Past Events
April 24, 2009
The MIT Sustainability Summit, Discovering New Dimensions for Growth, brings together students, engineers, business leaders, academics, environmental activists, and public servants to discuss how we can most effectively support each other as we face the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to a sustainable world. Through an engaging, innovative panel format, speakers will be challenged to think creatively about shared problems and generate tangible solutions.
April 22, 2009
Dr. Steven Hamburg is an ecosystem ecologist specializing in the impacts of disturbance on forest structure and function. He is currently Chief Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, on leave from Brown University. At Brown he serves as Research Director of the Global Environment Program at the Watson Institute in International Studies. His research activities have most recently focused on linking climate change impacts to climate change mitigation, including in the corporate sector.
April 22, 2009
James McCarthy, Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University, will present a lecture in the MIT Energy Initiative Earth Day Colloquium. Abstract: Largely as a result of our dependence on fossil fuels, Earth's climate is changing. Regional shifts are now evident in precipitation patterns, in storms, in diminished land and ocean ice, in rising sea level, and in the distributions of plants and animals.
April 16, 2009
Prof. Lawrence Goulder of Stanford University will speak in the Spring Seminar series of the Energy and Environmental Economics @ MIT.
April 16, 2009
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Institute Professor John Deutch is being honored with a symposium in recognition of his significant contributions over the last 40 years in the fields of chemistry and physics, his role in national security and energy policy, and his years of governance at MIT.
April 15, 2009
Prof. Larry Smarr of the University of California, San Diego, will speak in the Computational Research in Boston Seminar series. Abstract: This year marks a turning point in the debate on global climate change. The focus of the discussion is rapidly moving from a scientific analysis of how human activity effects climate change to a political process on how best to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.