The Deep Listening Project, the flagship effort of the MIT Civic Design Initiative, is working with communities in Nepal, the U.S., and Canada to co-design technologies that enable institutions and frontline communities to collaborat...
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Conversations at the front line of climate

Novel communications infrastructure from the MIT Civic Design Initiative aims to support communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.
Meshkat Botshekan, a PhD student and research assistant at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, has helped develop a method to estimate traffic conditions using the measurements gathered from a single vehicle. Photo...
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3 Questions: What a single car can say about traffic

Measuring traffic properties requires vast amounts of data. Meshkat Botshekan, a PhD student working with the MIT CSHub, is discovering a more efficient and affordable physics-inspired alternative.
Poppy Allonby is a senior financial executive who has spent more than two decades analyzing the link between climate change and investing. Photo: Kelley Travers
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Investors awaken to the risks of climate change

At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Fall Colloquium, finance executive Poppy Allonby lays out the current state of sustainability thinking among the investor class.