Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - June 2023

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Wednesday May 31, 2023 · 3:17 PM PDT

2023/05/31 · 15:17

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@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds

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Index
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More information on each event available at http://hubevents.blogspot.com

Benchmarking Methane and other GHG Emissions
Thursday, June 1
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RyO0AFMhTzW7yCMIb5x85Q#/registration

Can We Feed 10 Billion People a Diet that is Both Healthy and Sustainable?”
Thursday, June 1
7 pm.
Online
RSVP at https://ncfarm.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/ncfarm/event.jsp?event=11517&

The Unfinished Promise of Democracy and the Role of Racial Justice Centers
An exchange of ideas on issues & discussion toward supporting research, projects & innovative pedagogy on racial justice & economic equity.
Friday, June 1 - Saturday, June 2
Northeastern University School of Law, 416 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-unfinished-promise-of-democracy-and-the-role-of-racial-justice-centers-tickets-624410026197
Emerging Governance Structures for Climate Resilience

Emerging Governance Structures for Climate Resilience
Friday, June 2
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
and Online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/emerging-governance-structures-for-climate-resilience/
Cost: $15 - $45

Desert Arts Preview: An Invitation to Get Inspired
Sunday June 4
10am - 12pm EST [1:00pm - 3:00pm PDT]
Online
RSVP at https://here.burningman.org/event/desert-arts-preview-2023
Suggested Ticket Price: $10
Viewing Parties Suggested Price: $100

Insights for the Global Stocktake: System Transformation & Intl Cooperation

Hear from leading experts on sectoral insights for the Global Stocktake.
Monday, June 5
5:45am - 7 am EST [11:45am - 1pm CEST]
Room Kaminzimmer, World Conference Center Bonn Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2 53113 Bonn Germany
and Online
The event will be livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/@UNClimateChangeEvents

MA State House Stand-Out for No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Starting June 5:
What: Climate activists are planning a long-term Stand-Out in front of the Massachusetts State House to put pressure on Governor Healey, Senate President Spilka, and House Speaker Mariano to commit to no new fossil fuel infrastructure.
On Thursday June 1, at 8 pm, we'll have an online informational session for interested activists. Sign up at the Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd--vpzouEtfu3NJF87p10wnqTmBJ9S0T
Second Info Session, Thursday, June 8, 7pm on Zoom: For those who can’t make the first session, this session will be updated with real lived experience from the first four days of the Stand-Out.
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf--tqTouHNMfDucxEq0LcIPyqV7M17bq
Shift Sign-Up Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TIv45Ni7pbm6sH1mdUfvSErUxafnsoQHvBm89FUu4FM/edit?usp=sharing

Critical Minerals in Latin America: a Bridge or a Bottleneck for the Energy Transition
Monday, June 5
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Columbia University, Faculty House, Presidential Ballroom
and Online
RSVP at https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/events/critical-minerals-in-latin-america-a-bridge-or-a-bottleneck-for-the-energy-transition/

Electric Vehicles and Equity
Tuesday, June 6
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/309475570709285207

The Path To Resilient and Carbon Free Buildings
Tuesday, June 6
2:00pm-3:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://now.greenbuildexpo.com/ThePathToResilientandCarbonFreeBuildings

Food of the future: the potential of regenerative farming with Thomasina Miers
Tuesday, June 6
1pm - 3pm EST [18:00 – 20:00 London time]
Online and in person (London)
RSVP at https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/tRegisterEmailNew.csp?pageID=48650&eventID=181&tempPersonID=61549

End the Era of Fossil Fuels
June 8 - 11th
Distributed Actions
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/end-the-era-of-fossil-fuels-june-2023-distributed-actions

More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape
Thursday, June 8
1 – 2 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-garrett-dash-nelson-lecture-virtual

Cory Booker: Taking on Big Ag and Going Big on Climate
Friday, June 9
9am EST [12:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-06-09/cory-booker-taking-big-ag-and-going-big-climate
Cost: $5 - $20

New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
Friday, June 9
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Blvd 17th Floor Boston, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6923-roundtable-ma-eea-keynote-panels-on-large-scale-renewables-tickets-607833796247
Cost: $0 - $100
Keynote by MA EEA Secretary Rebecca Tepper & panels on
Large Onshore Renewables: Development Opportunities and Challenges
Offshore Wind: Key Resource to Decarbonize New England
Convener/Moderator: Janet Gail Besser for Raab Associates, Ltd.
Sensing & AI Ethics: Applications in Health
Friday, June 9
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6913708654865023575?source=event-page

Peter Gleick and the Three Ages of Water
Monday, June 12
3pm EST [6:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
and Online
RSVP athttps://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-06-12/peter-gleick-and-three-ages-water
Cost: $5 - $20

Webinar: Building Energy Efficiency and Housing Affordability
Tuesday, June 13
11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y34gCpvJSdCix3iF-HfBPw#/registration

Embrace Boston invites you to join our beloved community at the Embrace Ideas Festival
June 14-16
RSVP at https://www.embraceideasfestival.org/tickets
The Embrace Ideas Festival is a time of embracing arts, culture, joy and community. Please click here to check out the festival from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUyPW8dvBE

Beyond Federally-Funded Buyouts – Local Policies, Tools and Funding
Wednesday, June 14
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Online
RSVP at https://beyond-buyouts.eventbrite.com

Neurodiversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Work
Friday, June 16
12:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYufumsrz0pGNdSGbF-ug-EMEOK3mLkOEQ5#/registration
At What Point Managed Retreat?: Habitability and Mobility in an Era of Climate Change
June 20, 2023 - June 23, 2023
Columbia University, Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY
and Online
Cost: $75 - $350

NECEC Climate Finance Summit
Wednesday, June 21
9:00am-4:30pm
Networking until 6:30pm
Federal Reserve Bank Building, Dewey Square, Boston 600 Atlantic Avenue Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/necec-climate-finance-summit-tickets-619896395807
Cost: $0 - $495
Predicting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in a Rapidly Changing World
Wednesday, June 21
3 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2eJA4nnPQKuIvoDaEpSeBw#/registration

Consortium of University Alumni for a Sustainable Planet [CUSP] World Inaugural Panel: What the IRA Means to Me
Thursday, June 22
Noon EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.cusp.world/
Consortium of University Alumni for a Sustainable Planet
Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment, MIT Alumni for Climate Action, Stanford Alumni in Sustainability, and Yale Blue-Green have founded CUSP, Consortium of University Alumni for a Sustainable Planet, to activate our alumni communities in climate and sustainability.
Our inaugural event on June 22 will be a panel discussion centering on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

A Conference on Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration
June 22 -23
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://spacechi.media.mit.edu/

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Friday, June 23
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes KRISTEN R. GHODSEE—bestselling author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence—for a discussion of her new book Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life. She will be joined in conversation by REBECCA TRAISTER, award-winning author of Big Girls Don't Cry.

How You Can Change the Future of Food
Monday, June 26
12pm EST [3:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-06-26/how-you-can-change-future-food
Cost: $5 - $20

MIT CSAIL + Imagination in Action Present AI Frontiers and Implications
Tuesday, June 27
7:30 am - 9 pm
MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4n85zMdTgHvpQCy8YqciDQj9-XdyI0ZIMhtqS49dvTG4AHQ/viewform

Poll

5 votes Show Results

More Energy (and Other) Events?

5 votes Vote Now!

More Energy (and Other) Events?

yes

5 votes

0 votes

not yes

0 votes

not no

0 votes

neither yes nor no

0 votes

both yes and no

0 votes

don't understand the question?

0 votes

none of the above

0 votes

The Violent Drunk on the Train

gmoke

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Saturday May 20, 2023 · 1:18 PM PDT

2023/05/20 · 13:18

There’s a story famous among the USAmericans who practice the martial art of aikido [合氣道 the way of meeting/harmonizing energy]. It may be apt today as it is about an incident of violence on public transit, something like the situation on the train with Jordan Neely and not like it at all.

“At one station the doors opened, and suddenly the quiet afternoon was shattered by a man bellowing at the top of his lungs — yelling violent, obscene, incomprehensible curses. Just as the doors closed the man, still yelling, staggered into our car. He was big, drunk, and dirty. He wore laborer’s clothing. His front was stiff with dried vomit. His eyes bugged out, a demonic, neon red. His hair was crusted with filth. Screaming, he swung at the first person he saw, a woman holding a baby. The blow glanced off her shoulder, sending her spinning into the laps of an elderly couple. It was a miracle that the baby was unharmed.”

Already in the car is Terry Dobson, one of the earliest USAmerican students of aikido. He’s six feet, 225 pounds and training eight hours every day for the last three years in a martial art that does not have competitions and does not fight, that the founder, with whom Dobson is studying, calls the Art of Peace. It is a martial art of creating peace, moving so all members of a conflict can reach resolution without harm. Although a wrist lock or two along the way might not be out of the question.

Dobson sees this as an opportunity to use his skills in the real world, outside the dojo, justified by the drunk’s dangerous and offensive behavior. He stands up, the drunk notices him, and just as they gather for the charge someone shouts “Hey!”

”It was ear splitting. I remember being struck by the strangely joyous, lilting quality of it — as though you and a friend had been searching diligently for something, and he had suddenly stumbled upon it. ‘Hey!’ I wheeled to my left, the drunk spun to his right.”

It was a little old Japanese man [this is all happening in Tokyo] well over seventy, immaculate in his kimono and hakama [a type of traditional trousers or culottes]. Taking no notice of Dobson, he beams at the drunk “as though he had a most important, most welcome secret to share.”

“C’mere,” the old man says informally [Japanese grammar changes when spoken to a superior, an inferior, or an equal..., this is speech with an equal]. “C’mere and talk with me.” He beckons to the drunk and he comes over, towering over the old man. “Why should I talk to you?” he shouts in the old man’s face.

“What’cha been drinkin’?” the old man asks calmly, actually interested.

”Sake!”

“Oh, that’s wonderful,” the old man says with delight. “Absolutely wonderful! You see, I love sake, too...”

Within a few minutes, the old man has talked the drunk down out of his rage into tears of humiliation and remorse and Dobson gets off the train at his station with a lesson in the Creating Peace.

Source: Old Japanese Love Warrior
https://www.dailygood.org/story/133/an-old-japanese-love-warrior-terry-dobson/

From this experience, his practice, and his life, Dobson later theorized

“...in any conflict situation we have the following options open to us:

1. Fighting Back
2. Withdrawal
3. Parley
4. Doing Nothing
5. Deception
6. Aiki (Confluence)”

There’s always more than fight or flight if only because we forget there’s also freeze. And I think we’re frozen now in our reflex response to increasing social violence. I wish there was someone like that wise and fearless old man on the subway when Jordan Neely was desperate, in need of a touch of human or humane kindness.

More on Terry Dobson
Aikido in Daily Life
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/2/27/464841/-
Terry Dobson’s Aikido Journey
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/11/30/416404/-Terry-Dobsons-Aikido-Journey

Poll

155 votes Show Results

A practical approach to public transit violence?

155 votes Vote Now!

A practical approach to public transit violence?

yes

47 votes

22 votes

not yes

1 vote

not no

6 votes

neither yes nor no

12 votes

both yes and no

55 votes

don't understand the question?

4 votes

none of the above

8 votes

What's the Difference Between George Floyd and Jordan Neely?

gmoke

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Tuesday May 09, 2023 · 12:16 PM PDT

2023/05/09 · 12:16

A couple of years?

A civilian choking a man to death instead of the police?

A subway instead of a street?

Loud hunger and distress instead of counterfeit money?

Bystanders allowing, even abetting, one death and bystanders pleading for mercy in the other? ∫

A reactionary response to prove that Black Lives DON’T Matter?
(Looking at you, NYTimes and all the other “news” outlets, like CBS News, who refused to name Jordan Neely’s killer*, Daniel Penny, for days after his name was public.)

The biggest difference I can see is how little George Floyd has been remembered in the death of Jordan Neely and that chills me to the bone.

PS: I am old enough to remember an episode of the old “Superman” TV show with George Reeves in which wrestling choke holds are deadly was the major plot point.

I am also old enough to remember the controversy over police choke holds being “outlawed” for NYC police.

I am old enough to remember Derek Chauvin applying pressure with, probably, the same relaxed demeanor that some bystanders describe Daniel Penny having.
No excuses but then, there never really are and, too often, they aren’t really needed.

∫ Confusion, Shock, and the Bystander Effect on the Train Where Jordan Neely Was Killed

https://hellgatenyc.com/confusion-shock-bystander-effect-jordan-neely

* I understand that Daniel Penny is more liable to be charged with manslaughter not murder but, in practical and real terms, he choked the life out of Jordan Neely, he killed him.

