by gmoke
Thu Nov 28th, 2024 at 08:46:59 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
More information on these events at http://hubevents.blogspot.com
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Index
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Networks: From Cross-Border Propaganda to Mutual Legitimation
December 2
Online
9am EST [3:00 - 4:30pm CET]
Online
RSVP at http://www.gmfus.org/event/russias-illiberal-networks-cross-border-propaganda-mutual-legitimation
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Using Facebook-Based Surveys to Assess Climate Concern and the Micro-Foundations of Climate Adaptation Governance in Small-Island Developing States
Monday, December 2
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at http://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2024/using-facebook-based-surveys-assess-climate-concern-and-micro
-foundations-climate
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Leveraging artificial intelligence to tackle climate change
Monday, December 2
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-tackle-climate-change/
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Zero Fuel Bias Energy Codes
Monday, December 2
3:30-5 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-zero-fuel-bias-energy-codes/
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Unlock 3 Keys to Resilience in a Changing Climate
Monday, December 2
8 - 9:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/unlock-3-keys-to-resilience-in-a-changing-climate-tickets-1082700138259
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Bridging Knowledge Systems: Co-Producing Sustainable Ocean Plans with Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge for Equitable Ocean Governance
Wednesday, December 4
09:00-10:30 EST [2:00 - 3:30pm GMT]
Online
RSVP at http://www.wri.org/events/2024/12/bridging-knowledge-systems-co-producing-sustainable-ocean-plans-in
digenous
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We Can't Get There from Here: Carbon, Climate and the Call to Wonder
44th Annual Schumacher Lecture with Paul Hawken and Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé
Wednesday, December 4
11am EST
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DVBXT_ljSdq0UVKQD4YZcg#/registration
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#Stoprussia: Weaponizing Social Media for Foreign Support
Wednesday, December 4
12-1:30pm
Online at https:/www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood (RSM Speaker Series)
Wednesday, December 4
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Online
RSVP at http://rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/politics-of-falsehood/
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Environments for Health and Happiness: A Seminar with Dr. Joe Allen
Wednesday, December 4
1 - 2 p.m.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/event/environments-for-health-and-happiness-a-seminar-w
ith-dr-joe-allen
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Democracy's next act: How to build resilience around the world
Wednesday, December 4
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/democracys-next-act-how-to-build-resilience-around-the-world/
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A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North
Wednesday December 4
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/A-Revolutionary-Woman-Elizabeth-Freeman-and-the-Abolition-
of-Slavery-in-the-North---Program
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How We Reclaim the Internet
Wednesday, December 4
7:30pm ET [5:30 PM PST]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RVSP at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-12-04/jeff-jarvis-how-we-reclaim-internet
Cost: $10 - $52
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Trees & Forests
Thursdays, December 5, 2024 - January 30, 2025
12 noon -or- 7 pm ET
Online
RSVP at http://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/trees-and-forests/registration/
Cost: $5 - $160
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Interrogative Design Symposium
Thursday, December 5 - Friday, December 6
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScK6PddR-9mg28UcCNrMQ2jOKT0lRgWT5tDfOUJsgH7Q8Ak9g/viewform
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Webinar - Accelerating Green Ammonia: Purpose and Priorities
Thursday, December 5
10am EST [8-9 a.m. MT]
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-accelerating-green-ammonia-purpose-and-priorities/
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Climate in the Roman World
Thursday, December 5
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TH3pwIRfSxm3C-ty07Fv0w#/registration
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Towards a theory of Sustainable African Urbanism: institutional hybridity and urban sustainability in Ghana
Thursday, December 5
12- 1pm EST
Yale, Burke Auditorium,m] 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT06511
And online
RSVP http://yale.zoom.us/j/92629487528?pwd=0qNSBhJ78GROBslW9v3hOhdlYCpxNO.1
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Russia-U.S. Relations in 2025: Can Arctic Science Diplomacy Mend Strategic Fences?
Thursday, December 5
12:00pm - 01:15pm
Harvard, Belfer Building - Belfer 322 Salata Conference Room, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://www.belfercenter.org/event/russia-us-relations-2025-can-arctic-science-diplomacy-mend-strateg
ic-fences
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Yale Forest Forum Fall 2024 Speaker Series - What's Next on Old Growth Policy: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, December 5
12 PM - 1:30 PM EST (GMT-5)
Online
RSVP at http://yaleconnect.yale.edu/tfs/rsvp_boot?id=2286326
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Reckless Abandonment? Assessing how agricultural legacies impact the ecological & social functions of land
Thursday, December 5
1 - 2pm
UCSB1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA
Online
RSVP at http://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84499323441#success with passcode land
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Rapid adaptation across climates in a synchronozied long-term plant evolution experiment; and why this matters for global species conservation targets
Thursday, December 5
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Northwest Building, B101, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
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Risks of destabilization of the carbon cycle
Thursday, December 5
4pm to 5pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, Room 501 (Schiller Institute Convening Space) Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
http://forms.gle/pQMXvX3WvTawLD959
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Climate Change and Clean Energy
Thursday, December 5
4-6 PM
BU, Kilachand Center Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Room 101), 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
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Security and Resilience Speaker Series: Climate Resilience Academy
Thursday, December 5
6:00 pm.
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=gcLuqKOqrk2sm5o5i5IV53F80AfBWgdCrlSTeI2yfzpURE1GU
1FOSTBWTDVCMDJMTzZIUEY1MkJXQy4u&route=shorturl
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SFI Seminar: When Do Firms Oversell or Undersell Their Environmental Sustainability? with Gaku Morio (Hitachi America) & Isabella Yoon (University of Otago)
Thursday, December 5
7pm EST [4pm to 5pm PT]
Online
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/sfi-seminar-morio-and-yoon
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Five Steps to a Sustainable and Peaceable Economy
Thursday, December 5
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://masspeaceaction.org/event/five-steps-to-a-sustainable-and-peaceable-economy-2/
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Climate Mobilization Project: Tending the Seeds of Survival
Thursday, December 5
7-9pm EST [4-6pm Pacific PST]
Online
RSVP at http://secure.everyaction.com/_x-wqDomCkGwm9_hp6dldQ2?emci=a834ed8f-f9ac-ef11-88cf-6045bdfe8d29&
emdi=b234ed8f-f9ac-ef11-88cf-6045bdfe8d29&ceid=15533
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Climate, Biogeoscience, and Health: Transformative Science to Real-World Action
Friday, December 6
10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
Networking Lunch--12:00 - 1:00 pm ET
Boston University, Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor). To access the upper floors, please use the elevators near Saxby's café.
