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:
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
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
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
Prof. Joerg
Graf, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
11:00a
-
12:00p
Population
strucuture of Armillaria spp. in a temperate, old-growth rainforest,
Olympic
Peninsula, Washington
Nicholas
Brazee – Dept. of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences,
Shaler Hall,
Saturday 1/27/2007
8:45a
-
4:00p
Gene-Environment
Interaction Symposium
MIT -
Sponsored
by the
Monday 1/29/2007
3:00p
-
4:00p
Marketing
and Building Brands around Shared Values: How sustainability questions
are
reshaping consumer expectations and loyalties
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
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
Is God Green? (60 min)
Wednesday 1/31/2007
5:00p
-
6:00p
The
Future of Energy Lecture Series - A Candid Assessment of the US and
World
Energy Future
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
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
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
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"
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)
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
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 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
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
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
5:00p
-
9:00p
MIT
Environmental Film Festival
Maquila: A Tale of Two
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
Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard
Tuesday 2/6/2007
6:00p
-
7:00p
International
Polar Year and Climate Change
Jim McCarthy,
Geological Lecture Hall,
Wednesday 2/7/2007
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
Maxwell Dworkin G115,
-- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883