by gmoke
Thu Jun 19th, 2025 at 05:51:10 PM EST
from http://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/2641/2025/
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Piers M. Forster et al.
⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2
by gmoke
Fri Jun 6th, 2025 at 09:38:51 AM EST
Nancy Jack Todd, one of the founders of New Alchemy Institute, which is still one of the best examples of a restorative way forward, has died.
I will miss my dear friend.
In the late 1960s, Nancy and her husband, John Todd, and their friend Bill McClarney began experimenting with ecological design, renewable energy, and organic agriculture. Over the years, they established a model farm and experiment station in Hatchville, MA on Cape Cod and began learning how to live not only lightly but with the Earth. John and Bill, both trained scientists, developed aquacultural techniques that could clean polluted water and enhance agricultural and aquacultural production. Nancy wrote and edited the annual journals and newsletters of New Alchemy and, later, produced Annals of the Earth which ranged widely from philosophy to practice over the years.
The farm itself attracted many interesting individuals who have branched out into all aspects of the sustainability world. McClarney went on to found a sister organization that has been doing sustainble development work in Costa Rica for decades (ANAI: 40 Years of Ecological Development in Costa Rica http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/12/anai-40-years-of-ecological-development.html) while the original experimental farm on the Cape continued into the 1990s and now as a cohousing development.
by gmoke
Fri May 16th, 2025 at 12:50:20 AM EST
Trmpists are destroying as much objective reality - accurate fundamental measures on essential conditions - as possible. It makes it easier for them to bullshit and lie.
They are doing it all across the board starting from the failure to update the the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in January 2025
(http://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/24/g-s1-44613/cdc-nih-hhs-health-data-mmwr)
and moving across all the other government departments and agencies they can reach.
At the US Energy Information Agency, which keeps track of energy accounting and projections, 100 out of 450 staffers have left since Trmp took office
(http://www.reuters.com/world/us/dozens-employees-leaving-us-eia-putting-crucial-energy-data-risk-sou
rces-say-2025-04-16/). Around the same time, March 2025, renewables [hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal...] generated more than half of USAmerica's electricity or as Reuters says Fossil Fuels Generate Less Than Half US Electricity First Month Ever, at least according to one energy think tank (http://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fossil-fuels-generate-less-than-half-us-electricity-first-mon
th-ever-says-energy-2025-04-04/).
Trmp cannot change this reality of renewable energy growth on the ground. Yet. There's too much installed capacity, more on the way, and the economics of renewables and battery technology are making them the lowest cost alternatives from household to grid scale almost everywhere. Trmp's "forward into the past" fossil foolishness makes less and less economic sense every day.
The rest of the world knows this too. That will not change either. Most if not all nations are going to continue to increase their deployment of renewables, in the EU especially, because of the Russian carbon war in Ukraine. Energy efficiency, the rapid adoption of heat pumps and increasing electrification of end use will also reduce the necessity for combustion fuels and tend to favor renewables.
While Trmp is stuck in a "Drill, baby, drill" fantasy of a misremembered 1950s, the Chinese are working on a 2 GW agrivoltaic [solar & agriculture
project which is also "ecovoltaic," because it rebuilds soil health while restoring natural habitats with native plant species below and around the solar installation (http://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/19/massive-2-gw-agrivoltaic-project-aims-to-restore-desert-in-china
/).
We'll see how this project works out over time but it combines some of the concepts which I believe are core to dealing with the climate, the loss of biodiversity and natural systems: a swift transition to renewable energy which avoids combustion and the pollution and inefficiency it produces and geotherapy, using natural systems to repair the damage our species has done.
But it's getting late and the longer we wait to act, the worse the damage will be.
by gmoke
Tue May 13th, 2025 at 08:51:12 AM EST
Urine as fertilizer
http://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250227-the-vermont-farmers-using-urine-to-grow-their-crops
An industrial designed bee hive based on the form factor of a hollow tree
http://www.core77.com/posts/135723/HIIVE-From-An-Industrial-Design-Thesis-to-Market
Black Farmers Index - connecting consumers to local food grown by Black farmers
http://blackfarmersindex.com/
ART given notice to quit 31-year-old Food Forest - not all news is good news
http://substack.com/home/post/p-159120584
The world's biggest soil conservation project
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/14/how-china-led-way-water-soil-conservation
Enhancing agrivoltaic synergies through optimized tracking strategies - "This paper presents a methodology for dynamically optimizing solar panel positioning to meet the varying light requirements of crops. Simulations are conducted for a case study of an agrivoltaic system in an apple orchard in southwestern Germany."
