Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email contains event listings for Thursday, October 18 through
Wednesday, October 31, 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:
* Monday, October 22: "Literature, Culture and Ecology: Tracing a History of
Place in Australia's Federal Capital", with Kate Rigby, Monash University,
Australia. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Environment, the Committee on
Australian Studies, and the Poetry and Poetics Seminar.
* Wednesday, October 24: First in the HUCE Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global
Change lecture series-Shahid Naeem, Professor of Ecology at Columbia
University, will discuss the Empirical and Theoretical Foundation for the
Importance of Thirty Million Species.
Calendar Listings:
Friday 10/19/2007
11:00a - 12:00p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Elisabeth Almgren - University of Uppsala (Sweden) and Harvard Bullard
Fellow
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302
Saturday 10/20/2007
6:00p - 8:00p
Harvard Climate Change Colloquium
Bill Mckibben - environmentalist, activist, scholar, and author
Adams LCR, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
greencrimson.com
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
12:30p - 1:30p
Monday ERC Seminars in Occupational and Environmental Health
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, PhD, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Contact: Ann Backus, abackus(a)hohp.harvard.edu, (617) 432-3327
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
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Orchid pollination, fossils and the age of Orchidaceae with Santiago Ramirez
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
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
6:00p
The Faces of Fair Trade Tour: Uniting the Global and Local
Tosteson Medical Education Center, Medical School Quad, 260 Longwood Avenue,
Boston, MA
Contact: Jaclyn Olsen, jaclyn_olsen(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jaclyn_olsen@harvard.edu> , 617-384-8860
Thursday 10/25/2007
11:00a - 12:00p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Charlie Cogbill - Historical Ecologist and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302
4:00p
OEB Seminar: The origins of complexity-Mechanisms of functional evolution in
the steroid human receptors
Speaker: Joe Thornton, University of Oregon
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu
Friday 10/26/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
Friday Chalktalk: "Harnessing Environmental Diversity for Improving
Microbial Biofuel Production"
Speaker: Dr. Gautam Dantas
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
The Church Lab, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital.
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643
Sunday 10/28/2007
7:00p
Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast
Dr. Peter C. Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists and Will Brownsberger,
MA State Representative
Belmont High School, 221 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA
Contact: sustainablebelmont(a)gmail.com
Monday 10/29/2007
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
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu,
4:15p
Lectures in the Sciences: The Changing Carbon Cycle
Inez Fung, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California
at Berkeley.
Lecture Hall A, Science Center, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: 617-495-8600
6:30p
Convergence of Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Security
A conversation with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt IV, hosted by Lehman Brothers.
RSVP required.
The Charles Hotel, Longfellow Room, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Carey Starno, carey.starno(a)lehman.com
Tuesday 10/30/2007
9:00a - 4:00p
Tipping Point Grassroots Training Day
Appalachian Mountain Club, Cabot Auditorium, 5 Joy St., Boston, MA
Contact: Alana Miller, Kendra Fortin, amiller(a)smith.edu,
<mailto:amiller@smith.edu,%20kfortin@smith.edu> kfortin(a)smith.edu, (858)
405-5613
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Ascomycetes, the Basidiomycetes of Aquatic Habitats with Carol Shearer,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
6:00p
Ethnobotany: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine
Speaker: Dr. Michael Balick, ethnobotanist
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