Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email contains event listings for Thursday, November 15 through
Thursday, November 29, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/>
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:
<mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> 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:
*TODAY Thursday, November 15 at 5 pm: Green Conversations, a new lecture
series presented by the Harvard Center for the Environment, welcomes Alan
Weisman, author of The World Without Us, a New York Times bestseller that
examines what will happen to the Earth if humans vanish.
*Monday, November 26: Edward Wilson discusses his new book, "The
Superorganism" in the Ideas on the Fringe lecture series presented by the
Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative and hosted by Marc Hauser.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 11/15/2007
9:00a - 2:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85518835>
America Recycles Day: Mount Trashmore
Harvard Recycling will commemorate by building Mount Trashmore, one days
trash from Harvard Yard, in an effort to raise awareness of how much trash
we generate here on Harvard campus.
Science Center lawn, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Rob Gogan, <mailto:rob_gogan@harvard.edu> rob_gogan(a)harvard.edu,
617-495-3042
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86046640>
Lecture/Infosession: "Acciona Energy: Building large scale renewable energy
projects, including the 64MW Nevada Solar One Project"
Speaker: Pete Duprey, Acciona North America CEO, E51-335 Acciona North
America CEO.
E51-335, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
2:00p - 4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86046623>
NIOSH Education and Research Center Special ERC Seminar
Julien Pelletier Responsable Veille et Prospective Internationale
International Prospective and Project Developement Manager French National
Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions
HSPH Building 2, room 426
Contact: Ann Backus, <mailto:abackus@hshp.harvard.edu>
abackus(a)hshp.harvard.edu, (617) 432-3327
4:00p - 5:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86046641>
Reducing Fuel Use and Carbon Emissions from the European Passenger Vehicle
Fleet
Speaker: Kristian Bodek, MIT Energy Club
35-225, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539778> OEB
Seminar: Lesson from Dover
Speaker Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley.
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Chris Organ, <mailto:corgan@oeb.harvard.edu>
corgan(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm>
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
5:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84793391>
HUCE Green Conversations series
Alan Weisman, author of highly acclaimed "The World Without Us", examines
what will happen to the Earth if humans vanish.
Science Center, Lecture Hall E, One Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu>
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81454174>
Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
"Photosynthesis, Biofuels, and Food" with Dr. Michele Holbrook, Professor of
Biology and Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Harvard University.
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
7:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85322974>
Reading/Booksigning: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
U.S. Representative Inslee (WA), primary sponsor of the New Apollo Energy
Act, and co-author Bracken Hendricks, spell out a bold yet pragmatic plan to
create a clean-energy future.
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA
7:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215034>
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Monthly Observatory Nights
"Mars Phoenix: Following the Water," with Rebecca Siddons & Michael
Krushinsky, The Met Center.
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-7461 , <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html>
www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html
8:00p - 9:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86242589>
Harvard Climate Change Colloquium presents: The 11th Hour
Come join the Harvard Climate Change Colloquium for a screening of The 11th
Hour, Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary on climate change.
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Friday 11/16/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84638686>
Friday Chalktalk: "Energy optimization and the design of photosynthesis"
Ron Milo, Deptartment of Systems Biology, HMS.
HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu>
herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643
10:00a - 12:00p
MIT <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83222730>
Energy Club Tour: Visit to EnerNOC's Network Operations Center
Join this tour to learn more about EnerNOC's Network Operations Center (NOC)
in Boston. RSVP required to co-Chair Lynette Cheah (lynette(a)mit.edu) before
November 12.
Contact: Lynette Cheah, <mailto:lynette@mit.edu> lynette(a)mit.edu
11:00a - 12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935339>
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Nick Rodenhouse Wellesley College and Harvard Bullard Fellow examines the
effects of climate change on migratory songbirds.
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu>
aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85420901>
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
Please check the Ecology Group website for topics of discussion.
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Mike Dietze, <mailto:mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu>
mdietze(a)oeb.harvard.edu
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86174057>
Methane Emissions from Arctic Lakes: Past, Present, and Future Contributions
to the Atmospheric Methane Budget
Speaker: Katey Walter, University of Alaska. Hosts: Steve Wofsy & Bill
Munger
100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:blm@as.harvard.edu> blm(a)as.harvard.edu
12:30p - 1:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86046615>
Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research
"Dioxins and Cardiovascular Mortality: A Review." Olivier Humblet, MS,
Doctoral Student, Environmental Health Dept (EOME Program)
FXB G12, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Contact: Ann Backus, <mailto:abackus@hshp.harvard.edu>
abackus(a)hshp.harvard.edu, (617) 432-3327
12:30p - 2:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=80779835>
Environmental Statistics Seminar: "Topics in Gene-environment Interaction"
Nan Laird, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of
Public Health and Thomas Hoffman, AM Doctoral Student, Department of
Biostatistics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
HSPH Building 2, room 426, Boston, MA
Contact:
<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/env_stat.html>
www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/...
1:00p - 3:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86046612> The
Living Corporation: Why firms that put life ahead of profit are more
profitable
Profit for Life: How Capitalism Excels, a book written by Jay Bragdon
(F64), discusses how companies that mimic natures living systems are
gaining market share over those that dont.