http://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy/volume-15/issue-03/032703
Enhancing-agrivoltaic-synergies-through-optimized-tracking-strategies/10.1117/1.JPE.15.032703.full
hat tip to http://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/15/new-agrivoltaic-tool-optimizes-solar-generation-and-crop-product
ion
Community farm reviving prairie land in Chicago
http://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/17/how-a-little-village-farm-is-reviving-prairie-land-in-chicago
hat tip to @chasesolidago.bsky.social
Paris votes for 500 more green streets
http://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-residents-vote-favour-making-500-more-streets-pedestrian-2
025-03-23
Creole gardens as a response to climate change in Guadeloupe
http://globalvoices.org/2025/04/15/in-guadeloupe-creole-gardens-give-climate-lessons-in-a-spirit-of-
solidarity/
Editorial Comment: I'm reading Toxic Tropics: A Horror Story of Environmental Injustice by Jessica Oublié, Nicola Gobbi, Kathrine Avraam, Vinciane Lebrun about the persistent contamination of Guadeloupe and Martinique by chlordecane which was used to control pests in banana plantations. We have big problems on multiple fronts.
2 GW agrivoltaic project in China
http://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/19/massive-2-gw-agrivoltaic-project-aims-to-restore-desert-in-china
/
Editorial Comment: I learned a new word: ecovoltaic - rebuilding soil health while restoring natural habitats and native plant species
Agrivoltaics and ecovotaics are examples of geotherapy, helping ecological systems restore the damage homo sap sap (that sap!) has done.
Growing strawberries under different levels of shading from thin-film solar panels
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/strawberries-under-solar-panels-agrivoltaics-canada
How Trmp's first 100 days changed the USDA food system
http://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/trump-usda-food-system-agriculture-first-100-days/
by gmoke
Wed Apr 30th, 2025 at 06:19:23 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
More information on these events at http://hubevents.blogspot.com which is also a free listserv
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Climate Trace - a non-profit that uses satellite and other data to monitor climate globally and present monthly updates
http://climatetrace.org/
Now that Trmp is dismantling USAmerican climate science, it is good to have an independent resource for such information.
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Climate Chat on YouTube with Dan Miller - http://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/featured
Every Sunday at 1pm EDT, 10am Pacific Time
"Climate Chat is a channel where we discuss all things climate with scientists, technologists, authors, advocates, communicators and others helping us understand and fight climate change."
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Sustainability Symposium 2025
Wednesday, April 30 - Thursday, May 1
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-symposium-2025-tickets-1251652539439
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Climate Tech in the City
Wednesday, April 30
10am - 7pm EDT
City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Square Boston, MA 02203
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-tech-in-the-city-tickets-1286665133049
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Dollar Dominance, Deterrence, and Denial
Wednesday, April 30
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at http://ssp.mit.edu/events/2025/dollar-dominance-deterrence-and-denial
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Building resilience: Enhancing biosafety, biosecurity, and pandemic preparedness
Wednesday, April 30
2:00 PM - 5:15 PM EDT
The Brookings Institution, Saul Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/building-resilience-enhancing-biosafety-biosecurity-and-pandemic-pre
paredness/
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Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy FilmWinning, Losing, and Winning: Michael Dukakis' Long Arc of Leadership
Wednesday, April 30
6:00 p.m.
Suffolk University, 120 Tremont Street, Fifth Floor Commons, Boston, MA
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/dukakis-recipe-for-democracy-tickets-1291375331379
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Microbial Food as a Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Source of Nutrients for the UK
Thursday, May 1
11:15 am - 3pm EDT [16.15 - 20.00 BST]
Imperial College, City and Guilds Building, Lecture Theatre 200, Main Entrance, South Kensington Campus, London
And online
RSVP at http://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/192029/briefing-paper-launch-microbial-food-as-a-sustainable-health
y-and-resilient-source-of-nutrients-for-the-uk/
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The Wildfire Crisis Is Escalating -- But There's a Better Way Forward
The course runs on Thursdays, May 1, 8, 15 & 22
12pm and 7pm option
Online
RSVP at http://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/wildfires-fact-and-fiction/
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Ensuring the Energy Transition: The Critical Role of Insurance Companies in Scaling New Technologies
Thursday, May 1
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Harvard. Pierce Hall, Room 301, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/ensuring-energy-transition
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Jeff Chu, author of Good Soil, in conversation with Kristin T. Lee
Thursday, May 1
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at http://www.portersquarebooks.com/rsvp-attend-our-event-jeff-chu
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by gmoke
Tue Apr 22nd, 2025 at 07:48:09 PM EST
Reading Hannah Arendt's On Revolution I learned a new word: isonomy - the principle that all citizens or subjects of a state are equal before the law, or that they have equal civil or political rights.
