[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - November 26, 2012
George Mokray
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Sun Nov 25 17:04:58 PST 2012
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Unknown Auschwitz Satyagraha
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162994/-Unknown-Auschwitz-Satyagraha
You Can't Steal a Gift: Peer to Peer Politics
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/23/1161667/-You-Can-t-Steal-a-Gift-Peer-to-Peer-Politics
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Monday, November 26
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"Moving Forward on Climate Policy: What Do We Need to Know?"
"Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)+: Interdisciplinary and Institutional Interaction Perspectives"
Neba Solo: Music for Peace in Mali
Current and Future Global Opportunities in Concentrated Solar Power
"Coupled North American Ice Sheet and Drainage Evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum"
Socializing Knowledge: The Choose and Pick in Public Management of Science in Africa
Chicago Forward: Toward a User-Friendly City
Why Aren’t Children Learning?
"Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter."
Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village
The Island President - a documentary film
STOP THE DRONES: Report Back from the October CodePink Anti-Drone Peace Delegation to Pakistan
Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, November 27
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Northeast FABForum: FABLabs in STEM Education, Workforce Development and Small Business Creation
Route to Our Future: Transit Solutions for Equity, Sustainability, and Economic Growth in the Commonwealth: Policy Briefing and Report Release
"The End of the Digital Divide...What It Means for The Nation's Future.”
J. J. Abrams: Media Lab Conversations Series
Designing Collective Intelligence
A Not So Classic Approach to Music Education": El Sistema: Music Education for Social Inclusion
“How to Make Smarter and More Sustainable Choices at Every Level In Your Company”
Beyond Asset Ownership: Employment, Asset-less Firms, and Subsidiaries in a Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series - Ernest J. Wilson III - Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence and Strategy
The Elusive Mandate: Searching for Meaning in Presidential Elections
Special Seminar: Climate and Cultural Change in Western Eurasia. Progress and Challenges from Millennia-Length Tree-Ring Records
Boston Green Drinks - November Happy Hour
"Architecture of Taste"
The Right to Food as a Tool Against Global Hunger
Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming.
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Wednesday, November 28
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Multimaterial Fibers: Prospects for Photonics and Nanotechnology
Radcliffe Institute Panel: Mali After the Coup
Civil Rights 2.0: Empowering Communities through Economic and Community Development
Civil Rights 2.0: Empowering Communities through Economic and Community Development
LIttle America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
Food's Environmental Footprint: The Potential, Limits and Politics of Life Cycle
"The sea we've hardly seen: Deep sea microbes and their role in biogeochemical cycles"
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series - Ernest J. Wilson III - Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence and Strategy
"What should students learn in the 21st century?"
"Up in Smoke: The Long Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves"
World Energy Outlook
StreetTalk: How Cambridge made mode-shift a reality
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Thursday, November 29
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Cass Sunstein: Deciding by Default
Poised for Action: Moving Forward With a Massachusetts Agenda
Toward Sustainability: Bringing Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Economics and Ethics together
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series - Ernest J. Wilson III - Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence and Strategy
Macrowikinomics: Rethinking Education for the Age of Networked Intelligence
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
The Profits of Power: Energy Relations Between Russia and Europe
Legatum Lecture: Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State
Go Ask A.L.I.C.E.: A Panel Discussion
Arab Spring in the Fall
"Future of Transportation in MA" public meeting
Urban Films: Street Fight
Networking with EnerNOC: Software and the Smart Grid
"Architecture in Caracas after Modern Times"
We're Not Broke
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Friday, November 30
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Chris Nagel: Reformulating the Physical; the Saga of Plasticizing Matter
Nuclear 101: "Small Modular Reactors"
MIT News At Noon: Milli-Motien robot from the Center for Bits and Atoms
Emerging Technologies and the Future of Energy Production
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Saturday, December 1
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Artisan's Asylum Winter Open Studios
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Monday, December 3
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"The Impact of Tax Credits and Grants on Wind Power Investment"
Climate Change as a Driver of Humanitarian Crises and Response
“Unilateral Initiatives in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict."
Water Lecture Series. "Hormonally Active Pollutants: What Are They, What Can They Do, and How Do We Know They're Out There?"
America's Dysfunctional Politics: Where Do We Go (and Where Should We Go) From Here
The Egyptian Revolutions and Defining the New Normals
No Accident: Urban Design and Motor Vehicle Violence
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Tuesday, December 4
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Citizen video and networked politics in Southeast Asia
The Promise of Future Business
On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming
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Monday, November 26
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"Moving Forward on Climate Policy: What Do We Need to Know?"
Monday, November 26, 2012
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Gilbert Metcalf, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy at U.S. Department of the Treasury; Professor of Economics, Tufts University (on leave)
Lunch will be provided.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at harvard.edu
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"REDD+: Interdisciplinary and Institutional Interaction Perspectives"
Monday, November 26, 2012
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Tufts University, The Fletcher School, G310 (Crowe Room), 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
with Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, Assistant Professor, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
REDD+, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus conservation, is currently being negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In parallel, developing countries are ‘getting ready’ for REDD+ by developing national strategies and implementing pilot projects on the ground. During this seminar, Dr. Visseren will highlight the need for interdisciplinary research to address key current questions on REDD+. She will also show how institutional interaction & interaction management approaches can provide important insights on the relationship between REDD+ and other sustainable development initiatives.
Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers is an assistant professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy group (FNP) at Wageningen University & Research centre (WUR) in the Netherlands. Her research is focused on international forest, nature & biodiversity governance, with a specialization in partnerships, certification, international biodiversity-related conventions and REDD+. She is currently in the States for a 2-month visiting fellowship at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has several REDD+-related publications, a list of which may be accessed athttp://www.fnp.wur.nl/UK/Staff/Staff_Visseren/.
CIERP’s Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program Lecture
Contact Name: Miranda Faso
Miranda.Fasulo at tufts.edu
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Neba Solo: Music for Peace in Mali
WHEN Mon., Nov. 26, 2012, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ingrid Monson, 2012–2013 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; performance by Neba Solo, balloonist
COST Free
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE Radcliffe Institute fellow Ingrid Monson will deliver a lecture about Neba Solo, Mali's superb balafonist, and the social and cultural history of Mali. Monson is writing a book about Neba Solo titled “Kenedougou Visions.” After her lecture at 6 PM, Neba Solo will present a concert of his virtuosic xylophone music and his socially conscious lyrics. Playing with his brother, Siaka Traoré, Neba Solo will debut his most recent composition, which calls for peace in Mali. In his lyrics, one can trace the history of the political and social problems that led to the collapse of the Malian government in March 2012.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012-ingrid-monson-fellow-presentation
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Current and Future Global Opportunities in Concentrated Solar Power
Monday, November 26, 2012
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Bruce Anderson, CEO of Wilson Solarpower
A short history and current status of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies will be covered, including the various technology approaches, their relative pros and cons, the extent and nature of the market, and future opportunities.
