Making roadway spending more sustainable
Current and former MIT researchers find novel tools can improve the sustainability of road networks on a limited budget.
Predicting building emissions across the US
MIT researchers have analyzed greenhouse gas emissions from future buildings across America and outlined region-specific solutions.
MIT appoints members of new faculty committee to drive climate action plan
Professors Noelle Selin and Anne White will co-chair the Climate Nucleus, charged with managing and implementing MIT’s new plan.
Concrete’s role in reducing building and pavement emissions
MIT researchers find emissions of U.S. buildings and pavements can be reduced by around 50 percent even as concrete use increases.
3 Questions: Daniel Cohn on the benefits of high-efficiency, flexible-fuel engines for heavy-duty trucking
MIT researchers propose a gasoline-ethanol engine that is cleaner and more cost-effective than existing diesel engine technologies to help meet vehicle emission reduction goals.
Vinny Fry: Wired for success
MIT engineer oversees design and testing of key magnet components for the Institute's SPARC fusion project.
Why the future of textiles is collaborative
How-to manual from MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology codifies successful textiles partnership between designers, engineers.
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.
Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
A new approach increases the efficiency of chemical reactions that are key to many industrial processes.
Renovated Hayden Library and courtyard open to the MIT community
Transformational projects bring inclusive, welcoming spaces to the MIT campus.
J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
This year’s projects address mobile evaporative vegetable preservation, portable water filtration, and dairy waste reduction.
Making the case for hydrogen in a zero-carbon economy
Analyzing California’s power system, MITEI researchers show that hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive candidate for backing up wind and solar.
Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT
MIT offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to sustainability, a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts of their fields.
Countering climate change with cool pavements
Researchers affiliated with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub find that paving material selection could mitigate extreme heat and greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy storage from a chemistry perspective
Eli Paster SM ’10, PhD '14 is the CEO of PolyJoule, a startup working to reinvent energy storage technology to increase efficiency and reduce costs.