[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - October 20, 2013
George Mokray
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Sun Oct 20 11:41:47 PDT 2013
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, October 21
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Somerville Food Week
12pm Tropical Cyclone - Ocean interactions: Implications at the climate scale
12pm "Conversation on Green Energy"
1pm Humanity Explored: Art as Science: The Role of Visual Data in Research
2:30pm Revenge Porn and the Business of Internet Humiliation
4pm How Air Pollution Affects Climate, and What We Can Do About It
4pm Winning From Within: A Discussion with Erica Fox
5pm "Europe's Clean Energy Transition 2003-2013: An Irish Perspective"
5:30pm A Critique of Shareholder Value Maximization
6pm Territorial Form/ Forms of Territory
6:30pm Science by the Pint - Your Genome and Your Medical Future
7pm "Elasticity"
7pm Askwith Forum: The App Generation
7pm ACT Lecture | Lovett/Codagnone: Re-adapting Cinematic Traces
7:30pm The mechanism of motivation
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Tuesday, October 22
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Somerville Food Week
12pm "Driving the Conversation—online and on television—in a changing media landscape."
12:30pm The New Nollywood
3pm New Frontiers in Open Access Publishing
4pm Solid State Lighting: Present Status and Challenges Ahead
4pm "Hydrogen and Nitrogen in Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres"
4:15pm When Everything Changed
4:30pm Global Technological Controversies: The Case of Genetically-Modified Crops
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Wednesday, October 23
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Somerville Food Week
MIT Materials Day
12pm “Tradespace Modeling and Exploration for Large Desalination Projects”
1pm Babson Food Days
4pm Differential Privacy in Estimation and Control
4pm "Scarcity: What it means to have too little"
4:10pm “The Lightbulb Paradox: Using Behavioral Economics for Policy Evaluation”
5pm Tree Talk and Cider Tasting: The Roxbury Russet, America's oldest apple, and the history of the orchards of Massachusetts
6:30pm Connected Food: Tracing Boston's Foodways from Production to Consumption
7pm Cancer in America: From Lab to Life
7pm Fracking: Facts, Risks, and Benefits
7pm Food Inc
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Thursday, October 24
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Somerville Food Week
Babson Food Days
12pm Samba as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brazilian History and Literature
12:30pm Energizing Sustainable Cities: Findings from the Global Energy Assessment
2pm Moving Towards Net Zero
4pm Evaluating Mobile Smartphone Security: The First Five Years
4pm Christina Xu: Exploring Race and Community in the Digital World Workshop Series
4:15pm The Shape of Data
5pm "Potential Water Resource Impacts from Shale Energy Development"
5:30pm Starr Forum: "Japan's Continuing Nuclear Nightmare"
5:30pm Makin' it in Massachusetts
6pm Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
6pm Books as Social Media
6:30pm Scholars Rescue
6:30pm "Geometry, Structure and Architecture"
7pm Urban Films: Good Fortune (2010)
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Friday, October 25
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The Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
Sensing Wonder, Serious Play: Ecology and Children’s Literature
5:30pm "Control"
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Saturday, October 26
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The Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
HBS Energy Symposium 2013: Responsibly Creating Value in Today's Global Energy Environment
11am BU Food Day
11am Roxbury Community College Food Day
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Sunday, October 27
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The Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
10am Roxbury Community College Food Day
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Monday, October 28
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12pm "The U.S. Oil Boom and International Politics: Easy Answers and Difficult Questions"
12:15pm What We Can Learn from the Failure of Climate Policy
12:30pm "Two Degrees: Climate Change and Our Built Environment"
3:30pm Exploiting communications, exploiting the law: Data mining, Total Information Awareness, and the NSA
7pm "Emulsions: Concepts of Stabilizing Oil & Water"
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Tuesday, October 29
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12pm "Terrestrial Climate-Carbon Cycle Extremes: Quantification, Association with Climate, and Implications"
12pm Managing Data Protection between the US and Europe: Balancing Freedom and Security
12:30pm The Innovation Intermission
12:30pm Seeing the Tohoku Earthquake Before It Happened
4pm Nanotechnology from Laboratory to Space
6pm Boston Quantified Self Show &Tell #BQS14
6:30pm Techtoberfest: A Wearable Technology Mixer
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Event Details
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Monday, October 21
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Somerville Food Week
Schedule at http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/2013%20Somerville%20Food%20Week%20Calendar.pdf
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Tropical Cyclone - Ocean interactions: Implications at the climate scale
October 21, 2013
12pm-1pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Emmanuel Vincent (MIT)
Abstract: Strong winds associated with Tropical Cyclones (TCs) trigger intense mixing in the upper ocean stirring warm surface water with cold water from the thermocline. This results in: (i) a surface cooling that feeds back negatively on TCs intensity and (ii) a sub-surface warming.
Recent studies argued that heat injected in the sub-surface by TCs alter climate via a modification of the ocean Meridional Heat transport (MHT). We revisit this hypothesis using a global ocean model forced by high-resolution TC wind forcing representative of the last 30 years. We find that MHT is hardly affected by TCs. However, TC processes significantly alter the ocean by 3d advection, surface fluxes that cool tropical oceanic basins on a large scale and heat injection that mostly re-emerges to the surface at the end of the TC season, as the mixed layer deepens in fall/winter. Thus, TCs are found to decrease the seasonal amplitude of SST variations (~10%) in tropical basins (by cooling in summer and warming in winter) with potential consequences in the coupled system.
Regarding point (i), I will show that TC-induced surface cooling is largely controlled by upper-ocean stratification. We investigated the possibility that inter-annual variability of upper-ocean stratification (e.g. El Niño) can influence cyclonic activity by controlling the cooling feedback. We simulated tens of thousands of axi-symmetric TC models coupled to varied ocean conditions representative of inter-annual variability in all oceanic basins. We find that the integrated power dissipated by TCs is modulated by upper-ocean stratification variability (~20% difference between 'favorable' and 'unfavorable' years) with the strongest TCs showing the greatest sensitivity to upper-ocean stratification (~40% difference in category-5 TCs between 'favorable' and 'unfavorable' years).
Speaker's website: http://www.normalesup.org/~emvincent/
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC)
For more information, contact:
mass at mit.edu
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"Conversation on Green Energy"
Monday, October 21, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Eamon Ryan, Party Leader, Irish Green Party; Former Minister for Energy and Communications, Irish Government and Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu
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Humanity Explored: Art as Science: The Role of Visual Data in Research
WHEN Mon., Oct. 21, 2013, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Rubenstein R-219 Carr Conference, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Brittany Card, data analysis manager, Signal Program for Human Security and Technology, HHI; Will Cragin, researcher, Women in War Program, HHI; Beth Maclin, research coordinator, Women in War Program, HHI; Vincenzo Bollettino, moderator, HHI executive director
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE This brownbag discussion will look at different ways humanitarian researchers are incorporating visual data within their studies, specifically satellite imagery, conceptual mapping and photography. This event is hosted by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and part of the HUMANITY EXPLORED series.
HUMANITY EXPLORED is a month-long series of events that examines the role of art, design and visual storytelling in the fight for human rights in some of the world’s more unstable and challenging environments. The series pairs multi-media exhibits provided by the ART WORKS Projects for Human Rights with weekly panel discussions, lectures, and brownbag events hosted by centers from around Harvard University.
LINK http://hhi.harvard.edu/events/upcoming-events
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Revenge Porn and the Business of Internet Humiliation
WHEN Mon., Oct. 21, 2013, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Humanities, Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Data Privacy Lab's Technology in Government and Topics in Privacy series
SPEAKER(S) Adam Tanner, fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University, author of forthcoming book on the business of personal data, and Forbes columnist; Holly Jacobs, founder of End Revenge Porn and victim seeking to criminalize revenge porn
COST Free and open to the public
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How Air Pollution Affects Climate, and What We Can Do About It
Monday, October 21, 2013
4:00 p.m
Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Dr. Drew Shindell, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The 13th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
5:00 p.m. Community Reception
Ida B. Green Lounge, Building 54, Room 923
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For additional information, please contact Jen DiNisco at 617.253.2127 or jdinisco at mit.edu
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Winning From Within: A Discussion with Erica Fox
WHEN Mon., Oct. 21, 2013, 4 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Pound Hall 101, 1563 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Program on Negotiation
SPEAKER(S) Erica Fox
NOTE In her book “Winning From Within,” Fox builds on the work of her mentors and colleagues (William Ury, Bruce Patton, Doug Stone, Sheila Heen) and explores what to do when you are the problem. With advice relevant to every conversation that matters, personally and professionally, “Winning From Within” shares anecdotes, business examples and public exemplars that help readers to better understand where they get stuck and how they can achieve greater results.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/winning-from-within-a-discussion-with-erica-fox/
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"Europe's Clean Energy Transition 2003-2013: An Irish Perspective"
Monday, October 21, 2013
5:00pm
Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Lab B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Eamon Ryan, Party Leader, Irish Green Party; Former Minister for Energy and Communications, Irish Government,
Eamon Ryan was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2002. Prior to his appointment as the Party Leader of the Irish Green Party, he was the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. He was also formerly the Green Party spokesperson for Transport and Enterprise, Trade and Employment and opposition convenor on the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Communication, Marine and Natural Resources.
Before he was elected to the Dáil he set up and ran two businesses, Irish Cycling Safaris and Belfield Bike shop. He was an active member and chairman of the Dublin Cycling Campaign, and from 1995 to 2002 he served on the Advisory Committee of the Dublin Transport Office.
Eamon is married to the writer Victoria White and they have four young children.
Future of Energy
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew at fas.harvard.edu
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A Critique of Shareholder Value Maximization
Monday, October 21, 2013
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E19-758, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jean-Charles Rochet (Zurich)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Applied Theory Workshop (Joint MIT/Harvard)
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
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Territorial Form/ Forms of Territory
Monday, October 21, 2013
6:00p–7:15p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Neeraj Bhatia
This lecture will examine the concept of pluralism in defining new forms of urban territories.
CAU Fall Lecture Series
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/lecture/territorial-form-forms-territory
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Center for Advanced Urbanism
For more information, contact:
Prudence Robinson
617-324-7045
pru at mit.edu
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Science by the Pint - Your Genome and Your Medical Future
Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30 PM
The Burren, Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
October is here, and it's a great time of year for a pint of Oktoberfest beer - and with scientists yet! How nerdy can you get? Join us for this month's Science by the Pint, as Robert Green and colleagues present Your Genome and Your Medical Future: What do you want to know? Dr. Green is a physician-scientist who directs the Genomes2People research program (genomes2people.org) in translational genomics and health outcomes in the Division of Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He leads the MedSeq Project, the first NIH-funded research study to explore the use of whole genome sequencing of healthy and ill patients in the clinical practice of medicine.
For those who've never been, Science by the Pint is an event sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format. The event goes like this:
The main speaker gives a short 5-10 minute talk (not a full length lecture) about their research, then answers general questions from the audience.
The team of colleagues comes around to individual tables and spends one-on-one time answering questions over food and refreshments.
Lots of nerdy fun is had by all.
Things officially start at 7:00, but arriving by 6:30 allows fellow nerds to find each other and sit together, order food and drinks, and be ready once things get going.
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"Elasticity"
WHEN Mon., Oct. 21, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Enric Rovira and Ruben Alvarez, master chocolatiers
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE The Science & Cooking lecture series runs weekly through the end of the fall semester. A full schedule, including the lecture topics, is available athttp://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a Faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit seas.harvard.edu….
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Askwith Forum: The App Generation
WHEN Mon., Oct. 21, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events
NOTE Speakers:
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, HGSE; and adjunct professor of psychology, Harvard University
Katie Davis, Ed.M.’02, Ed.M.’09, Ed.D.’11 assistant professor, Information School, University of Washington
Some might say the current generation of youth is deeply — perhaps totally — engrossed with digital media. Calling today’s young people, “The App Generation,” Professor Howard Gardner and University of Washington Assistant Professor Katie Davis will discuss what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled,” and how this generation’s life differs from the one before the digital era — concepts they explore in their forthcoming book, The App Generation.
