Winter Is Coming: Europe’s Energy Crisis and What It Means for Climate Change
Eighth Annual Columbia Global Energy Summit
Wednesday, October 12
Global Environmental Justice Conference 2022
Thursday, October 13 – Friday, October 14
Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education: The Urgency of Now!
October 18, October 26, and November 3
**Lecture Series**
People and Primates Recasting the Anthropocene Dynamic
Tuesday, October 4
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Federal Funding Learning Series #4 – How Unprecedented Incentives and Funding within the Inflation Reduction Act Can Advance Local Climate Motion
Description
Tuesday, October 4
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The Amazon Forest and Climate Change: A Sustainable Pathway to Avoid a Tipping Point
Wednesday, October 5
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Environmental Justice in Albaydha: The Story of a Rural Desert Community
Wednesday, October 5
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Starr Forum: An Update on Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Friday, October 7
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China and Japan within the Global Politics of Climate Change
Monday, October 17
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Seeing the forest beneath the trees: Mycorrhizal fungi as trait integrators of ecosystem processes
Thursday, October 20
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The Ocean’s Natural Solution to Stop Climate Change
Thursday, October 20
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Attending to Net-Zero: A Canadian Perspective
Monday, October 24
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Environmental Justice in an Age of Upheaval
Thursday, October 27
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Planning Transformational Coastal Adaptation with a Climate Justice Lens
Monday, October 31
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**Events**
African Perspectives on Climate and Climate Adaptation in Eygpt
Monday, October 3
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Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power
Wednesday, October 5
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Deploying the Synergies Between Energy Access and Sustainable Development
Thursday, October 6
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Global Refugee Crisis: What can scientists and engineers do to ease the suffering and protect the vulnerable?
Thursday, October 6
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Wholehearted Regeneration: Boosting Communal and Climate Resilience One Pocket Forest at a Time
Thursday, October 6
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Governing the ‘China Boom’ within the Amazon Basin: Social and Environmental Regulation Amid A Commodity Supercycle
Tuesday, October 11
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Research and development for the general public good: Strengthening societal innovation
Tuesday, October 11
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Pedagogy of the Rainforest: An Indigenous Yanomami Perspective
Wednesday, October 12
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Great Decisions | Outer Space
Wednesday, October 12
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Disinformation and free speech: perspectives on the longer term of knowledge
Thursday, October 13
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Brain, Body + Breath
Saturday, October 15
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Nouriel Roubini: Megathreats
Tuesday, October 18
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A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World
Friday, October 21
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MIT Energy Night 2022
Friday, October 21
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Environmental, Energy, and Engineering Profession Fair
October 24
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Trauma to Transformation: A Set of Existential Opportunities to Address Environmental Justice and the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, October 25
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Energy Seminar: Lauren Culver, Senior Energy Specialist, The World Bank
Monday, October 31
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Wet + Dry: Landscapes of Resilience and Material Exploration
Thursday, November 3
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These sorts of events below are happening all around the world daily and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Can be good to have a spot that helped people access them.
It is a more global version of the local listings I did for a couple of decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a couple of years within the Nineties (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service may very well be developed if there have been enough people fascinated about doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.
If anyone knows of such a worldwide listing of open energy, climate, and other events is accessible, please put me involved.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com – notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com – renewable energy and efficiency – zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com – city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com – geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com – Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history – articles, ideas, and screeds
**Conferences**
Cambridge Science Festival
Sunday, October 2 – Sunday, October 9
https://cambridgesciencefestival.org
Including
Borealis, a sound and lightweight show representing the Northern Lights in Kendall Square
DearTomorrow: Envisioning a Sustainable Future in a Time of Climate Change at Boston Public Library
and plenty of, many other events throughout town.
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HONK! Festival 2022
Friday, October 7, 3 PM – Sunday, October 9, 6 PM
Davis Sq, Somerville, MA 02144, United States
https://honkfest.org
Street bands from all around the world, playing, marching, and holding workshops
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Winter Is Coming: Europe’s Energy Crisis and What It Means for Climate Change
Eighth Annual Columbia Global Energy Summit
Wednesday, October 12
9am – 4pm
Columbia University, Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, Recent York, NY 10027
Room/Area: Roone Arledge Auditorium
RSVP for in person event at https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=o1Bpuj-SmdiKM_8ztC-wY4pM1SbLTnIP74W41TTu.calprdapp05
RSVP for Livestream at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMFhV27fR7ePjB4P-OocVg
More information at https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/columbia-global-energy-summit-2022
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ClimateTech
Wednesday, October 12, 9:00 AM – Thursday, October 13, 5:00 PM EDT
MIT Media Lab 75 Amherst St Cambridge, MA 02139 and Online
https://event.technologyreview.com/climatetech-2022 for complete information.
Cost: $395 – $1,295
MIT Technology Review’s conference on solutions for climate change
Recent technologies across all industries are making it possible to craft business plans that transition to scrub energy systems while maintaining – if not improving – market competitiveness. Net zero 2050 commitments now not should be based on hope, but as an alternative could be built on technology, policy, and societal changes that can re-architect the economy for a sustainable future.
Join us in Boston or virtually for MIT Technology Review’s first conference on solutions for climate change, ClimateTech, for an attendee-centric experience that features globally renowned experts, live presentations, interactive Q&As, expert-led discussions and wealthy networking experiences.
ClimateTech will explore:
Energy Matters: Technology is a critical mechanism to bend the emissions curve down and supply clean energy to feed our insatiable need for power. We examine the opportunities that can clean up our energy infrastructure while maintaining market competitiveness.
All Systems Go: Climate change is a worldwide problem with many interconnected, contextual, and collectively essential solutions. None is a silver bullet. We examine the ways individuals and organizations could make sustainable behavior the default.
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Global Environmental Justice Conference 2022
Thursday, October 13 – Friday, October 14
RSVP at https://resources.environment.yale.edu/calendar/listing/117856
The Yale Center for Environmental Justice and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are partnering this yr to present the Fourth Annual Global Environmental Justice Conference on the Yale School of the Environment. This yr’s conference will give attention to the intersection of equitable climate motion and sustainable development.
