[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - August 23, 2020
gmoke
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Aug 23 11:52:58 PDT 2020
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Since almost all events are online now, Energy (and Other) Events is now virtual and can happen anywhere in the world. If you know of online events that are happening which may be of interest to the editor of this publication, please let me know. People are connecting all across the world and I’d be more than happy to help facilitate more of that.
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Mutual Aid Networks
National
Spreadsheet of mutual aid networks
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1HEdNpLB5p-sieHVK-CtS8_N7SIUhlMpY6q1e8Je0ToY/htmlview
Mutual Aid Networks to Combat Coronavirus
https://itsgoingdown.org/c19-mutual-aid/
Local
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GYuPYEzBk9KIyH3C3419aYxIMVAsa7BL7nBl9434Mg/edit?usp=sharing
Boston + MA COVID19 Resources
(This is a different Google Doc with a similar name, compiled by the Asian
American Resource Workshop)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-x6vOZKVsla5H363mtdgcyivvLmcx7-f2s6l-O_ba8A/edit?usp=sharing
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
https://sites.google.com/view/cambridge-nan/home
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) network
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1RtYZ1wc8jxcSKDl555WszWhQWlOlSkNnfjIOYV0wXRA/mobilebasic
Food for Free (for Cambridge and Somerville) volunteers to provide lunches for schoolchildren, elderly, and hungry
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed0cSIoOc7-Fvoms3VHR1Lc44fjql-vTNknz_a-7T_sKDnrw/viewform
My notes to Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, about how people faced with emergency and disaster usually move towards providing mutual aid, at least until elite panic, a term in disaster studies, kicks in, are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/notes-on-rebecca-solnits-paradise-built.html
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Details of these events are available when you scroll past the index
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Monday, August 24 – Tuesday, August 25
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2020 Big Data Conference
10am Two-Day Course: "COVID-19 From Virus to Vaccine: Biological, Clinical, and Public Health Dimensions”
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Monday, August 24 - Friday, September 11
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Net Zero after Covid 19 - finding a pathway to the new normal
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Monday, August 24
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4am Accelerating Water and Climate Action at COP26
7am Achieving Water, Climate & Energy Goals While Maintaining Freshwater System
9am RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans
10am Jonghyun Yoo's Dissertation Defense, Climate Decision Making under Uncertainty and Future Learning
12pm Social Medicine: Physicians as Agents of Change
12pm Clean Energy and the Post-COVID Workforce
12pm Food Justice & Composting in NYC
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
2pm A Sour and Out of Breath Ocean
2pm Feminism and climate change
3pm Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair
7pm The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
7pm Is Unity Something You DO?
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Tuesday, August 25 - Thursday, August 27
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Circularity20: Accelerating the Circle Economy
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Tuesday, August 25
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1:30am Freedom Challenge-Intro to Indigenous & Disability Rights 4 Climate Justice
7:30am The Future of Energy
9:30am Sustainable software engineering: building carbon-efficient applications
11am Transatlantic Tuesdays - The Politics of Globalization in the Run-Up to the 2020 Election
12pm Community Forum on COVID-19 Research
12:30am Author Talk: Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
1pm Perspectives from Global Experts on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
1:30pm Leveraging species genomes to support climate change adaptation
2pm TRANSPORTATION: Taking the Car Out of Carbon Emissions
2pm Making it Public: Activating Public Spaces for Creativity, Connection, and Celebration
3pm Cleantech Live #4: Today's Buildings, Tomorrow's Grid
6:30pm Newburyport Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
7pm LSU Science Café: Tracking Extreme Weather & Hurricanes
7pm Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
7:30pm Boston Green Drinks - August 2020 VIRTUAL Happy Hour
8pm From Controversy to Cure: Virtual Q&A with the scientists behind Kendall Square's biotech boom
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Wednesday, August 26
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8am Tackling global warming after coronavirus: some lessons of history
8am Harbor Use Public Forum: Explore Pier 4
9am EBC Second Annual New England Climate Change, Resilience & Adaptation Summit: Part Two – Update on Climate Science and Case Studies
11am Understanding Our New World with Mary Robinson
11am Sustainable Arctic Fisheries Hub Webinar with Dr. Andreas Østhagen
11am 30 innovations for a renewable-powered future
11am The Changing Global Order in a Post-Pandemic World
12pm Building an Equitable Energy Future
12pm LIVE WEBINAR: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF CULTURE IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE TEAMS
12:30pm Why do we need to think about the Social in Sustainability?
1pm Solar PV and Battery Storage
2pm The 2020 State of Demand-Side Energy Management in New England Webinar
2pm Got mail? Why the 2020 election may depend on the U.S. Postal Service
2pm The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation During the Pandemic
4pm A Discussion with Historian Martha S. Jones
6pm MEGA-URBANIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE CASE OF AFRICA
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Thursday, August 27
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7:30am Biochar: Sustainable Forest Fertilisation
12pm Demand Side Energy Management in the Texas Energy Market
2pm Mary Berry and Bill McKibben
3pm Electrification - The big solution to climate change
5pm Black Boston: Telling Our Stories
6pm Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
6:30pm Wellesley Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
7pm Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
8pm COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
8:30pm Energy Transition and Green Recovery during and post Pandemic Period
10:30pm Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, & Future of Earth’s Awesome Creatures
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Friday, August 28
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10am Decolonizing Ourselves Co-Learning
11am WWWeek: Reducing the Risks of Climate-Related Water Conflicts
1pm Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
2pm Free the Moderna Vaccine
8pm Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1978)
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Saturday August 29
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Independent Bookstore Day!
8:30am Climate Justice: Why Climate Justice & the Global South matter
9am Charles River Watershed Association Clean-Up
10am Compassion and the sustainable development goals: a new tomorrow
10am Arlington Shoe Strike @ Uncle Sam
6pm Just Recovery: Reconciling Race, Class, Gender, and Climate Change
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Monday, August 31
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12pm SimPlanet 2020
1pm Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
4pm Climate Change Town Hall w/Chairwoman Kathy Castor & Congressman Joe Neguse
6pm Managing for Economic and Social Justice
7pm Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
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Tuesday, September 1 - Friday, September 4
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Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19 in Africa: A Virtual Symposium
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Tuesday, September 1
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12:30pm Author Talk: Visual Culture by Alexis Boylan
2pm Public Works: Planning and Designing Public Spaces for Spatial Justice
6:30pm Mettler and Lieberman: Four Threats to Our Democracy
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Geometry Links - August 19, 2020
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2020/08/geometry-links-august-19-2020.html
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Monday, August 24 – Tuesday, August 25
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2020 Big Data Conference
Monday, August 24 – Tuesday, August 25
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3hb9b6EH3WqNLkQvigHC11XzDFzhYpXuHB6wi4y6cutB1EQ/viewform
SPEAKER(S) Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Joseph Dexter, Dartmouth University
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft
Amin Saberi, Stanford University
Vira Semenova, University of California, Berkeley
Varda Shalev, Tel Aviv University
Elizabeth Sibert, Harvard University
DETAILS On August 24-25, 2020 the CMSA will be hosting our sixth annual Conference on Big Data. The Conference will feature many speakers from the Harvard community as well as scholars from across the globe, with talks focusing on computer science, statistics, math and physics, and economics. Registration for this event is required, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants before the event.
LINK https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/2020-big-data-conference/
CONTACT INFO Alaina Fernandes, afernandes at math.harvard.edu
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Two-Day Course: "COVID-19 From Virus to Vaccine: Biological, Clinical, and Public Health Dimensions"
Monday, August 24 - Tuesday, August 25
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=8340F479E7FDA223825B52E39CFD3DC8
Registration is free for anyone with a Columbia UNI. For external participants, the registration fee is $125.
Led by world-class scientific experts and leaders, the two-day Columbia Public Health COVID-19 course will integrate seminars, virtual labs, and discussions to introduce participants to a variety of topics about the novel coronavirus, ranging from genetic aspects to public health system vulnerabilities. (Please note this course is not a self-paced, pre-recorded online training.)
Event Contact Information: Anne Foulke Toner
212-342-5312
af2231 at cumc.columbia.edu
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Monday, August 24 - Friday, September 11
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Net Zero after Covid 19 - finding a pathway to the new normal
Monday, August 24 - Friday, September 11
2pm – 5pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/net-zero-after-covid-19-finding-a-pathway-to-the-new-normal-tickets-117252777213
We help organisations navigate the Covid and climate challenge.
Organisations face a number of challenges as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis:
Responding to the immediate financial ramifications of Covid-19
Considering how climate change policies and impacts will impact businesses.
This online workshop helps organisations plot a path to the new normal and create business value.
Find out more about Net Zero on our webpage.
Please note this is aimed at organisations (private and public sector) so please sign up with your orgnisation details.
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Monday, August 24
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Accelerating Water and Climate Action at COP26
Monday, August 24
4:00am – 04:45am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accelerating-water-and-climate-action-at-cop26-tickets-114348750190
To tackle the climate crisis, we have to tackle the water crisis. Join our panel event to hear more about the UK's vision ahead of COP26.
UK Government Minister Zac Goldsmith heads up a panel chaired by Dr John Matthews from the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation.
The climate crisis is a water crisis. This event will highlight the global water crisis and the UK's response in the context of climate change and Covid-19, as well as some of the actions and commitments needed before and at the climate negotiations during COP26.
Broad partnerships are needed to tackle the water and climate crisis. A panel of experts from civil society, private sector and government will discuss water and climate from the perspectives of accountability, finance and business.
Our panel includes:
Minister Goldsmith, the UK's Minister of State for the Pacific and the Environment. The Minister's responsibilities include climate change, environment and conservation, and biodiversity.
Dr John Matthews, the Executive director and co-founder of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation. John led the first-ever global water-climate dialogue at a COP and recent projects included leading a team of experts to develop green and climate bond resilience criteria for water infrastructure.
Sareen Malik, Executive Secretary of the African Civil Society Network for Water and Sanitation. Sareen is also the Vice Chair of the Steering Committee, SWA Partnership. Her work focuses on working with NGOs to meaningfully engage in the water sector, mobilising around the call to action that good water governance is the key to improved sector performance.
Sasja Beslik, Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance at Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd. Sasja is a Swedish and international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been with J. Safra Sarasin since 2019.
The programme includes a moderated Q&A, with attendees able to post questions to panelists live during the event.
Joining instructions will be sent via email on Sunday 23rd August to everyone who has registered for this event.
Relevant water and climate resources including research reports and graphics can be accessed here.
We look forward to welcoming to you to this event as we begin to accelerate action on water and climate.
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Achieving Water, Climate & Energy Goals While Maintaining Freshwater System
Monday, August 24
7:00-7:45am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/achieving-water-climate-energy-goals-while-maintaining-freshwater-system-tickets-116784279925
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 972 9141 2814
Find your local number: https://wwfus.zoom.us/u/abGOf2Ch2q
Accomplishing our climate and energy goals will require a rapid decarbonization of electric power systems and badly planned hydropower could lead to high impact on people and nature. The event will spur discussion on how to secure a climate and nature resilient energy transition.
Programme
Introductions & Quiz
Overview: Renewables, Hydropower, and Rivers in a Changing Climate
Lightning Round of Speed Talks [5 minutes each]:
Assessment of impacts of Climate Change on hydropower & associated risks
Influencing Energy Planning in Zambia for better Environmental and Social outcomes
Multi-sector Energy Planning for Mekong River Conservation
Discussion & Interactive Activity
Facilitated Q&A/Discussion
Convenors:
The Stimson Center
The University of California at Berkeley
World Wide Fund for Nature
Facilitators:
Rafael Camargo, WWF-Germany
Jeff Opperman, WWF-US
Diilwe Syamuntu, WWF - Zambia
Michel Thieme, WWF-US
Courtney Weatherby, The Stimson Center
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RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans
Monday, August 24
9:00AM to 9:45AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.gmfus.org/events/rip-gop-how-new-america-dooming-republicans
A Book Talk with Stanley Greenberg
Speaker
Stanley Greenberg, CEO, Greenberg Research and Co-Founder, Democracy Corps
Moderator
Sudha David-Wilp, Senior Transatlantic Fellow and Deputy Director Berlin Office. The German Marshall Fund of the United States
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is pleased to invite you to a book talk with renown political strategist and pollster Stanley Greenberg who will present his latest book RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans. Painting a dark and gloomy picture of the Republican Party’s future, Greenberg will discuss the reasons for the GOP’s presumed demise and what this means for the United States’ political landscape in the years to come.
We look forward to your participation! If you have any questions, please contact Franka Ellman at fellman at gmfus.org.
This book talk is part of GMF’s Understanding America series which sheds light on the nuances in American politics by presenting U.S. speakers from across the political spectrum. With a mixture of presentations and conversations, this series provides inside analyses from the United States’ most prominent voices.
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Jonghyun Yoo's Dissertation Defense: Climate Decision Making under Uncertainty and Future Learning
Monday, August 24
10:00am — 10:30am
Online
RSVP at contact email: elisabeth.barsa at yale.edu
Mr. Jonghyun Yoo will defend his dissertation entitled, “Climate Decision Making under Uncertainty and Future Learning” on Monday, August 24 at 10:00 AM, via Zoom. The first 30 minutes of his defense will be open to the entire Yale community. All interested persons are invited to attend. To obtain the Zoom link or an electronic copy of Jonghyun’s dissertation please contact the Doctoral Program Office (contact email: elisabeth.barsa at yale.edu).
