The Road Ahead for Wireless Technology: Dreams and ChallengesWireless technology has enormous potential to change the way we live, work, and play. Future wireless networks will support Gigabit per second multimedia communication between people and devices with high reliability and uniform coverage indoors and out. Wireless technology will also enable smart and energy-efficient homes and buildings, automated highways ...
Rocky Mountain Institute's autumn 2011 Reinventing Fire will explore practical pathways for the U.S. to eliminate oil, coal, and nuclear energy by 2050 (and natural gas thereafter), led by business for profit. This ambitious synthesis integrates transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity-the sole sector previewed in this seminar. Four divergent electricity ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons?: Some Open Questions for Science and TechnologyStates have over the years developed and deployed weapons capable of destroying life on Earth. The international political situation has now changed: the strategic value of these weapons is declining and international leaders, including President Obama, have called for their eventual elimination. Easier said, of course, than ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Coopers Hawks and Local CreeksAll bird and nature lovers will enjoy hearing Allen Fish, director the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, speak on "East Bay Cooper's Hawks -- Sentinel Species for Happy Urban Creeks." Free, all welcome, and delicious refreshments!
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
Free 3-Session Climate Action WorkshopPut the gloom and doom of climate change aside for a moment. Instead, imagine living in a resilient community where your bills are smaller, your air is clearer, and your personal and national security are protected. That world is possible, and the Ecology Center invites you to co-create it. Minimize ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mark Kurlansky, Author of 'Cod' 'Salt' & 'A World Without Fish'Master storyteller Kurlansky asks the question – what would our world be like without fish? In his new children's book, he examines what's happening to the fish we commonly eat – tuna, salmon, cod, and swordfish and the domino effect it would have on our ecosystem if it disappeared in ...
Where: SaratogaCost: $12 Members; $20 Non-Members; $7 Students
The Power of Knowledge: Reversing Stress and Rapid Aging in Adults, Adolescents and ChildrenScientists agree that aging coincides with the accumulation of stress. Stress causes or worsens the negative effects of unnaturally rapid aging across all age groups, from children and adolescents to mature adults. All experience health, mental and family problems when they accumulate stress caused by unsuccessful adaptation to today's rapid ...
Vice, Virtue, and the Brain's Pleasure CircuitsUnderstanding the biological basis of pleasure leads us to fundamentally rethink the moral and legal aspects of addiction to drugs, food, sex, and gambling and the industries that manipulate these pleasures. Merging an evolutionary perspective with cutting-edge research in neuroscience, David Linden addresses provocative questions about the relationship between pleasure ...
Celebrated mountain man and National Geographic explorer Jonathan Waterman talks about his experience following the Colorado River from its high mountain sources to a dry mudflat just across the Mexican border. Illustrated with stunning photographs, his talk brings home the message that water, our most essential resource, will slip away ...