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ACT Lecture | Lovett/Codagnone: Re-adapting Cinematic Traces
Monday, October 21, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Lovett and Alessandro Codagnone
As artistic practices broaden to embrace a variety of new media and expansive models such as cinema, theater, and music--practices that interrogate notions of authorship--the duo Lovett/Codagnone favor forms of cooperation as their source of inspiration. Mapping a work methodology and introducing new formats--their band, the staging of plays, and the casting of actors instead of themselves--they seek to critique their own practice.
John Lovett and Alessandro Codagnone have been working together in New York since 1995 using photography, performance, video, sound, and installation. The duo unfolds relations of power as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers as well as clandestine or unconscious practices. Their work has been exhibited in solo shows at Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo; Museo Marino Marini, Florence; LA>ART, Los Angeles; SculptureCenter, New York; and MoMA PS1, New York. They have performed at MoMA PS1; ICA, Philadelphia; Judson Memorial Church, New York; and ICA, Boston. Their work has also been included in shows at The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cobra Museum, Amstelveen; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; De Appel, Amsterdam; NGBK, Berlin; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, 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 mechanism of motivation
Monday, October 21, 2013
7:30 PM
Andala Coffee House, 286 Franklin Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Neuroscience-and-Society/events/138632342/
What is it that makes us motivated? What's the brain mechanism of it? Let's bring our own knowledge and experience about motivation, and let's talk about them.
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Tuesday, October 22
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Somerville Food Week
Schedule at http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/2013%20Somerville%20Food%20Week%20Calendar.pdf
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"Driving the Conversation—online and on television—in a changing media landscape."
Tuesday, October 22
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Betsy Fischer Martin, managing editor of NBC News Political Programming and former senior executive producer of “Meet the Press.”
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The New Nollywood
October 22, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/nollywood#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Aimee Corrigan, Nollywood Workshops/Berkman Center & Colin Maclay, Berkman Center
Nigeria's booming movie industry, known as Nollywood, rivals Hollywood and India's Bollywood as one of the world's largest producer of feature films. In less than two decades Nollywood has grown into an industry estimated at $250 million, employing over a million people and producing over 1000 films each year – a major success story in Nigeria’s economy. Nollywood's movies have an audience of millions in Nigeria, throughout Africa and around the world - from Bombay to Brooklyn.
The phenomenon of Nollywood is internationally recognized for quantity of films - but not for quality. The industry faces big challenge stemming from limited financing opportunities and rampant piracy. Today, in an effort to overcome these challenges, leading filmmakers in Nigeria consider themselves part of a growing movement they call “New Nollywood”. This movement refers to an increasing trend of better quality films, stemming from increased access to new technology and equipment, training, new sources of financing, and alternative distribution.
As Nigeria’s most popular entertainment platform, Nollywood is positioned as an extraordinary vehicle for engaging content. Nollywood filmmakers are confronting their society’s critical and controversial issues – including health and corruption. The widespread viewing of Nollywood films speaks to their ability to culturally connect with hundreds of millions of people. Nollywood’s massive and engaged audience is the envy of filmmakers around the world.
About Aimee and Colin
Aimee Corrigan is the Co-Director of Nollywood Workshops, a hub for filmmakers in Lagos, Nigeria that supports and delivers movie production and distribution, training, and research. She is also a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Aimee's passion for Nollywood sparked during her participation in the production of the documentary This Is Nollywood. Aimee is currently a fellow at the Berkman Center. Aimee completed her Masters in Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
Colin M. Maclay is the Managing Director of the Berkman Center, where he is privileged to work in diverse capacities with its faculty, staff, fellows and extended community to realize its ambitious goals. His broad aim is to effectively and appropriately integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) with social and economic development, focusing on the changes Internet technologies foster in society, policy and institutions. Both as Co-founder of the Information Technologies Group at Harvard’s Center for International Development and at Berkman, Maclay’s research has paired hands-on multi stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends, challenges and opportunities for the integration of ICTs in developing world communities.
Colin and Aimee's work in Nollywood stems from work of an intercontinental team drawing from the Berkman Center at Harvard University, Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) in Nigeria, Georgia Institute of Technology, MIT Center for Civic Media, Hollywood, Health & Society at USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center, and Nollywood Workshops. The team has been collaborating with filmmakers in Nigeria since 2005.
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New Frontiers in Open Access Publishing
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
3:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
This panel, featuring Jacqueline Thai, Tibor Tscheke, and Marguerite Avery is being presented in celebration of International Open Access Week, and is intended to provide a forum for discussion of new open access models of scholarly publishing and how they can serve authors and readers. We anticipate a lively and informative conversation.
Web site: http://libraries.mit.edu/news/panel-discussion-new/12713/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact:
Duranceau, Ellen
efinnie at mit.edu
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Solid State Lighting: Present Status and Challenges Ahead
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Parijat Deb, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company
The solid state revolution for better efficiency lighting sources is happening. Major advances over the past few years have led to extraordinary improvements in Lm/W and Lm/$ leading towards commercialization and mass adoption of LEDs as lighting sources. However, major challenges still lie ahead to ensure the successful replacement of all other lighting sources by LEDs, namely system level cost and efficiency, die level absolute WPE and efficiency droop. This talk will make an attempt to guide the audience through the major WPE and droop challenges that lie ahead.
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2013.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact:
Debroah Hodges-Pabon
253-5264
debb at mtl.mit.edu
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"Hydrogen and Nitrogen in Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres"
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Robin Wordsworth, University of Chicago
In the present-day Solar System, planetary science is simplified by a clear distinction between gas and ice giant planets with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen, and rocky planets with atmospheres dominated by heavier volatiles. Recent developments in exoplanet characterization and study of the early Solar System, however, strongly suggest that such a rigid distinction does not apply in general. Here I discuss my recent theoretical work on the potential climatic and chemical effects of hydrogen in terrestrial planetary atmospheres both in the Solar System and around other stars. While incapable of conventional vibrational-rotational absorption, hydrogen can act as an extremely powerful greenhouse gas via collision-induced absorption (CIA). I show how both H2-H2 and H2-N2 absorption can significantly increase the atmospheric opacity of rocky planets under certain conditions, and discuss the implications for Earth’s climate in the Archean and Hadean eras, as well as for exoplanet habitability. Finally, I also discuss the role hydrogen may have played in the early evolution of Earth’s atmospheric nitrogen inventory.
EPS Colloquium Series
Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo
scappo at fas.harvard.edu
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When Everything Changed
Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013
4:15 pm
Harvard, Knafel Center (formerly Radcliffe Gymnasium), 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lecture by columnist Gail Collins of the New York Times about how and why the national view of American women changed so dramatically between 1960 and today.
Gail Collins joined the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times’ editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish her book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. She returned to theTimes as a columnist in July 2007.
Before joining the Times, Collins was a columnist at New York Newsday and the New York Daily News and a reporter for United Press International. Her first jobs in journalism were in Connecticut, where she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau (CSNB), which provided coverage of the state capitol and Connecticut politics. When she sold it in 1977, the CSNB was the largest news service of its kind in the country, with more than 30 weekly and daily newspaper chains.
Collins’s most recent book is As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda, published in 2012 by W. W. Norton. She is also the author ofAmerica’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines;Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics; a biography of William Henry Harrison; and The Millennium Book: Your Essential All-Purpose Guide to the Year 2000, which she coauthored with her husband, Dan Collins.
2013–2014 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
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Global Technological Controversies: The Case of Genetically-Modified Crops
Tuesday, October 22
4:30–6:00 pm
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
More at: http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news#sthash.niHVZvFa.dpuf
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Wednesday, October 23
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Somerville Food Week
Schedule at http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/2013%20Somerville%20Food%20Week%20Calendar.pdf
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MIT Materials Day
Wednesday, October 23
8am-6pm
MIT, Little Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mpc-www.mit.edu/registration
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“Tradespace Modeling and Exploration for Large Desalination Projects”
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
12-1pm
MIT, Building E40-298, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Vivek Sakhrani
ESS Doctoral Symposia
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Babson Food Days
October 23, 2013 at 1pm - October 24, 2013
Babson College, 231 Forest Street, Wellesley
RSVP at http://www.foodday.org/businessforfood/babson_food_day_quick_service_incubator_rapid_fire_feedback_for_selected_food_entrepreneurs
Free registration and $10 for lunch
At Babson, we believe that food is everybody's business. On October 23rd and 24th - we will celebrate, recognize, and activate food entrepreneurship and innovation of all kinds with our Entrepreneurs in Residence Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Foods) and Gail Simmons (Top Chef; Food & Wine) and an extraordinary line-up of pioneers, policy makers and venture creators.
Visit Babson Food Days (http://www.babson.edu/Academics/centers/the-lewis-institute/programs/Pages/babson-food-days.aspx) for up-to-the-minute details and agenda.
Contact rgreenberger1 at babson.edu
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Differential Privacy in Estimation and Control
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
4:00 pm
BU, Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 211, Boston
Refreshments will be served outside Room 339 at 3:45 p.m.
ECE Distinguished Lecture with Professor George J. Pappas, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract: Emerging systems such as smart grids or intelligent transportation systems often require end-user applications to continuously send information to external data aggregators performing monitoring or control tasks. This can result in an undesirable loss of privacy for the users in exchange of the benefits provided by the application. Motivated by this trend, this paper introduces privacy concerns in a system theoretic context, and addresses the problem of releasing filtered signals that respect the privacy of the user data streams. Our approach relies on a formal notion of privacy from the database literature, called differential privacy, which provides strong privacy guarantees against adversaries with arbitrary side information. Methods are developed to approximate a given filter by a differentially private version, so that the distortion introduced by the privacy mechanism is minimized. Two specific scenarios are considered. First, the notion of differential privacy is extended to dynamic systems with many participants contributing independent input signals. Kalman filtering is also discussed in this context, when a released output signal must preserve differential privacy for the measured signals or state trajectories of the individual participants. Second, differentially private mechanisms are described to approximate stable filters when participants contribute to a single event stream, extending previous work on differential privacy under continual observation.
About the Speaker: George J. Pappas is the Joseph Moore Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He is member of the GRASP Lab and the PRECISE Center. He has previously served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on control theory and in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings, and biomolecular networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and has received various awards such as the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, the George S. Axelby Award, and the National Science Foundation PECASE.
URL:http://www.bu.edu/ece/files/2013/06/Pappas.pdf
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"Scarcity: What it means to have too little"
Oct 23, 2013
4:00p - 5:00p
Harvard, William James Hall Auditorium 1, Basement level
Sendhil Mullainathan, PhD, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
In joint work with Eldar Shafir, we have investigated how people behave when they have too little. Our initial motivation was to understand the behaviors of the poor. But eventually we hypothesized that many forms of scarcity--time, money, calories--all have similar psychological effects and consequences for behavior. I will draw on lab and field data that support this hypothesis, including data that show, for example, how we can recreate in the lab using experimentally induced scarcity many of the behaviors we see amongst the poor. Beyond connecting different forms of scarcity, the underlying mechanisms cast a new light on our original problem of poverty.
Web site: scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan
Contact name: Josh Greene
Contact e-mail: jgreene at wjh.harvard.edu
Contact phone: 617-495-3800
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“The Lightbulb Paradox: Using Behavioral Economics for Policy Evaluation”
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Hunt Allcott, New York University, and Dmitry Taubinsky, Harvard University.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman at harvard.edu
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Tree Talk and Cider Tasting: The Roxbury Russet, America's oldest apple, and the history of the orchards of Massachusetts
Wednesday, October 23
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Cider tasting and apple tree viewing at Roxbury Heritage State Park, 183 Roxbury Street, Roxbury
6:30 p.m. presentation by John Bunker, apple historian at First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam Street, across from Roxbury Heritage State Park
Join agricultural historian, orchardist and fruit explorer John Bunker to learn more about the Roxbury Russet and the history, uses, varieties and culture of apples of America. John will recount "Sherlock Holmes-like" stories of tracking down forgotten rare varieties. He will talk about why these old apples might be especially important today. He will explain grafting and pruning and will answer your questions about how to plant and care for your own trees.
This event is free and open to the public. Bring an apple from trees in your yard and John will identify them. Part of the Roxbury History Speaker Series.
