Calendar Listings:
May 6, 2011
8:30am MSI Breakfast and End-of-Year Celebration
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Discuss the happenings of MSI and to make suggestions for future years (speakers, etc).
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/
1:15pm Webcast: Vision for RIO+20: System Change for Green Economy and Poverty Reduction
Online
This seminar will show how changes in price structure and sustainable infrastructure can
lead to poverty reduction in a green economy.
http://visionrio20webcast.eventbrite.com/
Contact Name: Portia Gama unuony(a)unu.edu
May 7, 2011
8:00am - 4:00pm 22nd Sustainable Business Network Conference
UMass Boston Ryan Lounge, 3rd Floor McCormack Hall, 100 William T Morrissey, Boston, MA
"Building a Local, Green & Fair Economy." Engage with inspiring pioneers and
learn about breakthrough programs and practices that will help us grow our businesses and
organizations as we together build strong local economies that are green and fair.
http://www.sbnboston.org/sbn15/
May 10, 2011
12:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar
HUH Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA
"Bringing together herbaria, genes, and genomes." Susanne Renner, University of
Munich.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Booksigning
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration."
Michael Canfield, lecturer in biology at Harvard, discusses what makes these notes and
journals so important, the secrets they reveal, and how they can help us cultivate skills
as a bird watcher, citizen scientist, or adventurer.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
May 11, 2011
3:00pm EPS Dissertation Defense
Haller Hall - 102 Geological Museum 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
"Branch Faulting in Subduction and Strike-Slip Settings." Nora DeDontney.
May 12, 2011
12:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar:
Main Lecture Hall Biological Laboratories 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA
"Conservation and diversification of a developmental program." Elizabeth
"Toby" Kellogg, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
3:30pm China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"Carbon Markets in China: Experience and Prospects." Prof. Wang Yao, Visiting
Scholar, China Project, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Visiting
Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard; Associate Professor, Research Institute of
Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics
http://www.chinaproject.harvard.edu/
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
7:30pm Forum and Book Signing: The Renewable Revolution
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Sajed Kamal, long-time BASEA member and board member, will discuss his most recent
book: The Renewable Revolution: How We Can Fight Climate Change, Prevent Energy Wars,
Revitalize the Economy and Transition to a Sustainable Future.
http://www.basea.org/
May 13, 2011
7:30pm "Climate Change: Is Green Consumption a Solution?"
First Church (corner of Mass. Ave. & Church St.) Cambridge, MA
Talk and Q/A with Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong.
http://cceag.org/node/13
Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448
May 17, 2011
6:00pm - 8:30pm Smarter Living Expo
Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA
A unique and fascinating discussion among Swiss and US building experts to address the
challenges of sustainable buildings.RSVP requested.
http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1075391-9PneY8RRIR
sabine(a)swissnexboston.org
7:00pm - 9:00pm "Witnesses of Climate Change"
The Laboratory at Harvard University, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Eyewitness accounts of how changing climate and extreme weather events are already
impacting people and agriculture, from Kenya and Argentina to the U.S. Midwest.
http://cceag.org/node/13
Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448
May 18, 2011
1:15pm Webcast: Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Trading
Online
Professor Sampford outlines a number of arguments for the superiority of carbon taxes over
carbon trading schemes and outlines a proposal for a carbon added tax.
http://carbonwebcast.eventbrite.com/
Contact Name: Portia Gama unuony(a)unu.edu
May 23, 2011
12:30pm Environmental Health Colloquium
Building 1, Room 1302 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
"Human health impacts of anthropogenic changes to Earth’s natural systems: Why
destroying Nature may be bad for us." Dr. Samuel Myers, Instructor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School.
Contact Name: Alissa Wilcox AWILCOX(a)hsph.harvard.edu
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