ChatGBT on How to Provide Solar Power to Poorest People

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Thursday March 20, 2025 · 7:08 PM PDT

2025/03/20 · 19:08

I've been imagining "how to provide solar power to poorest people" (some of my ideas on the topic: http://solarray.blogspot.com/2024/11/basic-electricity-for-bottom-billon.html) for all of my adult life and decided to ask ChatGPT about it.

ChatGPT said:

Creating a renewable energy system that integrates solar power, bicycles, e-bikes, and batteries can provide an innovative and sustainable solution to improve the lives of the poorest people. By combining these elements, you can create a holistic system that not only addresses energy needs but also supports mobility and enhances local economies. Here's how such a system could be designed:

1. Solar Power for Clean Energy

Solar-Powered Microgrids: Solar panels can be installed in communities to create a reliable and affordable energy source. Microgrids powered by solar energy could provide electricity to households, schools, clinics, and local businesses, particularly in remote or off-grid areas.
Solar Charging Stations: Solar panels can power community charging stations where people can charge batteries for their e-bikes or personal electronic devices, such as phones or radios. These stations could be subsidized or operated as part of a pay-as-you-go system, so the upfront cost of installation is shared.

2. Bicycles as a Sustainable Transport Solution

Human-Powered Bicycles: Bicycles provide a low-cost, sustainable transportation option for communities. They can be used to carry goods, transport people, or even as part of local delivery services. In areas where transportation is limited, bicycles are an affordable and effective way to improve mobility.
Bicycle-Powered Generators: In some situations, bicycles can be used as pedal-powered generators, where individuals can generate electricity by pedaling. This electricity could be used to charge batteries or power small devices. These generators could be useful in remote areas for powering lights, radios, or small appliances.

3. E-Bikes for Increased Mobility and Efficiency

Affordable E-Bikes: E-bikes (electric bicycles) are powered by rechargeable batteries and provide a more efficient form of transportation compared to regular bicycles. They are especially beneficial for people who need to travel long distances, carry heavy loads, or face difficult terrain.
Battery Charging via Solar: E-bikes can be charged using solar-powered charging stations. This makes them even more affordable for people in rural or off-grid areas. The integration of solar charging helps lower the reliance on fossil fuels and can reduce the overall costs of running an e-bike.

4. Battery Storage for Reliable Energy Supply

Affordable Solar Battery Storage: Solar energy systems can be paired with battery storage solutions. By storing energy generated during the day, batteries can supply power at night or on cloudy days. This ensures a steady and reliable supply of electricity to households and community services.
Battery Banks for E-Bikes: Battery storage can also be integrated into the e-bike system. For example, e-bikes could use local solar-powered battery banks to charge when they're not in use. People could also swap batteries in a community-based battery swap system, which ensures that they always have a charged battery without having to wait for it to recharge.

5. Integrated Systems for Local Economic Development

Solar-Powered Battery Charging Hubs: These hubs could serve as community centers where people come to charge their e-bike batteries, mobile phones, or other devices. They could be set up as small businesses or co-ops run by the community. In addition, these hubs could offer other services like bicycle repairs and rentals.
E-Bike and Solar-Based Transport Services: In some areas, a local enterprise could set up a transportation service where e-bikes are used to provide delivery services for goods, or even passenger transport, between villages or towns. Solar power can be used to charge the e-bikes at community hubs.
Creating Jobs: Integrating e-bikes, solar power, and battery storage systems can create local jobs for technicians to maintain solar panels, e-bikes, and battery systems, as well as provide training on the use of these technologies. This fosters local economic development while improving access to renewable energy.

6. Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Models for Affordability

Affordable Financing Models: To ensure that the poorest people can access this integrated energy system, a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model could be employed. This would allow users to make small payments over time to purchase or rent solar systems, e-bikes, and batteries, making it more affordable.
Community-Based Solar Credit Systems: Community savings or credit systems could be established, allowing people to contribute small amounts of money to fund solar installations and e-bikes. Once the system is in place, the savings or credits could be used to offset energy costs or transportation needs.

7. Environmental and Health Benefits

Reducing Carbon Emissions: By using solar energy, bicycles, and e-bikes, communities can reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, contributing to cleaner air and a healthier environment. This also helps reduce the economic burden of purchasing kerosene, gasoline, or diesel.
Improved Health Outcomes: Replacing traditional fuel-powered transport with bicycles and e-bikes can lead to a reduction in air pollution, which has significant health benefits. Also, bicycles provide a healthy mode of exercise for the people who use them.

8. Educational and Awareness Campaigns

Training and Education: Educating local communities about the benefits of solar power, e-bikes, and battery storage systems can ensure that these technologies are used properly and maintained effectively. This can be done through workshops or local training programs.
Local Leadership: Community leaders and local influencers can be engaged to promote the use of renewable energy systems and explain the long-term cost savings and environmental benefits. Building trust within the community is key to the adoption of new technologies.

