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Dear Climate CoLab community, As of July 2nd, I’ll be leaving Climate CoLab and joining a different team at the institute, the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, to expand MIT’s public engagement on climate change, including the extension of the ClimateX Science & Action web platform. Annalyn Bachmann, who has been our part-time Project Assistant for […]

Photo credit: Aysan Amirghiyasvand (Instagram: photomundial_) MIT Climate CoLab, UN Climate Resilience Initiative, and InsuResilience are excited to announce the Finalists for the Absorbing Climate Impacts contest. Expert Judges evaluated the 72 proposals submitted to the platform and selected 10 proposals to advance as Semi-Finalists. Semi-Finalists then had the opportunity to revise their proposals prior to […]

    NEW! Superminds The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together BY THOMAS W. MALONE From the founder of Climate CoLab comes a fascinating look at the intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. Order Today MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and Climate CoLab are excited to announce the coming release […]

Each year, we engage national and global leaders as contest Advisors. These experts contribute their deep knowledge of the contest topic and strong connections in the field toward shaping their contest prompt and nominating the Judges, and often serve as Judges themselves. This year’s Advisors — hailing from UN Environment, Lockheed Martin, MIT, and many other institutions — join the over 130 Advisors who […]

  The MIT Climate CoLab is proud to be featured in MIT’s Campaign for a Better World, announced by MIT President L. Rafael Reif earlier this month. The Better World Campaign, launched on May 6, is a  major initiative to advance the Institute’s work on some of the world’s largest challenges, including education, scientific research, innovation, human health, and the […]

The Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence and Climate CoLab are pleased to welcome Janos Pasztor, Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change, to MIT’s campus this week (February 29 – March 4), in collaboration with several MIT Centers.* Janos Pasztor   Mr. Pasztor, an MIT alum and former Advisor to […]