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Placing solutions in the cloud but learning with boots on the ground, GEAR Lab researchers build low-cost, solar-powered irrigation tools to make precision agriculture more accessible.

Desirée Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.

The 15th Kendall Square Association annual meeting explored new and old aspects of the neighborhood.

Professor Haruko Wainwright describes a new effort to communicate information about managing and disposing of spent fuel from nuclear reactors.

Conventional systems for producing hydrogen depend on fossil fuels, but the new system uses only solar energy.

MIT PhD student Alexander O’Brien is working to deliver the next generation of fusion devices through research on additive manufacturing of metal-ceramic composites.

C-Crete, founded by Rouzbeh Savary PhD ’11, has created a cement alternative that could significantly reduce the industry’s carbon dioxide emissions.

An interactive architectural installation combined textile arts and engineering on a desert landscape.

The Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee repurposes items for good causes — and discovers a few hidden gems — following a burst pipe in W20.