Contact: kristin.barendregt-ludwig@yale.edu
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Love.Earth.Justice.2022
Sunday, October 16
2-5pm
First Unitarian Church, 90 Foremost Street, Worcester and online via Zoom
For more information or to register, visit: https://bit.ly/lej-2022
The event goals to encourage people of religion to take climate motion and construct climate resilience. A celebratory multi-faith worship opens the afternoon, with Rev. Vernon K. Walker of CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather) preaching; several workshops to construct skills and engagement follow. The event is organized and presented by Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light and Worcester Congregations for Climate and Environmental Justice. Admission is free; donations appreciated in the course of the free will offering.
Prior registration requested for Zoom access and for planning purposes.
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Power of Design
Tuesday, October 18
10:30am to five:00pm
Virtual Event
RSVP at https://web.mit.edu/webcast/sap/f22/
The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MIT MAD) is celebrating its launch with The Power of Design, a day of dynamic presentations by design luminaries and thought leaders. The in-person and online audiences will join for an expansive dialogue about how interdisciplinary design can influence and frame our responses at the moment of extraordinary global need.
The forum will reveal the importance of design to quite a lot of disciplines and enterprises: from the humanities to STEM, from industrial production to community-based solutions. Each of the three sessions will likely be followed by a conversation moderated by an MIT faculty member, with audience engagement encouraged.
Session 1: Design Catalyzes Innovation
Moderator: Maria Yang
Design practices are key drivers of research and innovation in several fields—from health, to mobility, to sustainability. The primary session explores the history, present, and way forward for design in an effort to emphasize how design drives advanced research, produces recent knowledge, and fosters recent modes of coexistence.
Session 2: Design Transforms Learning
Moderator: Skylar Tibbits
Positioning design on the core of education is transforming how we teach and learn in any respect levels. Our second session brings to light the types of design pedagogy that are emerging at academic institutions the world over. Design gives students powerful tools to grasp, reframe, and address in novel ways our most demanding challenges.
Session 3: Design Empowers Society
Moderator: Dava Newman
The last session focuses on the right way to make design innovations address societal needs and change into accessible to everyone. The contributors explore the types of business and social entrepreneurship that allow designers to scale up recent products and consolidate recent varieties of design practices.
Hosted in the brand new Exchange Room on the MIT Museum, the event will likely be freed from charge for the MIT community, open to the general public, and live streamed at design.mit.edu.
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Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education: The Urgency of Now!
October 18, October 26, and November 3
RSVP at https://www.aashe.org/conference/
Cost: $10 – $300
The Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education brings together sustainability leaders from all over the world in a virtual format to share effective models, policies, research, collaborations and transformative actions that advance sustainability in higher education and surrounding communities.
Recent Format for 2022
This yr’s virtual Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (#GCSHE) will happen on three separate dates – Oct. 18, Oct. 26 and Nov. 3! Save the date to affix us for a recent format that can allow increased conversation, connection and learning.
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MIT D-Lab Twentieth Anniversary Events
Friday, October 21
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Two locations: MIT D-Lab, 265 Massachusetts Ave, third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139 (morning) and MIT Media Lab
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-d-lab-Twentieth-anniversary-events-october-21-tickets-416019805437
Email
nadamsx@mit.edu
Website https://d-lab.mit.edu/Twentieth-anniversary
MORNING OPEN HOUSE
At MIT D-Lab – MIT Constructing N51, third floor – Directions
9:00-9:45: Morning Coffee Reception
10:00 – 11:30: Morning Program
Construct-it activity with D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith
Evaporative Cooling Lecture-Demonstration with D-Lab Research Engineer Eric Verploegen
Humanitarian Innovation session with Humanitarian Innovation Program Coordinator Heewon Lee
Coffee with D-Lab Executive Director Ana Pantelic
SurgiBox history and demo with D-Lab Intstructor and COO of SurgiBox Macauley Kenney
And more!
Register!
AFTERNOON SHOWCASE & SYMPOSIUM
On the MIT Media Lab – MIT Constructing E14, sixth floor – Directions
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch
Lunch with affinity group tables and a student and alumni showcase
1:30 – 5:00: Afternoon Program
OPENING REMARKS – Ana Pantelic, D-Lab Executive Director
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN, AND DUCT TAPE
On this discussion, members of the broader D-Lab community (including alumni, community partners, students and college) will talk in regards to the role that design plays in development. The panel will explore this theme when it comes to their personal journey in addition to their experiences in using design as a tool for community empowerment. The discussion will likely be led by Founding Director Amy Smith who will weave in her own experiences with D-Lab, development, design, and duct tape from the past 20 years.
Panelists:
John Jal Dak of Youth Social Advocacy Team (Uganda, South Sudan)
John Ochsendorf, Professor, MIT Departments of Architecture and of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Morningside Academy of Design
Mustafa Naseem, Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Emily Young, MIT D-Lab lecturer and Moving Health CEO
Viviana Rivera, MIT ’23.
COLLABORATIVE DESIGN IN ACTION – A conversation curated by MIT D-Lab Associate Director for Research Kendra Leith and MIT D-Lab Inclusive Economies Specialist Libby McDonald
THAT TRANSFORMATIVE D-LAB STUDENT EXPERIENCE – A conversation with D-Lab students and alumni curated by D-Lab Associate Director of Academics Libby Hsu, with introduction by Maria Yang, Associate Dean of Engineering, Gail E. Kendall Professor; MIT D-Lab Faculty Academic Director.
CLOSING REMARKS – Kim Vandiver, Forbes Director of the MIT Edgerton Center; Director, Project Manus; MIT D-Lab Faculty Research Director
5:00-6:00: Reception
A toast to D-Lab and all the students, alumni, instructors, researchers, community partners, staff, and members of the MIT community who’ve been a part of it! Refreshments will likely be served.
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EBC Fourth Annual Recent England Energy Leadership Conference
Tuesday, October 25
9:00 am – 12:15 pm EST
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/d70a5632-09e4-434c-b87e-d5f988240322/register
Cost: $25 – $120
Please join EBC for the fourth annual Recent England Energy Leadership Conference bringing together state leaders in energy policy and programs from across Recent England. This virtual conference provides a possibility for the state energy leaders to present their energy plans, program priorities, and implementation strategies that reflect the challenges for his or her respective states. Leaders will even discuss the ways through which Recent England states are working together on regional energy issues.
