tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185343740 2008-05-06 19:18:24 -0400 Disruptive Environments Conference Science, Advocacy, and Media. Panelists: Naomi Oreskes, Andrew Revkin, Kerry Emanuel, Kevin Conrad, Moderator: Boyce Rensberger, Thursday, April 10, 2008 7217 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185319380 2008-05-06 19:14:18 -0400 Disruptive Environments Conference Q&A session, held on Thursday, April 10, 2008 2071 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185255780 2008-06-19 10:05:48 -0400 MIT CTL <p>Nelly Andrieu &amp; Lee Weiss</p><p><em><strong>Research Fest 2008 </strong></em></p><p>Climate change and its political, social and economic implications are pushing companies to find ways to reduce the carbon footprint of their supply chains. This project examines tradeoffs between carbon footprint, cost, time and risk across three case studies of United States' perishable and consumer packaged goods firms and their transportation partners.</p><p>22-May-08, Session 5 (2:45-3:45) </p> 1437 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185232960 2007-10-21 19:30:09 -0400 MIT News Office <p>In this video, MIT researchers add ammonium chloride in solution to the tunable gel, changing the gel's color. Washing the ammonium chloride away returns the gel to its original color. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/lightgels-1021.html">Full story</a><br />Video / Youngjong Kang </p> 37 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185211500 2008-10-20 15:14:27 -0400 MIT Sloan <![CDATA[ Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Society John Sterman, Vladimir Bulovic, Kevin Moss ]]> 4424 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185190480 2008-11-20 10:23:22 -0500 X-Prize Idea Contest <p>MIT LFM students are finalists in X PRIZE Foundation’s "Crazy Green Idea" Contest.</p> <p>Cast <a href="http://www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea" target="_blank">your vote now</a> for Energy X PRIZE: Reduce Home Energy Usage</p> <p>A team of LFM 2010 students has been named one of three national finalists in the X PRIZE Foundation’s “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?” video contest on YouTube. Sponsored by Prize Capital, the competition invited contestants to submit a two-minute video describing what they would propose for an X PRIZE in Energy and the Environment.</p> <p>The video, produced by LFM team members Jonathan Dreher, Mike Norelli, and Jeremy Stewart, is entitled Energy X PRIZE: Reduce Home Energy Usage. It was created in conjunction with ESD.932 “X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy,” taught by Dr. Erika Wagner, within the new LFM energy and sustainability track, which offers a new engineering major in this arena for LFM students.</p> <p>The LFMs’ video was selected from 133 submissions by the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The winner will be chosen by online voting, which runs through Nov. 30. The contestants receiving the most votes will win a $25,000 award from Prize Capital and have their Crazy Green Idea explored as the next X PRIZE in Energy and the Environment.</p> <p>View the LFM video at <a href="http://www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea" target="_blank">www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea</a>. -- and don’t forget to vote by Nov. 30!</p> 121 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185169620 2008-12-19 12:33:18 -0500 music MUSIC Session 4 2171 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185148400 2008-06-06 10:18:22 -0400 MIT Alumni Association What's needed to address the global energy challenge? New technologies, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking. See highlights from the <a href="http://mitenergyconference.techtv.mit.edu/">2008 MIT Energy Conference</a>, and find out how MIT is playing a vital role in finding energy solutions. 467 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185127300 2009-02-06 14:40:21 -0500 MIT Energy Initiative A panel discussion featuring Boston-area energy policy experts. Gilbert Metcalf, Applied Public Finance, Department of Economics, Tufts University John Parsons, Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change John Reilly, Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management Robert Stowe, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Moderated by Travis Franck, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change This discussion took place on January 13th, 2009 as part of Energy Futures Week. 5646 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185106180 2009-06-24 18:19:04 -0400 The Community Innovators Lab 206