Archive for November, 2009

Resource of the Week: Woods Institute Energy Seminar

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Resource of the Week:
Woods Institute Energy Seminar
http://woods.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/seminars.php?eventid=energy

The Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford hosts a world-class energy seminar that is freely available online. Speakers come from industry, government and academia to discuss all aspects of today’s energy landscape from carbon sequestration, to smart grid technologies. By now it is common knowledge that there is no silver bullet for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and getting off fossil fuels. Therefore, it is all the more important to be well informed about the many disparate technologies that must compose any successful energy policy. The Woods Institute Energy Seminar provides the in-depth information on energy technologies that is hard to come by elsewhere.  The seminar is available on YouTube or download it to your iPod via iTunes for your next plane ride.

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4EA1B67388976538

In particular, see this National Geographic video and corresponding Woods Energy Seminar on  Solar Thermal Power plants:
http://www.tsugino.com/talks.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4EA1B67388976538

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3 Nov 2009, Running Out of Water

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Running Out of Water: What’s the Problem, What’s the Solution?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 4:00p–6:00pm.
E51, Wong Auditorium, MIT

A flurry of recent press coverage has highlighted how access to clean water is  rapidly becoming a serious problem both in the developing world and in the American West. See for example this NY Times Magazine article, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html The Catherine N. Stratton Critical Issues Lecture brings together four MIT and Harvard professors who have worked on water issues around the world from the vantage of different disciplines. Expect a lively discussion.

http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11596379&date=2009/10/07

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November 3, 2009: Atlantic Correspondant Robert Kaplan: After Iraq and Afghanistan

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

The World After Iraq and Afghanistan

Tuesday,  November 3, 2009, 4:30-6:00 p.m
Gundle Family Classroom, Littauer 230, Harvard Kennedy School.

Robert Kaplan is a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the foreign correspondent for The Atlantic magazine.  If you don’t read the Atlantic you should. The Atlantic offers thoughtful and thorough articles about current events that provide more perspective than your typical media source. Robert Kaplan has been reporting for the Atlantic for over two decades and he has worked on assignment in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. He has also written books on the Balkans, Asia and, most recently, on the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/4156/world_after_iraq_and_afghanistan_with_robert_kaplan.html

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Resource of the Week: Science Insider Blog

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

In this segment we will highlight a different science or policy resource each week– starting with the blog ScienceInsider. The folks that brought you the journal Science have recently created a new science policy blog called ScienceInsider. Like most blogs, ScienceInsider is updated daily with short stories and lots of links. But unlike most blogs, ScienceInsider is well written by a professional staff and offers the same quality you would expect from Science magazine.  ScienceInsider is the place to go for short updates of general science policy interest.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/

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