Order box suppers from Haley House Bakery Café haleyhouse.org/rhs.html
Co-sponsored by Roxbury Historical Society, Haley House Bakery Café, Shirley Eustis House and Discover Roxbury. For moreinformationemailroxburyhistory at gmail.com<mailto:roxburyhistory at gmail.com> or visit www.discoverroxbury.org
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Connected Food: Tracing Boston's Foodways from Production to Consumption
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Workbar, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://connectedfood-fd9efdf196f2ec0f4428f1aec13eaadc.eventbrite.com
Cost: $12 - 22 (Use the promocode: foodtechmeetup for 25% of registration!)
Kickoff Food Day with fellow meetup enthusiasts and General Assembly.
Emerging technologies are disrupting how local food is produced, sourced, distributed, and consumed — paving the way for new business ideas, challenges, and emerging trends.
Join us for an evening of talks and networking dedicated to connecting innovators in the sustainable food industry and helping to re-envision the way business is done.
Stay tuned for panelist and vendor updates!
Prerequisites
Must love food.
Can't make it? Sign up at https://generalassemb.ly to stay in the loop on future events and classes.
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Cancer in America: From Lab to Life
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
7:00 p.m
3 Church Street, Cambridge
Cambridge Forum hosts a panel of noted cancer researchers and practicing physicians discussing "Cancer in America: From Lab to Life." Receiving a cancer diagnosis is one of the most frightening moments a patient can imagine. "What will my life be like now? What treatments are available? Is the cure going to be worse than the disease?" So many questions and frustratingly few answers.
Physicians often share this sense of frustration. The pathway for promising treatments from the researcher’s lab to clinical implementation with human patients is long, slow, and filled with obstacles. At this Cambridge Forum panel discussion
Dr. Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic and Dr. Beatriz Pogo of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine discuss the torturous path that their ground-breaking ideas about cancer in America have followed. Dr. Kathleen Ruddy and Dr. Sasha Helper address the impact that the hurdles and delays in the long process have on both treating physicians and their patients. What are the steps in developing and winning approval for new cancer treatments? What are the biases in the current system? Why does the American medical system focus on treatment rather than prevention of cancer? How can this predisposition be altered?
Dr. Vincent Tuohy is the Mort and Iris November Distinguished Chair in Innovative Breast Cancer Research in the Department of Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute. With a longstanding interest in autoimmune diseases, his lab has recently pioneered the concept of ˜immunoprevention" of breast cancer by providing proof-of-principle that safe and effective protection against the development of breast cancer may be induced by vaccination against certain kinds of breast cancer. He has recently received funding to begin human clinical trials of his vaccine strategy designed to prevent the more aggressive and lethal forms of breast cancer.
Dr. Beatriz Pogo is Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology and Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her research in viral oncology found that 38% of human breast cancer specimens contained evidence of a virus that is 95-98% identical to a virus found in mammary tumors in mice. She named the tumor virus human mammary tumor virus (HMTV). Pogo has extracted HMTV from human breast cancer specimens, infected normal human breast cells with it, and observed new tumor viruses budding from these cells. The newly infected cells were transformed (i.e., underwent malignant changes) as a result of infection with the HMTV recovered from human breast cancer specimens. Pogo has also recovered complete HMTV particles from fluids taken from women with metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Pogo's research shows evidence of mammary tumor virus in 36% of all women with breast cancer that she tested.
Dr. Kathleen Ruddy is a breast cancer surgeon. In 1995 she founded the Breast Service at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey and served as its and Medical Director. In 2000 she enlarged the scope of her work at Clara Maass Medical Center by creating her own private practice at the hospital. While caring for patients, Dr. Ruddy's interest shifted to preventing rather than just treating breast cancer. And so, in April 2008, she created the Breast Health & Healing Foundation whose mission is to discover the causes of breast cancer and to use that knowledge to prevent the disease. Dr. Ruddy continues to care for patients in her own private practice, while serving as Executive Director of her foundation. Her latest book, available as an ebook is _You Only See the Stars at Night_.
Dr. Sasha Helper is a practicing physician in the Boston area.
Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited podcasts are available at www.cambridgeforum.org. Select forums can also be viewed in their entirety on YouTube.
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director at cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
The Adventure of Ideas. The Power of Dialogue.
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Fracking: Facts, Risks, and Benefits
Wednesday, October 23
7 - 9 pm
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill
Cost: $10
Hydraulic fracturing - a method of accessing oil and gas from rock - is a controversial topic. At our panel discussion, three experts will explain the process and talk about the pros and cons of fracking. Our presenters will be Adam Carpenter, American Water Works Association; Andrew Stone, American Groundwater Trust; and Jon Welch, CDM Smith. What are the economic benefits of the practice? What are the risks to the environment and to our health? The panel will address these questions in their presentations, and they will follow up with a Q&A. Cost: $10
Please RSVP to info at waterworksmuseum.org or 617-277-0065.
Event Contact Info
Lauren Kaufmann
Email: info at waterworksmuseum.org
Phone: 617-277-0065
Website: http://www.waterworksmuseum.org/calendar/view/237/date/2013-10-23
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Food Inc
Wednesday, October 23
7-9 pm
Emerson College, Walker Room 230, 120 Boylston Street, Boston
Emerson Peace & Social Justice will be hosting a screening of Food Inc. followed by a debrief on what Food Day is about. This event will be two-fold with advocacy and volunteering. This event will include a screening, talk-back & debrief, and filling out a pledge saying what they will do to help Food Day's mission.
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Thursday, October 24
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Somerville Food Week
Schedule at http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/2013%20Somerville%20Food%20Week%20Calendar.pdf
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Babson Food Days
October 23, 2013 at 1pm - October 24, 2013
Babson College, 231 Forest Street, Wellesley
RSVP at http://www.foodday.org/businessforfood/babson_food_day_quick_service_incubator_rapid_fire_feedback_for_selected_food_entrepreneurs
Free registration and $10 for lunch
At Babson, we believe that food is everybody's business. On October 23rd and 24th - we will celebrate, recognize, and activate food entrepreneurship and innovation of all kinds with our Entrepreneurs in Residence Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Foods) and Gail Simmons (Top Chef; Food & Wine) and an extraordinary line-up of pioneers, policy makers and venture creators.
Visit Babson Food Days (http://www.babson.edu/Academics/centers/the-lewis-institute/programs/Pages/babson-food-days.aspx) for up-to-the-minute details and agenda.
Contact rgreenberger1 at babson.edu
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Samba as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brazilian History and Literature
WHEN Thu., Oct. 24, 2013, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Dance, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR DRCLAS
SPEAKER(S) Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, professor and chair of Transcultural Music Studies, The Liszt School of Music Weimar and Friedrich Schiller University Jena; visiting scholar, Department of Music, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/Tiago_Pinto
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Energizing Sustainable Cities: Findings from the Global Energy Assessment
Thursday, October 24, 2013
12:30-1:45 PM
(a light lunch will be served – no RSVP, first-come first-served)
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Cabot 703, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
with Arnulf Grubler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Yale University
Open to the public. Convened as part of the Energy, Climate, and Innovation Research Seminar Series of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher.
Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of global economic activity and its associated energy use. The twenty-first century will be increasingly urban. Sustainable development therefore needs first to be defined and analyzed, and then realized in urban settings. Energy is one of the key challenges, but also one of the key opportunities in an urban sustainability transition. This lecture will present new data, new analysis, as well as new policy insights drawn from the first comprehensive global assessment of urban energy use and of the specifics of urban energy demand and supply. Major development and sustainability challenges of cities will be assessed and public and private sector opportunities and constraints will be outlined. Technological and policy options will be put in a much needed context in terms of their respective role as drivers of urban energy demand as well as potential for reductions in energy use and associated emissions of local pollutants and greenhouse gases.
Arnulf Grubler is Acting Program Leader of the Transitions to New Technologies Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, and is also Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Prof. Grubler has been serving since 1992 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), and was Convening Lead Author for three chapters of the Global Energy Assessment completed in 2012, including the chapter on Urban Energy Systems. He is on the editorial boards of Carbon Management and the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
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Moving Towards Net Zero
October 24
2pm EST
Webinar
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xMzOlSM9hIYXvkUXZ8x7aNtjidYoIVzt8YZdUWaiVUs/viewform
We want to make buildings that provide for greater occupant comfort with lower energy consumption and better environmental impacts. This talk will profile what’s been learned from a number of low-energy and net-zero projects in climates as diverse as the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf South, for clients rich and poor, farsighted and stubborn.
PRESENTER: Z Smith has been involved in nationally published sustainability research and design for thepast ten years. He has served as a Project Architect for carbon neutral, net-zero energy and net-zero water use buildings, and taught sustainable design courses at universities in the U.S. and Canada.
With training and experience in the fields of architecture, physics, information technology,and renewable energy, Smith now serves as our studio’s Director of Sustainability & Building Performance. He integrates his broad range of skills in service of lowering the environmental footprint of each of our buildings, while continuing to help us deliver projects on time and on budget. He brings an approach of scientific rigor to green design in our studio’s wide array of community, educational, and institutional projects, and brings tremendous added value to our clients through the reduction of energy consumption, and subsequently the reduction of energy bills.
In addition to his Directorial role within our practice, Z is also a frequent public speaker on sustainable design issues, Chair of the USGBC Louisiana Chapter, and an adjunct professor at the Tulane School of Architecture.
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Evaluating Mobile Smartphone Security: The First Five Years
Thursday, October 24, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University
The explosion of smart phones as a vehicle for enterprise and personal computing heightens concerns about security and privacy. Indeed, recent studies have shown that applications can work against the user's best interests and house new forms of malware. Current smart phone platforms provide few tools to determine if and how an application can be malicious. This talk describes our ongoing efforts in evaluating smartphone security, and identifies open questions on security in the mobile environment. We explore a broad range of analyses that extract of software structures and behaviors from smartphone application bytecode, and describe several studies that identify potential security and privacy concerns. We further discuss the realities of current mobile apps and markets and identify challenges in preventing misuse of smartphone resources and data.
Patrick McDaniel is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University and co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory. Patrick’s research efforts centrally focus on network, telecommunications, and systems security, language-based security, and technical public policy. Professor McDaniel has chaired several top conferences including among others, the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the 2005 USENIX Security Symposium. Professor McDaniel will assume the chair position of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in January 2014.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia at seas.harvard.edu
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Christina Xu: Exploring Race and Community in the Digital World Workshop Series
WHEN Thu., Oct. 24, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall 108, Harvard Yard
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Education, Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Christina Xu, co-founder, ROFLCon; team member, Breadpig; Chancellor, Institute on Higher Awesome Studies
CONTACT INFO cdmartin at post.harvard.edu
LINK http://raceandtechnology.wordpress.com/workshops/
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The Shape of Data
Thursday, October 24, 2013
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Gunnar Carlsson
ORC Fall Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact:
Ross Anderson, Angela King, Benjamin Letham
253-6185
rma350 at mit.edu, aking10 at mit.edu, bletham at mit.edu
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"Potential Water Resource Impacts from Shale Energy Development"
Thursday, October 24, 2013
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 3-333, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Yoxtheimer
Mr. David Yoxtheimer is a Penn State alumnus with 18 years of hydrogeologic consulting experience. He is a hydrogeologist with Penn State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. His career has included extensive remediation, water supply development and wellhead protection experience. A registered professional geologist in Pennsylvania, he previously served as Director of Operations/Senior Hydrogeologist with ARM Oil & Gas Solutions, a division of Hershey-based Arm Group Inc. and a firm specializing in earth-resource consulting. In that position, he had responsibility for managing multiple water supplies, environmental, and permitting projects related to Marcellus natural gas.
David has recently joined the Marcellus Initiative for Outreach and Research as an Extension Associate in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. In his new position, he investigates water-treatment, water-quality, and environmental issues related to natural resource development and specifically to the Marcellus shale. David will act as an outreach liaison between the University, natural gas industry, environmental organizations, local government and the general public to advise stakeholders on key environmental issues.
MIT Water Club Fall Lecture series
The MIT Water Club Fall Lecture series brings prominent professionals and researchers working in the water sector from academic, industrial, and policy backgrounds to speak at MIT.