She wrote:
"The polis was supposed to be an isonomy, not a democracy... The equality of the Greek polis, its isonomy, was an attribute of the polis and not of men, who received their equality by virtue of citizenship, not by virtue of birth...." and that
"Freedom in a positive sense is possible only among equals, and equality itself is by no means a universally valid principle but, again, applicable only with limitations and even within spatial limits...."
Arendt believed that one of the most serious problems of all modern politics is "not how to reconcile freedom and equality but how to reconcile equality and authority." It looks like we are living through the end-game of that particular problem now.
"The singular good fortune of the American Revolution is undeniable. It occurred in a country which knew nothing of the predicament of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience with self-government; to be sure, not the least of these blessings was that the Revolution grew out of a conflict with a 'limited monarchy.' In the government of king and Parliament from which the colonies broke away, there was no potestas legibus soluta, no absolute power absolved from laws."
However, since the Supreme Court granted immunity to the [Republican] Presidency, that power is "absolved from laws." In addition, since the Judicial Council refused its responsibilities to investigate Clarence Thomas' congenital inability to fill out financial disclosure forms correctly, they have made the Supreme Court itself at least de facto "absolved from laws" as well.
So no longer live in an isonomy, aspiring rather than actual as it always may have been. I'm not entirely sure we live in a democracy or even a republic any longer as well.
My full notes from On Revolution are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2025/04/notes-on-hannah-arendts-on-revolution.html
by gmoke
Sun Mar 30th, 2025 at 06:31:41 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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Renewable Resilience: Solar Energy as a Climate Solution
Monday, March 31
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
Livestream at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
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Stanford Energy Seminar: Tim Dixon | CCS in the Global Climate Scene
Monday, March 31
1:30pm EDT [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Jen-Hsun Huang Building (School of Engineering), NVIDIA, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
And online
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-march-31
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Organized Labor in Today's Economy
Monday, March 31
6 - 7 p.m.
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at http://iop.harvard.edu/events/organized-labor-todays-economy
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Monday, March 31
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Planting for Impact: San Francisco's Street Tree Planting Strategy
Tuesday, April 1
10:30 - 11:30 am U.S. ET
Online
RSVP at http://hixon.yale.edu/event/planting-impact-san-franciscos-street-tree-planting-strategy
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The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Security
Tuesday, April 1
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Bay State Room, Boston, MA
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/european/2025/02/26/the-war-in-ukraine-and-the-future-of-european-security-04-01-2
5/
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Beyond Climate Silence: Transforming Eco-Anxiety Workshop
Tuesday, April 1
2 - 3pm EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-climate-silence-transforming-eco-anxiety-workshop-tickets-1291780
723919
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A Perfect Turmoil
Tuesday, April 1
7pm
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
RSVP at http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/alex-green-author-perfect-turmoil
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Hot on Stage: Climate Justice and the Future of Theater
Tuesday, April 1
7:30 pm
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114
RSVP at http://artsemerson.org/events/the-point-climate-justice-the-future/
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Annalee Newitz, Journalist, editor, and author, presents "Avoiding Dystopia, in Theory and Practice"
Wednesday, April 2
12 PM - 1 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Yale, Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
And online
RSVP at http://yaleconnect.yale.edu/biomes/rsvp_boot?id=2288443
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The Coming Strategic Revolution of Artificial Intelligence: The U.S.-China Contest and the Sources of Competitive Advantage
Wednesday, April 2
12pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40, E40-496, 1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
Livestream at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
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Global Commons and New Ecologies: The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab
Wednesday, April 2
4:15pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 648, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inaugural-convening-of-the-mit-luma-lab-tickets-1281179615719
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The Early Ethics of Planetary Health
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/rescheduled-the-early-ethics-of-planetary-health-registration-1236639675
559
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Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET
Tufts, The Fung House, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA
More at http://humanities.tufts.edu/events/stupid-little-fish-extraction-conservation-and-politics-environme
ntal-decline-caleb-scoville
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"The Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History"
Wednesday, April 2
7 - 8pm EDT. Doors at 6pm
Boston College, Gasson Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Newton, MA 02467
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-mcneill-the-industrial-revolution-as-global-environmental-history-t
ickets-1119827386859
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AI for Climate Science seminar series: AI applications for Climate Science
Thursday, April 3
9am EDT (02:00-03:00 PM CEST)
Online and in Gvishiani room at IIASA (Laxenburg, Austria)
RSVP at http://iiasa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eih6-qQHT8uVBaQgAX2B3Q#/registration
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Food as Conversation with Nature: Indigenous Insights Into Ecological Stewardship and Sustainability
Thursday, April 3
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZW_a8YqbRAmzRtVDSD7P2A#/registration
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American Oversight: the Nonprofit Watchdog suing DOGE
Thursday, April 3
12:15pm to 1:15pm
Boston College, East Wing, 115A, Boston College Law School, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459
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Change and climate change
Thursday, April 3
1:30 - 2:30pm EDT
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-flagship-lecture-change-and-climate-change-tickets-1227926012759
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Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China
Thursday, April 3
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 301, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series -- Resisting Authoritarian Populism: What is to be Done?
