Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email contains event listings for Thursday, October 11 through
Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site,
www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/> , for the
most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the
semester.
If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from
this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment:
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu.
Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and
anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the
community. We hope to see you soon and often.
Highlights:
* Tuesday, October 16: Harvard Professor Peter Ashton presents new insights
into how biodiversity is sustained and their implications for policies and
management in Lessons from Tropical Rainforests: Science for Sustaining
Biodiversity.
* Tuesday, October 23: Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series.
ETIP Fellow Gustavo Collantes discusses "The Fuel Economy-Biofuels
Connection: Policy and Economic Issues" at the Kennedy School.
* Wednesday, October 24: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change. Shahid
Naeem, Professor of Ecology, Columbia University, will discuss the Empirical
and Theoretical Foundation for the Importance of Thirty Million Species.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 10/11/07
5:00p
Sustainable Planning in Allston
Harris Band and Alison Reinhardt, Allston Development Group
Allston Exhibition Room, Holyoke Center Arcade, 1350 Mass Ave., Cambridge,
MA
Contact: J. Shapiro, jshapiro(a)fas.harvard.edu
5:30-7:30p
MSI Thursday Evening Seminar: "The Ecology of Arsenic (as summarized in ten
M's): Murder, Mayhem, Mobilization."
Dr. Ron Oremland, USGS
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday 10/12/2007
11:00a - 3:00p
Environmental Business Council 3rd Semiannual Environmental & Energy Career
Fair
Lenox Hotel, 710 Boylston St., Boston, MA
Contact:
http://ebc.terranovum.com/index.php?id=9
12:30p - 1:30p
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Aaron Thompson, MD, MPH Resident, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Residency, Harvard School of Public Health Kresge 502, Harvard School of
Public Health, Boston, MA
Contact: Ann Backus, abackus(a)hohp.harvard.edu, (617) 432-3327
5:30p - 8:30p
MIT Energy Night: Featuring over 40 speakers
MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy/programs/energynight/index.html
Saturday 10/13/2007
8:30a - 3:30p
Food vs. Fuel: Is Biofuel Production from Farms Jeopardizing Our Food
Security? An Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) Issue Forum
Behrakis Auditorium, Friedman School of Nutrition, 150 Harrison Ave., Tufts
University, Boston, MA.
Contact: Melissa Bailey, melissa.bailey(a)tufts.edu,
www.elpnet.org/Biofuels.php
11:00a - 4:00p
7th Annual CitySprouts Harvest Festival
M.L. King School and Amigos School Playground, 100 Putnam Ave., Cambridge,
MA
Contact: Carla Procaskey, anthony.flanders(a)verizon.net, (617) 349-6562 x208
Monday 10/15/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Stephen Johnston, University of Victoria
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu
4:15p - 6:00p
The Cultural Dimensions of Environmentalism
Monika Griefahn, Member of the German Bundestag
Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jason Beerman, beerman(a)fas.harvard.edu
Tuesday 10/16/2007
11:30a
Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
Andrea Bizzarri, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di
Bologna, Italy
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html
3:00p - 6:00p
An Afternoon in Cleantech
Vinod Khosla: Cleantech Insights from The Legendary Venture Capitalist
Aldrich 112, Harvard Business School, Allston, MA
Contact: bweinberg(a)mba2008.hbs.edu
5:30p
Ground Water Basins in Darfur and Surrounding Deserts
Farouk El-Baz, Director, Boston University Center for Remote Sensing,
Adjunct Professor of Geology, Ain Shams University, Cairo
Case Study Room S020, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Contact:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cafrica/calendar.shtml
6:00p
Lessons from Tropical Rainforests: Science for Sustaining Biodiversity
Peter Ashton, Harvard Professor and Japan Prize winner
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
Wednesday 10/17/2007
4:00p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge,
MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-8054
4:00p
Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
Juan Perez-Mercader, Centro de Astrobiology, Spain
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
origins.harvard.edu/
5:00p - 7:30p
Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global Equity
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Tufts University Campus, Medford, MA
Contact: Joshua Berkowitz, joshua.berkowitz(a)tufts.edu, (617) 627-3530
Sunday 10/21/2007
7:30p
Sunlight is Life! The Path Toward a Sustainable Future
Steven Strong
Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA
Contact: Nancy Nolan, nan.lex(a)verizon.net
Monday 10/22/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:00p - 1:30p
CSRI New Directions in Regulation Seminar Series
A. Denny Ellerman, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT
T-275, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Contact: rpp(a)ksg.harvard.edu
4:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Mark Harrison, UCLA
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu
5:00p
Literature, Culture and Ecology: Tracing a History of Place in Australia's
Federal Capital
Kate Rigby, Monash University, Australia
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Janet Hatch, jhatch(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00p - 9:00p
Clean Perspectives Debut Event: Moving Towards a Solar Economy in
Massachusetts
Featuring: Representative Daniel E. Bosley - Chair of the Joint Committee on
Economic Development and Emerging Technologies
Marriott Copley, Boston, MA
Contact:
www.cleanperspectives.com
6:30p - 8:30p
It Takes a Village: Caring for the Urban Forest
Nina Bassuk, Professor and Program Leader, Urban Horticulture Institute at
Cornell University
Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA
Contact:
http://calendar.arboretum.harvard.edu/index.php
Tuesday 10/23/2007
9:30a - 11:00p
Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
Gustavo Collantes, ETIP Fellow
L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of
Government Speaker
Contact: ETIP Coordinator, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584
11:30a
Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
Yann Klinger, Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html
Wednesday 10/24/2007
3:00p - 7:00p
The Energy Symposium
An afternoon with the thought leaders in the largest industry in the world.
Spangler Auditorium, Harvard Business School, Allston, MA
To register, send a blank email to engy(a)studentclubs.hbs.edu. $10
registration fee.
3:30p
Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series
Daniel Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, current Radcliffe
Institute fellow
Second floor Colloquium Room, 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA
Contact: (617) 495-8212
4:15p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University, and Molly Lipscomb, University of
Colorado
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-8054
5:00p
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
Shahid Naeem, Professor of Ecology, Columbia University
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495-8883
6:00p
The Death of Environmentalism and the Politics of Possibility
Authors Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425