Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
What do environment-saving homes of the future look like? What technologies and designs should we be utilizing to reduce or even eliminate our homes’ carbon footprints? And — perhaps more important — how do we get our cities and towns to work toward that future? Globe Sunday real estate editor Eileen McEleney Woods moderates this Sustainability Week conversation featuring a green-home builder, a utility energy efficiency director, and an expert on clean energy policy. The group will explain terms like ‘net-zero,’ ‘Passive House,’ and ‘LEED,’ and consider the steps we can take to get to an environmentally-friendly future.
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