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Priming the Pump
Government's Role in Green Building
Speakers: Paul DeCotis, Deputy Secretary for Energy, New York State; John Krieble, New York City Department of Design and Construction.
Moderator: Craig Kneeland, NYSERDA.
eBriefing | posted Jul 22, 2008
Biocatalysts and Biosurfactants
Harnessing Biology for Green Chemistry
Speakers: Alex Zaks, Schering-Plough; Raina Maier, University of Arizona; Birgit Kosjek, Merck
eBriefing | posted Jul 15, 2008
Innovation in New York
How Can the State Do Better?
Speakers: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM Academy of Technology, MIT; Jerry MacArthur Hultin, Polytechnic University; James H. Singer, A.T. Kearney
Moderator: Garrick Utley, Levin Institute
eBriefing | posted Jul 9, 2008
Making Waves
Harnessing Photons for Smart Materials
Speakers: Jeffrey Koberstein, Columbia University; Edwin Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
eBriefing | posted May 30, 2008
Roots of Foodborne Illness
Health Threats from Domestic and Imported Produce
Speakers: Michael Doyle, University of Georgia; Robert Tauxe, CDC; Robert Buchanan, FDA; Chuck Gerba, University of Arizona; Ewen Todd, MSU
eBriefing | posted May 30, 2008
The Next Green Challenge
Energy Use in Existing Buildings
Speakers: Gordon Holness, Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., ASHRAE; Jeffrey Perlman, Bright Power, Inc.
Moderator: Beth Heider, Skanska USA Building
eBriefing | posted May 23, 2008
Carbon Management
Findings of the McKinsey Report on Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Speakers: Rick Duke, Natural Resources Defense Council; Marco Castaldi, Columbia University
eBriefing | posted May 20, 2008
Coal Without Guilt?
Technologies for Zero-Emission Power Plants
Speakers: Klaus Lackner, Columbia University; Alex Fassbender, ThermoEnergy Corporation
eBriefing | posted Apr 18, 2008
Green Dollars Make Sense
How Investing in Sustainable Buildings Pays Off
Speakers: Dave Hewitt, New Buildings Institute; Vivian Loftness, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture; Noel Morrin, Skanska
eBriefing | posted Apr 1, 2008
Climate Change
What We Know and What We Can Do
Organizer: George Hendrey, Queens College, City University of New York
eBriefing | posted Mar 21, 2008
Signatures of Spacetime
The Tenth Northeast String Cosmology Meeting
Speakers: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology; Petr Hořava, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Randall, Harvard University; Jeff Harvey, University of Chicago
eBriefing | posted Mar 18, 2008
Eighth Annual NBTC Nanobiotechnology Symposium
Organizers: Harold G. Craighead and Graham Kerslick, Cornell University
eBriefing | posted Jan 18, 2008
The Governor's Energy Agenda
Transforming Supply and Demand in New York
Speaker: Paul D. Tonko, NYSERDA
eBriefing | posted Dec 21, 2007
Flywheels Take Off
Energy Storage Projects Address Changing Power Demands
Speakers: Joseph H. Sayer, NYSERDA; Matt Lazarewicz, Beacon Power; Edvina Uzunovic, New York Power Authority
eBriefing | posted Dec 21, 2007
Green Buildings
Part of the Solution
Speakers: Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships; Jens Laustsen, International Energy Agency
Moderator: Noel Morrin, Skanska
eBriefing | posted Dec 17, 2007
Origins of Time's Arrow
Organizers: Brian Greene, Columbia University; Justin Khoury, Perimeter Institute; Laura Mersini-Houghton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
eBriefing | posted Nov 16, 2007
Are Nanomaterials Safe?
Getting a Handle on Nanotoxicology and Risk
Speakers: Günter Oberdörster, University of Rochester; Andrew D. Maynard, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Wendy R. Sanhai, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
eBriefing | posted Oct 12, 2007
Valuing Our Waters
Ecological Restoration and the Hudson / Raritan Estuary
Speakers: Mark Bain, Cornell University; Brad Sewell, Natural Resources Defense Council; Marta Panero, The New York Academy of Sciences
eBriefing | posted Aug 21, 2007
Green Chemistry
Its Role in Building a Sustainable World
Speakers: Paul Anastas, Yale University; Richard P. Wool, University of Delaware; Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina
eBriefing | posted Aug 20, 2007
A Fruitful Correspondence
The Ninth Northeast String Cosmology Meeting
Speakers: Richard Bond, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics; Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study; Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University; Neil Turok, University of Cambridge
eBriefing | posted Aug 8, 2007
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