Blogs & Ecology

60 Years of Human Rights: the Idea and the Reality
Date: Human Rights Day, Wednesday December 10, 2008
Time: 6PM (Ticketed event)
Location: JFK School, Harvard University 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Speakers: Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and
Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Paul Farmer, Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Partners in Health;The Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard University Medical School
President Drew Gilpin Faust (Moderator), Harvard University

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AIDG's 4th Annual Holiday Party

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I love a talk that starts with a good sci-fi analogy. This is how Ken Banks, the creator of Frontline SMS, began his lecture on mobile innovation in developing countries at the Better World by Design Conference.

Dr Who is a Time Lord who travels through time and space in an old-school police box. His sworn enemies are the Daleks, merciless genocidal robots that managed to conquer the entire universe. Brilliant machines, they were nearly an unstoppable force.

World Energy Outlook: Implications for Developing Countries
Part of the International Development Policy Speaker Series
Date:
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Location: Luce Hall, room 202, Yale University [Directions]
Speakers: Rebecca Gaghen, Head of the Communications and Information Office of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris

Duration: 15 min 49 sec

The challenge they set speakers at the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) is to tell a story, specifically a personal story. Not your standard spiel. Not your normal pitch. So here’s my narrative. It combines Greek myth and a little Diana Ross to talk about the need for R&D and business development for poverty alleviation. It’s from the heart. It’s how we hope our work can impact the world.

If you like what you see in the vid, please pass on the link to friends/reblog this post/stumble it/etc. We need all the help we can get.

by James Gabriel Duncan

Capitalism runs on competition, so a competition run on capitalism makes sense. And why not make it about sustainability and green energy? This is the idea behind the Global Venture Challenge sponsored by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The challenge uses the Idea to Product® competition model to identify new energy technologies that meet a current market need. An advisor-led team of 2-4 graduate students will be awarded $25,000 to commercialize their innovation.

Massachusetts Climate Action Network Annual Conference
The Power of One, the Power of All
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008
Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Near Kendall Square’s Red Line T
Keynote Speakers:
Ian Bowles: MA Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs

What Next? Noam Chomsky Looks at the Elections, the Economy & the World

Energy Savings Fair
Date: Saturday, October 25
Time: 9AM to 3PM
Location: Lexington High School, 251 Waltham Street, Lexington
Speakers:
10:00 AM
Mark Durrenberger, New England Breeze: “Wind Energy in Massachusetts: The basics of wind energy including site evaluation, permitting, zoning, installation, and economics including grants, tax benefits, and net metering”

11:00 AM
Gray Watson, Lexington Resident: “Performance and Economics of a Lexington Solar House”

12 Noon
Todd Cataldo, Sheldon Corporation: “Building Energy Star Rated Homes”

A Better World by Design

I’m speaking on Thursday at the Business Innovation Factory. They posted my bio months ago, but I was feeling too shy to put it up. It’s a good read, I suppose, though it’s always strange to hear/read yourself described by others. I’ll be talking about disaster resilience and green technology. I’ll post the video on the blog assuming I don’t cry, run off the stage or vomit (you SNL watchers will get the reference ;).

If you’ve been reading the blog for a while and wanted to know more about me, here’s my deal [as interpreted by Maureen Tuthill who did the interview for BIF]:

Securing the Common Good in a time of global Crisis: A public Address by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
Date: Tuesday October 21, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: JFK Forum at KSG, 79 JFK St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Littaeur Building)
Speakers:
The Honorable BAN KI-MOON
Secretary-General, United Nations
MPA ’84, Harvard Kennedy School

Description:
***THIS FORUM WILL BE TICKETED***

The American Society for Mechanical Energy (AMSE) Innovation Showcase is coming to Boston October 31.

Date: October 31, 2008
Time: 9am-12pm
Location: Sheraton Boston Hotel
Republic Ballroom, Plaza Level
30 Dalton Street
Boston, MA 02199

Duration: 1 min 42 sec

Google tools to help you find voting information, such as registration deadlines and links, and your location to vote. http://maps.google.com/vote, or http://m.google.com/elections on your phone.

Voting location information will be available on the site by mid-October.

5 days left to register by mail in MA and today is the last day to register by mail in NY.

Village Earth is doing an appropriate technology photo contest.

Dates: The contest begins October 1, 2008 and ends October 15, 2008.
Prizes:
First Prize - $100
Second Prize - $50