Web site: waterclub.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club
For more information, contact:
Neha Mehta
waterclub-officers at mit.edu
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Starr Forum: "Japan's Continuing Nuclear Nightmare"
Thursday, October 24, 2013
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Ken Buesseler Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Patrick Stackpole, US Army (RET). His final assignment was as the Chief of Staff of U.S. Forces Japan during Operation Tomodachi.
Richard Samuels Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT Center for International Studies
Moderator
Ken Oye Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems
Experts discuss Fukushima and its aftereffects
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_102413_japan_nightmare.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Japan Program, Center for International Studies, New England Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.
For more information, contact:
starrforum at mit.edu
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Makin' it in Massachusetts
Thursday, October 24, 2013
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8409405759
Join ACTION and Greentown Labs for a panel discussion based on the Mass Development report, “Innovation in Manufacturing – Makerspaces”. Where are the evolving hotbeds of innovation? How can incubators, accelerators, and makerspaces work together to support rapid prototyping and early manufacturing needs of tech startups?
In Massachusetts, makerspaces tend to emerge near centers of strong engineering talent such as MIT, WPI, Olin College and UMass. They’ve carved out workspaces in the gateway cities of Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Taunton, Somerville and Haverhill. How will these creative communities advance the work of hardware innovators who find themselves at the nexus of design, engineering and technology? How will these innovations in manufacturing contribute direct and indirect economic benefits to Massachusetts? Join the conversation with our panelists including:
Andrea Foertsch – Principal, Melrose Real Estate Strategies and Disruptive Space, author of “Innovation in Manufacturing-Makerspaces”
John Michitson, President, Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, Director of Haverhill Hardware Horizons Challenge, Program Manager, Chief Engineer, Open Innovation Catalyst
Emily Reichert, Executive Director, Greentown Labs, Somerville, MA
Molly Wenig Rubenstein, Interim Executive Director, Artisan’s Asylum, Inc., Somerville, MA
We hope you will join us for this exciting event!
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Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
Thu., Oct. 24, 2013, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Weil Town Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Christopher Schroeder
NOTE Having run three internet companies (LegiSlate.com; washingtonpost.newsweek interactive, HealthCentral.com); having invested in dozens more individually and through leading venture capital funds; having travelled extensively around the world; having outsourced technology from South America to India -- Christopher M. Schroeder should not have been surprised by the impact of technology on emerging growth markets.
But in November 2010, when asked to speak at one of the first mass gatherings of startups in the Middle East, he was stunned by what he saw. Over 2,000 entrepreneurs and investors were solving local and regional problems through their companies, and building world-class products accessible anywhere in the world. This began his journey to Amman, Beirut, Dubai, Doha, Cairo, even Damascus to find out more. His reporting on what he found in The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune Magazine, AllthingsD, Pando Daily, TechCrunch among others became the basis for his first book, Startup Rising.
In addition to his work investing and advising US-based startups, Schroeder serves on the advisory boards of the American University of Cairo School of Business, the Jordanian incubator Oasis500, the Middle East entrepreneurial platform wamda.com, The American University School of International Service and board of directors of The American Council on Germany. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and French American Foundation. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6111/christopher_schroeder.html
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Books as Social Media
WHEN Thu., Oct. 24, 2013, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
SPEAKER(S) Leah Price
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO histlit at fas.harvard.edu
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Scholars Rescue
Thursday, October 24
6:30-8 pm
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents Scholars Rescue with Alemayehu Weldemariam and Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh; discussion moderated by Nir Eisikovits. Thursday, October 24, 6:30-8:00 pm. Admission is free and open to all. Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the Park St. MBTA Station. For more information, call Ford Hall Forum at 617-557-2007 or visitwww.fordhallforum.org.
Ethiopian scholar of law and politics Alemayehu Weldemariam and Iranian women’s rights scholar Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh discuss pursuing academic endeavors while facing persecution in their home countries.
Learn what Weldemariam said about Ethiopian politics in an interview that resulted in his dismissal and permanent prohibition from Ethiopian collegiate employment. Later, hear how Abbasgholizadeh has been jailed again and again for her peaceful activism.
Both are Visiting Scholars at American universities this fall, and both are fellows of the Scholar Rescue Fund, a program of the Institute of International Education which recognizes freedom of scholarship as a fundamental right.
Moderator Nir Eisikovits, who directs Suffolk University’s graduate program in ethics and public policy, reveals how the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund brings these two and many others to safe locations around the world to continue their work unharmed and provide hope to all academics.
[Please note: These scholars’ opinions are their own and they do not necessarily represent the positions of the Institute of International Education (IIE), the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund, or their host universities.]
Further background information on the participants:
Alemayehu Weldemariam graduated summa cum laude with a master of arts in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European University Center for Peace Studies. He received his Ll.B. from Addis Ababa University School of Law and has been a guest scholar at various American universities. He has served as project officer with the Organization for Social Justice in Ethiopia, legal advisor to the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce, and regional director of the Ethiopian Global Initiative, where he now sits on the board. Having researched and published extensively on Ethiopian law, politics, national security and foreign policy, Weldemariam is now a Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University this year and a Scholar Rescue Fund fellow.
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh is an Iranian women’s rights activist within the Muslim context. She holds an MS in communications sciences from AllamehTabatabaee University and a BA in theology from Tehran University. In 2010, Abbasgholizadeh received the Johann Philipp Palm Prize for freedom of expression. In addition, she is an active member of the Stop Stoning Forever campaign and the Iranian Women’s Charter movement. Despite being jailed several times by the Iranian government for her peaceful activism, she continues to serve as Director of ZananTV, an alternative media space online for women, and has produced several documentary films about women’s rights in Iran. Abbasgholizadeh taught at the University of Connecticut last year and is a Scholar Rescue Fund fellow and Visiting Scholar a Rutgers University this year.
Nir Eisikovits is an associate professor of philosophy at Suffolk University, where he also co-founded and directs the graduate program in ethics and public policy. He received a Ph.D. from Boston University and an LLB from the College of Management School of Law in Israel. Eisikovits is also a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Conciliation which uses divergent understandings of history as a tool in conflict resolution. He has written essays and op-eds about the Middle East conflict for publications including The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and The International Herald Tribune. Eisikovits’s first book is a philosophical account of political reconciliation entitled Sympathizing with the Enemy; his sophomore effort, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will be on truces and ceasefires.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org. Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris at suffolk.edu.
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"Geometry, Structure and Architecture"
Thursday, October 24, 2013
6:30pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: William F. Baker, PE & SE, SOM Chicago
The Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design;
Architecture Lecture Series
The Allen Lecture will examine the intersection of Geometry, Structure and Architecture. Starting with primitive architecture and continuing through recent times, the lecture will discuss the importance of the geometry of structure and architecture. The presentation will present classical and emerging techniques for structural form creation that may lead to new architectural opportunities that are both efficient and inspiring.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
617-253-7791
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Urban Films: Good Fortune (2010)
Thursday, October 24, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
A provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. In Kenya's rural countryside, Jackson's farm is being flooded by an American investor who hopes to alleviate poverty by creating a multimillion-dollar rice farm. Across the country in Nairobi, Silva's home and business in Africa's largest shantytown are being demolished as part of a U.N. slum-upgrading project. The gripping stories of two Kenyans battling to save their homes from large-scale development present a unique opportunity see foreign aid through eyes of the people it is intended to help. Directed by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine; presented in collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov). Winner: Witness Award, Silverdocs Film Festival; official selection: IDFA Festival; Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. 90 minutes.
Urban Planning Film Series
A mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
Web site: 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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Friday, October 25
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The Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
October 25-27
Lesley University
contact http://digitalmediaconference.org/2013/
The opening 7 p.m. plenary is free and open to the public.
Registration for the full conference is $35 ($10 students and low-income)
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Sensing Wonder, Serious Play: Ecology and Children’s Literature
October 25, 2013
Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
A Graduate Student Conference hosted by Harvard University's American Studies Program the will explore children’s literature through an ecocritical lens, giving priority to the ways in which these texts illustrate the relationship between nature and children. The Conference is accepting paper submissions through September 15 – visit the website for more information.
http://www.sensingwonder.us
Contact Name: ecoconferenceharvard at gmail.com
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"Control"
Friday, October 25, 2013
5:30pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Mimi Hoang, Principal, nARCHITECTS, Brooklyn, NY
AD - Architectural Design Discipline Group Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Cristina Parreno
617-253-3742
cparreno at mit.edu
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Saturday, October 26
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The Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
October 25-27
Lesley University
contact http://digitalmediaconference.org/2013/
Registration for the full conference is $35 ($10 students and low-income)
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HBS Energy Symposium 2013: Responsibly Creating Value in Today's Global Energy Environment
October 26, 2013
Harvard Business School, Spangler Hall, Soldiers Field, Boston
Cost: $15-50
RSVP at http://www.hbsenergysymposium.com
* Tickets are non-refundable
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BU Food Day
October 26
11 am-1:30 pm
Boston University, Room STO B50 - College of Arts and Science, 1 Silber Way, Boston
This event is open to all students in the Boston and greater Boston area involved in the food movement in some way!
Many schools in the Boston area are taking advantage of their resources and putting on a variety of awesome events for Food Day. This event is meant to bring all of those minds, efforts and hard workers together to celebrate, network, collaborate and learn from each other. This event will include a potluck brunch, and will feature small and large
group discussions about food culture at colleges and universities in the area.
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Roxbury Community College Food Day
Saturday, October 26, 11 am-6 pm
Roxbury Community College, Reggie Lewis Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
Two full days of fun, good food, and learning! This Festival brings together an amazing array of vegetarian natural food providers, top national speakers and chefs, and educational exhibitors in a fun and welcoming environment. It is a chance to talk directly to food producers, learn the newest items in the marketplace, taste free food samples, shop at show special
discounts, or simply learn what vegetarian foods are available and where you can find them!
There will be top national speakers on health and nutrition, and the impact of food choices on the environment and animals. Chefs and cookbook authors will give free cooking demos. Kids activities, too! Free admission. Free parking. T stop across the street. Details at www.BostonVeg.org/foodfest
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Sunday, October 27
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The Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
October 25-27
Lesley University
contact http://digitalmediaconference.org/2013/
Registration for the full conference is $35 ($10 students and low-income)
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Roxbury Community College Food Day
Sunday, October 27
10 am-4 pm
Roxbury Community College, Reggie Lewis Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
Two full days of fun, good food, and learning! This Festival brings together an amazing array of vegetarian natural food providers, top national speakers and chefs, and educational exhibitors in a fun and welcoming environment. It is a chance to talk directly to food producers, learn the newest items in the marketplace, taste free food samples, shop at show special
discounts, or simply learn what vegetarian foods are available and where you can find them!
There will be top national speakers on health and nutrition, and the impact of food choices on the environment and animals. Chefs and cookbook authors will give free cooking demos. Kids activities, too! Free admission. Free parking. T stop across the street. Details at www.BostonVeg.org/foodfest
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Monday, October 28
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"The U.S. Oil Boom and International Politics: Easy Answers and Difficult Questions"
Monday, October 28, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu
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What We Can Learn from the Failure of Climate Policy
Monday, October 28, 2013
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
David Keith (Harvard, SEAS)
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
Science, Technology and Society seminars
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"Two Degrees: Climate Change and Our Built Environment"
Monday, October 28, 2013
12:30pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Fiona Cousins, Principal, Arup, New York City, NY
BT - Building Technology Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Kathleen Ross
617-253-1876
kross at mit.edu
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Exploiting communications, exploiting the law: Data mining, Total Information Awareness, and the NSA
Monday, October 28, 2013
3:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Matthew L. Jones of Columbia University will speak on the current event topic of data mining, the NSA, and total information Awareness.
