Staff

The Campus Climate Action Ambassadors program empowers MIT staff, faculty, and students to lead sustainability and climate action efforts within their departments, labs, centers, and student groups. Ambassadors complete a few core steps (workshop, waste training, reuse platform, goal-setting), then lead or support sustainability actions within their departments or teams. 

Join a campus-wide network, get recognized, and make your role matter for sustainability.

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Sign up to become a Campus Climate Action Ambassador

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.

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

Whether you're commuting to campus or traveling for work, there are steps you can take to reduce your environmental impact. Walking, biking, taking public transit, or carpooling are great ways to make your daily commute more sustainable. Explore your options.

When travel beyond the daily commute is necessary (especially air travel) consider whether a trip can be replaced with virtual collaboration. Learn more about responsible travel strategies that support climate-conscious choices before, during, and after your trip. If travel is essential, you can help reduce emissions through responsible planning and by participating in MIT’s Air Travel Carbon Offset Program. 

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.