Speakers will cover their top 3-4 energy priorities for the yr, including:
Energy Efficiency
Renewable Energy
Offshore Wind
Net-Zero Emissions
Energy Storage
Electric Vehicles
Clean Energy Jobs
Grid Modernization
Emerging Technologies
Also participating will likely be ISO Recent England, the organization that is allowed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to perform three critical, complex, interconnected roles: grid operation, market administration, and power system planning for the region.
A strong panel discussion between the speakers and attendees will conclude this system.
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VERGE 22: THE CLIMATE TECH EVENT
Tuesday, October 25 – Thursday, October 27
SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER, SAN JOSE, CA
More information at https://events.greenbiz.com/events/verge/2022
Cost: $50 – $1975
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Yale Clean Energy Conference
Thursday, November 3, 4:30 PM EDT — Friday, November 4, 6:30 PM EDT
More information at https://web.cvent.com/event/aea7d4be-b582-474d-9a6e-08acbad4ed82/summary
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**Lecture Series**
People and Primates Recasting the Anthropocene Dynamic
Tuesday, October 4
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
RSVP at https://environment.princeton.edu/event/hmei-faculty-seminar-agustin-fuentes/
Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology, will present “Multispecies Mutual Ecologies: People and Primates Recasting the Anthropocene Dynamic” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Fuentes is the second speaker in the autumn 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Human-driven responses to current climate and ecological crises are many and varied and, in some instances, do more harm than good. Fuentes will draw on biocultural, ethnographic, demographic and ecological examples to argue for a more inclusive, integrative, and transdisciplinary approach to addressing planetary challenges that decenters mainstream human ecological tactics and recognizes multispecies mutual ecologies to evolve more optimistic views for the longer term.
This seminar is free and open to the general public with registration. Lunch will likely be available within the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here upfront to attend this event via Zoom livestream
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Federal Funding Learning Series #4 – How Unprecedented Incentives and Funding within the Inflation Reduction Act Can Advance Local Climate Motion
Description
Tuesday, October 4
1:00 PM ET
RSVP at https://rmi-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsce6qrD4sHNEvQfyLOn8pEQBOksCg-IyI
The City Renewables Accelerator, co-led by RMI and WRI, is worked up to announce a 4th installment of our federal funding learning series. To this point, our learning series has focused on helping local governments and community partners understand, navigate, and pursue federal funding opportunities that may advance ambitious local climate motion and resilience projects. This upcoming session will highlight the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, help communities higher understand the newest federal funding opportunities and related changes, and highlight the latest tools and resources.
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The Amazon Forest and Climate Change: A Sustainable Pathway to Avoid a Tipping Point
Wednesday, October 5
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudOGqpzktHtFk3RcJabclIypjlmPgxmLJ
Carlos Nobre and Ailton Fabricio-Neto (University of Sao Paulo and UFES, Brazil)
Based upon the book, Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, published by World Scientific, a novel set of authoritative lectures on climate change impacts and adaptation by world-recognized leading scientists. There may be nothing prefer it available elsewhere.
Bi-Weekly Webinar Series: Each of the 25 chapters in the brand new book will likely be presented by its creator as a slide-based lecture in A Bi-Weekly Webinar Series hosted by CCRUN, a NOAA RISA Project. The series presents key adaptation topics including methods for impacts and adaptation assessment, impacts on sectors, effects on different regions and countries, and adaptation policy and practice.
The book Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation on which the webinar series relies could be purchased as an e-book, soft cover, or hard cover copy on the World Scientific Publishing website: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12312
Webinars will happen bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 10:00–12:00PM. No purchase of book crucial for viewing the webinar series. All webinars are recorded and made available on the CCRUN website: http://www.ccrun.org/resources/lectures-in-climate-change-volume-2/
Event Contact Information:
Manishka de Mel
manishka.demel@columbia.edu
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Environmental Justice in Albaydha: The Story of a Rural Desert Community
Wednesday, October 5
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, West Village F 020, Boston
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/impactlab/from-boston-to-beirut-reimagining-social-change-in-the-middle-east/#_ga=2.193858666.690818571.1664338852-667078588.1640460424
A part of the Open Classroom Series
As climate crises displace people all over the world, what could be learned from Albaydha, a semi-nomadic rural community in Saudi Arabia whose grazing lands were destroyed by desertification? Offered in collaboration with the Dukakis Center’s Open Classroom, this session will examine how participatory processes informed by Social Impact Lab (SIL) principles and frameworks have engaged over a thousand families within the design and implementation of a community-led resettlement initiative. This system employs sustainable constructing technologies and ecosystem regeneration while honoring traditional family structures and cultural practices. Lebanese social investor and human rights advocate Lynn Zovighian and SIL Director Rebecca Riccio will explain how their commitment to centering community members’ voices has led to this project being designated a national housing pilot for vulnerable communities in Saudi Arabia.
Moderator: Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.
This event is an element of the Social Impact Lab’s weeklong series From Boston to Beirut: Reimagining Social Change within the Middle East.
We recognize that members of our community will likely be observing Yom Kippur October 4-5 and need you a meaningful holy day and fast. We are going to make the recordings of all events available on the event website as soon as possible so you may have access to the content. We also encourage students to attend one among the three student-only workshops with Lynn Zovighian on Thursday, October 6 and Friday, October 7.
Registration is required to attend in person or online.
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Starr Forum: An Update on Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Friday, October 7
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual Event
A Zoom webinar | Registration required: bit.ly/UkraineWarUpdate
Speakers:
Volodymyr Dubovyk is an associate professor on the Department of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine). He has conducted research on the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Center for International and Security Studies on the University of Maryland, taught on the University of Washington (Seattle) and at St. Edwards University/University of Texas (Austin). He’s the co-author of “Ukraine and European Security” and has published quite a few articles on US-Ukraine relations, regional and international security, and Ukraine’s foreign policy.
