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[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - August 6, 2017
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August 6 is the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, August 9 is the anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.  Please spend a moment to remember those events and what they mean today
3pm  Rapid Development, Real-World Deployment, and Evaluation of Projected Augmented Reality Applications
6pm  Clean Energy Reception
6pm  2017 Boston Local Food Festival Zero-Waste Leader Volunteer Training
6:15pm  The Social, Economic and Legal Impact of AI and Automation - an Expert Panel
10am  Nobody's Listening
2pm  Building a search engine to identify environmental factors in disease and disease-related phenotypes
3pm  Lightbox Gallery Talk: Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design
4pm  MOVING FROM ISSUES TO ACTION: Training On Community Organizing
6:30pm  "Turn it Up": A Interactive Environmental Show
8:30am  Cool, Clean, and Warm: Workshop on Clean Heating Solutions and Incentives
10am  Turing's Mill
11am  Vision technology for cutting edge applications in warehousing and distribution
6pm  Robots vs. disease: How microscopes are helping to discover new medicines
6pm  Mass Innovation Nights 101
6:30pm  No Ban! No Wall! Combat Deportations and Islamophobia
Thursday, August 10
8:30am  Energy Storage: A Vital Element in a Lower Carbon World
10am  Future Of Outbreak Response Symposium
10am  Sherlock
3pm  Boston's FIRST Food Innovation Startup Tour
6pm  Boston Climate Action Network Meeting
6:30pm  SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE WITH BOSTON CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK
7:30pm  Refugee Crisis in Europe
Friday, August 11 - Sunday, August 13
10th Annual Greenfest
10am  10th Annual Greenfest EcoForums
10th Annual Greenfest FilmFest
10am  Color Rx
12am  10th Annual Greenfest
10am 10th Annual Greenfest Forums
10am  Hackerspace Health
10am  AI Senses
1pm  Witness for Peace
10am  10th Annual Greenfest Forums
Monday, August 14
1:30pm  The Equipped Explorer: Virtual Reality as a Medium for Learning
6pm  Boston New Technology August 2017 Startup Showcase #BNT80 (21+)
6pm  Smart Cities - Transportation
7pm  An Eclipse for Everyone
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I've read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Rapid Development, Real-World Deployment, and Evaluation of Projected Augmented Reality Applications
MIT Media Lab, E14 - 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Committee:  Pattie Maes, Professor of Media Technology, Director, Fluid Interfaces Group, MIT Media Lab
Joseph A. Paradiso, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Director, Responsive Environments Group, MIT Media Lab
Steven K. Feine, Professor of Computer Science, Director, Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University
Current interactive projected augmented reality systems are not designed to support rapid development and deployment of applications beyond the confines of research labs. I developed a series of self-contained interactive projector–sensor systems (collectively LuminAR devices) and a web-based software development framework. This novel, tightly integrated approach allows developers who are not versed in computer graphics, vision algorithms, and augmented reality techniques to implement projected AR applications rapidly. In this work, I review several real-world uses of the system for retail presentation, desktop interaction and collaboration applications, manufacturing, and education. The work is evaluated through extensive use of the hardware and software by developers as well as two user studies that specifically explored applications for manufacturing and education. The evaluation methodology focused both on basic interaction and system usability as well as the implications of using augmented interfaces in the specific application domains of education and manufacturing. I also discuss the results of the first large-scale user studies of projected augmented reality rapid application development. Finally, I provide a set of design principles for projected augmented reality applications, and recommendations concerning how to deploy such applications in the real world.
This dissertation work was partially supported by a research grants from Intel, Steelcase and Pearson.
Clean Energy Reception
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
University of Massachusetts Club, 1 Beacon Street, 32nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-energy-reception-tickets-36003859513
The Environmental League of Massachusetts and National Wildlife Federation invite you to a Clean Energy Reception for attendees of the National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit.
Join Massachusetts legislative leaders and staff for a "Green Reception" and take in the stunning views of Boston high atop Beacon Hill. Hear brief remarks from leaders from the legislature, industry, and state and national advocacy organizations on cutting edge policies on clean energy, including offshore wind and home energy efficiency, and how states can grow jobs and their own renewable energy industries.
To register for this free reception, RSVP here by August 1.
Cosponsors include:
350 Mass for a Better Future
Acadia Center
Charles River Watershed Association
Climate Action Now
E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs)
Environment Massachusetts
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Project Green Schools
Toxics Action Center Campaigns
2017 Boston Local Food Festival Zero-Waste Leader Volunteer Training
Sustainable Business Network (SBN) of Massachusetts, 99 Bishop Allen Drive, #100, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-boston-local-food-festival-zero-waste-leader-volunteer-training-tickets-36519150763
Join the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts and Save That Stuff for a quick and fun zero-waste training!
Each year, Save That Stuff leads the charge to help make the Boston Local Food Festival a zero-waste event, meaning that 90% or more of our materials are diverted away from landfills. However, we cannot achieve this ambitious goal without your support!
This training will prepare you to identify the different materials SBN will be supplying for the Boston Local Food Festival, as well as other common disposable vessels and utensils, and how we can most responsibly dispose of those items. Your efforts will help ensure that we trash the least amount possible, that we recycle the most amount possible, and that local farmers receive clean and valuable compost from our event!
Snacks, treats, and refreshments will be provided!
The Social, Economic and Legal Impact of AI and Automation - an Expert Panel
PwC, 101 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Cognitive-Computing/events/240614896/
Artificial Intelligence and Automation is changing the world like an Industrial Revolution!
People are concerned about the effect on jobs, competition and society as a whole.
We have assembled a terrific panel of industry experts who will provide us with a glimpse into the future impact of AI.
To be held at PwC's Seaport Offices in Boston.
Speaker list:
Warren Katz – President of Neurala (https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenkatz/)
Kevin Kroen - Lead Partner in PWC's Financial Services Digital Labor/Robotics Process Automation practice (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-kroen-a5ab223/)
Stephen Lawrence – Head of Quantextual Research Acceleration at State Street Global (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlawrence/)
Bushan Sethi – PwC Financial Services People & Organization Practice Lead (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhushansethi/)
Stefanie Tellex  – Assistant  Professor of Robotics and Natural Language Processing at Brown University  (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanie-tellex-38468818/)
Nobody's Listening
Gallery talk 3 pm
Lightbox Gallery, 32 Quincy Street, 5th floor, Cambridge
Nobody's Listening is an artistic multimedia piece that draws on a database of secrets collected through interactive art installations over the past year. The work expresses human secrets through overlapping computer voices and a visual projection. Why do we trust our phones and computers? Where does the physical self end and the digital self begin? The playful installation explores our intimate but dubious relationship to machines, and reflects back our own humanness.
Building a search engine to identify environmental factors in disease and disease-related phenotypes
Northeastern, 177 Huntington Avenue, 11th Floor, Boston
Chirag Patel, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
In a new era of high-throughput environmental exposure assessment, there is an urgent need for new analytics approaches to drive discovery of new exposures associated with disease and phenotype. This is particularly critical as many burdensome diseases are complex and a combination of both hereditary factors and environmental factors. However, we lack analytic tools and data to discover new exposures to explain missing phenotypic variation in the population. We will present an  approach called 'exposome-wide association studies' or equivalently 'environment-wide association studies' (EWASs) as one way to discover new exposures to drive discovery of new exposures in disease and the missing phenotypic variation in the population.
My long-term research goal is to address problems in human health and disease by developing computational and informatics methods to reason over both genomic and environmental information spanning molecules to populations toward a more precise medicine. The proposed research project involves building big data computational tools to search for interacting environmental and genetic factors using the tools of bioinformatics in a complex and burdensome disease, cardiovascular disease, ultimately enabling me to take a step toward that goal. Currently, I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Furthermore, I am an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH) at Massachusetts General Hospital, where I develop large data analytics methods for discovery of new disease biology and adverse events using electronic medical record (EMR)streams and smart phones (Apple ResearchKit GlucoSuccess application).
After my undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, I worked as a software engineer in the biotechnology industry (Applied Biosystems, Inc) for eight years, and attained training in biomedical informatics (PhD and post-doc) at Stanford University.
Lightbox Gallery Talk: Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Sarah Newman, creative researcher at metaLab (at) Harvard and Rachel Kalmar, data scientist at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, will give today's gallery talk.
