From j_c at MIT.EDU Mon Dec 1 18:59:28 2003 From: j_c at MIT.EDU (Jeremy Conrad) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:59:28 -0500 Subject: [Save] Recycling Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031201185811.02e3e0b8@hesiod> I have a large (read over 8 large trash bags) full of crumpled newspaper. Is there anywhere on campus that has a large enough recycling area that I could put all of it to recycle? --Jeremy From belg4mit at MIT.EDU Mon Dec 1 19:53:50 2003 From: belg4mit at MIT.EDU (Jerrad Pierce) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:53:50 -0500 Subject: [Save] Recycling Message-ID: <200312020053.hB20rop5027655@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu> Contact facilities for a large recycling bin to be wheeled somewhere (I think that's what chemistry recently did to empty out someone's office, and what gets done when new office depot catalogs are handed out). Otherwise you might try leaving it in the cardboard recycling room in the basement of 56. -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidccAAAA= -- MOTD on Setting Orange, the 43rd of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3169: "My Name Is Fish, I Like To Say My Name!" From sheehy at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 2 10:09:12 2003 From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy) Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:09:12 -0500 Subject: [Save] REMINDER: Henrietta Davis to speak tonight at 5:30PM in 4-237 on Sustainable Initiatives in Cambridge Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031202095828.00a11a40@po12.mit.edu> The Students for Global Sustainability, MIT Student Pugwash, Engineers Without Frontiers and Design that Matters invite you to: Sustainable Initiatives in Cambridge Henrietta Davis, Vice Mayor of Cambridge TODAY!!! at 5:30PM in 4-237 Henrietta will focus on the implementation of the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan - a citywide plan that commits the City of Cambridge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels. How can Cambridge make a difference? Ms. Davis will explore the role of the city in implementing the plan via cooperation with local businesses, institutions and residents. snacks and refreshments provided please forward to any interested parties http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www/spotlight.html this event is sponsored by LEF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/save/attachments/20031202/087256d8/attachment.htm From mslow at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 3 06:41:13 2003 From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:41:13 -0500 Subject: [Save] Tour of Photovoltaic Manufacturing Facility - Dec 10 - 7 pm - Billerica, MA Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031203063813.00b78ec8@po10.mit.edu> Hi, A classmate is offering the tour. They are also the people who installed the PV on W20! If you have questions or RSVP, please contact Jamie Braman directly, jamie.braman at rweschottsolar.usa. Transportation is being arranged. Have a nice day! Manshi >Subject: Tour of Solar Plant >X-Spam-Score: 1.7 >X-Spam-Level: * (1.7) >X-Spam-Flag: NO >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) > > >Hello Class, >Jaimie Braman has invited the class to tour the photovoltaic manufacturing >facility where he works. Details below: > > >To my fellow students in Sustainability - > >December 10, 7:00p. > >I would like to invite our entire class to tour our photovoltaic >manufacturing facility in Billerica, MA - Come visit the 5th largest >Photovoltaic manufacturer in the world! This year we have manufactured >just over 8 Megawatts and are in the process of ramping up production to 20 >Megawatts in the next few years. See our latest Research and development >efforts focusing on both building integrated photovoltaics, increasing >module efficiency and bringing down the costs. > >Our facility in Billerica was once owned my Arco Oil, Mobil Oil and Tesseg >(a large German Utility) and it was the first full production photovoltaic >facility in the US. If you are interested in joining the tour, but are >unable to make the date; I have a 7 minute plant tour video on CD for >anyone that is interested. I am more than happy to mail out a few copies - > >If there is interest, after the tour, we can also tour the 12 kW >photovoltaic array that we have on our roof at the plant and talk about the >ways that it contributes to offsetting our on-site electrical demand. We >can easily accommodate 20-30 so space is not a limitation (we might break >up for the tour) - you can RSVP directly to me at >jamie.braman at rweschottsolar.us and directions will follow. I should also >mention that you will be asked to sign a short nondisclosure form prior to >the tour; if this poses a problem, please let me know- > > > >Michael Crowley >Harvard University Green Campus Initiative >46 Blackstone Street >Cambridge, MA 02138 >(617) 496-0971 (Phone) >(617)-495-9409 (Fax) >mcrowley at camail.harvard.edu >www.greencampus.harvard.edu From mslow at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 3 14:58:15 2003 From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:58:15 -0500 Subject: [Save] Dell campaign Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031203145648.00b30d80@po10.mit.edu> Hi, I am just passing this message along. Would SAVE be interested in endorsing the "Computer Take Back Campaign?" Manshi >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >X-Sender: kreevecwa at covad.net@mail.covad.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 >Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:36:04 -0500 >To: Manshi Low >From: Kara Reeve >Subject: Re: Dell campaign >X-Spam-Score: 3.4 >X-Spam-Level: *** (3.4) >X-Spam-Flag: NO >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) > >Hi Manshi, >Thanks for the articles--I actually met the woman from Perdue mentioned in >the first article at a conference this summer. She was giving a >presentation on her research. >Are you involved with SAVE at all or any other student group on >campus? If so, is there any chance the group could "endorse" the Computer >Take Back Campaign? It's really easy and I've attached a form. >Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving. >-Kara > >Clean Water Action >Computer TakeBack Campaign Organizer >617.338.8131 phone >617.338.6449 fax >kreeve at cleanwater.org >www.computertakeback.com >www.dontbeDELLuded.com > > >this message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of >the person(s) to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is >privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. >if you receive this communication in error, please notify me immediately >by e-mail, telephone or fax and delete the original message from your >records. thank you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Dell endorsement form1.doc Type: application/msword Size: 28160 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/save/attachments/20031203/f9878c89/attachment.doc From cambclimact at aol.com Wed Dec 3 00:50:52 2003 From: cambclimact at aol.com (Michael Charney) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 05:50:52 +0000 Subject: [Save] NE Climate & Enviro Calendar * 12/3/03 - 1/10/04 Message-ID: <1915346187-1463792382-1070430659@boing.topica.com> CAMBRIDGE CLIMATE CALENDAR December 3, 2003 – Jan 10, 2004 Climate, Envir & Sustainability Events for MA & NE Editor’s Choice: *12/4 – Planet Ocean: Policy to Protect Oceans & Their Bounty. Camb *12/6 - Wind Over Water: Documentary on Cape Wind. Woods Hole, MA *12/9 - NH Carbon Coalition Day of Visibility – Vol Opps. NH **12/16 - NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Theater. Camb *12/16 GHG Banking & Trading Rules Devlpmt Stakeholder Mtg. Boston *12/16 CERC/Coalitn Envir Respnsble Convntns Holiday Party. Boston ~ Create Demand: Next time you rent a car or call a cab, ask for a hybrid! ~ Noted: *Putin Aide Rules Out Russian Approval of Kyoto Protocol (12/2/03): http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Russia-Kyoto- Protocol.html?ex=1071388017&ei=1&en=d7d2b4dd600e9c91 *Global Warming: Why we don't give a damn. New Statesman Cover Story 12/1: http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscoverstory.htm <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> End of year giving? Please consider: a tax deductible contribution for MCAN & CCC with a check payable to "Commonwealth Foundation." Mail to: MCAN, c/o Marc Breslow, 86 Milton St, Arlington, MA 02474 Thanks! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Build the E-Movement ~ Tell friends about this Calendar! Subscribe? blank email to: CambClimCal-subscribe at topica.com Link Websites to CCC: http://tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html Submit Events: CambClimAct at aol.com See website for guidelines. Local Climate Activism: http://www.massclimateaction.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> INDEX: * = New SCROLL DOWN BELOW THIS INDEX for DETAILED LIST 2003 DECEMBER *Now - 1/19/04 Big & Green: Toward Sustnble Archit in 21st Cent. NYC *Now - 12/16 - Africa: The Serengeti (Omni Film). Boston *Now thru 1/04 - Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (Omni Film). Boston December 2-3 *12/2-3 MIT Energy Symposium: Meeting Energy Challenges. Camb Wednesday, December 3 12/3 – Modeling Response to Iron Enrichment in Pacific. Camb 12/3 - Value of Statistical Life over Worker's Life Cycle. Camb *12/3 - Public Health Issues re: Toxics & Fish Consumpn. Medford, MA 12/3 - Women Resist Renewal of Nuclear Power Plant Licenses. Camb December 3-5 12/3-5 Hydrogen Productn & Storage Forum. Wash, DC Thursday, December 4 12/4 - Measuring Health Benefits of Regulation. Camb *12/4 – Planet Ocean: Policy to Protect Oceans & Their Bounty. Camb 12/4 - MIT & Camb: Collaborating on Climate Protectn. Camb *12/4 - Managed Urban Growth: Portland OR & China. Camb *12/4 - Greening Community Development. Camb *12/4 - Balancing Environmental & Energy Policy. Allston – Boston *12/4 – Connecticut Valley Enviro Roundtable. Easthampton, MA *12/4 - Devens Open Space Plan Public Forum. Devens, MA *12/4 - North Shore: Visioning Across Town Boundaries. Beverly, MA *12/4 - Deep Ecology Circle. Providence, RI Friday, December 5 *12/5 - Dunghill doctrines of the early republic. Petersham, MA 12/5 - Osmium & Mercury Supply to a CT Salt Marsh. Nw Hvn, CT *12/5 - The Great Hydrogen Hoax. New Haven, CT *12/5 - Tropospheric VOC measurements by PTR-MS. Camb *12/5 - Techno Change in Energy-Economy-Envir Models. Boston 12/5 - Solar Energy Lecture. Harrington, ME *12/5 - Acadia to Zion: Creation & Mngmt of our Nat’l Parks. Boston December 5 & 6 12/5-6 Human Dimensions of Global Envir Change. Berlin, Germany Saturday, December 6 12/6 - PV 101 Workshop. Greenfield, MA *12/6 - Wind Over Water: Documentary on Cape Wind. Woods Hole, MA December 6 & 7 12/6,7 - Solar PV & Hot Water Wkshp. Harrington, ME 12/6,7 - AMC Leadership Training Inst. Crawford Notch, NH Sunday, December 7 *12/7 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web Monday, December 8 *12/8 – Demo of free Organizers' Database software. Boston *12/8 - Precautnary Principle: Implicatns for enviro health resrch. Boston *12/8 - Middle East Oil: What's the Alternative? Boston Tuesday, December 9 *12/9 - NH Carbon Coalition Day of Visibility – Vol Opp. NH 12/9 - Restoring Water Quality in the Mystic River. Boston *12/9 - EBC's 5th Annual Winter Garden Holiday Party. Boston *12/9 - Oceans: A National Treasure at Risk. Boston *12/9 - North Shore Subregion Visioning Workshop. Revere, MA Wednesday, December 10 12/10 - Bos Soc Arch: Committee on the Envir Mtg. Boston *12/10 – Resrch: Magnetic Fields & Childhood Leukemia. Boston 12/10 - Household Water Demand & Price Structure. Camb Thursday, December 11 *12/11 - Life-Years, Lives Saved, & Willingness to Pay. Camb *12/11 - Forest Stewardship Program Info Mtg. Groton, MA Friday, December 12 *12/12 - Range expansion into disjunct habitat. Petersham, MA *12/12 - Energy Efficiency For Your Home. Medford, MA 12/12 - Hydrocarbon Emissns & Atmosph Oxidatn Products. Camb *12/12 - Efficiency & Equity of Air Pollutn Control Measures. Boston *12/12 - Harvard U Ctr for Envir (HUCE) Open Hse. Camb Saturday, December 13 *12/13 Commercial