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 ...
MIT and the Energy Challenge
MIT and the Energy Challenge
What is needed to address the global energy challenge? New technologies, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking. This video shows how MIT is playing a vital role in the search for energy solutions. Produced by MIT Alumni Association and AMPS/MIT Libraries. Featured in the exhibit ...
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...
The Clover Philosophy + a note from your producers
The Clover Philosophy + a note from your producers
CoLab summer interns Zach Mills and Chris Drakeford made a movie about a new MIT Campus icon: The Clovertruck. Music Tracks: gifaproducer: Crazy Love, The Motorcycle Song oldDog: Shame
The Clover Philosophy
The Clover Philosophy
CoLab summer interns Zach Mills and Chris Drakeford made a movie about a new MIT Campus icon: The Clovertruck. Music Tracks: gifaproducer: Crazy Love, The Motorcycle Song oldDog: Shame
biodiesel@MIT
biodiesel@MIT
How do you get a biodiesel processor in your community or on your campus?
"Greening Your Event" by Lauren Berning & the MIT Working ...
"Greening Your Event" by Lauren Berning & the MIT Working Group on ...
This video excerpt is from the "Greening Your Events" luncheon held on June 19th by the WGR and Events Planners. In addition to this powerpoint shown in the presentation, we met with Bon Appetit to discuss green catering, and had a post and wrap-up discussion ...
The Next Giant Leaps in Space Exploration
The Next Giant Leaps in Space Exploration
06/11/2009 3:00 PM KresgeDr. Maria T. Zuber, E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT ; ; Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and ...
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 ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's ...
05/07/2009 4:30 PM Sheraton BostonWilliam Aulet, SM '94, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Jacques Beaudry"Losique, SM '92, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy; U.S. Department of Energy; ; Christina Lampe"Onnerud, Founder and CEO, ...
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. ...
Green Wheel - Smart Mobility & Ubiquitous Computing
Green Wheel - Smart Mobility & Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile Experience Lab and Smart Cities Group worked together to envision future scenarios describing design opportunities related to topics that deal with social navigation, distributed data sensing, healthcare, bike sharing racks optimization, peer-to-peer freight, ...
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 ...
NAE Regional Meeting: Sustainable Transportation - Keynote
National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting: Sustainable ...
The National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting talks about Sustainable Transportation with a keynote presentation on "Driving Toward Sustainability" given by Daniel Sperling -- Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, where he is also ...
Values"Based Leadership
Values"Based Leadership
03/03/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumRobert McDonald, COO, Procter & GambleDescription: A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences has guided Robert McDonald through his 20 years at Procter & Gamble. McDonald recommends a deliberate system of ...
China's Development and China"US Relations
China's Development and China"US Relations
02/10/2009 3:30 PM 10"250His Excellency Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of ChinaDescription: MIT President Susan Hockfield hails a new era of collaboration between the Institute and China, and Zhou Wenzhong, ...
Come Walk the Talk
Come Walk the Talk
A community rally to support campus energy efficiency and conservation featuring: Theresa Stone, Executive Vice President, MIT Robert Armstrong, Deputy Director, MITEI Steven Lanou, Deputy Director, Environmental Sustainability, MIT Jason Jay, Organization Studies Group, Sloan School and the ...
Sustainable Tim
Sustainable Tim
See how even MIT's mascot Tim the Beaver gets into the swing of things and stays sustainable with good eco-friendly practices on campus. You could learn a thing or two.