Dear Friends of HUCE, Be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. Have a wonderful holiday season! Highlights: Tonight: HUCE Director Daniel Schrag presents "Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge" with comments by Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director of Energy Technology Innovation Policy, in the Harvard Museum of Natural History's "Earth Matters" lecture series. Saturday, December 13: The School of Engineering and Applied Scienes presents two sessions of "From Bean to Bar: The Sweet Science of Chocolate," a special holiday lecture for children ages 7 and up. Monday, December 15: Abigail Krich discusses major design decisions that have led to the standardization of the modern large wind turbine at the Harvard Energy Journal Club meeting. Calendar Listings: Thursday 12/11/2008 4:00p - 5:30p The Potential for Advanced Leadership: Can the Boomer Generation Help Save the World? (Aldrich 112, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA) Faculty Seminar sponsored by the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative Contact: nbaker(a)hbs.edu, www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/ 4:00p OEB Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "The white-throated sparrow: A natural model uniting genetics, neuroendocrinology, and social behavior." Donna Maney, Emory University. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Earth Matters (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge." A presentation by Dan Schrag, with remarks by Kelly Gallagher Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Friday 12/12/2008 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Genomics on 700 Microbes: An early look at a global analysis of how microbes make and break down small molecules." Michael Fischbach, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Do ecologists have GUTS?" Samuel Scheiner, Program Director, National Science Foundation Population & Evolutionary Processes Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... Saturday 12/13/2008 10:00a From Bean to Bar: The Sweet Science of Chocolate (Science Center B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Family-friendly holiday lecture with Howard Stone, SEAS, and Amy Rowat, Harvard University. Live experiments and demonstrations; appropriate for ages 7 and up. Second lecture and demonstration at 1:00 pm. Contact: ciencetix(a)seas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking Monday 12/15/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Development of Modern Large Wind Turbine Design." Abigail Krich, President of Boreas Renewables, LLC Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 3:45p Harvard Square Bells will Toll 350 times Bells in Harvard Square will ring 350 times on the 350th day of the year at 3:50 in the afternoon to call attention to limit of 350 parts-per-million of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. Contact: www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1... Tuesday 12/16/2008 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Sexual dimorphism and floral polymorphism across an island archipelago: hummingbirds and heliconias of the Lesser Antilles." Ethan Temeles, Amherst College. Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ Thursday 12/18/2008 4:00p Program on Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series (One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Room 616, Cambridge, MA) "Politics, Biology, and the Evolution of Cooperation." James Fowler, Professor of Political Science, University of California. Although evolutionary models and laboratory experiments ... Contact: Jordan Bice, bice(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617.496.4737, www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/ 7:30p RCC Fellow Lecture (Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA) "Reinforce Powers of the Environmental Public Administration: The New Spanish Act on Environmental Liability." Javier Garcia Amez, Real Colegio Complutense Fellow. Free and open to t... Contact: www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.ed... Monday 12/22/2008 12:00p - 1:00p 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 ============================================== You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://harvard.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=dff… Update your profile: http://harvard.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…