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Adèle Naudé Santos and Débora Mesa's plan for low-income housing in Colombia includes a market square within the proposed live-work neighborhood. Image courtesy of Adèle Naudé Santos and Débora Mesa.

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December 1, 2017

MIT architects, planners honored for sustainable design

MIT faculty and alumni projects are recognized for excellence in the international LafargeHolcim Awards competition.

November 29, 2017

Campus resiliency crawl helps Terrascope students understand challenges of climate preparedness

XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into useful fuels. The method may not only cu...

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November 28, 2017

Turning emissions into fuel

MIT-developed method converts carbon dioxide into useful compounds.

Graviky Labs has developed technology that attaches to exhaust systems of diesel generator chimneys to capture particulate matter (PM). Scientists at Graviky then treat the soot to turn it into ink, called Air-Ink, for artists around the world...

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November 27, 2017

Recycling air pollution to make art

Startup’s system captures particle matter from diesel exhaust and turns it into inks and paints.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was the guest speaker at an MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative People and the Planet lecture.Photo: Casey Atkins

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November 22, 2017

Addressing America’s climate future

At an Environmental Solutions Initiative event, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse speaks about defending science and moving forward on climate action.

MIT is on the path to achieve at least a 32 percent reduction in campus emissions of greenhouse gases by the year 2030.

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November 21, 2017

Institute on track to meet campus climate action goals

Plans are in place to meet or exceed greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Photo: German Development Institute/Flickr

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November 17, 2017

Helping Mexico design an effective climate policy

MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country’s climate goals under the Paris Agreement.

The Terzo Millenio, or Third Millennium, concept car from Lamborghini marks an ambitious collaboration between the Italian automaker and researchers at MIT.Photo: Emrick Elias

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November 17, 2017

MIT researchers collaborate with Lamborghini to develop an electric car of the future

Research from the Dinca and Hart labs, paired with Lamborghini’s “hypercar” concept, will result in the Terzo Millenio, an electric sports car for the third millennium.

MIT Energy Hackathon leaders handed out stickers at this year's registration tables.Photo: Fatima Husain

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November 17, 2017

A year of many firsts for the MIT Energy Hackathon

With its best showing yet in a three-year history, the MIT Energy Hackathon fostered innovation with technological advancement from students around the world.