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/hic/climate-biogeoscience-and-health-transformative-science-to-real-world-action/
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Reimagine Buildings: Biomaterials
Friday, December 6
11:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://events.ringcentral.com/events/reimagine-buildings-carbon-storgae-b3f44f40-d113-4d94-95f2-7707
5b92c892/registration
Cost: $49
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Bounty by Fire: The Anishinaabe Legacy of Human-Mediated Fire Regimes on Drummond Island, Michigan
Friday, December 6
4pm to 5:30pm
Online
RSVP at http://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-ihrDkuHdLsmsJDR_Som34oaHXivbMI#/registration
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by gmoke
Tue Nov 12th, 2024 at 08:20:12 PM EST
There are about 700 million people worldwide without access to any electricity at all and another 1.18 billion people are estimated to be in energy poverty. 80% of those without any access are in Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria (86 million), Democratic Republic of Congo (76 million), and Ethiopia (55 million) have the highest numbers of people without access and Pakistan is home to 40% of the Asian population without access (40 million).
According to the IEA [International Energy Agency] (http://www.iea.org/commentaries/access-to-electricity-improves-slightly-in-2023-but-still-far-from-t
he-pace-needed-to-meet-sdg7), if current trends continue, about 660 million people are projected to still lack electricity access by 2030 and achieving universal electricity access faces significant challenges, including underfunding.
However, decentralized solutions like mini-grids and stand-alone systems are now the least-cost option for over half of those needing access while solar lanterns and chargers, smaller off-grid solar PV systems, are meeting basic and essential electricity services.
The IEA estimates around 18% of those previously without access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa now have solar lantern or multi-light and charger systems which provide basic services but are lower power than IEA's essential electricity standards:
"Basic electricity services or a basic bundle include more than one light point providing task lighting, phone charging and a radio. Essential electricity services or an essential bundle include four light bulbs that can run for four hours per day, a fan that can run for three hours per day and a television that can run for two hours per day. Solar home systems are off-grid solar PV systems with capacity above 10 Wp [10W peak power] and meet the IEA threshold for electricity access, providing basic or essential electricity services depending on size. Solar lanterns and solar multi-light systems are off-grid solar PV systems with capacity up to 10 Wp and do not meet the IEA threshold for access. For further information on these definitions, see the IEA's Guidebook for Improved Electricity Access Statistics."
Source: http://www.iea.org/reports/guidebook-for-improved-electricity-access-statistics
560 million people, roughly, are without access to electricity now in Sub-Saharan Africa. The average household size there is 6.9 people which means there are roughly 81.16 million families without access.
Here are two minimal solar lights and chargers available now in Nigeria:
$5 solar lantern and phone charger
http://www.jumia.com.ng/generic-solar-led-camping-light-tent-lamp-usb-rechargeable-bulb-portable-lan
tern-310220583.html
$4.60 Solar Lantern with Mobilephone Charger and FM Radio
http://www.swiftermall.com/solar-lanterns/326-solar-lantern-with-phone-charger.html
At retail, a little over $0.4 billion would provide at least minimal electricity to all those families now without access to electrical power, enough for at least a light and a cell phone.
How do we accelerate these already existing economies and marketplaces to provide basic electricity to everyone who wants it?
by gmoke
Fri Nov 8th, 2024 at 06:22:30 PM EST
Since reading Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It by Benjamin I Page and Martin Gilens (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 2017 ISBN 978-0-226-50896-2), I've been thinking that there has to be something besides electoral politics.
Their book is partially based on a a study of 1791 proposed policy changes from 1981 to 2002 which found that proposals with 61-80% approval have a less than 40% chance of passing, up to 90% approval passes a little more often than 40% of the time, and even a proposal with 91-100% approval has less than 60% chance of passing. Our system of government is incredibly slow to change. Concentrating all our focus on electoral politics, legislation, regulation, and government action is a long haul, it seems, even when we are unanimous or nearly so.
One alternative may be modeled on the kind of mutual aid that comes out of emergencies. In some cases this is already happening with such organizations as the Cajun Navy (http://www.cajunnavyrelief.com) and the echoes of Occupy Sandy. There will be new groups and coalitions coming out of the debris left behind by Hurricanes Helene and Milton (see http://solarray.blogspot.com/2024/10/raising-hell-in-paradise-built-in-hell.html for more).
The Climate Mobilization Project (http://theclimatemobilization.org) is one climate group now organizing around community preparedness:
"We are launching a movement to survive climate impacts, heal together, and rise up against fossil fuels."
Here's one of their projects in Kentucky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOieLeLY0RY
More climate, environmental, and other related interest groups should be doing the same thing as it's way past time to get ready for the changes in weather and climate we are already seeing and preparing for the next weather emergency in ways that adapt and mitigate climate effects is much more direct than trying to pass a new law or elect another politician to office.
At least it's another way to work on climate and environmental issues as Trmp II's Death Star comes over the horizon.
by gmoke
Sat Oct 26th, 2024 at 07:55:36 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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Be the Change featuring a Panel Discussion on Climate Change and Cities
Sunday, October 27
3:00pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at http://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-courtney-humphries
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Land Use and the Role of Biomass in Achieving Net Zero Greenhouse Emissions
Monday, October 28
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at http://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001NvbJIAS&_gl=1*9nm5mz*_gcl_au*MTMzMjg5M
TI1Mi4xNzIxOTMzMzIz*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI._ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTcyOTY1NDA5OS43LjEuMTcyOTY1NDM1
OS42MC4wLjA.
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Environmental justice concerns with carbon capture and sequestration in the US power sector and beyond
Monday, October 28
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Online
RSVP at http://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2024/environmental-justice-concerns-carbon-capture-and-sequestrati
on-us-power-sector-and
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Communicating science to a skeptical public: A conversation with "Your Local Epidemiologist" Katelyn Jetelina
Monday, October 28
1 - 1:30 p.m.