Thursday, April 3
4 - 6 p.m.
Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/resisting-authoritarian-populism-what-is-to-be-done
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Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments
Thursday, April 3
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenneth-roth-at-the-cambridge-public-library-tickets-1133471466669
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Reimagining Social Housing
Thursday, April 3
6:30 - 8 p.m.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-barber-reimagining-social-housing-tickets-1206068365949
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Translational Science Day 2025: "Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Translating Gun Policy Science into Action to Reduce Firearm Violence"
Friday, April 4
10AM - 5PM
Online
RSVP at http://www.tuftsctsi.org/events/tsd2025/
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Why and how to use carbon dioxide to make products
Friday, April 4
11am to 12pm
BU, PHO 203, 8 St Mary's Street, Boston, MA
RSVP at http://butodayevents.bu.edu/event/meche-seminar-series-month-of-energy-and-sustainability-volker-sic
k-seminar
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Towards Next Generation Greenhouse Gas Information Services - A Case for 4-Dimensional Atmospheric State Optimization
Friday, April 4
12pm to 1pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/towards-next-generation-greenhouse-gas-information-services-a-c
ase-for-4-dimensional-atmospheric-state-optimization
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Friday, April 4
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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by gmoke
Tue Mar 4th, 2025 at 11:11:14 PM EST
The Poor Prole's Almanac: Restoration Agroecology
http://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/
hat tip MT Spriggs
Port Huron, MI is planting trees to provide free fruit for residents under new pilot "Edible Parks" program
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/12/20/michigan-city-planting-trees-to-provide-free-fru
it-for-residents-under-new-pilot-program/
Food Forests in Permaculture: And In-Depth Guide/
http://www.permalogica.com/post/food-forests-in-permaculture-an-in-depth-guide
Urban farming in Baltimore isn't just about growing food
http://popularresistance.org/in-baltimore-urban-farming-isnt-just-about-growing-food/
Editorial Comment: Baltimore has done a lot around local agriculture and grassroots leaders like Mel King in Boston and Grace Lee Boggs in Detroit have used urban gardening to build a foundation for much larger social movements
More on Grace Lee Boggs at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-next-american-revolution.html
More on Mel King at https://solarray.blogspot.com/2023/04/how-many-ways-did-he-change-world-mel.html
USDA supporting urban agriculture and sustainable food production with $14.4 million in funding
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/usda.gov-urban-agriculture-grants
Editorial Comment: May not be available under the Trmp administration
by gmoke
Fri Feb 28th, 2025 at 07:58:05 PM EST
Impeach Trmp and get rid of Musk and we get JD Vance and Peter Thiel behind him. Impeach Vance and we get Mike Johnson with the Southern Baptist Dominionists behind him. After that, the line of succession goes to Grassley then Rubio as it's toxic Republicans all the way down.
That is our political reality now under our Constitution.
However, since the Supreme Court abandoned the basic principle of democracy, the idea that everyone is equal under the law or isonomy, with its recent decision to give the (Republican) Presidency immunity for "official" acts and the Judicial Council refused to do their duty under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act to investigate Clarence Thomas' congenital inability to fill out financial forms correctly thus making the Supreme Court itself de facto above and beyond the law as well, we now have two institutions which are not bound by the law.
That is the reality and we should look it full in the face.
