[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - October 12, 2014
George Mokray gmoke at world.std.com
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
7pm  Land & Freedom: Talking Food Systems
7pm  Political Order and Political Decay:  From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
7pm  Science by the Pint: Engineering New Microbial Life Forms
7:30am  Silver Maple Forest Protest
8am  Boston TechBreakfast: StayAtHand, Bedrock Data, UsinLife LLC, Ostrato, Everseat
12pm   Charles Lewis, Professor and Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The American University School of Communication
12pm  The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response
12pm  Arts Innovation in the Digital Age
12pm  Douglas G. MacMartin, Caltech
1  SEBANE [Solar Energy Business Association of New England] Meeting
2:30pm  Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
3:30pm  Digital Diagnosis – Harnessing Digital Technology to Improve Personal Health
4:30pm  Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
5:45pm  Boston FinTech Demo Night
6pm  MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
6:30pm  Adaptive Technologies: Computation's Deep Ancestry
7:30am  October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
10am  Building a Movement for Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist, Multi-Racial Coalition Building for a Just, Sustainable and Democratic Society (Workshop)
10:15am  A Crisis of Constitutional Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
12pm  True Lies in Silenced Cultures
12pm  Nutrient hotspots and the role of ancient herders in the creation of African savannas
12pm  Transportation, Economic Competitiveness, and Megaregions
12pm  Growing the Region's Farm and Food Workforce
12pm  Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
4pm  How to develop wearable robots that make walking easier
4pm  Prevention in the Age of Multi-Morbidity: The Swiss Experience
4:10pm  Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Productivity, and the Wealth of Nations
5:30pm  OktoberFest Networking & Pitch
6pm  Adapting Species to a Changing World: The Potential of Genome Editing
6pm  Green Exchange: Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
6:30pm  Crowdfunding's role in the future of technology innovation
6:30pm  The Art of Cyber Warfare
6:30pm  The Environmental Poisoning of Iraq - Why Academics Must Speak Out
8:30am  Commonwealth of Massachusetts Cyber Security Event
12pm  Temperate Forest Dynamics on a Grand Scale: the Harvard Forest Global Earth Observatory Plot
12pm  Community Resilience 101:  How Your Community Can Thrive in Challenging Times
12:15pm  Expansion and Decline: Al Qaeda's Franchising Strategy and Its Consequences
2:30pm  Disruptive Innovation in Real Estate
3pm  Drone Warfare:  Discussion/Signing with Sarah Kreps & John Kaag
4:15pm  Stepping Off the Gas: The Future of Transport Fuel in the United States
4:15pm  Energy, Peace, and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean
5pm  Shooting Science
5pm  Combating Poverty the Swedish Way
5pm  Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement
5:30pm  Report from Rwanda and Congo on Water and Energy
6pm  Earthos Conversation Series Topic #5 LAND
6pm  Edtech Oktoberfest
6:30pm  Startup Stir: Engaging Fans with Social Media
6:30pm  Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life
6:40pm  An Act of Collective Madness
7pm  This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
7pm  Beyond Neutrality - enabling a world of connected things
12pm  Strategic Ozonesonde Networks: Insights from SHADOZ (1998-) and SEACIONS (2013)
12:15pm  Building for Girls' Education in Kibera, Nairobi
12:30pm  Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Pollution Exposure in the Philippines
1pm  JCHS Symposium: Designing Housing and Communities for an Aging Population
3pm  xTalks: Alain Mille - Observing an Open Learning Process - A Knowledge Oriented Process
6pm  A Conversation with Jaime Lerner: Urban Acupuncture Book Talk
6pm  MIT Energy Night 2014
7pm  Is Global Warming Dead?
8am  2014 HBS Energy Symposium
11am  Silver Maple Forest Bike Ride
7pm  The Puppetmaster (Xi meng ren sheng)
7:30pm  37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert:  "A Love Supreme"
12:30pm  The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival- "Post-disaster Civil Society"
12pm  MASS Seminar - Yi Ming (GFDL)
12pm  A Systems Approach to the 2014 Midterm Elections: Voting to Achieve Systemwide Change
12pm  Prospects for shale gas development in Eastern Europe
12pm  Lawrence Lessig interviews Edward Snowden
12:15pm  Bridging the Basic-Applied Dichotomy and the Cycle of Discovery and Invention
12:15pm  Energy as a Tool of Foreign Policy
4pm  Are the Negotiations for a Global Climate Change Agreement Stalled? If So, What Can Be Done?
4pm  Truth, Hierarchy, and Order: The Mathematical Battle over the Shape of Modernity
4:30pm  Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Panel: The Next Great Mass Extinction
5:15pm  Light on Yoga – in America: On the Legacy of BKS Iyengar
6pm  The Geography of Inequality: Suburbs, Cities, and the future of the middle class
6pm  Boston New Technology October 2014 Product Showcase #BNT46
6:30pm  WORK ON PURPOSE: A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND DINNERS
7pm  National Security and Double Government
7:30pm  HEET's Help for Houses of Worship Workshops
12pm  Charles M. Blow, op-ed columnist,The New York Times; author of the forthcoming book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
12:30pm  The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance
4:30pm  Harpoon Brewery Sustainability Tour, Tasting, & Talk
5:30pm  Meet Yifan Zhang, CEO/Co-Founder of Pact Health, & learn about persuasive tech
6pm  Ancient Grains for Modern Meals
6pm  Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS17 (GA)
6:30pm  The Secret Life of Cities
7pm  Close to Home: Indoor air quality & your health
7pm  Understanding China & U.S.-Chinese Relations: A Key to World Politics
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I've read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Carbon Farming:  Organic Agriculture Saves the World [Geotherapy]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/07/1335047/-Carbon-Farming-Organic-Agriculture-Saves-the-World-Geotherapy
"Land & Freedom: Talking Food Systems"
Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
There will be followup discussion with the filmmaker, Brian Myers, after the screening.
6:30pm Doors open
7:00pm Film screening
7:45pm Q&A
ABOUT THE FILM  Visiting local gardens, farmers markets, and other fresh produceprojects in San Diego's diverse urban neighborhoods, Land & Freedomspeaks with folks that are taking advantage of the city's reformed urban agriculture ordinances. Residents are finding alternatives to a food system that has historically distressed low ­income communities, eating healthier with produce they've grown themselves, using community gardens like they would use parks, and displaying respect for the neighborhoods they live in. Still, many people continue to struggle with the lack of affordable fresh produce readily available within neighborhoods and other resources to improve their lives.
www.talkingfoodsystems.org
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER  Brian Myers, a video producer with the Media Arts Center San Diego, works with underserved communities to document the voice of local community members for the Speak City Heights multimedia collaborative.  As a media justice activist he works on a variety of independent media projects for community groups, such as May Day Workers Film Festival, and other organizations focused on social justice.
ABOUT ENCUENTRO 5  encuentro 5 (e5) is a collaborative project and space for progressive  movement building in the heart of Boston. It is organized by Massachusetts Global Action (MGA) and TecsChange: Technology for Social Change.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1502093723372059
Political Order and Political Decay:  From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University, for a discussion of his latest book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two."
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
Science by the Pint: Engineering New Microbial Life Forms
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Nikhil Nair
Dr. Nikhil Nair's lab is interested in evolving new microbial life forms for two reasons.  The first is to develop biological systems for a variety of biochemical and biomedical applications. The second is to glean fundamental understanding from these engineered microbes about how biological systems work, and how and why they naturally evolved to their current state.
Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News.  In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
Contact:  http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
Silver Maple Forest Protest
7:30-9 AM
Silver Maple Forest, Acorn Park Drive, Belmont
Contact emass73 at gmail.com
Boston TechBreakfast: StayAtHand, Bedrock Data, UsinLife LLC, Ostrato, Everseat
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155723042/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
StayAtHand - Avery Walker
Bedrock Data, Inc.: Bedrock Data - Ben Smith
UsinLife LLC - Anil Tarachandani
Ostrato - Brock Spradling
Everseat - Jeff Peres
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
Charles Lewis, Professor and Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, The American University School of Communication.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/charles-lewis/
The Use of Cash and Vouchers in Humanitarian Response
MIT,  Building E62-687, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Lunch will be provided.
Speaker: Rebecca Vince, UN World Food Programme, Global Logistics Cluster Support Cell, Cash and Markets Officer (Rome)
Rebecca Vince is currently working as a Cash and Markets Specialist for the Global Logistics Cluster, UN WFP. After graduating with a Masters in Astrophysics from University College London, Rebecca has been in the international development sector for the last decade, living and working across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific. Before working on this assignment, Rebecca was the Deputy Head of Logistics for Oxfam Great Britain, working to deliver an improvement strategy across their portfolio of more than 70 countries. As well as specialising in cash and market based programming, developing SOPs and models for this topic, Rebecca's thematic areas have included local Partner Capacity Building, leading the innovative interagency PARCEL project for the last year and a half. Rebecca has also worked on Supply Chain performance metrics, designing the SLEAT tool which is now rapidly becoming an INGO sector standard and has recently transformed Oxfam's approach to evaluating financial benefits and Return on Investment (RoI), applying new methods to several multi-million pound projects. Rebecca is an active member of the Humanitarian Logistics Association and Women in Logistics UK and has recently qualified as a Workplace Coach. Originally from the UK, Rebecca enjoys trying to get things to grow in her garden, professional singing and photography.
Lauren Seelbach, EIT, CFM
Technology and Policy Program ​​| MIT Humanitarian Response Lab
seelbach at mit.edu
Arts Innovation in the Digital Age
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-207,  Wiesner Conference Room, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Karim Ben Khelifa
Moderated by William Uricchio
Karim Ben Khelifa is a photojournalist who freelances regularly for Time, Vanity Fair, Le Monde and dozens of other publications. Khelifa created The Enemy, a project at the crossroad between neurosciences, artificial Intelligence and storytelling. The Enemy takes us on an extraordinary odyssey through some of the most contested conflicts in the world in order to acknowledge people's humanity.
Khalifa is currently a fellow at the MIT OpenDocLab and the 2013 Carroll Binder Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Free and open to the public.
Lunch will be provided for those who register prior to October 10.
Space is limited; please register early.
Douglas G. MacMartin, Caltech
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
MASS Seminar
SEBANE [Solar Energy Business Association of New England] Meeting
ML Strategies, One Financial Center, Boston
SEBANE members and prospective members will be meeting to discuss solar strategies in the context of the soon-to-be-named Massachusetts Net Metering Task Force. The meeting will be open to members as well as those who might join SEBANE. We will hear from Bill Stillinger (PV Squared), whom SEBANE has nominated for the Task Force, as well as our legislative consultant David O'Connor (ML Strategies, formerly MA DOER Commissioner) and engage in discussion with those attending.
ML Strategies is located in downtown Boston at One Financial Plaza directly across the street from the main entrance to South Station and above the MBTA station stop on the Red Line.
Discuss the composition of the Task Force, its tentative schedule and its possible accomplishments;
Seek input on what policy and regulatory advances SEBANE should pursue through the task force;
Discuss SEBANE's role on the task force within the context of the state and regional solar community at large;
Discuss strategies for increasing SEBANE's membership and its current and future efforts.
Networking until approximately 3:30.
RSVP's are strongly encouraged to avoid delay at the door. Please also bring a photo ID.
Contact SEBANE
E-mail: info at SEBANE.org
Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mariaflavia Harari (MIT Graduate Student)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact:  economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
Digital Diagnosis – Harnessing Digital Technology to Improve Personal Health
Microsoft NERD Center, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://jlabslc-digitalhealth.eventbrite.com/?aff=grc
COST:  $20-45
In less than a generation, digital technology has become ubiquitous, with the majority of Americans now walking around with more computing power in the palm of their hands than was needed to power early NASA missions to the moon. The advancement of digital technologies has enabled devices to monitor and analyze your body's vital functions, a huge improvement over early health monitoring devices, like a traditional home scale. How can we harness this technology to improve our personal health? Where are these technologies heading in the future?
A panel of experts will discuss current digital health tools and their benefits as well as the promise for the next generation of digital products to improve health outcomes and empower consumers. See live demonstrations from companies developing new health monitoring technologies.
Our panel discussions are candid, interactive and informal. We hope you walk away with insights and knowledge that can help advance your work or overcome roadblocks. The panel will be followed by a networking reception.
Naomi Fried, Ph.D. | Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children's Hospital
Clifford Goldsmith | Health Care Strategist, Microsoft
Andy Palmer | Co-Founder and CEO, Tamr, Inc.
John Wilbanks | Chief Commons Officers, Sage Bionetworks
Cris De Luca | Digital Innovation Lead, Johnson & Johnson Innovation [moderator]
3:30pm | Registration and Networking
4:00pm | Product demonstrations from health technology startups
4:30pm | Panel Discussion / Q&A
5:15pm | Networking Reception
6:30pm | Close
Life science, biotech and digital health industry enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, investors, founders, and CEOs
Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Life From Inside Out
MIT, Building 2-105
Speaker: Vlada Stamenkovic (MIT)
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact:  Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan at mit.edu
Boston FinTech Demo Night
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-FinTech/events/206898562/
The Boston FinTech Meetup is hosting its second Demo Night on ***Tuesday, October 14th*** at the IBM Innovation Center. In between networking, we'll showcase up to six of Boston's hottest FinTech Startups, and we're bringing together some of Boston's most engaged VC's, industry veterans and Tech experts in addition to the entrepreneurs to see the action. Please plan to join us for this exciting evening. We are also seeking your innovative start-up to showcase! The details:
If you participate, you'll have at least five minutes to demo your product / technology and then the panel will spend five minutes on Q&A and constructive suggestions. If you are interested in demo'ing, please send Sarah Biller ([masked]) an email with a brief description of your company, technology and presenter no later than Weds., Sept. 17th. We'll respond to all interested in demo'ing. Please note we plan to have Demo nights every 4-5 months going forward. ***Note the New Date***
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM - Registration + Networking
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Intro + Pitch + Feedback
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Networking
MIT Museum Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Invisible Majority
Ann Pearson - Professor of Environmental Sciences, Harvard
Giulio Mariotti - Crosby Postdoctoral Fellow, EAPS, MIT
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Fall 2014 Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Discover the origins of life on earth and how life itself can drastically alter the landscape of our planet. Then learn what prospects lie ahead of finding habitable planets and even other types of life outside of the Earth. Come with questions, share your thoughts, and leave with new knowledge and understanding.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact:  Andrew Hong
andhong at mit.edu
Adaptive Technologies: Computation's Deep Ancestry
WHEN  Tue., Oct. 14, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Greg Lynn and others
COST	Free and open to the public
DETAILS	This discussion will feature designers, historians, and experimentalists who probe the resonance or conflict between design and exact science. We will explore the attraction, limits, amplifications, and subversions of exactness and deduction. As designers have turned to physics and mathematics as models for technique or knowledge in computational design, what have they learned? What might be hidden or pathological ancestors and antecedents to our current and future design technology? Moderated by Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, with Greg Lynn and others.
