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The Net Zero Carbon Group will be  2019 Workshop was an interdisciplinary collaboration of graduate students working between faculty, professionals, and graduate students working to map out the process of transforming an island with processes involved in transforming a model island community with a conventional energy profile to an island one with a resilient net zero carbon energy system supplying its permanent residents. This group will meet for fours For the initial kick-off meeting, the group met for five days with the objective of developing an initial roadmap for reaching this goal. As this collaborative effort will be laying helped lay important foundations related to the energy transition in community-sized energy systems, the path paths taken to achieve the end goal is are vital. For the inaugural meeting, Model-Based Reasoning and Design Thinking have been Design Thinking were carefully chosen as the tools used to propel this effort to its full potential.to facilitate collaborative work during the process of creating the outline of a draft master plan for a model community.

This workshop produced three theoretical projects for MV on:

1. Green Housing Fund
2. Sustainable Farming
3. Economics

The MIT Energy Initiative hosted MIT's Energy Initiative will host the workshop on campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the support of the companies Shell and a group of design thinking facilitators from Viessmann. 

Students who want to learn more about In particular, students with an interest in the energy transition and in general, are interested in the strategic development of community-sized resilient energy systems , who want to explore collaborative tools, and who take interest in should find value in this workshop. Students should also show an interest in interdisciplinary collaborative research methods and private-public partnerships should find value in this workshop. We are also looking for a diverse group of students, so carbon neutrality enthusiasm is not at all a requirement for applicants, we would, in fact, encourage students not so keen on the idea to apply (do we want to note this? do we want to word it differently?). As well, any open or a specific disciplinary background are not required. Open questions coming out of the workshop will be available as research topics for theses and papers at MIT.

This January workshop was funded by Shell and the National Science Foundation sponsored EMBeRS project.