Bruce Anderson is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Wilson Solarpower in Boston, Massachusetts. Wilson is commercializing a modular, coal-competitive concentrated solar power (CSP) system based on two MIT-invented clean energy technologies: an ultra-efficient industrial heat exchanger and an ultra-efficient microturbine. Bruce started his clean energy career 40 years ago when he completed his Masters thesis at MIT on solar energy in 1973.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub at mit.edu
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"Coupled North American Ice Sheet and Drainage Evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum"
Monday, November 26, 2012
4:00pm
Haller Hall, Geo Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andy Wickert, University of Colorado at Boulder
The demise of the North American ice sheets and associated isostatic adjustment and sea level change rearranged drainage patterns across North America. This was especially pronounced in the flat-lying cratonal interior of North America, where subtle changes in tilt moved drainage divides hundreds of kilometers. These flow paths rapidly changed since the last glacial maximum (LGM); at the same time, massive deglacial meltwater discharges etched a strong geomorphic signature of these transient river systems into the landscape and left behind a thick offshore sedimentary record. Acknowledging the large-scale changes in deglacial drainage basins is essential to proper interpretation of the offshore oxygen isotope record that records meltwater discharge, and allows us to constrain the temporal evolution of ice sheet thickness within each basin. This holds great promise as a method to pinpoint meltwater sources and create improved ice models, as it has a much different and weaker dependence on mantle rheology than current methods that require joint inversions of solid Earth and ice sheet structure. The success of this work necessitates strong interdisciplinary connections in Quaternary science that span field and modeling studies, and points the way towards a self-consistent integration of ice sheet evolution, solid Earth response, mantle rheology, geomorphic evolution, depositional processes, and paleoceanographic records.
Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo
scappo at fas.harvard.edu
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Socializing Knowledge: The Choose and Pick in Public Management of Science in Africa
Monday, November 26, 2012
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Wine and Cheese reception from 3:30-4, followed by a lecture/discussion on topics of Science, Technology, and Society.
Speaker: D. A. Masolo, University of Louisville
STS Fall 2012 Colloquia
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn at mit.edu
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Chicago Forward: Toward a User-Friendly City
Monday, November 26, 2012
4:30p
MIT, Building 10-485, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Gabe Klein, Transportation Commissioner, City of Chicago
What happens when a tech-minded entrepreneur is unexpectedly chosen to lead a big city government bureaucracy? Gabe Klein was an unconventional pick to head the District of Columbia's Department of Transportation when he was hired back in 2008, by then-mayor Adrian Fenty. He'd been a Zipcar executive. He helped found a local boutique food-truck company. He grew up in a Virginia ashram called Yogaville. But he had never worked in government. Over the next 23 months Klein implemented a program of transformative innovation, rapidly rolling out bike-sharing, new bike lanes, streetcar plans and next-generation parking infrastructure. Now Klein is a year-and-a-half into his second unexpected job in government, as the head of Chicago's Department of Transportation under Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Join MIT Visiting Scholar Aaron Naparstek in conversation with one of America's most visionary and inspiring new urban leaders.
http://gabeklein.com/bio
Web site: http://dusp.mit.edu/cdd/event/cdd-forum-new-urban-interface-3
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): City Design and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Sandra Elliott
617-253-5115
sandrame at mit.edu
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Why Aren’t Children Learning?
Monday, November 26
5pm-6pm
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He will be talking about challenges around education in low-income countries. This event is part of the Yunus Challenge focusing on innovative and scalable education initiatives that produce a specific learning objective focused on youth in low-income countries.
Learn more at http://web.mit.edu/idi/yunus_2013.htm and
http://globalchallenge.mit.edu
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"Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter."
Monday, November 26
7 pm
David Chang, momofuku; Carles Tejedor, Via Veneto. Harvard Science Center C.
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Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village
Monday, November 26, 2012
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Krista Lynes, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Department, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada
In his critical analysis of postmodern culture, Fredric Jameson asserted that the particular temporality of video, its "total flow," bound apparatus and subject in a new kind of materialism governed by measurement, a machinic time closer to the chronometer than the cinema. This produced a "kaleidoscopic" image of distinct streams whose historicism was revealed by the very organization of videographic space and time. Professor Lynes's talk will extend Jameson's insights to questions of representation and cultural production under the current crises and failures of market structures in the 21st century, and the (speculative, generative) co-incidences between protest movements around the globe, focusing specifically on artworks that juxtapose chronometric and cinematic time.
Krista Lynes' writing has been included in the journals Signs and Third Text, as well as the anthology Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (2011). Her book, Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, is forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillan's "Global Cinema" series in 2013.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2012-fall/nov-26-krista-lynes-creative-geographies-video-beyond-the-global-village/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to the public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact: Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act at mit.edu
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The Island President - a documentary film
Monday, November 26
7:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Langdell North, Room 225, 1545 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Program on Negotiation, the Environmental Law Program at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Law Documentary Studio are pleased to present: The Island President
This award winning and critically acclaimed documentary features President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives and his struggle to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on his country. See the trailer online.
A discussion of the film will be led by Hardy Merriman, Senior Adviser, International Center on Non-Violent Conflict
For more information, contact Polly Hamlen (mhamlen at law.harvard.edu)
About the film: Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
The Island President captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his negotiation strategies—leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations.
After the completion of the film, President Nasheed resigned the presidency under the threat of violence in a coup d’etat perpetrated by security forces loyal to the former dictator. He is currently under island arrest.
About the Speaker: Hardy Merriman is a senior advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC). He writes and presents about nonviolent conflict both for academic audiences as well as for activists, organizers, other practitioners. He has contributed to works such asWaging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential (2005) by Gene Sharp, Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East (2010) by Maria Stephan (ed.), and co-authored A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle (2007), a training curriculum for activists.
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STOP THE DRONES: Report Back from the October CodePink Anti-Drone Peace Delegation to Pakistan
Mon. Nov 26
7:30 pm
MIT, Building 32 - 141, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
On October 7 (the anniversary of the US attack on Afghanistan), a delegation of 31 US antiwar activists marched with tens of thousands of Pakistanis sickened by the civilian death toll and growth of rightwing reaction brought on by the US drone war in Waziristan. Hear first-hand reports and view slides from delegation members who just met with the families of drone victims, with intellectuals, political activists, and others in Islamabad, Lahore, and the tribal areas. We will also hear from Pakistanis on the impact of the US ?War on Terror? and drone attacks on Pakistan.
