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Guest
Speaker
"Other Thoughts about Environmental
Justice"
23 February 2010
Dr.
John Spengler
Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental
Health and Human Habitation, Harvard School of Public Health
John Spengler is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental
Health and Human Habitation at the Harvard School of Public Health
and director of the sustainability and environmental management
program at the Extension School. Spengler has conducted research
in the areas of personal monitoring, air pollution health effects,
indoor air pollution, and a variety of environmental sustainability
issues. Several of his investigations have focused on housing design
and its effects on ventilation rates, the selection of building
materials, energy consumption, and total environmental quality in
homes. He is the author of numerous articles on air quality and
other environmental issues, and co-author or co-editor of Health
Effects of Fossil Fuel Burning: Assessment and Mitigation, Indoor
Air Pollution: A Health Perspective, Particles in Our Air: Concentrations
and Health Effects, and Indoor Air Quality Handbook.
Spengler established
(with Tom Vautin, Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental
Services) the Harvard Green Campus Initiative in 2000. Spengler
chaired the university-wide committee on Harvard sustainability
principles; served on Harvard's Greenhouse Gases Taskforce to develop
the university's carbon reduction goals and strategies; and is a
member of Harvard's Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee.
In 2003, Spengler
received a Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2007, he received
the Air and Waste Management Association Lyman Ripperton Environmental
Educator Award; and in 2008 he was honored with the Max von Pettenkofer
award for distinguished contributions in indoor air science from
the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate's Academy
of Fellows. In 2003, he was honored for 28 years of teaching at
the Extension School.
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