Events

What are the benefits and barriers to sustainable electric mobility?

Battery electric vehicles represent an emerging low-carbon source of mobility that could dramatically reduce air pollution emissions, create revenue, and accelerate the decarbonisation of transport. This presentation draws from the literature on vehicle-to-grid, mobility, transitions, sociotechnical systems, and electric power systems, along with original data on the array of challenges and benefits to vehicle-to-grid and electric vehicles. The presentation ensures that readers from a variety of backgrounds will gain a more comprehensive understanding of vehicle-to-grid and its potential for wide-scale implementation in the transport and electric systems.

Speaker: Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Moderator: Winston Chow, Professor of Urban Climate, Singapore Management University

Project SSUD X Swapaholic

Declutter Drive & Refresh Party

Take part in our Declutter Drive and make a positive impact on the environment while giving your wardrobe a new life! Donate your preloved clothes, shoes, bags, accessories and help to reduce textile waste, while promoting a more sustainable fashion culture! 🌍💚

Get involved in our Refresh Party that not only gives your style a refresh but also supports eco-friendly practices! Whether you’re looking to let go of items you no longer wear or find something new (and sustainable!) for your wardrobe, this is YOUR chance to make a difference while upgrading your wardrobe in a responsible way! ♻️👗👚👢👜
 

Southeast Asia Research Seminar Series

Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier

In this presentation, Associate Professor Kristian Karlo Saguin examines ubranisation as a frontier-making process through stories from Metro Manila in the Philippines and its convenient resource frontier, Laguna Lake. Drawing from ethnographic and historical accounts in and beyond the city, Associate Professor Saguin tracks two particular resource flows - fish and floodwaters - that have shaped Manila’s twentieth century urban development and environmental trajectory. Making visible the constellation of actors, practices, desires and materialities brought together to deliver these vital resource flows for the city underscores the shifting assemblages and politics that sustain life in the city and produce imaginaries for possible urban futures.