October 13, 2023
The ESI Launches the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit

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.


April 7, 2023
MIT Chalk Radio: Sustainability Education Across Learning Environments with ESI

ESI Education Program Manager Sarah Meyers and Sustainability Education Postdoc Liz Potter-Nelson join MIT OpenCourseWare's Chalk Radio podcast.


March 24, 2023
Following the Rhythm of Leticia

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.


January 9, 2023
ClimateSocrates Help Desk arms teachers with climate change knowledge

The Environmental Solutions Initiative has partnered with SubjectToClimate to introduce a help desk for educators called “ClimateSocrates.”


October 20, 2022
Learn Climate with Open MIT Resources

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.


September 21, 2022
Three questions on teaching environmental justice with Chris Rabe

An introduction to our new Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental and Sustainability Education, and the projects he will undertake with the MIT undergraduate curriculum.


June 3, 2022
Biodiversity and Cities Summer Fellows

Jimena Muzio, MCP ’23, and Daniela Castillo, MCP ’23, will join the ESI as Biodiversity and Cities Summer Fellows.


May 5, 2022
Student Sustainability Journeys: Eli Brooks

Eli Brooks 22' shares his academic journey through the E&S Minor.


March 10, 2022
Three Questions on Environmental Education with Sylvia Scharf

Sylvia Scharf, ESI's Climate Education Specialist, shares her experiences and thoughts on environmental education in our latest "Three Questions" feature.


September 2, 2021
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.


May 20, 2021
ESI and the MIT Climate Action Plan

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.


April 23, 2021
From entrepreneur to climate policy advocate

With the ESI Rapid Response Group, rising senior Kiara Wahnschafft has used MIT climate research to write briefs for Massachusetts and federal policymakers.

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