Their project Nobody's Listening draws on a database of secrets collected through interactive art installations over the past year. The work expresses human secrets through overlapping computer voices and a visual projection. Why do we trust our phones and computers? Where does the physical self end and the digital self begin? The playful installation explores our intimate but dubious relationship to machines and reflects back to us what makes us human.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.
MOVING FROM ISSUES TO ACTION: Training On Community Organizing
Mintz Levin, One Financial Center, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moving-from-issues-to-action-training-on-community-organizing-tickets-35860763509
Join us for an evening workshop that will provide best practices for organizers to effectively advocate and advance issues that impact the Latino community.
You will learn how to organize at the grassroots and grass tops levels, build alliances with other organizations and advance policy issues at the highest levels. You will learn strategies for addressing social issues such as civil rights, voting rights, education, hate crimes legislation, health care legislation, immigration, and 2020 census.
Our Presenters will discuss why these issues matter to the Latino community, and will map out a process of civic engagement, as well as short and long-term tactics to be most effective. You will learn how to define your cause and vision, create specific goals and metrics, find your allies and targets, build a base, find media coverage, and funding.
Nathalie Rayes, Vice President of Public Affairs, Grupo Salinas. Nathalie Rayes is the VP of Public Affairs for Grupo Salinas (http://www.gruposalinas.com/es) in the U.S., a Mexican conglomerate with US$6 billion in annual sales and 90,000 employees in Mexico, the United States, and Central and South America, and with operations in the broadcasting, retail, banking and financial services, telecommunications and internet. Nathalie is also the Executive Director of Grupo Salinas' philanthropic arm in the United States, Fundación Azteca America that seeks to improve the quality of life of Latinos by partnering with existing nonprofits to empower, create awareness and motivate change on social and civic issues.
Previously, Nathalie served as Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn Deputy Chief of Staff, directing the Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Relations, serving as chief liaison to federal, state and regional governments and to the Los Angeles City Council, International Trade, Protocol, Immigrant Affairs, as well as Mayor's appointments to City commissions and boards. Prior to that, she was Senior Policy Advisor to Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Feuer, heading all aspects of Councilmember's activities with respect to citywide legislation and ordinances impacting the Fifth Council District. Nathalie also served as a Department of State Fellow in the Economic/Political Section of the United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Hector E. Sanchez, Chairman, National Hispanic Leadership Agenda. Hector Sanchez is the Executive Director of Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (http://lclaa.org) and the Chair of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (https://nationalhispanicleadership.org). In 2012, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry appointed Sanchez as co-chair of the Hispanic Council on Federal Employment to help advice the agency on leading employment practices in the effort to remove barriers to recruiting, hiring, retaining, and advancing Hispanics in the Federal workforce. He is a member of the Kennedy Center's new Latino Advisory Council, the Vice-Chair of the National Latino Coalition on Climate Change (NLCCC) and a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP).
Prior to joining LCLAA, Sanchez was the DC-Mexico Policy Education Director at Global Exchange, the Policy and Community Liaison for the Education Trust, and a professor of US-Mexico Relations at the Autonomous University of the City of Juarez, Mexico. Sanchez holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Zuraya Tapia, Principal, The Raben Group. As a Principal at The Raben Group (https://rabengroup.com), Zuraya brings over ten years of experience in government affairs from both the public and private sector. Zuraya combines substantial experience in public policy and advocacy work in Washington, DC with deep ties to both the Hispanic and Latin American community in DC and in Latin America.
Her time in the House of Representatives and Capitol Hill relationships complement her unique knowledge from off the Hill, stemming from having headed non-profit organizations, coalitions, and time in a Fortune 50 company. Zuraya has built creative alliances to advance a variety of issues, including diversity in the federal government, diversity in corporate America, immigration reform, and international trade.
Before joining Raben, Zuraya was Vice President for Public Affairs at UPS, a unique role that combined a federal government affairs portfolio with an international affairs portfolio of issues. At UPS she took the company's Public Affairs department in new directions, entering into new partnerships with key Hispanic associations and groups that UPS had not previously explored in order to amplify support for the company's positions on globalization and border facilitation. She is a regular commentator on CNN en Español, Telemundo, NTN24, and Univision.
Stay tuned for the detailed agenda.
"Turn it Up": A Interactive Environmental Show
361 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turn-it-up-a-interactive-environmental-show-tickets-36416057408
Join Hyde Square Task Force and Clean Green Music Machine to see "Turn it Up", an interactive, high-energy musical production. The show explores how energy is generated and provides children with simple ways they can act to better care for our environment. Written by multiple award-winning writer, Paris Qualles and music by Grammy-winning producer, Jeff Bova, the show is a great opportunity for kids to learn about environmental issues through music.
The show will start at 6:30 pm on the Blessed Sacrament Church Plaza (361 Centre Street) on August 8th. Free ice cream will be provided!
For more information, contact Sarah at sarah at hydesquare.org
Cool, Clean, and Warm: Workshop on Clean Heating Solutions and Incentives
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT
50 Milk Street, 16th Floor Edison Room, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cool-clean-and-warm-workshop-on-clean-heating-solutions-and-incentives-tickets-35983924888
Cost:  $25 – $35
Did you know that in Massachusetts, more greenhouse gas emissions come from heating than from power generation? Most heating is fueled by natural gas, fuel oil, or inefficient electric resistance. Fortunately, there are cleaner alternatives.
Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) are becoming a common solution. Modern variable refrigerant flow (VRF) heat pumps offer highly efficient heating and cooling while improving comfort for building occupants. Heat pumps typically require 50 to 75% less electricity than electric resistance heaters and can be powered by electricity from renewable sources.
In this workshop hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council of Massachusetts, you will learn from Mitsubishi Electric and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) about how VRF can provide superior, zonal comfort while cutting energy use and helping to meet green building standards. MassCEC will also discuss its new VRF incentive program and provide an overview of incentives for ductless mini-splits, geothermal heat pumps, central biomass, and solar thermal.
Speaker: Josh Kessler at MassCEC
Josh Kessler is a program manager at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center where he oversees a series of incentive programs to support clean heating technologies. He recently spearheaded the design and launch of MassCEC's VRF rebate program and has now turned his attention to increasing awareness and performance of the technology. Previously, Mr. Kessler worked in the consulting and utilities sectors. He has a BA from Bucknell University and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Speaker: Dan Swanson at Mitsubishi Electric
Dan Swanson is a member of the Mitsubishi Electric commercial sales team in the greater Boston area. He has 7 years in the HVAC industry, and is finishing up his second year with Mitsubishi Electric. Dan's main focus is Variable Refrigerant Flow technology and supporting Engineers, Architects, and Contractors towards its proper application. Prior to Mitsubishi he spent time as a project manager for both a design firm and mechanical contractor.
Turing's Mill
Technologies are emerging that prompt a new public dialogue around the nature of cognition, consciousness, and the self. And yet questions underpinning this dialogue have fascinated philosophers throughout history. Is the mind a machine, like a mill or mechanical calculator; or is it spirit or essence, something made of colorless, massless, motionless stuff, transcendent and eternal? Can machines think—and have they been thinking all along? A multi-channel video installation, Turing's Mill is a kind of dossier of evidence for addressing these questions, gathered from found footage, new imagery, and the history of technology.
Vision technology for cutting edge applications in warehousing and distribution
RSVP at https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1156725&tp_key=fdad1d2e79&sti=em2&email_address=HAPGOOD@POBOX.COM
In a free webcast on September 13, David Dechow, Staff Engineer, Intelligent Robotics/Machine Vision, FANUC America Corporation, will outline how the latest machine vision technology is being used to enable the automation of processes in warehousing and distribution.
How machine vision is used in warehousing and distribution
Machine vision components that are being used this setting
The challenges of using these technologies in such a setting
Future automation needs in warehousing and distribution
All webcasts are available on any mobile device including iPads, tablets and phones!
Robots vs. disease: How microscopes are helping to discover new medicines
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robots-vs-disease-how-microscopes-are-helping-to-discover-new-medicines-tickets-34870322072
Anne E. Carpenter, Director, Imaging Platform, Broad Institute
While scientists are identifying more and more diseases, the pace of discovery for new, life-saving drugs remains astonishingly slow. In this talk, Anne Carpenter, director of the Broad Institute Imaging Platform, will cover how automated microscopes and advanced software may transform the drug discovery pipeline by providing new and more rapid insights into cellular biology.