We need something else beside electoral politics. I like the idea of mutual aid and a mass popular movement to make the present government irrelevant.
by gmoke
Tue Feb 25th, 2025 at 10:19:51 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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Prep Your Climate Coverage: Spring Weather
Wednesday, February 26
12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at http://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1217393889013/WN_riwJkVx3Q12VGP9NSURFrQ#/registration
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Civic Life Lunch: Lessons and Strategies from Community Organizing Around the World
Wednesday, February 26
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Barnum Hall 104, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/8JUoRw4XR8Gy_Qzl6OZ4jw#/registration
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Capacity to adapt development pathways to protect human well-being
Wednesday, February 26
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SvTdn7b9Ry66r2NisTVOuw
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Shaping Climate History: Planetary health and climate change
Wednesday, February 26
12:30 - 13:30 ET
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/shaping-climate-history-planetary-health-and-climate-change-online-ticke
ts-1044123189567
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Eliminating the Need for Mining EV Battery Minerals by 2050: Data-driven Insights on Enabling an Efficient, Responsible EV Battery Supply Chain
Wednesday, February 26
12:30-2:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://sei.info.yorku.ca/2025/01/eliminating-the-need-for-mining-ev-battery-minerals-by-2050-data-dr
iven-insights-on-enabling-an-efficient-responsible-ev-battery-supply-chain/
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Driving the next mass solar technology (tandems) when "solar is done"
Wednesday, February 26
1:30pm ET [4:30pm to 5:20pm PT]
Stanford, Shriram Center, Room 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-Colin-Bailie
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Sustainable Finance Panel: Unlocking Emerging Markets
Wednesday, February 26
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Uur7LqI6RCmT2qm8nR0g2A#/registration
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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Wednesday, February 26
6:00pm (Doors at 5:30)
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/carl-zimmer
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Learning from Zurich's Co-ops
Wednesday, February 26
6:30pm
MIT, Building 9, 9-255, 105 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
http://design.mit.edu/events/learning-from-zurich-s-coops #MITMAD
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Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sarah-jones
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The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm - 9:00pm
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
RSVP at http://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-02-26/write-science-new-lunar-society-enlightenment-guid
e-next-industrial-revolution
Cost: $5
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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
Wednesday, February 26
7:00pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
RSVP at http://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-26/anita-say-chan-predatory-data
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Democracy on the Brink Symposium
Thursday, February 27 - Saturday March 1
Thursday and Saturday: ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Friday: Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
RSVP at http://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/democracy-brink-symposium
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How Soil Carbon Credits Drive Sustainability Across Industries
Thursday, February 27
11am-12pm ET (8am-9am PT)
Online
RSVP at http://trellis.net/webcast/how-soil-carbon-credits-drive-sustainability-across-industries/
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Biochar: Impacts on Climate Change, Plant Communities, and Collaboration
Thursday, February 27
11am - 12pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/biochar-impacts-on-climate-change-plant-communities-and-collaboration-ti
ckets-1200148830459
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Humanity in the age of AI: Understanding the future with sAIpien
Thursday, February 27
12pm to 12:30pm
Online
RSVP at http://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PpRfPnnEQkiRpY0p6uJPig#/registration
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Unsettling Colonial Ecologies, Removal, and Ruin
Thursday, February 27
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o2OvWNalStSL0uUwX-Xk-A#/registration
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The future of journalism: How creators are changing the news
Thursday, February 27
1 - 2 p.m.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://signup.e2ma.net/signup/2010057/1952913/
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Our Nation in Transition series: How Can We Ensure an Energy Transition Where Everyone Benefits
Thursday, February 27
1:00 PM EST -- 2:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at http://cbey.yale.edu/event/our-nation-in-transition-series-how-can-we-ensure-an-energy-transition-wh
ere-everyone
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Potential Future(s) of Climate Modeling: Lessons from the Drivers of the AI Revolution
Thursday, February 27
3pm to 4pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/potential-futures-of-climate-modeling-lessons-from-the-drivers-
of-the-ai-revolution
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Towards Sustainable Urban Systems with Human-Centered Big Data Mining
Thursday, February 27
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Princeton, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Maeder Hall, 86 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544
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The Peacemaking Machine
Thursday, February 27
4 - 5pm EST
Northeastern, EXP 610, 815 Columbus Avenue Boston, MA 02120
