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Sustainability guides 'Soap Box' energy panel

The first of three MIT Museum "Soap Box" events devoted to energy covered the gamut from climate change to the urgent need for policies limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

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1. MIT Museum energy series starts Oct. 18
   10-17-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   The popular Wednesday evening "Soap Box" series at the MIT Museum will focus on the future of energy for three successive weeks this month with talks from MIT's world-renowned experts in the field. The first talk takes place Oct. 18.
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2. MIT Museum series focuses on energy
   10-17-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   The popular Wednesday evening "Soap Box" series at the MIT Museum will focus on the future of energy for three successive weeks this month with talks from MIT's world-renowned experts in the field.
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3. Next energy technologies may mimic nature
   11-01-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   New technologies will play a major role in providing the world's growing population with the energy it will need in the coming decades--that was one of the messages of the MIT Museum's second of three "Soap Box" events devoted to energy.
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4. Soap Box speakers urge energy conservation
   11-13-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Americans need to take personal responsibility for their energy consumption, according to John Heywood, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory.
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5. SCAI president testifies before FDA on safety of drug-eluting stents
   12-07-2006 · EurekAlert!
   In testimony before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), today urged a review panel to evaluate new data on the safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) from the perspective of prior developments in the history of coronary intervention, and with an appreciation for the balance of benefits and risks that guides all clinical decision-making.
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6. Sustainability of energy, food and water theme of ACS national meeting
   03-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Sustainability of energy, food and water is the featured theme of the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29 in Chicago. Representatives from academia, government and industry will discuss a wide range of topics that fall within this theme, including alternative energy sources, genetically-engineered crops and new water purification processes. More than 9,000 research presentations will be given during the week-long meeting.
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7. High-level panel gives advice to MIT Energy Initiative
   01-30-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   The MIT Energy Initiative received critical input, advice and insights in the first meeting of its External Advisory Board. The board, chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, was "very supportive," said MITEI Director Ernest Moniz.
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8. Drylands are not the same as badlands
   05-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Drylands, where 38 percent of the world's population lives, can be protected from the irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels would follow basic sustainability principles, according to a panel of experts writing in the May 11 issue of the journal Science.
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9. Student 'Generator' examines sustainability
   12-13-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   The inaugural meeting of MIT Generator drew close to 100 MIT students from dozens of departments who gathered Nov. 14 to brainstorm and find ways to address issues of energy and the environment on campus.
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10. Panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source
    01-22-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the U.S. has found that mining the heat that resides as stored thermal energy in the Earth's hard rock crust could supply a considerable amount of electricity.
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