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Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and many joys in the new year!
— Your friends at MITEI
Photo: Jaume Plensa's Alchemist, 2010. Commissioned by an anonymous donor on the occasion of the Institute’s 150th anniversary and given to MIT in honor of all the alumni who have helped support the Institute over the years.
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Podcast: British Columbia and the energy trilemma
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Hear from British Columbia’s Climate Minister George Heyman and Sergey Paltsev, MIT Energy Initiative senior researcher and deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, on British Columbia's Clean BC plan and other climate change mitigation strategies.
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Podcast: Emissions trading and Paris Agreement Article 6
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Emissions trading systems and why governments should consider collaborating, with Constanze Haug, head of the secretariat of the International Carbon Action Partnership, and Michael Mehling, deputy director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
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Student opportunity: Solar Spring Break
Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2019
MITEI is now accepting applications for our 2019 Solar Spring Break program. We will be returning to Los Angeles, CA this year with GRID Alternatives' Solar Spring Break, which gives college students the opportunity to spend their vacation week installing solar panels in underserved communities.
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Get involved even if you don't apply: You can donate to help send a student on Solar Spring Break who otherwise would be unable to attend.
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Marseille Winterschool on Multiscale Porous Materials
Wednesday, June 24
The Mixed International Research Unit CNRS/MIT program will host the seventh edition of the Marseille Winterschool on Multiscale Porous Materials in Marseille, France. The topics this year are urban physics and multiscale porous materials in urban environments.
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Not all federal governments are ambitious and not all state or provincial governments are ambitious. That’s why we wanted to sign a plan where we demonstrate to people that to simply say that it’s a choice between jobs and climate is not only irresponsible, it’s frankly wrong.
George Heyman, British Columbia's climate minister
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Where is the fifth-largest economy in the world?
Answer: California. The third-largest U.S. state by area and the most populous, it surpassed the United Kingdom in economic output in May 2018. Former Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances Beinecke said California's economic status makes it the perfect place to model environmental regulations.
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