Stanford has undertaken major ongoing initiatives to reduce energy and water use, apply stringent environmental standards to all new buildings, encourage sustainable living, promote low-impact transportation, conserve natural resources, and …

In one of the most innovative capital projects undertaken at the university to date, Stanford has taken on the issue of climate change, perhaps the greatest environmental and socioeconomic challenge …

Stanford has an extensive history of effective water conservation efforts and in the face of ongoing drought has expanded its sustainable water practices by managing available resources to meet its …

The built environment at Stanford remains one of the biggest challenges and opportunities for sustainability. Ensuring that new buildings are as efficient as possible is essential to reducing campus greenhouse …

The Facilities Energy Management (FEM) team within the Department of Sustainability and Energy Management coordinates with facilities stakeholders across campus to reduce energy use in existing buildings and incorporate energy …

Stanford’s Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program grew out of a need to meet peak-trip reduction goals established in its General Use Permit (GUP) and reduce university-related traffic impact.  Stanford’s GUP …

Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE), which comprises Student Housing, Stanford Dining, Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries, Stanford Conferences, and a team of strategic business partners, supports the academic mission of the …

Stanford has a long history of minimizing waste and became an early adopter of a formal recycling program when students first worked on the effort as a class project in …

Formed in 2008, Stanford’s Office of Sustainability (OOS) serves as the hub of Stanford’s sustainability programs, dubbed Sustainable Stanford. Action-oriented programmatic initiatives led by OOS help make sustainability both more …