9. Building Partnerships with NGOs and Governments

Collaborating with NGOs: NGOs focused on renewable energy, poverty alleviation, and sustainable development can be vital partners in providing technical assistance, funding, and logistical support. Organizations like d.light, M-KOPA, or SolarAid have implemented successful programs for affordable solar solutions in low-income regions.
Government Support and Policy: Governments can incentivize the adoption of these technologies by providing subsidies, tax breaks, or grants. They can also create policies that encourage the integration of solar energy, bicycles, e-bikes, and battery storage systems in underserved communities.

Conclusion

A solar-powered, bicycle, e-bike, and battery energy system for the poorest people could transform their lives by providing affordable, sustainable, and reliable energy and transportation solutions. The integration of these technologies not only addresses energy needs but also improves mobility, creates jobs, and promotes environmental sustainability. When designed with affordability and accessibility in mind, these systems can create lasting change in communities, empowering people to improve their quality of life and contribute to a greener future.

Confirms me in my thinking that Solar IS Civil Defense

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Zero Net Energy - March 6, 2025

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Thursday March 06, 2025 · 8:57 AM PST

2025/03/06 · 08:57

3D printed tiny houses for the homeless in Austin, TX

https://www.core77.com/posts/135050/Icon-to-3D-Print-Houses-for-the-Homeless

Passive house buildings as a response to wildfires - on CBS Evening News!
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-a-design-concept-may-help-save-homes-from-wildfires/

“Homeless” squatter cabin community with solar
https://x.com/kevinvdahlgren/status/1882539641955663876

LONGi Kubuqi Desert Solar Power Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vntwjqMgCaE

The rise of the Net-Zero Dad
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/29/the-rise-of-the-net-zero-dad
Non- walled: https://archive.ph/ZDDDw
Editorial Comment: Global heat pump efficiency races
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-i-imagine-environmental-community.html

Net zero 3D printed house from Italy and 2022
https://3dwasp.com/en/itaca-the-self-sufficient-and-eco-sustainable-3d-printed-house/
hat tip Michael Bauwens

World’s first solar-powered camper van
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0kn75cz/the-world-s-first-solar-powered-campervan

Allbirds makes a net zero shoe and publishes their recipe for others to copy
https://trellis.net/article/allbirds-wants-footwear-companies-to-copy-net-zero-shoe-design/
hat tip trellis.net
The international carpet company, Interface, has been moving to net zero environmental harm since the mid-1990s and now produces at least one product which removes carbon from the atmosphere and waste stream. Their story is at
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2024/04/notes-on-business-lessons-from-radical.html
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2022/03/interface-from-living-zero-to-climate.html

Factory-built tiny house kit with solar, battery, heat pumps, and water storage
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/09/tiny-house-from-mesocore-comes-complete-with-solar-a-battery-a-heat-pump/

Easy(er) solar battery install from DIY Solar Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJByNRCw0k
DIY Solar Power Forum
https://diysolarforum.com/

re:arc - "We work at the intersection of climate action and architecture to support community-led solutions that address the root causes and effects of climate change and nurture the creative reimaging of our social and ecological systems."
https://www.rearc.institute/

“Edenizing” LA after the fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Nc64UBems
from Edenicity (https://www.edenicity.com/) "Sustainably Abundant Cities for All"

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Trmp and Never Seen

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Wednesday March 05, 2025 · 9:06 AM PST

2025/03/05 · 09:06

I was struck by Trmp’s repetition of the “never seen” trope throughout his long, long speech to the Joint Session of Congress. So I did a search for “seen” on the transcript and this is the result:

The presidential election of November 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades….

It was a shot like she’s never seen before. She’s never seen anything like it...

We are opening up many of those power plants right now. And frankly, we have never seen anything like it...

Oh, and by the way, we’re going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody’s ever seen. Plants are opening up all over the place. Deals are being made like never seen….

Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody’s ever seen before...

We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before...

But even more importantly, they’ve allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people destroying families. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it...

My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future, because the golden Age of America has only just begun. It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.

It’s nothing like I’ve ever seen before and, like these “never seen before” promises above, will never, ever be seen again.