Learn about the growing use of drones for military attacks and for domestic surveillance. Discuss what we can do to stop the use and proliferation of these deadly weapons.
Panelists:
Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition; member of the Troy Area Labor Council (New York); tour member
Paki Wieland, Arrested Hancock AFB drone resister; Engages in peacekeeper & nonviolence training and education; tour member
Lois Mastrangelo, United for Justice with Peace; CodePink of Greater Boston; tour member
Osman Khan, Radical economist pursuing his doctorate; just returned from six months in Pakistan researching the impact of drone attacks and war on the tribal peoples of western Pakistan
Waqas Mirza, Recent Political Science graduate University of Massachusetts Amherst; Writes and speaks about impact of ?War on Terror? on Pakistan
Endorsed by United National Antiwar Coalition, United for Justice with Peace, Code Pink Greater Boston, Alliance for a Democratic and Secular South Asia, Muslim Peace Coalition, Veterans For Peace, Women?s International League for Peace and Freedom, Massachusetts Global Action, South Asian Forum at MIT
Suggested donation $5.00. Proceeds to support anti-drone protests
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Nerd Nite
Monday, November 26, 2012.
8 pm
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
$5
Talk 1 – “Technology and Dystopia: Do you dream of angry android sheep?” | Deb Nicholson
Talk 2 – “Bicycle History and Culture in Maine and New England 1880-1900″ | Sam Shupe
For more information on November’s presentations and speakers: http://boston.nerdnite.com/2012/11/15/nerd-nite-112612/
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Tuesday, November 27
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Northeast FABForum: FABLabs in STEM Education, Workforce Development and Small Business Creation
The TIE Project Inc. in collaboration with MIT's CBA and The Fab Foundation
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, Science Auditorium and the Engineering Lab, 55 Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury
RSVP at http://northeastfabforum-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=45
A regional summit for Fab Lab developers in the Northeast United States and an information meeting for those interested in learning about the potential of Fab Labs to support STEM learning, business generation, job training and industry in greater Boston. A real "get acqainted" time with some key players on the FAB scene.
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Route to Our Future: Transit Solutions for Equity, Sustainability, and Economic Growth in the Commonwealth: Policy Briefing and Report Release
Tuesday, November 27
10AM
MA State House, Room 437, Boston
PDF of 11/27 Report Release Invitation: http://bit.ly/SNKqRU
PDF of 11/29 MassDOT Hearing: http://bit.ly/URd595
We would be honored by your attendance and look forward to working together towards a more expansive, accessible and effective transit system across our Commonwealth.
Please RSVP to: diana at massclu.org or 617-723-2639.
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"The End of the Digital Divide...What It Means for The Nation's Future.”
Tuesday, November 27
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Cheryl Contee, co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics; co-founder and partner of Fission Strategy, an Internet strategy and web development firm.
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J. J. Abrams: Media Lab Conversations Series
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E14-3rd Floor, Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: J. J. Abrams
Media Lab Conversations Series
This talk will be webcast.
All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public.
Join us on Twitter: #MLTalks
J.J. Abrams is the founder and president of Bad Robot Productions, which he runs with his producing partner Bryan Burk. Formed in 2001, Bad Robot is partnered with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Studios and has produced films and television series such as "Cloverfield," "Star Trek," "Morning Glory," "Super 8," "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," ABC's "Alias" and "Lost," Fox's "Fringe," and CBS's "Person of Interest."
Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2012/11/27/media-lab-conversations-series-jj-abrams
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact: Jess Sousa
events at media.mit.edu
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Designing Collective Intelligence
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Sep Kamvar
Abstract: In this talk, I'll discuss the design of collective intelligence in two different areas: Information Visualization and Programming Languages. I will explore, from a designer's perspective, what it means to make visualizations and languages that are human-centered and allow for collective expression. Finally, I will show several examples of such systems from my own work, and describe them in context.
Bio: Sep Kamvar is the LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab. Prior to MIT, Sep was the head of personalization at Google and a consulting professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired by Google in 2003.
Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.
Sep received his Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University and his A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University.
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A Not So Classic Approach to Music Education": El Sistema: Music Education for Social Inclusion
WHEN Tue., Nov. 27, 2012, 1 – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Korea Fellow Society, Harvard Korea Society
SPEAKER(S) Yael Marciano
DIRECTED BY Kwang-Jin Kim
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“How to Make Smarter and More Sustainable Choices at Every Level In Your Company”
Tuesday, November 27
1:30 EST
Free webconference
RSVP at https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/509303431?utm_campaign=testing&utm_source=hubspot_email_marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_content=5087344&_hse=gmoke%40world.std.com&_hsmi=5087344&_hsh=359769a3c6de4aa1e39b818490e5c7
Chris Erickson, CEO of Climate Earth, and Jim Lochran of EarthShift
Learn
How to quickly implement comprehensive management of the supply chain to systematically prioritize products for redesign
How to utilize a new set of design tools to take the mystery out of sustainable design
Many companies are focused on measuring their supply chain and enterprise footprints. Others are focusing on bringing sustainable design into their product development group.
In this webinar, you will learn how the technologies involved in these processes are converging to create a cohesive approach to sustainability that helps companies make smarter choices, generate larger impact reductions faster, reduce costs, build their brand, and track results.
Contact James Lochran <james at earthshift.com>
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Beyond Asset Ownership: Employment, Asset-less Firms, and Subsidiaries in a Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Buildling E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Leshui He (Conn/MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Seminar in Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series - Ernest J. Wilson III - Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence and Strategy
WHEN Tue., Nov. 27, 2012, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Ernest J. Wilson III, Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication; dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dbievent at fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
NOTE Tuesday, 11/27 - What the Transition to a Digital Society Means for Those at the Bottom
Wednesday, 11/28 - Policy Responses to Digital Inequality: Beyond Economics
Thursday, 11/29 - Structure, Agency, and Culture in Digital Societies at Home & Abroad
LINK dubois.fas.harvard.edu
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The Elusive Mandate: Searching for Meaning in Presidential Elections
WHEN Tue., Nov. 27, 2012, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Larry M. Bartels, May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science, Vanderbilt University, and Codirector, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
COST Free
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8600
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012-larry-bartels-lecture
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Special Seminar: Climate and Cultural Change in Western Eurasia. Progress and Challenges from Millennia-Length Tree-Ring Records
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Edward R. Cook, Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Climate variability and change is increasingly recognized as contributing to past cultural change and collapse. But its impact can be controversial, even in Western Eurasia, where historical and archeological records of past cultural change are abundant for the last 2000 years.