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): SHASS Dean's Office, HASTS
For more information, contact:
Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn at mit.edu
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"Emulsions: Concepts of Stabilizing Oil & Water"
WHEN Mon., Oct. 28, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Nandu Jubany, Can Jubany
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE The Science & Cooking lecture series runs weekly through the end of the fall semester. A full schedule, including the lecture topics, is available at http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a Faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Tuesday, October 29
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"Terrestrial Climate-Carbon Cycle Extremes: Quantification, Association with Climate, and Implications"
Tuesday, October 29
Noon
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Markus Reichstein
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Managing Data Protection between the US and Europe: Balancing Freedom and Security
WHEN Tue., Oct. 29, 2013, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, K354, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Transatlantic Relations Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Georg Mascolo, visiting scholar, Program on Transatlantic Relations; former editor in chief, Der Spiegel
CONTACT INFO atownes at wcfia.harvard.edu
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The Innovation Intermission
October 29, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Harvard
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/contee#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
with Cheryl Contee, Partner at Fission Strategy
The stereotypes of those who are tech-savvy don’t necessarily match the reality. Whites in America currently lag behind all other ethnicities in their use of advanced internet services, smartphones and social media. Women are more likely than men to use mobile social media. Mothers are one of advertisers' most targeted demographic and 93% of American moms use the internet, compared to 60-70% of the U.S. overall population. But current investments in new technology don’t not match the consumers of these technologies. According to the Kaufmann Foundation, only 4% of venture capital of any kind goes to female tech entrepreneurs. This section will explore the trends currently changing the economy and our society.
Does this gap between creators and consumers matter? Are we in an innovation intermission, poised on the threshold of another great wave of technological creativity as access to tools are democratized? Society is being reshaped through increased social connectivity. As each person becomes a technologist, we are actively engaged in creating the future today in which we will live together tomorrow. Come discuss the shape of the future to come and the portending signs that currently surround us
About Cheryl
Cheryl Contee, Partner at Fission Strategy, specializes in helping non-profit organizations and foundations use social media to create social good. She is also the co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics writing as “Jill Tubman” on one of the top black blogs online. Cheryl was recently named as an Affiliate of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Cheryl is included in The Root 100 list of established and emerging African-American leaders. Huffington Post listed her as one of the Top 27 Female Founders in Tech to Follow on Twitter in 2011. Fast Company named her one of their 2010 Most Influential Women in Tech. She has over 15 years of award-winning interactive expertise and previously served as Vice President and lead digital strategist for Fleishman-Hillard’s West Coast region in San Francisco.
Cheryl has appeared in and/or on the Washington Post, the New York Times, San Francisco Magazine, the BBC, Current TV and CNN, among many other media appearances. She is also proud to serve on several boards and advisory committees, including Netroots Nation, BlogHer, Focus100/Digital Undivided, and Public Radio International. She received her B.A. from Yale University and has an International Executive M.B.A. from Georgetown University. In her spare time, Ms. Contee enjoys hiking, yoga, movies and tai chi sword.
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Seeing the Tohoku Earthquake Before It Happened
WHEN Tue., Oct. 29, 2013, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations co-sponsored by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and the Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Brendan Meade, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University; moderated by Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO wnehring at wcfia.harvard.edu
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
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Nanotechnology from Laboratory to Space
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Brent Segal, Lockheed Martin
Nanotechnology has been a focus area for chemists, physicists, engineers, biologists and theoreticians alike for the past 15 years! As the areas of exploration begin to mature, the novel materials include nanotubes, nanowires, nano onions and graphene. How do these novel materials become part of device structures? And once their value has been demonstrated how can novel devices be transitioned into products? Lockheed Martin purchased the Government group of Nantero in 2008. Dr. Segal will talk about that transition, productization of nanotechnology at Lockheed Martin and Innovation within the government community.
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2013.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact:
Debroah Hodges-Pabon
253-5264
debb at mtl.mit.edu
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Boston Quantified Self Show &Tell #BQS14
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Microsoft NERD New England Research & Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/137791752/
Price: $5.00/per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, October 29th for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Vincent at vmcphillip at gmail dot com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm QS SHOW&TELL TALKS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Joel at jfish90 at gmail dot com, so we can discuss your topic and how much time you'll need. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
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Techtoberfest: A Wearable Technology Mixer
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
The Baseball Tavern, 1270 Boylston Street, Boston
We will be on the 3rd floor!
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/TechinmotionBoston/events/143629072/
It seems as though every company is trying to create some sort of wearable tech whether it's with a device, fabric, or accessory to make our lives easier. Here at Tech in Motion we think these new innovations are fascinating so we've decided to invite some local wearable tech companies to come and showcase their products.
Come grab after work drinks and appetizers at The Baseball Tavern for a night of networking and tech talk with the Boston Tech Community!
Because this event is happening close to Halloween we are inviting (and encouraging) guests to outfit themselves in their own wearable tech. This could be anything from a beeper to a smart watch to the Nintendo Power Glove. We think it'll be a fun way to show off what you have and spark some interesting conversations!
Be one of the first 40 to arrive and receive a free drink ticket for beer or wine!
Don't forget to follow us on twitter @Tech_in_Motion and#TechinMotion for the latest updates.
Our Wearable Techies...(profiles will be updated shortly)
Don Schwartz, Google Glass Explorer:
Don was chosen by Google to be a Glass Explorer and is the founder of the Google Glass New England MeetUp. He worked as Cheif Tech and Web Platform Developer for CADlearning.com for almost 10 years and has a background in professional support in the Architecture and Engineering CAD space. Follow him on Twitter @GraniteView!
Daniel Wilson, Founder/CEO of AfterDark Technologies:
AfterDark Technologies is revolutionizing team sports by enabling your team to play anywhere, anytime. With our products, your playing time is no longer limited by daylight or finding a lighted field at night. Play Ultimate and Flag Football through the night with fiber optic jerseys lighting the players, LED cones and line lasers defining the field and end-zones, and interactive technology on the lighted discs and footballs to indicate possession and completed passes. When the sun goes down, the fun really begins. Like them onFacebook!
CEO Dan Wilson is a recent graduate of Babson College and winner of the MBA Entrepreneurship Award for 2013 and founded of AfterDarkTechnologies Inc. to help you “Catch the Night”.
Ben Cooper, Co-founder/CEO of Sensible Baby:
Sensible Baby is a wearable technology company for infants and toddlers that specializes in sleep monitoring devices. Their first product, the Smart One, is a safe and easy to use passive monitoring solution that only sends alerts to a parents' smart device when it senses an unsafe change in the baby's sleeping environment. The company was founded in March 2013 and has experienced quite an ascent to where they are today. It all started at a Startup Weekend event in Boston, which they later won. They then competed and became finalists in the 2013 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, finalist in the 2013 MassChallenge Global Event, and winners of the $100k Founder.org program. Follow them on Twitter @mysensiblebaby and like them on Facebook!
Ben Cooper is CEO of the company and one of the founding members. When he's not helping build a company, he is preparing to be a first time father in December!
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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? The Future of US Presence in the Persian Gulf
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Caitlin Talmadge, The George Washington University
SSP Wednesday Seminar Program
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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Homelessness at Harvard: How Serving Your Neighbor Can Save the World
WHEN Wed., Oct. 30, 2013, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE The Outdoor Church and ACT (the Cambridge campaign for a common toilet) are initiatives that serve the homeless population around Harvard University with an interfaith approach: they bring together people of faith across lines of secular and religious difference to serve together. The Rev. Thomas Hathaway of the Outdoor Church and Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, will discuss the impact their efforts have on the issue of homelessness in Cambridge and how collaborating across lines of faith is a crucial element of their work.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series, Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-based Civic Engagement.
Lunch will be provided. RSVP to cswr at hds.harvard.edu.
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"Collective Intelligence in Honey Bees: how a swarm chooses its nesting site"
Wednesday, October 30
3pm
Harvard, BioLabs Main Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Thomas Seeley
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HUCTW 25th Anniversary Events Panel: What's Next for the U.S. Labor Movement?
WHEN Wed., Oct. 30, 2013, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers
SPEAKER(S) Dorothy Sue Cobble, professor, Dept. of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, and Dept. of History, Rutgers University; David Weil, professor, Boston University School of Management; Mark Erlich, executive secretary-treasurer, New England Regional Council of Carpenters; Kris Rondeau, organizer, HUCTW
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau at huctw.org
LINK www.huctw.org
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Community and Economic Development in Egypt
WHEN Wed., Oct. 30, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Heba Handoussa
NOTE Heba Handoussa founded the Egypt Network for Integrated Development “ENID” which aims to create a viable process for the identification of problem areas and for the dissemination of solutions to selected national problems in an integrated process.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6143/heba_handoussa.html
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Nation of Devils: Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience
WHEN Wed., Oct. 30, 2013, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Stein Ringen, University of Oxford
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE In this seminar, Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking discussion on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from levying taxes to enforcing laws and monitoring compliance to regulations.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/ash/Home/News-Events/Events/Leading-a-Nation-of-Devils
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Greater than All of the Forces of Nature? Humans as Agents of China’s Environmental Change 5000-2000 Years Ago
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
4:15pm
CGIS South, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (S030), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
T. R. Kidder, Washington University, St. Louis
Humans are the leading cause of environmental change today. The Anthropocene hypothesis suggests we now have a greater effect on the environment than all of the forces of nature. While the Anthropocene is often claimed to start ca. 1750 CE, evidence shows that these changes began considerably earlier in China. Using multiple lines of evidence from the Yellow River region, T. R. Kidder explore how early Chinese civilizations manipulated their environments and the ways these changes contributed to the collapse of Western Han. This analysis provides a perspective on contemporary environmental change in China and elsewhere.
Tristram R. Kidder is the Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor and chairman of the department of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD in anthropology at Harvard University. Kidder focuses his research on the development of social complexity in North America, geoarchaeology of large river systems, and the archaeology of climate and environmental change. He has active research projects in several parts of eastern North America and in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in east-central China. His current research examines the effects of global change on large river valleys, such as the Mississippi and Yellow Rivers, and subsequent influences on human cultures through time. He has been especially interested in how climate, environment, and human behavior interact to shape human history over the last ten thousand years.
http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/t-r-kidder
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The Case for Climate Engineering
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: David Keith
Climate engineering has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. Not only does it carries unknown risks, it may undermine commitments to energy conservation and generate global political tension. But it could also slow the pace of global warming, and should be considered seriously.
David Keith, Harvard professor and author of A Case for Climate Engineering, with MIT Professor of Political Science Kenneth Oye, will discuss the science and global politics of climate engineering. Moderated by Stephen Van Evera.
An Ideas Matter Event
A joint project of Boston Review and the MIT Political Science Department that brings BR writers together with other experts and practitioners for substantive debate on the challenges of our times.
Web site: http://bostonreview.net/events#climatepanel
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Political Science
For more information, contact:
Pritchard, Daniel
617-324-1360
daniel at bostonreview.net
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Todd Harper: "Let's Fight Like Gentlemen"
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The culture of fighting games -- digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat -- is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures. This talk examines the influences and norms of that community, including its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common gameplay practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide with gamer identity in the "FGC".
Todd Harper is a researcher at the MIT Game Lab with a background in mass communication and cultural studies. His current research focuses on both competitive communities and their cultural norms, as well as queer and gender representation and issues in gaming culture.
CMS/W Colloquium Series
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/lets-fight-like-gentlemen-culture-of-fighting-games/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw at mit.edu
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Mass Energy Consumers Alliance's 31st Annual Meeting
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
5:30 - 8:30PM
Abigail Adams Ballroom at the Intercontinental Boston, 510 Atlantic Avenue, Boston MA (a short walk from South Station!)
Free & open to the public. Please RSVP at http://massenergy31st-eanrecfb101.eventbrite.com
5:30: Cocktail hour & networking (hors'd'oeuvres served)
6:30: Welcome & featured speaker Christina Halfpenny followed by awards for energy leadership
7:45 - 8:30: Dessert & networking
Featured speaker:
Christina Halfpenny
Director of Energy Efficiency
Dept. of Energy ResourcesJoin us as we reflect upon the last year, take a look at what's ahead, and honor folks who exemplify our vision of affordable and sustainable energy.
Honoring awardees for leadership in the energy sector:
Solarize Massachusetts
An innovative program being replicated across the nation, Solarize Mass has made solar more accessible for residents across MA through targeted community-based outreach. We'll welcome representatives from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Department of Energy Resources to accept this award!
Representative Lori Ehrlich
State Representative for the Massachusetts 8th Essex District, whom has worked tirelessly on efforts to shut down coal generation, fix gas leaks, and promote renewable energy in MA.
