[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - March 2023

[gmoke]

Conferences
Lecture Series
Events
More complete information on each entry at http://hubevents.blogspot.com

These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. 

This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).  

A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.  

If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.

Thanks for reading,

Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com

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Tuesday, February 28

Powering the Mekong: Does “clean energy” mean more dams?
Tuesday, February 28
3am - 5am EST (15:00 - 16:00 BKK)
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_56hHaxT_T-yZZpA7toeM6Q

Accelerating Climate Resilience Webinar: Resilience Hubs 
Tuesday, February 28
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuCpqjkvHdL9rWm6rCpxXQG9zctQQXJb 

Dorceta Taylor: Untold Stories of the Conservation Movement: Race, Class and Environmental Protection
Tuesday, February 28
6:00pm
BC, Gasson Hall, 100 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA

Wednesday, March 1

Biodiversity 8 Deepdive: Symbiosis is Challenging Survival of the Fittest
Wednesdays, March 1 – May 12
RSVP at https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-8-deepdive-into-symbiosis/registration/

2030 solar and wind roadmap for Pakistan
Wednesday, March 1
5:30am EST [11:30 AM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna]
Online
RSVP at https://agora-energiewende-de.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RXguv17OS0-84V-_4ZzlWQ

Energy Efficient Circuits Beyond what have been known as the Fundamental Limits: Power Converter, Analog Interface and Frequency Generation
Wednesday, March 1
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Grier Room, Building 34-401, 34 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Enhancing the Benefits of Human Mobility through Development Interventions
Wednesday, March 1
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MIT Building 9, 9-255 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This is an in-person event with a virtual option. To join the Zoom Webinar, registration is required: https://bit.ly/BenefitsHumanMobility

Reducing Child Poverty in the United States
Wednesday, March 1
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET 
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-attend-reducing-child-poverty-us
and Online
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-reducing-child-poverty-united-states

Sulfur and the organic carbon cycle
Wednesday, March 1
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54, Room 209, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 

Psychology for a Safe Climate [PSC] In Conversation with Joelle Gergis: Humanity’s Moment
Wednesday, March 1
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm AEDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/psc-in-conversation-with-joelle-gergis-humanitys-moment-tickets-512564031817

Thursday, March 2

Tufts Energy Conference 2023
Thursday, March 2 – Friday, March 3
5:00 PM EST
Tufts University 419 Boston Avenue Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tufts-energy-conference-2023-tickets-529744308487

Systems Change for People and Planet: What You Need to Know
Thursday, March 2
10 a.m. EST (4 p.m. CET)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_du_IQb_QRVSAJAOnr9BvZg

A Clean Energy Workforce and the Path to Equity
Thursday, March 2
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Kleinman Energy Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
and Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-clean-energy-workforce-and-the-path-to-equity-registration-518131815207

Moakley Chair Webinar Series: When Will This War End? Unraveling The Russia-Ukraine Crisis
Thursday, March 2
4:00 PM
Online 
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ejm5jgr50d4a71e4&oseq=&c=&ch=

Climate Change and Muslim Societies: Examples from Africa and Asia
Thursday, March 2
4 – 5:30 p.m.
Harvard, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RdpyRRe5SbC8-ZNGUArrqw

Climatetech Intern Fair 2023
Thursday, March 2
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/climatetech-intern-fair-2023/

Design Activism: Border Ecologies and the Architecture of UN Missions
Thursday, March 2
6:00pm to 8:00pm
 Long Lounge, 7-429, 7-429 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139
and Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/malkit-shoshan-tickets-536285192447

Friday, March 3

From Land Carbon Sink to Net Zero Emissions: How can Land be Part of the Climate Solution? 
Friday, March 3
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Parsons Laboratory , 48-316 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

“Culturally-Minded Disaster Response,” Virtual Discussion
Friday, March 3
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Online 
RSVP at https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1774

Sunday, March 5

Transformation Beyond the Climate-bubble: The Case for Building a Climate Majority
Sunday, March 5
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transformation-beyond-the-climate-bubble-tickets-544452541207

