SfGS lecture

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

Three Big Questions to be answered:

1. What types of seminar should we do?

*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?

1. What should be the theme of the seminar?

*Sustainable development? (what specifically?)
*Environment-focused? (this is still huge)
*What kind of theme can attract general MIT student body? - tech oriented? business oriented?

1. So, who should we invite?

*Name it, please:-)

Maybe, someone from UN Millennium projectMillennium Project

• Oh, I found the following page:

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)

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

• 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

Sustainable Solutions

• 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