And online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peacemaking-machine-tickets-1223430336069
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Climatetech Intern Fair
Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET
Greentown Boston, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
RSVP at http://greentownlabs.com/event/climatetech-intern-fair/
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Election Law for the New Electorate: The Culture and Politics of Elections in the US
Thursday, February 27
5 - 6:30 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS South, Room 153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/cultural-politics-seminar-interdisciplinary-perspectives-02-27-25
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"Necessity: Climate Justice & The Thin Green Line" Free Film Screening
Thursday, February 27
6pm to 8pm
MIT, Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Bldg, Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142
http://www.gcws.mit.edu/women-take-the-reel #WTTR25
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The Heat and the Fury: A Conversation With Peter Schwartzstein
Thursday, February 27
7 - 8:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-the-heat-and-the-fury-a-conversation-with-peter-schwartzstein
-tickets-1107265654379
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Democracy and Its Critics Initiative Conference | Balancing Majority and Minority Rights - The Dilemma of Majority-Constraining Institutions in an Age of Democratic Backsliding
Friday, February 28
9:15am - 5:30pm
Harvard, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/02/conference-democracy-and-its-critics
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The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Immigration Law, 2025 Boston University Law Review Symposium
Boston University School of Law
Friday, February 28
Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, First Floor, Boston, MA
RSVP at http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhZgx2oOt47gQQfmy7yZ8c4qNCu8iFcjX4QSpmiOyq-Eycwg/viewform
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From Gaza to Ukraine: The Future of Rule-Based International Law
Friday, February 28
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TYfFRKs0Q7mJTJmIp-E7dw#/registration
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Black and Green: A Conversation with Christopher "Soul" Eubanks on Social Justice and Animal Activism
Friday, February 28
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Harvard Law, WCC; 3016 Room, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
Friday, February 28
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sam-klug
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EVs and the Road Ahead: Will the Trump Administration Stall Adoption?
Monday, March 3
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Rubenstein 414ab, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 0238
And online
RSVP at http://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PgGPIA0&_gl=1*1u3zua2*_gcl_au*MTA1NTQy
MjkwNS4xNzM5MzM2NTY5*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTc0MDE5Nzg1Ni4xMy4xLjE3NDAxOTg
4MjYuMzAuMC41MTAzNDc0MDY.
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Peacemaking in Trouble
Monday, March 3
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM ET
Harvard, One Brattle Square 350, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/peacemaking-trouble
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The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
Monday, March 3
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/meg-stone
by gmoke
Tue Feb 25th, 2025 at 01:37:38 AM EST
Finally got around to reading a falling apart hardback copy of Paine's Age of Reason (published as three pamphlets in 1794, 1795, 1807) found at a Little Free Library long ago. It's a very modern book and Paine is very clear as a writer.
Paine deconstructs and demolishes the Bible but believes instead that
"The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of his existence and the immutability of his power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries."
Sounds like an ecological world view to me.
Reading Age of Reason led me to his pamphlet "Agrarian Justice" (1797) where he argued that the Earth itself belongs to all of us and that we are entitled to a just portion of that. The sums would be "fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property: £1,599.00 ($1955.98)
"And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum: £1,066.00 ($1303.98)"
I like Tom Paine and grew up with people who liked him too. After I read the book, I found my grandmother's paperback copy among my books. I gave both copies to the various Little Free Libraries around town after I finished my notes.
Now Paine's Rights of Man goes on the reading list.
by gmoke
Thu Feb 13th, 2025 at 09:12:25 PM EST
I've attended quite a few talks by Bruce Schneier over the years and read some of his books. He is a security professional who knows whereof he speaks.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/
If you hit a paywall, try http://archive.ph/lSHkJ
DOGE Is Hacking America
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
By Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Davi Ottenheimer, the vice president of trust and digital ethics at Inrupt, a data infrastructure company.
"First, unauthorized access must be revoked and proper authentication protocols restored. Next, comprehensive system monitoring and change management must be reinstated--which, given the difficulty of cleaning a compromised system, will likely require a complete system reset. Finally, thorough audits must be conducted of all system changes made during this period.
"This is beyond politics--this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal U.S. data and install backdoors to allow for future access.
"Each day of continued unrestricted access makes the eventual recovery more difficult and increases the risk of irreversible damage to these critical systems. While the full impact may take time to assess, these steps represent the minimum necessary actions to begin restoring system integrity and security protocols.
"Assuming that anyone in the government still cares."
