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.
The Urban Sustainability Assessment (USA) Project involves developing and testing a protocol for systematically evaluating the effectiveness of urban sustainability programs in the United States.
The Indian Express features an editorial by DUSP Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal entitled "Humanity Denied," on the topic of the country's 2013 manual scavenging law. In summary, the law "does not go far enough."
Danya Rumore has been selected for the 2014 Global Fellows Program. The Global Fellows Program, a collaboration between MIT and Imperial College London, trains PhD students to create, sustain, and lead successful international research collaborations. Through presentations, interactive work and hands-on activities, PhD students from both schools will develop professional skills required to launch and manage a successful research career.
In the autumn of 2012, the Climate CoLab opened up 18 contests, each focused on a challenge the world is facing as we confront climate change. By June 15, nearly 400 proposals had been submitted from around the world, by non-profits, entrepreneurs, scholars and climate experts, students, business people, and concerned citizens. Proposals championed new technologies, community projects, online apps and websites, marketing strategies, business ideas, and government initiatives.