Highlights:
Tuesday, March 10: Dennis Garrity, the Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre
who has focused on the development of small-scale farming systems in the tropics, presents
at the Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series.
Wednesday, March 11: Drawing on studies of teenagers and professional designers, cities
and the blogosphere, the distinguished panel in "Connected Publics: Power and
Politics in a Networked Age" will lead us on a fascinating journey across
today's changing public spheres. This is the fifth event in the Science and Democracy
Lecture Series.
Wednesday, March 18: Kristia Hill, landscape architect, urban ecologist, professor, and
author presents her vision for biodiversity and urban planning based on human
self-interest, development conditions, climate change in the Harvard Museum of Natural
History New Directions in EcoPlanning Series.
Calendar Listings:
Today 3/5/2009
3:30p Harvard Environmental Law Review Symposium
(Harvard Law School, Langdell North, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA)
"Climate Change and Global Justice: Crafting Fair Solutions for Nations and
Peoples."
Contact: hlselr(a)law.harvard.edu,
www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr...
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Technology Acquisition and Innovation in the Developing World: The Case of Wind
Turbine Development in China." Dr. Joanna Lewis, Georgetown University.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Evolution of the tropical warm pool and the modulation of convective heating."
Peter Webster, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech.
Contact: Shuting Jin , shuting(a)eps.harvard.edu, 617.384.9005,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p - 5:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Summoning the Wind and Invading New Territories: The Strategies of Stationary
Organisms." Anne Pringle, Harvard University.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Evolution Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest, or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 Years After
Darwin." Daniel Lieberman, Harvard Professor of Biological Anthropology.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
7:00p Climate Wars. What one will kill for in the 21st century.
(Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA)
Speaker: Harald Welzer. Moderator: Roger Kasperson.
Contact: info(a)boston.goethe.org, 617 262 6050,
www.goethe.de/wis/fut/dos/gdw/wel/en2...
Friday 3/6/2009
10:00a - 3:00p All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair
(Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY )
Harvard OCS Bus transportation provided with seats on a first come first serve BASIS.
Contact: Jill Abruzese, jabruzes(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_...
11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Spatial and temporal drivers of West Nile virus ecology in North America."
Shannon LeDeau, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
1:00p - 5:00p Sandia-MIT Workshops
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)
"'Right-Sized' Nuclear Reactors" and "SmartGrid: Challenges and
Opportunities."
Contact: edo(a)mit.edu
1:00p - 5:00p MIT Energy Conference
(Kendall Square Marriot Hotel, Cambridge, MA)
"Accelerating Change in Global Energy."
Contact:
www.mitenergyconference.com
Saturday 3/7/2009
7:00 a - 6:00 p MIT Energy Conference
(Kendall Square Marriot Hotel, Cambridge, MA)
"Accelerating Change in Global Energy."
Contact:
www.mitenergyconference.com
Monday 3/9/2009
11:30a 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: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p EPS Spring Colloquium
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Viewing the core-mantle boundary through a diamond window." Wendy Mao, Stanford
University.
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, savosty(a)fas.harvard.edu
Tuesday 3/10/2009
9:00a - 10:30a Frontiers in Sustainability Science Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Sustainability Science: A new generation of challenges and opportunities in pro-poor
agriculture and natural resource management research." Dennis Garrity, Director
General, World Agroforestry Center.
Contact: Maryanne Baumgartner, maryanne_baumgartner(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-7466,
www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci/events/se...
9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA)
"Public Policy for Private Sector Innovation." Charles Jones, ETIP Research
Fellow.
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584,
www.belfercenter.org/energy
12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA)
"Phenological Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana--Natural Variation and Natural
Selection." George Chiang, Donohue/Kramer Lab.
Contact: Margaret Richards, prichards(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 496-8062
3:00p - 4:00p 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, 617-384-8398,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Using Leaf Size and Shape to Reconstruct Ancient Climates." Dana Royer,
Wesleyan University.
Contact: ehap.seminar(a)gmail.com,
https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/home/dr...
4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series
(MIT Building 66, Room 110, Cambridge, MA)
"Sunlight-driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water
Splitting." Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California
Institute of Technology.
Contact:
web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/
6:30p - 8:30p HighWaterLine: Visualizing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Our Cities
(Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA)
A presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project, "High Water Line" which
visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities.
Contact: Ilana Cohen, icohen(a)gsd.harvard.edu
Wednesday 3/11/2009
10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series
(Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA)
"The United States." Amy Myers Jaffe, Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Contact: bcsia_ksg(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-1400,
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/3...
12:15p Regional Integration in the GCC: Energy as the Driving Force
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge,
MA)
Contact: dubai_initiative(a)ksg.harvard.edu
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littaur-382, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Equilibrium Selection in Counterfactual Simulations: The U.S. Corporate Average Fuel
Economy Standards." Hunt Allcott and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University.
