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MITOS relies on our partners (that's you!) to help us fulfill our mission. We created a new short, sharable video to explain how we work and invite everyone to join us in building a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable MIT.
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Data for resilience
The newest visualization in the Sustainability DataPool, the MIT Climate Resiliency Dashboard, seeks to enable the MIT community to understand projected potential risk to the Cambridge campus from flooding and heat (heat to be added in 2021) under both today's climate and a future changed climate. Use your Kerberos ID to explore the new tool.
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Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT
Back for its third semester, Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT 2.812(U), 2.832(G)
is a team-taught, project-based class that challenges graduate and undergraduate students to solve for carbon neutrality using MIT as the case study.
Students will be challenged to design solution scenarios that include short, middle, and long-term mitigation strategies. Lectures will be organized around the complexity of the challenge of achieving carbon neutrality and include topics such as climate science, ethics, carbon accounting, energy supply, demand and new technologies, building infrastructure, financial instruments, electricity markets, policy, human behavior and regulation.
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Cool Reflective Pavement
Hessam AzariJafari, postdoc with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, explains how reflective pavements and/or brighter colored pavement can lower urban temperatures when the ambient temperature is lower than the pavement surface temperature.
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Freezer Challenge Winners
MIT labs took top honors at the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) International Laboratory Freezer Challenge, an event aimed at increasing sample accessibility, sample integrity, reduced costs, and energy efficiency.
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"Waste" IAP with us!
What does MIT throw away every year? Where does it go? How are we designing out waste on campus using research and data?
This series (Jan 13th, 20th & 27th) is for anyone at MIT interested in “talking trash." Join us for this informative and engaging series that brings together a team of staff, students, researchers, and waste management professionals from across MIT dedicated to a sustainable (and circular!) future. You'll come away from this series with new knowledge and community connections—join us! 🗑️
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Favorite Stories from 2020
In the midst of challenging year, the Office of Sustainability and partners across campus accomplished so much from A Better City honors to a LEED Platinum achievement to supporting a sustainable MIT from afar. We've collected highlights from the year.
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MISTI Student Challenge
MIT-Denmark invites MIT students to take part in the Green Campus Challenge to learn new skills and build international networks while working to create ideas for university campuses that can impact sustainability efforts around the world.
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