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WelcomeEdward Kern, Jr., MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment
Tuesday November 18, 2003 at 5:30PM in 4-237
How do we strike a balance between using today's extractable and depleting resources and striving today to capture the promise of new and more costly renewable energy technologies? If we continue to embrace centralized power technologies, what must we assume regarding benevolent governance and law enforcement, civil liberties and addressing society's discontents that would threaten the common good? Dr. Kern will take address the practical, theoretical and philosophical differences between sustainable and renewable energy in the context of sustainable development. Next Talk:
Community Wind
Andrew Stern, Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Brown, Hull Wind
Thursday November 20, 2003 at 6PM, location 1-190
Windpower has become a billion dollar industry in the US, and yet New England has almost entirely chosen imported fuels. Massachusetts' only windpower installations are community owned. The Town of Hull has received enormous attention for installing a single wind turbine because the decision-making and ownership is community-based. The adoption of wind energy in New England may depend on local decisions - Europe's leadership in wind is built on over 200,000 households that invested in local wind turbines. (hullwind.org) Previous Talk:
Renewable Energy in New England
Nicole Wobus, Massachusetts Energy Consumer Alliance
Wednesday November 12, 2003 at 5PM in MIT Room 4-270
Ms. Wobus will describe the different ways consumers in Massachusetts can purchase electricity generated from renewable sources, as well as some of the challenges associated with fulfilling the potential of the 'green power' market. Nicole will highlight the synergy that exists between the voluntary green power market and state-mandated renewable energy programs, and how market demand is already starting to drive the development of new renewable energy projects in the region.
Last updated November 18, 2003