Another person I'd like to address this is Yochai Benkler.
by gmoke
Wed Jan 29th, 2025 at 06:17:33 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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Reallocating the Residential California Climate Credit to Low-Income CustomersSponsored by
Thursday, January 30
8am ET [11am to 12pm PT]
Online
RSVP at https:/us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K2u5el78RRSRle9w2gegNg#/registration
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Stories to Watch 2025
Thursday, January 30
9:00 - 10:30am EST
Online
RSVP at https:
www.wri.org/events/2025/1/stories-watch-2025
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Disentangling Climate and Development Finance
Thursday, January 30
10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https:
harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ahnf8UtSSLyU2A1WksHZ4g#/registration
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The State of the Energy Transition in 2025
Thursday, January 30
11:00 a.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-the-state-of-the-energy-transition-in-2025/
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Beyond Community Engagement: Centering Frontline Voices in the Environmental Movement
Thursday, January 30
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1oOl4zIESrSiIiFQ-Ids3A
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Building bipartisan support for public health
Thursday, January 30
1 - 1:30 p.m.
The Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
And online
RSVP at http://hsph.harvard.edu/events/building-bipartisan-support-for-public-health/
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U.S. C3E Women in clean energy seminar series: Insights from the 2024 Award Winners
Thursday, January 30
1:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UgCozfbjRgKNCLct-bbwnQ#/registration
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Harvard Voices on Climate Change: An Ecosystem for Sustainable Computing
Thursday, January 30
4:30 PM-5:30 PM ET
Online
RSVP at http://web.cvent.com/event/09de4b12-068e-4074-a73b-f30c4403f113/regProcessStep1
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Briefing Net Zero Good Practice - What Defines a credible Net Zero Strategy?
Friday, January 31
7am ET [12:00 GMT]
Online
RSVP at http://newclimate.org/events/briefing-net-zero-good-practice-what-defines-a-credible-net-zero-strate
gy
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Climate Disaster Displacement
Friday, January 31
12 - 1pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-disaster-displacement-registration-1217178576889
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Friday, January 31
7:00pm (Doors at 6:15)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-hayes-at-first-parish-church-tickets-1089181584439
Cost: $42.00 (book included)
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The State of the Nation Project: A comprehensive discussion on America's successes and failures
Monday, February 3
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/the-state-of-the-nation-project-a-comprehensive-discussion-on-americ
as-successes-and-failures
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The Macro-Critical Aspects of Climate Change and Climate Change Policy
Monday, February 3
12 - 1:15pm EST
BU, Bay State Room, 121 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-macro-critical-aspects-of-climate-change-and-climate-change-policy-t
ickets-1022865045887
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Trade War 2.0
Monday, February 3
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Harvard, Rubenstein 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registration?e=a4oPp000001PXrRIAW&_gl=1*1mxekfz*_gcl_au*MTk5MTI1
NDQzOC4xNzMwNzU4OTMw*_ga*OTgwODMzMzc0LjE3MTU4Mjg2NjI.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTczNzg0MzU5OC4xMS4xLjE3Mzc4NDM
3ODguNTUuMC4xNTIzOTU2NDE4
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How will AI Disrupt Societies? Can It Help Ukraine?
Monday, February 3
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YqNHex-1T_Kv5ce0mGQM3g
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Religion and Just Peace: Empire and Epistemicide: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Peace and its Erasures
Monday, February 3
6 - 7:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at http://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CFuFoXyoRhKcQckHYq0vxQ#/registration
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Source Code: My Beginnings
Monday, February 3
7:00pm (Doors at 6:00)
Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at http://www.emersoncolonialtheatre.com/events/bill-gates/calendar/
Cost: $70.00 plus service fee (book included)
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Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Program
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 AM - 7:00 AM EST
Online
RSVP at http://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/331b1f36-6899-4c4f-a543-ea0ef1a73892@8370cf14-16f3-4c16-b83c
-724071654356
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Trees Cool the City But Feel the Heat
Tuesday, February 4
10:30 to 11:30 am
Online
RSVP at http://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3r8OrgXIRI6jL9DE5meM0g#/registration
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2025 and Beyond: Insights from Climate Tech Leaders
Tuesday, February 4
11:30am EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-and-beyond-insights-from-climate-tech-leaders-tickets-1145613834819
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Small Actions Big Difference: Business Through the Sustainability Lens
Tuesday, February 4
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Northeastern, 450 Dodge Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
RSVP at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/npu8t9g
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Our Climate Future: Fact + Fiction
Tuesday, February 4
1:30pm-2:30pm ET
Online
RSVP at http://www.woodwellclimate.org/?event=our-climate-future-fact-fiction
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Cross purposes: Christianity's broken bargain with democracy
Tuesday, February 4