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054
5:00p - 7:00p Science and Democracy Lecture Series
(Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA)
"Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age." A panel discussion
between: Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Antoine Picon (Harvard Graduate School of
Design), Lucy Suchman (Sociology, Lancaster University & MIT [visiting]), and Sherry
Turkle (STS, MIT).
Contact:
www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/
8:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com
Thursday 3/12/2009
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Allocation of Pollutant Emission Reductions in China's Five Year
Plans." Dr. ZHU Xufeng, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00p Solar Energy Technology in Africa
(Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Sivan Borowich, the Founder of Jewish Heart for Africa (JHA), a new non-profit
organization that brings Israeli clean technology to rural African villages.
Contact:
www.meetup.com/boston-israel/calendar...
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Proteogenomics as an approach for the study of natural microbial communities."
Jill Banfield, UC Berkeley.
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643,
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:30p - 8:30p Housing Cities Symposium 2009: Opening Event
(MIT Stata Center, R&D Commons, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA)
A conversation with Sandra Henriquez, Administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing
Authority.
Contact:
www.housingcities2009.com/
6:30p - 9:00p How to Get into the Energy Business? Volunteer!
(Offices of Holland & Knight 10 St. James Avenue 11th Floor Boston, MA)
Keynote speaker: Nick d'Arbeloff, President, New England Clean Energy Council
(NECEC).
Contact: Andrew Becker, andrew.becker(a)ypenergy.org, (617) 429-8314,
www.ypenergy.org/en/cev/223
7:30p Boston Area Solar Energy Association
(The First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA)
"A New Model for Improving Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment." Dan
Valianti, Next Step Living .
Contact: info(a)basea.org,
www.basea.org
Friday 3/13/2009
11:45a - 12:45p Ninth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
(Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA)
Promotes the serious treatment of nature in international history while encouraging
specialists in environmental studies, the history of science and medicine, and diverse
other fields to take further account of transnational and comparative topics.
Contact: Gressel-Bacharan, gressel(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
6:30p - 8:30p Housing Cities Symposium 2009
(Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA)
A diverse group of industry leaders, academic experts, and students open a
multi-disciplinary dialogue on critical housing issues facing U.S. cities.
Contact:
www.housingcities2009.com/
Saturday 3/14/2009
9:00a - 1:00p Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
(First Church in Salem, 316 Essex Street, Cambridge, MA)
Come and discover new opportunities to make a real difference in accelerating the
emergence of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just
human presence on this planet.
Contact: Carol Dearborn, cdearborn(a)comcast.net , 978-745-6370 ,
awakeningthedreamer.org/
11:00a - 5:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Special Event: BugFest
(HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
The Harvard Museum of Natural History will be buzzing with dozens of activities as we
explore the amazing world of arthropods - insects, spiders and the other crawling
creatures.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/...
11:45a - 12:45p Ninth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
(Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA)
Promotes the serious treatment of nature in international history while encouraging
specialists in environmental studies, the history of science and medicine, and diverse
other fields to take further account of transnational and comparative topics.
Contact: Gressel-Bacharan, gressel(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
Sunday 3/15/2009
12:00p - 4:15p Somerville Climate Action Volunteer Day
(Somerville High School, 81 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA)
"Sustainability Street Team II." Go door-to-door to communities in Somerville to
spread awareness about simple home improvements to save money, energy, and (well, yes) the
planet.
Contact: sca.volunteer(a)gmail.com
Monday 3/16/2009
11:30a 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: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
Tuesday 3/17/2009
12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) "Tree
herding at the Arnold Arboretum: Another paradigm in collections management." Michael
Dosmann, Arnold Arboretum.
Contact: Margaret Richards, prichards(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 496-8062
3:00p - 4:00p 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, 617-384-8398,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
Wednesday 3/18/2009
10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series
(Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Russia." Fiona Hill, National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at
the National Intelligence Council.
Contact: americanprimacy(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-
4:00p Green Conversations with Paul Ehrlich
(Science Center D, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
A presentation by Paul Ehrlich 40 years after the publication of his controversial,
"The Population Bomb." Followed by a discussion with Daniel Schrag, director of
the HUCE.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"Climate Change, Consumption Smoothing, and Mortality in India."
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054
6:00p HMNH: New Directions in EcoPlanning Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Designing the Urban Ark: Biodiversity and the Future of Cities." Kristina Hill,
Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
8:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com
Thursday 3/19/2009
6:30p - 8:00p Harvard Extension School Movie Night
(51 Brattle St., Rm 421, Cambridge, MA)
"King Corn."
Contact: Julie Vallimont, julievallimont(a)gmail.com
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