[Mitworld] New: Senator Bingaman on Clean Energy Future, Fernandez on New Orleans

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 42 | May 21, 2008
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[FORGING A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE]

Senator Jeff Bingaman discusses climate change and clean energy, and
sets forth an ambitious national agenda to address the challenge.

SPEAKER:
Jeff Bingaman
U.S. Senator
(D) New Mexico


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/557/>

[QUOTE]
"Reengineering the way the world produces, stores, distributes and uses
energy may in fact be the greatest challenge that we as a global
community must face together."
-- Senator Jeff Bingaman


EVENT HOST: The The Office of the President of MIT
<http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/>

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[REBUILDING THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS:
 WORKING ACROSS SECTORS TO ACHIEVE A COMMON GOAL]

It took John Fernandez more than a year just to begin to understand the
political players and competing interests in New Orleans, and so it is
no surprise to him that coming up with a common goal for rebuilding the
city, much less a "resource efficient one," proves elusive.
Nevertheless, Fernandez and other MIT researchers aspire to make post-
Katrina New Orleans a successful case study of a city "becoming green,"
perhaps serving as a model for other urban centers, particularly those
facing climate change challenges.

SPEAKER:
John Fernandez
Associate Professor of Building Technology, Department of Architecture


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/556/>

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"The question arises how to begin to protect coastal cities from the
ramifications of global climate change and how can cities contribute
positively to mitigation strategies when we have such a hard time
working out just the basics of the built environment, things that we
assume are taken care of."
-- John Fernandez


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

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McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT presents

Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

Dr. Michael Davis
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine

Neurobiology of Fear, Anxiety and Extinction:
Implications for Psychotherapy

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