Highlights:
Friday, March 5, 2010: The Harvard Office of Career services "Environmental,
Energy, and Clean Tech Expo" helps students explore where future jobs and
internships will be in these sectors.
Wednesday, March 10: The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
and the Center for the Environment present a special event on the "Promises
and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon."
Save the dates! Mark your calendar for the three Future of Energy lectures
in April, details below.
Calendar Listings:
March 4, 2010
4:00pm OEB Seminar
Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA
"Good food and conservation: Molecular approaches to understanding the physiology of
the squid-vibrio symbiosis." Ned Ruby, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Hosted by
the Girguis Lab.
Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
4:00pm - 5:30pm Propaganda in Today’s American Politics Study Group
Littauer 166 Harvard Kennedy School. 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Dr. Robert Lichter, director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George
Mason University and Professor of Communications. His presentation and discussion will
focus on issues of media bias and will include how global warming is portrayed.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
Contact Name: Ernest Istook Ernest_Istook(a)hks.harvard.edu
5:30pm - 7:00pm Considering Copenhagen: Rethinking Climate Policy
Coolidge Room Ballou Hall, Tufts University Medford, MA
Discussion Moderated by Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher, Energy and Environmental Policy,
The Fletcher School.
Contact Name: Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu
6:30pm HelioFocus: The Potential for U.S.-Israel-China Cleantech Cooperation
Harvard Business School Aldrich 110 Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02131
Dr. Ory Zik, Co-Founder of HelioFocus Ltd., and Mr. Shi Chuliang, Chief Engineer and Head
of Advanced R&D at China's Sanhua Holding Group, will discuss the prospects for
U.S.-Israel-China cooperation in clean technology. RSVP required.
http://www.meetup.com/boston-israel/calendar/12439606/
March 5, 2010
8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
"Getting a charge out of the deep subsurface: A story of extracellular electron
transport and hydrothermal vents." Mark Nielsen, Organismic & Evolutionary
Biology. Host: Peter Girguis.
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
10:00am - 11:30am Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Special Seminar
Nye Conference Room A, Taubman Building, 5th Floor Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA
"Climate policy after Copenhagen: the way forward for Europe and the world."
Nancy Kontou, Former Head of Cabinet to the Commissioner for Environment, European
Commission.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/climate
Contact Name: Tyler Gumpright Tyler_Gumpright(a)harvard.edu 617-384-8415
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
"The Yatir Pine Forest semi-arid flux site – overview with details on tree water use
and LAI." Shabtai Cohen, Institute of Soil, Water & Environmental Sciences
(Israel), and Harvard Bullard Fellow.
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:30pm - 1:30pm Green Design Lunch Lecture
Graduate School of Design Gund Hall, Room 111 46 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Discussion on Green Roofs with Christian Werthmann, Associate Professor of Landscape
Architecture, GSD. Werthmann directs the Green Roof Initiative at the Graduate School of
School of Design and will discuss contemporary design and management practices.
12:30pm - 8:00pm 2010 MIT Energy Conference Friday Workshops and Energy Showcase
The Friday workshops provide a unique opportunity for deeper discussions of select topics.
They are free and open to the public.
http://www.mitenergyconference.com/friday.php
1:30pm - 4:00pm Harvard Environmental, Energy, and Clean Tech Expo
Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Join us for this educational event helping students explore where future jobs and
internships will be in these sectors. Registration required.
http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/
Contact Name: Scott LaChapelle slachap(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-0738
March 6, 2010
9:00am - 12:00pm Cambridge Climate Congress
City Hall 795 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA
Approximately 100 delegates from Cambridge community groups, businesses, institutions and
faith-based organizations are participating in the Congress.
http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=2457
Contact Name: Sam Seidel vharris(a)cambridgema.gov 617-349-4279
9:00am - 5:00pm Earth Rocks! Family Festival
Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Explore rocks, fossils, meteorites, earthquakes, and volcanoes and learn about
Earth's dynamic history with hands-on activities. Free with Harvard Natural History
Museum admission.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617-495-2563
March 8, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium
Haller Hall - Geo Museum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"High-precision U-Pb geochronology and the two biggest extinctions in earth
history." Samuel Bowring, MIT.
Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu
4:30pm - 6:00pm Population Center Seminar
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow Street Cambridge, MA
"Social Networks and Migration: A Modeling Approach" presented by Barbara
Entwisle, Director of the Carolina Population Center, and Kenan Professor of Sociology,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
POPCENTER(a)hsph.harvard.edu
5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA
"Reality Check: How the Facts of Life on a Tough New Planet Shape Our Choices"
A presentation by Bill McKibben, scholar in residence at Middlebury College and American
environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative
energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. A response will be given
by Daniel Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Harvard
University Center for the Environment.
