Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials ...
03/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D. '02, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and EngineeringDescription: Our conversations on sustainable transportation typically begin with a review of vehicle efficiencies, and end with the ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in ...
04/06/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Chris Zegras, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MITDescription: It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint ...
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 Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the ...
The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the Climate Challenge
04/21/2011 3:00 PM Wong AuditoriumTodd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of StateDescription: With frightening evidence for climate change mounting around the globe, from droughts and massive forest fires to melting glaciers and rising sea ...
The Road from Copenhagen
The Road from Copenhagen
Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a five-member panel reviews the pros and cons of the events that took place.
The Green Grease Project
The Green Grease Project
Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organized the Green Grease project to help garbage pickers in Brazil save money and be more environmentally friendly by retrofitting their transport vehicles. In summer 2010, the team traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Future of Natural Gas - Interim Report Briefing
The Future of Natural Gas - Interim Report Briefing
Natural gas has moved to the center of the current debate on energy, security, and climate. The MIT Study on the Future of Natural Gas has examined the role of gas in a carbon-constrained world, with a topic horizon out to mid-century. On June 25, 2010 at the National ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in ...
10/25/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the PresidentDescription: In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of ...
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. ...
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 ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
Research Scientist Erwan Monier examines uncertainty in ...
Research Scientist Erwan Monier examines uncertainty in climate change
Recently promoted from post-doc to research scientist, Dr. Erwan Monier works on quantifying uncertainty in future climate change using model simulations. "There are a lot of things about the earth system that we don't know," explains Erwan, "We have to take ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess President Obama on ...
11/09/2010 4:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan; Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political ...
Postdoc Qudsia Ejaz counts indirect emissions from biofuels
Postdoc Qudsia Ejaz counts indirect emissions from biofuels
Researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change describe their research and why it is important
Opportunities for Reducing U.S. Transportation's Petroleum ...
Opportunities for Reducing U.S. Transportation's Petroleum Usage and ...
09/22/2009 4:00 PM 32"124John Heywood, SM '62, PhD '65, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDescription: While the U.S. has set formidable goals around cutting oil consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, these will likely remain out of reach as long ...
Master's student Caleb Waugh studies the impact of air ...
Master's student Caleb Waugh studies the impact of air pollutant emission ...
fall, Caleb Waugh will graduate with a Masters degree from the Technology and Policy Program at MIT. His research focuses on the impact of alternative vehicles--such as hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles--on emissions of greenhouse gases and air quality pollutants, and ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.
Greenhouse Gases - MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi
Greenhouse Gases - MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi
David Simchi-Levi, a professor in MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Department of Civil Engineering, discusses lowering greenhouse emissions generated by humans.
Environmental Programs Meet Supply Chain at Staples
Environmental Programs Meet Supply Chain at Staples
Mark Buckley, Staples, Inc. - Vice President, Environmental AffairsAchieving the Energy-Efficient Supply Chain, Conference by MIT-CTL and CSCMP The development of energy-efficient distribution centers is just one of the supply chain-related environmental programs ...
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
04/13/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Description: Knowing more about the environmental impacts of aviation is increasingly essential, but according to Ian Waitz, it is also an area where ...