I thought attending the world’s largest climate-change conference would be the pinnacle of my sustainability work at MIT. But it made me realize I had a lot more to do before I graduated.
Two recent online events related to MIT's ambitious new climate action plan highlighted several areas of progress, including uses of the campus as a real-life testbed for climate impact research, the creation of new planning bodies with opportunities for input from all parts of the MIT community, and a variety of moves toward reducing the Institute's own carbon footprint in ways that may also provide a useful model for others.