The Studio at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at http://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6W4GdoW36uXJwGO
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With X a Disaster in Disasters, Can Bluesky (or anything else) Fill the Gap?
Monday, October 28
1p.m. Eastern
Online
RSVP at http://revkin.substack.com/p/amid-disastrous-information-pollution?open=false#§with-x-a-disaste
r-in-disasters-can-bluesky-or-anything-else-fill-the-gap
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Catastrophic Dilemmas: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Climate Change
Monday, October 28
4 PM ET
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-catastrophic-dilemmas-lecture
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How market reforms can drive renewable energy growth in Southeast Asia
October 29
4:30am ET [15:30-17:00 (ICT) | 9:30-11:00 (CET)]
Online
RSVP at http://agora-energiewende-de.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_93e7VsTMR1iO2KnmFRVf_w#/registration
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Justice & Equity in Food & Agriculture
Tuesday, October 29
3pm ET
Online
RSVP at http://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jUk9ETtjQ-ejGXYHNBcb6A#/registration
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Making Decarbonization Financing Work for Homeowners and Contractors
Tuesday, October 29
3-4 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-making-decarbonization-financing-work-for-homeowners-and-contractors/
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Corporatocracy
Tuesday, October 29
6:30 - 7:30pm EDT
The Coop Harvard, 1400 MASSACHUSETTS AVE CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-with-ciara-torres-spelliscy-tickets-1032930261217
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How has political violence around elections evolved, and what does this mean for the presidential election in November?
Tuesday, October 29
7-8pm
BU, 100 Bay State Rd, Room 613, Boston MA
RSVP at http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeU5n-iPlHspV3CPxO7UkBs8txyQwaHMK-wVT6QOOqJX-CukA/viewform
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Batteries on wheels: what can EVs do for the power system?
October 30
8am EDT [14:00 CET]
Online
RSVP eat http://www.transportenvironment.org/events/batteries-on-wheels
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EJ Webinar Series for Tribal and Indigenous Peoples: Cumulative Impacts: How Tribes and EPA are Considering Cumulative Impacts to Advance EJ for All
October 30
8:30am ET [11:30 am - 1:00 pm PT]
Online
RSVP at http://sustainability.uci.edu/events/ej-webinar-series-for-tibet-and-indigenous-peoples/
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Voting Machines Everyone can Trust
Wednesday, October 30
12 - 1pm EDT
Tufts, Barnum Hall (104), 163 Packard Avenue Medford, MA 02155
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/voting-machines-everyone-can-trust-tickets-1041321419397
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Victories in Russian Nature Conservation: Freeing Whales from Jail, Protecting Forests, and Other Stories from Russia's Pacific Coast
Wed, Oct 30
12 PM - 1 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Yale, Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
And online
RSVP http://yaleconnect.yale.edu/ysedeansoffice/rsvp_boot?id=2275781
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Military Power and Ideological Appeals of Religious Extremists
Wednesday, October 30
12-1:30pm
Online
Online at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
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The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability
Wednesday, October 30
4:30 - 6 p.m.
Harvard Business School, Aldrich Hall, Classroom 010, 35 Harvard Way, Boston
RSVP at http://web.cvent.com/event/e72ed908-0826-4bc7-a92c-577ccec28217/register
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Leveraging AI to Promote Fair Elections
Wednesday, October 30
5pm to 6pm
Online
RSVP at http://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsfu6uqjwpEtAqnFUA33wXOdKGxf__vaF2#/registration
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Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Careers in Innovative Technologies and Health in Hard to Abate Sectors
Wednesday, October 30
6 - 8 p.m.
Salata Institute, HKS Belfer Floor 3.5, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://web.cvent.com/event/30decf7d-23fd-43ea-b1f2-cecde386b36d/regProcessStep1
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Rewilding the Northeast: The Case for Untrammeled Nature in a Changing World
Wednesday, October 30
6:30 - 8pm EDT
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/rewilding-the-northeast-the-case-for-untrammeled-nature-in-a-changing-wo
rld-registration-1000775976887
Cost: $0 -$25
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Buildings in Transition: Systems Change for a Resilient Future
Thursday, October 31
10am EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.wri.org/events/2024/10/cities-and-buildings-transition-systems-change-resilient-future
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Mapping the Future of Biodiversity
Thursday, October 31
11 - 11:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-the-future-of-biodiversity-tickets-1044431882877
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From Tufts to the National Parks of Boston: A Career Connecting People to Parks
Thursday, October 31
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WC4hZPJyQ_eG-Moc3n3eEA#/registration
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The First Decade of Corporate Ransomware
Thursday, October 31
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Harvard, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001OKufIAG&_gl=1*1dayzml*_gcl_au*MTMzMjg5
MTI1Mi4xNzIxOTMzMzIz_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTcyOTY1NDA5OS43LjEuMTcyOTY1NDU
5Ni4zMC4wLjA.
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Powering Up the Global South: The Cleantech Path to Growth
Thursday, October 31
12:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-powering-up-the-global-south-the-cleantech-path-to-growth/
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Climate Symposium 2024: "Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation"
November 1 · 6pm - November 2 · 6:30pm EDT
Harvard Business School, 117 Western Ave Boston, MA 02163
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-symposium-2024-tickets-1033018394827
Cost: $10-$65
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Equitable Energy Access through Energy Communities
Friday, November 1
11am to 12pm
Harvard, Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), LL2.221, 150 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134
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Decarbonizing Cool
Friday, November 1
11am to 12pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/jonathan-grinham-decarbonizing-cool
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by gmoke
Fri Sep 27th, 2024 at 01:55:22 AM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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Justice Considerations in Climate Research
Monday, September 30
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Visionary Leaders and Green Cities
Monday, September 30
9 - 10pm EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/visionary-leaders-and-green-cities-tickets-1001613180987
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What If We Get It Right?
Tuesday, October 1
9am EDT [12:00 PM PDT]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-10-01/what-if-we-get-it-right-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-bi
ll-mckibben-and-abigail-dillen
Cost: $5 - $54
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Press Briefing: How Do We Know Climate Change Fueled That Storm?