Monday, March 6

TEDxBoston:  Countdown to Artificial General Intelligence
Monday, March 6
9:30am - 7pm
The 'Quin House in Back Bay, Boston, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaFvwZiAM4iAb-7R-8wKxnPBO7N_Ecdl0NgyuWi_5o6EbMsw/viewform
Full schedule at https://drive.google.com/file/d/19uHE0X6n_WJ07q27PmWgBF7LZvJausBn/view

The economic case for tackling climate change now
Monday, March 6
11:00 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
Online only
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-climate-econ 

A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back
Monday, March 6
12:00pm to 1:15pm
WexG02 Seminar Room, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
 and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_63dlE60PSbyw9IRVnlgXkQ 

Energy Policy Seminar: "Measuring Air Pollution Co-Benefits of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technology"
Monday, March 6
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Harvard, Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MgJ1GX8zSQOkEnLI1XPnkw

Climate Positive Design - Going Beyond Neutral
Monday, March 6
5:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://web.mit.edu/webcast/lcau/s23/lecture/3/

Modelling Earth’s past and future climate: practices and possibilities
Monday, March 6
10pm EST [2:00 pm – 1:30 pm AEDT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modelling-earths-past-and-future-climate-practices-and-possibilities-tickets-531269841397

The State of the Transport System
Tuesday, March 7
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yBCLXeNqSOmw6uK12DEJHA

The Changing Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the Future of the Clean Energy Transition
Thursday, March 9
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
Online
RSVP at https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/a/changing-geopolitics-critical-minerals-and-future-clean-energy-transition-1

Productive Tension: Hands-On Steps to Fossil Fuel Abolition
Thursday, March 9
12-1 pm EST
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
and Online 
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hIwBShg7S_-lseQyYfrkAQ

Wall Street Green Summit: Sustainable Energy
Tuesday, March 14
8:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wall-street-green-summit-tuesday-morning-march-14th-sustainable-energy-tickets-502633689897
Cost:  $10

Unlocking Clean Energy Deployment: A Conversation with Sen. Brian Schatz About the Future of Transmission Permitting Reform on Capitol Hill 
March 14
1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CchWhyPmRte5Dvt6gPLlFg

Scrubbing the Skies - Certifying soil carbon removals: A soil-focused assessment of the proposal for the European Framework for CDR
Tuesday, March 14
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scrubbing-the-skies-certifying-soil-carbon-removals-tickets-558843344487

Wednesday, March 15

Energy Transitions and Deindustrialization
Wednesday, March 15
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-transitions-and-deindustrialization-tickets-546283347197

White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi
Wednesday, March 15 
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 
and Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001ZeAMrEAN
Cost:  $20 - $0 

Geoengineering - An overview of potential earth cooling technologies
Wednesday, March 15
9am EST [12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geoengineering-an-overview-of-potential-earth-cooling-technologies-tickets-549814779807

Climate migration: solutions and opportunities
Thursday, March 16
7am EST [12:00 GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/tRegisterEmailNew.csp?pageID=42525&eventID=158&mc=WEB1&tempPersonID=53011

50 years on from "The Limits to Growth", how do we learn what we already know? with Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Vice President of the Club of Rome 
Thursday, March 16
10:30am EST [1:30pm to 3pm PST]
Mills Campus, Northeastern University Oakland, California Campus, GSB 101 at the Oakland California
and Online
RSVP at https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrf-qoqDIsGtSDZIO4Yr9VIove54UC2nmS

Boston Metal: The Technology to Decarbonize the Steel Industry
Thursday, March 16
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall,474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA (Please enter through the door off the brick patio on the south side of the building.)
and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__dpOKA4HTA-EieEo5o3fGw

SJN Climate Primer: Nature-based Carbon Removal Methods
Thursday, March 16
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2-o2jUt2Sr-zanjFhfupJQ

How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen... And Act
Thursday, March 16
5:00 pm to 6:15 pm
Online
RSVP at  https://bit.ly/FEJClimateComm

Observatory Night: Monitoring Air Pollution from Space
Thursday, March 16
7 – 8 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UUo6Y7fP0N41Qw7KcKtcQ

Saturday, March 18

MIT Climate Machine: The Image-in Session
Saturday, March 18
11:00am to 12:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-climate-machine-the-image-in-session-tickets-560584171347

Sunday, March 19

TEDxBostonCollege:  Press Play
Sunday, March 19
2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Robsham Theater Arts Center, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA
RSVP at tedxbostoncollege at gmail.com