Wind Farms & Ridgeline Develpmt in VT. Orleans, VT *12/13 - Why Save the Middlesex Fells? Medford, MA Sunday, December 14 12/14 - Indoor Environmental Issues. Camb *12/14 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web Tuesday, December 16 *12/16 - Ensemble Climate Predictns w. Coupled Model. Woods Hole, MA ***12/16 - NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Theater. Camb *12/16 GHG Banking & Trading Rules Devlpmt Stakeholder Mtg. Boston Thursday, December 18 12/18 - Info Systems to Reduce Latin Amer Land Conflicts. Camb Friday, December 19 *12/19 - Local Perceptions of Wildland Fire Risk. Petersham, MA *12/19 – Aerosol Sites for Heterogeneous Chemistry. Camb 12/19 - NWF Campus Ecology Fellowship RFP Due. Sunday, December 21 *12/21 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web SCROLL DOWN for DETAILED LIST 2004 January 5-8, 2004 1/5-8 Sustnbl [Military] Range Mngmt Conf, New Orleans, LA January 6-8, 2004 *1/6-8/04 Oil Change: National Summit on Petropolitics. Wash, DC Friday, January 9, 2004 *1/9 - Behavioral Economics & Risk Analysis. Boston For listings after 1/10/04 see Beyond at http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DETAILED LISTINGS: DECEMBER 2003 *NOW to JAN 19, 2004 Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Archit in 21st Cent. Museum of City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave (at 103rd St), NYC. Info: 212-534-1672. Info: http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/BigGreen/Bigngreen.htm *NOW to DEC 16 Africa: The Serengeti, Omni Film, Boston Museum of Science. Info: http://tickets.mos.org/?action=showevent;event_id=79 *Thru JAN 2004 Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees, Omni Film, Boston Museum of Science. Info: http://tickets.mos.org/?action=showevent;event_id=237 *DEC 2-3 MIT Energy Symposium: Meeting Energy Challenges. Wong Auditrm, Tang Cntr Bldg E51 - Rm 115, 2 Amherst St, Camb Regist/Info: http://ilp.mit.edu/ILP/Conferences/Current.html Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go WED, DEC 3 Modeling the Response of Ecosystem & Carbon Cycle to Iron Enrichment in the Pacific Ocean, (Fei Chai, U Maine). 12:10 pm, MIT Bldg 54 - Rm 915, via 21 Ames St, Camb. Info: http://www.mit.edu/~phuybers/sack.html Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=54&Buildings=go WED, DEC 3 Value of a Statistical Life over a Worker's Life Cycle. Joseph Aldy (Harvard), & W. Kip Viscusi (Harvard Law). 4-5:30 pm, Rm L-332, Littauer Bldg, KSG, 79 JFK St, Camb. Envir econ & policy seminar. Paper at website Info: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~ec2690hf/ *WED, DEC 3 Implementation of MA Enviro Justice Policy: 6:50 - 7:35 pm: Water Quality Protectn & Public Access in Designated Port Area, J Adams, T Godfrey & M Heaviland. 7:45 - 8:30 pm, Public Health Issues Related to Toxics & Fish Consumptn, Ethan Austin, Ben Bayer & Deb Perry 8:40 - 9:25 pm: Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Strategy for Mystic River Watershed under the federal Clean Water Act, Susan Murphy, Dara Olmsted, Max Twine & Adam Wyner. All presentations in: Anderson Hall, Rm 208, 200 College Ave (at Boston Ave), Tufts U., Medford, MA Dir: http://www.tufts.edu/source/maps/medford WED, DEC 3 Women Speak Up: Resist Renewal of Nuclear Power Plant Licenses, Kate Parker Adams (UMa Lowell); Debra Katz (Citizens Awareness Ntwk); Mary Eliz Lampert (Pilgram/Nuclr Security Watch, & Citizens for Safe Energy).7 pm, Center for New Words, 186 Hampshire St, Camb Info: http://www.centerfornewwords.org 617-354-9888, 617-876-5310 DEC 3-5 Hydrogen Production & Storage Forum. Wash, DC Info: http://www.intertechusa.com/Division_Energy/Hydrogen/12_03_Hydrogen_introduction.html THUR, DEC 4 Measuring the Health Benefits of Regulation, Prof James Hammitt (Harvard Schl of Public Hlth). Noon -1:30 pm, Bell Hall, 5th Flr, Belfer Bldg, KSG, 79 JFK St, Camb RSVP Req/Info: 617-384-8319, rpp at ksg.harvard.edu, http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/rpp Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3/3KennedySchool.shtml *THUR, DEC 4 Planet Ocean: Can the US Work w Other Nations to Evolve Policy Agenda to Protect Oceans & Their Bounty? David Rockefeller (PEW Oceans Commissn) & Dr. Lester Brown (Pres., The Earth Policy Inst). 4 pm - 5:30 pm, Inst of Politics, Littauer Ctr, KSG, 79 JFK St, Camb. Info: weinst at fas.harvard.edu Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu WED, DEC 4 MIT & City of Cambridge: Collaborating on Climate Protectn. Panel: Henrietta Davis (Vice-Mayor, Camb); Jamie Lewis Keith (MIT Enviro & Risk Mngmt & MIT Sr Counsel). 4 pm, MIT Bldg 66 - Rm 110, 25 Ames St , Camb Info: bconlin at mit.edu http://lfee.mit.edu/calendar Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=66&Buildings=go *THUR, DEC 4 Managed Urban Growth - Implicatns of Portland's Experience to Cities in China, Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng (Visiting Assoc Prof MIT, & Dir, Ctr for Advanced Spatial Info Resrch, U Wisc-Milwaukee). 4 pm, Pierce Hall, Rm 100F, 29 Oxford St, Harvard U, Camb Info: gbeach at fas.harvard.edu Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu *THUR, DEC 4 Greening Community Development: View from the Field, Wm Shutkin (New Ecology, Inc). 5 pm, MIT Bldg 4 – Rm 237, 182 Memorial Dr, Camb Info: http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www/spotlight.html Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=4&Buildings=go *THUR, DEC 4 Balancing Environmental & Energy Policy, Douglas Foy (Chief, Commonwealth Develpmt, Comm MA); NECA Dinner Mtg. 6 pm recptn; 7 pm Spkr & dinner, Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Rd , Allston - Boston $55/$70. Info: http://www.necanews.org lois at necanews.org 781-449-5959 *THUR, DEC 4 Connecticut Valley Environmental Roundtable 7 - 9 pm, Mass Audubon's Arcadia Sanctuary, 127 Combs Rd, Easthampton, MA Info: http://www.ctvalleysummit.org *THUR, DEC 4 Initial Public Forum on ’04 Devens Open Space & Recreatn Plan. 7 – 9 pm, Devens Conf Ctr, 100 Sherman St, Devens, MA For Shirley, Ayer & Harvard citizens, officials & others. Info: http://www.nashuariverwatershed.org > Events. 978-772-8875, KWiberg at Massdevelopment.com 978-448-0299, alfutterman at nashuariverwatershed.org *THUR, DEC 4 North Shore: Visioning Across Town Boundaries. 7-9:30 pm, Endicott College Auditorium, Wax Academic Ctr, 376 Hale St (Route 127), Beverly, MA Spons: Metropolitan Area Planning Council's North Shore Task Force. Info/RSVP: scleaves at mapc.org 617-451-2770x2013, http://www.mapc.org >Metrofutures >Get Involved http://www.mapc.org/whats_new/forums_events_conf.html *THUR, DEC 4 Deep Ecology Circle (first mtg): 8 pm, 180 Highland Ave, Providence, RI (nr Miriam Hospital). Info: 401-521-3446 *FRI, DEC 5 Dunghill doctrines of the early republic, Steven Stoll (Yale U). 11 am, Seminar rm, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Info: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminarschedule.html FRI, DEC 5 Sources of Osmium & Mercury Supply to Farm River Salt Marsh, Branford, CT, Prof Karl Turekian (Yale). Noon, Rm 110, Envir Sci Ctr, 21 Sachem St, Yale U, New Haven, CT Info: http://www.yale.edu/yibs/calendar *FRI, DEC 5 The Great Hydrogen Hoax, Vijay Vaitheeswaran (Envir & Energy Correspondent for The Economist; & auth: Power to the People, on future of energy (FS&G 2003)). Noon, Sage Hall Student Lounge, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St, New Haven, CT Info: sarah.baldys at yale.edu http://www.yale.edu/yibs/calendar http://www.VijaytothePeople.com *FRI, DEC 5 Tropospheric VOC measurements by PTR-MS, Armin Hansel (U Innsbruck). 3 pm, Pierce Hall, Rm 100F, 29 Oxford St, Harvard U, Camb Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu Info: http://www.as.harvard.edu/seminars/seminars.html *FRI, DEC 5 ZEW Technological Change in Energy-Economy-Envir Models, Andreas Loschel. 4 pm, Stone Sci Bldg, 675 Commonwealth Ave, 4th flr, Rm 453, Boston Info: http://www.bu.edu/cees/resources Map: http://www.bu.edu/maps T: Green B Line BU East stop FRI, DEC 5 Solar Energy Lecture. 7 pm, SEADS Ctr, 156 Sacarap Rd, Harrington, ME Spons: MESEA & Maine DECD's Energy Conservatn Office. Free. Info: 207-483-2764, seads at maineline.com, http://www.ellsworthme.org/mesea *FRI, DEC 5 Acadia to Zion: The Creation & Mmgmt of our Nat’l Parks, Gillian Bowser, Ph.D. (Nat’l Park Service). 7 pm Wright Theater, Museum of Sci, 1 Science Park (O'Brien H’way), Boston. T: Green Line Sci Musm stop. Free tickets avail. 6 pm front lobby. Info: 617-589-0419, Lecture Archive: http://www.mos.org/whats_happening/calendar DEC 5 & 6 Human Dimensions of Global Envir Change, Berlin, Germany Info: http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2003 SAT, DEC 6 PV 101 Workshop. 9 am - 4 pm, Greenfield, MA Info: http://www.nesea.org/buildings/workshops *SAT, DEC 6 Wind Over Water (Documentary on Cape Wind Fight), by Ole Tangen. 4 pm, Lillie Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA Info: /www.townonline.com/brewster/news/local_regional/cc_newcaole11262003.htm Map: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/visit/directions/mbl_interactive_map DEC 6 & 7 Solar PV & Hot Water Wkshp. SEADS Ctr, 156 Sacarap Rd, Harrington, ME Spons: MESEA & Maine DECD's Energy Conservatn Office. $35/60. Free Solar Lecture 12/6, 7 pm. Info: 207-483-2764 seads at maineline.com, http://www.ellsworthme.org/mesea DEC 6 & 7 AMC Leadership Training Inst. Crawford Notch, NH Info: http://www.outdoors.org/education/lti 617-523-0655 x308 SUN, DEC 7 Living on Earth: Enviro Radio, Steve Curwood. 8 pm: WUMB 91.9 fm Boston, Falmouth, Worcester; WUMB 91.7 fm Newburyport, & WUMB 1170 am Orleans, MA. 11 pm: WBUR 90.9 fm Boston. Web stream/Info: http://www.loe.org http://www.wumb.org Other locales: http://www.loe.org/where/where.htm *MON, DEC 8 Demonstration of free Organizers' Database software for nonprofits & grassroots orgs to manage contact lists & donation records. Noon – 2 pm, Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington St, 10th Flr, Boston. T: Arlington & Back Bay T stops. $10 Info/RVSP req: oc at organizenow.net Info: http://organizenow.net Dir: http://www.tbf.org/About/about-L2.asp?id=75 *MON, DEC 8 Precautionary Principle: Implicatns for enviro health resrch, Prof Philippe Grandjean, MD (Envir Medicine, U So.Denmark). 12:30-1:20 pm, HSPH, Kresge Bldg, Rm 502, Harv Schl Publ Hlth, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston T: Green Line E, Brigham Circle. Info: 617-432-3327, abackus at hohp.harvard.edu, Dir: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/maps/lmamap.html *MON, DEC 8 Middle East Oil: What's the Alternative? Mamdouh Salameh (Oil Market Consultancy). 4 pm, Stone Sci Bldg, 675 Commonwealth Ave, 4th flr, Rm 453, Boston Info: http://www.bu.edu/cees/resources Map: http://www.bu.edu/maps T: Green B Line BU East stop *TUE, DEC 9 NH Carbon Coalition Day of Visibility: Volunteer for day of DNC Candidate Debate & other events until 1/27/04 primary. Locations in Manchester, Concord, Durham & Portsmouth, NH Info: 603-770-9484, r-stephenson at comcast.net, 603-785-1590, jaypie77 at hotmail.com, http://www.carboncoalition.org/newsandevents TUE, DEC 9 Restoring Water Quality in the Mystic River, John Durant (Tufts U). Comment: Richard Duffy (Arlington Historical Soc) Envir History Seminar. 5:15 pm, Mass Historical Soc, 1154 Boylston St, Boston. T: Green, Hynes CC Stop. Paper avail. in adv. Info: svose at masshist.org, 617-646-0518 http://www.masshist.org/events *TUE, DEC 9 EBC's 5th Annual Winter Garden Holiday Party. 5 - 9 pm, The Winter Garden, 222 Berkeley St, Boston. $50-$80. Info: http://www.ebcne.org/meetings.htm *TUE, DEC 9 Oceans: A National Treasure at Risk – E2 Event. David Rockefeller Jr., (Pew Oceans Commission), Prof. Daniel Pauly (UBC Fisheries Ctr); Sarah Chasis(Director of Water & Coastal Program NRDC). 6 - 8 pm, Offices of AEW Capital Mngmt, World Trade Ctr East, Two Seaport Ln, 15th Flr, Boston. Info/RSVP Req: 212-727-4437, yli at nrdc.org, http://www.e2.org *TUE, DEC 9 North Shore Subregion Visioning Workshop. 7 pm, Revere City Hall, Auditorm, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA http://www.mapc.org/whats_new/forums_events_conf.html WED, DEC 10 Bos Soc Architects: Committee on the Envir Mtg. 8-10 am, Topic & Loc TBA. Info: ken_fisher at gensler.com http://www.architects.org/news/monthly_calendar.cfm *WED, DEC 10 Contact Current Exposure: A Plausible Basis for Associatn betwn Magnetic Fields & Childhood Leukemia, Dr Robert Kavet (Electric Power Resrch Inst, Palo Alto, CA). 