October 1
11am
Online
RSVP at http://coveringclimatenow.org/event/press-briefing-how-do-we-know-climate-change-fueled-that-storm/
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Mandela's Leadership Blueprint - the Future of Leadership
Tuesday, October 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d0ANmv-YRnuBIIfiGbSLKg#/registration
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The Truth in the Age of Disinformation, Misinformation, and AI
Tuesday, October 1
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Suffolk University Law School, Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Faculty Dining Room, Boston, MA
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Systems Thinking for Renewable Energy
Tuesday, October 1
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Princeton, 10 Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at http://environment.princeton.edu/event/systems-thinking-for-renewable-energy/
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Tools for the Energy Transition: Project Development Resources for Heavy Industry
Tuesday, October 1
1pm ET [10 a.m. PT]
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-tools-for-the-energy-transition-project-development-resources-for-heavy
-industry/
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America with Heather Cox Richardson
Tuesday, October 1
4pm
Boston College, Heights Room, Corcoran Commons
And online
RSVP at http://events.bc.edu/event/democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america-with-heather-cox-richar
dson
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AI: Servant Or Master?
Tuesday, October 1
5pm
Online
RSVP at http://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/3017249583915/WN_Z402J2CRTMWZcNRgNuzuZQ#/registration
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Religion and Democratic Ideals: Media, Religion, and the Nation
Tuesday, October 1
6 - 7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XMxn_ZukRGKZchwij4jP7g#/registration
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Demystifying the Polar Silk Road: What We Know About China's Arctic Investments
Wednesday, October 2
12:00pm - 01:15pm
Harvard, Taubman Building - Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA
And online
RSVP at http://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001O4OTIA0
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Team (GRIT): Green Infrastructure as a Resilient Design Solution (Virtual)
Wednesday, October 2
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://www.architects.org/events/769201/2024/10/02/green-roof-and-infrastructure-team-grit-green-inf
rastructure-as-a-resilient-design-solution-virtual
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Can AI Help Courts be Fair and Just? Unlocking the Positive Effects of Justice on Economic Development
Wednesday, October 2
12 - 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-daniel-l-chen-fellow-presentation-virtual
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Cities as Drivers for Global Health and Happiness
Wednesday, October 2
1 - 2 p.m.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston 02115
RSVP at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/event/environments-for-health-happiness-with-dr-jo-ivey
-boufford/
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The Unseen Competition in the Energy Transition
Wednesday, October 2
3pm ET [12pm to 1pm PT]
Online
RSVP at http://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NuiZaEnRTmKP1PhPjE6D-w#/registration
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Unlocking Local Private Capital to Finance the Productive Use of Renewable Energy Sector: A Look at East Africa Local Financial Institutions
Wednesday, October 2
Time zones: 3pm Nairobi/8am ET
Online
RSVP at http://www.wri.org/events/2024/10/unlocking-local-private-capital-finance-productive-use-renewable-e
nergy-sector-look
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The Art of Climate Action: Creativity at the Forefront of Change
Wednesday, October 2
6:30 - 8:30pm EDT. Doors at 6pm
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue Design and Media Center (DMC) Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of-climate-action-creativity-at-the-forefront-of-change-tickets-
1009396350657
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The Stanford Energy Seminar: Karen Skelton | America's Energy Transition
Wednesday, October 2
7:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/the-stanford-energy-seminar_Oct_2
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by gmoke
Thu Sep 5th, 2024 at 03:08:03 AM EST
No Waste Army to rescue climate-changed vegetables (and farmers)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/29/its-not-beautiful-but-you-can-still-eat-it-clim
ate-change-leads-to-more-wonky-vegetables-in-netherlands
Agrivoltaics - growing adoption and new technologies
https:/cleantechnica.com/2024/07/11/peaches-grapes-the-agrivoltaic-farm-of-the-future
Indoor farming for CO2 capture
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/direct-air-capture-dac-technology-for-indoor-farming
Editorial Comment: I remember someone presenting this idea for greenhouses as direct air capture [DAC] of CO2 from coal and gas generators at an MIT climate conference about a decade ago.
Farm Urban - a community-wide initiative for growing food in Liverpool, UK
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/vertical-farming-and-social-good
Lawyers supporting natural plants against local weed ordinances
http://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/07/25/lawyer-helps-people-fighting-weed-ordinances/
http://archive.ph/3seaw
by gmoke
Thu Aug 29th, 2024 at 06:42:26 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
More information on each event available at http://hubevents.blogspot.com
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Index
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Free Screenings of "Generation Growth"
August 15 to September 4
Online
RSVP at http://generationgrowthfilm.com/
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Carbon Brief's webinar live from the Arctic
Friday, August 30
5:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) [10-11am UK time]
Online
RSVP at http://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1017243421392/WN_okVcr0tcS-ymo7QLb3FFkg
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MIT Mobility Forum: The 15-Minute City
Friday, August 30
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at http://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ofuChqD8sH9DUCdsTzbRa2fGoZ9xchuKo?_x_zm_rtaid=Ys0_-w_qTJqG6C_
lWPOO_Q.1722978350054.c3b519fc87fdf83722d6cc5fce3780c7&_x_zm_rhtaid=902#registration
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Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
Tuesday, September 3
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/adam_forrest_kay/
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Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine
Tuesday, September 3
9pm ET [6:00 PM PDT]
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
And online
RSVP at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-09-03/daniel-levitin-music-medicine
Cost: $10 - $55
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Leveraging Comprehensive Performance Based-Regulation to Build a Resilient and Affordable Energy System for All
Wednesday, September 4
11am EDT [1-2 p.m. MT]
Online
RSVP at httpsrmi.org/event/webinar-leveraging-comprehensive-performance-based-regulation-to-build-a-resili
ent-and-affordable-energy-system-for-all
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AI and the future of education
Wednesday, September 4
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at http://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w1TjHjIITp6H8V_ycAGoUg#/registration
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NO to Nuclear Weapons and NO to Fossil Fuels!
