Sep 14

Students Help Build Clean Energy Future in Yearlong, Hands-On Course

Stanford students develop and deploy solutions to energy problems through a new, yearlong course called the Energy Transformation Collaborative (ETC). Led by two consulting professors with decades of business and …

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Oct 14

Bright Award Recipient Encourages Strong Community Relations to Aid in Sustainability Efforts

Art Sterritt, the recipient of the 2014 Bright Award, visited campus to deliver a lecture on the process of establishing the Great Bear Rainforest, a 250-mile stretch of coastline in …

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Nov 14

SLAC Partners with Energy Storage Companies to Stimulate Innovations in Battery Technology

The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford is a partner in CalCharge, a new public-private partnership with the goal of increased collaboration and innovation in the development …

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Nov 14

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Symposium Marks Decade of Solutions

For a decade now, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment has served as an interdisciplinary hub for environmental research, dialogue, leadership, and education at Stanford. Founded in 2004 in …

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Feb 15

With Greater Scope, A New Name for Stanford Earth

The faculty devoted to studying the planet have changed the name of their institution—called the School of Earth Sciences for 50 years—to the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. …

Apr 15

R&DE and Stanford Medicine Create Menus of Change University Research Collaborative

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 …

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Apr 15

Stanford Earth Launches An Educational Farm for “the Farm”

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 …

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Apr 15

Symposium Highlights Connection Among Food, Energy, Water, and Climate Change

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, …

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Apr 15

New Aluminum Battery Charges Smartphones in Less Than a Minute

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 …

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Apr 15

TomKat Center Seeds Sustainable Energy Innovations

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. …

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May 15

Inaugural “Business of Sustainability” Summit Held

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 …

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May 15

How California’s Renewable Quotas and Carbon Limits Could Affect Electricity Markets

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 …

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May 15

Perry McCarty Distinguished Lecture Reflects on Growing Complexities of Sustainable Development

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 …

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May 15

Four-Year Study of Searsville Dam Completed

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 …

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Jun 15

Stanford Launches Comprehensive Research Initiative on Natural Gas

In the transition to a low-carbon energy system, how can society use increasing supplies of natural gas to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, boost economies, and strengthen energy …

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Jun 15

Stanford Engineers Develop State-by-State Plan to Convert United States to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy by 2050

One potential way to combat climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs, and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world’s energy infrastructure to run on renewable energy. Mark Z. …

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Jun 15

Stanford Researchers Stretch a Thin Crystal to Get Better Solar Cells

Electronics are based on crystals known as semiconductors, most famously silicon. To make semiconductors useful, engineers must tweak their crystalline lattice to start and stop the flow of electrons. Semiconductor …

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Jul 15

Stanford Researcher Supports Fuel Cell Development for Hydrogen-Powered Cars

Hydrogen fuel cells promise clean cars that emit only water. Several major car manufacturers have recently announced investments to increase the availability of fueling stations, while others are rolling out …

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Aug 15

New Earth Systems Program Offers Coterm Master of Arts in Environmental Communications

Stanford’s Earth Systems Program, part of the School for Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, announced a new coterminal master program that will be offered for the first time in fall …