Much uncertainty stems from our still rudimentary understanding of climate change over Western Eurasia from the time of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. But millennia-long tree-ring chronologies over Western Eurasia are now closing the knowledge gap , with similar relevant advances occurring in Central and East Asia as well. Can we use these exactly dated and annual archives of environmental change to reconstruct a past climate context for times of cultural change and collapse in Western Eurasia? What are some examples? What are the caveats to avoid overestimating the role of climate in cultural change?
Dr. Cook co-founded the Tree-Ring Laboratory in 1975, which is dedicated to expanding tree-ring research around the world to improve our understanding of environmental history. He has contributed to numerous research projects and papers tracking the cultural impact of climate change on the Roman Empire, on the fate of Angkor in the Khmer Empire, on the megadroughts in the long history of the American Southwest, and much more.
Reception to follow in the CGIS South Concourse.
Dr. Cook’s talk is sponsored by the Science of the Human Past and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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Boston Green Drinks - November Happy Hour
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
kingston station, 25 Kingston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://bgdnov12-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=382
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a Drink at Kingston station and build your connection with our green community!
Keep sending feedback to Lyn at bostongreendrinks.com for ideas about speakers or content for the future and mark your calendar for drinks on the last Tuesday of every month. Also, if you RSVP and can't make it, e-mail us to let us know.
Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.
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GSD Public Lecture Program. "Architecture of Taste"
WHEN Tue., Nov. 27, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard GSD
SPEAKER(S) Pierre Hermé, Sanford Kwinter, Savinien Caracostea
CONTACT INFO events at gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Paris-based chef Pierre Hermé will describe the creation process of 3 pastries from start to finish, including development of tastes, textures, proportions, and forms. A tasting of the pastries will be an integral part of the presentation. After the lecture, Sanford Kwinter, Harvard GSD professor of architectural history and criticism, will lead an audience discussion with Hermé. Introduced by Savinien Caracostea, M.Arch. II, '13.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/pierre-herm-the-architecture-of-taste-with-sanford-kwinter-and.html
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The Right to Food as a Tool Against Global Hunger
WHEN Tue., Nov. 27, 2012, 6:45 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Caspersen Building, Room 1015, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation; Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic; Food Law Society; Law and International Development Society; Human Rights Program
SPEAKER(S) Olivier De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO ebroad at law.harvard.edu
NOTE Join us for a discussion with Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, about how recognizing the right to food (including the availability, accessibility, and adequacy of food) can be a tool used to combat global hunger. Dinner will be provided.
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Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
7:00 PM To 10:00 PM
Eastern Bank, 647 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
You can see into the conference room from the street
The Agenda is:
We will introduce ourselves and tell about our interest, expertise or work (1st hr)
You can give a ~3 to 5 minute elevator speach about your startup if you would like. (We will divide the 1st hour by # of people.)
What stage is your ideas or startup? What is your goal?
Tell what personnel or additional expertise, funding, etc. you are seeking,
Discussion and Brainstorming on (2nd hr)
ideas for viable moneymaking startups,
methods of collaboration, networking, forming teams & partnerships etc.
marketing, media, social media, ideas that have worked well for publicity
Agencies, websites, companies that assist startups
Boston Greenfest & Gov't opportunities.
What would ou like to see in future meetups?
Seminars - We will have seminars by Sustainable Energy engineers and other tech experts as often as possible.
The bank is near the center of Central Sq., where Prospect and Mass Ave cross, - there is a Starbucks on the Northeast corner of the intersection. Next to Starbucks is a Flower shop, and next to that is Eastern Bank. You can see the conference room thru the window, so just wave to us and we will let you in.
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Wednesday, November 28
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Multimaterial Fibers: Prospects for Photonics and Nanotechnology
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
11:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 34-401A, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ayman Abouraddy, CREOL, University of Florida
EECS/RLE Optics & Quantum Electronics Seminar Series
Web site: http://www.rle.mit.edu/oqe/seminar/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Optics & Quantum Electronics Seminar Series
For more information, contact: Donna Gale
253-8529
dgale at mit.edu
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Radcliffe Institute Panel: Mali After the Coup
WHEN Wed., Nov. 28, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Adam Thiam, Malian journalist of Le Republicain, who will be participating from Mali via teleconference
Gregory Mann, Columbia University historian
Moderator, Ingrid Monson, 2012–2013 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE The Radcliffe Institute will host a conversation between Malian journalist Adam Thiam, of Le Republicain, participating live from Bamako, and historian Gregory Mann, of Columbia University, as they discuss the political situation in Mali and its global implications. They will offer observations about the multiple challenges that face Mali, including the effects of political instability on the economy and society.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012-mali-after-coup-panel-discussion
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Civil Rights 2.0: Empowering Communities through Economic and Community Development
WHEN Wed., Nov. 28, 2012, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall Room 104, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Mississippi Delta Project
SPEAKER(S) Bill Luckett
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Please join us for an engaging discussion with Bill Luckett, the Mississippi Delta Project Fall Speaker. Luckett is a leader in the state of Mississippi who has dedicated his career to empowering Mississippians with a mix of smart lawyering, community development, political advocacy, and entrepreneurialism.
Luckett works to increase small business development and cultural tourism in his home town of Clarksdale, MS, believing that with increased economic prosperity, Mississippi will see positive change in race relations, public health, and education. Luckett is also an entrepreneur in his own right, and is the founder and co-owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club, which he co-owns with actor Morgan Freeman. He has also served as an executive producer and director on numerous movie and documentary projects set in Mississippi.
Luckett ran for governor of Mississippi in 2011, running on policy issues such as improving early education and increasing local business incentives.
His life work is broad, but his focus has always been on increasing the opportunities and aspirations of his fellow Mississippians.
LINK http://www3.law.harvard.edu/orgs/deltaproject/blog/
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LIttle America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post
SSP Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: 617-253-7529
valeriet at mit.edu
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Food's Environmental Footprint: The Potential, Limits and Politics of Life Cycle
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
12:15 – 1:15pm
Tufts Boston Campus, Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences, Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Live webcast of the presentation and archive at http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/event/friedmanseminar
Susanne Freidberg, Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College, will discuss her new work on the politics of how food’s environmental footprint is measured. Dr. Freidberg is the author of Fresh: A Perishable History (2009) and many other publications on the culture and geography of food. Live webcast and archived video will be available at
Contact Charlene.Stevens at tufts.edu
Editorial Comment: The whole lecture series on food and nutrition issues is available at the archive
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"The sea we've hardly seen: Deep sea microbes and their role in biogeochemical cycles"
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
3:00pm
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Peter Girguis, Harvard University, OEB
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
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W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series - Ernest J. Wilson III - Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence and Strategy
WHEN Wed., Nov. 28, 2012, 4 p.m.