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City Agriculture - March 4, 2025

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Tuesday March 04, 2025 · 2:53 PM PST

2025/03/04 · 14:53

The Poor Prole's Almanac: Restoration Agroecology

https://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/
hat tip MT Spriggs

Port Huron, MI is planting trees to provide free fruit for residents under new pilot “Edible Parks” program
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/12/20/michigan-city-planting-trees-to-provide-free-fruit-for-residents-under-new-pilot-program/

Food Forests in Permaculture: And In-Depth Guide/
https://www.permalogica.com/post/food-forests-in-permaculture-an-in-depth-guide

Urban farming in Baltimore isn’t just about growing food
https://popularresistance.org/in-baltimore-urban-farming-isnt-just-about-growing-food/
Editorial Comment: Baltimore has done a lot around local agriculture and grassroots leaders like Mel King in Boston and Grace Lee Boggs in Detroit have used urban gardening to build a foundation for much larger social movements
More on Grace Lee Boggs at https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-next-american-revolution.html
More on Mel King at https://solarray.blogspot.com/2023/04/how-many-ways-did-he-change-world-mel.html

USDA supporting urban agriculture and sustainable food production with $14.4 million in funding
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/usda.gov-urban-agriculture-grants

Growing microalgae for food and fodder indoors in Iceland
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjry6dv4yo

LONGi Kubuqi Desert Solar Power Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vntwjqMgCaE

Growing food in empty office spaces
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250127-why-veg-is-growing-in-empty-office-spaces

Food, water and energy self-sufficiency in a 33 meters diameter with a 3D printed house
https://3dwasp.com/en/itaca-the-self-sufficient-and-eco-sustainable-3d-printed-house/
hat tip Michael Bauwens

The green belt cooling a city
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/we-water-rest-water-the-green-belt-of-vegetable-plots-cooling-a-city

LA urban farmers will regrow and expand after the fires
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/feb/24/california-wildfires-altadena-farmers

Green roofs increase biodiversity for Basel, Switzerland. They use native plants and seeds.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/green-roofs-deliver-for-biodiversity-how-basel-put-nature-on-top
from https://cityag.blogspot.com/2022/07/city-agriculture-july-31-2022.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

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A Measure of the Depth of the Hole We're In

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Friday February 28, 2025 · 11:55 AM PST

2025/02/28 · 11:55

Impeach Trmp and get rid of Musk and we get JD Vance and Peter Thiel behind him. Impeach Vance and we get Mike Johnson with the Southern Baptist Dominionists behind him. After that, the line of succession goes to Grassley then Rubio as it’s toxic Republicans all the way down.

That is our political reality now under our Constitution.

However, since the Supreme Court abandoned the basic principle of democracy, the idea that everyone is equal under the law or isonomy, with its recent decision to give the (Republican) Presidency immunity for “official” acts and the Judicial Council refused to do their duty under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act to investigate Clarence Thomas’ congenital inability to fill out financial forms correctly thus making the Supreme Court itself de facto above and beyond the law as well, we now have two institutions which are not bound by the law.

That is the reality and we should look it full in the face.

We need something else beside electoral politics. I like the idea of mutual aid and a mass popular movement to make the present government irrelevant.

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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - March 2025

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Tuesday February 25, 2025 · 12:37 PM PST

2025/02/25 · 12:37

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Thomas Paine's Age of Reason

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Monday February 24, 2025 · 5:21 PM PST

2025/02/24 · 17:21

Finally got around to reading a falling apart hardback copy of Paine's Age of Reason (published as three pamphlets in 1794, 1795, 1807) found at a Little Free Library long ago. It's a very modern book and Paine is very clear as a writer.

Paine deconstructs and demolishes the Bible but believes instead that

"The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of his existence and the immutability of his power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries."

Sounds like an ecological world view to me.

Reading Age of Reason led me to his pamphlet "Agrarian Justice" (1797) where he argued that the Earth itself belongs to all of us and that we are entitled to a just portion of that. The sums would be "fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property: £1,599.00 ($1955.98)

"And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum: £1,066.00 ($1303.98)"

I like Tom Paine and grew up with people who liked him too. After I read the book, I found my grandmother's paperback copy among my books. I gave both copies to the various Little Free Libraries around town after I finished my notes.

Now Paine's Rights of Man goes on the reading list.

Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

(2) I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

(30) If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me; but if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed; moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty, even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself; it is then no longer justice, it is indiscriminate revenge.

Editorial Comment: The plot of A Tale of Two Cities

(32) The word of God is the creation we behold and it is in _this world_, which no human can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

(36) Almost the only parts in the book called the Bible that convey to us any idea of God, are some chapters in Job and the 19th Psalm; I recollect no other. Those parts are true deistical compositions, for they treat the Deity through his works. They take the book of Creation as the word of God, they refer to no other book, and all the inferences they make are drawn from that volume.

(40) That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.

(58) … and I moreover believe, that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.

