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The organizers of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Summit organized the event attracting over 300 attendees.
The MIT Sustainability Summit is a new event organized by Sustainability@MIT, a campus-wide student, faculty, and alumni club with over 900 members. The summit focused on the growing awareness and need for businesses, governments, and academia to incorporate concepts of sustainability in their planning.
The daylong event featured keynote addresses by sustainability leaders, including Arthur Holcombe from the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund and former Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program in China, Donovan Rypkema from PlaceEconomics and Michael Shellenberger from The Breakthrough Institute. The panel discussions, by notable figures from industry, government and academia, addressed three key topics in sustainability:
There were over 25 student organizers, from across campus, involved in the organization of the event. We began late in the Fall semester, meeting with key faculty and staff who focus on sustainability, then formed working teams to find sponsors and speakers, organize the logistics, and promote the event. We were extremely excited to have a truly diverse set of organizers from across the institute.
This Summit, the first of what is expected to be an annual event, garnered a full house of 300 attendees for a series of talks, panel discussions and breakout sessions. The summit capped four days of Earth Week activities on campus.
In organizing this Summit, we've built a strong platform that future leaders of the club will be able to build on and grow. We have fostered strong connections between MIT and outside leaders in sustainability, which will increase the quality and reputation of the Summit in future years, and raise the priority of sustainability activities within the institute.
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