Michael Kofman serves as a senior research scientist on the Center for Naval Analyses, and a fellow on the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC. His research focuses on Russia and the previous Soviet Union, specializing within the Russian armed forces, military thought, capabilities, and strategy. Previously, he served at National Defense University as a research fellow, and material expert, advising senior military and government officials on issues in Russia and Eurasia.
Steven Simon is the Robert E Wilhelm Fellow on the MIT Center for International Studies. He has served because the National Security Council (NSC) senior director for the Middle East and North Africa in the course of the Obama Administration and because the NSC senior director for counterterrorism within the Clinton White House. His academic appointments include: the John J McCloy ’16 Professor of History at Amherst College, lecturer in government at Dartmouth College, and as Professor within the Practice of International Relations at Colby College. Most recently, he has written and provided commentary on the US policy toward the war in Ukraine.
Carol Saivetz is a senior advisor within the MIT Security Studies Program. She is the creator and contributing co-editor of books and articles on Soviet and now Russian foreign policy issues.
Elizabeth Wood is professor of history at MIT. She is the creator most recently of Roots of Russia’s War in Urkaine in addition to articles on Vladimir Putin, the political cult of WWII, right-wing populism in Russia and Turkey, and US-Russian Parternships in Science. She is co-director of the MISTI MIT-Eurasia Program.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Security Studies Program (SSP), MISTI MIT-Russia
Free & open to the general public
Also watch it on YouTube.
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China and Japan within the Global Politics of Climate Change
Monday, October 17
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Online Only
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsf-qrqT0iE9UdZh57eJGY0b9_qfXxcDWM
Kelly Gallagher, Academic Dean; Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Climate Policy Lab; Co-Director, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy, The Fletcher School Tufts University
Miranda Schreurs, Professor of Environment and Climate Policy, School of Government, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich
Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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Seeing the forest beneath the trees: Mycorrhizal fungi as trait integrators of ecosystem processes
Thursday, October 20
3:30pm
Hybrid: Biological Laboratories 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge and Online
RSVP at https://oeb.harvard.edu/event/oeb-seminar-series-richard-phillips
Richard Phillips, Professor, Department of Biology, Science Director, Research and Teaching Preserve, Indiana University Bloomington
Abstract: Global environmental change is shifting the distribution and abundances of species globally; yet, the ecosystem consequences of such profound change are poorly understood. Here, I present a framework that seeks to unify the heterogeneity of plant-microbe-soil interactions in forests, as a method for predicting the impacts of community change. The Mycorrhizal-Associated Nutrient Economy (MANE) hypothesis predicts that species that associate with several types of mycorrhizal fungi possess an integrated suite of nutrient-use traits that result in the upkeep of biogeochemical syndromes in forests. Specifically, it predicts that trees that associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi possess nutrient acquisitive traits (e.g., fast-decaying litters and nutrient scavenging), such that soils dominated by AM trees contain greater abundances of N-cycling microbes, accelerated carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) losses via leaching and gaseous efflux, and enhanced C and N retention via mineral stabilization. Against this, trees that associate with ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi possess nutrient conservative traits (e.g., slow-decaying litters and nutrient mining), such that soils dominated by ECM trees are characterised by high fungal to bacterial ratios, slow C and N cycling, and limited C and N stabilization to minerals. To check MANE, I combined observations, experiments, syntheses and modeling in forest stands across the US, and examined the results of trait variation and community composition on ecosystem processes. I discovered strong support for MANE in temperate forests (relative to boreal and sub-tropical/tropical forests), and in eastern forests relative to western forests. The response variables that almost all consistently track the relative abundance of AM vs. ECM trees are soil variables, and mycorrhizal dominance is an excellent predictor of forest sensitivity to quite a few global change aspects. Provided that these dynamics look like detectable by distant sensing and could be incorporated into large-scale models, the MANE framework can function a useful gizmo for predicting forest response to global change. Finally, I discuss key knowledge gaps pertaining to MANE, specifically the necessity for: improved quantification of the prices/advantages of mycorrhizal-mediated nutrient uptake, an enhanced understanding of root-microbe effects on soil organic matter formation, stabilization and turnover, and increased knowledge about how mycorrhizal community composition affect forest productivity. Collectively, these results suggest that shifts within the relative abundance of AM and ECM trees will likely have profound implications for a way forests function and the services they supply.
The hybrid seminar will happen within the Biological Laboratories, Room 1080. Registration is required to attend via Zoom. Please note, Zoom attendees are muted in the course of the talk, but are capable of ask questions during Q&A.
Editorial Comment: Mycorrhizal fungi has been a subject of great interest to all of the ecological designers and soil scientists I do know for many years. Understanding soil systems and the carbon cycle is of utmost importance in coping with climate.
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The Ocean’s Natural Solution to Stop Climate Change
Thursday, October 20
6:30pm
Recent England Aquarium, Simons Theatre 1 Central Wharf, Boston, MA
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=108586&view=Detail
The John H. Carlson Lecture featuring Caltech Professor Jess Adkins, PhD ’98
With the burning of fossil fuels, the human race is conducting an experiment of unprecedented magnitude—carbon dioxide (CO2) is warming the planet and we should not sure how it will end up. At the same time as we move to affect the economy and leave fossil fuels behind, we must find ways to remove CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change. Reducing CO2 emissions alone isn’t any longer enough. On this talk, Dr. Adkins—a chemical oceanographer who studies the history of the Earth’s climate—will share how a project that began with the essential science query of ‘How quickly do corals dissolve when the ocean acidifies?’ changed into a possible method to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale.
Free and open to the general public. Students and families welcome.
Doors open at 5:30pm with exhibits from MIT students and climate scientists within the Simons Theatre lobby.
Concerning the Speaker
Jess Adkins is the Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science within the California Institute of Technology’s Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. As a chemical oceanographer, Adkins focuses on geochemical investigations of past climates using corals, sediments, and their interstitial waters; rate of deep ocean circulation and its relation to mechanisms of rapid climate changes; metals as tracers of environmental processes; and radiocarbon and U-series chronology. After completing a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Haverford College, Adkins earned his PhD in 1998 studying chemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, and geochemistry within the MIT–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. Adkins joined the school of the California Institute of Technology in 2000.