2 pm, Landmark Ctr, Conf Rm 414A, 401 Park Dr, 4th Flr, Boston (at Brookline Ave). MBTA "D" Line at Fenway. Info: ghaynes at hsph.harvard.edu http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/eer Map: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps WED, DEC 10 Does Price Structure Matter? Household Water Demand Under Increasing-Block & Uniform Prices. Sheila Olmstead (Yale) Michael Hanemann (U. CA), & Robert Stavins (Harvard). 4-5:30 pm, Rm L-332, Littauer Bldg, KSG, 79 JFK St, Camb. Envir econ & policy seminar. Paper at website Info: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~ec2690hf/ *THUR, DEC 11 Life-Years, Lives Saved, & Willingness to Pay, Prof Cass Sunstein (U Chicago Law Schl) Comment: Prof James Hammitt (Dir, Harvard Ctr for Risk Analysis, HSPH). 8:45 - 10:30 am, Bell Hall, 5th Flr, Belfer Bldg, KSG, 79 JFK St, Camb RSVP Req/Info: rpp at ksg.harvard.edu, Map: http://map.harvard.edu http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/rpp/seminars.htm Paper: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/Events/Papers/RPP_12-11-03_Sunstein.pdf *THUR, DEC 11 Forest Stewardship Program Info Mtg., 7 pm, NRWA River Resource Ctr, 592 Main St (Rt. 119), Groton, MA Info: http://www.nashuariverwatershed.org > Events *FRI, DEC 12 Range expansion into disjunct habitat: a late Holocene migration lag of hemlock in the Pacific Northwest, Daniel Gavin (U Illinois & UVM). 11 am, Seminar rm, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Info: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminarschedule.html *FRI, DEC 12 Cost Effective & Climate Wise Energy Efficiency Upgrades For Your Home, Anja Kollmus (Tufts Climate Initiative Outreach Coordinator). 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Web stream/Info: http://www.loe.org http://www.wumb.org Other locales: http://www.loe.org/where/where.htm *TUE, DEC 16 Ensemble Climate Predictions Using a Global Model Coupling Economics, Chemistry, Climate Dynamics & Ecosystems, Ron Prinn, MIT. 12:15 am - 1 pm, Whitman Auditorium,Marine Biol Lab, Woods Hole, MA Info: http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/WoodsHole/seminars.html Dir: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/visit/directions/index.html **TUE, DEC 16 NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Thtr: An Hour of Spectacular Visualizatn (re: Global atmospheric, oceanic & biospheric processes); w Fritz Hasler (Leader, Visualizatn & Analysis Lab, NASA/GSFC). 1 pm, Harvard U, Science Ctr - Auditrm D, 1 Oxford St, Camb Info: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/hasler/etheater.html *TUE, DEC 16 MA GHG Banking & Trading Rules Develpmt Stakeholders’ Mtg: To discuss Regnl Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) work plan & stakeholder process plan. 1:30 - 3:30 pm, DEP Boston Office – One Winter St, 2nd Flr Conf Rms A & B, Boston. T: Down Town X-ing. Info/Request RGGI docs: 617-556-1020; 617-654-6593. William.Lamkin at state.ma.us, Nancy.Seidman at state.ma.us *TUE, DEC 16 CERC - Coalition for Envir Responsible Conventions Holiday Gathering. 5:30 – 8 pm, Hub Pub, 18 Province St, Boston (off Bromfield St). T: Downtown X-ing or Park. Pls RSVP by 12/12 if poss; $5-10. Info: amyperl at post.harvard.edu http://www.cerc04.org THUR, DEC 18 Land Info Systems as a Tool for Mitigating Land Use Conflicts in Latin America, Prof Diego Erba (GIS Applics& Digital Cartography, Brazil). Lincoln Inst of Land Policy, 113 Brattle St, Camb. 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FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^---------------------------------------------------------------- From mslow at MIT.EDU Sat Dec 6 07:52:43 2003 From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 07:52:43 -0500 Subject: [Save] Fwd: N51/N52 Solar Panels Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031206075227.00b5f1e8@po10.mit.edu> >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >X-Sender: lordjim at po10.mit.edu (Unverified) >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 >Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:53:42 -0500 >To: archall at mit.edu >From: Jim Harrington >Subject: Fwd: N51/N52 Solar Panels >X-Spam-Score: -9.899 >X-Spam-Flag: NO >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) > >Hi, this may be about the last energy saving improvement that N51 and 52 >need, but I was surprised to learn about MIT's subsidizing home >installations. Please see below if interested. jim > > >>Dear N51/N52 Occupants: >> >>I wanted to make you aware that the roof of our building will be >>"hosting" solar panels within the next few months. No action is required >>on your part, nor should there be any effects on your work. In fact, >>this email is being sent to make you aware since you would likely >>otherwise never realize it. Please share this information with others in >>your department as appropriate. >> >>Facilities has already begun the preparation work to the electrical and >>roofing systems. The actual panels will be installed in March, depending >>on weather conditions. The system will have a rated capacity of 2 >>kilowatts. The power produced will offset electricity that would >>otherwise have been purchased from NStar. The electricity will be >>produced with NO greenhouse gas emissions or other negative environmental >>impacts. >> >>The project is being led by Laxmi Rao of the Department of Facilities >>(lrao at mit.edu). More information on this project can be obtained at >>http://solarpower.mit.edu/. A photo of the installation on the Student >>Center, is at >>http://solarpower.mit.edu/images/installations/W20/highres/MIT_W20_finished_array.jpg >>Our system will look similar. >> >>Interested in placing solar panels on your home? Anyone in the MIT >>community is eligible for subsidized purchase of solar panels. Please see >>the web site for more information. >> >>_____________________________________________ >>James T. Curtis, PE, LSP >>Massachusetts Institute of Technology >>Environment, Health & Safety Office >>Building N52-496 >>265 Massachusetts Avenue >>Cambridge, MA 02139 >>(617) 452-2508 (tel), (617) 258-6831 (fax) >>Email: curtisjt at mit.edu >>http://web.mit.edu/environment > >________________________________________ >Jim Harrington, AIA >Facilities Manager >M.I.T. School of Architecture & Planning >77 Massachusetts Avenue Room 10-481M >Cambridge, MA 02139 USA >617.258.6061 voice >617.236.9111 pager >617.253.9407 fax -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/save/attachments/20031206/df4aec7c/attachment.htm From mslow at MIT.EDU Sat Dec 6 09:58:40 2003 From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 09:58:40 -0500 Subject: [Save] On univ. consumption: http://www.sustain.ubc.ca/ Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031206095751.09832248@po10.mit.edu> This is real-time! Manshi From jalee at MIT.EDU Sun Dec 7 20:10:05 2003 From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:10:05 -0500 Subject: [Save] time still left to design the Riverromp logo and win a T-shirt! Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031207200758.020cb9a8@po11.mit.edu> Dear SAVE members, As you may have heard, SAVE is joining forces with Community Running and the Charles River Conservancy to hold a footrace along the Charles River next April, to benefit the CRC. We have a route, a date, a theme, and a name: Riverromp. Now we need a logo. Do you have hidden talent at graphic design? Do you like to doodle? Create a logo for our Riverromp T-shirt, or even just contribute some good ideas or volunteer to draw someone else's ideas, and we'll give you a free T-shirt once we get them printed! Here are the specifics: Race date: April 24, 2004 Race Route: the Lee Pool 5K (starts near Mass General Hospital) Theme: environmentalism & conservation of the river. At the end, all participants will get to take part in the planting of a tree on the esplanade. We want to be slightly playful-- we hope to attract fairly-serious runners as well as people who just jog for fun and are interested in the cause. Design: we'd like to have a fairly compact logo that can sit on the front of the T-shirt with the logos of the organizing groups (SAVE, CRC, Community Running, MDC) and also be transported to posters, the website, and the like. The back of the T-shirt will hold logos of our sponsors. Due date for design: Saturday, December 13. You may email me a file, or send me a hard copy by campus mail (get in touch with me if you'd like to do this) contact, for questions or comments: Jessica Lee, at jalee at mit.edu From baf at MIT.EDU Fri Dec 5 12:50:17 2003 From: baf at MIT.EDU (Brad A Friedman) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:50:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Save] Cape Wind Forum (Mon. 12/8) Message-ID: CAPE WIND Safe, clean energy from a wind farm in Nantucket Sound? Loss of a precious natural habitat? What's the problem? What's so good about it? COME FIND OUT! MIT ROOM 4-163 MONDAY 8 DECEMBER 2003 7:00 - 9:00 PM Arguments presented by: Jim Gordon, President, Cape Wind Associates Ernie Corrigan, Director of Communications, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound MIT's Prof. William Shutkin, Urban Studies and Planning Mark Forest. Aide to Congressman Delahunt Question and Answer Period to follow THINK ABOUT IT For more infromation email greens at mit.edu sponsored by MIT Greens, S.A.V.E., LFEE --------------------------------------------------- This message was bcc'ed to greens-announce, peace-announce, save, mit-cds, and cfgs at mit.edu; and mrg-action and somerville-action at green-rainbow.org. From sheehy at MIT.EDU Mon Dec 8 20:20:14 2003 From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:20:14 -0500 Subject: [Save] Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Sustainable Cities - 12/11/2003 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031208200957.075f47b8@po12.mit.edu> The Students for Global Sustainability, MIT Student Pugwash, Engineers Without Frontiers and Design that Matters invite you to: Sustainable Development Seminar Series Sustainable Cities Building A Sustainable Future: The Role of Architecture and Construction Professor John Ochsendorf, MIT Department of Architecture Thursday December 11, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237 The construction and operation of buildings consumes enormous quantities of natural resources worldwide. Buildings consume more energy and materials than almost all other sectors of American industry. This public lecture provides an overview of the environmental impact of buildings and the specific barriers to a more sustainable construction industry. 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Funda?ao O?sis Cidade Aberta Friday, December 12 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Room E40-496 ABSTRACT For most businesses and local authorities 'sustainability' means practices concerning waste management, recycling, pollution prevention and all operations to ensure the environment is not adversely affected. Broader issues of sustainability remain little understood and both enterprises and municipalities need tools and techniques to assess and manage their own sustainability. The cooperation between a University and an NGO aims to develop educational tools, frameworks, consultations, performance-support-services and professional development programs to raise awareness of these issues bridging the gap between academy and grassroots situations. Funda?ao O?sis Cidade Aberta (The Open City) is a Brazilian NGO established in 1989. FOCA's mission is to develop sustainable territorial projects focusing on environment and education. It operates in Italy, Portugal and Angola. FOCA is a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) and recently participated in a Forum chaired by Hanifa Mezoui, Chief of NGOs of the United Nations. Light refreshments will be provided. ___________________________________________________ If you would like to be added or removed from this mailing list, please contact Karen Gibson, kgibson at mit.edu -- _________________________________ Karen L. Gibson Program Assistant MIT Laboratory For Energy and the Environment 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E40-469 (1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for DHL and FedEx) Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Tel: 1 (617) 258-6368; Fax: 1 (617) 258-6590 http://lfee.mit.edu http://globalsustainability.