Conservation Law Foundation
Since 1966, CLF's mission has been to advocate on behalf of the region's environment and its communities. CLF has recently focused on natural gas leaks and their threat to our climate and health.
Health Care Without Harm
Together with its partners, Health Care Without Harm shares a vision of a health care system that promotes the health of people and the environment. We applaud the connection they've made between shutting down fossil fuels and promoting health.
Mount St. Mary's Abbey
The sisters at Mount St. Mary's Abbey have been using their land to support renewable energy projects, including a 100kW wind turbine and more recently an 8.4 MW solar array with the city of Franklin.
The sisters also make delicious handmade candy! We will have samples at the event for you to try.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact Brian Sewell with questions: 617-524-3950 x142 or brian at massenergy.org
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Soap Box: The Science of Remembering (and Forgetting)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
How Our Brains Learn and Remember with John Gabrieli, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
What does a memory look like in the brain? How is it that we
are able to take in so much information from the world around us? Discuss these questions and others with John Gabrieli, MIT Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience, one of the foremost experts on memory, thought, and emotion in the human brain.
This is the second in a three-part discussion series on memories. Soap Box is a series of interactive, salon-style, early evening conversations with scientists and engineers who are making the news that really matters.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo at mit.edu
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Zombies: Lessons for Today from the Apocalypse of Tomorrow
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Workbar, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at http://zombielecture-es2.eventbrite.com
On the night before Halloween, Doubleday Law and emersion DESIGN invite you to ask yourself "If the zombie apocalypse started tomorrow, would I know how to survive, or just end up as zombie bait?"
Join us for a night of live music and candy, kicked off by a brief presentation to expand your tasty brains for the impending zombie horde.
About the presentation:
Shawn is a registered architect and sustainability expert with emersion DESIGN – an architecture and
sustainability consulting firm. His work focuses on integrating sustainability into early design and
planning decisions for civic, cultural, and institutional clients throughout the country. His expertise has been sought by Fortune 500 business leaders, as well as city, state, and federal policy makers on issues related to high performance design, green building policies, and sustainability.
Shawn is also a self-taught Zombie Expert from years of study including comics, board-games, books,
movies, video games, and real-world simulations. Shawn’s insights about the Zombie Apocalypse
have earned him speaking invitations at international conferences and sustainability focused events
throughout the country.
Live performances by: All of the Animals
Candy and Refreshments sponsored by: Doubleday LAW
All proceeds from paid tickets to this event go towards funding for The Sea Shepherd
We are supportive of the Undead Unified Gathered Group of Harvard (UUGGH). Zombies, vampires and mummies are welcome to attend without judgement.
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Film Screening: Climate Refugees
Wednesday, October 30
6:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North, 1515 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
Join the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation for a screening of the award-winning documentary "Climate Refugees." The film profiles the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons who have been forced to flee homes because of floods, droughts, rising sea levels and so on, as a result of our changing climate. The director, Michael Nash, is going to be here and will answer questions after the film. Pizza and refreshments will be provided.
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Design + Entrepreneurship
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8895934981/
Design thinking has gained widespread popularity in the entrepreneurial world, and a rising current of entrepreneurially-minded designers who initiate and deploy their skills to hack social systems, business design, cities, infrastructure, hardware and software-based systems.
At this session we will examine the powerful dynamic between design and entrepreneurship. Can lean methodologies be applicable for large-scale design projects through radical collaborations, prototyping and system disruptions? What new perspective can designers offer to re-work traditional business models and reinvent “lean” methodologies from a creative vantage point?
Speakers Include:
Dan Barasch, The Lowline
Archie Lee Coates + Jeffrey Franklin, PLUS POOL and Playlab
Eric Ho, Architecture Commons and miLES
Marc Haumann, Lyft.me
Lindsay Wai, IDEO
This panel is co-presented by the i-lab, GSD Design Thinking, MUSEY, and miLES.
Attendee registrations will be checked at the door. Please bring a printed or smartphone copy of your EventBrite registration and Harvard student ID if you have registered as a Harvard Student. Attendance will be limited to registered guests and tickets will not be available at the door.
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Can We Change Our Genes? Free Lecture at MOS (register w/Eventbrite)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at http://changingourgenes.eventbrite.com/
Advance registration begins at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, October 16 (Monday, October 14 for Museum members).
Tim Spector, MD, professor of genetic epidemiology, King’s College London; director of the TwinsUK Registry; author, Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes
If you share most of the same genetic material, what makes you so different from your siblings? How much are the things you choose to do every day — what you eat, how you vote, whom you love — determined by your genes, and how much is your own free will?
Using fascinating case studies of identical twins, leading geneticist Tim Spector explains how even real-life "clones" with the same upbringing turn out in reality to be unique. Join us at the inaugural Lee and Nile Albright Annual Symposium for a compelling examination of how we become the individuals that we are. Book signing to follow.
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7th Biennial Cambridge City Council Candidates' Night on Environmental and Energy (E/E)
Wednesday, 30 October, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Cambridge Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
Attend the 7th biennial energy and environmental issues forum for Cambridge City Council candidates sponsored by Green Cambridge.
Event Contact Info
Quinton Zondervan
Email: president at greencambridge.org
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Active Hope: Facing Climate Change and Staying Sane
November 2, 2013
9am - 3:30pm
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge (near Harvard Square)
Fee: None. Please bring your lunch; we’ll provide fruit and things to drink.
Registration: Please contact Rosalie Anders at 617/868-6058 or Rosalie.h.anders at gmail.com for more information or to register. Given space limitations, people must register in advance.
Join us for a workshop based on the work of Joanna Macy and the Work That Reconnects. This experiential group work offers participants a supportive context for being present with what is going on in our world and still being able to respond in a meaningful way.
Rapid climate change may well be the greatest challenge we humans have ever faced, and for the most part our society is ignoring the challenge. It can seem too terrible to think about, and action can feel futile. How can we take it all in without getting stuck in despair or being paralyzed with grief or feelings of helplessness? Is it possible to find renewal and joy in work with such enormous stakes and against what feel like overwhelming odds?
The Work that Reconnects is designed to embolden participants to face, constructively, the challenges of our time. Using the power of sharing in a group, we will explore the place of gratitude in our lives, honor our grief about the losses we are witnessing, reframe our responses, and recognize our personal and collective strengths to act. Through this work, many participants have experienced renewed insight, energy, and community connections to engage in creating a better future.
For more information about the Work That Reconnects, please visit Joanna Macy’s website at www.joannamacy.net. This workshop will be facilitated by Aravinda Ananda and Joseph Rotella. They have studied with Joanna numerous times, have been facilitating the Work That Reconnects for several years and recently joined the Interhelp Network Council (www.interhelpnetwork.org).
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America's Datafest
Saturday, November 2nd
8:30am - 7:00 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Weil Town Hall and Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Hosted by the Technology for Social Change Student Group at Harvard Kennedy School
Do you want to work with policy researchers, computer programmers, local non-profits, journalists, and data scientists to solve some of the biggest challenges related to immigration?
Join us for a one-day event, America's Datafest, where you will form teams, brainstorm ideas, design prototypes, and present your solution - a mobile app, new product, business plan, or something else entirely- that displays your insights on immigration issues.
We expect about 50 participants for our one-day event, but the Datafest will also be taking place in more than 20 cities and 12 countries around the world. There will be food, and prizes for the winning teams.
Apply at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vtcyw14TnAAhWjAL3HgMDWyWDpB_1aiBjbl9XCSaQU8/viewform by October 20th, or contact the organizers for more information:
alison_flint at hks15.harvard.edu
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Pentecostal Tabernacle Energy Upgrade Work Party
Saturday, November 2, 2013
9:00 AM to 1:30 PM (PDT)
Pentecostal Tabernacle, 56 Magazine Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://pentecostaltabernaclebarnraising-es2.eventbrite.com
Help Pentecostal Tabernacle reduce its energy bills and carbon emissions at an energy-upgrade work-party. Experts will teach you how to save energy at home, while you help the church.
Come enjoy a true community event where you get to meet other people who care. There will be live music while we all share a home-cooked lunch!
Among other things, we'll work on closing up huge attic holes and programming thermostats.
Contact http://www.heetma.com
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Harvard Public Safety Innovation Hackathon
Tony Huang
Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 4:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard iLab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://harvardhackathon-es2.eventbrite.com
Public murdering in a Kenyan shopping mall, terrorist bombing during the Boston Marathon, school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School...these are the events that require public safety officers to put their lives on the line in order to protect our communities. How can we help them in this endeavor?
The Public Safety Innovation Hackathon is an event that will give students the power to understand and solve some of the most challenging problems we face: the protection and safety of our communities. We want to connect students with leaders and decision-makers from the field so we can dive deep into the world of public safety and use our technology insight to help solve some of the most pressing issues public safety officers face when protecting our communities. We believe in using technology to make the world a safer place, and we think it’s extremely fulfilling when we get to follow your passion for technology while directly benefiting our communities and helping public safety officers save lives.
Join us for the inaugural Harvard Public Safety Innovation Hackathon on November 2nd -3rd at the Harvard Innovation Lab.
Guest Speakers:
Edward Davis, Commissioner of Boston Police Department
Jason Droege, President of Evidence.com
Athena Yerganian, Former CTO of LAPD and Boston Police Department
Scott Crouch, Founder and CEO of Mark43
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Community Event: Transforming Our Homes, Culture, and Economy
November 2, Saturday
6:30
The Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn Street. Harvard Square, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/events/144507562/
Hosted by Food Day, Agricultural Hall, and the Boston Food Forest Coalition, Jan Spencer, a permaculturalist from Eugene, Oregon, will present "Transforming Where We Live - Our Homes, Culture and Economy." Spencer sees a common denominator to virtually all the social/political/economic/environmental downward trends of our times.
Spencer has been transforming his own economy, culture, and quarter-acre suburban property for over 13 years. The grass and driveway are gone, there is edible landscaping all over, passive solar redesign, a 6,500 gallon rain water system, and much more. His presentation discusses suburban permaculture and highlights creative green projects between friends and neighbors where he lives in the River Road Neighborhood of Eugene. He will explain allies and assets in almost any community and include a look at other green initiatives in the Northwest. All for revitalizing civic culture for transforming homes, culture and economy.
As he observes, "We live in a culture that is short on civic vitality because there are so many distractions which are remarkably effective at reducing peoples' capacity to act in their own best interests. The needs of a growth-based, supply-sided, globalized economy are at odds with healthy civic culture and are not compatible with a green and peaceful planet. Transforming our economy so it becomes friendly to people and planet means we mitigate virtually all the downward trends at the same time."
There will be a half hour mix and mingle time before the presentation with community groups tabling.
The presentations are free and open to the public. For more information, see
www.suburbanpermaculture.org
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Playing for the Planet: NE Music Masters
Saturday, November 2
7:00 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Admission is $20; $15 students & seniors for the benefit of 350.org
For information, please call 781-396-0734, or visit the event website at www.warrensenders.com
The performers include classic swing music with The Matt Glaser Trio, Albanian flute virtuoso Geni Skendo and his Astronauts of Albania, and Indian classical music for sarod and tabla with George Ruckert & Amit Kavthekar
The Matt Glaser Trio
The Boston Herald says he’s “possibly America’s most versatile violinist.” And for good reason: over the past three decades, Matt Glaser has performed and collaborated with countless greats in a huge variety of idioms — Stephane Grappelli, Ralph Stanley, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob Dylan, David Grisman, Lee Konitz, the Waverly Consort, Gunther Schuller, Fiddle Fever, and many more. He served as the chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music for more than twenty-five years, and he’s currently the founder and artistic director of Berklee's American Roots Music Program.
The author of four books on contemporary violin styles including "Jazz Violin" co-authored with the late Stephane Grappelli, Matt Glaser has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, and everywhere in the world as an exponent of the very best America’s music has to offer. Featured on the Grammy-winning soundtrack for Ken Burns's 1990 The Civil War documentary and the soundtrack for the 1978 film King of the Gypsies, Matt served on the board of advisors for Ken Burns's 2001 Jazz documentary and appears as a narrator in the film.