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - May 2023

gmoke

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Sunday April 30, 2023 · 7:17 PM PDT

2023/04/30 · 19:17

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) with a hiatus from 2020 to 2022 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

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency

zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds

Twitter @gmokery
Mastodon @gmoke@mastodon.social

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Index
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Boston Design Week
Tuesday, April 25 - May 7
https://www.bostondesignweek.com/

Anticipating and acting on ocean and marine ecosystem change
Monday, May 1
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54, 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://calendar.mit.edu/event/paoc_colloquium_-_charles_stock_gfdl#.ZEslhC-B2c4

Solve at MIT: Opening Plenary
Thursday, May 4
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building W16: Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenure, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://solve.mit.edu/events/solve-at-mit-2023/custom/public-plenary#page-subnav

Designing Parks for Green Transportation
Thursday, May 4
4:00PM to 5:00PM
Online
RSVP: https://bit.ly/3ZmBbR0

Education, Truth, and the Future of Democracy
Thursday, May 4
4:30 – 6 p.m. ET
Harvard, Askwith Hall, Longfellow Building, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA

Greenwashing, carbon capitalism and the role of PR
Friday, May 5
8:00 - 9:30 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greenwashing-carbon-capitalism-and-the-role-of-pr-tickets-597797617767

Landscape Architecture + Climate Action in New England; A Virtual Summit
Friday, May 5
11:00AM to 2:00PM
Online
RSVP: https://landscapearchitectureclimateaction.eventbrite.com

Wake Up the Earth Festival 2023
Saturday, May 6
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Boston, MA
More information at https://www.spontaneouscelebrations.org/calendar/wute-2023

Warheads to Windmills: Preventing climate catastrophe and nuclear war
Sunday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuceGqqzsrGtGLoV5dQNMz784MYw1ljiHx#/registration

Harvard Climate Action Week
Monday, May 8 - Thursday, May 11
https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/hcaw/

Climate, Health & Equity: Toward a sustainable future
Monday, May 8
1 – 6 p.m.
Spangler Center, Harvard Business School, 117 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_00L3j2Rfrik5ELs

Energy Seminar: A Personal Reflection on Thirty Years of Energy Transitions - Michael Morgan
Monday, May 8
1:30pm to 2:20pm [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, NVIDIA Auditorium, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA
and Online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/energy_seminar_Mike_Morgan

Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Monday, May 8
2 PM ET
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
and Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-next-in-food-sustainability-and-climate-change-program

Toward Heartier Food Crops: Pursuing Non-Genetic Regulation of Plant Traits
Tuesday, May 9
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Online
RSVP at RSVP at https://events.eventzilla.net/e/toward-heartier-food-crops-2138594460

Morison Prize and Lecture with danah boyd: Made, Not Found: Grappling with the Vulnerabilities of Data
Monday, May 8
4:00pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Wong Auditorium, E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929
Monday, May 8
6:00PM - 7:00PM
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/events/politics-trash-how-governments-used-corruption-clean-cities-1890-1929
Cost: $0 - $10

Creative Solutions for Sustainable Urban Environments
Tuesday, May 9
10:30 - 11:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-solutions-for-sustainable-urban-environments-tickets-605087732697

Energy innovation for a net-zero future
Tuesday, May 9
5:30 - 7:30pm
MIT, Stata Center; Kirsch Auditorium (32-123), 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-innovation-for-a-net-zero-future-tickets-560650158717

Getting to Zero
Wednesday, May 10 - Friday, May 12
Minneapolis Marriott City Center, Minnesota
and Online
RSVP at https://gettingtozeroforum.org/
Cost: $75 - $1000

MA Tech 15
Wednesday, May 10
9:15am - 3:15pm
750 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://masstech15.splashthat.com/

Learning for Impact — Filling the Green Skills Gap for Climate Resilience
Wednesday, May 10
5:30pm to 7pm
Northeastern, Arlington Campus, 1300 17th Street North, Suite 1500, Arlington, VA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learning-for-impact-filling-the-green-skills-gap-for-climate-resilience-tickets-612301910497

Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change
Thursday, May 11
1pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/floodplain-futures-flood-insurance-and-the-economy-of-climate-change-tickets-579261585997

If Science Created Climate Change, Can Science Solve it?
Thursday, May 11
4:30 - 7:30pm EDT
Venture Cafe: CIC Cambridge One Broadway, 5th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142
More information at: https://venturecafecambridge.org/event/the-future-of-climate-change-where-earth-and-space-collide/

Green Infrastructure: How can we build a sustainable future?
Tuesday, May 16
9:00 - 10:30 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-infrastructure-how-can-we-build-a-sustainable-future-tickets-576208393817

Taking on Climate Lies
Tuesday, May 16
9am - 4pm EDT
BU, Center for Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) 665 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taking-on-climate-lies-tickets-600702115197

EBC Ascending Professionals Webinar: Ecological Restoration 101
Tuesday, May 16
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-ascending-professionals-webinar-ecological-restoration-101/#registration-details

Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights
Thursday, May 18
11:00 AM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/reversing-rivers-memoir-history-hope-and-human-rights

Survival of the Quickest: How Climate Change Has Shaped Evolution
Wednesday, May 18
6:30 p.m.
Online on Zoom or YouTube Live
RSVP at https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminars/2022/may-18-survival-of-the-quickest-how-climate-change-has-shaped-evolution/

Global sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by semi-arid forestation
Wednesday, May 31
4 - 6pm BST
Imperial College London Exhibition Road London SW7 2BX United Kingdom
and Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-sequestration-of-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-by-semi-arid-forestation-tickets-588143883187

Full Listings and more information at http://hubevents.blogspot.com

Poll

4 votes Show Results

More Energy (and Other) events?

4 votes Vote Now!

More Energy (and Other) events?

yes

4 votes

0 votes

not yes

0 votes

not no

0 votes

neither yes nor no

0 votes

both yes and no

0 votes

don't understand the question?

0 votes

none of the above

0 votes

What's a Common Positive Vision of an Ecological Future?

gmoke

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Saturday April 22, 2023 · 7:03 PM PDT

2023/04/22 · 19:03

What's a positive vision of an ecological future

we can share & work towards

daily from now on?

I'd start from

solar civil defense (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/30/317777/-

urban gardening and local agriculture (cityag.blogspot.com)

zero energy building (zeronetenrg.blogspot.com)

geotherapy not geoengineering (http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html)...

& something like the old New Alchemy Institute (https://newalchemists.net)

but then I'm a hippie boomer

OK?

Poll

25 votes Show Results

More common positive ecological futures?

25 votes Vote Now!

More common positive ecological futures?

yes

14 votes

3 votes

not yes

0 votes

not no

0 votes

neither yes nor no

0 votes

both yes and no

1 vote

don't understand the question?

7 votes

none of the above

0 votes

How Many Ways Did He Change the World?: Mel King and the Chain of Change

gmoke

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Wednesday April 12, 2023 · 3:11 PM PDT

2023/04/12 · 15:11

My friend and mentor Mel King died at the age of 94 on March 28, 2023.

I first met Mel when he was a MA State Representative in the mid-1970s. It was in a State House hallway after a hearing on food and agriculture issues. He was a big man, 6 foot 5 inches, and, in those days, he was wearing overalls to work. He was also bald, bearded, and Black. As I recall, he walked down the hall away from the hearing room still gently lobbying a fellow Representative on the issues. He was working hard for an urban/rural coalition, building community gardens in the South End and other neighborhoods of Boston while rebuilding the Commonwealth’s agriculture infrastructure with farmers, foresters, and others from far beyond Route 128 and Boston’s South End, his district.

Over the next few years, he was the focus of a lot of work around these issues as Boston became a hub of urban gardening and the Commonwealth became a model for new methods of supporting local agriculture. To a great extent, the efforts of those days when there were, at most, 18 farmers’ markets in the state has led to now when there are hundreds, with indoor winter markets and a local agriculture showcase near Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market in downtown Boston. Mel King was instrumental in the early stages of these changes and a brilliant advisor and advocate all along the way. In many ways, the rebirth of local agriculture, in part pioneered in Massachusetts, has changed the world.

In 1983, Mel ran as a candidate for Mayor of Boston. He was the first Black candidate to make it to Election Day. For that campaign, he wore a straw boater hat, blazers, and bowties. He cut a very dapper figure as he talked about a Rainbow Coalition made up of all classes, creeds, and ethnicities. He ran against Ray Flynn from South Boston. They’d been on opposite sides of the contentious busing issue which integrated the Boston schools but they knew and respected each other. The racially charged electioneering some feared never materialized. Flynn won handily but Mel’s Rainbow Coalition was a bridge between Fred Hampton’s original Rainbow Coalition and Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition campaign for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1984. In 1997 Mel founded the Rainbow Coalition Party in MA, later turning into the Green-Rainbow Party of MA which still exists. King told The Boston Globe a decade after his mayoral run: “What I believe people want more than anything else is a sense of a vision that’s inclusive and respectful and appreciative of who they are. What the Rainbow Coalition did was to put that right up front, because everybody could be a member.”

As Mel practiced electoral politics he also worked as an Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and created the Community Fellows Program (CFP) there in 1970. The nine month program brings together "community organizers and leaders from across America to reflect, research, and study urban community politics, economics, social life, education, housing, and media.” He was a director of the program until 1996 and the Mel King Community Fellows program continues today. The Fellows organized a conference on healthcare this year which happened a few days after his death.

With his equally formidable partner, Joyce, Mel had a practice of Sunday open houses where people would cook and eat and talk and organize. I went to a couple, once to help Mel think through solar possibilities for his South End row house on Yarmouth Street and another time with a friend who was working on prisoners’ rights issues. Hundreds if not thousands of people passed through his home learning how to make good trouble from a past master.

Before all of this, in 1968, Mel King led a demonstration of more than 1000 people against a parking garage the city planned to build as part of an urban renewal project, replacing housing that had been demolished. It took until 1988 but a 269 unit mixed income apartment complex opened at the site as Tent City, in honor of the protest where the demonstrators occupied the site and slept there in tents. As Lewis Finfer, a longtime community organizer in Boston and director of Massachusetts Action for Justice, said, “He’s the father of affordable housing in Boston.”

In 1997, after retiring from MIT, Mel created the South End Technology Center at Tent City, offering community residents free or low-cost training in computers and technology. It is also one of the inspirations and early sites for a FabLab. In fact, at a festschrift for Mel King at MIT in 2018, I learned that Mel had been instrumental in making FabLabs happen. According to Neil Gershenfeld, Mel was the person who told the folks at MIT Media Lab to take the 3D printers, CNC machines, and other equipment and put them in schools and community centers. Now there are over 1200 FabLabs in over 100 countries. Mel helped set up some of the first ones in Ghana and Norway and proposed midnight computer programs to complement midnight basketball.

Once I heard someone ask him what was the piece of legislation he was most proud of and he said it was passing the Fruition Project, a bill that provided funding for perennial food plantings on public access lands. I had distributed a short note to friends in the local agriculture movement about a public access planting project in Santa Cruz, CA back in the 1970s and someone had passed it on to Mel who made it into law. I was surprised and gratified that the idea sparked Mel’s action and happy that I had, in small way, been one of his collaborators.

Mel King was a quiet but forceful person who never quit. He changed his neighborhood, his city, his state, his country, and the whole world in many different ways without claiming credit and without stopping. He was a friend and a mentor whom I will continue to learn from for the rest of my life.

