Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,
Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and
other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you
would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this
list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883.
*Highlights:*
4/9/07 -- Science and Democracy -- Yaron Ezrahi -- KSG
4/11/07 -- Hydro Power and the Indians - Larry House, Elder and
Spokesman for the Cree Nation
4/12/07 -- The Future of Energy -- Transforming Energy Techniques --
Vclav Smil, University of Manitoba
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 3/29/2007 *
7:00p - 8:45p
Movie: Fast Food Nation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219997>
Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd.
*Monday 4/2/2007 *
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724770>
Weekly roundtable discussion of Energy topics open to the Harvard and
MIT community
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Seismology Without Earthquakes: Progress in Ambient Noise Tomography
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154643>
Michael Ritzwoller, Center for Imaging the Earths Interior, Colorado
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 4/3/2007*
12:00p - 1:00p
Going for green: Cytokinin signaling and its transcriptional network
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65759421>
George Eric Schaller, Dartmouth College
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
12:45p - 2:30p
Designing the Natural City
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65354490>
Bill Wenk, FASLA, Wenk Associates, Denver, CO
Part of a series of lectures on Design and Water
Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Stree
*Wednesday 4/4/2007*
12:00p - 4:30p
Food, Health, and the Environment
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724664>
Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
4:00p - 5:30p
Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Change and Renewable
Energy
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056683>
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future, and Richard Newell, Duke
University
Seminar on Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
6:00p - 7:15p
The Last Great Migrations: Spectacle and Challenge
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65759396>
Joel Berger, Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society, North
America Program
Harvard Museum of Natural History Seminar Series
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7:00p - 8:30p
Environmental Justice: Thirty Years of Regulation and the Injustice
Continues
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65758661>
Jerome Ringo, Chair of the National Wildlife Federation & "Toxic Torts"
lawyer Hunter Lundy
Pound 101, Harvard Law School
*Thursday 4/5/2007*
12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589778>
Weekly Roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
2:30p - 8:00p
Power in the Global Food System: Mapping Food Production and Food
Sovereignty in the 21st Century
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65488750>
TUFTS - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts
University Jaharis Building, 150 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA
*Friday 4/6/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
Mineral Associated Biofilms and Bacterial Diversity
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65691016>
Chris McNamara, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
University
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Chalktalk Breakfast
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Nutrient partitioning as a possible mechanism for species richness
maintenance in tropical forest canopies
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862237>
Catherine Cardelús, University of Florida , Department of Botany
Harvard Forest Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
12:00p - 1:30p
Massachusetts v. EPA: The Supreme Court on Global Warming and other
Climate Change Policy
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219940>
James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts
Pound 201, Harvard Law School
*Monday 4/9/2007 *
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724759>
Weekly roundtable discussion of Energy topics open to the Harvard and
MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
3:00p - 4:00p
Caveman economics: How Charles Darwin will save Adam Smith
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862228>
Terence Burnham, Acadian Asset Management Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge
3:30p - 4:30p
Debating the Economics of Climate Change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65320504>
William Nordhaus, Yale University
Lower Level Classroom, 52 Church Street
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154655>
William Curry Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
5:00p - 7:00p
Necessary Fictions: The Decline of Science in the Democratic Imagination
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65320555>
Yaron Ezrahi, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute
Part of a lecture series on Science and Democracy
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
*Tuesday 4/10/2007 *
9:30a - 11:00a
State-level Socio-political Influences on Deployment of Emerging Energy
Technologies: A Framework for Characterization
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63829859>
Jennie Stephens, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and
Policy, Clark University
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
*Wednesday 4/11/2007*
3rd GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model Users' Meeting
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64091828>
Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:30p
Price-Based Regulation of Air Pollution with Spatially-Variant Marginal
Damages
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056697>
Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
5:30p - 7:30p
Hydro and Indians: A Second Look at First Peoples and Power
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65556372>
Larry House, Elder and Spokesman for the Cree Nation, James Bay, Canada
Environmental Club of the Harvard Extension School and The Working Group
on Environmental Justice
Science Center Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 4/12/2007*
3rd GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model Users' Meeting
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64091829>
Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxfrod Street, Cambridge
12:00p - 1:30p
Measuring Avoided Deforestation from Land Use Policies
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65522715>
Paul J. Ferraro, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy
Studies, Georgia State University
Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series
Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg,
Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589779>
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
3:30p - 4:30p
Urban Planning in Chengdu: Process, Politics, and Policy -- A
Provisional View
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462539>
Dr. Arnold Howitt, Taubman Center for State and Local Government,
Kennedy School of Government
China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Chris Nielsen,
5:00p - 6:30p
The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Transforming Energy Techniques
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65354501>
Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
5:30p - 8:00p
Magnetosomes: a model system for the study of organelle biology in
bacteria
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65691018>
Arash Komeili, Dept. of Plant and Microbiology, University of California
Berkeley
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Thursday Evening Seminar Series
Microbiology Seminar Room, WAB 341, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood
Ave., Boston
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883