Wednesday, September 4
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://secure.everyaction.com/iGJAyy3mtkOuHnrWcH0b9g2
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Humane & Sustainable Food Lab Seminar Series: Christopher Gardner, PhD
Thursday, September 5
7am EDT [10am to 11am PT]
Stanford School of Medicine, Alway M112, Stanford, CA
And online
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/humane-sustainable-food-lab-seminar-series-christopher-gardner-phd
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Systems Leaders in the 21st Century: Why Environmental Literacy Matters
Thursday, September 5
11AM - 1:30PM
Tufts, Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PxYp2HOwQWufcCOCpssNhg
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Leading through Crisis: Building a Visionary Movement for Climate Survival
Thursday September 5
6pm Eastern Time/3pm Pacific Time
Online
RSVP at http://secure.everyaction.com/FSuEo8-Nc0CUL1XXwmO3SQ2?emci=948d0d61-c463-ef11-991a-6045bddbfc4b&
emdi=507e0e68-c463-ef11-991a-6045bddbfc4b&ceid=15533
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Big Data Conference 2024
September 6 @ 9:00 am - September 7 @ 5:00 pm
Harvard University CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP for in-person: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G9IwVHNo-HnGi_rZRy-c_RlU29QnDm2mjfPG3XuZ8Wg/viewform?edit_requested=
true
RSVP for online: http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m9kdZk4BSAK0LKfvGOxe6Q#/registration
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by gmoke
Sun Aug 25th, 2024 at 02:56:57 AM EST
She built one of the most energy-efficient homes in D.C. Here's how.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/03/05/energy-efficient-net-zero-adu/
This may get you past the paywall if you're stopped: http://archive.is/RRil5
Modular passive house project in Brooklyn, St Felix Street Project
http://www.asåsemblyosm.com/buildings/sfx
Neighborhood built to be car-free
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/13/we-need-more-purpose-built-car-free-neighborhoods-like-culdesac-
tempe/
Editorial Comment: not necessarily net zero energy building but reducing transportation energy is a missing part of the puzzle i.e. electric vehicles alone aren't enough
The House of Green - buildings that bring nature inside
http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240420-12-stunning-buildings-that-bring-nature-inside
Final Clean Energy Rule for Federal Buildings - "phase out fossil fuel usage in new federal building construction or major renovation by achieving a 90% reduction in fossil fuel use for new projects started between fiscal years 2025 and 2029 and completely eliminating on-site fossil fuel usage in new projects beginning in 2030"
http://www.energy.gov/femp/federal-building-energy-efficiency-rules-and-requirements
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/04/24/u-s-department-of-energy-announces-final-rule-to-propel-federal-
buildings-toward-zero-emissions/
"Construction company builds 3D-printed starter home in under 20 hours"
http://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/havelar-3d-printed-homes-portugal-affordable/
Net positive retrofit of 1945 building in Queens, NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/realestate/you-can-be-a-little-different-in-queens-why-this-home-
is-not-like-the-others.html?u2g=i&unlocked_article_code=1.w00.gIok.rTLp9LLGewUm&smid=url-sha
re
by gmoke
Sat Aug 3rd, 2024 at 05:32:06 PM EST
Once upon a time, my family lived next to a rabbi and his family. When they moved out, my new neighbors told me that they found all the windows on the first floor had been nailed shut. All my life, I've been reading about Nazis, Fascists, tyranny because I wanted to be forearmed and forewarned. May these notes be useful to others as these ideas, these people -- tyrants, Fascists, Nazis, authoritarians -- never go away.
Unknown Auschwitz Satyagraha
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAio8jsAoRE
Dorothy Thompson's classic "Who Goes Nazi?"
http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
Defying Hitler - the best book I've read on the rise of Nazism from the ground up
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2022/01/defying-hitler.html
The Voice of Memory: Primo Levi Interviews 1961-1987 - author of classic memoirs of the death camps
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-voice-of-memory-primo-levi.html
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder - interviews with a concentration camp commandant
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/12/into-that-darkness-from-mercy-killing.html
The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections on Germany, 1938 - 2001 by Gitta Sereny - essays on the war, Nazism, and the aftermath
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-healing-wound-experiences-and.html
by gmoke
Sun Jul 28th, 2024 at 07:21:41 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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Covering climate change before (and beyond) the 2024 election
Monday, July 29
3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/covering-climate-change-before-and-beyond-the-2024-election-tickets-9510
46695267
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Seminar on Fuel Cell and Water Electrolyzer Development at Toyota
Tuesday, July 30
11:30am to 12:30pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
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Unpacking new guidelines for health information credibility on social media
Tuesday, July 30
12:30 PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://signup.e2ma.net/signup/2003203/1952913/
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Unlocking Solar for Nonprofits
Tuesday, July 30
2 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-unlocking-solar-for-nonprofits/
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Climate Resilience at the Local Level
Tuesday, July 30
3 - 4pm EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-resilience-at-the-local-level-tickets-885902647667
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Autocracy, Inc.
Tuesday, July 30
3pm EST [12:00 PM PDT]
Online
RSVP at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-07-30/anne-applebaum-autocracy-inc
Cost: $10
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The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Tuesday, July 30
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/dr_genevieve_guenther/
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Webinar: Halt Holtec - the Nuclear Mafia
Tuesday, July 30
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Online
RSVP at http://secure.everyaction.com/xhFQ51S3xUGJeESdXn_C-w2
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Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers - Green Corn Moon
Wednesday, July 31
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Museum Galleries, Smith Hall, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point Boston, MA
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/wampanoag-nation-singers-and-dancers-green-corn-moon-tickets-92032121452
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What Does Water Want? Summit
Thursday, August 1 - Sunday, August 4
http://www.waterislovefilm.org/schedule
Cost: Donation or free
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Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior from a Social Psychological Perspective
Thursday, August 1
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q0000029p7wAAA&mapLinkHref=
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by gmoke
Sun Jul 21st, 2024 at 02:01:47 AM EST
A friend pointed me to a recent Wired magazine story, "The hunt for the most efficient heat pump"
http://www.wired.com/story/heat-pump-maximum-efficiency/
Seems that friendly competition is generating interest in heat pumps in the UK and elsewhere with nearly 200 installations connected to real-time monitoring systems trying to score the highest Coefficient of Performance [COP] or Seasonal Coefficient of Performance [SCOP] at HeatPumpMonitor.org (http://heatpumpmonitor.org/). Heat pumps with higher COPs and SCOPs provide more heat output for every input of electricity. Standard installations are now at 2-4 COP, for every 1 kW of electricity in 2-4 kW of heat comes out. There are some on the leaderboard (mostly UK but at least one Danish and one USAmerican system) with COPs and SCOPs of 5 edging toward 6.
