Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - May 2024

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Monday April 29, 2024 · 12:05 PM PDT

2024/04/29 · 12:05

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - May 2024

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.

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George Mokray
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More details on each event available at https://hubevents.blogspot.com/2024/04/energy-and-other-events-monthly-may-2024.html

which is also available as a free listserv.

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A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza Date & Time

Tuesday, April 30

11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Online

RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iunXWSKOSGySlZVJWMOn-w#/registration

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National Climate Resilience Framework: Food, Land and Water

Tuesday, April 30

3pm - 4pm ET [12pm to 1pm PT]

Online

RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZoB3jvk8S7CRgmnoxnmhww#/registration

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From Data to Action: Leveraging Data Science for Effective Health Policy and Surveillance Against Emerging Infectious Disease Threats.

Tuesday, April 30

3:00 – 5:00 PM EST

BU, 72 East Concord St, Room L-403, Boston, MA

RSVP in person at https://www.bu.edu/ceid/2024/04/10/from-data-to-action-leveraging-data-science-for-effective-health-policy-and-surveillance-against-emerging-infectious-disease-threats/

And online

RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nPA7uS8ORMGx2dbJTWCj3Q#/

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'True False, Hot Cold': Film Screening & Discussion

Tuesday, April 30

4:30pm to 6:30pm

MIT, Building 55, Atrium 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139

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ISO-NE Public Forum on the 2050 Transmission Study

Wednesday, May 1

10:00 a.m. (running for approximately 90 minutes)

Online

RSVP at https://www.iso-ne.com/event-details?eventId=154784

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De-poisoning Catalysts for Sustainable Chemical Processing

Wednesday, May 1

12 – 1 p.m.

Online

RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-jane-p-chang-fellow-presentation-virtual

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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs

Wednesday, May 1

7:00 PM ET

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sabrina_sholts/

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Food Waste: Whose responsibility is it?

Thursday, May 2

9:00 - 10:30 ED [GMT-4]

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-waste-whose-responsibility-is-it-tickets-853808573427

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Meeting Investor Expectations: Introducing the Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark

Thursday, May 2

10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Online

RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTxpuCB7Qi2AM_1YXsuR3w#/registration

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Future of Energy and Power Grids by 2050 Webinar-ICWS North America Chapter

Thursday, May 2

10 - 11:30am EDT

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-energy-and-power-grids-by-2050-webinar-icws-north-america-chapter-tickets-814182129667

Cost: $45

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World Press Freedom Day - The Intersections of Press Freedom and the Environment

Thursday, May 2

12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Online

RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yuNtVb5ZSjGybsi9N2lstQ#/registration

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Exploring Mars and the moon

Thursday, May 2

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Online

RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/exploring-mars-and-the-moon/

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Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate

Thursday, May 2

4:30 pm – 5:45 pm

Princeton, McCosh Hall, Room 50, Princeton, NJ

And online

RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RvMbWbIRSqiM6pkPhIxrhg#/registration

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American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion

Thursday, May 2

8:00PM ET

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-an-evening-with-american-precariat-tickets-872754521267

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Processes of Dispossession, the Imminent Collapse of Tunisian Oases (and what can we do about it)

Friday, May 3

2 – 3:30 p.m.

Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/processes-dispossession-imminent-collapse-tunisian-oases-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

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Beyond the Forecast: The Interplay of Climate Change and Health

Saturday, May 4

12pm EDT [9am MST]

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-forecast-the-interplay-of-climate-change-and-health-tickets-881067024187

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The Spring 2024 Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP

Saturday, May 4

NOON to 2 pm

Rain date—in case of DOWNPOUR—is Sunday May 5, 12-2

at Fayette Park (near the corner of Broadway and Fayette Street)

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Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island Welcome Meeting

Sunday, May 5

3:00 PM

RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfuGurTkpHtCocGTXeF0iIQqvxXJgxMtc#/registration

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Carbon and Biodiversity Consequences of Increasing Tree Cover in Savannas

Monday, May 6

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Princeton, Guyot Hall, Room 10, Princeton, NJ

And online

RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZdneMRMCQkq_mwSQzJ8g4w#/registration

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Farming the Future: Livestock's Leap to Net Zero

Monday, May 6

4 PM ET

Online

RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-ermias-kebreab-lecture-virtual

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Reducing GHG for Buildings and Industry Essential to Meeting 2030 and 2050 Targets

Monday, May 6

7:30pm to 8:20pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]

Stanford, Skilling Building, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

And online

RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_8787

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Bridging the Humanitarian, Peacebuilding, and Development Nexus: Building systems for Mental Health & Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) for Populations Affected by War, Forced Displacement, and Resettlement through an Implementation Science Lens

Tuesday, May 7 and Wednesday, May 8

6:00am to 1:00pm

Dial-In Information at https://vimeo.com/event/4064273/0c130e98b9

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Power & People Symposium: Mapping Community Exposure to Energy Infrastructure

Tuesday, May 7

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

BU, Building Center for Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), 665 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 1750, Boston, MA

