Happy New Year!
Highlights:
January 11- 15: MIT Energy Futures Week, “Innovation, Research, and Education for a
Sustainable Future” features nearly 20 energy-related events.
January 15: The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a conference
entitled "Social Determinants of Global Population Health."
January 21: Denise Mauzerall discusses “Present and Future Contributions of Sulfate, Black
and Organic Carbon Aerosols from China to Global Air Quality, Premature Mortality, and
Radiative Forcing” at the first China Project Seminar of the Spring.
Calendar Listings:
January 10, 2010
12:30pm - 5:00pm Weatherization Barnraising
12 Antrim St. Cambridge, MA
Pitch in to help a neighbor and learn skills that can save you money at home. Sign up by
web, email or phone.
http://www.HEETMA.com heet.cambridge(a)gmail.com 617-491-6761
January 11, 2010
11:00am - 12:00pm High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries for Sustainable Transportation
and Large-scale Storage of Electric Power
MIT 32-155 Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Prof. Donald Sadoway. Examples of innovation in both portable and stationary
energy storage will be presented.
Jennifer DiMase jdimase(a)mit.edu 617-452-3199
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/liquid-battery.html
January 11, 2010
11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
The HEJC welcomes Eric Ingersoll, the CEO of local compressed air energy storage company,
General Compression. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:00pm - 1:00pm Power Up! Strategies for Getting Energy Information
MIT 14N-132 Cambridge, MA
Speakers: Angie Locknar, Chris Sherratt. Part of the MIT Energy Futures Week.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
12:00pm - 1:00pm Planet Earth Lunchtime Screenings
Harkness South TV Lounge Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA
Come eat lunch in the comfy TV lounge in Harkness South and watch astonishing footage of
our planet from the award winning series Planet Earth! Open to faculty, staff, and
students.
Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu
1:00pm - 2:00pm Power up with Maps! GIS and Energy Resources
MIT 14N-132 Cambridge, MA
Speakers: Anne Graham, Lisa Sweeney. In this session MIT GIS Services will introduce you
to energy maps and spatial data available and demonstrate GIS in action on the energy
front. Part of MIT Energy Futures Week.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
January 12, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Planet Earth Lunchtime Screenings
Harkness South TV Lounge Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA
Come eat lunch in the comfy TV lounge in Harkness South and watch astonishing footage of
our planet from the award winning series Planet Earth! Open to faculty, staff, and
students.
Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu
2:00pm - 4:00pm Climate Science I: Paleoclimate to the Present
MIT E51-149 Cambridge, MA
Speakers Kat Potter and Tim Cronin. This talk will cover paleoclimates: variations in the
climate over longer time periods from millions of years to the recent past, and the
history and development of climate science. Part of MIT Energy Futures Week.
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-a167.html
Tony Tran tones(a)mit.edu (617) 253-7492
3:00pm - 5:00pm Electric Power Transmission Line Cost Sharing Panel and Discussion
MIT 4-153 Cambridge, MA
Featuring Nidhi Santen, Andrew Whitaker. Various perspectives of cost-allocation and
interstate coordination issues for new electricity transmission lines will be discussed in
a panel-style lecture and audience question/answer event. Part of the MIT Energy Futures
Week.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
January 13, 2010
10:00am - 12:00pm
The Road from Copenhagen: A live, interactive role-play
MIT 4-149 Cambridge, MA
"The Road from Copenhagen: A live, interactive role-play negotiation using the
C-ROADS climate policy simulation." With MIT Professor John Sterman. Part of MIT
Energy Futures Week.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
12:00pm - 1:00pm Planet Earth Lunchtime Screenings
Harkness South TV Lounge Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA
Come eat lunch in the comfy TV lounge in Harkness South and watch astonishing footage of
our planet from the award winning series Planet Earth! Open to faculty, staff, and
students.
Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu
2:00pm - 4:00pm Wind Energy: Do you have what it takes to harness power from wind?
MIT 4-149 Cambridge, MA
Speaker Katherine Dykes. Participate in a one hour lecture on wind energy followed by a
hands-on project in either resource assessment or taking a stab at building the most
efficient blades you can. Part of MIT Energy Futures Week.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
January 14, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Planet Earth Lunchtime Screenings
Harkness South TV Lounge Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA
Come eat lunch in the comfy TV lounge in Harkness South and watch astonishing footage of
our planet from the award winning series Planet Earth! Open to faculty, staff, and
students.
Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino 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
John Miller, Director of the Marine Renewable Energy Center at UMass Dartmouth, will talk
about ocean energy sources, discussing technologies for wind, wave, tidal and current
energy.
info(a)basea.org
January 15, 2010
9:00am - 12:00pm Social Determinants of Global Population Health
Charles Hotel One Bennett Street Cambridge, MA
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies conference on addressing health
disparities.
RSVP's are required to Emily O'Donnell.
Emily O'Donnell eodonnel(a)hsph.harvard.edu 617-495-3008
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/event…...
1:00pm - 3:00pm Low Carbon Emission Electricity Generating Technology Options
MIT 66-110 Cambridge, MA
Speaker János M. Béer. State of the art technology options and those in R&D and
Demonstration stages are discussed together with their timeline and the possibility of
speeding up their deployment. Part of MIT Energy Futures Week.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
January 18, 2010
11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for topics of discussion.
Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
January 20, 2010
7:30am - 12:00pm Environmental Business Council Energy Summit: New England Smart Grid
Pilot Programs
Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag LLP Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter
Street Suite 4000, North Entrance Waltham, MA 02451
This EBC Energy Committee Program will provide an update on the emerging developments with
regional Smart Grid Pilot Programs by the leaders of the National Grid, NSTAR and Western
Mass. Electric Company Smart Grid Programs. Registration and fee.
http://www.ebcne.org/index.php?id=77&no_cache=1&tx_ciceventscalenda…[sinuid]...
January 21, 2010
3:30pm China Project Seminar
Maxwell Dworkin 119, 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA"Present and Future Contributions of Sulfate, Black and Organic Carbon
Aerosols from China to Global Air Quality, Premature Mortality, and Radiative
Forcing." Denise Mauzerall, associate professor, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs, Princeton University.
Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm HBS Association of Boston - Solving the Global Climate Change Puzzle: Private
Innovation and Government Regulation
HBS Aldrich 112 on the HBS campus Allston, MA Come hear what one of the eminent
researchers on innovation, HBS' own Rebecca Henderson and one of the major players in
the clean energy space, Daniel Goldman, think about the future of climate change, and
participate in what promises to be a lively exchange of views. Registration and fee.
http://www.hbsab.org/article.html?aid=312
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