Living Climate Futures Lab
Symposium
2026
SAVE THE DATE!
April 24-25, 2026,
MIT Campus
Volunteer farming as part of the MIT-Hannan Healthy Foods pilot, Fall 2025. Photo credit: Heather Paxson
Join us for our second symposium! The gathering will feature discussions and hands-on sessions with environmental and climate justice leaders from across the United States and beyond to explore the threats posed by climate change and how to respond to them.
Participating community partners in the 2022 symposium included: Se’Si’Le (Bellingham, WA), Richland Gro-Op (Mansfield, OH), Lumbee Community (North Carolina), Southeast Environmental Task Force (Chicago, IL), and GreenRoots (Boston, MA).
Featuring both returning and new community partner organizations, themes for the 2026 symposium will include: farming and food systems, health impacts of climate change, Indigenous spiritual sovereignty and climate chaos, experiential learning, and more.
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About us:
The Living Climate Futures Lab complements MIT’s other climate efforts by focusing on everyday life and long-term partnerships with community groups. Our work highlights the importance of getting community partnerships “right” by developing relationships of trust and implementing strong codes for ethical research conduct. Through the suite of experiential learning classes we are developing, we are training the next generation of researchers, modeling for MIT graduate and undergraduate students how to engage in ethical, mutually beneficial partnerships with community actors and across STEM and SHASS disciplines.
Learn more about our activities here.
MIT students and community partners from Friends of the San Juans during a research trip to an eel grass meadow (tidal zone) on San Juan Island, WA.
MITHIC-funded "From Lab to Land" Summer Field School for Climate Justice in the Pacific Northwest, organized by Bettina Stoetzer and Briana Meier, in partnership with Washington-based Indigenous-led environmental justice organization, Se'Si'Le.
Photo credit: Bettina Stoetzer