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-people-symposium-tickets-877370247027

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Get Smart Quickly on Climate Change from MIT

Tuesday, May 7

12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Online

RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L9wfetErRc6eZZd5D4S-Jg#/registration

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Bridging the Climate Science-Practice Divide through Community Engaged Research: Insights from the Caribbean

Tuesday, May 7

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ

And online

RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_im0lHoLvTfyYW_9aTu8wtQ#/registration

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Forum on The Boston Foundation's Food, Fuel and Shelter Fund

Wednesday, May 8

9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

RSVP at https://www.tbf.org/Events/2024/May/Food-Fuel-and-Shelter-Fund-Forum

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Making Climate Tech Work: Policies that Drive Innovation

Wednesday, May 8

2:30pm to 3:20pm ET [11:30am to 12:20pm PT]

Stanford, Mitchell Earth Sciences, Room 350, 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

And online

RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/may-8th-speaker-series-event-alon-tal

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How Might Genetic Technologies Contribute to Addressing Climate Change?

Wednesday, May 8

5-7 PM ET

BU Computing and Data Science (CDS) Conference Center17th floor, room CDS 1750, 665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

RSVP at https://hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cD6jfyNet7PM5WC

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Climate LIVE K12: Disasters and Climate Change in the Caribbean

Wednesday, May 8

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Online

RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=/public/cals/MainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb7c-8b1dcd5f-018b-200ea6a9-00005636events%40columbia.edu&recurrenceId=

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Tropical Forest Resilience Under Global Change

Thursday, May 9

11am - 12pm EDT

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tropical-forest-resilience-under-global-change-tickets-875311619617

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Webinar – States in Sync: The Western Win-Win Transmission Opportunity

Thursday, May 9

2 p.m. ET

Online

RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-states-in-sync-the-western-win-win-transmission-opportunity/

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MIT D-Lab End-of-Semster Student Showcase

Thursday, May 9

7:00pm to 9:00pm

MIT D-Lab, 310 Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Autonomous Vehicles and the City 2024

Friday, May 10

4:30pm Et [1:30 PM PDT]

The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105

And online

RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-05-10/autonomous-vehicles-and-city-2024

Cost: $0 -$25

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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy

Friday, May 10

7:00 PM ET

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/isaac_arnsdorf/

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The Move To Zero - How To Get To True Carbon Neutrality

Monday, May 13

7:30pm to 8:20pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]

Stanford, Skilling Building, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

And online

RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_6772

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Soil to Foil: Minerals for Sustainable Infrastructure

Tuesday, May 14

12:30pm to 2:00pm

MIT, Building 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Living Between Worlds, with Grace, Dignity, and Power

Wednesday, May 15

3:00 PM

Online

RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-mvrD8qGNUBS287pVRGQr77bUBhKQF4

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The Green Giants: Industry in 2050

Thursday, May 16

9:00 - 10:30 ET [GMT-4]

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-green-giants-industry-in-2050-tickets-853821361677

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Mind and Matter: Healing and Mental Health in a Conflict-Driven World

Thursday, May 16

1:00 PM EDT TO 2:00 PM EDT

Online

RSVP at https://pulitzercenter-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pPqVOV1UTLytL_OyuczQuw#/registration

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Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit

Friday, May 17

7:00 PM ET Location

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Climate Mobilities: “Justice, Data, and Governance”

Monday, May 20 - Tuesday, May 21

Princeton, Robertson Hall, Bowl 16, Princeton, NJ

And online

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAzBzxXBPWzylYt8aARwAPDKjWnictaZjxzLcKR07auLb4Pg/viewform

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Simulating Global Climate, Energy, and Land Futures

Monday, May 20

7:30pm to 8:20pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]

Stanford, Skilling Building, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

And online

RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_8584

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Living in a Future City

Tuesday, May 21

9:00 - 11:00 ED [GMT-4]

Online

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-in-a-future-city-tickets-853814491127

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The Light Eaters!

Tuesday, May 21

7pm

Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140

RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/zo%C3%AB-schlanger-author-light-eaters-conversation-katherine-j-wu

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Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in a Post-Roe America

Tuesday, May 21

7:00 PM ET

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/shefali_luthra/

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Using Technology to Eliminate Hidden Emissions of the Furniture Industry

Wednesday, May 22

12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Online

RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RZWASVfgScG4uhUxMPu74A#/registration

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Solve at MIT 2024

Wednesday, May 22

2:00pm to 3:30pm

MIT, Building W16: Kresge Auditorium, 48 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139

RSVP at https://events.solve.mit.edu/en-us/events/sam-kresge-2024

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Scaling Sustainability Innovation: Insights from DOE and Beyond - A Conversation with Dr. Steve Chu

Wednesday, May 22

2:30pm to 3:20pm ET [11:30am to 12:20pm PT]

Stanford, Mitchell Earth Sciences, 350, 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

And online

RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/sustainability-accelerator-speaker-series-a-conversation-with-professor-steve-chu

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The Walls Have Eyes!

