[Save] TPP event on 4/29 - Ehrenfeld talk

[Christine Ng]

I know that most of us will be busy with Earth Day activity, but here's a 
heads up on a lunch talk on Thursday.  Christine

>April 29th, 2004
>Technology and Policy Student Society Lunch Talk
>Title: Searching for Sustainability: No Quick Fix
>Speaker: Dr. John Ehrenfeld
>Location: E40-380 (TPP Lounge)
>Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm (a light lunch will be served)
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>Searching for Sustainability: No Quick Fix
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>Modern, industrial societies like the US are caught in a pattern of 
>addictive consumption and waste production that threatens all forms of 
>life. Current sustainable development efforts are often little more than 
>attempts to reduce unsustainability by applying symptomatic, technological 
>"band-aids," which can distract us from working on the deeper, fundamental 
>solutions.
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>Using a systems dynamics approach, I will show that Sustainability 
>requires radical transformation of the modern western mindset and dominant 
>cultural paradigm. I will show how the emerging field of industrial 
>ecology can produce more effective solutions and to the introduction of 
>new values into the culture.
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>About Dr. Ehrenfeld:
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>Dr. Ehrenfeld is Executive Director of the International Society for 
>Industrial Ecology. He retired in 2000 as the Director of the MIT Program 
>on Technology, Business, and Environment, an interdisciplinary 
>educational, research, and policy program. He continues to teach, do 
>research, and write. His current projects focus on industrial ecology and 
>sustainability. At MIT, from 1985 until he retired in 2000, he was Senior 
>Research Associate and Lecturer in the MIT Center for Technology, Policy 
>and Industrial Development, where he taught in the MIT Technology and 
>Policy Program. His research at MIT focused on how businesses manage 
>environmental concerns, seeking models leading to organizational and 
>technological changes to improve sustainable practices.
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>He spent part of the 1998-1999 academic year at the Technical University 
>of Lisbon as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and was Visiting Professor 
>at the Technical University of Delft during the 2000-1 academic year. He 
>continues to work with Delft as chair of, the Scientific Advisory Board, 
>Design and Management of Infrastructures Programme. He also teaches each 
>year in the Industrial Ecology Program at the Norwegian Technical 
>University. In 2000-1, he was Visiting Fellow at the Yale School of 
>Forestry and Environmental Management.
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>He serves on the faculty of the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute and 
>teaches industrial ecology as part of their MBA program. He also is part 
>of the core team of coaches and researchers for the Society of 
>Organizational Learning Sustainability Consortium, a group of firms 
>committed to developing sustainable practices.
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>In October 1999, the World Resources Institute honored him with a lifetime 
>achievement award for his academic accomplishments in the field of 
>business and environment. He received the Founders Award for Distinguished 
>Service from the Academy of Management's Organization and Natural 
>Environment Division in August 2000. He is associate editor of the Journal 
>of Industrial Ecology. He holds a B. S. and Sc. D. in Chemical Engineering 
>from MIT, and is author or co-author of over 200 papers, books, reports, 
>and other publications.
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