WHERE Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Ernest J. Wilson III, Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication; dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dbievent at fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
NOTE Wednesday, 11/28 - Policy Responses to Digital Inequality: Beyond Economics
Thursday, 11/29 - Structure, Agency, and Culture in Digital Societies at Home & Abroad
LINK dubois.fas.harvard.edu
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"What should students learn in the 21st century?"
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Charles Fadel, founder and chairman, Center for Curriculum Redesign
DUE Education Talk series (DUET)
DUET is a monthly series emphasizing current research on learning, cognitive psychology, educational technology, machine learning, neuroscience, and educational assessment, among other topics. DUET's goal is to provide the MIT community with the latest research in education and to contribute to efforts to enhance student learning both residentially and online.
The last major changes to curriculum took place in the late 1800's as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs. Technology is now deeply affecting employability via automation and offshoring, so education standards need to be deeply redesigned for the four dimensions of (relevant) Knowledge, Skills, Character, and Metacognition. Adapting to 21st century needs means revisiting each dimension and the interplay between them.
Light refreshments to follow; all are welcome.
Web site: http://curriculumredesign.org/about/team/#charles
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Teaching and Learning Laboratory, Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
For more information, contact: Jennifer French
617-324-4506
jfrench at mit.edu
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"Up in Smoke: The Long Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves": Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
WHEN Wed., Nov. 28, 2012, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Rema Hanna
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k89370
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World Energy Outlook
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-115, Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
The foundations of the global energy system are shifting, with a resurgence in oil and gas production in some countries, a retreat from nuclear power signalled in some others and signs of increasing policy focus on energy efficiency. Against this backdrop, the World Energy Outlook 2012 brings together the latest data and policy developments to present up to date, authoritative projections of energy trends through to 2035 and insights into what they mean for energy security, environmental sustainability and economic development. Oil, coal, natural gas, renewables and nuclear power are all covered, together with an update on climate change issues.
The World Energy Outlook 2012 also focuses on topical issues, such as the benefits that could be achieved if known best technologies and practices to improve energy efficiency were systematically adopted. It highlights the dependence of energy on water, including the particular vulnerabilities faced by the energy sector in a more water-constrained future. It investigates how the surge in unconventional oil and gas production in the United States is set to have implications well beyond North America. It includes a detailed country focus on Iraq, examining both its importance in satisfying the country's own needs and its crucial role in meeting global oil and gas demand. And it quantifies the cost of subsidies to fossil fuels and renewables, which are both coming under closer scrutiny in this age of austerity.
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/node/2103/
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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StreetTalk: How Cambridge made mode-shift a reality
Wednesday, November 28
7:00-9:00pm
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, 301 Binney St, Cambridge
Open to the public, $5-$15 suggested donation
Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4795793347#
The statistics look like a mistake. In July, the Globe highlighted a successful mode-shift policy in Kendall Square. Kendall Square has managed to add 4.6 million square feet of new spaces (a 40% increase since 2000) while reducing car trips by as much as 14% in the last decade.
What is the City of Cambridge doing that made it possible to bring new development without bringing new drivers? Stephanie Groll, Parking and Transportation Demand Management Officer, and Geoff Hewer-Candee, Graphic Designer for the City of Cambridge, will share insight about two programs that change travel behavior - one aimed at commuters and the other aimed at residents. Highlighting Kendall Square, learn how Cambridge has made it a priority to reduce car use among its workers, and what the city's innovative CitySmart program has done for residents' non-work trips to put Cambridge on the social marketing map.
Hosted by LivableStreets Alliance with WalkBoston.
Sponsored by Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
For more information: kara at livablestreets.info / 617.621.1746/ www.livablestreets.info
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Thursday, November 29
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Cass Sunstein: Deciding by Default
WHEN Thu., Nov. 29, 2012, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the Regulatory Policy Program
SPEAKER(S) Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
CONTACT INFO RSVP to mrcbg at ksg.harvard.edu
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Poised for Action: Moving Forward With a Massachusetts Agenda
Thursday, November 29, 2012
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2840&2840.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=6pokxolij2.app341a
A Luncheon Presentation from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
We may face gridlock in Washington, but we have vital environmental policies in Massachusetts waiting for action. Addressing issues such as transportation, safer alternatives for toxic chemicals, wind-siting reform, and zoning changes could be good for the environment as well as the economy. At the regional level, efforts to update RGGI could have a major impact.
Please join us for a panel discussion of pending environmental issues that could stimulate jobs and economic growth in the Commonwealth.
Featuring
André Leroux
Executive Director, Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Sue Reid
Vice President and Director of CLF Massachusetts
Elizabeth Saunders
Massachusetts State Director
of Clean Water Action
Peter Shattuck
Director of Market Initiatives at Environment Northeast (ENE)
Lunch
E2 Members: No Charge
Non-Members and guests: $25
All registered attendees will be sent confirmation and directions
the week prior to the event. Contact Ying Li at yli at nrdc.org if you have questions.
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Toward Sustainability: Bringing Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Economics and Ethics together
Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Thanos Papanicolaou, Professor & Bently Faculty Fellow of Engineering, University of Iowa
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Landscapes are the lynchpin of rural communities and our emphasis here is on land conservation. Past research guiding conservation efforts has a fragmented view by assuming that the economics of the rural system's biotic clock will function without the "non-economic" parts. Human nature was viewed as decoupled from the non-human. Furthermore, these efforts have somewhat failed to recognize that we live in a constantly evolving world that is disturbed by intense human activity (agriculture) and shifts in climate. Surprisingly, there is no national modeling framework for the rural environment that could be used to assess conservation practices while considering, at the same time, complex social and natural system dynamics. In this research, our long-term vision is to identify scientifically the ecological, economic, and ethical leverage points, or metrics, that have the greatest impact on our ability to achieve conservation goals. Because we live in a continuously evolving world, we also believe that our biophysiecological dynamic models should be complemented with decision making tools to examine trade-offs and enhance our ability to constantly re-evaluate conservation goals. We will take advantage of new opportunities of emerging geoinformatic infrastructure and dynamic modeling tools to develop a new modeling paradigm in nearly all agriculture regions of the country.
Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/events/60
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Brenda Pepe
617-258-5554
pepebe at mit.edu
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W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series - Ernest J. Wilson III - Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence and Strategy
WHEN Thu., Nov. 29, 2012, 4 p.m.
