Initiatives

Audience members and students sitting in a room listening to a sustainability-related talk.

The SSC’s initiatives bring together multiple actors and efforts on campus. We facilitate projects that benefit from the collaboration of multiple groups.

SSC is centered around sustainability initiatives that require cross-campus collaboration to create the most impact. Anyone can propose a project at any time! While initiatives are ultimately led by member groups, individual students, or other organizations on campus, SSC helps facilitate connections and kickstarts the growth of a project. Some highlights include:

What is the Sustainability Midway?

Our annual public-facing event, the Sustainability Midway, is a drop-in style activities fair that typically occurs near the beginning of the fall semester. The Midway features booths of most sustainability-related clubs, centers, and programs at MIT. It’s a great way to learn how to get involved (plus snag some free food and merch), especially for first-year undergraduate or graduate students and other community members who are new to MIT!


Check out some of our previous projects and initiatives below.

Student Briefing on the Climate Project: April 2024
SSC hosted a briefing on the new MIT Climate Project between student …
MIT Hub Attends the 2023 NYC Climate March
SSC helped coordinate and raise funding for an MIT Hub at the …
Engaging MIT Students in the Cambridge Green New Deal Campaign
In academic year 2022-2023, we worked with MIT Divest and the Cambridge …
Mobilizing Students: the 2020-2021 Climate Action Plan Campaign
In the academic year 2020-2021, the Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) spearheaded a …
Organizing the COVID-19 Reusable Utensils Pilot
In response to increased single-use plastic waste during the COVID-19 pandemic, the …