[Mitworld] New: Amy Smith and the D-Lab, Sloan panel on Sustainability and the Built Environment

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 12 | November 20, 2008
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[THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FAIR:
 THE HUMAN FACTOR AT WORK IN THE WORLD]

SPEAKER:
Amy Smith '84, SM '95, ENG '95
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2004 MacArthur Fellow
Founder, MIT IDEAS Competition, Edgerton Center


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/613/>

[QUOTE]
"Something like 90% of the resources creates products and technologies
that serve only the wealthiest 10% of the world's population. There's a
revolution afoot to promote R&D to get designers to work on technologies
for the other 90%, preferably for those living on $1 or $2 a day."
-- Amy Smith


EVENT HOST: The Human Factor <http://thehumanfactor.mit.edu/students/>

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[OPPORTUNITIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT]

SPEAKER:
Sarah Slaughter, 82, SM'87, PhD 91
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

SPEAKER:
Judith Layzer, PhD '99
Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy,
MIT

SPEAKER:
Milton Bevington
Domain Director, Building Retrofit Program, Clinton Climate Initiative,
Clinton Foundation

SPEAKER:
Bill Sisson
Director of Sustainability, United Technologies Corporation
Co-Chair, World Business Council for Sustainable Development Buildings
Project


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/611/>

[QUOTE]
"We need to stop talking about changing light bulbs and start thinking
about the building as a whole, the interdependence of lighting on other
systems to make the dramatic changes that are necessary."
-- Bill Sisson


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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