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<div>Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series</div>
<div>Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
<http://lfee.mit.edu></div>
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<div>"US Transportation Energy Consumption: The Problem, and
Effective Strategies for Progress"</div>
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<div>Prof. John Heywood, Director, Sloan Automotive Laboratory</div>
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> <span
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Bandivadekar, Technology and Policy Program</div>
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<div>March 18, 2004 (PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON THURSDAY)</div>
<div>12:00-1:30 pm</div>
<div>E40-496</div>
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<div>Abstract</div>
<div>The U.S. Transportation system is dominated by cars and light
trucks which consume about 43% of the total U.S. petroleum use.
Increasing dependence on foreign oil and as well as rising emissions
of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles are two major reasons to be
concerned about vehicle fuel consumption. The annual fuel consumption
of our light-duty vehicle fleet in thirty years is projected to be
more than 60 percent above today's value. It is therefore imperative
that we understand this developing crisis, and take appropriate
actions to address our rising petroleum consumption.<br>
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<div>This challenge will not be resolved by any single technology or
policy. However, an appropriately designed<i> combination of
fiscal and regulatory measures</i> can substantially increase the
market demand for improved vehicle technologies which reduce the fuel
consumption.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Please also join us April 7 for a talk
co-sponsored by the LFEE Seminar in Environment and Sustainability
series and "Practicing the Elusive: Integrating Sustainability
and the Built Environment", a student-developed,
interdisciplinary speaker series</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"EcoStar: Advancing Sustainability at
Devens"</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Peter Lowitt, President of the American
Planning Association Massachusetts Chapter<br>
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April 7, 2004<br>
12:00-1:30 p.m.<br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Peter Lowitt is a leading practitioner of
eco-industrial development in North America. As Director of the
Devens Enterprise Commission, Lowitt launched an initiative to develop
green buildings and a by-products exchange network at Devens, a
4,400-acre former military base and Superfund site. As Director
of</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Planning and Economic development for the
town of Londonderry, New Hampshire during the 1990s, Lowitt developed
the Stoneyfield Londonderry Eco-Industrial Park in conjunction with
private sector partner and initiated the Sustainable Londonderry
program. Lowitt currently serves as president of the
American</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Planning Association Massachusetts Chapter,
a founding board member of the Eco- Industrial Development Council,
and editorial board member of the Canadian Eco- Industrial Network.
Having earned degrees from Brown University and Tufts University,
Peter Lowitt has lectured extensively on eco-industrial development
throughout the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Thailand,
and Phillipines.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Peter will discuss the sustainability
framework being applied at Devens, as well as thoughts about his
career path and "practicing" industrial ecology in the
future.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">The series:<br>
"Practicing the Elusive: Integrating Sustainability and the Built
Environment" is a student-developed, interdisciplinary speaker
series that is taking place during Spring 2004 at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The series explores how to use a
sustainability framework to transform the built environment and
society through the vision and professional innovation of today's
practitioners. Speakers will present opportunities and challenges of
implementing sustainability-oriented outcomes by reflecting on
professional practice in architecture, engineering, construction, real
estate, planning, and community development. <br>
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Purposes: </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">- Showcase pioneering approaches to
achieving sustainability through project implementation<br>
- Address how integrating sustainability may drive practices towards
success in the future</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">- Challenge students to frame their own
careers around sustainable practice by providing concrete examples of
what this means<br>
- Inspire entrepreneurial initiatives towards sustainability on campus
and beyond</font></div>
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<div>Light refreshments will be provided.</div>
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please contact Karen Gibson, kgibson@mit.edU</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Karen L. Gibson</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Program Assistant</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">MIT Laboratory For Energy and the
Environment</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">77 Massachusetts Avenue,
E40-469</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">(1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for DHL and
FedEx)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Tel: 1 (617) 258-6368; Fax: 1
(617) 258-6590</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">http://lfee.mit.edu</font></div>
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