Concerning the Series
The John H. Carlson Lecture Series communicates exciting recent ends in climate science. Freed from charge and open to most of the people, the lecture is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center within the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, and is presented in partnership with the Recent England Aquarium and the Lowell Institute.
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Attending to Net-Zero: A Canadian Perspective
Monday, October 24
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Online via Media Central Live
RSVP at https://environment.princeton.edu/event/bradford-seminar-getting-to-net-zero-a-canadian-perspective/
Simon Donner, a professor of climatology on the University of British Columbia, will present “Attending to Net-Zero: A Canadian Perspective.” This seminar will likely be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Donner will discuss the Canadian government’s approach to achieving its recently passed goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, which requires shifting from incremental to transformational public policy in a physically large country with decentralized governance and a considerable fossil fuel industry. He’ll examine the teachings for American climate motion based on his work as a member of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body, which was created to advise the federal government on realizing its 2050 goal.
This event is an element of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) within the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI)
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Environmental Justice in an Age of Upheaval
Thursday, October 27
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room and Online
RSVP at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NaZH9SNoTQOLmxbTRBtHmQ
David Bond, Center for the Advancement of Public Motion at Bennington College
COVID-19 withdrew government oversight of many dirty industries. Some industries found this an opportune moment to dump pollution into nearby communities with brazen disregard for environmental law and public health. The talk describes how engaged social research helped shine an unflattering light on the pandemic negligence of a hazardous waste incinerator in upstate NY and a mammoth refinery within the Caribbean. Anthropology – as a technique of inquiry and as a matter of emphasis – got here to play an instrumental role in broadcasting each sites into national news and federal deliberation, and effectively demanding change. This talk also reflects on: 1) the pursuit of justice inside a complicit system; 2) the power of anthropology to construct common ground in an age of upheaval; and three) following the instance of frontline residents, insists on revolutionary hope in dark times.
David Bond teaches anthropology and the environment at Bennington College, where he also helps direct the Center for the Advancement of Public Motion (CAPA). Bond is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the scientific measurement and political management of the disastrous qualities of crude oil. He has conducted ethnographic research on leaky refineries within the Caribbean, on the figure of the Keystone XL Pipeline, corporate social responsibility within the tar sands of Alberta, and the scientific and political response to the BP Oil Spill. Bond is currently working on three projects: a critical history of the category of the environment; a collaborative ethnography on the ends of oil in northern Alaska; and a community-engaged response to the invention of the chemical PFOA in Bennington, VT, and Hoosick Falls, NY. His research has been supported by Wenner Gren, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the National Science Foundation; his publications have appeared in Anthropology Now, Cultural Anthropology, and American Ethnologist. Bond holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Recent School for Social Research. He has taught on the environment and public motion at Bennington since 2013 and is the associate director of the Elizabeth Coleman Center for the Advancement of Public Motion (CAPA). He can be co-founder of the Bennington College Prison Education Initiative.
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Planning Transformational Coastal Adaptation with a Climate Justice Lens
Monday, October 31
10:00am to 11:30am
Northeastern, Renaissance Park, 310R 1135 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120
Julia Hopkins (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Laura Kuhl (School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs)
Attend a series of in-person public talks and brainstorms led by collaborators on BARI-affiliated projects. Your attendance and insights will help to construct stronger projects and partnerships across disciplines and in our local communities.
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**Events**
African Perspectives on Climate and Climate Adaptation in Eygpt
Monday, October 3
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n1Okquq6Qv6qXfp50zCR7w
In November 2022, Egypt will host the twenty seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27), the UN’s annual conference on climate change. The country finds itself in a crucial position. Egypt because the host country will likely be looked upon to be a robust voice for the Global South and help further just energy transitions in growing economies. Furthermore, Egyptian perspectives on climate adaptation also can help make clear the priorities of many other developing countries and emerging markets.
The Center on Global Energy Policy will host a panel of Egyptian experts drawn from academia, international organization, and civil society to share their views on the inter-linked challenges of energy governance, water management, and public services delivery in Africa’s most urbanized state against a background of sea-level rises, erratic climate financing, and growing water scarcity.
Moderator: Dr. Harry Verhoeven, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA
Panelists:
Dr. Lama El Hatow, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Mohamed Nada, World Bank Group
Eng Mohamed Kamal, Greenish Foundation
This webinar will likely be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you’ll receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will likely be recorded and the video recording will likely be added to our website following the event.
This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk (nv2388@columbia.edu).
For more information in regards to the event, please contact energypolicyevents@columbia.edu.
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Energy Insecurity and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tuesday, October 4
12:00PM – 1:30PM
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-insecurity-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-registration-416840891327
Energy insecurity, or the lack to pay one’s energy bills, is an issue facing thousands and thousands of American households. On this lecture, Sanya Carley discusses the outcomes from a four-wave survey that she and her coauthors administered to a representative sample of low-income U.S. households in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. She examines the findings on the prevalence of energy insecurity, the aspects that contribute to it, what strategies households use to manage when facing energy insecurity, and the way well temporary protections help energy insecure households. Carley also considers a set of reflections and suggestions on policy and scholarship.
Speaker
Sanya Carley is the Paul H. O’Neill Professor and Director of the Master of Public Affairs programs at Indiana University. Carley is a 2022-2023 Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar.
Moderator
Shelley Welton is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy with the Kleinman Center and Penn Carey Law. Her research focuses on how climate change is transforming energy and environmental law and governance.
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Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power
Wednesday, October 5
9am – 10am EST (12:00 – 1:00 p.m. AZ Time)
RSVP at https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ca1hHFL-Tvy9leOBARztPg
Join us for a virtual discussion with L. Michelle Moore, CEO of Groundswell, social entrepreneur, and former White House official.
In her recent book, Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power, Moore argues we don’t should wait for brand new laws or technologies to start our work to bring the far-reaching advantages of fresh power to small communities, particularly in rural America. Michelle describes five pathways to scrub power in rural America and methods for achieving them.
Moderated by Lauren Withycombe Keeler, assistant professor within the School for the Way forward for Innovation in Society, this event is in partnership with Island Press, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that shines a highlight on crucial issues and focuses attention on sustainable solutions.
You should purchase Rural Renaissance from the independently owned Changing Hands Bookstore.
