Planning, Funding, and Implementing Transportation Projects in the Real World (or How It Really Works)
Kate Fichter, Eric Plosky
Thu Jan 17, 02-05:00pm, 10-401
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
As a vital and complex element of any urban or regional environment, transportation infrastructure both affects and is affected by land use patterns, economic development policies, political power-brokering and environmental resources, and so offers a lens through which to study many of the choices and constraints available to today's planners. This seminar will offer a practice-oriented overview of the issues, players and trends most relevant to contemporary transportation planning, as taught by two MIT/DUSP alumni/ae currently working in the field.
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
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Small Polluters, Big Problem: How to Reduce Their Impact with the Environmental Results Program
Michael Crow, Steve DeGabriele, Rich Enander
Mon Jan 14, Tue Jan 15, 12-05:00pm, 8-205
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Indicate if you can bring a laptop, for group excercises
Small businesses, (dry cleaners, auto body shops and gas stations) pollute the environment to some degree, which can add up to a significant aggregate impact. Regulators cannot address the problem with traditional approaches alone. 18 states so far have implemented the innovative and cost-effective Environmental Results Program (ERP). ERP combines regulatory inspections, compliance assistance, facility self-certification and statistical measurement to improve and track performance among large groups of polluting facilities. This course will: (1) explain the need for ERP; (2) present how the multiple parts of this strategy work together; (3) offer hands-on skill building; and (4) involve students in thinking about new applications for the approach. For more information, see http://www.epa.gov/erp/erp_states.pdf
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
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Sustainable Development Forum: Being a Part of the Climate Change Solution: Individual Action for Collective Impact
Madeline Fraser Cook New Ecology, Inc.
Fri Jan 25, 08am-05:30pm, E-51
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 31-Dec-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
The Regional Sustainable Development Forum ( www.newecologyforum.org), will focus on the importance of motivating a broad constituency to work together to address the consequences of global climate change. With climate change being one of the hot topics in mainstream media, how do we make sure that we seize the momentum on this issue and change social behaviors to reverse the warming trend and establish a more environmentally friendly future for all? Of equal importance, how do we make sure that at this stage of the environmental movement, we don't repeat mistakes of the past by narrowing the constituency to the "eco-elite"? How do we broaden it to include everyone from big business to community activists?
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, 253-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Sloan School of Management
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