[Mitworld] New: Salvucci on Boston Transportation History, Panel on Climate Change

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 41 | May 14, 2008
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[HISTORY OF BOSTON TRANSPORTATION 1630-1990]

Fred Salvucci ponders the role of contingency in history, and in the
evolution of Boston and its transportation system. He starts from the
time the glaciers pulled back from Boston, leaving a soggy near-island
and the river we know today as The Charles.

SPEAKER:
Frederick P. Salvucci
Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/555/>

[QUOTE]
"In 1900, there were 2,000 autos in the U.S. In the 1920s, autos began
wiping out public transportation."
-- Fred Salvucci


EVENT HOST: The Materials Processing Center <http://mpc-web.mit.edu/>

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[AGENTS OF CHANGE: MODEL PARTNERSHIPS WITH ACADEMIA]

This panel offers some evidence that sustained alliances between
academia and other organizations may help us more effectively address
climate change issues.

MODERATOR:
Joanne Kauffman
Advisor and former Executive Director, Alliance for Global
Sustainability

PANELISTS:
Lennart Billfalk
Senior Advisor, and Executive Vice President, Vattenfall AB

Ernest J. Moniz
Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems
Co-director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment

Theodore Smith
Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation

Elizabeth Kolbert
Staff Writer, The New Yorker


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/554/>

[QUOTE]
"In the face of the perfect storm of supply challenges, energy security
and most especially climate challenges, we need to have a more rational
response than simply displaying anguish."
-- Ernest Moniz


EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative <http://web.mit.edu/mitei/>

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The MIT Communications Forum presents

Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

A panel discussion with

Henry Jenkins
Co-director Comparative Media Studies
The Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT

Cass Sunstein
Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence
Law School and Department of Political Science
University of Chicago

Yochai Benkler
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
Faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Harvard University

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