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Deploying the Synergies Between Energy Access and Sustainable Development
Digital Zukunftssalon within the “The Forces of Transformation” series
Thursday, October 6
4:30 AM – 6:00 AM EDT (10.30 am to 12.00 pm CET)
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/218475582309100300
Securing universal access to scrub and reliable energy is a critical milestone for each: realising the just and green transformations of our energy systems and achieving the opposite Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted through the Agenda 2030.
On 6 October 2022 the Wuppertal Institute will hold a digital Zukunftssalon from 10.30 am to 12.00 pm CET as a part of the “The Forces of Transformation” series to dive deeper into “Deploying the synergies between energy access and sustainable development”.
By 2020 730 Million people still lived without access to electricity and almost a 3rd of the world population relied on inefficient and unhealthy fuels and technologies for cooking their every day meals. Overcoming these energy inequalities and marginalisation is one among the core tasks for the realisation of just energy transitions. Furthermore, energy marginalisation not only implies living conditions out of the reach of energy infrastructures. Fairly often it is usually linked to poor access to other basic services, resembling health, education, water, sanitation, transport and communication networks. And energy is usually key for securing the availability of such services. Indeed energy is inextricably linked to virtually all other sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Within the last decade, vital advances have been achieved in attending the energy needs of marginalised population. Nonetheless, the present pace of change is insufficient for reaching universal access to electricity, clean fuels, and technologies for cooking by 2030, as set under the SDG7. Furthermore, the dynamics in other SDGs is similarly worrying. Due to this fact, greater than ever before it will be significant to grasp and effectively deploy the synergies between energy access and other sustainable development dimensions. In principle, energy can (em)power practically any component of the livelihoods of individuals. Nonetheless, achieving real and long-lasting impacts stays a vital challenge.
What are those general synergies between energy access and other SDGs?
How can energy access projects recognise and effectively attend the context-specific development opportunities, motivations and challenges of the involved communities?
What are the aspects that influence the actual impact on sustainable development from energy access projects?
On this digital Zukunftssalon Dr. Long Seng To, Joint Director of the Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience (STEER) at Loughborough University, and Dr. Julia C. Terrapon-Pfaff, Co-Head of the Research Unit International Energy Transitions on the Wuppertal Institute, will discuss each conceptual advances and evidence from empirical research about how energy access interventions can effectively spark sustainable development of the involved communities. The web seminar will likely be hosted by Dr. Willington Ortiz, Researcher within the Research Unit International Energy Transitions on the Wuppertal Institute.
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Global Refugee Crisis: What can scientists and engineers do to ease the suffering and protect the vulnerable?
Thursday, October 6
2:00 pm to three:30 pm
RSVP at https://trusted.bu.edu/s/1759/2-bu/19/1col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=11886&cid=22801
Speakers Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and International Health Director, Center on Forced Displacement
The UN refugee agency estimated earlier this yr that greater than 100 million individuals are forced to flee their homes attributable to conflict, persecution, and climate change. Since then, the number has continued to extend attributable to ongoing war in Ukraine, economic devastation in Afghanistan, floods in Pakistan and protracted crises in lots of other places. While that is one among the good global challenges of our time, historically, the problems surrounding refugees have been checked out from the lens of diplomacy or humanitarian aid, with science and engineering research playing a minimal role. Research at Boston University goals to alter this paradigm. On this talk, Professor Zaman will discuss a few of his work within the lab, in the sphere, and within the classroom that goals to deal with this issue: progressive approaches which can be being developed and utilized in refugee camps and concrete informal settlements for disease surveillance and higher access to healthcare amongst probably the most vulnerable, policy recommendations that now we have been an element of in multiple countries hosting refugees and internally displaced communities, and pedagogical strategies developed at BU to coach more informed, well-rounded, socially conscious and ethical leaders of the longer term.
Contact Name Kati Reusche
Phone 617-353-6044
Contact Email kreusche@bu.edu
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Wholehearted Regeneration: Boosting Communal and Climate Resilience One Pocket Forest at a Time
Thursday, October 6
3 – 4:30pm ET
Cambridge Public Library, Foremost Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://bio4climate.org/events/cambridge-science-festival-talk/?blm_aid=25138
On Thursday, October 6, we’re joining the Cambridge Science Festival’s climate hub to share insights on ecosystem restoration and concrete rewilding.
Maya Dutta, Assistant Director of Regenerative Projects at Bio4Climate will share her work on Miyawaki Forests, which incorporates caring for the primary forest of this type planted within the Northeast US in Danehy Park, Cambridge in September 2021. She’s going to share the story of that project and ongoing rewilding work within the Greater Boston area and beyond, and discuss how this method and other types of ecosystem restoration can construct community resilience, equity, and wellbeing while addressing global climate change.
This presentation and Q&A session will run for roughly an hour and a half, from
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Governing the ‘China Boom’ within the Amazon Basin: Social and Environmental Regulation Amid A Commodity Supercycle
Tuesday, October 11
9:00 am to 10:00 am
RSVP at https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0M4otLYVQJeZgs9Kz3Zv3w
Latin America’s recent commodity ‘supercycle,’ a synchronized and sustained price increase lasting greater than five years, was largely driven by a significant influx in Chinese investment, finance and demand for raw materials. Throughout that boom – and the slump that followed – Amazon basin countries sought to balance economic, social and environmental priorities by strengthening after which relaxing their regulatory regimes. To what extent has the cooling of the ‘China boom’ led to a region-wide leisure of social and environmental standards? And where protections were relaxed, did those reforms result in greater, faster or higher-risk Chinese investment? In forthcoming research, Paulo Esteves, Coordinator, Socio-Environmental Platform and the Global South Unit for Mediation, BRICS Policy Center of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and Rebecca Ray, Senior Academic Researcher with the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, explore the implications for managing environmental and social protections amid natural resource booms, protecting the cultural and biological diversity of the Amazon basin and promoting host country governance throughout the Belt and Road Initiative
Join us on Tuesday, October 11, for a discussion on governing the ‘China boom’ within the Amazon basin. This webinar is an element of the Fall 2022 Global China Research Colloquium.
