[bioundgrd] Fwd: MIT Climate Action Team Presents: Bill Moomaw on Local Action

[Janice Chang]

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From: Seeta Salgia Patel <seetasp at mit.edu<mailto:seetasp at mit.edu>>
Subject: MIT Climate Action Team Presents: Bill Moomaw on Local Action
Date: December 10, 2018 at 3:58:32 PM EST

The MIT Climate Action Team would greatly appreciate your help in circulating this message to the undergraduate and graduate students in your departments, as well as faculty members and any other interested people.

Tldr: Thai food served at start of event. Concerned or confused about the recent UN Climate Report? Frustrated about efforts to help the environment? Want to learn more about how you can address climate change? Join us and MIT alumnus Dr. William Moomaw on Tuesday, December 11th at 7:30 pm to discuss successfully addressing climate change with zero and negative emission.

Happy almost end of the semester!!
We at the MIT Climate Action Team want you to finish the year strong, by reflecting on some of the major climate related events from 2018. We are proud to host a talk by Dr. William Moomaw,  an Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy and Founding Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School. He currently serves as Co-Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts, which he co-founded. He received his BA degree in chemistry from Williams College and PhD in physical chemistry from MIT. Following a 26-year career in chemistry and environmental studies at Williams College, where he directed the Center for Environmental Studies. He served as AAAS Science Fellow in the US Senate, where he worked on legislation that successfully addressed ozone depletion, and on legislation responding to the 1973 energy crisis. He began working on climate change in 1988 as the first director of the climate program at World Resources Institute in Washington. He has been a lead author of five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports. The IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize for its climate work in 2007.

He chairs the board of directors of two climate science and policy organizations, The Climate Group North America and Woods Hole Research Center. He also serves on the boards of directors of The Nature Conservancy of Massachusetts, the Consensus Building Institute, Earthwatch Institute, and on the National Advisory Boards of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Young Voices for the Planet.

He and his wife, Margot, completed a zero net energy home in Williamstown MA in 2007 that produces sufficient solar electricity to meet all of its heating, lighting and appliance requirements while exporting surplus power to the grid. They have recently added more solar panels, and replaced their plug-in Prius with a Tesla Model 3.

Here’s a link to the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1056005027907708/

Hope to see you all there!
MIT Climate Action Team


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