More on Mel King
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/us/politics/mel-king-dead.html
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/28/mel-king-obituary

Books by Mel King:
Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development
Streets: Poem Book

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Zero Net Energy - April 5, 2023

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Wednesday April 05, 2023 · 1:11 PM PDT

2023/04/05 · 13:11

Climate positive residential development in Berlin, Germany
https://www.peter-ruge.de/project/klimapositiv-wohnen-in-berlin/language/en
https://inhabitat.com/live-in-a-climate-positive-off-grid-housing-development/

Senang residential block in Amsterdam heated and cooled with collective heat pump
https://inhabitat.com/earth-friendly-residential-block-has-new-take-on-old-design/
http://www.m3h.nl/project/senang-transformatie-indische-buurt-amsterdam/

Net positive certified office furniture from Humanscale, certified by Living Product Challenge*
https://www.humanscale.com/blog/humanscale-wins-metropolis-planet-positive-award
https://inhabitat.com/humanscale-wows-with-26-net-positive-certified-products/
*https://living-future.org/lpc/
Editorial Comment: Interface, the international carpet tile manufacturer, has achieved zero environmental impact after working towards it for more than 20 years and is producing a net positive carpet product: https://solarray.blogspot.com/2022/03/interface-from-living-zero-to-climate.html

Net positive Brink Tower in Amsterdam, including aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system
https://www.mecanoo.nl/Projects/project/266
https://inhabitat.com/brink-tower-in-amsterdam-is-a-pillar-of-sustainable-design/

A sustainable city for 150,000 in Africa producing 100% of its food, water, and energy on site
https://urb.ae/projects/theparks/
https://inhabitat.com/the-parks-will-be-africas-largest-sustainable-city/

Factory-made, modular net zero-ready buildings from Vantem
https://vantem.com
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/11/25/vantem-offers-energy-efficient-factory-made-modular-dwellings/

Triple Zero – planning a decarbonized logistics facility, aiming for net zero emissions over the entire lifecycle of the building
https://nrep.com/project/triple-zero/
https://inhabitat.com/triple-zero-is-going-above-and-beyond-decarbonizing/

Largest net zero building in Boston, BU’s Center for Computing and Data Sciences uses geothermal energy
https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/07/boston-university-unveils-citys-largest-net-zero-building-geothermal

Regenerative architecture - net zero complex in Yakushima, Japan which enhances the local ecology
https://www.to-no.me/works/sumu-yakushima
https://inhabitat.com/regenerative-architecture-in-japan-is-100-off-grid/

Zero net energy remodels case studies
https://zeroenergyproject.com/renovate/zero-energy-remodels-case-studies/
hat tip Ambrose Spencer

Podcast on designing net zero energy homes
https://propane.com/environment/podcast/2-17-designing-zero-net-energy-homes/?utm_campaign=p20-podcast__aud-etl__str-etl

NREL pilot program for mass energy efficiency retrofits
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-efficiency/foam-panels-can-turn-old-abodes-into-energy-efficient-homes-of-the-future

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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - April 2023

gmoke

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Saturday April 01, 2023 · 3:55 PM PDT

2023/04/01 · 15:55

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@world.std.com

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Monday, April 3
The Future We Want: What have we learned since Rio+20?
Monday, April 3
9am EDT [3:00 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna]
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RI6C8etSRlOWrWJ2_t2X_g?timezone_id=Europe%2FBerlin
In this tenth year since the Rio+20 “Future We Want” was adopted, this webinar will explore ways the 2012 outcome laid the foundations and still advances the objectives the SDG Summit will seek to reinforce.

Social cost of carbon: What it is, why it matters, and why the Biden administration seeks to raise it
Monday, April 3
11:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Falk auditorium, Washington, DC
and Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/social-cost-of-carbon-what-it-is-why-it-matters-and-why-the-biden-administration-seeks-to-raise-it/

A pragmatists' guide to machine learning for Earth observation imagery
Monday, April 3
11:15am to 12:15pm
Harvard, SEC LL2.224, 150 Western Avenue, Allston, MA
More information at https://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/event/valerie-pasquarella-harvard-forest-and-google

Energy Policy Seminar: Hélène Benveniste on "Climate Mobilities: Empirical Evidence & International Policy Responses"
Monday, April 3
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ywq0WyQ5TRuFYvX1nx9IjQ

Innovations in Long-Term Care Convening
Monday, April 3
12:30pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8L8249ue4RwmQjckfrVhyBEdsbMmXYY7vOVRlSIvvYtaQUw/viewform

Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A Discussion with Climate Activists
Monday, April 3
3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT
Kleinman Energy Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA
and Online
RSVP at https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/events/beginning-to-end-the-climate-crisis-a-discussion-with-climate-activists/

Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
Monday, April 3
6:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_john_reid/
Free: $5 suggested donation

Pre-Release Screening & Discussion: NUCLEAR NOW!
Monday, April 3
6:30 – 9 p.m.
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://environment.harvard.edu/event/nuclear-now

Tuesday, April 4

Nature-Positive Solutions for Climate Resilience
Tuesday April 4
9:00am EDT [1:00 p.m. GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MXGBcOukTmyFrP6rpFBmVw

Methane vs. CO2 in climate policy: The problem with global warming potentials
Tuesday, April 4
10:00am to 11:00am EDT
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Stream at https://mit.zoom.us/j/94965503582#success

Music in a Burning World
Tuesday, April 4
4 PM ET
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Revg0KwEQ2S-nYTWii_uQw

What Would Be A Just Energy Transition
Tuesday, April 4
4:00 PM EDT
Faculty House, Garden Room 2,64 Morningside Dr., New York, NY
and Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SWDebEFlTgW6gvRnYxOtUw

Wednesday, April 5

Tilting on its Axis: How to Steady a Climate-Threatened World
Wednesday, April 5
12 PM ET
Penn Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design, Perry World House
and Online
RSVP at https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=39981&cid=83335&ecid=83335&crid=0&calpgid=36358&calcid=83330

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
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/european/2023/02/20/the-eus-energy-policy-after-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-04-05-23/

Inner Asia in the Anthropocene: Towards a Global Environmental History
Wednesday, April 5
1:15pm ET
Harvard, CGIS-S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrc-ipqTgpHND68s6OAXnzOfbllUvfsup2

"Pleistocene Park" Documentary Film Screening and Panel
Wednesday, April 5
7 – 9:30 p.m.
Harvard, Carpenter Center Theater, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Thursday, April 6

The Multiple Impacts of Energy Efficiency: Social Indicators
Thursday, April 6
7:30 am EDT [1:30 PM in Brussels]
Online
RSVP at https://copperalliance.zoom.us/webinar/register/6716770939743/WN_3QEqUxOKQ-S8Jp_7i_xy9A

U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy webinar series: Reliability, energy markets, and the clean energy transition
Thursday, April 6
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hLJwmOIMQmWFCnJMpBG9Kg#/registration

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

Solidarity, Community and Well Being: The Surprising Rewards of Degrowth
Thursday, April 6
7:00 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOiqrDgjG9c87erMjbKPjqjAz_bAL6bi

Saturday, April 8

Wilder Lecture Series: Stay Wild
Saturday, April 8
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kc-mvrDMpG9EevFNRVy203BZU8d9aYEz8

Monday, April 10

Energy Policy Seminar: Weila Gong and Joanna Lewis on "China's Coal Transition"
Monday, April 10
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein 414AB, 1 Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-weila-gong-and-joanna-lewis-chinas-coal-transition

Tuesday, April 11

Nature Swagger
Tuesday, April 11
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2y4F_ZWCS8quYjYkKTbmKg

Annual Edgerton Center Teams Showcase
Tuesday, April 11
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Lobby 13, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-edgerton-center-teams-showcase-tickets-569775823827

Climate Justice as Racial Justice: Student Panel
Tuesday, April 11
4:30-5:30 pm
Harvard James Room East, Swartz Hall, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, April 12

Columbia Global Energy Summit 2023
April 12
8:00 AM in Eastern Time
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CWi_P4agQmyIjDA7CEqW3A
PLEASE NOTE: You should complete this registration form only if you plan on joining the event virtually via Zoom. For in-person registration, visit https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/events/

EBC Climate Change and Air Webinar: Let’s Do It – Actionable Climate Action Plans
Wednesday, April 12
9:00 am - 11:30 am EST
Online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-and-air-webinar-lets-do-it-actionable-climate-action-plans/
Cost: $30 - $140

On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks
Wednesday, April 12
4:00pm
Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building

Stories Are Cages, Stories Are Wings—So What Stories Do We Tell About Climate?
Wednesday, April 12
6:30pm
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 13

Rethinking education for a climate-resilient future
Thursday, April 13
9:30 AM EDT - 11:00 AM EDT
Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.Washington, DC
and Online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/rethinking-education-for-a-climate-resilient-future/

The Future of Business with AI
Thursday, April 13
9am - 4pm
MIT Samberg Conference Center, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.imaginationinaction.co/the-future-of-business-with-ai
EBC Energy Resources Leadership Program: DOER Commissioner Elizabeth Mahony and DOER Leadership is:
Thursday, April 13
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Prince Lobel Tye LLP, One International Place, Suite 3700, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-energy-resources-leadership-program-doer-commissioner-elizabeth-mahony-and-doer-leadership/
Cost: $30 -$140

Climate and the Classroom: How K-12 teachers can bring climate change into their curricula, and how schools and communities can empower them to do so.
Thursday, April 13
1 - 2pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-and-the-classroom-tickets-574630835297
Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogue

Thursday, April 13
4:00pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Friday, April 14

Creating Pathways into Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Training Future Leaders
Friday, April 14
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/creating-pathways-into-climate-adaptation-and-resilience-training-future-leaders/
Cost: $15 - $45
Monday, April 17

Energy Policy Seminar: Jahi Wise on "The Outlook for the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund"
Monday, April 17
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Harvard, Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B, 19 Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PQR_AaGeQv-QwK_fFcZk2Q

Tuesday, April 18

Cities Climate Action Summit 2023
Tuesday, April 18 4:00pm - Thursday, April 20 12:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cities-climate-action-summit-2023-tickets-539347471807

Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing [SERC] Symposium 2023
Bringing together social scientists and humanists with engineers and computer scientists to showcase the work of the MIT community
Tuesday, April 18
8am - 5:30pm
MIT Campus: E14, 6th floor (Media Lab)75 Amherst Street Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/serc-symposium-2023-tickets-528561139597

Bifurcations Large and Small
Tuesday, April 18
10:00am to 11:00am
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Food Systems Transformation- Why We Are All Responsible
Tuesday, April 18
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr., New York, NY
and Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KwUoMLQ4Qqyv7g87-ATrJQ

Wednesday, April 19

Fascism in America
Wednesday, April 19
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UpWkWr6wRxS9Yna522wj5Q

The Future of Climate Action: A Conversation with Gina McCarthy
Wednesday, April 19
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Harvard, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
and Online
RSVP at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWumARf88oY

Thursday, April 20

The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Thursday, April 20
10:00 AM
Online
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HUTgMhJ8Rv2ryo7pqhmxyQ

Restorative Justice
Thursday, April 20
5-6:15PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pncZcuD1SOyOv1KkQrbWuA

Saturday, April 22

Altered Access Panel: The Body
Saturday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT ACT Cube, E15-001 Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/altered-access-panel-body

Altered Access Panel: To Build
Saturday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT ACT Cube, E15-001 Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/altered-access-panel-build

TEDxMIT: Superpowers
Saturday, April 22
2:45 pm till 6:45 pm
MIT, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://tedx.mit.edu/resgister-april22-23

Monday, April 24

A Journey in Engineering Space Systems: From the Mars Helicopter to Project Kuiper
Monday, April 24
4 PM ET
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X7YySPD-QbKH2Z9g2bmg4g

Tuesday, April 25

Amy Westervelt on Drilling, Denial and Disinformation
Tuesday, April 25
9am EDT [12:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
and Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-04-25/amy-westervelt-drilling-denial-and-disinformation
Cost: 0 - $20

Just Transition or Just a Transition? The Importance of Power, Organizing, and Framing in Decarbonization
Tuesday, April 25
4:15pm–6:00pm
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University
and Online
RSVP at https://sofheyman.org/events/climate-futures-climate-justice-just-transition-or-just-a-transition-the-importance-of-power-organizing-and-framing-in-decarbonization

The economics of climate change
Tuesday, April 25
5:30 - 6:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-economics-of-climate-change-tickets-574557626327

Wednesday, April 26

Postindustrial Ecology: New Values in Recovering Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 26
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cq-7x3iISBaDpH3soDpXqQ

States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security
Wednesday, April 26
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, E40-496, in-person limited to the MIT Community
and Online
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ

Making Sustainable Design, From the Classroom to the World
Wednesday, April 26
3pm EDT
MIT Museum 314 Main Street Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-sustainable-design-from-the-classroom-to-the-world-tickets-596091103537

Thursday, April 27

Green Transition: Industrial Policy, Geopolitics and the Role of Business
Thursday, April 27
1:30 PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 330, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mTAxYtGrTPK6cwd6ZD_wDw

Sustainable Finance Initiative Seminar: Henry Gonzalez, Green Climate Fund
Thursday, April 27
4pm to 5pm PT
Online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/sfi_seminar_green_climate_fund#about_stream

Thursday, May 4

Education, Truth, and the Future of Democracy
Thursday, May 4
4:30 – 6 p.m. ET
Harvard, Askwith Hall, Longfellow Building, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA

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The Future We Want: What have we learned since Rio+20?
Monday, April 3
9am EDT [3:00 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna]
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RI6C8etSRlOWrWJ2_t2X_g?timezone_id=Europe%2FBerlin

In this tenth year since the Rio+20 “Future We Want” was adopted, this webinar will explore ways the 2012 outcome laid the foundations and still advances the objectives the SDG Summit will seek to reinforce.

