Please join Harvey Michaels and the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning for a three-hour symposium on innovative approaches to community energy efficiency. For the past nine months, more than fifteen MIT and Tufts students have been actively collaborating on thesis, dissertation, and funded research on breakthrough strategies that enable large-scale energy efficiency. Symposium participants include students from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the Engineering Systems Division, the Community Innovators Lab, and the Tufts School of Urban and Environmental Policy.

We will be discussing: Community-based strategies to increase retrofit rates, while maximizing workforce and social benefits; Community-enabled commercial and institutional program models, including Envision Charlotte; Energy benchmarking and information-feedback systems that improve programs; and Ordinances that promote building upgrades, such as the Massachusetts Green Communities Program.

Event is free and open to the public, so please join us!