Highlights:
March 23: William A. Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and
Energy, U.S. Treasury presents "Prices vs. Quantities, Yet Again: Allowance
Reserves and Banking" in the second Energy Policy Seminar this semester.
March 30: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental
Policy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Senior
Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy
School presents "Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution"
in the US-Japan Seminar.
April 1: Renowned novelist Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
(Booker Prize, 1997), speaks about the challenges of democracy in the spring
Science and Democracy lecture.
Calendar Listings:
March 20, 2010
6:00pm "E" Inc’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival 2010
The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology 41 Berkeley Street (corner Tremont) Boston,
MA
"e" inc. is proud to be Boston’s official host for The Wild and Scenic
Environmental Film Festival - the largest environmental film festival in the United
States. Lite supper and doors open at 6:00 PM. Cost: $30.00/person
http://www.e-action.us 617-227-1522
March 21, 2010
7:30pm Climate Change Comes to Walden Pond
Cary Memorial Hall 1605 Mass Ave Lexington, MA
Talk by Prof. Richard Primack of Boston University. Free Admission.
http://www.lexgwac.org
March 22, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium
Haller Hall Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Plate Tectonics in Time and Space." Adrian Lenardic, Rice University.
Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman
Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu
7:00pm Healthy Oceans, Healthy Humans
New England Aquarium Harborside Learning Lab Boston, MA
Kathleen Firth, Assistant Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard
Medical School. Register here.
http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/programs_and_classes/aquarium_…...
Contact Name: Vicky Cataldo vcataldo(a)neaq.org 617-973-0235
March 23, 2010
2:00pm - 5:00pm Changing people in a changing climate?
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library Brandeis University Waltham, MA
"The Ethical Implications of Climate Disruption." A conversation with Michael
Appell (International Business School), Bernadette Brooten (Near Eastern and Judaic
Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Classics), Cristina Espinosa (Sustainable
International Development, Heller School), Saleem Ali (University of Vermont), and Tory
Fair (Fine Arts.
http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/events
Contact Name: Charles C. Chester charles.chester(a)gmail.com 617.304.9373
2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall -Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Prices vs. Quantities, Yet Again: Allowance Reserves and Banking." William A.
(Billy) Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy, U.S. Treasury.
Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu
March 25, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of
discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm OEB Seminar
Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA
"Molecular ins and outs of bacteriophage life history traits", Joshua S. Weitz,
Georgia Institute of Technology. Host: Marx Lab
Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA
"Does Thoreau Have a Future: Reimagining Voluntary Simplicity for the 21st
Century"
A presentation by Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, in
Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language. Register
online.
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html
Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu
March 26, 2010
1:30pm Solid Earth Physics Seminar
4th Floor Faculty Lounge Hoffman Laboratory 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Effects of the Free Surface and Low-Velocity Layers on Seismic and Aseismic Fault
Slip." Yoshihiro Kaneko, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
California at San Diego.
March 27, 2010
8:00am - 4:00pm 20th Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference
Worcester Technical High School 1 Skyline Drive Worcester, MA
Join novice and experienced conservationists for a daylong conference featuring 30+
workshops on different aspects of land conservation.
http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/special-events/massachusetts-land-c…...
March 29, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 30, 2010
12:30pm - 2:00pm U.S. - Japan Seminar
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
"Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution"
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Senior Associate, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
Contact Name: Shinju Fujihira sfujihira(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-1890
2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"An Industry Perspective on Energy Security, Natural Gas and a Lower Carbon Energy
Mix." Ian Smale, Executive V.P. for Policy, British Petroleum.
Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu
March 31, 2010
1:00pm - 2:30pm Climate Change and the Media
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall Belfer Building 5th Floor 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Techno-Optimism or Pessimism? 'Fixing' the Planet's Climate
Problems"
Time Magazine environment reporter Bryan Walsh; Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine
& Rolling Stone and author of new book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the
Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate.
Contact Name: Christine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu 203 912-7650
3:00pm - 4:30pm MIT Energy Seminar
E19-319 MIT Cambridge, MA
"Toward an Innovation Centered Climate Change Strategy." Daniel Esty, Yale
University.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/innovation-centered.html
6:00pm - 8:00pm Harvard College Innovation Challenge
Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Join students, faculty, alumni and members of New England's innovation community at
Harvard's annual celebration of undergraduate entrepreneurship. RSVP Required.
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/internal/tech_entrepeneur…...
pbottino(a)seas.harvard.edu
April 1, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of
discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
5:00pm - 7:00pm Science and Democracy: Arundhati Roy
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
“Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain?” - Field Notes on Democracy. Arundhati Roy,
Author of The God of Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997). With commentator
Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director, Humanities
Center at Harvard and moderated by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and
Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
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