Wednesday, May 22

7pm

Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140

RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/petra-molnar-author-walls-have-eyes

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Transitioning to the Future Grid in MA

Thursday, May 23

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02210

RSVP at https://www.masscec.com/event/transitioning-future-grid-ma-event-series-2

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The Last Human Job!

Friday, May 24

7pm

Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140

RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/allison-pugh-author-last-human-job-conversation-carolyn-hax

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Building Social Capital for Climate Resilient Communities

Thursday, June 6

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Foley Hoag 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210

And online

RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/building-social-capital-for-climate-resilient-communities/

Cost: $15 - $45

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The History of Technology: Past, Present, and Future

Friday, June 7

9:00am to 5:00pm

Saturday, June 8

9am to 3pm

MIT, Building E51, 115 70 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02142

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Appamada in Gandhian or Nonviolent Economics

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Sunday April 14, 2024 · 8:21 PM PDT

2024/04/14 · 20:21

from my notes on Gandhi's Economic Thought by Ajit K. Dasgupta
NY: Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-11430-6
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/gandhis-economic-thought.html
[All notes from my readings in Gandhian or nonviolent economics can be accessed through that site as well.]

"Buddhism does not, however, regard economic activity as such as unethical. On the contrary it gives economic, and in particular business, enterprise an honoured place. For a proper perspective on Gandhi's economic thought, certain specific elements in the Buddhist approach to economics are especially relevant. First, a persistent theme of Buddhist texts is that the worldly and the spiritual spheres of activity are not different in kind. They are, as it were, cut from the same cloth and the conditions required for success in them have large overlap. In the Majjjmanikaya, for instance, one who is successful in spiritual enterprise is likened to 'a rich and wealthy man on a long journey through the woods who should eventually emerge safe and sound without a loss of goods'. Gandhi thought in much the same way. In formulating economic concepts such as swadeshi or trusteeship Gandhi often used a 'saintly idiom'. This, I believe reflects not so much his religiosity as a belief that material and spiritual considerations can be described in much the same language.

"Second, the general principle of economic conduct for the Buddhist layman is appamada, which translates roughly as paying attention and taking care. The basic virtues that this principle invokes are attention, carefulness, conscientiousness and diligence. The householder who seeks to follow the _Dhamma_ must therefore work hard, avoid wasting resources, cultivate his skills, practise thrift and, without becoming possessive, take good care of his possessions. The householder who succeeds in acquiring wealth by honest means and through his own energy and effort, who does not run into debt and retains ownership of his property, who enjoys both material well-being and independence and who uses his wealth for the public good is commended by Buddha; and the wealth of such a man is described as 'wealth that has seized its opportunity, turned to merit and is fittingly made use of'. Gombrich sums up: 'Buddha _never_ suggests that laymen should eschew property, he _commends_ wealth which is righteously acquired by one's own effort.

“Gandhi's concern with appamada runs through his writings on economic topics. It underlies his praise of productive power as a form of godliness: 'There is no separate species called gods in this universe, but all who have the power of production and will work for the community using that power are gods-labourers no less than capitalists.' The same concern explains his emphasis on the crucial importance of personal effort. Even his own favourite project, khaddar, would, he said, be quite useless if it could be obtained without effort. 'Khaddar has the greatest organising power in it because it has itself to be organised and becase it affects all India. If khaddar rained from heaven it would be a calamity.’”

“For the same reason, bettering one's economic condition by one's own active effort was superior to having the same outcome brought about by the state. 'It is one thing to improve the economic condition of the masses by state regulation of taxation and wholly another for them to feel that they have bettered their condition by their own sole personal effort.'

“The principle of appamada also provides a moral justification for being concerned with economic efficiency. Unlike many other who have criticised capitalist enterprise on moral grounds, Gandhi never rejected efficiency as a worthy norm. Whatever the project, be it a school or a khadi shop or a rural health care system or even arranging a marriage ceremony Gandhi always insisted on costs being reduced to the absolute minimum required to achieve a desired outcome. His persistent refusal despite criticism from the left, to condemn the acquisition of wealth, expresses the same spirit: 'my advice that monied men may earn their millions (honestly of course) but so as to dedicate them to the service of all, is perfectly sound.

“Likewise, while condemning exploitation of workers by capitalists, he refused to condemn all businessmen as individuals: 'My relations with the rich will continue. I don't look upon the rich as wicked and upon the poor as angels.' Statements of this kind are consistent with a Buddhist attitude to wealth which is in sharp contrast to that of the Christian Fathers who could see 'no possibility of acquiring great riches without resort to evil practices or inheritance from those who had resorted to them', and for this reason called on all Christians to avoid seeking riches.”