Speakers:Paulo Esteves, Coordinator, Socio-Environmental Platform and the Global South Unit for Mediation, BRICS Policy Center of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Rebecca Ray, Senior Academic Researcher, Boston University Global Development Policy Center
Cecilia Springer (Moderator), Assistant Director, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center
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Research and development for the general public good: Strengthening societal innovation
Tuesday, October 11
10:00 AM EDT – 11:00 AM EDT
RSVP at https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-research-and-development
Join the conversation on Twitter using #USInnovation
Investments in research and development (R&D) are vital keys to future prosperity. What countries spend on generating recent knowledge, products, services, and processes is significant for economic development and technology innovation.
Yet currently there are quite a few barriers to R&D support in the US. There exist limitations when it comes to vision, strategy, and policies that would keep America from achieving vital national goals. A recent report by Governance Studies Vice President Darrell West will address these barriers and description ways to strengthen societal innovation in the US, and do more to safeguard the country’s future.
On October 11, join Governance Studies at Brookings for an in-depth discussion on the right way to put money into R&D for the general public good.
Viewers can submit questions for speakers by emailing events@brookings.edu or via Twitter at @BrookingsGov through the use of #USInnovation.
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Pedagogy of the Rainforest: An Indigenous Yanomami Perspective
Wednesday, October 12
12 PM ET
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-emil-keme-fellow-presentation-virtual
“Ancestral principles held by Indigenous peoples represent the grounding force against environmental injustices and destruction in Abiayala (The Americas). By specializing in The Falling Sky (2013), a testimonial and biographical account by Indigenous Yanomami elder, Davi Kopenawa, I show the Yanomami’s relationship to the rainforest and the ‘greater than human’ world (Abram 2013) within the Amazonian forests within the northeast region of present-day Brazil and Venezuela. Indigenous peoples and their worldview show to humanity a distinct way of life and caring for the Earth, one which understands the Earth and all their expressions as a living being and that humanity just isn’t separate from nature.”
Emil’ Keme, a.k.a. Emilio del Valle Escalante, is an Indigenous K’iche’ Maya scholar and activist and a professor within the Department of English at Emory University. He’s a member of the Maya anti-colonial, binational collective Ix’balamquej Junajpu Wunaq’.
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Great Decisions | Outer Space
Wednesday, October 12
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116
RSVP at https://www.worldboston.org/calendar/2022/10/12/outer-space
The launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 marked the start of the space era and of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union. Within the twenty first century, there are a lot of more participants in space, including countries resembling India and China, and industrial corporations resembling SpaceX. How will the US fare in a crowded outer space?
Join us for a discussion of this complex topic with Lori Garver, former Deputy Administrator of NASA.
This event is free and open to the general public, but registration is required.
This program will concurrently be streamed to Zoom from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET.
Copies of Lori Garver’s recently published memoir, Escaping Gravity, will likely be available for purchase on the event.
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Disinformation and free speech: perspectives on the longer term of knowledge
Thursday, October 13
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Constructing 14, The Nexus, Hayden Library (Room 14S-130), 160 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disinformation-and-free-speech-perspectives-on-the-future-of-information-tickets-425870238347
Political discourse is dependent upon the sharing of accurate information and an open exchange of ideas. Can now we have each?
A panel of experts from a spread of disciplines will share their perspectives on how fact, fiction, and opinion converge, diverge, and infrequently collide. Based on their research, the speakers will share their views on how access to accurate information aligns with free speech; how we will help people evaluate information; and way more.
P anelists:
A dam Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab
D avid Karger, Professor of Computer Science and member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
D avid Rand, Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
M oderator: Alexia Hudson-Ward, Associate Director of Research and Learning, MIT Libraries
I n-person event is open to current MIT community members only; lunch will likely be provided to in-person attendees who pre-register.
L ive stream is accessible to anyone. Link will likely be emailed to registrants prior to the event. Streaming will begin at 12:15pm.
Pre-register for either option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disinformation-and-free-speech-perspectives-on-the-future-of-information-tickets-425870238347
A link to the recording will likely be emailed to all registrants when it becomes available.
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Brain, Body + Breath
Saturday, October 15
7:00pm
MIT Museum, 314 Foremost Street, Cambridge MA 02142
RSVP at https://tickets.mitmuseum.org/events/0f8f0038-981f-adc1-06d6-d3e9d8056834
Lower Level Seated – $20
Upper Level General Admission – $5
Seating is proscribed. Advance purchase is strongly really helpful.
Brain, Body + Breath is a multisensory musical experience created by composer and innovator Tod Machover for the opening of the brand new MIT Museum.
Featuring three Machover world premieres, the concert explores the ways in which music affects our bodies and minds while we produce, create or take heed to sound.
The three compositions will likely be accompanied by spectacular graphics by Peter Torpey and performed by a handpicked ensemble of young Recent York-based soloists, led by violinist Marina Kifferstein. Tod Machover will conduct.
need for reasonably priced, climate-resilient housing in all markets across the country.
This forum is in a hybrid format. Attendees may have the choice of being in-person, networking on the Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, or tuning in virtually.
Speakers:
Jane Carbone, LEED AP, Director of Development, Homeowners’ Rehab Inc.
David Downs, Vice President, Catholic Charities POP (Progress of Peoples) Development Corporation
Lee Reiners, Policy Director, Duke Financial Economics Center
Laurie Schoeman, Director, Climate and Sustainability, Capital Enterprise Community Partners
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Nouriel Roubini: Megathreats
Tuesday, October 18
12pm EDT (3:00 PM PDT)
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/?_ga=2.166293049.620828836.1664163783-149928173.1643172478#/instances/a0F3j00001YTzcIEAT
Cost: $10
Within the Seventies, the US faced stagflation: high rates of inflation combined with stagnant employment and growth. Global economist Nouriel Roubini predicts we’re heading toward one other Great Stagflation that will likely be difficult to recuperate from.
Is it too late to avoid this economic catastrophe? Financial and geopolitical certainties that we once took as a right have disappeared, and Roubini says we are actually facing a period of severe instability, conflict and chaos. He offers a sobering evaluation of 10 “megathreats” which can be interconnected, immense in scale, and bearing down on us.