Committee members:
Prof. Robert Mendelsohn, Chair
Prof. Ken Gillingham
Prof. William Nordhaus
Prof. Thomas Rutherford (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
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Social Medicine: Physicians as Agents of Change
Monday, August 24
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/social-medicine-health-care-technology-innovation
SPEAKER(S) Ted James, MD, MHCM, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Co-Director, BreastCare Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief, Breast Surgical Oncology and Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
DETAILS In this Harvard Medical School webinar, Dr. James will discuss the need for change given the inequalities and disparities in health care. He will also discuss the rationale for extending care beyond the walls of the hospital and into communities, the powerful influence of social determinants of health on patient outcomes, and how physicians can be effective agents of social change.
LINK https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/social-medicine-health-care-technology-innovation
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Clean Energy and the Post-COVID Workforce
Monday, August 24
12PM - 1PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pisA8PH5RZiLzSNVCPe-OA
Explore the impact of COVID-19 on clean energy, as seen through the lenses of workforce development and job opportunities/losses, supplier diversity and state regulation, supply and distribution channels, including solar panels and installations.
We will hear from:
Melanie Kenderdine, Principal at Energy Futures Initiative
Commissioner Sadzi Oliva, Chair at NARUC Subcommittee on Supplier and Workforce Diversity
Nicole Sitaraman (YC '00), Senior Manager, Public Policy at Sunrun
Our discussion will be moderated by Barbara Tyran (SOM '79), President at Women's Council on Energy & the Environment.
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Food Justice & Composting in NYC
Monday August 24
12 pm - 1 pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4PHgDL0M3dkcsBa8LnuwzXB6olfBdpJWdFDPsx_WzEraX8w/viewform
With representatives from the Bronx River Alliance's Foodway* and Brooklyn Rot, this webinar will explore the food justice and composting initiatives in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Presenters will discuss how Covid-19 impacted their work and how their organizations have adapted given all the recent changes.
This webinar will take place on Zoom. Solar One will share the Zoom webinar link and password 2-5 days prior to the event.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 24
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
On Mondays, longtime journalist, author and educator Andy Revkin hosts an open workshop testing paths to impact and sanity in an online information environment that is more overheated, and more important, than ever.
Revkin is the founding director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, which works to boost the capacity of scientists, journalists, educators, students and citizens to communicate in ways that can speed progress toward a more sustainable relationship between our species, our planet and each other. Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin at columbia.edu
Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin at columbia.edu
Watch these sessions on the Earth Institute's Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
Event Contact Information: EI Events
events at ei.columbia.edu
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A Sour and Out of Breath Ocean
Monday, August 24
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sour-and-out-of-breath-ocean-prof-john-spicer-tickets-116003185651
A sour and out of breath ocean–can marine animals cope? Introducing Ocean Acidification and hypoxia, key invisible threats to marine animals
Opportunity for a Q&A with Prof. John Spicer, following an in-depth talk.
In a warming world, increased amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is dissolved in the oceans and has effects that few of us are aware of. How will marine organisms cope with the changing conditions of a world humans are impacting more than ever? How are our oceans taking the brunt of our actions? What can we do as individuals to reverse the climate crisis and to help our previous seas?
This is a unique chance to hear the latest research directly from a scientist at the top of his field and to gain detailed knowledge about a subject all too often ignored.
Professor John Spicer is a marine zoologist at the University’s Marine Institute with expertise in ecophysiology (how animals work, where they are).
His research interests focus on the innermost workings of marine organisms in a quest to understand how the work and evolve in the wild, and how they adapt to climate change.
An eminent scientist renowned for his expertise in ocean acidification and hypoxia, he has contributed a substantial wealth of knowledge to the field over three decades, resulting in over 180 research papers, multiple academic books, writing for popular culture, and advising national and international policymakers.
The event will be hosted by 18 year old Amy Bray, founder of environmental conservation charity Another Way which focuses on inspiring individuals to change their behaviour in order to live with compassion towards others and the planet. She says, ' I am so pleased to be able to connect individuals to scientists through these events. it is so important that research is communicated well to the public so that we can make informed decisions in our lives and do our best to make a difference to the world around us.’
Amy herself is studying marine biology at the University of Exeter as of September.
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Feminism and climate change
Monday, August 24
2pm – 4pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-and-climate-change-tickets-113805974734
Three feminist activists lead our discussion on how the fights for climate justice and gender equality go together
The fight for climate justice and the fight for gender equality go hand in hand.
Women, especially in the global south, are being hit hardest by climate change, as rising temperatures make it harder to care for families and do other types of domestic labour. As we move away from fossil fuels, to avert dangerous climate change, that will change the way that work is done in the home – most of which is done by women. And in the movement for climate justice, women are very often on the front lines.
Our discussion on how these issues go together will be opened by
Orthalia Kunene (XR South Africa),
Laura Schwartz (historian of feminism and labour movements, University of Warwick),
Silvia Semenzin (PhD researcher at the University of Milan, and organiser of a campaign to make “revenge porn” illegal in Italy) and another international speaker.
This will be followed by a discussion with audience participants. No previous experience necessary, just an interest.
This event is free. But we welcome donations to help us continueClimate Breakdown Shakedown. Donate here or you can make a donation when you purchase your ticket.
We normally broadcast the presentations to our Youtube channel for public interest, and stop so no members of the audience is recorded publicly without consent. You are of course welcome to switch your video off if you have any concerns.
All information, links to presentations and resources about this and previous Climate Breakdown Shakedown events can be found on http://xrgreenwich.com
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Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair
Wednesday, August 19
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/summer-webinar-series-action-is-the-antidote-to-despair-tickets-115123459366
Join us for the Summer Webinar Series: Action is the Antidote to Despair: Fossil Fuels, Climate change and the Struggle for Hope
Every day new horrifying data is released on the impacts of climate change and we are flooded with images of climate disaster - floods, droughts, fires and this year even swarms of locusts in the horn of Africa. Despite the data and our elected officials declaring a climate emergency, new fossil fuel projects like LNG Canada, oilsands expansion and the Trans Mountain pipeline are being pushed forward. Using examples from her own journey over the past 30 years in running environmental campaigns Tzeporah Berman will explore this ‘great disconnect’, propose some new bold solutions and discuss how we can all can engage to ensure a safer, cleaner future and make sense of this historic moment for change.
About Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman, BA, MES LLD (honoris causa) is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, the International Program Director at Stand.Earth, The Co-founder of the Global Gas and Oil Network and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She lives on Canada’s west coast with her husband and two boys and is known for her award winning apple pie.
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Monday, August 24
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_emily_anthes/
Cost: Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes EMILY ANTHES—award-winning science journalist and author of Frankenstein's Cat—for a discussion of her latest book, The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated science writer CARL ZIMMER, author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of The Great Indoors on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About The Great Indoors
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships?
In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what—and how much—we eat.
Along the way, Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students’ physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates’ psychological needs. And she previews the homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon.
The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world—one room at a time.
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Is Unity Something You DO?
Monday, August 24
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-online-event-is-unity-something-you-do-tickets-117297988441
Get a ticket to receive information for accessing the online video meeting!
Is unity just a passive state of tolerance, simply the absence of conflict? Or does it require positive action to achieve? Can a spiritual understanding of this principle provide a roadmap to help achieve it?
With each passing day, it seems like we are realizing more and more how interconnected we all are, how much we depend on one another. Particularly evident in times of crisis, old patterns of existence based on perceived differences and division aren’t working for us. But does just wishing for unity make it so? Are good will and positive thoughts enough? Or does unity require universal active and positive participation? Can a spiritual understanding of unity in diversity help us harness its power to create a more materially and spiritually prosperous society for all? Is there specific guidance we can follow, methods we can enact to view unity not just as a lofty idea worth aspiring to, but a strategy for action to be used in affecting positive change?
Come join a different kind of conversation – one that welcomes every perspective in a search for the deeper truths that unite us all as we discuss the spiritual perspective offered by the Bahá’i Teachings on the power of unity in helping us enact a social & spiritual transformation. Join us for a lively discussion as we explore the role each of us can play together in building more unified communities that work for the betterment of us all.
“...we must all strive with heart and soul until we have the reality of unity in our midst…” – Bahá’i Teachings
*** This event is free and open to all regardless of background or belief. Donations will not be accepted.
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Tuesday, August 25 - Thursday, August 27
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Circularity20: Accelerating the Circle Economy
Tuesday, August 25 - Thursday, August 27
Online
RSVP at https://events.greenbiz.com/events/circularity/online/2020
This time of unprecedented challenges requires systemic solutions and radical new ways of doing business. Circularity isn’t just another sustainability framework — it’s an emerging strategy that enables companies to navigate disruption, increase resilience, respond to shifting consumer demand and unlock new business opportunities.
Circularity 20 is a complimentary online event featuring inspirational plenaries, interactive breakouts, valuable networking opportunities and a virtual expo. Join industry-leading speakers and more than 10,000 professionals participating from around the world to learn, connect and accelerate the circular economy.
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Tuesday, August 25
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Freedom Challenge-Intro to Indigenous & Disability Rights 4 Climate Justice
Tuesday, August 25
1:30 AM – 3:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/freedom-challenge-intro-to-indigenous-disability-rights-4-climate-justice-tickets-113589537364
Join Freedom Challenge 2020 workshop: Introduction to Indigenous & Disability Rights for Climate Justice!
Human rights are as much under threat as the environment when it comes to climate change. It’s why within Freedom Challenge 2020 we’ll be “Shouting out for climate justice”
To make that action effective and powerful we are hosting on and offline workshops with some of New Zealand and the Pacific’s best youth climate justice advocates. They’ll be offering insights and knowledge on how together we can better stand up for the rights of this planet and the people on it. Workshops will include creative and practical ways to get involved, build support, and ignite action!
Join Kera Sherwood-O'Regan via zoom to discuss Introduction to Indigenous & Disability Rights for Climate Justice.
Indigenous and Disabled People are already on the frontlines of climate change, but they also have solutions to build a climate safe future for us all. Come to this 90 minute workshop to learn how your climate action can uphold indigenous and disability rights, and what you can do to make the climate movement more inclusive and accessible for frontline communities.
About the facilitator
Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (Kāi Tahu, Te Waipounamu) is an indigenous and disabled multidisciplinary storyteller and rights advocate based in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the Co-founder and Communications & Impact Director at Activate, an indigenous and disabled social impact agency specialising in campaigning and narratives for social change. Her work focuses on centering structurally oppressed communities in social change, exploring community-led collective storytelling, and seeks to raise the bar for free, prior, informed, and ongoing consent in the media. Kera’s work is grounded in kaupapa Māori practices and approaches, and is informed by 15 years of activism within the climate movement. In her spare time she runs Fibromyalgia Aotearoa NZ, and advocates for indigenous rights at the United Nations climate negotiations and within the wider climate movement.
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The Future of Energy
Tuesday, August 25
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/the-future-of-energy-tickets-115458213625
Panel with Averey Chan, Cameron Jones, Max Song, Lavine Hemlani & Tom Corbin
Scientists agree that human activity is causing serious changes to our climate and that we need to drastically lower our emissions in order to avoid a catastrophic climate breakdown. Getting there will require the world’s largest sector and biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions to make great changes, involving and affecting businesses and individuals at large.
Join us in an exploration of different approaches, from renewable energy to smart building and energy efficiency and a discussion of public policies, market mechanisms and where Hong Kong finds itself on the pathway towards a clean energy society.
About the speakers:
Max Song, Entrepreneur, Data Scientist, Schwarzman Scholar
Max loves problem solving and the thrill of thinking on his feet. A former data scientist and founder of the Global Solutions Festival, he now is a venture partner at PCG, where he conducts research into cutting edge fields and technology, interacts with companies, and looks for ways to build dynamic and valuable relationships. He has recently been focusing his attention on understanding sustainability post-Covid19, and the impending climate change crisis, as well as ways to build products and services to address climate change.
Max graduated from Brown University, and was selected as part of the first batch of Schwarzman Scholars, where he completed a masters at Tsinghua University, and wrote his thesis on US-China cross border investment opportunities for renewable energy.
Cameron Jones, Division Head, Innovation and Sustainability at BlocksEDU
Cameron is an experienced project manager with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental sphere and a passion for Corporate Social Responsibility. With BlocksEDU he is developing university courseware in Sustainable Energy Technology and Corporate Social Responsibility for the industries of tomorrow.
He has worked with the Government of Alberta where he was a Director of Project Management and successfully led multiple projects under the Government of Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan. He holds a Master’s of Science in Sustainable Energy Policy and has published on both Renewable Energy Markets and Carbon Mitigation Technologies. He was elected Vice President of the Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) in Alberta where he organized a number of sold-out events on climate change and emerging technologies. Prior to Alberta, Cameron worked with the UK Energy Research Centre and helped contributed to energy policy development for the Government of the United Kingdom. He serves as an advisor to Flash Forest Inc., YPE, and the Okanagan Zambia Health Initiative.