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Some Food, Agriculture, and Climate Events in April 2024

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Monday April 01, 2024 · 8:49 PM PDT

2024/04/01 · 20:49

More details for each event at http://hubevents.blogspot.com which is also a free listserv
Forest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global Trends
Thursday, April 4
9 - 10am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317111325303/WN_6d4vqS1QQRCljVzgTLs0Ew#/registration
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Experiments in Utopia: Community Composting and Alternatives to Neoliberal Sustainability
Thursday, April 4
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zKCwxFFxQZWJDy_j7Rvv1A#/registration
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Jonathan Vigliotti: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-town America
Thursday, April 4
3pm EST [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUr9TUAS
Cost: $10
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A Gardener at the End of the World!
Thursday, April 18
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-margot-anne-kelley
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Supporting Indigenous-Led Sustainable Wildlife Management
Thursday, April 25
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4iuPW-xwStWI_UkThrteTg#/registration
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Managing Water for Combined Mitigation and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
April 29
11:00am - 12:00pm
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/managing-water-combined-mitigation-and-adaptation-agricultural-systems
Dr. McDermid will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online (link TBA)
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Farming the Future: Livestock's Leap to Net Zero
Monday, May 6
4 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-ermias-kebreab-lecture-virtual
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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - April 2024

gmoke

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Sunday March 31, 2024 · 10:38 AM PDT

2024/03/31 · 10:38

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Index
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More information on each event at http://hubevents.blogspot.com, which is also a free listserv.