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There are some good links at the bottom of the page, including places to write to, NJ media, etc. I will paste info about the protest and the issue after this brief message. PLEASE call NJ Gov. James McGreevy at 609-292-6000 and NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection (a real misnomer) Commissioner Bradley Campbell at 609-292-2885 NOW and call again tomorrow and Friday. This massacre goes on all week, until at least 500 bears are killed. Here is a very sickening quote from an article in the Star-Ledger Matthew Porter, 28, of Butler said he was sitting in the woods in the Newark watershed, "just having a cup of coffee," when a bear walked toward him. When the bear was about 100 yards away, he picked up his gun and "shot it in the lungs." Complete article is at: http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1070951802123020.xml?starledger?ntop I hope no one feels they have been spammed. This is such a devastating act of hatred and greed, and it must be stopped. Jan Info about the protest: > >>Hi > >PLEASE FORWARD THIS NOW ASAP IMMEDIATELY TO ANY AND ALL ANIMAL >ACTIVISTS GROUPS, PEACE GROUPS, GREEN GROUPS ETC. IN COLLEGES, HIGH >SCHOOLS AND ELSEWHERE IN NJ, ESPECIALLY TRENTON AREA. > >PROTEST TAKES PLACE TODAY FROM 1-5. PLEASE BE THERE. PLEASE ALSO >CALL GOVERNOR MCGREEVEY TO LODGE A FORCEFUL PROTEST. ONE AIDE I >SPOKE WITH IS MARLON FRASER. PHONE NUMBER IS 609-292-6000. > >CAN ALSO CALL DEP COMMISSIONER BRAD CAMPBELL'S OFFICE 609-292-2885 > >STOP THIS MASSACRE!!! > >www.savenjbears.com for more info. >Thanks very much >Jan Outcalt > >> >>DATE: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:17:04 >>From: "Neysa Malone" >>To: neysamalone at lycos.com >>Cc: >> >>To all friends who oppose the mass murder of the Black Bear going >>on this week in Wawayanda Park and other wildlife-protected areas >>of New Jersey. >>PROTEST TOMORROW WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10 IN FRONT OF THE STATE HOUSE >>IN TRENTON N.J FROM 1 TO 5 p.m.This is located at 125 W.State St >>Trenton N.J zip is 08608.If you do not have a car there is public >>transportation. If you have a car, log onto mapquest.com for >>driving directions .This will be a peaceful protest and the city is >>informed of us being there. The Bears are DYING and they NEED your >>support! The Governor and DEP Commissioner are in the pockets of >>major Real Estate investors--the Bears are being murdered to make >>way for million dollar homes. For more info on this subject log >>onto www.savenjbears.com >> 2500 hunters have been licsensed to kill. The bears have not >>been hunted for 30 years, so most are trusting and very easy >>targets. Mother bears have already been killed, leaving orphaned >>cubs. We must put a stop to this now.Please send this email to as >>many people as possible.Thanks for your time and see you in Trenton. >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/save/attachments/20031211/e9f662bf/attachment.htm From kgibson at MIT.EDU Thu Dec 11 16:50:24 2003 From: kgibson at MIT.EDU (Karen Gibson) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:50:24 -0500 Subject: [Save] Friday, Dec 12 "Cooperation between a University and an NGO for Fostering Sustainable Practices" Message-ID: >Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series >Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment > > > >Cooperation between a University and an NGO for Fostering >Sustainable Practices in Industry and Local Government > >Mar?lia Bernardes, President >Gerardo Coco, International Vice-President >Viviana C. B. G. Coelho, Environmental Projects Coordinator >F.O.C.A. Funda?ao O?sis Cidade Aberta > >Friday, December 12 >12:00 - 1:30 p.m. >Room E40-496 > >ABSTRACT >For most businesses and local authorities 'sustainability' means >practices concerning waste management, recycling, pollution >prevention and all operations to ensure the environment is not >adversely affected. Broader issues of sustainability remain little >understood and both enterprises and municipalities need tools and >techniques to assess and manage their own sustainability. > >The cooperation between a University and an NGO aims to develop >educational tools, frameworks, consultations, >performance-support-services and professional development programs >to raise awareness of these issues bridging the gap between academy >and grassroots situations. > >Funda?ao O?sis Cidade Aberta (The Open City) is a Brazilian NGO >established in 1989. FOCA's mission is to develop sustainable >territorial projects focusing on environment and education. It >operates in Italy, Portugal and Angola. 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(near the architecture studios and dome cafe). there is also one down the hall leading from there toward buliding 10, so there are plenty to watch on. - rhett From cambclimact at aol.com Sat Dec 13 10:58:45 2003 From: cambclimact at aol.com (Michael Charney) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 15:58:45 +0000 Subject: [Save] NE Climate & Enviro Calendar * 12/13/03 - 12/2/04 Message-ID: <1681883642-1463747838-1071331132@boing.topica.com> CAMBRIDGE CLIMATE CALENDAR Dec 13, 2003 – Feb 3, ‘04 Climate, Envir & Sustainability Events for MA & NE Erratum: Correct date: 12/16 - Why Save the Middlesex Fells? Medford, MA Editor’s Choice: 12/16 - NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Theater. Camb *12/16 - CT Faith Community for Renewable Energy. W. Hartford, CT 12/16 GHG Banking & Trading Rules Devlpmt Stakeholder Mtg. Boston 12/16 CERC/Coalitn Envir Respnsble Convntns Holiday Party. Boston *2/3 – 5/4/04 Course: Human Health & Global Envir Change. Boston *2/20-22/04 [Student] Northeast Climate Conf. Camb *2/22 – 24/04 Bloome Jewish Enviro Leadership Inst. Boston >> Scroll Down For Full Index & Detailed Listings Policy & Politics: *White House Attacked for Letting States Lead on Climate (NYT) & URLs for State Climate Initiatives: See Resources below. *Bush Enviro Record: http://www.environment2004.org/documents.php *League of Conservatn Voters’ Candidate Profiles: http://www.lcv.org *Presidential Candidates’ Web Enviro Claims: See Resources below Noted: *Major Investor Summit at UN Forms Network on Climate Risk http://www.incr.com/news_release.htm (11/21/03) *This Overheating World: Granta 83. http://www.granta.com/latest-issue?usca_p=t Action: *For Clean, Renewable Energy, to protect Endangered Species, Clean Water & Air: http://www.saveourenvironment.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> End of year giving? Please consider: a tax deductible contribution for MCAN & CCC with a check payable to Commonwealth Foundation. Mail to: MCAN, c/o Marc Breslow, 86 Milton St, Arlington, MA 02474 Thanks! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Build the E-Movement ~ Tell friends about this Calendar! Subscribe? blank email to: CambClimCal-subscribe at topica.com Link Websites to CCC: http://tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html Submit Events: CambClimAct at aol.com See website for guidelines. Local Climate Activism: http://www.massclimateaction.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> INDEX: * = New SCROLL DOWN BELOW THIS INDEX for DETAILED LIST 2003 DECEMBER Now - 1/19/04 Big & Green: Toward Sustnble Archit in 21st Cent. NYC Now - 12/16 Africa: The Serengeti (Omni Film). Boston Now thru 1/04 - Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (Omni Film). Boston Saturday, December 13 12/13 Commercial Wind Farms & Ridgeline Develpmt in VT. Orleans, VT *12/13 - Clean Power Now: Mid-Lower Cape Chptr Mtg. Orleans, MA *12/13 - Bhopal Documentary: 'Hunting Warren Anderson.' Camb [Correct date: 12/16 - Why Save the Middlesex Fells? Medford, MA] Sunday, December 14 12/14 - Indoor Environmental Issues. Camb 12/14 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web Tuesday, December 16 12/16 - Ensemble Climate Predictns w. Coupled Model. Woods Hole, MA 12/16 - NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Theater. Camb *12/16 - Designing Top Energy Performing Bldgs. Internet *12/16 - CT Faith Community for Renewable Energy. W. Hartford, CT 12/16 GHG Banking & Trading Rules Devlpmt Stakeholder Mtg. Boston 12/16 - Why Save the Middlesex Fells? Medford, MA [corrected] Wednesday, December 17 *12/17 - Maine GHG Initiative Stakeholder Mtg. Augusta, ME Thursday, December 18 12/18 - Info Systems to Reduce Latin Amer Land Conflicts. Camb Friday, December 19 12/19 - Local Perceptions of Wildland Fire Risk. Petersham, MA 12/19 – Aerosol Sites for Heterogeneous Chemistry. Camb 12/19 - NWF Campus Ecology Fellowship RFP Due. Sunday, December 21 12/21 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web SCROLL DOWN for DETAILED LIST 2004 January 5-8, 2004 1/5-8 Sustnbl [Military] Range Mngmt Conf, New Orleans, LA January 6-8, 2004 1/6-8/04 Oil Change: National Summit on Petropolitics. Wash, DC Friday, January 9, 2004 1/9 - Behavioral Economics & Risk Analysis. Boston Saturday, January 10 *1/10/04 – Propsd DOE GHG Reporting Guidelines Wkshp. Wash, DC *12/19 - *NWF Campus Ecology Fellowship Program. RFPs due. Saturday, January 24 1/24/04 - NOFA / MA Winter Conf. Barre, MA January 25–28, 2004 1/25-28/04 NE Water Enviro Assn Ann Conf. Boston, MA Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1/27 Conservatn At Landscape Scale: Models/Strategies. Burlington, VT *1/27/04 - Low Impact Devlpmnt Stormwater Controls. Everett, MA Wednesday January 28, 2004 1/28/04 - Hydrogen Based Economy--Dream or Reality? Boston January 29 & 30, 2004 1/29-30/04 Water for a Sustainable & Secure Future. Wash, DC Mondays, February 2 - May 24, 2004 2/2 – 5/24/04 Course #E-105: Strategies for Enviro Mngmt. Camb/Dist Tuesday, February 3, 2004 2/3/04 - Northeast Green Bldg Awards: Call for Entries. Tuesday, February 3, 2004 2/3/04 – Comments Due: DOE GHG Inventory Reporting Guidelines. Tuesdays: February 3 – May 4, 2004 *2/3 – 5/4 Course: Human Health & Global Envir Change. Boston For listings after 2/3 see http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html & click Beyond >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DETAILED LISTINGS: DECEMBER 2003 NOW to JAN 19, 2004 Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Archit in 21st Cent. Museum of City of NY, 1220 Fifth Ave (at 103rd St), NYC. http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/BigGreen/Bigngreen.htm NOW to DEC 16 Africa: The Serengeti, Omni Film, Boston Museum of Science. Info: http://tickets.mos.org/?action=showevent;event_id=79 Thru JAN 2004 Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees, Omni Film, Boston Museum of Sci. Info: http://tickets.mos.org/?action=showevent;event_id=237 SAT, DEC 13 Public Info Mtg on Constructing Commercial Wind Farms on VT Ridgelines, Senate Institutions Committee; re: Revising Act 248. 9 am – 1 pm, Lake Region Union High Schl, Orleans, VT (No'east Kingdom). Info: villuzzi at leg.state.vt.us, 802-754-9939 *SAT, DEC 13 Clean Power Now: Mid-Lower Cape Chptr Mtg. Presentatn on Cape Wind Proposal for Nantucket Sound, Chuck Kleecamp. 1:30 -3 pm, Snow Library, 67 Main St, Orleans, MA Info: 508-255-8870, http://www.cleanpowernow.org *SAT, DEC 13 Bhopal Documentary: 'Hunting Warren Anderson' (by Amos Cohen). On seeking redress for corporate culpability. 6 pm, MIT, Bldg 6 - Rm 120, 182 Memorial Dr, (rear) or via 77 Mass Ave, Camb Info: mokshay at dam.brown.edu Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=6&Buildings=go [NOTE: Correct date is TUES, DEC 16 Why Save the Middlesex Fells? A Rich Past & Present Mike Ryan (President of the Friends of the Fells). 7 pm, Medford Public Library, 111 High St, Medford Square, Medford, MA. Info: 781-316-3438, janet at mysticriver.org, http://www.mysticriver.org] SUN, DEC 14 Indoor Environmental Issues, Jeffrey May. 3 pm, Veggie Planet/Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Harvard Sq, Camb. Info:http://boston.earthsave.org/events.htm SUN, DEC 14 Living on Earth: Enviro Radio, Steve Curwood. 