Averey Chan, Business Development, NEFIN Group
Mr. Averey Chan is a business development and engineering lead at NEFIN Group, a regional solar developer delivering carbon neutrality to multi-national corporations throughout Asia Pacific.
Founded by the core management team of DuPont Solar Business, legal experts and investment bankers, NEFIN Group has collectively delivered over 300MW of utility-scale, commercial and industrial rooftop solar systems regionally. NEFIN’s mission is to achieve carbon neutrality for companies. The group offers consulting services such as due diligence, feasibility studies and lender-technical advice on top of project development, system design, engineering and asset management. NEFIN Group also offers flexible financing options to partners who opt for zero investment. Please refer to NEFIN’s website www.nefinco.com for more information.
Averey graduated from Imperial College London with a Master’s Degree in Materials Science & Engineering. As a top student of his cohort, he was awarded the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence for his international studies. Averey was also awarded an exchange studentship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to research lithium-ion batteries.
Lavine Hemlani, Founder & CEO, Xccelerate
Passionate about pioneering advanced technology education to empower individuals, enterprises and workforces.
Founder and CEO of Xccelerate, a leading ed-tech and future of work start-up headquartered in HK with regional capabilities. Xccelerate is founded on the vision that the greatest opportunity for improving lives is education and aspires to reinvent education to address the colossal talent challenges in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Process Automation, Software Engineering, Blockchain and Design across Asia.
Xccelerate drives outcomes for individuals, enterprises and governments by leveraging expert instructors, proprietary curriculum and learning software. Prior to Xccelerate, Lavine co-founded FLYR and worked with deep learning startup Thread Genius (acquired by Sotheby’s). Lavine began his career in investment banking in NYC at Lazard’s Mergers & Acquisitions division (M&A) and held investment facing roles at the following funds: Atlas Capital, Marwar Capital and Union Park Capital.
Lavine also serves as Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence Society of HK and on the Board of Directors of the 24 Hour Race, a global non-profit that fights modern slavery.
Moderator: Tom Corbin
Founder of 6Degrees, Software Engineer, Architectural Designer
Tom has worked extensively on architectural projects in Singapore, where sustainability is ingrained into the culture. He has since transitioned to software engineering and has founded 6Degrees with the aim of using technology to bring a similar level of awareness and appreciation for the public consciousness in Hong Kong.
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Sustainable software engineering: building carbon-efficient applications
Tuesday, August 25
9:30am - 10:30am [12:30 PM to 1:30 PM GMT+1]
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/GreenTech-South-West/events/271843079/
GreenTech South West are delighted to welcome Asim Hussain, green cloud advocacy lead at Microsoft to talk to us about building carbon efficient applications.
Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is an emerging discipline at the intersection of climate science, software, hardware, electricity markets and data centre design. Through the synthesis of this knowledge, a Sustainable Software Engineer can have a meaningful impact on the climate crisis.
By grasping the eight first principles of Sustainable Software Engineering, you can learn how to build, deploy and manage sustainable applications in any application domain, industry, organisation, programming language or framework.
You can read more about these sustainable principles at https://principles.green
Asim is a developer, trainer, author and speaker with over 19 years experience working for organisations such as the European Space Agency, Google and now Microsoft, where he is the Green CLoud advocacy lead.
https://asim.dev
https://twitter.com/jawache
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawache/
This is a free online event on CrowdCast and you will see the link once you RSVP. We'll send an email to those that RSVP the evening before the event with more details about what to expect.
The event will be recorded and will be available along with Asim's slides to view shortly afterwards.
Sponsored by: ADLIB recruitment - www.adlib-recruitment.co.uk
Supported by:
Future Economy Network - www.thefutureeconomynetwork.co.uk
Climate Action Tech - www.climateaction.tech
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Transatlantic Tuesdays - The Politics of Globalization in the Run-Up to the 2020 Election
Tuesday, August 25
11:00AM to 11:45AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://gmfus.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gousIJHxR4ykeXfvyRIqLg
Speakers
Heather Boushey, President and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Matthias Berninger, Head of Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability at Bayer AG
Moderator
Peter Chase, Senior Fellow at GMF Brussels
What have been the impacts of globalization on the United States? Both presidential candidates will have to address globalization in their election campaigns. But what policies will each candidate tout when it comes to questions of trade and workforce development? At this Transatlantic Tuesday, we will assess how globalization is shaping the life—and votes—of Americans. How have the recent challenges posed by the coronavirus changed the perception of globalization in the United States? And how are the global economy and its repercussions being used as a campaign issue for the presidential election in November?
Join us for a lively virtual discussion! #TransatlanticTuesdays
If you have any questions, please contact Elisabeth Winter at ewinter at gmfus.org.
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Community Forum on COVID-19 Research
Tuesday, August 25
12 – 1PM
Online
RSVP st https://www.tuftsctsi.org/registration-august-25-community-forum-on-covid-19-research/
Non-Contact (and Socially Distanced) Vital Signs and Medical Measurement
Want to learn about the latest COVID-19 research happening here at home?
Meet online via Zoom with researchers from the four federally-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards hubs in Massachusetts (Tufts CTSI, BU-CTSI, Harvard Catalyst, and UMass CCTS) to hear about how they’re working together to protect us from COVID-19.
Presenters:
Brian Anthony, PhD
Catherine Ricciardi, DNP, ANP-BC
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Author Talk: Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
Tuesday, August 25
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-mage-merlins-unsolved-mathematical-mysteries-tickets-115914028981
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Satyan Devadoss, author of Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with advanced calculus. But, as Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries shows, mathematics is filled with intriguing mysteries that take us to the edge of the unknown. This richly illustrated, story-driven volume presents sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles, all understandable by anyone with elementary math skills. These intriguing mysteries are presented to readers as puzzles that have time-traveled from Camelot, preserved in the notebook of Merlin, the wise magician in King Arthur's court.
About the Author
Satyan Linus Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Diego. A recipient of two national teaching awards, he has published on topics ranging from origami and cartography to phylogenetics and particle collisions.
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Perspectives from Global Experts on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
Tuesday, August 25
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perspectives-from-global-experts-on-climate-change-and-sustainable-energy-tickets-116941082927
The San Diego Diplomacy Council will convene global experts to discuss climate action and the latest developments on sustainable energy.
Sponsored by Sempra Energy, the San Diego Diplomacy Council invites you to our upcoming Global Leaders Online Forum, taking place on Tuesday, August 25 from 10-11 am PST. We will convene global experts to discuss climate action and the latest developments on sustainable energy. The event will be moderated by Erin Koch, Corporate Sustainability Manager at Sempra Energy. Featured speakers include alumni of the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and local subject matters experts.
Featured Speakers:
Douty Chibamba is an accomplished environmental scientist from Zambia. He teaches climate change and sustainable development at the University of Zambia, in addition to several other geography courses. In his role, Douty has led a team of scientists to explore the possibilities of using alternative renewable sources of energy, such as solar, geothermal and wind in Zambia. He has also negotiated for Zambia at several conference of parties (COPs), including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Douty visited the U.S. in October of 2018 as part of the IVLP delegation focused on “Renewable Energy and Sustainable Growth”.
Muhammad Leroy A. Gomez is a climate scientist and a specialist on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Human Security from The Gambia. He has over seven years’ experience in the National Environment Agency, and has led several education and communication programs to inform the public on environmental protection and conservation. Muhammad is an Adjunct Lecturer on Disaster Management and Natural Resource Policies, Laws and Conventions at the University of The Gambia. He is currently a PhD. Candidate at Université de Lomé in Togo focused on Climate Change and Disaster Risks Management. Muhammad visited the U.S. in October of 2018 as part of the IVLP delegation focused on “Renewable Energy and Sustainable Growth”.
Jeremy M. Martin is Vice President of Energy & Sustainability at the Institute of the Americas, an inter-American public policy think-tank located at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The Institute of the Americas Energy & Sustainability Program works to foster a deeper understanding of the most critical energy issues facing the Western Hemisphere. Jeremy has testified before the US Congress on energy issues in Latin America, teaches a graduate course in Latin American Energy Policy at UCSD and the University of San Diego (USD) and serves on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Diplomacy Council.
Nilmini Silva-Send is the assistant director and the C. Hugh Friedman Fellow in Energy Law and Policy at the Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) at USD School of Law. As Adjunct Professor at USD, she has developed and teaches a class in international energy law with a focus on international energy investment treaties, contracts and dispute resolution, World Trade Organization law related to national energy policies, and linkages with climate change law. Her latest research include energy requirements and GHG implications of water use in San Diego and California.
We are encouraging attendees to participate in the discussion! Have a question you would like to ask of our panelists? Feel free to send us your question in advance to dominique at sandiegodiplomacy.org.
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Leveraging species genomes to support climate change adaptation
Tuesday, August 25
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leveraging-species-genomes-to-support-climate-change-adaptation-tickets-116314177837
This online lecture, Leveraging species genomes to support climate change, will focus on case studies of blue oak, valley oak and sugar pine
This lecture will feature three talks covering ongoing studies on targeting genetics to support species’ adaptation to climate change. Dr. Blair McLaughlin and Dr. Jessica Wright will discuss the potential for assisted migration and dispersed field gene banks in various California species, and Dr. Patricia Maloney will discuss using local and diverse seed sources to create drought-resilient restoration projects in Sierra Nevada conifers.
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TRANSPORTATION: Taking the Car Out of Carbon Emissions
Tuesday, August 25
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportation-taking-the-car-out-of-carbon-emissions-registration-116058627479
Join us for a conversation about urban transportation and its relation to climate change, opportunity access, safety and quality of life.
Kimberly Williams, David Fields, Jonathan Brooks, and Kurt Barrow will explore pathways to a greener, safer, and more equitable mobility future for Houstonians. Find out how more reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, increasing mobility options and improving interconnectedness of pedestrian, cycling and transit networks can benefit all of us.
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Making it Public: Activating Public Spaces for Creativity, Connection, and Celebration
Tuesday, August 25
2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvceqqpj8qHNIS_YdsfMSpElKh98B7Jseg
How can public-making—the collective creation and activation of public spaces for interaction and belonging—be a radical, joyful tool for spatial justice? Join artists, activists, and community leaders to discuss how public-making can create opportunities for interaction, laughter, dialogue, and surprise, and explore real-life examples of public-making that you can bring to your community.
Speakers:
Roberto Bedoya, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Executive Director
Questions? Contact MAPC Event Planner, Sasha Parodi: sparodi at mapc.org
“Making it Public,” is part two of “Whose Public? Planning and Placemaking for Welcoming Public Spaces.” This three-part discussion series explores the role that planners, artists, and government staff can play in shaping just, joyful, and inclusive public spaces.
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Cleantech Live #4: Today's Buildings, Tomorrow's Grid
Tuesday, August 25
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cleantech-live-4-todays-buildings-tomorrows-grid-registration-116262246509
How do today's commercial buildings need to adapt to work with tomorrow's grid?
Cleantech Live is a new series of virtual events designed specifically for people who believe solving climate change is both urgent andpossible and want to be a part of the solution.
Solving the climate crisis is going to require massive collaboration on a global scale. As "Climate Solutionists," we're motivated by the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to that effort.
The goal of Cleantech Live is to provide insight into promising new climate solutions, support the people and organizations behind them, and create a deeper connection with fellow Solutionists.
Cleantech Live is different than most online events because it's centered around interaction. Instead of staring idly at the screen for an hour, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions, share insights, and directly engage in a constructive conversation with the other bright minds who join us.
And every Cleantech Live we'll make time at the end for getting to know each other as individuals. Because we know that's when the magic of true and lasting connection happens — and who couldn't use a bit more connection these days?
If this type of thing appeals to you, grab a free ticket here and join us. We'd love to connect with you.
-Zoheb, Cameron & Kevin
Event Details
One of the oldest and most complex machines ever made, the grid is responsible for delivering reliant and resilient energy to power our lives. And buildings, including the highest performing ones, depend on it.
However, that energy comes with significant carbon emissions. And a decarbonized future depends not only on building the greenest buildings, but doing so on a greener grid.
In this month's Cleantech Live event, Frank Joseph Schwamborn of Verdical Group will be giving a talk examining today's grid and presenting a case for why buildings meant to last decades should be built or retrofitted today to meet tomorrow’s grid.
About the Speaker
Frank Joseph Schwamborn is passionate about nature and energy. He loves to go backpacking, experience different biomes around the world, and read about energy policy. This passion fuels his ambition to live and learn how to be better for the environment. His career started with a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Today he's a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer for the state of California and a LEED AP.
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Newburyport Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
Tuesday, August 25
6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/EE_Newburyport_Kickoff/
XR is kicking off our new Newburyport Emergency Everywhere campaign!
The town of Newburyport has a climate resilience plan. They know that some of their key infrastructure like their waste treatment plant are at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels. Yet they haven't taken any substantive steps towards raising public awareness or reducing their carbon emissions. We need to create pressure and show the mayor and city council that this is an urgent issue that cannot be delayed.
Newburyport will be one of ~7 towns in Massachusetts where we are planning direct actions in the Emergency Everywhere campaign. Each town will follow a sequence of actions that escalate if our demands are not met.