The UN Secretary-General calls the SDG Summit in September the “centrepiece moment of 2023.” It takes place at the mid-point of the implementation of the development agenda countries adopted in 2015: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals . This outcome has given the international community a dynamic blueprint for addressing multiple challenges in an integrated manner.
At the same time, the decision that called for the negotiation of the SDGs sparked additional actions that also bolstered sustainable development progress. The Rio+20 outcome was heralded as historic and forward-looking. Without that decision, we would not have the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs. Voluntary National Reviews would not be prepared by over 40 countries per year, opening each presenting country to international scrutiny for their sustainable development efforts. Re-examining where the SDGs came from will reinforce the foundation the SDG Summit’s ambitions are built upon. The Future We Want also addresses issues that are not explicitly covered in the SDGs; these ideas merit review in light of the last challenging years.

The webinar will feature speakers who were central to the negotiation of the Rio+20 outcome. We will celebrate the tenth anniversary of that event, but the focus will be on how the Future We Want can contribute to the SDG Summit outcomes.

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The social cost of carbon has been called “the most important number you’ve never heard of.” It is the main measure of the economic benefits of mitigating climate change, an estimate in dollars of the damage done by each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted. The social cost of carbon is used to weigh the benefits of proposals to tackle climate change (that is, the value of each ton of carbon that is not emitted) versus the costs (of regulation, equipment, transition to renewable fuels, etc.). The U.S. government has been using an interim value of $51 per metric ton of carbon, but last year the Environment Protection Agency proposed increasing that to $190 per metric ton. You might call it “the most important revision you’ve never heard of to the most important number you’ve never heard of.”

To explain why putting a number on the social cost of carbon is so important, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings is convening a panel, in-person and livestreamed, on Monday, April 3. Participants include Coral Davenport (The New York Times), Noah Kaufman (Columbia), Brian Prest (Resources for the Future), and Glenn Rudebusch (Brookings).

Viewers may submit questions by emailing events@brookings.edu, on Twitter using the hashtag #Carbon, or at sli.do using the code #Carbon.

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Valerie Pasquarella (Harvard Forest and Google)
Abstract: Our planet is constantly changing as a result of ecological and socioeconomic interactions across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. A growing number of Earth observation datasets provide regularly repeated synoptic measurements that enable us to map and understand landscapes as the dynamic systems they are. However, extracting meaningful information from petabyte-scale archives of multi-spectral, multi-temporal imagery requires a sound working knowledge of sensor characteristics, standard pre-processing workflows, and other domain-specific expertise. This talk will examine some of the unique challenges of applying modern machine learning techniques to Earth observation imagery with examples and lessons learned from ongoing research efforts.

Bio: Dr. Valerie Pasquarella is an Researcher at Harvard Forest, a department of Harvard University, where she is a Co-Investigator with the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, and she is currently a Visiting Researcher with Google's Geo Sustainability team. Working at the intersection of remote sensing and ecology, Dr. Pasquarella uses time series of satellite imagery to support improved mapping and monitoring of landscape patterns and processes. Her research interests include near-real-time and retrospective change detection, deep learning approaches for image understanding and feature extraction, and making Earth observation datasets more useful and usable for the broader scientific community. She holds a BA in Environmental Science, an MA in Environmental Remote Sensing & GIS, and a PhD in Geography from Boston University. She also served as a postdoctoral fellow with the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2016-2018 and has held a Research Faculty appointment at Boston University since 2018.

Lectures archived at https://www.youtube.com/HarvardCRCS

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Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Hélène Benveniste, Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Harvard Kennedy School. Benveniste will give a talk on "Climate Mobilities: Empirical Evidence and International Policy Responses." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link.

Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

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Welcome to the Innovations in Long-Term Care Convening Convening, a three-day collaboration on the MIT campus featuring the MIT Mel King Fellows to transform the LTSS (long-term services and supports) system to center workers and communities of color. On Monday, April 3, we will hold three events that will be open to the wider MIT community:
Panel Discussion with Lunch: State-Based Campaigns for Alternative Financing in LTSS
Speakers: Kevin Simowitz (Maine), Pedro Haro (Hawaii), Madeleine Foutch (Washington), Amanda Ream (California); Moderated by Marc Cohen
Keynote Panel Discussion: The Care Economy and the 21st Century Labor Movement
Speakers: Kent Wong (UCLA Labor Center), Palak Shah (NDWA Labs), and Gerry Hudson (retired Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU)

Evening Reception
Dinner and drinks provided
If you would like to join these events, please REGISTER in advance for us to organize seating arrangements, accommodations, and food.
Editorial Comment: After decades of observing Harvard, MIT, and most of the other Boston area universities, the Mel King Fellows at MIT and the Loeb Fellows at Harvard Graduate School of Design are the most rooted programs I’ve seen, but then both are based upon the experience and practices of the remarkable fellows.

Mel King, who was a friend and mentor of mine, died on March 28 at the age of 94. He was a great person and inspiration who never stopped working for the common good. Among many other things, he was one of the people who jump-started the local agriculture movement in Boston and Massachusetts, a movement that spread all over the world and is, I believe, central to dealing wisely with climate change and the preservation of the ecological niche we homo sap saps inhabit.

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A discussion about debunking myths around climate change, discussing system and structural changes needed for human action, and how climate activists have used their platforms and actions to mobilize youth activists and the youth climate movement.

Speakers
LUISA NEUBAUER, German Climate Activist
ALEXANDER REPENNING, German Climate Activist
SABINE VON MERING, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University
SABIRAH MAHMUD, International Relations Student, Modern Middle Eastern Studies
Moderators
MICHAEL MANN, Presidential Distinguished Professor, Earth and Environmental Science
SIMON RICHTER, Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures

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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
Monday, April 3
6:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_john_reid/
Free: $5 suggested donation

in conversation with M. R. O’CONNOR
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome nature conservation writer JOHN REID for a discussion of his new book Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet. He will be joined in conversation by M. R. O'CONNOR—investigative journalist and author.

Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California.
These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere―the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels―and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis.

Reid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face, from vastly expanding protected areas, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey.

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SPEAKER(S) Oliver Stone, Director and Co-Writer
Joshua S. Goldstein, Co-Writer
Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost, MIT
Opening remarks by Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Moderated by Dan Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability invite you for a pre-release film screening of Nuclear Now, followed by a discussion featuring Oliver Stone, Director and Co-Writer; Joshua S. Goldstein, Co-Writer; and Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost, MIT.

The panel will be moderated by Dan Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, with opening remarks by Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University.

Film Synopsis: As fossil fuels continue to cook the planet, the world is finally being forced to confront the influence of large oil companies and tactics that have enriched a small group of corporations and individuals for generations. Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines. The United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source. Yet, in the mid-20th century, as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in part by coal and oil interests. This campaign would sow fear about harmless low-level radiation and create confusion between nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, iconic director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy—an option that may become a vital way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think.

CONTACT INFO huce@environment.harvard.edu

Editorial Comment: If we have only until July 2029, according to this carbon counter https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/clock/carbon_clock.htm, before blowing through enough carbon to make a 1.5ºC rise in atmospheric temperature, then I don’t believe nuclear is going to do much for us. If we want 24/7/365 power to backstop wind, solar, and hydro, then deep (and shallow) geothermal may be more affordable and practical.

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Nature-Positive Solutions for Climate Resilience
Tuesday April 4
9:00am EDT [1:00 p.m. GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MXGBcOukTmyFrP6rpFBmVw

Join multiple RMI experts at this webinar on nature–positive solutions, co-hosted with Climate LinkUP, a UK-Norwegian climate science foundation. This event, designed by and for early-career professionals, will bring together 10 emerging leaders who are developing innovative environmental resilience solutions to mitigate the impacts of climate change. RMI’s Zach Clayton will co-host the webinar and RMI experts Jacob Korn, Paula Valencia, and Suzy Schadel will discuss the value of urban nature in cities, nature-based solutions for the Philippines, and water reuse in California, respectively.

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Houghton Lecture Series - Ray Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Greenhouse gases differ amongst each other in two primary characteristics: their atmospheric lifetime and their radiative efficiency. These lead to dramatically different kinds of relations between emissions rate and warming, with great implications for climate policy. The widely used family of metrics, n-year Global Warming Potentials, do not adequately reflect the actual consequences of emission control strategies embracing both short-lived and long-lived gases, and in typical cases exaggerate the urgency of methane emissions abatement. The stock phrase typically used in most recent journalism, that “Methane is 80X worse than CO2 over a 20 year period” is particularly misleading. This issue has particularly important consequences for the impact of livestock-based agriculture on climate.

About this Series: Supported by the Houghton Fund, Houghton Lecturers are distinguished visitors from outside MIT invited by the EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate to spend a period of time, ranging from a week to several months, as scientists-in-residence within our Program. For more information and Zoom password please contact Kayla Bauer: kbauer@mit.edu

Editorial Comment: The scope of this present lecture series from Ray Pierrehumbert is breath-taking.

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Music in a Burning World
Tuesday, April 4
4 PM ET
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
and Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Revg0KwEQ2S-nYTWii_uQw

The 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts will feature the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams. Motivated by a deep concern for the state of the earth and the future of humanity, he brings the sense of wonder we experience outdoors into the concert hall with the hope, and belief, that music can do more than politics to change the world.

The Parker Quartet will perform Adams’s The Wind in High Places, and the composer will engage in conversation with Boston Globe classical music critic Jeremy Eichler.
“…throughout my life I’ve steered an uneasy course between the Scylla of solitude and the Charybdis of politics, between my desire to help change the world and my impulse to escape it. The vessel in which I navigate these turbulent waters is music.
I am two men. One man is the lifelong activist, who was marching in civil rights and antiwar demonstrations before he was able to vote, and who was a full-time environmental activist until he was in his mid-30s. The other man is the artist, who believes that music is his best gift to our troubled world. These two men don’t fully understand one another. Yet even as they struggle to balance their apparent contradictions, they share a sense of responsibility to and faith in the next generations. My hope is that the music I compose may somehow be of use to someone who truly will change the world. Inspired by the young people who are rising up all around the world, I continue my work in the belief that music has a special power to plumb the depths within us, and to elevate those places where courage and compassion are born.”

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Please join us for the second Climate School Signature Speaker Series event of the spring semester, featuring:Professor Stephanie Pincetl, Director California Center for Sustainable Communities & Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLATopic: “What Would Be A Just Energy Transition?”

Professor Pincetl does research on cities, how they impact resources far and near such as water sources and ecosystems, and how those resources are used in cities, where, by whom, and to do what. She focuses on quantifying those flows, including urban generated wastes like greenhouse gases, and how institutions, regulations and rules shape the ways the flows are appropriated, and how cities are built (including infrastructures) and organized. She has created the first ever interactive energy web atlas that describes building energy use in Los Angeles County (www.energyatlas.ucla.edu). Buildings account for 40% of urban GHGs and the Atlas shows the relationships between building age, size, use with energy consumption, as well as energy use and sociodemographic characteristics in the residential sector. Her other main project has been to understand the water system of Los Angeles County that has over 100 different water delivering agencies and 7 adjudicated groundwater basins. Pincetl assembles interdisciplinary teams of researchers to conduct work: ecologists, engineers, and hydrologists. She was one of the main leads of the first Los Angeles County Sustainability Plan and is currently serving in the same capacity for the LA Department of Water and Power 100% renewable, equity plan.

Dr. Pincetl is a California native who has written extensively on land use regulations, habitat protection, environmental justice, urban ecosystems and water She has a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA, a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from UC Davis, and an undergraduate interdisciplinary degree in Land Ethics, an independent major she created while at UC Davis. She is the author 2 books, and of over 100 peer reviewed papers, and book chapters. Pincetl has served on boards and commissions, including the statewide Planning and Conservation League and as President of the statewide environmental justice organization Communities for a Better Environment, and the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission among others.

4pm-5pm Program
5pm-6pm Reception
The public is invited to join us virtually
Contact: Omar J. Herrera oherrera@climate.columbia.edu

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The extreme weather conditions of recent years are visible canaries-in-the-coal-mine of climate change. This session will explore how Penn’s growing strengths in climate science and policy are addressing stark environmental realities in practical and actionable ways. LaShawn Jefferson, Perry World House’s Senior Executive Director, will lead a thought-provoking conversation with Mark Alan Hughes, founding Faculty Director of Penn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Michael E. Mann, inaugural Director of the new Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media.

LaShawn R. Jefferson (moderator) Senior Executive Director, Perry World House
LaShawn Jefferson brings a focus on women’s human rights to her role at Perry World House. Prior to joining Penn, she helped the Ford Foundation advance women’s human rights globally and in the United States. Prior to that, Jefferson spent 14 years in leadership positions at Human Rights Watch, where she provided strategic and intellectual guidance on women’s international human rights, crafted and executed long-term advocacy strategies, and represented Human Rights Watch at key national and international fora. She holds master’s degrees in International Relations and Latin American Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Michael E. Mann Presidential Distinguished Professor, Earth and Environmental Science, Penn Arts & Sciences
Michael Mann is the inaugural director of the new Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM) and a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. His research focuses on climate variability and extremes, paleoclimate, tropical cyclones, and climate education and policy. In 1999, he and his colleagues reconstructed temperature changes over the past 1,000 years that demonstrated global warming trends, creating a “hockey stick” graph that starkly illustrates their findings. In addition to his research, Mann speaks and writes extensively on climate issues for general audiences.

