EcoExpo
MIT's Sustainability Exhibition

2008 EcoExpo website

Wednesday, 25 April 2007
5-7pm Stata Center TSMC lobby
Free and open to the public
Light refreshments will be served

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This event is sponsored by Students for Global Sustainability

Support for this event provided by: Graduate Student Council, MIT Public Service Center, Office of the Dean of Graduate Students, Working Group Recycling, and MIT Sloan

 

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About EcoExpo

 

With Al Gore's 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, issues related to energy, the environment, and sustainability have finally penetrated public consciousness as never before. Similarly, the past few years have seen explosive growth in the level of interest and activity related to sustainability in the MIT community. Students have been at the forefront of this activity, and a large number of student groups are approaching the challenges of sustainability from many perspectives, including those of business and economics, society and politics, and academic research.

In the fall of 2006, undergraduate and graduate students from the campus group Students for Global Sustainability developed the idea of providing a forum for all of the students involved in sustainability at MIT to showcase their efforts to the greater community. With this event, we hope to bring the scope and ingenuity of student-led sustainability initiatives to the attention of the greater MIT audience as well as the local community. EcoExpo will feature posters and displays from nearly 30 groups from across campus including Biodiesel@MIT, this year's winner of the MtvU/GE Eco-Imagination Challenge; groups from the MIT Generator; and teams from Sloan's new Sustainability Laboratory (see below for the complete list). By bringing all of these groups together, we seek to convey the incredible energy and enthusiasm currently surrounding sustainability at MIT and to inspire new ideas, new connections, and a strengthened campus commitment to sustainability.

Your organizing committee:


Ari Shapiro
Kathreen Thome
Bo Zhao
Lingfang Ma
Jialan Wang

 

List of Entries

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5.92: Energy, Environment, and Society
Amanda Graham, Jeff Steinfeld, Jeff Tester, Beth Conlin, Radu Raduta, Hidda Thorsteinsson, Dan Wesolowski & the students of 5.92

A Novel Approach to Developing Novel Materials: Co-optimization of performance & environmental objectives in carbon nanotube manufacture
Desirée L. Plata, Christopher M. Reddy & Philip M. Gschwend

A Sustainable Transportation Plan for MIT
David Block-Schachter, Michael Kay, Francesca Napolitan & Tegin Teich

Before a Transition to Hydrogen
Christopher Evans, Anup Bandivadekar, Lynette Cheah, Chris Evans, Tiffany Groode, John Heywood, Emmanuel Kasseris, Matt Kromer & Malcolm Weiss

Bicycle Ambulances: An appropriate technology for sustainable development
Jessica Vechakul

Biodiesel@MIT
Amy Ludlum, Matt Albrecht, Chad Augustine, Sara Barnowski, Joshua Dittrich, Katrina Ellison, Curt Fischer, Josh Garvin, Franklin Goldsmith, Craig Hart, Nasly Jimenez, Daniel Klein, Amy Ludlum, Scott Paap, Andrew Peterson, Joe Roy-Mayhew & Matthew Zedler

The Business Case for Green Hospitals
Jessica Harrington, Kaushal Challa & Viara Nedeva

Direct Ocean Carbon Sequestration with CO2 Hydrates
Aaron Chow, Eric Adams & Shannon O'Connell

Energymap.mit.edu: A Website of MIT's Energy Usage
Steven Peters, Tarek Rached & Elsa Olivetti

Exploring Conscientious Design in the Developing World: Architectural Considerations for an Environmental Education Center in the Rainforest of Madagascar
Sarah Rundquist

Flux Farm 2050 :: Sustaining a Train Station in Torino, Italy
Vasilena Vassilev & Eliot Stulen

Footprinting for the Future: A Mauritius Case Study
Christopher Cleaver

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals at MIT
Chris Lyddy, Kate Parrot, Elsa Olivetti, Daniel Enderton & Chris Evans

