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Integrating a Feedback Loop for Sustainability Solutions
Julie Newman, Ph.D.
Director, MIT Office of SustainabilityLecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning 1
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
How can your research questions and outcomes better
inform and be informed by embedded decision-makers and
implementers to advance and solve for sustainability?
What methodology can be used that meets the needs of the
researchers and implementers?
How might your research de-risk early adoption for campus
scale use?
Guiding questions
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
How can MIT be a game changing
force for campus sustainability in
the 21st century?
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MITOS MISSION
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
What is a living & learning lab for sustainability?
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MIT LIVING & LEARNING LAB FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Innovate Improve AccelerateInnovation for Sustainable
Cities
Advancing MIT’s Sustainability
and Climate Goals
Acclerating Scaleable Solutions
and Learning
Innovation implementation
Research project
Campus projects
Research project
Competitions
Course modules
Course focus
Research project
At MIT, the Living & Learning Lab refers to rigorous campus-based research with operational & academic partners, sustained data collection/analysis, with measureable and communicable outcomes that seek to:
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
1) Data & Metrics
2) Framing campus based research
3) Course driven analysis
4) Cataloguing & accessing
outcomes
MIT LIVING& LEARNING LABORATORY: PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
1) Data & Metrics
2) Framing campus based research
3) Course driven analysis
4) Cataloguing & accessing
outcomes
MIT LIVING& LEARNING LABORATORY: PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
Data & Metrics
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A thriving campus data practice supports the Living Lab model…
Data Generation
Data Capture
Data Preparation
Data Integration &
Centralization
Synthesis &
Analysis
Make accessible &
Communicate
Assess & Inform
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…but it is complex and requires interdisciplnary and multi-department collaboration
Data Generation
Data Capture
Data Preparation
Data Integration &
Centralization
Synthesis &
Analysis
Make accessible &
Communicate
Assess & Inform
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…and accessible real time data.
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
Framing Campus Based Research:
1) Campus to marketplace
2) Global to Campus
3) Macro to Micro
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
Framing Campus Based Research:
1) Campus to marketplace
2) Global to Campus
3) Macro to Micro
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
Framing Campus Based Research:
1) Campus to marketplace
2) Global to Campus
3) Macro to Micro
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Modelling of Future Cambridge Precipitation Totals (24 hour storms)
Red: Baseline modelled storms (1981-2000)
Blue: Projected storms climate change (2081-2100)
Number of modelled storms
Tota
l ra
infa
ll per
sto
rm (
inches)
Source: Dr. Ken Strzepek (preliminary findings, 2017)
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Flood risks - lowest campus elevations along Vassar, Albany and Main St.
Precipitation Scenario
1% probability TODAY of 8.9” rain in 24 hrs … there is more modeling work to do.
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
Framing Campus Based Research:
1) Campus to marketplace
2) Global to Campus
3) Macro to Micro
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60 Megawatts
650 Acres
255,000 Panels
North
Carolina
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Proposed: MIT Solar Test Bed
North
Carolina
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Course development
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Spring 2018: Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT
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Cataloging & accessing outcomes
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MITOFFICEOFSUSTAINABILITY
1) Data & Metrics
2) Framing campus based research
3) Course driven analysis
4) Cataloguing & accessing
outcomes
MIT LIVING& LEARNING LABORATORY: PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
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