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From masahiro at MIT.EDU  Sat Nov  1 17:02:00 2003
From: masahiro at MIT.EDU (Masahiro Sugiyama)
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 17:02:00 -0500
Subject: [Save] FYI: WinterSession Course - Revised Information
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Attached is revised info about a winter-session course
at the Harvard School of Public Health on environment
risk management (forwarded by Prof. Dave Marks).
Sorry if you have received duplicates.

Please distribute this to interested students.

Thank you,
Masa Sugiyama


 >Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:21:23 -0500
 >From: Robert Pojasek <rpojasek at sprynet.com>
 >
 >Dear David,
 >
 >The e-mail flyer that I had sent before had some incorrect
 >information about the course.  I have attached a corrected version.
 >The link to registration was correct.  I hope this did not create
 >too much confusion.  I hope you can have your staff send out the
 >revised e-mail flyer.  Registration is on December 11th.  We are
 >limiting enrollment to the first 25 students.
 >
 >Thank you.
 >
 >
 >Bob
 >
 >Dr. Robert B. Pojasek
 >Adjunct Faculty Lecturer
 >Harvard School of Public Health
 >PO Box 1333
 >E. Arlington, MA 02474-0071
 >(v)  781-641-2422
 >(f)   781-465-6006
 >
 >
 >http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/facres/pojasek.html
 >rpojasek at hsph.harvard.edu
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From mslow at MIT.EDU  Tue Nov  4 15:45:06 2003
From: mslow at MIT.EDU (mslow@MIT.EDU)
Date: Tue,  4 Nov 2003 15:45:06 -0500
Subject: [Save] Lobby MA Senate for Green Buildings, Amendmt #65 to S.2127
Message-ID: <1067978706.3fa80fd284e55@webmail.mit.edu>

Please spread the message!

Manshi

----- Forwarded message from Lara Greden <lgreden at MIT.EDU> -----
    Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:21:43 -0500
    From: Lara Greden <lgreden at MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Lara Greden <lgreden at MIT.EDU>
 Subject: Lobby MA Senate for Green Buildings, Amendmt #65 to S.2127
      To: bt-lab at mit.edu

Hi all,
You may be interested in making a quick and simple phone call to ask your
state senator to support Amendment 65 - Green Building Incentive
Program.  All you do is call and say you want him/her to support it, no
questions asked!
-Lara

PS. If you live on campus, this is your senator:
SENATE PRESIDENT
ROBERT E. TRAVAGLINI
Telephone: (617) 722-1500
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/member/ret0.htm

>To the Green Building Coalition, All Environmentalists, and Green Building
>Supporters:
>
>IT'S CLUTCH TIME !
>
>If you want Green Building Incentives for Massachusetts, PLEASE CALL & FAX
>your State Senator TODAY & TOMORROW to tell them to support  "Amendment
>#65: To Establish a Green Building Incentive Program,"  an amendment to
>the Senate's Economic Stimulus Bill, S. 2127.*
>
>Amendment #65 was submitted by Senator Susan Fargo and is based directly
>on her bill S. 1733 which our Green Building Coalition helped draft,
>testified for and supports.
>
>The Economic Stimulus Bill will be taken up by the full Senate at Noon,
>Wednesday, November 5, so time is of the essence.
>
>Find your State Senator's phone, fax or email using this link:
>
>http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php
>
>
>Note: Faxes and calls are best.  Email is less effective. If you use
>email,  please put your "ask" in the Subject Line as well as in the body.
>Be sure to tell them you are their constituent!
>
>EXPLANATION & DETAILS:
>
>While I cannot vouch for the larger Economic Stimulus Bill - a work in
>progress and fully in play - I can vouch for Amendment 65 and the
>importance of this moment.
>
>This is the first time the Green Building Coalition's Green Building
>Incentive Bill has effectively gotten out of committee and onto the Senate
>floor.
>
>It is our best and likely the only opportunity this session to have our
>legislation debated and possibly adopted by the full Senate.
>
>So PLEASE ACT NOW.  Make you support count ASAP!  So, by fax, phone,
>horseback (and less effectively, email) LOBBY NOW!
>
>Reasons to support Amendment 65 are as an economic stimulus and for
>environmental, energy security, and public health benefits.  See details
>provided in the S.1733 Fact Sheet and Senator Fargo's letter below.
>
>Also, see the Q&A on our GBC website
>http://www.gbreb.com/greenbuildings  -  which basically still applies.
>
>But it is enough simply to tell your Senator to vote for Amendment #65 to
>the Economic Stimulus Bill.
>
>Note:  Supporting Amendment #65 is not an endorsement of S.2127 which has
>attracted at least 64 and surely more, other amendments. All need to be
>debated.
>
>Note also: The House version of the Economic Stimulus Bill does not
>include a Green Building amendment. So there is no second chance.
>
>Thank your for your help.
>Please forward this letter to colleagues, and call and fax now!
>
>Yours truly,
>Michael Charney, MD,  Co-chair, Green Building Coalition
>
>mcha6677 at aol.com
>617-492-6614
>
>*Formerly S.2124, and also described as "An Act to Promote Job Creation,
>Economic Stability and Competitiveness." Text at:
>http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/st02127.htm
>
>**Text of S.1733 is at: http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/st01733.htm
>
>Enclosures: Fact Sheet for S.1733;  &  Letter from Senator Fargo to
>Co-Sponsors of S.1733 requesting endorsement of Amendment now numbered 65.
>
>
>Massachusetts Green Building  Incentive Program
>Supported by The Green Building Coalition
>
>Brief Introduction
>The construction and operation of buildings has the single most
>environmental impact of any human activity.  In order to reduce this
>impact, the Green Building  Incentive Program will provide tax credits to
>building developers, owners and tenants who, for commercial and
>multi-family residential buildings, invest in measures to:
>
>a. increase energy efficiency,
>b. improve indoor air quality, and
>c. reduce the environmental impacts.
>
>This bill is based on the New York State Green Building Tax Credit Statute
>that became law in May 2000.  Lead coalition participants in New York
>included the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Real Estate Board of
>New York, and the New York Environmental Business Association.  The bill
>also received strong support from labor communities.
>
>Environmental Benefits
>The bill will promote better energy and environmental practices for
>building design, construction and maintenance, and increase demand for
>new, clean technologies and environmentally preferable building products
>and services.  The bill will also reduce water and energy consumption and
>landfill demand, thus addressing a host of environmental problems
>including ozone depletion, acid rain, toxins, and climate change.
>
>Economical Benefits
>This bill will create industry and public awareness of resource management
>that will improve the quality of life for building occupants in a
>sustainable and profitable way. The Commonwealth is home to more
>businesses involved in energy efficiency and green building construction
>than anywhere else in the nation. By enacting this legislation, we will
>help to promote this industry, create jobs and continue to maintain the
>Commonwealth's unique position as a leader among states.
>
>Eligibility Summary
>The application must include certification by a licensed architect or
>engineer that the base building and/or tenant space meets the criteria set
>forth in the legislation.  Standards will be developed by state agencies,
>including:
>
>a. Energy Efficiency:  Energy use for new buildings must not exceed 65% of
>use permitted under the Massachusetts Building and/or Energy Code
>(rehabilitated buildings must not exceed 75%).
>b. Indoor Air Quality:  Ventilation, thermal comfort and air quality must
>meet specified requirements.
>c. Building Materials:  Materials must meet specified criteria regarding
>minimum percentages of recycled content and renewable source material and
>maximum levels of toxicity.
>
>Tax Credit Provisions
>The bill includes the following tax credits spread over a five year period:
>
>1. Green Whole Building:  Up to 7% tax credit on overall capital costs and
>up to 8% tax credit if built in an economic development area.
>
>2. Green Base Building (whole building minus tenant spaces):  Up to 5% tax
>credit on overall capital costs and up to 6% tax credit if built in an
>economic development area.
>
>3. Green Tenant Space:  Up to 5% tax credit on overall capital costs and
>up to 6% tax credit if built in an economic development area.
>
>4. Photovoltaic Module Credit Component (solar power):  100% of the
>incremental cost for integrating PV modules.
>
>5. Fuel Cell Credit Component:  30% of the incremental cost for
>integrating fuel cells.
>
>The Green Building Coalition includes: Abt Associates, Inc., American
>Consulting Engineers Council of Massachusetts, Boston Society of
>Architects, Building Envelope Committee - BSA, Building Owners and
>Managers Association - GBREB, The Cadmus Group, Inc., Clean Water Action,
>Committee on the Environment - BSA, DMI - Demand Management Institute,
>Inc., Ecology and Environment Professional Interest Council (JFK School of
>Gov't), Environmental League of Massachusetts, Greater Boston Coalition on
>the Environment and Jewish Life, Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Green
>Roundtable, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Massachusetts Climate Action
>Network, MassPIRG, New Ecology, Inc., Northeast Sustainable Energy
>Association, Renewable News Network, Rental Housing Association -
>GBREB.   ***    For information, contact Michael Charney at
>(617) 492-6614, CambClimAct at aol.com
>
>
>
>LETTER FROM SENATOR FARGO ANNOUNCING & DESCRIBING AMENDMENT.  Note:  It
>was filed 11/04 and assigned as Amendment #65  to S.2127
>
>FW: Senator Fargo Amendment to the Economic Stimulus Bill
>Date: 11/3/2003 4:44:05 PM Eastern Standard Time
>From: Timothy.O'Neill at state.ma.us
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>From:     O'Neill, Timothy
>Sent:    Monday, November 03, 2003 4:19 PM
>To:    Brewer, Stephen; Creem, Cynthia Stone; Chandler, Harriette-SEN;
>Glodis, Guy; Hedlund, Robert; Magnani, David; Melconian, Linda; Pacheco,
>Marc; Shannon, Charles; Tarr, Bruce; Tolman, Steven
>Subject:    Senator Fargo Amendment to the Economic Stimulus Bill
>
>Dear Colleague,
>
>Thank you for co-sponsoring Senate Bill 1733, "An Act Establishing a Green
>Building Incentive Program".  As you know, Senate Bill 1733 addresses the
>need in Massachusetts to promote better energy and environmental practices
>for building design, construction and maintenance.   Specifically, this
>bill will provide tax credits to building developers, owners and tenants
>who, for commercial and multi-family residential buildings, invest in
>measures to increase energy efficiency, improve indoor air quality, and
>reduce negative environmental impacts.
>
>The benefits of this legislation are substantial.  Energy use will
>decrease, as green building design and technology heating and cooling
>costs are cut dramatically. Alternative energy sources will reduce fossil
>fuel use, thereby reducing air, land and water pollution in Massachusetts.
>Additionally, burning less fossil fuel will better protect our health by
>reducing power plant emissions that cause lung and heart disease,
>contaminate our food and water supply, and harm developing children.  This
>legislation also contains several key economic incentives.  Worldwide,
>quality green commercial and residential space is increasingly recognized
>as a competitive advantage.  Green development practices will strengthen
>the Massachusetts building industry and economy, as competition increases
>amongst architects, engineers, builders, developers and providers of green
>building products and services.  An investment in Green Buildings today
>will pay dividends in the future.
>
>In light of the fact that the Economic Stimulus Bill before the Senate
>will promote increased development in the corporate sector and in the
>housing market, I will file Senate Bill 1733 as an amendment to the Senate
>economic plan.  Therefore, please consider signing on as a co-sponsor of
>this amendment, and together we will help promote environmentally sound
>development and further support a growing sector of our local economy
>dedicated to the creation and implementation of clean, efficient energy
>products.
>
>I have included the bill text and a fact sheet for Senate Bill 1733.  If
>you would like to sign onto this amendment, please contact Tim O'Neill at
>722-1572 before 10:30 A.M. tomorrow.  Thank you again for your continued
>support.
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>Senator Susan C. Fargo
>3rd Middlesex
>   < Incentive Program-Fact sheet.doc
>
>
>
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From cambclimact at aol.com  Tue Nov  4 15:16:04 2003
From: cambclimact at aol.com (Michael Charney)
Date: Tue,  4 Nov 2003 20:16:04 +0000
Subject: [Save] Editor's Call to Lobby for Green Building in MA
Message-ID: <210857114-1463792126-1067976971@boing.topica.com>


Dear Enviro Calendar Subscriber,

On rare occasion I exploit editorial perogative for important civic 
notices.  Please vote and lobby! ~ See below.  
Normal programming resumes shortly. - mc, ed., publshr


To: All MA Enviro's & Green Building Supporters.

IT'S CLUTCH TIME !

If you want Green Building Incentives for Massachusetts, PLEASE CALL & 
FAX your State Senator TODAY & TOMORROW to tell them to support  
"Amendment #65: To Establish a Green Building Incentive Program,"  an 
amendment to the Senate's Economic Stimulus Bill, S. 2127.*

Amendment #65 was submitted by Senator Susan Fargo and is based directly 
on her bill S. 1733 which our Green Building Coalition helped draft, 
testified for and supports.

The Economic Stimulus Bill will be taken up by the full Senate at Noon, 
Wednesday, November 5, so time is of the essence.

To find your State Senator's contact info use: 
http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php 


Note: Faxes and calls are best.  Email is less effective. If you use 
email,  please put your "ask" in the Subject Line as well as in the 
body. Be sure to tell them you are their constituent!


EXPLANATION & DETAILS:

While I cannot vouch for the larger Economic Stimulus Bill - a work in 
progress and fully in play - I can vouch for Amendment 65 and the 
importance of this moment.

This is the first time the Green Building Coalition's Green Building 
Incentive Bill has effectively gotten out of committee and onto the 
Senate floor.  

It is our best and likely the only opportunity this session to have our 
legislation debated and possibly adopted by the full Senate.

So PLEASE ACT NOW.  Make you support count ASAP!  So, by fax, phone, 
horseback (and less effectively, email), LOBBY NOW!

Reasons to support Amendment 65 are as an economic stimulus and for 
environmental, energy security, and public health benefits.  See details 
provided in the S.1733 Fact Sheet and Senator Fargo's letter below. 

Also, see the Q&A on our GBC website http://www.gbreb.com/greenbuildings 
 -  which basically still applies.

But it is enough simply to tell your Senator to vote for Amendment #65 
to the Economic Stimulus Bill.  


Note:  Supporting Amendment #65 is not an endorsement of S.2127 which 
has attracted at least 64 and surely more, other amendments. 

Note also: The House version of the Economic Stimulus Bill does not 
include a Green Building amendment. So there is no second chance.

Thank you for your help. 
Please forward this letter to colleagues, and call and fax now!


Yours truly, 
Michael Charney, Co-chair, Green Building Coalition 

CambClimAct at aol.com
617-492-6614 

*Formerly S.2124, and also described as "An Act to Promote Job Creation, 
Economic Stability and Competitiveness." Text at: 
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/st02127.htm

**Text of S.1733 is at: http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/st01733.htm


Enclosures: Fact Sheet for S.1733;  &  Letter from Senator Fargo to 
Co-Sponsors of S.1733 requesting endorsement of Amendment now numbered 
65.


Massachusetts Green Building Incentive Program
Supported by The Green Building Coalition

Brief Introduction
The construction and operation of buildings has the single most 
environmental impact of any human activity.  In order to reduce this 
impact, the Green Building  Incentive Program will provide tax credits 
to building developers, owners and tenants who, for commercial and 
multi-family residential buildings, invest in measures to:

a. increase energy efficiency,
b. improve indoor air quality, and 
c. reduce the environmental impacts.

This bill is based on the New York State Green Building Tax Credit 
Statute that became law in May 2000.  Lead coalition participants in New 
York included the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Real Estate 
Board of New York, and the New York Environmental Business Association.  
The bill also received strong support from labor communities.

Environmental Benefits
The bill will promote better energy and environmental practices for 
building design, construction and maintenance, and increase demand for 
new, clean technologies and environmentally preferable building products 
and services.  The bill will also reduce water and energy consumption 
and landfill demand, thus addressing a host of environmental problems 
including ozone depletion, acid rain, toxins, and climate change.  

Economical Benefits
This bill will create industry and public awareness of resource 
management that will improve the quality of life for building occupants 
in a sustainable and profitable way. The Commonwealth is home to more 
businesses involved in energy efficiency and green building construction 
than anywhere else in the nation. By enacting this legislation, we will 
help to promote this industry, create jobs and continue to maintain the 
Commonwealth's unique position as a leader among states. 


Eligibility Summary
The application must include certification by a licensed architect or 
engineer that the base building and/or tenant space meets the criteria 
set forth in the legislation.  Standards will be developed by state 
agencies, including:

a. Energy Efficiency:  Energy use for new buildings must not exceed 65% 
of use permitted under the Massachusetts Building and/or Energy Code 
(rehabilitated buildings must not exceed 75%).

b. Indoor Air Quality:  Ventilation, thermal comfort and air quality 
must meet specified requirements.

c.	Building Materials:  Materials must meet specified criteria regarding 
minimum percentages of recycled content and renewable source material 
and maximum levels of toxicity.


Tax Credit Provisions
The bill includes the following tax credits spread over a five year 
period:

1. Green Whole Building:  Up to 7% tax credit on overall capital costs 
and up to 8% tax credit if built in an economic development area.

2. Green Base Building (whole building minus tenant spaces):  Up to 5% 
tax credit on overall capital costs and up to 6% tax credit if built in 
an economic development area.

3. Green Tenant Space:  Up to 5% tax credit on overall capital costs and 
up to 6% tax credit if built in an economic development area.

4. Photovoltaic Module Credit Component (solar power):  100% of the 
incremental cost for integrating PV modules.

5. Fuel Cell Credit Component:  30% of the incremental cost for 
integrating fuel cells.


The Green Building Coalition includes: Abt Associates, Inc., American 
Consulting Engineers Council of Massachusetts, Boston Society of 
Architects, Building Envelope Committee - BSA, Building Owners and 
Managers Association - GBREB, The Cadmus Group, Inc., Clean Water 
Action, Committee on the Environment - BSA, DMI - Demand Management 
Institute, Inc., Ecology and Environment Professional Interest Council 
(JFK School of Gov't), Environmental League of Massachusetts, Greater 
Boston Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Greater Boston Real 
Estate Board, Green Roundtable, Massachusetts Audubon Society, 
Massachusetts Climate Action Network, MassPIRG, New Ecology, Inc., 
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Renewable News Network, Rental 
Housing Association - GBREB.   ***    
For information, contact Michael Charney at 
(617) 492-6614, CambClimAct at aol.com	

	

LETTER FROM SENATOR FARGO ANNOUNCING & DESCRIBING AMENDMENT.  Note:  It 
was filed 11/04 and assigned as Amendment #65  to S.2127

FW: Senator Fargo Amendment to the Economic Stimulus Bill  
Date: 11/3/2003 4:44:05 PM Eastern Standard Time 
From: Timothy.O'Neill at state.ma.us 

  -----Original Message-----
 From:     O'Neill, Timothy  
 Sent:    Monday, November 03, 2003 4:19 PM
 To:    Brewer, Stephen; Creem, Cynthia Stone; Chandler, Harriette-SEN;
 Glodis, Guy; Hedlund, Robert; Magnani, David; Melconian, Linda; 
Pacheco,
 Marc; Shannon, Charles; Tarr, Bruce; Tolman, Steven
 Subject:    Senator Fargo Amendment to the Economic Stimulus Bill
 
 Dear Colleague,
 
 Thank you for co-sponsoring Senate Bill 1733, "An Act Establishing a 
Green
 Building Incentive Program".  As you know, Senate Bill 1733 addresses 
the
 need in Massachusetts to promote better energy and environmental 
practices
 for building design, construction and maintenance.   Specifically, this
 bill will provide tax credits to building developers, owners and 
tenants
 who, for commercial and multi-family residential buildings, invest in
 measures to increase energy efficiency, improve indoor air quality, and
 reduce negative environmental impacts. 
 
