Climate Collaboratorium--Creating New Plans
Climate Collaboratorium--Creating New Plans
Shows how to create new plans in the Climate Collaboratorium.
Climate Colllaboratorium--Selecting Plans
Climate Colllaboratorium--Selecting Plans
Shows how to navigate to and select plans in the Climate Collaboratorium.
Climate Collaboratorium--Voting for plans
Climate Collaboratorium--Voting for plans
Shows how to compare and vote for plans in the Climate Collaboratorium.
Climate Collaboratorium--Viewing plans
Climate Collaboratorium--Viewing plans
Shows how to view plans in the Climate Collaboratorium.
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
11/17/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJeffrey Hollender, Co"founder & Executive Chair; Seventh Generation Description: The "chief inspired protagonist" of one of the nation's oldest and most successful green manufacturers apologizes for delivering a talk "more depressing ...
Climate Collaboratorium Vision
Climate Collaboratorium Vision
Professor Thomas W. Malone, Director of MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, describe the vision behind the Climate Collaboratorium project.
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
10/23/2009 12:00 PM KresgePresident Barack Obama, 44th President of the USDescription: In welcoming President Obama, MIT President Susan Hockfield summarizes the vast array of energy innovation at MIT, including the MIT Energy Initiative and the student"led 1700 member Energy Club, and ...
Frances Beinecke - Can We Meet the Planet's Deadline?
Frances Beinecke - Can We Meet the Planet's Deadline?
Abstract Current science tells us that we must act now in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming. The international community, mean- while, is meeting this December in Copenhagen to negotiate a new climate regime. Is the United States moving fast enough ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally and Walking the ...
10/20/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Frederick P. Salvucci, '61, SM '62, Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MITDescription: Why do so many sustainable transportation programs turn out, like the Alice in the Wonderland parable to lead us down unexpected ...
The Climate Collaboratorium
The Climate Collaboratorium
"When you bring together lots of people and have them all contributing, you can do really remarkable things." In a piece produced for exhibit at the MIT Museum, researchers at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence discuss their development of the Climate Collaboratorium, an online tool ...
Addressing Climate Change: Developing a Low-Carbon Economy
Addressing Climate Change: Developing a Low-Carbon Economy
MIT hosted Professor XU Kuangdi, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, next Wednesday, October 7. As part of this visit, Professor Xu delivered a lecture at 1:30 pm in the Kirsch Auditorium entitled "Addressing Climate Change: Developing a Low-Carbon ...
Underground methane
Underground methane
This video shows underground methane gas invading fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture, as predicted by Jain and Juanes' grain scale model. Blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded. The maroon lines indicate compressive forces between sediment ...
The Next Giant Leaps in Energy, Environment, & Air ...
The Next Giant Leaps in Energy, Environment, & Air Transportation
06/11/2009 1:00 PM KresgeThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ...
Severin Borenstein: Meeting US Energy and Climate ...
Severin Borenstein: Meeting US Energy and Climate Challenges with Rational ...
This talk was given on May 5, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series - Abstract - As US energy challenges mount, the public and political debate continues to demonstrate disturbing misunderstandings of both the problems and potential solutions. The US faces three ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
05/12/2009 4:00 PM 10"250Steven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: The situation facing our planet could hardly be more dire: There's increasingly dangerous competition among nations for ever scarce energy resources, and climate change is racing ahead of ...
MITEI Earth Day Colloquium: James McCarthy
MITEI Earth Day Colloquium - James McCarthy
This colloquium was given in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2009.
Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of ...
Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the ...
04/22/2009 7:00 PM Simmons HallSteven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense FundDescription: The "dominant story of the next century" will be one of either gloom or redemption, says Steven Hamburg, depending on how humanity chooses to address climate change. ...
The Most Important Number in the World
The Most Important Number in the World
04/13/2009 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumBill McKibben, Writer/ OrganizerDescription: "Just a sleep"deprived activist and organizer." That's how environmentalist Bill McKibben describes his current incarnation, with writing career in abeyance while he proselytizes about the danger of climate change. ...
Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise
Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise
04/09/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumMartin D. Madaus, Chairman, President & CEO, Millipore CorporationDescription: Climate change poses perhaps the premiere threat to coming generations, says Martin Madaus, but to avoid its worst impacts, we must confront the issue ...
Planet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems
Planet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems
03/30/2009 4:30 PM 32"123Rafael L. Bras, '72, MS '74, ScD '75, Edward A Abdun"Nur Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Description: If he doesn't have the whole world in his hands, Rafael Bras certainly grasps more pieces of the gigantic puzzle than most of ...