William McDonough - Cradle to Cradle: A Strategy of Hope
William McDonough - Cradle to Cradle: A Strategy of Hope
This talk was given on April 22, 2010 as the Earth Day Colloquium, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative and the United Technologies Corporation. - About the Speaker - William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and ...
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
01/30/2008 9:00 AM 32"123John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: John Sterman pokes holes through some popular proposals for addressing climate change, with sobering case ...
What Does Re-Engineering Mean for Real Estate?
What Does Re-Engineering Mean for Real Estate?
10/01/2010 2:00 PM e14"633Dr. Ray Torto, Global Chief Economist, CBRE; ; Joseph Azrack, Managing Director, Apollo Commercial Real Estate; Brad Case, Vice President " Research & Industry Information, NAREIT; Tom Garbutt, Managing Director, TIAA"CREF Global Real Estate; ...
Volvo's Environmental Business Strategy
Volvo's Environmental Business Strategy
04/09/2001 Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo GroupDescription: On Monday, April 9, 2001, the MIT community had the opportunity to hear Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group speak about his company's environmental business strategy. With the ...
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 ...
TrashTrack
TrashTrack
Winner of the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, the video shows how TrashTrack uses technology to expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. For more information go to: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/index.php
Trashion Show 2011
Trashion Show 2011 at MIT Next House
Highlights from the first annual "Trashion Show" presented by Next House and the Undergraduate Association's Sustainability Committee. Check out the MIT news article here. Videography by Lan Li, edited by Josh Kastorf.
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 University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture (Part ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part Two)
05/08/2004 11:30 AM 26-100William J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab; Frank Gehry, Architect; Robert Venturi, Architect; Kyong Park, SM '87, Founder/Director ...
The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
10/25/2006 6:00 PM MuseumDaniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; ; Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological EngineeringDescription: No single new technology can deliver ...
The Purpose of Business
The Purpose of Business
05/02/2006 12:00 PM WongLord John Browne, Group Chief Executive, BP p.l.c.; The Lord Browne of MadingleyDescription: One common view of business makes a sharp distinction between making money and doing good in society. This is a "limited and distorted" perspective, according to John Browne. ...
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 Interaction Between Poverty, Growth and Democracy
The Interaction Between Poverty, Growth and Democracy
05/03/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPresident Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru 2001"2006Description: Alejandro Toledo has remained a passionate advocate of reform since departing the presidency of Peru in 2006. In his home country, he embodied the possibility of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Technology, Policy and Education: Leaders in Technology and ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Leaders in Technology and Policy
06/08/2006 1:00 PM E51-345Dr. Frank Remsen Field, '78, SM '81, PhD '85, Associate Director, TPP; Nicholas Mabey, SM '93, Founder and Director E3G; Jessica Stern, SM '88, Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government; Bryan Moser, '87, SM '89, President and CEO Global ...
TDP and MIST
TDP and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
MIT's Technology and Development Program (TDP) is participating in a new program to assist the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) to establish a graduate science and engineering program in Abu Dhabi, UAE, focused on renewable energy and sustainable ...