 The benefits of this legislation are substantial.  Energy use will
 decrease, as green building design and technology heating and cooling
 costs are cut dramatically. Alternative energy sources will reduce 
fossil
 fuel use, thereby reducing air, land and water pollution in 
Massachusetts.
 Additionally, burning less fossil fuel will better protect our health 
by
 reducing power plant emissions that cause lung and heart disease,
 contaminate our food and water supply, and harm developing children.  
This
 legislation also contains several key economic incentives.  Worldwide,
 quality green commercial and residential space is increasingly 
recognized
 as a competitive advantage.  Green development practices will 
strengthen
 the Massachusetts building industry and economy, as competition 
increases
 amongst architects, engineers, builders, developers and providers of 
green
 building products and services.  An investment in Green Buildings today
 will pay dividends in the future.
 
 In light of the fact that the Economic Stimulus Bill before the Senate
 will promote increased development in the corporate sector and in the
 housing market, I will file Senate Bill 1733 as an amendment to the 
Senate
 economic plan.  Therefore, please consider signing on as a co-sponsor 
of
 this amendment, and together we will help promote environmentally sound
 development and further support a growing sector of our local economy
 dedicated to the creation and implementation of clean, efficient energy
 products.  
 
 I have included the bill text and a fact sheet for Senate Bill 1733.  
If
 you would like to sign onto this amendment, please contact Tim O'Neill 
at
 722-1572 before 10:30 A.M. tomorrow.  Thank you again for your 
continued
 support.
 
 Best Wishes,
 
 Senator Susan C. Fargo
 3rd Middlesex
  <<Email Green Building Incentive Program .doc  <<Green Building
 Incentive Program-Fact sheet.doc 
 
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From jalee at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov  6 02:13:16 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:13:16 -0500
Subject: [Save] volunteers needed for plant handouts!
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031106021042.01d62430@po11.mit.edu>

Help! We still need volunteers to help hand out free plants in celebration 
of Massachusetts Recycles Day!

The day is actually the 15th, a Saturday, so we'll have a table in the 
Student Center on November 14. Here's how it works:
We bring houseplants, seeds, small pots, soil, and rooting hormone. For a 
passerby who wants a plant, we fill a pot with soil, then plant seeds in 
it, or take a cutting from one of the mother plants and stick it in the 
pot. It's incredibly easy, and very enjoyable-- it's always amazing how 
happy people are to get free plants.

--We need volunteers to man the booth on Friday, November 14 between 10:00 
am (or maybe 11:00) and 4:00 or 5:00 pm. If you can, please sign up for an 
hour or a few, and/or to help with setup or cleanup; if you don't know what 
you're doing, never fear-- we'll show you how. Technically, we only need 
one person at a time, but it's much more fun if we have a couple people 
handing out plants, and sometimes the booth gets so busy that two are 
actually necessary to keep up with demand.

I can do setup, cleanup, and an hour or two any time except 12-2. Reply to 
me (jalee at mit.edu) to tell me what times you can help; I'll organize a list.

Thanks!
Jessica


From agraham at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov  6 13:06:17 2003
From: agraham at MIT.EDU (Amanda Graham)
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:06:17 -0500
Subject: [Save] ENVIROFORUM TODAY!!, 11/6, 4pm, W20-491
Message-ID: <003b01c3a490$af8f35f0$2a03ac12@PEER1>

**TODAY**TODAY**TODAY****TODAY**TODAY**TODAY****TODAY**TODAY**TODAY****TODAY
**TODAY**TODAY**

 

Dear SAVE,

We are pleased to announce a new effort at MIT sponsored by Chancellor Clay
named EnviroForum that we hope will create new opportunities for
collaboration among MIT's environmental community.  Each EnviroForum event
will bring together faculty, students, researchers, and staff who are
interested in environmental and sustainability issues for informal
discussion and networking.  Our hope for these events is that new
connections among people working toward similar aims can make existing
efforts stronger and spark new projects that benefit from integrating across
MIT's outstanding environmental education, research, and operations
initiatives.  The success of the event hinges upon the participation of
people from across the Institute's wide array of academic, administrative,
and operational departments.  

The first event takes place Thursday, November 6, 4:00 - 6:00 pm at the
Stratton Student Center (W20, room 491); more information is given in the
announcement below.   Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Members of the EnviroForum Organizing Task Force:

Justin Adams, Environmental Programs Office
Jim Curtis, Environmental Programs Office
Matthew Gardner, Ph.D., Program Administrator, Earth Systems Initiative
Amanda Graham, Ph.D., Education Program Manager, LFEE
Jeremy Gregory, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student

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******
ENVIROFORUM
WHAT IS IT?
The MIT EnviroForum, newly created and supported by Chancellor Clay, is a
series of events that are designed to bring together MIT's diverse community
interested in the issues of environment, sustainability, and related issues.
Each event will provide an opportunity for attendees to meet like-minded
individuals for networking, socializing, and informal conversation.
Attendees will include MIT graduate and undergraduate students, faculty,
researchers, staff, and members of the administration.

WHEN IS THE FIRST ENVIROFORUM?
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Thursday, November 6, 2003

WHERE IS IT?
Student Center (W20), Room 491

THEME:"MIT's Environmental Commitments, Challenges, and Actions"
                       
Brief Remarks (4:30 - 5:00):
"Commitments"   Chancellor Phillip Clay
"Challenges"    Professor Patrick Jaillet, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Department Head
"Actions"               Tiffany Groode, Mechanical Engineering

QUESTIONS?
Contact Dr. Amanda Graham: agraham at mit.edu

Refreshments will be available.

Please visit: http://web.mit.edu/enviroforum/ for information on this event
and future EnviroForums.

 

 

_____________________________________

Amanda C. Graham, Ph.D.

Education Program Manager

Laboratory For Energy and the Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building E40, Room 479; 1 Amherst Street

Cambridge, MA  02139-4307  USA

phone:  1.617.253.8995

fax:  1.617.253.8013

 <http://lfee.mit.edu/education> http://lfee.mit.edu/education

 

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From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov  6 15:26:05 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:26:05 -0500
Subject: [Save] Reminder: Call for Papers and Posters - 2004 Annual Meeting of
 the World Student Community for Sustainable Development
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031106151642.00ac78f0@po12.mit.edu>

Students for Global Sustainability - the MIT chapter of the World Student 
Community for Sustainable Development (WSC-SD) -  would like to remind you 
that Monday, November 10 is the deadline for submission of papers for the 
2004 Annual Meeting at Chalmers University in Goteborg, Sweden.  The 
meeting will be held from March 16-20, 2004.

The guidelines for papers can be found at 
http://www.wscsd.org/article.php3?id_article=1.  Papers must be submitted 
by midnight (Greenwich Mean Time) on Monday November 10, 2003.  Please 
submit all papers electronically to Hadi Mozzafari at 
mozaffari at buildphys.chalmers.se

We also would like to announce the call for posters for the Annual 
Meeting.  The deadline for submission of posters is December 30, 2003.  The 
guidelines for posters can be found at 
http://www.wscsd.org/article.php3?id_article=8.

This year's theme is "Sustainable Cities."  The annual meeting will provide 
a forum for students to discuss solution-oriented methods for implementing 
sustainable development in the cities of the world.  We are all aware of 
the serious problems that cities of the developing and developed world; the 
annual meeting will allow students to understand and explore opportunities 
for their involvement in sustainable development within the context of 
urbanization and urban development.

Please contact sfgs-request at mit.edu with any questions.

We look forward to many exceptional submissions.

Have a good day,

Philip Sheehy
Students for Global Sustainability
web.mit.edu/sfgs
sfgs-request at mit.edu

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From fricks at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov  6 16:08:34 2003
From: fricks at MIT.EDU (Susan Frick)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:08:34 -0500
Subject: [Save] Human Rights events at MIT
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031106154909.01c49100@po14.mit.edu>


Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice

Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and Transitional Justice: 
Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?
Mauricio Romero, Universidad Nacional de Bogot?, Colombia
Thursday November 13, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street) ***PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE***

Forum on  Accountability, Impunity and Governance in India
Saturday November 15, 2003
3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: 1-190
Panelists: Ram Narayan Kumar, author of Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency 
and Human Rights in Punjab
Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, New Delhi Television
Teesta Setalvad, Editor, Communalism Combat, and 2003 Recipient of the 
Nuremburg Human Rights Award
Siddharth Varadarajan, Deputy Chief of the News Bureau, Times of India
Moderator: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Director of the MIT Program on Human 
Rights and Justice (on leave 2003-04)

Can the Judiciary Prevent Massive Human Rights Abuses? Experience from India
Justice Verma, former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court and former 
Chair of the National Human Rights Commission
Monday November 17, 2003
12:15-1:30 p.m.
Location: E38-615

Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004.


Other Human Rights Opportunities in the MIT Community

Sudan's Peace Process Event this Spring
Interested in collaborating with other students in the area to organize a 
conference on the Sudan peace process this spring? There will be a planning 
meeting this Sunday November 9 at 5:00 at the Fletcher School. For 
directions and more info, contact: Jay Balasubramanian 
<Jayshree.Balasubramanian at tufts.edu> or call him at 617-838-0251.

Northwestern University to Host Student Conference on Human Rights
April 23-25, 2004
A travel stipend, housing, meals and local transportation will be provided 
to participants. Applications are due December 1 and are available at 
<http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/>http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/. 


Graduating Seniors: Interested in serving as a Research Fellow at the 
Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington D.C.? Applications are due at 
CIS 12/15/03. 
<http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp>http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
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From mcollett at mit.edu  Thu Nov  6 14:29:17 2003
From: mcollett at mit.edu (Margo Collett)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:29:17 -0500
Subject: [Save] [E&S-seminars] Modern Times, Rural Place Seminar 11-14-2003
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20031106142610.00af6708@hesiod>


Modern Times, Rural Places:
Seminar Series at MIT

Karl Jacoby
Associate Professor of History
  Brown University

Between North and South:  The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis

Friday, November 14, 2003
2:30 to 4:30 pm
MIT, Building E51 Room 095

During the late nineteenth century, Mexico and the United States engaged in 
a mutual effort to transform the relatively undefined border region between 
them into a stable international boundary.  Although this process was 
designed to strengthen the state control of space on both sides of the 
border, it ironically complicated this project by creating new 
transnational linkages between the two countries.  "Between North and 
South" will reveal some of the unexpected consequences of the new 
transnational framework that developed between Latin America and Anglo 
America during the late nineteenth century by exploring the efforts of 
William H. Ellis, an African-American entrepreneur from southern Texas, to 
create a homeland in northern Mexico for African Americans fleeing the Jim 
Crow South during the late nineteenth century.


Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, 
and Society

For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact Margo 
Collett at mcollett at mit.edu  or log onto our websites at
  http://web.mit.edu/history/www/index.html and http://web.mit.edu/sts/
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From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Fri Nov  7 12:12:11 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:12:11 -0500
Subject: [Save] Deadline extension for WSC-SD paper submission - December 1,
  2003
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031107120045.00a10250@po12.mit.edu>


Students for Global Sustainability - the MIT chapter of the World Student 
Community for Sustainable Development (WSC-SD) -  would like to announce 
that the deadline for submission of papers has been extended.  The deadline 
is now December 1, 2003.

The guidelines for papers can be found at 
http://www.wscsd.org/article.php3?id_article=1.  Papers must be submitted 
by midnight (Greenwich Mean Time) on Monday December 1, 2003.

Please note that all papers should now be submitted to Philip Sheehy at 
sheehy at mit.edu.  Please disregard the e-mail address listed on the webpage.

We also would like to announce the call for posters for the Annual 
Meeting.  The deadline for submission of posters is December 30, 2003.  The 
guidelines for posters can be found a 
http://www.wscsd.org/article.php3?id_article=8.

This year's theme is "Sustainable Cities."  The annual meeting will provide 
a forum for students to discuss solution-oriented methods for implementing 
sustainable development in the cities of the world.  We are all aware of 
the serious problems that cities of the developing and developed world; the 
annual meeting will allow students to understand and explore opportunities 
for their involvement in sustainable development within the context of
urbanization and urban development.

Please contact sfgs-request at mit.edu with any questions.

We look forward to many exceptional submissions.

Have a good day,

Philip Sheehy
Students for Global Sustainability
web.mit.edu/sfgs
sfgs-request at mit.edu

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From cambclimact at aol.com  Fri Nov  7 17:44:49 2003
From: cambclimact at aol.com (Michael Charney)
Date: Fri,  7 Nov 2003 22:44:49 +0000
Subject: [Save] NE Climate & Enviro Calendar     *     11/7  -  12/10/03
Message-ID: <244272530-1463792382-1068245098@boing.topica.com>


CAMBRIDGE CLIMATE CALENDAR     Nov 7 – Dec 10, 2003
 Climate, Envir & Sustainability Events for MA & NE

Editor’s Choice:
11/7-9  Student Envir Action Coalitn Training. Middletown, CT
11/8 - Earthwatch Public Day Connectns for Sustainable Envir. Camb
11/10 - New England Council's Climate Change Summit. Boston 
11/12 - Witness for Climate & Creation at UN. NYC

11/14,15 - 3rd Ann. Soul of Agriculture Conf. Durham, NH
11/15 – Envir League MA’s Earth Night. Boston, MA
***11/16 – NE Grassroots Climate Action Conf. Medford, MA***
*11/18-20  Build Boston - Wkshps & Expo. Boston
*11/21 - Financial Costs & Benefits of Green Bldg: CA Study. Boston

ALERT!  
*Reject the Energy Bill:
http://www.ucsaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=12787

Noted: 
*Calif Report: Costs & Financial Benefits of Green Bldgs. 130pp
       http://www.usgbc.org
*Bush Takes Quiet Aim at 'Green' Laws. Christian Sci Monitor 11/7/03
       http://www.nrdc.org/news/newsDetails.asp?nID=1164
*Keeping Nantucket Sound Pristine for Motorboats
       http://www.northernskynews.com/Wind%20Farm%20Op.html


SCROLL DOWN for FULL INDEX & DETAILS
  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

***MCAN’s 3rd Annual --

            GRASSROOTS  CLIMATE  ACTION  CONFERENCE 
              Sun., Nov. 16 - Tufts U, Medford MA
  8:30 am – 5:30 pm, Cabot Center, 170 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 

Keynotes:
     I:  Rhode Isld Climate Plan, Local Buy-in & Regnl Synergy
            Jan Reitsma, Fmr Dir., R.I. Dept. Envir. Management
    II: Europe Leads: Cutting Carbon Affordably
            Michael Northrop, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

18 Wkshps: 
Local climate action plans & GHG reduction strategies; 
Climate change sci, human & ocean impacts, solutns; Regnal climate 
plan & realities; Greening town & gown; Green schools & capital 
projects; VMT’s, fuel use & SUVs; EcoTeams; Community wind 
projects & Cape Wind; Global warming educatn K-12 & public; 
Advancing state & regional policy & action; Allied efforts; Message 
& Organizing skills; Media wkshp w. Globe, Herald & CNC reporters. 

Fee: $40 at door; $35 if by 11/9. Pls e-RSVP w. wkshps preferences

Info: http://www.massclimateaction.org  cambclimact at aol.com,
or Feature at http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html  781-643-5911

          <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Build the e-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

Friday, November 7
11/7 Agricultrl Land & Transformatn of Earth System. Wds Hole, MA
11/7 - Regional Climate Change Cooperation. Boston
11/7 - Wellesley College Campus Greening Symposm. Wellesley, MA

November 7-9
11/7-9  Student Envir Action Coalitn Training. Middletown, CT
11/7-9  Net Impact Ann Conf. Austin, TX
11/7-9 AMC White Mountain Workshop. Crawford Notch, NH 

Saturday, November 8
11/8 - 1st Ann.Vermont Toxics Action Conf. Randolph, VT
11/8 - Earthwatch Public Day Connectns for Sustainable Envir. Camb 
11/8 - Solutns for Sustainable Growth in Essex County. Andover, MA
11/8 - PV 101 Workshop. Marlboro, MA

Sunday, November 9
11/9 - Vegan Nutrition & Global Anti-Hunting Coalition. Camb
11/9 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web

Monday, November 10 
11/10 - New England Council's Climate Change Summit. Boston 
11/10 - Human-Climate-Envir Interactns in Yucatan. New Haven, CT
11/10 - Enviro Advocates of NY Ann Gala. NYC
11/10 - Global Climate Change & Cape Wind Project. Westwood, MA
11/10 The Sacred Balance I & II: w. David Suzuki. WGBH 44

Tuesday, November 11
*11/12 Conservatn at Landscape Scale: Models/Strategies. Burlingtn, VT

Wednesday, November 12
11/12 - Bos Soc Arch: Committee on the Envir Mtg. Boston
11/12 - Walk & Witness for Climate & Creation at UN. NYC
11/12 - Younger Dryas: Why did climate change so abruptly? Camb

11/12 - Love Canal, 25 years later. Boston 
*11/12 Protected Areas 2023: Scenarios for Future. VT & Satellite
11/12 - Energy & Technology. Camb 
11/12 - Matthias Schuler, Enviro Enginr Transsolar, Stuttgart. Camb

November 12-14
11/12-14 GreenBuild: Int’l Conf & Expo: USGBC. Pittsburgh, PA

Thursday, November 13
11/13 - Youth Power Shift Nat’l Day of Action!  USA/Campuses
11/13 Greening an Existing Facility. Troy, NY
11/13 - China's Decline in Energy Intensity. Middlebury, VT
*11/13 - Groundwater Remediation. Medford, MA
11/13 - Future of Canada's Northern Boreal Forest. Camb
11/13 Sun, Air & You: Perspectives on Climate Chng. Franklin, MA
11/13 - Home Composting Wkshp. Natick, MA

Friday, November 14
[[11/14 – Posting error: Fuel Cells for Green Power Generatn. MA]]
11/14 - Mercury, salamanders & watershed conditn. Petersham, MA
11/14 – Early & current atmospheric organic aerosols. Camb
11/14 - A Holistic View of Invasion. New Haven, CT

11/14 - Organic aerosols in early & current earth atmospheres. Camb
11/14 - Betwn North & South: Alternative Borderlands. Camb
11/14 Dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems & carbon cycle. Boston
*11/14 - Allagash Wilderness Waterway at Risk. York, ME

November 14 & 15
11/14,15 - 3rd Ann. Soul of Agriculture Conf. Durham, NH
*11/14,15 – Environmental Writers 2003 Conf. Boston

Saturday, November 15
11/15 – Undergrad/Grad Enviro Resrch Sympos. Bridgewater, MA
11/15 - Green Homes - Build new, transform old. New Britain, CT
11/15 – ELM’s 8th Ann Earth Night. So Boston, MA

Sunday, November 16
11/16 - MCAN Grassroots Climate Protection Conf. Medford, MA  
11/6 - Living on Earth: Enviro Radio. NPR, WBUR, WUMB, Web

November 16-19
11/16-19 Young Scientists' Global Change Conf. Trieste, Italy. 