(73) Religion, therefore, being the belief of a God and the practice of moral truth, cannot have connection with mystery. The belief of a God, so far from having anything of mystery in it, is of all beliefs the most easy, because it arises to us, as is before observed, out of necessity. And the practice of moral truth, or, in other words, a practical imitation of the moral goodness of God, is no other than our acting toward each other as he acts benignly toward all. We cannot _serve_ God in the manner we serve those who cannot do without such service; and, therefore, the only idea we can have of serving God, is that of contributing to the happiness of the living creation that God had made. This cannot be done by retiring ourselves from the society of the world and spending a recluse life in selfish devotion.

(101) It is a duty incumbent on every true Deist, that he vindicate the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

(133) … to priests and commentators, who are very learned in little things,…

(204) I am not one of those who are fond of believing there is much of that which is called willful lying, or lying originally, except in the case of men setting up to be prophets, as in the the Old Testament, for prophesying is lying professionally.

(219) A very numerous part of the animal creation preaches to us, far better than Paul, the belief of a life hereafter.

(229) The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

NB: The Catalans by Patrick O’Brian

Love your neighbor as yourself is not enough, nothing like enough, if you have a deep, well-founded dislike of yourself.

and

I will tell you what I mean by the death of the soul. When you no longer have the power to love, when there is no stir of affection anywhere in your being, then your soul is dead. That is the death of your soul. Your soul is dead, and you are damned: you are dead walking, and you are in hell in your own body.

These two quotes explain much of the state of humanity, such as it is, these days.

(231) The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of his existence and the immutability of his power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

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Security Experts Look at DOGE

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Tuesday February 11, 2025 · 9:19 PM PST

2025/02/11 · 21:19

I’ve attended quite a few talks by Bruce Schneier over the years and read some of his books. He is a security professional who knows whereof he speaks.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/

If you hit a paywall, try https://archive.ph/lSHkJ

DOGE Is Hacking America
By Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Davi Ottenheimer, the vice president of trust and digital ethics at Inrupt, a data infrastructure company.

"First, unauthorized access must be revoked and proper authentication protocols restored. Next, comprehensive system monitoring and change management must be reinstated—which, given the difficulty of cleaning a compromised system, will likely require a complete system reset. Finally, thorough audits must be conducted of all system changes made during this period.

"This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal U.S. data and install backdoors to allow for future access….

"Assuming that anyone in the government still cares."

Another person I’d like to hear address this is Yochai Benkler.

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Reduce the Republican Majority in the House to One by April 2?

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Friday February 07, 2025 · 9:40 AM PST

2025/02/07 · 09:40

Saw this last night. It just might be important:

"THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!"

Florida is a red state and these may be very red districts but it might be an opportunity to, at least, throw a scare into the Trmpists. Might be good if there were an all out push to make the Republicans defend these districts more expensively than they’d like.

Vote as if your life depended upon it. Because it just might.

Information on 1st District
https://ballotpedia.org/Florida%27s_1st_Congressional_District_special_election,_2025

Information on 6th District
https://ballotpedia.org/Florida%27s_6th_Congressional_District_special_election,_2025

Voter registration deadline is March 3

Absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline is March 20
Early voting from March 22, 2025 to March 29, 2025

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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - February 2025

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Wednesday January 29, 2025 · 9:59 AM PST

