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PostApril 21, 2022

Strengthening students’ knowledge and experience in climate and sustainab...

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

MIT student Stacy Godfreey-Igwe (pictured) is working in the Plata Lab at MIT. Associate Professor Desiree Plata is one of the instructors facilitating a new Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program at MIT.

PostApril 21, 2022

Given what we know, how do we live now?

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Circular ripples in a pond

PostApril 13, 2022

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on a heat sink designed to measure the TPV cell efficiency. To measure the efficiency, the cell is exposed to an emitter and simultaneous measurements of electric power and heat flow through the device are taken.

PostApril 8, 2022

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

MIT Energy Initiative

“Hydropower is a more-than-hundred-year-old technology, and plants are already built up north,” says Emil Dimanchev SM ’18. “We might not need to build something new. We might just need to use those plants differently or to a greater extent.”

PostApril 5, 2022

Ocean vital signs

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Researchers propose launching a fleet of oceangoing drones that would continuously monitor the flux of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and ocean, helping to inform next-generation visualizations and models of the global carbon cycle.

PostMarch 29, 2022

How molecular biology could reduce global food insecurity

Mary Gehring, associate professor of biology and a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

PostMarch 18, 2022

Q&A: Latifah Hamzah ’12 on creating sustainable solutions in Malaysia and...

MIT Energy Initiative

Latifah Hamzah ’12 is working to find sustainable water and sanitation solutions for the developing world.

PostMarch 8, 2022

Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound

These discs were used for testing the researchers’ processing method for solid-electrolyte batteries. On the left, a sample of the solid electrolyte itself, a material known as LLPO. At center, the same material coated with the cathode material used in their tests. At right, the LLPO material with a coating of gold, used to facilitate measuring its electrical properties.

PostFebruary 25, 2022

Progress toward a sustainable campus food system

MIT Office of Sustainability

The Launchpad, a nonprofit food business incubator created in partnership with CommonWealth Kitchen (CWK), debuted this fall in the second-floor Lobdell Food Court.

PostFebruary 15, 2022

Nurturing human communities and natural ecosystems

MIT senior Heidi Li, a materials science and engineering major, strives to help local communities understand how they can influence policymaking to achieve a more sustainable future.

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