WHERE Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Ernest J. Wilson III, Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication; dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dbievent at fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
NOTE Thursday, 11/29 - Structure, Agency, and Culture in Digital Societies at Home & Abroad
LINK dubois.fas.harvard.edu
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Macrowikinomics: Rethinking Education for the Age of Networked Intelligence
Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
MIT, Building 66, Room 110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mitocw-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=1
Don Tapscott
Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world.
In 2011 Don was named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like “the business web” and was described by BusinessWeek as “pure enlightenment.” Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.
The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet a “Schumpeter-ian story of creative destruction” and the Huffington Post said the book is “nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.” Over 30 years he has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. His work continues as a the Chairman of Moxie Insight, a member of World Economic Forum, Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Torontoand Martin Prosperity Institute Fellow.
The event is free but seating is limited.
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
WHEN Thu., Nov. 29, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for American Political Studies, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
SPEAKER(S) Chrystia Freeland, journalist and author; Bruce Western, Dan Carpenter, Frank Levy, Theda Skocpol
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO peck at wjh.harvard.edu
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The Profits of Power: Energy Relations Between Russia and Europe
Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:30p–6:30p
Speaker: Rawi E. Abdelal, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University
Skolkovo Tech and MIT Russia Distinguished Lecture Series
An abstract: Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries' relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a handful of French, German, and Italian corporations somehow taken responsibility for formulating the energy strategy-and thus the Russia policy-for essentially all of Europe?
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Energy Intiatiive, MIT-Russia, Skolkovo Tech, MIT/SkolTech Initiative
For more information, contact:
Olena Chernishenko
ochernis at mit.edu
Editorial Comment: No building or room is given in the announcement.
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Legatum Lecture: Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State.
Nov 29, 2012
5:30pm
MIT, Sloan School of Management, E62-233, 100 Main St, Cambridge
William H. Janeway, Co-founder, INET, Director, Magnet Systems, Nuance Communications, & O'Reilly Media
In this talk William Janeway will discuss his new book, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State. The Innovation Economy begins with discovery and culminates in speculation. Over some 250 years, economic growth has been driven by successive processes of trial and error: upstream exercises in research and invention, and downstream experiments in exploiting the new economic space opened by innovation. Drawing on his professional experiences, William H. Janeway provides an accessible pathway for readers to appreciate the dynamics of the Innovation Economy. He combines personal reflections, from a career spanning forty years in venture capital, with the development of an original theory of the role of asset bubbles in financing technological innovation and of the role of the state in playing an enabling role in the innovation process. Today, with the state frozen as an economic actor and access to the public equity markets only open to a minority, the Innovation Economy is stalled; learning the lessons from this book will contribute to its renewal.
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Go Ask A.L.I.C.E.: A Panel Discussion
WHEN Thu., Nov. 29, 2012, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center 469, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments & Department of the History of Science
SPEAKER(S) Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University), Fox Harrell (MIT), John Searle (UC Berkeley), Peter Galison (Harvard), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard) & Sophia Roosth (Harvard)
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO gauvin at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A panel discussion about artificial intelligence, the Turing Test, and whether machines think! Part of the activities related to the Go Ask A.L.I.C.E. exhibit @ Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Refreshments will be served after the event.
LINK http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi_goa.html
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Arab Spring in the Fall
WHEN Thu., Nov. 29, 2012, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever 113, 25 Harvard Yard
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Shahab Ahmed, Leila Farsakh, Noah Feldman, Rashid Khalidi, Malika Zeghal
CONTACT INFO humcentr at fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-events
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"Future of Transportation in MA" public meeting
Thursday, November 29
6:00 to 8:00 pm
Mass. Transportation Building, conference rooms 1,2,3, 10 Park Plaza, Boston
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is holding a series of statewide public meetings, engaging with residents, community leaders and business owners to discuss the future of transportation in the Commonwealth.
"Every person in the Commonwealth has a stake in our transportation system," said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey. "Whether someone drives, walks, takes public transit or rides their bike, there is rarely a day that goes by that they don't interact with the system.
These statewide discussions are intended to allow you to share your ideas, thoughts and proposals for improving and paying for our transportation network for many years to come. Representatives from each division of MassDOT - RMV, Highway, Aeronautics and MBTA/Rail and Transit - will be available to answer questions and provide information.
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Urban Films: Street Fight
Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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.
Chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. Directed by Marshall Curry. Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary (2005).
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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Networking with EnerNOC: Software and the Smart Grid
Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
EnerNOC headquarters, 101 Federal Street, 11th Floor, Boston
RSVP before November 26 please at http://enernocnetworking-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=82
At EnerNOC we get a kick out of working to create change in the world, and have fun while doing it. If you're passionate about solving our generation¹s biggest challenges, enjoy work that poses a significant risk/reward trade, and are relentlessly driven to succeed, then you have what it takes make a difference with our industry-leading organization and we want to meet you!
Join us for a brief information session, drinks, and a tour of our Network Operations Center (EnerNOC's mission control) on Thursday, November 29th, from 6:00-8:00pm at our downtown Boston offices.
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"Architecture in Caracas after Modern Times"
Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Franco Micucci
Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
617-253-7791
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We're Not Broke
Thursday, November 29
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
Rule 19, 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
An exposé into the secret world of corporate tax dodging
*WE?RE NOT BROKE* is an exposé into the secret world of corporate tax dodging. By booking profits offshore that should really be accounted for in America, multinational corporations like Exxon, Google and Bank of America are cheating our country out of an estimated $100 billion a year. All the while, America is in the grip of a tremendous recession, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Lawmakers? common cry of ?We?re Broke!? echoes in Washington, D.C. and across the mainstream media as our elected officials slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters?crumbling the country?s social fabric and leaving many people scrambling to survive.
While corporate tax avoidance has been accelerating for the past decade, and astronomical amounts of money have been lost to the U.S. Treasury, it has gone mostly unnoticed by the media and the general public. That changed in early 2011, when a small group of Americans, inspired by protests in the United Kingdom, formed a fledgling grassroots movement called US Uncut. Their goal seemed simple: Call out corporate tax dodgers and make them pay their fair share.
*WE?RE NOT BROKE* interweaves the stories of seven US Uncut activists from across the nation: Carl Gibson, a 24-year-old college graduate from Jackson, Mississippi who can?t find gainful employment; Joanne Gifford, a California mom and unemployed high school teacher; Jim Coleman, the owner of a Chicago heating and air conditioning company who is watching his profession vanish with the sinking economy; Musician Chris Priest, 24, who laments the days when his postman grandfather could singlehandedly support a family of eight; Kira Elliot, 29, a personal trainer and Mary Kay rep. who sees her middle class clients disappear as they tighten their belts; Bobbie Arrington, a 35-year-old social worker and graduate student who?s dealing with cuts to the hospital where she sees clients; and Ryan Clayton, a charismatic 30-year-old media analyst from Washington, D.C. who, once he learned that he paid more taxes than multibillion-dollar corporations, began planning what he was sure was a coming revolution.
