Fast Forward: MIT's Climate Action Plan for the Decade
MIT Climate Nucleus
The MIT Climate Nucleus is a faculty committee that has broad responsibility for the management and implementation of Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade across its five areas of action: sparking innovation, educating future generations, informing and leveraging government action, reducing MIT’s own climate impact, and uniting and coordinating all of MIT’s climate efforts. The Nucleus meets once per month during the academic year. On a regular basis, the Nucleus makes recommendations to the MIT Climate Steering Committee about how to amplify MIT’s impact in the climate sphere.
MIT Climate Nucleus Members
- Noelle Selin, Nucleus co-chair; professor, Institute for Data, Systems and Society and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; director, Technology and Policy Program
- Anne White, Nucleus co-chair; professor and head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Dara Entekhabi, professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
- John Fernández, professor in the Department of Architecture and director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative
- Stefan Helmreich, professor in the Department of Anthropology
- David Hsu, associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Christopher Knittel, professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
- Janelle Knox-Hayes, professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- John Lienhard, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
- David McGee, associate professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and Director of Terrascope at MIT
- Julie Newman, director of the Office of Sustainability and lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Elsa Olivetti, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of the Climate and Sustainability Consortium
- Christoph Reinhart, professor in the Department of Architecture and director of the Building Technology Program
- John Sterman, professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the Sloan Sustainability Initiative
- Rob Stoner, interim director, MIT Energy Initiative
- Rob van der Hilst, professor and head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
- Edward C. Wack, head of the Biotechnology and Human Systems Division, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Chris Zegras, professor and head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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