Highlights:
Tonight: Paleontologist Michael Novacek of the American
Museum of Natural History discusses how natural history
museums offer unique opportunities for scientific discovery,
education, and inspiration in a special presentation in
celebration of the MCZ’s 150th Anniversary.
Monday, November 9: In conjunction with a meeting of the US
Arctic Research Commission, HUCE presents a public symposium:
"Climate Change: A Perspective from the Arctic" featuring
presentations by several Harvard Faculty and researchers at
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Thursday, November 12: Marcelo Ebrard, the Mayor of Mexico
City, presents "Sustainable Mega-Cities: Mexico City’s
'Plan Verde'" at a special lecture organized by the Harvard
Kennedy School.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday, November 5, 2009
3:30pm Harvard China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"Potential for Wind-Generated Electricity in China." Lu Xi, doctoral student,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard.
Chris Nielsen, nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-2378
4:00pm Project on Justice, Welfare & Economics Seminar
Lower Library Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
"Provincializing Democracy: Patronage and Space on India's Southwestern Coast.”
Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University).
4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
"Making population biology relevant to conservation: The California tiger salamander
as a test case." H. Bradley Shaffer, Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow in Conservation
Biology.
Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-5891
6:00pm Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"Natural History Museums in the Environmental Century Lecture by Michael
Novacek."
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#opportuni…
7:15pm Film Screening: Food, Inc.
Hauser 102 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino, Food, Inc. is an
award-winning 2009 documentary about the social and environmental impacts of our nation’s
food industry.
cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu
7:30pm Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square,
Cambridge, MA
Joonki Song, from PHOTON Consulting. Joonki will discuss the worldwide PV industry: market
size, growth, and leaders, as well as the future possibilities for technologies,
manufacturing and installed cost.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Greening the City Conference
(Through November 8)
Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Registration required. Student registration is $50. Sponsored by Lesley University and
Mass Audubon.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Harvard Population Center Work in Progress Lunch
"Reproductive Ecology: The Environment, Food-Intake, Physical Activity, Adiposity,
Leptin, and Female and Male Reproductive Health" presented by Rose Frisch, Associate
Professor of Population Sciences, Emerita, Harvard Center for Population Studies.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/event…...
2:30pm - 4:30pm MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA
"Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology, Agriculture, and Environment from a
Commodities-Web Perspective." Sterling Evans, History, University of Oklahoma.
Margo Collett mcollett(a)mit.edu
4:00pm
Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger
Maxwell Dworkin 119 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
Lalitha Venkataramanan, Math & Modeling Department, Schlumberger-Doll Research,
discusses some aspects of research related to the search for oil and gas in applied
mathematics at Schlumberger.
Jennifer Casasanto j_casasanto(a)seas.harvard.edu
8:30pm MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
Haller Hall, Room 102, 1st floor, 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"New mechanisms for regulating Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis genes." Sharon
Long, Stanford University.
9:00pm - 10:00pm Film Screening: KOYAANISQATSI - "life out of balance"
Piper Auditorium Graduate School of Design Gund Hall Quincy Street Cambridge, MA
The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between
1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds
-- urban life and technology versus the environment.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
6:30pm Grand Opening: The Laboratory at Harvard
Northwest Building (lobby and ground floor) 52 Oxford Street, Harvard Campus, Cambridge,
MA
A three- year experiment, The Lab will provide flexible exhibition space for student idea
development within and between the arts and sciences through work-in-progress exhibits,
monthly Idea Nights, and annual experiments between leading international artists and
Harvard University scientists.
http://thelaboratory.harvard.edu/
12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/
Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
Monday, November 9, 2009
12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle
124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA
"Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to
Garage Biotech." Sophia Roosth, STS, MIT.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
2:30pm - 6:00pm Climate Change: A Perspective from the Arctic
Northwest Science Building Room B101 52 Oxford Street Cambridge
A symposium at Harvard University in coordination with a meeting of the U.S. Arctic
Research Commission.
Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium
Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102) 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Accumulation of melt and volatiles at the lithosphere-asthenosphere
boundary."Greg Hirth, Research at Brown.
Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman.
Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment
Healey Library 11th Floor UMass Boston
Keynote Speaker: Darren Ranco, Penobscot, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Maine.
Prof. Amy Den Ouden amy.denouden(a)umb.edu 617-287-6852
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
6:00pm Green Tie Gala
JFK Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA
"A Celebration of the Year's Clean Energy Accomplishments and Milestones."
Register on website.
http://www.cleanenergycouncil.org/node/4926
8:00pm - 9:00pm Enviromental 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.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Fifth Conference on Clean Energy
Through November 13, 2009 (All day)
Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street Boston, MA
“Financing and Partnering for Emerging Businesses” features over two dozen early stage
companies seeking investment for business opportunities in carbon management, smart grid
applications, renewable energy generation, biofuels and other hot areas
http://www.GreenovationConference.com
11:45am Ecology Journal Club
HUCE, Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Weekly discussions on an ecology-related paper; all interested researchers welcome, and
papers on website.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:15pm - 1:45pm Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Transit: Mexico City’s
Metrobus
Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA
Amanda Swanson amanda_swanson(a)harvard.edu 617-495-1351
A special lunch seminar of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer
Center. Open to the public. Lunch will be served.
