[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 1/25/07 - 2/58/07

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:* Two Future of Energy Lectures -- 1/31 with Abdallah Jum'ah, President and CEO of Saudi Aramco and 2/5 with Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1/30/07 -- Energy Technology and Innovation Program Seminar with James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 2/1 and 2/2/07 - Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium, Graduate School of Design *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 1/25/2007 * 4:30p - 6:00p Energy Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development: Past Experiences and Future Directions <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63479102> Dr. Charles Heaps, Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Presented by the Tufts Energy and Climate Forum TUFTS - Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall 108 6:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534979> Ecological Design: Inventing the Future (64 min) MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)E *Friday 1/26/2007 * 8:30a - 9:30a Leech Symbiont and Mouse Pathogen, Aeromonas veronii, a Beneficial Microbe with a Dark Side <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63311662> Prof. Joerg Graf, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Storrs Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 11:00a - 12:00p Population strucuture of Armillaria spp. in a temperate, old-growth rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375857> Nicholas Brazee -- Dept. of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA *Saturday 1/27/2007 * 8:45a - 4:00p Gene-Environment Interaction Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056633> MIT - Strata Center 32-141 Sponsored by the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences * Monday 1/29/2007* 3:00p - 4:00p Marketing and Building Brands around Shared Values: How sustainability questions are reshaping consumer expectations and loyalties <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63566792> A conversation with: Tom O'Brien, Chief Operating Officer, Board Member, part owner, Tom's of Maine, HBS '90 Harvard Business School, Aldrich 8 * Tuesday 1/30/2007* 9:30a - 11:00a Warming the Bench?: A Look at Massachusetts v. EPA and other Climate Change Litigation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63407523> James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Allison Dining Room, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, KSG, 79 JFK St. , Cambridge 6:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534982> Is God Green? (60 min) MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370) *Wednesday 1/31/2007 * 5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - A Candid Assessment of the US and World Energy Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184586> Abdallah S. Jum'ah, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco Organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment Science Center Lecture Hall C,1 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 2/1/2007 * 12:15p - 1:00p Climate Change 101 -- Causes, Effects and Cures <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184552> Melissa Cary, Climate Change Policy Specialist, Environmental Defense Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on Climate Change Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p What Cities Are Doing <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184569> Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner, the City of Chicago Department of the Environment Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on Climate Change Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Measurements of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for understanding surface exchange <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184551> 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 5:00p - 7:30p Free screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375847> 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 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534972> 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 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184553> Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin 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 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184571> Diane Dumanoski, former Boston Globe environment reporter, currently writing a book on the subject of her talk Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled 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 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375859> John McDonald -- US Fish & Wildlife Service and Harvard Bullard Fellow Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Free and open to the public 5:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534984> 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 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63598688> 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* 5:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534988> Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 min) MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370) *Monday 2/5/2007 * 5:00p - 6:00p Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment The Growing Significance of the New Biofuels - The Future of Energy Lecture Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184587> Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard *Tuesday 2/6/2007 * 6:00p - 7:00p International Polar Year and Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184665> Jim McCarthy, Harvard University Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 2/7/2007* 4:15p - 5:00p Bioenergy in a globalizing world: Issues of Sustainable Development, Trade and Policy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62517110> Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General Ministry for the Environment and Territory of Italy Maxwell Dworkin G115, Oxford Street, Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883