Mark Alan Hughes, Founding Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Professor of Practice in Regional Planning and Energy Policy, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Prior to joining Penn in 1999, Hughes was on the standing faculty of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. For a decade, he wrote an influential weekly column in the Daily News, and later served as chief policy adviser and sustainability director under former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. With the support of the Ford Foundation and four different federal departments, Hughes has designed and fielded many national research demonstrations including Bridges to Work, the Transitional Work Corporation, the Campaign for Working Families, and the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub. He is the author and narrator of the 2021 audiobook, Livable Cities.

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As part of the Gnoseologies series, Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani, Ph.D will be hosting a conversation with Dr. Natalie Dyer.

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During the last two decades, the European economy has become ever more dependent on Russian gas and oil. However, since the 24th of February 2022, there is broad consensus in Brussels that the energy imports must stop since the EU is effectively financing Russia's war against Ukraine by paying for Russian energy, all the while Mr. Putin can use energy as an instrument to harm the EU. But how can Europe get rid of Russian energy and are there any realistic alternatives?

Niels Fuglsang serves in the Parliament's Industry- and Energy Committee and is the Parliament's rapporteur for the Energy Efficiency Directive, which is being negotiated in the spring of 2023. Niels holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD from the Copenhagen Business School. While writing his PhD dissertation he was visiting researcher at Boston University in the fall of 2017.

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his lecture surveys the trade in animals and plants to offer a preliminary outline of Inner Asia's role in global environmental history in the modern era. The lecture makes three connected arguments. First, Inner Asia was connected with regions as far flung as the Pacific and East Africa. Second, these connections caused lasting and profound environmental change in those distant regions, change that marked the origins of the Anthropocene. Third, both Inner Asia and the broader world are living with the consequences of those changes today.

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"Pleistocene Park" Documentary Film Screening and Panel
Wednesday, April 5
7 – 9:30 p.m.
Harvard, Carpenter Center Theater, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Pleistocene Park (2022)
An eccentric Russian scientist's quixotic quest to recreate a vanished ice age ecosystem and save the world from a catastrophic global warming feedback loop.

SPEAKER(S) Anya Bernstein, Harvard Anthropology
Luke Griswold-Tergis, Director/Producer
George Church, Harvard Medical School
Stuart Harris, Wilderness Medicine, MGH and the Arctic Initiative
David Moreno Mateos, Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO Anya Bernstein
abernstein (at) fas.harvard.edu

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This webinar will focus on the presentation of MICAT’s social indicators, their relevance and areas for improvement based on the case studies and modelling outcomes carried out within MICAT. Results will then be distilled to policy lessons, where audience members will be asked to validate the findings based on their experiences during a 30 minute Q&A session.

Who should attend and why?
Policy makers, research institutions, EU-funded projects & and other national or international stakeholders who are interested in understanding the multiple impacts of energy efficiency within Europe are welcome to join.

Key topics
Overview of health, reduced energy poverty, and improved quality of life impact categories
Overview of social indicators: selection process, data sources, outcome of modelling etc.
Link to Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (EPAH) indicators
Social relevance
Relevance to policy making
Moderator: Diedert Debusscher (European Copper Institute)

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Climate change is creating new, unforeseen challenges to maintaining reliability for utility customers across the nation. From ice storms to heat domes, utilities face unprecedented operational challenges with increasing frequency. This webinar will present the reliability challenges caused by extreme weather events and discuss how utilities are leveraging regional collaboration and market enhancements to maintain reliability while continuing to make progress on long term decarbonization goals.

Speakers
Moderator: Maria Pope, President and CEO, Portland General Electric; C3E Ambassador
Rebecca Dayhuff Matsushima, Vice President, Resource Procurement, Hawaiian Electric
Kristen Sheeran, Director of Sustainability and Resource Planning, Portland General Electric
Pam Sporborg, Director of Transmission and Market Services, Portland General Electric
Jessica Waldorf, Chief of Staff & Director of Policy Development, New York State Department of Public Service

About the series
The C3E webinar series provides a forum to hear the latest on clean energy topics from women who are making a difference. The goal of the quarterly webinars is to highlight the outstanding work of clean energy professionals in various fields and to foster discussion around clean energy opportunities and solutions.

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Solidarity, Community and Well Being: The Surprising Rewards of Degrowth
Thursday, April 6
7:00 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOiqrDgjG9c87erMjbKPjqjAz_bAL6bi

Where in the world are we going? Our fossil-fueled growth economy is driving climate catastrophe. We need a paradigm shift.

The term “degrowth” refers to a set of visions, principles and strategies being discussed and developed by activists of various stripes. The speakers will address this topic.
Andrew Ahern is an ecological organizer, freelance writer, and public educator based in Boston. A member of organizations such as The Democratic Socialists of America, the Sunrise Movement, among others, Andrew developed a passion for environmentalism after witnessing other young people challenging power during the wave of climate strikes and protests in 2018 and 2019. As someone committed to bringing about social-ecological transformation, Andrew believes degrowth provides the policies, tools, and values to help us end extractive capitalism and bring about a society based on planetary and human well-being.

Peter Victor, author of Escape from Overshoot: Economics for a Planet in Peril (2023), Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World: His Life and Ideas (2021) and Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster (2008 and 2019), is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University, Canada. He has received a number of awards for his fifty years of work on ecological economics.

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Wilder Lecture Series: Stay Wild
Saturday, April 8
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kc-mvrDMpG9EevFNRVy203BZU8d9aYEz8

SPEAKER(S) Ms. Mel B. Wilson, MS & ALM, Harvard Extension School ALM Sustainability, Class of 2019 Outstanding Thesis Prize Recipient

Following a sustainability course at Harvard Extension School, Mel Wilson moved to the island of St. John, USVI, to study national parks. As the island residents experienced climate trauma from two-category hurricanes, she realized land conservation might offer a biodiversity and climate solution. Her thesis, “Reimagining the American West to Reach Half-Earth,” won the Outstanding Thesis Prize in 2019. Since then, she has published two papers on half-earth and created a mini-documentary, “Stay Wild.” Please join us for a lecture and film viewing.
CONTACT INFO mrw630@g.harvard.edu

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SPEAKER(S) Weila Gong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Joanna Lewis, Provost's Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment, Georgetown University

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Weila Gong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Joanna Lewis, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment at Georgetown University. Drawing from a forthcoming paper, Gong and Lewis will give a talk on "China's Coal Transition: Policy Strategies, Policy Instruments, and Just Transition Process." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Hanlon, ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu

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Nature Swagger
Tuesday, April 11
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2y4F_ZWCS8quYjYkKTbmKg

Our next Author Talk will feature Rue Mapp, founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro. She will sit in conversation with Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy at Patagonia and CBEY Resident Fellow, to discuss her book Nature Swagger. Nature Swagger inspires Black communities to reclaim their place in the natural world and delves into the rich history of Black involvement in the outdoors, activism, and conservation, as well as resources for readers who want to deepen their own connection with the elements.

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Come mingle with the Edgerton Center student-led engineering teams and see their cool projects. Refreshments will be served! Register here.
P articipating Teams:
Arcturus (Roboboat)
Design Build Fly
Driverless
Electric Vehicle Team
First Nations Launch
Motorsports
Robo Team
Rocket Team
Spokes
Solar Electric Vehicle Team

Accessibility: This event is wheelchair accessible. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this event, please let us know when you register.

A bout the Edgerton Center: Founded in 1992 to honor the legacy of Harold "Doc" Edgerton — inventor, entrepreneur, explorer and MIT professor — the MIT Edgerton Center offers subjects in engineering and imaging, supports student clubs and teams; manages student machine shops, upholds MIT’s expertise in high-speed and scientific imaging; and offers a year-round K-12 program.

Questions? Email Peggy Eysenbach: peysenba@mit.edu

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Climate Justice as Racial Justice: Student Panel
Tuesday, April 11
4:30-5:30 pm
Harvard James Room East, Swartz Hall, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA

This panel will present an opportunity to learn from the critical work being done by students to advance justice through analysis, reflection, and action at the intersection of race and climate.

Participants will be invited into the conversation.

During HDS Climate Justice Week, students, faculty, and staff will honor Earth Month by responding to the urgency of the climate crisis. Through community rituals, workshops, and conversations with issue experts, leaders in the field, faculty, and students, Climate Justice Week will provide the Harvard community with opportunities to build connections, activate their passion around environmental justice, and understand the critical role that religion, spirituality and the Divinity School play in the conversation around climate. Collective activation and radical reimagination is a work of witness—witnessing ourselves, one another, hope, creation, and action. Come and witness with us. Leave connected and changed.

Learn more about HDS's Climate Action Week at https://hds.harvard.edu/news/climate-justice-week

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A Decade of Energy and Climate Policy Action
Ten years ago, the Center on Global Energy Policy was launched with the goal of bringing policymakers actionable insights and solutions to solve today’s greatest energy and climate challenges. What started out as a two-person operation in a small office in Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is now a major policy institute -- housing nearly 100 scholars and staff, training dozens of future energy leaders, and developing answers to the toughest problems of the clean energy transition.
The global energy crisis that began last year reminds us every day how important the work is that CGEP does on energy security, energy markets, energy geopolitics, the energy transition, and climate change. To kick off the celebration of our 10th anniversary, CGEP will host a special 10th Anniversary Global Energy Summit -- where we will convene some of the brightest minds and important leaders to discuss turbulence in current energy markets globally, the growing gap between climate ambition and reality, and the tensions between today’s energy needs and tomorrow’s energy transition imperative.

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs for our annual Columbia Global Energy Summit.
Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For further details, please contact Natalie Volk (nv2388@columbia.edu).
For more information about the event, please contact energypolicyevents@columbia.edu.

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What makes a Climate Action Plan actionable? This EBC webinar will provide an overview of the characteristics of Climate Action Plans and then you will hear from a cross section of officials that are carrying out Climate Action Plans including institutional, private developer, City/Town, and State entities. This webinar will provide attendees with a perspective of how and the best way to implement a Climate Action Plan. The goal of this session is to provide you with an understanding of the importance of collaboration in developing and implementing Climate Action Plan.

A robust panel discussion with the audience will conclude the webinar.

Speakers and Agenda:
Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Town of Acton Climate Action Plan
Julie Curti, Director of Clean Energy, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
Andrea Becerra, Sustainability Director, Town of Acton
University of Massachusetts Climate Action Plan and the UMass Fleet Electric Vehicle Program
Ezra Small, Sustainability Manager, University of Massachusetts
Donny Goris-Kolb, Senior Sustainability Planner, VHB
Climate Action Plan – Science-based Targets
Erin Laude-Durham, Corporate Sustainability Director, Jacobs
Moderated Discussion

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On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks
Wednesday, April 12
4:00pm
Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building
Speaker: Margaret Redsteer, University of Washington Bothell

Margaret Redsteer’s Tanner Lectures, “Climate Futures and Structural Paradigms,” will draw on her experiences working with local Indigenous communities to adapt to a changing climate and will consider what has been left out of narratives about the challenges we face. This lecture will be centered around what defines resilience and why tribal communities are among the most resilient and yet very vulnerable to climate change.

"On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks" is the first of two Tanner Lectures by Margaret Redsteer.

Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and previously served as a Research Scientist for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey based in the Flagstaff Science Center, where she worked on water issues for the Navajo Nation. She examines interactions of different landscape processes, including erosion by wind and water and how changing vegetation communities and climate can influence these processes and exacerbate geologic hazards. In the Southwest, she has examined aspects of drought and increasing aridity that have not been well quantified, including seasonal changes to surficial processes and ecologic conditions. Incorporating Indigenous knowledge from tribal elders about the changes they have observed has aided her research in elucidating the effects of increasing temperatures in poorly monitored regions of the U.S. and communicates the relevance of ecosystem change to the livelihoods of those who are most vulnerable.

Clint Carroll is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies at the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches courses on environmental politics, Indigenous knowledges, and comparative geographies.

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Stories Are Cages, Stories Are Wings—So What Stories Do We Tell About Climate?
Wednesday, April 12
6:30pm
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA

Terry Tempest Williams in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit will join HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams in a conversation on the power of storytelling as it relates to climate change.

