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PostMay 23, 2022

Living Climate Futures initiative showcases holistic approach to the climat...

MIT News
Indigenous leaders from across the country shared their natural world philosophies at a two-day MIT symposium called Living Climate Future. “People are experiencing a climate crisis that is global in really different ways in different places,” says Heather Paxson, head of MIT Anthropology and an event organizer. The symposium provided “a sense of the power of listening to individual experience. Not because it gives us the big picture, but because it gives us the small picture.”
PostMay 23, 2022

MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural...

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The goal of the MCSC seed awards is to engage MIT researchers and link the economy-wide work of the consortium to ongoing and emerging climate and sustainability efforts across campus. The program offers further opportunity to build networks among the awarded projects to deepen the impact of each and ensure the total is greater than the sum of its parts.
In the MediaMay 22, 2022

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Kealoha Wong ’99, Hawaii’s first poet laureate, shares his excitement at being selected to deliver the keynote address at the graduation celebration for the classes of 2020 and 2021. “It’s a huge...

PostMay 20, 2022

MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients

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The 2022 J-WAFS seed grant recipients are (clockwise from top left) Gang Chen, Heather Kulik, Gregory Rutledge, César Terrer, John Fernández, Scott Odell, Ariel Furst, and Michael Triantafyllou.
PostMay 20, 2022

Expanding energy access in rural Lesotho

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OnePower is building networks of minigrids powered by solar energy to bring electricity to rural regions of Lesotho.
In the MediaMay 17, 2022

Gizmodo

MIT researchers have found that zeolite, a material used to soak up odors in kitty litter, can be used to grab methane out of the air, reports Angely Mercado for Gizmodo.  “Zeolite has tiny pores that...

In the MediaMay 17, 2022

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe honored a number of MIT faculty and alumni in their Tech Power Players 50, a list of the “most influential – and interesting – people in the Massachusetts technology scene.” MIT...

PostMay 17, 2022

On the road to cleaner, greener, and faster driving

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In a new study, MIT researchers demonstrate a machine-learning approach that can learn to control a fleet of autonomous vehicles as they approach and travel through a signalized intersection in a way that keeps traffic flowing smoothly.
PostMay 16, 2022

Energy storage important to creating affordable, reliable, deeply decarboni...

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"The Future of Energy Storage" report is the culmination of a three-year study exploring the long-term outlook and recommendations for energy storage technology and policy. As the report details, energy storage is a key component in making renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, financially and logistically viable at the scales needed to decarbonize our power grid and combat climate change.
In the MediaMay 16, 2022

The Boston Globe

A new report by researchers from MIT’s Energy Initiative (MITEI) underscores the feasibility of using energy storage systems to almost completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels to operate...

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