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On April 15, 2026, the MIT Climate Project — in partnership with the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program and the Priscilla King Gray Center for Social Impact — announced 11 awards and $135,000 in funding. 

Scott Odell, who researches large-scale mines’ community relations at MIT and George Washington University, was recently interviewed in this piece about Antofagasta developing a copper mine in northern Minnesota.

At the 25th IDEAS Social Innovation Incubator Showcase and Awards, 21 student-led ventures joined 1,200 alumni-led ventures tackling the world’s most pressing problems through social entrepreneurship.

A few weeks ago, we hosted the second of three lunches that featured the research of the 2025-2026 Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability. 

Prof. Christopher Knittel and Fischer J. Espiritu Argosino explain how rooftop solar turns a climate solution into a burden for residents without solar, raising their electric bills.

Madison Goldberg, the new host of the Ask MIT Climate podcast, talks about her career as a science communicator as well as ideas she thinks it’s important for climate communicators to convey.