For “Playing for the Planet,” he’ll be presenting classic Swing tunes in an intimate trio format with guitarist Jon Wheatley (who has performed and recorded with Ruby Braff, Diana Krall, Alan Dawson, Mike Metheny and countless others) and bassist Britt Karlson.
George Ruckert & Amit Kavthekar
Performer, composer, arranger, author, and teacher, George Ruckert had already earned a master’s degree in western music theory and composition when he was introduced in 1967 to the music of the legendary sarod master, Ustad Ali Akbar Khansahib, and made the decision to become a disciple of this great maestro. As one of the senior-most disciples of Khansahib, he focused his attention on sarod and vocal music for forty years. After earning advanced degrees in Indian music in 1975, he served for many years as teacher and Director of the Ali Akbar College of Music near San Francisco, and earned a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California. As a solo artist on the sarod, he has performed, recorded, and taught in India, Europe, and the United States, and is a published author of numerous articles and books about Indian classical music and artists. A faculty member at MIT, he is frequently called upon to write articles about India’s most prominent musical talents and liner notes for CDs as well.
Amit Kavthekar, a Ganda-Bandha Shagird of Ustad Allarakha, has rhythm running in his veins. He began his training with the legend at the early age of six. Since 1991, he was fortunate to be taught tabla intricacies by the internationaly acclaimed tabla master, Ustad Zakir Hussain. Amit had his basic training in tabla from Shri Ashok Godbole, at the Allarakha Institute of Music. From 1997 to 2003, Deepak Nerurkar, another brilliant tabla maestro, imparted his art to Amit. Recently awarded the Taal Mani by Sur Singar Sansad, Amit is presently learning intricacies of Delhi Gharana from Guru Pandit Sudhir Mainkar. He has performed as a soloist and accompanist all over the world.
Geni Skendo and the Astronauts of Albania
The Boston Globe calls Geni Skendo a “virtuoso,” creating a unique blend of jazz, free jazz and world music. Geni leads the Albanian/Jazz/Ambience group "Astronauts of Albania" and the free improvised chamber music group, Samurai Jazz Trio, consisting of shakuhachi, bass/shamisen and piano. After a successful performing career in his native Albania, Geni moved to the US in 2003 to raise his jazz playing to a higher level. Studies at the Berklee College of Music and The New England Conservatory (MM) led to a deep, ongoing involvement with the Boston music scene. Geni performs with Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica (Best World Music Act, Boston Phoenix Readers’ Poll, 2012), in both its quartet and big-band incarnations. The quartet utilizes Geni’s full palette, while the big band relies heavily on Geni’s powerful bass flute in its recreation of long-lost arrangements by the legendary Mexican arranger Juan Garcia Esquivel. Geni’s most recent CD is “Acoustic Cowboy,” featuring original compositions and new arrangements of songs from Olivier Messiaen, African pygmies and the Balkans.
Astronauts of Albania performs Albanian folk music arranged for Shakuhachi & Bass Flute, Oud, Guitar, Bass and Drums. The band’s music seamlessly integrates complex Balkan grooves with free improvised sections, punctuating hypnotic textures with dazzling solo sections.
“...Senders possesses a gift for assembling fascinating programs.”
— Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe —
“Playing For The Planet: World Music Against Climate Change” is the eighth concert in an ongoing series of cross-cultural events produced by Boston-area musician and environmental activist Warren Senders (www.warrensenders.com). These concerts were conceived as a way for creative musicians to contribute to the urgent struggle against global warming. Their choice of beneficiary, 350MA.org, is focused on building global consensus on reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels — action which climatologists agree is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
Because the climate problem recognizes no national boundaries, the artists represent musical styles from three different parts of the globe, and share key musical values: listening, honesty, creativity, and respect. And, of course, they are all committed to raising awareness of the potentially devastating effects of global warming. It’ll be an incredible evening of powerful music — from some of the finest musicians in New England and the world.
“...pleasant surprises and stimulation of the aesthetic synapses...
...an open-ended, floating, world music festival...”
— Steve Elman, ArtsFuse —
About 350.org
Co-founded by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, 350.org is the hub of a worldwide network of over two hundred environmental organizations, all with a common target: persuading the world’s countries to unite in an effort to reduce global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million or less. Climatologist Dr. James Hansen says, “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 400 ppm to at most 350 ppm.” (Dr. Hansen headed the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.) Activists involved in the 350 movement include Rajendra Pachauri (Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Vandana Shiva (world-renowned environmental leader and thinker), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a global activist on issues pertaining to democracy, freedom and human rights), Van Jones, Bianca Jagger, Barbara Kingsolver and many more.
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Energy Theater: Turn It Around!
Saturday, November 2
7:30 pm
Unity Somerville, 6 William Street (corner College Ave, 3 blocks from Davis Square), Somerville
$10 suggested donation
Laughter, Comedy, Music, and Amazing Mystical Experiences
Energy Theater takes energy awareness, Laughter Club concepts, and neuroscience onstage and shows the audience how to increase their natural abilities.
In addition to our regular cast of comedians, musicians and movement artists, this show will also introduce a new humorous duo, the M&Ms.
Problems repeat themselves, your response to them does not have to be the same. Experience funny and innovative ways to turn things around. This is our fifth show.
Produced and directed by Walter Ness.
For more information, see www.EnergyTheater.org
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Time Trade Circle Orientation
Sunday, November 3, 2013
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM
Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Boston-area-freegan-and-dumpster-diving-meetup/events/144996382/
These are orientations for joining the Time Trade Circle. (You have to attend one orientation to join.)
The TTC is an alternative economy where people trade services for hours, not money. All services are (more-or-less) valued equally, so each hour of work you do is an hour put in your account that you can then spend on someone else's services.
https://hourworld.org/bank/?hw=1079
These meetings will be led by Carol. Materials will also be available in Braille. Children are welcome. Please try to arrive on time!
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"Working on Climatic Time: Climatology and Labor Practices in Postwar Industrial Agriculture"
Monday, November 4, 2013
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
James Bergman (Harvard, History of Science)
STS Circle Lecture at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts at hks.harvard.edu
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Road to Paris via Warsaw
Monday, November 4, 2013
12:30-1:45p
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Mugar 200, 160R Packard Avenue, Medford
A panel discussion on key issues in the lead up to the Warsaw Climate Change Conference
Kelly Sims Gallagher (chair), Director, CIERP, and Associate Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School
Sivan Kartha, Senior Scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute
Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Mukul Sanwal, Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
Hosted by CIERP's Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program
A light lunch will be served (first come first served).
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Community Event: Transforming Our Homes, Culture, and Economy
Monday, November 4, 2013
6:30 PM
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Permaculture/events/144683062/
Hosted by Food Day, Agricultural Hall, and the Boston Food Forest Coalition, Jan Spencer, a permaculturalist from Eugene, Oregon, will present "Transforming Where We Live - Our Homes, Culture and Economy." Spencer sees a common denominator to virtually all the social/political/economic/environmental downward trends of our times.
Spencer has been transforming his own economy, culture, and quarter-acre suburban property for over 13 years. The grass and driveway are gone, there is edible landscaping all over, passive solar redesign, a 6,500 gallon rain water system, and much more. His presentation discusses suburban permaculture and highlights creative green projects between friends and neighbors where he lives in the River Road Neighborhood of Eugene. He will explain allies and assets in almost any community and include a look at other green initiatives in the Northwest. All for revitalizing civic culture for transforming homes, culture and economy.
As he observes, "We live in a culture that is short on civic vitality because there are so many distractions which are remarkably effective at reducing peoples' capacity to act in their own best interests. The needs of a growth-based, supply-sided, globalized economy are at odds with healthy civic culture and are not compatible with a green and peaceful planet. Transforming our economy so it becomes friendly to people and planet means we mitigate virtually all the downward trends at the same time."
There will be a half hour mix and mingle time before the presentation with community groups tabling.
The presentations are free and open to the public. For more information, see
www.suburbanpermaculture.org
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Feeding the World without Consuming the Planet
November 5, 2013
2:00PM-5:30PM
MIT, Building E51-115, Wong Auditorium, Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iN6EMHdbe8VH93qS8ioNNiJz10-6Z0WB2jln4WBTQ48/viewform
Confronting global environmental change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Changes to water, land and climate will affect the future of food and agriculture. The MIT Food Symposium will bring together industry experts and researchers to share their perspectives and gain a better understanding of how research can address these global resource challenges.
This event is free and open to the public. Please register in advance to help us prepare appropriately.
There will be live online streaming of the event on November 5th atglobalchange.mit.edu/foodsymposium
AGENDA
2:00 – 3:00pm: Climate, Food, Water, Energy Nexus
3:00 – 4:00pm: Agricultural Resources and Inputs
4:00 – 5:00pm: Agricultural Commodity Markets, Food and Consumers
5:00 – 5:30pm: MIT View: Unique Contribution to Finding Solutions
Contact E-mail: alligold at mit.edu
Event URL: http://globalchange.mit.edu/foodsymposium
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How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Nov 5, 2013
4pm
MIT, Building E19-623
Michael Moss is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, published by Random House in 2013. He has been an investigative reporter with The New York Times since 2000. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2010, and was a finalist for the prize in 2006 and 1999. He is also the recipient of a Loeb Award and an Overseas Press Club citation. Before joining the Times, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Eve Heyn, and two sons.
http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/how-food-giants-hooked-us#sthash.kTN9EDH9.dpuf
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Drinking Water: A History
When: Tuesday, November 5
4-5:30 pm.
Harvard, Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard
Do you feel guilty about drinking bottled water or worry about fracking? Professor James Salzman who holds joint appointments in Law and Environmental Science at Duke University and is the Leo Gottlieb Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School will speak about his latest book, Drinking Water: A History, followed by tea.
Please RSVP by return email to neighbors at harvard.edu. Limited to 50 people.
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Exploring the Digital Transformation of Healthcare
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
MIT, Building E62
RSVP at ealthcaredigitaltransformation-es2.eventbrite.com/
Payer perspectives on how technology and innovation will help achieve more affordable and higher quality healthcare
The U.S. healthcare industry is poised to undergo a significant transformation. Spending on healthcare has outpaced inflation and economic growth for many years, yet quality still lags on many fronts. This discussion will explore a few of the key trends that are helping drive the changing landscape including: unsustainable costs; the need for better patient information to support the coordination of care; creation of a consumer marketplace through public and private health insurance exchanges; movement from a fee for service reimbursement model for doctors and hospitals to an incentive based reimbursement model; and the need to more effectively engage a consumer in the management of their health.
The discussion will provide a perspective on how payers are reacting to these trends by leveraging a balance of technology and innovation to drive growth in the emerging consumer marketplace; transform business processes and analytics to support incentive based reimbursement; and leveraging an integrated patient health record, artificial intelligence and other decision-support tools to drive better patient outcomes. Finally a key to successfully improving quality and reducing cost is having an engaged consumer or caregiver and we will discuss some uses of mobile, social, medical devices and emerging technologies that will simplify and personalize the way in which that will be achieved in alignment with an individual patient’s needs.
Please note! At the event, we also hope to help connect entrepreneurs to the marketplace and give you open access to Lori Beer to ask her those questions you can’t find the answer to on any website. To help accomplish this, we are going to select 3 start-ups to give their 60 second pitch at the end of the event and get direct feedback from Lori Beer herself. If you would like to pitch, please answer a couple of quick questions here
Speaker Bio:
Lori Beer is currently the Managing Director of L. A. Beer & Associates, which provides strategic advisory services to the healthcare and technology industries. Key areas of focus include helping growth stage companies define a strategic approach and execution plan to scale; enabling companies to drive growth in new markets; and leveraging new technologies and innovation to help transform business models.
Ms. Beer has more than 20 years of technology and related business experience, including more than 15 years at WellPoint. She has a proven track record of driving innovation, maximizing technology investments and delivering cost-efficiency.
Ms. Beer was executive vice president of Specialty Businesses and Information Technology for WellPoint, Inc. She was responsible for a $10 billion business unit which included WellPoint’s Specialty Products, including dental, vision, life, disability and workers’ compensation, and it’s consumer-centric business 1-800 CONTACTS; Federal Government Solutions; WellPoint’s research subsidiary, HealthCore; Information Technology; Information Management, and technology-driven innovation. Ms. Beer was responsible for developing the first commercial health care applications of IBM’s Watson technology, which is expected to help improve the delivery of quality, evidence-based health care to millions of Americans.