Monday, November 17
11/17 - Life on the Edge: Survival of Life in Ice. New Haven, CT
*11/17 - Wave driven currents, vortex dynamics on barred beaches. Camb
11/17  Future of Sustnbl Design: Emerging Paradigm.. Medford, MA 
11/17 - Mass. Interfaith Power & Light Ann Mtg. Westwood, MA
11/17 - The Sacred Balance III, IV: w. David Suzuki. WGBH 44

November 17 - 18
11/17,18 - Financing US Power Projects. NYC

November 17-20 
11/17-20 Chemical & Biol Defense Research Conf. Towson, MD

Tuesday, November 18
*11/18 - Cape Cod Wind Farm Permit Applicatn & EIS Update. Boston
11/18 - Database Planning Basics for Non-Profits. Boston
*11/18 - Climate Change Backpack Training Program. Boston
*11/18 - Pulp Story: Fate of a South Bronx Mill. Camb
 *11/18 – [Where are] Lost Right Whales of No Atlantic. Boston

November 18 - 20
*11/18-20  Build Boston

Wednesday, November 19
11/19 - Enforcement & Enviro Compliance. Camb

Thursday, November 20
11/20 - Wholesale Power Markets in NE After LMP & Blackout. Boston 
11/20 - Transport & fate of organic matter in rivers. Boston
*11/20 - Financial Costs & Benefits of Green Bldg. Springfld, MA
11/20 - Dams or Protection for a Mesoamerican Rvr. Middlebury, VT  
*11/20 - Climate Change in China: Sci & Response Strategy. Camb

Friday, November 21
*11/21 - Financial Costs & Benefits of Green Bldg: CA Study. Boston
11/21 – Conservatn of Atlantic salmon in Maine. Petersham, MA
11/21 - Monsoon Variability & Atmospheric Aerosols. Camb 
11/21 - Abating threat of invasive species: sci & policy. Wds Hole, MA
11/21 - Clean Air Act: Policy & abatement technique choice. Bos
*11/21 - Help Elect Pro-Environment Candidates in 2004. Boston

Saturday, November 22
11/22  4th Ann. Toxics Action Conf. Waterville, ME

Monday, November 24
*11/24 – Robotic Chemical Sensors for Aquatic Envir. Boston
11/24 - Rivers, rocks & rain: Climate, tectonics & erosion. Camb 

Tuesday, November 25
*11/25 - Expeditn to World's Last Underwater Lab for Sci. Boston

Friday, November 28
11/28 - Buy Nothing Day. USA

DECEMBER

Monday, December 1
12/1 Governing Global Envir: Policy Failure/What Next?. Nw Hvn, CT 

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 - 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 - MIT & Camb: Collaborating on Climate Protectn. Camb

Friday, December 5
12/5 - Osmium & Mercury Supply to a CT Salt Marsh. Nw Hvn, CT
12/5 - Solar Energy Lecture. Harrington, ME

December 5 & 6
*12/5-6 Human Dimensions of Global Envir Change. Berlin, Germany

Saturday, December 6 
12/6 - PV 101 Workshop. Greenfield, MA

December 6 & 7
12/6,7 - Solar PV & Hot Water Wkshp. Harrington, ME
*12/6,7 - AMC Leadership Training Inst. Crawford Notch, NH

Tuesday, December 9
12/9 - Restoring Water Quality in the Mystic River. Boston

Wednesday, December 10
12/10 - Bos Soc Arch: Committee on the Envir Mtg. Boston
12/10 - Household Water Demand & Price Structure.  Camb

For events after 12/10 click Beyond at left, 
http://www.tufts.edu/Calendar.html 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
DETAILED LISTINGS:

NOVEMBER 2003
 
FRI, NOV 7 
Agricultural Land & Transformatn of the Earth System, Jon 
Foley (U Wisc). 3 pm, Whitman Audit, Water St, Woods Hole, MA 
Info: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/what/news/events/events_ses.html
Dir: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/visit/directions 

FRI, NOV 7 
Regional Climate Change Cooperation, Henrik Selin (Linkoping U
& MIT DUSP). 4 pm, Boston U Stone Sci Bldg, 675 Comm 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, NOV 7
Wellesley College Campus Greening Symposm re: Green 
academic bldgs, envir responsible purchasing, campus recycling, 
energy & climate change. Keynote: Sarah Hammond Creighton 
[Tufts Climate Initiative, & auth: “Greening the Ivory Tower” 
(MIT Press)]. 4:15 - 9 pm, Pendleton East, Atrium, College Rd, 
Wellesley College, Rte 135, Wellesley, MA 
Info/RSVP: cleamy at wellesley.edu  781-283-4756  Dir/Map:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Admission/admission/visiting.html 

NOV 7-9  
NE Student Enviro Action Coalitn (SEAC) Regional 
Activist Training. Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT
Info: neseac at seac.org, www.seac.org/ne/nerat.htm 
[New date & loc.]

NOV 7-9
Net Impact Ann Conf. New Leaders for Better Business. 
U Texas -Austin. Info: http://www.net-impact.org

NOV 7 - 9 
AMC White Mountain Workshop. Highland Ctr, Crawford Notch, NH
Info: http://www.outdoors.org/conservation/wmnf/whitesweekend.shtml 
bwentzell at amcinfo.org 617-523-0655 x386

SAT, NOV 8
1st Ann.Vermont Toxics Action Conf. 8 am – 6 pm, Vermont
Technical College, Randolph, VT. To help residents fight 
pollution in our communities. Spkrs: Lois Gibbs (Love Canal 
activist); U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders. Info/Regstr: 802-223-8422,
http://www.toxicsaction.org/VT_ConfBro1001.pdf 
Dir: http://www.vtc.vsc.edu/site/overview/directions.html 

SAT, NOV 8
Earthwatch Public Day 2003: Making Connectns for Sustainable 
Envir. Hyatt Regency, 575 Memorial Dr, Camb. Re: >100 sci field 
resrch expeditns worldwide. Spkrs incl: paleoanthropologist, 
conservtn activist Dr Richard Leakey; Dr Peter Kershaw 
on Climate Change at Arctic’s Edge. Info/Regstrn: 
http://www.earthwatch.org/conference  800-776-0188 x207
Press info: 800-776-0188 x136, bmagruder at earthwatch.org 

SAT, NOV 8
Shaping the Future of Essex County, MA - Practical Solutions 
for Sustainable Growth. 8 am - 4:30 pm, Merrimack College, 
Sakowich Campus Ctr, 315 Turnpike St, Andover, MA $15  Info: 
978-887-8876, l.cunningham at eccf.org, http://www.eccf.org
Map: http://kahuna.merrimack.edu/map 

SAT, NOV 8
PV 101 Workshop. 9 am - 4 pm, Evergreen Solar, Marlboro, 
MA  Info: http://www.nesea.org/buildings/workshops 

SUN, NOV 9
Healthy Vegan Nutrition & Global Anti-Hunting Coalition
Brenda Davis, RD & Anthony Marr. 2:30 pm, Veggie Planet/
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St,  Harvard Sq, Camb. Info:
http://boston.earthsave.org/events.htm

SUN, NOV 9
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, NOV 10
New England Council's Climate Change Summit. Panel, & Spkr 
Ken Meade. 8 am - 2 pm, Boston Marriott Copley Place, 
110 Huntington Ave, Boston. Panelists: Jim Brett (NEC); Eileen 
Claussen (Pew Ctr on Global Climate Chnge); Helen Sahi (FleetBoston 
Financial); David Conover/US Climate Chg Techn Prgrm; Joseph 
Goffman (Envir Defense); Ken Colburn (NESCAUM); Doug Foy
(Chief- Comm Devlpmt, Comm MA); Brad Campbell (NJ DEP); 
Michael Stoddard (Envir Northeast); Herb Nock (Fuel Cell Energy); 
Michael Bradley (M.J. Bradley & Assocs). RSVP by 10/31/Info: 
newenglandcouncil2 at msn.com   http://www.newenglandcouncil.com  
Map: http://www.marriott.com/epp/map.asp?MarshaCode=BOSCO  

MON, NOV 10
Human-Climate-Envir Interactions in Maya Lowlands (Yucatan 
Peninsula) Inferred from Lake Sediment Cores, David Hodell (U 
Florida). 2 - 3:30 pm, Rm 102, Kline Geol Lab, 210 Whitney Ave,
Yale U, New Haven, CT. Info: http://www.yale.edu/yibs/calendar 

MON, NOV 10
Enviro Advocates of NY Ann Gala. Yale Club, Manhattan, 
NYC. Info:  pkelly at eany.org, http://www.eany.org   
11/7 Green Bldg Design/Constructn Grant Bid Q&A. Westboro, MA
 
MON, NOV 10
Global Climate Change & Cape Wind Project - Public Forum. 
Spkrs: Mark Rodgers (Cape Wind) & Ross Gelbspan (auth: The 
Heat Is On). 7:30 pm, First Parish in Westwood, 340 Clapboard Tree Rd 
ersus 248 Nahatan St., Westwood, MA Info//RSVP: lhoke at MIPandL.org 
http://www.MIPandL.org, 781-326-3434; NB: Call, email for correct 
location.

MON, NOV 10
The Sacred Balance I & II: w. David Suzuki. WGBH 44.
11/10 - 9 pm, Journey into New Worlds, 
11/10 – 10 pm, The Matrix of Life.  Info: 
http://www.wgbh.org/program-info?episode_id=1029842&parent_id=1029736 

*TUE, NOV 11
Conservation At The Landscape Scale: Emerging Models & Strategies, 
Jeffrey McNeely (World Conservatn Union). 7 pm, Waterman Memorial 
Lounge, Waterman Bldg, UVM Campus, Burlington, VT Info: 
http://www.uvm.edu/conservationlectures Also by web Video Archive.

WED, NOV 12
Bos Soc Architects: Committee on the Envir Mtg.
8-10 am, Topic, Loc TBA Info: ken_fisher at gensler.com 
http://committees.architects.org/green/newcote.htm 

WED, NOV 12
Walk & Witness for Climate & Creation; Interfaith Service of 
Repentance & Renewal at United Nations. Gather 11 am: 
Community  Church of NY, 40 E. 35th St (btw Park & Madison). 
Noon: Procession to UN/Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St (1st 
& 2nd Aves). 1 pm: Service of Repentance & Renewal at UN Plaza 
Info: nov12 at religiouswitness.org, http://www.Religiouswitness.org 

WED, NOV 12
Simulatn of Younger Dryas Event: why did climate change so 
abruptly? Suki Manabe (GFDL). 11 am - 1 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, NOV 12
Public Health Forum: Love Canal, 25 years later, Lois Marie Gibbs 
(founder LC Parents Movement, LC Home Owners Assn, Ctr for 
Hlth, Envir & Justice, citizen enviro activist). Noon - 1 pm, 
“L”- Instructional Bldg, Rm #L-112, BU Schl of Med, 80 East 
Concord St, South End, Boston. Enter via commons btw Harrison 
Ave & Albany St.  Info: 617-638-4620, http://www.bu.edu/lovecanal
http://www.chej.org  Map: L-Bldg = #18 at
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/places/CampusMap/index.htm 

*WED, NOV 12
Protected Areas in 2023: Scenarios for Uncertain Future, 
Jeffrey McNeely (World Conservatn Union), Mike Soukup 
(US NPS Nat Resource Stewardship & Sci), & Brenda Barrett (US 
NPS (Heritage Areas). 1-3 pm, EST, Satellite Conf at pre-arranged 
sites. Info/Siting: Daniel.Laven at uvm.edu, 802-656-3095
Related site: http://www.uvm.edu/conservationlectures 

WED, NOV 12
Energy & Technology, Donald Paul (VP, Chief Techno Officer,
ChevronTexaco). MIT Techn Executive Lecture. 5 pm, Wong 
Auditrm, Tang Cntr Bldg E51 - Rm 115, 2 Amherst  St, Camb 
Info: 617-253-0414,  vrattos at ocr.mit.edu 
Dir: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go 

WED, NOV 12
Matthias Schuler, Enviro Enginr Transsolar, Stuttgart, Germany:
Gives Joseph & Etel Thomas Lecture.  6:30 - 8:30 pm, Harvard 
Grad Schl of Design, Piper Auditrm, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, 
Camb Info: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/news/public_lectures.html
Dir: http://map.harvard.edu/level3/3SciLabs1.shtml

NOV 12-14
GreenBuild - Intnat’l Conf & Expo: US Green Bldg Council. 
Pittsburgh, PA Info: http://www.usgbc.org info at greenbuildexpo.com

THURS, NOV 13
Youth Power Shift National Day of Action!  Campus’s & 
Communities. Take action to Shift the Energy Systems & build 
collective power for Clean Energy Revolutn! Suggested actns: 
Teach-in or forums, referenda for clean energy, “Dorm war” 
competition to cut energy use,  Meet w. school president/
administrators, Publicity in local & school papers, clean vs 
dirty energy exhibits, Street theater,Tabling & leafleting, etc. 
Info: youthpowershift at seac.org  http://www.youthpowershift.org 
http://www.seac.org/energy/ndoa.shtml  josh at seac.org 

*THUR, NOV 13
Greening An Existing Facility. 9 am - 4 pm, Troy City Hall, 
Troy, NY Info: http://www.nesea.org/buildings/workshops

THUR, NOV 13
What is Driving China's Decline in Energy Intensity? Prof Karen 
Fisher-Vanden, (Dartmouth). 12:15 – 1:15 pm, Bicentennial Hall, 
Rm 216, Bicentennial Way, Middlebury Collg, Middlebury, VT  Info:
http://www.middlebury.edu/depts/es/events/eventscalendarnew.htm 

*THUR, NOV 13
Groundwater Remediation, Dean Linda Abriola (Tufts Schl Enginr).
5:25 - 6:40 pm, Tufts U, Braker Hall Rm 001, 8 Upper Campus Rd, 
Medford, MA Map: http://www.tufts.edu/source/maps/medford

THUR, NOV 13
Future of Canada's Northern Boreal Forest – Threats to wolverine
& caribou, Justina Ray (Wildlife Conservation Soc). 6 pm, Harvard 
Musm Nat History, Geological Lect Hall, 24 Oxford St, Camb 
Info:  617-495-3045, http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/events 

THURS, NOV 13
Sun, Air & You: Perspectives on Climate Change, Ted McIntyre. 
7 pm, Franklin Public Library, 118 Main St, Franklin MA. On 
causes of global warming, what it means for us, & what we can do.
Spons: Franklin Climate Actn Ntwk  Info: EMcIntyre1 at comcast.net,
Dir: http://www.franklin.ma.us/auto/town/library/default.htm#  

THUR, NOV 13
Home Composting Wkshp. 7:30-9 pm, Natick Community Farm,
117 Eliot St, Natick, MA  Info: http://www.state.ma.us/dep/calendar.htm
508-655-2204, http://www.state.ma.us/dep/consumer/comwkshp.htm 

[[FRI, NOV 14 - Erroneously posted; out of date listing]
[ 2002: Emerging Technologies & Best Industry 
Practices Seminar: Fuel Cells as a Means for Green Power 
Generation. Photonics Cntr, Colloquium Info: 617-358-0351, 
esd at bu.edu, http://www.bu.edu/mfg/etseminar ]

FRI, NOV 14
Mercury, salamanders & watershed condition, Michael Bank 
(U Maine). 11 am, Seminar rm, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 
Petersham, MA Info: aabarker at fas.harvard.edu, 
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminarschedule.html 

FRI, NOV 14
A Holistic View of Invasion, Linda Puth (Yale Post-Doc)
Noon, Rm 110, Envir Sci Ctr, 21 Sachem St, Yale U, New 
Haven, CT Info: http://www.yale.edu/yibs/calendar 

FRI, NOV 14 
Tale of Two Times: Organic aerosols in atmospheres of early 
& current earth, Margaret Tolbert  (U Co). Noon, Pierce Hall, 
Rm 100F, 29 Oxford St, Camb 
Info: http://www-as.harvard.edu/seminars/seminars.html 

FRI, NOV 14
Betwn North & South: Alternative Borderlands of Wm H. 
Ellis, Karl Jacoby (Brown U). 2:30 - 4:30 pm, MIT Tang Ctr 
Bldg E51 - Rm 095, 50 Memorial Dr, Camb. Info: 
http://web.mit.edu/history/www/nande/modTimes.html 
Dir: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go 

FRI, NOV 14 
Role of ecological processes in long-term dynamics of terrestrial 
ecosystems & carbon cycle, Paul Moorcroft (Harvard). 4 pm, 
Stone Sci Bldg, 675 Commonwealth Ave, 4th flr, Rm 453, 
Boston U, Boston  Info: http://www.bu.edu/cees/resources 
Map: http://www.bu.edu/maps 

*FRI, NOV 14
Allagash Wilderness Waterway! A Nat'l Treasure at Risk,
Tim Caverly (Dir. ME PEER), 7 pm York Public Libr, 
15 Long Sands Road, York, ME.  Info: 207-723-4656 
mepeer at peer.org, http://www.peer.org/maine

NOV 14 & 15
3rd Ann. Soul of Agriculture Conf: Northeast Food System at 
Crossroads & NESAWG Resource Harvest, UNH, Durham, NH
Info: http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/fas/soul_agri/index.html 
 
*NOV 14 & 15
Enviro Writers ’03 Conf: The Water Wars. Locs: NE Aquarium &
Boston University, Boston  Info:  http://www.bu.edu/com/jo/science 
http://www.bu.edu/com/jo/science/writers_agenda.htm
kmallory at neaq.org, 617-353-4239, 617-973-5295,

SAT, NOV 15
2nd Ann Undergrad & Grad Student Enviro Research Sympos. 
Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.  Call for Abstracts.
Info: http://www.bridgew.edu/Environmental 508-531-2089, 
dpadgett at bridgew.edu

SAT, NOV 15 
Green Homes -How to build a new one or transform an existing 
home. 1 – 4 pm, Central CT State U, Vance Academic Ctr, Rm 105, 
New Britain, CT  $10. Info: http://www.CTGBC.org 860-424-3234
http://www.ctgbc.org/events/Green_homes.pdf 

SAT, NOV 15
8th Ann Earth Night - Envir League of MA Benefit. Black Falcon 
Cruise Terminal, 1 Black Falcon Ave, So. Boston $75.  Dinner, 
Auction, Entertainment Info:  http://www.earthnight.org  
508-698-6810 Dir: http://www.greatports.com/boston/portinfo.htm 

SUN, NOV 16
3rd Ann. MA & NE Grassroots Climate Protectn Conf. 
9 am – 5 pm, Fletcher Schl, Cabot Hall, 170 Packard Ave, 
Tufts U, Medford, MA. NE’s premier climate activist’s conf.
Keynotes:  I - Rhode Island Climate Plan, Local Buy-in & 
Regional Synergy, Jan Reitsma, R.I. DEM;  II - Europe Leads:
Cutting Carbon Affordably, Michael Northrop, Rockefeller 
Brothers Fund.    18 Wkshps: Local climate action plans & 
GHG reduction strategies; Climate change sci, human & ocean
 impacts, solutns; Regional climate plan & realities; Greening 
town & gown; Green schls & capital projects; Transport: VMT’s, 
fuel use & SUVs; Community wind projects & Cape Wind; Global 
warming educatn K-12 & public; Framing the Climate Message; 
Advancing state & regional policy & action; Allied efforts; 
EcoTeams; Organizing skills; Media wkshp w. Globe & Herald 
envir reporters. $30 by 10/31. $40 at door.  Registr/Info: click
on Feature at http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html 
http://www.massclimateaction.org  cambclimact at aol.com, 
781-643-5911 Map: http://www.tufts.edu/source/maps/medford 

