Climate- and sustainability-focused companies with MIT connections have their sights set on global impact
A Grand Global Challenge
Meeting the challenges of climate change with ingenuity and boldness
MIT Accelerates Climate Action
Harnessing the best efforts of MIT’s multidisciplinary research community to solve tough problems
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Community Building
New undergraduate living community opens its doors
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Keeping It Cool
Doctoral student helps architects design buildings to suit the climate and save energy
The Human Scale of Climate Change
Janelle Knox-Hayes explores link between values, sustainable practices
A Business Lens for Sustainability
Aggregate Confusion Project targets better ways to judge corporate behavior
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Undergrad’s Research Targets Climate
Ava Waitz ’21 works on transparent solar cells, emissions modeling
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Why Care About Climate Change?
John Sterman helps people experience impacts of action and inaction
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Engineering Disease Fighters
With synthetic biology and AI, Jim Collins takes on this pandemic—and the next