LINK	www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/greg-lynn-adaptive-technologies-computations-deep-ancestry.html
October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
Join us for the October installment of our Boston Sustainability Breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support.  It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
Though our Sustainability Breakfast Series is now a little over one year old, this is an evolving event so your input and participation is more than welcome.
Building a Movement for Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist, Multi-Racial Coalition Building for a Just, Sustainable and Democratic Society (Workshop)
Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
After the People's Climate March, many climate activists are thinking about how to build bridges with colleagues working toward racial, social, environmental, and economic justice.  This workshop will be a great opportunity to build these skills.
The New Economy Coalition is putting on many other great workshops and events between October 13 - 19 as part of a New Economy Week with the theme: "What is the Color of the New Economy?  And Why it Matters."  To learn more about other meetings and workshops, click here.
A Crisis of Constitutional Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
WHEN  Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 10:15 a.m. – 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Center for European Studies, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe
SPEAKER(S)  Bojan Bugarič, visiting scholar, CES, Harvard University
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	art.goldhammer at gmail.com
DETAILS  After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism, many Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries managed to "return to Europe". For many observers, the "return to Europe" signaled the ultimate victory of democracy and rule of law over the legacy of totalitarianism in these countries. In contrast to this optimistic view, more cautious accounts argue that "democracies by their very nature are never definitely established." Hungary recently adopted a new Constitution that directly dismantles basic checks and balances, entrenches a deeply problematic illiberal political order and undermines some of the basic principles of the EU political constitution. In Bulgaria, the institutionalization of cronyism, the subversion of stable normative frameworks and stalled state building are all leading to "post accession hooliganism," which is further weakening an already "frustrated and disillusioned democracy." Slovenia, one of the "success stories" of the transition, is experiencing its biggest constitutional and political crisis since its independence in 1991. It seems that only Poland has so far been able to resist the lure of authoritarianism. As these examples of democratic fatigue, regression and backsliding into various forms of constitutional authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe show, the "return to Europe" is still not complete. While there has been significant progress in the development of "electoral democracy" in the region, "liberal democracy" still remains fragile and weak. Behind a façade of harmonized legal rules transposed from various EU legal sources, several cracks have begun to appear, exposing the fragility of constitutional democracy in the CEE countries. As a consequence, CEE countries are once again displaying certain features of "lands in between" which call attention to their constantly precarious and indeterminate location on the political map of Europe. Zwischen-Europa, as some interwar German writers referred to this part of Europe, lies in the territory between the West and the Russian East and is said to have been the "unfinished part of Europe" for most of the 20th century. Its political and legal institutions were similarly "caught" in between the democratic West and the authoritarian East. As such, the "lands in between" should be an interesting case study for new literature on "competitive authoritarianism" which argues that between constitutional democracy and authoritarian rule, there are many intermediate and hybrid forms of "constitutional authoritarianism".
LINK	ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2861
True Lies in Silenced Cultures
WHEN  Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S)	Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO	hutchevents at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  A Q+A will follow each lecture.
LINK	hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Nutrient hotspots and the role of ancient herders in the creation of African savannas
Harvard, Tozzer Library Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Dr. Fiona Marsall, Washington University
Archaeology Seminar
Contact Name:  Dr. Christian Tryon
christiantryon at fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-15-160000-2014-10-15-170000/archaeology-seminar#sthash.cgyPvCCk.dpuf
Transportation, Economic Competitiveness, and Megaregions
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP to Ellen Bell, director of Strategic Initiatives for Research and Innovation, at ellen.bell at dot.gov
Webinar https://volpe-events.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=volpe-events
Dr. Catherine Ross, Director of Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
Dr. Catherine L. Ross is one of the world's experts on megaregions—how to bring together regions on transportation, water, energy, land, housing, and health to create great places to live that compete in a global world. She is the director of Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) and deputy director of the National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management.
Dr. Ross is vice president of Euquant, Inc., an Atlanta-based economic and planning consulting firm. In July 2009, she was selected to advise the Obama Administration on the first-ever White House Office of Urban Affairs.
She is the editor of Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness(Island Press, 2009) and the co-author of The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century (1997). Dr. Ross has conducted research on transportation and urban planning and how to make cities, neighborhoods and regions safer, healthier places for all to live. She has published extensively. Her recent book, Health Impact Assessment in the United States, was published in 2014 by Springer. Her research provides solutions to numerous problems, including global warming, affordable housing, congestion, job growth in a global economy, air quality and health, and the built environment.
Growing the Region's Farm and Food Workforce
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/525141978
Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region's food system.  The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System.
All webinars are recorded and will be available at www.farmland.org/newengland. You will find these four webinars already posted there:
May 14:  Introduction to the New England Food Policy Report and Project
June 18th:  Organic Waste:  Finding Uses for It in the Food System
July 16th:   Frameworks for Regional Food System Collaboration
July 23rd:   Reducing Farmland Conversion: State Land Use and Protection Policies
For a more detailed description of each of the webinars, please visit www.newenglandfoodpolicy.org
Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
12:00a–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401
Light lunch at 11:30am
Speaker: Ms. Sudha Maniam, GE Global
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2014.html
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact:  Valerie DiNardo
valeried at mit.edu
How to develop wearable robots that make walking easier
Harvard, Pierce Hall 209,  29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Steve Collins, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract: It is an exciting time in robotic prosthesis and exoskeleton design, with clever innovations emerging quickly. But will these technologies provide real benefits to their human users? It is surprisingly difficult to predict how humans respond and adapt to wearable robotic devices, and many years of development are typically required before proposed designs can be tested on humans. What if we could test our ideas for device function quickly, without the overhead of designing product-like prototypes? We have developed a system for rapid emulation of robotic prostheses and exoskeletons using lightweight end-effectors worn on the body and tethered to powerful off-board motor and control hardware. We use this system in experiments that reveal quantitative relationships between device behavior, human performance, and underlying biomechanics. Recent results include characterizing the trade-offs between ankle push-off work, motor size and metabolic energy cost, as well as the relationship between step-by-step adjustments in device behavior and gait stability for the human-robot system. We will discuss how this biomechanics-centered approach to the design of assistive robots will lead to empirically-verified design guidelines, facilitate new approaches in clinical diagnosis, and speed the arrival of better wearable robots.
Speaker Bio:  Steve Collins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is director of the Experimental Biomechatronics Laboratory, organizes the CMU Bipedal Locomotion Seminar, and teaches courses on Design and Biomechatronics. Dr. Collins received his B.S. from Cornell in 2002, his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2008, and performed postdoctoral research at T.U. Delft in the Netherlands until 2010 when he joined Carnegie Mellon. He is founder of Intelligent Prosthetic Systems L.L.C., a member of the scientific board of Dynamic Walking, and the latest recipient of the American Society of Biomechanics Young Investigator Award and the Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Year.
Applied Mechanics Colloquia
Contact: LaShanda Banks
Email: lbanks at seas.harvard.edu
Prevention in the Age of Multi-Morbidity: The Swiss Experience
WHEN  Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge G2
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health & The Lown Scholars Program Lecture Series
SPEAKER(S)	Thomas Zeltner
Thomas Zeltner is a Swiss physician and lawyer, and former director-general of the Swiss National Health Authority and Secretary of Health of Switzerland. He currently serves as special envoy for financing, World Health Organization. Zeltner has a long history as an innovative and progressive leader in national and international public health.
Reception to follow.
Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Productivity, and the Wealth of Nations
WHEN  Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy,
Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S)  Geoffrey Heal, Columbia Business School, and Jisung Park, Harvard University
LINK  http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
OktoberFest Networking & Pitch
NGIN Workplace, 210 Broadway, suite 201, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nginational-oktoberfest-networking-pitch-tickets-13390263639
Join us for an afternoon of Beer, Food & Networking!
Send an email (join at nginworkplace.com) and sign your company up to get 5 minutes of fame in our PITCH SESSION!
Adapting Species to a Changing World: The Potential of Genome Editing
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Innovative new technologies may enable scientists to manipulate ancient and modern DNA to safeguard ecosystems from invasive organisms, help species recover their genetic diversity, and address issues of climate change. However, as geneticist George Church will discuss, while resurrecting mammoths could help maintain the Arctic permafrost, such developments require thoughtful consideration of complex system interactions and potential unintended consequences.
Lecture. Free and open to the public.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-15-220000/adapting-species-changing-world-potential-genome-editing#sthash.FV8VwWLP.dpuf
Green Exchange: Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
Harvard University, 51 Brattle Street, Grossman Common Room (2 floor), Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-biodiversity-for-a-livable-climate-tickets-13613455211
More of our man-made carbon emissions to date have come from land mismanagement and the resulting loss of soil carbon than from burning fossil fuels.
Our next Green Exchange, given by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, will be about ways to remove that atmospheric carbon and store it back into the soils by harnessing the power of nature.
After the presentation and discussion at the Grossman Common Room, we will be gathering at John Harvard around 7:30 for a bite to eat - join us anytime!
Crowdfunding's role in the future of technology innovation
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Join us for a Feature Presentation including interviews with serial entrepreneur and leading Angel investor, David S. Rose, and equity Crowdfunding pioneer, Ryan Feit. Hear how Crowdfunding is changing the way early-stage technology is financed.
Speed networking & registration (6:30 sharp)
Premier of Feature Presentation
Interactive 'Needs & Asks' session
Feature Presentation starring:
David S. Rose, Founder & CEO, Gust, Managing Partner, Rose Tech Ventures, Chairman Emeritus, NY Angels
Ryan Feit, Co-Founder & CEO, SeedInvest
Following the Feature Presentation we'll begin the interactive "Needs & Asks" session. Requests will be announced to the group and connections can be made in real-time. Attendees are encouraged to submit their request when registering.
About the speakers:
David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur, Inc 500 CEO and active angel investor who has helped to fund over 100 companies. He is the author of the New York Times best selling book, "Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups". David has been described by Forbes magazine as "New York's Archangel" and by Red Herring magazine as "Patriarch of Silicon Alley." He is the founder and CEO of Gust, the international collaboration platform for startup financing that connects over 50,000 business angels and 250,000 entrepreneurs. David is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Associate Founder and Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies.
Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Carlson Capital, Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Prior to the passage of the JOBS Act, Ryan supported The Startup Exemption, the nonprofit responsible for bringing the concept of equity crowdfunding to Washington, D.C. Ryan co-founded the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serves as a Board Member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates group. Whenever given the chance, Ryan enjoys traveling and has been to 77 countries. Ryan received an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
"The Art of Cyber Warfare"
Microsoft NERD, 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA (map)
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/National-Information-Security-Group-Boston/events/209746042/
Cost: Free and includes pizza!
Reservations and Photo ID: Required. Reserve here at Meetup.  We require your full name for building security purposes, so please include that if your Meetup username does not provide it or you will NOT be added to the security list.  Please also bring a photo ID to present to building security upon entering the building.
Topic #1:
"How Flashlight Apps Spy on You," presented by Gary Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall.
Description:   As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Gary Miliefsky, CEO of  SnoopWall, will show us how the top ten flashlight apps have been spying on nearly half a billion people, then discuss best practices for mobile security and show some of the hottest new free tools to help lock down and reclaim privacy.We have seen cycle after cycle of change and disruption in technology and security, and it seems that on each iteration the industry goes through the same series of mistakes, panic, despair, and finally varying levels of resolution. In this presentation, Jack Daniel will review disruptions from early computing systems to the cloud, to the current "Bring Your Own [whatever]" and "Internet of Things" panics, and then focus the conversation on the common issues and solutions to these cycles.
Topic #2: "The Art of Cyber Warfare," presented by Radware.
Description:   Is the world in the midst of a cyber-war? If so, what are the implications? Hear Radware explore some of the most notable recent cyber-attacks and how many of the findings correlate with the tenets of warfare as defined in The Art of War by Sun Tzu, the ancient military general, strategist and tactician. How should organizations be prepare for an information security landscape that is shaped by ideologically motivated cyber warfare rather than just opportunistic cyber-crime? Discuss the techniques being employed to safeguard IT operations in a theatre that is witnessing ever more sophisticated attacks.
Contact:  http://boston.naisg.org/
The Environmental Poisoning of Iraq - Why Academics Must Speak Out
MIT, Building 32-141, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Muhsin Al-Sabbak, Basra, Iraq and Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, University of Michigan
Iraqi physicians have noted a large increase in the rate of birth defects among babies born in southern Iraq in recent years, and there is evidence linking this increase to environmental pollution from U.S. munitions.
Dr. Muhsin Al-Sabbak, an obstetrician at Basra Maternity Hospital, Iraq, and his Iranian colleague Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist at the University of Michigan, will be in Boston on October 15-17 to publicize this epidemic and seek collaboration in responding to it.
MIT Science for the People
The MIT Science for the People seminar series provides a platform for students, staff, and faculty to discuss ideas on how to use science to make a better world.
Web site: https://www.facebook.com/MITSftP?hc_location=timeline
Sponsor(s): The South Asia Forum at MIT, MIT Western Hemisphere Project , Science, Technology, and Global Security
For more information, contact:  Subrata Ghoshroy
ghoshroy at mit.edu
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Cyber Security Event
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM (EDT)
Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/commonwealth-of-massachusetts-cyber-security-event-tickets-13388267669
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
Experts in Cyber Security will gather at the State House to highlight today's trends in cyber security, the importance of business and technology leaders working together to ensure the ongoing security of our information, and how we can best manage our cyber security priorities.
Virtually every facet of our lives is touched by technology and keeping our information and systems safe is of critical importance to both the public, businesses, and IT folks alike.
9 am Welcome Remarks by Bill Oates, CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassIT
9:15 am Greg McCarthy, Chief Information Security Officer, City of Boston
10 am Jack Danahy, Founder/CTO, CYLENT Systems
10:45 am Mike Korgan, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft
Host: Kevin Burns, CSO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassIT
Open to the public- All are welcome.
Sign in at the Gardner Auditorium on the morning of the event between 8:15 – 8:50am.
The Program will begin at 9am.
Temperate Forest Dynamics on a Grand Scale: the Harvard Forest Global Earth Observatory Plot
Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Rd Tufts University, Medford
David Orwig, PhD; Senior Forest Ecologist, Harvard Forest
In his talk, David Orwig will present current research at Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA), focusing on the integrated study of forest dynamics and ecosystem processes. He will discuss how this type of research helps answering long-term questions and informs forest management.