SUN, NOV 16
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

NOV 16-19
Young Scientists' Global Change Conf. Trieste, Italy. Info: 
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/YS_START_2003_announce.html

MON, NOV 17
Life on the Edge: Interfaces, Melting, & Survival of Life 
in Ice, John Wettlaufer (Yale). 2 - 3:30 pm, Rm 102, 
Kline Geol Lab, 210 Whitney Ave, Yale U, New Haven, CT. 
Info: http://www.yale.edu/yibs/calendar 

*MON, NOV 17
Wave driven currents & vortex dynamics on barred beaches, Prof 
Oliver Buhler, (NYU). 3 pm, MIT Bldg 1- Rm 350, 33 Mass Ave, 
Camb Info: ceed at mit.edu, http://events.mit.edu 
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=1&Buildings=go

MON, NOV 17 
Designing a  Sustainable Future: Emergence of New Paradigm for 
Green Design, Resrch Prof John Todd (U Vt; Ocean Arks Int’l). Tufts 
U, Medford, MA. 5:30 pm, Coolidge Rm, Ballou Hall, Tufts, 1 The
Green, Tufts Campus, Medford, MA Info: mary.knoble at tufts.edu
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/ierp/news.shtml 617-627-6871, 
Dir/Map: http://www.tufts.edu/source/maps/medford 

MON, NOV 17 
Mass. Interfaith Power & Light Ann Mtg. Spkr: Robert Pratt, 
(Dir, MA Renewable Energy Trust).   7 pm, First Parish 
in Westwood, 340 Clapboard Tree St, Westwood, 
MA Info//RSVP: lhoke at MIPandL.org  http://www.MIPandL.org 

MON, NOV 17
The Sacred Balance: w. David Suzuki. WGBH 44.
11/17 – 9 pm, The Fire of Creation (SB III)
11/17 - 10 pm, Coming Home: (SB IV)  Info: 
http://www.wgbh.org/program-info?episode_id=1029842&parent_id=1029736 

NOV 17 - 18
5th Ann. Financing US Power Projects. NYC
Info:  register at cbinet.com, http://www.cbinet.com 

NOV 17-20 
Joint Sci Conf on Chemical & Biological Defense Resch: Towson, 
MD Info: cbdefense at battelle.com, http://www.cbdefense.com 

*TUE, NOV 18
Cape Wind LLC - Cape Cod Wind Farm Permit Applicatn & 
EIS - Role of U.S. Army Corps of Enginrs & Update of Review. 
Larry Rosenberg, Public Affairs & Karen Adams, Permits & 
Enforcement, USACE. EBC Brkfst Mtg. 7:30 - 9:30 am, Grand 
Ballrm, Marriott Long Wharf,  296 State St, Boston $50/90. Info:
http://www.ebcne.org/meetings.htm http://www.nae.usace.army.mil 
http://www.capewind.org

TUE, NOV 18
Database Planning Basics for Non-Profits. 8:30-11:30 am, 
Assoc Grant Makers, 55 Court St, Suite 520, Boston, MA $50.
Info: http://www.summitcollaborative.com/ett_info_bos.html 
 
*TUE, NOV 18
Climate Change Backpack Training Program, 9:30am - 3:30 pm, 
NE Aquarium Educatn Ctr, Boston. Clim Educ for teachers,
nature interpreters. Rm & Dir on regstrtn. RSVP by 11/12. Free. 
Lunch $7. Info: janderson at neaq.org, 617-973-0256

*TUE, NOV 18
Pulp Story: Fate of a South Bronx Mill, Allen Hershkowitz 
(NRDC) & Lis Harris (Columbia U). 5:30 pm, MIT Tang Ctr,
Bldg E51, Rm 145, 2 Amherst St, Camb Info: efkeller at mit.edu  
http://web.mit.edu/tac/www  Map: 
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go 

*TUE, NOV 18
Lost Right Whales of No Atlantic: Are Waters of Iceland & 
Greenland a Long Hidden Refuge? Scott Kraus, (Dir Resrch, 
NEAq). 6 pm, New England Aquarium, Central Wharf,
Boston, MA. Info: http://www.neaq.org/scilearn/lecture 

*NOV 18 - 20
Build Boston. World Trade Ctr, 200 Seaport Blvd, Boston
Conf/Expo of No. Amer bldg industry. Wkshps incl green 
design & bldg practices. Info: http://www.buildboston.com

WED, NOV 19
Enforcement & Enviro Compliance, Jay Shimshack, (Tufts U) &
Michael Ward (U CA). 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, NOV 20
Wholesale Power Markets in NE After LMP & Blackout. NECA
Conf. Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, 
Allston/Boston $$$ Info: http://www.necanews.org 781-449-5959

THUR, NOV 20
Getting Green in Mesoamerica: Dams or Protection for Usumacinta 
River, Chris Shaw (Nature Writer). 12:15 – 1:15 pm, Bicentennial 
Hall, Rm 216, Bicentennial Way, Middlebury Collg, Middlebury, VT  
Info: http://www.middlebury.edu/depts/es/events/eventscalendarnew.htm 

THUR, NOV 20
Controls on transport & fate of organic matter in river-
Dominated continental margins, Miguel Goni (U So 
Carolina). 4 pm, Boston U Earth Sci Dept, Rm B36, 675 
Comm Ave, Boston. T: Green B Line BU East stop. Info: 
http://www.bu.edu/es/colloquia  Map: http://www.bu.edu/maps

*THUR, NOV 20
Financial Costs & Benefits of Green Bldg – New Calif Study, Greg 
Kats (Capital E). 5:30 - 8 pm, Marriott Springfield, 1500 Main St, 
Springfield, MA Regst/Info: http://www.ebcne.org/meetings.htm#1121 
http://ciwmb.ca.gov/GreenBuilding/Design/CostIssues.htm#Cost&Benefit 
Map: http://www.marriott.com/dpp/map.asp?MarshaCode=BDLMA 
http://www.usgbc.org  $15/$40. 617-489-8555 

*THUR, NOV 20
Climate Change in China: Science &  Response Strategy.  
Prof Ding Yihui, (Natl Climate Ctr, China Meteorlgcl Admin). 
6 pm, Pierce Hall, Rm 100F, 29 Oxford St, Harvard U, Camb 
Info: gbeach at fas.harvard.edu  Map: http://www.map.harvard.edu

*FRI, NOV 21
Financial Costs & Benefits of Green Bldg – New Calif Study, Greg Kats 
(Capital E). 7:30- 9:30 am, Boston Harbor Hotel, Wharf Rm, 70 Rowes 
Wharf, Boston. Regst/Info: http://www.ebcne.org/meetings.htm#1121 
http://ciwmb.ca.gov/GreenBuilding/Design/CostIssues.htm#Cost&Benefit 
Map: http://www.bhh.com/map.htm  $15/$40. 617-489-8555

FRI, NOV 21
Conservation of Atlantic salmon in Maine, Paul Barten 
(UMass). 11 am, Seminar rm, Shaler Hall, Harvard 
Forest, Petersham, MA Info: aabarker at fas.harvard.edu, 
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminarschedule.html 

FRI, NOV 21
Inter-decadal Variability of Asian Monsoon & Possible Link to 
Climate Consequences of Atmospheric Aerosols, Ding Yihui. 
Noon, Pierce Hall, Rm 100F, 29 Oxford St, Camb 
Info: http://www-as.harvard.edu/seminars/seminars.html 

FRI, NOV 21
Abating threat of invasive species: putting sci to work in public 
policy, 
Ann Bartuska (Nature Consrvncy). 3 pm, Whitman Audit, Water St,
Wds Hole, MA Dir: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/visit/directions 
Info: http://www.mbl.edu/inside/what/news/events/events_ses.html

FRI, NOV 21 
Envir policy & abatement technique choice: Evidence from 
1990 Clean Air Act, Nat Keohane (Yale Schl of Mngmt). 
4 pm, Bos U Stone Sci Bldg, 675 Comm. Ave, 4th flr, 
Rm 453, Boston Map: http://www.bu.edu/maps 
Info: http://www.bu.edu/cees/resources/index.html 

*FRI, NOV 21
Election Strategy 2004 To Elect & Protect Pro-Enviro Candidates. 
5-8 pm, Lenox Hotel, Boylston & Exeter Sts, Back Bay, Boston.
Panel: Congressman Jim McGovern, Warren Tolman, Rep. Jay Kaufman, 
Jill Stein, Spons: MA CWAVE). $30/$60 Donatn. Non-partisan.
RSVP/Info: http://www.cleanwateraction.org/Nov21 617-338-8131, 
413-549-6834 jknudsen at cleanwater.org, T: Green Line Copley Sq Statn.

SAT, NOV 22
4th Ann. Toxics Action Conf. Colby College, Waterville, ME
To help residents fight pollution in our communities. Spkrs: 
US Rep Tom Allen & Barbara Brenner (Breast Cancer Action).
Info: http://www.toxicsaction.org/events.htm 
Dir: http://www.colby.edu/about/directions.shtml 

*MON, NOV 24
Chemical Sensors for the Aquatic Envir: Studying Biogeo-
chemistry & Pollutant Transport w. Robots? Prof Harold Hemond
(Parsons Lab MIT).12:30 pm, EERP, HSPH,Landmark Ctr West,
Rm 414A, 401 Park Dr, Boston Info: dsenn at hsph.harvard.edu 
T: Fenway Stop Riverside D Green Line. 
Map: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps 

MON, NOV 24 
Rivers, rocks & rain: interplay between climate, tectonics 
& erosion, Gerard Roe (U Wash). 4 pm, Haller Hall, Geol. 
Museum, Rm 102, 24 Oxford St, Harv U, Camb Info:
http://www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscolloque.php 

*TUE, NOV 25
Deep Science: Expeditn to World's Last Remaining
Underwater Lab for Sci, Greg Stone (NEAq) & Brian Skerry, 
(Natl Geographic Mag). 6 pm, Simon's IMAX® Theatre, NEAq,
Central Wharf, Boston Info: http://www.neaq.org/scilearn/lecture

FRI, NOV 28
Buy Nothing Day. USA 
Info: http://adbusters.org/campaigns 

DECEMBER 2003

MON, DEC 1
Governing the Global Envir: Anatomy of a Policy Failure 
- & Where Do We Go From Here, Gus Speth (Yale). 
2 - 3:30 pm, Rm 102, Kline Geol Lab, 210 Whitney Ave, 
Yale U, New Haven, CT. Info: http://www.yale.edu/yibs/calendar 

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
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 

*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

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
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 

*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 

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

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 

WED, DEC 10
Bos Soc Architects: Committee on the Envir Mtg.
8-10 am, Topic, Loc TBA Info: ken_fisher at gensler.com 
http://committees.architects.org/green/newcote.htm 

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/ 

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*Harvard Green Campus Initiative Newsletter 
http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu

*How Green is Your Car? US ‘04 fuel economy data:
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*Change a Light, Change the World 2003 Campaign. Info: 
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If It Ain't Broke, Break It. re: Getting Rid of Enviro Regs
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Enviro Defense “Undoit.org” Global Warming Campaign
http://www.undoit.org  http://www.actionnetwork.org 

Three New Reports on Transportation Energy Issues:
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“Consumer Views on Transportatn & Energy”:
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EPA climate chg listservs: http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/listservs

State of The Commons 2003/04: Report to Owners: 
http://www.friendsofthecommons.org

Costs of Inaction: Delaying Action on Global Warming 
Costs Consumers & Envir (report). U.S. PIRG Education Fund. 
At: http://uspirg.org/uspirg.asp?id2=10915&id3=USPIRG& 

How NYC Is Adapting to Global Climate Challenges, 
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160,000 said dying yearly from global warming. Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30616897.htm 

“The Discovery of Global Warming.” Spencer Weart. (HUP ‘03) 
Info: http://www.aip.org/history/climate (Book & website).

CA-CP Climate Solutions for the Northeast Conf Proceedings 
(May 11-13, 2003, Hartford, CT) Online: 
http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/information/csn_03_resources.php 

Connecticut Campuses for Climate Action Wkshp Presentatns
(March 23, 2003) Online:
http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/information/ccca_presentations.php 

Bk/URL: “The Discovery of Global Warming.” Spencer 
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Energy Star Online Trainings & Presentations
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Alert:  Stop New Push to Open Arctic Wildlife Refuge 
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Costs of Preventable Childhood Illness: The Price We Pay for 
Pollution. R Massey & F Ackerman. 9/03 GDAE, Tufts.
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/articles_reports/Childhood_Illness.PDF 

http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/highlights/massey_ackermanreport.htm 

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From jalee at MIT.EDU  Sun Nov  9 09:26:15 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 09:26:15 -0500
Subject: [Save] Help meet the goal: 40% recycling in Cambridge by 2005
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031109092113.01f2f318@po11.mit.edu>

Greetings to those who live or work off campus:
As part of the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan, the city has implemented 
a goal of recycling 40% of all solid waste by 2005. You can help! Here's a 
message from Randi Mail, Director of Recycling for Cambridge:


Can you imagine 1700 full recycling trucks parked for over almost 9 miles 
bumper to bumper along the Red Line subway tracks from the Alewife T Stop 
all the way to the JFK/UMASS T Stop in Boston? Last year alone, Cambridge 
residents filled that many trucks to the brim with nearly 18,000,000 pounds 
of paper and containers diverted from landfills and incinerators to be made 
into new recycled products!

College students living off-campus in Cambridge make up nearly 10% of the 
population, generating well over 2500 tons of waste each year.  That's 
almost half a ton of waste per student!  Are you doing your part?

Help us meet our goal to recycle 40% of our waste by 2005.  Recycle all of 
your paper, cardboard and cans and bottles every week.  Place rinsed 
containers loose in your blue bin, put papers in a paper bag or bundle with 
string and flatten your cardboard to 3'x3'.  It's that simple.  Free the 
trash!

Visit the Cambridge Recycling website at 
http://www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/departments/recycle/, and click on 
residents.  Your efforts will go a long way to reduce greenhouse gas 
emissions, save resources, and create jobs.  Thank you!

If you are interested in volunteering to spread the word out about 
recycling in Cambridge, please contact us.


Randi Mail
Director of Recycling
Cambridge Dept of Public Works
T  617.349.4866
F  617.349.4814
<mailto:rmail at cambridgema.gov>rmail at cambridgema.<mailto:rmail at cambridgema.gov>gov 

www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/departments/recycle  
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From jalee at MIT.EDU  Mon Nov 10 09:44:28 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:44:28 -0500
Subject: [Save] Massachusetts Recycles Day plant handouts
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031110094154.01e70518@po11.mit.edu>

Hello everyone,
So here's the deal about plant handouts:
--Attached, you'll find a poster for the plant handouts. Please print a few 
and put them in appropriate places (your dorm, your lab, your favorite 
classroom, etc).
The table will be in the Student Center; we'll be accompanied by the 
Working Group Recycling Committee.
I have class from 8-10, but I'll set up beforehand. I'll bring down 
everything except the plants, which I'll leave in the SMAC and Matt and 
Cathy can bring down. (Matt, Cathy, do you know where the SMAC is? 4th 
floor. I'll give you the exact room number and combination in another email).


There's still time to volunteer! The schedule for plant handouts so far is:
setup: Jessica
10:00-11:00: Matt & Cathy
11:30-12:30: Elizabeth
12:30-4:00; cleanup: Jessica

To give away plants, here's what you do:
Put some soil in a peat pot.
Ask the visitor to our booth what kind of plant he or she likes.
Cut a sprig from the plant. It should include at least 2 pairs of leaves, 
and you should cut the stem just below a leaf.
Dip the end of the stem in rooting hormone, and stick it in the soil.
Give it some water. Hand it to the happy visitor.

Ask people about recycling in their dorms. We'd like to find out which 
dorms have good recycling programs, which have really bad ones, and how we 
can help. One option we're considering is encouraging the use of 
housekeeping staff to collect recycling in every dorm (this happens in some 
dorms but not all)-- there's an economic incentive for the house manager to 
employ such a policy, because recycling is much cheaper than trash, per pound.

Any questions? email me back!
Thanks very much for all your help!

Jessica
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From hemisphere-announce at MIT.EDU  Mon Nov 10 17:05:43 2003
From: hemisphere-announce at MIT.EDU (hemisphere-announce@MIT.EDU)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:05:43 -0500
Subject: [Save] 11/11, 7pm: Hemisphere Open Meeting, MIT 4-231
Message-ID: <p06010215bbd5b88a6494@[18.160.1.241]>


                      PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT


     MIT Western Hemisphere Project
     
     Open Meeting (November)
     Tuesday, November 11
     7 pm in MIT Room 4-231
              
     Agenda (i.e., planning) to be discussed at Tuesday's meeting:

        * Thanksgiving event on Navajo/Hopi weaving/environment/economics
        * January film series -- suggestions?
        * January seminar on doing public service abroad -- participants?
        * Drama/poetry performance (Julia de Burgos), Spring term
        * Anything else you would like to propose or discuss

     Light refreshments will be provided.

     Our open meetings give you a chance to tell us what activities and
     events you would like to see or *help organize*.  Each semester we hold
     these meetings on Registration Day and also on the 2nd Tuesday of each
     month.  This semester all our open meetings are at 7 pm in room 4-231.


     DETAILS

     Schedule: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/meetings/         
     E-mail: hemisphere-admin at mit.edu
     Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/
     Directions: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/directions/
     
                                                                      .
     

From fricks at MIT.EDU  Mon Nov 10 15:01:27 2003
From: fricks at MIT.EDU (Susan Frick)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:01:27 -0500
Subject: [Save] PHRJ Upcoming Events
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031110145724.01d02540@po14.mit.edu>


Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice


CANCELLED: Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and Transitional 
Justice: Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?
Mauricio Romero, Universidad Nacional de Bogot?, Colombia
Thursday November 13, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)

Forum on  Accountability, Impunity and Governance in India
Saturday November 15, 2003
3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: 1-190
Panelists: Ram Narayan Kumar, author of Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency 
and Human Rights in Punjab
Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, New Delhi Television
Teesta Setalvad, Editor, Communalism Combat, and 2003 Recipient of the 
Nuremburg Human Rights Award
Siddharth Varadarajan, Deputy Chief of the News Bureau, Times of India
Moderator: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Director of the MIT Program on Human 
Rights and Justice (on leave 2003-04)

Can the Judiciary Prevent Massive Human Rights Abuses? Experience from India
Justice Verma, former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court and former 
Chair of the National Human Rights Commission
Monday November 17, 2003
12:15-1:30 p.m.
Location: E38-615

Program on Human Rights and Justice Summer Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004.



Other Human Rights Opportunities in the MIT Community

Clothing Drive
United Trauma Relief, a student group at MIT, is setting up a clothing 
drive this week at the request of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. 
All donated clothing will be sent to Ethiopia at the end of the month. 
Please look for labeled bags and boxes in dorm lobbies. Signs will be 
posted Thursday directing those without dorm access to where they can 
deposit clothes.

Northwestern University to Host Student Conference on Human Rights
April 23-25, 2004
A travel stipend, housing, meals and local transportation will be provided 
to participants. Applications are due December 1 and are available at 
<http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/>http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/. 



