Course Schedule
Climate Change. Challenges. Solutions
Wednesday Evenings, 6:00 to 8:00pm
January 9th through April 10th
Spring Semester 2013
West Village F, Room 20
Each semester we select one graduate-level seminar and open it up to the entire campus and public-at-large to attend for free. Each week we feature prominent guest lecturers with real-world expertise and experience.
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| Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00pm | West Village F, Room 20 |
| Host “Faculty” Moderators: |
- Matthias Ruth, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Environmental Engineering
- Joan Fitzgerald, Interim Dean, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and author of Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Douglas Foy, President of Serrafix Corporation and formerly President of the Conservation Law Foundation
| In addition to the featured lecturers listed below, additional speakers are pending confirmation. |
| Date | Topic | Featured Lecturers |
| January |
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| 9 | Science & Ethics | James Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Principal Investigator of the Anderson Research Group on the Chemistry and Physics of Climate and Earth System Change at Harvard University |
| Ron Sandler, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Ethics Institute, and Research Associate in the Environmental Justice Research Collaborative; Northeastern University | ||
| 16 | The Governance Challenge | Sonia Hamel, An advisor to governments and foundations on energy, transportation, and climate change policy. Past director of Air Policy and Planning in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and special assistant in the Office for Commonwealth Development |
| Bill Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University | ||
| 23 | Economy & Business | Mindy Lubber, President and founding board member of Ceres and director Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk |
| Mark Buckley, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Staples, Inc. | ||
| Lee Kane, EcoCzar/Forager, Whole Foods Market | ||
| 30 | Mitigation | Henry D. Jacoby, William F. Pounds Professor of Management Emertitus, Professor of Applied Economics, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management |
| February | ||
| 6 | Energy Efficiency | Dick Henry, Jr., Executive Director, Jordan Institute |
| Douglas Foy, President of Serrafix Corporation and formerly President of the Conservation Law Foundation |
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| 13 | Climate & National Security | David Titley, Rear Admiral, US Navy – Retired; Former Deputy Under Secretary for Operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Former Director, Task Force Climate Change, US Navy; Former Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance; Fellow of the American Meteorological Society |
| 20 | Transportation | Stephanie Pollack, Professor of Practice in Law and Public Policy, Associate Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy |
| Al Biehler, Distinguished Service Professor of Transportation Systems and Policy, Executive Director of the University Transportation Center, and Adjunct Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University; former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation | ||
| 27 | Fission & Fracking | Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Co-Chair, Industrial Performance Center at MIT |
| March | ||
| 6 | Spring Break – No Class | |
| 13 | New opportunities for fossil fuels | Mike Jesanis, An advisor to companies, governments, and non-profits in traditional and emerging energy fields, former President and CEO of National Grid USA |
| Cutler Cleveland, Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University; Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth; Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy | ||
| N. Jonathan Peress, Vice President and Director, Clean Energy and Climate Change, Conservation Law Foundation | ||
| 20 | Renewable Energy Solutions | Lewis Milford, President and founder of Clean Energy Group and the Clean Energy States Alliance, non-resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program |
| Jim Gordon, CEO, Cape Wind Associates and President, Energy Management Inc. | ||
| Greg Watson, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources | ||
| 27 | Adaptation (cities) | Larry Atkinson, Director Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative and the Samuel Fay Solver Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University |
| Brian Helmuth, Professor, Department of Marine and Environmental Science and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Director, Sustainability, Science and Policy Initiative, Northeastern University | ||
| Pablo Suarez, Associate Director for Research and Innovation, Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre | ||
| April | ||
| 3 | The Food Security Challenge | Molly Anderson, Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems, College of the Atlantic |
| John Reilly, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Center for Environmental Policy Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management | ||
| 10 |
Geoengineering Solutions | Armond Cohen,Co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, founder and leader of the Conservation Law Foundation’s Energy Project |
| FINAL SESSION | John Steinbruner, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM); past Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution | |
| Jason Blackstock, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford | ||
| 17 | Science, Ethics, Economics and Technology Revisited | Host Faculty Moderators |
| Note: The April 17th session will be open only to Northeastern students taking the course for credit. | ||