[Mitworld] Zegras on Transportation and the Built Environment, Zuckerman and Panel on Civics in Difficult Places

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 43 |  June 16, 2010

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Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Developing Cities
April 6, 2010

As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint increases. While this relationship 
affords benefits to those in developed nations, it is not scalable. Global population is projected 
to increase by nearly 2 billion people by 2030. If this newly added population drove just 3,000 
kilometers a year, they would emit more tonnes of C02 annually, more than all the countries of 
Latin America emit today.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/786

Speaker:
Chris Zegras '01 SM, MCP, PhD '05
Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MIT


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"Sometime around the end of last year we became a net urban world. More than fifty percent of the 
world's population now lives in urban areas. All of the forecast net growth in population on the 
planet will happen in the urbanizing developing world."
-Chris Zegras

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Civics in Difficult Places
April 15, 2010

In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum 
connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the 
limits of governmental authority. Moderator Ethan Zuckerman wonders if these new digital forms 
are fundamentally liberating, providing users access to public spaces they might otherwise be denied.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/780

Moderator:
Ethan Zuckerman
Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law School
Co-founder, Global Voices and Geekcorps
Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"A lot of being in Zimbabwe and being an activist means basically putting your head above the parapet 
and not being afraid to disseminate information when many factors are working against you... 
Our take is you need to create hope, continue to be optimistic, and at the same time be defiant 
about your power and rights."
-Bev Clark

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In The Pipeline:

Lunch with a Laureate:
 Robert Horvitz

Presented By:
MIT Museum
 Cambridge Science Festival

Speaker:
Robert Horvitz
David H. Koch Professor of Biology
MIT Department of Biology

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