Graduating Seniors: Interested in serving as a Research Fellow at the 
Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington D.C.? Applications are due at 
CIS 12/15/03. 
<http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp>http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp



Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
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From jalee at MIT.EDU  Tue Nov 11 21:39:47 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:39:47 -0500
Subject: [Save] Mass Recycles Day update
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031111212956.01fbb890@po11.mit.edu>

Hello SAVE members!
Here are a few changes to the plant handouts schedule (Friday, November 14, 
1st floor of the Student Center, in front of LaVerde's):

I can, in fact, set up completely and actually be there at 10:00 to help 
Matt and Cathy get started.
Unfortunately, I can't be there in the middle of the day. Can anyone fill 
in from 12:30-1:00 or, even better, until 2:00?
Here's a new version of the schedule:

setup 9:30-10:30: Jessica
10:00-11:00: Matt & Cathy
11:00-11:30 or 12:00: Jessica
11:30-12:30: Elizabeth
12:30-1:00: nobody?
1:00-3:00: Jessica
3:00-4:00: Sarah & Steph
4:00 & cleanup: Jessica


To give away plants, here's what you do:
Put some soil in a peat pot.
Ask the visitor to our booth what kind of plant he or she likes.
Cut a sprig from the plant. It should include at least 2 pairs of leaves, 
and you should cut the stem just below a leaf.
Dip the end of the stem in rooting hormone, and stick it in the soil.
Give it some water. Hand it to the happy visitor.

Ask people about recycling in their dorms. We'd like to find out which 
dorms have good recycling programs, which have really bad ones, and how we 
can help. One option we're considering is encouraging the use of 
housekeeping staff to collect recycling in every dorm (this happens in some 
dorms but not all)-- there's an economic incentive for the house manager to 
employ such a policy, because recycling is much cheaper than trash, per pound.

Don't forget to print some posters and post them!

Jessica
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From gmoke at world.std.com  Tue Nov 11 22:25:38 2003
From: gmoke at world.std.com (George Mokray)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:25:38 -0500
Subject: [Save] Possible Bicycle Generator?
Message-ID: <a05200f01bbd752b7378f@[69.38.146.54]>

I finally bought one of those "forever flashlights," a device where 
you shake a magnet through a copper coil to charge a capacitor and 
light an LED.  30 seconds of shaking for 5 minutes of light.  Or so 
they say on the box.  It works, sort of, but is not the brightest 
light I've seen in a flashlight.

However, what if you hooked one up to a bicycle wheel?  A bicycle 
electricity generator with less drag than wheel rim or hub generators?

From belg4mit at MIT.EDU  Tue Nov 11 22:43:14 2003
From: belg4mit at MIT.EDU (Jerrad Pierce)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:43:14 -0500
Subject: [Save] Possible Bicycle Generator?
Message-ID: <200311120343.hAC3hES3012780@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu>

Depnding on the mass and your speed that's not likely to work, think
centripetal force.
-- 
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MOTD on Setting Orange, the 23rd of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3169:
>Eat, Drink, and be Merry >>But I want to be John. Why do I always have to be Mary? -JP

From hemisphere-announce at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov 13 17:08:14 2003
From: hemisphere-announce at MIT.EDU (hemisphere-announce@MIT.EDU)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:08:14 -0500
Subject: [Save] 11/18 (Tues): Why Won't Native Americans Just Go Away?
Message-ID: <p06010260bbd9a7d8cee8@[18.160.1.241]>


             PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT


The MIT Western Hemisphere Project invites you to attend
our annual Thanksgiving remembrance.  This year:
  
  
  "This Land is _Your_ Land"?
   Working with Native American communities in Arizona
   to preserve and promote a sustainable way of life

   Anna Bershteyn (MIT) & Kaia Dekker (MIT)

   Jennifer Harbury, lawyer and activist for indigeous
                     people across the Hemisphere, will
                     introduce our speakers.

   7 pm,  Tuesday, November 18,  MIT Room 66-110

   Admission is free, but please arrive early.


DETAILS:

Traditional Navajo and Hopi communities in northern Arizona
occupy only a small fraction of the land they once did.  Yet
even the land they now occupy is extremely valuable to others.
Cheap coal and even cheaper water attract would-be developers
and users.  Because of political pressure, what would otherwise
be a sustainable way of life is in danger of quickly becoming
unsustainable.

Two MIT students -- Anna Bershteyn and Kaia Dekker -- spent
much of last summer living & working among the Dine (Navajo)
in Northern Arizona.  They had two goals: to understand what
life is like among the traditional Dine; and to see what
knowledge and resources they could contribute.  They took
computers and other equipment with them; they helped raise
sheep and bring Churro wool to market; they assisted in a
systematic survey of roads and terrain; and they heard
stories, and more stories, and even more stories.

Please come to find out what they learned from their Navajo
host-families; and see what the rest of us can learn from them.

NB: The summer Anna and Kaia spent in Arizona is part of our
continuing outreach and public-service effort (information: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/our-planet-series.shtml).
It was funded by the MIT Eloranta Fellowship program and the
MIT Public Service Center.  Computers and software were
donated by the MIT Libraries.  And host-family arrangements
were made by Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land.  We don't
know how to thank these organizations for their help and
support -- without which we could have done nothing.


MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT & DIRECTIONS

More: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/
E-mail: mailto:hemisphere-admin at mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/
Directions: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/directions/
  
  
  

From jalee at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov 13 19:52:32 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:52:32 -0500
Subject: [Save] Free Plants! Celebrate America Recycles Day!
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031113194453.02341ba0@po11.mit.edu>

The time has come, once again, to join SAVE (Share A Vital Earth) in 
celebrating America Recycles Day!

Come to the Student Center (first floor) on Friday, November 14, and take 
home a free houseplant. We'll be there between 10am and 4pm.
While you're there, learn more about recycling at MIT from the Working 
Group Committee on Recycling. Bring any questions and comments you have 
about what happens to your newspapers and cans.

for more information on the national movement, check out 
http://www.americarecyclesday.org/

Spread the awareness! Tell everyone you know that November 15 is America 
Recycles Day!


From jalee at MIT.EDU  Fri Nov 14 09:00:38 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:00:38 -0500
Subject: [Save] Fwd: Free Plants! Celebrate America Recycles Day!
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031114085819.02009620@po11.mit.edu>

Don't forget-- it's today!

         FREE PLANTS!



>The time has come, once again, to join SAVE (Share A Vital Earth) in 
>celebrating America Recycles Day!
>
>Come to the Student Center (first floor) on Friday, November 14, and take 
>home a free houseplant. We'll be there between 10am and 4pm.
>While you're there, learn more about recycling at MIT from the Working 
>Group Committee on Recycling. Bring any questions and comments you have 
>about what happens to your newspapers and cans.
>
>for more information on the national movement, check out 
>http://www.americarecyclesday.org/
>
>Spread the awareness! Tell everyone you know that November 15 is America 
>Recycles Day!


From mols at MIT.EDU  Fri Nov 14 17:41:26 2003
From: mols at MIT.EDU (Molly McGuire)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:41:26 -0500
Subject: [Save] The Village Lives - The Portland City Repair Project
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031114142227.00ac5760@hesiod>


The DUSP Student Forum, Building Technology Program, and DUSP Environmental 
Policy Group

cordially invite you to

The Village Lives

a presentation of

The Portland City Repair Project

by Mark Lakeman and Jenny Leis

on Thursday, November 20 at 6:30 in 7-431 (AVT)

Join us for this rare opportunity to learn about Portland, Oregon's unique 
community renaissance from the people who are making it happen.

The City Repair Project combines architecture, planning, anthropology, 
community development, public art, permaculture, and ecological design in 
projects that transform space and transfer power at local levels. By 
helping citizens re-imagine and literally rebuild their own public commons, 
City Repair establishes the physical and social foundations for sustainable 
culture.

Both a non-profit organization and a larger citizen movement, City Repair 
inspires and guides the transformation of the socially-isolating American 
city into a vital community of human-scale, culturally-rich neighborhoods.

Refreshments will be served.
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From jalee at MIT.EDU  Sat Nov 15 01:26:24 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:26:24 -0500
Subject: [Save] Fwd: Updated:   N.E. Grassroots Climate Conf. at Tufts Nov 16.
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>Mass. Climate Action Network's & Tufts Climate Initiative's
>                   3rd Annual MA and NE
>
>GRASSROOTS CLIMATE ACTION CONFERENCE
>Sunday, Nov. 16, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
>Tufts University, Cabot Hall, Medford, MA
>
>? Learn what citizens, businesses, towns, and states can do and are
>doing
>? Network with climate activists, technical & policy experts from Mass.
>& New England
>
>Keynote Speakers:
>"Rhode Island's Climate Plan, Local Buy-in and Regional Synergy,"
>Jan Reitsma, Frmr Dir., Rhode Island Dept. of Envir. Man.
>
>"Europe Leads: Cutting Carbon Affordably,"
>Michael Northrop, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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From: cambclimact at aol.com (Michael Charney)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:11:10 +0000
Subject: [Save] Updated:   N.E. Grassroots Climate Conf. at Tufts Nov 16.
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Dear New England Environmentalist,


NE's 3rd Annual Grassroots Climate Action Conf is this Sunday at Tufts 
U. just outside Boston.  Again, we have a very strong program:   See our 
new "Full Program" & "Speakers Bio's" now up at 
http://www.massclimateaction.org (PDF & Word) & see for yourself.

You can do "walk'in"  but if you RSVP to CambClimAct at aol.com, we can 
ease you through registration & on to breakfast & meeting others.

Please see & forward the e-flier below to friends who want to get active 
locally and vocally to stabilize the climate!

Best
Michael Charney
Editor & Publisher of NE Climate & Enviro Calendar
Conference Chair & MCAN Co-chair
CambClimAct at aol.com
617-492-6614



                         Please Forward

Mass. Climate Action Network's & Tufts Climate Initiative's 
                  3rd Annual MA and NE

GRASSROOTS CLIMATE ACTION CONFERENCE
Sunday, Nov. 16, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tufts University, Cabot Hall, Medford, MA

· Learn what citizens, businesses, towns, and states can do and are 
doing
· Network with climate activists, technical & policy experts from Mass. 
& New England

Keynote Speakers:
"Rhode Island's Climate Plan, Local Buy-in and Regional Synergy,"
Jan Reitsma, Frmr Dir., Rhode Island Dept. of Envir. Man.

"Europe Leads: Cutting Carbon Affordably,"
Michael Northrop, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

18+ Workshops:
* Local climate action plans & GHG reduction strategies
* Climate change science, human & ocean impacts, solutions
* Regional Climate Plan & Realities     *Greening Town & Gown
* Green schools & capital projects   * Transport: VMT's & Fuel Use
* Community Wind Projects & Cape Wind      * Allied Efforts
* Getting Ink!    * Global warming education for K-12 & public
* Pushing state & regional policy & action    * Organizing Skills

Registration:  $40 at door, includes breakfast & lunch. 
Student rate: $30 at door; If group, please call 617-492-6614.

To speed registration at door: Please e-RSVP if possible.
& Bring checks payable to: "Commonwealth Foundation."

Program & registration:  http://www.massclimateaction.org  
Complete & updated "Program" & "Speaker Bio's" newly posted on MCAN's 
website:  <http://www.massclimateaction.org>  

Info: CambClimAct at aol.com  or  781-643-5911 

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From kgibson at mit.edu  Fri Nov 14 16:20:54 2003
From: kgibson at mit.edu (Karen Gibson)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:20:54 -0500
Subject: [Save] 
 [E&S-seminars] Nov. 21 E&S Seminar "Communicating Scientific
	Complexity"
Message-ID: <p05010417bbdaf5ccbd20@[18.172.3.99]>

Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
<http://lfee.mit.edu>

A quick reminder, please join us for a special seminar speaker:

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Global Environment & Energy Correspondent for The Economist

"Communicating Scientific Complexity:
Linking Urgency to Abstraction in a Data-Shy World"

Friday, November 21
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Room E40-298

ABSTRACT
	Vijay Vaitheeswaran, energy and environment writer at The 
Economist magazine, spends his days breathing excitement into what 
most people consider a sleep-aid: scientific evidence. This 
indefatigable writer has been told a million times that Energy is 
Boring. Friends and family began to ostracize him for bringing up 
topics like the myth of hydrocarbon scarcity at dinner parties. 
Colleagues questioned his sanity when, five years ago, he turned down 
a posting in sunny Brazil for the energy job in London. Even Vijay 
himself, on more than one rainy London day, has wondered why. So he 
did the only thing he could do: he wrote a book about the future of 
energy.

	Please come and hear his tales of misadventure as he set 
about writing POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Cameo appearances by cow dung, the 
most powerful oilman in the world, and Cindy Crawford are all 
promised. Along the way, he'll reveal his insights into communicating 
complex information successfully to a general (and generally 
uninterested!) non-technical audience. He'll describe the travels, 
investigations, and analysis required to tackle a scientifically 
complex and politically charged topic. He'll explain some of the 
obstacles he overcame to write the book, not least the skepticism of 
those around him. And he'll even let you in on the secrets of writing 
for, and pitching your ideas to, The Economist.

	Vijay will also be talking to MIT alumni at 6:00 p.m. in the 
Bush room (10-105), in case you are unable to attend this seminar. 
His book is available at the COOP.

Light refreshments will be provided.
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From mslow at MIT.EDU  Sat Nov 15 08:35:31 2003
From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:35:31 -0500
Subject: [Save] Fwd: Report: 15 Campuses Participate in Dell Day of Action
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>Subject: Report: 15 Campuses Participate in Dell Day of Action
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>Here's an update of activities that happened during our national Day of 
>Action (Oct 23).  If you haven't already figured out what you will be 
>doing next week for the Week of Action (Nov 17-21), perhaps this update 
>can give you some ideas. If your group hasn't already, please fill out the 
>campaign endorsement form (attached)--we're up to 60 campuses from around 
>the country that have endorsed the campaign!  We're shooting for 100 by 
>the end of the month, so pass the form along to any of your friends on 
>campus or at other universities who are in groups that might be able to 
>support us.
>
>Keep up the great work!
>
>
>
>Dell Day of Action 10/23/03  Campus Report
>
>Boston College
>Ecopledge tabled the student center at Boston College. Armed with 
>?lollipops and an iron will? they gathered 141 signatures on a biohazard 
>suit that was worn for part of the afternoon by Elli Caldwell. Passersby 
>also signed 30 postcards and over a
>dozen signed up to be part of the campaign in the future. During the event we
>also gave out information, notices about an upcoming visit by Dell's 
>president
>to BC (which has since been cancelled) in little over a week, and showed 
>the movie Exporting Harm throughout the afternoon.
>Colorado University  Boulder
>
>Students from COPIRG and Ecopledge brought forth a resolution to the 
>Legislative Council of the University of Colorado Student Union, that 
>stated that the UCSU supports the CTBC, that called on Dell to take back 
>its computers free of charge, to phase out the use of hazardous materials, 
>and to recycle with responsible domestic recyclers. The resolution was passed.
>Indiana University
>INPIRG showed the video to some students and then they successfully talked 
>to other students and got several pages of petitions signed (put we don?t 
>have exact number). They are sending a care pack to Dell.
>Muhlenberg College
>Muhlenberg students in the New Information Technologies class spent the 
>day in the student union raising awareness about e-waste. More than 140 
>students signed a petition directed to Michael Dell.  Students took 
>pictures and are sending a carepack to Dell.
>Rice University (Houston) -
>
>This campus did a small action where they put up flyers about the Computer 
>TakeBack Campaign all over campus. They are making plans for November.
>
>Southwestern University
>
>Students from the environmental club SEAK are interested in 
>procurement.  They watched Exporting Harm the night before and did tabling 
>during the lunch hours for the day of action.  In total they got 136 
>signatures- that's approx 10% of the student population because it's a 
>small private university.  They passed out fliers.  It is yet to be 
>determined if the group is going to send a carepack. On November 8th, the 
>schools fall earth day, there will be a table set up and the exporting 
>harm video will be shown.
>
>Skidmore
>Skidmore set up a booth on campus and distributed information off our 
>website.  They got about 40 signatures and are sending Dell a care pack!!!
>Texas State University (San Marcos formerly SWT):
>Students set up a table and talked to others for most of the day.  They 
>passed out fliers and recruited other students for the week of 
>action.  One student wore a haz-mat suit and got students to sign it.  In 
>all they got 63 signatures.  They are showing the video on November 11 in 
>preparation for the week of action.  Student group Texas State Campaign 
>for the Environment is signing onto the ad and preparing the care pack.
>
>University of Central Florida
>Recycle UCF got an article published in their campus paper about recycling 
>and the Computer TakeBack Campaign in order to get the word out on campus. 
>The article also advertised the www.toxicdude.com website and encouraged 
>students to sign the on-line petition.
>University of Kentucky  Greenthumb
>
>Students tabled on Oct. 22.  They got 60 petition signatures.  They 
>created a huge poster that said ?Tell Dell to Recycle!?.  Then on the 
>23rd, they did a little space right before a campus concert to talk about 
>the campaign.  They did take pictures and are planning on sending the 
>pictures and the petitions in a Carepack to Dell!
>
>University of Texas-  A group called the Recycling Task Force spent time 
>on campus gathering signatures (just a few) and lots of post cards! Then 
>the next night they showed the Exporting Harm video to their own group in 
>prep for more action in November.
>
>University of Vermont
>
>Students were out tabling and gathered over 100 signatures.  A few days 
>later UVM President Dan Fogle held one of his periodic "listening 
>sessions". Two students attended to ask if the university will live up to 
>its green reputation by adopting a computer procurement policy that only 
>buys from responsible manufacturers who commit to real goals on recycling. 
>President Fogel agreed the topic is an important one and said he?ll set 
>our friends up with the appropriate staffers to discuss the issue. Our 
>campus activists aren't planning to wait around for the president's call 
>however, and are already planning more events for the national week of 
>action including a call in day and screening of the video "Exporting Harm".
>
>University of Wisconsin  Madison
>
>Several students from WISPIRG created a large ?e-waste pile? with 
>information about the toxics inside machines and pictures of e-waste 
>?recycling? in China. Students took turns wearing hazardous waste suits 
>and gathered 254 signatures on 3 suits. They were covered by a city paper 
>as well as two campus papers.  They are sending a carepack.
>
>University of Wisconsin  Milwaukee
>
>Students set up a table inside their union and created a big monitor tower 
>of mock Dells. They gathered 164 signatures on old obsolete 5 ? inch 
>floppy disks.  They took pictures and plan to send a carepack.
>Vanderbilt
>Students set up an informational table with pictures and 
>information.  They collected several pages of signatures, but did not 
>report final numbers.  They're sending a carepack with the petitions they 
>got signed and the pictures.
>
>
>
>Clean Water Action
>Computer TakeBack Campaign Organizer
>617.338.8131 phone
>617.338.6449 fax
>kreeve at cleanwater.org
>www.computertakeback.com
>www.toxicdude.com
>
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From jlkeith at MIT.EDU  Sat Nov 15 09:15:26 2003
From: jlkeith at MIT.EDU (Jamie Lewis Keith)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:15:26 -0500
Subject: [Save] Re: recycling in dorms
In-Reply-To: <1068879587.26643.7.camel@w20-575-14.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031115091153.017803b0@hesiod>

This is great, Alma.  Kevin Healey who coordinates recycling in Facilities 
and Justin Adams who spearheads these efforts in the Environmental Programs 
Task Force and EHS office will be in touch with you this week to provide 
support in your recycling efforts.  You may also be interested in the 
Working Group Subcommittee on Recycling, which is a key committee on 
recycling efforts throughout the Institute.
Best regards,
Jamie Lewis Keith
Managing Director for Environmental Programs, and Senior Counsel


At 01:59 AM 11/15/2003 -0500, Alma E Rico wrote:
>Hi,
>I was wondering if i could get some information regarding how i could
>obtain some recycling bins for my dorm and how they would be picked up.
>I just moved to Bexley and it seems to be one of the few dorms that
>doesn't have a recycling program.  I would like to take action on this
>issue, but I'm not sure who can help me.  If you can guide me in the
>right direction I would really appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Alma E. Rico

Jamie Lewis Keith, Senior Counsel
Office of the Senior Counsel, Room 7-206
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA. 02139
(617) 452-2082
(617) 452-3110 (fax)

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From fricks at MIT.EDU  Mon Nov 17 10:19:08 2003
From: fricks at MIT.EDU (Susan Frick)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:19:08 -0500
Subject: [Save] MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice Upcoming Events
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031117101304.00b9c408@po14.mit.edu>


Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice


****TODAY****

Can the Judiciary Prevent Massive Human Rights Abuses? Experience from India
Justice Verma, former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court and former 
Chair of the National Human Rights Commission
Monday November 17, 2003
12:15-1:30 p.m.
Location: E38-615 (292 Main Street, Kendall Square)

Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street, Kendall Square)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004.

