Richard Alley: The Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science CommunicationRichard Alley will receive the first $10,000 Climate One award in honor of the late Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider.Dr. Alley, host of the PBS documentary "Earth: The Operators Manual," once testified before Congress using his bald head to illustrate ice age cycles and recorded a video explaining geoscience while strumming ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students
Pacific Energy Center: 20 Years of Educating and Serving Building ProfessionalsJoin us for a "thank you" celebration where invited speakers will discuss California energy efficiency leadership, the evolving workforce education and training environment, and how the PEC has helped to increase customer knowledge and reduce building energy use. RSVP online.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
San Francisco Math Circle Teachers' Circle - December MeetingIn a new program, just for teachers, SFMC is sponsoring monthly real-food dinners with a special Math Circle speaker. Come to the meeting, eat delicious food, and investigate the beautiful world of mathematics with other teachers! The December Teachers' Circle will be led by Tom Davis. Tom Davis's main interest ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free if you RSVP
A Debate: Who Was the Hobbit? Found on an obscure island, the tiny, small-brained, big-footed Homo floresiensis, or "the hobbit", is unlike any other discovery. Where did this being come from, and who are its ancestors? In this light-hearted debate, two eminent biological anthropologists, Dr. Robert Martin of Chicago's Field Museum, and Ian Tattersall of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: General Admission: $15 / Members and Seniors: $12
Digital OverloadDebate continues unabated over the extent to which connectivity is changing the quality of our relationships and reshaping our communities. Now there are major concerns about how it's changing our brains. Pulitzer Prize winning NYT tech reporter Matt Richtel, Wired's Steven Levy (In the Plex), and Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz join ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20-$25 General, $17-$22 Members, $10 Students
Kepler's Quest for New Worlds Public Talks - SOLD OUTCatching Shadows: Kepler's Quest for New WorldsHumankind's speculation about the existence of other worlds like our own turned into a veritable quest with the launch of NASA's Kepler spacecraft in March 2009. The mission is designed to survey a slice of the Milky Way to identify planets orbiting other stars. ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Purchase of book or $10 gift card
Two Session Climate Action Workshop Series Join the Ecology Center and a small group of community members as we work to minimize our greenhouse gas emissions and maximize our sense of community In this two-session series, you will: -Receive information and ideas for taking action to reduce your ecological footprint, facilitate community building, and drive political ...
