Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,
Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and
other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you
would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this
list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883.
*Highlights:*
Two Future of Energy Lectures -- 1/31 with Abdallah Jum'ah, President
and CEO of Saudi Aramco and 2/5 with Dan Arvizu, Director of the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1/30/07 -- Energy Technology and Innovation Program Seminar with James
Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2/1 and 2/2/07 - Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium, Graduate
School of Design
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 1/25/2007 *
4:30p - 6:00p
Energy Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development: Past Experiences
and Future Directions
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63479102>
Dr. Charles Heaps, Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Presented by the Tufts Energy and Climate Forum
TUFTS - Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall 108
6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534979>
Ecological Design: Inventing the Future (64 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)E
*Friday 1/26/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
Leech Symbiont and Mouse Pathogen, Aeromonas veronii, a Beneficial
Microbe with a Dark Side
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63311662>
Prof. Joerg Graf, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University
of Connecticut Storrs
Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Population strucuture of Armillaria spp. in a temperate, old-growth
rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375857>
Nicholas Brazee -- Dept. of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences, University
of Massachusetts
Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
*Saturday 1/27/2007 *
8:45a - 4:00p
Gene-Environment Interaction Symposium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056633>
MIT - Strata Center 32-141
Sponsored by the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences
*
Monday 1/29/2007*
3:00p - 4:00p
Marketing and Building Brands around Shared Values: How sustainability
questions are reshaping consumer expectations and loyalties
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63566792>
A conversation with: Tom O'Brien, Chief Operating Officer, Board Member,
part owner, Tom's of Maine, HBS '90
Harvard Business School, Aldrich 8
*
Tuesday 1/30/2007*
9:30a - 11:00a
Warming the Bench?: A Look at Massachusetts v. EPA and other Climate
Change Litigation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63407523>
James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Allison Dining Room, Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, KSG, 79 JFK St. , Cambridge
6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534982>
Is God Green? (60 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
*Wednesday 1/31/2007 *
5:00p - 6:00p
The Future of Energy Lecture Series - A Candid Assessment of the US and
World Energy Future
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184586>
Abdallah S. Jum'ah, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco
Organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment
Science Center Lecture Hall C,1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 2/1/2007 *
12:15p - 1:00p
Climate Change 101 -- Causes, Effects and Cures
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184552>
Melissa Cary, Climate Change Policy Specialist, Environmental Defense
Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on
Climate Change
Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy
Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
What Cities Are Doing
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184569>
Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner, the City of Chicago Department of the
Environment
Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on
Climate Change
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Measurements of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for
understanding surface exchange
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184551>
Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and
Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
5:00p - 7:30p
Free screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375847>
Harvard School of Public Health, Longwood Campus,, HMS NRB (New Research
Building), Amphitheater, 77 Louis Pasteur Ave, Boston
6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534972>
Total Denial (74 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
6:00p - 7:00p
Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges for a Sustainable Future
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184553>
Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the
Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
*
Friday 2/2/2007 *
9:30a - 10:15a
Dangerous Passage: Nature's return to center stage in human history
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184571>
Diane Dumanoski, former Boston Globe environment reporter, currently
writing a book on the subject of her talk
Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on
Climate Change
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Ecology and life history strategies of black bears in western
Massachusetts
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375859>
John McDonald -- US Fish & Wildlife Service and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Free and open to the public
5:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534984>
Dying to Breathe: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
8:30p - 9:30p
MSI Chalk Talk
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63598688>
Daniel P. Schrag, Professor, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director,
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
*
Saturday 2/3/2007*
5:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63534988>
Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
*Monday 2/5/2007 *
5:00p - 6:00p
Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment
The Growing Significance of the New Biofuels - The Future of Energy
Lecture Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184587>
Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard
*Tuesday 2/6/2007 *
6:00p - 7:00p
International Polar Year and Climate Change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184665>
Jim McCarthy, Harvard University
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Wednesday 2/7/2007*
4:15p - 5:00p
Bioenergy in a globalizing world: Issues of Sustainable Development,
Trade and Policy
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62517110>
Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General Ministry for the Environment and
Territory of Italy
Maxwell Dworkin G115, Oxford Street, Cambridge
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883