Planning the Mid-transition for Just and Sustainable Decarbonization
Monday, April 1
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
R-414ab David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab
And online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TtOizKkuTca5mRZA9-gJwA#/registration
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Designs to Help Climate Refugees
Tuesday, April 2
12:30 - 1:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inttalk-designs-to-help-climate-refugees-with-tetsu-ohara-tickets-858316757527
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Lessons Learned for Nature Conservation: A Perspective from 15 Years of Research and Practice at a Global Conservation Organization
Monday, April 1
2pm EST [11:00am - 12:00pm PT]
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/lessons-learned-nature-conservation-perspective-15-years-research-and-practice-global
Dr. Reddy will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online using this link and passcode nature
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Realizing the Potential of Nature-based Solutions for Biodiversity and Carbon Conservation
Monday, April 1
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C1bzbYxESFeBbLcb41aNGw#/registration
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When youth sue to protect the planet and their health: Inside a bold legal strategy to fight climate change
Monday, April 1
6 – 6:50 p.m.
The Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a2HvW19jrxHq5pQ
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Reproductive Justice: Global Movements and Wins
Tuesday, April 2
11:00am to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_COW6cARQKTofBJt0cmyg#/registration
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Climate Populism: The anti-elite backlash against the green transition
Tuesday, April 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard, Rubenstein 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/event-registration?c=701Pp00000G8RRdIAN
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European Politics Seminar — Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change
Tuesday, April 2
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Goldman Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Bush Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024/04/energy-and-power-germany-in-the-age-of-oil-atoms-and-climate-change-2
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A Renegades’ History of the Revolutionary Frontier: Contesting Race & Nation on the Borderlands of the New United States
Tuesday, April 2
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/A-Renegades-History-of-the-Revolutionary-Frontier
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Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Princeton, McCosh Hall, Room 50, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/events/2024/dr-robin-wall-kimmerer-honorable-harvest-indigenous-knowledge-sustainability
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Innovation for strong sustainability trajectories
Wednesday, April 3
8:30 to 10 a.m. EST [2:30 to 4 p.m. CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/agenda/innovation-strong-sustainability-trajectories
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Decarbonize Existing Buildings Alliance
Wednesday, April 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://builtenvironmentplus.org/event/decarbonize-existing-buildings-alliance-4-3/
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The Environment Forum with Hiʻilei Hobart | What Returns, What Remains: A Story about Hawaiian Landscape and Dis/Possession
Wednesday, April 3
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard, Emerson Hall, Room 105, 29 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environment-forum-hi%E2%80%99ilei-hobart-what-returns-what-remains-story-about-hawaiian
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Forest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global Trends
Thursday, April 4
9 - 10am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317111325303/WN_6d4vqS1QQRCljVzgTLs0Ew#/registration
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Experiments in Utopia: Community Composting and Alternatives to Neoliberal Sustainability
Thursday, April 4
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zKCwxFFxQZWJDy_j7Rvv1A#/registration
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Next in Science: James Webb Space Telescope
Thursday, April 4
2 – 4 p.m.
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-next-in-science-program
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Jonathan Vigliotti: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-town America
Thursday, April 4
3pm EST [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUr9TUAS
Cost: $10
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MC Escher: Amazing Images
Sunday, April 7
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT Museum , 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
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The New Era of Transparency: A Briefing on the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule
Monday, April 8
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SKyEzlTWSVmtQ6MlgAKmfQ#/registration
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Energy Policy Seminar: "Reflections on Global Climate Change Policy"
Monday, April 8
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-reflections-global-climate-change-policy
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Developing a Climate Vulnerability Index for Advancing Community Level Climate Resilience
Monday, April 8
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Creative Climate Action: Can Art Protect Us from Rising Seas?
Monday, April 8
4 – 5 p.m.
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-xavier-cortada-lecture
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The Environment Forum | A Conversation with Margaret Renkl
Monday, April 8
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environment-forum-conversation-margaret-renkl
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The Stanford Energy Seminar: "Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Are We There Yet?"
Monday, April 8
4:30pm to 5:20pm PT
Stanford, Skilling Building, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_1976
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Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated
Tuesday, April 9
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/yr2p2vp/lp/efe421ce-ef85-4e76-8dad-24582f4f479f
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Book Talk with Jason De Léon "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling"
Tuesday, April 9
4:00pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
Tuesday, April 9
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-norton-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-859760485757
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Lesley Lokko
Tuesday, April 9
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174134
And streamed on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
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Electric Transmission and the Energy Transition: Perspectives from Africa, Europe, and North America
Wednesday, April 10
11am - 12:30pm EST [4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CEST]
Online
RSVP at https://fsr.eui.eu/event/electric-transmission-and-the-energy-transition-perspectives-from-africa-europe-and-north-america/
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The Theory of the Nuclear Revolution Revisited
Wednesday, April 10
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, E40-496, in-person limited to the MIT Community
And online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_COW6cARQKTofBJt0cmyg#/registration
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Beyond Content: Teaching for Civic Participation and Engagement
Wednesday, April 10
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuce6pqTgjE9G4i62rbXSTxM13YZJdjAIg#/registration
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How Can Businesses Secure a More Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Future for the Food Sector?
Thursday, April 11
10 - 11:15am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/2817110478556/WN_LVyJXccsRvuLvThjj88yVw#/registration
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Webinar – Local Strategies to Curb Waste Sector Methane Emissions & Benefit Communities
Thursday, April 11
1-2:15 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-how-local-governments-can-reduce-landfill-pollution/
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Water and climate change: Adaptation at the margins
Thursday, April 11
2pm - 3pm EST [18:00 BST -19:00 BST]
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PW
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.se/e/hybrid-event-water-and-climate-change-adaptation-at-the-margins-tickets-868253548737
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: How to reduce carbon emission in construction and operation of buildings?
Thursday, April 11
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Long Lounge, 7-429 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174135
Livestream on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
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Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
Thursday, April 11
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/ismar_volic/
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Climate Emergency Preparedness: Developing a Response Capability for Polar Tipping Points
Monday, April 15
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And Online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-wake-smith-climate-emergency-preparedness
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2024 PHIUS [Passive House] Policy Summit
Tuesday, April 16 - Thursday, April17
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Virtual
RSVP at https://phius1.zohobackstage.com/PhiusPolicySummit2024
Cost: $30 -$60
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2024 Columbia Global Energy Summit
Tuesday, April 16
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-columbia-global-energy-summit-tickets-794502547507?discount=CGEPcolumbia24Contact Information
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Mindful Actions for Climate Change
Tuesday, April 16
8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aVFvFF9gcKkDr6K
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Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
Tuesday, April 16
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/ieva_jusionyte1/
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Green Builder Media's 8th annual Sustainability Symposium: Existential Solutions
Wednesday, April 17 - Thursday, April 18
12:00-3:00 Eastern each day
Online
RSVP at https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/sustainability-symposium-2024-existential-solutions
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Limitations of autonomous vehicles
Wednesday, April 17
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rPyp-nU8Quehg8MvK-Ov3w#/registration
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The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
Wednesday, April 17
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leslie-valiant-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-862048258547
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What We Can’t Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future
Thursday, April 18
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r2WJfIU5SQ2UvKYGav4yiw#/registration
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USGBC[Green Building Council]-LA Extreme Heat for Construction Professionals
Thursday, April 18
12 - 3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usgbc-la-extreme-heat-for-construction-professionals-tickets-852412999227
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Unbottling the Environmental & Health Impacts of Nanoplastics
Thrusday, April 18
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j6V2WSCnTCSPzjLkA6H_dg#/registration
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Thursday, April 18
6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eddie-s-glaude-jr-at-the-brattle-theatre-tickets-862072200157
Cost: $34.00 (book included)
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Thursday, April 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mitarchitecture/1174136
Livestream at Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA
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A Gardener at the End of the World!
Thursday, April 18
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-margot-anne-kelley
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Post-Katrina Housing Resilience in Greater New Orleans
Friday, April 19
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O0t1XB9CQKqiruKS0dftag#/registration
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Swapfest -- The Flea at MIT -- Tech, tools, and gadgets flea market
Sunday, April 21
9:00am to 2:00pm
MIT, Building N4, 32 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Earth Day 2024
More information at https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
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Energy Policy Seminar: "Carbon Abatement Costs of Green Hydrogen Across End-Use Sectors”
Monday, April 22
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-carbon-abatement-costs-green-hydrogen-across-end-use-sectors
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Markets Won’t Save Us, and the State Probably Won’t Either
Monday, April 22
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Exploring Climate TRACE: an Open Science workshop on greenhouse gas emissions tracking
Monday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building 7-238 GIS & Data Lab, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/climate-trace-ghg-202
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SF Climate Week at Climate One: California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Suing Big Oil
Monday, April 22
2pm EST [11:00 AM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-04-22/sf-climate-week-climate-one-california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-suing-big-oil
Cost: $5 - $30
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Who Are the Real Energy (and Carbon) Hogs?
Tuesday, April 23
12 - 1:30pm EDT
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.220 S. 34th St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-are-the-real-energy-and-carbon-hogs-registration-781053149997
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Is Globalization Over? (2024 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture)
Tuesday, April 23
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
BU School of Law, Barristers Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/02/15/2024-janetos-distinguished-lecture-is-globalization-over-by-ernesto-zedillo/#RSVP
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The Challenge of Net Zero at IRA +1 – An EBC Energy Resources Webinar
Wednesday, April 24
9:00 am - 11:30 am EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/the-challenge-of-net-zero-at-ira-1-an-ebc-energy-resources-webinar/#registration-details
Cost: $30 -$150
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Singers as Sentinels: How Whales Can Warn of Changing Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 24
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oiaChSGAQ7OebHQGeIlDlA#/registration
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The Impact of AI In Driving Sustainability and Addressing Climate Change !
Wednesday April 24
6 - 9pm EDT
CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-of-ai-in-driving-sustainability-and-addressing-climate-change-tickets-871733778197
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Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action!
Wednesday, April 24
7pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-dana-s-fisher
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Supporting Indigenous-Led Sustainable Wildlife Management
Thursday, April 25
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4iuPW-xwStWI_UkThrteTg#/registration
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2024 MIT Sustainability Summit: Systems Change: Systems Change: Accelerating Solutions and Collaborations for Planetary Wellbeing
Friday, April 26
8:30am - 5pm EDT
Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-mit-sustainability-summit-systems-change-tickets-814646839627
Cost: $30 - $225
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The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Friday, April 26
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/dana_mattioli/
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Embracing Our Emergency: "Thriving In Climate Crisis"
Sunday, April 28
1-4pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.liminal.news/embracing-our-emergency
Cost: $300, scholarships available
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Managing Water for Combined Mitigation and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
April 29
11:00am - 12:00pm
UCSB, PT1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131
And online
RSVP at https://bren.ucsb.edu/events/managing-water-combined-mitigation-and-adaptation-agricultural-systems
Dr. McDermid will be presenting in person at Bren. Join us in Bren Hall 1414 or watch online (link TBA)
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ESG 201 Series Part 1: The Business Case for Sustainability – EBC Climate Change and Air & Ascending Professionals Webinar Series
Tuesday, April 30
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/esg-201-series-part-1-the-business-case-for-sustainability/
Cost: $75
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'True False, Hot Cold': Film Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, April 30
4:30pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 55, Atrium 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
Wednesday, May 1
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/sabrina_sholts/
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Meeting Investor Expectations: Introducing the Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark
Thursday, May 2
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTxpuCB7Qi2AM_1YXsuR3w#/registration
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Farming the Future: Livestock's Leap to Net Zero
Monday, May 6
4 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-ermias-kebreab-lecture-virtual
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Climate LIVE K12: Disasters and Climate Change in the Caribbean
May 8, 2024
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=/public/cals/MainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb7c-8b1dcd5f-018b-200ea6a9-00005636events%40columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
Friday, May 10
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/isaac_arnsdorf/

