{"id":499,"date":"2016-03-20T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T03:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=499"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:26:41","slug":"earth-week-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2016\/03\/20\/earth-week-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Week Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/igs\/files\/2016\/03\/ise-header-1024x363.png\" alt=\"ise header\" width=\"1024\" height=\"363\" class=\"wp-image-527 size-large aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/files\/2016\/03\/ise-header-1024x363.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/files\/2016\/03\/ise-header-636x225.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/files\/2016\/03\/ise-header.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"is-hidden-accessible\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">The Future of Energy Efficiency<\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tuesday,\u00a0April 19, 2016 \u00a0| \u00a04:30pm \u00a0| \u00a0Questrom Room 212, 595 Commonwealth Avenue<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Join Harvey Michaels for an afternoon of exploring the future of efficient\u00a0energy including the intelligent buildings at the edge of a decarbonized\u00a0energy grid. Stay for a discussion led by Professor Robert Kaufmann.\u00a0This seminar is moderated by Kira Fabrizio<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-future-of-energy-efficiency-tickets-23319266554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Click\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"\/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/Michaels-at-BU-April-19-2016-for-distribution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to view Prof. Michaels&#8217;s\u00a0presentation slides.<\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"listing-hero-title text-epic\" data-automation=\"listing-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"listing-hero-title text-epic\" data-automation=\"listing-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Urban Mobility in Clean, Green Cities<\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">Wednesday, April 20, 2016 \u00a0| \u00a04:30pm \u00a0| \u00a0Questrom Room 208, 595 Commonwealth Avenue<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Between 2010 and 2050, the number of people living in world&#8217;s urban\u00a0areas is expected to increase by 80 percent. This growth will intensify\u00a0the great challenges for urban mobility. Cities increasingly face\u00a0problems caused by transport and traffic, and how to keep cities clean\u00a0and green become critical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Join Henry Kelly, University of Michigan, and Christos Cassandras,\u00a0Boston University, for a seminar on urban mobility issues in clean and\u00a0green cities, moderated by Katharine Lusk, Boston University. The\u00a0seminar will be followed by a discussion led by Martin Chavez, former Mayor of Albuquerque.<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/urban-mobility-in-clean-green-cities-tickets-23448173117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\" \/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/New-Directions-in-Mobility-Henry-Kelly-FINAL.pdf\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\">HERE<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to view Dr. Kelly&#8217;s presentation slides.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"\/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/SmartCities_Overview2016_Cassandras.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to view Prof. Cassandras&#8217;s presentation slides.<\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"listing-hero-title text-epic\" data-automation=\"listing-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"listing-hero-title text-epic\" data-automation=\"listing-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Climate Change Policy After Paris<\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">Thursday, April 21, 2016 \u00a0| \u00a04:00pm \u00a0| \u00a0Questore\u00a0<span>Auditorium,\u00a0<\/span>595 Commonwealth Avenue<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>In 2015 world leaders negotiated a major agreement, known as the\u00a0Paris Agreement, to reduce climate change and committed to take\u00a0action to keep global temperature rise below 2C by the end of the\u00a0century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Join Ken Berlin, President &amp; CEO of The Climate Reality Project, for an\u00a0afternoon exploring climate change policy after the Paris Agreement.\u00a0Introduction by Kenneth Freeman, Allen Questrom Professor and Dean.<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/climate-change-policy-after-paris-tickets-23461735683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[81,83,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11795,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/11795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}