David Orwig is a forest ecologist for Harvard University's Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. He has worked there for the last 19 years. He received a B.S. in Biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and he holds a MSc in Ecology and PhD in Forest Resources both from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests encompass various aspects of forest ecology and ecosystem science, with particular emphasis on dendroecology, old-growth forests, and the role of land use history and disturbance on forest composition and structure. He has integrated stand, community, landscape, and ecosystem approaches in examining the ecological consequences of several invasive insect pests in forests of southern New England. He has studied and written extensively on the hemlock woolly adelgid and the impact this pest is having on forests in the region, and within the last several years, began studying the invasive elongate hemlock scale, the Sirex wood wasp, and the Asian Long-horned beetle.
Contact environmentalstudies at tufts.edu
Webcast live at https://tufts.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=tufts&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc0901l%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dtufts%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D316416707%26UID%3D516099667%26Host%3Df428050922031802%26FrameSet%3D2%26MTID%3Dm67c61a87cdb5cfefee82fbc7955c0aa8
Community Resilience 101:  How Your Community Can Thrive in Challenging Times
RSVP at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2140107385879296513
Co-Sponsored by the New England Grassroots Environment Fund http://grassrootsfund.org/ (NEGEF) and New Economy Transition (NET) New
England http://netransition.org/
Given the challenges of a hurting economy, climate change, resource shortages, and political paralysis, how can we all live well now and into the future?
A vibrant "community resilience" movement has sprung up to address these challenges and create the communities we want. Learn more on this free
Across the nation, grassroots organizers are working to create resilient systems for food, energy, transit, health, livelihoods, education, and much more - systems that will be able to weather the coming shocks of a rapidly shifting economy and climate.
In order to create resilience, people are coming together as communities, finding their inner passions, using their skills, and trusting each other. Truly resilient systems must be equitable, creating wellbeing for all across boundaries of race, class, language, and income. This work requires and enables us to reconnect with each other, repairing the torn social fabric we inherited.
Join this webinar to learn more about the Community Resilience and Transition (http://transitionus.org/) movement. You'll hear stories from communities about their work to create local food, support local business, bridge race and class divides, and much more.
Read more & register at http://netransition.org/2014/09/29/community-resilience-101-community-can-thrive-challenging-times/
Expansion and Decline: Al Qaeda's Franchising Strategy and Its Consequences
WHEN  Thu., Oct. 16, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369 at HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)  Barak Mendelsohn, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO	susan_lynch at hks.harvard.edu
LINK	http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6438/expansion_and_decline.html
Disruptive Innovation in Real Estate
WHEN  Thu., Oct. 16, 2014, 2:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, GSD, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Conferences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	MDes Real Estate and the Built Environment
SPEAKER(S)  Edward Siskind, founder and CEO, Cale Street Partners, and former global head of the real estate principal investment area, Goldman Sachs; Donald J. Chiofaro, founder, The Chiofaro Company; Sheila S. Botting, Deloitte, Partner & Canadian real estate leader; Sven Andersen KPMG, head of Real Estate M&A Germany and co-head of Real Estate Germany; Matthew Lynch, managing director, UBS, and head of Global Real Estate, US; Bing Wang, professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Raymond Torto, lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO	msingh at hyperbina.com
DETAILS  Learn from real estate industry leaders about new paradigms that are transforming conventional industry practices at the second annual Harvard Real Estate Conference: Disruptive Innovation in Real Estate.
Harvard professors Bing Wang and Raymond Torto will moderate panel discussions with real estate financiers, developers, and advisors on topics including crowdfunding, technology's impact on spatial typology, creative development strategies, and market disruption and investment trajectories.
LINK	http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/realestate/event/disruptive-innovation-real-estate/
Drone Warfare:  Discussion/Signing with Sarah Kreps & John Kaag
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The first book to engage fully with the political, legal, and ethical dimensions of UAVs. In it, political scientist Sarah Kreps and philosopher John Kaag discuss the extraordinary expansion of drone programs from the Cold War to the present day and their so-called effectiveness' in conflict zones.
"Stepping Off the Gas: The Future of Transport Fuel in the United States"
Harvard, Belfer Center Library (L369), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a seminar with Yossie Hollander in the Belfer Center Library (L369). Henry Lee, Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program, will moderate.
What are our options for liquid transportation fuels? Join us for a discussion of current fuel technology and regulatory roadblocks in the context of global climate change, geopolitics, and the economy.
Yossie Hollander is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with over 40 years of experience of building successful software companies. He co-founded the Fuel Freedom Foundation, dedicated to ending the world addiction to oil. He is the founder and chairman of Our Energy Policy Foundation, which is dedicated to creating an open dialogue and agreement on the U.S. energy policy. Yossie serves on the executive board and management committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is a member of the Board of Councilors of USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and a member of the advisory board of the Cornell University Center for a Sustainable Future.
Light refreshments provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
Belfer Center Seminar
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6464/stepping_off_the_gas.html
Amanda Sardonis
Amanda_Sardonis at hks.harvard.edu
Energy, Peace, and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean
Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion with: Sir Michael Leigh, Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund; Dr. Marina Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Middle East Program; Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-16-201500-2014-10-16-220000/energy-peace-and-conflict-eastern-mediterranean#sthash.GZyaX1DN.dpuf
Shooting Science
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street
Graham Chedd, Producer, Visiting Professor, The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
Contact Name:  Jennifer L. Berglund
berglund at bu.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-16-210000-2014-10-16-220000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.L7fRtz5y.dpuf
Combating Poverty the Swedish Way
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (PDT)
Wheelock College, Campus Center Student Residence Building (CCSR), 150 the Riverway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/combating-poverty-the-swedish-way-tickets-12753113907?
Wheelock College is pleased to host 2014 Presidential International Visiting Scholar, Dr. Renate Minas from October 13-27. Dr. Minas currently serves as a faculty member for the Department of Social Work at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her topic and research areas include, applied social research, social welfare policy, international scholarship and research, and international teaching perspectives.
The Presidential International Visiting Scholars series is a cross-cultural initiative designed to promote global understanding and literacy and an international educational experience for faculty, learners, and administrators at Wheelock and beyond. During their stay, the College invites the Visiting Scholars to present a lecture on a topic related to their expertise. Please join us for Dr. Minas' public lecture, "Combating Poverty the Swedish Way," on October 16th!
Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Doris Sommer's new book, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development. From the top and from below, creative projects and their interpretation fuel positive change and renew humanists' opportunities to make civic contributions.
Sommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact:  Andrew Whitacre
cmsw at mit.edu
Report from Rwanda and Congo on Water and Energy
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RUConxU0zqq5Wd6rtgJTiEhWv9AvZx-m6gZD8RsXLhM/viewform
Jesse Thornburg is an MIT alumnus (Mechanical Engineering and CMS, SB '11), and currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Since graduating from MIT, he spent 2 years in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo developing and managing hydropower plants, implementing water filtration projects, and planning food and agricultural distributions in a war-torn region. Jesse will discuss current needs in East Africa and how engineers can meet those needs, all through the lens of his experiences there.
Earthos Conversation Series Topic #5 LAND
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthos-conversation-series-topic-5-land-tickets-13584588871
Cost:  $15.00
Please join us October 16th 6:00PM-9:00PM for an Earthos Conversation about
LAND and resilient, sustaining regional systems. How do we collaboratively innovate land management, policy and development practices that sustain all of us into the future? We've invited land thinkers and innovators from different arenas who are grappling with this question. Together, we'll explore emerging ideas and efforts in Boston, New England and beyond.
Each month, Earthos hosts a Conversation about a key resource at the New Earthos Lab for resilient and sustaining regions.  Each conversation focuses on a resource system, and how it relates to the other resources: food, water, energy, land, biodiversity, waste, and people.
The Earthos Lab brings people together to research, learn, and collaborate towards robust regional systems.
Edtech Oktoberfest
LearnLaunch Campus, 31 St James Avenue Suite 920, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edtech-oktoberfest-tickets-13394223483
Celebrate Oktoberfest with the LearnLaunch community! We are hosting a happy hour with different types of Oktoberfest beer, pumpkin beer, and hard cider for you to sample.
Mingle with members of the edtech community, listen to live music, and celebrate fall.
You will also be able to tour LearnLaunch Campus, home to LearnLaunch Accelerator, Boston's edtech accelerator, and over 30 edtech startups.
Your ticket includes drinks and light appetizers.
Startup Stir: Engaging Fans with Social Media
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-stir-engaging-fans-with-social-media-registration-12452863851
Cost:  $5-10
Engaging Fans with Social Media
This month, Beacon Hill Partners is excited to host a forum on social media for fan engagement.
If you're starting a new venture or energizing an old one, online fan engagement can make or break your marketing efforts.  Are you emotionally connecting with your fans?  Are you meeting them at the times and on the platforms where they want to hear from you?  Are you retaining, engaging and converting your fans in to customers?
To get to the bottom of this, we've assembled an expert panel of social media gurus from Dunkin Donuts, the Boston Celtics, area ad agencies and more.  Best of all, Startup Stir is an excellent networking event with complimentary cocktails sponsored by Boston cocktail caterer Revolution Cocktails.  This is an event you won't want to miss!
Expert Social Media Panelists:
Jessica Gioglio, Director of Social Media, Dunkin' Brands
Peter Stringer, Sr. Director, Digital Media, Boston Celtics
Mike Proulx, Executive VP, Digital + Director of Social Media, Hill Holliday
Surprise Panelist Coming Soon!
Startup Stir is a place for professionals from all industries to exchange knowledge.
Our monthly networking event covers a range of topics that are pertinent to small businesses and entrepenuers. With guest speakers, free food and beverages, and an exchange of knowledge, what's not to love? Here you will sharpen your skills, learn something new, and creatively collaborate. Come grow your network and stay on tap!
Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life
New England Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105501&view=Detail
Peter Molnar, 4th Annual John H. Carlson Lecture, presented by MIT's Lorenz Center and The New England Aquarium
*Reception will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center's 4th Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre.  Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT's School of Science launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry, to foster creative approaches to learning how climate works. The annual Carlson Lecture features exciting new results in climate science each year to the general public; it is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center at MIT.
Three million years ago, ice covered Canada for the first time, the first Ice Age, in hundreds of millions of years. Concurrently, mountain lions crossed the Isthmus of Panamá from North America to South America, while Armadillos moved into North America, in the Great American Interchange. Many geologists imagine that the Isthmus of Panamá emerged three million years ago not only to provide a land bridge for the Interchange, but also to facilitate Ice Ages. During Ice Ages, however, Panamá cools and dries out. Could it have been global climate change instead, associated with an ice-covered Canada, that temporarily transformed Panamá's uninviting jungles into a savanna highway conducive to overland travel?
An Act of Collective Madness
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,entrance on Windsor
This is the story of how the American Empire affects us and the world.  We're the victims and the enablers.
*American Empire* is an indictment on the country that has supposedly nurtured us, but is slowly destroying us. Beginning with the founding of the Federal Reserve our economy is controlled by a system of debt and  inflation. It has become an economic empire that is destroying our planet and all its natural resources driven by a relentless need to amass money and power.
Watch the trailer! <http://www.americanempirethedocumentary.com/>
"the first film to connect the dots"
"a revolution in film" ~ Huffington Post
"Our founding fathers broke away from an empire to found a Republic, but today we are once again under an empire's rule, the American Empire.  And the goal of an empire is to exploit the world. Empires by their nature are never free and can not coexist with a Republic." ~ American Empire, Patrea Patrick
"We in the United States don't realize that our corporations have created this very subtle, very clandestine empire. It's been done in secret - and that's very dangerous, because democracy is based on the premise that you have an informed electorate, and if the electorate doesn't understand the most basic premise of our foreign policy --which is taking resources and markets from around the world --we can't vote intelligently, which means we can not be a true democracy." ... "No rational person assumes that we can continue on this course." ~John Perkins, author, former _Economic Hit Man_
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos <http://rule19.org/videos>
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and best-selling author, has been exploring the interface between environmental degradation and capitalism for more than a decade.  Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,  provides a far-reaching explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
Who benefits from the status quo?  How deeply are the current power structures embedded in our political economy?  How difficult will it to be change them?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
Beyond Neutrality - enabling a world of connected things
MIT, Building E51-315, Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Bob Frankston
Network Neutrality and related policy issues are framed by the assumption that intelligence is inside a network and (tele)communications is a service. Today that intelligence is now in our devices which can communicate by exchanging packets using any means available. This shift in intelligence has also moved value creation outside of networks.
In this talk I'll trace the history of this fundamental transformation and the technical and policy implications and what it means to
"communicate". This shift has opened up new opportunities for how to cooperate in creating a 21st century infrastructure. By paying for the infrastructure as a common facility we will not be limited to messages that profit intermediaries be they telecom providers or chip makers.
For more background read http://rmf.vc/IEEENotTheMessage or the longer essay http://rmf.vc/ConnectivityPolicy.
Bob Frankston is perhaps best known as the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet program) and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
He's a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and MIT, where he co-founded the Student Information Processing Board and worked on project MAC, worked at Lotus and Microsoft for a while, and is now an angel investor and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact:  Dorothy Curtis
dcurtis at csail.mit.edu
Strategic Ozonesonde Networks: Insights from SHADOZ (1998-) and SEACIONS (2013)
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Anne Thompson
ABSTRACT:  Ozonesonde data support satellite validation, model assimilation and evaluation as well as studies of atmospheric dynamics. Strategic ozonesonde networks coordinate and schedule launches in a fixed region to answer specific questions (Thompson et al., 2011)*. We have organized five such networks in the past 15 years. Most of this talk will focus on the Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ; <http://croc.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz>) network that consists of a dozen tropical and subtropical stations, with 2-4 launches monthly. An overview of SHADOZ origins and workings will be given along with illustrative findings in the troposphere and stratosphere. In campaign-class strategic networks daily launches look at ozone short-term variability to complement NASA aircraft missions. Examples from the 2013 SEACIONS (Southeastern American Consortium for Intensive Ozonesonde Network Study), from the SEAC4RS campaign, will be presented.
*Strategic ozone sounding networks: Review of design and accomplishments, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.05.002. Or Atmos. Environ., 45, 2145-2163, 2011.
Speaker Bio:   http://ploneprod.met.psu.edu/people/amt16
Contact Eloise Marais
emarais at seas.harvard.edu
Building for Girls' Education in Kibera, Nairobi
MIT, Building 10-485, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
LUNCH INCLUDED; RSVP to KIBERAED at MIT.EDU
with Abdul Kasim, Founder and Executive Director of Kibera Girls' Soccer Academy (KGSA)
Abdul Kassim will speak about launching and running the first-ever free secondary school for girls in Kibera, the planning and the negotiation process involved designing and building a 4-story boarding school and community center in Kibera.