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One Easy Shift to Solar

gmoke

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Thursday March 28, 2024 · 9:08 PM PDT

2024/03/28 · 21:08

Emergency electricity is technologically, economically, and practically trivial. You don't need to know how to build lightbulbs, batteris, PV cells... from scratch. They are all readily available for affordable prices as mass commodity products. If you get them now before the fertilizer really hits the ventilation system (which is as good a description of the greenhouse effect as any other, at least for me). If you also use them in your daily life, that will be another infinitesimal drop out of the flood of destruction and just might provide some personal security for yourself.

A solar light with battery charging capability for at least AA batteries costs about $10 retail. That provides you with the light, the power for a cell phone or radio, and recharging when the batteries run down. I’ve used mine for years now and will probably get quite a few more years of use out it.

This is also entry level electricity for the bottom billion.

I’ve advocated for decades that cities like mine could do a bulk order for their citizens and help supply at least one of our sister cities around the world who needs such a program as well through a buy one get one program — solar civil defense at home and solar development abroad.

Add bicycles chargers and power take-offs for all electric vehicles, micro-mobility e-bikes/scooters/et cetera and we have an incipient emergency grid if we plan it right.

Here’s one version of a Personal Power Set
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2018/09/personal-power-set.html

I recently suggested to a strategy session of the local Extinction Rebellion [XR] group that working on practical climate preparation can be an effective and positive protest using readily available ideas like this. I don’t know if they’ll do anything about it but we’ll see. I believe that we could change USAmerican energy policy and REALITY in one growing season if we went to the farmers’ markets every week throughout the growing season teaching people what they can already do and helping them do it. Here’s one version of that vision https://flourishfiction.substack.com/p/mister-franklins-folks

Preparing now for the next weather emergency or disaster, whatever that may be, is climate adaptation and can be good climate mitigation as well. Organizing people to get ready that way is something, I believe, XR, Fridays for the Future, 350.org, as well as the mainline environmental groups should be doing along with their street and legislative actions.