Mass Innovation Nights 101
6pm-8:30pm
MIT, Chang Building (E52), Floor 7, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-101
Our next event, Mass Innovation Nights 101, will be hosted by MIT Sloan Executive Education and will feature new startups influencing innovation and tackling process improvement. Join us at MIT Sloan on the 7th floor of Building E52 in the Samberg Conference Center for one of the best views in the Boston area and a night of networking and new product showcases. Share the event on social media using #MIN101 and tweet us at @MITSloanExecEd and @MassInno.
Across MIT, some of the world's most audacious thinkers are launching change. They are the MIT Sloan Executive Education faculty. Their innovations and inventions reverberate throughout boardrooms, classrooms, and living rooms around the globe. Our participants embrace the opportunity to be close to these experts—as well as among them—in order to take advantage of the tools and methods learned to navigate the business challenges they face every day. Our portfolio of 40+ non-degree programs includes courses like Systematic Innovation of Products, Processes, and Services; Marketing Innovation; the Entrepreneurship Development Program; Leadership by Design: Innovation Process and Culture; and more. Save 15% when you enter Referral Code MIN101 on the program application form by 12/31/17. (Some exclusions apply.) Learn more.
No Ban! No Wall! Combat Deportations and Islamophobia
Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston
COMBAT is hosting a forum for several speakers to discuss the Trump  administration's racist deportations and Islamophobia as well as intersectionality in activism. Panel to include: Beto Sanchez, Organizer with Migrant Justice Vermont Nadeem Mazen, two-term Cambridge City  Councillor and an open dialogue plus question and answer.
Tables with further information from other organizations will be there!
Sliding-scale entry donation of $5-$30. Money donated will fund the speakers and participating activist groups. Attendees with significant financial strain may contact us at bostoncombat at gmail.com for free admission.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/736846619835455/
Energy Storage: A Vital Element in a Lower Carbon World
50 Milk Street, 5th Floor, Windrose Room, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-storage-a-vital-element-in-a-lower-carbon-world-tickets-35764285942
Whether the reason is Energy Independence, National Security or Climate Change, reducing our use of Carbon will be critical to our society's future. One critically important aspect about fossil fuels is that they are not just forms of energy, they are forms of "stored" energy. If we are going to reduce our dependence on them by using renewable energy like Wind or Solar, which are forms of pure energy, we will also have to replace the storage aspect of them. Energy Storage on both the Grid side and Building side of the meter will be covered along with their respective applications.
The talk will cover how Energy Storage, in general, is a critical element of the future Grid and Net Zero building and the different type of storage and applications focusing on Thermal Storage since it is the low hanging fruit considering cost, life, and energy. All types of storage are needed and understanding their different strengths is important.
More about the speaker Mark MacCracken, CEO of Calmac
Mark M. MacCracken is the CEO of CALMAC Corp., which is the largest manufacturer of Thermal Energy Storage equipment in the world, with over 4,000 installations in over 50 countries.
In his over 40 years with the firm, MacCracken has been involved in all aspects of the company including, R&D, contracts, patents, manufacturing, marketing, and finance. He was the Principal Investigator on research projects with Oak Ridge National Labs, NASA and National Renewable Energy Research Lab. In his continual support of energy efficiency, he is regularly in contact with the DOE, EPA, EPRI and electric utilities across the country and around the world.
MacCracken has his BS in Mechanical Engineering, has three U.S. Patents and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey and a LEED Fellow.
Future Of Outbreak Response Symposium
Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
Chatbots are curious, sometimes helpful, and sometimes mystifying "creatures." The subject of this installation is a chatbot named Sherlock, touted to be among the most advanced, intelligent AIs on the planet. So why would it want to talk to humans? This interactive installation will invite visitors to chat with Sherlock, a chatbot unlike one they've ever met.
Boston's FIRST Food Innovation Startup Tour
CIC Boston, 15th Floor, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostons-first-food-innovation-startup-tour-tickets-36165962367
Cost:  $35
Perhaps you're making a move to Boston to launch your new food venture? Or maybe you've been working here a while but you've never engaged in the food community? Or you simply see the flaws in our food system and want to know what solutions are at the forefront of sustainable change?
Join Branchfood for an immersive walking tour of Boston's food startup ecosystem. Meet leaders in the food innovation community, discover emerging companies disrupting the food system, and talk directly with fellow entrepreneurs.
With Boston's 1st Food Innovation Startup Tour, Branchfood aims to set your bearings and empower you to make the most of the Boston food startup ecosystem.
Branchfood
Branchfood seeks to promote food entrepreneurship and support the community of founders launching and scaling transformative businesses as the largest community of food innovators in New England. By uniting the community of entrepreneurs, mentors, advisors, investors, industry professionals, and mission driven organizations passionate about food, Branchfood aspires to create a sustainable food system.
Spotlight: Lauren Abda, Founder and CEO
Lauren's work is focused on connecting the community of food innovators and also aggregating resources for food entrepreneurs to help their businesses launch and grow in Boston. Prior to Branchfood, she consulted for foodtech companies in Boston and San Francisco and worked as an analyst for a venture capital firm focused on early stage foodtech investment.
Red's Best @ The Fish Pier
You probably know your dentist and your accountant but you may not know your fishermen even though they feed you. Meet Red's Best, a Boston based seafood wholesaler, who aggregates catch directly from over 1,000 small, independent New England fishing boats annually. Their mission is to sustain the livelihoods of American fishermen and their families while sustaining fisheries for harvest.
Spotlight: Jared Auerbach, CEO & Owner
Throughout his nine years experience in the seafood industry, Jared has held positions in every aspect of the supply chain including three years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and New England. He started Red's Best in 2008 and has grown it from scratch.
Freight Farms
Freight Farms addresses the needs of the changing food landscape by providing the physical and digital tools to create local produce ecosystems on a global scale. With the right tools, infrastructure, and support anyone can become a freight farmer, regardless of their background or geographic location.
Spotlight: Caroline Katsiroubas, Director of Marketing
Caroline began as a Community Manager at Freight Farms and became the Director of Marketing after 4 years, further supporting the company's mission to change the global food system. Prior to rising up the ladder at Freight Farms, Caroline served Community Outreach Intern for the National Park Service and as a Project Assistant at the Environmental Health Fund.
Clover Food Lab
Clover Food Lab is a fast casual chain founded and run in Boston. The company seeks to decrease the ecological footprint of the food industry by offering a simple menu that changes day to day and with the seasons based on what is available from local farmers and includes a large mix of organic ingredients. Despite Clover Food Lab's focus on local, sustainable and vegetarian food, the restaurant consciously avoids branding it's food as such in order to appeal to a wider audience.
Boston Climate Action Network Meeting
First Baptist Church, 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-climate-action-network-meeting-tickets-35334787300
We're working towards fighting climate change through improved energy policy and education at the local level in Boston. The BCAN Action Team meeting is a great way to get directly involved in the effort to combat climate change in the era of Trump. We gather twice per month on the 2nd and 4th Thursday from 6-8pm at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain.
Come meet the Communications Team, the Arts Team, and other dedicated climate campaigners to learn how you can help us plan outreach for the Community Choice Energy campaign.
SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE WITH BOSTON CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK
Venture Cafe at Cambridge Innovation Center, 5th floor, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RENEWABLES FOR ALL IN BOSTON Presented by Alice Tilton, Boston Climate Action Network
Cities across the country are cutting their carbon emissions and making renewable power available to all electric ratepayers through Community Choice Energy (CCE). We'll look at CCE's equity and emissions impacts in Boston and discuss the intersection of political action and consumer action in combating climate change.
The Boston Climate Action Network is a climate justice organization that works to broaden the constituency for a green economy and frame climate concerns to resonate with Boston residents‰۪ daily lives. Through popular education, creative communications, and a unified messaging strategy, BostonCAN works to unify diverse constituencies behind a clean energy vision relevant to broad sectors of society.
https://communitychoiceboston.org/
https://bostoncan.org/community-choice-energy/
The Sustainability Collaborative was spurred as an outgrowth of the Sustainability unConference and aims to provide an ongoing platform for collaboration, connections, and solutions generation. Rotating sustainability advocates are given the chance to facilitate group discussion around central sustainability themes ranging from hunger alleviation to impact investing. The goal is to raise awareness within the innovation community while strengthening the social impact ecosystem.
Hosted monthly as part of The Venture Cafe Foundation's Cafe Night at Kendall gathering at CIC Cambridge.
