September 7, 2025
MEERtalk September 2025
Mike Tidwell has spent nearly 25 years as a grassroots climate activist, pushing for clean energy solutions to global warming in the Mid Atlantic region and on Capitol Hill. But the stubbornly slow conversion to renewable energy, combined with alarming new spikes in global temperatures, have convinced him that light reflection methods must be studied and tested across the planet. Tidwell's new book, The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue, chronicles his conversion from mainstream activist to solar reflection "curious" as he watched the dramatic impacts of climate change descend on his one street in Maryland over the past few years.
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MEERTALK October 2023
Overheating Cities on a Hot Planet This fascinating and inspiring talk centered around how to help overheating cities through urban engineering. Ronita Bardhan is an architectural engineer and urban studies educator, with a PhD in urban engineering. Bardhan leads the research group - Cambridge Sustainable Design Group (SDG). Her research is centered around data-driven design of built environment for precision prevention from health and energy burdens in the warming climate. She triangulates building physics, engineering, and social science data to develop solutions for realising health and low-carbon energy potential in built environments. Bardhan works on climate heat stress & health in built environment. She has extensively worked in Slum Rehabilitation (social) housing (in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Brazil).
October 1, 2023
MEERTALK