The Climate Mobilization Project is organizing around some of these practical climate preparation ideas this year
https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/organizing/
as is the People’s Response Network
prncoalition@gmail.com

There’s also Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

https://www.climatecrew.org

Lots of possibilities. In fact, we are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities [thanks, Pogo]. Who wants to go opportunity climbing?

"We remain alert so as not to get run down, but it turns out you only have to hop a few feet to one side and the whole huge machinery rolls by, not seeing you at all." Lew Welch

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This Particular Instant's Healing Music

gmoke

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Saturday March 23, 2024 · 8:36 PM PDT

2024/03/23 · 20:36

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is doing some deep healing through music:

Andre Benjamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9X_UTqWYHM

Paul Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9gCGl53xs

Two examples of expanding our musical horizons, at least on TV.

Both musicians, according to what they’ve said publicly, were impelled to produce this music, these musics outside of their previous practices. This isn’t the music they wanted to make, in terms of money and prestige and accomplishment, or even in terms of their usual styles. This is the music they had to make to follow their paths wherever they lead. It just may be that Something is trying to tell us Something about these times we are living through.

Extended interview with Paul Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmP3rzBeXkw

Interview with Andre Benjamin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV9K_M1qKW

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City Agriculture - March 20, 2024

gmoke

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Wednesday March 20, 2024 · 8:40 PM PDT

2024/03/20 · 20:40

Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/dickson-despommier-wants-our-cities-to-be-like-forests

hat tip G. S. Murphy from Boston Food System https://elist.tufts.edu/sympa/subscribe/bfs

Babak Babakinejad Ph.D., the MIT whistleblower who brought attention to public safety concerns and the lack of scientific integrity in MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative and its Food Computer Project
https://www.whistleblowers.org/whistleblowers/dr-babak-babakinejad/

A longitudinal field study across 5 years (2018–2022) to understand how insect communities responded to newly established habitat on solar energy facilities in agricultural landscapes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0f72
"Our observations highlight the relatively rapid (<4 year) insect community responses to grassland restoration activities and provide support for solar-pollinator habitat as a feasible conservation practice to safeguard biodiversity and increase food security in agricultural landscapes."
hat tip cleantechnica.com

Agroecology in Barcelona and other cities around the world
https://theurbanactivist.com/idea/agroecology-a-long-brewing-urban-fight/

Vertical Farm Daily
https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/

Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-023-00023-3
Urban ag is 6x more carbon intensive than conventional but some crops and 25% of individually managed gardens outperform conventional ag

City University of NY [CUNY] Urban Food Policy Institute
https://cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org/

The Solar and Storage Industries Institute (SI2) Solar + Farms Survey, a research project on agrivoltaics, or agricultural dual-use solar. This initiative will examine the sentiments surrounding the development of agrivoltaics projects
https://www.ssii.org/solar-farms-survey/
Editorial Comment: Plants have a light saturation point which means that they can’t do more photosynthesis with more light after they reach that point, which is about 2/3rds of the sunlight that falls on them. You can shade a field up to about 1/3rd without reducing yields, according to what I’ve read and the Japanese, among others, have been doing it for nearly 2 decades.

Urban agriculture and climate
https://theconversation.com/urban-agriculture-isnt-as-climate-friendly-as-it-seems-but-these-best-practices-can-transform-gardens-and-city-farms-221537

Fish farm paired with offshore wind turbines
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/08/fish-to-frolic-among-floating-offshore-wind-turbines/
and
Seaweed farm with offshore wind turbines
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/18/worlds-first-commerical-seaweed-farm-in-an-offshore-wind-farm/

China's first innovation center for urban food production from the horticultural company AgriGarden and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science CAAS
https://www.archdaily.com/1014197/vertical-farm-beijing-van-bergen-kolpa-architects

Cooling Medellín, Colombia with trees
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/

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Zero Net Energy - March 5, 2024

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Tuesday March 05, 2024 · 5:06 PM PST

2024/03/05 · 17:06

World’s biggest “passive house” office building
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-office
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/12/winthrop-center-in-boston-named-worlds-largest-passive-house/

DOE’s “Affordable Home Energy Shot” and other housing emissions reductions initiatives of the Biden administration
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/21/fossil-free-100-affordable-housing-can-mean-residents-have-no-utility-bills/

Cement and carbon black as a supercapacitor and a building material
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44716956/scientists-make-supercapacitor-out-of-cement/
hat tip Andrew Tobias

"Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology"
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/half-europes-family-homes-could-be-energy-self-sufficient-solar-and-storage-report
Report (in German): https://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2023_088_energiewende-energieautark-im-einfamilienhaus.php

Flood resistant homes from bamboo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2023/flood-resistant-home-bamboo/
Use https://archive.ph/14gDa to get past the paywall
Editorial Comment: this is not necessarily net zero energy building but could be and could also be adapted to the rest of the world, urban and rural