More information at https://hds.harvard.edu/news/climate-justice-week

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The climate crisis is a children’s education crisis. Extreme weather events destroy or damage schools, learning materials, and vital infrastructure, making it difficult for children to keep learning. Multiple indirect effects on children’s education, including increased risks of malnutrition, disruption of livelihoods, and negative health impacts, inhibit children from attending school. Without immediate action to address climate change, the global learning crisis is likely to intensify; by the same token, quality education can in fact support climate action by boosting the resilience of students and their communities to adapt and respond to climate change.

On April 13, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will co-host an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. to help advance discourse on climate change and the education nexus. At the event, GPE will launch the Climate Smart Education Systems Framework, which outlines a concrete action agenda to strengthen the resilience and relevance of education to climate change and environmental degradation. Through channeling diverse voices on the topic—including youth leaders, a minister of education, other policymakers, and civil society organizations—the event seeks to foster a rich and inclusive conversation that not only brings each dimension of the framework to life, but also inspires new ideas and approaches to build climate-smart school systems. There will be ample time for Q&A during each fireside chat, and there will be time for networking and coffee in the half hour leading up to the event.

This event will be available for in-person attendance or to watch online. Online viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or via Twitter at #ClimateSmartEd.

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The Future of Business with AI
Thursday, April 13
9am - 4pm
MIT Samberg Conference Center, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://www.imaginationinaction.co/the-future-of-business-with-ai

An exclusive, breakthrough event featuring the most innovative minds leveraging the power of AI.

Imagination in Action is based on the principal that innovation starts with a spark of inspiration. Speaker announcements coming soon.

We will explore the opportunities where AI can solve real business pain points. We have organized dozens of events and for this one we are building a great group of founders and startups.

In addition to 10 Keynote speakers we will also have panels on personalization, risk assessment, predictive analytics, and decision-making. Agenda coming soon!

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EBC Energy Resources Leadership Program: DOER Commissioner Elizabeth Mahony and DOER Leadership is:
Thursday, April 13
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Prince Lobel Tye LLP, One International Place, Suite 3700, Boston, MA
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-energy-resources-leadership-program-doer-commissioner-elizabeth-mahony-and-doer-leadership/
Cost: $30 -$140

Join EBC for this Energy Resources Leadership Program with Elizabeth Mahony, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER), and several Division Directors.

About DOER: The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) is the Commonwealth’s energy office, responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs aimed at ensuring the adequacy, security, diversity, and cost-effectiveness of the Commonwealth’s energy supply to create a clean, affordable and resilient energy future. DOER is an agency of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA).

Program Agenda:
12:00 p.m. - Registration & Networking
12:30 p.m. - Program Begins
12:45 p.m. - Keynote Presentation from DOER Commissioner Mahony
1:10 p.m. - Presentations from DOER Leadership
1:30 p.m. - Moderated Discussion
2:00 p.m. - Program Adjourns

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Surveys show that teachers, students and the American public at large all agree that climate change should be taught in schools. Yet only a minority of teachers include climate change in their coursework, and those who do are often unsupported by the curricula, standards and policies that guide their instruction.

In this event, specialists in K-12 climate education will discuss the benefits of climate education in a variety of courses at the high school level and earlier, and the challenges teachers face in finding or creating appropriate climate coursework and bringing it to their classrooms. They will introduce resources for teaching climate, best practices from schools and educational institutions around the U.S., and new ideas to support teachers at every level, and take audience questions.

This event is part of the People, Prosperity and the Planet lecture series produced by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

Speakers: Margaret Wang, Chief Operating Officer, SubjectToClimate. SubjectToClimate is on a mission to make climate change teaching and learning accessible to all, by connecting educators to resources and collaborating with local stakeholders to meet their climate education needs. Prior to joining SubjectToClimate, Wang studied and worked at Harvard Graduate School of Education, conducting research in education policy as well as sustainability education, and has been an economics and social studies teacher and a product manager in an edtech company.

Dr. Lauren Madden, The College of New Jersey. Dr. Madden is a professor of Elementary Science Education at The College of New Jersey, where she coordinates the Environmental Sustainability Education minor and graduate certificate programs. She is also the state's leader in elementary climate change education. Dr. Madden has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and the Report on K-12 Climate Change Education Needs in New Jersey. Since the launch of the 2020 Climate Change Standards in New Jersey, her expertise has been noted in media sources including the Star Ledger, The Washington Post, and The Guardian.

Alice Fan, Schools Coordinator, Spring Forward. Spring Forward is a high school student-led organization whose goal is to ensure all students understand the basic science, history, and far-reaching consequences of climate change, and give them the tools and resources to make the right choices in their daily life. Fan, a Spring Forward co-founder, is a senior at Phillips Academy Andover in Andover, Massachusetts, and has been a student climate advocate in a variety of organizations and campaigns.

Sylvia Scharf, Climate Education Specialist, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (moderator). Scharf's work focuses on teacher use of the Environmental Solutions Initiatives’s public-facing climate change materials, especially the podcast TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) and the MIT Climate Portal. Before joining ESI, Sylvia was at New England Aquarium, where she honed her climate change communication skills with teachers, teens, staff, and the general public.

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Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogue
Thursday, April 13
4:00pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Margeret Redsteer, University of Washington Bothell

This lecture will focus on how the historical implementation of policies led to significant failures and to current attitudes about reform of land use practices.

"Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogues" is the second of two Tanner Lectures by Margaret Redsteer.

The Tanner Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Forum Speakers
Shalaya Morissette, Chief of Minority Business and Workforce Division, Office of Economic Impact & Diversity, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Kerry Bowie, Executive Director, Browning the Green Space, Inc
Matt Holzer, Head of School, Boston Green Academy
Rachel Jacobson, Acting Director, American Society of Adaptation Professionals - virtual speaker
Davo Jefferson, Executive Director, PowerCorps Boston
Alan Wiig, PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development, University of Massachusetts Boston

The climate resilience field is rapidly growing. As climate disasters increase and climate risks become more and more obvious, the need for adaptation professionals continues to increase. Who is training the next generation of climate resilience leaders? How can we ensure that these jobs are going to a diverse group of people? And what are the skills necessary to be able to meet challenges we don’t yet know we will face? Join the Climate Adaptation Forum to hear about best practices nationally and local efforts to train climate adaptation professionals in a wide range of fields.

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Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Jahi Wise, Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Acting Director for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Wise will give a talk on "The Outlook for the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

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Cities Climate Action Summit 2023
Tuesday, April 18 4:00pm - Thursday, April 20 12:00 EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cities-climate-action-summit-2023-tickets-539347471807

SmartCitiesWorld is launching a new event to help cities tackle climate change. The three-day Cities Climate Action Summit is being held as an in-person and virtual event between 18-20 April 2023.It will convene expert speakers from cities from around the world and include a concurrent exhibition of climate solution providers.Urban climate action.

The need for urban climate action has never been so urgent and the summit aims to help cities understand the actions to take in three critical areas:
Policy development
Climate financing
Technology deployment.

The Summit builds on SmartCitiesWorld’s ongoing work in this area. Since our launch in 2016, we have seen the impact of climate change move up cities’ agenda to becoming one of the most critical challenges that city leaders face today. Coverage in this area increased over the years to reflect the appetite for not just information on the subject but the need to help cities share best practice and ideas.

Cop26 Open Letter
In 2021, we further strengthened our position by publishing an Open Letter in the run-up to the Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow based on 10 principles that we urged national and local leaders to embed in any agreements. It secured more than 400 signatures from representatives of cities, smart city technology providers, NGOs and universities and was delivered to Susan Aitken, council leader for Cop26 host city Glasgow. It was also sent to the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, to ensure that the UK Presidency could see the principles ahead of the final agreement being reached.
At the start of 2022, we stated that the emphasis needed to switch from climate change to climate action. Our Climate Action campaign continued throughout 2022 with a series of special reports, case studies, podcasts, guest opinions and live panel sessions and culminated in the publication of the Cities Climate Action Report.

The substantive report takes a comprehensive look at the targets and priorities of 200 cities around the world, assessing their progress and ambitions, as well as their plans for spending and investment across a number of areas, including infrastructure and technology. It features in-depth data and original interviews with climate and resiliency leaders from 10 cities leading the charge against climate change.The Cities Climate Action Summit marks the next and what we believe will be the most significant step yet in our efforts to help cities tackle this critical area.

Speakers include:
Mark Wheeler, Chief Information Officer, City of Philadelphia
James Nowlan, executive director, environment & climate, City of Toronto
Sally Capp, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne
Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary General - Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations
Nicola Yates, CEO, Connected Places Catapult.

It kicks off as a virtual event on the 18 April with a keynote by Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, followed by a packed day of panel discussions, fireside chats and virtual roundtables. The in-person event takes place on 19 April at London’s famous County Hall building on the River Thames. It will bring together 400 people to discuss the climate action in cities, focusing on renewables, net zero plans, and today’s urban greentech market, complete with leading keynotes and a State of the Nation address.

The London event will also play host to a series of break-out roundtable sessions each chaired by expert speakers from the day’s panels to take a deeper dive into the topics that are most important for delegates.

It concludes on 20 April with a final day of online content, featuring two more exclusive keynote speeches from different sectors within the urban landscape, live panel discussions, and a host of insightful case study presentations from both public and private organisations.

“The Cities Climate Action Summit aims to be different from traditional city events, seeking to uncover tangible solutions and an opportunity to see and hear the latest from leading policymakers, technologists and financiers to find out what is working and what is not working,” said Chris Cooke, founder and CEO of SmartCitiesWorld.

“The Summit will provide a holistic view of how urban climate action can be achieved at scale and we look forward welcoming more than 2,000 attendees across three days, both online and in person.“SmartCitiesWorld is committed to supporting cities on their journeys to net zero and sustainability by providing ongoing coverage and shining a light on the innovation that will unlock global and local solutions to tackle climate-related urban challenges.”To view the full agenda and find out more, go to Cities Climate Action Summit.

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The Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) within the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is bringing together social scientists and humanists with engineers, computer scientists, and computing-related faculty for a daylong symposium at MIT to address the challenges and opportunities that have emerged with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of our society.

Join us on Tuesday, April 18 for panels and sessions featuring a distinguished lineup of speakers. We will also bring the vision and activities of SERC to the forefront by showcasing the work that is already taking place, and highlighting the faculty, postdocs, and students that are advancing SERC-related education and research across disciplines at MIT.

AGENDA
7:00-8:00 am | Registration and Breakfast8 :00-8:30 am | Welcome
Dan Huttenlocher, Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Georgia Perakis, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
Caspar Hare, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & Professor of Philosophy, MIT
8:30-9:15 am | Panel 1: Implications of Data and Algorithms
M oderator: Asu Ozdaglar, Deputy Dean of Academics, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & Head, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
S rini Devadas, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
John Horton, Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management
Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan
Sarah Williams, Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning, MIT
9:15-10:40 am | Session 1: Beneficent and Fair Computing
Session Chair: Georgia Perakis, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
Fotini Christia, Associate Director, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) & Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
Maximilian Kasy, Professor of Economics, Oxford
Manish Raghavan, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan & EECS
Sherrie Wang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & IDSS, MIT
11:00-12:20 pm | Session 2: Equitable and Personalized Health
Session Chair: Dimistris Bertsimas, Associate Dean for Business Analytics & Professor of Operations Research, MIT Sloan
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) & EECS, MIT
Swati Gupta, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
Amy Moran Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT
Nikos Trichakis, Associate Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan
12:30-2:00 pm | Poster Sessions and Lunch2:00-3:20 pm | Session 3: Algorithms and Humans
Session Chair: Dan Huttenlocher, Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
V ivek Farias, Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, Chicago Booth
Ashesh Rambachan, Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT
A shia Wilson, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
3:30-4:15 pm | Panel 2: Ethics and Computing Education
Moderator: Caspar Hare, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & Professor of Philosophy, MIT
John Basl, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University
Katrina LaCurts, Senior Lecturer & Undergraduate Officer, MIT EECS
Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, MIT
Milo Phillips-Brown, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Oxford
4:15-4:30 pm | Closing Discussion
Caspar Hare, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & Professor of Philosophy, MIT
Georgia Perakis, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
4 :30-5:30 pm | Reception

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Bifurcations Large and Small
Tuesday, April 18
10:00am to 11:00am
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Houghton Lecture Series - Ray Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)

Here, I return to issues largely motivated by Earth’s past and future climate, though a number of the phenomena discussed apply to planetary climate in general. Tipping points seem to be all the rage these days. For the most part, a “tipping point” is a more colloquial term for a “bifurcation,” though the term has a tendency to be used in a less well-defined way than the more mathematical term. In this lecture I will review the basic mathematics underpinning standard linearised analyses of climate sensitivity, pointing out that generically, a high linearised climate sensitivity means the system is close to a bifurcation. The bifurcation could lead either to a “small” change of state, or a massive change (such as Snowball Earth or runaway greenhouse), with everything in between. I will discuss some novel mathematical concepts regarding systems which can have “little bifurcations everywhere,” leading to non-differentiable climate responses as a function of a smoothly varying control parameter.