2025/01/29 · 09:59

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
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RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/09de4b12-068e-4074-a73b-f30c4403f113/regProcessStep1
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Briefing Net Zero Good Practice - What Defines a credible Net Zero Strategy?
Friday, January 31
7am ET [12:00 GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://newclimate.org/events/briefing-net-zero-good-practice-what-defines-a-credible-net-zero-strategy
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Climate Disaster Displacement
Friday, January 31
12 - 1pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-disaster-displacement-registration-1217178576889
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Friday, January 31
7:00pm (Doors at 6:15)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-hayes-at-first-parish-church-tickets-1089181584439
Cost: $42.00 (book included)
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The State of the Nation Project: A comprehensive discussion on America’s successes and failures
Monday, February 3
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-state-of-the-nation-project-a-comprehensive-discussion-on-americas-successes-and-failures/
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The Macro-Critical Aspects of Climate Change and Climate Change Policy
Monday, February 3
12 - 1:15pm EST
BU, Bay State Room, 121 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-macro-critical-aspects-of-climate-change-and-climate-change-policy-tickets-1022865045887
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Trade War 2.0
Monday, February 3
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Harvard, Rubenstein 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PXrRIAW&_gl=1*1mxekfz*_gcl_au*MTk5MTI1NDQzOC4xNzMwNzU4OTMw*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTczNzg0MzU5OC4xMS4xLjE3Mzc4NDM3ODguNTUuMC4xNTIzOTU2NDE4
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How will AI Disrupt Societies? Can It Help Ukraine?
Monday, February 3
1 – 2:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YqNHex-1T_Kv5ce0mGQM3g
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Religion and Just Peace: Empire and Epistemicide: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Peace and its Erasures
Monday, February 3
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CFuFoXyoRhKcQckHYq0vxQ#/registration
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Source Code: My Beginnings
Monday, February 3
7:00pm (Doors at 6:00)
Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.emersoncolonialtheatre.com/events/bill-gates/calendar/
Cost: $70.00 plus service fee (book included)
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Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Program
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 AM - 7:00 AM EST
Online
RSVP at https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/331b1f36-6899-4c4f-a543-ea0ef1a73892@8370cf14-16f3-4c16-b83c-724071654356
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Trees Cool the City But Feel the Heat
Tuesday, February 4
10:30 to 11:30 am
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3r8OrgXIRI6jL9DE5meM0g#/registration
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2025 and Beyond: Insights from Climate Tech Leaders
Tuesday, February 4
11:30am EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-and-beyond-insights-from-climate-tech-leaders-tickets-1145613834819
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Small Actions Big Difference: Business Through the Sustainability Lens
Tuesday, February 4
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Northeastern, 450 Dodge Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/npu8t9g
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Our Climate Future: Fact + Fiction
Tuesday, February 4
1:30pm–2:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.woodwellclimate.org/?event=our-climate-future-fact-fiction
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Cross purposes: Christianity’s broken bargain with democracy
Tuesday, February 4
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
The Brookings Institution, The Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
And online
RSVP at https://www.brookings.edu/events/cross-purposes-christianitys-broken-bargain-with-democracy/
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Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All
Tuesday, February 4
4:30-6pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpiM-a3jvi5xiyTWdWgxBTi-y8h0TmuwTy8Q5_x891GZOuNA/viewform
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Living in the Shadow of our Fathers
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/4017377329691/WN_xB2blR-LRhKpc7Yy3eaSQw#/registration
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Conceiving the Committee of Safety in Revolutionary America
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
And online
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/events/conceiving-committee-safety
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Innovating the Future: Cleantech and Energy Storage Panel Discussion
Tuesday, February 4
5:30 - 7:30pm EST
CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway, 5th Floor - Havana Room, 1 Broadway 5th Floor - Havana Room Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovating-the-future-cleantech-and-energy-storage-panel-discussion-tickets-1152466160309
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Boosting the clean heat market: solutions for the new policy cycle
Wednesday, February 5
4am - 6am ET [10:00 – 12:30 GMT+1]
Residence Palace, Room: Maelbeek, Rue de la Loi 155, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
And online
RSVP at https://www.agora-energiewende.org/news-events/boosting-the-clean-heat-market
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Tackle Heat and Flooding in Cities: A Three-Part Capacity Building Training Webinar Series
Wednesday, February 5
4:30am EST [9:30 - 10:45am GMT]
Online
RSVP at https://www.wri.org/events/2025/2/building-capacity-assess-urban-climate-hazards-and-tackle-heat-and-flooding-cities#register
—————
Science and implementation needs to scale forest-based climate solutions
Wednesday, February 5
8am ET [11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST]
Department of Plant Biology Seminar Room, 260 Panama Street, Palo Alto, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/dr-trevor-keenan-science-and-implementation-needs-scale-forest-based-climate-solutions
—————
Problematic Impacts of the Energy Transition and the Shifting Global Economic Landscape.
Wednesday, February 5
10:00 - 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Online
RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_idsTZxcLRcG2GAH3rUltRA#/registration
—————
RMI Feasibility Forum on Industrial Heat Decarbonization
Wednesday, February 5
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-rmi-feasibility-forum-on-industrial-heat-decarbonization/
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Small Actions Big Difference: Business Through the Sustainability Lens