Come learn more about the Newburyport campaign and plug in to helping us organize it. We need your help in: planning actions, establishing local partnerships, building art, holding support roles during actions, etc.
Run time 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST. Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucequqj4jG91wFnrQYFsfjCcTNCQPp2sQ
Campaign resources - https://xrmass.org/wiki/emergency-everywhere/
Love and rage y'all.
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LSU Science Café: Tracking Extreme Weather & Hurricanes
Tuesday, August 25
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-science-cafe-tracking-extreme-weather-hurricanes-registration-114939081888
Join us for an online LSU Science Café to discuss the 2020 hurricane season with LSU faculty researchers.
LSU weather experts will share insights into their latest research regarding tracking extreme weather and hurricane events. Dr. Nan Walker, Dr. Jill Trepanier, and Dr. Barry Keim will each present their work, with a moderated Q&A to follow.
About the Speakers
Dr. Nan Walker is the director of the Earth Scan Laboratory, LSU’s on-campus satellite data receiving facility and image processing lab that captures, processes, and archives real-time data and animations of the current weather, hurricanes, and ocean currents from a variety of NOAA and NASA satellites. Dr. Walker uses satellite remote sensing to study how Gulf of Mexico currents and eddies impact tropical cyclone intensity. She is the James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Coastal Studies in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences in the LSU College of the Coast & Environment.
Dr. Jill Trepanier studies extreme climatic and weather phenomena, specifically tropical cyclones. She uses quantitative methods such as statistics to analyze these events. She is an associate professor in the LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. In 2016, Dr. Trepanier was named a fellow of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program for her work on the application of hurricane risk methods to oil system infrastructure. Her current research interests include understanding extreme weather events, tropical climatology, climate change, geographic information systems, risk assessment, and statistical methods.
Dr. Barry Keim is the Richard J. Russell Professor in the LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences and serves as the Louisiana State Climatologist. His research focuses on climatic extremes with particular emphasis on heavy rainfall, hurricanes, storm surge, and the interpretation of climate data. As state climatologist, Dr. Keim conducts climatic research on the state of Louisiana and the broader region and serves the community by providing climatic data to those in need, including researchers, government agencies, police departments, and the media. He also oversees the group at LSU that manages the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of global storm surges.
LSU Science Café is presented in partnership with WRKF.
Registration & Attendance Information
The event is open to the public and advance registration through Eventbrite is required.
Access to the webinar will be available through Eventbrite after 5:30 PM on the day of the event. A link to this page will be sent with your registration confirmation and in reminder emails that will be sent prior the event. Please check your "clutter" or "junk" folder if you do not receive your reminder emails.
The live event will be closed captioned, and a recording of the webinar will be made available on the LSU Research YouTube channel shortly after the event. A link to the recording will be distributed to all registrants.
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Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
Tuesday, August 25
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/margaret_kimberley/
Cost: Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome MARGARET KIMBERLEY—editor and senior columnist for Black Agenda Report—for a discussion of her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated writer, speaker, and theologian Reverend IRENE MONROE.
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of Prejudential on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About Prejudential
Prejudential is a concise, authoritative exploration of America’s relationship with race and black Americans through the lens of the presidents who have been elected to represent all of its people.
Throughout the history of the United States, numerous presidents have left their legacies as slaveholders, bigots, and inciters of racial violence, but were the ones generally regarded as more sympathetic to the plight and interests of black Americans—such as Lincoln, FDR, and Clinton—really much better? And what of all the presidents whose relationship with black America is not even considered in the pages of most history books? Over the course of 45 chapters—one for each president—Margaret Kimberley enlightens and informs readers about the attitudes and actions of the highest elected official in the country. By casting sunlight on an aspect of American history that is largely overlooked, Prejudential aims to increase awareness in a manner that will facilitate discussion and understanding.
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Boston Green Drinks - August 2020 VIRTUAL Happy Hour
Tuesday, August 25
7:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-august-2020-virtual-happy-hour-tickets-117821963665
Boston Green Drinks has shifted to gathering virtually!
The last Tuesday of the month is upon us, and that means it's Green Drinks time!
Our Green Drinks Boston Online this month will feature a discussion of how Covid-19 has changed your approach to, or view of the climate crisis. Do you have new insights about how to talk about climate? Do you see new possible approaches to address climate in your work? Are you considering changing the focus of your work or life toward helping more to address climate change?We will have a short presentation (< 10 minutes) and then open it up to discussion. If we have enough people and diverging topics, we may use virtual breakout rooms to help the conversation along and keep it lively.Whether you’re an established regular, or you are looking for some new folks with whom to hold enriching, sustainably-minded conversations, Green Drinks Boston is for you! Hope you can make it!
Sign up to attend. The link will be included in the meeting ticket
What to expect: Bring your own drink of choice, and a readiness to engage in conversations around environmental issues, leveraging the moment, job opportunities, and current events!
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> From Controversy to Cure: Virtual Q&A with the scientists behind Kendall Square's biotech boom
Tuesday, August 25
8:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://youtu.be/ZG2NRCHCECA
Following the August 21 screening of From Controversy to Cure, MIT Video Productions' new doumentary about the rise of Kendall Square as a global biotech hub, Coolidge Corner Theater will host a special virtual Q&A panel moderated by Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine at MIT Technology Review. The panel will include director and MVP Senior Producer Joe McMaster, alongside some of the notable Kendall Square scientists featured in the film, including:
David Baltimore—Founding Director, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Former MIT Professor of Biology
Sangeeta Bhatia—MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nancy Hopkins—MIT Professor of Biology, Emerita
Harvey Lodish—Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, MIT Professor of Biology, Co-Founder of Genzyme
Phillip Sharp—MIT Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate, Cofounder of Biogen
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Wednesday, August 26
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Tackling global warming after coronavirus: some lessons of history
Wednesday, August 26
8am – 9am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tackling-global-warming-after-coronavirus-some-lessons-of-history-tickets-111601190164
Dr Simon Pirani, Oxford Energy Institute
Global fossil fuel consumption has risen by about two-thirds since the 1992 climate talks at Rio, where governments agreed it needed to be cut. It is falling sharply this year, due to the coronavirus epidemic, but there is every possibility that much of it will return with a vengeance, as and when the economy recovers. Studying the history of global consumption, and in particular its remorseless rise since the mid twentieth century, can help us to understand the future transition away from fossil fuels. In this talk, Simon Pirani will argue for a focus on technological systems (such as electricity networks, urban built environments and transport systems, and industrial and agricultural systems), the social and economic systems in which they are embedded, and the interactions between these. It is the expansion of these systems, above all, that has driven consumption growth; reducing consumption will involve transforming these systems.
Simon Pirani is author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (London: Pluto Press, 2018). He is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where he has worked since 2007, writing about the natural gas sector in Russia, Ukraine, central Asia and the Caspian. Before that, Simon wrote about Russia and Ukraine as a historian and journalist. His books include The Russian Revolution in Retreat: Soviet workers and the new communist elite 1920-24 (Routledge, 2008) and Change in Putin’s Russia: Power, Money and People (Pluto, 2010).
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Harbor Use Public Forum: Explore Pier 4
Wednesday, August 26
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
Pier 4, Pier Four Boulevard, Boston
Also Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harbor-use-public-forum-explore-pier-4-tickets-115980401503
Join us in person or on line to explore the Harborwalk at Pier 4 in the Seaport with the designers from Reed Hilderbrand.
Boston Harbor Now holds monthly Harbor Use Public Forums for interested stakeholders to learn about and provide feedback to waterfront developers and public agency planners on projects affecting Boston Harbor’s waterfront and islands. In summer months, we try to visit new sections of the waterfront.
Join us in August for a tour of the Harborwalk at Pier 4, between the Institute for Contemporary Art and Commonwealth Pier/World Trade Center. This section of the Harborwalk opened last fall and created an additional 0.3 miles of walking paths that continue an additional mile of that is uninterrupted by roadways.
The landscape architects from Reed Hilderbrand will discuss their strategies for referencing the site’s history and for highlighting its unique position on the harbor, including creating opportunities for a diverse experience of the water’s edge. They will showcase features of the new park such as the coastal plant palette, the tidal terrace and boardwalk, the elevated lawn, repurposed site materials and custom details.
Due to public health restrictions on social gatherings, there will be three 30-minute in person tours, each limited to 10 people, and one 30-minute virtual tour offered via Zoom at 8:30 AM. All tour participants must register in advance. There is no limit on the number of people who can participate in the virtual tour.
IN PERSON TOURS:
To participate in an in person tour, please register in advance and come to the site only at the specified time. Tours will be offered at 8:00, 9:00, and 9:30 AM. All tourees are expected to wear a mask in order to protect others on the tour. If you are not feeling well or have reason to believe you have been exposed to COVID-19, we ask that you attend the virtual tour.
ONLINE TOURS:
Participants will receive a link to a zoom webinar (attendees will not be visible). The tour will include a presentation about the design and an live on-site guided tour of specific features streamed from Pier 4. A recorded version will be available later.
The virtual presentation is free, open to the public and available via Zoom and by phone.
Photo: Hao Liang / Reed Hilderbrand
For more information, including opportunities to present your waterfront project or proposal at a future Harbor Use Public Forum, please contact Alice Brown, planning director, at abrown at bostonharbornow.org.
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EBC Second Annual New England Climate Change, Resilience & Adaptation Summit: Part Two – Update on Climate Science and Case Studies
Wednesday, August 26
9:00 am – 1:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-second-annual-new-england-climate-change-resilience-adaptation-summit-part-two-update-on-climate-science-and-case-studies/
Cost: $50 - $185
Part two of the EBC New England Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation Summit is designed to continue to provide an opportunity to learn from and participate with a range of speakers discussing important issues impacting climate change in the region.
View the Attendee List
The lead-in and keynote speaker will be Daniel Schrag, the Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, who will provide an update on climate science and the impact of climate change on the region and the world.
Following Professor Schrag’s presentation, case studies focusing on municipal resilience programs will provide key success elements on specific climate plans, program priorities, and implementation strategies. The major focus will be on those key elements that are moving municipal programs forward in preparation for the impact of climate change.
Finally, there will be a panel of thought leaders providing insight into the issues of climate change and the implications for New England.
Keynote Speaker
Daniel Schrag, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Summit Moderators
Thomas Burack, Shareholder
Sheehan Phinney, H. Curtis Spalding, Professor of the Practice, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University
Speaker Agenda
Municipal and Private Sector
Increasing Resiliency – Coonamessett River Restoration Project
Elizabeth Gladfelter, Commissioner, Falmouth Conservation Commission. Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kelp Farming, a Potential Strategy for Remediating Ocean Acidification and Improving Shellfish Cultivation
Susie Arnold, Marine Scientist, Island Institute
Restoring the Maidford River to Mitigate Flooding, Improve Water Quality and Build Resiliency
Elizabeth Scott, President, Elizabeth Scott Consulting
Maine Flood Resilience Checklist: A Practical Framework for Assessing Vulnerabilities and Planning for Coastal Flooding
Abbie Sherwin, Senior Land Use and Coastal Planner, Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission
Thought Leaders – Are We on the Right Path?
David Herring, Director of Communication & Education, NOAA Climate Program Office
Bob Perciasepe, President, Center for Climate & Energy Solution
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Understanding Our New World with Mary Robinson
Wednesday, August 26
11 AM – 12 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6915947425705/WN_SK3qRFmRQqyJZKpZ0nYrGg
Join the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute on Wednesday, August 26 at 10:00 a.m. CT via Zoom for a conversation with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, and John Shaw, Institute Director, as they discuss climate change, human rights, and other global challenges.
Robinson served as the first woman President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997. She later served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2014 to 2015. Robinson is currently chair of The Elders, an organization of former world leaders created by Nelson Mandela. She is the author of "Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice" (2012) and "Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future"
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Sustainable Arctic Fisheries Hub Webinar with Dr. Andreas Østhagen
Wednesday, August 26
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-arctic-fisheries-hub-webinar-with-dr-andreas-sthagen-tickets-109315601908
Join the Migration in Harmony Research Coordination Network for a webinar with Dr. Andreas Østhagen on Svalbard hub for Arctic fisheries.
As warming oceans push the range of fisheries further north, new opportunities for Arctic fisheries are emerging. But this opportunity comes with a responsibility to establish ethical, sustainable, and equitable approaches to development.
Join the Migration in Harmony Research Coordination Network for a webinar with Dr. Andreas Østhagen as he shares the research behind his new project, "The Blue Potential on Svalbard: A Hub for Arctic fisheries?’ (SVALFISH). Learn about the ongoing transition on the Svalbard Archipelago, specifically Longyearbyen, now undergoing the transformation from a mining community towards a multi-functional 21st-century Arctic hub, and hear how you can engage with Dr. Østhagen in investigating the potentials and conditions for increased fishery and related activities based on Svalbard, and what this might entail, both for Longyearbyen and for polar fisheries more generally.