Monday, March 20

"The Climate Implications of U.S. LNG Facilities"
Monday, March 20
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Harvard, Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ezt-rGeSTS2qCdST2IAhVQ

ASC: Green Energy in Africa
Monday, March 20
2:30 pm to 2:00 pm
BU, African Studies Center, 232 Bay State Road (Conference Room 505), Boston, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpfuurpjIvE9yTmTVJqV-EMkQWHAAnsxLz

Tuesday, March 21

The Transatlantic Energy Landscape—One Year After Russia's Invasion
Tuesday, March 21
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-transatlantic-energy-landscapeone-year-after-russias-invasion-registration-543204578517

Climate change – is there any hope?
Tuesday, March 21
2:30pm EST [19:30 – 20:30 GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-is-there-any-hope-tickets-536169466307

MIT Energy storage student slam
Tuesday, March 21
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT Welcome Center (E38) 292 Main Street Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://calendar.mit.edu/event/energy_storage_student_slam#.Y_rwcC2ZOiI

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Wednesday, March 22

Nuclear Weapons Today—peril and promise
Wednesday, March 22
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdeyqqjkjG9ULZhHT_wi5BX_F4jI0ihCU

Climate Change: Fundamentals and Regenerative Solutions (webinar)
Wednesday, March 22
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-fundamentals-and-regenerative-solutions-webinar-registration-461873204187

Reinvesting in Energy and Communities with the Inflation Reduction Act
Wednesday, March 22 
3:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/events/

Thursday, March 23

How do corals adapt to rising temperatures?
Thursday, March 23
3:30pm
Harvard, Northwest Labs B101, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Iliana Baums, Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University

Decarbonization Transformation in Chinese Cities: A Talk by Daizong Liu
Thursday, March 23
5:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT, Building 9, 9-255, 105 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 
Zoom option please register at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvcuqorDIiE9xj-UuqMsvKjPUII8AwpHXd

Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: “Biospheric Urbanism”
Thursday, March 23
6:30PM – 08:00
Harvard, GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

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Monday, March 27

Energy Policy Seminar: Eyck Freymann on "Chinese Perspectives on Climate Geopolitics"
Monday, March 27
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Harvard, Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_68BY5r5KTmCTSuQtDCneeg

Our Fusion Future—Lawrence Livermore Director Kim Budil
Monday, March 27 
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001e61u8EAA
Cost:  $25 - $0

TEDxBoston:  Planetary Stewardship - Ocean Exploration
Monday, March 27
4pm - 8pm
The 'Quin House in Back Bay
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeScxdt-sSjq8swY2GuJGb_L8fIMekqXn2siHy1WJxTXVjT_A/viewform

Tuesday, March 28

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s [NESEA] BuildingEnergy Boston Conference
Tuesday, March 28
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Westin Boston Seaport District, 425 Summer Street, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-boston
Cost:  $50 - $650

Climate Tech: Why It Needs the Humanities and Social Sciences
Tuesday, March 28
4:15pm–6:00pm EDT
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, NYC
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i2JAAVwGTM-TRQV7n_mrMA

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Wednesday, March 29

Helping Bend the Arc at the Hinges of History: A Conversation with Larry Brilliant
Wednesday, March 29
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Harvard, Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
and Online at https://www.youtube.com/@HarvardWCFIA

Kim Stanley Robinson: “The Future of Climate, Technology, and Society” 
Wednesday, March 29
7:00pm
BC, Gasson Hall, 100, Gasson Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA

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Thursday, March 30

Fortifying the Truth: Human Rights, Generative AI, and Deepfakes
Thursday, March 30
4 – 5 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/fortifying-truth-human-rights-generative-ai-and-deepfakes

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Wednesday, April 5

Reiki, Energy Medicine, and Post-Materialism: A Conversation with Research Scientist Dr. Natalie Dyer (T&T Gnoseologies Series)
Wednesday, April 5
1 – 2 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/3116760490511/WN_z4Rjw88jQH6vfgPXez5ZnA

The EU’s Energy Policy after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Wednesday, April 5
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA

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Thursday, April 6

Canary Live Boston
Thursday, April 6
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Greentown Labs 444 Somerville Ave Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canary-live-boston-tickets-539295245597
Cost:  $49