8 pm: WUMB 91.9 fm Boston, Falmouth, Worcester; WUMB 91.7 fm Newburyport, & WUMB 1170 am Orleans, MA. 11 pm: WBUR 90.9 fm Boston. Web stream/Info: http://www.loe.org http://www.wumb.org Other locales: http://www.loe.org/where/where.htm TUE, DEC 16 Ensemble Climate Predictions Using a Global Model Coupling Economics, Chemistry, Climate Dynamics & Ecosystems, Ron Prinn, MIT. 12:15 am - 1 pm, Whitman Auditorium,Marine Biol Lab, Woods Hole, MA Info: http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/WoodsHole/seminars.html Dir: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/visit/directions/index.html TUE, DEC 16 NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Thtr: An Hour of Spectacular Visualizatn (Global atmospheric, oceanic & biospheric processes); w Fritz Hasler (Leader, Visualizatn & Analysis Lab, NASA/GSFC). 1 pm, Harvard U, Science Ctr - Auditrm D, 1 Oxford St, Camb Info: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/hasler/etheater.html *TUE, DEC 16 Designing Top Energy Performing Bldgs Internet presentatn re: Target Finder (an ENERGY STAR software tool), energy simulatn Modeling, & LEED rating system. 1 -1:45 pm EST. Internet. Info: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_internet_presentations *TUE, DEC 16 Connecticut Religious Community Press Conference to Declare Commitment to Goal of 20% Renewable Energy in their facilities & bldgs by 2010. 2 pm, Unity Church, 730 Farmington Ave, (corner Walbridge St), West Hartford, CT Spkrs: Bishop James E. Curry (Episcopal Diocese of CT)Reverend Gordon Bates (Justice Witness Minister, CT United Church of Christ). Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener (Dir, Interreligious Eco-Justice Netwk; EAD Environmental & SmartPower. Info: http://www.irejn.org info at irejn.org 860-896-0110 TUE, DEC 16 MA GHG Banking & Trading Rules Develpmt Stakeholders’ Mtg: To discuss Regnl Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) work plan & stakeholder process plan. 1:30 - 3:30 pm, DEP Boston Office – One Winter St, 2nd Flr Conf Rms A & B, Boston. T: Down Town X-ing. Info/Request RGGI docs: 617-556-1020; 617-654-6593. Mtg call in #: 800-207-5493, enter: 348761. TUE, DEC 16 CERC - Coalition for Envir Responsible Conventions Holiday Gathering. 5:30 – 8 pm, Hub Pub, 18 Province St, Boston (off Bromfield St). T: Downtown X-ing or Park. Pls RSVP if poss; $5-10. Info: amyperl at post.harvard.edu http://www.cerc04.org TUES, DEC 16 [Please note corrected date] Why Save the Middlesex Fells? A Rich Past & Present Mike Ryan (President of the Friends of the Fells). 7 pm, Medford Public Library, 111 High St, Medford Square, Medford, MA. Info: 781-316-3438, janet at mysticriver.org, http://www.mysticriver.org *TUE, DEC 16 Salem Alliance for Envir (SAFE) mtg. 7:15 pm, First Church, Office Entrance, 316 Essex St, Salem, MA. Agenda/Info: http://www.salemsafe.org cbkeegan at comcast.net, http://www.massclimateaction.org/salem.htm *WED, DEC 17 Maine GHG Initiative Stakeholder Advisory Group & Planning Process “Mtg #2”. Pine Tree State Arboretum, 153 Hospital St, Augusta, ME Info: http://maineghg.raabassociates.org http://maineghg.raabassociates.org/events.asp?type=dte tpeterson at ccap.org THUR, DEC 18 Land Info Systems as a Tool for Mitigating Land Use Conflicts in Latin America, Prof Diego Erba (GIS Applics& Digital Cartography, Brazil). Lincoln Inst of Land Policy, 113 Brattle St, Camb. Info: http://www.lincolninst.edu/education/education-coursedetail.asp?id=162 FRI, DEC 19 Local Residents' Perceptions of Wildland Fire Risk & Hazard Reductn Strategies in the Northeast, Robert Ryan (Landscape Arch & Regnl Planning Dept UMass). 11 am, Seminar rm, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Info: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminarschedule.html FRI, DEC 19 Organic Aerosols as Cloud Condensation Nuclei & as Sites for Heterogeneous Chemistry, Jonathan Abbatt (U Toronto). Noon, Pierce Hall, Rm 100F, 29 Oxford St, Harvard U, Camb Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu Info: http://www.as.harvard.edu/seminars/seminars.html FRI, DEC 19 Nat’l Wildlife Federatn's Campus Ecology Fellowship Program Request for Proposals Due. Info: http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology/dspFellowships.cfm SUN, DEC 21 Living on Earth: Enviro Radio, Steve Curwood. 8 pm: WUMB 91.9 fm Boston, Falmouth, Worcester; WUMB 91.7 fm Newburyport, & WUMB 1170 am Orleans, MA. 11 pm: WBUR 90.9 fm Boston. Web stream/Info: http://www.loe.org http://www.wumb.org Other locales: http://www.loe.org/where/where.htm 2004 JAN 5-8, 2004 Sustainable [Military] Range Management Conf, New Orleans, LA Info: rangecon at battelle.org, http://www.battelle.org/rangecon JAN 6-8, 2004 Oil Change: National Summit on Petropolitics - Citizens conf on oil, politics & power. Wash, DC Info: http://www.petropolitics.org FRI, JAN 9, 2004 Behavioral Economics & Risk Analysis, Deborah Frisch, PhD (formerly w NSF). 12:30 - 2 pm, Harv Schl Publ Hlth, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Bldg, Rm FXB-G13, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston. T: Green Line E to Brigham Circle. Info: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/events/seminars/risk_dec.html Map: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/maps/lmamap.html *SAT, JAN 10, 2004 Wkshp on proposed DOE GHG Emissns & Reductns Inventory Reporting Guidelines. Wash, DC. Info: 1605bgeneralguidelines.comments at hq.doe.gov http://www.pi.energy.gov/enhancingGHGregistry SAT, JAN 24, 2004 NOFA / MA Winter Conf. Quabbin Regnl High Schl, Barre, MA Info: http://www.nofamass.org/conferences/index.php kate at earthlovers.org 413-586-5516 JAN 25–28, 2004 NE Water Enviro Assn Ann Conf. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA. Call For Papers. Info: http://www.newea.org TUE, JAN 27, 2004 Conservation at the Landscape Scale: Emerging Models & Strategies, Liz Thompson . 7 pm, Waterman Memorial Lounge, Waterman Bldg, UVM Campus, Burlington, VT Also by web Video Archive. Info: http://www.uvm.edu/conservationlectures *TUE, JAN 27 Low Impact Development Stormwater Controls, Steve Roy, Geosyntec). 7 pm, Everett City Hall, 484 Broadway, Everett, MA Info: janet at mysticriver.org, http://www.mysticriver.org WED, JAN 28, 2004 Hydrogen Based Economy--Dream or Reality? Worcester Polytech Inst. Faculty Panel. Hydrogen Productn, Intro to Fuel Cells, Fuel Cell Powered Airplane. 7 pm, Cahners Theater, Museum of Sci, 1 Science Park (O'Brien H’way), Boston. T: Green Line Sci Museum stop. Free tickets avail starting 6 pm, front lobby. Info: 617-589-0419, Lecture Archive: http://www.mos.org/whats_happening/calendar JAN 29-30, 2004 2004 Water for Sustainable & Secure Future: Sci, Policy & Envir. Wash, DC Info: http://www.ncseonline.org/NCSEconference FEBRUARY 2004 MON’s, FEB 2 - MAY 24, 2004 Strategies for Enviro Mngmt: Path to sustainable Develpmt, Course # E-105: Harvard Ext. Schl. (classroom & distance learning), Dr Robt Pojasek. 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Harvard, U, Sever Hall Rm 102, Camb Info/Registr: http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre105 781-641-2422, rpojasek at hsph.harvard.edu, Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu *TUE, FEB 3 – MAY 4, 2004 Course: Human Health & Global Envir Change. 2 – 6 pm, Cannon Rm, Bldg C, Harvard Medical Schl, Boston. Public audit by arrangement; online texts, course avail as videotapes & online e-lecture archive. 2/3 - Intro & Overview – Dr Paul Epstein & Enviro Health Hazards & Methods, Dr Howard Hu, HSPH. 2/10 - Changing Biodiversity, EO Wilson, PhD, Harvard & Biodiversity & Human Health, Dr Eric Chivian, HMS. 2/17 - Climate Change & Human Health “In Hot Water” (NE Aquar film) Sci & Impacts of Climate Change, James McCarthy, PhD, Harvard; Climate Change & Human Health, Dr Paul Epstein, HMS. 2/24 - Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ecological Principles, Richard Levins, PhD; Envir Factors in Emergence & Resurgence of Infectious Disease, Dr Mary Wilson, MD, HMS/HSPH. 3/2 - Ecological & Geo-political Context: Globalztn & Envir Change, Dessima Williams, PhD, Brandeis; Globalization, Health & Inequity, Dr Paul Farmer, HMS. 3/9 - Chemicals & Communities: Heavy Metals, Dr Howard Hu, HSPH; Children & Envir Pollutants, Dr Philip Landrigan, Mt Sinai Schl Med 3/16 - Timeout for Solutions: Latest Sci on Renewable Energy Solutns, Wm Moomaw, PhD, Tufts; Change & Financial Sector, Christopher Walker, Swiss Re. 3/30 - Agricultr & Water: Climate Change, Agricultr & Plant Disease, Cynthia Rosenzweig, PhD, NASA Goddard Inst & Columbia Earth Inst; Global Water Supply, Daniel Hillel, PhD, Columbia U. 4/6 - Coral Reefs & Forests: Threats to Coral Reefs: Potential Impacts for Human Health, Raymond Hayes, PhD, Howard U College of Med; What Constitutes a Healthy Forest? Wm Schlesinger, PhD, Duke. 4/13 - Food & Envir: Sustainable Fisheries, Carl Safina, PhD, Blue Ocean Inst; Sustainable Agricult, Fred Kirschenmann, PhD Kirschenmann Family Farms. 4/20 - Ecosystems & Solutns for Preserving Global Envir: What Defines Wetlands & What Services Do They Provide? Virginia Burkett, PhD, USGS; Public Policy, Carol Browner, Albright Grp; Frmr EPA Admin. 4/27 – Solutions: Modrtr Steve Curwood, Living on Earth, NPR; Scientists, Media & Solutns, Cornelia Dean, Ed Sci Times, NYT; Financing Global Change: Kyoto & Beyond, Ross Gelbspan, journalist & auth, The Heat Is On. 5/4 - Final Poster Sessn. Info: chge at hms.harvard.edu, 617-384-8530, http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/course/schedule.htm Map/Dir: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/mapsdir.html TUE, FEB 3, 2004 Northeast Green Building Awards: Call for Entries 4 pm deadline, NESEA Office. Info: asanborn at nesea.org *TUE, FEB 3 Comments due: DOE proposed revised guidelines for voluntary reporting of GHG emissions & reduction efforts. Info: 1605bgeneralguidelines.comments at hq.doe.gov http://www.pi.energy.gov/enhancingGHGregistry For listings after 2/3 see http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html & click Beyond <<<<<<<<<<<<< SUPPORT CCC: Dear Friend, Do you appreciate the Cambridge Climate Calendar and the grassroots activism of Mass. Climate Action Network? Your tax deductible, charitable donation is needed & welcome. Then see your generosity at work at http://www.massclimateaction.org & http://tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html Please make checks payable to "Commonwealth Foundation," (a 501c3), and mail to: Michael Charney, Editor/Co-chair CCC & MCAN PO Box 390554 Cambridge, MA 02139 Give your friends a greener New Year. They can subscribe to CCC by sending a blank email to: CambClimCal-subscribe at topica.com Thank you! MC, ed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> JOBS & RESOURCES For additional resources, including reports, websites, actions, briefings, jobs etc, see Resources at left at http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html *Act Now for Clean, Renewable Energy, to protect Endangered Species, Clean Water & Air: http://www.saveourenvironment.org *Environment 2004 Report on Bush Record: http://www.environment2004.org/documents.php *League of Conservation Voters’ Candidate Profiles: http://www.lcv.org Enviro Positions per Pres. Candidate Websites (12/12/03). Carol Moseley Braun: http://www.carolforpresident.com None George Bush: http://www.georgewbush.com/Environment Howard Dean: http://www.deanforamerica.com > Issues John Kerry: http://www.johnkerry.com > Issues John Edwards: http://www.johnedwards2004.com > More Wesley Clark: http://clark04.com/issues Richard Gephardt: http://www.dickgephardt2004.com > Issues Dennis Kucinich: http://www.kucinich.us/issues Joseph Lieberman: http://www.joe2004.com > Issues Alfred Sharpton: http://www.sharpton2004.org > None *All nat’l parties: http://www.politicalindex.com > #8 Democratic Party: http://www.democrats.org Republican Party: http://www.rnc.org Green Party: http://www.gp.org Libertarian Party: http://www.lp.org *US Statement to Milan Conference re: US Action on Climate http://www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/rm/2003/26894.htm *White House Attacked for Letting States Lead on Climate See: NYT 12/11/03 p.22. Soon at: http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html ~~~~~~~~~~ STATE ACTIONS ON CLIMATE: *West Coast Governors’ Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pact (CA, OR, WA): http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/030922.asp ttp://www.climatesolutions.org/pubs/pdfs/ClimateSolutions_FINAL_rel1.pdf *Connecticut Climate Change Stakeholder Dialogue Mtgs. Info: tpeterson at ccap.org http://www.ccap.org *Maine GHG Initiative Stakeholder Advisory Group & Planning Process Mtg Schedule, http://maineghg.raabassociates.org tpeterson at ccap.org Docs: http://maineghg.raabassociates.org/events.asp?type=dte *Rhode Island Greenhouse Gas Process/Schedule/Docs http://righg.raabassociates.org *NEGC/ECP Climate Change Action Plan 2001 http://www.negc.org/documents/NEG-ECP%20CCAP.PDF ~~~~~~~~~ *Major Investor Summit at UN Forms Network on Climate Risk http://www.incr.com/news_release.htm (11/21/03) *Cape and Islands Offshore Wind Process - Facilitators' final report See Update at: http://www.raabassociates.org/main/index.asp *New Report: State Opportunities for Action: Update of States’ *Combined Heat & Power Activities: http://www.aceee.org/pubs/ie032.htm Also: EPA’s CHP Partnership: http://www.epa.gov/chp *Energy Benchmark for High Performance Bldgs 2003 E-Benchmark™ : http://www.newbuildings.org/ebenchmark *Report: Controlling Airport-Related Air Pollution (2.17 MB): http://www.ccap.org/pdf/2003-June--Controlling_Airport-Related_Air_Pollution.pdf Auths: NESCAUM & CCAP. Info: jschmidt at ccap.org *Voluntr Opp: MASSPIRG: MA Public Interest Resrch Grp, Boston. Info: 617 292 4800, http://www.masspirg.org *“Intnat’l Climate Symbol” http://www.saveourclimate.org *NWF Campus Ecology Fellowship Program RFP’s due 12/19/03. Info: http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology/dspFellowships.cfm *This Overheating World: Granta 83. http://www.granta.com/latest-issue?usca_p=t *The Future is Now: This Overheating World - Radio Archive 12/8/03 http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/12/20031208_b_main.asp Global Warming: Why we don't give a damn. George Marshall, Mark Lynas. New Statesman. 12/01/03 http://www.newstatesman.co.uk Fairwind Vermont: New org on future of wind energy in VT. Info/List serv: fairwindvt-subscribe at lists.riseup.net windfair at webtv.net, http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/fairwindvt Position: Adjunct Faculty to teach “Organizatnl Leadership in Nonprofit World” at Antioch New England Graduate Schl, Keene, NH; Spring ’04 semester. Applic by 12/20. Info: Steven_Chase at antiochne.edu http://esdept.antiochne.edu/advocacy 603-357-3122 x298 Position: Water Watch Organizer, MA Community Water Watch Info: 617-292-4800, masswaterwatch at pirg.org Pro Bono Legislative Drafting & Research Boston U Schl of Law Health & Enviro Legislation Clinic: Info: cbarr at bu.edu, 617-353-8388, http://www.bu.edu/law/jd/clinics/probono.html Crimes Against Nature, RFK Jr. by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Rolling Stone at: http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9468 Womens’ Survey/Questionnaire on Perception/Use of Outdoors. http://www.unr.nevada.edu/~lilace Call for Entries: 2004 Northeast Green Building Awards. Deadline: 2/3/04, 4 pm. Info: http://www.nesea.org 413-774-6051 x30 Keeping [Nantucket] Sound Safe for Aristocracy Rich Guys in Motorboats Foment 'Grassroots' Protest of Wind Farm http://www.northernskynews.com/Wind%20Farm%20Op.html Harvard Green Campus Initiative Newsletter http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu How Green is Your Car? 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Ave, & just outside of Davis Square) DIRECTIONS/PARKING: http://www.38cameron.com/html/contact.htm SPONSORS: Mass. Climate Action Network & "38 Cameron" http://www.38cameron.com http://www.massclimateaction.org DESCRIPTION: The NASA/NOAA Electronic Theater presents Earth science observations and visualizations from space in a historical perspective. Fly in from outer space to Cambridge and Harvard University. Zoom through the Cosmos to SLC and site of the 2002 Winter Olympics using 1 m IKONOS "Spy Satellite" data. Contrast the 1972 Apollo 17 "Blue Marble" image of the Earth with the latest US and International global satellite images that allow us to view our Planet from any vantage point. See the latest spectacular images from NASA/NOAA remote sensing missions like Terra, GOES, TRMM, SeaWiFS, & Landsat 7, of storms & fires like Hurricane Isabel and the LA/San Diego firestorms of 2003. Take the pulse of the planet on a daily, annual and 30-year time scale. 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NB: We apologize for this extremely last minute announcement- but the opportunity to host this event and find a suitable venue arose at the last moment. Yours truly Michael Charney, co-chair, Mass. Climate Action Network http://ww.massclimateaction.org & “38 Cameron” http://www.38Cameron.com FYI: Arrange a viewing next year at your university: http://etheater.gsfc.nasa.gov *Second screening: TUE, DEC 16 NASA/NOAA Earth Science Electronic Thtr: An Hour of Spectacular Visualizatn (re: Global atmospheric, oceanic & biospheric processes); w Fritz Hasler (Leader, Visualizatn & Analysis Lab, NASA/GSFC). 1 pm, Harvard U, Science Ctr - Auditrm D, 1 Oxford St, Camb, MA Free. Info: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/hasler/etheater.html Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu/ [from Cambridge Climate Calendar: http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html ] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi all - this is not to be missed!! 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FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^---------------------------------------------------------------- From mslow at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 17 20:57:26 2003 From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:57:26 -0500 Subject: [Save] Fwd: Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031217205039.00b556c8@po10.mit.edu> Very interesting article about the state of U.S. -- not published here though, but by The Guardian (UK). Happy Holidays! Manshi > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-hgci-envre117 at calists.harvard.edu >[mailto:owner-hgci-envre117 at calists.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Dan Baw >Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:25 PM >To: Maggie Husak; hgci-envre117 at calists.harvard.edu >Subject: Re: ENVR E-117 Fwd: Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging thePlanet > >Looks to me like the answer to this is for all you northeasterners to move >to the UK ;-) > > Merry Christmas back at ya ... DB > >Hi everyone, > >Jack asked me to forward this along to everyone. > >Have a wonderful holiday season! > >Best, > >Maggie > >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 >Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:54:07 -0500 >To: maggie_husak at harvard.edu >From: John Spengler >Subject: Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-rc6-soc_rev_06 > (1.208-2003-09-19-exp) on sherri.harvard.edu >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-100.0 required=4.5 tests=USER_IN_WHITELIST > autolearn=no version=2.60-rc6-soc_rev_06 > >Please forward to staff and night school students. > > >X-Sender: cameron at storm.rmi.org >Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:32:09 -0700 >To: spengler at hsph.harvard.edu, Maureen Blaufuss >, > , > "Zachary Zevitas" , > >From: Cameron Burns >Subject: might be worth sharing with the class.... >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hsph.harvard.edu id >hA7HUksp020554 > >EM1ers, >Some of the population estimates make this a pretty chilling article. >Cam > > > > >Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet >by Matthew Engel >Published on 10/24/03 by the Guardian/UK > >America produces a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the >population has risen by 100 million since 1970 and when an area three times >the size of Britain was recently opened up for mining, drilling, logging and >road building, no one took much notice. What does the Bush administration >do? It ignores all attempts to curb environmental damage. > >On the map of the United States, just below halfway down the east coast, you >can see a series of islets, in the shape of a hooked nose. These are the >Outer Banks, barrier islands - sun-kissed in summer, storm-tossed in >winter - that stretch for 100 miles and more, protecting the main coastline >of the state of North Carolina. They are built, quite literally, on shifting >sands. > >Twenty years ago, these were, by all accounts, magical places, hard to reach >and discovered only by the adventurous and discerning. They are still fairly >magical, at least the seemingly endless stretch of unspoiled beach is. It is >the lure of that which causes the traffic jams on the only two bridges every >Saturday throughout the summer. The narrow strip of land behind the beach, >however, has been built up with enormous holiday homes, costing up to $2m >(?1.2m) each. And prices rose by 15-20% (25% for those on the ocean front) >in 2002 alone, according to one agent. > >This is what local agents call "a very nice market", and last month their >area had a week of free worldwide publicity. Hurricane Isabel swept in, >washing out much of the islands' only road and picking up motels from their >foundations and tossing them, according to one report, "like cigarette >butts". One island was turned into several islets, with a whole town, >Hatteras Village, being cut off from the rest of the US - for ever, if >nature has its way. > >Residents, journalists reported, were in shock. Many scientists were not. >Speaking well before Isabel, Dr Orrin Pilkey, professor emeritus of geology >at Duke University in North Carolina, described the Outer Banks property >boom to me as "a form of societal madness". "I wouldn't buy a house on the >front row of the Outer Banks. Or the second," agreed Dr Stephen Leatherman, >who is such a connoisseur of American coastlines that he is known as Dr >Beach. > >For the market is not the only thing that has been rising round here. Like >other experts, Pilkey expects the Atlantic to inundate the existing beaches >"within two to four generations". Normally, that would be no problem for the >sands, which would simply regroup and re-form further back. Unfortunately, >that is no longer possible: the $2m houses are in the way. According to >Pilkey, the government will either have to build millions of dollars worth >of seawall, which will destroy the beach anyway, or demolish the houses. >"Coastal scientists from abroad come here and just shake their heads in >disbelief," he says. > >The madness of the Outer Banks seems like a symptom of, and a metaphor for, >something far broader: the US is in denial about what is, beyond any >question, potentially its most dangerous enemy. While millions of words have >been written every day for the past two years about the threat from vengeful >Islamic terrorists, the threat from a vengeful Nature has been almost wholly >ignored. Yet the likelihood of multiple attacks in the future is far more >certain. > >Earlier this year, just before he was fired as environment minister, Michael >Meacher gave a speech in Newcastle, saying: "There is a lot wrong with our >world. But it is not as bad as people think. It is actually worse." He >listed five threats to the survival of the planet: lack of fresh water, >destruction of forest and crop land, global warming, overuse of natural >resources and the continuing rise in the population. What Meacher could not >say, or he would have been booted out more quickly, was that the US is a >world leader in hastening each of these five crises, bringing its gargantuan >appetite to the business of ravaging the planet. American politicians do not >talk this way. Even Al Gore, supposedly the most committed environmentalist >in world politics, kept quiet about the subject when chasing the presidency >in 2000. > >Those of us without a degree in climatology can have no sensible opinion on >the truth about climate change, except to sense that the weather does seem >to have become a little weird lately. Yet in America the subject has become >politicized, with rightwing commentators decrying global