Past Events
April 22, 2010
Speaker: William McDonough, designer/architect. Abstract: The current design of human industry and the products and systems that result from its "cradle to grave" characteristics puts humans on a collision course with nature. If all the detrimental defects of our current system were actually planned; climate destabilization, acidified oceans, toxic landscapes and rivers, etc. – one might say the human species has become strategically tragic as it creates a world of limited resources and destitution for billions of people.
April 21, 2010
Free screening and Q&A with filmmaker, Randy Olson, a University of New Hampshire marine biology professor-turned Hollywood filmmaker and author, who will present his latest science-oriented mockumentary. This film, in which Randy also stars, has takes an irreverent look at the very real and important problem of communicating about climate science.
April 21, 2010
Speaker: Prof. Isaac M. Held, Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer, GFDL NOAA.
April 21, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Peter Frumhoff, Director of Science and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists. Abstract: In an age when science is attacked in the media, what is your responsibility as a scientist? How can your respond to distortions or manipulations of science in the popular press in a way that is effective but also consistent with your values as a scientist? How can you be engaged locally, nationally or internationally to see that science policy is guided by research not politics?
April 21, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Anne Willem Omta, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT EAPS. Abstract: In view of the ongoing anthropogenic emissions of carbon, it is of crucial importance to understand which portion of future emissions will stay in the atmosphere and how large a portion will be taken up by the oceans.
April 13, 2010
Prof. Ian Waitz, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics, will speak in the Transportation@MIT Seminar Series.