Wednesday, February 5
12pm to 1:15pm
Northeastern, 450 Dodge, 324 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/npu8t9g
—————
Responding to Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health and Well-Being
Wednesday, February 5
1 – 2 p.m.
Harvard School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at https://hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/events/responding-to-climate-change-challenges-and-opportunities-for-mental-health-and-well-being/
—————
The Paradox of Sustainability
Wednesday, February 5
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-Gita-Wirjawan
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Covering Climate Now Basics: Reporting Solutions
Thursday, February 6
Session 1: 6am ET/11am UTC/12pm CET
Session 2: 1pm ET/6pm UTC/7pm CET
Online
RSVP at https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/ccnow-basics-reporting-solutions/
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From Climate Action to Regional Planning: Bringing Sustainability to Scale
Thursday, February 6
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_00hiD-0nR6iQvr_4Ts0XmQ#/registration
—————
Hurricane Katrina and the Musical Community of NOLA: A Conversation with Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr.
Thursday, February 6
4 – 5 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-conversation-with-big-chief-bo-dollis-jr-virtual
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Toward a Better Security Order
Thursday, February 6
4:00-5:30 pm
BU Hillel, 213 Bay State Road, 4th Floor River Room
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2025/01/17/upcoming-event-the-boston-launch-of-toward-a-better-security-order/
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A Public Health Approach to Violence
Thursday, February 6
4pm - 5:30pm
UNY SPH (Room 717), 55 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-public-health-approach-to-violence-tickets-1152542468549
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Against Haste: On the Heuristic Affordances of ‘Fascism’
Thursday, February 6
4 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
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EnergyBar at Greentown Labs
Thursday, February 6
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/energybar-kicking-off-2025/
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Another World Is Possible
Thursday, February 6
7pm at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, 50 Liberty Drive Boston, MA 02210
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/natasha-hakimi-zapata-author-another-world-possible-conversation-dan-chiasson
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2025 TCUP Conference: Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Victory: Ukraine’s Changing Environment
Friday, February 7 – Saturday, February 8
Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.huri.harvard.edu/tcup-conference
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Winds of Change – EBC 12th Annual New England Regional Offshore Wind Conference
Friday, February 7
8:30 am - 3:00 pm EST
WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
And online
RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-12th-annual-new-england-regional-offshore-wind-conference/#registration-details
Cost: $50 - $290
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Urban Tree Symposium
Friday, February 7
9AM – 4:30PM
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, 11 French Drive,P.O. Box 598, Boylston, MA 01505-0598
RSVP at https://nebg.org/urban_tree_symposium/
Cost: $60 - $150
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MFN Sustainability Challenge
Friday, February 7
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA
RSVP at https://share.hsforms.com/10ELuyS7pTz-aRWjtEinkmAejhlh
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2025 Business and the Environment Conference
Saturday, February 8
8:00 AM EST — 3:30 PM EST
Yale, Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT
RSVP at https://groups.som.yale.edu/env/conference/
Cost: $20 -$30
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Jonathan Rauch: The Christianity-Democracy Break Up
Monday, February 10
12pm EST [3:00 PM PST]
Online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-02-10/jonathan-rauch-christianity-democracy-break
Cost: $10
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How Cities and States Can Accelerate E-Bike Adoption Using RMI’s Free E-Bike Calculator
Tuesday, February 11
11am ET [1:00-2:15 p.m. MT]
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/webinar-how-cities-and-states-can-accelerate-e-bike-adoption-using-rmis-free-e-bike-calculator/
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Climate Salon: The “Other” Footprints
Tuesday, February 11
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA
RSVP at https://lu.ma/aaezqng8?mc_cid=3af6fe25fa&mc_eid=080b9053a5
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Urban Futures Hub Series: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities
Wednesday, February 12
5am ET [11:00 - 12:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://iiasa.ac.at/events/feb-2025/webinar-urban-futures-hub-series-ipcc-special-report-on-climate-change-and-cities
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Dynamic multiscale soil modeling for climate-smart management of soil and water resources
Wednesday, February 12
8am ET [11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST]
Department of Plant Biology Seminar Room, 260 Panama Street, Palo Alto, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/dr-salvatore-calabrese-dynamic-multiscale-soil-modeling-climate-smart-management-soil-and
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Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future
Wednesday, February 12
6:00pm(Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/cass-r-sunstein
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XR Boston February General Meeting
Wednesday, February 12
6 p.m.
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://xrboston.org/action/february-general-meeting-2025/
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Climate forcing of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Thursday, February 13
9am ET [12pm to 1pm PT]
Stanford, Mitchell Earth Sciences, 350/372, 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
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2025 Boston Harbor Environmental Education Workshop
Thursday, February 13
9am - 5pm EST
Boston Children's Museum, 308 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-boston-harbor-environmental-education-workshop-tickets-1105763952749
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Unstable Ground: Civic Engagement Around Flooding and Plastic Pollution in Kampala, Uganda
Thursday, February 13
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B2VZw7wxTsmv6_SKkROZ3g#/registration
—————
Climate Extremes: Planetary and Human Health Under Stress
Thursday, February 13
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
SwissnexBoston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https://events.swissnexboston.org/ClimateExtremesPlanetaryandHumanHealthUnderStress#/
