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<div><font color="#000000">Please 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">By Peter Lowitt</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
April 7, 2004<br>
12:00-1:30 p.m.<br>
E40-496</font><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 Philippines.</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:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">"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>
<div><font
color="#000000">http://globalsustainability.org</font></div>
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