Cabot 703, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Contact: Mieke van der Wansem, <mailto:mieke.wansem@tufts.edu>
mieke.wansem(a)tufts.edu
3:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81454115>
Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
Tsunamis: What have we learned? Emile A. Okal, Department of Geological
Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html>
esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
Sunday 11/18/2007
8:00a - 5:30p
Massachusetts Climate Action Network's Sixth Annual Conference
Plenary speakers and more than 16 workshops. Registration required.
MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <http://www.acteva.com/go/mcan>
http://www.acteva.com/go/mcan
2:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539737>
Sunday Family Program: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of
Ocean Motion
Author Loree Griffin Burns tells the story of scientists who track the trash
spilled into the ocean.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045
Monday 11/19/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85489303>
Tufts Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Seminar
"Biofuels: Envisioning a Revolution" with Professor Lee Lynd, Thayer School
of Engineering, Dartmouth
SciTech Center Room 136, 4 Colby Street, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Contact: <mailto:ChBE@tufts.edu> ChBE(a)tufts.edu, (617) 627-3900
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038267>
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit the Energy Journal club website for current topics of discussion.
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu> khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84889770>
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Lectures take place at 4:00pm in Haller Hall. Check seminar Web site for
speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:miller@eps.harvard.edu> miller(a)eps.harvard.edu
Tuesday 11/20/2007
9:30a - 11:00a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=79394893> The
Rise of Market Mechanisms in Global Climate Politics: Examining the
Political Role of American and European Companies
Energy Technology Innovation Policy seminar series. Speaker: Jonas Meckling,
ETIP Fellow.
L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of
Government
Contact: ETIP Coordinator, <mailto:sam_milton@harvard.edu>
sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584
11:30a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82838098>
Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
Peter Shearer, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California
at San Diego, La Jolla, CA: " A high-frequency secondary event during the
2004 Parkfield earthquake
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html>
http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539835>
Herbaria Seminar Series
A tale of two continents: Baker's rule and the maintenance of
self-incompatibility in Lycium (Solanaceae) with Jill Miller, Amherst
College.
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
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=84667704>
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current
speakers and topics of discussion.
Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley,
<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html>
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
Monday 11/26/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038268>
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of
discussion.
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu>
khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html>
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84889771>
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Lectures take place at 4:00pm in Haller Hall. Refreshments to follow,
Hoffman 4th floor. Check seminar Web site for speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:miller@eps.harvard.edu> miller(a)eps.harvard.edu,
<http://www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscolloque.php>
www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo...
4:15p - 6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84889731>
Climate Change and Iceland's Role in North Atlantic Security
Speaker: Björn Bjarnason, Minister of Justice, Republic of Iceland with
moderator Steven E. Miller, Director, KSG International Security Program.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge
Contact: ISP Program Coordinator, <mailto:susan_lynch@ksg.harvard.edu>
susan_lynch(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-1981
5:00p - 6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85489336>
Ideas on the Fringe with E.O. Wilson
Edward Wilson discusses his new book, "The Superorganism". Presented by the
Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative and hosted by Marc Hauser.
Science Center, Lecture Hall B, One Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: (617) 495-8478,
<http://mbb.harvard.edu/content/resources/fringeideasfinal.jpg>
mbb.harvard.edu/content/resources/fri...
Tuesday 11/27/2007
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539856>
Herbaria Seminar Series
Benjamin Smith Barton: Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian, with Ernest
Schuyler, Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
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=84667705>
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current
speakers and topics of discussion.
Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley,
<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html>
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539876>
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Joachim Krug Institute for Theoretical Physics University
of Cologne
One Brattle Square, Harvard University, Cambridge
Contact: May Huang, <mailto:mhuang@fas.harvard.edu> mhuang(a)fas.harvard.edu,
(617) 496 4683
5:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83510828>
Harvard Climate Change Colloquium: The Climate Groups Chris Walker
Pizza and Politics: Climate Change, Business, and Politics: Making Strides
Towards a Low-Carbon Future
Ticknor Lounge, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: (617) 495-1360,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.greencrimson.com>
www.greencrimson.com
Wednesday 11/28/2007
4:15p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Joshua Margolis, Harvard University, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, University of
California, Berkeley, and James P. Walsh, University of Michigan. Does It
Pay to Be Good?
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu>
jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-8054
6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83510829>
Harvard Climate Change Colloquium
Green Cities Forum: The Cities Response to the Climate Crisis with mayors
from around the country
Institute of Politics Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: (617) 495-1360,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.greencrimson.com>
www.greencrimson.com
Thursday 11/29/2007
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539784> OEB
Seminar: Bird Speciation
Speaker Trevor Price, University of Chicago
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu>
kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm>
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
5:00p - 7:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86174050>
Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Why Environmentalism Needs History as
much as Science
Saving Nature in Time Speaker: William Cronon. In this lecture, drawn from
a forthcoming book of the same title, William Cronon will examine the key
cultural assumptions about humanity and nature that have characterized
modern American environmental thinking.
Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu>
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/>
www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
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