Energy Seminar – Week 3 TT24: Leveraging the campus as a test bed for climate and sustainability leadership: Catalysing learning, imagination, and impact
Julie Newman
- Start Tuesday 07 May 2024 5:00pm
- Finish Tuesday 07 May 2024 6:30pm
- Venue Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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THIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT
Summary: Future climate and sustainability leadership within higher education and at MIT seeks to transcend traditional academic silos and drive toward new ways of learning, innovation, collaboration and an unwavering commitment to address the urgent global challenges created by climate change. Dr Newman will present the model she launched at MIT built on a scales of impact foundation that recognises that we cannot solve for sustainability within the walls of our campus alone, as we are completely integrated and reliant upon local, state, national, regional and global systems [from supply chain to policy to natural resources]. She will share how this involves a shift in organisational culture, values, and practices to align with the urgent need for climate action and environmental stewardship.
Speaker: Julie Newman, PhD joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013 as the founding Director of Sustainability for the institute, where she was charged with launching the Office of Sustainability and is a lecturer with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. In 2004, Julie founded the Office of Sustainability at Yale University where she held a lecturer appointment with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to that she assisted with the launch of the University of New Hampshire Sustainability Institute in 1997. Dr Newman participates as an editor for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, lectures and consults for universities both nationally and internationally, and participates on a variety of boards and advisory committees.