Join the Massachusettes CEC Solar Leader and MCP Cannidate Ryan Cook as they lead a discussion on solar power as part of the Community Energy Innovations lunch series.
EPP Students and Faculty please come to the EPP lunch seminar to enjoy delicious food, good company, and a fascinating talk by Post-Doctoral Researcher Roxane Lavoie. Roxane will be leading a talk on planning for source water protection as well as the challenges and reflections to such planning. Please see below for an abstract of her talk.
12 DUSP faculty will have three minutes to explain one of their research projects--in layperson's language. We are hoping to strike that perfect blend of “fun and informative,” so that students and faculty can be inspired by the work of colleagues and we can all start to explore new ways of working together.
Speaker: Dr. Bin Lu, Professor and Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Panelists: Prof. Chris Zegras and Jinhua Zhao, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
This panel brings together activists, scholars and planners working on the front lines of the stuggle to maintain and strengthen communities affected by gentrification and displacement in the greater Boston area. The event is hosted by MIT's Displacement Research and Action Network (DRAN) and the Resilient Cities Housing Initiative (RCHI).
All are welcome to this week’s Community Energy Innovations Lunch Seminar: City Initiatives for Climate Action. Wednesday March 19, 12:30-2:00 PM Room 10-401.
We’re very pleased to be joined by two distinguished guests - who are leaders of Boston area urban efficiency initiatives (and recent grads):
This event is a unique opportunity to ponder design as a civil right- creating universal access to urban spaces and places for diverse populations.
Please contact Sara Hess at sarahess@mit.edu with any questions and to RSVP to this event.
With the support of a MISTI grant, the Science Impact Collaborative has partnered with Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) to research and promote better ways for affected communities, companies, and government to collaborate on decisions related to hydropower development in southern Chile.
The MIT- Malaysia Sustainable Cities Partnership is a five-year effort, co-managed by faculty at MIT and the Universiti of Teknologi of Malaysia (UTM), with a multimillion dollar grant from the Malaysian Ministry of Education. The goal of the partnership is to document sustainable city development efforts in Malaysia. We intend to use our research findings to create on-line video instructional materials to support the teaching of sustainable city development in universities in the global South.