[E&S-seminars] Sustainable Development Seminar Series - 11/18/03 and 11/20/03 this week

[Philip Sheehy]

The Students for Global Sustainability, MIT Student Pugwash, Engineers 
Without Frontiers and Design that Matters invite you to:

Sustainable Development Seminar Series
Sustainable Energy


Renewable vs. Sustainable Energy
Edward Kern, Jr., MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment
Tuesday November 18, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237

How do we strike a balance between using today's extractable and depleting 
resources and striving today to capture the promise of new and more costly 
renewable energy technologies?  If we continue to embrace centralized power 
technologies, what must we assume regarding benevolent governance and law 
enforcement, civil liberties and addressing society's discontents that 
would threaten the common good?  Dr. Kern will take address the practical, 
theoretical and philosophical differences between sustainable and renewable 
energy in the context of sustainable development.



Community Wind
Andrew Stern, Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Brown, Hull Wind
Thursday November 20, 2003 at 6PM, location TBA

Windpower has become a billion dollar industry in the US, and yet New 
England has almost entirely chosen imported fuels.  Massachusetts' only 
windpower installations are community owned.  The Town of Hull has received 
enormous attention for installing a single wind turbine because the 
decision-making and ownership is community-based.  The adoption of wind 
energy in New England may depend on local decisions - Europe's leadership 
in wind is built on over 200,000 households that invested in local wind 
turbines.  (hullwind.org)



please forward to any interested parties
sponsored by Large Event Funding

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