Inducing Behavioral Change Towards Energy Conservation
Closing the Loop

Just In Time Carbon Footprint
Manu Gupta, Stephen Intille & Kent Larson

LiftHouse - Sustainable Reconstruction in the Bayou
Zachary Lamb & MIT Architecture and Planning Students

Marquez Kilns as Sustainable Technologies for Reducing Emissions from Small-Scale Ceramic Manufacturing in Northern Baja California, Mexico
Anna Bershteyn, Roberto Arjona, Israel Flores, Carlos Eduardo Santin Dominguez, Guillermo Romero Ibarrola, Sergio Martinez, Luis Francisco Figueroa, Martin Cortizo, Miguel Castro Salgado, Jorge Lopez Cota, Jesús Almodovar, Benjamin Chavez, Ramiro Barrios Gomez, Alba Corral & Robert O. Marquez

MIT Green Fund
MIT Green Fund, Mike Iger & Matt Weiss

Pedal Powered Athena Workstation
Kendra Johnson, Devon McCorkle, Tina Lai, Piotr Fidkowski, Sara John, Julia Kiberd & Sebastian Figari

The Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility
Christopher Sequeira, Kara Penn, Decker Ringo, Megan Palmer & Kendra Johnson

Redesigning Zambana: Green Village Design
Eric Weber, Sergio Araya, Lauren Lynn, Crystal Law, Tad Hirsch, Lizzie Krasner & Kelly Star

Save Something Green & Save Some Green
J. D. Chen


Sloan Sustainability Speaker Series
Kara Penn & Kate Parrot

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Conversion Cycle for Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
Jonathan Gibbs, Pavel Hejzlar, Michael Driscoll & Nate Carstens

REVEAL/CONCEAL
Damian Hoi Lung Chan & Edmund Ming-Yip Kwong

Sustainable Urban Housing Prototype Assembly
Andrew Scott, Damian Hoi Lung Chan & Wenjun Ge

Walk the Talk, Carbon Mitigation Strategy Matrix
Nick Hofmeister, Brandon Monk & Cyd McKenna


Zero Waste Party
Stephanie K. Dalquist & Laura K. Meredith

 

 

Administrative Leader Attendees

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Rafeal Reif-Provost
Lorna Gibson-Associate Provost
Daniel Hastings- Dean for Undergraduate Education
Ike Colbert- Dean for Graduate Education
Beth Conlin-LfEE
Sally Susnowitz - Public Service Center
Peter Cooper - Dept. of Facilities
Steve Lanou - Environmental Sustainability
Laxmi Rao - IS&T
Leon Glicksman - Energy Initiative, Architecture and Mechanical Engineering Professor
Ernie Moniz - Energy Initiative Director, Co-director of LfEE, Department of Physics
Bill Van Schalkwyk - Director EHS
Christina Ruhfel- Institutional Initatives
Mujid Kazimi- Former ERC Member, Nuclear Science and Engineering Professor
Rebecca M. Henderson- Energy Initiative Member, Management Professor
Sossi Aroyan- Environmental Task Force Member
Penny Chisholm- Environmental Task Force Member, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor
Jeffrey Steinfeld- Environmental Task Force Member, Professor of Chemistry
Claude Canizares-Environmental Task Force Member, VP for Research & Assoc Provost, Prof of Physics
Edward Boyle-Environmental Task Force Member, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science Professor
Amanda Graham-LfEE
Ahmed Ghoniem-Mechanical Engineering Professor
Roman Stocker-Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor
Kerry Emanuel-Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Professor
Michael Golay-Nuclear Science and Engineering Professor

Student Leader Attendees

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Kathreen Thome- SfGS Part of Closing the loop
Ari Shaprio- SfGS
Jialan Wang -SfGS Part of Closing the loop
Daniel Edgerton-MIT Energy Club
James Schwartz-MIT Energy Club
Jonathan Krones-UA Committee on Sustainability
Elsa Olivetti - MIT Generator
Kendra Johnson - SAVE
Kara Penn - S*, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

 

Special thanks to our corporate sponsors:


Environmentally-friendly catering provided by: