Sustainability at MIT Sloan

Kate Burke-Wallace, Nikhil Garg, Todd Rakow, Ting Shih

The S-Lab team worked with the Clinton Climate Initiative Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, created by the Williams J. Clinton Foundation, aimed at encouraging building owners to retrofit existing buildings to achieve energy savings, one of the most direct ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. The team was tasked with generating a framework for an analysis tool to help building owners evaluate retrofit opportunities in their existing buildings in order to accelerate their energy conservation projects and achieve cost savings.

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Alexandra Prieux, David-Alexandre Gadmer

Understanding that sustainability starts at home, this S-Lab team assessed MIT and MIT Sloan's ecological footprint. The team calculated MIT's current environmental footprint, cataloged its ongoing green initiatives, and assessed the challenges the institution faces implementing these initiatives.

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Pierre Cleroux, Erbay Dokmeci, Manjit Singh Kalha, Nicholas Macan

The S-Lab team worked with Nestlé in North America to identify opportunities to contribute to sustainable agriculture throughout the supply chain.

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Rachel Henschel, Akane Matsuo, Eileen Peng, Todd Schenk

The S-Lab team worked with Nike to determine to what degree Wall Street incorporates climate-related reporting — and the risks associated with climate change — into their analysis and forecasting models. The team found that there was a disconnect between between climate-related reporting and Wall Street analysts partly due to the lack of federal regulations on carbon emissions, but also attributable to shareholder apathy.

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David Clarke, Susan McGugin, Gary Schmirer, Sierra Towers

The team worked with the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) to assess an existing afforestation project in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley that began in the mid-1990s and design a new business model that would allow the US BCSD to market the project as a carbon sequestration opportunity for US companies to use to offset their carbon emissions.

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Gaëtan Bonhomme, Felipe Castro, Angelina Clarke

Working with the Electronic Computing Center of the University of São Paulo, the S-Lab team helped jump-start the University's e-waste recycling activities so that it could take the initiative to establish an end-of-life value chain for e-waste in Brazil. The team's plan outlined best practices for electronic procurement, use, and recycling to reduce its e-waste at its end of life point.

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