3:30pm China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Soil Acidification in China: Is Controlling SO2 Emissions Enough?"
Zhao Yu, post-doctoral researcher, China Project and School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences (SEAS), Harvard.
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Zhao091112
Chris Nielsen 617-496-2378
4:00pm - 5:00pm OCS Info Session for the Morris K. Udall Scholarship
OCS Basement Conference Room 54 Dunster St. Cambridge, MA
A national scholarship for future leaders in the environment and Native American issues.
mitchellchunter(a)gmail.com
4:00pm OEB Seminar
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
“The evolution of novel, serially homologous, complex traits: butterfly eyespots.” Antonia
Monteiro, Affiliation: Yale University.
Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-5891
4:00pm Sustainable Mega-Cities – Mexico City’s “Plan Verde”
Piper Auditorium Gund Hall Graduate School of Design Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City. Co-sponsors: Harvard Kennedy School,
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Center for the Environment, David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Friday, November 13, 2009
3:00pm How to Find an Internship in the Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Fields
OCS Conference Room, 54 Dunster St., Cambridge, MA
Get a jump start on the internship search by coming to this session focusing on internship
ideas that will get you on the right track.
http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/index.htm
Film Screening: Crude - The Real Price of Oil
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
CRUDE follows the human, environmental, and legal drama surrounding Chevron (the
world's fifth-largest company) and the "Amazonian Chernobyl" it has created
in Ecuador, devastating local Indigenous communities. A special Q&A with producer Mike
Bonfiglio will follow.
crude(a)cs.org 617- 369-3306
Sunday, November 15, 2009
9:00am - 5:00pm Eighth Annual MA Climate Action Network Conference
Stata Center, MIT 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA
Bringing together more than 300 residents, community organizers, scientists, and local
government staff to act on global warming
http://massclimateaction.net/conference/2009-conference.html
9:30am - 2:00pm Jumpstarting the Clean Tech Economy through International Partnerships:
Lessons from the Massachusetts-Israel Relationship
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Taubman building, 5th floor
Cambridge, MA
Keynote address by Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA), co-author of the American Clean
Energy and Security Act
bethrk(a)cjp.org 617-457-8542
http://www.cjp.org/
Monday, November 16, 2009
11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/
Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle
124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA
"Truth Commissions: Technologies of Repair or Social Autopsies?" Jay Aronson,
History, Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
"Getting Serious about Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto Era." Robert N. Stavins.
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Environmental
Economics Program; and Chairman, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group, Harvard
Kennedy School.
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/schedule/schedule.htm
us_japan(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-1890
5:00pm The Future of Energy
Science Center, Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"America’s Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities.” Maxine Savitz, Vice
President, National Academy of Engineering and Retired General Manager, Technology
Partnerships, Honeywell, Inc.
Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
6:30pm The Harvard Symposia on Architecture 1: The Return of Nature
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 42-46 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
"The Sublime Plan." With Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, and Diane Lewis.
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA
"Gasoline Prices, Inattentive Consumers, and the Energy Paradox." Hunt Allcott,
MIT, and Nathan Wozny, Princeton University.
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63251
Jason Chapman 617-496-8054
5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series
Tsai Auditorium (S-010), 1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South), Cambridge, MA
"Religious Values and Global Health." A presentation by Arthur Kleinman, M.D.,
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University;
Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School; and Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard University's Asia
Center.
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html
6:00pm Mothers and Others: The Origin of Emotionally Modern Humans
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Lecture and booksigning by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy studies how the apes in the line leading to the genus Homo became so
"other-regarding" and potentially cooperative.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#opportuni…
8:00pm - 9:00pm Enviromental 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.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
Thursday, November 19, 2009
11:45am Ecology Journal Club
HUCE, Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Weekly discussions on an ecology-related paper; all interested researchers welcome, and
papers on website.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
3:30pm - 6:00pm Society for Risk Analysis Seminar
Harvard School of Public Health FXB Building Room G-12 651 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA
02115
“Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Health.” Overview of the HEI Special Report on
Traffic-Related Air Pollution.
Amy Rosenstein (781) 676-4084
http://www.sra-ne.org/
6:00pm - 8:00pm The Road to Copenhagen: The US and the EU in Global Climate Negotiations
Adams LCR Corner of Mt. Auburn & Bow Sts. Cambridge, MA
A Lecture by Eloi Laurent senior economist and scientific advisor at OFCE (Sciences-Po
Center for economic research). Presented by the Center for European Studies Undergraduate
Board.
6:00pm - 9:00pm EcoLogic's 2009 Annual Benefit: The Taste of Sustainable Food
Boston Center for the Arts Carol Dean Rehearsal Hall 539 Tremont St Boston, MA
Come discover how EcoLogic is promoting environmentally-friendly agriculture and making a
positive difference for rural farmers in Central America.
http://www.ecologic.org/greenag/events
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