What is SHINE at MIT?
The Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at MIT is an initiative that spans across the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a consortium of industry members. In the first four years of SHINE’s existence, both the Handprints and Net Positive program and the worker well-being program were both situated at Harvard. Now, SHINE at MIT focuses on research on Handprints and Net Positivity. It is a joint initiative that strives to make the world a healthier, more sustainable place. The publications section includes white papers and case studies which resulted from the research on Handprints and Net Positive during the period from 2013-2017, before this program moved to MIT.
Recent SHINE News
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Product Brief: Xylem Handprint in Action
Xylem launched their 2025 Sustainability Goals in 2019 including 4 Customer Sustainability Goals related to Xylem’s innovative products and solutions. These goals are developed by considering customer needs and aimed at helping Xylem’s customers to reduce their environmental footprints with the help of Xylem’s innovative products and solutions and simultaneously…
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Research Brief: Responsibility and Credit Sharing
A footprint is a metric used to represent an amount of environmental or social impact. An actor who directly causes an impact, such as a person who chooses to drive a vehicle to the store, bears responsibility for these impacts in footprint accounting, or footprinting. The pollution from driving the…
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Research Brief: What are Handprints?
Handprints are changes, relative to business as usual, measured with footprint metrics. To understand their role and importance we need to start by understanding footprints. A footprint is a metric used to represent an amount of environmental or social impact. Footprint metrics usually address things we want to reduce like…
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Paper: Sustainability Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise handprint methodological framework
The Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) project is dedicated to improving the scientific basis for transformative environmental, social, and economic positive changes called handprints. Organizations and individuals can create handprints relative to their business-as-usual (BAU) through voluntary reductions in their own footprint as well as in the…