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Showing posts with label Boston events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston events. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Merrimack Valley Green Energy Environmental Summit
Osgood Landing, 1600 Osgood Street, North Andover, MA
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Green Business Summit
Join the Boston Business Journal on May 15th, 2009 as we honor the most innovative and effective leaders advancing "green" workplace policies in Greater Boston.
We will award honorees in the following categories: Innovation, Invention, Design, & Workplace:
Click here to see the honorees.
The morning will also feature a keynote by Ian Bowles, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Panel discussion including:
Gideon Gradman, Vice President of Corporate Development with Ze-Gen Inc.
Jeff Andrews, Partner at Atlas Venture
John P. DeVillars, Partner Bluewave Strategies
Green Business Summit
Friday, May 15, 2009 7:00am
Sheraton Boston Hotel
Sponsors
Bowditch & Dewey LLP
National Grid
Thomas G. Gallagher
Earthworks call for volunteers!
From Earthworks, an urgent call for volunteers this Thursday!
We are in the midst of establishing a new garden at the Hurley School in Boston's South End. Due to a shortfall of volunteers last weekend, we are putting out an urgent call for help so that we can complete the project. Please join us on Thursday evening for any amount of time between 4-8pm or on Sunday from 12-4pm.The project involves restoring a garden space to include edible and insect-attracting plants for our Outdoor Classroom students to study, care for, and harvest. The program at the Hurley School serves over 100 kids with hands on environmental science lessons twice a week.Volunteering is also a good opportunity to learn about organic techniques and using edibles in the landscape. Please respond to this message or call our office if you are interested in signing up. We will provide instructions and directions for the events.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Bee Demonstration at MIT!
From our partners:
I'd like to let you know about "Buccaneers of Buzz: Celebrating
the Honeybee" - a multi-media tapdance, voice, video and marimba
extravaganza about beekeepers and their bees. This amazing piece
by Rialto Arts has been awarded a Gold Star by the Massachusetts
Cultural Council. I am privileged to be on the board of Rialto
Arts (http://rialtoarts.org/), a small non-profit with a mission
of bringing nature and the performance arts together. Please
consider attending the wonderful performance, being staged as
part of the Cambridge Science Fair
May 1, 2 and 3
Broad Institute Auditorium, MIT
7 Cambridge Center, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Friday, May 1 at 7:30 PM - 6:45 hive demonstration and
bee-keeping Q&A
Saturday, May 2 at 7:30 PM - 6:45 hive demonstration and
bee-keeping Q&A
Sunday, May 3 at 4:00 PM - 3:15 hive demonstration and
bee-keeping Q&A
Miranda Loud, Artistic Director, concept
with Brian Jones, tap/narration,
Yuko Yoshikawa, marimba,
Miranda Loud, film, additional music and vocals
Tickets at the door or
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56041
$20 general
$15 students/seniors
children 12 and under free
(no children under 6, please)
I'd like to let you know about "Buccaneers of Buzz: Celebrating
the Honeybee" - a multi-media tapdance, voice, video and marimba
extravaganza about beekeepers and their bees. This amazing piece
by Rialto Arts has been awarded a Gold Star by the Massachusetts
Cultural Council. I am privileged to be on the board of Rialto
Arts (http://rialtoarts.org/), a small non-profit with a mission
of bringing nature and the performance arts together. Please
consider attending the wonderful performance, being staged as
part of the Cambridge Science Fair
May 1, 2 and 3
Broad Institute Auditorium, MIT
7 Cambridge Center, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Friday, May 1 at 7:30 PM - 6:45 hive demonstration and
bee-keeping Q&A
Saturday, May 2 at 7:30 PM - 6:45 hive demonstration and
bee-keeping Q&A
Sunday, May 3 at 4:00 PM - 3:15 hive demonstration and
bee-keeping Q&A
Miranda Loud, Artistic Director, concept
with Brian Jones, tap/narration,
Yuko Yoshikawa, marimba,
Miranda Loud, film, additional music and vocals
Tickets at the door or
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56041
$20 general
$15 students/seniors
children 12 and under free
(no children under 6, please)
Monday, April 27, 2009
TONIGHT - Freshwater Forum at MIT
Please join us tonight for a discussion about communities organizing to protect fresh waterways in New England! It will be a very interesting presentation and discussion. It will also be a great way to network and see other fellows from the region. I hope that you can make it! More information is below and on our website.
Monday, April 27th - Tonight!
Fresh Water and Waterways in New England
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
77 Massachusetts Ave - Stella Room
Cambridge, MA 02139
5:30-7:30PM
($10 Suggested donation)
Register here: http://www.elpnet.org/greaterbostonnetwork/issue_forum.php or at the door
Monday, April 27th - Tonight!