The International Energy Agency published a global estimate that heat pumps could reduce CO2 emissions by 500 million metric tons, the "equivalent to taking every car in Europe off the road."
I dislike comparing everything to cars.
Since it's heating and cooling of houses, let's measure emissions reductions in terms of households: "each home emits 10.97 metric tons of COS per year from all energy use combined, versus 7.27 metric tons of CO2 per year from electricity alone."
Source: http://www.epa.gov/energy/frequent-questions-epas-greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator#:~:text=Ac
cording%20to%20the%20Calculations%20and,per%20year%20from%20electricity%20alone.
So 500 million metric tons is about 46 million households (and there are 127 million households in USAmerica). Heat pumps could remove the annual CO2 emissions of more than a third of all households in USAmerica.
by gmoke
Sat Jul 13th, 2024 at 02:59:03 AM EST
China building two-thirds of world's wind and solar projects
http://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/china-building-twice-as-much-wind-and-solar-pow
er-as-rest-of-world-report
China is also building 21 of the 90 planned nuclear power plants
&
"In 2023, new coal plant construction hit an eight-year high in China."
http://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/coal-plants-china.html
China has to do everything
by gmoke
Tue Jul 9th, 2024 at 09:26:47 PM EST
For some reason, I've been reading about Fascism these last few years. Must be something in the air. Wilhelm Reich is a problematic thinker but I found this book to be well-reasoned and well-researched. I especially appreciated his remarks on Marxism and Leninism which are very clear.
May his ideas here be useful to us all.
My full notes on this book are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2024/07/from-mass-psychology-of-fascism.html
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
NY: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1970
(page xiii) Viewed with respect to man's character, "fascism" is the basic emotional attitude of the suppressed man of our authoritarian machine civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life.
It is the mechanistic-mystical character of modern man that produces fascist parties, and not vice versa.
(xiv) In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all the irrational reactions of the average human character. To the obtuse sociologists who lack the mettle to recognize the supreme role played by irrationality in the history of man, the fascist racial theory appears to be nothing more than an imperialistic interest, or, more broadly, speaking, a "prejudice."
(xxiv) There are liberal capitalists and reactionary workers. There are no class distinctions when it comes to character.
(18) The basic traits of the character structures corresponding to a definite historical situation are formed in early childhood, and are far more conservative than the forces of technical production. It results from this that, as time goes on, the psychic structures lag behind the rapid changes of the social conditions from which they derived, and later come into conflict with the new forms of life. This is the basic trait of the nature of so-called tradition, i.e., of the contradiction between the old and the new social situation.
(37) This ambivalent attitude toward authority - rebellion against it, coupled with acceptance and submission - is a basic feature of every middle-class structure from the age of puberty to full adulthood and is especially pronounced in individuals stemming from materially restricted circumstances.
(62) From the standpoint of the masses, the nationalistic führer is the personification of the nation. Only insofar as this führer actually personifies the nation in conformity with the national sentiments of the masses does a personal tie to him develop. Insofar as he knows how to arouse emotional family ties in the individuals of the masses, he is also an authoritarian father figure.
(63) Even more essential, however, is the identification of the individuals of the masses with the "führer." The more helpless, the "mass-individual" has become, owing to his upbringing, the more pronounced is his identification with the führer, and the more of the childish need for protection is discussed in the form of a feeling at one with the führer. This inclination to identify is the psychological basis of the national narcissism, i.e., of the self-confidence that individual man derives from the "greatness of the nation." The reactionary, lower middle-class man perceives himself in the führer, in the authoritarian state. On the basis of this identification, he feels himself to be a defender of the "national heritage,"of this "nation," which does not prevent him, likewise, on the basis of this identification, from simultaneously despising "the masses" and confronting them as an individual. The righteousness of his material and sexual situation is so overshadowed by the exulting idea of belonging to a master race, and having a brilliant führer that, as time goes on, he ceases to realize how completely he has sunk to a position of insignificant, blind allegiance.
NB: "Narcissism" can be very powerful and combine a narcissistic sociopath with a public prone to their own narcissism opens up a dangerous hall of mirrors where self-regard allows a lot of blood to flow.
by gmoke
Wed Jul 3rd, 2024 at 01:52:14 AM EST
The world's first organic state: Sikkim
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234911-000-take-a-photographic-tour-around-the-worlds-first-
fully-organic-state/
hat tip Monica Raymond
Kansas Ioway tribe shifts to regenerative agriculture
http://phys.org/news/2024-05-soil-kansas-tribe-shifts-regenerative.amp
hat tip Soil4Climate.org
Pioneer ecological designer John Todd has a Substack
https:/oceanarks.substack.com
Aquaponics in city farming
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/circular-economy-aquaponics-in-city-farming
Editorial Comment: John Todd was a pioneer in the integration of aquaculture with gardening and water purification
Chinese agri and aqua voltaic projects
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/03/dual-harvest-agrivoltaics-boost-food-energy-production-in-asia/
Keystone plants by ecoregion - "we have included critical plant genera and local species that host significant numbers of butterflies, moths, and pollen specialist bees. Without these `key' plants, the ecosystem and the wildlife would suffer."
http://nwf.org/keystoneplants
by gmoke
Fri Jun 28th, 2024 at 05:46:32 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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Sunrise Boston Get Together and Open Hub Meeting
Sunday, June 30
5:30PM
Lincoln Park, Somerville, MA
RSVP at http://bit.ly/SunBosInterest
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Scientist Rebellion English-language welcome meeting
Monday, July 1
1:00pm
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAod-qhrD4iG9RWzSgZkskwuK_Fr4oSrJwe#/registration
Also Monday, July 8, July 15, July 22 at the same time and Zoom registration
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IRENA National Energy Transition Planning Dashboard
Tuesday, July 2
8am EDT [14:00 - 14:30 CET | 16:00 - 16:30 GST]
Online
RSVP at http://irena-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6dXUxeieS66iaIkv_dqs7A#/registration
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Green Iron Corridors
Tuesday, July 2
9-10:30 a.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-green-iron-corridors/
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Healing Our Land & Our Climate!
