The ESI offered a course during the 2024 IAP session to tackle the deficiency of climate and environmental justice (CEJ) content within MIT’s STEM departments.
As CESIF nears its halfway point, the ESI’s Chris Rabe explains the fellowship’s structure and how research questions have been addressed thus far.
The program addresses the climate impacts and injustices of computing, as well as the corresponding gap in computing education.
The ESI Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit is a collection of resources for students and educators that gets climate conversations rolling in bite-sized, easily adaptable modules.
ESI Education Program Manager Sarah Meyers and Sustainability Education Postdoc Liz Potter-Nelson join MIT OpenCourseWare’s Chalk Radio podcast.
Azania, a master’s student in the MIT Department of Architecture, reflects on her field experience in the ESI-created course Biodiversity and Cities: A Perspective in Colombian Cities.
The Environmental Solutions Initiative has partnered with SubjectToClimate to introduce a help desk for educators called “ClimateSocrates.”
ESI and our colleagues across MIT are building a collection of freely available, open resources to both learn and teach about climate change, from many angles and in many fields of knowledge.
An introduction to our new Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental and Sustainability Education, and the projects he will undertake with the MIT undergraduate curriculum.
Jimena Muzio, MCP ’23, and Daniela Castillo, MCP ’23, will join the ESI as Biodiversity and Cities Summer Fellows.
Eli Brooks 22′ shares his academic journey through the E&S Minor.
Sylvia Scharf, ESI’s Climate Education Specialist, shares her experiences and thoughts on environmental education in our latest “Three Questions” feature.
MIT offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to sustainability, a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts of their fields.
As MIT reveals its new Plan for Action on Climate Change, the time is right for us to take stock of what we have accomplished on this greatest of all environmental and social challenges, and how we have positioned ourselves to do more.
With the ESI Rapid Response Group, rising senior Kiara Wahnschafft has used MIT climate research to write briefs for Massachusetts and federal policymakers.
Engagement with political, community leaders must be a key part of forthcoming climate action plan, MIT climate leaders say at Climate Engagement Forum.
Alejandro Diaz ’20 met sustainability-oriented classmates through his interest in backpacking and rock climbing. Their influence led him to connect his electrical engineering degree to environmental challenges.
Rebecca Grekin ’19 struggled to find job opportunities that matched her passion for sustainability—so she worked to give future MIT students easier access to environmental career paths.
A new online tool lets students track key metrics on employers’ carbon footprints and encourages more engagement on sustainability issues.
Tessa Weiss ’20 came to MIT expecting to work in clean energy, but her engagement with climate issues pushed her in a new direction.
Gabriela Cazares ’20 is a chemistry major who found the intersections between her chosen field and her interest in the environment, but needed a helping hand to break into the research she was passionate about.
With the campus shut down by Covid-19, the spring D-Lab class Water, Climate Change, and Health had to adapt. Now students are working with ESI and other groups to improve MIT’s climate action plan, teach climate topics online, and much more.