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Leon Glicksman on Sustainability

Sustainability@MIT copresident and Sloan student Adam Siegel interviews Leon Glicksman ’59, PhD ’64, cochair of the MIT Campus Energy Task Force, and gains his input on campus sustainability.

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My reporting as MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for materials has taken me, among other places, to the oil-rich deserts of the Middle East and to China, where mountains are being carved away to build the looming cities.… More

Growing up, I lived for a time in the Philippines, where I knew people who lit their tiny homes with single lantern batteries or struggled to breathe through the dense diesel fumes of Manila, so I have a feel for the pressing need around the world for both cheap energy and clean energy.

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