SustainabilityConnect, March 2, 2015 Working Session 1: Creating Game Changing Plans for MIT Campus Sustainability

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W O R K I N G S E S S I O N O N E

2. Working
Session #1
Creating Game-
Changing Plans for
MIT Campus
Sustainability

3. How can MIT
be a game changing
force for campus
sustainability
in the 21st century?

4. Task: Create a idea for putting MIT on the
path to game-changing sustainability.
$10 million Game Changing
Sustainability Grant
to implement an innovative campus
sustainability infrastructure project.
Brainstorm ideas. Think big.
Think across systems.
Be creative.
High-Level Committee
tasked with developing a policy,
organizational, or learning-based
initiative.
Even
Tables
Odd
Tables
Refine the best idea. Answer
each of the questions listed on
the worksheet for your table.
Brainstorm Refine
Who:
What:

5. • What are the barriers to implementing your idea?
• What partnerships are necessary for making your idea a reality?
• What metrics are needed to measure the success of the idea?
• What are the first steps that need to be taken to get the idea off the
ground?
• How could this idea be scaled up / scaled down to serve other
components of the MIT campus, or at the local / state/ national scale?
Task: Create a idea for putting MIT on the
path to game-changing sustainability.
Consider: