[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - January 13, 2013

Sun Jan 13 15:14:49 PST 2013

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Reversing Global Warming While Meeting Human Needs
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/12/1178473/-Reversing-Global-Warming-while-Meeting-Human-Needs

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Monday, January 14
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10:30am - 12pm  Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crises
12pm  “Nibbling at the Edges: Why Current Climate Action by Cities Will Not Save Them and What May be Done About That”
12pm - 1pm  The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Arctic
5:30pm  Howard Gardner Three Part Lecture Series: Multiple Intelligences: The Theory, Its Applications
7pm  The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

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Tuesday, January 15
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10am  Planning Exercise: Managing climate change-related uncertainty in infrastructure planning
12:30pm  Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
5:30pm  Howard Gardner: Educating for Understanding within and across the Disciplines
5:30pm  The Tipping Point: Elevating Women for Global Security
6pm  Boston Composts! A Series of Boston Gardeners Council Community Forums
6pm - 7:30pm  Getting Plugged In To the Boston Tech Community – A Hitchhiker’s Guide
7pm  GreenPort Forum:  Can New England Feed Itself?

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Wednesday, January 16
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1:30pm  "Energy Critical Elements"
4pm  Emerging Issues in K-12 Science, Math, Engineering Education
4:30pm  "The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"
6pm  Think Different: Boston Innovators & Technologists Changing Education
6-9pm  The New Normal - Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather, Are You Ready?
7pm  Phyllis Bennis: The U.S. & Middle East Wars: Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya?
7:30pm  Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday

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Thursday, January 17
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12pm  FAS Monthly Environmental Movie/Brown Bag Lunch Series
2-6pm  When the Levees Broke, by Spike Lee
4:15pm  "Exciton fission, quantum coherence, and solar energy conversion beyond the limit"
5-9pm  Community-university partnerships in Boston: The experience of the MIT GreenHouse Studio Symposium
5:30pm  Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
6:30-9-pm  Jan 2013 Boston New Tech Meetup #bnt25
7pm  Scott Kirsner: Covering a beat where social media & multimedia collide
7pm  Joel Salatin in Concord - defense of local food systems

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Friday, January 18
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12pm  The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Earth's Surface
6pm  Food for Free Benefit Winter Concert with Vance Gilbert

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Saturday, January 19
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9am  Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set
10am  CrisisCamp Boston
1pm  2nd Annual Citywide Seed Swap

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Sunday, January 20
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10am  CrisisCamp Boston

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Monday, January 21
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Martin Luther King Junior Day - be peace

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Tuesday, January 22
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10:30am  Financial Crises and Amplification Mechanisms
11am  Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments
12:30pm  Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China
7pm-10pm  Green tech Entrepreneur Forum & Brainstorming
7pm-10pm  9/11 Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak

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Monday, January 14
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Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crises
Monday, January 14, 2013
10:30a–12:00p
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Christopher Foote (MIT) & Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Boston)

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact:  Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu 

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“Nibbling at the Edges: Why Current Climate Action by Cities Will Not Save Them and What May be Done About That”
Monday, January 14, 2013
12pm
Northeastern University, 450 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston

Matthias Ruth
Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Social Sciences and Humanities and College of Engineering

Contact Northeastern Humanities nuhumanities at neu.edu
617-373-4140 

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The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Arctic
Monday, January 14, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Rachel Chang, Harvard University

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact:  Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127

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Howard Gardner Three Part Lecture Series: Multiple Intelligences: The Theory, Its Applications
WHEN  Mon., Jan. 14, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT	Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM	Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME  Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL  rhiannon_roberts at gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT	Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
RSVP REQUIRED	No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
NOTE  In the first of three lectures being presented this week, Gardner describes the background that led to his development, thirty years ago, of the theory of multiple intelligences. He outlines the major claims of the theory, the ways that it has evolved over the years, the principal misunderstandings, and the applications that he most admires.

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The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
Monday, January 14, 2013
7:00 PM
Clover Food Lab, 7 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/94759502/

Eating, drinking, science, art, and Wikipedia. Discussion of future speakers, Wikiversity, regional Wikipedia Ambassador efforts, and collabs with Boston-area libraries and museums.

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Tuesday, January 15
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Planning Exercise: Managing climate change-related uncertainty in infrastructure planning
Jan/15 Tue	
10:00AM-01:00PM	

Todd Schenk, PhD candidate, Environmental Policy and Planning
Interested in planning in the face of the risks and uncertainties posed by climate change? Want to practice your negotiation skills in a simulated multi-stakeholder environment? Interested in infrastructure planning?

I am looking for people to participate in a role-play simulation exercise at MIT (with lunch provided). 
As part of my dissertation work, I will be using this short exercise exploring the best ways of handling the uncertainties involved in managing climate change risks on urban waterfront infrastructure with decision-makers and other stakeholders in various locations (Rotterdam, Singapore and New York). I would like to pilot it here first. I hope that this exercise will be beneficial for all involved, providing an opportunity to think about the management of uncertainty in decision-making, along with a chance to practice negotiation skills. I also expect it to be fun.

The location is to be determined, but will be somewhere here at MIT. Please RSVP directly to me if you are willing and able to attend, or if you have any questions.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Todd Schenk, (617) 230-8480, tschenk at mit.edu

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Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
January 15
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at  rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.

Jon Penney, Berkman Center Fellow
With Internet censorship on the rise around the world, organizations and researchers have developed and distributed a variety of tools to assist Internet users to both monitor and circumvent such censorship. This talk will examine more closely some of the international law and politics of such censorship resistance activities through three case studies involving past global communications censorship and information conflicts— telegraph cable cutting and suppression, high frequency radio jamming, and direct broadcast satellite blocking— and the world community’s response to these conflicts.  In addition to illustrating some of the legal, political, and security concerns that have animated historical instances of global communications censorship, the talk will aim to extrapolate lessons and insights for Internet censorship (and its resistance) today, such as the legality of censorship and its circumvention, the effectiveness of monitoring efforts, and the role of international institutions in disrupting (or facilitating) communications.

About Jon
Jon is a lawyer, Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab / Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and a doctoral student in information communication sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where his interdisciplinary research explores regulatory chilling effects online. 

In 2011, he was a Google Policy Fellow at the Citizen Lab-- where he helped lead the ONI Transparency Project while contributing to projects like the Information Warfare Monitor-- and, at Oxford, was Project Coordinator for the Privacy Value Networks Project, a large scale EPSRC funded research project on data privacy. A native Nova Scotian and graduate of Dalhousie University, he studied at Columbia Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and Oxford as a Mackenzie King Scholar, where he was Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He has also worked as a federal attorney, policy advisor, and taught law at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

His research interests include constitutional/human rights law, intellectual property, and digital media policy & culture, particularly where these areas intersect with censorship, privacy, and security.

Follow Jon on Twitter @jon_penney

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Howard Gardner: Educating for Understanding within and across the Disciplines
WHEN  Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT	Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM	Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME  Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL  rhiannon_roberts at gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT	Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
RSVP REQUIRED  No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
NOTE  In the second lecture, Gardner describes the kind of education that he most values: an education that is grounded in the disciplines and that leads to deep understanding. He also discusses the nature, power, and perils of interdisciplinary education. In conclusion, he touches on the theme of his most recent book Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, in which he rethinks a “disciplinary education” in the digital age.

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The Tipping Point: Elevating Women for Global Security
WHEN  Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  Six women leaders speak about their experiences influencing national policies to prevent and end violent conflict.
Ambassador Swanee Hunt will moderate a discussion with participants from Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, Liberia, Libya and Syria.
COST  Free and open to the public
LINK	http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/tipping-point-elevating-women-global-security

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Boston Composts! A Series of Boston Gardeners Council Community Forums
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
6:00 PM To 8:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/events/99133672/

A light dinner will be provided.
RSVP Required to [masked]
This Boston Gardeners Council event will be dedicated to learning about compost provided through the City of Boston and increasing awareness and knowledge of compost as one of many approaches to soil improvement in our gardens. Susan Cascino, Director of Recycling from the Boston Department of Public Works, who oversees yard waste collection and city composting, will present on the City’s compost plans for 2013. BNAN Garden Educator, Erika Rumbley, will lead an interactive workshop on compost and soil building. Come ready with your suggestions and questions.

This is the first of a three-part series of community forums in January - March 2013. Stay tuned for date and location for the next two workshops in this important compost series.

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Getting Plugged In To the Boston Tech Community – A Hitchhiker’s Guide
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Intelligent.ly 500 Harrison Avenue, FL 3R Boston
RSVP at http://boston-startup-guide.eventbrite.com
Cost:  $5.00

Boston is a great place to start and build a company.  There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career.

However, Boston is also transient town, especially given the large student population that refreshes each year. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem.  This class is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston.

You'll Learn:
How to become a native of the Boston tech ecosystem 
How to prioritize time across large numbers of events and startup oriented services

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GreenPort Forum:  Can New England Feed Itself?
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
7 PM
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, corner of Magazine St and Putnam Avenue, Cambridge

New England presents a tremendous opportunity to create a healthy, resilient, sustainable food system. By growing more food locally we can improve our health, bolster our economy, protect our environment, and empower our citizens.  However, scaling up local and regional agriculture is a great challenge to achieve.  New England’s population is large, and much of our landscape—while beautiful—is rough and rocky, and best left in forest.  What kind and what degree of regional food production make sense here, given our soils, marine resources, climate, history, and environmental attitudes?  How much quality cropland and pasture land is potentially available?  How do we connect all our citizens with good, healthy food?  Our vision explores connections between production and consumption; farming, fishing, and eating. Hannah Ramer joins us to discuss these critical issues.  
Hannah Ramer studied the Environment and Sustainable Development at Brandeis University. She has apprenticed on farms in Minnesota, New York, and Massachusetts. She has been conducting research for the New England Food System Vision since January 2010. She also works for Certified Naturally Grown, a grassroots alternative to certified organic.

GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Morr-Wineman at steven.wineman at gmail.com

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Wednesday, January 16
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"Energy Critical Elements"
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
1:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Robert Jaffe - Morningstar Professor of Science, Department of Physics
I will then turn to our recent report on "Energy Critical Elements: Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies", describing rare elements' roles in emerging technologies, constraints on availability, and government actions to avoid disruptive shortages. 

Web site: http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9289af8f3b3c7818013b3d15ee340001.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact:  Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
DENISEW at MIT.EDU 

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Emerging Issues in K-12 Science, Math, Engineering Education
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 32-124, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speakers: Thomas Kochan, Sloan School of Management; Ishara Mills-Henry, Framingham State University and TERC; Kathleen Vandiver, MIT; Richard Stutman, Boston Teachers Union; Monty Neill, National Center for Fair & Open Testing

A panel discussion on engaging and supporting K-12 teachers and students in science, math and engineering education.

Web site: http://scienceoftheeye.org/upcoming-events/emerging-issues-in-k-12-science-math-engineering-education/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Science of the Eye: Bringing Vision into the Classroom, MIT School of Science, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
For more information, contact:  Lisa Guisbond
617-715-4329
guisbond at mit.edu 

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"The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 
4:30pm-6pm
MIT Building 7-338, Stellar Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Priyanka Borpujari
Priyanka Borpujari will discuss her featured photography exhibit “The Human Cost of India’s Race for Development” displayed in Rotch Library's (7-228) exhibition space.
While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India asuperpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers - even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the 'hidden civil war in India', Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, reports and photographs from the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.

A reception and tour of the exhibit  will follow the discussion.

Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, ROCHOA at MIT.EDU

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Think Different: Boston Innovators & Technologists Changing Education
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
6:00 PM To 9:00 PM
Boundless Learning, Inc., 164 Kneeland Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/emerging-business-technology/events/92331352/

In this event, we will hear from innovators using technology to change how we learn, research, and get educated.

Speakers
Aaron White / CTO of Boundless Learning
Boundless helps students learn better by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, free educational content, as well as the tools they need to succeed.

Facundo Chamut / CTO of Testive
Testive builds products that improve testing and test preparation.

 We are looking for speakers. If you have a product you'd like to show please contact Dan (dadams at cantinaconsulting dot com).

 About EBT: This meetup group provides engineers, practitioners and managers the context needed to evaluate and adopt rapidly evolving business technologies. Leave with an understanding of what the technology is, why it’s used, when to use it, and next steps to take. We’ll review use cases, processes, tools, and practices in a mini-conference format through short presentations, hands-on tutorials, Q&A and code walkthroughs.

Event starts at 6 PM (talks at 7 PM) and goes until 9 PM
Doors open at 6 PM for social time
Talks start promptly at 7 PM for 1 hour or so
Wrap-up until 9 PM
Organizer: Dan Adams, Senior Consultant / Cantina Consulting (@danadams)

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The New Normal - Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather, Are You Ready?
January 16, 2013
6:00 – 7:00 pm Networking Reception and hors d’oeuvres
7:00 – 8:30 pm Panel Presentation
8:30 – 9:00 pm Networking 
The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Join us to hear from a panel of faculty experts as they discuss hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that could potentially affect the northeast. Learn about the impact this extreme weather poses to our cities and to you and your family.

Moderator: Lance Collins, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
Panelists Include:
Larry Brown PhD '76, Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics and Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Linda Nozick, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wysocki MS '89, Sr. Lecturer in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Hors d'oeuvres will be served
Hosted Bar

Editorial Comment:  This is a Cornell University Alumni gathering and costs $35 sent to me by Madeline McDowell (madidelin at gmail.com) who will register interested people as guests.  Looks like an interesting and pertinent discussion.  At the most recent Restructuring Roundtable, there seemed to be agreement that what is a 100 year storm now will be an annual event by the end of this century.

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Phyllis Bennis: The U.S. & Middle East Wars: Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya?
Public Forum & Reception
January 16
Public Forum $10, - 7 p.m. Reception $50 - 6 p.m. (RSVP JGerson at afsc.org)
Washburn Hall, Episcopal Divinity School, Harvard Square - 99 Brattle St., Cambridge

American Friends Service Committee
Phyllis Bennis serves as a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute and has long been a leading figure in the U.S. peace movement and serves on the steering committees of the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. Her books include UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT and CHALLENGING EMPIRE: HOW PEOPLE, GOVERNMENTS AND THE UN DEFY U.S. POWER. She is a frequent contributor to al Jazeera TV, Democracy Now, Grit TV, BBC and more, and currently and the United for Peace & Justice anti-war coalition. She is co-author of the forthcoming book ENDING THE US WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: A PRIMER.

For additional information write Jgerson at afsc.org or phone 617-661-6130

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Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday
WHEN  Wed., Jan. 16, 2013, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Mass Avenue
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S)  Jared Diamond
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	director at cambridgeforum.org, 617-495-2727
NOTE  Diamond discusses his latest book ,"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" asking what we can still learn from traditional societies.
LINK	www.cambridgeforum.org

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Thursday, January 17
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FAS Monthly Environmental Movie/Brown Bag Lunch Series
WHEN  Thu., Jan. 17, 2013, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Mallinckrodt Faculty Room, 102, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Film, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	FAS Green Program
CONTACT INFO	gosia_sklodowska at harvard.edu
NOTE  Join us every month to watch some of the most inspiring TED talks on different environmental topics, such as energy, waste, water or health.
LINK	http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2012-10-18/fas-monthly-environmental-moviesbrown-bag-lunch-series

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When the Levees Broke, by Spike Lee
Jan/17 Thu	
02:00PM-06:00PM	
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 (rear) Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Subtitled "A Requiem in Four Acts," Spike Lee's heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction manages to be both intimate and epic.  Originally aired as a four-part HBO miniseries, the film tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal--yet, somehow, amidst the ruins, the people of New Orleans are finding new hope and strength as the city rises from the ashes.

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"Exciton fission, quantum coherence, and solar energy conversion beyond the limit"
Thu, January 17
4:15pm – 5:30pm
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, 02138

Professor Xiaoyang Zhu, Columbia University
R.B. Woodward Lectures in the Chemical Sciences, Physical Chemistry Seminar

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Community-university partnerships in Boston: The experience of the MIT GreenHouse Studio Symposium
Jan/17 Thu	
05:00PM-09:00PM	
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Sign-up by 01/14

Patricia Molina Costa
Strategies for solving urban planning problems have become increasingly global in nature, reflecting the similarity in challenges cities face in a globalized economy and a changing physical climate. In order to share knowledge across boundaries, planning institutions increasingly seek to understand how similar problems are being addressed from different cultural perspectives, methodologies, and legal regulations. This approach formed the basis for the Parallel Workshop for Sustainable & Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization held in the spring of 2012 by the MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio (DUyOT) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). The workshop focused on contemporary urban challenges from two very different perspectives and formulated proposals for two different neighborhoods—Ciudad de los Angeles in Madrid, and Fields Corner in Boston— working closely with community-based organizations. On the occasion of the exhibition, a half-day symposium will be held to discuss the experience of community-university partnerships between MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and community organizations from the Boston area.
5:00-6:15pm: A Plan for Sustainability in Fields Corner: the GreenHouse Studio collaboration with VietAID
6:15-6:30pm: Break
6:30-8:00pm: Community-university partnerships in the Boston area: reflections from diverse experiences
8:00-9:00pm: Exhibition opening
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Patricia Molina Costa, pmolina at mit.edu

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Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
WHEN  Thu., Jan. 17, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
TYPE OF EVENT	Lecture
BUILDING/ROOM	  Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
CONTACT NAME  Rhiannon Roberts
CONTACT EMAIL  rhiannon_roberts at gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT	Academic Affairs
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
RSVP REQUIRED	 No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
NOTE  In the third lecture—wearing the “hat” of the policy maker, rather than that of the psychologist—Gardner describes the five kinds of minds most necessary for surviving and thriving in the 21st century: Three of these minds are cognitive—disciplined, synthesizing, creating. Two of these minds entail human relations—respectful and ethical. As in the second lecture, Gardner discusses how these minds can be nurtured in a digital era.

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Jan 2013 Boston New Tech Meetup #bnt25
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30 PM To 9:00 PM
Hult International Business School, 1 Education Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/97820432/

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Scott Kirsner: Covering a beat where social media & multimedia collide
Thursday, January 17, 2013
7:00 PM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/97719122/

What does it mean to cover a topic area using new tools and technologies, as the relationship with sources and readers is changing? Scott will share some of his experiences and ask you for your help brainstorming about what's next.

Scott has been thinking digital thoughts since he was part of the team that launched Boston.com in 1995. He writes the popular Innovation Economy blogfor Boston.com and has been writing a column for the Boston Globe since 2000.

His work has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Variety. Scott is also the author of the books "Fans, Friends & Followers" and "Inventing the Movies," was the editor of "The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England," and was a contributor to "The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston."

Scott also helps organize several local events on entrepreneurship, including the Nantucket Conference and Future Forward.

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Joel Salatin in Concord - defense of local food systems
Thurs, Jan. 17 
7PM.  
Fenn School, 516 Monument Street, Concord
RSVP at 978-369-9763 ext. 216.
SPACE IS LIMITED - BE SURE TO GET A RESERVATION.

The Museum welcomes Joel Salatin, a full-time farmer at Polyface, a multi-generational, "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. Author of Folks, This Ain't Normal : A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World(on the Concord Reads booklist), Salatin speaks in defense of small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. His humorous and conviction-based speeches are akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations.  Book signing to follow lecture. 

The talk is sponsored by the Concord Museum.   You may have seen Joel in "Food, Inc." explaining his method of farming.