In 2006, Abdul created the first-ever free secondary school for girls in Kibera. The school started informally with a few girls, one table and rented chairs. Today, KGSA remains free and has grown to provide artistic and athletic opportunities and micro finance opportunities to over 120 girls and families every year.
Abdul is currently traveling throughout the US to raise awareness of KGSA's work. He's especially interested in:
Developing new ways for the girls to generate their own income while at school and after graduation; he'd like to see KGSA as a platform for entrepreneurial activities that the girls can be involved with
Discussing ideas for how the school can be self-sustaining — is there a venture the school can run to sustain itself?
Connecting with students who'd like to research or intern with KGSA
Come hear from Abdul and offer your insights. The event will be part talk and part discussion.
Hosted by KGSA, MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, MIT's D-Lab and MIT DUSP's UrbanAfrica.
"Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Pollution Exposure in the Philippines"
Building II, Room 426, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Evan Peet, Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population
ABSTRACT: Human capital, a determining factor in individual labor market and macroeconomic outcomes, is malleable to early-life investments and insults. This study examines the long-term human capital impacts of early-life exposure to criteria air pollutants in the developing economy context of Metropolitan Cebu, Philippines. A three-decade, longitudinal survey containing frequent measures of human capital is combined with macro- and micro-environmental databases characterizing exposure to carbon monoxide and ozone. An instrumental variable strategy corrects the bias from unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error. Findings indicate that height and cognition - correlates and measures of human capital - are negatively affected by increased early-life exposures. Impacts to labor market outcomes, including hours worked and earnings, vary by gender and labor sector. Carbon monoxide exposure is consistently detrimental to both height and cognition while the effects of ozone exposure grow over time and are highly detrimental to cognition and earnings. In present value terms, a nationwide 10% policy reduction in carbon monoxide and ozone levels would annually generate approximately $5.15 billion in discounted lifetime earnings per annual birth cohort.
Environmental Statistics Seminar
Department of Biostatistics Environmental Statistics Seminar
Contact Name:  Vickie S. Beaulieu
vbeaulie at hsph.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-17-163000/environmental-statistics-seminar#sthash.wsXEV6xl.dpuf
JCHS Symposium: Designing Housing and Communities for an Aging Population
WHEN  Fri., Oct. 17, 2014, 1 – 2 p.m.
DETAILS  According to the World Health Organization, the number of people aged 60 and over will double from 11% in 2006 to 22% by 2050; for the first time in history, older people will outnumber children. The world population is rapidly aging, and housing will play a central role in the well-being of older adults. This half-day event, organized by the Joint Center for Housing Studies, will highlight recent research and the latest innovations in design and policy, to understand and respond to the urgent needs of a global aging population.
LINK	www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/jchs-symposium-designing-housing-and-communities-for-an-aging.html
xTalks: Alain Mille - Observing an Open Learning Process - A Knowledge Oriented Process
MIT, Building 4-231,
Speaker: Alain Mille
Alain Mille of the French National Center for Scientific Research and France's Universite Scientifique will speak about developing, instrumenting and understanding MOOCs, including ethical issues and data access for research.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
xTalks is a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/alain-mille/
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact:  Molly Ruggles
ruggles at mit.edu
A Conversation with Jaime Lerner: Urban Acupuncture Book Talk
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP by emailing rsvp at architects.org with "Acupuncture 10/17" as the subject
Hear Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, talk about the pioneering urban strategies he implemented in the 1970s and '80s that turned Curitiba into one of the world's most sustainable cities.
To celebrate the release of his latest book, Urban Acupuncture, Lerner will share many of the ideas and initiatives that fulfilled his vision, from a groundbreaking bus rapid transit system to parks that minimize flooding to the creation of city zones reserved entirely for pedestrians. He will also revisit some of his legacy projects in other cities around the world, including the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona, Spain, and the revitalized Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea.
Following the presentation, Lerner will be joined by Nigel Jacob, co-chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics—Boston, and Katie Swenson, vice president, National Design Initiatives, Enterprise Community Partners, for a discussion and Q&A session. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public, and is made possible with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Center for the Living City.
Books will be on for sale for $19.99.
MIT Energy Night 2014
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Is Global Warming Dead?
Diesel Cafe, 257 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/InquisitiveMinds/events/193615092/
Calling all Deniers & Alarmists, Warmists, skeptics, true believers and other open minded folk...
Antarctic sea ice is increasing to record levels
Global average sea levels are rising at a tiny rate of 3mm/year
In spite of the fact that CO2 levels have increased, satellite temperature data for the last 17 years, 10 months and counting, fail to show a warming trend. Climate models failed to predict this.
Let's discuss 3 questions:
Is man made global warming dead? If not, what can we realistically say are the likely consequences of such? Will we doing anything significant in our life time policy wise to address man's CO2 emissions?
Join us for a moderated discussion of global warming.
2014 HBS Energy Symposium
HBS Energy & Environment Club
Harvard Business School, 500 Soldiers Field Road, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-hbs-energy-symposium-tickets-12619686823
Cost:  $25-110
In the Twenty-First Century, we have seen a dramatic change in the energy industry. The discovery of shale gas has transformed the United States from an energy importer to an energy exporter. Meanwhile, political instability in the Middle East has added to the volatility of global energy supplies. These changes are impacting us while the energy industry itself is undergoing a tremendous technological shift. The technology utilized within the industry is ever more complex and the talents to work in this field are increasingly difficult to find.
The 11th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School will navigate these transitions to find the path to the future of the energy industry. The symposium will end with a showcase and networking hour with of some of the hottest companies in the energy and environment space.
Silver Maple Forest Bike Ride
Alewife T stop, Cambridge
Silver Maple Forest bike ride from Alewife T stop  around forest and back
Contact Ellen Mass emass73 at gmail.com
The Puppetmaster (Xi meng ren sheng)
WHEN  Sat., Oct. 18, 2014, 7 – 9:20 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Film Archive
DIRECTED BY  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
TICKET INFO  http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/general_info.html#admission
DETAILS  With its radical admixture of documentary and fiction The Puppetmaster announced an important new direction in Hou's brilliant and career-long struggle to chronicle modern Taiwanese history through the distorting lenses of individual and collective memory. Towards this goal Hou cast famed octogenarian puppeteer Li Tien-lu (seen earlier as an actor in Dust in the Wind) as the star and narrator of his own story—with Hou's film following and often gently contradicting Li's meandering telling of life in Taiwan during the long period under Japanese colonial rule. Intercutting between sequence of Li the storyteller often looking directly at the camera, and Hou's own restaging of Li's story, The Puppetmaster beautifully meditates on the limits of cinema to capture the texture and voice of individual as opposed to official history.
LINK	http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2014sepoct/hou.html#puppetmaster
37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert:  "A Love Supreme"
Blackman Theatre, Ell Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
For tickets: tickets.neu.edu, 617-373-4700 (TTY 617-373-2184); further information on the concert can be found at www.friendsofjcmc.org
Tickets: $30 general admission, $25 students/seniors, $40 VIP [all ticket prices include service charge]
The Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert (fJCMC) is pleased to announce their plans for this year's 37th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, which will celebrate and honor the 50th anniversary of Coltrane's majestic suite "A Love Supreme," considered by many to be the greatest spiritual jazz composition of all times.
This year's concert, co-presented with Northeastern Center for the Arts, will feature guest artist Donald Harrison, New Orleans saxophonist, composer, arranger and principal consultant for the "Treme" series on HBO.
Harrison will join Boston-based master musicians Carl Atkins, Leonard Brown, Yoron Israel, Ron Mahdi, Bill Pierce, John Ramsay, and George W. Russell, Jr. Together, this all-star ensemble will perform contemporary versions of some of Coltrane's sacred music from the later stages of his life that served to bring the devotional essence of African and African American music to "jazz".
A feature of the evening will be the Ensemble's performance of the complete "A Love Supreme" Suite with recitation of Coltrane's prayer by Eric Jackson of WGBH radio, who will also serve as host for the evening.
The John Coltrane Memorial Concert is co-produced by Leonard Brown, Associate Professor of Music & African American Studies at Northeastern University, and Emmett G. Price III, Associate Professor of Music and former chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northeastern. Preliminary information on this year's concert can be found at friendsofjcmc.org.
The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival- "Post-disaster Civil Society"
MIT, Building Room 4-730, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Urban Risk Lab at MIT, JREX, TEWASSA, and Satsuki Kai USA (Alumni organization of the University of Tokyo) present
The 4th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival
"Post-disaster Civil Society"
This October we will again commemorate "3.11" with three film screenings under the theme "Post-Disaster Civil Society." Those screenings will include discussions with the directors of the films.
12:30pm -Film screening
"Nuclear Nation~The Fukushima Refugees Story"
2:00pm -Discussion
Atsushi Funabashi, director of "Nuclear Nation"
3:30pm -Film screening
"X Years Later,"
Hideaki Ito, director of "X years Later,"
6:00pm -Short Film screening
7:00pm -Reception
Itadaki Boston, 269 Newbury Street, Boston
Tickets: We welcome donations, though this event is free for educational purposes.
MASS Seminar - Yi Ming (GFDL)
12:00p–1:00p
Speaker: Yi Ming
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact:  MASS organizing committee
mass at mit.edu
"A Systems Approach to the 2014 Midterm Elections: Voting to Achieve Systemwide Change"
RSVP at https://mit.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=mit&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc0901l%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dmit%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D300601597%26UID%3D0%26Host%3Dce4e0fda2f56705d434d%26RG%3D1%26FrameSet%3D2
MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series
Nicholas A. Ashford, Ph.D., J.D., Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT; Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
Elections matter—especially the 2014 midterms. The challenges are especially acute this year because:
Gridlock, corruption, and diversionary tactics have compromised sound legislative and programmatic changes, as well as an independent judiciary; and
Media and self-serving politicians are sidestepping the debates we need to have around major issues.
Sustainable progress requires tackling a complex set of challenges that, if properly considered and addressed with the rigor of systems thinking, can help the United States reach a new level of inclusion and opportunity for all. This webinar will help explain how our elected officials can do better.
Professor Nicholas A. Ashford will discuss the most important barrier to making the transformation to a more sustainable financial and industrial system—lock-in or path dependency due to:
failure to envision, design, and implement policies that achieve co-optimization—i.e. mutually reinforcing, societal goals for economic welfare, environmental quality, and employment/earning capacity; and
entrenched economic and political interests that gain from the present system and current trends.
Ashford will describe a systems-based approach to facilitating technological and institutional changes while "opening up the participatory and political space" to enable new voices to contribute to solutions.
Insights from the book Ashford coauthored with Ralph Hall, Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2011, Yale University Press), will inform the presentation.
Nicholas A. Ashford is a professor of technology and policy at MIT and director of MIT's Technology and Law Program. He holds both a Ph.D. in chemistry and a law degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received graduate education in economics. At MIT, he teaches courses jointly listed with the Engineering Systems Division (ESD)/Engineering, the Sloan School, and Urban Studies. He has also supervised graduate theses in the Technology and Policy Program, ESD, SDM, and the Master of Science in Management Studies. He has coauthored seven books and several hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews.
Prospects for shale gas development in Eastern Europe
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Andreas Goldthau, Fellow, Geopolitics of Energy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Lawrence Lessig interviews Edward Snowden
Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School
overflow room Milstein West AB, Wasserstein Building
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07e9xjficd40bd9d18&oseq=&c=&ch=
Institutional corruption and the NSA: Edward Snowden will be interviewed (via videoconference) by Lawrence Lessig about the NSA in a time of war, and whether and how the agency has lost its way.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required, and all attendees must present a ticket at the door. Registration is full, but we are accepting registrations for our overflow room (Milstein West AB, Wasserstein Building), in which we will be showing a live stream of the event.
Please note that all attendees must be present at least 5 minutes before the start of this program (11:55am). If you are not present 5 minutes before, you will automatically forfeit your seat to someone on the wait list.
Bridging the Basic-Applied Dichotomy and the Cycle of Discovery and Invention
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard, SEAS
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name:   sts at hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-20-161500-2014-10-20-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.YVGZ6aCS.dpuf
Energy as a Tool of Foreign Policy
WHEN  Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Nye A, 5th Floor Taubman Building at HKS,  79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
SPEAKER(S)   Brenda Shaffer, University of Haifa
CONTACT INFO	susan_lynch at harvard.edu
LINK	http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6458/energy_as_a_tool_of_foreign_policy.html
"Are the Negotiations for a Global Climate Change Agreement Stalled? If So, What Can Be Done?"
Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (SO20), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
with The Hon. Stéphane Dion, Member of Parliament, Canada
The Honourable Stéphane Dion has been a Member of Canada's Parliament, representing the Montreal riding of Saint-Laurent - Cartierville since 1996. During that period, he held various Cabinet portfolios. From 2004 to 2005, he was Minister of the Environment and as such, was instrumental in securing one of the greenest budgets in the history of Canada. In 2005, as Chair of the eleventh United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-11), held in Montreal, he contributed to the rescue of the Kyoto Protocol. In 21006, he was elected as Leader as the Liberal Party of Canada and thus became Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons. In the 2008 election, he proposed a visionary plan to green Canada's economy and strengthen the fight against climate change: the Green Shift. Before entering politics, the Honourable Stéphane Dion taught political science at Université de Moncton and Université de Montreal. As an academic and politician, he has authored numerous publications on a wide array of Canadian and international issues, including the complexities of climate change negotiations, global environmental policies, and universal carbon pricing. Born in Quebec City, he studied at Université Laval before obtaining a doctorate in sociology from the Institut d'études politiques in Paris, France. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the Carlos III University of Madrid.
The Canada Seminar examines Canadian social, economic, cultural, and political issues in their domestic and international dimensions. Presentations are made by public figures, scholars, artists, and experts in various fields to provide Harvard faculty and students, and the broader community, a look at Canadian scholarly and public life. It seeks to enhance the understanding of one of the United States' closest allies and largest trading partners, and to provide a forum for the lively exchange of ideas on a wide range of issues. Because Canada and the United States must respond to similar economic and social challenges with distinctly different frameworks and historical legacies, the study of Canadian issues offers rich opportunities for scholars engaged in comparative studies.
Canada Program Seminar
http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/canada_program/seminars-0
Contact Name:  Helen Clayton
canada at wcfia.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-20-200000-2014-10-20-220000/canada-program-seminar#sthash.0eVOrtit.dpuf
Truth, Hierarchy, and Order: The Mathematical Battle over the Shape of Modernity
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception at 3:30 PM.
Speaker: Amir Alexander / John Tresch
STS Colloquium
STS Colloquium with speaker and commentator discussing current topic in science, technology, and society.
