MAY 1, 2025
5:30PM – 8:00PM
Fenway Park, 521 Overlook
ELM’s largest event of the year is returning May 1, 2025. Massachusetts’ climate leadership matters now more than ever. At Earth Night, we will focus on building the crucial momentum needed to meet this moment. Join us to celebrate ELM’s work and to build relationships that will help advance climate solutions for our Commonwealth.
We look forward to presenting our Commonwealth Environmental Leadership Awards. Our 2025 awardees are each paving the way to establish Massachusetts as the hub of climate innovation.
This annual gathering is attended by 500+ influential leaders from federal, state, and local government, as well as business and nonprofits
Meet Our Commonwealth Environmental Leadership Awardees
Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang
Co-Founder of Sublime Systems and Form Energy
Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang is a pioneer in energy storage and advanced materials, serving as the Kyocera Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT since 1985. Driven by a mission to develop innovative and scalable green and low-carbon technologies, Chiang has launched a total of ten startups, including Sublime Systems and ELM Corporate Council member Form Energy. His ventures are primarily focused on clean energy and sustainability, and have served major clients such as Dominion Energy and General Motors.
Form Energy, a leader in innovative energy solutions, has created a groundbreaking iron-air battery technology that addresses shortfalls in battery storage. Similarly, Sublime Systems has paved the way for decarbonizing our built environment, electrifying the cement manufacturing process to produce low-carbon cement. Collectively, Chiang’s startups have raised over $2.5 billion, including major awards from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Chiang is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of several leading professional societies, including the Electrochemical Society and the Materials Research Society. His accolades include The Economist’s Innovation Award, the Electrochemical Society’s Battery Technology Award, the R&D 100 and R&D 100 Editor’s Choice Awards. His contributions also extend beyond entrepreneurship; he serves on numerous government and academic advisory panels, helping shape decisions surrounding energy and materials science. His leadership continues to drive the transition to a clean energy economy.
Governor Maura Healey
Massachusetts Governor
Governor Maura Healey has put climate action and clean energy innovation at the top of her agenda. Since assuming office in 2023, she has led bold and strategic policy initiatives that position our Commonwealth as a national model for equitable climate resilience and a green economy.
In 2024, Healey signed Massachusetts’ omnibus Climate Bill into law, which accelerates our path to net-zero emissions by 2050. A top priority for both ELM and the Governor last session, this law boosts funding for critical offshore wind initiatives, expands electric vehicle rebates, and modernizes our clean energy siting and permitting process. She also proposed the Economic Development Bond Bill, which includes significant climatetech investments to advance innovation and grow our skilled green workforce. Her Administration’s approach integrates economic growth with sustainability, aiming to create thousands of green jobs while ensuring equitable access to clean energy benefits.
The Healey Administration has also prioritized electrifying public transit, protecting vulnerable communities from climate impacts, and fostering local renewable energy initiatives through expanded funding and municipal partnerships. Healey has overseen numerous climate firsts within her time in office, including launching Massachusetts’ Environmental Justice Strategy, and appointing the nation’s first-ever Climate Chief.
Healey previously served as Massachusetts’ Attorney General, where she gained national recognition for holding polluters accountable and defending environmental protections, experience that now shapes her governance.
Healey’s vision for our state is rooted in equity, innovation, and environmental stewardship, making our Commonwealth a leader in the transition to a clean energy economy.
Dr. Sally Kornbluth
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since becoming MIT’s 18th president in January 2023, Sally Kornbluth has rallied the community to help solve the great challenges of our time. She launched the Climate Project at MIT with the aim of making MIT one of the world’s most prolific sources of technological, behavioral and policy solutions designed to help change the expected trajectory of global climate outcomes. She has also intensified MIT’s efforts to help ensure AI is broadly beneficial for society, supporting faculty and researchers across disciplines in exploring how generative AI will transform people’s lives and work.
In 2024, Kornbluth introduced the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) to inspire new collaborations between MIT faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and colleagues in other disciplines. She led the launch of the MIT Health and Life Sciences collaborative (MIT HEALS), created to accelerate and deliver solutions, at scale, to society’s most urgent, intractable health challenges. Kornbluth has also championed the Institute’s commitment to freedom of expression, while making sure everyone remains free to do their best work – and that the great work of MIT continues.
A cancer biologist, Kornbluth joined the Duke University faculty in 1994, and by 2005 had risen to full professor. She stepped into administration the following year as vice dean for basic science at the Duke School of Medicine and in 2014 became the university’s provost. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
We seek to award individuals, organizations, and corporations who are leading and implementing solutions on crucial and timely issues of climate and the environment.
See a List of Our Past Awardees.
View Photos from Last Year’s Event.
Thank You to Our Host Committee
Peter and Vicky Bauer
George Bachrach and Susan Centofanti
Rick Burnes
Barbara and Steve Grossman
Trevor and Isabel Hardy
Pam Kohlberg and Curt Greer
Ted Ladd
Gina McCarthy
Kevin McGovern
Mike Phillips and Caroline Huang
Neil and Anna Winter Rasmussen
Jamie and Jane Wilson
Interested in sponsoring Earth Night?
Contact ELM’s Corporate & Foundation Relations Manager, Grace Doherty, at gdoherty@environmentalleague.org.