Special Seminar: Resource Demand and Supply Chain Drivers in Concrete Production
Wednesday August 5th, 2026 / 1pm PDT Sabbie Miller, Faculty Director, Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center Societal demand for concrete is enormous, with estimates suggesting it is the most widely consumed engineered material in the world. Meeting this demand requires substantial natural resources, including minerals, water used both in the concrete itself and throughout its […]
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Energy Bites May 29, 2025
Thursday, May 29th, 2025 | 12PM-1PM | EEI Conference Room Yudi Li, Wild Energy Center Watch Video
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Thursday, February 27th, 2025 Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College Watch Video Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose […]
The Global Energy Transition’s Impact on the Global South
Thursday, January 9th, 2025 Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo Watch Video Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University in the United States, where he is the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability. He is […]