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MIT startup AeroShield has opened a new facility for manufacturing highly insulating windows that will reduce building energy use and cut carbon emissions.

📖  NEWS

Liftoff: The Climate Project at MIT takes flight

Full story via MIT News

Could nuclear energy be used for transportation, like in a car?

Full story via MIT Climate

MIT Energy Initiative releases new report examining potential of fusion in future power systems

Full story via MITEI

Scaling decarbonized manufacturing technologies through communication and community engagement

Full story via MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

3 Questions: The past, present, and future of sustainability science

Full story via MIT News

🎙️  IN THE MEDIA

Feeling climate anxiety? These books offer glimmers of hope—and much-needed wisdom

Full story via Los Angeles Times

Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again—a new book by Susan Solomon (Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences)—has been spotlighted as a hopeful remedy for climate anxiety.

🗓️  EVENTS

MIT Global Summit on Mine Tailings Innovation

Thursday, September 19-20, E15-070

Panel discussion: Building climate and sustainability ventures

Wednesday, September 25, 5:30pm ET, virtual

Lecture: Realizing the potential of geothermal district heating for decarbonizing energy

Friday, November 8, 3:00-4:00pm ET, 66-110

✍️  OPPORTUNITIES

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👋  BEFORE YOU GO...

36%

Building operations make up 36% of global carbon dioxide emissions,

largely due to energy inefficiencies from windows.