Migration In Harmony is an international, cross-disciplinary network of Arctic migration researchers funded by the National Science Foundation and co-led by The Arctic Institute. Learn more and sign up at https://migrationharmony.org/contact
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30 innovations for a renewable-powered future
Wednesday, August 26
11am
Online
RSVP at https://www.enlit.world/europe/europe-calendar/new-energy-landscape-series-special-episode-irena-register
The joint session with Initiate and IRENA will discuss how the 30 innovations identified by IRENA in its “Innovation landscape for a renewable-powered future” project are accelerating the energy transition. The episode will stress the importance of a systemic innovation approach, meaning fostering innovation in four dimensions: enabling technologies, business models, market design and system operation. The role of those innovations will be discussed in the context of the ongoing disruptive trends in the power sector: 1) digitalisation, 2) decentralisation and 3) electrification. These trends are changing paradigms, unlocking system flexibility for a high share of VRE penetration. They are changing the roles and responsibilities of actors and opening doors to new entrants in the sector.
Expert presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, during which questions from the live audience will be answered.
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The Changing Global Order in a Post-Pandemic World
Wednesday, August 26
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-changing-global-order-in-a-post-pandemic-world-registration-116572803393
Join the EU Delegation to the United States virtual policy discussion on the Changing Global Order in a Post-Pandemic World.
This year, on the virtual sidelines of the Republican National Convention, the European Union Delegation to the United States, the International Republican Institute and Microsoft are joining forces to look at how the pandemic may shape the world to come in two dynamic, high-level virtual discussions:
Technology is reshaping the way we live our lives and reconfiguring the global balance of power, a trend accelerated by the current era of unprecedented health, environmental, and economic challenges. These trends have profound implications for the global community, the international economy, and the transatlantic trade and investment relationship. What must business leaders and policymakers do to navigate the tech revolution and ensure that democracy and the open market economy prevail in the 21st century? Join our first panel, Shared Digital Futures in the Post-COVID Era, for a discussion on how the United States and the European Union can respond to these common challenges.
What role does the Transatlantic relationship have in sustaining global order, and how can it be kept fit for purpose in the 21st century? The second panel, Democratic Alliances in a Post-COVID World: How Can the EU and U.S. Work Smarter to Preserve the Liberal World Order?, will review the state of the transatlantic relationship and prospects for EU-U.S. relations under the next U.S. Administration and Congress. Topics will include global and transatlantic challenges such as COVID-19 response, climate change, AI/digital, trade, investment and economic recovery, security and defense, promoting democracy and human rights, and joint approaches to China and Russia.
Panel 1 starting at 11AM ET (5PM CET): Shared Digital Futures in the Post-Covid Era
Panel 2 starting at 12PM ET (6PM CET): Democratic Alliances in a Post-COVID World: How Can the EU and U.S. Work Smarter to Preserve the Liberal World Order?
Confirmed speakers include:
Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator and IRI Board Chair
Phil Hogan, European Union Trade Commissioner
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft
Mairéad McGuinness, European Parliament Vice President
Kelly Ayotte, Former U.S. Senator
Nancy McLernon, President and CEO of Global Business Alliance
Dan Twining, IRI President
Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the EU to the U.S.
Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator
This event is organized in cooperation with the International Republican Institute and Microsoft.
Some changes to the program may occur.
This invitation is personal. A link to the event platform will be shared with you closer to the date. For further promotion of the event, please direct your followers to the livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1EDxfP-AXSA
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Building an Equitable Energy Future
Wednesday, August 26
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3845271846873188112
This webinar will address our Energy future from a critical lens. As we work towards a clean energy future, it’s up to us to actively ensure that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and other under-represented groups are equitably represented in the endeavor and share in its rewards.
You will learn:
What's being done and more importantly what needs to be done to address climate issues while ensuring BIPOC participation
Policy and regulatory shifts to enforce inclusion in clean energy
Strategies to reach minority communities
Our Webinar Series is brought to you with invaluable support from NYSERDA and CleanCapital. Can't make the live webinar? Check out our podcast series based on our webinars (anchor.fm/necec). For additional information about the Navigate Webinar Series, check out our playlists on YouTube (youtube.com/theNECEC).
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LIVE WEBINAR: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF CULTURE IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE TEAMS
Wednesday, August 26
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://professionalprograms.mit.edu/the-invisible-hand-of-culture-in-culturally-diverse-teams/
As an expert in intercultural communications, MIT Professional Education’s Executive Director, Bhaskar Pant will soon host a live webinar, the Invisible Hand of Culture in Culturally Diverse Teams. Register now to discover how culture impacts and influences a teams’ behavior in a high-performance environment.
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Why do we need to think about the Social in Sustainability?
Wednesday, August 26
12:30 – 2:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-do-we-need-to-think-about-the-social-in-sustainability-tickets-115096639146
Cost: £0 – £20
The social in Sustainability: Why do we need to think about this? Why do we need to think about the Social in Sustainability?
Women in Sustainability (WINS) exists to help women flourish in careers that are building a sustainable world.
Creating a career whilst staying true to your passion and values is not always easy and yet many of us are driven by our values and a common purpose to create sustainable future.
This event will focus on the social in sustainability.
As sustainability professionals and enthusiasts, we tend to be a deeply value-driven community who wants to get stuff done and save that planet of ours. However, sometimes we can be so engrossed with our environmentalism and forget about the full spectrum of implications our work can have. The UN and most official bodies have recognised the “people-component” that sustainable transitions need to include. In fact, most of the UN SDGs are dedicated to social concerns. Likewise, environmental issues affect different groups of people to differing degrees. This raises questions and dilemmas around justice at the interface of people and their environment
This will be a friendly, informal and highly interactive session in which our speakers will facilitate conversations about the challenges and opportunities in this area, and share their wealth of experience and knowledge.
Our speakers are Serayna Keya Solanki and Lola Okunrinboye
In true ‘Women in Sustainability’ form, expect honest conversations, inspiration and new perspectives, alongside opportunities to connect & build your relationships, as well as work on what you need in order to flourish in your career creating a sustainable world.
We might be social distancing, but we can still connect emotionally, finding support and help from one another. So come and join us – read on to find out more!
We're very mindful that many of you are facing financial uncertainty at present.
If that means you are unable to afford to pay, please do grab a free place to join us for this online event.
For those who are able to pay, please buy a ticket, as revenues from sales are essential to enable us to provide ongoing support.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Solar PV and Battery Storage
Wednesday, August 26
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solar-pv-and-battery-storage-tickets-115423545933
Find out how to renovate your home to save money, increase comfort, and protect the environment and your family's health.
Are you thinking about renovating your home? Need to replace your windows or your air conditioning unit? Hear from leading industry experts on:
rebates and incentives available
your best options for heating and cooling your home
the best time to start your renovation or upgrade appliances
tips and tricks for planning the perfect renovation; and
how renovating your home can have a positive impact on the planet and your health, while saving you money!
Did you know that homes and buildings account for over 50% of Toronto's greenhouse gas emissions? BetterHomesTO is on a mission to help homeowners reduce emissions while making Toronto's homes more comfortable and healthy.
Join Clean Air Partnership and solar pv and battery storage experts as they guide you through the process for installing solar pv on your roof as well as battery storage options for your home.
Topics covered will include:
Resources to make your home more climate-friendly
Renovation must-haves
An overview of the process for installing solar pv on your roof, battery storage options for your home, and why you should consider pairing your solar pv system with a form of battery storage.
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The 2020 State of Demand-Side Energy Management in New England Webinar
Wednesday, August 26
2 p.m. - 3 p.m ET
Online
RSVP at https://info.cpowerenergymanagement.com/WBN-NEStateoftheMarket_LP-Registration.html
Even before the onset of the Covid-19 lockdown, 2020 was expected to be a year of change in New England’s energy market. As the region works its way through the pandemic’s maze, organizations are reexamining their energy management strategies in search of optimization for an increasingly uncertain future.
Join CPower on August 26, 2020, at 2 pm ET for a one-hour webinar designed to give organizations like yours the demand-side energy management insights you need to make the most of 2020 and beyond in New England.
How ISO-NE is working to address the region’s fuel security issues
Proposed energy market changes and redesigns
How renewables are affecting the market
Energy storage other distributed generation monetization opportunities
New and existing demand response programs
And more...
CPower’s New England experts Keith Black and Jobin Arthungal will host this live webinar that will include a question and answer session.
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Got mail? Why the 2020 election may depend on the U.S. Postal Service
Wednesday, August 26
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-usps
Join the conversation on Twitter using #Election2020
The United States Postal Service has shot to the forefront of the national conversation amid concerns about mail in voting, equipment removals, overtime restrictions, and funding shortfalls. Many warn that without sufficient resources, USPS will not be able to handle the expected influx of mail-in ballots for the November election and that Americans will not receive timely delivery of medicine, bills, and payments. This week, House leaders will summon members back to Washington for a rare weekend vote on USPS legislation. The USPS Postmaster General has also agreed to testify in front of the Senate and House about attempts to influence the campaign and cut costs right before a crucial election.
On August 26, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a webinar to discuss the United States Postal Service and its role in the election and overall economy. Panelists will explore what actions Congress and states can take to protect the USPS, what it means for voters between now and November, and other consequences Americans may experience due to disruptions in mail service.
Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events at brookings.edu or via Twitter at @BrookingsGov or by using #Election2020.
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The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation During the Pandemic
Wednesday, August 26
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfENgoAX-llCAj_xhsENO5gAY2u0BydKalIdn6zVRTn-8vk4Q/viewform
This workshop is limited to 30 participants – application required. A portion of the event will be recorded and available online.
The Technology and Social Change Project’s (TaSC) Political Pandemonium 2020 is a series of four digital workshops exploring the harmful effects of media manipulation on our society. These gatherings will each focus on a unique subtopic of interest to both the field of Critical Internet Studies and the broader public concerns about disinformation in elections.
The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation during the Pandemic,the second workshop in the series, will feature a conversation with Dr. Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center, Dr. Seema Yasmin, Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, Dr. René Najera, Editor of the History of Vaccines Project, and Brandy Zadrozny, Reporter at NBC News.
This session will focus on the dire consequences of misinformation with regards to the current global pandemic and how this will shift expectations of election integrity. During the workshop, our speakers will examine the following questions: How has the coronavirus pandemic created a new political opportunity for media manipulators to polarize US politics? Why have manipulators seen success in this field on a global level? How has failing to respond adequately to the spread of inaccurate information exacerbated the trauma of the event and what are the consequences for different groups?
2:00 – 2:45 PM – Discussion with Joan Donovan, Dr. Seema Yasmin, Dr. René Najera and Brandy Zadrozny
2:45 – 3:30 PM – Overview of the Media Manipulation Life Cycle, Wedge Issues, and How to Detect the Tactics of Disinformers
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A Discussion with Historian Martha S. Jones
Wednesday, August 26
4 – 5:10 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-origin-stories-1848-virtual
SPEAKER(S) Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history, Johns Hopkins University
Moderated by Lisa Tetrault, Associate professor of history, Carnegie Mellon University
DETAILS In this presentation, historian Martha S. Jones will root the generations-long movement for women’s suffrage in the activism of African American women from the 1830s. Jones will explore the tangled intersections of gender and race in the battle for the ballot while considering the evolution of birthright citizenship, more broadly, as itself a gendered origins story about constituting the American people. Register online.
This webinar is part of the Long 19th Amendment Project’s public program series, “Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th Amendment.” The Radcliffe Institute will offer an online conference—six sessions between August and December. “Voting Matters” brings together scholars, activists, and public intellectuals to consider the long history of gender and citizenship in the United States.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-origin-stories-1848-virtual
CONTACT INFO events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
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MEGA-URBANIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE CASE OF AFRICA
Wednesday, August 26
6:00-7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mega-urbanization-and-sustainability-the-case-of-africa-tickets-114479509294
Kwabena Kyei-Aboagye, MCP, JD, Urban Environmental Program Manager, USEPA Region I; Adjunct Professor
Madhu Dutta-Koehler, PhD, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director; President, Urbanability
Webinar followed by Q+A
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Thursday, August 27
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Biochar: Sustainable Forest Fertilisation
Thursday, August 27
7:30am – 8:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biochar-sustainable-forest-fertilisation-tickets-116401338537
Discussion the use of biochar as a method of soil amendment and improvement on forest establishment sites
This short webinar will discuss:
What is Biochar and how it is formed
Biochar as a method of long term carbon storage
Biochar as an aide to seedling growth in low fertility forest soils
The webinar will be led by Hamish Creber who is researcher on Biochar with the University of Edinburgh and Forest Research.
Hamish Creber - Biography
Hamish was successful in the 2016-17 round of recruitment to the E3 Doctoral Training Partnership. E3 is stands for "Edinburgh Earth and Environment". It is funded by NERC, based at the University of Edinburgh and led by the School of GeoSciences. This project is in conjunction with Forest Research, with Dr Mike Perks (Senior Climate Scientist) as one co-supervisor.
The title for Hamish project was simply "Biochar in Forestry". It is now into Year 3 and field work has started at a Forestry and Land Scotland site near Loch Ness. Parallel laboratory and glasshouse experiments will commenced in March 2019 and initial results are promising.
The BBC visited the field site in November 2018, as part of the Crowd Science episode "Is soil the secret to slowing climate change?". In the programme, Hamish outlines some initial results.
https://www.biochar.ac.uk/staff.php?id=41
Project Background
Biochar in UK Forestry: Phosphorus delivery through biochar amendment in forest establishment.