*WE?RE NOT BROKE* follows the US Uncut activists to the streets as they use creative activism to protest Bank of America, Apple and FedEx. All the while, U.S. corporations continue making record profits, and then pocket billions of dollars that should rightfully go back to the American public. The tactics, their CEOs argue, are legal. But the laws are passed using shady practices that move in concert with big campaign contributions and millions in lobbying expenses. President Obama, while having campaigned on the promise of closing offshore tax loopholes, has done nothing of the kind. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue to coddle corporations while slashing public services that affect everyone else.
Over the summer of 2011, Microsoft and Apple led a massive lobbying effort they called /The Win America Campaign/ to get congress to give them a ?tax holiday? on over a trillion dollars in profits they claimed to have earned overseas. At the same time, sparks from the US Uncut movement that began in the winter of 2011 helped flame growing feelings of injustice among America's middle class. And in late September 2011, many US Uncut members joined Occupy Wall Street, a new movement that echoed their calls for an economically just America, and a government
un-tethered from corporate greed.
http://rule19.org/videos
http://rule19.org/download-film/film-121129-Were-Not-Broke.pdf
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.
[donations are accepted]
*NOTE: A special, extra screening **for the xmas holidays; the distributor/producers have made DVDs available for sale. The PERFECT XMAS gift!*
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Friday, November 30
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Chris Nagel: Reformulating the Physical; the Saga of Plasticizing Matter
Friday, November 30, 2012
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Chris Nagel, Vice President of Product Development and Founding Scientist of Atomic Ordered Materials
SMArchS Colloquium
Web site: http://architecture.mit.edu/lecture/reformulating-physical-saga-plasticizing-matter
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Annette Horne-Williams
617-253-4412
ahwill at mit.edu
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Nuclear 101: "Small Modular Reactors"
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 4-145, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jacob DeWitte
Energy 101 Lectures series
The Energy 101 lectures aim at presenting an overview of various topics in the energy field. These lectures are open to everyone and require no prior knowledge.
Nuclear reactors generating less than 200 MWe are gaining momentum as a competitive alternative to large monolithic nuclear power plants. This talk will discuss the development, deployment,and challenges of small modular reactors.
Open to: the general public
Cost: None
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Jonathan Mailoa; Michelle Park
jpmailoa at mit.edu; mpark15 at mit.edu
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MIT News At Noon: Milli-Motien robot from the Center for Bits and Atoms
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:10p–12:50p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Meet Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms, and Ara Knaian, who have developed one of the world's smallest robots. The Milli-Motein robot uses the team's innovative electropermanent wobble stepper motor and can fold itself into complex configurations in a matter of seconds.
MIT News At Noon
Take a break for breaking news! Meet MIT visionaries and learn about their front-page research, and connect with local colleagues before and after the program. Free admission, Fridays at noon, from October 26 - December 7. Presenters will be announced each week following their appearance in MIT News. Presented in collaboration with the MIT News Office.
Web site:http://mit.edu/museum/programs/programdescriptions.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): News Office, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo at mit.edu
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Emerging Technologies and the Future of Energy Production
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:00p–4:15p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Eric Toone, ARPA-E, US Department of Energy
This event is the Hoyt C. Hottel Lectureship organized by the Chemical Engineering Department. The MIT Energy Club is assisting with publicity because many Energy Club members would like to attend.
Dr. Eric Toone is the Principal Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E), responsible for oversight of all of ARPA-E's programs. In addition to his role at ARPA-E, Toone is currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University.
Toone is a scientific founder of two venture-backed companies: Aerie Pharmaceuticals, a research-based ophthalmology company, and Vindica Pharmaceuticals, a nitric oxide delivery company. He has served as a permanent member of the Bioorganic and Natural Products Study Section at the National Institutes of Health, and is currently a member of the NSERC Organic & Inorganic Review panel (Canada). Toone has authored over 100 scientific papers and over 30 patents. He is an associate editor of the journal Biopolymers and the editor in chief of the monograph series Advances in Enzymology. He studied chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Guelph, graduating in 1983. That same year he moved to the University of Toronto to begin graduate studies with Professor J. Bryan Jones. Toone graduated from the University of Toronto in 1988 and moved to Harvard University to continue his studies with Professor George Whitesides.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/seminar.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, Chemical Engineering Department (Note: the MIT Energy Club is not sponsoring this event)
For more information, contact: Melanie Miller
617-253-6500
melmils at mit.edu
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Saturday, December 1
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Artisan's Asylum Winter Open Studios
December 1, 2012
12 noon - 5 pm
10 Tyler Street, Somerville
Artisan’s Asylum is holding its first Winter Open Studios. It’s free, open to the public, and families are welcome. More than twenty makers, crafters, jewelers, engineers and artists will participate. Come tour workshops and studios, observe demonstrations, and purchase unique artwork. Enjoy dragons, robots, collages, and interactive computer-generated music installations. Watch welders and glassworkers first-hand, see jewelry being made on a 3D printer. Artisan’s Asylum is one of the largest collaborative maker/art/hacker spaces in the USA, with robust shop facilities for and classes in a wide range of media including woodworking, metalworking, electronics, robotics, silk-screening and more.
www.artisansasylum.com, presslistatartisansasylum at gmail.com (617) 863-7634
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Monday, December 3
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"The Impact of Tax Credits and Grants on Wind Power Investment"
Monday, December 3, 2012
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at harvard.edu
Lunch will be provided.
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Climate Change as a Driver of Humanitarian Crises and Response
Monday, December 3, 2012
12:30 – 1:45pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, Cabot Intercultural Center, Cabot 702, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Lecture by Peter Walker, Director of the Feinstein International Center and Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security, Tufts University
Hosted by CIERP's Energy, Climate, and Innovation Research Seminar Series
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“Unilateral Initiatives in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict."
Monday, December 3
4-6 p.m.
CGIS Knafel building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262 (The Bowie Vernon Room)
Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Yaakov Katz, military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and the Israel Correspondent for Jane’s Defense Weekly; and Robert Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, chair of the Executive Committee at the Program on Negotiation and director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. Co-sponsored with the Nieman Foundation, the Weatherhead Center and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School.
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Water Lecture Series. "Hormonally Active Pollutants: What Are They, What Can They Do, and How Do We Know They're Out There?"
