SfGS lecture

Hi, please feel free to list possible speakers for the large lecture event this Fall.

Three Big Questions to be answered:

*One day or large seminar series (like we did in the past)? *How many speakers? / Any discussions or panel among them? *Mixer afterwards? What type? *Sustainable development? (what specifically?) *Environment-focused? (this is still huge) *What kind of theme can attract general MIT student body? - tech oriented? business oriented? *Name it, please:-) Maybe, someone from UN Millennium projectMillennium Project
 * 1) What types of seminar should we do?
 * 1) What should be the theme of the seminar?
 * So, who should we invite?

EcoSpeakers Maybe, we could write on our proposal saying, we are going to invite one or several speakers from here or something like that... (Shan)
 * Oh, I found the following page:

Masa's ideas:


 * Dr. James Hansen from NASA
 * Masa has some connection.
 * Jonathan Lash (president of WRI)
 * Lester Brown (founder of Earth Policy Institute)
 * Gro Harlem Brundtland (former WHO director)
 * may be too expensive to invite.

Ideas from previous speaker series:

Sustainable Businesses


 * Tod Murphy, founder and CEO of The Farmer’s Diner (VT)
 * John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market (TX)
 * Michael Braungart, co-founder of MBDC (VA)
 * Ray Anderson, founder of Interface (GA)

Transformative Nanotechnology

Sustainable Solutions
 * Edwin Thomas, Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT
 * Vicki Colvin, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University (TX)
 * Bill Joy, co-founder of SUN


 * Paul Farmer, Partners in Health (Boston, MA)
 * Eva Harris, UC-Berkeley School of Public Health (CA)

Writers
 * Bill McKibben
 * Terry Tempset Williams (She's Utahn!)

and more...
 * Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, UN HABITAT Executive Director
 * Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University