The opportunities of utilising biochar in temperate production forestry as a targeted fertiliser on nutrient limited planting sites is to be studied in this project. Improvements in tree growth and limiting phosphorus deficiency in conifer seedlings, using high native and infused P biochars, has the potential to compensate for soil P loss through timber removal and soil disturbance. With collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Forest Research, future industry implementation of pyrolysis technology and biochar products in the forestry and wood processing industries is to be assessed.
This project is supervised by Dr Saran Sohi and Dr Ondrej Masek (UKBRC, University of Edinburgh) with Dr Mike Perks (Forest Research). It is supported financially by the NERC E3 DTP program, the School of GeoSciences (University of Edinburgh) and Forest Research.
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Demand Side Energy Management in the Texas Energy Market
Thursday, August 27
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://info.cpowerenergymanagement.com/WBN-ERCOTStateoftheMarket_LP-Registration.html
In recent years, Texas’s energy market has been put to the test with shrinking reserve margins, increased electrical demand, and grid-threatening heat waves. The ERCOT grid has held and the market has helped organizations in the Lone Star State earn significant revenue by monetizing distributed energy resources.
The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, however, has unleashed a Texas-sized helping of uncertainty across the state, causing organizations like yours to scramble for energy insights needed to optimize your energy use and spend.
Join CPower on August 27, 2020, at 1 pm CT for a one-hour webinar designed to give your organization the demand-side energy management insights you need to make the most of 2020 and beyond in Texas.
Topics to be covered include:
How ERCOT’s economic-driven market design differs from other US energy markets (and why that design may be better for your organization’s bottom line)
Why renewable energy is growing in Texas
How organizations with distributed generation resources can earn revenue
Lucrative demand response opportunities in Texas
And more...
CPower’s Texas experts Mike Hourihan and Joe Hayden will host this live webinar that will include a question and answer session.
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Mary Berry and Bill McKibben
Thursday, August 27
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckhprFbcwOoKACWru-bKbHUh3-lKqE0UzsMEfZetMzj9idQQ/viewform
The Berry Center in Kentucky, led by Mary Berry, is a leading advocate for farmers, land-conserving communities, and rural economies. Bill McKibben has devoted decades as an author, educator, and activist to the case for a cleaner environment. They have protested together, spoken at conferences, fought for policy change, won acclaim for their work, and inspired a movement.
On Thursday, August 27 at 2pm EDT, Mary Berry and Bill McKibben will engage in a rescheduled Schumacher Conversation on Zoom, moderated by Jodie Evans. They will reflect on their original talks given current political, economic, and social realities and will then comment on each other’s work. Registration is free. A question and answer period will follow initial presentations.
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Electrification - The big solution to climate change
Thursday, August 27
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/electrification-the-big-solution-to-climate-change-tickets-111740703452
This webinar will provide a general overview on why "electrifying everything" is a crucial strategy towards reducing our CO2 emissions.
Join Electrify Now, Community Energy Project, Solar Oregon and Passive House Northwest for the kick off event in our Electrify webinar series.
In this episode, our panel will get into the details on why electrification is such a potent action against climate change. We will talk about the benefits of electrification and how you can participate in the transformation of our global energy systems - one of the grandest and most important projects in human history.
Our panelists for this webinar will be:
Karina Hershberg - PE, LEED AP, Associate at PAE Engineers will talk about the sustainability claims of the all-electric movement and how they stack up to the data (spoiler alert- there are a couple caveats, but generally they do well).
Brian Stewart - Brian is founder of Electrify Now and will talk about how and why individuals can and should electrify their lives.
Donations: Please consider donating a couple dollars for this webinar to Electrify Now's Electrify Everyone Fund. All proceeds from your donations go towards installing heat pump water heaters in low income homes through the nonprofit Community Energy Project.
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Black Boston: Telling Our Stories
Thursday, August 27
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh8mi8z25d84bc2f&oseq=&c=&ch=
Speakers:
Kimberly Atkins, Senior Opinion Writer, The Boston Globe
Karen Holmes Ward, Director of Public Affairs & Host of CityLine, WCVB; Graduate of Boston University College of Communication; Chair of the Boston University Black Alumni Leadership Council
Michelle Johnson, Associate Professor of the Practice, Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; former editor for the Boston Globe.
Moderated by Paris Alston, Producer for Radio Boston, WBUR
Join the BU Initiative on Cities, the BU Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and WBUR CitySpace for Black Boston: Telling Our Stories. How is Boston's media industry working on diversifying leadership, journalists, and the stories they tell? Where do gaps endure? How can Boston nurture and inspire a new generation of Black journalists?
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Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Thursday, August 27
6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://emerson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-qtrTkpGdHmO52V14eDSbamXbk003TH
Is Boston prepared to take on the heat of this moment?
Join us for 3-a day convening, which includes a link to preview the timely film, Cooked: Survival by Zip Code.
The highlights about the upcoming “Summer of Extreme: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Boston/Brookline/Cambridge Part 2”:
Webinar Participants-Pre-viewing of Cooked: Survival by Zip Code –(free access to view full digital version, and 21-minute version..
Watch clips, trailers, or the entire documentary of ‘Cooked Survival by Zip Code’
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/cooked-survival-by-zip-code/#.Xw6cBrqx4vg.email
Featured Partner Event for Boston Greenfest 2020- August 20th @ 6pm. https://www.bostongreenfest.org/
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Wellesley Emergency Everywhere Kickoff
Thursday, August 27
6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/EE_Wellesley_Kickoff/
XR is kicking off our new Wellesley Emergency Everywhere campaign!
The town of Wellesley has had the climate emergency on the Town Meeting agenda since early 2020 but has delayed talking about it until the next meeting in October. We need to create pressure and show the Town Meeting members that this is an urgent issue that cannot be delayed. Wellesley will be one of ~7 towns in Massachusetts where we are planning direct actions in the Emergency Everywhere campaign. Each town will follow a sequence of actions that escalate if our demands are not met.
Come learn more about the Wellesley campaign and plug in to helping us organize it. We need your help in: planning actions, establishing local partnerships, building art, holding support roles during actions, etc.
Run time 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST. Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83693052148?pwd=U3lhaW81YlR1WWFlMW5KYmsvSnU5dz09
Campaign resources - https://xrmass.org/wiki/emergency-everywhere/
Love and rage y'all.
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Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Thursday, August 27
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aftershocks-of-disaster-puerto-rico-before-and-after-the-storm-tickets-117018699079
Cost: $0 – $25
A conversation on the intersecting crises that have plagued Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria and the communities organizing to rebuild.
Join Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar Bonilla, and Molly Crabapple for a conversation on the intersecting crises that have plagued Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria in 2017, and the communities organizing to resist and rebuild.
This event will include the premier of the new short film: "Aftershocks of Disaster," directed by Juan C. Dávila, and produced by Yarimar Bonilla.
“Broad in scope, passionate, and urgent, Aftershocks is a necessary anthology of Puerto Ricans telling the story not just of Maria but of resistance to colonialism, austerity and disaster capitalism.” —Molly Crabapple
Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere.
The concept of "aftershocks" is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the lasting effects of hurricane Maria, not just the effects of the wind or the rain, but delving into what followed: state failure, social abandonment, capitalization on human misery, and the collective trauma produced by the botched response.
Speakers:
Yarimar Bonilla is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm. She is a political anthropologist specializing in questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites and practices including: postcolonial politics in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, the Puerto Rican statehood movement, and her current research, for which she was named a 2018 Carnegie Fellow, on the political, economic, and social aftermath of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Marisol LeBrón is is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on social inequality, policing, violence, and protest. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico, which examines the growth of punitive governance in contemporary Puerto Rico.
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Diego Rivera and Goya’s The Disasters of War. She is the author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Her animated short film “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” has been nominated for an Emmy award in the category of Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion.
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COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
Thursday, August 27
8pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://act.medicare4all.org/signup/covid-webinars-ads
Join National Nurses United for a five-part webinar series that will break down the challenges caused by the pandemic, the underlying problems that have helped make these challenges worse, and what we can do to solve these problems. You can join all five webinars, some, or just one, depending on your interests.
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Energy Transition and Green Recovery during and post Pandemic Period
Thursday, August 27
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-transition-and-green-recovery-during-and-post-pandemic-period-tickets-117215876843
Professor Junfeng Li, our special guest, will deliver his analysis of energy transition and green recovery during and post pandemic period.
Year of 2020 is unique that the worldwide has been undergoing a hard time because of this pandemic period. We have witnessed global environmental improvements, however, in such a surprising format. It is demanding to rethink the structure of energy consumptions. Professor Junfeng Li, our special guest, will deliver his analysis of energy transition when pursuing goals of sustainable development, worldwide green recovery policy during and post pandemic period as well as challenges and opportunities of future energy transition.
Free to the Public.
Note: Please register ASAP. EIN will distribute Zoom link two days before the event date.
Speaker: Professor Junfeng Li, the First Director of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation and he currently serves as the Chairman of academic committee of NCSC. He wins Ninth Annual Zayed Future Energy Prize Lifetime Achievement Award in January of the year 2017. He also is a member of the National Energy Advisory Council, a member of the Expert-committee of National High-tech Program, a member of the expert committee of National Ecological and Environmental Protection, a member of the Expert-committee of National Energy Administration Energy Internet, etc. And, he also serves as a consultant of low carbon development for Beijing, Shanghai and Shanxi Provincial People’s Government. Meanwhile, he is invited to be the professor and doctoral supervisor by Renmin University of China and other colleges and universities of China. For detailed bio of Professor Li, please check Energy Innovation Network’s official website(https://www.energyinnovation.network/advisory-member)
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, & Future of Earth’s Awesome Creatures
Thursday, August 27
10:30 PM – 12:30 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spying-on-whales-the-past-present-future-of-earths-awesome-creatures-tickets-116952717727
Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet...will whales survive?
Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection--yet there is still so much we don't know about them. Why did it take whales over 50 million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did their ancestors return from land to the sea--and what can their lives tell us about evolution as a whole? Importantly, in the sweepstakes of human-driven habitat and climate change, will whales survive?
Dr. Nick Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. His expeditions have taken him to every continent studying the evolution and ecology of marine mammals. Along with his collaborators, he has named over a dozen new fossil species, discovered the richest fossil whale graveyard on the planet, and described an entirely new sensory organ in living whales.
Along with cover articles in the journals Science and Nature, his research has received the highest awards from the Smithsonian, and he has also received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House. His popular book describing his work, “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures,” was featured on national television and radio, and included in many best science book compilations and shortlisted for several awards. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia and received his doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Pyenson is also a member of the Young Scientists community at the World Economic Forum
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Friday, August 28
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Decolonizing Ourselves Co-Learning
Friday, August 28
10am - 12pm
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96536836889
Please join us for an International Support Team event about how we can learn to decolonize ourselves. Given the vivid reminders about how pervasive racism still is in the US, this is important work for us all to do.
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WWWeek: Reducing the Risks of Climate-Related Water Conflicts
Friday, August 28
11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wwweek-reducing-the-risks-of-climate-related-water-conflicts-tickets-116841914311
Panelists will present their critical work on the tools and best practices available to get ahead of water-related conflicts.
Evidence continues to accumulate that human-caused climate changes are influencing tensions and violence over water resources. This session aims to bring awareness to the legal, technical, economic and social tools available to prevent climate-related water conflicts, equipping water development and peacebuilding practitioners, governments, and others with strategies to sustain peace.
Agenda
Moderator: Dr. Susanne Schmeier, Coordinator for The Water, Peace and Security Partnership and Senior Lecturer at IHE Delft
Welcome and introduction: Dr. Erika Weinthal, Vice President of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Professor at Duke University
Overview on data and science around climate-related water conflicts: Dr. Peter Gleick, President Emeritus of the Pacific Institute
Case study on climate and human security in Syria: Dr. Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Case study on African accession to the UNECE Water Convention: Dr. Komlan Sangbana, Legal Officer for the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Case study on climate fragility and conflict in the Lake Chad Basin: Janani Vivekananda, Senior Advisor on climate change, peace and security at adelphi
Presentation on political, legal and governance solutions: Dr. Mara Tignino, Lead Legal Specialist, Geneva Water Hub and Reader, University of Geneva
Presentation on natural resources, science and engineering solutions: Charles Iceland, Director of Global and National Water Initiatives, World Resources Institute
Participants will be emailed the Zoom link in advance of the session.
Questions about the event may be directed to kbridges at globalwater2020.org and mattgallagher at ufl.edu.
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Beyond Headlines and Hashtags - LIVE Friday Review of Pandemic News
Friday, August 28
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
Watch on the Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
Another week has passed in the first pandemic of the 21st century, with thousands of new stories posted and printed, yet questions still often outnumbering answers.
Each Friday, the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability hosts a lunchtime review of COVID-19 headlines and next steps featuring different journalists and researchers each week.
Explore more Sustain What episodes on YouTube at j.mp/sustainwhatlive or subscribe on Periscope at pscp.tv/revkin.