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Sponsor(s): SHASS Dean's Office, HASTS
For more information, contact:  Randyn Miller
randyn at mit.edu
Planets and Life Series: The Keys to Habitability, Panel: The Next Great Mass Extinction
Speaker: With Daniel Rothman (MIT), Andrew H. Knoll (Harvard), Hillary Young (UCSB), and Anthony Barnosky (Berkeley)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Light on Yoga – in America: On the Legacy of BKS Iyengar
WHEN  Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
SPONSOR	Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT	Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
DETAILS  Please join us for this panel in honor of the passing of BKS Iyengar, considered to have been one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. Panelists include scholars and friends of Iyengar.
Panelists include: Stephanie Corigliano, PhD candidate, comparative theology, Boston College; Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School; Seth D. Powell, PhD candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University; Zoe Stewart, yoga teacher and student of BKS Iyengar for 30 years; Patricia Walden, director, BKS Iyengar Yogamala and student of BKS Iyengar for over 30 years.
The panel will be moderated by Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School.
The Geography of Inequality: Suburbs, Cities, and the future of the middle class
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Joel Kotkin
The talk would look at the migration of people from expensive crowded and dense places to ones that are less so. It would look at the differences between regions and within them in terms of middle class jobs, income gaps by class and race. It would deal with how we need to confront class and inequality as a major issue for cities and regions.
CAU Lecture Series 2014-15
Lectures are free and open to the public. Except as noted, lectures are at 6:00 pm in Room 7-429 (renumbered from 7-431), located at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/lecture/geography-inequality-suburbs-cities-and-future-middle-class
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:  Ezra Glenn
eglenn at mit.edu
Boston New Technology October 2014 Product Showcase #BNT46
PayPal Start Tank, One International Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/207287012/
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Questions & Answers. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT46 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
WORK ON PURPOSE: A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND DINNERS
MIT, Building W-1, 305 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
This fall, Radius and the Public Service Center are offering three modules from Echoing Green's Work on Purpose. Work on Purpose is designed to help people who want to find meaningful work to create careers that are right for them and have positive impact in the world. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to run a non-profit or have the next brilliant social enterprise idea (although those are good too!). It could mean identifying an industry or field that needs your skills to do better from a social or environmental perspective.
Dinner will be included with each session.
Maximum of 15 participants per class. First come, first served via RVSP. Please email weinmann at mit.edu to reserve your spot!
Web site: web.mit.edu/tac
This event occurs on Mondays and Wednesdays through November 3, 2014.
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
For more information, contact:  Patricia-Maria Weinmann
weinmann at mit.edu
National Security and Double Government
WHEN  Mon., Oct. 20, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard COOP Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Oxford University Press
SPEAKER(S)  Professor Michael J. Glennon
DETAILS  Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" – the President, Congress, and the courts. Their roles, he argues, have become largely illusory. Presidential control is now nominal, congressional oversight is dysfunctional, and judicial review is negligible. The book details the dramatic shift in power that has occurred from the Madisonian institutions to a concealed "Trumanite network" – the several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints. Reform efforts face daunting obstacles. Remedies within this new system of "double government" require the hollowed-out Madisonian institutions to exercise the very power that they lack. Meanwhile, reform initiatives from without confront the same pervasive political ignorance within the polity that has given rise to this duality. The book sounds a powerful warning about the need to resolve this dilemma—and the mortal threat posed to accountability, democracy, and personal freedom if double government persists.
HEET's Help for Houses of Worship Workshops
First Church in Cambridge, 11 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Organizations interested in participating in the Help for HOWs program should RSVP at
http://www.heetma.org/help-for-houses-of-worship/workshops-help-for-houses-of-worship/
to attend one of these informational sessions
Charles M. Blow, op-ed columnist,The New York Times; author of the forthcoming book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/charles-m-blow/
The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse at 12:30 pm.
with authors Emily Horne & Tim Maly
In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require supervision—factories, poorhouses, hospitals, and schools—would benefit from such a design. The French philosopher Michel Foucault took Bentham at his word. In his groundbreaking 1975 study, Discipline and Punish, the panopticon became a metaphor to describe the creeping effects of personalized surveillance as a means for ever-finer mechanisms of control.
Forty years later, the available tools of scrutiny, supervision, and discipline are far more capable and insidious than Foucault dreamed, and yet less effective than Bentham hoped. Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance and prime opportunities for revolution. The Inspection House is a tour through several of these sites—from Guantánamo Bay to the Occupy Oakland camp and the authors' own mobile devices—providing a stark, vivid portrait of our contemporary surveillance state and its opponents.
'Someone you can't see is watching you. That idea, long the stuff of feverish dystopian fantasy, is now an unremarkable statement of fact, true in most public places, and true in many that used to be private. Yet most of us being watched have no idea how this vast, casual surveillance came to be, or how it works. The Inspection House is a remedy for our collective incomprehension of the panopticon, built in our name, that we all now inhabit.
— Clay Shirky
About Emily Horne
Emily Horne lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is the photographer and designer for the webcomic A Softer World, and freelance edits books for kicks. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Coast and Tor.com. She is @birdlord on Twitter.
About Tim Maly
Tim Maly  writes about design, architecture, networks and infrastructure. He is a Fellow at Harvard's metaLAB and is big into cyborgs. His work has appeared in Wired, Medium, The Atlantic and Urban Omnibus. He is @doingitwrong on Twitter.
Harpoon Brewery Sustainability Tour, Tasting, & Talk
Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall, 306 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/harpoon-brewery-sustainability-tour-tasting-talk-tickets-12879018491
Join Simmons Net Impact at Boston's Harpoon Brewery to learn about sustainable best practices for business on Tuesday October 21. The event will consist of a brewery tour and tasting ($5 per person), followed by a chat with Harpoon's Sustainability Committee to discuss their environmental, community, and employee initiatives and answer your questions! **Tickets are limited, so RSVP ASAP!
Harpoon Brewery ("HB") is a great case study for different types of sustainability including environment, community, and employee relationships. Since obtaining a brewering permit in 1986, HB has been recognized for its sustainable best practices specifically in areas of waste reduction, responsible chemical usage, operational efficiency measures, and energy management initiatives; and In 2012 was awarded the 2012 Boston Green Business Award. HB also made a commitment to be a "good neighbor" by creating Harpoon Helps, a philanthropic group that donates resrources and volunteer hours to local charities. Most recently, HB moved to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in order to give employees an added benefit and ensure that HB's mission and values would remain committed to great product and experience for customers!
Meet Yifan Zhang, CEO/Co-Founder of Pact Health, & learn about persuasive tech
125 Kingston Street, Floor 6, WeSpire Office, Boston
At our next Meetup, we will be discussing persuasive technology with Yifan Zhang from Pact Health.  Pact Health gets you exercising and eating healthy by using behavioral economics and financial incentives. Come learn how they use persuasive technology to drive up fitness and drive down deductibles. All are welcome!
Yifan Zhang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pact Health, a health plan that lets you lower your deductible with every workout.  She has been featured on Bloomberg TV, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNBC and Kiplinger's, and was previously named "Boston's Most Impressive New CEO" by The Boston Globe. Yifan graduated magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University, and was part of the Techstars class of 2012. Contact her at @yifanz.
Why Life Got Big
David Gold, Postdoctoral Associate, Summons Lab, MIT
David Johnston, Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard
Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Ancient Grains for Modern Meals
Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library, 3 James Street, Cambridge
Maria Speck, food writer
Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS17 (GA)
General Assembly, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/203939772/
Cost: $5.00/per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, October 21st for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
We're happy to hosted by our friends at General Assembly. Be sure to RSVP early to grab your spot! Come to meet new people, check out new hands-on gadgets and tools, enjoy healthy food, and learn from personal stories.
QS Boston is dedicated to hosting events that are safe and comfortable for everyone. All QS Boston events will follow the QS Boston Code of Conduct. Questions/feedback can be sent to Maggie (maggie.delano at gmail.com).
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Vincent at vmcphillip at gmail dot com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm IGNITE SHOW&TELLS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Maggie at maggie.delano at gmail dot com, so you can discuss your topic. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
The Secret Life of Cities
WHEN  Tue., Oct. 21, 2014, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Business, Humanities, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Sponsored by Harvard South Asia Institute, co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)	Suketa Mehta, author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"
LINK	http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/urbanization-lecture-series/
"Close to Home: Indoor air quality & your health" @ CafeSci Boston
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/NerdFunBoston/events/211017712/
Air pollution is not limited to smokestacks and traffic jams. The air inside your home can be more polluted than the air outside, even in a busy city. Over the past 20 years, we've learned a lot about how our health and the health of our children can be affected by our homes. In this Science Cafe, we'll talk about how everyday health problems and conditions like asthma can be directly linked to environmental exposures at home and what you can do about it.
Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities at Harvard's School of Public Health.
Join us for a pint and conversation on Gary's work. We hope to see you there!
Understanding China & U.S.-Chinese Relations: A Key to World Politics
Ecuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston(Next to the old Orpheum Theater & 1 block from Park Street Station)
With Prof. Robert Ross and Duncan McFarland
"Competitive Interdependence" defines U.S.-Chinese relations. The Pentagon has identified China as is primary "near-peer" competitor in the 21st century, and even as the two powers share many interests (economic, climate, Islamist challenges and more,) the two nations are locked in an arms race, are engaged in competitive diplomacy, and are dealing to manage military tensions.
To learn more about the forces driving U.S. and Chinese policies and ways that we can build toward peaceful common security between these great powers, join us for a public forum with:
Robert Ross: Professor of political science at Boston College, associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and one of the foremost American specialists on Chinese foreign and defense policy and U.S.-China relations
Duncan McFarland: Member of the planning group of United for Justice with Peace (Boston).  He first visited China in 1981 and has since been involved in China tours, journalism and discussion groups.
Initiated by AFSC, Co-sponsored by United for Justice and Peace and Massachusetts Peace Action
For more information contact JGerson at afsc.org or phone; 617-661-6130
http://masspeaceaction.org/event/u-s-chinese-relations/
Designing for Nuclear Values: An Ethical Perspective on Nuclear Reactor Design
WHEN  Wed., Oct. 22, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Fainsod Room (Littauer Building, Room 324), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S)  Behnam Taebi, MTA/ISP research fellow
CONTACT INFO	atom at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  What is the Best Achievable Nuclear Reactor? Safety has always been a criterion for nuclear reactor design, but in addition to safety we design for security, sustainability, economic viability, as well as intergenerational justice. The evolution of nuclear reactor generations (I, II, III, III+ and IV) will be reviewed in this talk, led by MTA/ISP Research Fellow Behnam Taebi.
LINK	http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6430/designing_for_nuclear_values.html
Emergency Forum: Medea Benjamin on Our New Wars in Syria and Iraq
Cambridge Friends Center, 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle Street), Cambridge
How should we respond to the new US war in Iraq and Syria? and the dangers this war may unleash in our violent world?
The U.S. attacks on Syria launched Sept. 22 are a disastrous setback for peace, for the rule of law, and for sound U.S. foreign policy. Why did the
US launch them, how can we stop them, and what are the nonviolent alternatives we should advocate?
How do we build on the convergence of peace, social justice and climate groups that created the gigantic climate march in New York on September 21?
This new emergency in the Middle East drives home once again the need for the climate movement, the peace movement, and the movements for social and racial justice to create a mass movement around the inter-related crisis of climate, peace, vast social inequality and democracy.
No one is better qualified to address these questions than Medea Benjamin (who, it just so happens, has recently returned from her trip to Iran).
Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. ?Benjamin is the author of eight books.
Her latest book is Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and she has been campaigning to stop the use of killer drones. Her work for justice in Israel/Palestine includes taking numerous delegations to Gaza after the 2008 Israeli invasion, organizing the Gaza Freedom March in 2010, participating in
the Freedom Flotillas. New York Newsday describes her as one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights".
Don't miss this opportunity at this especially dangerous moment to hear this leading thinker and activist for peace and social justice.
Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace. For information call 617-354-2169 or?617-383-4857
Forever Young: How Long Can Humans Live?
WHERE  Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Ave, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Science in the News
SPEAKER(S)  Michael Schultz, Tyler Huycke, Ryoji Amamoto
CONTACT INFO	sitnboston at gmail.com
DETAILS	Science in the News (SITN) is a graduate student organization at Harvard University. We host interactive lectures on various science topics in the spring and fall. This lecture is a part of our fall lecture series, which are on Harvard's Longwood campus. It consists of several PhD students presenting current research on a particular topic. Our seminars are open to audience members of any age, though a high school level of science education would be beneficial.
LINK	http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
Babson Food Day
Thursday, October 23 for Babson Food Day.  If you eat food, you have agency in the food system.  So come learn and share what each of us can do with our agency...  And if you have class or work that day, then come see our evening program with 11 of the most talented and creative chef/restaurateurs in Greater Boston.
Babson Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Foods) and Gail Simmons (Top Chef, Food & Wine Magazine) are with us all day.   Babson Food Day is free and open to all.
10-11:30 a.m. "Food is Everybody's Business"
Food stories from across the system
Olin Hall
Rose Arruda, MA Dept of Ag Resources
Sally Sampson, ChopChop Kids
Ian So (B'08), The Chicken and Rice Guys
12-1:30 p.m. "Marketplace of Great Food + Ideas" with Babson Sustainability and Babson Dining
Food innovation fair + locally-sourced lunch*
Reynolds Courtyard
*Small cash charge for non-Babson attendees' lunch
2-3:30 p.m. "Quick Service Incubator" with Babson Alumni & Friends Network
Entrepreneurs pitch business challenges to the incubator for feedback and fresh ideas. To apply: please email Food Sol Director Rachel  Greenberger at rgreenberger1 at babson.edu.
Adam Melonas, Chew Lab
Bob Burke (M'87), Natural Products Consulting
4-5 p.m. "The Corporate Path" with Babson Centers for Career Development
Corporate stories and careers pathways into food
6-7:30 p.m. "Entrepreneurship + Innovation from the Restaurant World"
Restaurant entrepreneurship with local celebrity chefs
Skip Bennett, Island Creek Oysters, ICO Bar
Jamie Bissonnette, Coppa, Toro
Joanne Chang, Flour Bakery, Myers + Chang
Tim & Nancy Cushman, O Ya, Hojoko
Tiffani Faison, Sweet Cheeks Q
Matthew Gaudet, West Bridge
Matt Jennings, Townsman
Barbara Lynch, Barbara Lynch Gruppo
Ken Oringer, Clio, Coppa, Toro, Uni, Earth
Michael Scelfo, Alden & Harlow
Michael Schlow, Alta Strada, Cavatina, Pine, Tico, Via Matta
Credence by the Cup - Consumer interest in environmental attributes of food and beverages
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Sean Cash, Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
There is an increasing availability of food and beverage products available to consumers that purport to allow them to vote for a cleaner environment with their shopping carts. Often these products come at a price premium, and with a variety of labels and third-party certification schemes behind them to provide assurances that these products really do provide the benefits that are described. What do we know about how consumers respond to what can be a barrage of information, and they make food choices that involve their bellies, minds, hearts and wallets?
