1.253/11.383/11.543/ESD.222  Transportation Policy & Environmental Limits

WEDNESDAY: Reducing VMT - 9-10:30 am, room 4-145

Stephanie Pollack will be a guest lecturer discussing programs and policies to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Stephanie Pollack is Associate Director of the Kitty & Michael Dukakis Center for Urban andRegional Policy, overseeing the Center's research agenda as well as conducting her own research projects in the areas of transportation policy, transit-oriented development, sustainability and equitable development.  Pollack is also on the core faculty for the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; her courses include Strategizing Public Policy, Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning, Housing Policy and Transportation Policy.  Pollack co-chaired Governor Deval Patrick's 2006 transition working group on transportation and served on Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's Climate Action Leadership Committee in 2009-2010. Before coming to Northeastern in 2004, Pollack was a senior executive and attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation, New England's leading environmental adv!
 ocacy organization.  From 2004 through 2010 she was also a partner in the strategic environmental consulting firm BlueWave Strategies LLC, where she advised clients on smart growth, transit-oriented development and other "green" real estate projects.

A few students needed a one-day extension on the paper so we've decided to give an extension to everyone. The paper is now due Wednesday, April 20 at 4pm.

Also, Lisa Jackson, the Administrator of the EPA, is speaking at the student center at 3pm on Friday. We're going to spend the first hour in class doing discussions on the readings (cap-and-trade from last week and this week's reading). Then we'll move over to the student center to hear Lisa Jackson speak. If there's time, we'll reconvene in class. Here's a link to the talk: http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/kendall-lecture.html

Thanks to so many of you for getting back to me about dinner so quickly! If you haven't done so yet, please remember to get back to me by tomorrow before class. =)

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!