[Mitworld] Jeffrey Hollender on Sustainability, Hidde Ploegh on Flu Viruses

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 20 |  January 12, 2010

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Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
November 17, 2009

The “chief inspired protagonist” of Seventh Generation, one of the nation’s oldest and most successful green 
manufacturers apologizes for delivering a talk “more depressing than expected.” While discussing 
the challenges facing businesses attempting to transition to a more just and sustainable economy, 
Jeffrey Hollender enumerates the many reasons he’s feeling bleak these days.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/731

Speaker:
Jeffrey Hollender
Chief Inspired Protagonist, Co-founder, and Executive Chairperson, Seventh Generation


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"It takes twenty liters of water to make 1 liter of soda."
-Jeffrey Hollender

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Global Pandemics
November 17, 2009

In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of 
the flu virus" discussing not only how viruses work to invade our systems and cause the flu, 
but also adding insights into the political and societal framework in which public health groups 
and governments deal with viral disease.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/734

Speaker:
Hidde Ploegh
Professor of Biology, MIT
Member, Whitehead Institute


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"There are important societal forces at work that limit the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns, 
but we should not lose sight of the different lifestyles of these pathogens in discussing how 
we fight them."
-Hidde Ploegh

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In The Pipeline:

Contemplative Dimensions of Human Experience

Presented By:
The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values
The Human Impact

Speaker:
Fr. Thomas Keating

Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

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