Past Events
January 13, 2011
The year ahead will be an important one for concept of enabling efficiency as an energy resource, very challenging and with high stakes for its long term viability. It?s a great time to get engaged! In this session, we will discuss new strategies being developed or tested to more successfully mitigate market barriers to efficiency in homes, including consideration of:
January 13, 2011
The second session will cover an introduction to climate modeling, followed by a discussion of recent observations, climate projections (IPCC), attribution of climate change to the various forcings in the atmosphere, and impacts of climate change, both currently observed and predicted in the future. The event is open to everyone and no advance sign-up is required. It stands alone from Session I.
Led by Marty Singh and Dan Chavas.
January 13, 2011
Robert Laubacher, Professor Thomas W. Malone, Joshua Introne
The Climate CoLab is a web forum where people for all over the world can work together to create proposals for what we should do about climate change. It is a project of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. The system combines web-based climate and economic modeling, structured online conversation, and new kinds of group decision making tools.
In this workshop, we invite students to learn about the Climate CoLab and share their ideas about how the project might evolve in the future.
January 12, 2011
TPP IAP Seminar Series
Prof. Noelle Selin, Engineering Systems Division & EAPS Mercury is a global environmental pollutant that poses toxic risks to humans & the environment. On January 25th, representatives from over 100 countries will meet in Japan to negotiate a global treaty to control mercury. The talk will give some background about the risks posed by mercury and a preview of country positions, provisions which are under negotiation, and some major controversies on the road to a global treaty.
Brown bag lunch; refreshments
January 11, 2011
Where are the power plants and the pipelines? How close are they to population centers? In this session, MIT GIS Services will introduce you to energy maps and spatial data available, and demonstrate GIS in action on the energy front.
January 11, 2011
Join President Hockfield and NSTAR CEO Tom May along with invited dignitaries as they kick off Efficiency Forward: Partnering for Success - A Forum to Recognize Innovations in Energy Efficiency