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PostNovember 13, 2024

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

A conceptual schematic of the new woven electrode design. Researchers wove a series of conductive copper wires (the brown-orange pipe) through a very thin membrane to reach the catalyst.

PostAugust 9, 2024

New tool empowers pavement life-cycle decision-making while reducing data c...

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Despite their importance and impact, there are often scarce data for evaluating the environmental impact of roads across their whole life cycle, from producing raw materials through demolition. The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub’s streamlined framework reduces the overall data collection burden by up to 85 percent.

PostApril 4, 2024

The heat is on: Accelerating climate action at a time of record-breaking te...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

MIT Global Change Forum panel on climate communications

PostOctober 25, 2023

Smart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”

Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab students (from left to right) Georgia Van de Zande, Carolyn Sheline, and Fiona Grant pilot a low-cost precision irrigation controller that optimizes system energy and water use at a full-scale test farm in the Jordan Valley.

PostApril 4, 2023

Staying the course: Achieving climate change goals in turbulent times

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: The XLV (45th) MIT Global Change Forum explored how decision-makers can stay on course in achieving climate change goals as the world confronts multiple and expanding crises. (Source: NASA)

PostOctober 13, 2022

MADMEC winner identifies sustainable greenhouse-cooling materials

The winning teams in this year's MADMEC competition were, from left to right, YarnZ, SmartClime, and WasteAway.

PostJuly 27, 2022

At MIT, Lesson from Space for Handling Waste

An illustrated flow chart showing the process of how animal waste is taken from the farm and transformed into energy sources.

PostJuly 12, 2022

Tata Center: 10 Years of Sustained Impact

An Indian woman carries a solar panel developed by Khethworks, the first startup to emerge from the Tata Center.

PostSeptember 22, 2021

A new method for removing lead from drinking water

Engineers have designed a relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating water contaminated with heavy metals.

PostAugust 3, 2021

Cleaning up industrial filtration

MIT Energy Initiative

Shreya Dave PhD ’16 (center) co-founded Via Separations with Professor Jeffrey Grossman (left) and Brent Keller PhD ’16.

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