Hear more as Roubini predicts what’s prone to unfold if we don’t reverse course and act now.
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This program is online-only. Please pre-register to receive a link to the live-stream event.
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A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World
Friday, October 21
9:15 AM–4:30 PM ET
Harvard, Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and online
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-a-pale-blue-dot-under-pressure-symposium
Climate change is one among the, if not the, most vital threats facing our planet today. It affects life on Earth in countless known, and plenty of still unknown, ways—from atmospheric health to wellness; natural ecosystems to small businesses; global security to neighborhood food insecurity; and international policy to individual decision-making—while exacerbating underlying patterns of inequality.
The Mike and Nina Patterson Science Symposium will explore these interconnected issues through sessions investigating global climate systems and climate disasters, public policy, health, climate justice and activism, and methods of adaptation and remediation.
This system will begin with a keynote address on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 4 PM. Please return to this page for extra information in the approaching weeks.
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MIT Energy Night 2022
Friday, October 21
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
MIT Museum 314 Foremost Street Constructing E-28 Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-energy-night-2022-tickets-418033769257
MIT Energy Night is the primary flagship event of the MIT Energy and Climate Club. It showcases near 40 interactive presentations highlighting MIT’s unique innovation in climate and energy, annually drawing over 1,000 attendees. Presenters include MIT research labs, early-stage start-ups, and other climate and energy-focused corporations.
Energy Night is free and open to the general public. That is an important opportunity to witness the cutting-edge energy research developing across MIT’s ecosystem and spark conversations with students, researchers, faculty, and industry leaders.
Yow will discover out more by visiting our website at https://www.mitec-night.org/
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Environmental, Energy, and Engineering Profession Fair
October 24
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST
John B. Hynes Convention Center, Junior Ballroom, 302 & 304, 900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ejby3x4b3360f40a&llr=jrtn7kqab
The Profession Fair is free for all students and job seekers to attend.
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Trauma to Transformation: A Set of Existential Opportunities to Address Environmental Justice and the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, October 25
4 PM ET
Harvard, Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 OR Online on Zoom
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-mustafa-santiago-ali-lecture
Mustafa Santiago Ali will discuss opportunities to deal with environmental justice and the climate crisis as a part of the Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture Series and Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s focus area on climate change.
Speaker
A thought leader, international speaker, policy maker, community liaison, trainer, and facilitator, Mustafa Santiago Ali is the vp of environmental justice, climate, and community revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the founder and CEO of Revitalization Strategies. Before joining NWF, he was the senior vp of the Hip Hop Caucus (HHC), a national nonprofit organization, where he led the strategic direction, expansion, and operation of HHC’s portfolio on climate, environmental justice, and community revitalization.
Ali previously worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for twenty-four years, starting as a student at age 16. He was a founding member of the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and most recently served as senior advisor for environmental justice and community revitalization and assistant associate administrator. He has lectured at over 100 colleges and universities, including Howard, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, Duke, George Washington, Georgetown, and Spelman. Ali currently serves as a board member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Union of Concerned Scientists, TREE, Roddenberry Foundation, and Climate Hawks Vote. He’s a cohost of HHC’s radio show and podcast, The Coolest Show.
Ali uses a holistic approach to revitalizing vulnerable communities, helping them to maneuver from surviving to thriving. Throughout his profession, he has worked with greater than 500 domestic and international communities to secure environmental, health, and economic justice.
Discussant
Stephanie LeMenager RI ‘17, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
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Energy Seminar: Lauren Culver, Senior Energy Specialist, The World Bank
Monday, October 31
1:30pm – 2:30pm ET (4:30pm to five:20pm PT)
https://stanford-pilot.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=389f460e-1741-41c2-bc16-af1501842447
Lauren Culver is an energy specialist with the World Bank. From 2012-2014, she served as an advisor throughout the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources advising U.S. policymakers on energy markets and technologies. Previously, Lauren was a Presidential Management Fellow on the U.S. Department of Energy, where she counseled the Undersecretary for Energy on innovation and manufacturing. Lauren earned a PhD in Management and Science and Engineering from Stanford University, an MS in Technology and Policy and an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida.
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Wet + Dry: Landscapes of Resilience and Material Exploration
Thursday, November 3
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Harvard, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Surfacedesign is a landscape architecture and concrete design firm based in San Francisco, California. This internationally award-winning practice focuses on creating dynamic parks, campuses, plazas, waterfronts, civic landscapes and personal gardens. The firm’s approach emphasizes and celebrates the unique context and imaginative potential of every project. The studio’s design process is rooted in asking novel questions and listening to a site and its users – a process that has led to engaging and galvanizing landscapes which can be rugged, contemporary, and crafted.
Increasingly, water has change into a central focus of all landscape interventions. Holistic, systems-based design considering that actively engages water extremes—from drought to flooding/sea level rise— is on the core of Surfacedesign’s practice. Difficult the formal manifestations of municipal guidelines and standards for water management, each project engages water as an integral design element. James and Roderick will share a spread of labor from the residential to the infrastructural. These works rejoice water systems and explore how planting, topography and cultural narratives can reinforce water resiliency.
Speakers
James A. Lord, FASLA, Partner, Surfacedesign Inc
James A. Lord is a founding partner of Surfacedesign, Inc. James’ progressive design approach and stewardship of the firm’s design practice has established Surfacedesign as a global leader in urban design and sustainability. He leads projects in Recent Zealand, Hawaii, Mexico, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. James received his MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and his BARCH from the University of Southern California.
Roderick Wyllie, FASLA, Partner, Surfacedesign Inc
Roderick Wyllie is an award-winning landscape architect and a founding partner of Surfacedesign, Inc. Roderick has led quite a lot of complex projects throughout the office, including the Uber Campus in Mission Bay, San Francisco’s Bayfront Park, The Land’s End Visitor Center, The Barnacles at Pier 9 and Expedia Global Headquarters in Seattle. His horticultural knowledge and fervour for material authenticity reinforce craftsmanship and a focus to detail into each project at Surfacedesign.
More information at https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/james-a-lord-and-roderick-wyllie-of-surfacedesign-wet-dry-landscapes-of-resilience-and-material-exploration/
