January 2011

Remembering L. Jay Tenenbaum

Jan 18, 2011 @ 4:17 PM by Anonymous with [0] comments
The Commonwealth Club of California lost a treasured member of its Board of Governors January 16 when L. Jay Tenenbaum passed away in Woodside, California. He was 87.
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David Brooks Talks Tucson, Mental Illness, Politics, & More

Jan 14, 2011 @ 1:42 PM by Anonymous with [0] comments
New York Times columnist and "PBS NewsHour" commentator David Brooks addressed a standing-room-only Commonwealth Club of California audience January 11 in San Francisco. More than 500 people showed up to hear the conservative writer cover some of today's most talked-about issues – and one of the least talked-about aspects of the current hot-button topic.
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SFDebate Asks: Should We Support Net Neutrality?

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Tue, Jan 18 2011 - 7:00pm

SF Debate asks; Will the new FCC net neutrality rules ruin the internet as we know it?
The FCC just released new rules and regulations on Internet neutrality – the controversy over whether service providers such as Verizon and AT&T can block or slow down access to web sites and applications that compete with sites and services favored by the providers. Should the Internet be maintained as a neutral database of information? Or does Internet access, a privately provided service, need to be regulated more heavily? Has the Internet already been effectively neutered? Read more »

Abbas Milani:The Shah, the Ayatollah and Iran's nuclear program : Double-talk or Double-standards?

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Wed, Jan 19 2011 - 6:00pm

The Shah, the Ayatollah and Iran’s Nuclear Program – Double Talk or Double Standards?

Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford; Co-director, Iran Democracy Project, Hoover Institution; Author, The Shah Read more »

Arts, Activism and Creativity

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Thu, Jan 13 2011 - 6:00pm

Arts, Activism and Creativity
This program is postponed
Lee Bycel, Executive Director, Redford Center
Bycel brings a wealth of unique experiences to his work at the Redford Center. Founded by Robert Redford, the center’s mission is to inspire positive social, environmental and humanitarian change through creativity, education and empowerment and to address contemporary challenges in honest, open and bold ways. Read more »

Sacrifice Zones and Environmental Justice

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Wed, Jan 19 2011 - 6:00pm

Sacrifice Zones and Environmental Justice
Steve Lerner, Author, Sacrifice ZonesBradley Angel, Executive Director, Greenaction for Health and Environmental JusticeGail Smith, Environmental Activist, Daly City, Midway Village
Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach the point where they say that enough is enough. Read more »

Reversing US Innovation Decline: What the US Economy Needs for the Next Decade

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Wed, Jan 19 2011 - 6:30pm


Reversing U.S. Innovation Decline: What the U.S. Economy Needs for the Next Decade
Mark Warner U.S. Senator (D-VA), Hon. Read more »

EVs + Smart Grid

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Thu, Jan 13 2011 - 9:00am

People Power: Rethinking Electricity
Dian Grueneich, Former Commissioner, California Public Utilities CommissionMark Duvall, Director of Electric Transportation and Energy Storage, Electric Power Research InstituteTed Howes, Partner, IDEO
How will electric utilities adapt to a world of distributed generation and choice among formerly captive customers? Will utilities become a combination of eBay and UPS, shuttling electrons between many buyers and sellers? Read more »

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

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Tue, Jan 18 2011 - 6:00pm

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking

Anand Giridharadas, Journalist; Author, India Calling; Columnist, The New York Times Read more »