As part of Stanford’s annual Alternative Spring Break Program, a group of undergraduate students organized a winter-quarter course and a complementary weeklong tour of farms in the Monterey Bay area. …

Hundreds of students came together at Earthfest on April 24 to celebrate Stanford students’ sustainability initiatives. The festival, organized each year by Students for a Sustainable Stanford, aims to engage …

In the spirit of leadership by example and best-practice sharing, Stanford offers public tours of its new Central Energy Facility, which opened on April 1. Offered weekly and by special …

Twelve students participated in a six-week solar design workshop series to gain practical skills and develop solar project ideas that address pressing global energy needs. The workshop, sponsored by the …

Founded and jointly led by Stanford University’s Residential & Dining Enterprises, the Stanford Prevention Research Center at the School of Medicine, and the Culinary Institute of America, the Menus of …

In 2014 the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences established the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm on six acres near the university’s historic Red Barn. The project comes out …

Connecting the Dots is an annual symposium hosted by the Precourt Institute for Energy and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy that focuses on the connections and interactions among food, …

Parking & Transportation Services (P&TS) launched a pilot mobile bike service to provide an additional option for bike tune-ups and repairs on campus. By bringing Beeline Bikes to campus, Stanford …

Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) Student Housing’s Delta Delta Delta sorority house became the first residence at Stanford to use 100% green cleaning methods. All of the chemicals in the …

More than 700 guests, 65 volunteers, and 30 campus groups came together to once again celebrate the thriving culture of sustainability at Stanford during the annual Earth Day festival known …

The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy was established in 2009 with a generous gift from two Stanford alumni, husband-and-wife team Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor. With the goal of transforming …

On April 16, Stanford entered into an agreement with SunPower to build an off-site solar photovoltaic (PV) plant generating 73 MW of electricity—enough to power approximately 20,000 homes—that will supply …

Smartphone owners know that it can take hours to charge a conventional lithium-ion battery. To address that problem, chemistry Professor Hongjie Dai and colleagues invented a flexible aluminum battery that …

When Stanford’s new Central Energy Facility came online as part of the Stanford Energy System Innovations program, the Cardinal Cogeneration plant that had provided virtually all of the university’s energy …

Building on the success of its first year, the Innovation Transfer Program at the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy supported 11 new projects seeking to commercialize transformative sustainable energy solutions. …