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Mar 30: 6th Annual Babson Energy and Environmental Conference

March 29, 2012 / / 7 Comments

6th Annual Babson Energy and Environmental Conference
Energy, Environment, & Entrepreneurship — Challenging Assumptions, Changing Perceptions

Please join us on Friday, March 30th, 2012 for the 6th annual Babson Energy and Environmental Conference.  During this day-long event we will address the real challenges and the exciting opportunities in energy, alternative transportation, sustainable development, Cleantech investing, and several other crucial topics within the energy and environmental space.

This year’s theme is “Energy, Environment & Entrepreneurship: Challenging Assumptions, Changing Perceptions.”

Come ask tough questions about the direction of green innovation and what issues entrepreneurs face in the green space.

With a compelling list of speakers, the day is guaranteed to be enlightening and fun!

Keynote Speakers:
·         Ian Bowles – Former Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts;  Managing Director, Rhumb Line Energy LLC
·         Mark Rodgers – Director of Communications, Cape Wind
·         T.I. (Tahmid) Mizan, Senior Technology Planning Advisor, ExxonMobil Corporation
·         Dr. Leonard Schlesinger – President, Babson College
·         Dr. Richard Miller – President, Olin College
·         Mark Donohue – Conference Founder & Founding Sponsor

Other Speakers Include:
·         Craig Scott – Manager of Advanced Technologies, Toyota
·         Kazunari Yoshimura – Representative, Global Water Japan
·         Lynnette McIntire – Director of Sustainability, UPS
·         Brad George, Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship, Babson College

Panels Include Topics:
·         The Reality of Electric Vehicles
·         Food Packaging: Cost vs. the Environment
·         Challenges and Opportunities in Green Buildings
·         Future of Financing for Renewable Energy Projects
·         Water in the Developing World: Harsh Reality and Inspiring Innovations

Conference attendees will have the opportunity to learn about key issues driving the Cleantech and environmental space, while addressing the most relevant issues to entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and practitioners. Further, attendees will have the opportunity to network with approximately 500 industry professionals and MBA students.

For more information about the conference or to REGISTER, click here.

Apr 4: Spring Convocation of Students Working With Sustainability Coordinators

March 29, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Come to the FIRST EVER Spring Convocation
of Students Working With Sustainability Coordinators!

If you are interested in efforts to advance sustainability on campus, participate

April 4, 2012 at Hampshire College, Amherst, Franklin Paterson Hall.

Mingle: 8-9 AM.  Presentations:  9-12.  Working sessions: 1-3:30

 

The morning will have presentations from students and others, including:

Emerson College:  Matthew Durham and Erin Moriarty, on                                                                         Transitioning from Bottled Water to Tap

Bunker Hill Community College:  Leonila Téllez-Valle, on

The Frugal Flushing Water Conservation Project

UMass Amherst:  Sarah Herbert, on

Updating the Campus Climate Action Plan

Suffolk University: Thomas Applegate, on

“Dump and Run” for Move-out Donations and Signage

Worcester State University: Jonathan McGee, on

Converting Waste Oil from Fryolators Into Useable Biodiesel

Boston University: Nairika Murphy, on

Making Sustainability Sustainable: Utilizing Existing Infrastructure & Tools

 

The afternoon will have breakout working sessions on how colleges can work together – how you can connect with students interested in sustainability from other institutions, and what message you want to send to college presidents, concerning sustainability.  Contribute constructive suggestions!  Meet students from other colleges!  The results of this event will be shared with the presidents and sustainability coordinators of Massachusetts colleges and universities.  Make your voice heard! Bring a carload of students!  Other reasons to come:

  • Hear the new president of Hampshire College, Jonathan Lash, the former director of the President’s Commission on Sustainable Development and former president of the World Resources Institute.
  • Hear about the worldwide campus sustainability movement from Sarah Brylinksi of Second Nature, the group that organizes the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.
  • Hear Nadav Malin, president of BuildingGreen, present on BuildingGreen Suite, a web resource used by faculty, students, sustainability and facilities staff at over 100 colleges and universities.
  • Learn about internships, green chemistry, pollution prevention, and other great topics.

