[Mitworld] New: Angel on Solar Energy, Human Rights and Politics in Israel-Palestine

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 26 | February 13, 2008
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[SOLAR ENERGY AS A MAJOR REPLACEMENT FOR FOSSIL FUEL]

SPEAKER:
Roger Angel
Director, Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory; Director, Center for
Astronomical Adaptive Optics; Regents Professor of Astronomy; Regents
Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/523/>

[QUOTE]
"We must make all our new electricity without making CO2, unless we want
to get into real trouble. Solar is the nicest of all renewables: it
lasts indefinitely, and has the potential to satisfy all world's energy
needs."
-- Roger Angel


EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science
<http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/>

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[HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICS IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE]

SPEAKERS:
Anat Biletzki
Chair, Philosophy Department, Tel Aviv University
Fellow, Program on Human Rights & Justice, MIT
Former Chairperson, B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human
Rights in the Occupied Territories)

Jeff Halper
Coordinating Director, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/522/>

[QUOTE]
"Our political conversation must become a human rights conversation."
-- Anat Biletzki


EVENT HOST: Program on Human Rights and Justice
<http://web.mit.edu/phrj/index.html>

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