Refugee Crisis in Europe
Beacon Hill Friends House, 8 Chestnut Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugee-crisis-in-europe-tickets-36172929205
A German Quaker and three other visitors from Germany will speak about the refugee crisis in Europe. Topics covered will include Germany's postwar experience of integrating over ten million German refugees, Angela Merkel's current policies, and the varied responses from the German populace to the arrival of over a million refugees in the past few years.
Boston City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Square, Boston
https://www.facebook.com/bostongreenfest
Welcome to the region's largest multicultural environmental music and art festival!
A few things going on at this FREE event?
3 Stages with Live Music and Dance Performances (from more than 20 countries!)
Showcase of Green Innovation and Exhibits: Robots - Cars - Bikes
An Eco-Fashion Show Featuring Local Designers
Community-wide Art Pieces and Exhibitions
Free Fitness Classes: Yoga - Zumba - BollyX
Green Film Festival - World Documentaries
GreenFest Talks from inspiring leaders and innovators
Discussion EcoForums
International Youth Summit on Environmental Problems
Delicious Local Food Emproium and International Cuisines
Wine & Beer Garden
A Domino Tournament!
EcoKid Events: Pony Rides - Petting Zoo - Art - STEM Projects
Boston GreenFest is a community classroom. It allows everyone to learn and explore together. Come join us and wake up the innovator that is inside us all.
Join us for a celebration of life and possibility, providing you with ideas and interactive experiences that can shape your life and the global future.
Turn off your AC and TVs, call your friends and neighbors, connect with your community and come explore Boston GreenFest!
Our theme this year is #PositiveSolidarity!
Visit our website for more details and full schedule: http://www.bostongreenfest.org/
10th Annual Greenfest EcoForums
Faneuil Hall, Boston
10am  Transportation Tomorrow Today
1:30pm Water and Resilience
4pm  Designing Our Future
More information at http://www.bostongreenfest.org/
Boston City Hall Atrium, Boston
Color Rx
10-4 pm
Color is ephemeral and complex. Its history, its substance, and its context link inextricably to our perceptions and experience. Color Rx uses a computer algorithm to diagnose a viewer's subjective inputs and "prescribe a color" in response. The piece is grounded in questions about trust in or benefit from "smart" systems, often in contexts where the algorithms are opaque -- even when the output is very concrete (and in this case, colorful). In what ways is this system smart? Is it also intuitive, or even wise?  The installation contends with the meaning we ascribe to perceptions and experiences, especially when such experiences are designed for individual consumption. While many algorithmic forms of diagnosis can be shallow, the benefits can be deep. Drawing on historical information from the Forbes Pigment Collection, citations to scholarly texts, and the artist's personal store of knowledge and intuition in the field, this piece explores the line between belief and truth, projection and reality, color and illusion.
City Hall Plaza, Boston
10th Annual Greenfest Forums
Hackerspace Health
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), 1 Broadway, 4th Floor, Katmandu conference room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackerspace-health-tickets-36201770470
You got individual/team projects to work on? - Join our Hackerspace Health!
If you have a meetup account,
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/healthinnovatorsboston/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/health-innovators
Hackerspace Health is a workspace where people with common interests, often in computers, machining, technology, science, digital art or electronic art, meet, socialize and collaborate. In general, hackerspace health functions as center for peer learning and knowledge sharing, in the form of workshops, presentations, and lectures.
You don't have to have an idea to hack on! You DON'T have to know computer programming, you can inspire others through your vision. You can hack for the whole day (10 am to 4 pm) or join anytime.
You also have access to a 3D printer at our facility for building a hardware prototypes.
We will be meeting at the Cambridge Innovation Center every Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm on the FOURTH FLOOR, KATMANDU conference room.
AI Senses
Saturday/Sunday, August 12-13, 10 am-5 pm
Gallery talk Saturday, August 12, 3 pm
In current times, "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" are buzzwords. But they are more than that—they influence our behaviors and understandings of the technologies they describe and the world they make. A lack of understanding of how these systems operate on their own terms is dangerous. How can we live and interact with this alien species, which we set forth into the world, if we know it through interfaces constructed to make the machine feel closer to the world we already know? This project visualizes sensor data that our cell phones and personal computers collect and digest on our behalf, to help us understand how these machines experience the world.
Witness for Peace
encuentro5, 9a Hamilton Place, Boston
We are happy to announce that Witness for Peace New England, with the support of the National office, has been rejuvenating our regional organizing and programming efforts! Many of you have partnered with us for decades and have remained involved over the past few years, even as our regional presence has been very limited. Thank you for your commitment and involvement- we?re eager to work together in rebuilding the WFP New England region! Working to change unjust US policies and accompanying struggles for justice is going to take all of us, and we are thankful for your dedication.
We would like to invite you to join us for a half-day, participation-rich retreat to discuss Witness for Peace New England's regional organizing, programming and long-term planning strategies.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/1896313200623103
The Equipped Explorer: Virtual Reality as a Medium for Learning
MIT Media Lab, E15 - 050 (Bartos), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Committee:  Pattie Maes, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher M. Schmandt, Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Albrecht Schmidt, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Stuttgart
What opportunities does virtual reality offer to improve the way we learn? In this thesis, I investigate the ways that constructivist approaches, in particular exploratory and experiential learning, can be uniquely supported by immersive virtual worlds. Against the background of these learning theories, I introduce a design framework that centers around defining a medium of virtuality that is fundamentally social, and uses capture of movement and interaction as a key means for creating interactive scenarios and narrative. Within the world conjured by this medium, the Equipped Explorer learns, reviews, creates and communicates using tools that I propose and classify according to a taxonomy. A series of prototypes and design explorations are used as proofs of concept for aspects of the design framework. Experimental studies are used to investigate foundational questions concerning the learning benefits of using VR over 2D interactive media, and the viability of social interaction and collaboration in VR. I reflect on the implications of this framework and my experimental results to extrapolate how they might impact the future classroom and the practice of learning and discovery more broadly. Finally, I discuss what kinds of research might be needed to maximize that impact moving forward.
Boston New Technology August 2017 Startup Showcase #BNT80 (21+)
LogMeIn, 333 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/241753144/
This event is 21+. Show security your valid photo identification at the door. Enter the lobby and come to our check-in table. Type the first few letters of your first or last name on the screen and tap your name to print your name tag.
Come learn about 6 innovative and exciting technology products and network with 100+ attendees from the Boston/Cambridge startup community! This event is 21+, due to alcohol being served.  Valid photo identification is required. Buy your ticket now and save 50% - price rises to $20 on August 8th.
Each presenter gets 5 minutes for a product overview & demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A.
Smart Cities - Transportation
CDM Smith, 75 State Street, Suite 701, Boston
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston-DIG-Digital-Industrial-Group/events/242184409/
Welcome to our first of a series of events focusing on Smart Cities - this one covers Transportation. The next generation of smart vehicles, including autonomous ones, requires wholly new infrastructure and a new approach to urban planning. Innovators who are startup founders, urban planners, infrastructure builders, and policy makers will share their observations on how to support the movement of people, fleets, and goods in a smart city. Stay tuned for more updates!
6:00-6:30pm Mix & Mingle with food & refreshments
6:30-7:30pm Presentations from corporates and startups panel members (~5 minutes each), followed by Q&A
7:30-8:30pm Organizer announcement + 30 sec shout-outs, followed by networking
An Eclipse for Everyone
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Johnson Building, Central Library, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-eclipse-for-everyone-tickets-36654434400
On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans will witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in 99 years. As in all total solar eclipses, the Moon will block the Sun, revealing the Sun's outer atmosphere in an incredible spectacle.
Join us for a conversation with Sky and Telescope's Janine Myszka as we learn what we'll be able to see in the Boston area, why the total eclipse is happening now, and how to safely view the eclipse. We'll also share a preview of NOVA's upcoming Eclipse Over America film and will be giving away special NOVA eclipse glasses!
Speaker bio:  Janine Myszka recently joined the team at Sky & Telescope as their Digital Content Strategist. She earned a B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics from Villanova University and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. Before moving to Boston from Orlando, FL this spring, she blew things up on stage for a living, helped guests peer through telescopes, organized activities for the Venus transit and Planet Palooza, and created hands-on workshops for visitors to the Orlando Science Center. She has a deep and abiding love for puns and cats, and recently experienced the wonders of goat yoga (which doesn't actually have to do anything with her qualifications as an eclipse expert, she just wanted to tell you that). She's excited to see the partial solar eclipse on August 21st and thinks you should be too!