Sean B. Cash, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and food economist in the Agriculture, Food and Environment program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; a faculty affiliate of the Tufts Institute of the Environment; and an adjunct professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on how food, nutrition, and environmental policies affect both producers and consumers. Ongoing and recent projects include the efficacy of food label and price interventions as public health and environmental tools, including linkages to disease incidence; economics aspects of obesity; economic barriers to adherence to diabetes treatments; schoolchildren's food choices in commercial environments; the role of agricultural policies on nutrition; how consumers value social aspects of food relative to other attributes; and how point-of-sale health messaging impacts consumers' demand for food. He also conducts research in the areas of environmental impacts in food production, including projects on tea quality and climate change and invasive species management.
Dr. Cash is a past Chair of the Food Safety and Nutrition section of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and is the Co-Chair of the C-FARE Blue Ribbon Panel on Consumer Concerns about Food, Health and Safety. He has been involved extensively in policy and public-facing work, including testimony to the Canadian Parliament and service on a National Academy of Sciences panel.
Lab freecycle
Harvard, Sherman Fairchild Courtyard, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Green Program for the Fall 2014 Lab Freecycle. Donate or find office supplies, small benchtop appliances and equipment, and more. All FREE! Donations will be accepted from 9 am-12 pm on the day of in the courtyard, or may be dropped off ahead of time in the Reuse Room located at Biology 1041.
More at http://green.harvard.edu/events/lab-freecycle#sthash.YudCfhzm.dpuf
Who's Choosin' Who? Race, Gender, and the New American Politics
Thursday, Oct 23, 2014
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lecture by Melissa Harris-Perry, Presidential Endowed Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University, Founding Director of Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South, MSNBC Host, Columnist for the Nation, and Author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.
Back in 1985, Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin released what became a widely popular single asking, "Who's Zoomin' Who?" It's been nearly 30 years, but the question of just who is playing the fool is still a great one for American politics. Just short of the 2014 midterm elections we can ask, who's choosin' who? Why do midterm elections draw far fewer women and voters of color to the ballot box? What difference do changing demographics make in American elections? And how do voting restrictions passed by elected officials shape the electorate who then make the choice of whether or not they return to office?
Introduction by Lawrence D. Bobo who is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies.
The event is free and open to the public.
Alumna and former Radcliffe College trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild '40, who died in 2004, and her husband Robert Rothschild '39 established the annual Rothschild Lecture at the Schlesinger Library in 1989. Distinguished speakers in the series have included Gail Collins, Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Julio Frenk, Linda Greenhouse, Anita Hill, Samantha Power, Adrienne Rich, Amartya Sen, Reva Siegel, and Maxine Singer.
Working Across the Turkish Border in Syria: Drinking from the Humanitarian Fire Hose
WHEN  Thu., Oct. 23, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS, Knafel Building, Rm 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Middle East Seminar and the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Martha Myers, country director, Save The Children-Syria Response
CONTACT INFO	mivanova at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
Radcliffe Institute Lecture: Who's Choosin' Who? Race, Gender, and the New American Politics
WHEN  Thu., Oct. 23, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Melissa Harris-Perry, Presidential Endowed Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University, founding director of Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South, MSNBC host, columnist for The Nation, and author of "Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America"
Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
DETAILS  Back in 1985, Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin released what became a widely popular single asking, "Who's Zoomin' Who?" It's been nearly 30 years, but the question of just who is playing the fool is still a great one for American politics. Just short of the 2014 midterm elections we can ask, who's choosin' who? Why do midterm elections draw far fewer women and voters of color to the ballot box? What difference do changing demographics make in American elections? And how do voting restrictions passed by elected officials shape the electorate who then make the choice of whether or not they return to office?
LINK	http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-melissa-harris-perry-lecture
Developing Indicators of Impacts and Change in the US - Sustaining National Assessments of Climate Change
Tony Janetos, Professor of Earth and Environment and Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-23-210000-2014-10-23-220000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.Zs4eHvaf.dpuf
Sustainable Investing for the Next Economy
Le Meridien Cambridge, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA (map)
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Sustainable-Responsible-Investors-Forum/events/212621002/
Population Growth, shortages of natural resources, global warming- there are many challenges that will shape our future economy.  If the scientific community forecasts are correct, many regions will be faced with shortages of potable water and other natural resources, increasing energy demands, periods of drought which may cause crop failures, heavy rains and flooding, along with increasing healthcare demand to accommodate an aging population and new infectious diseases associated with climate change.  Aging infrastructure will need to be replaced with new facilities that can help accommodate these new challenges.
The discussion will be focused on how we can we identify companies believed to be leaders in managing environmental risks and opportunities across economic sectors who have made it their business to work towards a world wherein the economy and our underlying ecosystems can persist side by side.  New challenges often come with new opportunities.
Look for the Meetup sign in the lounge
Wearables, Voice Interfaces, and Design Responsibility
DockYard, 101 Tremont Street, Boston
Enter the glass doors, smile and wave, turn left, and head up to Floor 2.
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/uxboston/events/204933412/
Price: $1.00/per person
Designing for Wearables in the Workplace (6:35 - 7:00)
by Todd Reily | @toddreily
We will discuss the UX design of wearables for industrial use cases. Topics will include the process of creating usable interfaces for wearables, the challenge of creating a seamless cross-device UX, and the opportunities for wearables in enterprise, such as Google Glass and smart watches.
About Todd: Todd Reily is the Principal Designer at APX Labs, the leading creator of enterprise software for wearable technologies, working with Fortune 500 clients across a range of industrial scenarios. Todd has had an extensive career in UX design and HCI as a consultant and in-house designer across consumer, enterprise, and defense industries. Todd holds a BS in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University and MS in System Design & Management from MIT.
The Responsibility of Design (7:05 - 7:30)
by Ashley Treni | @ashleytreni
Design is a tool for communication that has a far reaching grasp and influences many people. As designers, we put a great deal of thought into who we design for. Implicit in all design is the way we guide our audience to use or understand the information and experience they engage with. It is our responsibility as designers to consider the best practices for cultivating an objective experience, and reinforcing the nature of communication as a perspective, and not an absolute truth.
About Ashley: Ashley is a designer at DockYard and an MFA candidate at Northeastern studying Information Design and Visualization. She is interested in design methods, information architecture, and experience design.
Designing Voice Interfaces (7:35 - 8:00)
by Tanya Kraljic | @tkraljic
Speech is becoming a more ubiquitous means to interact with data across more and more form factors, from commonplace consumer devices like smartphones and tablets, to emerging products like wearables, connected home devices products, and entertainment platforms. Designers and developers face complex decisions about how voice interfaces will work and what technologies they will need to integrate. These decisions determine how users will interact with, be supported by, and perceive the systems.
About Tanya Kraljic
Tanya Kraljic is a principal interaction and dialog designer for Nuance Communications, Inc. Her work focuses on the strategy and design of speech experiences in mobile, wearable, in-home, and other emerging technologies. Tanya has helped clients from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies navigate the space of natural language technology, conversational design, and predictive intelligence. Prior to joining Nuance, Tanya earned a PhD in psycholinguistics (the psychology of language use), where she first studied human-human interaction.
When she's not thinking about how to make technology talk, you can find her outdoors (if it's warm out), or planning her next outdoor adventure (if it isn't).
6:00 - 6:30: Pizza
6:30 - 6:35: UX Opener by Steve
6:35 - 7:00: Designing for Wearables in the Workplace
7:05 - 7:30: The Responsibility of Design
7:35 - 8:00: Designing Voice Interfaces
8:00+ Beantown Pub (Downstairs)
Why are you charging $1?
We're looking for an accurate count for food and people have suggested charging $1. They mentioned that it would get us a pretty accurate headcount and cover some costs at the same time. Let us know if you have another suggestion!
The Possible Project's Kickstarter Party
NGIN Workplace, 210 Broadway #201, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-possible-projects-kickstarter-party-tickets-12837253571
Support Young Entrepreneurs by backing our Kickstarter Campaign!
The Possible Project is a nonprofit youth entrepreneurship center based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that teaches high school students how to start and run their own businesses. We are holding a Kickstarter Campaign to purchase a professional grade $40,000 laser cutter for our Makerspace that is opening in Kendall Square this winter.
THE EVENT - free beer and ice cream!
This Event at NGIN Workplace is to bring together the greater Boston Community to rally behind our cause. Here you will be able to see our awesome laser cut rewards in person, mingle with Cambridge young professionals, and support an organization working with local high school students!
Computers will be set up to make your donation to our campaign.
Ice Cream donated from JP Licks and beer donated from Samuel Adams will be provided. Please bring your ID's.
Have no fear if you can't attend the event you can still sponsor our campaign by going to: http://kck.st/1mQBa48
Kelp and Climate Change: Reef Life in Your Backyard
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
Dr. Jarrett Byrnes, assistant professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
New England is a kelpy wonderland. Along our shores, we have rolling meadows of kelp full of crabs, lobsters and more. But it's not just us. Kelps beds, meadows, and forests are found in one quarter of the world's coastal areas. They provide food for humans and fish alike, alter shorelines, and shape the temperate reefs around them. But these big beautiful cold water algae have started to respond to changes in water temperatures and wave action. Come learn more about what kelps means for you and what changes may be in store for the future.
Spotlight On...Regenerative Medicine
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Horace Mann Room, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/spotlight-onregenerative-medicine-tickets-13330298281
Spotlight On…Regenerative Medicine
In the second of our Spotlight series, MIT Professor Robert Langer, the most cited engineer in history, will examine the field of regenerative medicine with Biolatris Founder/Director Dr. Cathrine Prescott, a renowned leader in the regenerative medicine business sector.
This series is meant include both the science and the non-science communities, and to be highly interactive: Please bring your own comments and questions to contribute to the discussion!
We will begin the formal discussion portion at approximately 7:30PM.
The Spotlight Series
Supporting technologies where science strengths and business capabilities combine is a core part of the UK government's Industrial Strategy. In 2013, Her Majesty's Government set out Eight Great Technologies, and announced a £600 million investment to support their development:  Big Data, Satellite Applications, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Agri-Science, Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, Energy Storage.
To explore each of these Technologies, the British Consulate-General Boston's Science & Innovation team will host a series of fireside chats in which innovators from the UK and US discuss the origins and important developments in each field, as well as their perspectives on its future.
The Microsoft New England R&D Center is a secure facility; the following will be required for admittance (no exceptions):
Eventbrite Registration (you do not have to bring a ticket, but must have registered ahead)
Government-issued ID
Sign-in at entry
PLEASE BE SURE YOUR REGISTRATION DETAILS INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME.
MA Food Day
Find local events at http://fooddayma.wordpress.com
Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, & Music Conference
WHEN  Fri., Oct. 24 – Sun., Oct. 26, 2014
WHERE  John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences, Humanities, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Music Department
SPEAKER(S)  Eighteen speakers over a three-day conference in honor of Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music, Professor of African and African American Studies.
CONTACT INFO	musicdpt at fas.harvard.edu
LINK	www.music.fas.harvard.edu…
Food Day: Food Entrepreneurship Panel & Food Swap
WeWork South Station, 745 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-day-food-entrepreneurship-panel-food-swap-tickets-13287901471
Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.
We at the Boston Food Swap celebrate Food Day every day, but for October, we'll be celebrating along with the rest of the country.
Join us for a panel discussion with local food entreprenuers who embody the Food Day priorities and are making a difference in how our food is grown, distributed, and enjoyed! The panel will be followed by a food swap.
Jessica Angell, Cabbige
Jessie Banhazl, Green City Growers
Laurel Valchuis, Al FreshCo
Moderated by Jacqueline Church, LD Gourmet, Kitchen Confidence, Oyster Century Club
...more to be announced soon!
SWAP INFO:
All swap items must be homemade, homegrown, or foraged by you. Think baked goods, jam, pickles, spreads, honey, vinegar, granola, pasta, fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, homemade sausages, backyard eggs, home brews-- you name it! Bring as little or as much as you like. You can bring a bunch of one thing or multiples of a few different things. The possibilities are endless!
Keep in mind that swappers will be examining and picking up your goods, so be sure to package them in a way that protects the food and makes it clear the amounts you want to swap. We encourage reusable, earth-friendly packaging whenever possible.
If possible, you should also bring samples for others to try.
6:00pm - 7:30pm: Panel
7:30pm - 9:00pm: Swap
Check out our website at http://www.bostonfoodswap.com
Harvard's Second Ever Fungus Fair
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Explore the wondrous world of fungi! Join Harvard students for a closer look at the mushrooms, yeasts, and molds found in gardens, forests, labs—and even in our own refrigerators. Learn about the use of fungi in common foods such as bread and cheese. This is an opportunity to investigate museum collections and participate in hands-on activities and taste tests led by Harvard students.
Special Event. Regular museum admission rates apply.
The 19th Annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
11AM* - 6PM
*Saturday 10 - 11 AM preview hour. A limited number of tickets ($5) are available here to visit the Exhibitor Room before the doors open at 11 AM for Free Admission to all.
Reggie Lewis Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Boston
Subway stop across the street
This Festival brings together an amazing array of vegetarian natural food providers, top national speakers and chefs, and educational exhibitors in a fun and welcoming environment. It is a chance to talk directly to food producers, learn the newest items in the marketplace, taste free food samples, shop at show special discounts, or simply learn what vegetarian foods are available and where you can find them!
Whether you are a longtime vegetarian or vegan, or someone simply wanting to add more delicious plant-based foods to your meal repertoire, or if you are just curious what it's all about, you are welcome here! We offer you free admission, free food sampling, free speaker presentations, free parking and a T stop across the street.
You also can learn of ways to help animals and protect the environment, and enhance your health and well being. There are activities for kids, too! Learn more about the Festival.
Contact http://bostonveg.org/foodfest/index.html
Remembering North America's Extinct Birds: The Lost Bird Project
Harvard, Haller Hall, enter at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join us for a screening of The Lost Bird Project, a film that honors five extinct North American birds: the Labrador Duck, the Great Auk, the Heath Hen, the Carolina Parakeet, and the Passenger Pigeon. Directed by Deborah Dickson, the film follows sculptor Todd McGrain as he sets out to create large bronze memorials to these lost birds and to install them in the locations where they were last seen in the wild. A discussion with McGrain and Andy Stern, the executive producer of the film, will follow the screening. A book about the project will also be available for purchase at the museum store.
