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  • Monday, February 24, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Food Waste Policy: Using Systems Change to Stop Squandering One of Our Greatest Resources

    More than enough food is produced to feed every person, yet nearly 40% of food is wasted in the United States. This waste squanders our natural resources and has negative impacts on the environment and the economy. The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic has been at the forefront nationally in terms of educating about the relevant laws, supporting innovative models to increase food recovery, and driving policy change at the federal, state, and local levels to align incentives to reduce food waste. Emily Broad Leib will share the key knowledge developed by FLPC, providing an overview of the causes of food waste, the key legal and policy opportunities, and a snapshot of current trends in federal and state government approaches to the issue. on February 24 at 7 pm as part of the Directors Lecture Series at the Arboretum.

    Emily Broad Leib founded Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and is recognized as a national leader in Food Law and Policy. She was named by Fortune and Food & Wine to their list of 2016’s Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink. The list highlights women who had the most transformative impact on what the public eats and drinks. Broad Leib was one of the inaugural recipients of Harvard President Drew Faust’s Change Solutions Fund in 2015.

    Fee Free. Members only. Registration required as seating is limited. The Director’s Lecture Series is a benefit of membership. Become a member of the Friends of the Arnold Arboretum.

  • Tuesday, June 28, 8:00 am – 6:30 pm, and Wednesday, June 29, 8:00 am – 4:45 pm – Reduce and Recover: Save Food For People

    On June 28 & 29, the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic will host  Reduce and Recover: Save Food For People at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge. Join the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and RecyclingWorks Massachusetts for an action-oriented conference.

    This two-day event will convene entrepreneurs, practitioners, policymakers, and enthusiasts to further a public dialogue on reaching EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s national food waste reduction goal of 50% by 2030.

    The conference will focus on the top two tiers of EPA’s Food Recovery Hierarchy, which prioritizes actions people can take to reduce and recover wasted food: “source reduction” and “feed hungry people.” Speakers will highlight innovative solutions from New England and across the nation to reduce wasted food and recover edible food for people. Plenary speakers will include:

    Jesse Fink, Trustee, Fink Family Foundation
    Dana Gunders, Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
    Karen Hanner, Managing Director Manufacturing Product Sourcing, Feeding America
    Martha Minow, Morgan and Helen Chu Professor of Law and Dean, Harvard Law School
    Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
    Doug Rauch, Founder and President, Daily Table
    Curt Spalding, Regional Administrator, EPA New England, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    Mathy Stanislaus, Assistant Administrator, Office of Land and Emergency Management, Environmental Protection Agency
    Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback
    Martin Suuberg, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

    To register, and for complete information, visit http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/reduce-and-recover-save-food-for-people/

  • Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Flipside of Biological Invasions: The Positive Social Impact of Working with the Asian Longhorned Beetle

    On Tuesday, November 8, the Cambridge Entomological Club will present Michael Bohne, Forest Health Group Leader of the US Forest Service, Durham Field Office, who will, improbably, resuscitate the image of the Asian Longhorned Beetle with his lecture entitled The Flipside of Biological Invasions: The Positive Social Impact of Working with the Asian Longhorned Beetle. The talk is free and open to the public. The meeting is readily accessible via public transportation. Parking is available in the Oxford Street Garage with advance arrangement, as described here, or (usually but not always) at spaces on nearby streets. Everyone is also welcome to join us for dinner before the talk (beginning at 6:15 PM) at the Harvard Law School cafeteria, on the second floor of Harkness Commons.

    CEC meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. The evening schedule typically includes an informal dinner (6:15 to 7:15 PM) followed by our formal meeting (7:30 – 9:00 PM) in MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University. The latter begins with club business and is followed by a 50 minute entomology related presentation. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists.  For more information, email CEC President Jessica Walden-Gray at jessisoutside@gmail.com.