Past Events
April 01, 2010
Speaker: Prof. Marija Llic, Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract: In this lecture we pose the problem of sustainable electricity services as a novel systems engineering design problem. We briefly summarize today's operating and planning practices and explain why these need fundamental changing in order to enable qualitatively different electricity services.
March 31, 2010
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Esty, Yale University. Abstract: Prospects for a global agreement on climate change to supplant the Kyoto Protocol are now badly bogged down. The success of the international negotiations is deeply intertwined with the U.S. domestic political conversation around climate change. Unfortunately, the current legislative efforts seem unlikely to win the necessary majorities in the House and Senate. It is now time to think about alternative strategies.
March 30, 2010
Professor Thomas Malone and Robert Laubacher of MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence lead a hands-on, interactive session at the MIT Museum, exploring how the collective intelligence of thousands of people (including you) can be harnessed to address global climate change.
March 30, 2010
Prof. Chris Knittel, University of California, Davis, will discuss his recent working paper in the Energy & Environmental Economics @ MIT Seminar Series. Abstract: New car ?eet fuel economy, weight and engine power have changed drastically since 1980. These changes represent both movements along and shifts in the "fuel economy/weight/engine power production possibilities frontier".
March 23, 2010 - March 25, 2010
SESSIONS: Evolving Views of the Threat; Regional Climate Risks and Adaptation Aid; Developments in Land Use; Technological Prospects: Electric Generation; Technological Prospects: Energy Use; Emerging National and International Policy Architecture
March 19, 2010
Dr. Aleck Wang, Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will present a lecture in the MIT Chemical Oceanography & Biogeochemistry Seminar Series.