July 9 - September 24
Tuesdays: 12 noon -or- 7 pm ET
Next Introductory Session: July 2 at 12 noon
Online
RSVP at http://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/healing-our-land-and-our-climate/?blm_aid=25138
Cost: $0 - $250
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How to process ammonia as hydrogen carrier for energy generation
Tuesday, July 9
9am EDT [3 p.m. - 4 p.m. CEST]
Online
RSVP at http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/events/webinar-h2-carrier-ammonia-2024.html
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Spotlighting Cost-Effective and Scalable Solutions to Reduce Methane in the Agriculture Sector
Thursday, July 11
8am EDT [14:00 - 15:00 (Paris)]
Online
RSVP at http://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/36ed7d06-1eb8-41cd-9adc-4ee98a712da2@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc
-5ea416e6dc70
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Introducing a major new version of Low Emissions Analysis Platform [LEAP]
Thursday, July 11
9-10:30 a.m. EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.sei.org/events/major-new-version-leap/
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Advanced nuclear energy - Electricity and beyond
Thursday, July 11
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pqbUZFk0SB-Gx6cgQpJkWg#/registration
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Youth Action for Climate and Clean Air Now
Friday, July 12
08:00 - 09:30
Online
RSVP at http://www.ccacoalition.org/events/youth-action-climate-and-clean-air-now
by gmoke
Wed May 29th, 2024 at 05:12:46 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https:/theworld.com~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
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Index
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ResilientMass Metrics Initiative Public Meeting
Thursday, May 30
2:30 PM in Eastern Time
Online
RSVP at http://cbi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eubyqjlmR8-QnlCA1-qvWw
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Climate Change: What's Happening and What Harvard is Doing About It
Friday, May 31
3 - 4 p.m.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://web.cvent.com/event/516b1881-e18e-4b6b-b160-771bfc4753da/regPage:126c5edf-8f2c-4a16-97d0-8a8e
9eeeda4e
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Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island Welcome Meeting
Sunday, June 2
3:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfuGurTkpHtCocGTXeF0iIQqvxXJgxMtc#/registration
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ClimaTech: Bringing together thinkers, leaders and innovators from around the world to the heart of Boston
Monday, June 3 - Wednesday, June 5
RSVP at http://climatech2024.advertisingweek.com/register/-delegate/?code=ClimaTech24
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Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation with Agricultural Production Across Working Landscapes
Monday, June 3
2pm - 3pm ET [11:00am - 12:00pm PT]
UCSB, 1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA
And online
RSVP at http://bren.ucsb.edu/events/harmonizing-biodiversity-conservation-agricultural-production-across-wor
king-landscapes
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How to scale and finance industrial "hard" technologies: a view from venture capital
Monday, June 3
7:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Skilling Building, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/the_energy_seminar_1831
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2024 Annual Metropolitan Area Planning Commission [MAPC] Council Meeting
Tuesday, June 4
9:00am - 11:30am
Commonwealth Museum, 220 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125
RSVP at http://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/g626mv9/lp/f0f937b8-6d62-47fb-a5f4-b1e816d2be5b
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Climate equality: a planet for the 99%
Tuesday, June 4
12pm EST [17:00 - 18:30 BST]
Online
RSVP at http://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Events/Climate-Equality-A-planet-for-the-99/Climate-
Equality-A-planet-for-the-99
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Gastronomy And Beyond: The Event
Tuesday, June 4
3:00pm -- 4:30pm ET
MIT Media Lab, E14 - 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
More information at http://www.media.mit.edu/events/gandbtheevent/
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Climate Justice and Mass Incarceration
Tuesday, June 4
4 PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OPXHVNbpR_Ka8pR2pScuzA#/registration
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Living Longer, Better
Tuesday, June 4
5:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at http://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/5417054252432/WN_K4iw97xTS8Kni7isT4RWuA#/registration
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Earth Tech: 2050 Demo Day - Solving Canada's Biggest Climate Challenges
Wednesday, June 5
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-tech-2050-demo-day-solving-canadas-biggest-climate-challenges-tick
ets-894477033887
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Want to electrify your home? These experts can help
Wednesday, June 5
2:00 p.m.
Online
RSVP at http://forum.canarymedia.com/canary-media1/Home-electrification-real-talk
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The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots
Wednesday, June 5
6-7:30pm
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Building E28, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at http://tickets.mitmuseum.org/events/018f5969-3b76-d39a-caa3-0d05b903e831
Cost: $5
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Building Social Capital for Climate Resilient Communities
Thursday, June 6
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at http://climateadaptationforum.org/event/building-social-capital-for-climate-resilient-communities/
Cost: $15 - $45
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MIT CSAIL + Imagination in Action [IIA] Summit
Friday, June 7
7am - 5pm
MIT Stata, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at https:/www.imaginationinaction.co
RSVP for Start-Up Pitch and Demo at http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLg3DXUMGL3la_zIT4_xN1K1zjS1Yy7IL7e9CNbmuw5aD0SQ/viewform
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The History of Technology: Past, Present, and Future
Friday, June 7
9:00am to 5:00pm
Saturday, June 8
9am to 3pm
MIT, Building E51, 115 70 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02142
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What Works Climate Solutions Summit: how can research contribute to good climate policy?
