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This program equips members of the MIT community to champion climate action and sustainable practices within their department, lab, center, or institute (DLCI), increasing visibility and fostering a culture of sustainability across campus.

Program requirements:

1. Participate in an MIT Climate Action Workshop
2. Complete the Responsible Waste Training in Atlas
3. Sign up and start using MIT’s Rheaply marketplace for reuse
4. Integrate climate action goal(s) in Goal Setting and Performance Review Process
5. Lead climate action initiative(s) in your DLCI, such as coordinating centralized waste stations, digitizing processes in your office to reduce printing, and programming shut-off timers on office devices to save energy. 

MIT’s departments, labs, centers, and institutes (DLCIs) are taking meaningful action on climate and sustainability by developing and implementing their own carbon footprint reduction and sustainability plans. 

These resources offer guidance and a framework for units at early stages in the planning process to help identify goals, strategies, and actions aligned with MIT’s commitments and paths to achieving them.

• Planning Framework: Six Steps to Creating a Local Plan
• Template for Local Action Plan
• Worksheet for Action
• Template for Tracking Progress

MIT offers lifelong learning opportunities in the classroom to expand your knowledge of sustainability. Whether you’d like to take a regular academic class or build skills for your career, there may be something just right for you.

MIT Professional Education – Short Programs – Energy & Sustainability: 

With a growing global population and finite resources, there’s an increasing need for organizations to adopt environmentally and socially responsible business practices, operations, and policies. MIT Professional Education − Short Programs features a selection of courses to broaden your knowledge of the complex aspects of energy and sustainability issues − from understanding the basic foundations and principles to engineering practical, cost-effective solutions that will aid your organization.

Taught on campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts by MIT faculty members, MIT Professional Education - Short Programs courses are attended by engineering, technology, and science professionals from across the United States and around the world.

MIT Professional Education – Advanced Study Program: 

The MIT Advanced Study Program (ASP) is a continuing education, non-degree program that offers working professionals and exceptional graduate students an opportunity to enroll in MIT's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and Management classes as non-degree students for a semester, year, or longer. Both part-time and full-time students are accepted.

Academically qualified MIT employees may apply to take classes at MIT through the MIT Professional Education Advanced Study Program. Benefits-eligible employees accepted into the program may also have their tuition covered by the Tuition Assistance Plan.

Employees may apply to take classes in any department at the Institute.

Independent Activities Period: 

IAP is a special term at MIT that runs for most of January. It provides members of the MIT community with a unique opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities, including how-to sessions, forums, athletic endeavors, lecture series, films, tours, recitals and contests.

Limit waste and make good purchasing decisions with our Sustainable Event Self-Certification.

Learn more about MIT’s Sustainable Office Self-Certification Tool to evaluate your office sustainability practices and identify opportunities for improvement.

Your commute matters. Check out some options for a low-carbon trip to school or work.  

MIT Working Green Committee is to develop and deliver programs that educate administrative and support staff about sustainability with a focus on recycling, reducing, and reusing goods.