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html
Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu
5:30pm Business & Government Seminar
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA
"An Innovations Agenda for Massachusetts." Gregory Bialecki, Massachusetts
Secretary of Housing and Economic Development.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm
Paulina_OBrien(a)hks.harvard.edu
8:00pm Movie Screening: "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
Aldrich 107 Harvard Business School Allston, MA
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a 2006 documentary film that explores the
creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric
vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the early 1990s.
http://www.green.harvard.edu
Contact Name: Carol Anne Healy, LEED AP 617.496.4497
March 9, 2010
2:00pm - 5:00pm NESEA Green Roof Workshop
World Trade Center One Seaport Lane Boston, MA 02210
This workshop will debunk green roof myths and provide important data to assist in your
consideration of green roofs.
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2qpwoj26b046532&…seq=...
March 10, 2010
3:30pm - 5:00pm Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series
Harvard School of Public Health Landmark Center, Room 414A 401 Park Drive Boston, MA
"Linking GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Support Environmental
Decision-Making: DECERNS WebSDSS." Boris Yatsalo, Ph.D., Obninsk State Technical
University (IATE), Obninsk, Russia.
Contact Name: Katherine von Stackelberg KVON(a)hsph.harvard.edu 617.998.1037
5:00pm - 7:00pm Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon
Science Center, Lecture Hall D Harvard University 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Presentation and Commentary by: Arnóbio "Binho" Marques, Governor of the State
of Acre, Brazil; Jorge Viana, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil; Roberto
Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former
Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government; and John Briscoe, Professor of
the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank
Country Director for Brazil.
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil
Contact Name: Marcio Siwi msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm - 9:30pm Moving Toward a Smarter Electric Grid
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria 244 Wood Street Lexington, MA
"Smart Grid Entrepreneur-ing", the second session in the Series.
Smart Grid Entrepreneur-ing will address the Smart Grid as a business opportunity for
Spin-offs, Spin-outs, Carve-outs, or just plain Start-ups. The evening will offer several
diverse business and finance perspectives:
http://ieeeboston.org/edu/class_room/2010_spring/smart_grid.html
March 11, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of
disucsion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
3:30pm Harvard China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Modeling Private Car Ownership in China: Investigating the Impact of Urban Form
across Mega-cities." LI Jieping, Transportation Planner, Central Transportation
Planning Staff, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization; former visiting scholar,
Harvard China Project.
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
4:00pm OEB Seminar
Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA
"Mimicry and butterfly speciation in the Amazon basin." James Mallet, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study & University College London.
Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu
5:30pm Clean Coal? - Challenges and Opportunities!
Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000, North Entrance
Waltham MA
Dr. Jay Agarwal will discuss new advances and emerging trends in Clean Coal Technology.
Pre-registration is required.
http://www.aiche-boston.org/events/eventdetail.php?eventId=73
781-895-5900
March 12, 2010
9:00am - 12:30pm Restructuring Roundtable
Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard 13th Floor Conference Room Boston, MA 02210
"Revisiting Transmission and Renewables."
http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp?sel=98
9:30am Second Best World Climate Policy and the WITCH model
Belfer Library (3rd Floor Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School of Government 79, JFK
Street, Cambridge MA, 02138
Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
"Deforestation, climate and the future of the Amazon." Christopher Neill, the
Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Bullard Fello.
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 13, 2010
10:00am - 2:00pm Sustainability in the Food Industry: The Next Step -- Dishing Green!
Cambridge School of Culinary Arts 2020 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138
Rreview the unknown truths in today's food world and will move forward to the kitchen
to prepare a seasonal luncheon that is both healthy, delicious and proudly green. Cost is
$80.
Contact Name: Sean Leonard sleonard(a)cambridgeculinary.com 617-354-2020 (X 113)
March 15, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 18, 2010
8:00am - 10:00am New England Clean Energy Council Finance Series: The Resurrection of
Project Finance
Mintz Levin One Financial Center Boston, MA
A panel of experts discuss considerations that project developers need to make in today’s
market, including various sources of capital, financial incentives and debt and equity
structures.
Contact Name: Walter Frick wfrick(a)cleanenergycouncil.org
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of
discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
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THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Spring 2010
David MacKay
Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK
Friday, April 2
Northwest Labs B103 - 4:00 pm [*please note change of location and time]
Kristina M. Johnson
Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy
Tuesday, April 13
Northwest Labs B103 - 4:00 pm
Marvin E. Odum
President, Shell Oil Company and Managing Director for Upstream Americas
Tuesday, April 27
Science Center D - 4:00 pm
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