Sunday, June 9- Wednesday, June 12
Technische Universität Berlin
And online
RSVP at http://whatworksclimate.solutions/registration/
by gmoke
Thu May 23rd, 2024 at 04:44:32 AM EST
Restoring Scotland's Uplands - 25 years of experience in rebuilding a valley
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/a-mecca-for-rewilders-the-community-led-project-r
estoring-scotlands-southern-uplands
Editorial Comment: rebuilding healthy ecological systems in distant places can make cities and the whole world more resilient
$1 billion, 6,000 acres for agrivoltaics in Ohio
http://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/ohio-greenlights-massive-solar-storage-and-agrivoltaics-pr
oject
Solar racking design specifically for agrivoltaics
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/22/gorgeous-agrivoltaic-system-gilds-the-rural-solar-lily/
American Solar Grazing Association - agrivoltaics, combining agriculture and solar power production
http://solargrazing.org/
The energy costs of controlled environment agriculture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/27/vertical-farms-climate-energy/
If you need to get past the pay wall: http://archive.ph/TrQqF
Editorial Comment: In all the years I've been collecting these links I have found very few CEA businesses that thought about energy from the beginning
Orbital Farms "is a Circular Project Development company which is developing 200 large scale closed loop farms around the world in the next 10 years."
http://orbital.farm
Editorial Comment: Orbital Farms is one of those few CEA businesses I mentioned above
The House of Green - buildings that bring nature inside
http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240420-12-stunning-buildings-that-bring-nature-inside
World's first zero waste restaurant
http://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0hs7sj4/world-s-first-zero-waste-restaurant-without-a-single-bin
Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems: From Soil to Soil By Julia Freedgood (ISBN 9781032276861)
http://www.routledge.com/Planning-Sustainable-and-Resilient-Food-Systems-From-Soil-to-Soil/Freedgood
/p/book/9781032276861
Making urban agriculture more sustainable
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/how-can-we-make-urban-agriculture-more-sustainable
"World's largest coastal regeneration project" - mangroves for Dubai
http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/dubai-mangroves-design-spc
hat tip Bethany Leach Parmley
A microfarm in LA
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/urban-microfarm-farming-environment
The organization which helps homeowners go from lawn to microfarm in LA
http://www.cropswapla.org/
by gmoke
Wed May 8th, 2024 at 06:12:08 PM EST
This is the video and transcript of a presentation to the most recent annual Green Builder's Sustainability Symposium by Michael Barnard
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/06/green-builder-sustainability-symposium-presentation-slides-trans
cript/
It is the clearest presentation I've yet seen of what is technically feasible and happening now. Basically, the energy solution for greenhouse gases (with many, many additional benefits) is efficiently electrifying everything. It will go about 80% (thanks, Pareto) towards cleaning up the mess our species, homo sap sap (that sap!), has made.
Now, how do we speed it up?
by gmoke
Tue Apr 30th, 2024 at 03:21:16 AM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https:/theworld.com~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com - notes on lectures and books
http://solarray.blogspot.com - renewable energy and efficiency
https:/zeronetenrg.blogspot.com - zero net energy links list
http://cityag.blogspot.com - city agriculture links list
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com - geometry links list
http://hubevents.blogspot.com - Energy (and Other) Events
http://www.dailykos.com/user/gmoke/history - articles, ideas, and screeds
More details on each event available at https:
hubevents.blogspot.com/2024/04/energy-and-other-events-monthly-may-2024.html
which is also available as a free listserv.
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Index
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A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza Date & Time
Tuesday, April 30
11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iunXWSKOSGySlZVJWMOn-w#/registration
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National Climate Resilience Framework: Food, Land and Water
Tuesday, April 30
3pm - 4pm ET [12pm to 1pm PT]
Online
RSVP at http://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZoB3jvk8S7CRgmnoxnmhww#/registration
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From Data to Action: Leveraging Data Science for Effective Health Policy and Surveillance Against Emerging Infectious Disease Threats.
Tuesday, April 30
3:00 - 5:00 PM EST
BU, 72 East Concord St, Room L-403, Boston, MA
RSVP in person at https:
www.bu.edu/ceid/2024/04/10/from-data-to-action-leveraging-data-science-for-effective-health-
policy-and-surveillance-against-emerging-infectious-disease-threats
And online
RSVP at http://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nPA7uS8ORMGx2dbJTWCj3Q#/
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'True False, Hot Cold': Film Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, April 30
4:30pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 55, Atrium 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139
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ISO-NE Public Forum on the 2050 Transmission Study
Wednesday, May 1
10:00 a.m. (running for approximately 90 minutes)
Online
RSVP at http://www.iso-ne.com/event-details?eventId=154784
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De-poisoning Catalysts for Sustainable Chemical Processing
Wednesday, May 1
12 - 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-jane-p-chang-fellow-presentation-virtual
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
Wednesday, May 1
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sabrina_sholts/
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Food Waste: Whose responsibility is it?
Thursday, May 2
9:00 - 10:30 ED [GMT-4]
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-waste-whose-responsibility-is-it-tickets-853808573427
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Meeting Investor Expectations: Introducing the Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark
Thursday, May 2
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at http://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTxpuCB7Qi2AM_1YXsuR3w#/registration
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Future of Energy and Power Grids by 2050 Webinar-ICWS North America Chapter
Thursday, May 2
10 - 11:30am EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-energy-and-power-grids-by-2050-webinar-icws-north-america-chap
ter-tickets-814182129667
Cost: $45
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World Press Freedom Day - The Intersections of Press Freedom and the Environment
Thursday, May 2
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yuNtVb5ZSjGybsi9N2lstQ#/registration
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Exploring Mars and the moon
Thursday, May 2
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/exploring-mars-and-the-moon/
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Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate
Thursday, May 2
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Princeton, McCosh Hall, Room 50, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at http://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RvMbWbIRSqiM6pkPhIxrhg#/registration
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American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion
Thursday, May 2
8:00PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-an-evening-with-american-precariat-tickets-872754521267
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Processes of Dispossession, the Imminent Collapse of Tunisian Oases (and what can we do about it)
Friday, May 3
2 - 3:30 p.m.
Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/processes-dispossession-imminent-collapse-tunisian-oases-and-what-
can-we-do-about-it
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Beyond the Forecast: The Interplay of Climate Change and Health
Saturday, May 4
12pm EDT [9am MST]
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-forecast-the-interplay-of-climate-change-and-health-tickets-8
81067024187
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The Spring 2024 Mid-Cambridge PLANT SWAP
Saturday, May 4
NOON to 2 pm
Rain date--in case of DOWNPOUR--is Sunday May 5, 12-2
at Fayette Park (near the corner of Broadway and Fayette Street)
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Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island Welcome Meeting
Sunday, May 5
3:00 PM
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfuGurTkpHtCocGTXeF0iIQqvxXJgxMtc#/registration
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