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Learn more about the redesigned MITOS website

Nicole Morell

If you’ve visited the MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS) website in recent days, you may have noticed things looking a little different. We’ve refreshed our look and user experience. These changes are designed to make it easier to find information, connect, and see the newest breakthroughs and collaborations happening to transform MIT into a replicable model that generates just, equitable, and scalable solutions for responding to the unprecedented challenges of a changing planet. Read on to learn more about specific features.

NEW: Navigation Menu 
Our website now uses a mega navigation menu style, meaning when you click on a top level menu item (Climate Action, Metrics and Goals, Resources, Partners, About Us), you can see everything that falls under that item. This is designed to make it easier to find the topic you’re interested in and help to better showcase how topics and categories relate to one another.

view of expanded MITOS navigation menu

NEW: Climate Action
Climate Action is the new name for our “Areas of Focus” on the previous version of our website. This is where you will find the overarching categories for the current projects and efforts MITOS is working on. You can also find highlighted projects in our Campus as a Testbed section within this menu.

IMPROVED: Get involved on campus
We centralized resources for students, staff, and faculty/ researchers under our “Get involved” section in the Climate Action menu. Here, community members can learn more about projects specific to their role at MIT and ways they can get involved.

CENTRALIZED: Metrics and Goals
The MIT Sustainability Data Pool remains an important tool for sustainability and climate work and research led by both MITOS and the MIT community. It is now linked to in the Metrics and Goals menu, which also includes progress updates, details on MIT’s 2026 and 2050 goals, the Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and an outlining of our campus commitments.

IMPROVED: Resources
On our previous site, the Resource Library was our repository of reports, case studies, and printable items. That Resource Library now joins the MITOS Blog, Waste Wizard, and Certifications in our new Resources Menu.

  • Other improvements
    You’ll see progress bars (like the one below) in different locations on our website, highlighting the progress made toward specific goals or in certain programmatic areas.

    visual of progress bar with illustrated waste bins and relevant goals

  • Our new Partners Menu highlights the many ways individuals and groups work with MITOS, offering an easier to navigate version of what was on our previous website. 

  • Key partners. On our topic pages, you will see a listing of key partners that we work with on a regular basis. This is an updated design to make it easier to showcase the many DLCIs who make this work possible.


    Have feedback about the new site? Email us at sustainablemit@mit.edu

     

 

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