[E&E seminars] AGS Annual Meeting 2008 - Save the Date

[Karen Gibson]

AGS Annual Meeting 2008
28 - 31 January | Cambridge, MA USA


Designing Pathways for a Sustainable World:
at Scale, in Time, and for All

Hosted by MIT

A Call to Action: Discussions about climate change and sustainability  
(at least in the US) have moved rapidly from "nothing is wrong so we  
need to do nothing" to "everything is so wrong that there is nothing  
we can do." But it is not too late. Instead, it is time to deploy the  
knowledge we have - or will soon have - to pursue sustainable pathways.

The 2008 AGS Annual Meeting builds upon work at the last annual  
meeting developing "pathways" as a framework for advancing near-term  
transitions to sustainability. We have designed this year’s meeting  
to move us from sustainability as "something we study" to "something  
we study and do," both as the AGS and collectively. Pathways design  
must be "at Scale, in Time, and for All" in order to respond to the  
urgent need for substantive action on climate, energy, food, and  
water challenges in both developed and developing regions of the world.

Effective, substantive action requires that universities - who build  
knowledge - work closely with business and society - who implement  
and adapt. Thus, this meeting aims to engage leaders in industry,  
government, and civil society in building well-informed, action- 
oriented partnerships. Through such collaborations, university  
scientists, social scientists, and engineers can both learn from, and  
provide insight to, policy makers in industry and government such  
that sustainability can be realized "at scale, in time, and for all."

Key dates for the conference:

Conference dates: 28 - 31 January 2008
Submission deadline for Poster Abstracts: 15 October 2007
Registration: opens online 15 August 2007

All participants are invited to submit poster abstracts relevant to  
the topics of the meeting and the AGS Flagship Programs. Poster  
abstracts will be reviewed and selected based on their relevance,  
significance, and quality. See the conference website for details (15  
August 2007).

The 2008 AGS Annual Meeting Web Site
http://web.mit.edu/agsam08 (available 15 August 2007)

We hope you will join us!

David H. Marks
Morton '42 and Claire Goulder Family Professor of
Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering


The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a network of  
international science and technology-based universities -  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), Swiss  
Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland), The University  
of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), and Chalmers University of Technology  
(Göteborg, Sweden) - committed to joint research, education, and  
outreach to address the issues around global sustainability. TheAGS  
was created a decade ago to help understand the complex issues that  
lie at the intersection of environmental, economic, and social goals.
http://globalsustainability.org
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