Solutions Journalism Network: solutionsjournalism.org
The Earth Institute Initiative: sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Contact Andy Revkin with questions or ideas for future segments: @revkin on Twitter or andrew.revkin at columbia.edu
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Free the Moderna Vaccine
Friday, August 28
2 PM – 5 PM
Kendall Square T Station, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/314120066572032/
Millions of people across the globe are facing extreme poverty because of the pandemic.
Moderna is trying to make billions of dollars from a vaccine that was discovered with NIH scientists and paid for by US taxpayers.
Tell Moderna to #FreeTheVaccine
Meet outside the Kendall/MIT T-Station
Masks and social distancing are expected.
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Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1978)
Friday, August 28
8 - 10pm
A backyard in Somerville, MA
Register to receive location, and we will be in touch with more details: http://tinyurl.com/BackyardCinemaUSMBOS
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5-20 per event. No one turned away for lack of funds.
GUIDELINES: Bring your own lawn chair or blanket! We will be outside :) These events are a sober space and will respect social distancing. Please wear a facemask.
Based on the fictional action crime/drama novel by Sam Greenlee. Black freedom fighter Dan Freeman receives military training in the CIA, and uses his new skills to lead an underground resistance in Chicago for his love of black people to be free. Directed by Ivan Dixon.
USM Boston presents Backyard Cinema Series: "Smash Colonial Violence!"
An 8-week series of political education documentaries & presentations about black power, reparations, colonialism and revolutionary African resistance. Hosted by the Boston branch of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the organization of white people under the leadership of the African People?s Socialist Party organizing in the white community for reparations to African people.
Fundraiser for the Black Power Blueprint, a black-led economic development program building community centers, housing, gardens, a food economy and the African Independence Workforce Program to train African people being released from colonial prisons into becoming skilled professionals with their own business. Visit blackpowerblueprint.org to learn more and see photos.
CONTACT: usmboston at riseup.net / 781-214-8131 / uhurusolidarity.org
FOLLOW: @uhurusolidarity on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Facebook event to share: https://www.facebook.com/events/699252814266328/
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Saturday August 29
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Independent Bookstore Day!
Saturday August 29
Go to your local independent bookstore and BUY something!
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Climate Justice: Why Climate Justice & the Global South matter
Saturday, August 29
8:30am – 11am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-justice-why-climate-justice-the-global-south-matter-tickets-116350267783
Find out why Climate Justice and the Global South matter in the face of the climate emergency.
In the face of the climate emergency, we know a sustainable future must be a Just and Inclusive one.
Join 2050 Climate Group's online workshop as we explore the topic of Climate Justice in the context of the Global South.
Together we'll hear from a brilliant lineup of guest speakers covering topics including gender, climate refugees, socio-economics and age from the perspective of the Global South.
Throughout an afternoon, we'll have the opportunity to work in groups on an interactive activity, exploring the challenges of intersectionality and the uncertain future of climate change.
It's an event that's sure to challenge and broaden our worldview, helping us understand the issues which affect the Global South and influence the choices we make.
Sign-up to secure your space and keep updated in the lead up to the event.
This event is open to the general public and members of 2050 Leaders Network.
It is the first of three digital events being hosted by 2050 Climate Group over the next 3 months as part of our 'Climate Justice for a Positive Future' series. Each event will provide time to focus on and explore areas of Climate Justice through expert led workshops and discussions.
Please note sign-ups for this event will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 26th August. Attendee numbers are limited therefore if you sign up and can no longer attend please cancel your ticket so we can let someone else have a place!
About Us
2050 Climate Group is an award-winning charity working to engage, educate and empower Scotland's young leaders to take action on climate change. The organisation runs the Young Leaders Development Programme (YLDP), a free development course on climate change and leadership for young people in Scotland. The 2050 Climate Group is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Scottish Charity Number SC047206) and our team of volunteers plan and deliver the YLDP.
Costs & Donations
We care passionately about keeping our events free and accessible to all. These are tough and uncertain times for everybody, and it's important that these events are free at the point of access for Scotland's Young Leaders.
If you or your organisation would like to help educating, empowering and enabling Scotland's young people to take meaningful action on the climate crisis, please make a donation today via the link below. Thank you.
https://www.2050.scot/donate
Even though our events are free they still have a cost. On average our events involve 100+ volunteer hours and significant financial resources per head. We really want to see you there but, if you sign up and can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket.
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Charles River Watershed Association Clean-Up
Saturday, August 29
9 - 11 a.m.
North Point Park, Cambridge
We have space for 12 volunteers to work with us in North Point Park. Projects will focus on invasive plant management and litter removal.
We have worked closely with MassDCR to develop safety protocols, which include social distancing, mandatory face masks, and additional tool sanitation. Participants must register at least 3 days prior to the event by emailing Sasha at svallieres at thecharles.org. Onsite registration will not be available.
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Compassion and the sustainable development goals: a new tomorrow
Saturday, August 29
10am – 11am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/compassion-and-the-sustainable-development-goals-a-new-tomorrow-tickets-113367605560
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set out a blueprint for a new world and new science. Where do these plans stand now?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set out a blueprint for a new world and new science. Knowledge translation and innovation have set out what is needed to deliver to the blueprint. What has been missing from the SDG agenda is the urgency to deliver on this and the “why” of delivery. However, the pandemic of COVID-19 and our understanding of compassion now positions us differently.
If, as Greta Thunberg says, climate change has put our house on fire, then COVID-19 pandemic has poured petrol on the flames and burnt systems that were seen as indispensable and impenetrable. We are now in a very different place with lots of plans emerging. What does a phoenix of compassion rising from these ashes look like and how can compassion shape this new world ?
Tea & Talk Series
The Tea & Talk series invites everyone to enjoy a cup of tea while engaging with experts in a friendly, relaxed discussion. There won't be any powerpoints, notes or formality here - just the chance to ask questions and to listen to some of Scotland's leading authorities on a variety of subjects.
All Tea & Talk events will take place using Zoom Meetings so attendees can take part using audio and video. To encourage discussion and allow for everyone an opportunity to ask questions we have limited the number of spaces available.
Please note that the audio of these sessions will be recorded for marketing purposes - only the Speaker's audio will be used. Recordings will be deleted once the necessary audio has been edited.
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Arlington Shoe Strike @ Uncle Sam
Saturday August 29
10 a.m.
4 Mystic Street, Arlington
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/arlington_shoes_strike_200829/
Shoe Strike! Please join us for a safe social distanced climate awareness action Saturday August 29 10am at the Uncle Sam Statue (4 Mystic Street, Arlington, MA).
If feasible, bring pairs of shoes, which we will set out as part of the global #FridaysForFuture ShoeStrike (inspired by Greta Thunberg) around the world that day. The shoes symbolize our presence in large numbers to call for climate action, including even people who cannot attend in person for reasons of COVID safety.
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Just Recovery: Reconciling Race, Class, Gender, and Climate Change
Saturday, August 29
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/just-recovery-reconciling-race-class-gender-and-climate-change-tickets-117549703327
Join UTEA and three amazing panellists for an introduction on what a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should look like!
In responding to COVID-19, governments and civil society have been forced to address the inefficiencies and inequalities pervasive in our system. As such, we cannot go back to our old “normal.” Instead, we must rebuild a more just future that should adequately respond to both present and future crises.
Join UTEA and three amazing panellists for an introduction on what a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should look like! This online webinar is intended to provide discussion and direction in terms of how we as activists can advocate for a just recovery. We will first be presenting an overview of the main issues being highlighted during the pandemic – such as the disproportionate burdens shouldered by black, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities – and then transition to discussion on a just recovery.
The event will be hosted online via Zoom at https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/92250984996
Hope to see you there!
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Monday, August 31
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SimPlanet 2020
Monday, August 31
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/simplanet-2020-tickets-116927989765
Dive into the world’s most advanced real-time climate change simulator. MIT Sloan’s Professor John Sterman presents SimPlanet, the climate solutions game that hands you the controls to the world’s energy and economic policies. But national and industrial interests stand in the way. Can you rally the planet and hold global warming to no more than 2 degrees?
SimPlanet 2020 is backed by the Climate Interactive EnROADS Simulator, which runs thousands of calculations in real time to determine how the policies the world sets now will affect global temperatures decades into the future. Choose new policies and watch the warming curve bend as your ideas take effect. If you've ever wondered what kind of mobilization we truly need to confront the climate crisis, SimPlanet will open your eyes to a new world that brings all its ingenuity to bear on the challenge of climate change.
This event is being held as part of MIT's 2020 orientation week. It is presented by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and the Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
You must log in from an MIT email address to participate. Register online here or just show up on the day!
Editorial Comment: The MIT email requirement doesn’t show up in Eventbrite so non-MIT people may be able to sneak in.
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Thriving Online - A Weekly Workshop
Monday, August 31
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
Watch at https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
On Mondays, longtime journalist, author and educator Andy Revkin hosts an open workshop testing paths to impact and sanity in an online information environment that is more overheated, and more important, than ever.
Revkin is the founding director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, which works to boost the capacity of scientists, journalists, educators, students and citizens to communicate in ways that can speed progress toward a more sustainable relationship between our species, our planet and each other. Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin at columbia.edu
Info: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu Contact: andrew.revkin at columbia.edu
Watch these sessions on the Earth Institute's Sustain What video channel: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
Event Contact Information: EI Events
events at ei.columbia.edu
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Climate Change Town Hall w/Chairwoman Kathy Castor & Congressman Joe Neguse
Monday, August 31
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-town-hall-wchairwoman-kathy-castor-congressman-joe-neguse-tickets-117312722511
Join Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Kathy Castor and Congressman Joe Neguse for a town hall on climate change.
Join Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) and member of the Select Committee & Vice Chair of the Progressive Caucus Congressman Joe Neguse (D-Lafayette) for a town hall on climate change. Bring your questions for a discussion on the work the Select Committee is doing, what the rest of Congress is working on, and what needs to be done to solve the climate crisis.
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Managing for Economic and Social Justice
Monday, August 31
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Online
RSVP via SloanGroups at https://bit.ly/31jEegu
What is the role of managers in promoting economic and social justice?
How can we, as future business leaders, manage towards a more equitable society?
Join us for a webinar featuring a lively discussion of these questions with three inspiring executives who work in contexts that range from an entrepreneurial packaging business to one of the world's largest employers.
The panelists include:
Gayatri Agnew (Sr. Director, Walmart Giving)
Al Fuller (CEO, Integrated Packaging Corp.)
Julie Bertani-Kiser (Senior VP and Chief HR Officer, Recology)
This event is part of a series titled Redefining Management: Leadership for Social Progress in Troubled Times, brought to you by MIT Sloan's People & Organizations Club; the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan, and the MIT Sloan Student Life Office.
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
Monday, August 31
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_debora_l._spar/
Cost: Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes DEBORA L. SPAR—the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—for a discussion of her latest book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny.
Contribute to Support Harvard Book Store
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of Work Mate Marry Love on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
About Work Mate Marry Love
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created?
In Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex. Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve?
In the past, the prevailing modes of production produced a world dominated by heterosexual, mostly-monogamous, two-parent families. In the future, however, these patterns are almost certain to be reshaped, creating entirely new norms for sex and romance, and for the construction of families and the raising of children. Steering clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.
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Tuesday, September 1 - Friday, September 4
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Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19 in Africa: A Virtual Symposium
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 9:00 AM - Friday, September 4, 2020 11:00 AM
Online
RSVP at http://iserp.columbia.edu/article/meeting-challenge-covid-19-africa
The purpose of the symposium is to focus on the key challenges of dealing with a delayed but explosive unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic in parts of Africa and to identify best practice solutions in respect of (1) gaining of public trust in adhering to the health imperatives of social distancing and the use of approved therapies and vaccines to manage and contain outbreaks; (2) the dynamic and most-effective use of testing, tracing and isolation as public health tools during a pandemic; and (3) the scaling up of SARS_COV2 vaccine acquisition and distribution platforms that will serve all African countries for mass immunization. A pre-meeting on the biosafety and biosecurity aspects of the SARS_COV2 pathogen will be held on 1 September.
September 1: Pre-meeting on the Biosafety and Biosecurity Aspects of SARS-COV2
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratory (research and diagnostic) capacity has increased globally, as have the risks related to biosafety and biosecurity, those especially related to what is known as dual-use research and development. That dual use research may result in misuse is a long-standing science concern. Issues include not only research and public health, but also security, scientific publishing, public communications, biotechnology, ethics and wider societal issues. In this session, we will discuss some of the dual-use concerns as related to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
September 2: The Challenge of Social Distancing in Africa and the Developing World
Reducing the rate of infection (R0) in a population is central to health systems coping with surges in patients requiring care in infectious pandemics. The most tried and tested method of doing this is to secure adherence to social distancing. Achieving effective social distancing however requires that communities have the resources that make this possible.
September 3: The Limits of Testing, Tracing and Treatment
The use of frequent testing, followed by active contact tracing and early treatment of infected patients is an effective form of limiting the spread of an infectious agent. Making this strategy work requires that all aspects of this strategy function effectively. The current experience in the SARS-COV-2 pandemic suggests that achieving this can be very difficult.
September 4: Public Trust and the Delivery of COVID19 Vaccines
The value in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic is not only dependent on the efficacy of a vaccine. It also requires that the majority of people are prepared to be vaccinated. Achieving this means that communities trust this intervention.
