[Save] April 7 seminar - EcoStar: Advancing Sustainability at Devens

[Karen Gibson]

Please 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"
By Peter Lowitt

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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