Fresh Water and Waterways in New England
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
77 Massachusetts Ave - Stella Room
Cambridge, MA 02139
5:30-7:30PM
($10 Suggested donation)
Register here: http://www.elpnet.org/greaterbostonnetwork/issue_forum.php or at the door
Monday, September 08, 2008
Boston event: The Global Food Crisis: A Rural Roundtable
The Global Food Crisis: A Rural Roundtable
Friday, September 12
10 am-1 pm
Mezzanine Conference Room, Johnson Building
Boston Public Library at 700 Boylston St
The Rural Development Leadership Network (RDLN), a national multicultural social change organization that supports leadership development in poor rural areas, will gather in Boston for a "Rural Roundtable" on the world food crisis and how the work of U.S. grassroots leaders in the food system relates to the global situation.
Dr. Daniel Gustafson, Director of the Liaison Office for North America of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will open with a presentation on the scope of the current world food crisis. He has worked in Brazil, Bhutan, Mozambique, Kenya, India and other countries. Members of the RDLN Network, who include small farmers, farmworkers, fishers, entrepreneurs, and those concerned with diet and health, will speak from the community point of view.
UNA-GB serves as a resource for the citizens of the Greater Boston area on the broad agenda of critical global issues addressed by the United Nations, including peacekeeping, human rights, humanitarian relief, economic development, and education. A membership organization founded more than 50 years ago, UNA-GB is a leading chapter of UNA-USA, the largest grassroots foreign policy organization in the United States.
Friday, September 12
10 am-1 pm
Mezzanine Conference Room, Johnson Building
Boston Public Library at 700 Boylston St
The Rural Development Leadership Network (RDLN), a national multicultural social change organization that supports leadership development in poor rural areas, will gather in Boston for a "Rural Roundtable" on the world food crisis and how the work of U.S. grassroots leaders in the food system relates to the global situation.
Dr. Daniel Gustafson, Director of the Liaison Office for North America of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will open with a presentation on the scope of the current world food crisis. He has worked in Brazil, Bhutan, Mozambique, Kenya, India and other countries. Members of the RDLN Network, who include small farmers, farmworkers, fishers, entrepreneurs, and those concerned with diet and health, will speak from the community point of view.
UNA-GB serves as a resource for the citizens of the Greater Boston area on the broad agenda of critical global issues addressed by the United Nations, including peacekeeping, human rights, humanitarian relief, economic development, and education. A membership organization founded more than 50 years ago, UNA-GB is a leading chapter of UNA-USA, the largest grassroots foreign policy organization in the United States.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Boston Area events this week
Boston Green Drinks will meet up tomorrow, May 6, from 6:30 p.m. onward at Skipjack's, 199 Clarendon St., Boston. They have a private room, just to the left of the host station (though not in the bar, which is also to the left).
There will be an Energy Fair on Saturday, May 10th from 10:00 a.m.-2:00p.m. at the First Parish Church in Westwood at the intersection of Clapboardtree Street and Nahatan Street. There will be entertainment and food and the event is free!
Also, come visit us at Massachusetts Youth Pride, where we'll have a table about Conscious Consuming. Youth Pride, the country's oldest and largest gathering of GLBT youth, is on the Boston Common this Saturday, May 10th from 11am-5pm.
Hope to see you at one of these great events!
There will be an Energy Fair on Saturday, May 10th from 10:00 a.m.-2:00p.m. at the First Parish Church in Westwood at the intersection of Clapboardtree Street and Nahatan Street. There will be entertainment and food and the event is free!
Also, come visit us at Massachusetts Youth Pride, where we'll have a table about Conscious Consuming. Youth Pride, the country's oldest and largest gathering of GLBT youth, is on the Boston Common this Saturday, May 10th from 11am-5pm.
Hope to see you at one of these great events!
Sunday, May 04, 2008
"The Case for Make Believe" Book Release Party
The Center for a Commercial-Free Childhood is having a book release party for Susan Linn's new book, The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World. I read Susan Linn's last book, Consuming Kids, and it was so good that it helped spark our interest in hosting a potluck with Josh Golin, a guest speaker from CCFC. If you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, or might have kids of your own some day, I'm sure this book will be worth a read!
"An eloquent brief on the indispensability of unmediated, unadulterated play" -- Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Art, Mind and Brain.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
7pm - 9pm
Judge Baker Children's Center
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA
Free on-site parking
Refreshments will be served
Hosted by The New Press and Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry,
Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School
Please RSVP to Barbara B. Sweeny
(617) 278-4106 or bsweeny@jbcc.harvard.edu
In a commercialized world where glitz masquerades as substance and pundits tout the bells and whistles of technology as a panacea, The Case for Make Believe is a passionate plea for ensuring children the time, space, and silence essential for creative play.
Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School and Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally known for her pioneering work using puppets for play therapy, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.
"An eloquent brief on the indispensability of unmediated, unadulterated play" -- Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Art, Mind and Brain.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
7pm - 9pm
Judge Baker Children's Center
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA
Free on-site parking
Refreshments will be served
Hosted by The New Press and Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry,
Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School
Please RSVP to Barbara B. Sweeny
(617) 278-4106 or bsweeny@jbcc.harvard.edu
In a commercialized world where glitz masquerades as substance and pundits tout the bells and whistles of technology as a panacea, The Case for Make Believe is a passionate plea for ensuring children the time, space, and silence essential for creative play.
Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School and Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally known for her pioneering work using puppets for play therapy, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.
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