Like so many of the tough problems tackled by MIT, solutions to the world's increasingly urgent environmental challenges will come from interdisciplinary perspectives.

From the small, tangible scale on campus (such as campus-wide recycling and composting scraps from the preparation of food in campus cafeterias) to the broad, technology-driven solutions for the world (researching ways to construct cleaner coal-fired power plants and bringing "smart bikes" to Denmark), the MIT community is working to solve the myriad challenges facing the environment today.

MIT's interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research is particularly effective for tackling environmental issues, and the courses below represent a broad spectrum of environmental concepts and concerns. Whether considering ways to redesign New Orleans to prevent flooding during future hurricanes, or seeking improvements in waste containment, the tools to solve the world’s toughest environmental problems can be found here.

The following courses represent a selection of Environment-related courses at MIT.

From exploring use of natural light and heating in new building construction to understanding how thermal hydraulics can be used to generate cleaner energy, these courses provide resources for understanding the current energy crisis and ways to develop solutions to this world-wide problem.

Environment Topics