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The Behavioral Economics of Sustainable Energy Use
Friday, February 14
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-luis-mundaca-lecture-virtual
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Picks and Shovels: Cory Doctorow with Ken Liu
Friday, February 14
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-with-ken-liu-picks-and-shovels-tickets-1112058941229
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Boston Harbor Walk for Transit Equity
Sunday, February 16
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Eastern)
Location: JFK / UMass, 599 Old Colony Ave, Boston, MA 02127
RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00000e8UBcIAM&mapLinkHref=https://maps.google.com/maps&daddr=Boston%20Harbor%20Walk%20for%20Transit%20Equity@42.320628,-71.052376
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The Future of Climate Change: What Three Generations of Scientists Revealed
Tuesday, February 18
7 - 8:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-climate-change-what-three-generations-of-scientists-revealed-tickets-1131192329709
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Methane Emissions from the Biogas and Biomethane Supply Chains
Wednesday, February 19
8am ET [2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CET]
Online
RSVP at https://fsr.eui.eu/event/methane-emissions-from-the-biogas-and-biomethane-supply-chains/
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The Green Ammonia Innovation Ecosystem
Wednesday, February 19
10:00-11:00 a.m. ET
Online
RSVP at https://rmi.org/event/the-green-ammonia-innovation-ecosystem/
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Wabanaki Climate Change Adaptation: Indigenous Science, Research Partnerships, and Justice
Wednesday, February 19
4:00 pm
Online
RSVP at https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/kqOHL6C3R6O-sNducD8Eug
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Creating Technology Solutions for the Energy Transition
Wednesday, February 19
4:30pm to 5:20pm PT
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-9081
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The War in Europe
Wednesday, February 19
7:00pm
Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-19/war-europe
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Jonathan Rosser - Physical Uncertainties and Economic Impacts of Climate Tipping Points A Global Systems Institute seminar
Thursday, February 20
9am ET [14:00 to 15:00 GMT]
University of Exeter, Place Laver LT6, UK
And online
RSVP by emailing infogsi@exeter.ac.uk.
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What if the Real Threat is Artificial Good-Enough Intelligence?
Monday, February 24
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, The Nexus in Hayden Library, 14S-130160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/2024-25-morison-prize-and-lecture-with-zeynep-tufekci-topic-to-be-revealed/
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Seminar on European Development in a Historical Perspective — The Invention of Cohesion: How Democracy Survives at Scale
Monday, February 24
3 – 5 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/02/how-popular-governance-has-adapted-to-scale
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America's Authoritarian Turn
Monday, February 24
4 – 5 p.m.
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-gary-gerstle-lecture
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Religion and Just Peace: The Fog of Religious Conflict: Can the Fog Lift?
Monday, February 24
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C4CdJxReQm6jEBqiYDSwIg#/registration
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Catherine Coleman Flowers: On Environmental Justice and Protecting Holy Ground
Tuesday, February 25
9am EST [12:00 PM PST]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-02-25/catherine-coleman-flowers-environmental-justice-and-protecting-holy-ground
Cost: $5 - $10
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Indulging Kleptocracy: Postcommunist Elites and Corruption
Tuesday, February 25
12:30 – 2 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indulging-kleptocracy-postcommunist-elites-and-corruption-tickets-1144576652579
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Book Talk: Tripping on Utopia with Benjamin Breen, PhD
Tuesday, February 25
5:30 – 7 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DLaZuED_RTOdV5zZ0JV6hw#/registration
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Shaping Climate History: Planetary health and climate change
Wednesday, February 26
12:30 - 13:30 ET
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shaping-climate-history-planetary-health-and-climate-change-online-tickets-1044123189567
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Driving the next mass solar technology (tandems) when "solar is done"
Wednesday, February 26
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
RSVP at https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-Colin-Bailie
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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-26/anita-say-chan-predatory-data
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Unsettling Colonial Ecologies, Removal, and Ruin
Thursday, February 27
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o2OvWNalStSL0uUwX-Xk-A#/registration
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Climatetech Intern Fair
Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
Greentown Boston, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/climatetech-intern-fair/
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The Heat and the Fury: A Conversation With Peter Schwartzstein
Thursday, February 27
7 - 8:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-the-heat-and-the-fury-a-conversation-with-peter-schwartzstein-tickets-1107265654379
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Religion and Just Peace: Heretics and Dissenters: Lessons on Freedom from the Margins
Monday, March 3
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SOLN0dHyQMSdah4e_OGPsA#/registration
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The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
Monday, March 3
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at https://www.harvard.com/event/meg-stone
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Responsible Offshore Wind Development in the U.S. – Implementing the Mitigation Hierarchy
Thursday, March 6
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_059hzDZjQDCeUjbOG-itjQ#/registration
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ACCEL Year 3 Kickoff Event
Thursday, March 6
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET
Greentown Boston444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/accel-year-3-kickoff-event/
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Feminist Security Studies: Collectively Building Theory and Practices about Security in the Americas
Friday, March 7
5:30pm to 7pm
MIT, Building 2, 105, 182 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://wgs.mit.edu/events-all/2025/3/7/feminist-security-studies