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
The Brookings Institution, The Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
And online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/cross-purposes-christianitys-broken-bargain-with-democracy/
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Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All
Tuesday, February 4
4:30-6pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpiM-a3jvi5xiyTWdWgxBTi-y8h0TmuwTy8Q5_x891GZOuNA/viewform
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Living in the Shadow of our Fathers
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 pm
Online
RSVP at http://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/4017377329691/WN_xB2blR-LRhKpc7Yy3eaSQw#/registration
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Conceiving the Committee of Safety in Revolutionary America
Tuesday, February 4
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EST
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
And online
RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events/conceiving-committee-safety
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Innovating the Future: Cleantech and Energy Storage Panel Discussion
Tuesday, February 4
5:30 - 7:30pm EST
CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway, 5th Floor - Havana Room, 1 Broadway 5th Floor - Havana Room Cambridge, MA 02142
And online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovating-the-future-cleantech-and-energy-storage-panel-discussion-tick
ets-1152466160309
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by gmoke
Sat Jan 18th, 2025 at 03:43:20 AM EST
East Chinese province pilots extensive vehicle-to-grid interaction
http://english.news.cn/20240816/47b3faa6206247b8b9c79772563a213d/c.html
Editorial Comment: All electric vehicles, including e-bikes, e-scooters, and other such micro-mobility devices, should be able to interact with the grid as "rolling storage" as Amory Lovins suggested 30 years or more ago.
Barcelona's subway trains use regenerative braking to power EVs
http://grist.org/transportation/barcelona-is-turning-subway-trains-into-power-stations/
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/barcelona-is-using-regenerative-braking-to-power-subways-ev-char
gers/
Editorial Comment: I remember reading in Edwin Black's Internal Combustion about the Milwaukee Road, an electric railway in the early decades of the 20th century, and thinking that you could possibly plan routing freight trains in such a way that traveling downgrade with regenerative braking could power traveling upgrade without any need for excess power. Actually, now Fortescue Williams, a hard rock mining company, operates an "Infinity Train" in Australia that never needs charging using this idea.
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2022/07/playing-with-electric-trains-as-climate.html
"Delivering Net Zero: A Framework for Policymakers is a handbook for governments to design and implement decarbonization strategies"
http://www.netzeropathfinders.com/downloads/Netzero%20Pathfinders%20Delivering%20Net%20Zero%20-%20A%
20Framework%20for%20Policymakers.pdf
http://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/13/want-to-know-more-about-how-to-design-deliver-net-zero-policy/
by gmoke
Sun Dec 29th, 2024 at 08:16:19 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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Full-depth Reconstruction of Long-Term Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability from Satellite-Measurable Quantities via Machine Learning
Friday, January 3
12:00 - 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, Cambridge, MA [the tallest building on campus]
And online
RSVP at http://eaps.mit.edu/events/sls-huaiyu-wei-ucla/
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The Many Benefits of Retiring Cranberry Bogs: Cleaner Water, Restored Habitat, Climate Resiliency
Tuesday, January 7th
6-8pm
Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA
RSVP at http://newbedfordsciencecafe.weebly.com/
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Communication Activism Research for Social Justice
Tuesday, January 7
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Boston Public Library, 419 Faneuil Street, Brighton MA 02135
RSVP at http://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/673f6a4f28050a2f0035738d
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Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Can They Meet 2050 Climate Goals?
Wednesday, January 8
7:00 PM (Eastern)
Online
RSVP at http://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00000YzS0gIAF&mapLinkHref=
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Attribution Science and Climate Law
January 9 - January 10
Columbia, William and June Warren Hall, 1125 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027
And online
RSVP at http://www.climate.columbia.edu/events/attribution-science-and-climate-law
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A Global Take: What Happened at COP29
Thursday, January 9
2 - 3pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-global-take-what-happened-at-cop29-tickets-1089039078199
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AI and Trust
Thursday, January 9
7:00 PM
MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva), 32 VASSAR ST, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at http://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7817341052674/WN_CYgexNC-Ssmbzi0gRF234Q
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Profit and purpose: Aligning business for a sustainable future
Friday, January 10
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
And online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/profit-and-purpose-aligning-business-for-a-sustainable-future/
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Introduction to Nature Monitoring in the City
Saturday, January 11
2 - 3:30pm EST. Doors at 1:55pm
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-nature-monitoring-in-the-city-tickets-1040045914327
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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
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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?