Ms. Beer served as executive vice president of WellPoint’s Enterprise Business Services, which included the company's operations, technology, real estate, information management, vendor partnerships, and strategic projects. In this role, she was responsible for driving the business, technology and service solutions to deliver innovative health care products and services to the more than 33 million members of the company's health plans. She led more than 50 percent of WellPoint’s associates and managed a portfolio exceeding $3 billion.
Ms. Beer was featured in MITSloan Management Review, The Digital Transformation of Healthcare, April 2013; Fortune Magazine’s Leadership Series, An Insurer’s High-Tech Reboot, September 2012; was named a Computerworld2011 Premier 100 IT Leader and was the 2011 National Association for Female Executives Women of Excellence Health Care Champion.
Ms. Beer serves on the board of directors for Vantiv Inc., a payment processing and technology solutions provider. She earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Dayton.
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Crowds and Climate: Mobilizing Crowds to Develop Ideas and Take Action on Climate Change
November 6-8, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
More information at http://www.climatecolab.org/conference2013
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“Life Saving Information: Mortality Risk Reduction from Air Quality Index Forecasts”
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Joseph Aldy and Marie Abele Bind, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman at harvard.edu
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Jillian York
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
5:30pm - 6:30pm
MIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jillian York in Conversation with Ethan Zuckerman
Jillian C. York is Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her work focuses on free expression, with an focus toward the Arab world, and as such she has written for a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and CNN. Jillian contributed chapters to the upcoming volumes Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communication, Journalism and Society (Palgrave Macmillan; March 2013) and State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide(Ashgate Publishing; expected November 2013). She serves on the Board of Directors of Global Voices Online, and on the Advisory Boards of R-Shief,OnlineCensorship.org, Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund and Internews’ Global Internet Policy Project.
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Principles for Design & Humanizing Big Data with Data Visualization
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) 5th Floor - Havana Room, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8839831173/es2/
Note that a valid ID is required for building security. Once you sign in go to the 5th floor and then down the corridor to the Havana room.
Lynn Cherny - Data Vis 101: Principles for Design
I'll condense an intro workshop into 45 minutes and review the principles for successful design with data, including tips on visual encodings, story-finding, and principles for developing exploratory or explanatory visualizations. We'll look at a couple redesigns and award winners, plus maybe a few #WTFvis examples along the way.
Bio: Lynn Cherny is a local data analysis and visualization consultant who works in Python, R, and D3.js. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford in linguistics and spent 18 years as a UX designer and manager before going back to the code side.
Humanizing Big Data with Data Visualization
Data visualization is the human front-end of big data. In order for people to solve problems and make decisions using insights drawn from big data, they need a clear understanding of the stories that are often buried. How can UI designers and data visualization practitioners help make those insights understandable and useful to decision-makers? We all deal with the challenge of how to identify meaningful objects or events in a raw datastream, and present those events to users in a way that provides context and helps them get a qualitative understanding of what is going on. We'll look at approaches to accomplishing this, and how techniques like visual abstraction, attention-management and metaphor can help.
Bio: Mark Schindler is co-founder and Managing Director of GroupVisual.io, a Cambridge, MA consultancy that specializes in making Big Data consumable for human beings through the design of data visualization and data-driven user experiences. For over 15 years, he has designed business analytics and visualization systems for clients like Johnson & Johnson, GE and Eli Lilly.
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SITN Lecture - Big Data in the Postgenome Era
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
7pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Join us for the next lecture in Harvard University's Science in the News Fall Lecture Series, Big Data in the Postgenome Era: What can the human genome sequence do for you?
For those of you not familiar with SITN's lecture format, lectures are free, accessible, and open to the public. All lectures are given entirely by graduate students at Harvard and focus on hot topics in science research and news.
A team of three graduate students each present a 30-40 minute segment, with breaks for questions and refreshments. The lectures last for about two hours, and are often followed by lab tours.
They will have light refreshments before the lecture (coffee, tea, cookies, etc.)
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Taking the Stand
Thursday, November 7
6:30 - 8:00 pm
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
Alan Dershowitz is a legal expert, a scholar on constitutional law and criminal law, and was the youngest full professor of law in the history of Harvard Law School. His client list includes Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Jim Bakker, O.J. Simpson, and currently Wikileaks’s Julian Assange. Now, in his legal biography,Dershowitz breaks down the critical and complex issues of First Amendment rights, civil rights, abortion, and murder. He also explains the emerging role of science within a trial’s defense beyond what we might have seen on CSI. Sharing his views with moderator Nancy Gertner, a former United States federal judge for Massachusetts, Dershowitz opens up about his famed legal career and personal opinions like never before.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org. Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris at suffolk.edu.
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Boston TechBreakfast
11/8/2013
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/boston-techbreakfast
Description: Want to see cool new technology? Want to interact with other cool techies, startups, and business folks? Have some time in the morning? Then come to TechBreakfast, a monthly breakfast in Boston, Baltimore, Columbia, DC, and Northern Virginia where entrepreneurs, techies, developers, designers, business people, and interested people see showcases on cool new technology in a demo format and interact with each other . "Show and Tell for Adults" is what we usually say. No boring presentations or speakers who drone on. This is a "show and tell" format where we tell people to show me, don't tell me about the great things they are working on. Each TechBreakfast begins at 8:00am and goes until 10AM (although people usually hang around later). This event is FREE! Thank our sponsors when you see them!
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Music Hack Day
November 9 - 10
Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://boston.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Register for full conference on November 10 demos
More info at http://boston.musichackday.org/2013/index.php
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"The Dystopian Presented as the Utopian: Does the Internet lead us to forget what we know about life?"
Monday, November 11, 2013
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before
Sherry Turkle (MIT, STS)
STS Circle Lecture at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts at hks.harvard.edu
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Anarchy Apiaries: Bee Esoteric with Sam Comfort
Monday, November 11, 2013
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Follow the Honey, 1132 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/meetthebeekeepermondays/events/139947672/
Welcome to the House that Bees Built (REST BEFORE LABOR)
In the reflections of Anarchy Apiaries: The End of Time
What is happening? Apart from global warming, apart from a weak dollar and high oil prices, apart from our energy, food, water, economic, and personal crises, why are we so grumpy? Where is the connection that sustains our life force? Are we losing our ability to live in peace with ourselves and care for living things? Well, ask not what your paradigm can do for you- nobody out there has your solution. The generations now seem like separations. Nothing out there is going to change until we change ourselves. What we have brought the Honey Bees to bear is an ecological problem. An ecological problem is a social problem. Estranged, packed-in but alone, we have allowed fear and mistrust to govern our freedom.
Working with Bees is all about overcoming fear. The Hive is love incarnate. The Hive is the window to our new world. It takes patience and emotional energy to dismantle power dynamics; more awkward than a newborn goat. We are rediscovering what it means to live in peace with the insects, the landscape, and each other, outside of the corporate scheme.
They got the bombs but Bees got the numbers. Join together!
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Natural Gas & Electricity Interface Challenges in New England
Friday, November 15, 2013
9 am to 12:15 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
The increasing dependence of New England's Electricity system on natural gas-fired generation has been the subject of intense discussion and debate at the Roundtable and other forums. The recent and upcoming developments listed below make this complex topic once again ripe for a Roundtable panel:
New England States Committee on Electricity's recent release of its commissioned study Gas-Electric Study Phase III: Natural Gas Infrastructure and Electric Generation: Proposed Solutions for New England;
New England Gas/Electric Focus Group Final Report (and recommendations) due out before this Roundtable;
ISO New England's Phase II Detailed Gas Supply Study (due out in November) and also ISO's anticipated FERC FCM (gas-related) performance incentives filing;
Connecticut's recent push for more natural gas space heating, and
MA DOER's current Gas (Distribution) Expansion Study; and
Recent announcements by the owners of two of New England's largest non-gas generators-Vermont Yankee (nuclear) and Brayton Point (coal) , of plans to retire these facilities in the next few years
To discuss these various gas-electric interface developments and their potential impacts in New England, we have assembled an excellent panel:
Heather Hunt, Exec Director, New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE)
Kevin Kirby, VP Market Operations, ISO New England
Don Santa, President/CEO, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
Sue Reid, VP/Director, CLF (Massachusetts)
Dan Dolan, President, New England Power Generators Association (NEPGA)
We look forward to seeing you at the The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable. If you can't make it in person, you can watch it live - free for Roundtable Sponsors and $50 for others. Register at http://clickstreamtv.com/raabevents/?utm_source=first+RT+announce+11.15.13&utm_campaign=1st+announce+11.15.13&utm_medium=email
If you missed our last Roundtable on Modernizing the Electric Grid, you can access the presentations for free, or watch the archival video (free for Sponsors and $40 for others).
Free and open to the public.
No advanced registration!!
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
November 16
St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The November 16 workshop will be held at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury. Registration will be available soon and if you are interested in attending this one,emailjimnail at mipandl.org to be notified when registration opens.
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
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TEDxBeaconStreet 2013
November 16 - 17
Lincoln School, 19 Kennard Road, Brookline
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=gbcymnmab&oeidk=a07e81pmitb0fd95d03
More information at http://www.tedxbeaconstreet.com
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The Role of the Free Market in Solving the Climate Crisis
November 19, 2013
7:00-8:00PM
Babson's Sorenson Theatre, 231 Forest Street, Wellesley
Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
John M. Reilly, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT
Gary Rucinski, New England Coordinator, Citizens Climate Lobby; co-creater of a 2016 ballot initiative for a revenue-neutral carbon tax
Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
Fritz Fleischmann, William R. Dill Governance Chair, Babson College
Contact E-mail: lwvWellesley at gmail.com
Event URL: http://lwvma.org/
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Findings from the Kilowatt Crackdown, a Commercial Office Building Competition in Energy Efficient Operation
November 21
2pm EST
Webinar
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GNKTAcup6Ql9fhOkwVMZMyEw6W4LZWBHTQu13sJqkoQ/viewform
TOPIC: The Kilowatt Crackdown program offers the opportunity for community engagement and competitive dynamics among commercial buildings, in regards to energy efficiency goals. Through a process of benchmarking, auditing, implementation, and evaluation, energy savings can be accomplished. With a focus on operational recommendations, savings can be achieved at a relatively low cost. This session will summarize the goals and strategies of the Kilowatt Crackdown program, as well as commonly found energy efficiency measures.
PRESENTERS: JACK DAVIS - has over 18 years of experience in the energy, development, and marketing fields, and manages JDM’s West Coast clients. Advising clients on strategy development, program design and implementation, and market based environmental initiatives, Jack’s work has led to innovative programs and materials such as Carbon4Square, the Kilowatt Crackdown, the Green Building Opportunity Index, the Deep Retrofit Playbook, and the High Performance Portfolio Framework. Jack serves on the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Responsible Property Investing Product Council and the ULI Northwest Advisory Board. Jack has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University and a MBA in Marketing from the University of Minnesota.
KATIE LEICHLITER - Katie Leichliter is a Research Scientist at the University of Idaho – Integrated Design Lab in Boise. She conducts energy efficiency field work, measurement and verification, and operational and investment grade audits. Katie also conducts simulation research for energy efficiency in existing building renewal projects, and has developed stand-alone energy analysis tools. Katie graduated with a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho and spent three years in a private mechanical design practice specializing in BIM, building simulation, and HVAC design. Katie serves on the board of governors of the Idaho ASHRAE Chapter.
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Managing Holistically: Policies and Actions to Restore and Sustain Ecosystem Services
Friday, November 22, 2013
9:00a-12:00p
Tufts, ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Allan Savory, Rancher and Restoration Ecologist, Founder of the Savory Institute and originator of the Holistic Management approach to restoring grasslands, winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, and finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge (watch his January 2013 presentation at Fletcher at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/News/more/Allan-Savory-Fletcher-Jan2013)
Hosted by CIERP's Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity Program
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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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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/
More information about the Act-MA
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