Jack Schlossberg, President Kennedy's grandson for an event honoring the recipients John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards honoring the recipients of the 2017 on Thursday, November 16 at 6:00 P.M. at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School
This year, we proudly recognize The Honorable Carlos Curbelo, U.S. Representative (R-FL), for his work to forge bipartisan solutions for difficult policy problems, and May Boeve, for her work as Executive Director of 350.org, a landmark grassroots campaign to address climate change.
The ceremony will be followed by a discussion on environmental policy and action moderated by Steve Curwood, host of PRI's Living on Earth, and a reception
The Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University
http://iop.harvard.edu
was established as a living memorial to America's youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy. Since its founding half a century ago, the Institute has used its programming and activities to ignite passion, appreciation and respect for politics and public service in the hearts and minds of every generation.
http://iop.harvard.edu/about
The Institute of Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUE_RImQzw
The history of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=okFUU2NQ8dk
At the Institute of Politics, a living memorial to President Kennedy, we work to celebrate the President's legacy of public service every day. The Institute is showcasing how our students honor this legacy throughout all of our work to promote politics and public service careers. The IOP is using the hashtag "EveryDayJFK" to highlight this work on Institute social media channels. We encourage those who would like to participate to use the "#EveryDayJFK" hashtag on social media, take photos and videos and show us how you are honoring the President's legacy today.
A Day In The Life of Harvard Kennedy School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxuw3j0yXwE
This film was shot entirely on one day, September 27, 2012. It's not quite fair to say that it was a typical day. Two visiting heads of state, one Nobel Peace Prize winner, and two packed Forums in one evening are not the norm. But 54 classes and seminars and half a dozen brown bags, workshops, and special lectures is not unusual. Nor are limousines, Secret Service agents, camera crews and live feeds from the television studio, a flood of spectators and the bullhorns of protesters, or the quiet efficiency with which staff members make it all possible.
Carlos Curbelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Curbelo
UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN CARLOS CURBELO
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https://curbelo.house.gov
Carlos Curbelo
https://curbelo.house.gov/about/
May Boeve: the new face of the climate change movement
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/08/may-boeve-new-face-of-climate-change-movement-350-org
One of the few female figureheads in the US green movement, 350.org’s executive director has risen with the organisation to become a leading voice for the global divestment movement. She looks back to the early campaigns and reveals what winning would look like
May Boeve
https://mymorningroutine.com/may-boeve/
May Boeve is the Executive Director of 350.org, an international climate change campaign that believes in a safe climate and a better future; a just, prosperous, and equitable world built with the power of ordinary people. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York
Steve Curwood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Curwood
Living on Earth
http://www.loe.org/about/steve.html
Steve Curwood Host / Executive Producer
Steve Curwood is Executive Producer and Host of Living on Earth. Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA. Steve's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera. Steve has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. Steve Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. and a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University. He lives in Southern New Hampshire on a small woodlot with his wife Jennifer and children Noah and Amira, and loves whatever time he can get with his adult progeny, Anastasia and James.
From the show of April 21, 2000, Steve writes:
Thirty years ago, when the first Earth Day rallies got underway, I was slow to get in line. As an African-American I was busy marching about civil rights and fighting poverty. As the son of a single mother, I was busy marching for equal rights for women. As a concerned citizen and Quaker, I was busy marching against the war in Vietnam. Let the white guys march for the environment, I said. Let them rally to keep open space so they can ride to hounds, while I work for a better world.
But over the next 20 years things changed, and I changed, too. As a society, we made a lot of progress on many of the problems of 1970. Poverty and racism didn't disappear, but far more African-Americans and other minorities won more good jobs and acceptance. There is now a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Women started to close the pay gap with men. Many run companies, serve in government, and enjoy more protection from gender discrimination. And while it still haunts our memories, the Vietnam War ended and we learned important lessons.
Meanwhile, I became a journalist and a parent. By Earth Day 1990, my own young son was telling me that environmental change was the most important, under-covered story going. And I realized that he was right. Of all the issues Americans marched about in 1970, only the environment has gotten worse. Population has almost doubled since the first Earth Day. Species are going extinct faster and faster. Open space and wilderness are disappearing. Evidence is mounting that pollution not only causes cancer but a host of other disorders, including asthma, heart attacks, immune system breakdowns, reproductive problems, and even criminal behavior.
Pollution is also changing the climate in ways that scientists could barely imagine back in 1970. In short, life as we know and love it is changing profoundly. Living on Earth doesn't advocate any particular point of view, except that our relationship to our environment, and what we do to it, is as important as any other part of our lives. And it's our job to bring you the information you need to make the choices that will determine our future.