This event will be capped at 200 participants to ensure robust interaction between panelists and attendees.
This event is being organized by the Center for Pandemic Research, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, New York City, and the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Co-sponsored by the Programs in Global Health, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, the Stanley and Marion Bergman Family Charitable Fund and the Sanlam Foundation
Registration is required for this symposium. Registration is open now for Columbia and WITS affiliates, and will be opened to the public the week of August 24. For more information and to register: http://iserp.columbia.edu/article/meeting-challenge-covid-19-africa
Please reach out to iserp-events at columbia.edu with any questions.
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Tuesday, September 1
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Author Talk: Visual Culture by Alexis Boylan
Tuesday, September 1
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-visual-culture-by-alexis-boylan-tickets-115915120245?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Alexis Boylan, author of Visual Culture
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see—color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West—somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see—and what is at stake in doing so.
Alexis L. Boylan is Director of Academic Affairs at the Humanities Institute of the University of Connecticut, where she is also Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department and Africana Studies Institute. She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man.
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Public Works: Planning and Designing Public Spaces for Spatial Justice
Tuesday, September 1
2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sd-qsqjwiG9E_nZouwMctcXt_ARPV3JwJ
Not all public spaces are created equal. Transformative planning and urban design begins with addressing historic and current experiences of racism and exclusion. But what does that mean in practice? Join the conversation with creative community leaders about what it means to design for spatial justice. We’ll explore how skate parks, sidewalk kitchens, and “dance courts” can change how public space is used, who feels welcome in it, and how inclusive creative placemaking can help lead the way toward lasting spatial justice.
Speakers TBA
Questions? Contact MAPC Event Planner, Sasha Parodi: sparodi at mapc.org
“Public Works,” is part three of “Whose Public? Planning and Placemaking for Welcoming Public Spaces.” This three-part discussion series explores the role that planners, artists, and government staff can play in shaping just, joyful, and inclusive public spaces.
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Mettler and Lieberman: Four Threats to Our Democracy
Tuesday, September 1
6:30 P.M. EDT
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/?_ga=2.102839104.1315268484.1598132755-1220969728.1595336747#/instances/a0F3j00001BP8idEAD
Join us virtually for a conversation with Professors Mettler and Lieberman about the social trends that have often threatened our democracy.
They have identified four major threats: political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power. And they have drawn lessons from five serious crises: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. Each of these crises could have profoundly―even fatally―damaged the American democratic experiment. But what is most alarming now is that all four threats exist simultaneously―in the midst of a viral pandemic. This convergence could be cause for despair, but history provides valuable lessons about how democracy was eventually strengthened―or weakened―in the past.
By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced similar threats to our constitutional principles, we can see more clearly what led us to today, and then chart a path toward repairing our civic fabric and renewing our democracy.
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Wednesday, September 2
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A Framework for Digital Transformation in Health Care
Wednesday, September 2
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/framework-digital-transformation-health-care
SPEAKER(S) John Glaser
DETAILS John Glaser has led efforts to use digital platforms to improve health care delivery in many different contexts: as a senior advisor to the federal government, CIO of a large academic health system, CEO of Siemens Health Services, and SVP and executive senior advisor at Cerner. In this webinar, he will discuss lessons learned from these experiences, from data and digital platforms to organizational processes and business models.
LINK executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu…
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Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
Wednesday, September 2
7:00pm
Online
RSVP on Crowdcast at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/veritas
Join Porter Square Books for a virtual talk with Ariel Sabar, the author of Veritas! From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, Veritas is the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. This event takes place on Crowdcast, and is free and open to all.
In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The tattered manuscript made international headlines. If early Christians believed Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the world’s predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex and women’s leadership. Biblical scholars were in an uproar, but King had impeccable credentials as a world-renowned authority on female figures in the lost Christian texts from Egypt known as the Gnostic gospels. “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”–as she provocatively titled her discovery–was both a crowning career achievement and powerful proof for her arguments that Christianity from its start embraced alternative, and far more inclusive, voices.
As debates over the manuscript’s authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His search for answers is an international detective story–leading from the factory districts of Berlin to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before winding up in rural Florida, where he discovered an internet pornographer with a prophetess wife, a fascination with the Pharaohs and a tortured relationship with the Catholic Church.
VERITAS is a tale of fierce intellectual rivalries at the highest levels of academia, a piercing psychological portrait of a disillusioned college dropout whose life had reached a breaking point, and a tragedy about a brilliant scholar handed a piece of scripture that embodied her greatest hopes for Christianity–but forced a reckoning with fundamental questions about the nature of truth and the line between reason and faith.
ARIEL SABAR is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is the author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Thursday, September 3
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Extinction Rebelllion Cambridge + Somerville Spray Chalk Run
Thursday, September 3
6 a.m.
Cambridge and Somerville
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/camberville_chalk_run/
It's time to tell the truth about the climate end ecological emergency. It's time to act on climate justice.
If you won't tell the public the truth about the crisis - we'll do it for you. We are going to spray chalk calls to action on the climate emergency in high traffic areas. Note - we will not be damaging property and spray chalk will wash off
We will definitely have a team starting at 6:00 AM - so there is less foot traffic. If you would like to do a later time that evening, sign up and we will pair you with a night run team. Please sign up and we will reach out to you with our meet location and will coordinate on a list of targets. It is encouraged but not required that you have access to a bike - we'll be in touch to coordinate.
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Summer of Extremes: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Thursday, September 3
6:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://emerson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-qtrTkpGdHmO52V14eDSbamXbk003TH
Panelists: NYC Planner & Boston City Councilor -TBA
Is Boston prepared to take on the heat of this moment?
Join us for 3-a day convening, which includes a link to preview the timely film, Cooked: Survival by Zip Code.
The highlights about the upcoming “Summer of Extreme: Racism, Health Inequalities and Heat
Boston/Brookline/Cambridge Part 2”:
Webinar Participants-Pre-viewing of Cooked: Survival by Zip Code –(free access to view full digital version, and 21-minute version..
Watch clips, trailers, or the entire documentary of ‘Cooked Survival by Zip Code’
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/cooked-survival-by-zip-code/#.Xw6cBrqx4vg.email
Featured Partner Event for Boston Greenfest 2020- August 20th @ 6pm. https://www.bostongreenfest.org/
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My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist
Thursday, September 3
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_megan_margulies/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes writer MEGAN MARGULIES for a discussion of her debut memoir, My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist. She will be joined in conversation by author and comics expert HILLARY CHUTE, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere.
About My Captain America
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies’s Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the “Wild Man of 96th Street,” who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents’ tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five—including some loud personalities—eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space.
Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance.
Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and ’90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and ’40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan’s story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American.
My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan’s life with Daddy Joe—and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.
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Friday, September 4
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Cape Cod Climate Emergency Spectacular
Friday, September 4
noon
Bourne Bridge near 343 Scenic Hwy, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/cape_cod_bourne_bridge/
Extinction Rebellion [XR] is organizing a Climate Emergency Action next to Cape Cod’s Bourne Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal. It will be on the Friday afternoon of Labor Day weekend, Sept 4. As the traditional slow parade of cars - backed up for miles - makes its way across the bridge for the holiday weekend, we'll be there with puppets, banners, and handouts reminding passengers of how environmentally fragile the Cape that they love is. We hope to have an appearance from our esteemed Red Rebel Brigade!
We will not be blocking or disrupting traffic (it's already backed up forever!) and the goal of this action is about raising awareness and connecting with people.
This will be in the afternoon. Specific time TBA - please register for updates.
If you would like to join the Red Rebel Brigade to participate in this action please attend the RRB orientation on 8/21: https://xrmass.org/action/xr-boston-red-rebel-brigade-orientation/ or email marrb at protonmail.com.
Please register if you are coming so we can send you more details about logistics and planning! If you're interested in having another role for this action (puppet holder, costume, police liason, marshall, etc), we will send out a follow up email to people registered.
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Harvard Science Book Talk: Rita Colwell, 'A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science’
Friday, September 4
7 – 8 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_rita_colwell/
SPEAKER(S) Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, the University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
DETAILS Rita Colwell, a pioneering microbiologist and the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation, will talk about her new book, "A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science." The book is a memoir-manifesto about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
LINK https://science.fas.harvard.edu/book-talks
CONTACT INFO science_lectures at fas.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, September 8
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ERIN BROCKOVICH: SUPERMAN'S NOT COMING
Tuesday, September 8
12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001CnSVFEA3
Erin Brockovich was vaulted into national recognition in 2000, after the eponymous movie starring Julia Roberts made her a water activism icon. Famous for her focus on contamination, Brockovich says there is a larger threat facing water’s very existence: climate change, and the impact it has on dwindling freshwater supplies, longer droughts, and hotter weather.
Superman isn’t coming to protect our water or environment, writes Brockovich in her latest book — and neither are corporations, politicians or the “gutted” EPA. How can individuals and communities take collective action to safeguard our environment and our resources? What are today’s leading activists doing to create change that lasts?
Join us for a conversation on speaking truth to power with Erin Brockovich, author of Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It.
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Memory, Social Justice, and Mindfulness
Tuesday, September 8
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at
DETAILS This 4-week series from the Harvard Ed Portal builds off of Dr. Angel Acosta's 400 Years Project, which centers contemplative practice around the history of inequality in the US.
The goal of this workshop is to engage with, acknowledge, and awaken ourselves to the dynamics of racism and oppression at all levels. Each session will have a mix of practices, including:
Mindfulness and compassion practices
Walking through the 400 Years Timeline
Guided storytelling and reflection
By understanding how history lives in each of us and the systems which surround us, we can begin to heal the wounds of historical trauma, both individually and collectively.
Please note: As this is a cumulative workshop, attendance is strongly encouraged at all four sessions, to help build a safe space for discussion and trust.
LINK https://edportal.harvard.edu/event/memory-social-justice-and-mindfulness
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Staying Strong While Everything Falls Apart: Navigating Grief and Hope About the Environment
Tuesday, September 8
6:00PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/staying-strong-while-everything-falls-apart-navigating-environmental-grief-tickets-107731311252ns
COVID has taught us in a hurry – and brought to widely publicized attention – the importance of self-care and psycho-social resilience during a crisis, even while being physically distant from our support networks. Can we distill those lessons and transfer them to other crisis situations, such as arise from climate change and other environmental crises? Can we break the taboo around the mental health challenges for those of us working to improve and save the environment?
What are some of the chronic stresses and shocks associated with sustainability challenges, such as climate change that demand our attention from a psychological perspective? What emotional experiences and mental health stresses can we expect? Which can we already observe? And to what extent is this growing problem already being recognized and addressed?
On a spectrum from healthy to pathological, people will need different kinds of support. What might that look like? Can we build up our “adaptive mind”, our capacity for psycho-social resilience even as the work gets harder?
Our Sept 8 BASG will feature Suzanne Moser, a nationally and internationally recognized independent scholar and consultant. Her work with government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and other researchers and consultants focuses on adaptation to climate change, science-policy interactions, effective climate change communication, and psycho-social resilience in the face of the traumatic and transformative challenges before us. She is a prolific writer, an inspiring speaker and has served on scientific advisory boards for Future Earth, the International Science Council, the US National Research Council and has contributed to the IPCC and US national climate assessments.
Suzanne will be joined by additional speakers, to be announced, whose work looks at building personal resilience to grief about the environment in various realms of our life so that we can keep up the good fight!
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Susanne C. Moser is a geographer (Ph.D. 1997, Clark University) who works nationally and internationally as an independent scholar and consultant from a base in western Massachusetts. Her work with government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and other researchers and consultants focuses on adaptation to climate change, science-policy interactions, effective climate change communication, and psycho-social resilience in the face of the traumatic and transformative challenges before us. She is a prolific writer, an inspiring speaker and has served on scientific advisory boards for Future Earth, the International Science Council, the US National Research Council and has contributed to the IPCC and US national climate assessments.
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Tuesday, September 8
7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_martha_s._jones/
Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes MARTHA S. JONES—Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University—for a discussion of her latest book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.
About Vanguard
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own.
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women—Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more—who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
https://boston.uli.org/about/impact/
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cs87v-b6dbac
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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/News/2019/5/~/media/A0547DC0640E4ABD86B519CA6FEEFF38.ashx
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Climate Resilience Workbook
https://sustainablebuildingsinitiative.org/toolkits/climate-resilience-guidelines/climate-resilience-workbook
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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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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.
To subscribe to the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
To be removed / unsubscribe from the Boston Food System list:
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/signoff/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development - http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy: https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston: http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at over 50 colleges and universities at Hubevents: http://hubevents.blogspot.com
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MIT Events: http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Boston Science Lectures: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub: https://www.universalhub.com/
Extinction Rebellion: https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement: https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/
Mission-Based Massachusetts is an online discussion group for people who are interested in nonprofit, philanthropic, educational, community-based, grassroots, and other mission-based organizations in the Bay State. This is a moderated, flame-free email list that is open to anyone who is interested in the topic and willing to adhere to the principles of civil discourse. To subscribe email
mbm-SUBSCRIBE at missionbasedmassachusetts.net
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
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