[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events around Harvard 3/29/07 - 4/12/07

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(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883. *Highlights:* 4/9/07 -- Science and Democracy -- Yaron Ezrahi -- KSG 4/11/07 -- Hydro Power and the Indians - Larry House, Elder and Spokesman for the Cree Nation 4/12/07 -- The Future of Energy -- Transforming Energy Techniques -- Vclav Smil, University of Manitoba *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 3/29/2007 * 7:00p - 8:45p Movie: Fast Food Nation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219997> Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd. *Monday 4/2/2007 * 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724770> Weekly roundtable discussion of Energy topics open to the Harvard and MIT community Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Seismology Without Earthquakes: Progress in Ambient Noise Tomography <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154643> Michael Ritzwoller, Center for Imaging the Earths Interior, Colorado Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 4/3/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Going for green: Cytokinin signaling and its transcriptional network <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65759421> George Eric Schaller, Dartmouth College Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 12:45p - 2:30p Designing the Natural City <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65354490> Bill Wenk, FASLA, Wenk Associates, Denver, CO Part of a series of lectures on Design and Water Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Stree *Wednesday 4/4/2007* 12:00p - 4:30p Food, Health, and the Environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724664> Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Center for Health and the Global Environment Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 4:00p - 5:30p Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Change and Renewable Energy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056683> Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future, and Richard Newell, Duke University Seminar on Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 6:00p - 7:15p The Last Great Migrations: Spectacle and Challenge <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65759396> Joel Berger, Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society, North America Program Harvard Museum of Natural History Seminar Series Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 7:00p - 8:30p Environmental Justice: Thirty Years of Regulation and the Injustice Continues <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65758661> Jerome Ringo, Chair of the National Wildlife Federation & "Toxic Torts" lawyer Hunter Lundy Pound 101, Harvard Law School *Thursday 4/5/2007* 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589778> Weekly Roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 2:30p - 8:00p Power in the Global Food System: Mapping Food Production and Food Sovereignty in the 21st Century <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65488750> TUFTS - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University Jaharis Building, 150 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA *Friday 4/6/2007 * 8:30a - 9:30a Mineral Associated Biofilms and Bacterial Diversity <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65691016> Chris McNamara, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 11:00a - 12:00p Nutrient partitioning as a possible mechanism for species richness maintenance in tropical forest canopies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862237> Catherine Cardelús, University of Florida , Department of Botany Harvard Forest Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:30p Massachusetts v. EPA: The Supreme Court on Global Warming and other Climate Change Policy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219940> James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts Pound 201, Harvard Law School *Monday 4/9/2007 * 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724759> Weekly roundtable discussion of Energy topics open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 3:00p - 4:00p Caveman economics: How Charles Darwin will save Adam Smith <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862228> Terence Burnham, Acadian Asset Management Program for Evolutionary Dynamics One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge 3:30p - 4:30p Debating the Economics of Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65320504> William Nordhaus, Yale University Lower Level Classroom, 52 Church Street 4:00p - 5:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154655> William Curry Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 5:00p - 7:00p Necessary Fictions: The Decline of Science in the Democratic Imagination <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65320555> Yaron Ezrahi, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute Part of a lecture series on Science and Democracy Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge *Tuesday 4/10/2007 * 9:30a - 11:00a State-level Socio-political Influences on Deployment of Emerging Energy Technologies: A Framework for Characterization <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63829859> Jennie Stephens, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Clark University Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA *Wednesday 4/11/2007* 3rd GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model Users' Meeting <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64091828> Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:30p Price-Based Regulation of Air Pollution with Spatially-Variant Marginal Damages <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056697> Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 5:30p - 7:30p Hydro and Indians: A Second Look at First Peoples and Power <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65556372> Larry House, Elder and Spokesman for the Cree Nation, James Bay, Canada Environmental Club of the Harvard Extension School and The Working Group on Environmental Justice Science Center Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 4/12/2007* 3rd GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model Users' Meeting <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64091829> Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxfrod Street, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:30p Measuring Avoided Deforestation from Land Use Policies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65522715> Paul J. Ferraro, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg, Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589779> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 3:30p - 4:30p Urban Planning in Chengdu: Process, Politics, and Policy -- A Provisional View <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462539> Dr. Arnold Howitt, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Chris Nielsen, 5:00p - 6:30p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Transforming Energy Techniques <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65354501> Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 5:30p - 8:00p Magnetosomes: a model system for the study of organelle biology in bacteria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65691018> Arash Komeili, Dept. of Plant and Microbiology, University of California Berkeley Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Thursday Evening Seminar Series Microbiology Seminar Room, WAB 341, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883