The Energy and Environment Alumni Network (BCEEAN) sponsors an event each semester that features speakers who address current topics in the ever-expanding fields of energy and environment and often partner with other affinity groups over shared topics of interest.
Upcoming BCEEAN Events
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Past BCEEAN Events
Energy & Environment Networking Event
When: March 12, 2024
Time: 6:00PM
Where: National Grid Massachusetts Headquarters
170 Data Drive
Waltham, Massachusetts
Boston College Energy and Environment Alumni Network (BCEEAN) invites you to join members of the environmental community for a casual evening of networking and conversation at National Grid Headquarters. You will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded alumni, share your insights and knowledge, exchange ideas, and make valuable new connections.
From Ambition to Action: Implementing Environmental Justice in the Workplace
WHEN
Tuesday, June 2
WHERE
Online
Join the Boston College Energy and Environment Alumni Network (BCEEAN) for an informative discussion about implementing environmental justice practices in your workplace.
OCT 28, 2020: From a Big Carbon Footprint to Sustainable Living: Consumption and the Climate
As awareness of the climate crisis grows, so too does scrutiny of American lifestyles. We have an outsized “carbon footprint,” from our large homes and vehicles to our diets and wardrobes. Most of us want to live lightly on the planet, but the complexities of modern life, and an energy-intensive infrastructure, limit what individuals can do. In this presentation, Dr. Juliet Schor will discuss her research on consumer lifestyles—both sustainable and unsustainable—and the challenges and opportunities of living sustainably. Her presentation will be followed with time to meet in small groups online.
OCT 15, 2019: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Sustainability
The realities of the sustainability challenges we face grow more apparent and pressing by the day. Luckily, many companies and organizations—especially those in the technology sector—are driving change that's good for business and the world.
Join us for an event that will look at how the tech field is helping to drive sustainability with BC's Energy and Environment Alumni Network (BCEEAN) and the BC Technology Council in New York City. The event will be held in partnership with BC's Shea Center and their annual student "TechTrek" to New York, and we encourage all TechTrek alumni to join.
MAY 14, 2019: Children And Environmental Toxins
Children are getting sick from being exposed to tens of thousands of new chemicals - manufactured materials that never before existed in the earth's environment. Alarmingly, most of these chemicals were not tested for safety or toxicity before they were brought to market. Many have been found to cause disease in children - asthma, cancer, learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, birth defects and diabetes – and these diseases are on the rise.
Dr. Philip Landrigan ’63, MD, MSc, FAAP is a leader in children’s environmental health research and protective initiatives and is the Director of the Program in Global Public Health and the Common Good, Director of the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, and Professor of Biology for the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College.
April 24, 2014: Climate SmART: Artists Respond to Climate Change
At this year's BC Arts Festival, BCEEAN partnered with Honoring the Future to explore how artists are tackling the complex subject of climate change, pointing the way towards prepared, resilient, "climate smART" communities. Panelists, including Peter Handler, Mags Harries, Lillian Ball, Jane Marsching, and co-chair of BCEEAN Fran Dubrowski, explored the role of art in educating the public about climate change as well as the interrelationship between artists, engineers, and scientists as storytellers about our natural world.
April 25, 2013: "Photographer James Balog '74 Gets a Standing Ovation at the BC Arts Festival"
Over 200 alumni, faculty, students, and guests crowded into Devlin Hall to hear renowned photographer James Balog introduce his award-winning documentary, Chasing Ice. The lecture and film screening graced the opening night of BC's 15th Annual Arts Festival, a celebration of the arts and accomplishments of BC's artists.
The 15th annual festival, which coincided with the University's sesquicentennial, was organized around the theme 'Ever to create,' a theme which aptly describes Balog's work. In spring 2005, Balog, recipient of the BC Arts Council Alumni Award, launched the Extreme Ice Survey. This project - a collaboration between scientists, artists, and extreme weather expedition specialists - used revolutionary time-lapse cameras to document changes in the glacial landscape of the Arctic. The survey resulted in spectacular photography and film footage that became the documentary, Chasing Ice.
The documentary won Sundance's Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary Filmmaking, among many other prestigious awards. It was also selected by the National Geographic Channel to premiere in 171 countries, giving more than 440 million homes access to the film's stunningly beautiful and truly poignant images of a rapidly changing Arctic environment. BC film-goers were so moved by the photographic images and the unrelenting effort it took to obtain compelling visual evidence of glacial melt that they gave Balog a prolonged standing ovation. Indeed, most audience members stayed after the film screening well into the evening to ask Balog numerous questions about his work and its import.
The Arts Festival screening and lecture was sponsored by BCEEAN, the Institute of Liberal Arts, the Environmental Studies Program, the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, the Arts Council, and the student-led Ecopledge. If you missed the event, you can still view the film: it will be available on DVD and from Netflix in June. A collection of photographic images from the Extreme Ice Survey is also available in Balog's book, Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers, now in its second printing. See http://earthvisiontrust.org/
October 13, 2011: "Wearing of the Green: An Introduction to the Boston College Center for Irish Programs"
The Boston College Energy and Environment Alumni Network (BCEEAN), in partnership with the Washington, DC and Baltimore alumni chapters, hosted "Wearing of the Green," a networking evening introducing the renowned Boston College Center for Irish Programs to alumni and friends. Attendees heard about the Center's progress, current activities and likely future trajectory and met its leaders at an exciting panel presentation.
April 15-16 2011: "Excelling at Sustainability: Leadership for Others"
The first university-wide conference on sustainability, took place on campus to widespread acclaim! Approximately 180 trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, alumni and students joined BCEEAN for informal networking, career-reflection, alumni-student mentoring, ground-breaking research analysis and stimulating discussion. Photos from the conference can be viewed here. Five BC professors discussed the environmental aspects of their research programs in videos that premiered at the conference. To watch them, click here.