Event Contact Info Concord Museum
Email:  cm1 at concordmuseum.org 
Phone: 978-369-9763 ext. 216 

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Friday, January 18
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The Atmosphere as an Intersection With the Earth's Surface
Friday, January 18, 2013
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Aldona Wiacek, St. Mary's University
The IAP Lecture Series theme this year is "The Atmosphere as an Intersection" This the third of four talks will be by Dr. Aldona Wiacek, Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact:  Jacqui Taylor
617-253-2127

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Food for Free Benefit Winter Concert with Vance Gilbert
Friday, January 18, 2012 
6 p.m.
Christian Life Center St. Paul AME Church, 85 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge
TICKETS: $25 Buy tickets at http://www.foodforfree.org/ticket-sales

Warm up with some local butternut soup and fantastic music all while supporting two local organizations committed to getting fresh healthy food to those in need…
Join Food For Free for a cozy winter evening of music, laughter, and of course, food! “With the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil, and the guitar playing of a god” (Fort Worth Star Telegram), Vance Gilbert has performed with artists as varied as Arlo Guthrie, Anita Baker, Shawn Colvin, and the late George Carlin, and is known for his thoughtful lyrics, clever melodies, and comedic performances.

Proceeds from the Winter Concert will support Food For Free and St. Paul AME Food Pantry, one of Food For Free’s recipient agencies.

Butternuts generously donated by Plato’sHarvest Organic Farm and soup prepared with love and care by JJ Gonson and Cuisine en Locale

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Saturday, January 19
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Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set
Hacks/Hackers Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
9:00 AM
Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
RSVP at http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/events/98369922/

NOTE: This is *proposed only*. If there's a good turnout, we'll schedule.

AdvancedNLFStats has released every play in the NFL since 2002. What can that tell us about Belichick's 3rd down mentality? Help find out at a hackathon focused on NFL data: We'll work on visualizations, interactives, and any other creative ideas you come up with.

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CrisisCamp Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
10:00 AM - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EST)
MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media space, Wiesner Building, E15, Room 344, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

CrisisCamp brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.

Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.

CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.
In response to Hurricane Sandy a group of netizens began to congregate online via etherpads, Google Docs, and IRC calling themselves Hurricane Hackers. In trying to find a fit between a predominant set of technological skills and Sandy needs, HurricaneHackers converged with SandyCrisisCamps and rebooted CrisisCamp Boston in conjunction with a globally coordinated hackathon held November 3rd.

It quickly became clear that effective crisis response is built upon preexisting disaster preparedness efforts which is why we are organizing a series of 2013 CrisisCamp Boston hackathons!

Come design, code, and learn with other people at the MIT Media Lab. Even if you aren't a software developer there will be plenty to do including sharing experiences and ideas, documenting activity, running social media communications, taking and editing video, organizing future events, etc!
This event is free and open to the public.

Come prepared:
Make sure your programs are up to date.
Learn how github works.
Review projects and lessons learned from the last CrisisCamp Boston.
Check out the CrisisCamp Boston page on the CrisisCommons wiki for more information.

There will also be local Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on hand to discuss how technology can be used (and not) in crisis situations.
About CrisisCommons - http://crisiscommons.org/

CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development.

CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis.

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2nd Annual Citywide Seed Swap
Saturday, January 19, 2013
1:00 PM To 3:00 PM
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/events/98791

Come gather with other gardeners from around the city to swap seeds and share stories and wisdom about growing your favorite vegetables and flowers. Bring your favorite heirloom, your most unique find or all time dependable seeds and pour over seed catalogs. Guidance on spring garden planning, seed saving and seed storage will be provided by Boston Natural Areas Network staff. We will even have some of our own free seeds on hand.

Event is free and open to the public. Drop by anytime between 1:00 and 3:00pm.

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Sunday, January 20
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CrisisCamp Boston
Saturday, January 19, 2013
10:00 AM - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EST)
MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media space, Wiesner Building, E15, Room 344, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge