Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development

Jingnan Lu's research focuses on converting carbon dioxide, an environmental pollutant, into biofuel. Here she explains how she engineers a carbon-storing microorganism into a biofuel production pathway.

Jingnan Lu (2012 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Video)

Dr. Steve Yim - Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment

Dr. Steve Yim speaks about his work as a Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.Read more: http://lae.mit.edu/?page_id=601

BLOSSOMS: How Biotechnology Helps Clean Up the Environment? (Arabic with ...

The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to one of the most important issues affecting human life and health in the 21st century, the application of modern biotechnology to the problems of environmental pollution.

The Mercury Game

The Mercury Game is a negotiation simulation that is designed to teach people about the role of science in international environmental policy making. To download the game go to: http://mit.edu/mercurygame

Beyond the Tailpipe: Particulate Matter Pollution from Vehicular Emissions

04/26/2011 4:00 PM Jesse Kroll, Assistant Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering; Description: It turns out that the exhaust exiting a car's tailpipe is just the first part of a complex journey of pollutants that scientists like Jesse ...

Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of ...

03/29/2011 4:00 PM Noelle Eckley Selin, Assistant Professor; Engineering Systems Division; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary SciencesDescription: It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin ...

Probing the Plume

11/17/2010 MuseumRich Camilli, Associate Scientist; Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Description: It's a good thing for oil spill science that Richard Camilli was not yet on a flight to Australia when the Coast Guard called last May. An hour later and ...

Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology

10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...

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 ...

Emerald Cities: How Are Cities Advancing the Shift to a Green Economy?

This talk was given on December 1, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. - Abstract - How can cities best position themselves in the green economy? What is the role of manufacturing in urban areas? How can a city best choose an economic development strategy given ...

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 ...

Harlan County, Kentucky: McKinley Sumner's Disappearing Backyard

McKinley Sumner heard a sound his backyard one day, and realized something wasn't right. When he walked to the edge of his property line, he found tractors from the abutting coal mine digging into his land. Soon he saw his local creek, once clean and healthy, turn ...

Rural Life in the Himalayas - Excerpts from a trip through Ladakh, India ...

Video taken during a summer 2008 trip by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank to Ladakh, India and Yunnan, China. Detailed within are some aspects of rural life, the terain, modes of transportation, people, and culture. This trip was related to field research into suitable ...

Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles

05/02/2008 4:00 PM 32"123Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, San DiegoDescription: Veerabhadran Ramanathan recaps 35 years of key findings, and brings his audience up to date on the latest ...