Topics: Health of the Planet

West Philadelphia middle school students, 1999. Students working with WPLP have learned to read their landscape as a product of natural forces and social, economic, and political processes. Photo: Anne Whiston Spirn
Spring 2018

Greening the Block

Anne Whiston Spirn has made the West Philadelphia Landscape Project a model of urban restoration and community empowerment

Many MIT faculty members, such as Jessika Trancik (pictured presenting her research on energy technologies in Davos, Switzerland), look to the MIT International Policy Lab for assistance in translating their findings into the language of policy.
Winter 2018

The Final Yard

The International Policy Lab helps faculty ideas take those last critical steps into the corridors of power

Joint Program co-directors John Reilly, left, and Ronald Prinn. Photo: Sarah Bastille
Winter 2018

Framing Uncertainty

A landmark platform models the range of ways a changing climate may affect humanity, and vice versa

NYC Skyline
Winter 2018

Facts on the Ground

David Hsu helps cities figure out what’s working in the battle against climate change

DeGraff works with a Haitian student.
Winter 2018

Tool Box

MIT-made online resources address Haitian education, banking reform, and global development

Fall 2017

How Do Plants Use Light?

What Gabriela Schlau-Cohen discovers about the proteins responsible for photosynthesis could be critical to agriculture and energy

Fall 2017

How Can We Measure Damage?

Quantifying radiation damage in materials is the first step toward safer reactors and better nuclear compliance, says Mike Short