warming as "bogus >science". They gloated when it snowed unusually hard in Washington last >winter (failing to notice the absence of snow in Alaska). When the dissident >"good news" scientist Bjorn Lomborg spoke to a conservative Washington >thinktank he was applauded not merely rapturously, but fawningly. > >While newspapers report that Kilimanjaro's icecap is melting and Greenland's >glaciers are crumbling, the US government has been telling its scientific >advisers to do more research before it can consider any action to restrict >greenhouse gases; the scientists reported back that they had done all the >research. The attitude of the White House to global warming was summed up by >the online journalist Mickey Kaus as: "It's not true! It's not true! And we >can't do anything about it!" What terrifies all American politicians, deep >down, is that it is true and that they could do something about it, but at >horrendous cost to American industry and lifestyle. > >In the meantime, all American consumers have been asked to do is to buy Ben >& Jerry's One Sweet Whirled ice cream, ensuring that a portion of Unilever's >profits go towards "global warming initiatives". Wow! > >Potential Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination have been >testing environmental issues a little in the past few weeks. Some activists >are hopeful that the newly elected Governor Schwarzenegger of California is >genuinely interested. But, in truth, despite the Soviet-style politicization >of science, serious national debate on the issue ceased years ago. > >Of course, nimbyism is alive and well. And, sure, there are localized >battles between greens and their corporate enemies: towns in Alabama try to >resist corporate poisoning; contests go on to preserve the habitats of >everything from the grizzly bear to rare types of fly; Californians hug >trees to stop new housing estates. Sometimes the greenies win, though they >have been losing with increasing frequency, especially if Washington happens >to be involved. These fights, even in agglomeration, are not the real issue >Day after day across America the green agenda is being lost - and then, >usually, being buried under concrete. > >"We're waging a war on the environment, a very successful one," says Paul >Ehrlich, professor of population studies at Stanford University. "This >nation is devouring itself," according to Phil Clapp of the National >Environmental Trust. These are voices that have almost ceased to be heard in >the US. Yet with each passing day, the gap between the US and the rest of >the planet widens. To take the figure most often trotted out: Americans >contribute a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. To meet the >seemingly modest Kyoto objective of reducing emissions to 7% below their >1990 levels by 2012, they would actually (due to growth) have to cut back by >a third. For the Bush White House, this is not even on the horizon, never >mind the agenda. > >Why has the leader of the free world opted out? The first reason lies deep >in the national psyche. The old world developed on the basis of a >coalition - uneasy but understood - between humanity and its surroundings. >The settlement of the US was based on conquest, not just of the indigenous >peoples, but also of the terrain. It appears to be, thus far, one of the >great success stories of modern history. > >"Remember, this country is built very heavily on the frontier ethic," says >Clapp. "How America moved west was to exhaust the land and move on. The >original settlers, such as the Jefferson family, moved westward because >families like theirs planted tobacco in tidewater Virginia and exhausted the >soil. My own ancestors did the same in Indiana." > >Americans made crops grow in places that are entirely arid. They built >dams - about 250,000 of them. They built great cities, with skyscrapers and >symphony orchestras, in places that appeared barely habitable. They shifted >rivers, even reversed their flow. "It's the American belief that with enough >hard work and perseverance anything - be it a force of nature, a country or >a disease - can be vanquished," says Clapp. "It's a country founded on the >idea of no limits. The essence of environmentalism is that there are indeed >limits. It's one of the reasons environmentalism is a stronger ethic in >Europe than in the US." > >There is a second reason: the staggering population growth of the US. It is >approaching 300 million, having gone up from 200 million in 1970, which was >around the time President Nixon set up a commission to consider the issue, >the last time any US administration has dared think about it. A million new >legal migrants are coming in every year (never mind illegals), and the US >Census Bureau projections for 2050, merely half a lifetime away, is 420 >million. This is a rate of increase far beyond anything else in the >developed world, and not far behind Brazil, India, or indeed Mexico. > >This issue is political dynamite, although not for quite the same reasons as >in Britain. Almost every political group is split on the issue, including >the far right (torn between overt xenophobes such as Pat Buchanan and the >free marketeers), the labor movement and the environmentalists. The belief >that the US is the best country in the world is a cornerstone of national >self-belief, and many Americans still, wholeheartedly, want others to share >it. They also want cheap labor to cut the sugar cane, pluck the chickens, >pick the oranges, mow the lawns and make the beds. > >But the dynamite is most potent among the Hispanic community, the group who >will probably decide the destiny of future presidential elections and who do >not wish to be told their relatives will not be allowed in or, if illegal, >seriously harassed. "Neither party wants to say we should change immigration >policy," says John Haaga of the independent Population Reference Bureau. >"The phrase being used is 'Hispandering'". Yet extra Americans are not just >a problem for the US: they are, in the eyes of many environmentalists, a >problem for the world because migrants, in a short span of time, take on >American consumption patterns. "Not only don't we have a population policy," >says Ehrlich, "we don't have a consumption policy either. We are the most >overpopulated country in the world. It's not the number of people. It's >their consumption." Ehrlich may be wrong. It is, though. somewhat surprising >that the federal government's four million employees do not appear to >include anyone charged with even thinking about this issue. > >This brings us to the third factor: the Bush administration, the first >government in modern history which has systematically disavowed the systems >of checks and controls that have governed environmental policy since it >burst into western political consciousness a generation ago. It would be >ludicrous to suggest that Bush is responsible for what is happening to the >American environment. The crisis is far more deep-seated than that, and the >federal government is too far removed from the minutiae of daily life. > >But the Bushies have perfected a technique of announcing regular edicts >(often late on a Friday afternoon) rolling back environmental control, >usually while pretending to do the opposite. Morale among civil servants at >the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington was already close to >rock-bottom even before its moderate leader, Christine Todd Whitman, finally >threw in her hand in May. Gossip round town was that she had endured two >years of private humiliation at the hands of the White House. Few >environmentalists have great hopes for her announced successor, the governor >of Utah, Mike Leavitt. > >What is really alarming is the intellectual atmosphere in Washington. You >can attend seminars debunking scientific eco-orthodoxy almost every week. >Early in the year, there was much favorable publicity for a new work Global >Warming and Other Eco-myths, produced by the Competitive Enterprise >Institute, an organization reputedly funded by multinational corporations. >Outside Washington, it can be far nastier. "I've never threatened anyone in >my life," a conservation activist in Montana complained to the Guardian. "I >do know, though, that I have gotten very ugly threats left on my telephone >answering machine over the past year, and twice had to scour my sidewalk in >front of the building to erase the dead body chalk outlines." > >Out in the west, words such as enviro-whackos are popularized by rightwing >radio hosts such as the ex-Watergate conspirator Gordon Liddy, who passes on >to his millions of listeners the message that global warming is a lie. "I >commute in a three-quarter-tonne capacity Chevrolet Silverado HD," he >swanked in his latest book. "Four-wheel drive, off-road equipped, extended >curb pickup truck, powered by a 300hp, overhead valve, turbo supercharged >diesel engine with 520lb-feet of torque... It has lights all over it so >everyone can see me coming and get out of the way. If someone in a little >government-mandated car hits me, it is all over - for him." Fuel economy in >American vehicles hit a 22-year low in 2002. > >In this country, green-minded people can't even trust the good guys. The >Nature Conservancy, the US's largest environmental group with a million >members - with a role not unlike Britain's National Trust - was the subject >of an exhaustive expos? in the Washington Post in May, accusing it of >sanctioning deals to build "opulent houses on fragile grasslands" and >drilling for gas under the last breeding ground of the Attwater's Prairie >Chicken, whose numbers have dwindled to just dozens. > >On April 22, 1970 more than 20 million people attended the first-ever Earth >Day. In New York, Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic and 100,000 people >attended an ecology fair in Central Park. The Republican governor of New >York wore a Save the Earth button, and Senator John Tower, another >Republican, told an audience of Texan oilmen: "Recent efforts on the part of >the private sector show promise for pollution abatement and control. Such >efforts are in our own best interests..." > >So what happened next? The problem for the green movement was not what went >wrong, but what went right. Ehrlich's book, The Population Bomb, said: "In >the 1970s, the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions of people >are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked on >now." The famine never came. And after the oil crisis came and went, and >Americans began to tire of the gloom-filled, eco-oriented presidency of >Jimmy Carter, they turned instead to Ronald Reagan, who proposed simple >solutions of tax cuts and deregulation and, lo, the world got more cheerful >With doomsday postponed indefinitely, the politics of the Reagan years have >lingered. > >Some activists remain bitter about the Clinton White House, which was only >patchily interested in green issues. "It left a bad taste in the mouth of >the environmental community," says Tim Wirth, a former senator and one-time >Clinton official. "They trimmed their sails over and over again. The old >House speaker, Tip O'Neill, had a very important political aphorism: 'Yer >dance with the person who brung yer.' They never did." This bitterness was >one of the factors that led to the hefty third-party vote for Ralph Nader in >2000, which proved disastrous for Al Gore, the inhibited environmentalist. > >In the three years since then, Bush has danced like a dervish with the folks >who brung him. Yet, even now, no one dare say out loud that they are against >environmentalism: the political wisdom is that the subject can be a voting >issue among the suburban moms, ferrying the kids around to baseball practice >in their own Chevrolet Silverados. Instead, the big corporations and their >political allies have - brilliantly - manipulated the forces that the >eco-warriors themselves unleashed and turned them back on their creators. >"In the 80s they took all the techniques of citizen advocacy groups and >professionalized them," explains Phil Clapp. "That's when you saw the >proliferation of lobbyists in Washington. The environmental community never >retooled to meet the challenge. They had developed the techniques, but were >still doing them in a PTA bake-sale kind of way." > >Thus every new measure