Other Human Rights Opportunities in the MIT Community

Clothing Drive for Ethiopia extended through Friday November 21
The clothing drive by United Trauma Relief at the request of the UN High 
Commissioner for Refugees will continue this week. Please look for labeled 
bags and boxes in MIT dorms and in the lobby of Building 10 Monday, 
Thursday and Friday this week.  For more information, please contact 
Shefali Oza at sboza at mit.edu.

Design that Matters Inventor's Tutorial
Tuesday Nov. 18 at 7:30 pm in 6-120.
Professor Calestous Juma, Kennedy School of Government, and Coordinator of 
the UN Millenium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation.
Kurt Kornbluth, Development Engineer, Whirlwind Wheelchair International
Saul Griffith, winner of the 2003 National Inventor's Hall of Fame 
Collegiate Inventor's Award
Robert Tosti, Partner, Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault, LLP
The event will be followed by a reception featuring DtM Mentors, Community 
Partner Design Challenges, and information on how YOU can start using your 
skills to help undeserved communities. The reception will include desserts 
from Mike's Pastry.
Contact: Will DelHagen, willd at mit.edu 
<http://web.mit.edu/dtm/>http://web.mit.edu/dtm/

Northwestern University to Host Student Conference on Human Rights
April 23-25, 2004
A travel stipend, housing, meals and local transportation will be provided 
to participants. Applications are due December 1 and are available at 
<http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/>http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/. 


Graduating Seniors: Interested in serving as a Research Fellow at the 
Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington D.C.? Applications are due at 
CIS 12/15/03. 
<http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp>http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp



Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
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From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Mon Nov 17 12:21:55 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:21:55 -0500
Subject: [Save] 
 Sustainable Development Seminar Series - 11/18/03 and 11/20/03
  this week
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The Students for Global Sustainability, MIT Student Pugwash, Engineers 
Without Frontiers and Design that Matters invite you to:

Sustainable Development Seminar Series
Sustainable Energy


Renewable vs. Sustainable Energy
Edward Kern, Jr., MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment
Tuesday November 18, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237

How do we strike a balance between using today's extractable and depleting 
resources and striving today to capture the promise of new and more costly 
renewable energy technologies?  If we continue to embrace centralized power 
technologies, what must we assume regarding benevolent governance and law 
enforcement, civil liberties and addressing society's discontents that 
would threaten the common good?  Dr. Kern will take address the practical, 
theoretical and philosophical differences between sustainable and renewable 
energy in the context of sustainable development.



Community Wind
Andrew Stern, Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Brown, Hull Wind
Thursday November 20, 2003 at 6PM, location TBA

Windpower has become a billion dollar industry in the US, and yet New 
England has almost entirely chosen imported fuels.  Massachusetts' only 
windpower installations are community owned.  The Town of Hull has received 
enormous attention for installing a single wind turbine because the 
decision-making and ownership is community-based.  The adoption of wind 
energy in New England may depend on local decisions - Europe's leadership 
in wind is built on over 200,000 households that invested in local wind 
turbines.  (hullwind.org)



please forward to any interested parties
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From dbarnes at MIT.EDU  Mon Nov 17 14:23:14 2003
From: dbarnes at MIT.EDU (Derrick Barnes)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:23:14 -0500
Subject: [Save] Fwd: Re: recycling in dorms
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031117100649.024bc128@hesiod>

Hi, Alma,

We actually do have a recycling program at Bexley Hall.  If you go to the 
basement, you will see well-used bins behind the bar and the water fountain 
near the soda machine.  The housekeepers separate the recyclables as they 
throw away the trash and put it in the bins behind the bar.  The bins are 
taken to the back of Bexley on Tuesday night for Wednesday morning's 
pickup.  Since there is very limited space in the kitchens and suites, the 
bins became a tripping hazard.  The residents decided to put the 
recyclables next to the trash barrels so the housekeepers collect it all 
when they empty trash from room to room.  The trash, which is emptied 
daily, is sorted through in case the residents miss some of the recycling.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Derrick

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>                 Carl
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>>This is great, Alma.  Kevin Healey who coordinates recycling in 
>>Facilities and Justin Adams who spearheads these efforts in the 
>>Environmental Programs Task Force and EHS office will be in touch with 
>>you this week to provide support in your recycling efforts.  You may also 
>>be interested in the Working Group Subcommittee on Recycling, which is a 
>>key committee on recycling efforts throughout the Institute.
>>Best regards,
>>Jamie Lewis Keith
>>Managing Director for Environmental Programs, and Senior Counsel
>>
>>
>>At 01:59 AM 11/15/2003 -0500, Alma E Rico wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>I was wondering if i could get some information regarding how i could
>>>obtain some recycling bins for my dorm and how they would be picked up.
>>>I just moved to Bexley and it seems to be one of the few dorms that
>>>doesn't have a recycling program.  I would like to take action on this
>>>issue, but I'm not sure who can help me.  If you can guide me in the
>>>right direction I would really appreciate it.  Thanks.
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>
>>>Alma E. Rico
>>
>>Jamie Lewis Keith, Senior Counsel
>>Office of the Senior Counsel, Room 7-206
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>>77 Massachusetts Avenue
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From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:58:48 -0500
Subject: [Save] REMINDER - Ed Kern, Jr. to speak TONIGHT at 5:30PM in 4-237
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The Students for Global Sustainability, MIT Student Pugwash, Engineers 
Without Frontiers and Design that Matters invite you to:

Sustainable Development Seminar Series
Sustainable Energy


Renewable vs. Sustainable Energy
Edward Kern, Jr., MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment
TONIGHT!! at 5:30PM in 4-237

How do we strike a balance between using today's extractable and depleting 
resources and striving today to capture the promise of new and more costly 
renewable energy technologies?  If we continue to embrace centralized power 
technologies, what must we assume regarding benevolent governance and law 
enforcement, civil liberties and addressing society's discontents that 
would threaten the common good?  Dr. Kern will address the practical, 
theoretical and philosophical differences between sustainable and renewable 
energy in the context of sustainable development.



snacks and refreshments will be provided

http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?64345

sponsored by Large Event Funding

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From melvinm at MIT.EDU  Sun Nov 16 16:52:52 2003
From: melvinm at MIT.EDU (melvinm@MIT.EDU)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:52:52 -0500
Subject: [Save] recycling program
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Case 459903: Recycling program

Hi, my name is Melvin Makhni, and i am trying to start a recycling program at 
my fraternity, Phi Beta Epsilon.  Our helper at our fraternity is sick, so I 
am trying to collect cans, bottles, and other recyclables as quickly and 
efficiently as possible.  Do you know where I can get recycling bins from, and 
where would I go to get them recycled?  Can I pick them up from somewhere?

Thank you so much for your help in our initiative.

Sincerely,
Melvin Makhni

From mols at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov 20 12:39:36 2003
From: mols at MIT.EDU (Molly McGuire)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:39:36 -0500
Subject: [Save] TODAY:  The Village Lives - The Portland City Repair Project
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TODAY

The DUSP Student Forum, DUSP Student Council, Building Technology Program, 
and DUSP Environmental Policy Group

cordially invite you to

The Village Lives

a presentation of

The Portland City Repair Project

by Mark Lakeman and Jenny Leis

on Thursday, November 20 at 6:30 in 7-431 (AVT)

Join us for this rare opportunity to learn about Portland, Oregon's unique 
community renaissance from the people who are making it happen.

The City Repair Project combines architecture, planning, anthropology, 
community development, public art, permaculture, and ecological design in 
projects that transform space and transfer power at local levels. By 
helping citizens re-imagine and literally rebuild their own public commons, 
City Repair establishes the physical and social foundations for sustainable 
culture.

Both a non-profit organization and a larger citizen movement, City Repair 
inspires and guides the transformation of the socially-isolating American 
city into a vital community of human-scale, culturally-rich neighborhoods.

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From cambclimact at aol.com  Tue Nov 18 13:20:44 2003
From: cambclimact at aol.com (Michael Charney)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:20:44 +0000
Subject: [Save] Alert:   Last Ditch Fight:  Help stop disastrous Energy
	Bill...
Message-ID: <552927101-1463747838-1069179651@boing.topica.com>


Urgent:  Lobby, then forward to NE & US.

1. Call -  Your Senators NOW - they vote tomorrow (Weds, 11/19)
        Phone #s: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress 

2. Straight-out demand that the Senator block the Bush Energy Bill & 
support the Filibuster.   That's all.
          
3. Then beg all friends & family (esp. in RI, ME, NH) to do likewise.

4. Why? For health, clean air & ecosystems, safe energy, climate 
stability, renewables, energy efficiency, energy security, and to stop 
this secretly hatched, massively corrupt legislation.  

See:  Joint Nat'l Enviro Letter;  MOVE On Filibuster; Carl Pope, Sierra 
Club; NYT Editorial & Wash Post 11/18. - doc's below.

Thanks - that's the short. Do pick up the phone now, but if you want 
more, read on:

Why now: 
* The vote on the Bush/Cheney/fossil, agribusiness & nuclear industry's 
Energy Bill is 3 pm today 11/18 in House, & Wed 11/19 in Senate.

How now:
* Phone calls & fax are the most effective. Identify yourself as a 
constituent. All you need do is state your request: stop the bill, 
support the filibuster.

More now:
* Tell family & friends in other states, especially N.E. Republican 
Senators,  to do likewise.  College students here in NE from around the 
US should be urged to lobby their home state Senators, and forward this 
to families, friends...

New England Republican opposition to this bill is particularly critical. 
We must do whatever we can to get friends, family, org's in N.E. to 
press their Senators hard to support the filibuster against Republican 
leadership attempts to shut it off (cloture).

FYI:
League of Conservation Voters: http://www.lcv.org 
Sierra Club:  http://www.sierraclub.org/scoop 
Conservation Law Fdn:   
http://www.clf.org/hot/take_action_fed_energy_bill.htm 
PIRG: 
http://newenergyfuture.com/newenergy.asp?id=250&id3=energy&id4=pohp


Thank you.

Michael Charney
617-492-6614, CambClimAct at aol.com
Editor, Publisher
NE Climate & Enviro Calendar
http://www.topica.com/lists/CambClimCal
http://www.tufts.edu/tci/Calendar.html


DOCUMENT ENCLOSURES:
Joint Letter from National Enviros
Move On's call to Filibuster
Sierra Club Exec Dir's Statement
NY Times Editorial
Wash Post story
Newday link re: Industry bill.


JOINT LETTER FROM MAJOR ENVIRO'S

FYI

November 17, 2003

Dear Member of Congress: 

These and dozens of other news stories from across the country 
demonstrate that the energy bill, H.R. 6, released Friday by the 
Senate-House conference was written for big energy companies by big 
energy companies to benefit big energy companies.  It would do little or 
nothing to increase the reliability of the electricity grid or reduce 
the consumption of imported oil, and misses the opportunity to add 
much-needed jobs to the economy..  Instead, this collection of 
subsidies, tax breaks, and loopholes would cost ratepayers and taxpayers 
billions of dollars, while threatening their air, drinking water, and 
public lands.  We urge you to do everything you can to prevent passage 
of this harmful, budget-busting bill, including support of a filibuster.

The Washington Post reported yesterday that the bill includes "new 
assistance for the nuclear industry, deep-water oil and gas producers, 
and manufacturers of a controversial fuel additive." (November 16, 2003) 
 

The Post also determined that "negotiators sprinkled in dozens of 
sweeteners…ranging from nearly $1 billion in shoreline restoration 
projects to tax credits for a company that produces fuel by compressing 
turkey carcasses." (November 15, 2003)

Meanwhile, the bill would not significantly enhance grid reliability.  
The Post found that under the bill the "grid would remain fragmented." 
(ibid.)

The New York Times reported that the bill's authors realize they will be 
criticized for a bill heavily weighted towards energy producers and away 
from the average consumers.  "Knowing they will come under fire for the 
wide benefits the measure grants to the energy industry in the form of 
tax breaks, research projects, incentives for a new natural gas pipeline 
from Alaska and easing of regulatory requirements, Republican authors on 
Friday began promoting the capacity of the measure to create" jobs. 
(November 15, 2003)

These claims about job creation are little more than feel good spin 
designed to cover the bill's raid on the federal treasury.  In fact, an 
energy bill that relied on energy efficiency and renewable energy 
sources instead of fossil fuels would create four times as many jobs 
without adding to the deficit, burdening ratepayers, or poisoning our 
air and water.

The secret backroom deals made by conference leaders produced 
legislation that is loaded with special interest provisions that were 
not in either the Senate or House passed energy bills.  These provisions 
include the following give aways.

· Huge (up to $6 billion) tax credits for nuclear power companies, and 
$1.1 billion to build a nuclear reactor in Idaho;

· Changes that would allow taxpayers to foot the bill to clean up 
leaking underground gasoline storage tanks (LUST) that can contaminate 
drinking water. 

· Amendments attempting to weaken the Clean Air Act to allow 
metropolitan areas such as Dallas-Ft. Worth, Washington, DC and 
southwestern Michigan to further delay the clean up of their smoggy 
skies more than a dozen years after the Act was passed an action that 
will place a significant burden on states and municipalities down-wind 
of these urban centers.

· Authorizes Alaska's "Denali Commission" to spend over $1 billion on 
hydroelectric and other energy projects on Alaska Federal Lands, 
including National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges, "notwithstanding 
any other provision of law."

This bill invests billions of hard earned tax payer dollars in the 
dirty, costly energy technologies of the 20th century, while ignoring 
21st Century solutions that our international trading partners are 
vigorously pursuing. 

Instead of this bill, America deserves a safe, clean, affordable energy 
future. A forward-looking, responsible energy policy includes four basic 
principles, all of which can be achieved with technologies available 
today: 

1. Safeguard America's natural resource heritage by protecting special 
places on our western  public lands  and fragile coastal ecosystems.

2. Protect public health and the environment by promoting clean, 
renewable energy sources and energy efficiency technologies to reduce 
our reliance on polluting fossil fuels and nuclear power.

3. Protect consumers and taxpayers by eliminating subsidies for 
polluting industries and strengthening consumer protection laws.

4. Enhance our energy and national security by reducing our dependence 
on oil.

The energy bill will accomplish none of these goals; in fact, it will 
take us backward. It will make oil and gas development the dominant use 
of America's western public lands and severely damage our health, our 
environment, and our pocketbooks. 

Senator Domenici and Representative Tauzin did their colleagues - and 
the nation - a grave disservice by foisting on them this glut of special 
deals for special interests.  Congress MUST reject this irresponsible 
energy bill that endangers public health and the environment.

Sincerely, 


John Adams, President
Natural Resources Defense Council

Carl Pope, Executive Director
Sierra Club

Deb Callahan, President
League of Conservation Voters

Roger T. Rufe, Jr. 
President, The Ocean Conservancy

Phil Clapp, President
National Environmental Trust

Peter Schurman, Executive Director
MoveOn.org
Rebecca Wodder, President
American Rivers

Fred Krupp, President
Environmental Defense

William H. Meadows, President
The Wilderness Society

Brent Blackwelder, President
Friends of the Earth

Joan Claybrook, President
Public Citizen

Michael Mariotte, Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service

Vawter Parker, Executive Director
Earthjustice

Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH,
CEO and Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility

Howard Ris, President
Union of Concerned Scientists

Gene Karpinski, Executive Director
US Public Interest Research Group

Rodger Schlickeisen, President
Defenders of Wildlife

Michael Finklestein, Campaign Manager
Alaska Rainforest Campaign
  
Tim Bristol, Executive Director
Alaska Coalition
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


MOVE ON MESSAGE:

Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:01 AM
Subject: Urgent: Stop the secret Bush-Cheney energy bill


Dear MoveOn member,

This week, Congress will consider final passage of the Bush-Cheney 
energy bill.  The bill was developed in secret -- first drafted by a 
Cheney task force whose very participant list was kept secret, even 
from Congress, and now finalized by Republican Senators and House 
members who literally locked Democrats out of the final negotiations.  

Democrats and the public have been given just 48 hours to review the 
1,000-page bill, released Saturday, before voting begins later today.

This is outrageous and simply unacceptable.  The last time President 
Bush forced something unknown down our throats like this, we got the 
USA PATRIOT act.[1]  Do we want to let him do to the environment and 
our energy supply what he's already done to our constitutional rights?

In the context of recent blackouts and the war in Iraq, all of our 
Senators will be under huge pressure to approve an energy bill, even 
if it doesn't address the key problems, as this one doesn't -- see 
below for details.  We've got to urge our Senators to stop this bill.   

Please call your Senator(s) now, at:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress   or:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Make sure the staffers know you're a constituent, then urge your 
Senators to:
  
"Please FILIBUSTER to stop the energy bill." [2]  
  Give some reasons why you're concerned -- such as the secrecy 
  surrounding the bill, or the harm it would cause, outlined below.
   
Please take a moment let us know you're calling, at: 

http://www.moveon.org/callmade3.html  
Keeping a count will help us stop this bill.
  
The bill is littered with at least $20 billion in subsidies to the oil, 
gas, coal, and nuclear industries.  Although the bill is still being 
analyzed as of this writing, one credible estimate puts the subsidy 
figure at well over $100 billion. [3]

This bill won't solve America's urgent energy problems -- the need to 
reduce our dependence on oil by shifting to renewable energy sources, 
the need to make America's energy supply more reliable, and the need 
to protect all of us who pay utility bills from Enron-style fraud. 
Instead, it will make matters worse in most of these areas.  

In recent negotiations, it's also become a vehicle for massive attacks 
on clean air and clean water laws, which would risk our families' 
health and pollute the environment our children will inherit.  As Anna 
Aurilio of U.S. PIRG put it, "The big winner is big oil. The big loser 
is anyone who breathes, pays a utility bill or drinks water." [4]

Here are key excerpts from a recent story in the Washington Post [5]:

  No Home Runs in Energy Bill 
  Little Impact Expected for Imported Oil, Pollution, Power Grid 

  The energy bill before Congress is a bulky tome of more than 1,000 
  pages, with thousands of provisions affecting every corner of the 
  country. 

