STEM Ed Announcement: Climate related talks next week

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a UMass Amhest program.
 Contact information is below.
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 Check out next week's climate-related talks and related conferences...
 
 
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 The New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy
 Solutions presents, 
 "Can Renewable Energy Address Climate Change? The Perils of Policy"
 William Moomaw, Tufts University
 Wednesday, April 6, 2:30 pm, 115 Engineering Lab II, UMass Amherst
 (reception to follow)
 Join us via  WEBINAR!
 
 
 Bio:  William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at
 the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he is the
 founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource
 Policy, the Tufts Climate Initiative and co-founder of the Global
 Development and Environment Institute. He works to translate science and
 technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools. His major
 publications are on climate change, energy policy, nitrogen pollution,
 forestry financing and management and on theoretical topics such as the
 Environmental Kuznets Curve. He was a coordinating lead author of the 2001
 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on greenhouse gas
 emissions reduction, and for the special report on renewable energy due in
 2011. He was the first director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution program
 at the World Resources Institute, and directed the Center for Environmental
 Studies at Williams College where he held an endowed chair in chemistry. As
 an AAAS Congressional Science Fellow, he worked on legislation that
 eliminated American use of CFCs in spray cans to protect the ozone layer,
 and also worked on energy and forestry legislation. Dr. Moomaw currently
 serves on the Board of Directors of The Climate Group, Clean Air-Cool Planet
 (which he co-founded), Earthwatch Institute, Center for Ecological
 Technologies and the Consensus Building Institute. He has facilitated
 sessions with negotiators of international treaties. He and his wife, Margot
 have just completed a highly efficient zero net energy home in Williamstown
 that uses no fossil fuels. It is one of a handful of such homes to be built
 in northern climate zones, and its performance is being monitored for
 performance for the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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 MA Water Resources Research Center presents, 
 8th Annual WRRC Conference
 Keynote: "Water Resources Planning in a Changing World"
 Richard Vogel, Tufts University (plus many other speakers and presentations)
 Thursday, April 7, 9:00am-5:00pm, Lincoln Campus Center, UMass Amherst
 
 
 The 8th Water Resources Conference at the University of Massachusetts
 Amherst will address the needs for water monitoring, assessment, and
 management of water resources in New England due to variability and changes
 in climate, land use, population, and other environmental stressors. The
 conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers,
 regulatory experts, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss current
 critical water research; foster greater collaboration among scientists and
 practitioners; and strengthen the connection between research, education,
 and policy.
 WRRC Conference Program and details
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 Climate, Energy, Biochar, and Agriculture seminar series presents, 
 "Biochar - Chemistry and the Environment"
 Baoshan Xing, UMass Amherst
 Thursday, April 7, 4:00 pm, Rm 318 Stockbridge Hall, UMass Amherst
 
 
 The seminar series is being held by the Center for Agriculture and the
 department of plant, soil and insect sciences at UMass Amherst with the
 cooperation of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative and the New England
 Small Farm Institute in Belchertown. In this Climate, Energy, Biochar, &
 Agriculture Seminar Series, speakers explore biochar, a form of carbon
 prepared by heating biomass in limited air (pyrolysis) which serves as a
 soil permanent additive, stabilizing soil, promoting growth and acting to
 store CO2 in the soil.
 Read more about the Biochar Seminar Series.
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 Hampshire College Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program presents, 
 2011 Reproductive Justice Conference
 "From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for
 Reproductive Freedom"
 April 8-10, Hampshire College
 
 
 Climate Justice Roundtable (Sat April 9, 1:15-2:45pm)
 This transgenerational panel explores the social justice challenge of
 climate changes disproportionate affect on poor communities and communities
 of color around the world, and the need for broad mobilization around
 justice-centered climate policy. (Speakers: James Boyce, Michael Dorsey, Nia
 Robinson, Martha Pskowski)
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 For more details, other upcoming events, and videos of past Colloquium
 events, visit:  http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/
 To join our mailing list, visit:  http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/contact
 
 
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 Addie Rose Holland
 Climate System Research Center
 Department of Geosciences
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
 aholland@geo.umass.edu
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/
 

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