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How Does Civil Resistance Work?

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Sunday January 26, 2025 · 10:46 PM PST

2025/01/26 · 22:46

Erica Chenoweth’s syllabus for her course on Civil Resistance: How It Works
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJZOSv7Dadp94JKiO7rOcLJvnJlDmG/view

Chenoweth is one of the researchers behind the idea that if you can get 3.5% involved in nonviolent resistance you will win and that nonviolent revolution succeeds twice as often as violent revolution.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to
do it all the time.” - Angela Davis

I don’t know why, since she hasn’t taught the course since 2022, that she decided to release the syllabus now.

For those who want a little background on how we got here:

Democracy in Chains: How We Got Here and How to Prepare for What Comes Next
Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (2017) with Patt Morrison

Wednesday, January 29

8:00 PM inEastern Time (US and Canada)

RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U8H9iZPPSgm6ZHAG1bUMFQ?mc_cid=7ed1666471&mc_eid=e4ca14f59e#/registration

And for those who want a little deeper history:

Conceiving the Committee of Safety in Revolutionary America
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
And online
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/events/conceiving-committee-safety
Author: Donald F. Johnson, North Dakota State University
Comment: Brendan McConville, Boston UniversityThis is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.

This essay explores how ordinary Americans conceived of the local committees of safety that served as the backbone of the revolutionary movement in 1774 and 1775. Authorized by the First Continental Congress in late 1774 to enforce the Articles of Association, local leaders largely determined the structure and operation of these committees. As tensions mounted and especially after war broke out in April 1775, committeemen drew on a mixture of historical inspiration, long-standing traditions of corporate governance, and contemporary legal culture to outstrip their Congressional mandate and assert de-facto revolutionary governance in communities across British North America.

It might be useful to think of Committees on Safety not only in terms of politics but also in terms of the next weather or environmental emergency.

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Net Zero Energy - January 17, 2025

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Friday January 17, 2025 · 7:38 PM PST

2025/01/17 · 19:38

East Chinese province pilots extensive vehicle-to-grid interaction

https://english.news.cn/20240816/47b3faa6206247b8b9c79772563a213d/c.html
Editorial Comment: All electric vehicles, including e-bikes, e-scooters, and other such micro-mobility devices, should be able to interact with the grid as “rolling storage” as Amory Lovins suggested 30 years or more ago.

Barcelona’s subway trains use regenerative braking to power EVs
https://grist.org/transportation/barcelona-is-turning-subway-trains-into-power-stations/
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/barcelona-is-using-regenerative-braking-to-power-subways-ev-chargers/
Editorial Comment: I remember reading in Edwin Black’s Internal Combustion about the Milwaukee Road, an electric railway in the early decades of the 20th century, and thinking that you could possibly plan routing freight trains in such a way that traveling downgrade with regenerative braking could power traveling upgrade without any need for excess power. Actually, now Fortescue Williams, a hard rock mining company, operates an "Infinity Train” in Australia that never needs charging using this idea.
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2022/07/playing-with-electric-trains-as-climate.html

"Delivering Net Zero: A Framework for Policymakers is a handbook for governments to design and implement decarbonization strategies"
https://www.netzeropathfinders.com/downloads/Netzero%20Pathfinders%20Delivering%20Net%20Zero%20-%20A%20Framework%20for%20Policymakers.pdf
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/13/want-to-know-more-about-how-to-design-deliver-net-zero-policy/

A greenhouse over a house in Norway that grows food all year round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp_HPzfxbQ
hat tip boingboing.net

Electric wallpaper to decarbonize Glasgow flats - radiant heating wallpaper
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/19/glasgow-is-trialling-eco-friendly-electric-wallpaper-to-heat-its-ageing-homes
hat tip Katharine Hayhoe

Finnish sand battery - It stores energy in sand as heat, serving as a high-power and high-capacity reservoir for excess renewable energy at up to 600 °C for 10 GWh and 100 MW
https://polarnightenergy.com/sand-battery/

Survey of energy positive buildings
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/18/energy-positive-buildings-give-more-than-they-take-leaving-the-planet-better-than-before-construction/

The German boom in “balcony solar"
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/21/germany-embraces-balkonkraftwerke-balcony-solar-for-apartments/

NODE - net zero and net zero ready flat pack home kits, designed for the circular economy
https://www.greencanopynode.com/net-zero

Calles Completas - reimagining Mexico City’s infrastructure
https://x.com/eliascattan/status/1808184039108391111
hat tip John Thackara

Rajapalayam, a city of 200,000, in Tamil Nadu, India has a master plan to be carbon neutral by 2041
https://rajapalayamlpa.com/
hat tip Erik Solheim, more at https://x.com/ErikSolheim/status/1876348901092987022

Solar powered street lights, Dark Sky approved so we can see the stars
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/09/18/2948004/0/en/Streetleaf-Illuminates-in-California-Bringing-Solar-Powered-Streetlights-to-Moreno-Valley.html
hat tip Bill McKibben

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