Climate CoLab Conference - Crowds & Climate: From Ideas To Action

Date: 
Friday, November 7, 2014 - 07:30 to 13:00

Join MIT's Crowds & Climate: From Ideas to Action, a conference on how new technology-enabled, crowd-based approaches can help in developing creative new ideas and taking meaningful action on climate change. In this day-and-a-half program, we feature leaders from business, government, and non-profits discussing how new technologies, policy changes, and cultural shifts can be implemented to address climate change, plus roll up our sleeves and work to figure out how to implement an innovative set of ideas that emerged from the 2014 Climate CoLab contests.

Building upon last year's successful event, this year features keynote addresses by Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and Jeremy Grantham of the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. Plenary panels include speakers from business, government and the non-profit sector -- including Lockheed Martin, Braemer Energy Ventures, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Defense Fund, the Executive Office of the President, the City of Boston, and many others -- who have launched climate change initiatives that are making a difference today.

Co-sponsored by MIT Energy Initiative, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan Sustainability and the MIT Joint Program on the S and Policy of Global Change

Can't get to campus? You can attend virtually!

Presented by

Jeremy Grantham, Anthony Leiserowitz, Jason Jay, Matt Swibel, Victoria Mills, Dennis R. Costello, Bina Venkataraman, Brian Swett and others
Location: W16 — Kresge Auditorium

Contact

Laur Fisher