  But for all its size, industry officials and environmental activists 
  of widely divergent viewpoints generally agree that it will have only 
  a modest impact on the nation's most pressing energy problems, 
  including its reliance on foreign energy supplies, an overburdened 
  electricity grid and fuels that pollute the air and may alter the 
  atmosphere.

  For those who want to deal aggressively with the dangers of climate 
  change and air polluted by auto exhausts, power plants and factories, 
  the bill is a disappointment.
  ...
  
  ...conservation savings... amount to only about three months of U.S. 
  energy consumption between now and 2020, according to a preliminary 
  estimate by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
  
  The bill's GOP authors dropped a Senate-approved plan to require 
  large utilities to steadily increase their use of energy from clean, 
  renewable sources such as wind and solar power...
  
  The bill does not require improvements in the fuel efficiency of cars 
  and trucks, the main guzzlers of gasoline made from imported oil. The 
  current 27.5 miles per gallon average for cars could even decrease in 
  the next decade because of several provisions in the bill, according 
  to some analysts...
  ...
  
  The legislation's most far-reaching feature may be the repeal of the 
  1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act, which limits utility 
  industry mergers. The act's repeal is a top priority for the electric 
  power industry and the Bush administration, and if the bill passes, a 
  wave of mergers and acquisitions could follow...
  
  [End of Washington Post excerpts]

Repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act is a big problem.  
Trashing this vital regulation on utilities would worsen the conditions 
that enabled the recent Northeast power blackout. [6] 

The bill would also roll back the Clean Air Act, allowing the air we 
breathe to stay polluted, in virtually any area where air pollution is 
a problem.  This change would lead to thousands of additional asthma 
attacks, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits nationwide. [7]

And it would threaten our drinking water sources, by letting polluters 
off the hook for contaminating groundwater with pollutants like MTBE, 
and by lifting Safe Drinking Water Act curbs on injecting diesel fuel 
and other chemicals underground during oil and gas development. [8]

These are just a few of the energy bill's worst features.  For a 
comprehensive list of problems, based on the latest analysis, see:

  http://www.moveon.org/energy-woes.pdf

We've got to urge our Senators to reject this bill.  The only way to 
stop it is with a filibuster, the Senate's tactic of last resort to 
stop especially dangerous proposals from becoming law. 

Please call your Senator(s) now, at:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress   or:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Urge them to: 
  
"Please FILIBUSTER to stop the energy bill." [2]  
   
Please let us know you're calling, at: 

http://www.moveon.org/callmade3.html

Voting on this bill is expected to begin today.  Please call now. 

Thanks for all you do.

Sincerely,

- Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
  The MoveOn team
  Monday, November 17th, 2003

P.S.: You can now see the bill at: 
http://energy.senate.gov/legislation/energybill2003/energybill2003.cfm

Notes:

[1] "On October 25, 2001, 98 out of 99 voting senators hurriedly passed 
the 342-page Patriot Act I - without any public debate and before most 
of them had read it." http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0313/lee.php

[2] For more information on filibusters, see: 
http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin11.html  

The New York Times has called for a filibuster on this energy bill, at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/29/opinion/29MON1.html 
  
[3] We've posted a cost analysis by Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-CA) office:  
http://www.moveon.org/energy_policy_cost_fact_sheet1.pdf

[4] As reported in the New York Times, at: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/politics/16ENER.html?th

[5] For the full Washington Post story, see: 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46456-2003Nov15.html

[6] For more on the Public Utility Holding Company Act, see: 
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/renewable_energy/page.cfm?pageID=118

[7] Source: U.S. Public Interest Research Group.  See: 
http://www.moveon.org/energy-factsheet-pirg.pdf 

[8] For details, see: 
http://www.foe.org/camps/leg/current/energyfacts.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SIERRA CLUB EXEC DIR STATEMENT: 

http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2003-11-17.asp

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17 , 2003 CONTACT:
David Willett 202-675-6698 


Statement of Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club On the Energy 
Bill

Today, the Energy conference will consider a bill that constitutes one 
of the worst environmental disasters in years. Congress needs to reject 
this destructive bill to protect our communities and the environment.

Hatched three years ago in the backroom meetings of the Bush/Cheney 
Energy Task Force, this energy bill has been an act of secrecy from 
start to finish. Now this undemocratic process is in its final stretch. 
Today, the energy bill conference committee is poised to vote on a 1,148 
page bill that was just released publicly for the first time on 
Saturday. Just as the public was excluded during the Cheney Task Force, 
the public is being shut out today.

Make no mistake; this bill will benefit the worst polluting industries 
in America. Instead of taking responsible steps forward, this bill would 
take us backwards and put our communities at risk. The majority of 
Americans don't want this bill. They don't want to breathe dirtier air, 
they don't want to drink polluted water, and they don't want their 
precious natural heritage sold out to the oil and gas industry.

This bill hands over our public lands to big oil companies, making oil 
and gas drilling the dominant use of our pubic lands. The bill will turn 
back the clock on clean air gains that we've made in recent decades, 
weakening the Clean Air Act and making it easier for polluters to dirty 
our air for longer. The bill will take the teeth out of our clean water 
laws where it comes to oil companies, exempting oil and gas activities 
from the Clean

Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts. It even lets MTBE (a gasoline 
additive found to pollute drinking water) manufacturers off the hook for 
cleaning up their own mess - saddling local communities with a $29 
billion cleanup cost.

The list goes on and on, and one of the worst things about the bill is 
that it makes the everyday taxpayer - you and me - responsible for 
cleaning up the mess. From putting toxic chemicals into our water and 
subsidizing more coal and nuclear power plants at taxpayers' expense to 
exposing consumers to more Enron-like market manipulation, this bill 
puts communities and consumers at risk.

Our energy policy doesn't have to look like this. There is a better way. 
By using innovative 21st century clean energy technologies, we can clean 
up our environment; cut the country's dangerous dependence on oil; 
increase our use of clean, renewable energy; and prevent future 
blackouts. But instead of taking these smart choices forward, this bill 
takes us backwards and opens up an entirely new attack on our 
environment and public health.

This bill will hurt citizens in every state of the country. There's no 
way this bill can be fixed. Responsible leaders should stand up and 
soundly reject this disastrous energy bill. Members of Congress should 
do everything in their power - including filibuster if necessary - to 
ensure that this bill never becomes law.

###


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NY TIMES EDITORIAL 11/18
  A Shortage of Energy

Published: November 18, 2003

President Bush seems to have been the recipient of poor intelligence 
again. Last weekend, he claimed that the energy bill approved by 
Republican leaders would make the country "more secure." Senator John 
McCain's description of the bill as a "leave no lobbyist behind" barrel 
of pork for selected industries and campaign contributors was closer to 
the truth. So was Senator Robert Byrd's unsparing judgment that the bill 
would "do about as much to improve the nation's energy security as the 
administration's invasion of Iraq has done to stem the tide of global 
terrorism."

One can only hope for a similar show of honesty from 39 of their Senate 
colleagues, 41 being the minimum needed to sustain a filibuster and 
launch this dreadful bill into the legislative netherworld where it 
belongs. At that point Congress can start again and give the country an 
energy strategy worthy of the problems it faces, oil dependency being 
one, and global warming another. 

Both problems require fossil fuel alternatives - not just 
environmentalists' favorite hobbyhorses, like wind and solar power, but 
biofuels that can take the place of gasoline. They demand vastly more 
efficient cars and trucks, as well as more benign forms of coal, the 
world's most abundant fuel. This bill takes baby steps - a clean-coal 
demonstration project here, a hydrogen project there - that pale next to 
the huge tax breaks and generous regulatory rollbacks it gives fossil 
fuel producers.

The oil and gas companies were particularly well rewarded - hardly 
surprising in a bill that had its genesis partly in Vice President Dick 
Cheney's secret task force. Though they did not win permission to drill 
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, they got a lot of other things, 
not only tax breaks but also exemptions from the Clean Water Act, 
protection against lawsuits for fouling underground water and an 
accelerated process for leasing and drilling in sensitive areas at the 
expense of environmental reviews and public participation. Meanwhile, 
the bill imposes new reliability standards on major electricity 
producers, but it is not clear whether it would encourage new and badly 
needed investment in the power grid.

The responsibility for providing something better now falls to the 
Democratic leadership, in particular Tom Daschle. Mr. Daschle is one of 
several Midwestern senators drawn to a provision mandating a big 
increase in the use of ethanol made from corn. The ethanol mandate might 
be justifiable as part of a much broader and more aggressive biofuels 
program. By itself, it is an expensive and environmentally dubious 
giveaway to Midwestern farmers who are already generously subsidized. 
Though Mr. Daschle seems to regard their 
votes as essential to his political future, it is time for him to think 
on a grander scale.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

WASH POST STORY:  11/18/03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54358-2003Nov17.html


Democratic Candidates Assail Bills 
Energy, Medicare Deals Loom Large 
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 18, 2003; Page A01 


Democratic presidential candidates lined up yesterday in opposition to 
Republican deals on energy and Medicare -- legislation that if passed 
would give President Bush two key political victories one year before 
the election. 

Even before many of the details were known, the candidates blasted Bush 
for what they view as shortchanging consumers and using the bills to 
reward his campaign contributors. "The latest energy plan and the 
prescription drug benefit are more paybacks for George W. Bush's 
special-interest friends and campaign contributors," said Sen. John F. 
Kerry (Mass.), expressing the emerging Democratic message. 

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) is the only Democratic presidential 
candidate who may decide to support the Medicare bill, while all are 
united in opposing the energy bill. The two bills are the most 
significant policies to circulate on Capitol Hill in years. The Medicare 
bill received a big boost yesterday when AARP, the premier seniors 
lobby, endorsed it. 

The candidates are coming together so quickly because they say the bills 
are bad policy. But some see a political benefit, too -- Bush is on the 
verge of taking away two more political issues and putting Democrats in 
the unenviable political position of playing defense on energy costs and 
prescription drug costs, two key areas of great concern for voters. 


If the bills are passed and signed into law, Republicans and some 
Democrats predict Bush will probably get a political boost that could 
resonate through the 2004 elections. Along with Bush's tax cuts, 
education overhaul and defense policies, Republicans also could claim 
they are delivering tangible results to Americans by controlling the 
White House and Congress. 


Piece by piece, Bush and the Republican Congress are trying to take 
domestic issues off the table before the 2004 elections fire up early 
next year. Because they control the White House, Senate and House for 
only the second time in half a century, Republicans anticipate that the 
elections will be a referendum on their performance, which will be 
measured in large part by their ability to break through the partisan 
gridlock that has come to define Washington in recent years. The 
Medicare and energy bills had been bottled up in private negotiations 
for months. 


Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and House Minority 
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are critical of both the Medicare and 
energy deals, but they might have a hard time preventing moderates from 
breaking ranks and allowing Bush to declare bipartisan victories. 
Already, Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) are hailing 
the Medicare agreement, which they helped strike, and several Democrats 
from oil- and ethanol-producing states are expected to vote for the 
energy package, too. 


If Democrats can block the Medicare deal, in particular, they will carry 
with them one of the most potent political weapons in politics today: 
the charge that Bush and a GOP Congress cannot deliver the right 
medicine for the elderly, who vote in large numbers. But Democrats 
privately admit it is much harder to make this charge stick without AARP 
on their side. 


A senior GOP leadership aide said party leaders "basically threaded a 
needle to get a bill AARP can endorse and Ted Kennedy can't." This aide 
said the GOP will run ads against vulnerable Democrats who oppose it, 
blasting them for voting against a bill "endorsed by the AARP." 


Kerry said the "sticker shock" would prompt many seniors to turn on 
Bush, despite the AARP's stamp of approval. But the Medicare changes do 
not take effect until 2006, and some strategists say that might be a 
hard case to make before the election. 


The GOP's energy bill offers a mix of tax incentives and grants to oil, 
natural gas, coal, nuclear and alternative-fuel production. It, too, has 
the strong support of energy companies and other Bush donors. Among the 
most politically attractive elements in the plan is a proposal to double 
the use of ethanol, a corn-based fuel additive popular with farmers in 
midwestern states such as Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota. 


Democrats believe they can block the energy and Medicare bills by 
linking the policies to Bush's biggest donors. This is an approach 
Democrats have employed since Bush took office, and it has had mixed 
results. Democrats failed to link Bush to the wave of corporate 
scandals, but polls show that a majority of voters believe the 
president's policies favor the corporate elite. 


While the energy bill is more of a regional issue -- most popular in 
states that produce the fuels assisted under the legislation -- former 
Vermont governor Howard Dean and other presidential candidates said Bush 
will pay a political price for signing a bill that favors big 
corporations, many of which are large political contributors to the 
Republicans. 


"The energy bill released by the Republican leadership today is a 
perfect example of crony capitalism at its worst -- and is just another 
example of how our political system serves the interests of those who 
fund the election process," Dean said. "This bill is based on a policy 
written in the vice president's office by corporate lobbyists, 
contributors and insiders like Ken Lay. There is little wonder that the 
biggest winners in this bill are companies like Halliburton. The biggest 
losers are the American people." 


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From sheehy at mit.edu  Mon Nov 17 12:21:55 2003
From: sheehy at mit.edu (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:21:55 -0500
Subject: [Save] [E&S-seminars] 
 Sustainable Development Seminar Series - 11/18/03 and 11/20/03  this week
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031117115812.00b09330@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 Energy


Renewable vs. Sustainable Energy
Edward Kern, Jr., MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment
Tuesday November 18, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237

How do we strike a balance between using today's extractable and depleting 
resources and striving today to capture the promise of new and more costly 
renewable energy technologies?  If we continue to embrace centralized power 
technologies, what must we assume regarding benevolent governance and law 
enforcement, civil liberties and addressing society's discontents that 
would threaten the common good?  Dr. Kern will take address the practical, 
theoretical and philosophical differences between sustainable and renewable 
energy in the context of sustainable development.



Community Wind
Andrew Stern, Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Brown, Hull Wind
Thursday November 20, 2003 at 6PM, location TBA

Windpower has become a billion dollar industry in the US, and yet New 
England has almost entirely chosen imported fuels.  Massachusetts' only 
windpower installations are community owned.  The Town of Hull has received 
enormous attention for installing a single wind turbine because the 
decision-making and ownership is community-based.  The adoption of wind 
energy in New England may depend on local decisions - Europe's leadership 
in wind is built on over 200,000 households that invested in local wind 
turbines.  (hullwind.org)



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From sheehy at mit.edu  Tue Nov 18 09:58:48 2003
From: sheehy at mit.edu (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:58:48 -0500
Subject: [Save] 
 [E&S-seminars] REMINDER - Ed Kern, Jr. to speak TONIGHT at 5:30PM in
	4-237
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031118094630.00a12190@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 Energy


Renewable vs. Sustainable Energy
Edward Kern, Jr., MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment
TONIGHT!! at 5:30PM in 4-237

How do we strike a balance between using today's extractable and depleting 
resources and striving today to capture the promise of new and more costly 
renewable energy technologies?  If we continue to embrace centralized power 
technologies, what must we assume regarding benevolent governance and law 
enforcement, civil liberties and addressing society's discontents that 
would threaten the common good?  Dr. Kern will address the practical, 
theoretical and philosophical differences between sustainable and renewable 
energy in the context of sustainable development.



snacks and refreshments will be provided

http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?64345

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From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Wed Nov 19 11:29:53 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:29:53 -0500
Subject: [Save] REMINDER: Call for Papers, 2004 Annual Meeting of the World
 Student Community for Sustainable Development (WSC-SD)
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031119112242.00ae8088@po12.mit.edu>

This is a reminder that the deadline for paper submissions for the 2004 
Annual Meeting of the WSC-SD is fast approaching - less than 2 weeks now.

The Students for Global Sustainability are seeking papers submissions for 
the 2004 Annual Meeting of the WSC-SD.  The theme of the 2004 Annual 
Meeting is "Sustainable Cities."  Students from all faculties and 
disciplines have a great opportunity to present their papers, to meet 
people from around the world and to exchange ideas and experiences related 
to sustainable cities.

Deadline for submissions:       December 1, 2003 at 5PM
Submit papers to:               Philip Sheehy - sheehy at mit.edu

Any questions?  Please email sfgs-request at mit.edu


**Please refer to our website for more details.**
http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www/spotlight.html

Papers will be selected competitively based on their adherence to the 
conference theme and their overall academic quality. After you submit your 
paper, you may expect to be informed of the status of your submission no 
later than 15 December, 2003.


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From sarahwa at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov 20 09:34:33 2003
From: sarahwa at MIT.EDU (sarah anderson)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:34:33 -0500
Subject: [Save] 
 RFP MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Security and
  Sustainability
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031120093310.01894360@hesiod>

Some of you may be interested in this grant possibility.

>>The MacArthur Foundation is inviting proposals for its Program on Global 
>>Security and Sustainability Research and Writing Competition.  These 
>>grants to individuals and two-person teams are intended to support 
>>projects that explore the development of improved understanding of global 
>>security and sustainability, and to broaden and strengthen the community 
>>of scholars.  The Foundation invites proposals relating to either one of 
>>the following themes:
>>
>>Migration and Refugees:  The causes and consequences of migration, and 
>>policy responses to migrants and refugees, particularly as these impact 
>>issues of conservation and sustainable development, reproductive health 
>>and human rights, and governance and security. Proposals that examine 
>>these issues from a cross-disciplinary perspective are especially welcome.
>>
>>Technological Change and Global Security and Sustainability:  How public 
>>policy either shapes or responds to technological change - and related 
>>social and economic issues - with a particular emphasis on policy-making 
>>institutions, treaty regimes, or NGOs operating on an international scale.
>>
>>The program seeks to support research and writing projects in any 
>>academic discipline or profession, as well as creative work conducted 
>>outside of traditional disciplinary and professional approaches. Grants 
>>may be used in university and organizational settings or may support 
>>independent researchers. Projects related to research or writing of the 
>>doctoral dissertation are not eligible.  Projects that deal with 
>>exclusively U.S.-based topics will not be considered, unless the topic 
>>has significant international dimensions.
>>
>>There is no limit on the number of applications from any single 
>>institution.  The total proposed budget cannot exceed $75,000 for 
>>individual researchers and $100,000 for two-person teams.  There is an 
>>advantage in submitting proposals for projects that have not already 
>>received substantial funding from other sources.  Applications must be 
>>received by the foundation by February 2, 2004.
>>
>>See the MacArthur Foundation web site for more 
>>details: 
>><http://www.macfdn.org/programs/gss/research_writing.htm>http://www.macfdn.org/programs/gss/research_writing.htm
>>
>>For a brochure describing how to apply, contact the Foundation by e-mail 
>>at: <mailto:researchandwriting at macfound.org>researchandwriting at macfound.org.


Sarah Anderson
Administrative Assistant
Center for International Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
292 Main Street (E38-600)
Cambridge MA 02139
phone 617-253-8306
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From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov 20 13:43:52 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:43:52 -0500
Subject: [Save] REMINDER: "Community Wind" by Malcolm Brown and Mike Jacobs
 tonight at 6PM in 1-190
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031120133922.00ad2ce0@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 Energy


Community Wind
Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Brown, Hull Wind
TONIGHT @ 6PM, 1-190

Windpower has become a billion dollar industry in the US, and yet New 
England has almost entirely chosen imported fuels.  Massachusetts' only 
windpower installations are community owned.  The Town of Hull has received 
enormous attention for installing a single wind turbine because the 
decision-making and ownership is community-based.  The adoption of wind 
energy in New England may depend on local decisions - Europe's leadership 
in wind is built on over 200,000 households that invested in local wind 
turbines.  (hullwind.org)

snacks and refreshments will be served



please forward to any interested parties
sponsored by Large Event Funding
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From: sheehy at mit.edu (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:43:52 -0500
Subject: [Save] [E&S-seminars] REMINDER: "Community Wind" by Malcolm Brown and
	Mike Jacobs tonight at 6PM in 1-190
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031120133922.00ad2ce0@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 Energy


Community Wind
Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Brown, Hull Wind
TONIGHT @ 6PM, 1-190

Windpower has become a billion dollar industry in the US, and yet New 
England has almost entirely chosen imported fuels.  Massachusetts' only 
windpower installations are community owned.  The Town of Hull has received 
enormous attention for installing a single wind turbine because the 
decision-making and ownership is community-based.  The adoption of wind 
energy in New England may depend on local decisions - Europe's leadership 
in wind is built on over 200,000 households that invested in local wind 
turbines.  (hullwind.org)

snacks and refreshments will be served



please forward to any interested parties
sponsored by Large Event Funding
http://web.mit.edu/e-w-f/www/seminars.html
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From fricks at MIT.EDU  Thu Nov 20 14:38:23 2003
From: fricks at MIT.EDU (Susan Frick)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:38:23 -0500
Subject: [Save] Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031120142645.01d79290@po14.mit.edu>


Upcoming Events at MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice


****TODAY!!!****
Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004

Please also check out the new student Human Rights Newsletter (available 
on-line at http://web.mit.edu/phrj) and consider contributing to future 
editions of this monthly publication for the MIT community.

Cities in Conflict Seminars
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America
Professor Jennifer Lee, University of California-Irvine
Monday November 24, 2003
4:30-6:00 p.m.
E38-615, Center for International Studies, 292 Main Street
Lee's recent articles focus on race and ethnic relations, black/immigrant 
competition, employers hiring practices, and immigrant 
entrepreneurship.  Her book, titled Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and 
Koreans in Urban America, was published in 2002 by Harvard University 
Press.  Her current research project, "Immigration, Racial/Ethnic 
Diversity, and Multiracial Identification" stems from her theoretical 
interests in the intersection of race, ethnicity, and immigration.

The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences
Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
Monday December 8, 2003
4:30-6:00 p.m.
E38-615, Center for International Studies, 292 Main Street
Shweder is author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural 
Psychology; Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology; When 
Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge of Cultural Migration (current) and 
editor of Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion; Cultural 
Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development; Metatheory in Social 
Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities
Ethnography and Human Development: Meaning and Context in Social Inquiry; 
Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) and Engaging Cultural 
Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies

Happy holidays everyone and I look forward to being in touch in early 2004 
to present another semester of human rights-related events and 
opportunities to get involved.


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
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From kgibson at mit.edu  Thu Nov 20 14:28:01 2003
From: kgibson at mit.edu (Karen Gibson)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:28:01 -0500
Subject: [Save] [E&S-seminars] Nov. 21 "Communicating Scientific Complexity"
Message-ID: <p0501040ebbe2a95adde3@[18.172.3.99]>

Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
<http://lfee.mit.edu>

Please join us tomorrow (Friday) for a special seminar speaker:

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Global Environment & Energy Correspondent for The Economist

"Communicating Scientific Complexity:
Linking Urgency to Abstraction in a Data-Shy World"

Friday, November 21
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Room E40-298

ABSTRACT

	Vijay Vaitheeswaran, energy and environment writer at The 
Economist magazine, spends his days breathing excitement into what 
most people consider a sleep-aid: scientific evidence. This 
indefatigable writer has been told a million times that Energy is 
Boring. Friends and family began to ostracize him for bringing up 
topics like the myth of hydrocarbon scarcity at dinner parties. 
Colleagues questioned his sanity when, five years ago, he turned down 
a posting in sunny Brazil for the energy job in London. Even Vijay 
himself, on more than one rainy London day, has wondered why. So he 
did the only thing he could do: he wrote a book about the future of 
energy.

	Please come and hear his tales of misadventure as he set 
about writing POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Cameo appearances by cow dung, the 
most powerful oilman in the world, and Cindy Crawford are all 
promised. Along the way, he'll reveal his insights into communicating 
complex information successfully to a general (and generally 
uninterested!) non-technical audience. He'll describe the travels, 
investigations, and analysis required to tackle a scientifically 
complex and politically charged topic. He'll explain some of the 
obstacles he overcame to write the book, not least the skepticism of 
those around him. And he'll even let you in on the secrets of writing 
for, and pitching your ideas to, The Economist.

	His book has been reviewed by Scientific American and New 
Scientist (attached) and is available at the COOP.

Light refreshments will be provided.
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      <DIV class=regArticletext>Energy is the lifeblood of industrial 
      civilization and an absolutely necessary (albeit certainly not sufficient) 
      condition for lifting the world's poor from their poverty. But current 
      methods of mobilizing civilization's energy are more disruptive of local, 
      regional and global environmental conditions and processes than anything 
      else that humans do. 
      <P>This dichotomy defines the core of the energy challenge in the century 
      before us: How can we supply enough affordable energy to permit the 
      billions who are currently poor (and the billions more who will be added 
      to their numbers in the decades ahead) to attain prosperity--and to 
      sustain and expand the prosperity of those already rich--without suffering 
      intolerable damage to the environmental dimensions of human well-being in 
      industrial and developing countries alike? <BR><BR>How difficult will 
      meeting this challenge be? Is the "business as usual" 
      approach--subsidizing fossil-fuel supply and nuclear energy and large 
      hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping 
      environmental and political costs "external," propping up oil supply by 
      every available means--part of the solution or part of the problem? Can 
      the privatization of energy sectors in the developing countries and the 
      restructuring and deregulation of energy sectors in industrial countries 
      be accomplished in ways that provide the economic benefits of competition 
      while still preserving essential public benefits such as the reliability 
      and resilience of the electricity system? <BR><BR>In his book, <I>Power to 
      the People</I>, Vijay Vaitheeswaran tackles these and the other hard 
      questions at the core of society's energy dilemmas with style, balance and 
      insight. The style is entertaining and accessible. The balance is 
      impeccable--Vaitheeswaran generally lets the most forceful and effective 
      exponents on different sides of the major issues state their case in their 
      own words--but after ventilating the various positions he is not afraid to 
      let the reader know where he comes out. 
      <P>And this is where the insight comes in. Vaitheeswaran brings to these 
      questions the respect for markets and marketlike mechanisms of a writer 
      for the <I>Economist,</I> the understanding of technology of an 
      M.I.T.-trained engineer, and the sympathy for the plight of the world's 
      poor of an individual born in India--all of which he happens to be. He 
      also happens to have, in my judgment, a good sense of how to think 
      about--and convey--the interplay of the economic, technological, 
      environmental and sociopolitical dimensions of the energy issue as well as 
      the reasons that the uncertainties afflicting our knowledge of all the 
      dimensions do not add up to a good reason for inaction. 
      <P>Among the critically important points about all this that the book 
      convincingly conveys: 
      <UL>
        <LI>Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or 
        even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment--that is, 
        out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts 
        without risk of intolerable disruption--and our heavy dependence on oil 
        in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and 
        political liabilities. 
        <LI>Choices that countries make about energy supply commit them to those 
        choices for decades, because power plants and other energy facilities 
        typically last for 40 years or more and are too costly to replace before 
        they wear out. This is one of the reasons it is imprudent in the extreme 
        to wait for even more evidence than we already have before letting 
        climate-change risks start to influence which energy options we choose. 
        <LI>Energy technologies that exist or are under development could 
        greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce 
        dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the 
        world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity 
        grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other 
        environmental values. The most promising of these options include 
        renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil-fuel 
        technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen-powered 
        fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation. 
        <LI>These prosperity-building, stability-enhancing and 
        environment-sparing options will not materialize in quantity matching 
        the need unless and until three conditions are met: The massive 
        subsidies favoring continuation of energy business as usual are ended. 
        The massive risks of greenhouse gas-induced climate change are at least 
        partly internalized with a carbon tax or its equivalent. And the 
        industrial nations commit to helping the developing ones "leapfrog" past 
        the inefficient and dirty-energy technologies that fueled the 
        industrialization of the former but mortgaged the environment in the 
        process. </LI></UL>There are a few small technical slips in the 
      elaboration of all this, but not many, and none that matter to the thrust 
      of the argument. 
      <P>Written for the intelligent layperson, Vaitheeswaran's book is by far 
      the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the 
      energy-economy-environment problematique available. Its title, <I>Power to 
      the People</I>, might strike some at first as too cute or too 
      presumptuous. By the time I finished the book, though, I thought the title 
      was apt, and in more ways than one. One must hope that knowledge 
      translates to power in the political sense and that the knowledge to the 
      people conveyed here will help lead to the political outcomes needed to 
      bring the book's optimistic vision into being. 
      <P>
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      Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy 
      School of Government at Harvard University.</I> 
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From mslow at MIT.EDU  Sun Nov 23 11:35:27 2003
From: mslow at MIT.EDU (Manshi Low)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:35:27 -0500
Subject: [Save] Fellowships/ Academic Programs of EnviroCitizen
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031123113452.00b3c9f8@po10.mit.edu>

Thought I would forward this -- fellowships on environmental issues and 
even energy and other resources!

http://www.envirocitizen.org/alumni/resources.html#fellowships

Manshi


From corrina at u.washington.edu  Sun Nov 23 13:24:41 2003
From: corrina at u.washington.edu (Corrina C Chase)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:24:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Save] women and outdoors survey; the meatrix
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0311231024410.15361@hymn02.u.washington.edu>

Women: Here's a survey you might like to participate in: http://www.unr.nevada.edu/~lilace/

"This study of women and outdoor spaces examines American women's individual perceptions and uses of outdoor areas, such as urban parks, rural countryside, and public land, including Wilderness Areas. If you are a female, living in the U.S., and 18 years of age or older, your participation would be greatly appreciated regardless of how active you are outdoors. The goal of this research is to collect a wide range of perceptions."

 

Everyone who hasn't already, check this out.  As Abby said, "Cows with guns and pleather."  It's funny and has good info: 
http://www.themeatrix.com/

-ccc


From jalee at MIT.EDU  Tue Nov 25 14:55:00 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:55:00 -0500
Subject: [Save] Fwd: Conservancy Volunteers News
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031125145455.01ea8308@po11.mit.edu>


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>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:29:34 -0500
>To: volunteers at charlesriverconservancy.org
>From: Britt Lundgren <bml at charlesriverconservancy.org>
>Subject: Conservancy Volunteers News
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>Conservancy Volunteers November Newsletter
>
>Its tree pruning time! From now until March, the Conservancy Volunteers 
>will be pruning trees along the river.  Come learn the art of pruning.  No 
>experience is necessary.
>
>Upcoming Events:
>Saturday, December 13, from 10:00-2:00  We'll be working in 
>Watertown.  Sign up early -this event is already filling up!
>Saturday, January 10, from 10:00-2:00.  Location TBA.
>To sign up for one of these events contact volunteer coordinator Britt 
>Lundgren at 
><mail%20to:%20bml at charlesriverconservancy.org>bml at charlesriverconservancy.org 
>or (617) 641-9131. You can also set up a service day for your company or 
>community group.
>
>Many thanks to the groups that helped out during October and November: 
>Americorps, Boston Hash House Harriers, City Year, Girl Scouts with 
>Hosteling International, Harvard and Tufts Asian Students Associations, 
>Newton Athletes Serving the Community, Northeastern University, Prospect 
>Hill Academy, and Single Volunteers Boston.
>Save the Date!  The Boston Parks 2004 campaign is hosting the first annual 
>Plant Yourself in the Park Day on June 5, 2004.  Boston Parks 2004 can 
>help your group identify, plan, and complete a project in your park, or 
>help you join forces with other groups to plan and execute a project.  The 
>Charles River Conservancy will be hosting several events in the parks 
>along the Charles as part of this day.  Contact 
><mail%20to:%20bml at charlesriverconservancy.org>Britt if you are interested 
>in planning or helping with a particular project, or if you have a group 
>that wants to participate.  For more information about the Boston Parks 
>2004 campaign, visit their website at 
><http://www.bostonparks.org/>http://www.bostonparks.org.
>
>Other CRC volunteer opportunities:
>The Charles River Conservancy's fundraising committee is looking for a few 
>volunteers to help it expand and update its corporate listings, especially 
>in the Kendall Square area.  A willingness to do web research and some 
>footwork around East Cambridge is necessary.  Contact 
><mail%20to:%20bml at charlesriverconservancy.org>Britt for more details.
>
>Charles River Conservancy in the news:
>"Along the lost half-mile, a process of rediscovery."
>On November 16th, The Boston Sunday Globe City Weekly featured an article 
>by Chris Berdik about the New Basin Parklands and the skatepark.
>
>"Let Charles be better than Seine" was the headline of a letter to the 
>Boston Globe Editor by Renata von Tscharner, CRC president, in response to 
>the article "A river runs through it" by Susan Diesenhouse.
>
>Email 
><mailto:crc at charlesriverconservancy.org>crc at charlesriverconservancy.org if 
>you would like to receive a copy of either article.
>
>Program Spotlight:
>Skatepark: Designer Selected
><http://www.skateparks.com/index.htm>Wormhoudt Inc., designer of the 
>world-famous Louisville Extreme Park in Kentucky, has been contracted to 
>design the Charles River Skatepark.  Wormhoudt Inc. has extensive design 
>experience having completed over 50 skateparks.  They have already begun 
>coordinating their design with the Central Artery and the DCR (who will 
>own and maintain the skatepark).
>
>Public Skatepark Meeting:
>The next public meeting will be on Monday, December 15th at 6:30pm at the 
>Boston Public Library.  Representatives from Wormhoudt Inc. will present 
>initial concepts and take questions and suggestions from the 
>audience.  Registration required at 
><mailto:crc at charlesriverconservancy.org>crc at charlesriverconservancy.org.
>
>Advocacy: Graffiti vs. Art
>As we continue to work on graffiti removal and a long-term maintenance and 
>prevention plan, we would like to hear from you.  What do you think of 
>murals painted on the bridge underpasses?  Please take two minutes and 
>give us your input by 
><http://www.charlesriverconservancy.org/projects/graffiti/graffiti_survey.html>taking 
>our survey.
>
>Holiday Gift Idea:
>The Boston Globe bestseller, Inventing the Charles River, makes a great 
>holiday gift.  This 500 page book by Karl Haglund was published by MIT 
>Press in collaboration with the CRC and includes over 450 
>images. 
><https://www.charlesriverconservancy.org/projects/book_inventing.html>Learn 
>  more or order the book
>
>Picture of the Month:
>The 
><http://www.charlesriverconservancy.org/images/pix_of_month/2003_11_ZakimBridge.jpg>picture 
>of the month shows the area around the Zakim Bridge where the Charles 
>River Skatepark will be located.  The skatepark is sited under Cambridge's 
>curving ramps accessing the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge.
>
>Annual Appeal:
>Watch you mailbox for the Fall 2003 Annual Appeal.  Your support is vital 
>if the Charles River Conservancy is going to be able to continue the 
>renewal and stewardship of the Charles River Parklands.  You can give by 
>check, credit card or 
><https://www.charlesriverconservancy.org/membership/index.php>on line.
>Our mailing address is:
>
>The Charles River Conservancy
>104 Eldredge Street
>Newton, MA
>02458
>
>The Charles River Conservancy takes as its mission the renewal and 
>stewardship of the Charles River Parklands and their surroundings, 
>particularly parks, parkways and bridges.  The Conservancy engages in 
>numerous Parklands restoration and improvement initiatives, including 
>access and safety, education and outreach, and planning and maintenance 
>programs, and relies heavily on individual contributions.  To support the 
>Charles River Conservancy, click 
><https://www.charlesriverconservancy.org/membership/index.php>here. Thank you!
>
>If you know someone who would enjoy this newsletter, please feel free to 
>pass it along.  Interested readers can subscribe to the e-newsletter by 
>sending an email to 
><mail%20to:%20bml at charlesriverconservancy.org>bml at charlesriverconservancy.org 
>with the words "subscribe members" in the message body text.
>If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, email 
><mail%20to:%20bml at charlesriverconservancy.org>bml at charlesriverconservancy.org 
>with your request.
>
>
>--
>Britt Lundgren
>Volunteer Coordinator
>Charles River Conservancy
>104 Eldredge St.
>Newton, MA 02458
>617.641.9131
>fax 617.641.9304
>http://www.charlesriverconservancy.org/
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From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Tue Nov 25 14:35:13 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:35:13 -0500
Subject: [Save] REMINDER: Call for Papers, 2004 Annual Meeting of the World
 Student Community for Sustainable Development (WSC-SD)
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031125143102.00aebbb0@po12.mit.edu>

This is a reminder that the deadline for paper submissions for the 2004 
Annual Meeting of the WSC-SD is fast approaching - less than 1 week now.

The Students for Global Sustainability are seeking papers submissions for 
the 2004 Annual Meeting of the WSC-SD.  The theme of the 2004 Annual 
Meeting is "Sustainable Cities."  Students from all faculties and 
disciplines have a great opportunity to present their papers, to meet 
people from around the world and to exchange ideas and experiences related 
to sustainable cities.

Deadline for submissions:       December 1, 2003 at 5PM
Submit papers to:               Philip Sheehy - sheehy at mit.edu

Any questions?  Please email sfgs-request at mit.edu


**Please refer to our website for more details.**
http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www/spotlight.html

Papers will be selected competitively based on their adherence to the 
conference theme and their overall academic quality. After you submit your 
paper, you may expect to be informed of the status of your submission no 
later than 15 December, 2003.


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From jalee at MIT.EDU  Sun Nov 30 14:33:21 2003
From: jalee at MIT.EDU (Jessica Lee)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:33:21 -0500
Subject: [Save] Creative ideas desperately needed for Riverromp! Win a free
 T-shirt by designing one!
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031130141550.01f03690@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

contact, for questions or comments: Jessica Lee, at jalee at mit.edu


From sheehy at MIT.EDU  Sun Nov 30 23:33:12 2003
From: sheehy at MIT.EDU (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:33:12 -0500
Subject: [Save] Sustainable Development Seminar Series - Sustainable Cities
 12/02 and 12/04
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031130230551.00a1a560@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

Sustainable Initiatives in Cambridge
Henrietta Davis, Vice Mayor of Cambridge
Tuesday December 02, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237

Greening Community Development:  A View from the Field
William Shutkin, President of New Ecology, Inc.
Thursday December 04, 2003 at 5PM in 4-237

snacks and refreshments provided
please forward to any interested parties
http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www/spotlight.html

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From sheehy at mit.edu  Sun Nov 30 23:33:12 2003
From: sheehy at mit.edu (Philip Sheehy)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:33:12 -0500
Subject: [Save] [E&S-seminars] Sustainable Development Seminar Series -
	Sustainable Cities 12/02 and 12/04
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031130230551.00a1a560@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

Sustainable Initiatives in Cambridge
Henrietta Davis, Vice Mayor of Cambridge
Tuesday December 02, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237

Greening Community Development:  A View from the Field
William Shutkin, President of New Ecology, Inc.
Thursday December 04, 2003 at 5PM in 4-237

snacks and refreshments provided
please forward to any interested parties
http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/www/spotlight.html

sponsored by Large Event Funding
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