Boston Sustainability Breakfast
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM EDT
Pret A Manger, 101 Arch Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-30734225897
Join us every month for Net Impact Boston's informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good! Feel free to drop by any time between 7:30 and 8:30 am.
For our June sustainability breakfast, we'll be co-hosting with WISE (Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy) as we continue the discussion from our May 24th event - No Food to Waste.
City Sprouts Summer Garden Expos
Rindge Avenue Upper School or Putnam Avenue Upper School
RSVP at https://citysprouts.givezooks.com/events/summer-2017-garden-expos
Want to see firsthand the difference that school gardens make for young people? This summer is your chance! Take a tour of a school garden led by middle schoolers who have spent the summer learning not only how to grow and cook their own food but also how to help their communities.
We're hosting expos at Cambridge Upper Schools in July & August. All expos run from 10-11am.
Community Self Defense Workshop 8/16
Copley Plaza Great Lawn, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-self-defense-workshop-816-tickets-36407958183
At Healthworks Fitness, we encourage all women to lead with their best self: through physical/mental strength and the ability to handle any situation. Please join us for a complimentary self defense class in partnership with IMPACT to give you the tools and training to stand up against violence.
ProfDev: Socially Responsible Investing
The NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston
We will be on the second floor in the large conference room.
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/sojust-tm/events/240009729/
Cost:  $15.76 /per person
Uncertain how to work towards a secure financial future while living out your values? Join Socializing for Justice for a ProfDev on Socially Responsible Investing on Wednesday, August 16, 6:00 - 8:30 PM.
Fee: $15 advance/$30 door
Limited space - register ahead of time by RSVPing yes.
Credit cards accepted online and at the door (if space available).
Newcomers always welcomed!
How do we manage our savings to best sustain ourselves and support our vision of a more just economy? Whether you're investing now, informing yourself for the future, or organizing a divestment or financial campaign, this is a chance to learn investment basics and discuss all those questions with a local progressive activist and finance professional. No prior knowledge expected: we'll start with basic terms and concepts, and also cover political choices and investment strategies. Participants gain a more intuitive sense of how to use investments and ideas about how to research and choose between different financial tools without checking your politics at the door.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Joby Gelbspan is a lifelong progressive activist who has dedicated her career to "translating finance for activists." She holds a Master's in Accounting and an MBA, with financial and management experience ranging from non-profit organizations to the investment management industry. She has served on several nonprofit Boards and as CFO and Financial Consultant for grassroots, progressive organizations. She currently coordinates strategic corporate and financial research to support Corporate Accountability International's grassroots campaigns challenging the World Bank and some of the world's largest corporations to halt their abusive practices.
6:00-6:30 Socializing - bring your own dinner
6:30-8:30 Training and Q&A
Ghost of the Innocent Man:  A True Story of Trial and Redemption
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome local debut author BENJAMIN RACHLIN for a discussion of his new book, Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption.
About Ghost of the Innocent Man
During the last two decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the opportunity for meaningful reform.
When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his incarceration to the tireless efforts to prove his innocence and the identity of the true perpetrator. These were spearheaded by his relentless champion, Christine Mumma, a cofounder of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission. That commission—unprecedented at its inception in 2006—remains a model organization unlike any other in the country, and one now responsible for a growing number of exonerations.
With meticulous, prismatic research and pulse-quickening prose, Benjamin Rachlin presents one man's tragedy and triumph. The jarring and unsettling truth is that the story of Willie J. Grimes, for all its outrage, dignity, and grace, is not a unique travesty. But through the harrowing and suspenseful account of one life, told from the inside, we experience the full horror of wrongful conviction on a national scale. Ghost of the Innocent Man is both rare and essential, a masterwork of empathy. The book offers a profound reckoning not only with the shortcomings of our criminal justice system but also with its possibilities for redemption.
Cambridge Street Upper School or Vassal Lane Upper School
Thesis Defense:  The Role of Wavenumber One and Two in the Development of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate, Andreas Miller
CHAIR OF DEFENSE:
Prof. Paul O'Gorman, MIT, EAPS
THESIS COMMITTEE:
Prof. R. Alan Plumb, MIT, EAPS, Advisor
Prof. John Marshall, MIT, EAPS
Professor Thomas Birner, Colorado State University
Copies of the thesis may be obtained from the EAPS Education Office (54-912). All interested faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.
MA Pirate Party Surveillance Cameras Mapping
Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston
The Massachusetts Pirate Party activists have mapped surveillance cameras in many cities and towns, but downtown Boston remains little explored. To fix that, our surveillance camera mapping picnic will be Saturday, August 19th.  We will meet near the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common starting at noon.
The schedule is:
noon-1pm: food and training;
1pm-2:30pm: map cameras;
2:30pm-3:30pm: come back and debrief.
We will show you how to map cameras using Open Street Map (OSM) software on your smart phone or on a paper map for later entry into OSM. We have tested
some mobile phone OSM software and will provide How To guides.
We plan to have these events in other cities before the Winter comes, so contact us at info at masspirates.org if you want to set one up in your community. To find out where people have mapped cameras so far, check out
http://cctv.masspirates.org
We would appreciate it if you told us if you plan to attend:
https://masspirates.org/crew/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=26
SWAPFEST
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, Albany Street Garage and Lots, Cambridge
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
Free for MIT and Harvard Undergraduates with current ID
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 15, 2017.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, Electronic Research Society, MIT, UHF Repeater Assn. W1XM, MIT
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
http://w1mx-officers@mit.edu
Observing the Solar Eclipse
MIT, Kresge Oval, across from 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
View with us at MIT!
The viewing session at MIT is open to the MIT community and to the public. Sponsored by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, it will be held on the Kresge Oval, outside the MIT Student Center at 77 Mass. Ave. - http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=G8
Note:  the eclipse will be partial as seen from the Boston area, and will be ongoing during this entire time. There is no one time when the eclipse will be "best", so feel free to drop by anytime during 1:30 to 3:30pm. The eclipse will progress somewhat slowly. We will have eclipse glasses to use at the event, plus specially filtered telescopes to give you close-up views of the sun.
It has been nearly a century since a total solar eclipse traversed coast-to-coast across the USA. Everyone in North America will have a view of the Moon blocking at least part of the Sun (Partial Eclipse).  But the spectacle of a lifetime is seeing the sun totally eclipsed  by the moon. The narrow "path of totality" will stretch from Salem (Oregon) to Lincoln (Nebraska) to St. Louis (Missouri) to Charleston (South Carolina) on the east coast, the moon takes its first bite out of the sun at 1:28 p.m. eastern daylight time (EDT).
Greenfest Looking for Volunteers
10th Annual Boston GreenFest will be at Boston City Hall Plaza, August 11-13, 2017.  It is the largest multicultural environmental music festival in the region featuring lots of local and international exhibits, performances, films, food, fashion and forums.  Our goal is to educate and empower people to create a more sustainable, healthier world. We are actively building an interconnected, ever expanding network throughout our neighborhoods, city and region.  From business to nonprofit, neighborhood association to academic institution, Boston GreenFest spans age, culture and industry.   Celebrating our 10th anniversary, Boston GreenFest is excited to bring this wonderful free three-day festival to Boston City Hall Plaza as it is transformed into a fun interactive community classroom.
We are looking for volunteers to help throughout the weekend.
Please visit:  http://www.bostongreenfest.org/
New Climate CoLab Contests:
Land Use Change
Shifting Attitudes & Behaviors
More information at https://www.climatecolab.org/
Discounted Solar for Somerville
As part of the State's Solarize Mass program, local volunteers and the City of Somerville recently launched the Solarize Somerville campaign to make it easier and cheaper for residents and small businesses to install solar panels.
The program, which is offering information and guidance, free site consultations, and solar panel discounts through November, has set an ambitious goal to inspire at least 200 property owners to sign up for solar —and each of those private solar installations will also benefit the community directly. For every 400 kW in signed private contracts through the program, the program's solar vendor SolarFlair will donate a system of up to 5 kW for a public or community purpose. All are invited to the program kickoff at a Meet the Installer event on Tuesday, July 26 at 6-7:30 p.m., 167 Holland St. Additional events on topics such as solar basics, financing, and solar for multifamily homes will be announced.
Unique to the program is its neighbor-to-neighbor approach: trained resident volunteers and a designated volunteer Solar Coach are available essentially as mentors. They can, for example, walk anyone through the process, provide general loan program and tax incentive information, and share their own solar experiences. The campaign's webpage and blog offers useful information, tips, and a link to websites where you can estimate the solar potential of your home and roughly calculate how much solar could save you on your energy bills at www.somervillema.gov/sustainaville/solarize.
