[Save] MARCH 18-US Transportation Energy Consumption seminar

[Karen Gibson]

Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment 
<http://lfee.mit.edu>


"US Transportation Energy Consumption: The Problem, and Effective 
Strategies for Progress"

Prof. John Heywood, Director, Sloan Automotive Laboratory
                      Anup Bandivadekar, Technology and Policy Program

March 18, 2004 (PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON THURSDAY)
12:00-1:30 pm
E40-496

Abstract
The U.S. Transportation system is dominated by cars and light trucks 
which consume about 43% of the total U.S. petroleum use. Increasing 
dependence on foreign oil and as well as rising emissions of 
greenhouse gases from motor vehicles are two major reasons to be 
concerned about vehicle fuel consumption. The annual fuel consumption 
of our light-duty vehicle fleet in thirty years is projected to be 
more than 60 percent above today's value. It is therefore imperative 
that we understand this developing crisis, and take appropriate 
actions to address our rising petroleum consumption.

This challenge will not be resolved by any single technology or 
policy.  However, an appropriately designed combination of fiscal and 
regulatory measures can substantially increase the market demand for 
improved vehicle technologies which reduce the fuel consumption.



Please also join us April 7 for a talk co-sponsored by the LFEE 
Seminar in Environment and Sustainability series and "Practicing the 
Elusive: Integrating Sustainability and the Built Environment", a 
student-developed, interdisciplinary speaker series

"EcoStar: Advancing Sustainability at Devens"
Peter Lowitt, President of the American Planning Association 
Massachusetts Chapter

April 7, 2004
12:00-1:30 p.m.
E40-496

Peter Lowitt is a leading practitioner of eco-industrial development 
in North America.  As Director of the Devens Enterprise Commission, 
Lowitt launched an initiative to develop green buildings and a 
by-products exchange network at Devens,  a 4,400-acre former military 
base and Superfund site. As Director of
Planning and Economic development for the town of Londonderry, New 
Hampshire during the 1990s, Lowitt developed the Stoneyfield 
Londonderry Eco-Industrial Park in conjunction with private sector 
partner and initiated the Sustainable Londonderry program. Lowitt 
currently serves as president of the American
Planning Association Massachusetts Chapter, a founding board member 
of the Eco- Industrial Development Council, and editorial board 
member of the Canadian Eco- Industrial Network. Having earned degrees 
from Brown University and Tufts University, Peter Lowitt has lectured 
extensively on eco-industrial development throughout the United 
States, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Thailand, and Phillipines.

Peter will discuss the sustainability framework being applied at 
Devens, as well as thoughts about his career path and "practicing" 
industrial ecology in the future.

The series:
"Practicing the Elusive: Integrating Sustainability and the Built 
Environment" is a student-developed, interdisciplinary speaker series 
that is taking place during Spring 2004 at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. The series explores how to use a 
sustainability framework to transform the built environment and 
society through the vision and professional innovation of today's 
practitioners. Speakers will present opportunities and challenges of 
implementing sustainability-oriented outcomes by reflecting on 
professional practice in architecture, engineering, construction, 
real estate, planning, and community development. 

Purposes: 
- Showcase pioneering approaches to achieving sustainability through 
project implementation
- Address how integrating sustainability may drive practices towards 
success in the future
- Challenge students to frame their own careers around sustainable 
practice by providing concrete examples of what this means
- Inspire entrepreneurial initiatives towards sustainability on 
campus and beyond

Light refreshments will be provided.
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