passed to favor business interests and ease up on >pollution regulations is presented in an eco-friendly, sugar-coated, >summer's morning kind of way, such as Clear Skies, the weakening of the >Clean Air Act. The House of Representatives has just passed the Healthy >Forests Restoration Act, presented by the president as an anti-forest fire >measure. Opponents say it is simply a gift to the timber industry that will >make it extremely difficult to stop the felling of old-growth trees. Another >technique is to announce, with great fanfare, initiatives that everyone can >applaud, such as a recent one for hydrogen-based cars. We can expect more of >these as November 2004 draws closer. When they are scaled back, or delayed, >or dropped, there is less publicity. It is a habit that runs in the family. >Governor Jeb Bush's grand scheme to save the Florida Everglades was much >applauded; the delay from 2006 to 2016 was little noticed. > >Even now the White House does not win all its battles. In the Senate, where >a small group of greenish New England Republicans has a potential blocking >veto, there are moves to compromise on the forests bill. The New England >Republicans were largely responsible for Bush's inability to push through >his plan to allow oil drilling in the Alaskan wildlife reserve. >Occasionally, there is good news: some of the small dams that have impeded >the life-cycle of Pacific salmon and steelhead trout are being demolished; >there are reports of a new alliance between the old enemies, ranchers and >greenies, in New Mexico; renewable energy is under discussion. But some of >their policies are already having their effect. Carol Browner, Clinton's >head of the EPA, claims the Bush administration has set back the campaign to >cut industrial pollution in ways that will last for decades. > >"This administration has sent a signal to the polluting community, 'You can >get away with bad habits'," says Browner. "State governments in the >north-east were much tougher, so the north-eastern power stations upgraded >their emissions standards in the 90s whereas the mid-west guys, who are >their competitors, didn't. Now they're not enforcing the law." > >"So what they're saying to the companies is: 'Don't go early, don't comply >with the law first. The rules might change.' Even a company that wants to do >the right thing has to look at its bottom line. If they get into a situation >like this, they think: 'We spent $1bn to meet the requirements and our >competitors didn't. Yeah, great. We're not going to do that again.'" > >Under Bush, the lack of interest at every level has at last come into >balance. The US is equally unconcerned globally, federally, statewide and >locally. The environmentalists' macro-gloom has been off-beam before, of >course. Perhaps global warming is a myth; perhaps the CEI is right and there >will be a blue revolution in water use to complement the green revolution. >There is probably just as much as chance that the next big surprise will be >a thrilling one - the arrival of nuclear cold fusion to solve the energy >dilemma, say - as a disaster. Maybe biotechnology, pesticides, natural gas >and American ingenuity and optimism will indeed see everything right. It >does seem like a curiously reckless gamble for the US to be taking, though, >staking the future of the planet on the spin of nature's roulette wheel. > >But it is only a bigger version of the bet being taken by the home-buyers of >North Carolina. In a country supposedly distrustful of government, the Outer >Bankers have remarkable faith in their leaders' ability to see them seem >right. Post-Isabel, a group of residents there wrote a letter demanding >government action so they can protect their livelihoods and families >"without the fear of every hurricane or nor 'easter cutting us off from the >rest of the world". Quite. Who would imagine that in the 21st century the >most powerful empire the world has ever known could still be threatened by >enemies as pathetically old-fashioned as wind and tide? > >Orrin Pilkey thinks it quite possible that sea levels might rise to the >point where the Outer Banks will be a minor detail. "We're not going to be >worried about North Carolina. We're going to be worrying about Manhattan." >Still, macro-catastrophe may never happen. The micro-catastrophe, however, >already has: the US is an aesthetic disaster area. > >If you fly from Washington to Boston, there are now almost no open spaces >below. This is increasingly true in a big U covering both coasts and the >sunbelt. In the south-west, the main growth area, bungalows spread for miles >over what a decade ago was virgin desert. The population of Arizona >increased 40% in the 1990s, that of next-door Nevada 66%. That's, as Natalie >Merchant sang, "...the sprawl that keeps crawling its way, 'bout a thousand >miles a day", which is not much of an exaggeration. > >Every day 5,000 new houses go up in America. Many of these fit the American >appetite for size, however small the plot: "McMansions", as they are known. >The very word suburb is now old-hat. The reality of life for many people now >is the "exurb", which can be dozens of miles from the city on which it >depends. In places such as California, exurban life is the only affordable >option for most young couples and recent migrants. > >These communities are rarely gated but often walled, creating a vague >illusion of security and ensuring that the residents have to drive to a >shop, even if there happens to be one 50 yards away. Naturally, they have to >drive everywhere else. In August it was announced that the number of cars in >the US (1.9 per household) now actually exceeded the number of drivers >(1.75). > >In many places - especially those growing the fastest - developers have to >deal only with the little councils in the towns they are taking over. There >are often minimal requirements to provide any kind of infrastructure, such >as sewage or schools, to service these new communities. The rules for >building houses in the computer game Sim City are stricter than those that >apply in most areas of the Sun Belt. Too late, some parts of the country >have concluded that this is untenable. The buzz-phrase is "smart growth", >which means no more than the kind of forethought before building that has >been routine in Europe for half a century. Even the Environmental Protection >Agency is not above being helpful: its policies for making use of brownfield >sites have seen people moving, improbably, back into the center of cities >such as Pittsburgh. > >But where it matters, no one is talking strategy. "In the really >fast-growing states, the pace of development is such that they can build >huge numbers of houses without anyone considering what it means for the >infrastructure," says Marya Morris of the American Planning Association. In >California, more than perhaps any other state, there is a debate. But while >people talk, developers act: a city catering for up to 70,000 people will >soon arise at the foot of the Tehachapi Mountains. According to the Los >Angeles Times, it would effectively close the gap between Los Angeles and >Bakersfield, theoretically 111 miles away. "Southern California is coming >over the hill," said one resident. > >Americans still have a presumption of infinite space. But I have made a >curious and mildly embarrassing discovery. In states such as Maryland and >Ohio, the pattern of settlement in supposedly rural areas is such that it >can actually be quite difficult to find a discreet spot away from housing to >stop the car and have a pee. Amid the wide-open spaces of Texas, it can be >worse: the gap between Dallas and Waco is a 100-mile strip mall. The >concepts of townscape and landscape seem non-existent: there is land that >has been developed and land that hasn't - yet. > >And yet. Time and again, around the US, one is struck by the stunning beauty >of the landscape, not in the obvious places, but in corners that few >Americans will have heard of: amazing rivers such as the Pearl in Louisiana, >or the Choptank in Maryland or the Lost River in West Virginia; the >Chocolate Mountains and the San Diego back country in California; the bits >that are left of the Outer Banks... > >And equally one is struck by the sheer horrendousness of what man has done >in the century or so since he seriously got to work over here. In the >context of ages, the white man is merely a hotel guest in this continent: he >has smashed the furniture and smeared excrement on the walls. He appears to >be looking forward to his next night's stay with relish. > >Of course, there are still huge tracts of untouched and largely unpopulated >land: in the Great Plains, where people are leaving, in the mountains, >deserts and Arctic tundra. But last spring, in another of Washington's >Friday night announcements, the Department of the Interior announced - no, >whispered - that it was removing more than 200m acres that it owned from >"further wilderness study", enabling those areas to be opened for mining, >drilling, logging or road-building. That's an area three times the size of >Britain. The New York Times did write a trenchant editorial; otherwise the >response was minimal. > >Not long ago I went for a walk in the Vallecito Mountains in California. >After a while, I got myself into a position where the contours of the land >blotted out everything and, after the noise of a plane had died away, there >was no sight or sound at all that was not produced by nature. This lasted >about a minute. Then, from somewhere, a motorcycle roared into earshot. > >Sure, there are still places in this vast country where it is possible to >escape, but they get harder and harder to find except for the fit, the >adventurous and those unencumbered by children or jobs. Most Americans don't >live that way. And nowhere now is entirely safe from being ravaged, >sometimes in ways that prejudice the future of the whole planet. Al-Qaida >and the Iraqi bombers have no need to bother. America is destroying itself. > > >? Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 > > > >-- > >Cameron M. Burns >Communications >cameron at rmi.org > >Rocky Mountain Institute >1739 Snowmass Creek Road >Snowmass CO 81654-9199 > >(970) 927-7338 (direct) > >(970) 927-3851 general >(970) 927-3420 fax >http://rmi.org > > > >John Spengler >Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation >Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program >Department of Environmental Health >Harvard School of Public Health >P. O. Box 15677 >Landmark Center, Room 406 WEST >401 Park Drive >Boston, MA 02215 >TEL: 617-384-8810 >FAX: 617-384-8819 >Email: spengler at hsph.harvard.edu > > >Maggie Husak >Coordinator of Finance and Administration >Harvard Green Campus Initiative >46 Blackstone Street >Cambridge, MA 02139 > >(ph) 617-496-1278 >(f) 617-495-9409 >(e) maggie_husak at harvard.edu >(w) http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu > > From jalee at MIT.EDU Mon Dec 22 13:55:09 2003 From: jalee at MIT.EDU (jalee@MIT.EDU) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:55:09 -0500 Subject: [Save] IAP seminar-- Implementing the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan Message-ID: <1072119308.3fe73e0d04e48@webmail.mit.edu> Please distribute, we apologize for any cross-postings IAP Environmental Project Seminar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- "Implementing the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan" 17.918 A For-Credit IAP Seminar Create & present a project proposal to encourage Cambridge citizens to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - Discover new strategies for marketing environmental action - Collaborate with Cambridge environmental officials - Learn about local initiatives responding to climate change - Work on projects involving energy, recycling and transportation - Improve your presentation skills To Learn More: Go to http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/17/ia04/17.918/index.html Or E-mail bconlin at mit.edu To register: Go to http://web.mit.edu/iap/registration.html (Also listed as "Implementing the Cambridge Climate Action Plan") Beth Conlin Education Program Coordinator Laboratory for Energy and the Environment Massachusetts Institute of Technology E40-481, 1 Amherst St. Cambridge, MA 02139 617-452-3199 bconlin at mit.edu