Carbon Warriors: Roz Savage and David KroodsmaRoz Savage rowed a small boat 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, alone - a radical career change for a woman who used to work as a management consultant in a cubicle in London. David Kroodsma rode his bike from San Francisco to Tierra del Fuego, leading clean energy discussions in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Climate Change Effects On Animal and Plant Species - Conservation Corridors Hamilton's recently published study in Nature discusses the network of habitats such as forests, deserts, reefs and tundra, lakes, and oceans. She worries the magic carpet ride is unraveling before our eyes as the effects of climate change are seen in temperature and rainfall, causing shifts in the locations where ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members
The Challenge of Interpreting the Effects of Climate Change on Large Infrastructure SystemsJoe DuCote is a veteran of the public finance industry, having spent more than four decades involved in the financial planning/realization of infrastructure projects. This talk is intended to identify the myriad problems associated with an approach that is designed to "move the debate" between the scientific perception of climate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
EARTHQUAKE STORY AND VALENCE FLUCTUATIONS ON THE OXYGEN SUBLATTICEProminent seismologists proclaim that earthquakes cannot be predicted, and almost everybody believes them. Unpredictability, however, cannot be the whole story. While stresses build up deep in Earth's crust prior to major earthquakes, many processes take place in the stressed rocks long before catastrophic rupture. These processes are silent: they do ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Mining the Sky for Dark EnergyProf. Tony Tyson of UC Davis will give the Physics/Applied Physics colloquium on Tues., Sept. 28, 2010 entitled "Mining the Sky for Dark Energy"
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Green Perspectives in Europe: Implications for the Americas?As Daniel Cohn-Bendit led student uprisings in 1968 Paris, newspapers called him Danny the Red. Today, as leader in the European Parliament's green coalition Europe Écologie, he is better known as Danny the Green. His campaigns have effectively channeled public concern for the environment and garnered unexpected support in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Makers of the Microchip: Creating the Planar Integrated Circuit, Establishing Silicon ValleyIn the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor developed, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamental building block of the digital world: the microchip. Founded in 1957 by eight former employees of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild created the model for a ...
Feeding Africa's growing poulation and supporting competing demands on delicate natural resource systems sounds like an impossible task. Yet scientists at Conservation International and other organizations are using cutting edge science and modeling techniques to help decision-makers maximize the output of their resources and create sustainable Green Economies.Speaker: Sandy Andelman, ...
We are thrilled to have Jurriaan Kamp, the founder of Ode Magazine, as our speaker in San Francisco this month. Kamp will discuss his thoughts on the power and need for optimism and solutions in ourcurrent world, the role of media and specifically Ode in making a positive impact needed ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5
Smart TVs' and other Consumer Electronics innovations from the Intel Developer ForumThis will be a review of consumer electronics innovations on display at the recent Intel Developer Forum - including Google-TV, new tablet PCs based on MeeGo and Windows-7, and a gesture-based UI that executes commands directly from hand movement..Speakers: Michael Demler has over 30 years of industry experience in both marketing ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: See description
Pritzker Lecture: From Bones to BodiesLearn how research on chimpanzee and gorilla anatomy has been applied to understanding differences in females and males, the transformation of infants to adults, and evaluating fossil humans. This research even played a role in the creation of the movie "Tarzan of the Apes."Speaker: Dr. Adrienne Zihlman, Professor of Anthropology, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 Adults, $10 Seniors, Members Free
Leading the Charge: Exotic New Materials for Future DevicesHow will we improve computer technology to create chips that are smaller, faster, and more efficient? For leaps in performance, we need to create new types of semiconductors. In this lecture, the speaker will describe a new class of materials -- the "topological insulators" -- that achieve robust performance by ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
White Nose Syndrome in Bats: A Conservation ChallengeThis talk will attempt to answer the questions:What's killing our bats?What's being done?What can we do?Where to from here?Speaker: Peter Youngbaer, VP, Northeastern Cave Conservancy, Liason on White Nose Syndrome for the National Speleological Society, President, Vermont Cavers Association, VP, Northeastern Regional Org., NSS