All electric sustainable skyscraper in Brooklyn
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/24/a-sustainable-skyscraper-grows-in-brooklyn-thanks-to-alloy/

Geos net zero energy community in Colorado
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/this-colorado-community-is-already-living-in-the-all-electric-future
hat tip to Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill also pointed me to
Kaupuni Village in Hawaii
https://g70.design/project/kaupuni-village/
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53401.pdf
Living Zenith in Utah
https://livingzenith.com/
Red Fox Crossing in Wisconsin
https://www.probuilder.com/wisconsins-first-net-zero-community
Hillside East in Vermont
https://hillsidevt.com/energy-resiliency/

Building passively cooled schools in Burkina Faso
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat

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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - March 2024

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Wednesday February 28, 2024 · 11:32 AM PST

2024/02/28 · 11:32

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Death as a "Nonviolent" Tactic

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Wednesday February 21, 2024 · 8:53 PM PST

2024/02/21 · 20:53

“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.....It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany.... As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.” – Mahatma Gandhi, June 1946, in an interview with his biographer Louis Fischer.

[Source: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gandhi-on-the-holocaust]

I don’t remember reading or hearing anybody who feels comfortable with this idea. It seems self-defeating and masochistic. Absurd. Cruelly naive.

However, I was reading The Jewish War by Josephus [translated by GA Williams NY: Penguin Books, 1959] and came across an actual successful application of this tactic by the Jews of Ptolemais, later known as Acre:

”When he had secured silence Petronius [legate of Syria 39-42 CE under Caligula] asked; ‘Will you then go to war with Caesar?’ The Jews replied that for Caesar and the people of Rome they sacrificed twice a day. But if he wished to set up the images [of Caesar] in their midst, he must first sacrifice the whole Jewish race: they were ready to offer themselves as victims with their wives and children. This reply filled Petronius with wonder and pity for the unparalleled religious fervour of these brave men and the courage that made them so ready to die. So for the time being they were dismissed with nothing settled.”

Josephus writes that Gaius Caesar [Caligula] died before he could reply to the Jews of Ptolemais, possibly because Publius Petronius, “fearing civil war if the order were carried out, delayed implementing it for nearly a year”; and in a more contemporaneous account from Philo who was part of a delegation to Rome from the Jewish community of Alexandria, King Herod Agrippa, a close friend of Caligula, persuaded Caesar not to punish them possibly by using the argument that Jews had been allowed their sacred space and practice of their religion customarily and it probably wasn’t worth the bother as long as they paid taxes and acknowledged Caesar, even in their prayers.
[Sources: http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/text/philo/book40.html
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/jewish-peasants-block-construction-statue-gaius-caligula-galilee-40-ce]

It was an equivocal victory possible only because the promise of mass suicide slowed the bureaucracy of possible genocide until Caligula died and even more so since the Jewish community in Ptolemais did not survive the Jewish War (66–73 CE).

Yet, the statue was not built, the temple was not defiled, and mass suicide was not required.

Then I came across another example of death as a “nonviolent” tactic:

A specialized form of seppuku in feudal times was known as kanshi (諫死, "remonstration death/death of understanding"), in which a retainer would commit suicide in protest of a lord's decision. The retainer would make one deep, horizontal cut into his abdomen, then quickly bandage the wound. After this, the person would then appear before his lord, give a speech in which he announced the protest of the lord's action, then reveal his mortal wound. This is not to be confused with funshi (憤死, indignation death), which is any suicide made to protest or state dissatisfaction.
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku]

There are many other examples of where nonviolent resistance has succeeded against even Nazis. More at https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-power-of-nonviolence-by-richard.html

Whether this is applicable to the world today is an open and terrible question.

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Two Solar Parabolic Troughs

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Wednesday February 07, 2024 · 7:33 PM PST

2024/02/07 · 19:33

The larger solar parabolic trough on the left I made in the 1970s for the New England Coastal Power Show, an energy show which traveled throughout the Northeast for a few years after the second Energy Crisis. We used it to heat water, make tea, and demonstrate the availability of solar energy as well as many other working alternatives to nuclear power.

The smaller solar parabolic trough on the right is a solar oven now available from GoSun (https://gosun.co/) which has been making solar cookers for many years. You can put it together and take it apart in a minute or two. The collector has something I imagined back in the day but never built, a sealed insulated dark absorber to maximize solar heat collection.

Another thing I imagined so long ago was applying heat pipe technology (https://www.heatpipe.com/what-are-heat-pipes/) to the absorber of a parabolic trough and wonder, now, if anyone has done anything with that.

I may modify the little GoSun trough so that it can also be a vertical collector like my older model. The sealed absorber looks like it could boil water just as well as if not better than my old copper one.

This is a good model for anyone doing public energy demonstrations at such events as science fairs or farmers' markets (https://flourishfiction.substack.com/p/mister-franklins-folks).

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Some February Food and Agriculture Events

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Wednesday January 31, 2024 · 10:41 AM PST

2024/01/31 · 10:41

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