Meltdown: What Everyone Needs to Know and Do About Energy

April 30, 2009,
7:00pm - 9:00pm

A Cambridge City Hall Forum will bring together experts from a variety of fields to discuss how to create a sustainable energy future. The forum will be led by Broad Institute Founding Director Eric Lander, a co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and include MIT professors Henry Jacoby and Ronald Prinn (co-directors of the MIT Global Change Program), as well as MIT professor Ernest Moniz (director of the MIT Energy Initiative), Steve Morgan of the Cambridge Energy Alliance, and Prof. Stephen Ansolabehere of Harvard. Presentations and panel discussions will focus on the topics of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the role of technical innovation, policy change, and behavioral change, and programs at the City and State levels. This event is organized by the MIT Energy Initiative, the City of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Science Festival.