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PostJanuary 2, 2024

Climate action, here and now

Hsu’s projects frequently yield practical and concrete steps for climate action.

PostSeptember 20, 2023

New Volpe Center opens to support the country’s most innovative transport...

President Sally Kornbluth, fifth from left, joins Governor Maura Healey and members of the federal government and Cambridge community for a ribbon cutting at the new John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

PostSeptember 8, 2023

AI pilot programs look to reduce energy use and emissions on MIT campus

MIT Office of Sustainability

Pilots in MIT's Building 66 test AI controls that work with existing building management systems and have the potential to reduce energy usage campus-wide.

PostMay 25, 2023

Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building

MIT Office of Sustainability

Energy efficiency efforts aim for an estimated 35 percent reduction of energy use for MIT Building 46.

PostFebruary 14, 2022

Resilience in Action: 2021 Sustainability Reports showcase accomplishments

MIT Office of Sustainability

MITOS Annual Report & GHG Brochure Covers

PostAugust 10, 2021

Chemistry Undergraduate Teaching Lab hibernates fume hoods, drastically red...

MIT Safe & Sustainable Labs (S2L) Program

Fume hoods like these are placed into hibernation mode when they are no longer in use for the day. Since employing the use of hibernation mode, the unoccupied Undergraduate Teaching Lab air change rate has plummeted from 11 air changes per hour to seven ACH, drastically shrinking unnecessary energy outflow, saving MIT an estimated $21,000 per year.

PostJuly 16, 2021

MIT.nano receives American Institute of Architects’s Top Ten Award for su...

MIT.nano, MIT’s 216,000-square-foot, shared-access facility for nanoscience and nanotechnology research, has been awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2021 Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Award for excellence in sustainability and design.

PostJanuary 26, 2021

School of Architecture and Planning creates climate action plan

A single year of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of actions and energy use in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Each ball represents a ton of emitted carbon, with the different colors standing for different sources. The estimated greenhouse gas emissions by SA+P totaled 24,795 million tons of CO2 equivalent in 2019.

PostDecember 18, 2020

With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT

MIT Office of Sustainability

MIT has reduced campus emissions by 24 percent over the past five years.

PostNovember 23, 2020

2020 MIT Climate Action Plan recommendations

MACA - MIT Alumni for Climate Action

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