WHEN Mon., Dec. 3, 2012, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Joan V. Ruderman, Senior Advisor to the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
COST Free
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8600
NOTE The Radcliffe Institute's Water Lectures Series will be relatively informal presentations by Harvard faculty, followed by discussion with attendees, on topics that approach water from multidisciplinary perspectives. The collegial events are intended to present, and potentially to link, faculty interests, in order to learn more about research currently under way and to foster connections across Harvard schools.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012-joan-v-ruderman-water-lecture
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America's Dysfunctional Politics: Where Do We Go (and Where Should We Go) From Here
WHEN Mon., Dec. 3, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Austin Hall, Room 111 West, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
SPEAKER(S) Norman Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute, co-author of the NY Times bestseller, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism"
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO ethics at harvard.edu
LINK http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/news-and-events/lectures-and-events/detail/250
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The Egyptian Revolutions and Defining the New Normals
WHEN Mon., Dec. 3, 2012, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall 113, 25 Harvard Yard
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Center for Middle Eastern Studies; made possible in part with support from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of the Division of Social Science, and the Donald T. Regan Lecture Fund
SPEAKER(S) Jon B. Alterman, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair, Global Security and Geostrategy; director, the Middle East Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE This talk is part of a CMES series on change in the Middle East, "Focus on: Arab Transformation"
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3303
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No Accident: Urban Design and Motor Vehicle Violence
Monday, December 03, 2012
6:00p
MIT, Building 10-485, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Aaron Naparstek: Streetsblog founder and MIT DUSP Visiting Scholar
CDD Forum: The New Urban Interface
If you ever want to kill someone New York or just about any other American city, use a car as your weapon. As long as you are sober, licensed and do not flee the scene of the "accident," it is virtually guaranteed that you will get away with murder. Around the world, 1.3 million people die in road traffic crashes and 20 to 50 million more are injured each year. It is a massive, global health crisis that, for the most part, we ignore. Streetsblog founder and DUSP Visiting Scholar Aaron Naparstek discusses emerging new perspectives on motor vehicle violence and the critical role that urban planners and designers must play in stopping the carnage.
Web site: http://dusp.mit.edu/disciplines/cdd/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): City Design and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Sandra Elliott
617-253-5115
sandrame at mit.edu
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Tuesday, December 4
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Citizen video and networked politics in Southeast Asia
Tuesday, December 4
12:30 pm
Harvard, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/12/lowenthal#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast at 12:30pm ET and archived on our site shortly after
Andrew Lowenthal, EngageMedia
Citizen video in Southeast Asia has exploded in recent times, and has come to play a significant role in national and regional politics. As in other contexts it has documented spectacular events, spearheaded campaigns and uncovered scandals. More broadly citizen media and networked publics are shifting the balance of power both in the media and the political landscape.
Like China and India, ASEAN nations are experiencing rapid growth and the online and citizen media space is only set to grow in media production, audience and importance.
Whilst broadband access in the region is still often constrained to urban areas, citizen video is also being taken up as a political tool from those on the economic and political fringes. Initiatives such as Citizen Journalists Malaysia and EngageMedia are working to develop strategic networks of new citizen video producers.
In this discussion, Andrew Lowenthal, co-founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia, will outline their approach to video4change and their work in the region, in particular looking at West Papua, (a remote region of Indonesia that has been waging an independence campaign for more than 40 years), the development of regional, cross-border and multilingual video networks, and the effect and possibility of the internet and online media to generate new post-national political configurations and collaborations.
About Andrew
Andrew Lowenthal is Co-Founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific human rights and environmental video project begun in 2005. EngageMedia builds the capacity of video activists and campaigners to strategically use video and online technologies by building open source technologies, creating networks and conducting trainings.
EngageMedia also undertakes a number of research initiatives that look at the uses and effects of video as a social change tool. Current research partners with the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the impact of 'video4change', another, with the University of Western Sydney, explores the citizen translator in the networked public sphere.
Andrew has been working in the field of media and technology activism since 1998. His work traverses the fields of new media and video production, NGO management, network building, research, media and technology activism, software development, and project and event management.
Andrew was active in the Indymedia network from 2000-2006. From 2006-08 he worked with the UK based Tactical Technology Collective as their participatory media project lead, editing the NGO-in-a-box series of free software packages and the more recent Message-in-a-box.
A past life as a video maker saw his works screen at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the National Gallery of Indonesia.
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The Promise of Future Business
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650
Speaker: Dan Barron (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Seminar in Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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Joint w/International - On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E52-244, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Macroeconomics Seminar
For more information, contact: Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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Boston South Asia Center presents Caste, Class and Sexual Violence in India
Panel discussion on the Rapes of Dalit women in Haryana
Wed December 4 2012
MIT Room 4-237, 77 Mass Avenue, Cambridge MA
Rama Srinivasan, Brown University
Padma Balasubramanian, Brigham and Women's Hospital (ID purposes only)
Kritika Chandrasekhar, South Asia Center
Rape has been used as a way of punishment/revenge on Dalit women for a long time but the recent incidents of the heinous crime in the state of Haryana (India), with close to 19 rapes reported in the month of September alone, makes it imperative to seek answers and actions. This panel intends to look for answers behind this increased victimization of women, especially Dalit women, in Haryana and will endeavor to formulate some practical responses.
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Public Hearing on NSTAR Three Year Energy Conservation Plans
December 5
2 pm
MA Department of Public Utilities, One South Station, Fifth Floor, Boston
NSTAR's proposed plan can be read at http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/doer/energy-efficiency/statewide-electric-and-gas-three-year-plan.pdf
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Green Entrepreneur Small Business Network
December 8, 2012
10:30 AM – 12:30
Roslindale Library, 4246 Washington Street, Roslindale
Network for entrepreneurs and small business people. Monthly workshops/panels of small business experts provide information to help you improve your business/launch your business idea and networking time with other small business people. FREE!
December topic = Networking; Greening your business and Social Media Marketing with
Myrna Greenfield – Good Egg Marketing;
Sequoia Varona – RisingStarz Enterprises;
Pamela St. Aimee – Green Service Partner;
Jojo Gutfarb – Goodwin PR & more!
RSVP and get on our list at otoney at comcast.net or Owen Toney at 617-427-6293.
Sponsored by the Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc. and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc.
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Breadlines, Sweet Charity and Beyond
Dec 13, 2012
12:00 pm
webinar
Register at https://cfccanada.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=cfccanada
a conversation with Jan Poppendieck and Nick Saul
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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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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/
Cambridge Civic Journal http://www.rwinters.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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