshop proposals!***
Please fill out your workshop ideas/proposals by 5pm September 12th  
here:  http://www.worcestersagealliance.org/?page_id=112

Matt Feinstein
Co-director, Media and Organizing Coordinator
Worcester Roots Project
w: 508-343-0035
c: 508-335-7783
http://worcesterroots.org

5 Pleasant St 3rd floor
Worcester, MA 01609

What's a co-director and a staff collective?  Find out more here:
http://www.worcesterroots.org/about-2/staff-and-board/why-a-staff-collective/

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Hello Makers and Hacker/Makerspaces!

Artisans Asylum, the City of Somerville, and the Somerville Arts  
Council are hosting the first Somerville Mini Maker Faire in  
Somerville's Union Square (near Boston), Saturday October 13th 3-7pm,  
and we're looking for makers!

To make this a success we need YOU, the makers of the area, to come  
and show off all your cool stuff! If you've got anything you think the  
greater world of both makers and non-makers might enjoy, this is the  
place to show it off.

Tell you friends, members, spread the word! The more the merrier, even  
if its just to stop by and see what the greater New England area had  
drummed up.

Answer the Call Here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CfMSomervilleMMF

More info here:
www.makerfairesomerville.com


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Opportunity

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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!

Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart  
of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world.  
Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the  
responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside  
of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch.  No previous yogurt making experience is  
necessary.

For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home

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Boiler Rebate
If your boiler is from 1983 or earlier, Mass Save will give a $1,750  
to $4,000 rebate to switch it out for a new efficient boiler that uses  
the same fuel (i.e. if you have oil, you have to continue to use oil)  
so long as it is installed by July 31, 2012.

Call Mass Save (866 527-7283) to sign up for a home energy assessment  
or sign-up online at  www.nextsteplivinginc.com/HEET  and HEET will  
receive a $10 contribution from Next Step Living for every completed  
assessment.

This is a great way to reduce climate change emissions for the next 20  
or so years the boiler lasts, while saving money.

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CEA Solar Hot Water Grants
Cambridge, through the Cambridge Energy Alliance initiative, is  
offering a limited number of grants to residents and businesses for  
solar hot water systems.  The grants will cover 50% of the remaining  
out of pocket costs of the system after other incentives, up to $2,000.

Applications will be accepted up to November 19, 2012 and are  
available on a first come, first serve basis until funding runs out.   
The Cambridge grant will complement other incentives including the  
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center solar thermal grants.  For more  
information, see
http://cambridgeenergyalliance.org/resources/additional-resources/solar-hot-water-grant-program

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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images

Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by  
having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera?   
With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more  
comfortable and less expensive to heat.  However, at $200 or so, the  
cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.

HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer  
Cambridge residents free thermal scans.

Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a  
hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras.  They will scan every  
building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or  
buildings or on a private way).  Building owners can view thermal  
images of their property and an analysis online. The information is  
password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.

Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images  
and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building  
owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their  
images and analysis for a small fee.

The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.

Go to Sagewell.com.  Type in your address at the bottom where it says  
"Find your home or building" and press return.  Then click on "Here"  
to request the report.

That's it.  When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will  
be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help  
you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to  
do about it.

With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money,  
not to mention comfort).

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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ

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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor  
Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to  
Cambridge residents.

During the assessment, the energy specialist will:

Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass  
Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on  
your energy bills.  You might as well use the service.

Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or  
call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729.  A Next Step Living  
Representative will call to schedule your assessment.

HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the  
services and rebates possible.

(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home  
Energy Assessment.  We won’t keep the data or sell it.)

(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call  
HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)


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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide

SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green  
Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!

To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for  
sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org

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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.

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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

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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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston  http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/

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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://www.BostonScienceLectures.com

Boston Area Computer User Groups  http://www.bugc.org/

Arts and Cultural Events List  http://aacel.blogspot.com/

http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php

http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template

http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/

http://green.harvard.edu/events

http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx

http://boston.nerdnite.com/

http://www.meetup.com/

http://www.eventbrite.com/

http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar

http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html

http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/



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