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Please join us for the final Climate School Signature Speaker Series event of the spring semester, featuring:Ertharin Cousin: Founder and CEO Food Systems for the Future. Former US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and AgricultureTopic: “Food Systems Transformation- Why We Are All Responsible”

Ertharin Cousin currently serves as the CEO and Managing Director of Food Systems for the Future, a nutrition impact investment fund; a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University, Center on Food Security and Environment. From 2012 until 2017, Cousin led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). As Executive Director, Cousin guided the 14,000-member WFP team feeding more than 80 million people each year; while, she identified and championed longer-term, more sustainable solutions for global food insecurity and hunger. In 2009, Cousin was nominated and confirmed as the US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. Prior to her global hunger work, Cousin helped lead the U.S. domestic fight to end hunger including service as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of America’s Second Harvest - now Feeding America. Cousin is currently a member of the Bayer AG Supervisory Board, the Mondelez International Board of Directors, the Royal DSM Sustainability Board, and a Trustee of the African agriculture thinktank Academia2063. Cousin is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago; the University of Georgia Law School and the University of Chicago Executive Management Program-Finance for NonFinancial Executives. She has been listed numerous times on the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List, as the Fortune Most Powerful Woman in Food and Drink, on Time’s 100 Most Influential People list, and as one of the 500 Most Powerful People on the Planet by Foreign Policy magazine.

4pm-5pm Program
5pm-6pm Reception
In-Person Event For CUID Holders Only (Please register with your Columbia UNI.)
The public is invited to join us virtually
Contact Information: Omar J. Herrera oherrera@climate.columbia.edu

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Fascism in America
Wednesday, April 19
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UpWkWr6wRxS9Yna522wj5Q

A presentation from 2022–2023 Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow Omer Aziz
Aziz is the author of Brown Boy: A Memoir (Scribner, forthcoming) and a former foreign policy advisor for Justin Trudeau’s administration in Canada. Inspired by the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, he will work on an essay collection that examines fascism in our own time using reportage, history, law, and sociological analysis.

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Speakers: Gina McCarthy, the first-ever White House National Climate Advisor and former US EPA administrator.
James Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University.
Chair: Melani Cammett, Center Director; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar (on leave 2022–2023). Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Gina McCarthy is one of the nation’s most respected voices on climate change, the environment, and public health. As head of the Climate Policy Office under President Biden, McCarthy’s leadership led to the most aggressive action on climate in US history, creating new jobs and unprecedented clean energy innovation and investments across the country. Her commitment to bold action across the Biden administration, supported by the climate and clean energy provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, restored US climate leadership on a global stage and put a new US national target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50–52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 within reach.

Throughout her years of public service in both Republican and Democratic administrations, McCarthy is credited for her common-sense strategies and ability to work across the aisle, with states, communities, business leaders, and the labor community, to tackle our nation’s toughest environmental challenges in ways that spur economic growth and improve public health for workers and families, especially those living in environmental justice communities.

Before joining the Biden administration, McCarthy was president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation's largest and most influential environmental advocacy organizations. Prior to NRDC, she was a Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she served as the director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. She was also a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. During this time, she engaged students and climate science thought leaders across the faculty, as well as corporate and nonprofit leaders across the world, to coordinate strategies to turn climate and health science into actions that promote a healthier, more sustainable, and just world.

From 2013–2017, McCarthy was the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Obama. McCarthy focused on using science and input from broad external engagement to strengthen clean air standards including establishing tighter standards on mercury pollution, a new EPA Clean Water Rule to protect rivers and streams that 117 million Americans rely on for drinking water, the first national standards requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for fossil-fuel-fired power plants, and many other policies, programmatic, and regulatory efforts that demonstrated the United States's strong commitment to protecting public health and the environment. To advance climate and environmental justice domestically and internationally, McCarthy worked to implement President Obama’s climate action plan spearheading US international engagements that resulted in the passage of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of high global warming chemicals and engaged in efforts leading to the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Prior to her role as EPA administrator, McCarthy held the position of assistant administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation. Prior to that presidential appointment, McCarthy was the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, where she served as chair of the Governor’s Climate Advisory Council, developed the state’s Climate Action Plan, began an initiative called “No Child Left Inside” to introduce families to the natural world by visiting state parks, helped design and implement the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation’s first cap and trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for power plants. She also held senior positions in the administration of five Massachusetts governors, including Deputy Secretary of the Office of Commonwealth Development and Undersecretary for Policy for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

McCarthy earned a Bachelor of Arts in social anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a joint Master of Science in environmental health engineering, planning and policy from Tuft’s University.
Contact: Sarah Banse sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

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The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Thursday, April 20
10:00 AM
Online
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HUTgMhJ8Rv2ryo7pqhmxyQ

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Yet, when it comes to slowing the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little seems to change, and the world remains on course for a catastrophic 3°C of warming. What is holding real climate action back?

In “The Value of a Whale”, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the ‘solutions’ being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she reveals the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish.

The book examines the shortcomings of mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. The Value of a Whale” asks – in the face of crisis – what the global community really values.

On Thursday, April 20 from 10:00-11:00 EDT, join us for a webinar discussion with Adrienne Buller, Director of Research at Common Wealth, on her book and the illusions of green capitalism.

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Restorative Justice
Thursday, April 20
5-6:15PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pncZcuD1SOyOv1KkQrbWuA

Restorative justice brings to life the radical idea that injured persons can heal together with the persons who have injured them. The theory is that healing is achieved through a cultivation of empathy and understanding between the parties most directly impacted by a crime. Important here is the idea that not only the affected party (victim), but also the responsible party (perpetrator), is injured by the criminal act. More specifically, in Professor Kelly's analysis, the injury suffered by the responsible party is a moral injury. In the lecture, she will elaborate the concept of restorative justice and the moral injuries it addresses. She will argue that understanding the potential of restorative justice to address moral injury should lead to appreciating the potential restorative justice has to effect broader cultural and political change.

About the Speaker
Professor Erin I. Kelly is the Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. She is currently the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. Kelly received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University and a B.A. degree in philosophy from Stanford University. Her research areas are in philosophy of law and in moral and political philosophy, with a focus on criminal law and criminal justice. She has written about standards of individual accountability and philosophies of punishment. She is working to develop alternatives to retributive thinking about criminal justice, including restorative notions of justice. More broadly, she is interested in philosophical questions related to historical injustice, social inequality, and civil society.

In 2022, Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize in biography for a memoir she co-authored with artist Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South (Bloomsbury Press, 2021). Kelly is also the author of The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit

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Altered Access Panel: The Body
Saturday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT ACT Cube, E15-001 Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/altered-access-panel-body

Devices or technologies that serve as tools for a physically disabled body are generally understood as support rather than embodiment.

Making these tools an integral component of visual art forms is not only a vibrant arena for cultural production but, by becoming embodied as artwork, also fosters the dialogue and expands the meaning of simply what a body is and what it can do. We live in a world with continuous innovation of technologies and expansive design for prosthetics, mobility aids, and hearing devices, but there is also value in the simplicity of forms and the creativity at play in hack culture. These panelists create visual systems that make visible and reinvent how bodies move in spaces. This discussion will focus on the body as a mode to transformation, creation, and embodiment.

Weblink to access livestream will be available the week of event.
Accessibility
All in-person attendees will be required to wear masks at all times, with the exception of actively eating or drinking.
ASL interpreters and real-time closed captioning in English will be available.
The on-site location is wheelchair accessible.

The Max Wasserman Forum
The Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art was established in memory of Max Wasserman (MIT Class of 1935), a founding member of the Council for the Arts at MIT. This public forum was endowed through the generosity of the late Jeanne Wasserman and addresses critical issues in contemporary art and culture through the participation of renowned scholars, artists, and arts professionals. The Forum is organized and presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

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Altered Access Panel: To Build
Saturday, April 22
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT ACT Cube, E15-001 Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/altered-access-panel-build

Disability is both a rebuke and an invitation to the built world: a sharp critique of the inherited rigid shapes of buildings and streetscapes and a creative tradition of remaking those same structures.

What’s built is a product of human decision-making; it carries tacit ideas about normativity, dependence, and lives worth living. At the same time, disability culture has always been at the forefront of building and rebuilding, both in the margins and in the mainstream. This panel includes three creative practitioners whose work embodies speculative, friction-ful, playful, and critical dialogue with the built world. Contingency, surprise, reinvention, and estrangement light up their work, with the experimentation and multiplicity of art set against the rationalized, planned behemoth of the city. We’ll discuss the voice, vernacular, means and methods of their works, and mixing the languages of art, design, architecture, and planning.
Speakers: Noëmi Lakmaier, Carmen Papalia, Finnegan Shannon
Moderator: Sara Hendren

Accessibility
All in-person attendees will be required to wear masks at all times, with the exception of actively eating or drinking.
ASL interpreters and real-time closed captioning in English will be available.
The on-site location is wheelchair accessible.
Weblink to access livestream will be available the week of event.

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TEDxMIT: Superpowers
Saturday, April 22
2:45 pm till 6:45 pm
MIT, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://tedx.mit.edu/resgister-april22-23
Speakers: https://tedx.mit.edu/dec4-speakers

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MiMi Aung will share her personal journey as a space engineer—from her start as an electrical engineer in the NASA Deep Space Network to her role leading the team that built and deployed the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity: the first-ever controlled flight on another planet.

She will describe her constant pursuit of “What’s next?” throughout her STEM career, including her current efforts in private industry to develop and launch a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit to increase broadband access around the world, a mission in which she believes deeply.

Speaker
MiMi Aung is director of technical program management for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which seeks to provide reliable and affordable broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world through a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites. Prior to joining Amazon, Aung was the project manager of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), leading the team through the very first flights on Mars. Aung grew up in three different countries with formative years in Myanmar and Malaysia, and at age 16 traveled alone to the United States to further her education. She holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and spent more than three decades at JPL working on signal processing, communications, and novel spacecraft systems for deep space exploration. Aung was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021.

Discussant
Amy Villeneuve, former vice president, Amazon Robotics; former COO and president, Kiva Systems; startup board director

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Amy Westervelt has made a career out of exploring the underbelly of the oil industry through complex and compelling storytelling. From her investigative series Drilled to her latest project Light Sweet Crude, focused on the new wave of "oil colonialism," Westervelt dives deep into the true crimes of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest players, including their misinformation campaigns regarding the climate emergency. As executive producer of the independent podcast production company Critical Frequency, her narrative podcasts shine a light on stories oil companies would rather keep in the dark.

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While a rapid and dramatic reduction in fossil fuel use is necessary to stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis, there will be negative socio-economic consequences for workers and communities in fossil fuel regions, in addition to the ongoing pollution from fossil activity that is disproportionately borne by marginalized communities. Addressing and mitigating these consequences is not incompatible with an equitable energy transition, yet a just energy transition is far from guaranteed. Who and what is covered by "just transition" is increasingly unclear as the term becomes popularized and co-opted. This talk will explore what is meant by "just transition," the importance of "just," and how to advance a just energy transition.

Speaker
J. Mijin Cha is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a fellow at the Worker Institute, Cornell University, where she works on the Labor Leading on Climate initiative. Dr. Cha’s research focuses on labor/climate coalitions and just transitions. She is a part of the Just Transition Listening Project research team, which was the first effort of its kind to interview over 100 individuals on their experience with industrial transition. Along with her colleagues, she also developed a novel framework for developing just transition policies and conducted a four-state study of just transition and progressive power at the state level. Dr. Cha is on the board of the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment and Greenpeace U.S. She is also a member of the California Bar.

Moderator
Ege Yumuşak is a philosopher, specializing in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and social & political philosophy. She received a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2022. Her research examines political disagreement—its material foundations, social manifestations, and epistemic properties. She is currently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of clashes of perspective in social life. Her writing, on topics ranging from labor organizing to feminism, has appeared in The Point Magazine and The Forge Magazine. She is a contributing editor at the Drift Magazine. She is a current Fellow in the Society of Fellows.

Climate Futures/Climate Justice is an interdisciplinary event series exploring the relationship between climate justice, carbon tech, and climate futures. Climate scientists, engineers, anthropologists, geographers, science studies scholars, political ecologists, legal scholars, and historians connect to discuss justice-centered climate futures and engage defining issues of the carbon tech/climate justice nexus.

