The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment hosted its inaugural Business of Sustainability Summit, engaging a diverse cohort of 54 CEOs, chief sustainability officers, and business unit heads from 47 …

In the California electricity crisis in 2000 and 2001, tangled regulations and opportunistic traders led to soaring wholesale prices and rolling blackouts. The state’s wholesale power market today is more …

Stanford Oceans Group, a student organization, brought attention to the vast opportunities for ocean-related science careers during a speaker panel on May 11. Students gathered at Old Union to hear …

More than 2,000 Stanford bicycle commuters and 279 pedestrians participated in Bike to Work Day in May 2015. By biking or walking instead of driving, these commuters eliminated an estimated …

In May 2015, Stanford more than doubled its number of electric vehicle charging stations on campus. Parking & Transportation Services replaced 6 charging stations with 14 new stations located in …

Spring quarter saw 15 student residences begin composting their bathroom paper towels and kitchenette scraps: Roble, Manzanita, Crothers, Crothers Memorial, Sigma Nu, Kappa Sig, Columbae, Storey, Muwekma-Tah-Ruk, Kimball, Adams, Potter, …

Students for a Sustainable Stanford hosted a sustainable transportation speaker panel on May 26 in support of the El Camino Real Bus Rapid Transit program being proposed by the Santa …

On May 4 and 5, Stanford hosted the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium for its annual summit. The consortium is made up of sustainability officers from the eight Ivy League universities …

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, rainwater collects in many types of secondary containers installed around electrical equipment, storage tanks, chemical storage areas, and other structures. As of 2014, these containments …

With the support of the Provost’s Committee on Sustainability, Office of Sustainability piloted its Cardinal Green Events program with nine campus departments in spring 2015. Each department was given access …

World-renowned underwater explorer, scientist, and ocean advocate Sylvia Earle addressed the campus community on May 7 in the third annual Stephen H. Schneider Memorial Lecture. Earle encouraged attendees to support …

The 2015 Perry McCarty Distinguished Lecture was a talk by Michael Kavanaugh on the increasingly complex trade-off problem being faced by environmental professionals in development projects. Kavanaugh reflected on the …

Lucid, an Oakland-based company that connects people to buildings through energy dashboards and analytics, hosted its inaugural Connected Buildings Summit at Stanford in May. Stanford partnered closely with Lucid to …

The 120-year-old, Stanford-owned Searsville Dam and Reservoir has been the subject of an extensive study focused on establishing a plan for it that both preserves the water supply and enhances …