BOSTON AREA SOLAR ENERGY ASSOCIATION
“Promoting Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future”
Notice:Jr Solar Sprint race date Sunday May 19, 2013
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Sustainability and Spirituality
"Sustainability is the possibility that human and other life will flourish on the planet forever."
- John R. Ehrenfeld
At our May Forum we dig down to the roots of our unsustainable society. There we find human behavior springing from an outdated worldview, producing increasingly bitter fruit. Do our current efforts, in the name of 'sustainability', amount to plucking the leaves of the weeds - as Ehrenfeld contends, merely reducing unsustainability?
Can we expect flourishing when a drive for perpetual growth feeds on finite terrestrial resources, or do we need to dig again, to tend to the soil - and the soul, to nurture culture, to nourish flourishing? Is sustainability a spiritual movement?
Join us as we examine 'sustainability' from a philosophical perspective, in conversation with two leading thinkers who are urging us to attend to making ourselves whole, so that we may take care of the world.
"...the healing and unification of our attention is the true pay dirt behind the work of sustainability."
- Justin Good
3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Time: Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m.
Announcements
Funding Opportunity:
MassCEC Catalyst Program Awards
April 1, 2013 at 5PM
Check out our new eligibility requirements. They have been changed so we can include more novel technologies!
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, in partnership with the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center welcomes you to apply for MassCEC Catalyst Program Awards.
The Program's primary intent is to stimulate the commercialization of clean energy technologies developed in the Commonwealth. Awarded funds are used to demonstrate the feasibility of technologies in specific industry applications in order to obtain increased industry and investor interest.
- Applicants must be either a:
- Principal Investigator ("PI") at a Massachusetts-based nonprofit research institution; or
- Massachusetts-based early stage clean energy company with no more than $1,000,000 in combined equity financing and grant funding with four or less employees.
Student groups are welcome to apply with some restrictions (outlined in our guidelines).
Please click in the left column for application guidelines and visit the updated Grants section of our website http://www.mattcenter.org/events/grants-home.html for a proposal template.
If you have any questions, please email me at mbernier@umassp.edu.
Michele Bernier
Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
On-Going
One-day Workshops for Building Professionals - Various Locations
Smart Building: High Performance Homes
Learn the latest in smart building techniques through presentations, case studies and discussion, from foundation to roofs. Presented by the Center for EcoTechnology and the CSG; and the Mass. Department of Energy Resources. Smart Building Flyer
AEENE Dinner Meeting and Seminar: The Association of Energy Engineers, New England Chapter
Monthly meeting, first Wednesday of the Month (check for details) AEENE Meeting Schedule
Volunteers Are Always Needed for the Forum, the annual Junior Solar Sprint competition, and the website.
Visit our Forum page, where you'll find our complete listing of past forum speakers, topics, and resources.
The BASEA Forum Series is held September through May, on the second Thursday of each month, at the 1st Parish Unitarian Church, #3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge. Reception begins at 7:00 pm, with the program beginning at 7:30. The forums are free and open to the public.
BASEA Activities and Services
- BASEA Forum - Renewable Energy Lecture Series
- Junior Solar Sprint - Model solar car competition for middle school science students, organized and sponsored by BASEA in Eastern Massachusetts.
Please spend some time thinking about this question, and send your suggestions in to us.
Also, if you are interested in working with this group, please let us know. Send comments or questions to mfe.foresightproject@gmail.com.
- NESEA Chapter - BASEA is the Boston area chapter of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). Links to NESEA and other regional, national and international solar organizations can be found on the BASEA Links page.
- Referral Program - Write us for information on solar vendors, designers, architects, installers and service in your area. We want to help you with practical ways you can use solar and other sustainable energy technology.
BASEA's Mission
The Boston Area Solar Energy Association is convinced that New England's primary dependence on non-renewable energy sources is costly to our environmental, social, economic and political systems.
Therefore, we foster the design and use of solar and sustainable energy technologies through education, advocacy and the demonstration of practical, cost effective techniques.
It is our goal to promote Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future.
Please remember that your donations and membership support BASEA.
BASEA is affiliated with
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
The American Solar Energy Association.
The International Solar Energy Association