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The economics of climate change
Tuesday, April 25
5:30 - 6:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-economics-of-climate-change-tickets-574557626327

This session will overview the challenges that climate risk implies for the economy and asset markets. We will discuss the transmission channels through which climate shocks can trigger an economic crisis or a recession. We will distinguish physical risks from transition risks. We will discuss topics as climate runs or climate gentrification. Finally, we will have a glimpse at recent research developments on these topics.

Join us for an exciting session with Professor Pedro Gete, Chair at the Department of Finance of IE University. His research focuses on credit markets with applications to topics including Real Estate, Finance, International Economics, and Macroeconomics. He has published his work in the top journals of the profession and presented at leading universities and conferences. He has taught at the Chicago-Booth Business School, Georgetown University, IE University, and at Carlos III University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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Postindustrial Ecology: New Values in Recovering Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 26
12 PM ET
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cq-7x3iISBaDpH3soDpXqQ
Presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe fellow Joe Roman

Roman is a conservation biologist and researcher. During his fellowship, he will examine how recent studies of animal ecology have changed our views of the role of marine vertebrates in ocean ecosystems through the lens of “postindustrial ecology”—a term he has coined for the transition from extractive industries to cultural and supporting services, such as ecotourism and recreational fishing—and write a historical analysis of this shift for a journal article and a related book on the role of animals in biogeochemical cycles and building ecosystems.

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SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Joshua Busby, Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. The talk will be broadcast live on the MIT Security Studies Program Youtube channel.

Joshua Busby will talk about his new book States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge: 2022) and explore why climate change leads to negative security outcomes in some places and not others. He will draw from paired cases in his book, examining why drought led to famine in Somalia but not neighboring Ethiopia in the 2010s. He will explore how state capacity, political inclusion, and foreign aid intersect to lead to different dynamics in different contexts. Drawing from his own experience, he will discuss what role policy can play to prepare for a world of climate impacts.

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Three dialogues by MIT designers will explore how design can address different dimensions of sustainability, from the classroom to the world

This event is part of the Boston Design Week.How can design address different dimensions of sustainability? We will explore this question through three dialogues, ranging from the design of solar-powered vehicles, to the definition of analytical and sensing mechanisms to improve buildings' thermal performance, to the elaboration of energy-efficient systems to cook. The event will show how sustainable design solutions are possible for every scale and context, and how these solutions can transition from academic experimentation and research to real-world implementation.

This contribution to the Boston Design Week visualizes the MIT Morningside Academy for Design and MIT’s commitment to finding sustainable design solutions for a planet subjected to multiple environmental and climatic crises. The dialogue will complement the many activities programmed around Earth Day in the Boston area.

TOPICS
Our dialogues, presented and moderated by Tony Hu, will present three main design projects, all sharing the same desire to identify the most apt environmental solutions for a particular geographic context, using the most appropriate technological means.
MIT's first solar-powered car, designed and manufactured by the Solar Electric Vehicle Team, a student group under the MIT Edgerton Center. Every two years they create a solar powered vehicle that competes in prestigious national and international competitions.

Technology leveraging robotics and AI to design impactful solutions for the built environment, imagined and developed by Norhan Bayomi, co-founder of Lamarr.AI.
Clean cooking products for the developing world: led by Daniel Sweeney, D-Lab's "Biomass Fuel and Cookstove Group" researches, designs and tests solutions to reduce the environmental repercussions of food preparation on contexts reliant on the use of biomass.

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Staving off a climate catastrophe and reaching Net Zero by 2050 is an unprecedented herculean challenge that will require a profound transformation of our economies and societies. This will inevitably come with fundamental questions: are businesses hampering the green transition, or can they be a powerful catalyst to accelerate it? How can governments accompany the change? Or should they lead it, taking a more active role in the economy?

This hybrid panel discussion will include Debora Spar, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; and Alessio Terzi, economist at the European Commission and author of "Growth for Good." The panel will be moderated by Edoardo Campanella, M-RCBG senior fellow and senior global economist at UniCredit Bank.
This event will take place in Wexner-330 for those who wish to attend in person. Other may join us remotely via Zoom. For in person attendees, we will be drawing names for one of fifteen copies of Alessio Terzi's book "Growth for Good."

M-RCBG welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs. To request accommodations or ask questions about access provided, please email mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu.

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Are you interested in learning about innovative policy and financial mechanisms designed to rapidly decarbonize the global economy? Join SFI’s monthly seminar on the third or fourth Thursday of the month to meet researchers working in this space and learn more about their ongoing research projects.

On Thursday, April 27, Henry Gonzalez, Deputy Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), will discuss the GCF's climate projects, specifically focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation perspectives.

Henry Gonzalez is the GCF’s Deputy Executive Director. He has over 25 years of professional experience across sustainable and impact investing, emerging markets, and political and economic development. Prior to joining GCF he was an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He also served as member of Senior Management and Global Head of Research & Advisory at responsAbility Investments AG, where he led thought leadership, technical assistance, and ESG/impact integration strategies across the sectors of finance, climate and agriculture. He also spent time at Morgan Stanley, serving as a Vice President for Emerging Markets Debt investing and held other positions at the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Government of Costa Rica. Henry holds an MBA from Oxford University (Skoll Scholar), an MPA from Harvard University (Fulbright Scholar) and a BA in Political Science from the University of Costa Rica.

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The Opening Plenary for Solve at MIT 2023 is open to the public and MIT Community. Schedule available at https://solve.mit.edu/events/solve-at-mit-2023/schedule#page-subnav

Solve at MIT 2023 is an inspiring, interactive three-day event that brings together our Solve community and cross-sectors leaders from around the world committed to solving global challenges. Over the course of the event, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from leaders in social impact, connect with innovators looking to scale their solutions, form partnerships with like-minded individuals and organizations, and learn about the upcoming 2023 Global Challenges.

Our annual Global Challenges are open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Through an open innovation platform, we source tech-based ideas, businesses, or products that solve urgent global problems. The most promising social entrepreneurs from across the world are chosen to join our Solver class in the areas of Economic Prosperity, Climate, Learning, and Health. Solve also selects a group of Indigenous Communities Fellows who are helping to make Native communities in the US thrive.

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Education, Truth, and the Future of Democracy
Thursday, May 4
4:30 – 6 p.m. ET
Harvard, Askwith Hall, Longfellow Building, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA
What roles can schools and universities play in helping to shore up democracies — whether in the United States or in countries around the world? Schools should be — can be — key engines for knowledge-building and for producing engaged democratic citizens. What challenges do they face in achieving these aims — and what can we learn from their failures, both historically and today? How should we think about current political activity — from governors and university presidents to legislative sessions to local school board meetings — focused very specifically on education policies and practices? When the political discourse includes K-12 and college curricula, counseling services, bathroom and sports team access, book selection, equity and inclusion policies, school safety, tenure policies, and school and university governance, it begs the question: Are these admirable exercises of democratic activism by engaged citizens, attacks on education in service of misinformation and demonstrable untruths — or both (or neither)? At this pivotal time for education ethics and civic engagement, join us for a rich conversation that will explore these and other critical questions and help put each of us on a path to contribute to a positive path forward.

Speakers
Neema Avashia, Ethnic Studies Coach, Boston Public Schools
Sigal Ben-Porath, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., Executive Director of Millennium Leadership Initiative, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Host
Meira Levinson, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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One of the Persuaders: Anat Shenker-Osorio

gmoke

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Wednesday March 29, 2023 · 8:49 PM PDT

2023/03/29 · 20:49

I read The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas (NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2022 ISBN 9780593318997) recently. It has a lot of good examples of effective organization and communication from grassroots lower case “p” progressives.

One of the ones I found most sympatico is Anat Shenker-Osorio:

Voters aren’t stirred to reduce harm, Shenker-Osorio said. They’re motivated to create good.
...Paint the beautiful tomorrow
…The entire premise of my work is, ’Say what you’re for.’ The rest is commentary...
What you fight you feed...

To sum up the [Anat] Shenker-Osorio method thus far: Don’t dilute the vision to reach out to a middle that isn’t in the middle but is confused. Thrill your base; alienate the people who aren’t going to vote for you anyway but will do you the favor, if you’re setting the rhetorical agenda, of yelling your ideas all over town. Don’t be afraid to call out, to woo the right people and drive away the right people. And there was more. These callouts, she argued, needed to be nested within a positive galvanizing mission that her allies on the left too often forget to include while deploring problems.

“I genuinely believe,” she continued, “it is a Republican wet dream that they have us talking constantly about everything that we oppose because (a) it gives them more airtime, (b) it scares the shit out of people, and when people are afraid, what they seek is a more authoritarian, more restrictive, more conservative kind of leadership and structure, (c) it has us not speak about what we’re for.” She joked with colleagues that despite all her research into the nuances of different messages, there was really just one winning message for her side. “That message is, ‘We can have nice things.’"

My full notes on The Persuaders are at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2023/03/notes-on-persuaders.html

More notes on persuasion and influence from the work of Robert Cialdini:

Influence: Science and Practice
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/12/influence-science-and-practice.html

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2017/03/pre-suasion-revolutionary-way-to.html

Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/12/yes-50-scientifically-proven-ways-to-be.html

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City Agriculture - March 16, 2023

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Thursday March 16, 2023 · 8:01 PM PDT

2023/03/16 · 20:01

Chinese natural restoration project

https://inhabitat.com/a-restoration-project-in-china-uses-a-sponge-system/

Urban Permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qXgbrIYcFE

Floating farm in Rotterdam
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/20/say-hello-to-the-floating-farm-in-rotterdam/

Editorial Comment: Previous mentions of Rotterdam in City Agriculture
World’s first floating dairy farm in Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45130010
https://cityag.blogspot.com/2018/08/city-agriculture-august-30-2018.html

Floating Park in Rotterdam made from recycled plastic
http://www.recycledpark.com/
http://www.recycledisland.com/about.html
https://cityag.blogspot.com/2018/08/city-agriculture-august-30-2018.html
Editorial Comment: The Floating Park seems to have vanished but the group behind it is still removing plastic from waterways.
Editorial Comment: Aztecs and other South American peoples built floating gardens for hundreds of years. They called them chinampas

A rooftop forest for Rotterdam
https://www.mvrdv.nl/news/2603/with-construction-almost-complete-depot-boijmans-van-beuningen-prepares-for-preview-opening-in-september
https://www.mvrdv.nl/news/2652/depot-boijmans-van-beuningen-rooftop-forest-awarded-rooftop-award-2020
https://inhabitat.com/an-award-winning-forest-tops-the-worlds-first-publicly-accessible-art-depot/
https://cityag.blogspot.com/2021/01/city-agriculture-january-20-2021-happy.html

Rotterdam’s roofscape - greening 10 million square feet of rooftops
https://www.c40.org/case-studies/cities100-rotterdam-mitigation-meets-adaptation-on-rotterdam-s-rooftops/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f082078d610926644d22e00/t/621e3b2a1ee23c373149cac0/1646148404157/URBANISTEN_Rotterdam_Rooftop_Potential_EN.pdf
https://www.fastcompany.com/90755913/inside-rotterdams-quest-to-green-10-million-square-feet-of-rooftops
https://cityag.blogspot.com/2022/07/city-agriculture-july-31-2022.html

Dallas TX plans for urban farms
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/urban-farms-in-dallas-will-be-vital-to-a-healthier-population-city-officials-say-15696187

Dallas Climate Action Plan on food access
https://www.dallasclimateaction.com/foodaccess

How container farms can help with climate change
https://energynerdshow.com/episodes/mit-lab-explores-how-container-farms-can-help-with-climate-change
hat tip Bruce Biewald

Kroger partners with Gotham Greens to supply more than 1000 stores
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2023/2/9/kroger-expanding-gotham-greens-to-more-than-1000-stores

Japan’s agricultural decarbonization plan
https://sponsored.bloomberg.com/article/jco/japan-where-food-security-meets-innovation
Editorial Comment: government press release

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Geotherapy Events - March 2023

gmoke

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Wednesday March 01, 2023 · 6:50 PM PST

2023/03/01 · 18:50

Geotherapy not geoengineering, please

http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html

Full details on each event and many more at Energy (and Other) Events (http://hubevents.blogspot.com):

Design Activism: Border Ecologies and the Architecture of UN Missions
Thursday, March 2
6:00pm to 8:00pm

Design Activism: Border Ecologies and the Architecture of UN Missions
Thursday, March 2

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

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

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

Sustainable Journalism Network [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

Climate Change: Fundamentals and Regenerative Solutions (webinar)
Wednesday, March 22
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/ufifas-extension-sarasota-county-422952084

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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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - March 2023

gmoke

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Sunday February 26, 2023 · 8:56 PM PST

2023/02/26 · 20:56

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.

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@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
P

roductive 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

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

Thursday, March 16

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

Solutions Journalism Network [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@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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, April 5

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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