Savings Plans and the Climate
Savings Plans and the Climate
Relating savings strategies to how we address a shifting climate.
Science and Technology for a Clean Energy Future
Science and Technology for a Clean Energy Future
05/03/2006 10:00 AM KresgeYang Shao"Horn, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Electrochemical Energy Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering ; Emanuel M. Sachs, '76, SM '76, PhD '83, Fred Fort Flowers '41 and Daniel Fort Flowers '41 Professor of ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration Advice to a New ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration Advice to a New President
11/19/2008 6:00 PM Broad InstituteMarc A. Kastner, Dean, MIT School of ScienceDescription: The mood of gloom has eased somewhat within the science community, with the advent of a new presidential administration, and Marc Kastner captures the mix of hopefulness and ...
Security--Operational Excellence and Resilience
Security--Operational Excellence and Resilience
The Alumni Association event View from the Top in London on Jan. 22, 2009, presented a panel of seasoned executives discussing the forces shaping our turbulent times. In this video, Leonard H. Schrank '68, chairman & CEO of Act3 Technologies, LLC, and former CEO ...
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation - Kevin Surace - MIT Club of Northern ...
How Inc Magazine's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year built a clean energy company Hear CEO Kevin Surace describe how he injected his entrepreneurial clean tech vision to create the most innovative company ever to hit the building materials industry. How did Serious Energy ...
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 ...
Social Policy: Can Adaptation Save Us from Climate Change?
Social Policy: Can Adaptation Save Us from Climate Change?
With Michael GreenstoneAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong ...
Speed and Scale
Speed and Scale
04/12/2008 8:00 AM John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersDescription: In turn pragmatic and visionary, John Doerr describes his venture capital firm's response to the climate change/clean energy challenge, while answering a range of questions from an entrepreneurial and ...
Stephanie Dutkiewicz follows the motion of the ocean, its ...
Stephanie Dutkiewicz follows the motion of the ocean, its nutrients, and ...
A research scientist in MIT's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science department, Stephanie Dutkiewicz focuses on biogeochemical cycling and phytoplankton distribution in the ocean. Her research follows the circulation of the ocean, from the surface waters to the ...
Stuck: Why It's So Hard to Do New Things in Old ...
Stuck: Why It's So Hard to Do New Things in Old Organizations
12/06/2007 8:30 AM Wong AuditoriumRebecca M. Henderson, '81, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of ManagementDescription: After 20 years studying large organizations that undertake significant transformations, Rebecca Henderson has of late turned her attention to the issue ...
Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier, SESSION 1
Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier, SESSION 1
Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Society John Sterman, Vladimir Bulovic, Kevin Moss
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
02/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds' growing population. ...
Sustainable Societies
Sustainable Societies
With John StermanAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental initiative" at MIT. ...
Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and ...
Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and Empowerment
04/04/2008 10:30 AM Broad InstituteJudith Layzer, PhD '99, Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy; Jason Corburn, MCP '96, PhD '02, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley; J. ...
Technology Day 1993 - "Riding the Wave of Innovation: The ...
Technology Day 1993 - "Riding the Wave of Innovation: The Ocean and MIT"
MIT's 1993 Technology Day, on the theme "Riding the Wave of Innovation: The Ocean and MIT," takes place on June 4, 1993. Speakers featured in the morning symposium include Sylvia Earle, "Exploring the Ocean with Unmanned Vehicles;" Robert Spindel, "Measuring the Ocean ...
Technology Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
Technology Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
Recorded 12/15/11
Technology: Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
Technology: Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
With John LienhardAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental ...
The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
10/18/2006 6:00 PM MuseumErnest Moniz, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric ScienceDescription: Despite their calm demeanors, Kerry Emanuel and Ernie Moniz impart grave and pressing concerns about global warming to ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
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 ...