Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,

Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883.

Highlights:
2/5/07 - The Future of Energy with Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2/7/07 – More Bioenergy with Corrado Clini,
Director General Ministry for the Environment and Territory of Italy
2/8/07 -
Renate Kunast, Chairwoman of the Greens in German Parliament on Energy, Security and Global Warming

Calendar Listings:

Thursday 2/1/2007

4:00p - 5:00p
Measurements of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for understanding surface exchange
Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

4:00p - 5:00p
What Cities Are Doing
Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner, the City of Chicago Department of the Environment
Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

5:00p - 7:30p
Free screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Harvard School of Public Health, Longwood Campus,, HMS NRB (New Research Building), Amphitheater, 77 Louis Pasteur Ave, Boston

6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
Total Denial (74 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)

6:00p - 7:00p
Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges for a Sustainable Future
Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Friday 2/2/2007

9:30a - 10:15a
Dangerous Passage: Nature's return to center stage in human history
Diane Dumanoski, former Boston Globe environment reporter, currently writing a book on the subject of her talk
Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

11:00a - 12:00p
Ecology and life history strategies of black bears in western Massachusetts
John McDonald – US Fish & Wildlife Service and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA

5:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
Dying to Breathe: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa
MIT Building
4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)

8:30p - 9:30p
MSI Chalk Talk
Daniel P. Schrag, Professor, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge

Saturday 2/3/2007

9:30a - 12:00p
 "The Human Ape"
Harvard Museum of Natural History

2:00p - 3:00p
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Harvard Museum of Natural History

5:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)

Sunday 2/4/2007

2:00p - 3:00p
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Harvard Museum of Natural History

Monday 2/5/2007

4:00p - 5:00p
Abrupt change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: theory, modelling and monitoring
David Marshall University of Reading
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
Haller Hall, 1st floor Geological Museum bldg, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

5:00p - 6:00p
The Growing Significance of the New Biofuels - The Future of Energy Lecture Series
Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard

Tuesday 2/6/2007

5:30p - 6:30p
Linking Climate Change and Business Strategy"

Patrick Dolberg, CEO, Holcim (US), Inc.
TUFTS International Business Program's Global Speaker Series
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Mugar 200, Tufts University campus, Medford, MA

6:00p - 7:00p
International Polar Year and Climate Change
Jim McCarthy, Harvard University
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Wednesday 2/7/2007

4:00p - 5:30p
The Economics of Climate Change: A critical Examination of the Stern Review
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, JFK School of Government

4:15p - 5:00p
Bioenergy in a globalizing world: Issues of Sustainable Development, Trade and Policy
Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General Ministry for the Environment and Territory of Italy
Maxwell Dworkin G115, Oxford Street, Cambridge

Thursday 2/8/2007

4:00p - 5:30p
"Drawing the Connections Between Global Warming, Energy, and Security"
Renate Kunast, Chairwoman of the Greens in German Parliament
Center
for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Rm. 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA.

5:00p - 6:15p
 "The Creation"
Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus, honorary curator in entomology, Harvard University
Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School

Saturday 2/10/2007

2:00p - 3:00p
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Harvard Museum of Natural History

3:00p - 4:00p
"The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party"
Harvard Museum of Natural History

Sunday 2/11/2007

2:00p - 3:00p
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Harvard Museum of Natural History

Monday 2/12/2007

3:30p - 4:30p
"Science and Technology in Global Policy"
George Atkinson, science & technology adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State
Labor & Worklife Program, HLS
53 Church St, Harvard Square,

Tuesday 2/13/2007             

9:30a - 11:00a
"Progress and Development of Advanced Coal Technology in China"
Lifeng Zhao, ETIP Fellow
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday 2/14/2007

4:00p - 5:30p
Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets
Matthew Kotchen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

-- 
Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883