Dear Friends of HUCE,
I hope you had a wonderful summer. I am pleased to send you the first
installment of this Fall's HUCE Weekly Calendar email. If you are new to
this service, welcome! Within this email you will find two week's worth of
environmentally related events here on the Harvard campus and in the Boston
area. Already, there are some fantastic events on the calendar and I hope
you will take full advantage of the many engaging lectures and seminars
listed here. Always be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website,
www.environment.harvard.edu [
http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=r2WYzu9VzcCNQ6o5sJxA ],
for the most up-to-date listings and
complete event descriptions, as venues and times may change.
At the bottom of this email, you will find the dates for the HUCE Future of
Energy Lecture series -- be sure to mark them in your calendar!
If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews
at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu [
mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ].
Feel free
to distribute this email to your friends, colleagues, family, and anyone
else who may be interested in environmental events around our community.
Highlights:
Monday, September 15: Gwyn Prins, Professor at the London School of
Economics, discusses "The Mounting Crisis in Climate Policy and What to Do
About It."
Wednesday, September 17: The Minister of State for Industry at the
Government of India, Dr. Ashwani Kumar, visits Harvard for a lecture on
"Inclusivist Growth and Economic Reforms the Challenges of India's Pluralist
Democracy."
September 22: Mark your calendar! His Excellency, Anote Tong, President of
Kiribati discusses his country's unique vulnerabilty to the effects of
global warming-induced sea level rise in this first lecture of the Fall 2008
Green Conversations series.
Calendar Listings:
Monday 9/8/2008
12:00p - 1:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021149 ]
Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu [
mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu ],
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.ht… ]
3:00p
MIT Center for International Studies [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021123 ]
(MIT Stata Center, Building 32, Room 141, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA)
"Climate Security: A Conversation with Denmark's Ambassador to the US."
Contact:
web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_climate.html [
http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_climate.html ]
Tuesday 9/9/2008
7:00p
Harvard Book Store Author Reading [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067249 ]
( Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA)
Nobel Laurate Frank Wilczek will read from and discuss his latest book "The
Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces."
Contact:
www.harvard.com/events/press_release.... [
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2115 ]
Wednesday 9/10/2008
4:30p - 6:30p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117253955 ]
MIT: X PRIZE Energy Forum
(Building 34, Room 101 , MIT, Cambridge, MA)
"Seeking Radical Breakthroughs in Alternative Energy: What I Would Advise
the Next President"
Contact: Erika Wagner , xprize(a)mit.edu [ mailto:xprize@mit.edu ] , 617-253-0017
,
[
http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=9019274&location=http:…
]events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e...
Thursday 9/11/2008
12:00p - 1:00p
OEB Special Seminar [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117791398 ]
(Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA )
"From Darwin to Dover and Beyond: On the front lines of the
evolution-creationism controversy." Louise Mead, Ph.D. National Center for
Science Education
Contact: Ishara Mills-Henry, imillshenry(a)mcb.harvard.edu [
mailto:imillshenry@mcb.harvard.edu ], 617-495-2599
6:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=112064430 ]
Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"To Build a Biofilm." George O'Toole, Department of Microbiology and
Immunology, Dartmouth University
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu ], (617)
495 8643,
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html ]
Saturday 9/13/2008
11:00a - 2:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067275 ]
Sierra Club: Energy Solutions Day
(Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston, MA)
Join the Sierra Club and your friends and neighbors to have fun, enjoy a
beautiful fall day, and learn about energy solutions.
Contact: Carol Oldham, carol.oldham(a)sierraclub.org [ mailto:carol.oldham@sierraclub.org
], 617-423-5775,
www.sierraclubmass.org/events/events.... [
http://www.sierraclubmass.org/events/events.html#special ]
2:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=116987727 ]
Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Superdove: How the Pigeon took Manhattan and the World." Author talk &
book
signing by Courtney Humphries.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu ], 617.495.3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hmnh.harvard.edu ]
Monday 9/15/2008
9:30a [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117182187 ]
Energy Policy Research Programs Seminar
(Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA)
"The Mounting Crisis in Climate Policy and What to Do About It." Gwyn Prins,
London School of Economics.
Contact: (617) 495-8693
12:00p - 1:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021149 ]
Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit the
Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu [
mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu ],
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.ht… ]
2:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117791430 ]
OEB Special Seminar
(MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Marsupial immune genes: organization, evolution and role in the spread of a
contagious cancer." Dr. Kathy Belov, Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu ]
Tuesday 9/16/2008
12:00p
[
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117102188 ]
Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Closing the Global Carbon Cycle: Linking Terrestrial Plant Production with
Aquatic Microbial Production of Carbon Dioxide." Peter Pollard, Griffith
University
Contact: [
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series ]www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p
[
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067220 ]
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current
speakers and topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu [
mailto:kdennis@fas.harvard.edu ],
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/semi…
]
Wednesday 9/17/2008
5:00p
Inclusivist Growth and Economic Reforms the Challenges of India's
Pluralist Democracy [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021349 ]
(Location TBA)
Speaker: Dr. Ashwani Kumar, the Minister of State for Industry, Government
of India. Details to follow. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ],
617-495-8883
6:00p
Sierra Club MA Special Event [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067301 ]
(The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA)
"The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World". Join
photographer Steven Kazlowski and the Sierra Club for a presentation, Q&A
and book signing. Sponsored by Globe Co...
Contact: events(a)gcb.com [ mailto:events@gcb.com ], 617-649-5700
x21,
www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/renta... [
http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/rental.html ]
Thursday 9/18/2008
4:00p
OEB Seminar Series [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117826180 ]
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Chris Ponting, Oxford University. Seminar Title: TBA. Host: Edwards
Lab
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu [
mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu ],
www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... [
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html ]
6:00p [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=116987728 ]
Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Audubon: The Early
Drawings."
Lecture and book signing by Scott Edwards and Leslie Morris Scott Edwards,
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology
in...
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu ], 617.495.3045 ,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu [
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hmnh.harvard.edu ]
_Finding a secure, safe and reliable source of energy to power world
economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century.
The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard
community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series
of discussions._
_THE FUTURE OF ENERGY_
Fall 2008
_October 6, 2008_
John Rowe
Chairman and CEO, Exelon Energy Corporation
Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D, Cambridge – 5:00 pm
_November 19, 2008_
James Woolsey
Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners
Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D, Cambridge – 5:00 pm
_December 3, 2008_
Amory Lovins
Founder and Director, Rocky Mountain Institute
Location: Science Center Lecture Hall B – 5:00 pm
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by
the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from
Bank of America. All of the Future of Energy lectures are free and open to
the public.
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