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:
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,
Calendar
Listings:
Thursday 3/29/2007
7:00p -
8:45p
Movie:
Fast Food Nation
Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's
Monday 4/2/2007
12:00p -
1:00p
Harvard
Energy Journal Club
Weekly roundtable discussion of Energy topics open to the Harvard and
MIT community
4:00p -
5:00p
Seismology
Without Earthquakes: Progress in Ambient Noise Tomography
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
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
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
Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Cannon Room, Building C,
4:00p -
5:30p
Environmental
and Technology Policies for Climate Change and Renewable Energy
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
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
Jerome Ringo, Chair of the National Wildlife Federation & "Toxic
Torts" lawyer Hunter Lundy
Pound 101,
Thursday 4/5/2007
12:00p -
1:30p
Harvard
Ecology Discussion Group
Weekly Roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
2:30p -
8:00p
Power
in the Global Food System: Mapping Food Production and Food Sovereignty
in the
21st Century
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
Chris McNamara,
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI)
11:00a -
12:00p
Nutrient
partitioning as a possible mechanism for species richness maintenance
in
tropical forest canopies
Catherine Cardelús,
Harvard Forest Seminar Series
Shaler Hall,
12:00p -
1:30p
Massachusetts
v. EPA: The Supreme Court on Global Warming and other Climate Change
Policy
James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts
Pound 201, Harvard Law School
Monday 4/9/2007
12:00p -
1:00p
Harvard
Energy Journal Club
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
Terence Burnham, Acadian Asset Management Program for Evolutionary
Dynamics
3:30p -
4:30p
Debating
the Economics of Climate Change
William Nordhaus,
Lower Level Classroom,
4:00p -
5:00p
Earth
and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
William Curry Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum,
5:00p -
7:00p
Necessary
Fictions: The Decline of Science in the Democratic Imagination
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
Jennie Stephens, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and
Policy,
Wednesday 4/11/2007
3rd
GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model Users' Meeting
Maxwell-Dworkin G115,
4:00p -
5:30p
Price-Based
Regulation of Air Pollution with Spatially-Variant Marginal Damages
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
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
Maxwell-Dworkin G115,
12:00p -
1:30p
Measuring
Avoided Deforestation from Land Use Policies
Paul J. Ferraro, Department of Economics,
Frontiers in Sustainable
12:00p -
1:30p
Harvard
Ecology Discussion Group
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
3:30p -
4:30p
Urban
Planning in Chengdu: Process, Politics, and Policy -- A Provisional View
Dr. Arnold Howitt,
China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F,
5:00p -
6:30p
The
Future of Energy Lecture Series - Transforming Energy Techniques
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
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