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[edit] Upcoming Events
[edit] NOVA: Car of the Future
- Date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
- Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Place: Television -WGBH 2
How will the car of the future be powered? Will it run on hydrogen, batteries, ethanol, or some as-yet-undiscovered technology? In this new Nova, Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR's Car Talk examine emerging technologies and ideas about America's most common form of transportation. See a dozen alternative vehicles already on America's roads, and hear from the people behind them at the NOVA web site].
Repeats:
- Wednesday, April 23, 11pm-12midnight
- 'GBH Kids On Demand on Comcast 1 ("Get Local") through Monday, April 28
- Find more repeats at WGBH
[edit] Energy Star Webinar - Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Community
ENERGY STAR webinars support communities participating in the EPA's Community Energy Challenge. These are live, online seminars that require simultaneous internet and phone access.
These are targeted to local government, but as this one focuses on promoting energy efficiency to your community, it may be of interest to Green Needham members interested in community education and outreach.
- Learn how to accelerate energy efficiency activities in your community. You can leverage ENERGY STAR brochures, public service announcements, press releases, posters, event ideas, and templates to help spread the word about saving energy and protecting the climate.
- Date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Place: Internet
- Registration: https://energystar.webex.com
[edit] Healthy Lawns and Landscapes - May 2008
- Date: Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
- Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Place: Charles River Watershed Association office 190 Park Rd, Weston (at the Leo J. Martin Golf Course)
- Cost: Free
A free Workshop - Learn how to have a beautiful yard and garden that’s healthy for your family, neighbors, pets and the Charles River!
Hear from DEP Consumer Waste Reduction Coordinator, Ann McGovern and CRWA
Landscape Designer, Viola Augustin on:
- Lawn care methods that eliminate the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
- Composting and mulching techniques
- Low impact development techniques for residential properties such as rain gardens, rain barrels and green roofs
For more information or to sign up for this workshop visit http://www.charlesriver.org/LandscapingSeminar.html or contact Julie Wood at (781) 788-0007 ext. 225 or jwood@crwa.org. A light dinner will be served. Attendance is free but registration is required. This workshop is partially funded by a grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.
[edit] Green Business Solutions
All-day environmental expo for businesses presented by the Newton Needham Chamber of Commerce
- Date: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
- Time: 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Place: Newton Marriott Hotel
NB: Details and links to be added by Peter Smith - Michael 11:11, 24 January 2008 (EST)
[edit] Clean Technology 2008
Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Conference and Trade Show
- Date: June 1-5, 2008
- Time: All day
- Place: Hynes Convention Center, Boston
- Registration and information: http://www.csievents.org
Clean Technology 2008 is a multi-disciplinary and multi-sector conference on global sustainability addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and clean business practices. The mission of Clean Technology 2008 is to bring together the entire cleantech ecosystem with the goal of accelerating the flow of technologies from the research phase to the viable market phase. We do this by linking scientists, engineers and researchers with potential business, financial and government partners. The Cleantech ecosystem enables a growing set of knowledge-based technologies, products or services designed to improve operational performance, productivity or efficiency while reducing cost, input, energy consumption, waste or pollution.
More Information about Clean Technology 2008
Submit your Technical Abstract, Intellectual Property or Early Stage Company today for review. Deadline February 1st 2008.
[edit] Recent Events
[edit] Who Killed the Electric Car?
The League of Women Voters Needham Climate Action Committee invites you to join us for a presentation from Sony Pictures Classics of: Who Killed the Electric Car?
- Date: Sunday, January 6th, 2008
- Time: 1:30 pm
- Place: Community Room, Needham Public Library
- Admission: Free! - Refreshments will be served
- Did you know that the first electric engine was invented in 1859 by Thomas Davenport using un-rechargeable batteries?
- Did you know that over 100 years ago in the year 1900 an electric vehicle by BGS Company set the first distance record by traveling 180 miles on a single charge?
- Where did this technology go all these years past?
Join us to learn more about the history of the electric engine and the important role it must play in the reduction of our dependence on oil powered vehicles and global warming.
[edit] 6th MCAN Global Warming Action Conference
Last year's event at MIT's Stata Center drew over 450 people.
- Date: Sunday, November 18th, 2007
- Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Place: Stata Center at MIT, Cambridge
- Admission: $45 for MCAN members, $60 for non-members if made before November 9th, $75 afterward
- More Information: MCAN Agenda & Registration - Agenda and Registration
8:30-9:20 am Registration and Breakfast 9:30 am Welcoming Remarks, Plan of Day: Rob Garrity, MCAN Executive Director 9:40 am Who’s Who of Massachusetts Climate Activism: Profile of 10 Active MCAN Chapter Members 10:15 am Plenary Session: Rob Pratt, Senior Vice President, Henry P. Kendall Foundation 10:50-11:05 am Break 11:10-11:40 am Keynote Plenary Session: Ian Bowles, Secretary, EOEA, MA 11:45 am -12:45 pm Lunch 12:50-2:00 pm Workshop Session I 2:05-3:15 pm Workshop Session II 3:20-3:35 pm Break 3:40-4:50 pm Workshop Session III 4:55-5:25 pm Plenary Session: Warren Leon, Director, Renewable Energy Trust 5:20-5:30 pm Closing Remarks, Call to Action
[edit] LWV Fall Forum October, 2007
The Needham League of Women Voters Fall Forum will be Global Warming - How you can make a difference
- Date: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
- Time: 7:15 - 9:30 pm
- Place: Newman Elementary School
Notes from the four breakout sessions:
The Fall Forum Program contains bios on the event speakers and vendor contact information:
[edit] 3rd Annual Conference on Clean Energy
This event is run by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center of the University of Massachusetts, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition and the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge's Energy Special Interest Group.
- Date: Monday, October 29th and Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
- Time: 8:00 am - 7:00 pm Monday and 8:00 am - 7:00 pm Tuesday
- Place: Hynes Convention Center, Boston
- Conference Link: Conference on Clean Energy
- For more information, contact: Julia Goldberg, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
The cost for the Exhibit Hall only is $75, and the Exhibit Hall is supposed to restricted to clean energy companies only (other than event sponsors, of which there are five or six). There is also a job fair that is no charge to job seekers (but doesn't allow access to anything else). Full conference fee is $345. The conference includes:
- Keynote Lunch with Ian Bowles, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs
- Industry and Investment Panel(s)
- Industry breakout sessions focused on specific technologies (1 1/2 hours each)
- Investor Pitches by Clean Energy businesses (10 minutes per company)
[edit] Mitigating Global Climate Change: Community Strategies and Programs
This event is sponsored by the West Suburban Community Health Network and will feature successful models for community action on Global Climate Change.
- Date: Friday, October 19th, 2007
- Time: 8:00 am - 12:00 noon
- Place: Needham Free Public Library, 1139 Highland Ave., Needham
- Admission: Free, but registration required by October 5th
- Register by e-mail to O. Edmunds or by phone at 617 441-0700 x205
- More Information: Event Flyer
[edit] Agenda
- Welcome - Senator Marc Pacheco
- Keynote - Paul Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
- Panel
[edit] Healthy Lawns and Landscapes
This event is sponsored by the Town of Needham Health Department and DPW and the Massachusetts Department for Environmental Protection. Learn how to have a beautiful lawn and lanscape that's healthy for your family, neighbors, pets, and the environment!
- Date: Thursday, September 27, 2007
- Time: 7:30 pm
- Place: Broadmeadow School, 120 Broadmeadow Road, Needham
- To sign up for this free workshop contact Janice Berns at the Health Department at 781-455-7523.
Refreshments Served!
Win a compost bin!