Film Screening and Book Signing. Free with museum admission.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-25-180000/remembering-north-americas-extinct-birds-lost-bird-project#sthash.xViNKH46.dpuf
Economic Solidarity in Spain - Reflections on Practice
Pasqualino Colombaro returns to Boston for a brief visit from Spain. His presentation draws lessons from his work in Spain.
With the passage of the democratic constitution of 1978, Euskadi (Basque Country) quickly became the best performing regional economy of Spain boasting an unemployment rate of about 3% in 2007. Today while the overall Spanish rate of unemployment again hovers at about 26%, Euskadi seems to have settled at an abnormally high of 16%. Things are much worse for workers everywhere in Spain.
There were over 37,000 mass demonstrations in all of Spain in 2013 (slightly up from 2012) to protest the causes of the crisis and its handling by the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy. It appears though that for 2014 these numbers are considerably lower as protest/strike resources dwindle and as the intransigent and repressive posture of the conservative government starts having its nefarious effects.
Despite this, Spanish Unions suffered a lethal blow to their very reason for being when labor law was reformed over night to flexibilize the Spanish labor market. Firing was left to the sole discretion of the employer and wage levels went back to being set unilaterally by the employer. In the meantime the number of Spanish millionaires grew by 27% since 2008, 11% of which in 2013 alone while the aggregate family financial wealth grew by 26%.
Except for aborting the right-wing reform project of the Spanish abortion law and for passing minor ameliorations around bankruptcy, housing loans and taxation, the Rajoy government has conceded nothing to the protesters nor have the Spanish millionaires (old and new) invested anything in the Spanish economy to improve it in any discernible way.
With 6 million Spanish workers being out of work, worker cooperatives (and other non-conventional worker initiated forms of work comprised in the Spanish social-solidarity economy) continue to stably employ 2.5 million workers or 12.5% of the Spanish workforce today. In Euskadi the entire sector comprises about 8% of its economy with the number of cooperatives rising to the tune of 100 per year since 2008.
The concepts of territorial independence, political autonomy and self rule (the Fueros) of the Basque provinces find their root in Guernika, Bizkaia, since the 11th century. Guernika is located about 30 miles N-W of Mondragon where the famous global (cooperative) corporation was born in 1956.
Pasqualino has been living in Euskadi for the past three years. He has kept up with Spanish events, explored the territorial social-economic environment and personally experimented with new practices in self-sufficient gardening and in local economic initiatives.
In light of a brief presentation on the above Pasqualino will invite everyone to discuss:
a) Why in 2014 dependent workers are still not able to apply effective countervailing measures to the global spread of capitalism nor to its savage rape of the natural and social environments and;
b) How some workers, at this stage, could and do move forward independently to create their own, self-determined economic initiatives and to invent new forms of work and new ways of life;
c) What accounts for the difference?
Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: The Ornithologist
WHEN  Mon., Oct. 27, 2014, 11:30 a.m.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Film, Lecture
SPEAKER(S)  João Pedro Rodrigues, 2014-15 Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
LINK	http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-joao-pedro-rodrigues-fellow-presentation
MASS Seminar - Morgan O'Neill (MIT)
Speaker: Morgan O'Neill
Energy storage: Its value to the grid and ongoing policy challenges to deployment and support of renewable energy
Paul Denholm, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The Glass Cage:  Automation and US
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Northeastern University School of Law, 240 Dockser Hall,  65 Forsyth Street, Boston
RSVP at https://events.attend.com/?form_id=1383764446/#/form/register/1383764446/0
Cost:  $5
Nicholas Carr
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.
Nicholas Carr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows, and the best-selling The Big Switch and Does It Matter? Former executive director of the Harvard Business Review, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and Wired. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Ecologies of Paradox: A Typology of Scientific Surprise in the Anthropocene
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Zoe Nyssa, Harvard, HUCE/STS Fellow
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle
Contact Name:  sts at hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-27-161500-2014-10-27-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.9swO7Emc.dpuf
Election Day Preview: The Vote in Massachusetts
Harvard, Institute of Politics Conference Room, Room 166 Littauer Building, 79 JF Street, Cambridge
Jim O'Sullivan, Political Reporter, Boston Globe
Gabrielle Gurley, Senior Associate Editor, Commonwealth Magazine
On November 4th, Massachusetts will elect a new Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, and 6th District Congressman. Veteran reporters O'Sullivan and Gurley will share their observations on the election season and their views on the candidates. They will also field audience questions.
Industrial Urbanism: MIT Symposium on Cities and Industries
MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor, Room 648, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/industrial-urbanism-mit-symposium-on-cities-and-industries-tickets-12722692917
The aim of this symposium is to explore the future relationships between city and industry along three themes with a focus on their spatial implications:
Changing Technologies
Professor Marty Schmidt, Provost MIT
Professor Sanjay Sarma, Director of Digital Learning, MIT
Professor Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator/respondent: Tim Love, Founding Principal, Utile
Changing Manufacturing
Professor Fiona Murray, Associate Dean of Innovation, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Dr. Ted Acworth, Founder & CEO, Artaic
Alex Klatskin, General Partner, Forsgate Industrial Partners
Moderator/respondent: Professor Alexander D'Hooghe, Director, Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT
Changing Cities
Professor Amy Glasmeier, DUSP MIT
Neil McCullagh, Executive Director, The American City Coalition
Dr. Elisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center
Moderator/respondent: Professor Dennis Frenchman, DUSP MIT
Prospects and Future Directions
Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor and Department Head, DUSP MIT
Dr. Tali Hatuka, Head of the Laboratory of contemporary Urban Design, Tel Aviv University
Stewardship of Earth's Natural Systems: the Next Front in Protecting Global Health
Samuel Myers (Harvard)
Deans' Food System Challenge Kickoff
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Lobby Area, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/deans-food-system-challenge-kickoff-tickets-13316480953
Join HLS Dean Martha Minow and keynote speaker Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, in officially kicking off the 2015 Deans' Food System Challenge. The Challenge invites creative and entrepreneurial students to develop innovative ideas to improve the health, social, and environmental outcomes of the food system in the United States and around the world.
Students will have the opportunity at the Kickoff to network with other like-minded folks at Harvard and begin exploring ideas and partnerships to apply to this challenge in one of four categories:
Producing Sustainable, Nutritious Food
Innovating in Food Distribution and Markets
Improving Our Diet
The Challenge is co-sponsored by Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School and Dean Julio Frenk of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team, and ventures throughout the Challenge timeline. More information on the Challenge and programming can be found here.
ABX 2014 [Architecture Boston Expo]
Tuesday, October 28 - Thursday, October 30
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
RSVP at http://abexpo.com/
Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/dahlia-lithwick/
The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance
Langdell Library 4th Floor Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School; no RSVP necessary (map)
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
With Susan Crawford and other special guests
Harvard Law School Visiting Professor and co-director of the Berkman Center Susan Crawford joins Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, MA, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston and Harvard Business School Professor and Chief of Staff to Mayor Menino, Mitchell Weiss, for a lively discussion around her new book, The Responsive City.  The talk will be moderated by Harvard Law School Professor and co-founder and Director of the Berkman Center Jonathan Zittrain.
Lunch will be served and the author will be available for book signing.
About the Responsive City
The Responsive City is a compelling guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help municipal leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive and economically resilient cities. The book is co-authored by Professor Stephen Goldsmith, director of Data-Smart City Solutions at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor Susan Crawford, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Susan Crawford is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a co-director of the Berkman Center. She is the author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and a contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. She is a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation.
Ms. Crawford was formerly a (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard's Kennedy School, a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School (2008-2010). As an academic, she teaches Internet law and communications law. In December of 2012, Yale University Press published her book, Captive Audience: Telecom Monopolies in the New Gilded Age. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010); one of Prospect Magazine's Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011) and TIME Magazine's Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech (2013). She is a member of the board of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC).
Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.
Harvard Lighting Fair
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard Sustainability is pleased to announce a return visit of the Energy Saving Lighting Fair to coincide with the Freecycle and Farmers Market taking place on Tuesday, October 28. We invite you to learn about current LED lighting and energy management devices for the home. NSTAR customers can also enjoy special discounted pricing on a variety of product for the home, thanks to NSTAR and Mass Save.
Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
Harvard, Harvard Hall 104
Speaker: David Atkin (UCLA)
Compton Lecture: Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Speaker: Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
MIT welcomes Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to campus on Tuesday, October 28, for the fall 2014 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture, "Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research".
Web site: http://compton.mit.edu/speakers/francis-collins/
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Institute Events, Office of the President
For more information, contact:  Institute Events
info-events at mit.edu
Examining Ebola Interdisciplinary Panel
MIT, Building 4-163, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
We are envisioning a multidisciplinary panel in which each speaker presents for no more than 15 minutes (depending on the number of participants). We'd then open up the forum for a moderated discussion among the panelists, and take questions from our audience. Our hope is to provide up-to-date information about the biology of the disease, discuss the infrastructural dimensions of the pandemic and its impact on public health and security, analyze contemporary "disaster preparedness" and biosecurity practices (as well as discourses about them), and to contextualize the current crisis in historical and cross-cultural perspectives. It is also important for us to discuss how the emergency is unfolding in the media.
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT Prehealth Advising Global Education and Career Development Office
For more information, contact:  Brittany Peters
bapeters at mit.edu
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
MIT, Building E40-496, One Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Dawisha, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Karen Dawisha is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the Director of the University's Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.
Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin's kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle's use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and Putin's Palace near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin's KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime.
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:  Emma Kaminskaya
Ekaminsk at mit.edu
Life Beyond Earth - Mars and Exoplanets
Christopher Carr, Research Scientist, MIT
Vlada Stamenkovic, Postdoctoral Associate, Habitability Labs, MIT
MassChallenge - Skolkovo Demo Day
MassChallenge Event Space, 23 Drydock Avenue, Floor 6, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/masschallenge-skolkovo-demo-day-tickets-13002174855
Watch top Russian tech startups compete for opportunities in the U.S. startup ecosystem
For the past eight weeks, the most promising startups out of Skolkovo Foundation's IT Cluster have received expert mentorship from some of the top mentors in the MassChallenge program.
On October 28, they will pitch their ideas to a panel of experts, hoping to win spots in the MassChallenge 2015 semifinals and Silicon Valley's Tim Draper University of Heroes.
You are invited to hear their pitches & connect with MassChallenge, MIT Enterprise Forum, the Skolkovo Foundation, and Draper University as we explore the potential of Russian entrepreneurship.
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
to attend one of these informational sessions:
Germany and Europe Facing the Ukraine Crisis and ISIS
WHEN  Wed., Oct. 29, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), Cambridge
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Thomas Bagger, head of policy planning, German Foreign Office, Berlin
CONTACT INFO	atownes at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This event is co-sponsored by the Boston Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany.
ABX Design Charrette: Living with Water
ABX Conference, Hall C (far corner!), Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/abx-design-charrette-living-with-water-tickets-13225109659
It's a familiar refrain: if Superstorm Sandy had hit a few hours earlier (or later), Boston, too, would have flooded.  Scientists know that seas are rising, storm severity is increasing, and that coastal cities need to grapple with an increasingly wet world. "Living With Water," resilient design from the Netherlands and elsewhere, is part of the solution.
On Sandy's second anniversary, join us for a hands-on design workshop to imagine what this might mean at a variety of locations where the city meets the sea.  The working session of the charrette is from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, followed by a reception and discussion from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
We are seeking for 100 participants from a wide range of backgrounds: architects, planners, residents, property managers, scientists, engineers, neighborhood activists, and interested citizens and others. Participants will use Living With Water ideas and your own experience and knowledge to reimagine one of three sites in Boston to accommodate five feet of sea level rise while maintaining or enhancing its value as a vibrant place to live, work, and play.
This charrette is one component of a slate of ABX workshops about resiliency, and complements a larger design competition organized by the City of Boston, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Coastal Zone Management, The Boston Harbor Association, and the Boston Society of Architects.
This event is free and open to the public, though space is limited and registration is required to reserve your spot.  Please only reserve a spot if you will come.
The Coming Swarm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall Room 2012, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Reception to follow book launch in the HLS Pub, Wasserstein Hall
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/10/thecomingswarm#RSVP
Author Molly Sauter in discussion with Laurie Penny
In her new book, The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. Together in conversation with journalist and activist Laurie Penny, Molly will discuss the use of disruptive tactics like DDoS, online civil disobedience, and the role of the internet as a zone of political activism and speech. There will be a book signing following the discussion.
Molly Sauter is a research affiliate at the Berkman Center, and a doctoral student at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a masters degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT, where she is an affiliate researcher at the Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab.  Her research is broadly focused on hacker culture, transgressive digital activism, and depictions of technology in the media. Her research is situated in socio-political analyses of technology and technological culture.  She is author of The Coming Swarm, an analysis of the history and development of activist distributed denial of service actions, published by Bloomsbury. She blogs at oddletters.com and tweets @oddletters.
Laurie Penny was born in London in 1986 and is not dead yet. She is, in no particular order, a writer, a journalist, a public speaker, an activist, a feminist, a reprobate and a geek. She is Contributing Editor of New Statesman magazine and Editor-at-Large at The New Inquiry. Her fourth book, Unspeakable Things, was published by Bloomsbury (US/UK) in 2014.
Global Energy Shortage: Are Laws on the Right Side?
Day Pitney LLP - Law Firm - Boston Office, 1 International Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-energy-shortage-are-laws-on-the-right-side-tickets-13397487245
Come join Boston International for an academic discussion surrounding the energy regulatory landscape in the United States and abroad.  Our current trend towards a global energy crisis presents unique regulatory challenges for countries attempting to incentivize energy development.  Professor Steven Ferrey of Suffolk Law School and Andrew Bobenski of John Hancock Financial Services will join us for the evening to discuss what laws regarding energy development look like here at home, and overseas.  Networking time will be set aside before and after the panel discussion.
Fat vs. Sugar: The culture of American dieting
WHERE  Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Swedish Cleantech Tour arrives to Boston!
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EDT)
Wilmerhale, 60 State Street, Floor 26, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/swedish-cleantech-tour-arrives-to-boston-tickets-13352346227
The Swedish Cleantech Tour is proud to announce a special opportunity to meet Sweden's most promising cleantech companies. Eager to expand, these companies are entering the US market by introducing innovative solutions that will generate high demand in this emerging industry.
The event will take place on Thursday, October 30th, at 60 State Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
It all starts at 9.00 am with a complimentary breakfast, followed by a series of presentations from the participating cleantech companies, which include Arsizio, Midsummer, Climeon, Recondoil, Infrafone and Watty. Other participating companies will be announced shortly.  The event will conclude with a networking lunch at 12:30 pm, which will be an excellent opportunity to continue the conversation, and gain further insight into the Nordic cleantech movement.