For further information, contact:  Rick Reibstein, 617 626 1062, rick.reibstein@state.ma.us or see Hampshire College’s website here.
This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts School Sustainability Coordinators Roundtable, Second Nature, and Hampshire College.

Apr 27: Massachusetts College & University Recycling Council Meeting

March 29, 2012 / / 0 Comments

It’s time for the Massachusetts College & University Recycling Council to meet once again. The next meeting, with a focus on organics diversion, will take place at:

Clark University
Worcester, MA
April 27, 2012
9 AM – Noon

The college and university sector is at the forefront of organics diversion in Massachusetts. Schools have stepped up their efforts to reduce waste at the pre-consumer and post-consumer stages, with some programs extending to on-site composting and overall more sustainable food service approaches. Sodexho at Clark University was recently recognized for its sustainable food service efforts by MassRecycle.

Come to this meeting to hear regulatory and policy updates related to organics recycling, learn about assistance available to implement or augment organics diversion programs, and hear from Clark and your fellow institutions of higher learning about their programs and lessons learned.  And please feel free to share your own story.

A formal agenda with event details, meal and parking information, etc. is forthcoming.

If you are interested in attending or have any questions about the event, please contact Sean Sylver of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection at 617-292-5747 or sean.sylver@state.ma.us.

The Massachusetts College & University Recycling Council is a technical council that supports environmental program leaders at institutions of higher education in managing resource, recycling and waste issues. CURC provides technical assistance, education, training, networking opportunities and support to help members better manage their campus waste.

Apr 17: Have More Trees on Campus

March 23, 2012 / / 8 Comments

Come join us Tuesday, April 17 from 9AM-12 at Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration, 928 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 201, for presentations by Mathew Cahill of the Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN), and Amory Sivertson of the Boston Tree Party, to discuss exciting new communal initiatives for tree planting and care.

Cahill is Program Coordinator for BNAN’s Boston Urban Forest Program, which works through the Boston Urban Forest Council to provide resources and networking to promote urban greening.  BNAN is administering the city’s Grow Boston Greener program, which has the goal of increasing the city’s canopy cover from 29% to 35%, and which involves creating a tree planting tracking effort – (if you are in Boston, it is of particular interest to you to be part of that).

The Boston Tree Party is a campaign to plant and establish cooperative care for heirloom apple trees throughout the city.  It describes itself as “an urban agriculture project, a performative re-imagining of  American political expression, and a participatory public art project,” which “catalyzes a deep and playful engagement with the issues of food access; health; environmental stewardship; biodiversity; public space; and civic engagement.”

If you are not in Boston, you will still learn a great deal from these presentations.  As always MSSCOR meetings encourage sharing of information – we want to hear from you if you have information useful to others, and there will be ample opportunity to ask questions and have general discussion.

Trees are tangible, accessible products of institutional greening – this meeting is a chance to learn how to create attention and enthusiasm by engaging students and others to get results that everyone will enjoy for years to come.  Read more at http://bostonnatural.org/trees_and_orchards.htm and http://www.bostontreeparty.org/, but do plan to come and hear for yourself about these wonderful programs!

Please let us know if you are coming, (RSVP is helpful, but not required), or get further information by emailing rick.reibstein@state.ma.us, or call 617 626 1062.  Or, if you would like to give us advance notice that you can share information on what you have done on campus.

 

Apr 4: “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Modern World”

March 19, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Daniel Yergin, Author; Executive Vice President & Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates presents “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Modern World”

Wednesday, 4/ 4 @ 5PM

Harvard University, Science Center B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Daniel Yergin is the author of the new bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power, which became a number one New York Times best seller, was translated into 17 languages, and was made into an award-winning documentary. Dr. Yergin is Chairman and Founder of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates and serves as CNBC’s Global Energy Expert. He serves on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and chaired the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, on the Board of the New America Foundation, and on the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative.

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