Somerville is one of the most urban communities ever to participate in Solarize Mass, which makes the neighbor-to-neighbor approach especially helpful due to some of the unique challenges here such as multi-family houses with more than one owner. Winter Hill resident Mary Mangan, the program's volunteer Solar Coach, went through that process and is ready to share helpful tips.
"I'm excited to work with our eager volunteers to help our neighbors understand the benefits of solar power. As a co-owner of a two-family home with solar, I can also offer some insights about how that process went for us," said Mangan.
Also key to the program is the selection of a designated vendor, which allows the program to offer reduced cost installation through bulk purchasing. Through a competitive process, SolarFlair, based in Ashland, MA, was selected. They were also the selected installer for the communities of Arlington, Hopkinton, Mendon, Brookline, Carlisle-Chelmsford, Newton, and Quincy.
"We're excited to be the selected installer for Solarize Somerville, and look forward to speaking with any home or business owners that are interested in reducing their electric bills while also making a great investment," said Matt Arner, the owner and President of SolarFlair.
Solar systems can be purchased outright (with a payback of about 4-5 years). The Mass Solar Loan program offers rates of 3.25% or less.
Or, for no money down owners can choose a power purchase agreement (PPA), where the system is owned and maintained by a third party, and residents buy back the electricity at a discounted price.
More on-site renewable energy is critical to reducing carbon emissions.  It also saves money for residents.
Tax incentives for solar installations include:
Federal Tax Credit: A 30 percent federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is available for qualified residential and commercial projects
Massachusetts Personal Income Tax Credit: The lesser of 15% of the total cost of the solar electric system or $1,000, for qualified clean energy projects
Five-year Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS): Business owners can depreciate solar electric systems over a five-year schedule
For more information or to sign up for a free site consultation:
Visit the Solarize Somerville webpage at www.somervillema.gov/sustainaville/solarize for
Helpful information and FAQs
To contact a volunteer or Solar Coach Mary Mangan to discuss solar options and incentives
To set up an appointment for a free site consultation directly with SolarFlair
To find out about events
To volunteer for Solarize Somerville
Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch.  No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://somervilleyogurtmakingcoop.wordpress.com
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
Solar map of Cambridge, MA
http://www.mapdwell.com/en/cambridge
Sunny Cambridge has just launched! Sunny Cambridge is the city-wide initiative that makes it easy for all types of residents to get solar power for their homes. Cambridge has lined up local solar installers through the EnergySage Solar Marketplace, which helps you request, receive, and compare solar quotes 100% online with support available every step of the way.
The City of Cambridge is working on many levels to reduce energy use and GHG emissions to make the city more sustainable. As a semifinalist in the nationwide competition for the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize, Cambridge Energy Alliance is encouraging residents to take actions to save energy, save money, and protect the environment. Get involved by signing up for a no-cost home energy assessment at the Cambridge Energy Alliance home page (www.cambridgeenergyalliance.org/winit)
and going solar at http://www.sunnycambridge.org
"Greening Our Grid" Report Released April 24, 2017
MAPC is excited to announce the release of "Greening Our Grid," a fact sheet and a case study detailing MAPC's strategy to use municipal aggregation to help build new renewable energy in New England.
"Greening Our Grid" highlights MAPC's work with the City of Melrose as a case study for MAPC's innovative green municipal aggregation strategy. Melrose recently completed its first year of implementation. The city's results demonstrate that economic and environmental goals can be met simultaneously, and provide a compelling example for others to follow.
The case study and fact sheet further describe the renewable energy strategy overall, why it can have a real impact on our electricity grid, and MAPC's program to help other municipalities follow Melrose's lead. Arlington, Brookline, Gloucester, Hamilton, Millis, Somerville, Sudbury, and Winchester are poised to roll out their green aggregations within the year.
MAPC believes that municipal aggregation offers an opportunity for communities to leverage the collective buying power of their residents and businesses to transform our electric grid to cleaner sources of energy, while also providing cost savings and price stability for electricity. The fact sheet and case study will be useful tools for cities and towns that are exploring green municipal aggregation, as well as for those that already have active aggregation programs.
Check out "Greening Our Grid" today at http://www.mapc.org/greening-our-grid, and contact Patrick Roche, MAPC Clean Energy Coordinator, at proche at mapc.org for more information about MAPC's program.
Cambridge Climate Change Game
Extending our work on face-to-face games, the MIT Science Impact Collaborative has developed a digital game on the health impacts of climate change that you can play alone on your computer or on your mobile phone. The game should take about 10-20 minutes. We would appreciate it if you could play the game at your convenience.
Play the game at http://www.doublecoconut.com/climate/
Any and all feedback on the game should be directed to Ella Kim at ella at mit.edu.
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org
Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas.   Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities.  Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers.  Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development - http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!
Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting:  https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy:  https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston:  http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
Links to events at over 50 colleges and universities at Hubevents:  http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area:  http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events:  http://calendar.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club:  http://mitenergyclub.org/
Harvard Events:  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment:  http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard:  http://green.harvard.edu/events
Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite:  http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center:  http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events:  http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal:  http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings:   http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar:  https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Take Action MA:  http://takeactionma.com
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.


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Parallel ATA - History and Terminology
History and Terminology
The PATA standard was originally conceived as the "PC/AT Attachment" because its primary feature was a direct connection to the 16-bit ISA bus introduced with the IBM PC/AT. The "AT" in "IBM PC/AT" refers to "Advanced Technology," but the ATA specifications simply use the name "AT Attachment", to avoid possible trademark issues with IBM.
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She will not be disclosing it publicly of course but apparently it has already send 'some shivers' down the spine of DAP Leader and now only Sarawakian in Pakatan Harapan Vice President Chong Chieng Jen. Talks within DAP circles there is already a probability that a new face is to replace the incumbent DAP. What is the reason? Nancy would not have just made this statement if she has not been briefed in detail.
It does seem though, that with Batu Kawah and Batu Kitang already in the bag for BN after the winning in the last State Elections attention is now focussed on STAMPIN PARLIAMENTARY SEAT.
From 1999 to 2013 it was a seat for BN/SUPP Yong Khoon Seng who won by majority of 8897 ( in 1999) 7731 ( in 2004 ) 3070 ( in 2008 ) and losts it to DAP Julian Tan Kok Ping by 18670.
The SUPP candidate hopefuls have been working the ground and with the President of SUPP and the Padawan Council Chairman as Assemblyman in Batu Kawah and Batu Kitang respectively there is much enthusiasm and in reality wrestling this seat back from DAP is within reach.
WHO WILL BE THE LIKELIEST BN/SUPP candidate? Surely, the Barisan Nasional leaders will scrutinise all potential candidates in order to regain back P196 STAMPIN.
PKR have tried without much success and a so called multi racial party but Majority Chinese based party DAP is making a Big Political statement to its Pakatan allies. Have they disregarded PKR,PAS in their pursuit of trying to wrestle Sarawak? This is the question which many of PKR/PAS members have questioned.
PKR will be the biggest losers in this political game. Of course,.DAP will put forward their case as such that some of PKR leaders have left them and joined DAP and also some are in SWP (Sarawak Workers Party) . Are they just going to quietly watch and see that their seats are going to be taken up by DAP in IMPIAN SARAWAK PROGRAMME?
PKR in Sarawak eventhough there are 3 assemblyman in Baru Bian,Ali Biju and See Chee How will not be able to contain with DAP's 12 assemblyman at the present time.
It's the numbers game and DAP is building its forces and BN will not be complacent eventhough many are brushing aside DAP's advancement into the interior.
According to sources on the ground DAP MP Tony Pua and his group of DAP members are gaining foothold in some areas.
BN component parties needs to be aware and not to brush these DAP so called"dreams" aside.
DAP is getting bolder by the day and their going rural "Impian Sarawak Programme" must not be underestimated. They have seen of SUPP Presidents in Wong Soon Kai and George Chan and now they are targetting SPDP President William Mawan. The groundswell is building up and they have been "bisik bisik" that Mawan is theirs for the taking. SPDP members beg to differ and see that Mawan has grown from strength to strength after overpowering Ali Biju of PKR in the last GE13.
DAP SARAWAK CHAIRMAN CHONG CHIENG JEN WE DARE YOU TO STAND IN PAKAN..??


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Landing in New York after her trip out of LAX, Miranda Kerr was seen in the city along with her cutie Frankie.
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This is a new year. With every year, there is an chance to hit the reset button and start shooting harder on our goals. What are your resolutions? What would you like to accomplish this year?
Writing down what you want to accomplish makes you more likely of completing them. Write 3 goals you want to do this year. Then write what you need to do this month to get you closer to that goal. You can also break it down weekly.
Have 10 minutes in the morning for motivation. Listen to inspirational music like EDM. Get pumped and excited about a great day. It will make you more productive.
Whatever your goals are rather financial, spiritual, or physical, write it down and keep it in your mind!


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How Brain Armstrong & Fred Ehrsam Built Coinbase: The Success Story
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder of Coinbase, one of the most popular bitcoin exchanges in the world. His story is impressive, though: he's made millions from a business that started with just three people. Here's how you can learn from his success!
THEIR CHILDHOOD & STUDIES
Before a career in the startup world, Brian Armstrong studied computer science and economics at Rice University. He graduated in 2004.
He then worked as an engineer for Airbnb before becoming CEO of Coinbase in 2015, where he has led the company through significant growth phases over the years.
The story of Fred Ehrsam begins with his childhood. He was born in the United States, in Los Angeles, California. His parents were immigrants from Germany and had known each other since they were children.
As a child, he was shy and quiet but also very intelligent. He loved to draw and paint and developed a talent for this at an early age.
After high school, Fred went to college at Harvey Mudd College—a small liberal arts school near Claremont, California—where he majored in math and physics. While studying there, he became interested in computers.
He began working as a computer programmer for NASA's Goddard Space Center in Washington, D.C., where he worked on several important programs, including Mars Pathfinder (the first rover on Mars).
After graduating in 1980, he moved back to Los Angeles, where his parents bought him an old house they had lived in when they were married many years earlier. The couple spent their time remodeling the home while Fred worked on software projects that would later become part of his career as an entrepreneur.
IN 2005, BRIAN FOUNDED HIS FIRST VENTURE.
In 2005, he founded his first venture, UniversityTutor.com. The site was a tutoring website that helped students study for exams and prepare for exams by providing practice tests and other resources. It had been around since 2000, but Armstrong started it as a side project while working full-time at PayPal in 2006.
The site grew quickly after reaching $1 million in venture capital funding from Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures in 2009—it was sold to Chegg later that year for an undisclosed amount (after having raised another $3 million).
ARMSTRONG WORKED AT AIRBNB.
After that, Armstrong worked at Airbnb developing software related to improving trust and safety issues and helping to accelerate the company's international growth.
Airbnb is a marketplace and hospitality service for travelers, enabling them to rent or book accommodations by the night or week worldwide. The company was founded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk, and other friends in 2008.
COINBASE WAS BORN
You may be wondering what this has to do with Brain Armstrong. As we mentioned earlier, he was interested in bitcoin early on and started investing more and learning more about it.
Eventually, he decided it was time to start Coinbase with business partner Fred Ehrsam to make dealing with cryptocurrencies easier for everyday people.
COINBASE STARTED AS SMALL.
When Coinbase launched in 2012, it was just a payment system for bitcoin, but it eventually expanded to other currencies like Ethereum and Litecoin.
Bitcoin has become a significant part of the world's economy and technology landscape, but it was only sometimes so popular.
You might be surprised how far bitcoin has come since its early days as an anonymous cryptocurrency used by criminals on darknet marketplaces like Silk Road or AlphaBay (now shut down). If you had invested $100 into Bitcoin back then, your investment would be worth over $8 million today!
Coinbase users can now buy and sell cryptocurrencies using their Coinbase account on the web or mobile app at no additional cost compared with buying them directly from other exchanges such as Kraken or Gemini.
TODAY THERE ARE AN ESTIMATED 30 MILLION CUSTOMERS USING COINBASE
Today an estimated 30 million customers are using Coinbase from all over the world.
The company has also added vault services for mining cryptocurrency and custody services for institutional investors looking to invest their money into crypto assets (which has helped legitimize the coin base even further than before).
They've raised over 200 million dollars since being founded back then!
The key takeaway is that if you're interested in getting involved with this space, there's no better place to start than Coinbase. The platform allows you to buy and sell digital currencies and securely store those assets on its servers until you decide what's next with them (or until the platform goes offline).
With Coinbase, you can also use their platform to invest in other cryptocurrencies. This is a great way to start buying and selling assets in this space if you need clarification on which ones are worth looking into.
WHAT MADE COINBASE SUCCESSFUL
In 2014, the company partnered with numerous companies to incorporate bitcoin payments in their services; soon after, they launched a US-based bitcoin exchange for professional traders and obtained an investment from a venture capital firm. This platform eas called the Coinbase Exchange.
This feature alone skyrocketed the company's potential and drew more users to the forum.
Due to brilliant features incorporated by the company, like low fees and the Coinbase Exchange, in 2018, their valuation increased to $8 billion and received a $300 million funding round led by Y combinator continuity, Wellington Management, and many others.
In 2019, Coinbase faced a severe challenge after they were attacked, jeopardizing all the users' funds in their wallets. An attack of that magnitude could cost the company billions, potentially wrecking it. Due to the company's competence, they could avoid it and prevent any cryptocurrency from being stolen.
COINBASE COMPETITION
Coinbase has dominated the cryptocurrency space since it was founded in 2012, but Binance has recently challenged it.
Binance debuted in early July 2018. They're known for having a wide range of options and features unavailable on Coinbase. Binance's advantages include trading multiple tokens and being accessible worldwide.
Coinbase has responded to the challenge by offering more account tiers and payment methods, including credit cards and PayPal. They have also added new coins to their platform since Binance's arrival.
eToro is also a popular challenger, looking to take the crown from Coinbase regarding cryptocurrency trading platforms used by millions worldwide. There are multiple reasons eToro stands as a strong contender. It offers zero commission and a significantly reduced cost of trading.
Coinbase is a popular cryptocurrency exchange, and they are working on becoming the number 1 spot in the industry. They have been working hard to improve their service and make it easier for users to use their platform.
One of the significant changes that Coinbase has made is the introduction of Coinbase Pro.
This platform was created for professional traders who need more complex features than what Coinbase provides. The most notable feature is trade execution and price monitoring, which allows traders to see all their orders executed across all exchanges in real-time.
Coinbase offers loans, margin trading, futures trading, and arbitrage opportunities.
Brian Armstrong is an excellent example of someone who took their passion for technology and used it to create something that has made an enormous impact on the world. His founding partner Fred Ehrsam also depicts this zealous and persistent passion towards tech.
The story of Coinbase teaches constant adaptation; since many changes have been made from the original version of 2012 and what it is today, they prioritize what's essential for the company and leave out what's not.


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Batla House Trailer: John Abraham is the Cop We Need but Don't Deserve in Nikkhil Advani's Film
Directed by Nikkhil Advani, the film is based on the controversial 2008 encounter that took place at Batla House in Delhi. Watch its trailer here.
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John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur, Nora Fatehi and many others celebs attend the trailer launch of Bollywood film Batla House in Mumbai. Take a look at the pictures...
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When talking about the books vs ebooks debate, often you'll hear people say that ebooks and ereaders help protect the environment. Let's do the math for ourselves and see what the possible advantages of ebooks are over traditional books.
Technology plays an incredibly important role in our day-to-day lives. After all, many of us rely on computers, tablets, and phones for everyday activities like perusing emails, sending texts, and checking the weather. Recently, even the activity of reading has become increasingly digitalized with the introduction of e-readers. Though Amazon's Kindle is certainly the most famous, there are a host of other companies that produce them as well- such as Barnes and Noble's Nook. Though at first glance this may seem like an ideal way to reduce CO2 emissions and save our forests, there are a variety of factors to consider that make the choice of switching to e-reader technology a more difficult one than it might initially appear; there can be no doubt that the manufacturing, use, and disposal of these devices has an affect on our environment.
Though it would be lovely if we could all look to e-reader technology as an environmentally friendly alternative to print, in reality, whether or not they have the power to decrease our carbon footprint is dependent on our personal habits. A single e-reader's total carbon footprint is approximately 168kg, and for a book, this figure is somewhere in the range of 7.5kg; the book's length and type can lead this figure to vary.1 Using an average of 7.5kg, we can conclude it would take reading about 22-23 books on an e-reader to reach a level in which the environmental impact is the same as if those books had been read in print.