Biodiversity and land conservation at the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
Patricia Swain, Ph.D., Natural Community Ecologist, Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
The overall goal of the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP), part of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, is the protection of the state's wide range of native biological diversity, particularly the vertebrate and invertebrate animals and native plants that are officially listed as rare in Massachusetts. The talk will focus on conservation through identifying, tracking, managing, and regulating rare species and identifying and mapping NHESP priority natural communities. Land use history, climate change, and other influences on native biodiversity will be part of the discussion.
Patricia Swain's job as natural community ecologist for NHESP means working state wide with the rarest and most imperiled natural communities in Massachusetts and the best examples of the more common types. Patricia is currently revising The Classification of Natural Communities of Massachusetts that was first produced in 2001; since then they have been adding new types and adjusting the original descriptions so that a clean version (with illustrations and a key) seems like a useful product. Patricia has been the Natural Community Ecologist for MassWildlife's Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program since 1987. Before that she was a stay at home mom and part time academic, teaching occasional ecology and biology classes at the local university and technical college. She graduated from Tufts with a Biology major, and obtained her MS and PhD degrees in Ecology from the University of Minnesota.
Authorship in a Digital World: How to Make It Thrive
Harvard, Lamont Library Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/authorship-in-a-digital-world-how-to-make-it-thrive-registration-13100725623
The internet has had disruptive effects on many aspects of the ecosystem in which authors reach readers. The roles of publishers, retailers, libraries, and universities, and other participants in this ecosystem are evolving rapidly. Amazon.com, in particular, has been the source of considerable controversy in its dealings with authors and publishers.
In order for authors to navigate these turbulent waters, they need to be strategic in their partnerships and careful in contracting. Copyright is supposed to help even authors with no legal expertise, but how good a job does it do? Could some changes in that law help authors reach readers more effectively? Looking beyond the law, what steps can authors take now to realize the full impact of their writings?
With these questions in mind, the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society are co-sponsoring the Authors Alliance in bringing a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing authors in the digital age to the Harvard campus.
The discussion will be preceded by remarks from Katie Hafner, a journalist, the author of six books, and a member of the Authors Alliance and advisory board.
Jonathan Zittrain will moderate a panel that will include:
Rachel Cohen, a Cambridge-based author and creative writing professor at Sarah Lawrence College;
Robert Darnton, university librarian at Harvard and member of the Authors Alliance advisory board;
Ellen Faran, director of MIT Press;
Mark Fischer, a copyright lawyer at Duane Morris LLP;
Katie Hafner, a journalist, memoirist, and nonfiction writer;
Alison Mudditt, director of UC Press;
Sophia Roosth, a Harvard historian of science; and
Pamela Samuelson, Authors Alliance co-founder and law professor at U.C. Berkeley.
A reception will follow will the panel.
The event will be webcast and recorded. Details on the webcast will be posted here and at http://authorsalliance.org prior to the event.
Ecology and Evolution of Bacterial Populations in the Wild
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Martin Polz, Polz lab
Ecosystem Tipping Points, Chemical Ecology, and the Death Spiral of Coral Reefs
MIT, Building 48-316,
Speaker: Dr. Mark Hay of Georgia Tech.
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of environmental topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parsonsseminars/home
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, Parsons Laboratory, Parsons Lab
For more information, contact:  Rebecca Fowler
ceed at mit.edu
What Should We Do about Fossil Fuel CO2?
Boston University, School of Management Auditorium, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Wally Broecker, Newberry Professor in Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-30-200000-2014-10-30-213000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.NgL223OR.dpuf
How Wonder Woman Got into Harvard
Thursday, Oct 30
Lecture by Jill Lepore BI '00, the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Her biography of Benjamin Franklin's sister, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her latest book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, will be published in October.
Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has lasted as long. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. In this illustrated lecture, Lepore lifts that veil of secrecy to reveal that Wonder Woman's past lies at Harvard and Radcliffe.
Askwith Forum: The End of Race-Based College Admissions
WHEN   Thu., Oct. 30, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT	Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT	AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM	Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME	 Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL	askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE   617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT	Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED	No
ADMISSION FEE	This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED	No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
DETAILS  Moderator: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ed.M.'97, associate professor of education, HGSE
Sheryll Cashin, professor of law, Georgetown Law
Richard Rothstein, research associate, Economic Policy Institute; senior fellow, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California Berkeley School of Law
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring upheld the Michigan ban on affirmative action and further fueled ongoing debates about whether race should be considered in college admission decisions across the United States. Should selective college admissions policies replace race-based affirmative action with preferences for high achieving students from disadvantaged places or low family wealth, without regard to race? Does race-based affirmative action create needless political barriers to progressive policy for the future? Join Sheryll Cashin, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the widely acclaimed book, Place, Not Race, and Richard Rothstein, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the role of race and class in the future of college campuses.
The 39th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture "21st Century War: the Continuum of Pain and Other Sequelae"
WHERE  Carl Walter Amphitheatre, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Boston Medical Library
SPEAKER(S)  Chester 'Trip' Buckenmaier III, program director, Defense and Veteran Center for Integrative Pain Management, US Army; Rollin M. Gallagher, national program director, Pain Management Veterans Health Administration
COST	Free and open to the public; registration required by Oct. 10
CONTACT INFO	BostonMedLibr at gmail.com
DETAILS	  Send full name, email address, and phone number to BostonMedLibr at gmail.com.
LINK	https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?p=9802
Food as Medicine Symposium
Harvard Law School, WCC 2012, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Hosted by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Join us for the 2nd Annual Food is Medicine Symposium! For critically and chronically ill people, food is medicine. The provision of nutritious, healthy food is crucial part of outcome-driven, cost-effective health care. Speakers will address innovative partnerships between public health insurers and food providers, cutting-edge research in the field, and opportunities to integrate food into routine health care. Be part of this important emerging dialogue!
Contact: sdowner at law.harvard.edu
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/food-medicine-symposium#sthash.MXObW4pg.dpuf
The Bees and the Seas: Finding Similarities in Conservation Goals
Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich, founder and chief scientific officer, The Best Bees Company, and Dr. Randi Rotjan, associate scientist, New England Aquarium
*Book signing to follow
The urban gardening movement is well aware of the importance of pollinators, native plants and water conservation, but the oceans are not a regular part of the conversation. The story is the same (but reversed) for ocean enthusiasts, who are well versed in issues of water conservation, pollution and overfishing, but the terrestrial environment is often ignored. Here's a chance to finally talk about both the bees and the seas—how the "green" and "blue" movements have aligned goals and mutual interests. It may come as a surprise, but most of the actions needed to promote honeybee pollinators are the same actions necessary for healthy oceans. Come find out why, and your local honey will taste twice as sweet.
UK US CYBER SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
The UK Science & Innovation Network, Boston
British Consulate-General Boston‎, One Broadway, 7th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-us-cyber-security-symposium-tickets-13356665145
9am  Session 1:  Policy:  Regualtions and Standards
11:30am  Session 2:  Case Studies and the Industry Landscape
1:45pm  Session 3:  Innovation:  Technology and Research
4pm  Closing Reception
Speakers include Andy Ellis (Akamai), Angela Sasse (UCL), Bill Roscoe (Oxford), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), Joseph Bonneru (Princeton), Nigel Smart (Bristol), Robert Ghaner-Hercock (BT), and more
Ice Age Puzzles
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 685 Commonwealth Avenue
George Denton, Libra Professor of Earth Sciences, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine
Contact Name:   Jennifer L. Berglund
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-31-160000-2014-10-31-170000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.REGrZQWW.dpuf
Studying Aerosols, One Particle at a Time
Jonathan Reid
Speaker Bio: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/~chjpr/JPR.html
Contact:  Adam Bateman
abateman at seas.harvard.edu
MASS Seminar - Cecilia Bitz (University of Washington)
Speaker: Cecilia Bitz
Harvard Business School Cyberposium 2014
Harvard Business School, Spangler Auditorium, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-business-school-cyberposium-2014-tickets-12816886653
Cost:  $37.92-48.47
Held at Harvard Business School for the past 19 years, Cyberposium is the largest MBA technology conference in the country. Each year Cyberposium seeks to engage business leaders in provocative dialogue about technology and its impact on business and society. Past speakers include Elon Musk, Marissa Meyer, Jerry Yang, as well as CEOs of Sony America, Intuit, Research in Motion, Uber, and Pandora.
How important is energy storage for decarbonization?
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS); Professor of Public Policy (HKS)
Unique Biometric ID: Creating a Large Scale Digital Ecosystem Using the Aadhaar Experience
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS S010, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; co-founder of Infosys; author of "Imagining India"
CONTACT INFO	sainit at fas.harvard.edu
LINK	http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/sai-annual-mahindra-lecture/
"Obsessive Political Correctness:" A talk by playwright Eve Ensler
C. Walsh Theatre, S55 Temple Street, Suffolk University, Boston
Eve Ensler, playwright and activist, will talk about her newest work, "Obsessive Political Correctness," with Joyce Kulhawik, arts and entertainment critic. The pair will then take questions from the audience.
Ensler created "The Vagina Monologues" and works worldwide to prevent violence against women through art. More info:
http://www.fordhallforum.org/programs/opc
Boston TechBreakfast: PencilBlue, Epoque, Attopedia, CloudStock, ProtonMail
Microsoft Technology Center (4th Floor Longfellow), 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
PencilBlue - Blake Callens
Epoque - Adam Butler
Attopedia - Dheera Venkatraman
CloudStock - Ann Calvin
ProtonMail - Andy Yen
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 4, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S)   Christine Yano, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, and professor of anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
LINK	http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
Étienne Balibar on "Violence, Civility, and Politics Revisited"
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 4, 2014, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Room 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
SPEAKER(S)  Étienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine
COST	Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO	617.495.0738; humcentr at fas.harvard.edu
November 4, Lecture 1: "Are There Criteria of Extreme Violence?"
November 5, Lecture 2: "Objective and Subjective Cruelty: A Relevant Distinction in the Globalized World?"
LINK	http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/étienne-balibar-violence-civility-and-politics-revisited
BASG: The Sharing Economy
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
The Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-the-sharing-economy-november-4-2014-tickets-13533768867
Cost: $10 -$12
In partnership with Northbound Ventures, BASG presents: The Sharing Economy
It's hot, it's very cool, and it is decidedly disruptive. And it's creating quite the controversy. The Sharing Economy holds great promise and faces great challenges.
Come meet, hear, and engage with:
Emily Stapleton, General Manager, Alta Bicycle Share, Inc. (Operator of Hubway Bicycle System)
Emily will focus on shared transportation and public/private partnerships. Hubway bike share system is a collaboration between the municipalities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline. She also has experience in public sector transit at Transport for London and public sector logistics, as a consultant to the US Department of Defense. Emily received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Harvard College.
Molly Cohen, Law Fellow in Nonprofit Law, Office of the General Counsel at New York University
Molly Cohen and Corey Zehngebot wrote a terrific article in the Boston Bar Journal (April, 2014) entitled, "What's Old Becomes New: Regulating the Sharing Economy."  Molly is a student at the Harvard Law School and a Law Fellow at NYU.  She has been helping municipalities regulate the shared economy companies with a sense for balancing the safety and welfare of the public with the potential for economic development opportunities.  Molly has examined the legal issues raised by the sharing economy along with the plea for the legal community to be proactive rather than reactive given the tremendous environmental, social and economic benefits of this activity. Molly will talk about whether the serious legal and regulatory issues created by the sharing economy's rapid emergence might best be addressed by embracing concurrent regulatory innovation.
Katie Shultz, Lead Host & Community Manager, Impact Hub Boston
Impact Hub Boston is a coworking space and community for folks working on social entrepreneurship and for social good in Boston and beyond. Previously, Katie worked at a variety of non-profits - including a watershed protection group in Alabama and with conservation agriculture projects in South Sudan - and most recently carried her passion for sustainability to the People's Climate March in NYC. Katie will discuss coworking, at Impact Hub Boston and beyond, which takes the "Sharing Economy" to new Office Space - and offers equal opportunities for groans, laughter, and broad-based connections.
Mike Brown, Co-founder, GearCommons
GearCommons is a Boston-based startup for peer-to-peer sharing of outdoor gear. Mike is a MassChallenge Alumnus, a winner of the Tufts University $100k Business Plan Competition, a successful crowdfunder on Kickstarter, and is an avid ice climber.  He is an engineer with his Masters Degree in Engineering Management from Tufts University. Mike will tell us about GearCommons.
Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG's explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you're trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers share their experiences and then we open the discussion to the group.
We'll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!
SOMERVILLE ROVING ART EVENTS BUS
We are looking for folks to help us program our new M.U.S.C.R.A.T. Bus (Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport).
About the MUSCRAT
The city of Somerville, led by the Somerville Arts Council, has bought an old school bus, which has been transformed into a Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport (M.U.S.C.R.A.T). We anticipate that the inside will be used to conduct roaming art classes, performance art or dance, while the outside could be used to screen films or host concerts. The intent for our M.U.S.C.R.A.T. is to create a flexible roving catalyst for creation.
Perhaps you'd like to…
create a comix workshop for youth in an underserved area; this might take place at Mystic River Housing, for example
produce a dance performance in or around the bus in an unlikely location
host a public craft night inside the bus
We look forward to hearing your ideas!
Official Call
For more details and the official call to Producers, go here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/muscrat
Rachel Strutt, Program Manager, Somerville Arts Council
p: 617.625.6600, x2985 f: 617.666.4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Visit Nibble, a blog about food & culture at
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/nibble
CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS ARTS GRANT PROGRAM - October 15, 2014
Cambridge Arts makes annual awards of $200-$2000 to support access to professional arts and culture events for Cambridge youth through Field Trip Grants and supports individual artists and organizations through Project Grants. Project Grants are awarded in two categories: Creating & Presenting and Education & Access. Entry fee.
Details:  617-349-4380
http://www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/grants
cambridgearts at cambridgema.gov
Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it's desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, "Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action" to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver at bio4climate.org for further information.
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch.  No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera?  With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat.  However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras.  They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way).  Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com.  Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return.  Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it.  When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home's energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729.  A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment.  We won't keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET's Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org
Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you're doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas.   Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities.  Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers.  Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
Artisan Asylum  http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co:  Community Driven Investigations  http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project  http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei at wellesley.edu
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston  http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents   http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area:  http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events:  http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club:  http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events:  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment:  http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard:  http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action:  http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite:  http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center:  http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events:   http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
High Tech Events:  http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal:  http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings:  http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups:  http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List:  http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider:  http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite:  http://boston.nerdnite.com/