Your commute matters. Check out some options for a low-carbon trip to school or work.
Campus partnerships and strategic collaborations
When climate scientists, transportation experts, and researchers work with staff and the broader community – each bringing their own backgrounds and expertise – new ideas emerge and have the momentum to succeed. From the Undergraduate Association’s Committee on Sustainability to the Working Green Committee, such campus partnerships and strategic collaborations inspire and inform MIT’s efforts to create a more sustainable campus. Learn some of the many ways to get invovled with sustainability and climate action at MIT below.
What you can do today
The journey towards sustainability begins with a first step.
Learn how to dispose of common items at MIT to best support diversion and limit waste stream contamination.
Make sure your next event and workplace meet MIT's sustainability standards.
Check out one of the many sustainability events held on campus.
Visit the MIT Sustainability DataPool to explore data sets and visualizations on topics like campus energy, water, and materials.
Give back through one of many volunteer opportunities in the MIT community and beyond.
Take a deeper dive into sustainability research and developments around campus. Discover new topics you might like to explore during your time at MIT.
Receive a monthly update from the Office of Sustainability including news, progress, and staff and researcher features.
Get involved in a sustainability group on campus
There are plenty of opportunities to learn and get involved. Start by joining a group.
MIT staff for sustainability.
Undergraduate Association’s (UA) Committee on Sustainability
MIT Graduate Student Council Sustainability Subcommittee
MIT Sloan School of Management Sustainability Summit - an annual student-run conference
MIT student-run Energy Club
MIT Food and Agriculture Club
MIT student-run Water Club
MIT Sloan Net Impact Chapter
Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development (SEID)
MIT Sloan School of Management Policy Forum
MIT Energy Club at Sloan School of Management
Outdoor recreation club for students, staff, alumni, and faculty from MIT and greater academic community
Collaborative Climate Action Program @ MIT
Summer 2024 Program for Staff
Every day, people in our community are taking part in climate action on campus. The Collaborative Climate Action Program helps MIT staff members share tips and work together to make a bigger impact in reducing our environmental footprint.
Here’s what the program includes:
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Attend the June 13th Kick Off in person. Expand your network by connecting with other MIT staff who want to make our workplaces more sustainable, celebrate the end of the school year and get energized for the summer. |
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Receive a weekly email focused on one action you can take to make your workplace more sustainable and reduce MIT’s climate impact. |
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Ask questions and share tips using the MIT Collaborative Climate Action Program Slack Workplace: mit-c2ap.slack.com |
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Attend the weekly community check-in to connect with other MIT staff in similar roles who are taking steps to make offices, departments, labs, and centers across campus more sustainable. Share promising practices, ideas, challenges, and progress. Bring any questions for staff from the Office of Sustainability. |
What topics will be covered? Recycling, waste reduction, reuse, the food-climate connection, purchasing, engaging others in climate action, and more ways you can make your workplace at MIT more sustainable.
Email c2ap-admins@mit.edu with questions!
Past Collaborative Climate Action Program @ MIT Action Emails
Create a Local Plan
Fast Forward: MIT's Climate Action Plan for the Decade encourages all departments, labs, and centers to prepare and implement their own carbon footprint reduction and sustainability plans.
Many units are already taking meaningful action on climate and sustainability. This program is designed to support, amplify, and provide context for those efforts. For units at early stages in the planning process, this program offers guidance and a framework for identifying goals, strategies, and actions aligned with MIT’s commitments, and paths to achieving them. As we implement this program and assess how it is working, we expect to learn from each other and uncover new ideas.
Planning Resources
Planning Framework: Six Steps to Creating a Local Plan
Template for Local Action Plan
Worksheet for Action
Template for Tracking Progress
A Network of Campus Partners
The following groups and departments are just a sampling of the campus departments and initiatives that partner on sustainability.
Environmental Solutions Initiative
MIT Energy Initiative
Sloan School of Management Sustainability Initiative
Climate CoLab part of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Concrete Sustainability Hub in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
City Science Group, MIT Media Lab
D-Lab, MIT Edgerton Center
Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change
MIT CoLab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
MIT Sustainable Design Lab–Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture
Transportation at MIT