If you can match these statistics, using an e-reader would allow you to significantly decrease your carbon footprint- even when taking into account the initial CO2 emissions needed to produce it! A prominent study on the subject summarized by noting that the 168kg needed to sustain a Kindle during the entirety of its lifecycle is a clear winner when looking at potential savings of nearly 1,074kg if it is used to replace 3 books a month for 4 years.1 For someone that reads even more often, the e-reader's savings would increase substantially! It's hard to deny the advantages of ebooks when faced with these revealing statistics.
Books vs ebooks: Why Does it Matter?
Despite the facts, you might be asking yourself, why should I care about the environmental impact of printed books vs ebooks? Does it really make that big of a difference? Though these are valid questions, hopefully some background information will lead to a greater appreciation of this issue's importance. We are so often surrounded by an endless supply of printed books, magazines, and newspapers that it is easy to become desensitized to or forget about their negative impact on our environment. However, in 2008 alone, the publishing industry was responsible for the harvest of nearly 125 million trees.
On top of that, our landfills are composed of about 26% paper, and the publishing industry comprises about 11% of freshwater consumed in industrial nations.1 These are undeniably significant statistics that warrant our attention. Most people would likely agree that it is imperative we reduce our reliance on landfills, maintain the health of our forests, and attempt to limit any excess use of valuable freshwater. We have become accustomed to printed books, but with the introduction of e-reader technology, it could be possible that strides toward a more environmentally friendly lifestyle can be made. Because of this, we should all consider the ebooks vs printed books argument an important one and attempt to educate ourselves on the issue.
Before one can even hope to use an e-reader, it must first pass through the stage of production, which, unfortunately, means extensive energy usage and CO2 emissions. On top of this, an individual must take certain steps to keep their e-reader charged and functioning, which requires even more CO2 emissions. How does this affect the books vs ebooks debate? There are several estimates for the total carbon footprint of such an endeavor, and the average seems to be in the range of 168kg.
However, the average carbon footprint associated with the production of a single paper book is only about 7.5kg.1 There is the fact that producing a single e-reader requires the extraction of nearly 33lb of minerals and uses about 79 galloons of water.4 It should come as no surprise that traditional, printed books do not require even close to the same amount of resources, and being aware of these simple facts makes it crystal clear that e-readers are not a perfect solution. However, depending on individual reading habits, they can serve as a way to avoid excess CO2 emissions, and it is for these reasons that this issue of the utmost importance.
There are several other important factors to consider in regards to the books vs ebooks debate. Firstly, once an individual decides to replace an e-reader, things become a bit more complicated. Even if they were able to read enough books to lessen their individual environmental impact, electronic waste is a problem in and of its own. Many are aware that companies seek to release new iterations of their technology at a steady pace, and e-readers are no exception; there have already been 6 different types of Kindle released! Consumers regularly seek to replace their existing e-reader for the newest model. If an e-reader is not properly recycled, it will likely end up releasing toxic substances into the atmosphere in one way or another.3 This is obviously a potential downside to the increased popularity of e-readers and requires that companies make greater efforts to offer recycling programs and inform consumers about them. Thankfully, Amazon does have a mail-in recycling program in place for the Kindle and its batteries, but it's arguable the degree to which they advertise this fact.1 Yet another argument against purchasing an e-reader focuses on the apparent lack of adaptation within the printing industry. It is the duty of people within the industry to predict how many books should be printed and shipped to stores. Though there is data suggesting a decline in the purchase of printed books and an incline in ebook sales, the industry has failed to adapt and continues to ship in excess. Unfortunately, this results in the burning of books that fail to sell and has a hugely negative impact on carbon emissions.1 Unless the printing industry is able to predict lower sales and adjust their production accordingly, it is nearly impossible for e-readers to significantly reduce carbon emissions. This is an obstacle for anyone thinking about purchasing one to reduce their carbon footprint, as it's an issue individual consumers have little to no control over.
There are also a few arguments to take into consideration in regards to the value of printed books. One such argument focuses on the higher reading comprehension associated with print. There have been studies done that suggest reading a printed book allows for a more natural intake of information than reading off a screen.2 I can personally attest to this, as my experience with both mediums in college has led me to believe I have much better retention when I am reading a printed book. Yet another thing to consider is the fact that a book will likely have a longer lifespan than an e-reader, which will eventually be replaced for a newer model. These arguments have nothing to do with the environmental impact of either medium, but they are still referenced in the books vs ebooks debate.
Books vs ebooks: Any other environmentally friendly alternatives to consider?
It should be also noted this debate is not restricted to only these two options. Though it has been framed from this perspective, there are a few other paths to mention. Firstly, the value of libraries should not be underestimated. They act as yet another method of reducing environmental impact by sharing one collection with many people. As was mentioned, printing a single book has a carbon footprint of about 7.5kg CO2. This seemingly small number can become quite significant when it is multiplied by a large number of consumers that each want their own copy of the book, but in the case of a library, it can remain small and relatively inconsequential; fewer books can serve a larger number of people. This is a fairly environmentally responsible method that should be mentioned more frequently in the books vs ebooks debate. Yet another thing to consider is the availability of e-reader apps for devices you may already own. Rather than purchasing a separate e-reader, it can be wise to look at what is already available to you. It has probably become clear by now that devices can have a significant environmental impact, but they are also incredibly expensive. It is in the environment's best interest, as well as your pocketbook's, to make use of what you already own. For instance, an iPad can utilize the Apple iBooks software.3 Allowing an iPhone to double as an e-reader could also be an option; on average, producing a single iPhone results in about 55kg of CO2 emissions, which is significantly less than an e-reader.1 They can be used to perform a variety of tasks, and though many people might not think to use it as one, it can serve as a highly transportable, environmentally friendly reading device.
When consumers take note of their reading habits and the printing industry adapts accordingly, ebooks clearly have the potential to lessen CO2 emissions. That being said, it is important to take in all facets of the books vs ebooks debate as well as look at possible alternatives, like libraries and apps, when deciding what is best in your unique situation.
1 Ritch, Emma. "The Environmental Impact of Amazon's Kindle." The Environmental Impact of Amazon's Kindle The Environmental Impact of Amazon's Kindle (2009): n. pag. tkearth.com. Web.
2 "Print or Digital: It All Has Environmental Impact." eomega.org. N.p., 24 Jan. 2014. Web.
3 "E-readers vs Books: The Environmental Debate." ethicalconsumer.org. N.p., May 2013. Web.
4 Siegle, Lucy. "Should I Stop Buying Paper Books and Use an E-reader Instead?" theguardian.com. N.p., 5 Jan. 2013. Web.


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Joan J. Mitchell
June 30, 1934 – February 20, 2021
Mrs. Joan J. Mitchell, 86, of Winona passed away at her home on Saturday, February 20, 2021. She was born on June 30, 1934, and was the daughter of the late Travis and Ann Johnson and the late Ouida Ward Parker. She was a homemaker and a member of Moore Memorial United Methodist Church in Winona, and its Open Door Sunday School Class.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Mitchell was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Robert E. "Doc" Mitchell; great-granddaughter, Nowell Defenbaugh; and a brother, James Michael Johnson.
Mrs. Mitchell is survived by one son, Bert Mitchell (Lisa) of Winona; three daughters, Regina Mitchell Ingram (David) of Winona, Melissa Mitchell King (Ken) of Winona, and Dawn Mitchell Yeoman of Winona; two brothers, William Travis Johnson of Winona and Bobby Joe Johnson of Winona; nine grandchildren; and twelve great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Mitchell was a gentle lady who loved her family with all she had. Her joy was preparing Sunday lunch for all of them. She also enjoyed making memorable quilts for people, cross-stitching, and reading.
A funeral service for Mrs. Mitchell will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 28, in the Oliver Funeral Home Chapel, with burial following in Oakwood Cemetery in Winona. Rev. Chad Bowen and Rev. Howard Beam will offficiate the services. Pallbearers will be Mitch King, Carl Mitchell, Matthew Griffin, Braden Stanford, Trager Yeoman, Guy Stanford, Bill Defenbaugh, and Wesley Beardain. Robbie Mitchell will serve as honorary pallbearer.
A visitation will be held at the funeral home on Sunday, from 1:00 p.m. until service time.
All visitors are asked to wear a mask and to observe all social distancing guidelines.
Memorial contributions may be made to Moore Memorial United Methodist Church, P. O. Box 467, Winona, MS 38967